There is a large supermarket in the center of the town of White Moon, and the only movie theater in the town, which is the busiest place at night. People who come out to play are often families or couples, shopping in twos and threes.

As two middle school students, they are not too conspicuous in it.

Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao came out of the supermarket, and one of them sat on a chair in the bus booth with a cream popsicle, chatting leisurely while eating

According to the girl, the place where you can see aliens is near the movie theater; If the other party shows up in the theater, they just have to buy a ticket to go in.

…… Do aliens still like to watch movies about the human world? He always found it difficult to understand.

"I've always had a question, how did you find out about aliens? Saying that it is 'related to the season' is a matter of fact. ”

Yan Jingxing stared at the people who came out and went in at the door of the movie theater, and took a big bite of the popsicle that was about to melt.

"I'm about to see the main master, now I can finally talk about it, right?"

"It's my secret."

Ji Chunzao sat beside him, shaking his calves, and replied with a grin.

"But for your sake, I can explain it a little~."

What do you mean by "for my sake"...... Yan Jingxing complained in his heart, except for me, no one will listen to you seriously at all.

Even he is ninety percent skeptical, and now he is waiting for the moment when the final word can come.

"What you can see, you can hear. Before they actually arrived, I was sure by 'listening'. ”

"Hear? Does it make a scream? ”

"It's a little different. It's more like an unintentional 'call' or something. ”

Ji Chunzao shook his head and continued to explain.

"It's like we can pick up signals from thousands of miles away on the radio, but that's not really allowing us to 'hear' distant people, right? In fact, radio waves must be demodulated into audio signals by the machine itself for the human ear to hear. ”

"The 'sounds' of extraterrestrial creatures are like this, they may not actually make sounds, but rather some kind of 'signal'. Can you understand? ”

…… To be honest, it doesn't seem to understand. But looking at her serious attitude, she shouldn't be talking nonsense.

It's clear that the other party is the same age as himself.,But he seems to know some strange knowledge that ordinary junior high school students can't understand at all.。

At this time, he remembered the model that she had asked him to hide that day. He was really startled when he got it, it was a big one, and it was beautifully done, as if the real biplane had shrunk.

He originally thought he had bought it, but later he heard his roommates say that Ji Chunzao had won the award of the city's model airplane competition before, and realized that it was made by herself.

"Do you know anything about electronics?"

"It's okay, it's okay." She explained, a little embarrassed, "Ever since I realized that the signals emitted by aliens may be affecting humans in the form of some kind of radio waves, I've been trying to figure out how it works......

Listening to Ji Chunzao talk about the process of self-learning various circuit principles and mechanical knowledge, Yan Jingxing changed her opinion a little.

Although this girl always keeps talking about nonsense all the time, which seems a little annoying; But judging from her series of performances, at least Ji Chunzao is not the kind of fool who is simply immersed in delusions and can't extricate herself, but has taken concrete actions and efforts.

"You're pretty good."

Yan Jingxing couldn't help but sigh.

“…… Isn't that amazing? Well, if you think about it, I'm really good! Ha ha. ”

After muttering a few words to herself, she suddenly became angry, puffed up her chest, and the whole person behaved proudly, and the previous "embarrassment" was gone.

“……”

Yan Jingxing was a little speechless, saying that she was fat and really gasped.

"Anyway, you mean you can hear the radio signals?" He pulled the topic back up, "However, this is not something that ordinary people can do, right?" ”

"So, it's not accurate to say 'hear', it should be 'felt'."

"Is it similar to how a bat can capture ultrasound?"

"Yes, a considerable number of animals, such as dogs, whales, giraffes, etc., can capture ultrasonic or infrasound waves that cannot be heard by humans, and even actively emit them, playing a positioning function similar to sonar."

"As for being able to receive alien signals......

She hesitated for a moment.

"Well, at the moment, I'm the only one who can do it. In other words, 'superpowers'. ”

You're still a superpower, and your image is getting more and more complicated.

Yan Jingxing originally wanted to tease her, but found that the girl's expression changed suddenly.

"Wait."

Ji Chunzao frowned and suddenly grabbed Yan Jingxing's wrist.

"Don't move yet."

"What's wrong?" He was taken aback.

The girl did not answer, but closed her eyes.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her eyeballs were turning violently under her eyelids.

"Be mentally prepared."

After half a ring, Ji Chunzao opened her eyes, she exhaled a heavy breath, staring at the empty night sky.

"The aliens who came this time...... No, alien creatures, it can be a little dangerous. They've come down in the cinema. ”

"Is there more than one?"

