But the target is not the campus, but the observation deck on the mountainside behind the school—although the top of the mountain is also possible, but because there is no road and the terrain is rough, it is dark at night, and the field of vision is about zero. If you accidentally put the telescope It's not good if it breaks.
After setting up the telescope and skillfully adjusting the angle and focus, I looked up at the starry deep sky and began to wait for the meteor shower to come.
The starry sky at night was as quiet and beautiful as ever, but I began to feel a little stiff in my hands and feet.
- I don't like starry sky.
In fact, it's closer to fear than "dislike".
When I was very young, my parents worked at a nearby aerospace base. When I was about seven or eight years old, my father was involved in an equipment explosion and passed away from his injuries.
After that, my mom pulled me to twelve all by myself.
She likes the starry sky, and her favorite thing to do in the past was to take me for a walk to this observation deck after dinner, and then hugged me and told me the stars in the sky and their related stories.
It wasn't until I couldn't bear it anymore that I started to be half asleep and half awake, and then I would gently carry me on my back, and carry me home while humming, twinkling, and twinkling.
When I was 12 years old, she was selected as the only female astronaut in that space base, and she quickly devoted herself to training, and she stood out from the crowd with excellent results.
I admire and yearn for an excellent mother very much, and with her as my goal, I also want to become an astronaut when I grow up.
In the second half of the year, the space base launched a manned satellite, intending to dock with the space station and bring back all the experimental records and material results from the space station.
My mom, of course, was an astronaut on that launch.
The launch was successful, and nothing unusual happened until it docked with the space station.
However, not long after the docking, the space station suddenly began to lose pressure. Even if the emergency measures were activated, the damage still could not be stopped. , after performing several tests, it is no longer usable in outer space.
The crisis is not only that, a meteorite will pass the earth, although it is not harmful in itself, but if the space station cannot be repaired in time, it will crash into the meteor tail made of small meteorites and be hit by countless small meteorites, the situation is serious If it is said, it may directly crash the space station!
In the end, the mother, who had not yet had time to train for a spacewalk, wore her own spacesuit and repaired the fault point by herself. But because of this, she also failed to escape a few small meteorites in time. After the fixed rope and breathing tube were broken, she died in the vast space, and she couldn't even bring her body back.
When those astronaut uncles who survived the catastrophe came back, they only brought me back a space pen from my mother and the diary left by her.
After that, the country made my mother a martyr just like my father, and took good care of my life. Because of this, even if I did not do well in school, or even skipped classes repeatedly, the school did not want to expel me My plan, and those astronaut uncles came to help me from time to time, so my life was pretty good.
It's just that after learning the news of my mother's death, the sky, which was very kind to me, became distant and terrifying.
There is only one reason why I can persist in studying astronomy to this day—even if the hope is slim, I want to become an astronaut, and then bring my mother’s body floating in satellite orbit back to Earth for a proper burial.
For this reason, no matter how terrible the sky is, I will try to face it and overcome it!
In the distant night sky, a streak of light pierced the sky and disappeared on the other side of the night like a star trail.
"Ah, the meteor shower... has begun."
You from Centaur (2)
After watching the Sagittarius meteor shower, I went home and solved my homework casually, then took a shower and went to sleep.
I originally planned to do so.
But an accident happened.
A meteor broke away from the meteor shower, and then seemed to start flying towards this side.
Seeing that a huge meteorite was about to fall into Jiangjin's city and cause terrible damage, the meteorite exploded inexplicably, breaking into countless tiny fragments and scattered in the wilderness around Jiangjin City.
There was a little damage and a small fire, but the catastrophe I had imagined at first did not happen.
Just as I breathed a sigh of relief and was about to leave here, I suddenly discovered that a fragment of a meteorite seemed to be flying here!
"Fuck!"
In a panic, I picked up the binoculars and ran down the mountain before I even had time to get my schoolbag, but I was still blown away by a loud noise and air waves behind me, and rolled twice on the ground, falling all kinds of things. Then I stopped because of the buffer of the bushes-fortunately, there were bushes in front of me. If it was a tree, I would probably hit my head on it, and the best result would be a concussion.
"Watch, telescope..." After the buzzing tinnitus disappeared and my body recovered, I stood up in a hurry and checked the telescope in my arms in a hurry, for fear that it would be damaged in the explosion just now.
Although my life is pretty good, it doesn't mean that I have a lot of spare money on hand. It's only a mid-range telescope that I bought after a long time of frugality.
