our secret base

Chapter 24 Our Secret Base

"Is what you just said true? This thing can let us go to another planet?"

Yan Jingxing slumped on the ground weakly, with an expression of lingering fear; Xie Yuzhi walked in from outside the cave, handed him a bottle of mineral water, and confirmed to him solemnly.

"Yes, I saw it. The astronaut walked into the cave, sat in the flying saucer, and went to another world in the next second... However, the flying saucer I saw was not like this one. The surface was rusted and stained. Dust, it should be at a different point in time."

Even after hearing what he said, Miss Xie still folded her arms and frowned, showing an expression of being unable to let go.

Yan Jingxing raised his head and met her gaze.

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

"……exactly."

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

"My driver, Uncle Liu, is at the foot of the mountain, and he drove the car over."

Yan Jingxing took a big gulp down his throat, the water was warm after being exposed to the sun, it looked like it had just been taken out of the car.

"I can't let him see it . . . It's best not to let him know there's such a place."

she whispered.

"If all this is true, then it must not be kept secret from anyone but us."

After dropping these words, Xie Yuzhi quickly left the cave.

After 10 minutes, she came back again, showing a little tiredness in her expression, but the expression in her pupils remained unchanged.

"Let's plan first."

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

"Chunzao! What are you doing? Come down quickly, we still don't know if this machine can work normally, it's too dangerous for you to do this!"

is putting his foot on the porthole bulge.Ji Chunzao, who was trying to climb to the top of the UFO, froze when he heard the voice behind him.

"I, I know..."

The little girl curled her lips. Although she was a little dissatisfied, she obediently got off the UFO.

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

"Let's not talk about danger or not, don't you think it's dirty? Look, there's dust all over your body."

While complaining, Miss Xie began to help Ji Chunzao dust off her body.

Judging by her hateful tone and her skillful movements, this is probably not the first time this has happened, after all, these two are roommates.

Yan Jingxing watched the interaction between the two, and couldn't help feeling the urge to laugh out loud.

Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi, these two people are obviously the same age who go to the same school, but he insists on seeing the feeling of "mother-daughter relationship"...

Now he can finally understand what Chunzao said at the time, "Sometimes I think Xie Yuzhi is like a strict mother".

"Yan Jingxing, what are you laughing at?"

Just when he was having fun, there was a sudden chill, and the young lady's sharp eyes fell on him.

"Uh, nothing."

Yan Jingxing quickly tensed his face and put on a serious expression.

Xie Yuzhi stared at him suspiciously, and after a while, she said:
"You have to keep an eye on her in the future. Chunzao always likes to mess around, and sometimes she doesn't think well. You are her friend, so you should be more careful..."

"Okay, I know."

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

"But I think Chunzao has a mind of her own. Guess she's found something on there, hasn't she?"

"……is that so?"

Miss Xie's eyes turned to her roommate who was holding her arm firmly to prevent her from running around again.

"That's right!"

Hearing what he said, Ji Chunzao became excited all of a sudden, and said loudly triumphantly:

"I just fiddled with it for a while, and I have successfully opened the door of the UFO!"

"...?"

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

"Go in from here?"

She squatted down and took a flashlight to take a picture. It was dark inside, and it was an empty cabin space.

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

In fact, Yan Jingxing also thought so.In particular, nothing resembling instrumentation was found inside the flying saucer.

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

"..."

Ji Chunzao said in a suppressed excited tone:

"Whether it's true or not, don't the three of us go in and have a look together?"

...Yes, in the final analysis, it still depends on practice to prove it.

Under such circumstances, she is the only one who can abandon all worries in one go and propose "forward" without hesitation.

Yan Jingxing squatted down beside Xie Yuzhi, looking at the girl's side face.

"What do you think?"

"Of course we 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 can really transfer us to another planet, we don't know anything about the living environment there, do we?"

She looked again at the cabin of the UFO.

"With this size... it seems that you can only prepare corresponding clothes and belongings."

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

Yan Jingxing murmured.

"Where are we going to get the spacesuits? I read in magazines that the cost of one piece will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and they are all state secrets."

"No, the thing pulled out of the whale's belly, I'm sure it's not a real space suit. I can make it from the material, and if you're worried, I can have someone sew it into that shape, but at the end of the day Just 'souvenir'."

Xie Yuzhi replied.

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

"I understand!"

Ji Chunzao suddenly shouted, his tone full of surprise.

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

"...'Secret Base'? Although it sounds a little childish, it is indeed the case."

Xie Yuzhi rarely showed a faint smile.

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

……

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

A cave in an old forest in a deep mountain, an abandoned strange UFO, and an upcoming alien adventure——

An unprecedented sense of anticipation made his heart start to 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 they regarded as their "secret base".

There were several large packages tied up with ropes stacked behind them, all of which Miss Xie asked someone to pull up the mountain with a truck.I heard that there are generators, special clothes, oxygen cylinders, emergency food, and various equipment and equipment needed for off-road mountaineering inside.

Although he had known for a long time that Xie Yuzhi's family was rich, he still didn't expect that she could complete the preparations in such a short time.

It is one thing to be born rich and honored. After all, Xie Yuzhi is still a minor in junior high school. She has no career and cannot live independently.

Seeing her children making messes all day long, don't her family care?
Doubts are doubts, no matter what, Yan Jingxing is very grateful that Xie Yuzhi can join them, otherwise, with his and Ji Chunzao's abilities, it would be impossible to complete this work in a semester.