Seeing the girl's serious face, Yan Jingxing really couldn't get nervous.

Until now, he has lacked real sense.

"Where is the danger? How do you know? ”

“…… Because I've seen them before. It's not the first time this group of guys have appeared in this town, every time they appear, they act in groups, taking the people who live here as prey, and the entire White Moon Town as their hunting ground. Unbridled ......"

Ji Chunzao never let go of his wrist. On the contrary, her fingers were still clenched subconsciously, and Yan Jingxing was about to cry out in pain.

"—I call them 'spirit leeches'. It is a dangerous creature that specializes in sucking the spinal cord of the human brain. ”

But the girl's next words made him swallow back the complaint that was almost on his lips.

She turned her face and asked softly:

"Well, do you still want to go in now?"

*

Yan Jingxing stood in front of the ticket gate, staring at the posters posted on the wall, all of which were popular movies that had been played recently.

The conductor in the window looked listless, and the girl in the back tugged at his clothes and urged in a low voice:

"They're coming up soon."

“…… Okay, that's it. ”

There are ticket checkers in the theater, but only at the entrance. In other words, no matter which movie you want to watch, you can see it by buying a ticket for the movie that is being released, which is a little secret that only locals who often watch movies know.

Yan Jingxing pinched his thirty yuan pocket money, and finally chose what he wanted to see.

The poster for this movie shows a tall man wearing a white mask and holding a sharp knife in the center, and a group of actors and actresses with frightened expressions below.

Even if everything is fake, at least you can watch an exciting horror movie. He thought to himself.

The conductor took the banknote, glanced at the man and woman holding hands in front of the window, and found that it was clearly a student boy who was too young to talk, and couldn't help but shake his head, as if he was sighing "The world is getting worse, and such a young child is beginning to date and fall in love."

The two older children were not in the mood to deal with the bored adults, so they took the tickets and went to the theater.

"Jing Xing, you know what a leech is, right?"

Ji Chunzao was still whispering to him as he walked.

"Well, we seem to be called 'locusts' on our side?"

"Yes, the locust, a mollusk, is especially abundant in the rural paddy fields, and it can be parasitized if you are not careful. Grasshoppers feed on blood, clinging to human skin and inserting their snouts into the skin to draw blood from wounds. According to anecdotal evidence, they also release an anesthetic, so many people are unaware of the fact that they are labeled. ”

"Hmm. I've also heard that once a grasshopper is attached, it is very difficult to pull it off, and it cannot be pulled out randomly, otherwise the mouthparts will remain in the wound, and salt must be sprinkled on it before it curls up and falls......"

Yan Jingxing imagined such a scene for a moment, and couldn't help but shudder.

A city kid like him is most afraid of this disgusting Barra bug.

"Are you afraid? Then I think the 'spirit leech' is even more terrifying to you. ”

Ji Chunzao firmly grasped his hand, followed him step by step, and said in a faint voice:

"Because, instead of blood, they eat the human brain."

Yan Jingxing was silent.

Although the girl said it scary, it was still the same sentence, and he lacked real feelings about the so-called "aliens".

"If this alien leech is really as terrifying as you say, then you dare to come?"

"It's not what you want to see."

Ji Chunzao muttered for a while, then suddenly stopped. After Yan Jingxing looked at it curiously, she lifted her hair curtain.

"Because I can see."

The girl pointed to her bright eyes.

"If you're really unlucky and you're picked by a spirit leech, then you just need to run away, they won't chase you. After all, no one else can see or even notice their approach, so the 'leeches' don't need to hunt for food, just change their target. However, there is a saying you have to remember. ”

Ji Chunzao looked up at him with a small face and stared at him very seriously.

"When I say I'm leaving, you have to leave with me, no matter what happens. Can you promise me? ”

"Yes." He replied casually.

"Guaranteed?"

"I promise, okay."

“…… That's good. ”

After a few laps around the dimly lit cinema corridor, Ji Chunzao finally decided on his goal.

"It should be right here."

She pointed to one of the entrances.

The two entered the screening room, and Yan Jingxing looked at the screen, and the movie had already begun to be screened.

"Oh, it's the film I bought, good luck."

He and Ji Chunzao sat down in the back row.

Then, it was only at this time that Yan Jingxing suddenly reacted:

"Wait, can't see? Turns out I can't see aliens? ”

"Hmm. Until they actually appear, it is not certain. Ji Chunzao replied in a low voice, "But you probably can't see it, I haven't met a second person who can see it in school." ”

“……！”

He almost stood up, forgetting that his hand was being caught.

"What's wrong?"

Ji Chunzao looked at him in surprise.

