Whale? Stranding? The corpse of an astronaut? What the hell is being said?

Yan Jingxing looked dazed.

"What do you mean?"

"To be honest, I'm just as scratchy as you are."

Xie Yuzhi shook her head, and then, she proposed:

"I want to go to the scene now to see how it goes, do you want to come along?"

"Of course."

He nodded hurriedly.

……

After that, they dragged Ji Chunzao, who was still in a daze, out of the room again, and the three of them got into the black private car again.

"Go to Shigang Village."

Liu Tie, who received the news, came ahead of schedule, and he had been waiting in the driver's seat for more than ten minutes. However, before starting the car's engine, he hesitated and asked:

"Miss, today is school day, what are you going to ......?"

"After going to Shigang Village, we will go back to school, and we have already asked the teacher for leave."

"What if your father asked?"

"Just say it. If I have any questions, I'll talk to him. ”

Xie Yuzhi put her hands on her knees and sat in the back row of the car.

"Okay, I see."

The car started, and Yan Jingxing secretly looked at her side face.

The snow muscles are flawless, the facial features are slightly immature, and there is a kind of youthful beauty that belongs to this age.

Xie Yuzhi's expression was calm and calm, no matter what he spoke or acted on, he didn't look like a middle school student of the same age as him.

Sounds reliable. But because of this, sometimes people can't figure out what she's thinking about.

The girl sensed someone's gaze and turned her sharp gaze to his face.

"Is there something wrong?"

"Nothing!"

Yan Jingxing coughed dryly, pretended to turn his head away, and looked at the scenery passing by outside the car window.

There were three people sitting in the back of the car, and although the interior of the car was quite spacious, it was inevitable that when there were bumps on the road, it would inevitably be arm to arm and thigh to thigh.

The faint fragrance that had disturbed him during last night's conversation once again lingered on the tip of his nose.

Yan Jingxing, who was sitting next to Miss Xie, pressed her face against the window, and Ji Chunzao, who was sitting on the other side of her, looked drowsy; And the girl sitting in the middle was expressionless.

"Hah-"

Ji Chunzao yawned again, and her body began to sway, her eyelashes trembled, and she slowly closed them.

She leaned towards the car door; After a while, he leaned towards Xie Yuzhi with the shaking of the vehicle.

Feeling the sudden weight, Miss Xie subconsciously frowned, but when she saw Ji Chunzao's sleeping little face, her wrung eyebrows slowly stretched out again.

Xie Yuzhi stretched out her hand, combed the hair that fell to Ji Chunzao's ears, and carefully sorted out the unrolled collar for her.

After a while, as if affected by the sound of the girl next to her breathing while she was asleep, Xie Yuzhi's eyelids unconsciously began to droop;

After that, her body also began to sway with the bumps of the vehicle;

Finally, Xie Yuzhi fell to the side.

"Ah......?"

Yan Jingxing, who was concentrating on looking at the scenery, felt that his shoulders suddenly became a lot heavier.

He turned his head and found that the two girls were leaning against one another, like bowling balls that had been knocked down, and they were all asleep, and at the same time they were surprised, their bodies suddenly froze and did not dare to move.

Didn't sleep well last night? It's no wonder, after all, so much has happened.

In fact, he is also prone to sleepiness after waking up in the morning; But at this moment, I didn't feel sleepy at all.

Ji Chunzao fell on Xie Yuzhi, Xie Yuzhi fell on him, in other words, now he bears the weight of two people alone.

"Okay."

He muttered, feeling uncomfortable.

At this time, Yan Jingxing found that the driver, Uncle Liu, was looking through the rearview mirror, looking at the situation behind him a little strangely, and he felt even more uncomfortable.

He began to imagine himself as a statue carved out of stone, motionless in his original position.

*

"We're almost there."

Xie Yuzhi's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she opened her eyes.

The car slowed down, and she heard Liu Tie reminding them, and she couldn't help but widen her eyes in shock when she realized her current situation.

