our secret base

Chapter 33 "Her Majesty the Queen" in Experimental Middle School

"...I'm back."

Without any accident, he lost consciousness again in the pod, and woke up again in the UFO in the "secret base".

This time, Yan Jingxing who opened his eyes was already very calm.

He first confirmed the surrounding environment, and then observed the outlines of the two girls through the dim light around them. After confirming that they were all right, he relaxed and leaned his back against the bulkhead, and opened the small door next to him casually.

"How are you, are you all okay?"

"It's okay." He heard Miss Xie reply inexplicably in the dark, "However, it may take me a while to sort out my mood."

"I understand. In fact, until now, I have a feeling of disbelief about what happened."

"Yes, I feel the same way."

"Aha……"

The person who yawned just now was Ji Chunzao.

"Hey, it feels like I fell asleep, and I returned to Earth easily."

After picking up their luggage, they climbed out of the UFO one by one, just like passengers who just got off a long-distance train.

Yan Jingxing was the first to get out.He stretched while breathing in the fresh air outside.

"What are you going to do next... By the way, you have to go home quickly."

He has a trance feeling of "finally returning to reality".

Just now I was still experiencing the thrills that ordinary people can't imagine, and I devoted myself to the adventure;

After returning to Earth, the school, parents, unfinished homework and the test results of the day before yesterday... After thinking of these irresistibly, he felt that he had turned back to that ordinary junior high school student.

"After such a long time, the family members are all worried, the weather is—"

Yan Jingxing stopped in the middle of his words.

He turned his head to look, and found that the sky outside the cave was bright, it was a beautiful summer scenery, and the sky did not mean to be dark at all.

How can it be?This...isn't it the second day?

From behind came the sound of the eldest lady squatting in the corner pinging and rattling and sorting things out, she didn't know what she was busy with.

After a while, she straightened up, seeming to have noticed the confusion on Yan Jingxing's face, Xie Yuzhi walked to his side, holding an alarm clock in her hand.

"look."

She asked Yan Jingxing to look carefully at the hands on the dial.

"This is... [-]:[-] in the morning? It's too early, what time will we go to another planet?" Yan Jingxing asked hesitantly.

Xie Yuzhi didn't answer the question immediately, but turned around and went back to bring another thing.

That's a video camera.

"Although I didn't think that UFOs could be easily activated by us before the space transfer actually occurred inside the pod, but as a preliminary test, I tried to prepare everything I could do. Fortunately, I did so, so It was only when I checked it that I found something strange."

Xie Yuzhi dragged Ji Chunzao over and began to explain to the two of them.

"The first is the time. We set off at 10:[-]. That is to say, according to the time on Earth, we stayed on that alien planet for about [-] minutes."

She puts down the alarm clock.

"This is obviously unreasonable, and it is far away from our somatosensory time..."

"Oh I see!"

Ji Chunzao's eyes lit up, she raised her hand as if being called by the teacher to answer a question in class, and said loudly.

"This is because the flow of time on both sides is different! I have seen such a story in a magazine before. A spaceship traveling at the speed of light crashed midway, and as a result, one of the passengers was thrown away and could only stay on the local planet. When the driver went to the rescue and met the passenger again, the passenger had already become an old man."

"After surpassing the 'principle of invariance of the speed of light', is the space-time distortion generated?"

Xie Yuzhi nodded slightly, as if to express her approval.It seems that the eldest lady has also read this type of science fiction.

"...Since it's an alien planet, it's not so unbelievable." Yan Jingxing touched his chin and pondered, "After all, we don't know how many light-years are separated from each other."

"With our capabilities, it's hard to come up with a definite answer, so let's put it aside. Besides, there's one more thing. Before leaving, I put a few cameras with timer recording function in this cave."

Xie Yuzhi quickly turned on the recording function, and the three of them crowded their heads in front of the machine, staring at the screen with nervousness and excitement.

……

At 9:05, they entered the UFO one by one, and for 10 minutes after that, nothing happened.If the time on the screen is not still beating, it may make people think it is a still picture.

At 9:15, Yan Jingxing opened the hatch and walked out of the UFO for the first time.Then came Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi.

……

"..."

Yan Jingxing remained silent.

"It's nothing!"

Ji Chunzao exhaled, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and quickly retracted his head.

In this weather, it is too hot to be close to the arms of the living people.

"There's nothing, and that's the problem."

Yan Jingxing saw the trick, he shook his head and said:
"I don't know if you still have the impression, but I remember it very clearly. Before we lost consciousness, we did hear a huge roar, and saw a huge light that would blind people's eyes... But these are in the video None of them appeared in the movie. Is it our hallucination?"

"Yes, I remember too."

Xie Yuzhi nodded.

"My guess is that it's possible that all of this happened in a UFO. When those huge sounds and lights appeared, we were not actually on Earth."

……

The three of them enthusiastically exchanged their feelings during their first alien adventure, and discussed various questions that were difficult to answer for the time being, and felt that they were still unsatisfied for a while.

But it was getting late, the hottest time of the year was coming, and the sun at noon was quite venomous, and they planned to leave this place before then.

"I put a surveillance camera here, and specially hung a new door lock to prevent outsiders from breaking in."

Xie Yuzhi said.

"As expected of you, you are so thoughtful. Then, shall we go?"

Yan Jingxing didn't take a few steps, and found that Ji Chunzao next to him would turn his head to look in the direction of the UFO from time to time, looking out of his mind, which was a bit funny to watch.

"Why, you want to go back just now?"

"Ugh..."

The little girl who was caught was a little embarrassed.

"You can come again next time, don't worry."

"When is the next time? Tomorrow?"

She raised her small face, full of anticipation.

