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Chapter 16 The Reason of Persistence

For a while, no one spoke.

Yan Jingxing felt restless, he could hear the trembling panting of the girl beside him, and he could imagine the ups and downs in her heart, but even if he wanted to comfort him, he didn't know where to start.

He has long realized that the situation in Chunzao's family may be very complicated, and he is inevitably curious to find out.

Before, he felt that it was not easy to ask in depth because of shallow words; now that the relationship between the two of them has become close, but the truth he wanted came too suddenly, and too...heavy.

Just as a bystander, it is hard to imagine the mood of the person involved.

Yan Jingxing stared at Xie Yuzhi's calm face, thinking that this girl was really "unusual".

"I'm leaving."

After a while, she said.

It wasn't until the driver reminded Xie Yuzhi to leave here that he was released from the predicament of not saying a word, and looked at Ji Chunzao.

"Chunzao, are you alright?"

The long-haired girl sniffed, her eyes were as red as a rabbit, and she responded to him in a low voice:

"I, I'm fine... let's go first."

She rubbed her eyes and patted her cheeks hard, trying to look energetic.

"Jing Xing, it seems that it is impossible to convince her today, let's think of other ways next time."

You still refuse to give up.

Yan Jingxing sighed and could only nod his head.

……

It was cloudless and the sky was brilliant.The weather will not change because of people's mood, it is still so beautiful, the strong sun makes people's skin hot.

On the way home, Ji Chunzao said he needed to go to the bathroom, so he stood at the entrance of the mall and waited for her.

At this time, a black private car passed slowly on the road.It happened to be a red light, and the car stopped beside him.

Yan Jingxing was feeling a little strange when the window on the passenger seat was rolled down, revealing a girl's face.

The team leader looked at him fixedly, and then said:
"Yan Jingxing, I don't know if you pity her like I do, or if you really believe her crazy words, but there are some things to pay attention to: she is a person who gets hot easily, you need to watch from the side, Don't let her do stupid things that affect everyone around her."

Xie Yuzhi spoke very seriously, probably from the experience gained from being a roommate.Although she didn't believe Chunzao's words, she acted as the "caregiver" beside Ji Chunzao for a period of time out of a certain sense of responsibility.

Now, when she said those words in front of Ji Chunzao, she obviously planned to be a stranger in the future - at least from Xie Yuzhi's point of view, that's why she couldn't help but find herself to confide in.

Of course she did it out of good intentions, but Yan Jingxing couldn't help frowning as he listened, feeling unhappy.

"Xie Yuzhi, you may think that you know everything, but I am different from you. I only know one thing: that is 'Chunzao is right' - I believe in her."

Yan Jingxing's tone was firm.

"So, you can stop talking."

Xie Yuzhi blinked, as if surprised.

She looked at the boy in front of the car window as if she was meeting him for the first time. After a while, the team leader looked away, stroking the soft hair that fell on her shoulders, with an unnatural expression.

"Isn't it nice that you're mad at her...you're her friend. Chunzao doesn't need me."

It was obviously a short conversation, but it became long at this moment. After 1 minute, the red light turned to green and the car resumed driving.

He heard Xie Yuzhi whisper goodbye to himself.

"goodbye!"

Yan Jingxing shook his hands towards the black car going away, and when he turned around, he saw Ji Chunzao standing behind him, looking at him strangely.

"That person was Xie Yuzhi just now? What are you talking about secretly with her?"

"It's nothing, she told me to watch you carefully, don't mess around, it's too stupid to go looking for aliens all day long..."

Yan Jingxing was only halfway through his words when he saw Ji Chunzao looking at him pitifully on the verge of weeping, and quickly explained:
"Of course I refused. Don't worry, I will definitely stand by your side!"

Ji Chunzao approached him unsteadily, then fell into his arms like this.

"Woooo..."

She clutched the boy's neckline tightly, pressed her face against his chest, and let out a small, faint sob.