I just ...... Falling asleep leaning on a boy's shoulder?!

Xie Yuzhi hurriedly straightened up, and saw Yan Jingxing holding his chin in one hand, staring intently at the window, as if he hadn't found anything......

No, it's impossible not to find out! She just leaned on it!

The girl felt a bout of heat on her face.

This is not over, what is worse is that she also saw traces of saliva on Yan Jingxing's shirt......

Me, I'm still drooling?

It's all because she slept too late yesterday, she tossed and turned in bed and thought about problems, her emotions of anxiety and excitement were tangled into a mess, and her long-standing habits were disrupted all at once, so-

No, don't make excuses at this time.

Even Xie Yuzhi inevitably felt flustered when she encountered this kind of thing, and she barely calmed down after taking several deep breaths.

She couldn't help but raise her head again and secretly observed Yan Jingxing's expression, but the other party didn't even turn her head, it seemed that she was planning to play stupid for herself.

"Uh......h What's wrong? ”

At this time, Xie Yuzhi felt that there was movement on her shoulder, and when she looked at it, she found that Ji Chunzao, who was lying on top of her, was opening her eyes in a daze.

And after seeing her face, Miss Xie's mood unconsciously relaxed.

Because Ji Chunzao is sleeping now...... Worse than yourself.

The girl's hands were still on her arms, and she wrinkled her dress; And not surprisingly, it also left traces of saliva on her body.

Alas, dozing off in an awkward position in the car, it seems that drooling is inevitable. Xie Yuzhi thought to herself, this is not her own problem, so she got psychological comfort.

"Wake up, we're here."

Xie Yuzhi took two fingers and pulled the corners of the curly-haired girl's mouth hard.

"Huh? …… Oh. ”

Ji Chunzao's sleepy eyes finally opened slowly, and she covered her mouth and yawned.

"I didn't sleep well last night, I just fell asleep, I'm sorry...... Hey, what's wrong with you two? ”

Yan Jingxing still maintained the posture of holding his chin and looking out the window, while Xie Yuzhi was arranging his hair, and his face remained a faint flush.

……

Cars are parked on the side of the road.

Ji Chunzao was the first to push the car door and jump down.

Xie Yuzhi, who was sitting in the middle, hesitated, although pretending that nothing had happened was also a method, and looking at Yan Jingxing's meaning, he did mean this.

But......

"Wait."

She stopped Yan Jingxing before he got out of the car.

"I fell asleep just now, I'm sorry."

Xie Yuzhi took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped the saliva for him.

Yan Jingxing's expression looked as if he was surprised, but he smiled and said, "It's okay." ”

*

Under the leadership of Liu Tie, several junior high school students looked curiously left and right, walking on the wet streets, passing by the bustling crowd of people in a hurry.

Shigang Village used to be the largest fishing village near Baiyue Town, and fishermen have a tradition of going out to sea to fish for hundreds of years, but in recent years, with the rise of offshore aquaculture, its status has gradually declined.

The village is close to the natural deep-water harbor that is famous in the southeast coastal area, so if you stand on the hill at the head of the village, you can often see huge cargo ships gliding on the sea accompanied by flocks of white gulls.

There are also several special markets in the village that sell the freshest fish, shrimp and crabs, and the smell of seafood fills the air, and every morning vendors from the nearby wet markets, as well as those who run restaurants and hotels, come to buy their goods.

Liu Tie led them to find an old fisherman with leaky teeth, and he heard that he was the man who found the stranded whale.

"Come this way."

The other grinned and grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellowed teeth.

They followed him to a houseboat, the roof of which looked dilapidated, like an abandoned house. A fishing boat tied to a stake with a rope floats around on the water.

"This morning, my brother-in-law and I were going out to sea when we saw a whale on the beach. We called, and we were supposed to be towed into the sea by boat, but by the time the fishery boat arrived, the whale was already dead. ”

"We saw a huge crack in the belly of a dead whale, and that thing was pulled out of the crack......"

