Author: A Clockwork Orange Dream

"——Ji Chunzao ran away from home."

Yan Jingxing learned the news three days later. After learning the news, he felt his chest began to feel tight.

However, the girl did not come to class for two days. She did not seem to come to school at all, nor was she in the dormitory.

That day, after Ji Chunzao said to him, "I want to go ahead and do it!", the two parted ways.

She didn't say specifically what she wanted to do. Even if Yan Jingxing asked, she just replied: "Don't worry, leave it to me. You just have to wait patiently!" with a mysterious attitude.

It was a coincidence that Yan Jingxing knew the cause of this incident. He originally went to the office to find his uncle this morning, but he saw a familiar figure of a parent at the door.

A middle-aged woman with gray hair and a thin body, carrying a bag.

Isn't this Chunzao's aunt?

He was startled, and subconsciously stopped in front of the office door, peeking inside secretly.

"Excuse me, are you...?"

She asked the teacher who came forward.

"I am Ji Chunzao's parent. Has she come to school?"

"Jichunzao?"

The teacher turned to look at his colleagues.

"I know her, which class is she in?"

"I am from Class 1 of Grade 2." Someone said, "But the head teacher, Teacher Gao, is not here these two days..."

The school has not made the news official yet, and some teachers don’t know the specific situation. But the gossip has already spread among the grades. After all, the people who attend the cram school are almost all from the experimental middle school, and there are several people involved in the class.

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When Yan Jingxing came to school the next day, he could feel that the atmosphere in the morning classroom was different from the past, with an atmosphere of impetuousness and uneasiness.

He heard the classmates around him discussing the accident last night. Everyone said that Teacher Gao suddenly went crazy and injured several students. Now he has been arrested and locked up in a mental hospital.

"Yes, what a coincidence, Teacher Gao is not here. Where are the other teachers, have they seen her?"

Several teachers teaching the first class exchanged a few words with each other and quickly came to a conclusion.

"I didn't see her in class."

"I asked the students in the same dormitory as her, and Ji Chunzao didn't come to school in the past two days."

"Is she staying home and getting sick?"

"No, she hasn't been at home these days." Aunt Chunzao replied, "That's why I came to school to look for her."

There were a lot of discussions in the office, and the teachers' expressions became serious.

"She is neither at school nor at home. Could it be that she ran away from home?"

Yan Jingxing, who was standing outside the office, heard the teachers' conversation. He turned around, his back pressed against the wall, and his heart was pounding.

Chun Zao... ran away from home?

His first subconscious reaction was to regret.

He obviously knew the danger existed, but because of that dream - if different opportunities came together, things would change dramatically - and because of such selfish thoughts, he did not stop Ji Chunzao.

"Did you call the police?"

"Call the police?" Aunt Chunzao immediately shook her head, "No, she will come back. I'm just here to ask, so don't take it to heart."

The teachers looked at each other and watched the middle-aged woman turn around and leave the office.

…

As soon as she went out, she saw Yan Jingxing and her eyes immediately widened.

What happened at the entrance of the shopping mall that day obviously left a deep impression on the other party.

"you……"

"Chun Zao is gone? Where did she go?"

"Don't she often hang out with you? I would like to ask you."

Aunt Chunzao replied angrily.

"I guess she went to the beach. She often sneaks out and comes back wet after swimming all day. I can't control her."

"Even so, will she not go home?"

"Who knows, it didn't happen before." The woman left a word and left in a hurry.

"I'll go find her!"

Yan Jingxing shouted behind her, but the other party ignored her.

…

"what are you doing here?"

Yan Jing was walking in the corridor and bumped into another acquaintance.

"That person just now is Chun Zao's aunt."

The class captain, holding a large stack of homework books, quickly buried her head. She stuck her head out and looked in the direction of the woman's back.

"Did Chun Zao do something again and the teacher called him a parent?"

I thought you had broken off the relationship with Chun Zao.

As if she had read through his thoughts, Xie Yuzhi added:

"We are roommates after all. I haven't seen her in the past two days. I thought I went to find aliens with you again. But judging from your expression just now, don't you know the reason why she didn't come to school?"

Xie Yuzhi looked at him with an inquiring look like "What are you feeling now?"

Yan Jingxing sighed and said, "Let me help you." He took away half of the homework books piled high in her hands, and the two of them walked towards the office again.

"I don't know, that's why I want to find her. When school is over... No, forget it, I'll just ask the teacher for leave today."

Xie Yuzhi glanced at his profile.

"Chun Zao will be fine."

"Huh? Why?"

Yan Jingxing asked strangely.

"Intuition. In my opinion, she is a special person. I am not so kind as to help others casually. Just like when everyone sees me, they will think that I will achieve something in the future. I have the same feeling when I see her.

a feeling of."

"..."

To be honest, Yan Jingxing didn't understand what she was talking about. Was she praising herself? Judging from her calm expression, she probably didn't mean that.

"I think what you meant that day was that you weren't going to continue to be friends with Chun Zao? Why do you think you have a pretty high opinion of her?"

"The two are not contradictory. No matter what kind of person she will become in the future, I still find it unbearable to talk about 'alien' things all day long."

Xie Yuzhi put down her homework on the unoccupied desk and smoothed her hanging hair around her ears.

"In short, I think if Ji Chunzao chooses to leave people's sight one day, it must be because she has been disappointed in everyone. But now, hasn't she met you? So don't worry, she knows what she knows."

Yan Jingxing didn't think anything would happen to her. In fact, what he was really dissatisfied with was——

"The problem is, I regard her as a friend, but I make my own decisions without saying a word. Don't you know that others will be worried?"

Xie Yuzhi blinked and said again:

"Maybe she felt in danger, so she didn't want to involve you."

"Is it dangerous...I know this too."

Yan Jingxing held his chin and tried hard to think about the problem from Chun Zao's point of view.

Because of the vague memory of his childhood encounter, it became Ji Chunzao's biggest psychological obstacle when using his summoning ability.

But she said she didn't want to stand still, and she must have been affected by his appearance in the process - in short, she finally mustered up the courage to face it proactively.

So you have to face it alone? But this...

Isn't that a bit too brave?

"Oh, no, I still can't let go. I want to find her."

When Yan Jingxing walked out of the office again, he had already made up his mind.

"me and you togather."

But what he didn't expect was Xie Yuzhi's reaction next to him.

"……ah?"

He looked at her strangely.

This person said he didn't want to have anything to do with Chun Zao, but in fact he didn't let go at all.
To be continued...