"You still ask me? If you can't see it, how can you prove the existence of aliens to me?! ”

Yan Jingxing said angrily. If he hadn't had to keep his voice down in the cinema, he would have started to get angry.

At this moment, he even felt that he could confirm that this guy was playing with himself.

"Well, I've thought about it a long time ago."

However, the girl's reaction was calm.

"I didn't think you could see aliens in the first place, but you still asked me for proof that they existed, so I had to consider other options."

She raised her head and said word by word:

"Jing Xing, what do you think of those people who were eaten by spirit leeches will become after that?"

……

In the screening room, it was as dark as night, and silent figures could be faintly seen. In the silence, only the dialogue of the actors on the screen echoed between the seats, and each audience seemed to be in a small isolated universe.

Ji Chunzao's voice was low and muffled, and only he could hear it.

In the dim vision, the girl's pupils were shining, and there was a breathtaking feeling.

Yan Jingxing was infected by the serious emotions revealed in her tone for a while, and could only watch in a daze.

"That's what I want you to see."

After the last explanation, Ji Chunzao turned his head and seemed to be concentrating on watching the movie.

Yan Jingxing was silent for a while, he sat back in his place and stared at the screen silently.

……

The plot of the film gradually becomes intense, and victims begin to appear. The killer chases the remaining survivors in the ancient mansion on a rainy night with a sharp knife in high hand, and the actress who accidentally falls lets out a miserable scream.

Yan Jingxing couldn't focus all his attention on the screen.

He was waiting for that answer.

And the girl next to her is also waiting.

A movie is only ninety minutes long, and that moment will eventually come.

At a certain moment, Ji Chunzao's grip on his hand suddenly became harder.

"It's coming!"

Yan Jingxing's eyes widened, and his eyes roamed around the screening room.

"Where?"

"The bald-haired man in the front row, the spirit leech has already chosen him as a target! Can you see that? It floated above his head—"

At the girl's instructions, he quickly found the back of the viewer.

However, there was no abnormality on or around the other party. In Yan Jingxing's eyes, he, like everyone else, was sitting in his position watching a movie quietly, without anything special.

He looked left and right, and even stood up and looked, but he couldn't see the so-called "alien creatures" floating in the air.

I can't see anything......

Yan Jingxing sighed.

He felt he might be wrong. Maybe Ji Chunzao is really not lying, she is just following her own ideas to understand those things that only she can see.

After getting along in the past few days, he knew that the girl's attitude was very sincere, and Yan Jingxing really didn't want to treat her as the kind of person who was grandstanding.

…… However, this kind of thing doesn't matter anymore.

If something he can't see or touch, what difference does it make to him if it exists or not?

Yan Jingxing felt very disappointed.

At this moment, he let go of the childish fantasy in his heart.

After this movie, right here, let's part ways with Ji Chunzao, and he doesn't want to pay attention anymore.

That doesn't mean he's going to be part of the crowd at school that makes fun of her. He just felt that even if he was willing to believe everything, believing that aliens were real and Ji Chunzao was also a real superpower, would he be able to become her companion?

If you can't see the same thing, you are destined to be people of two worlds.

"Let it go."

He whispered to her beside him.

Ji Chunzao seemed to hesitate for a while, but at Yan Jingxing's insistence, the girl finally withdrew her hand.

His gaze returned to the film.

Then, he couldn't take his eyes off it—

"W-What is that?"

Yan Jingxing opened his mouth wide and saw something extremely incredible.

A huge white bloated arm slowly passes through the screen, like a drowning person floating from under the water, from the screen to reality.

Ghosts? Is it a ghost? Or is it an alien in Ji Chunzao's mouth......

A single palm took up half of the screen, and it was impossible not to see it as long as the eyesight was normal, but there was still silence in the cinema, there was no commotion, and everyone in the audience was still sitting in their original seats, as if nothing had happened.

This made Yan Jingxing understand: only he could see this giant hand, not a surprise prepared by the theater.

His mind was in a state of confusion, and he was so frightened that he couldn't help but hold his breath.

But when the "people" on the screen slowly came out, he found that the situation was more outrageous and absurd than he imagined.

Huge hands clinging to the edge of the screen, and then a helmeted head emerges, the helmet is pitch black and round, reflecting a cold sheen like a mirror, like a round glass fish tank;

The "white bloated" arm turned out to be not the original color of the skin, but a piece of clothing wrapped around the hand, but not ordinary clothing, but a protective suit made of composite materials such as rubber or sponge, and a huge white backpack on the back......

- Out of the screen is a giant in a spacesuit.