"Fortunately not bad."
After a closer inspection, I found that the lens seemed to be a little scratched, but it was a blessing in misfortune if there was not much damage—it is cheaper to replace the lens than to replace the telescope, not to mention that the telescope has been used for so long. It is easy to use, and I don't want to replace it.
Only now have I had the luxury of checking out meteorites that have fallen from the sky.
Some types of meteorites seem to be quite valuable. Even though the laws of the Celestial Dynasty seem to prohibit people from hiding meteorites privately, people's curiosity is always irresistible, and they don't know what fell this time.
Just as I was approaching the crater, I found that the damage caused by the fall of the meteorite was far beyond my imagination—half of the observatory was smashed directly, and the stone bricks on the ground were smashed to pieces. Now it looks like a crater. Like an ordinary cliff, only half of the crater is left, and the other half probably fell down the mountain with the side where the observation deck was smashed, but even the remaining half is about the size of two basketball courts It's so big, there are still sparks floating on the ground from time to time, and the thick white smoke is constantly rising, covering most of the crater.
The surrounding trees were also ignited due to the explosion just now, and they were burning blazingly. This incomplete combustion further raised more smoke and dust.
Even so, when I saw this crater, the first thought in my head was "Will the teacher believe that my homework was destroyed by the meteorite tomorrow...".
"Ahem..." I covered my mouth and nose and tried to get close to the crater, but I was still coughed by the choking smoke.
To be honest, the current situation is not optimistic. The fire of the trees behind will turn into a forest fire if one is not careful: there are many flammable plants such as pines and cypresses on the mountain behind the school, and it is estimated that the fire in the suburbs alone is enough for Jiangjin's fire brigade Tired of running, he probably won't go to the inaccessible mountains and forests to put out the fire in a short time, and it's even a question of whether he can find the fire before it spreads.
Maybe if I'm not careful, I'll be trapped to death in this kind of place by the fire.
As the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat, and I feel like I'm in that cat's shoes.
Unlike the deep night sky that seems to suck people in, meteorites that fall to the surface, the few celestial bodies that do not arouse my inner fear, are really too rare, and they are very attractive to me.
Just one look, one look and I'm leaving.
Recited this sentence silently in my heart, I carefully avoided the burning trees, and looked inside from the edge of the crater.
"… What?"
At first I thought I was wrong.
But after wiping his eyes hard, there was still no change in what he saw.
What is in the crater is not meteorite, meteorite or the most common meteorite, but a shiny silver metal ball that does not look like a natural product.
Although I can't accurately estimate its size because of the distance, but even if it is only a rough estimate, that thing will not be much smaller than my head.
Could it be the wreckage of an artificial satellite
click.
The charred trees couldn't support their own weight, they broke from the trunk and hit the ground, and the flames around them suddenly rose due to the surging air flow. I was only in a daze for a while, but the fire around me was obviously much bigger than before.
"Tsk..."
It seems that if you don't leave, it will be too late.
When I picked up the binoculars beside me and was about to leave here, an inexplicable fluctuation made me stop.
It's hard for me to say exactly what it feels like, but the feeling like something is gently scratching my heart is hard for me to ignore.
Even without any evidence or hint, my mind subconsciously understood that this was the fluctuation from the metal ball in the crater.
Psychopathic? Toxic waves? Amuro Ray
whatever.
In short, even if there is no clear meaning, through this wonderful feeling, I can understand that the ball is afraid.
"What the hell is that..."
It seems that my guess at the beginning was wrong. The metal ball is not the wreckage of an artificial satellite, but some kind of life form from the universe that humans have not yet discovered.
The reason for being afraid is not difficult to understand. Anyone who wakes up and finds himself in a strange world with raging fires burning around him will feel uneasy, right
I don't know why I made this judgment, but when I came back to my senses, I had already rushed into the crater, and ran towards the metal ball regardless of the choking smoke.
My motor nerves are not bad, although the ground is a sloping slope, but I still staggered to maintain my balance, rushed all the way to the bottom of the crater, hugged the metal ball, trying to hug it.
But it wasn't until I got my hands on the surface of the metal ball that I realized I had made a huge mistake.
When a meteorite or something enters the earth, it will rub against the air violently in the atmosphere, generate a lot of heat and even emit light, and many small meteorites will be wiped out directly.
Since this metal ball fell from the sky, it is naturally not exempt from this process, and its surface temperature can be imagined.
