our secret base

Chapter 6 Spirit Leech
There is a large supermarket in the center of Baiyue Town and the only movie theater in the town, which is the busiest place at night.People who come out to play are often families or couples, shopping in twos and threes.

As middle school students, they are not too conspicuous among them.

Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao came out of the supermarket, and the other sat on a chair in the bus booth with a cream popsicle, chatting leisurely while eating
According to the girl, the place where aliens can be seen is near the cinema; if the alien appears inside the cinema, then they only need to buy a ticket to enter.

... Do aliens still like to watch movies in the human world?He always finds it incomprehensible.

"I've always had a question, how did you find out about aliens? It's 'related to the seasons', it makes a lot of sense."

Yan Jingxing stared at the people coming out and going in at the entrance of the movie theater, and took a big bite of the popsicle that was about to melt.

"I'm going to see the real master soon, can I finally talk about it now?"

"This is my secret."

Ji Chunzao sat beside him, shaking his calf, and replied with a smile.

"But for your sake, I can explain it a little~"

What do you mean by "for my sake"... Yan Jingxing complained in his heart, except for me, no one will listen to you seriously.

Even he is [-]% doubtful and [-]% sure, and now he is waiting for the moment when he can make a final decision.

"Things that can be seen can naturally be heard. Before they really come, I always determine by 'listening'."

"Hear? Will it make a cry?"

"It's a bit different. It's more like an unconscious 'call' or something."

Ji Chunzao shook his head and continued to explain.

"It's as if we can pick up a signal thousands of miles away on the radio, but that doesn't really allow us to 'hear' someone far away, does it? The radio waves have to actually be demodulated into an audio signal by the machine itself, Human ears can hear."

"The 'voices' of aliens are like this, they may not actually make a sound, but some kind of 'signal'. Can you understand?"

...Honestly speaking, I don't understand what I understand.But judging by her serious attitude, she shouldn't be talking nonsense.

Obviously the other party is the same age as him, but he seems to know some strange knowledge that ordinary junior high school students can't understand at all.

At this time, he remembered the model she asked him to hide that day.He was really surprised when he got it, it was so big, and it was beautifully made, as if the real biplane had shrunk.

He thought he bought it at first, but after hearing from his roommates that Ji Chunzao had won an award in the city's model airplane competition before, he realized that it was made by herself.

"Do you know anything about electronics?"

"It's, it's okay." She explained with a little embarrassment, "Ever since I realized that the signals sent by aliens may affect human beings through some kind of radio waves, I have been trying to figure out what's in it. principle……"

Listening to Ji Chunzao's story about the process of self-learning various circuit principles and mechanical knowledge, Yan Jingxing's attitude towards her changed a little.

Although this girl always talks about messy topics all the time, it seems a bit annoying; but judging from her series of performances, at least Ji Chunzao is not the kind of fool who simply indulges in delusions and cannot extricate herself, but has paid specific actions and efforts.

"You're pretty good."

Yan Jingxing couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"...Is that so? It's amazing. Well, think about it, I'm really amazing! Haha."

After she muttered a few words to herself, she suddenly became airy and puffed up her chest. Her whole body was triumphant, and the previous "embarrassment" had disappeared.

"..."

Yan Jingxing was a little speechless, saying that she was fat really made her gasp.

"In short, you mean that you can hear radio signals?" He brought the topic back, "However, this is not something that ordinary people can do, right?"

"So, to say 'hear' is not accurate, it should be 'felt'."

"Is it similar to how bats can capture ultrasound?"

"Yes, a considerable number of animals, such as dogs, whales, giraffes, etc., can capture ultrasonic or infrasonic waves that humans cannot hear, and even actively emit them, which have a positioning function similar to sonar."

"As for being able to receive signals from aliens..."

She hesitated for a moment.

"Well, right now, I'm the only one who can do it. In other words, it's 'super power'."

You are still a superpower, and your image is getting more and more complicated.

Yan Jingxing originally wanted to tease her, but found that the girl's expression suddenly changed.

"and many more."

Ji Chunzao frowned, and suddenly grabbed Yan Jingxing's wrist.

"You don't move yet."

"What's wrong?" He was taken aback.

The girl didn't answer, but closed her eyes.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and the eyeballs under her eyelids were turning violently.

"Be prepared mentally."

After a while, Ji Chunzao opened her eyes, let out a heavy breath, and stared at the empty night sky.

"The aliens coming this time... no, aliens, might be a little dangerous. They've already descended on the movie theaters."

"There's more than one kind?"

