Chapter 23: UFOs in the Cave

"Huh, ...... Jingxing?"

When Yan Jingxing turned around and left the houseboat, the first person who noticed something unusual was Ji Chunzao, who had been following him.

"Where are you going?"

Seeing that the boy was about to push the door out without saying a word, the little girl subconsciously reached out and tried to pull his sleeve, but she couldn't.

Yan Jingxing didn't look back, he stepped forward with a focused face, and did not react to her words, leaving only one goal in his eyes.

He looked like he was staring at someone's back; But there was nothing in front of him.

"Wait, don't go!"

This time, Ji Chunzao was really anxious, she had realized that something was wrong with the situation, and hurriedly followed his footsteps.

Her shout caught Xie Yuzhi's attention, and the girl's gaze swept in the direction of the door, and she frowned.

"Uncle Liu, you wait for us here, and you'll be back soon."

As she spoke, she did not hesitate to follow in the footsteps of the two men and walked quickly out of the house.

"Hey, wait a minute......"

Liu Tie couldn't stop the eldest lady, so he had to throw down the banknote and say, "I'll find a car to pull this thing away later" and left.

He finally turned to look inside the room.

In the dimly lit houseboat, the white "astronaut model" was lying quietly on the concrete floor, motionless.

*

Yan Jingxing followed the "resurrected" astronaut and walked for more than ten minutes in one breath before he stopped in a daze.

At this moment, he heard an anxious shout from beside him:

"Jing Xing, Jing Xing, what's wrong with you?! Come to your senses! ”

Yan Jingxing was startled by this sudden loud voice, subconsciously covered his ears, and frowned at the girl standing beside him.

"Why are you shouting so loudly all of a sudden? I'm awake. ”

Ji Chunzao was stunned for a moment, then she crossed her hands on her hips, glared at him with a dissatisfied expression, and her voice became louder.

"Sober? I've called you several times, but you didn't answer! ”

"Yes, yes......"

Yan Jingxing scratched the back of his head, he looked around and found that he was no longer in the houseboat, and he didn't know where he was. It wasn't until this point that I felt like I was suddenly coming back to my senses.

At this time, Xie Yuzhi slowly walked over from not far away, she clasped her hands in front of her chest, and looked him up and down seriously for a while, before asking:

"Yan Jingxing, what happened just now? Did you see something? ”

"Don't you see?"

Yan Jingxing asked a little strangely.

"The astronaut suddenly stood up and pushed the door out, and I thought it was strange, so I immediately followed......

"How so!" Ji Chunzao said, "We all saw it clearly, and when we came out, he was still lying there!" ”

"What?"

At this time, only Miss Xie still maintained a rare calmness.

"It's not surprising that this isn't the first time this has happened. In other words, Jing Xing, this is another situation that only you can see, right? ”

…… That's right, the astronaut, the ghostly giant he saw in the cinema, and then dreamed of it again......

This time, "he" really came to reality from hallucinations and dreams, but there are still some things that only he can see.

"Judging by your confused appearance, you should be as confused as we are."

Xie Yuzhi sighed, put down his hands, and walked in front of him.

"We can't miss this opportunity, Jingxing." She looked him in the eye with a serious face. "Every appearance of the 'astronaut' provides you with crucial information, 'he' does not appear in front of you for no reason, there must be a reason that we can't imagine, but extremely crucial."

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Well. Yan Jingxing nodded.

"And can you still see 'him' now?" You stopped just now because you could see where he went? ”

Yan Jingxing nodded again.

By this time, they had left the vicinity of the pier in Shigang Village, and the smell of seafood no longer lingered in the air around them, but instead of lush forests and rolling green hills, and at the foot of the mountain was a large farmland at the entrance of the village.

The summer wind blows in your face, and the scorching breath permeates the aroma of rice evaporated from the rice fields, creating a leisurely and pleasant rural scenery.

Frogs chirp tirelessly in the midsummer heat, and dragonflies flutter between the ridges and ponds.

Standing on a high place and looking out, you can see a white line in the distance, which is the embankment; On the other side of the levee is the boundless sea.