So the moment I touched it, my hands felt a tingling sensation almost like a cannonball.
You from Centaur (3)
I have always thought that I can barely be considered a tough guy, at least I usually show myself as a tough guy. After all, my parents died early, and no one acted like a baby, so I naturally became stronger.
But the metal ball that could burn my hand into a roasted pig's trotter in an instant still made me scream.
I am confident that if this scream rang out in the middle of the night, it would definitely wake up half of the people in Jiangjin City and become a new urban legend.
People have conditions for self-protection, just like they will subconsciously close their eyes when there is a sharp object in front of them. When people touch something hot, they will shrink their hands in a condition.
I naturally also had this kind of subconscious movement, but what shocked me was that my hand seemed to be stuck to the metal ball, and I couldn't pull it off all at once!
It's not good, my hand won't be scalded and glued to it, right
It's not something to joke about, and I gave another tug, but still couldn't get my hand off the metal ball.
But fortunately, I don't know if I was paralyzed by the pain, the pain in my hand seems to be not as severe as before.
Now that I have no time to hesitate, I simply climbed out of the crater with that ball, intending to leave here.
Fortunately, the metal ball seems to be hollow and not as heavy as it looks, otherwise there is really no way to climb out of the crater with it.
However, the fire around the crater has become astonishingly strong, and it is really not an easy task to rush through it without going into shock due to carbon monoxide poisoning or suffocation.
At this time, the metal ball suddenly fell off my hand and fell at my feet.
I took advantage of the situation to check the extent of the burn on my hand, but found that the palm of my hand was intact and there was no sign of burn.
But the heart-wrenching feeling before was by no means an illusion. I can still recall the feeling of hot hands now clearly.
Wait, could it be that this ball sticks to my hand not because I burned my palm, but because it is healing my burn
"Ahem..." The smoke began to obscure my vision.
If I continue to hesitate, I am afraid that I will be smoked to death here before I can rush out. There is no time for me to hesitate.
I took a deep breath and prepared to break out.
But at this time, I was a little hesitant.
Whether it is a metal ball or a telescope, it is either heavy or difficult to carry. If I want to escape, I can only take one of them, and I have to give up the other.
"..."
As I said earlier, there was not much time for me to hesitate, and I made a decision almost instantly: take the metal ball and give up the telescope.
It is true that the telescope is very expensive and is closely related to my dream, but judging from the previous performance, this metal ball should be some kind of life, even though I am not sure whether this thing will die in the fire, but compared to the telescope , As expected, a fresh life is more valuable to save.
"Although I don't know if you can understand or not... But now, just stay still... I'm going to rush!"
Holding it tightly in my arms, I rushed out towards the weakest part of the fire.
The flames danced around me, the heat made my skin ache, my hair was curled up by the flames, and the heat made it hard for me to breathe.
The surrounding scenery seems to be distorted, but this is not the most troublesome place.
"Oops... Is it a dead end..."
The originally familiar terrain became complicated like a maze because of broken scorched wood everywhere, so that I was already a little lost in it.
I finally found a road leading to the bottom of the mountain, but the raging flames stood in front of me, blocking the mountain road. Although I might be able to reach a safer place through this, judging from the momentum of the flames, I have to cross it I'm afraid it won't be possible to burn a few hairs.
When I was at a loss, the metal ball in my hand suddenly moved.
Like the fifth apostle Thunder Angel in E〇A theatrical version, it suddenly unfolded into many stripes and polygons, and spliced into a huge bowl like a million-flower mirror, covering half of me in it.
That itchy feeling came back again.
"You want me to rush out with this?" I glanced at what the metal ball turned into, probably a protective cover, and made up my mind: "Forget it, die or die!"
Gritting his teeth, he rushed out against it!
Sure enough, when I rushed through the fire wall, I just felt a little heat, and didn't feel too anxious.
After rushing out of the wall of fire, the opposite side was the woods that hadn't been burned yet, but there was a isolation belt with almost no trees in the middle. I don't know if it was designed like this at the beginning, or it was a pure coincidence.
In any case, the feeling of narrow escape made my legs go limp and I slumped on the grass.
And the bowl-shaped shield shrank back again, reverting to the shape of the previous metal ball.
This makes me feel that this thing is quite powerful.
I didn’t know how long I had rested, but I vaguely heard the siren of the fire engine, and felt that my legs had regained their strength, so I didn’t stay here for a long time. I took the metal ball and left the mountain behind the school. It took more than half an hour to return to my own home.
