For a while, no one spoke.

Yan Jingxing felt uneasy, he could hear the trembling gasps of the girl next to him, he could imagine that her heart was stirring and fluctuating, but even if he wanted to be comforted, he didn't know where to start.

He had long realized that the situation in Haruzao's house could be complicated, and he inevitably had the curiosity to find out.

Before, I felt that it was difficult to ask deeply; Now the relationship between the two is close, but the truth he wants comes too suddenly and too much...... Heaviness.

Just as a bystander, I feel so heavy that it is difficult to breathe, and it is difficult to imagine the mood of the person concerned.

Yan Jingxing glared at Xie Yuzhi's calm face, thinking that this girl was really "unusual".

"I'm leaving."

After a while, she said.

It wasn't until the driver reminded Xie Yuzhi that he was going to leave here that he was released from the dilemma of not saying a word and looked at Ji Chunzao.

"Haruzao, are you alright?"

The long-haired girl sniffed, her eyes flushed red like rabbits, and whispered in response:

"I, I'm fine...... Let's go first. ”

She rubbed her eyes and slapped her cheeks again, trying to appear energetic.

"Jing Xing, it seems that it is impossible to convince her today, let's think of other ways next time."

You still won't give up.

Yan Jingxing sighed and had no choice but to nod.

……

There are no clouds, and the sky is bright. The weather will not change because of people's mood, it is still so beautiful, and the sun is hot on people's skin.

On the way home, Ji Chunzao said that he wanted to go to the bathroom, so he stood at the door of the mall and waited for her.

At this moment, a black private car slowly passed by the road. It happened to be a red light, and the car stopped right next to him.

Yan Jingxing felt a little strange, and the window in the passenger seat rolled down, and a girl's face poked out.

The captain looked at him fixedly, and then said:

"Yan Jingxing, I don't know if you pity her like me, or if you really believe her crazy words, but there are some things to be aware of: she is a person who is very prone to hot heads, you need to watch from the side, don't let her do stupid things that will affect the surroundings."

Xie Yuzhi said very seriously, probably because of the experience gained from being a roommate. Although she didn't believe Chunzao's words, out of a sense of responsibility, she served as the "caretaker" by Ji Chunzao's side for a period of time.

Now, when she said those words in front of Ji Chunzao, she obviously had the intention of only being a stranger in the future - at least from Xie Yuzhi's point of view, so she couldn't help but find herself to confide in.

Of course, she did it with good intentions, but Yan Jingxing couldn't help frowning when she listened, and she was in an unhappy mood.

"Xie Yuzhi, you may think that you know everything very well, but I am different from you. There's only one thing I know: 'Haruzao she's right' – I believe her. ”

Yan Jingxing's tone was firm.

"So, you don't have to talk about it."

Xie Yuzhi blinked, as if surprised.

She looked at the boy in front of the car window with a gaze that seemed to be the first time she knew him, and after a while, the captain looked away and stroked the soft ends of his hair that fell on his shoulders, looking a little unnatural.

"Isn't it nice that you're mad at her...... You're her friend. Haruzamo, she doesn't need me. ”

What was supposed to be a very short conversation turned out to be long in this moment. A minute later, the red light turns green and the car starts moving again.

He heard Xie Yuzhi whispering goodbye to himself.

"Goodbye!"

Yan Jingxing shook his hand at the black car in the distance, and as soon as he turned around, he saw Ji Chunzao standing behind him, looking at him strangely.

"That person was Xie Yuzhi just now? What are you talking to her about secretly? ”

"It's nothing, she told me to keep an eye on you, don't mess around, it's stupid to go to find aliens all day long......"

Yan Jingxing was only halfway through his words, when he saw Ji Chunzao looking like he was about to cry, looking at himself pitifully, he quickly explained:

"Of course, I said no. Rest assured, I'm definitely on your side! ”

Ji Chunzao staggered close to him, and then fell into his arms like this.

"Woo ......"

She clutched the boy's collar tightly and pressed her face against his chest, letting out small, faint sobs.