Yan Jingxing's gaze crossed the two girls in front of him and saw that the white figure was walking quietly on the field path.

"Let's go."

He took a deep breath.

"Let's go and see where 'he' is taking us."

……

If someone can borrow Yan Jingxing's eyes to look down from the sky at this time, they will see an incredible, wonderful and absurd scene:

The verdant mountains and forests, with countless intertwined tree canopies, undulating in the wind, like waves rolling up on the sea.

In the middle of the mountain forest, there is a twisting pale yellow dirt road, a white figure walks in front, it is an astronaut who has just crawled out of the belly of a whale, wearing a white spacesuit, "he" should be walking in the universe, but now he is walking on the dirt road step by step;

And followed by several youth-looking teenagers and girls, who chased the steps of the astronauts and walked among the mountains:

In the distance, there was an adult who was anxiously searching for a few of them......

*

Yan Jingxing stopped, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked in front of him.

It looked like a cave, with obvious traces of man-made pipes at the entrance and rusty iron fences blocking half of it.

The vines hanging down from the entrance of the cave are growing thickly, and they look green.

That "ghost astronaut" just went in here.

"It's finally here."

Yan Jingxing realized that the destination was just ahead, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Following an inexplicable guy wandering around the mountains and forests aimlessly, without knowing the specific distance and time, the psychological burden is quite heavy.

When I arrived in the mountains, the temperature became cooler, but the sun was still very strong overhead, and the shade of the trees could not completely block it; Coupled with the fact that he was trekking on difficult and rugged trails, he was already sweating.

"Okay, that astronaut's destination is here, we can take a break......"

He turned to the two girls behind him.

Whether it was Ji Chunzao or Xie Yuzhi, they were all tired and sweaty and out of breath at this moment. Ji Chunzao was even more unbearable, looking like he was about to faint, like a mermaid who forgot that he was an aquatic animal after changing his tail and going ashore.

Fortunately, Xie Yuzhi supported her, otherwise Yan Jingxing was really afraid that she would accidentally step on the air and fall down the mountain.

In addition, it is not that he doesn't want to help, but it will be a little embarrassing if he takes the initiative to speak in this situation......

It was summer, and the girls were dressed thinly, sweat-soaked light-colored tops and long skirts clinging to the skin, outlining the curves of their youthful bodies, and the fabric was translucent in the sun, revealing the flesh color.

Yan Jingxing subconsciously blushed after only a few glances, and turned his head and didn't dare to look more.

"Arrived?"

Xie Yuzhi walked up to him, brushed the hair on his forehead with his little thumb, and looked at the cave side by side with him.

"Well, I think the astronauts walked into this hole."

Yan Jingxing's gaze stared straight in front of him, and he didn't mean to drift anywhere else at all, he replied in a serious tone.

"Along the way, I discovered one thing."

Miss Xie didn't notice someone's strange appearance, and said equally seriously.

"Huh?"

"Everywhere we passed, there were roads. We hadn't gone into the real woods – if it hadn't been I'd have stopped long ago, and I would have felt the need to be more prepared to come in. But now ......"

The girl held her hand at the sun, and her bright eyes flickered slightly as she stared at the dark entrance to the cave.

"It can already be concluded that the road we have traveled, although it may seem inaccessible now, must have been frequented by more than one person before. Including this cave, it is clear that it was built by man. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Oh, yes. Yan Jingxing hesitantly guessed, "This could be a bomb shelter?" I've heard from my uncle that there are many similar places in the mountains of White Moon Town......"

"Ha, ha, ......"

At this time, Ji Chunzao finally walked to the place next to them, and while slapping the open part of the neckline, he spit out his pink tongue like a puppy that was too hot to be good.

"Hey, you two, don't get stuck here, don't you plan to go in?"

She grumbled weakly, looking like she was really dying.

"Okay, let's go in and have a look."

Yan Jingxing made a decision.

"Find a shady place to sit down and rest for a while."

……

There was a rusty iron door at the entrance to the cave, which was unlocked, and it was pushed open with a single blow.

