“…… I'm back. ”

Without incident, he once again lost consciousness in the pod and once again woke up in the UFO of the "secret base".

This time, Yan Jingxing, who opened his eyes, was already very calm.

He checked his surroundings first, then observed the silhouettes of the two girls in the dim light around them, and after making sure that they were all right, he relaxed his back against the bulkhead and opened the small door next to him.

"How's it going, is everyone alright?"

"It's fine." He heard Miss Xie reply in an inexplicable tone in the dark, "However, it may take me a while to sort out my mood. ”

"I understand. Actually, until now, I have an unbelievable feeling about what happened. ”

"Yes, I feel the same way."

"Haaa......"

The person who yawned just now was Ji Chunzao.

"Hehe, it feels like I've slept and I'm going back to Earth easily."

Picking up their luggage, they climbed out of the UFO one by one, like passengers who had just gotten off a long-distance train, day and night, and felt like a world away as soon as they walked out.

Yan Jingxing was the first to drill out. He stretched as he breathed in the fresh air from the outside world.

"What's next...... By the way, we have to hurry home. ”

He had a sense of "finally returning to reality".

Just now, I was still experiencing thrills that are unimaginable to ordinary people, and I threw myself into the adventure;

When I return to Earth, the school, the parents, the unfinished homework and the exam results of the day before yesterday...... After thinking about it irrepressibly, he felt that he had changed back to that ordinary junior high school student.

"After such a long time, everyone in the family is worried, it's all -"

Yan Jingxing's words were just halfway through when he stopped.

He turned his head to look and found that the sky outside the cave was bright, it was a good summer scenery, and the sky did not mean to get dark at all.

How can it be? This...... Isn't it the next day?

There was the sound of the eldest lady squatting in the corner and sorting out her belongings from behind, and she didn't know what she was busy with.

After half a ring, she straightened up, as if noticing the confusion on Yan Jingxing's face, Xie Yuzhi walked to his side, still holding an alarm clock in her hand.

"Look."

She asked Yan Jingxing to look carefully at the hands on the dial.

"It's ...... 9:15 a.m.? It's too early, what time is it when we go to another planet? Yan Jingxing asked hesitantly.

Xie Yuzhi didn't answer the question immediately, but turned around and went back to bring another thing.

It was a video camera.

"Although I didn't think that UFOs would be easily activated by us until there was a real space transfer inside the pod, I tried to prepare everything I could as much as I could for preliminary testing. Luckily, I did that, so I was able to spot the strange thing when I just checked. ”

Xie Yuzhi dragged Ji Chunzao over and began to explain to the two of them.

"The first is time. It was 9:05 a.m. when we set off. In other words, according to the time on Earth, we spent about ten minutes on that alien planet. ”

She put down the alarm clock.

"It's obviously unreasonable, it's far from our physical time......"

"Oh, I see!"

Ji Chunzao's eyes lit up, she raised her hand as if she was being named by a teacher to answer a question in class, and said loudly.

"This is because the speed of time on both sides is not the same! I've read stories in magazines before about a ship traveling at the speed of light that crashed and left one of its passengers behind and left to stay on a local planet. And by the time the driver went to the rescue and met the passenger again, the other party had already become an old man. ”

"After transcending the 'principle of invariance of the speed of light', will the distortion of space-time occur?"

Xie Yuzhi bowed slightly, as if in agreement. It seems that the eldest lady has not read this type of science fiction less.

“…… Since it's an alien planet, it's not so unbelievable. Yan Jingxing touched his chin and muttered, "After all, we don't know how many light years apart we are." ”

"It's hard to come up with a definite answer in our ability, so let's put it aside. In addition to this, one more thing, before leaving, I put a couple of cameras in this cave with a time-lapse recording function. ”

Xie Yuzhi turned on the filming function neatly, and the three of them all squeezed their heads in front of the machine, staring at the screen with nervousness and excitement.

……

At 9:05, they descended into the UFO in turn, and for the next ten minutes, nothing changed. If it weren't for the fact that time was still beating on the screen, it might be thought to be a still picture.

At 9:15, Yan Jingxing opened the hatch and walked out of the UFO for the first time. After that, Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi.

……

“……”

Yan Jingxing was silent.

"It's not nothing!"

Ji Chunzao exhaled, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and quickly retracted his head.

This weather, and the big living people arm to arm intimately together, is really too hot.

"Nothing, that's the problem."

Yan Jingxing saw the name of the name, he shook his head, and said:

"I don't know if you still have an impression, but I remember very well, before we lost consciousness, we did hear a loud roar, and saw a huge light that blinded people's eyes...... But none of this appears in the video. Is it our hallucination? ”

"yes, I remember."

Xie Yuzhi nodded.

"My guess is that it's possible that this is all happening in UFOs, and that when the loud noises and lights come out, we're not really on Earth anymore."

……

The three of them exchanged their feelings during their first alien adventure, discussing various questions that were difficult to answer for the time being, and they all felt unsatisfied for a while.

But it was not too early, the hottest time of the year was coming, and the midday sun was quite scorching, and they were ready to leave the place before then.

"I've put surveillance cameras here and put up new locks to prevent outsiders from breaking in."

Xie Yuzhi said.

"It's you, so thoughtful. So, let's go, shall we? ”

Yan Jingxing didn't take a few steps out, but found that Ji Chunzao next to him would turn his head to look in the direction of the UFO from time to time, looking a little funny.

"Why, you just came back and you want to go back again?"

"Woo......"

The little girl who was caught was a little embarrassed.

"I can come back next time, don't worry."

"When is the next time? Tomorrow? ”

She lifted her little face, full of anticipation.