"Uh……"

Yan Jingxing felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by Chunzao's big sparkling eyes.

"We'll definitely have to wait until the preparations are complete. For example, with this experience, we at least know how to bring items to another planet..."

"I think it's better to be late."

Miss Xie showed a serious expression.

"Even if we go back, can we pass through that forest? If not, we can only be trapped in the underground palace. When there is no 'King of Predator', those strange trees may not let us pass easily .”

Trees with patterns that resemble human faces—according to Ji Chunzao, they also emit "electric waves", indicating that each tree is a weird creature like a hairless person.

Although they have a weak sense of existence, the number is too large after all. If they are malicious to humans, they will undoubtedly be a terrible threat to the three junior high school students.

"Don't look at the miserable fate of those trees. They look helpless, but that is to avoid the predator kings in the sky. If we want to go there, maybe we will be regarded as prey by them instead."

The main reason is that the appearance of this kind of tree is too scary, and it doesn't look like a good tree.

The sap flowing in their branches is scarlet, like human blood, and even screamed at the most outrageous moment. Facing the predation of monsters, thousands of ghost-faced trees screamed together. That scene was really...

impressive.

"By the way, Chunzao, do you know the name of this tree?"

Yan Jingxing suddenly remembered that not everyone among them knew nothing about that planet.

Ji Chunzao inherited the ability to sacrifice, which is equivalent to possessing the knowledge of alien civilizations, being able to understand the words left by them, and also understanding the "common sense" of this world to a certain extent.

At least when she saw the Hairless and the King Predator, she did call out their names immediately.

"Well, I saw it, but I didn't react at the time."

Ji Chunzao nodded honestly.

"Because in my eyes, they are called 'trees.'"

"..."

Yan Jingxing was a little speechless.

"Does this mean that this kind of tree is very common in the eyes of aliens? It's the same as seeing camphor and willow on earth?"

What kind of planet do they live on...

At this time, Yan Jingxing suddenly discovered a problem:
Strange to say, they did find a palace built by an alien civilization, but they didn't find any aliens inside, and there were no traces of their life anywhere.

It is obviously a ruin that has been abandoned for a long time, and now it is occupied by the hairless doves; and judging from the murals, the palace is a very important place for this civilized group. When it comes to the inheritance of rituals, it should be Don't give up at will...

"—In short, I think it is better to improve our own comprehensive strength first, make full preparations, and then go to the challenge."

Xie Yuzhi brought up the topic again.

"Don't forget, we still have a copy of the information found in the secret base. Since someone has activated this instrument, it means that the other party has probably been to an alien planet like us, and there is a high probability that they have learned more information than us. Maybe Find a way out of the forest."

"Besides, I have one more thing..."

In the middle of Miss Xie's speech, it seemed that because she didn't organize her words well, after a short pause, she subconsciously lowered her voice.

"Both of you have found your own abilities, it just takes a while to get used to. In this regard, I may... need help from others...maybe."

It was the first time I saw her awkward and somewhat embarrassed attitude.

... How strange.

Out of the corner of his eye, he subconsciously glanced at Ji Chunzao beside him, and found that she had a strange smile on her face for some reason.

Well, Yan Jingxing knew in his heart that his current expression must be exactly the same as hers.

The two malicious people exchanged glances and said in unison:
"I don't seem to understand very well, can you say it again?"

"Can you speak more clearly? I didn't hear you just now."

"..."

Xie Yuzhi supported her forehead, feeling a little helpless.

With the experience of getting along during this period of time, she didn't think the two of them reacted so slowly.

Miss Xie trusted her gaze.Although this kind of statement always sounds disgusting, she has always only been willing to communicate seriously with people she can admire, and such people are certainly not stupid.

Yan Jingxing has an ordinary side, but also has a calmer and braver side than other boys of the same age she has seen;
Even Ji Chunzao, who often acts reckless, has a very flexible mind, and she even won an award in the city's model airplane competition.This is not something that ordinary students can do in their spare time, but this girl is always easily led away by whimsical ideas——

How could they not guess their own thoughts?
"I mean, please... do me a favor."

There was an eye-catching blush on her pretty face, and the eldest lady was clearly feeling shy.However, she managed to get the words out in the end.

"I also hope to awaken my own superpowers like you."

What really surprised Xie Yuzhi was her own reaction. She would actually bow down to others, and she was still two of the same age.

Perhaps it was because it was not the first time that she said "I hope you can help me" to them, Xie Yuzhi found that in front of these two people, her old self-admiration mentality had disappeared unconsciously.

"Oh~ so this is the matter, you should have said it earlier."

Ji Chunzao intentionally showed an expression of sudden realization, she stretched out her hand with a smile, and wrapped her arms around her.

"Don't worry, leave it to me! Yuzhi, are you the 'King'? It sounds amazing, and you will definitely awaken a very powerful ability. Ah, but you are a girl, so maybe you shouldn't be called 'King', but... ..."

"—Queen! We should call her Her Majesty the Queen."

Yan Jingxing tried his best to keep his face straight, and helped to add.

"That's right, it's Her Majesty the Queen! Her Majesty the Queen of Baiyue Town Experimental Middle School!"

Ji Chunzao immediately raised his hands and cheered.

Xie Yuzhi was so annoyed and amused by the coaxing by these two people.

"Okay, since I am the queen, you all have to listen to me. Now, Her Majesty is going to issue the first order."

She poked Ji Chunzao's soft face and found that it felt really good.

"Both of you will gather at my house tomorrow. You are not allowed to ask for leave even on weekends. Do you hear me? Remember to get up in the morning, and I will send a car to pick you up."

(End of this chapter)