The net woven by vines hangs down like a silk thread, and entering it feels like Sun Monkey has walked into the Water Curtain Cave for the first time in Journey to the West.

"Take this."

Xie Yuzhi, who was following behind Yan Jingxing, poked his back and handed over a small flashlight.

"You still have this?"

"Hmm. I usually carry a flashlight, GPS, and a Swiss Army knife with me. ”

…… Where did you come from?

Yan Jingxing looked at the shirt dress on her body with a little suspicion, and really didn't know where to hide the pockets that could put those things.

He turned on the flashlight, and the dim pillar of light left an oval spot on the cave wall, and cautiously walked inside.

Surprisingly, the area inside the cave is not spacious, like a cave used for hibernation, and the size inside may not be as large as Miss Xie's bedroom.

The three of them quickly circled the cave wall and found a bundle of marching quilts, a bed and stack of folders and archives made of sheared-out newspapers, as well as a small generator, a radio, boxes of military compressed biscuits, and a homemade improvised distilled water device.

Looks like someone's hideout.

It's all covered in dust, and it's been sitting in this place for a long time.

The materials that can be found in the cave are all paper, infected by the damp moisture in the cave, and some of the paper has been stuck together, in order to avoid accidental damage, so everyone decided not to open it for the time being, and take it back to dry.

Besides, there is one more thing worth caring about in this hole right now-

"Well, it's a ...... Flying saucer? ”

Yan Jingxing circled twice around the huge metal ball placed in the center of the cave, and his tone was full of surprise.

It is said to be a round ball, but it is not actually a regular "circle", but a convex middle and flat sides, and it is this shape that makes people more reminiscent of flying saucers, UFOs and the like.

The surface of the flying saucer is already stained with rust; There are two oval glass windows, and the seals look intact, but the contents are not visible.

"Really, really a UFO? Is it from aliens......"

Ji Chunzao's tongue began to knot when he spoke.

"Really?"

Xie Yuzhi showed a skeptical expression.

"Isn't this the kind of facility in an amusement park?"

Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao glanced at each other and spoke in unison.

"I'm sorry, but I haven't been to an amusement park."

"Me too."

The eldest lady choked for a moment before continuing.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ In short, if it is really a spacecraft that can make aliens descend on Earth, at least from the outside, it must have a 'high-tech sense' beyond human imagination. ”

She shook her head.

"For example, the corresponding molecular material technology needed to travel across the universe, as well as a huge energy supply device...... I can't see any of that. ”

She held out a finger and stroked the surface of the saucer.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ It feels like just plain rusty metal, and it's more likely that this thing was imitated by humans. ”

Xie Yuzhi turned to look at Yan Jingxing.

"What about the astronaut?" He's in here? ”

No, I didn't see it, the guy was gone in the holeβ€”

Yan Jingxing was about to open his mouth to answer, but a heavy feeling of dizziness came from his head, and the sky was spinning in front of him.

He subconsciously wanted to spread his arms to keep his balance, and staggered a few steps forward.

A great light erupted in the middle of the cave, drowning out the two girls in his vision.

What follows is a large number of fragmented scenes:

Astronauts trudging through the vast alien forest, crimson skies, monsters floating in the sky, and the tower that stands tall in the middle of the wilderness.

Time is turning back.

Back before the astronauts logged in to the unknown planet, Yan Jingxing saw "him" walk into the cave, turn on the radio, and sit in a UFO-like facility. It was exactly the same as the machine in the cavern, except it wasn't rusty......

With an earth-shattering bang and a lightning storm-like eruption, the astronaut appeared on the planet......

"Woo-ah-ah!"

Yan Jingxing covered his forehead and fell backwards screaming.

Thankfully, he didn't come alone.

There were two forces from different people, each supporting him from behind, and did not let him really fall to the ground.

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

He heard someone shouting anxiously, and he felt like he was in a huge vortex, and the sound came from the dark sky.

At this time, Yan Jingxing couldn't tell which girl was talking, he closed his eyes tightly, and shouted out the truth he saw before he forgot it:

"Yes...... It's that flying saucer! It...... It can send people to another planet! ”