Author: A Clockwork Orange Dream

Chapter 24 Our Secret Base

"Are those things you just said true? This thing can allow us to go to another planet?"

Yan Jingxing slumped on the ground weakly, with a frightened expression on his face; Xie Yuzhi walked in from outside the cave, handed him a bottle of mineral water, and confirmed to him seriously.

"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 rusty and stained.

The dust should be at different points in time."

Even after hearing what he said, Miss Xie still held her hands in her arms and frowned, looking like she couldn't let go.

Yan Jingxing raised his head and looked at her.

"Of course, in the final analysis, all this is an illusion created by me alone. But don't we act on the premise that this illusion is real?"

"...You are right."

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

"My driver, Uncle Liu, is at the bottom of the mountain. He drove the car over."

Yan Jingxing took a big gulp down his throat. The water was warm from the sun, and it seemed that it had just been taken out of the car.

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

she whispered.

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

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

Ten minutes later, she came back again, her expression showing a bit of fatigue, but the energy in her pupils remained unchanged.

"Let's plan it first."

Xie Yuzhi said that at this time, 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, so she couldn't help but stop her with a stern tone:

"Chun Zao! What are you doing? Come down quickly. We don't know yet whether this machine can operate normally. It's too dangerous for you to do this!"

Ji Chunzao, who was stepping on the bulge of the porthole with his feet and trying to climb to the top of the UFO, heard a voice coming from behind and suddenly froze.

"I, I understand..."

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

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

"Let's not talk about whether it's dangerous or not, don't you think it's dirty? Look, there's dust everywhere on your body."

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

Judging from her tone of voice and her skillful movements, it was probably not the first time that something like this had happened. After all, the two of them were roommates.

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

Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi were obviously peers in the same school, but he could see that it was like a "mother-daughter relationship"...

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

"Yan Jingxing, what are you laughing at?"

Just when he was having fun, he suddenly felt a chill, and the eldest lady's sharp gaze fell on him.

"Uh, nothing."

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

Xie Yuzhi stared at him suspiciously. After a while, she said:

"You have to keep an eye on her from now on. Chun Zao always likes to mess around, sometimes without thinking. You are her friend, so you should pay more attention..."

"Okay, okay, I understand."

Yan Jingxing stood up from the ground with his knees on his hands.

"But I think Chun Zao always has her own ideas. I guess she has discovered something there, right?"

"……is that so?"

Miss Xie turned her eyes 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 suddenly became energetic and said proudly:

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

"...?"

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

"Do you want to go in from here?"

She knelt down and looked at it with a flashlight. It was dark inside and it was an empty cabin space.

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

In fact, Yan Jingxing thought so too. Especially, nothing that looked like instruments or equipment 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 tone of suppressed excitement:

"Whether it's true or not, the three of us can go in and take a look and we'll find out?"

...Yes, in the final analysis, it still needs to be proved by practice.

In this situation, she was the only one who could put aside all worries in one breath and say "move forward" without hesitation.

Yan Jingxing knelt down next to Xie Yuzhi and looked at the girl's profile.

"What do you think?"

"Of course we have to try." Xie Yuzhi quickly made a decision, "I'll prepare the necessary things first, and then we go in together."

"What are you going to prepare?"

"Even if this thing really allows us to transfer to another planet, we have no idea about the living environment there, do we?"

She looked inside the UFO's cabin again.

"With this size...it seems that we can only prepare corresponding clothing and belongings."

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

Yan Jingxing murmured.

"Where are we going to get a space suit? I read in a magazine that one costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and it's all state secrets."

"No, just the thing pulled out of the whale's belly, I believe it is definitely not a real space suit. I can make it based on its materials. If you are worried, I can also find someone to sew it into that shape, but in the end

Just a 'souvenir'."

Xie Yuzhi replied.

"Anyway, don't worry, leave it to me to prepare. Let's seal this place up first 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'? Although it sounds a bit childish, it is indeed what it is."

Xie Yuzhi rarely showed a faint smile.

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

…

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

A cave in a deep mountain forest, a strange abandoned UFO, and an alien adventure that may be coming——

An unprecedented sense of anticipation made his heart begin to pound.

*

Three days later.

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

Behind them were stacked several large packages tied up with ropes. They were all things that Miss Xie asked someone to pull up the mountain with a truck. I heard that they contained generators, special clothes, oxygen bottles, emergency food, and various off-road items.

Equipment needed for mountain climbing.

Although he had known for a long time that Xie Yuzhi's family was very wealthy, he still didn't expect that she could complete the preparations so quickly and resolutely.

It is one thing to be born into a wealthy family. After all, Xie Yuzhi is still a minor in junior high school. He does not have his own career and cannot live independently.
To be continued...