"What you just said is true? Can this thing take us to another planet? ”

Yan Jingxing sat on the ground weakly, with a palpitating expression on his face; Xie Yuzhi walked in from outside the cave and handed him a bottle of mineral water, while confirming to him solemnly.

"Yes, I saw it, the astronaut went into the cave, got into the flying saucer, and the next second he went to another world...... However, the flying saucer I saw was not like this one, the surface was rusty and dusty, and it should have been at a different point in time. ”

Even after hearing him say this, Miss Xie still clasped her hands in her arms, frowned, and had an expression that she couldn't let go.

Yan Jingxing raised his head and looked at her.

"Of course, all of this is a hallucination of my own. But don't we act on the premise that this illusion is real? ”

“…… You're right. ”

Xie Yuzhi's eyebrows stretched slightly, she glanced at Ji Chunzao, who was curiously circling around UFOs in the cave, and then turned her gaze to the entrance of the cave.

"My driver, Uncle Liu, was down the mountain, and he drove the car over."

Yan Jingxing poured a large mouthful into his throat, the water was warm from the sun, and it seemed that he had just taken it out of the car.

"I can't let him see it...... It's better not to let him know that there is such a place. ”

She whispered.

"If all this is true, then no one but us must know the secret."

After throwing down these words, Xie Yuzhi left the cave quickly.

Ten minutes later, she came back again, her expression showing a hint of exhaustion, except for the brightness in her pupils.

"Let's plan first."

Xie Yuzhi said that at this time, she saw that Ji Chunzao was almost lying on top of the UFO, looking like she was going to find the entrance of the cave to get into, and couldn't help but stop it in a stern tone:

"Spring algae! What are you doing? Hurry up, we don't know if this machine will work properly yet, it's too dangerous for you to do this! ”

I put a foot on the porthole protrusion. Ji Chunzao, who was trying to climb to the top of the UFO, heard a sound from behind him, and his body suddenly stiffened.

"I, I got it......"

The little girl pursed her lips, and although she was a little dissatisfied, she obediently got down from the UFO.

When she came to the two of them, Xie Yuzhi stepped forward, grabbed her hand unceremoniously in Ji Chunzao's exclamation, and frowned at her dusty cuffs and collar.

"Let's not talk about danger or not, aren't you dirty? Look, there's dust all over the body. ”

Miss Xie complained as she began to help Ji Chunzao dust off her body.

Listening to her tone of hatred and watching her skillful movements, this is probably not the first time such a thing has happened, after all, these two are roommates.

Yan Jingxing watched the interaction between the two people from the side, and couldn't help but feel the urge to laugh out loud.

Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi, these two are obviously peers who are studying in the same school, but he can see that it seems to be a "mother-daughter relationship......

Now he can finally understand what Chunzao meant when he said, "Sometimes I feel that Xie Yuzhi is like a strict mother".

"Yan Jingxing, what are you laughing at?"

Just as he was feeling fun, he suddenly felt a chill, and the sharp gaze of the eldest lady fell on him.

"Uh, nothing."

Yan Jingxing hurriedly tightened his face and put on a serious expression.

Xie Yuzhi stared at him suspiciously, and after a while, she said:

"I'm going to keep an eye on her in the future. Chunzao always likes to mess around, sometimes it's headless, you're her friend, so you have to pay more attention......"

"Okay, okay, I see."

Yan Jingxing stood up from the ground with his knees propped up.

"But I think she always has her own ideas. I guess she's already found something up there, right? ”

“…… Is that so? ”

Miss Xie's gaze turned to her roommate, who was firmly grasping her arm to avoid running around again.

"That's right!"

Hearing him say this, Ji Chunzao suddenly became energetic, and said proudly and loudly:

"I've just been tinkering for a while, and I've managed to open the door to the UFO!"

“……？”

Xie Yuzhi let go of her hand, hurriedly walked to the side of the flying saucer, and after turning around twice, she really saw an open iron door, barely large enough for one person to crawl through.

"Do you want to get in from here?"

She crouched down and shone a flashlight, and it was dark inside, an empty cabin space.

"Alas, although I don't want to doubt your words, the more I look at it, the more unreliable I feel, can this kind of thing really send people to another planet?"

In fact, Yan Jingxing also thinks so. In particular, nothing resembling instruments was found inside the saucer.

"If that's the case, at least there's no danger in getting in, right?"

“……”

Ji Chunzao said in a tone of suppressed excitement on the side:

"It's true or not, the three of us will go in and see if we can find out?"

…… Yes, in the final analysis, it is up to practice to prove.