Yan Jingxing's body froze all of a sudden.He hesitated for a while, then raised his hand and grabbed the girl's slender shoulders.

As if to give her strength to support, he embraced Ji Chunzao's weak body in his arms.

It felt like hugging a wounded animal, he thought.

……

In the car, sitting on the passenger seat was a girl who was as quiet as a lady.

She is still young, but her appearance is amazing; her temperament is dignified, and she has received a good etiquette education at a glance, and she will not relax her manners even in her own car.

Adolescence is the period in a person's life when personality matures and self-formation is formed. Junior high school students are the most rebellious group, but such signs of disobedience can't be seen in the girl named Xie Yuzhi;

On the contrary, she seems to have understood what she wants to do and what kind of person she wants to be in the future since a long time ago, and since then, she has been demanding herself with the strictest standards.

At this time, Xie Yuzhi suddenly pulled down the mirror on the passenger seat and stared at her face.

The girl's skin is cold and white. Standing in the crowd can make the complexion of everyone around her yellow; the frost-like beauty will make people look away involuntarily, and they don't want to look at the front more, as if they feel feel ashamed...

Except for herself.

She looked straight at the girl in the mirror, and in those dark and bright pupils, she captured the confused emotions.

Xie Yuzhi took a deep breath, and then let it out slowly, as if to expel the gloomy mood through the lungs.

"Uncle Liu, did you find anything strange about Teacher Gao after subduing her?"

"weird stuff?"

Liu Tie turned his head slightly, and asked suspiciously:
"What does miss mean?"

"For example," Xie Yuzhi hesitated a bit, it seemed that she herself wasn't sure if she wanted to say it, "'leech' or something..."

"leech?"

"I mean, is there any trace similar to being attacked by a creature?"

"Oh, did you mean she was bitten by a poisonous snake or something?" Liu Tie shook his head, "I didn't see any similar wounds on her body."

"yes."

Xie Yuzhi carried the mirror back again.

"Miss, did you notice anything?"

"...No, nothing."

……

Yan Jingxing held Ji Chunzao in his arms, felt the slender back of the girl in his arms, and felt calmer than ever.

It was the first time for him to have a physical blind date with a girl of the same age, and he would inevitably feel shy and nervous at the beginning, but such embarrassment quickly disappeared amidst the girl's sobs.

There was a real weight on the chest, and the flowing tears wet the skirt of the clothes, washing away the messy and impetuous thoughts that suddenly appeared in the head, leaving only the breath of each other close at hand.

The girl's long hair flows quietly in the sun like sea waves; the soft body is close at hand, the body temperature from the palm of her back is slightly hot, and the hair exudes a refreshing fragrance, Surround him gently.

During this process, he heard his own heartbeat, and also heard Chunzao's heartbeat, this sound has never been so clear;
As time passed, the heartbeats of the two gradually overlapped.

A reassuring atmosphere brewed among the young people embracing each other.The girl in her arms also calmed down.

After that, she realized her gaffe, and left his embrace with a blush on her face.

Ji Chunzao looked up at him in embarrassment, with tears in the corners of his eyes.

"...Thank you, thank you."

Yan Jingxing deliberately frowned and said:
"You're finally willing to let me go, and you're crying so hard that you're going to blow my nose and tears."

"I won't!"

Ji Chunzao retorted loudly, and then burst into laughter.

"I had a dream yesterday."

Yan Jingxing took the girl's soft palm, and the two sat down side by side by the flower bed.

He seriously mentioned the dream last night, as well as the records and analysis in the early morning.

This is what he wants to share.

If it were someone else, it would be ridiculous to hear him take such an absurd dream so seriously.

But Ji Chunzao must be an exception, because the present self is the former her.

"Chunzao, do you believe me? Although it's just an intuition, I think it may reflect the future to some extent."

The long-haired girl stared at his side cheek.

"I mean, you don't need to be discouraged. Xie Yuzhi looks stubborn, but she will understand sooner or later, because just like seeing you, I also saw her in my dream."

