Author: A Clockwork Orange Dream

Chapter 23 UFO in the cave

"Eh, Jing Xing...?"

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

"where are you going?"

Seeing that the boy was about to open the door and go out without saying a word, the little girl subconsciously stretched out her hand to grab his sleeve, but failed.

Yan Jingxing didn't look back and stepped forward with a focused look on his face. He didn't react in any way to her words. He only had one goal in his eyes.

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

"Wait, don't leave!"

Ji Chunzao was really anxious now. She had realized that something was wrong and quickly followed his footsteps.

Her shout caught Xie Yuzhi's attention. The girl glanced towards the door and frowned.

"Uncle Liu, wait for us here, we will be back soon."

With that said, she followed the steps of the two men without hesitation and walked out of the house quickly.

"Hey, wait a minute..."

Liu Tie failed to call the eldest lady, so he had to throw down the banknotes and said, "I'll find a car to take this thing away later" before leaving.

He turned and took one last look into the room.

In the dim houseboat, the white "astronaut model" was lying quietly on the cement floor, motionless.

*

Yan Jingxing followed the "resurrected" astronaut for more than ten minutes before stopping in a daze.

At this time, he heard anxious shouts from beside him:

"Jing Xing, Jing Xing, what's wrong with you?! Wake up!"

Yan Jingxing was startled by the sudden loud voice. He subconsciously covered his ears and frowned at the girl standing next to him.

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

Ji Chunzao was stunned for a moment, then she put her hands on her hips, stared at him with dissatisfaction, and her voice became louder.

"Awake? I've called you several times, but you haven't answered!"

"Yes, really..."

Yan Jingxing scratched the back of his head. He looked around and found that he was no longer in the houseboat and had no idea where he was. It was only then that he felt like he suddenly came back to his senses.

At this time, Xie Yuzhi slowly walked over from a short distance away. She held her hands in front of her chest and looked at him carefully for a while, and then asked:

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

"Don't you see?"

Yan Jingxing asked somewhat strangely.

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

"How could it be!" Ji Chunzao said, "We all saw it clearly. 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, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. In other words, Jing Xing, this is something only you can see, right?"

...Yes, the astronaut was the ghostly giant he saw in the cinema, and then dreamed about it again...

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

"Looking at the dazed look on your face, you must be as confused as we are."

Xie Yuzhi sighed, put down his hands, and walked to him.

"We can't miss this opportunity, Jing Xing." She looked into his eyes seriously. "Every time 'astronaut' appears, it provides you with vital information. 'He' does not appear for no reason.

What is in front of you must have some extremely crucial reasons that we cannot imagine."

"...Yeah." Yan Jingxing nodded.

"Then can you still see 'him' now? You stopped just now because you saw clearly where he went?"

Yan Jingxing nodded again.

At this time, they had left near the dock of Shigang Village. The smell of seafood was no longer lingering in the surrounding air. Instead, there were lush woods and undulating green hills. At the foot of the mountains, there was a large farmland at the entrance to the village.

The summer wind blows in your face, and the hot breath is permeated with the fragrance of rice emitted by the transpiration of the paddy fields, creating a leisurely and pleasant rural scenery.

Frogs in the fields chirped tirelessly in the scorching heat of midsummer, and dragonflies flew between the field ridges and ponds.

Looking from a high place, you can see a white line in the distance, which is the embankment; and on the other end of the embankment is the boundless sea.

Yan Jingxing looked past the two girls in front of him and saw the white figure walking quietly on the field path.

"Let's go."

He took a deep breath.

"Let's go see where 'he' is going to take us."

…

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

The verdant mountain forest and countless intertwined tree crowns undulate in the wind, like waves rolling up on the sea.

In the middle of the mountain forest, there is a winding light yellow dirt road, with a white figure walking in front. It is an astronaut who has just crawled out of the belly of a whale. "He" wearing a white spacesuit should have been in the universe.

Wandering, now I am walking on the dirt road step by step;

Following closely behind were a few young and young-looking girls, chasing the astronauts as they walked in the mountains:

Further away, there is an adult who is anxiously looking for the traces of them...

*

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

It looked like a cave. There were obvious traces of man-made pipes at the entrance, and a rusty iron fence blocked half of it.

The vines hanging down from the entrance of the cave are growing densely and appear green.

That's where the "ghost astronaut" went.

"Finally we're here."

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

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

After arriving in the mountains, the temperature became cooler, but the sunlight falling above his head was still very strong, and the shade of the trees could not completely block him. In addition, he was already sweating profusely from walking on the difficult and rugged path.

"Okay, the astronaut's destination is here, we can take a rest..."

He turned around and said to the two girls following him.

Both Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi were so tired that they were dripping with sweat and panting. Ji Chunzao was even worse, looking as if he was about to faint as he changed his tail and forgot about himself after landing on the shore.

Mermaid is an aquatic animal.

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

In addition, it's not that he doesn't want to help, but it would be a bit embarrassing if he took the initiative to speak in this situation...

It's summer, and the girls are all wearing thin clothes. The light-colored tops and long skirts soaked with sweat cling tightly to the skin, outlining the green body curves. The clothes appear translucent and see-through in the sun.

Out of flesh color.

Yan Jingxing only glanced at it a few times before subconsciously blushing and turning his head away, not daring to look any further.

"arrive?"

Xie Yuzhi walked up to him, smoothed the hair in front of her forehead with her little finger, and stared at the cave side by side with him.

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

Yan Jingxing's eyes were fixed in front of him, with no intention of drifting anywhere else, and he replied in a serious tone.

"I discovered something along the way."

Miss Xie didn't notice anything strange about someone and said equally seriously.

"Um?"

"Every place we passed has roads. We have never entered a real mountain forest - if this were not the case, I would have stopped long ago, and I would feel that I need to be more fully prepared before entering. But now...

…”

The girl blocked the sun with her hands, and her bright eyes flashed slightly as she stared at the deep entrance of the cave.
To be continued...