In this case, she is the only one who can give up all your worries in one breath and propose "forward" without hesitation.

Yan Jingxing squatted down next to Xie Yuzhi and looked at the girl's side face.

"What do you think?"

"Of course you have to try." Xie Yuzhi quickly made a decision, "I'll prepare what I need first, and then go in together." ”

"What are you going to prepare?"

"Even if this thing could actually move us to another planet, we wouldn't know anything about living there, would we?"

She looked inside the UFO's cabin again.

"At this size...... It seems that only the corresponding clothing and personal belongings can be prepared. ”

"Yes, that person is an 'astronaut', so he can walk on alien planets, but ......"

Yan Jingxing muttered.

"Where are we going to get the spacesuit? I read in magazines that the cost of a piece is hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is all state secrets. ”

"No, the thing that came out of the whale's belly, I'm sure it's not a real spacesuit. I can make it based on the material, and if you're worried, I can still get someone to sew it into that shape, but it's just a 'souvenir' at the end of the day. ”

Xie Yuzhi replied.

"Anyway, you don't have to worry, leave it to me to prepare. Let's seal this place up and keep it a secret......"

"I see!"

Ji Chunzao suddenly shouted, his tone full of surprise.

"This is the so-called 'secret base', right?"

"...... 'secret base'? It sounds a bit naïve, but that's exactly what it is. ”

Xie Yuzhi rarely showed a faint smile.

Yan Jingxing looked around, trying to keep the scenery around him firmly in his mind.

……

In early summer, a secret that only three junior high school students knew.

A cave in the deep mountains and old forests, a strange abandoned UFO, and, a future alien adventure-

An unprecedented sense of anticipation made his heart pound.

*

Three days later.

Yan Jingxing, Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi, the three of them came to that place again - in front of the cave that they regarded as a "secret base".

Behind them were several large packages tied up with ropes, all of which Miss Xie had asked someone to pull up the mountain in a truck. I heard that it contains a generator, special clothes, oxygen cylinders, emergency food, and all kinds of equipment and equipment needed for cross-country mountaineering.

Although he had long known that Xie Yuzhi's family was very rich, he still didn't expect her to complete the preparations in such a quick time.

It's one thing to be born rich and noble, Xie Yuzhi is still a minor in junior high school after all, she has no career of her own and can't live independently.

Seeing her children messing up things all day long, doesn't her family care?

Doubts are doubts, no matter what, Yan Jingxing is still very glad that Xie Yuzhi can join them, otherwise with his and Ji Chunzao's abilities, it will be impossible to complete this work in a semester.

…… It's just that Miss Xie herself still has a dissatisfied,

"It's too rushed. Compared to the pictures of the spacesuit, and the paper material found in the cave, the damage was even greater than I expected, and I had to find someone in the archives who specialized in paper restoration, fumigation to separate the pages - all of which took time. ”

"So, we can't wait to come over first. If you don't really want to activate a UFO, don't you feel curious and don't want to come to the secret base to see what's going on? In the past two days, Chunzao has been talking about this matter every day, so that I am almost shunned by my classmates. ”

“…… I'm certainly curious. Xie Yuzhi began to whisper, "But even if it's just preliminary preparation, I feel that it is very insufficient." There is too little information about the so-called 'other planet', and with the limited size of the UFO's cabin, I can only do it to this extent. ”

"You're too serious."

Yan Jingxing comforted beside him.

"How can you do it if you don't take it seriously. If you really want to go to another planet, you can't be too cautious......"

She sighed quietly.

"I'm kind of hoping this flying saucer is a fake now."

"Why?"

"Because it's not just my life at stake. I couldn't put my mind at ease. ”

The expression on the eldest lady's face was a little subtle, as if she was having trouble with herself.

"Shall I go in first?"

On the other side, not far away, Ji Chunzao has opened the entrance to the UFO with great interest.

"Change your clothes and get your stuff right."

Xie Yuzhi turned around and told again. She had also written about precautions before so that all three of them could remember them.

"How about you learn from her and be more relaxed?"

Yan Jingxing said with a smile.

"Like spring algae?" Xie Yuzhi shook his head, "I'm afraid I won't be able to do it in my lifetime." ”

She stared at Ji Chunzao's back, and the emotions revealed in her eyes had a complexity that he couldn't understand.

……

The three entered the UFO in turn.

"Don't be nervous, this time it's actually here to transfer equipment and test the internal environment, and we may have to wait until the data is restored to know how to use this machine. At the very least, it is necessary to connect the appropriate energy input device before it is possible to start the machine. ”

"I, I'm not nervous......"