Yan Jingxing's body froze suddenly. He hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and grabbed the girl's slender shoulder.

As if he wanted to give her the strength to support, he hugged Ji Chunzao's weak body in his arms.

It felt like hugging a wounded little animal, he thought.

……

In the car, there was a quiet girl sitting in the passenger seat.

She is still young, and her appearance is amazing; Dignified temperament, at a glance, you can know that you have received a good etiquette education, even in your own car, you will not relax your manners.

Adolescence is the period of personality maturity and self-formation in a person's life, and junior high school students can be described as the most rebellious group, but this sign of disobedience cannot be seen in the girl named Xie Yuzhi;

On the contrary, she seems to have understood what she wants to do and what she wants to be in the future a long time ago, and since then, she has been holding herself to the strictest standards.

At this time, Xie Yuzhi suddenly pulled down the mirror in the passenger seat and stared at his face.

The girl's skin is cold white, and standing in a crowd can make the complexion of everyone around her yellow; The frosty beauty will make people can't help but look away, unwilling to look more head-on, as if they will feel ashamed of themselves if they look at it more......

Except for herself.

She looked directly at the girl in the mirror, and in those dark and bright pupils, she caught the confused emotion.

Xie Yuzhi took a deep breath, and then slowly spit it out, as if to dispel the gloomy mood through his heart.

"Uncle Liu, did you find anything strange from Teacher Gao after you subdued her?"

"Strange stuff?"

Liu Tie's head was slightly sideways, and he asked suspiciously:

"What do you mean, Miss?"

"For example," Xie Yuzhi was a little hesitant in her words, and it seemed that she was not sure whether she was going to really say it, "'leech' or something like that......"

"Leeches?"

"I mean, are there any traces of something similar to being attacked by a creature?"

"Oh, did you mean being bitten by a poisonous snake or something?" Liu Tie shook his head, "I didn't see a similar wound on her body. ”

"Yes."

Xie Yuzhi lifted the mirror back up.

"Did Miss notice anything?"

“…… No, nothing. ”

……

Yan Jingxing hugged Ji Chunzao, feeling the slender back of the girl in his arms, and his mood was unprecedentedly calm.

It was the first time he had a physical blind date with a girl of the same age, and it was inevitable that he would feel shy and nervous at first, but this embarrassment quickly disappeared in the girl's sobbing.

There was a real weight on his chest, and the tears that flowed wet his clothes, washing away the impetuous thoughts that had sprung up in his head, leaving only the breath close to each other.

The girl's long hair flowed quietly in the sunlight like ocean waves; The soft body was close at hand, the body temperature from the palm of the hand that was close to her back was slightly hot, and the fragrance that penetrated the heart and spleen between the strands of hair gently surrounded him.

In the process, he heard his own heartbeat, and he heard the heartbeat of Chunzao, which had never been so clear;

As time passed, the heartbeats of the two people gradually overlapped.

A reassuring atmosphere was brewing among the young people embracing each other. The girl in her arms was equally calm.

After that, she realized her gaffe and left his embrace with a blush on her face.

Ji Chunzao looked up at him embarrassedly, and there were tears in the corners of his eyes.

“…… Thank you. ”

Yan Jingxing deliberately frowned and said:

"You're finally willing to let go of me, crying so much that you're crying, I'm really worried that you'll."

"I won't!"

Ji Chunzao retorted loudly, and then burst into laughter.

"I had a dream yesterday."

Yan Jingxing took the girl's soft palm, and the two sat down side by side on the edge of the flower bed.

He earnestly brought up the dream of the previous night, as well as the early morning records and analysis.

It's something he wants to share.

If it were someone else, it would only be ridiculous to hear him take a ridiculous dream so seriously.

But Ji Chunzao must be an exception, because her current self is what she used to be.

"Chunzao, do you believe me? It's just a gut feeling, but I think it's probably a reflection of the future in some way. ”

The long-haired girl stared at his side cheek.