Seeing the serious look on the girl's face, Yan Jingxing really couldn't get nervous.

Until now, he still lacks reality.

"Where is the danger? How do you know?"

"...Because I've seen them before. It's not the first time this group of guys have appeared in this small town. Every time they appear, they act in groups, treating the people living here as prey, and treating the entire Baiyue Town as Their hunting grounds. Unscrupulous..."

Ji Chunzao never let go of his wrist.On the contrary, her fingers were still clenched subconsciously, and Yan Jingxing was about to cry out in pain.

"—I call them 'spiritual leeches'. They are dangerous creatures that specialize in sucking human brains."

But the girl's next words made him swallow back the complaint that was almost on his lips.

She turned her face and asked softly:

"Well, do you still want to go in now?"

*
Yan Jingxing was standing in front of the ticket gate, staring at the posters pasted on the wall, all of which were popular movies recently.

The conductor in the window looked listless, while the girl behind grabbed his clothes and urged in a low voice:
"They're coming soon."

"...Okay, this is it."

There are ticket checkers in the theater, but only at the entrance.In other words, no matter which movie you want to watch, you can just buy a ticket that is currently showing. It is a little secret known to locals who often watch movies.

Yan Jingxing squeezed his 30 yuan pocket money, and finally chose what he wanted to see.

The poster corresponding to this movie has a tall man wearing a white mask and holding a sharp knife in the middle, and a group of actors and actresses with frightened expressions on the bottom.

Even if everything is fake, at least you can watch an exciting horror movie.he thought.

The conductor took the banknotes, glanced at the man and woman standing in front of the window holding hands, and found that they were clearly unbelievably young students. He couldn't help but shook his head, as if sighing, "The world is getting worse, such a young child Start dating and fall in love."

The two older children were not in the mood to talk to the boring adults, so they walked into the theater after receiving the tickets.

"Jing Xing, do you know what a leech is?"

While walking, Ji Chunzao was still explaining to him in a low voice.

"Well, our place seems to be called 'leech'?"

"Yes, leech, a kind of mollusc, there are so many in the paddy fields in rural areas, and it will be parasitized if you are not careful. The leech feeds on blood sucking. It will tightly adhere to the human skin, insert its snout into the skin from the wound To draw blood. According to rumors, they also release a narcotic, so many people are labeled without realizing it."

"Well. I also heard that once the leech is stuck, it is difficult to pull it off, and you can't pull it out casually, otherwise the mouthparts will be left in the wound. Salt must be sprinkled on it, so that it will curl up and fall. come down..."

Yan Jingxing imagined such a scene, and couldn't help but shudder.

A city kid like him is most afraid of this disgusting bug.

"Are you afraid? Then I think the 'spiritual leech' is even more terrifying to you."

Ji Chunzao held his hand firmly, followed him step by step, and said in a faint voice:
"Because what they eat is not blood, but human brains."

Yan Jingxing didn't say anything.

Although what the girl said was frightening, it was still that sentence, he lacked real feeling for the so-called "alien".

"If this alien leech is really as scary as you said, would you dare to come here?"

"It's not what you want to see."

Ji Chunzao muttered for a while, then stopped suddenly.After Yan Jingxing looked over curiously, she raised her hair curtain.

"Because I can see."

The girl pointed to her bright eyes.

"If you are really unlucky and you are picked on by spirit leeches, you just need to run away, they won't chase after them. After all, no one else can see or even notice them approaching, so the 'leeches' don't need to go through Hunting to prey, just change the target. But, there is a sentence you have to remember."

Ji Chunzao raised his face and stared at him very seriously.

"When I said I was going, no matter what happened, you had to leave with me. Can you promise me?"

"Okay." He replied casually.

"ensure?"

"I promise, it's okay."

"……That's good."

After a few laps in the dimly lit cinema hallway, Ji Chunzao finally identified his target.

"It should be here."

She points to one of the entrances.

The two entered the screening room, Yan Jingxing looked at the screen, and the movie had already started showing.

"Oh, it happened to be the movie I bought, good luck."

He and Ji Chunzao sat down in the back row.

Then, it wasn't until this time that Yan Jingxing suddenly realized:

"Wait, can't see? So I can't see aliens?"

"Well. Before they actually appear, we can't be sure." Ji Chunzao replied in a low voice, "But there is a high probability that you can't see. I haven't met a second person who can see in school."

"...!"

He almost stood up, forgetting that his hands were being grabbed.

"what happened?"

Ji Chunzao looked at him in surprise.

"You still ask me? If you can't see it, how can you prove the existence of aliens to me?!"