"So it's like this..." The little girl clenched her fists tightly, the corners of her mouth raised unconsciously, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I didn't think wrong."

Just as Yan Jingxing expected, Ji Chunzao accepted what he said without hesitation, and cheered up because of it.

"Hmph, although Yuzhi is already acting like 'I don't want to have anything to do with you', I haven't given up!"

She pretended to punch the air in front of her a few times.

"I will definitely let her see the truth."

"...what are you going to do?"

"Of course I have a way. Have you forgotten my ability?"

"Did you mean 'call aliens'?"

Yan Jingxing thought for a while and said.

"Let's not talk about whether you can overcome your own psychological obstacles now, even if you can activate the ability and call the aliens, will you be able to convince Xie Yuzhi? Judging from the situation of the 'spiritual body leech', she may not be able to would admit similar circumstantial evidence."

It is impossible to believe anything beyond their understanding as long as they have not seen it with their own eyes. This is the common people.

"And... this kind of thing is very dangerous."

His tone was quite heavy.

The horrific incident that happened in the cram school today will undoubtedly cause lingering fears in the hearts of all those who experienced it.

This matter is not over yet. Although the police came and took away Mr. Gao and the first victim, they probably couldn't solve the root problem because ordinary people couldn't see it at all.

Spiritual leeches... That kind of alien creature, I thought it would be enough to just avoid it, but I didn't expect that they could live in the human body to control their actions, and even use it as a medium to infect other people. This is something that even Ji Chunzao doesn't know things.

In addition, when the girl met last time, she said that the reason why she has a psychological barrier to the "calling" itself may be because something unusual happened after using this ability last time——

Reminiscent of what Xie Yuzhi mentioned about her childhood experience, and her own insistence that her parents were taken away by UFO, all of the above covered Yan Jingxing's heart with a lingering haze.

"Jing Xing, I know what you're thinking."

Ji Chunzao glanced at him.

"About the disappearance of mom and dad, what Yuzhi said is basically all I know, because I lost my memory after that."

"Amnesia? By the way, you mentioned that my memory of before elementary school is very vague."

"Well, I think it should be the sequelae of that incident. The only thing I remember is that I was in a forest and saw a strange light in the sky at night, and then the car was sucked into the sky... …was vague, but I'm sure I saw it."

The girl spoke while remembering, her tone was like a dream.

"That's why I wonder if they were taken away by aliens."

"... Could it be related to your ability?"

Yan Jingxing was silent for a moment, and finally asked.

He knew that he could think of this possibility, and as the person involved, she must have thought about it, and it was even likely that she had been entangled countless times.

When Ji Chunzao realizes the possibility that her "super power" is the reason for her parents' disappearance, how much psychological pressure does she bear?
"Possibly? I'm not sure."

Ji Chunzao raised his face again to peek at his expression, then lowered his head, and replied in a relaxed tone.

"But no matter what the outcome is, I have made up my mind and I don't want to stand still."

What else could Yan Jingxing say?This is a decision made by the person who is under the most pressure, and there is no room for others to comment.

"Back to the question you just mentioned, how to make people believe in the existence of aliens. It's actually very simple. I think the problem is that the leech is still too small."

"……Small?"

"I have this feeling that if the 'alien creature' I summon is large enough, even ordinary people can see it."

"..."

Bigger than a spirit leech?

That thing is already ten times the size of an ordinary insect, right?If it was bigger... Yan Jingxing couldn't help but shudder.

At this moment, the figure of a white giant suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Do you believe me?"

She asked in a low voice, throwing back the repeated question.

"of course."

Yan Jingxing nodded and gently caught it.

Although he still hesitated in his heart, in the dream last night, the astronaut showed him where Xie Yuzhi would be in the future.

That being the case, everything will go well...?
"Okay, I'll let go and do it!"

Ji Chunzao smiled at him.This time, there was no trace of hesitation or anxiety in the girl's smile.

(End of this chapter)