our secret base

Chapter 18
Looking at the light and thin figure on the reef, who seemed to be blown away by the wind and flew into the sky, Yan Jingxing was in a trance for a moment.

He still remembered that on the road that was about to arrive at Baiyue Town, when he was drowsy in the car, he heard a beautiful and ethereal singing voice; when he woke up, he immediately stuck his head out of the window and saw the singer singing Sitting on similar reefs, it is like a mermaid floating on the sea to rest.

That was the first time he saw Ji Chunzao.

He started his new life in this seaside town.Since then, in fact, less than a month has passed, but the experiences he spent during the period were rich and colorful, as if he wanted to smear and cover the boring and pale past together.

Of course he knew that Chunzao was not some dreamy mermaid, she was a real and amiable girl, a girl of the same age who would have her own temper and would get into trouble with her friends...

Even so, the impression of meeting her for the first time was so vivid that it was firmly imprinted in his mind, and he was awakened by a similar scene at this moment.

"What are you doing in a daze?"

The girl beside him noticed that he was distracted, and couldn't help frowning.

"……nothing."

Yan Jingxing came back to his senses, and quickly pointed to that location with a smile.

"Did you see it? Chunzao is there, and she is calling us."

"Well, it seems that I didn't do anything stupid, I just came out to relax." Xie Yuzhi stopped and stopped moving forward, "You go and pull her back."

"...Why, you're not leaving?"

"I'll forget it, she should want to see you more. Then I can send you two back to school, that's all right."

The team leader put his hands on his chest, looking a little impatient.

Yan Jingxing thought for a while, and felt that she might have made a mistake.

"Come with me, Xie Yuzhi." He persuaded with a smile, "I guess Chunzao must have something to say to you."

Xie Yuzhi looked into his eyes steadily, and after a while, she turned her head away and sighed softly.

"Oh, I can't help it. 'Do things to the end'..."

She muttered softly as if trying to persuade herself, then put down her hands, followed the boy, and walked towards the rocks on the coast.

……

The ground under the feet gradually became soft, as if soaked by the waves day and night, the weeds became sparse, and the color of the soil showed a dark black.

They walked forward along the guardrail, as long as they stepped out, they would see cliffs, and below them were turbid waves floating with white foam and steep and sharp rocks.

Sitting on the reef, Ji Chunzao saw them approaching, with a big and happy smile on his face.

She climbed down from the top of the rock, but halfway her hands suddenly went limp, and she fell down.

The two people below were startled, but fortunately they were very close at this time, Yan Jingxing rushed forward and took the little girl into his arms.

Although the stone is not high, if you really fall, you will inevitably be injured.It would be bad if the face was cut open by a small stone.

Holding Ji Chunzao's limp body, while he was relieved, he couldn't help complaining loudly:

"You are too careless! Can't you take a look at the situation below? What if I'm not here?"

"Hey hey, I won't be impatient to come down if I don't see you..."

Ji Chunzao's hands tightly wrapped around his neck, his face was very close, the moist and shiny hair fell on his neck, and the moment it touched his skin slightly, it also touched the heartstrings.

She smiled foolishly, and said weakly in his ear:
"Sorry, I accidentally ran out of strength... Now my hands are a little soft..."

"You, are you alright?"

When the little girl spoke, because she was too close, the breath from her lips could be clearly felt on her skin, making Yan Jingxing's ears itchy.He calmed down and asked about the situation quickly.

"I'm fine...Jing Xing, didn't you hear that just now?"

Ji Chunzao's words paused slightly, his eyes looked straight at himself, his joy was beyond words, the girl's pupils shone like the sea under the sun.

"I succeeded!"

Did it work...?Yan Jingxing was taken aback for a moment, but quickly realized.

"You mean, the summoning 'alien' thing?" He lowered his voice.

"Yeah!" Ji Chunzao nodded vigorously, "It's not an ordinary alien, it's a whale-like... super huge alien creature, this time it will definitely be visible to ordinary people!"

She sighed tiredly and contentedly.

"It's so good, I tried for a whole day and a half, and I don't know how many times I failed..."

"Wait, a day and a half?" Yan Jingxing couldn't help interrupting in surprise when he heard half of it, "You've been in this place for the past two days? Could it be that you didn't sleep or eat—"

"Food, I still ate the rice. I brought a lunch box and mineral water from home."

Ji Chunzao weakly pointed in a direction, and he saw a schoolbag leaning on the edge of a rock covered in gravel.

"So you really didn't sleep?"

Yan Jingxing looked carefully at the little girl's pale face, and he saw faint traces of dark circles under her eyes.

"You..."

I was very excited to see her just now, but after a while, the girl's eyelids began to twitch up and down, with an expression that she was about to fall asleep.

"You don't want to sleep here, do you?" He looked around, "You said you 'successful', but I haven't seen it yet."

"..."

Ji Chunzao didn't answer, she suddenly lowered her head, buried her face in his chest, and at the same time took the initiative to embrace him.

— This is the second hug in a week.

Last time it was because of unconcealable sadness, but today it is uncontrollable joy.

It is also driven by strong inner emotions, which is understandable.

"Forehead……"

Yan Jingxing also naturally wanted to hug her shoulders, just like last time - but he soon realized that doing so was not quite right.

Because, there were more than two of them at the scene.

He couldn't help turning his head to look around, and found that the team leader and his classmates were watching from a distance not far away, even if they saw the two of them hugging each other, they didn't have much reaction

Although for the junior high school students, this was an outrageous act of being too intimate... Yan Jingxing felt his ears warm up, and he quickly helped Ji Chunzao to stand up when he regained his composure.