"Cracks?"

Xie Yuzhi noticed that the usage of the word was a bit strange.

"Is it a wound? What did the whale scratch? ”

The old fisherman touched his chin and gave a look of remembrance.

"Actually, we don't know how the whale died, but we only have a barnacle gash on its body, which doesn't look like a wound."

"What about whales?"

"It's still on the beach, and a group of people are surrounding it, saying that an expert has come and is checking the cause of the whale's death."

The old fisherman pushed open the door of the houseboat, and a young fisherman with a face similar to his appearance sat on a chair, looking restless.

In the middle of the houseboat, a white "person" was lying.

"Really...... Cosmonaut. ”

Yan Jingxing muttered.

"Why do whales have astronauts in their bellies...... No, put this question aside for now," Xie Yuzhi's face turned to the old fisherman, and asked with a serious face, "Who is inside?" The message we got was that it was 'a corpse'. ”

"Oh, that's my brother-in-law's mistake, there's nothing in it. This kid has never been very reliable......"

Before the old fisherman could finish his words, the young fisherman, who had been silent just now, raised his head and said.

"No, I actually saw the spacesuit move! That's why I said there was someone inside, and I was thinking about how to rescue him, but when I took off my helmet, it was empty. ”

"That's your kid mistaken." The old fisherman said disapprerovingly, "Or if there are some parasitic little crabs and small fish in it, you think that someone is moving inside." ”

Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao both stared at the astronauts on the ground, falling into indescribable surprise, only Xie Yuzhi was still asking questions.

"Where did this spacesuit come from?"

"Someone threw it away." Liu Tie replied casually. He obviously didn't understand what the spacesuit meant to the young people, and he didn't understand why the eldest lady couldn't even go to school when she heard the news, so she had to run over to join in the fun.

"Dragging a spacesuit out of a whale's belly" - although it is indeed a rumor that can be written in a newspaper, but it is nothing more than that, and it is not worth paying attention to.

"How could anyone lose a spacesuit?"

"It's not necessarily a real 'spacesuit', it should have been imitated by someone, used as a collection or souvenir, and then discarded into the sea for unknown reasons, and then swallowed by whales in the stomach."

At this time, the old fisherman came over, rubbed his dirty hands, and said with a smile:

"I've heard that someone is already planning to buy it. I secretly brought this thing back before anyone else arrived, how much do you think it can be sold? ”

Liu Tie looked at Xie Yuzhi, and after seeing her nodding at him, the man sighed, took out his wallet, and pulled out a stack of red tickets.

"As I said, this is probably just an ordinary model, not a real spacesuit, and it won't sell for much."

"Okay, okay, you look at the ......"

……

Yan Jingxing did not speak.

The voices of the people in the houseboat seemed to be far away from him.

He just stared blankly at the white figure lying on the ground.

No matter what others say, in his eyes, this is a corpse, belonging to an astronaut who has long since died.

"He" was covered in muddy water and kelp, and he died in the depths of the sea, in the belly of a whale, in the depths of a world that no one knows.

But...... Why?

Shouldn't astronauts float in space? The endless starry sky, the unknown planet, that is where "he" should go?

"Jing Xing, what's wrong with you?"

The little girl next to him noticed his strange appearance, pulled his sleeve, and asked in a low voice.

"No, nothing ......"

Yan Jingxing held his forehead and smiled reluctantly at Ji Chunzao.

But at this moment—

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the white figure lying on the ground suddenly tremble.

"Uh......?"

Is this to deceive the corpse?

Yan Jingxing turned his head and watched the soaked astronaut slowly and little by little get up from the ground.

The boy's mouth opened wide in astonishment.

The resurrected "he" stiffened his steps, passed through all the people in the house as if no one was around, and pushed open the door of the houseboat and walked out.

Yan Jingxing took a deep breath. After he came to his senses, he immediately pulled his legs to keep up with the astronauts.