"Uh......"

Yan Jingxing was a little uncomfortable with Chunzao's big sparkling eyes.

"I'll have to wait until I'm ready. For example, with this experience, we at least know how to take things to another planet......"

"I think it's better to be late."

Miss Xie showed a serious expression.

"Even if we go back, will we be able to get through that forest? If you can't, you'll still have to be trapped in the underground palace. In the absence of the 'Predator King', those strange trees may not allow us to pass easily. ”

Trees with textures that resemble human faces—according to Ji Chunzao, they also emit "electric waves", indicating that each tree is a strange creature like a hairless one.

Although their presence is weak, their numbers are too large after all, and if they will be malicious to humans, they will undoubtedly be a terrible threat to the three junior high school students.

"Don't look at the fate of those trees is miserable, they look like they have no power to resist, but they are to avoid the predator king in the sky. If we think about it, we may be treated as prey by them in turn. ”

The main reason is that the appearance of this tree is so scary that it doesn't look like a good tree.

The sap flowing from their branches is scarlet, like human blood, and they even scream at the most outrageous time, and in the face of the predation of monsters, thousands of ghost-faced trees scream together, that scene is really ......

It's impressive.

"By the way, do you know the name of this tree?"

Yan Jingxing suddenly remembered that none of them knew anything about that planet.

Ji Chunzao inherited the ability of sacrifice, which is equivalent to having the knowledge of alien civilizations, being able to read the words they left behind, and understanding the "common sense" of this world to a certain extent.

At least when she saw the hairless ones and the predators, she did call out their names as soon as she saw them.

"Well, I saw it, but I didn't react at the time."

Ji Chunzao nodded honestly.

"Because in my eyes, they are called 'trees.'"

“……”

Yan Jingxing was a little speechless.

What does this mean by this, is this kind of tree very common in the eyes of aliens? Just like seeing camphor and willow trees on earth? ”

What kind of planet do they live on......

At this time, Yan Jingxing suddenly found a problem:

Strange to say, they did find a palace built by an alien civilization, but they didn't find a single alien inside, and there was not even a trace of their life anywhere.

It was clearly a long-abandoned ruin, now occupied by hairless doves; Judging from the murals, the palace is a very important place for this civilized group, and when it comes to the inheritance of rituals, it should not be given up at will......

"In short, I think it would be better to improve our own comprehensive strength first, be fully prepared, and then take on the challenge."

Xie Yuzhi pulled the topic back up.

"Don't forget, we also have a copy of the information found in the secret base. Since someone has activated this instrument, it means that the other party is likely to have been to another planet like us, and there is a high probability that they will know more information than us, and they may be able to find a way out of the forest. ”

"In addition, I have one more thing ......"

Miss Xie was halfway through her words, as if because she didn't organize her language well, and after a pause, she even subconsciously lowered her voice.

"You've both found your own abilities, and it's just a matter of getting used to it. In this regard, I may ...... I also need someone to help...... Maybe. ”

Her twisted and somewhat embarrassed attitude is really the first time I have seen it.

…… It's amazing.

Out of the corner of his eye, he subconsciously glanced at Ji Chunzao beside him, and found that a strange smile was showing on her face for some reason.

Well, Yan Jingxing knew in his heart, his current expression must be the same as hers.

The two ill-intentioned people exchanged glances and said in unison:

"I don't seem to understand, can you say it again?"

"Can you be clear? I didn't hear that. ”

“……”

Xie Yuzhi held his forehead, feeling a little helpless.

With the experience of getting along during this time, she doesn't feel that the two of them are so slow to react.

Miss Xie trusted her gaze. Although this statement always sounds annoying, she has always been willing to talk seriously with people she can see, and such people are certainly not stupid.

Yan Jingxing has an ordinary side, but also a more calm and courageous side than other boys of the same age she has seen;

Even Ji Chunzao, who often behaves recklessly, has a very flexible head, and has won the award of the city's model aircraft competition. This is not something that ordinary students can do in their spare time, but this girl is always easy to be led away by whimsical thoughts-

How could they not have guessed what they were thinking?

"I mean, please...... Do me a favor. ”

An eye-catching blush floated on her pretty face, and the eldest lady was clearly feeling shy. However, she finally managed to get her words out.

"I also hope to be like you, and awaken my own superpowers."

What really surprised Xie Yuzhi was actually her own reaction, she would really bow her head to others and beg, and she was two peers.

Maybe it was not the first time she said to them "I hope you can help me", Xie Yuzhi found that in front of these two people, her self-respecting mentality in the past disappeared unconsciously.

"Oh~ So that's it, you said it earlier."

Ji Chunzao deliberately showed an expression of sudden realization, she smiled and stretched out her hand and grabbed her arm.

"Don't worry, it's on me! Yuzhi, you're the 'king', right? It sounds amazing, and it will definitely awaken a very powerful ability. Ah, but you're a girl, so you probably shouldn't be called 'King,' but ......."

"—Queen! We should call her Her Majesty. ”

Yan Jingxing tried to hold his face and added.

"Yes, yes, it's Her Majesty! Her Majesty the Queen of Baiyue Town Experimental High School! ”

Ji Chunzao immediately raised his hand and cheered.

Xie Yuzhi was coaxed by these two people to be angry and funny.

"Well, since I'm the Queen, you'll all have to listen to me. Now, Her Majesty is about to issue the first order. ”

She poked Ji Chunzao's soft face and found that it felt really good.

"You both come to my house tomorrow, even on weekends, don't take time off, do you hear? Remember to wake up in the morning and I'll send a car to pick you up. ”