"Why, are you two finished?" Xie Yuzhi asked calmly, "Can you go back with us now?"

As she spoke, she looked at the junction of the sea and the sky, submerged in gray.

"It's going to rain heavily."

"...Yuzhi."

Ji Chunzao didn't care, as if he didn't hear her at all, he reached out and grabbed Xie Yuzhi's arm.

The corners of her mouth slowly opened little by little, and her smile became more and more excited.

"You came to me, thank you. Just right, I can show you the 'evidence' now."

Xie Yuzhi was stunned for a while, and after thinking for a while, she recalled what she said that day.

"He's talking about this again." The team leader was a little helpless and angry, "You really don't know how to learn your lesson."

"Don't worry about the past, it's different this time, just wait and see."

"...When will you be able to see the reality clearly? If you want to fight against something, you must have actual power, even if you are a child."

Her tone became low, and Yan Jingxing's heart ached when she heard it, realizing that if the two of them were not stopped, they would quarrel again, and the ending would definitely be an unhappy breakup.

"The last time." He interrupted, "Chunzao has something she wants to show you. This is the last time. After that, she won't come to pester you again."

Yan Jingxing looked at Ji Chunzao again.

"is this OK?"

The long-haired girl smiled.

"of course."

She slowly stood firm and pointed to the reef next to her.

"Go up, you can see it more clearly. Next, I will let you see enough. Don't be shocked."

The tone was unbelievably confident.But in the next second, she bowed her head in embarrassment and begged for help:
"Well...Jing Xing, I don't have any strength in my body right now, can you help me push it up?"

At this time, I can still say no.

Yan Jingxing climbed up the reef, helped Chunzao up, and finally reached out to Xie Yuzhi below.

"Do you need help?"

"Need not."

Xie Yuzhi ignored his hands, and climbed up by grabbing the protrusions on the reef, thinking while climbing:

"I really have a brain problem, playing with you... I regret it now, maybe I should leave you two here."

Yan Jingxing smiled, but didn't care.

Although the two of them didn't get along for a long time, he had gradually gotten used to the personality of the team leader's classmate.

……

After the three of them came up, Ji Chunzao closed his eyes.

Xie Yuzhi watched with arms folded, while Yan Jingxing sat down cross-legged and waited quietly.

The wind became stronger, howling and blowing over the young people on the reef, carrying the water vapor from the sponge, and the chill slipped into the shirt along the sleeves and neckline.

"The weather has changed."

he murmured.

He heard the girl beside him taking a deep breath.Once, again, again, the chest rose and fell slightly.

Ji Chunzao's expression was unprecedentedly serious, facing the sea, standing in the wind.The spirit seems to be completely immersed in another world, reaching out to the empty place in the distance.

Her long hair fluttered with the corners of her skirt, and sweat trickled down her forehead.

The girl didn't speak or do anything else, she was just concentrating on communicating.

Can it really work?

Yan Jing acted worried about her.

Of course he believed what Chunzao said, but it was hard to deny the possibility of this girl falling off the chain at a critical moment; as for the team leader, he felt that he would not give Chunzao another chance.

……

Xie Yuzhi said to herself: This is really the last time.

It is true that there are still parts that cannot be let go, but they are no longer important.

She cares about Ji Chunzao's life and wants to help him, but this girl is always immersed in the shadow of the past sadness and obsessed with delusions. She, who calls herself a "realist", cannot accept this unwillingness. I changed my attitude towards life, so I decided to give up.

People can't save others—not to mention the relationship between the two of them wasn't that good in the first place.

Just a personal choice after consideration, nothing more.

Xie Yuzhi was thinking about leaving later.

Should we wait for her to declare himself a failure, or take him away before she can refute?Looking at the weather, it will rain soon, and it is likely to be a heavy rainstorm. This person will not be so stubborn.

... No, it's hard to say.

Fortunately, there is this boy named Yan Jingxing, although he did not know why he believed Ji Chunzao's tricks, but he is finally able to communicate normally, and should help him persuade——

"what?"

At this time, Xie Yuzhi heard a suspicious voice from the boy beside him, as if he had seen something unbelievable.

"how--"

Before she could ask a question, the conversation stopped on her lips.

At this moment, Xie Yuzhi also noticed something strange coming.

Why did the surrounding...become so quiet all of a sudden?

The clouds in the sky stopped moving.

The sound of the wind and the waves disappeared together.

Even the dim light of the sky faltered.

She felt uneasy, and an inexplicable chill climbed up her spine, feeling like she was in a different world.

Xie Yuzhi couldn't help but began to look around, and then she heard Ji Chunzao shouting:

"—look up! It's in the sky!"

Xie Yuzhi raised her head subconsciously.

Looking into the distance as far as the eye can see, the dense clouds hang down, and the shadow of the huge monster reveals a majestic corner.

what is that?
She opened her mouth wide and couldn't help but rubbed her eyes vigorously with her hands.

However, nothing has changed.

The thrilling and terrifying spectacle has not changed, what has changed is her, and her cognition of all the realities of this world in the past 14 years has been subverted at this moment:

Under the clouds, several huge tentacles hang down like a tornado that reaches the sky and the ground, slowly wriggling...

　After four years, I transferred from Tokyo to my hometown, Aomori.In the country of snow, facing Hokkaido across the sea, it is reconnected with everything in the past.Hovering between familiarity and intimacy, chasing happiness on the edge of danger and out of control, tirelessly.Laugh together and sink together. ...Only Ome is the only option left for me in love.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)