Yan Jingxing said angrily.If he hadn't had to keep his voice down in the movie theater, he'd have started to lose his temper.

At this moment, he even felt that he could confirm that this guy was just playing with himself.

"I've thought about this a long time ago."

However, the girl's reaction was calm.

"I didn't think you could see aliens from the beginning, but you still asked me for evidence that they existed, so I had to consider other methods."

She raised her head and said word by word:

"Jing Xing, what do you think will happen to those people whose brains were eaten by spirit leeches?"

……

In the projection hall, it was as dark as night, and silent figures could be vaguely seen.In the silence, only the dialogue of the actors on the screen echoed between the seats, and every audience seemed to be in a small universe isolated from the world.

Ji Chunzao's voice was low and depressing, only he could hear it.

In the dim field of vision, the girl's pupils were shining brightly, and there was a breathtaking feeling.

Yan Jingxing was immediately infected by the seriousness revealed in her tone, and could only watch in a daze.

"That's what I want you to see."

After the last explanation, Ji Chunzao turned back, as if he started to concentrate on watching the movie.

Yan Jingxing was silent for a while, then sat back in his seat and stared at the screen silently.

……

The plot of the movie gradually becomes more intense, and victims begin to appear.The murderer held a sharp knife high and chased the remaining survivors in the ancient house on a rainy night. The actress who accidentally fell made a miserable cry.

Yan Jingxing couldn't concentrate all his attention on the screen.

He was waiting for that answer.

And the girl next to him is also waiting.

A movie is only nine or ten minutes long, and that moment will eventually come.

At a certain moment, Ji Chunzao's hand holding him suddenly became stronger.

"coming!"

Yan Jingxing's eyes widened, and his eyes wandered around in the projection hall.

"where?"

"The bald man in the front row, the spirit leech has chosen him as a target! Can you see it? It's floating above his head—"

Under the girl's instructions, he quickly found the back of the audience.

However, there were no abnormalities on the opponent's body or around him.In Yan Jingxing's eyes, he was just like everyone else, sitting quietly watching a movie, nothing special about him.

He looked left and right, and even stood up to look around, but he couldn't see the so-called "alien creatures" floating in the air.

I really can't see anything...

Yan Jingxing sighed.

He felt that he might be wrong.Maybe Ji Chunzao is really not lying, she just understands things that only she can see according to her own ideas.

After getting along these few days, he knew that the girl's attitude was very sincere, and Yan Jingxing really didn't want to treat her as the kind of sensationalist.

...But this kind of thing is not important anymore.

If he can't see or touch something, what difference does it make to him whether it exists or not?
Yan Jingxing felt very disappointed.

At this moment, he let go of the childish fantasies in his heart.

After this movie, right here, part ways with Ji Chunzao, he doesn't want to pay attention anymore.

That doesn't mean he's necessarily going to be one of the people at school who make fun of her.He just felt that even if he was willing to believe everything, that the aliens were real and that Ji Chunzao was a genuine superpower, would he be able to be her companion?
If you can't see the same things, you are doomed to be people of two worlds.

"Let go."

He reminded her in a low voice.

Ji Chunzao seemed to hesitate for a while, but under Yan Jingxing's insistence, the girl finally withdrew her hand.

He returned his gaze to the film.

Then, he couldn't take his eyes off——

"Then, what is that?"

Yan Jingxing opened his mouth wide and saw something unbelievable.

A huge white bloated arm slowly pierced the screen, like a drowning person emerging from the bottom of the water, coming from the screen to reality.

Ghost?Is it a ghost?Or the aliens that Ji Chunzao spoke of...

Just one palm takes up less than half of the screen, as long as the eyesight is normal, it is impossible not to see it, but the movie theater is still silent, there is no riot, and every audience is still sitting in their original seats, as if nothing happened .

This made Yan Jingxing understand: the only one who can see this giant hand is himself, not some surprise prepared by the theater.

His mind was in turmoil, and he couldn't help holding his breath in horror.

But when the "person" on the screen slowly emerged, he found that the situation was more outrageous and absurd than he had imagined.

Huge hands grabbed the edge of the screen, and then emerged a head wearing a helmet. The helmet was black and round, reflecting the cold luster like a mirror, like a round glass fish tank;
The "white bloated" arm turned out not to be the original color of the skin, but a piece of clothing that wrapped the hand, but it was not ordinary clothing, but a protective clothing made of composite materials such as rubber or sponge. , and there is a huge white backpack on the back...

——Drilling out of the screen is a giant in a space suit.

(End of this chapter)