"Your voice is shaking."

Xie Yuzhi, who carried an oxygen tank and a hiking bag, was the last to enter, placing a telegraph satellite clock and a scheduled camera in a corner near the UFO, adjusting her watch and shoulder strap, then took a deep breath and crouched down and crawled into the hole.

"There's a drawer here, as if you can put something. I'll get it for you. ”

"Okay."

The cabin was pitch black, you couldn't see your fingers, the space was not very spacious, and the young people were so close that they could hear each other's breathing.

“……”

When no one spoke, the cabin was silent.

Xie Yuzhi raised her hand and glanced at the watch with luminescence.

"Thirty minutes, thirty minutes later we'll be out. If you feel unwell along the way, you have to explain it in advance, understand? ”

She didn't warn "don't touch the buttons" or anything like that, because there's no such thing inside this UFO.

"Hmm."

"Okay."

Hearing the responses of her companions, her mood calmed down slightly.

Xie Yuzhi raised her head and looked up at the empty darkness.

Of course, she knew, it was the curved metal roof of the flying saucer, which she could reach with her hand; But she still prefers to think of it as a roofless passage to the vast starry sky.

The girl couldn't help but think:

"Can this UFO really take us across the universe, across the galaxy, to another planet that is unknown how many light-years away?"

As soon as this thought came to her mind, Xie Yuzhi couldn't help but smile bitterly.

How is that possible......

That's something that can't be done with modern human space technology, so people are willing to fantasize and describe the vast universe over and over again in fictional stories.

But imagination is imagination, reality is reality.

She had always hated people who confused the two, but in the few days she had been with them, she felt like she was in a dream.

That's why I can't help but follow along with the dream that I thought I had forgotten for a long time-

"Well, let's hold hands, okay?"

At this time, Xie Yuzhi suddenly heard another girl propose.

"Why so suddenly?"

The silence in the darkness lasted for a moment, and she heard the boy ask.

"Is there any reason?"

She heard herself ask in a calm tone.

"No, there's no reason...... I just suddenly wanted to do it. ”

Ji Chunzao replied in a low voice.

"Ah, do you mean you're scared?"

"Not really!"

…… That's it.

It's no wonder, though. When people are in the dark, it is easy to have all kinds of messy thoughts.

Although Xie Yuzhi didn't feel scared, her worries and nervousness at the moment were by no means fake.

She heard Yan Jingxing laugh, and then replied:

"I don't care, but it depends on what Xie Yuzhi means."

It's okay to be with Chunzao, do you want to hold hands with boys? It's not a schoolboy.

"I don't care."

However, she heard that she agreed without hesitation.

This reaction obviously surprised Yan Jingxing. After a while, she heard him hesitate and say:

“…… Well, then ......"

She could clearly feel that a body temperature on both sides was slowly approaching.

The two hands she placed on her body were gently grasped and then led by the hands of the other two people who were groping.

One hand is small, soft, and seems a little timid; The other hand was rougher, but the force was strong.

The three people in the dark really held hands together.

Xie Yuzhi pursed her lips.

It's weird, she thought.

It's just such a small action, but it really seems to have some kind of magical effect, which makes most of the haze that lingers in her heart suddenly dissipate.

"Boom!"

At that moment, an astonishing loud noise came overhead, as if there was a thunderbolt of lightning brewing inside the cave that was enough to set off a storm.

"Wow, ahhhh

"What's wrong?"

She heard both of them shouting, and trembling came from both hands, and she hurriedly said:

"Calm down, everyone......"

"Bang-"

Xie Yuzhi couldn't hear the sound anymore.

There was a flickering of blazing light in front of her eyes, which made her retina blacken for a while.

From the very dark to the very bright, like the first light before the opening of heaven and earth.

Then came the tremors, the vibrations that were so intense that the whole UFO was shaking wildly—

Then, everything calmed down. She felt as if she had drowned, and her whole body was in a bottomless dark pool, slowly sinking with an unstoppable trend.

A huge whirlpool formed beneath her, dragging her little by little towards the abyss of spiritual depravity.

This series of changes came so violently that by the time Xie Yuzhi came back to her senses, she couldn't say a word, let alone ask her companions about the situation.

The only thing to be thankful for is that before the mutation occurred, Ji Chunzao proposed to let the three of them hold hands in the dark.

Therefore, even if it has reached the moment when she can't feel each other, or even confirm that the other person exists, even if her consciousness is on the verge of collapse and she is about to fall into a coma, the warmth of holding hands with each other is still faintly but firmly transmitted to her heart......