"I mean, you don't have to be discouraged. Xie Yuzhi looked stubborn, but she would understand sooner or later, because just like seeing you, I also saw her in my dreams. ”

"So that's ......" the little girl clenched her fists, and the corners of her mouth rose unconsciously, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I didn't think wrong." ”

Just as Yan Jingxing expected, Ji Chunzao accepted what he said without hesitation, and cheered up because of it.

"Hmph, although Yuzhi already looks like 'I don't want to have anything to do with you', I haven't given up!"

She feigned a few fist swings into the air in front of her.

"I'll definitely let her see the truth."

“…… What are you going to do? ”

"Of course I have a way. Have you forgotten my abilities? ”

"Do you mean 'call aliens'?"

Yan Jingxing thought for a while and said.

"Let's not talk about whether you can overcome your psychological barrier now, even if you can activate your ability and call the aliens, will you definitely be able to convince Xie Yuzhi? Judging by the condition of the 'spirit leeches', she probably wouldn't have accepted similar circumstantial evidence. ”

As long as they don't see it with their own eyes, they can't believe anything beyond their comprehension anyway, and that's what ordinary people do.

"And...... This kind of thing is still dangerous. ”

His tone was rather heavy.

Today's horrific incident in a cram school will undoubtedly leave a lingering chill in the hearts of all those who have experienced it firsthand.

This matter is not over yet, although the police came and took Mr. Gao and the first victim away, but they probably can't solve the root problem, because ordinary people can't see it at all.

Spirit Leech ...... That kind of alien creatures, I thought that they just had to dodge, but I didn't expect them to be able to live in the human body to control their actions, and even use this as a medium to infect other people, which is something that even Ji Chunzao doesn't know.

In addition, the girl said last time they met that the reason why she had a psychological barrier to the "calling" itself may be because something very unusual happened after using this ability last time-

Thinking of Xie Yuzhi's mention of what happened to her childhood, and her own insistence that her parents were taken away by UFOs, all of the above made Yan Jingxing's heart covered with a lingering haze.

"Jing Xing, I know what you're thinking."

Ji Chunzao glanced at him.

"Yuzhi basically said everything I knew about the disappearance of my parents, because I lost my memory after that."

"Amnesia? By the way, you mentioned that you have a vague memory of before elementary school. ”

"Well, I guess that's the after-effects of that incident. The only thing I remember is being in a forest and seeing a strange glow in the sky at night, and then the car being sucked into the sky...... It's vague, but I'm sure I saw it. ”

The girl spoke as she reminisced, her tone like a dream.

"That's why I wonder if they were taken away by aliens."

“…… Could it be related to your abilities? ”

Yan Jingxing was silent for a moment, and finally asked.

He knew that he could think of this possibility, and as a person concerned, she must have thought about it, and it was even likely that she had been entangled countless times.

When Ji Chunzao realized such a possibility that her "superpower" was the reason for her parents' disappearance, how heavy psychological pressure did she bear?

"Maybe? I'm not sure. ”

Ji Chunzao raised his face again to sneak a look at his expression, then lowered his head and replied in a relaxed tone.

"But no matter what the outcome is, I've made up my mind that I don't want to stand still anymore."

What else can Yan Jingxing say? It's a decision made by the person who is most stressed, and there is no room for others to do anything.

"Back to the question you just said, how do you get people to believe in the existence of aliens? It's actually quite simple, I think the problem is that the leeches are still too small. ”

“…… Small? ”

"I have this feeling if the 'alien creatures' I have called for are large enough that even ordinary people can see them."

“……”

Bigger than a spirit leech?

That thing is more than ten times the size of a normal insect, right? If you grow bigger...... Yan Jingxing couldn't help but shudder.

At this moment, the figure of a white giant suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Do you believe me?"

She asked in a whisper, tossing back the recurring question.

"Of course."

Yan Jingxing nodded and caught it gently.

Although he still hesitated in his heart, in the dream last night, the astronaut let him see where Xie Yuzhi would be in the future.

In that case, everything will be fine, right......?

"Okay, I'll do it!"

Ji Chunzao smiled at him. This time, there was no trace of hesitation or uneasiness in the girl's smile.