... However, Miss Xie herself still has a dissatisfied expression,

"It's too hasty. Compared with the photos of the spacesuit, and the paper materials found in the hole, the damage is even greater than expected. I can only find someone who specializes in paper restoration in the archives. Through fumigation There are ways to separate the sheets—those jobs take time.”

"So, we can't wait and come here first. It's not really about launching the UFO. Don't you feel curious and don't want to come to the secret base to see the situation? Chunzao has been talking about it every day for the past two days It made me almost be respected and kept at a distance by my classmates."

"...Of course I'm curious." Xie Yuzhi began to whisper, "But even if it's just the preliminary preparations, I feel that it is not enough. There is too little information about the so-called 'another planet', and the cabin of the UFO The inner area is limited, and I can only do this to this extent with my ability."

"You are too serious."

Yan Jingxing comforted at the side.

"How can you not be serious. If you really want to go to another planet, you can't be too cautious..."

She sighed softly.

"I kind of hope now that this flying saucer is fake."

"why?"

"Because this matter is not only related to my life alone. I can't let go of my heart."

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

"I go in first?"

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

"Put on your clothes and pack your things."

Xie Yuzhi turned around and told her again.She also specially wrote the precautions before, so that the three of them could remember.

"How about you learn from her and relax your mind?"

Yan Jingxing said with a smile.

"Like Chunzao?" Xie Yuzhi shook her head, "I'm afraid I won't be able to do it in my life."

She stared at Ji Chunzao's back, the emotion revealed in her eyes was complicated that he couldn't understand.

……

The three entered the UFO one by one.

"Don't be nervous. This time, we are actually here to transfer equipment and test the internal environment. How to use this machine, we may not know until the data is restored. At the very least, we must connect suitable energy input devices before it can be activated. machine."

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

"Your voice is trembling."

Xie Yuzhi, who was carrying an oxygen cylinder and a mountaineering bag, was the last to enter. She placed a telegraph satellite clock and a camera with a fixed time in a corner near the UFO, adjusted her watch and shoulder straps, and then went deep Taking a breath, he crouched down and crawled into the hole.

"There is a drawer here, it seems that you can put things in it. Let me help you."

"it is good."

The cabin was pitch-black, and the space was not too spacious. The young people were so close that they could hear each other's breathing.

"..."

When no one spoke, the cabin was unbelievably quiet.

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

"Three 10 minutes, we will go out in three 10 minutes. If you feel unwell in the middle, you must explain in advance, understand?"

She didn't remind "don't touch the buttons" or something, because there is no such thing inside this UFO.

"Ah."

"it is good."

Hearing the responses from her companions, she calmed down a little.

Xie Yuzhi raised her head, looking up at the empty darkness.

Of course she knew that it was the curved metal roof of the flying saucer, and she could touch it as long as she stretched out her hand; but she still preferred to imagine it as a roofless passage leading to the vast starry sky.

The girl couldn't help thinking:
"Can this UFO really take us across the universe, across the galaxy, to another planet unknown how many light-years away?"

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

how could it be possible……

That is something that is completely impossible to do with the space technology of modern humans, so people are willing to fantasize and repeatedly describe the vast and endless universe in fictional stories.

But imagination is imagination, and reality is reality.

She has always hated people who confuse the two, but during the few days with them, she felt like she was living in a dream.

That's why I can't help but dream up that beautiful dream that I thought I had forgotten long ago——

"Well, let's hold hands, shall we?"

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

"Why so suddenly?"

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

"Is there any reason?"

She heard herself asking in an unreasonably calm tone.

"No, there is no reason... I just suddenly wanted to do this."

Ji Chunzao answered in a low voice.

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

"Not at all!"

...that's it.

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 worry 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 wants."

It's all right with Chunzao, do you want to hold hands with boys?Not elementary school students.

"I don't care either."

However, she heard herself agree without hesitation.

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

"...Okay, then..."

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

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

One hand is small and soft, as if a bit timid; the other hand is rougher, but the strength it transmits is very strong.

The three people in the dark really held hands together.

Xie Yuzhi pursed her lips.

How strange, she thought.

Even though it was just such a small movement, it seemed that it really had some kind of magical effect, causing most of the haze lingering in her heart to dissipate.

"Boom!"

At this moment, an astonishing loud noise came from above the head, as if lightning and thunder were brewing in the cave enough to set off a storm.

"Wow ah ah!"

"What, what's wrong?"

She heard both shouting, and trembling from their hands, and said hastily:
"Everyone calm down..."

"boom--"

Xie Yuzhi couldn't hear the sound anymore.

There was a blazing light flickering in front of her eyes, which made her retina black out in bursts.

From extremely dark to extremely bright, it is like the first light before the creation of heaven and earth.

Then there was a vibration, an extremely intense vibration, and the entire UFO was shaking crazily——

And then, everything calms down.She felt as if she was drowning, the whole body was in the bottomless black pool, sinking slowly with an unstoppable trend.

A huge vortex formed under her body, dragging her little by little into the abyss of spiritual depravity.

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

The only good news is that before the mutation happened, Ji Chunzao proposed to let the three of them hold hands in the dark.

So, even at the moment when she couldn't feel each other, couldn't even confirm the existence of the other party, even when her consciousness was on the verge of collapsing and she was about to fall into a coma, the warmth of holding each other was still faintly but firmly transmitted to her. in my heart...

(End of this chapter)