After my mother passed away, except for a volunteer who occasionally came and uncle astronauts, there was no one else at home most of the time, so there was no need to worry about the metal ball being discovered.
"worn out… "
I was exhausted from half an evening's experience, and the first half of my life had never been so turbulent.
Moreover, this metal ball is probably some kind of alien. After discovering and hiding it, I guess I will not be quiet for the rest of my life.
Ge You was paralyzed on the sofa for a while, and I recovered a little bit, the metal ball remained motionless on the table like a work of art, and no longer communicated with me with the power of telepathy just now up.
After watching it for a while to no avail, I decided to take a shower and go to bed.
Take the metal ball and soak it in the bath water, and after wiping off the dirt on the surface, it will show a beautiful color between metal and pearl color. I think it has a sci-fi feel to it.
After taking a shower, I carried it to the bedroom and put it on the computer chair not far from the bed, and I just went to bed like that.
It may be that I have experienced too many things today, and I am too tired. It didn't take long for me to fall asleep, but I just vaguely felt as if someone had turned on the personal computer on my desk...
You from Centaur (4)
The morning sun, as usual, fell on my face through the tulle curtains, waking me up softly...
Puff ← The sound of a heavy object hitting the stomach.
"Whoa oh oh oh!"
Well, it seems that this way of awakening is not very gentle.
The drowsiness was blown away to Java because of the blow that was about to displace my internal organs. I opened my eyes and found a girl in a light white gauze dress sitting on my lower abdomen.
She has long pearl-colored hair that is as long as a wedding veil and can be scattered on the bed. In the soft light of the morning sun, she has long pale golden eyelashes, and her snow-white skin is delicate and radiant. The illusion of light, the white suspender dress exposed her white and round shoulders, and the suspender on the right side slipped to the side, which made the whole dress feel like it was about to fall off.
It is obviously a charming scene with some peachy colors, but because of the girl's incomparably clear and deep eyes and her almost perfect face, all of this has no erotic meaning. Indulge in it.
She just stared at me quietly like that, and because I was attracted by her beautiful eyes, I forgot the pain in my abdomen and just looked at her like that.
I don't know how long it took before I suddenly came back to my senses, jumped out of the quilt, quickly retreated to the corner, and watched the other party vigilantly.
"Who are you? How did you get in here!"
My first thought was that what happened yesterday happened.
But after thinking about it, it seems that I did nothing except retrieve a metal ball: the meteorite fell from the sky has nothing to do with me, the meteorite explosion was not done by me, and even the forest fire was just a simple victim .
So I have absolutely no reason to be afraid.
"I'm… "
The girl made a clear and pleasant voice, but her words sounded very dry, as if she hadn't spoken for many years, or it was the first time she knew how to speak, she stopped every word.
Just after she said two words, a puzzled expression appeared on her little face, and she tilted her little head as if she didn't know how to describe it.
That kind of cute appearance even once made me want to gently comfort her, don't worry, just speak slowly, or don't need to explain at all.
But my rationality stopped this unwise behavior, and I just waited quietly for the girl to explain it while observing the surroundings for other unusual things.
After waiting for a while, the girl who still couldn't figure out how to explain it suddenly seemed to have a flash of inspiration, and her face, which had changed very little, showed an expression of "suddenly enlightened". After hammering her palm, she rushed towards me. come over.
Surprised, I subconsciously raised my hand to resist, but instead of jumping on me, the other party grabbed my hand, and then began to stick out a small pink tongue to lick my palm.
A warm, moist and itchy feeling came from my palm, and I, who was stunned by the other party's unexpected action, suddenly came back to my senses and wanted to push the other party away, but for some reason I saw her puppy With a similar look in his eyes, the strength in his hand suddenly became smaller.
Not good, what is the situation now
I just woke up in the morning, and my mind, which was not sober at first, has completely shut down after encountering so many strange things. I don't know what attitude and method to use to solve the current situation.
"I don't understand anymore!"
My head was in a mess and I shouted in despair.
…
Before the opponent's pink tongue licked from the palm to my face, I stopped the situation from getting out of control with a hand knife in time.
To be honest, if an uncle policeman broke in at that time and saw me and the mysterious little girl with messy clothes entangled together, then I might have to face the maximum death sentence starting from three years.
At this moment, I am very glad that I am still a minor, and I pay the highest respect to the Law on the Protection of Minors. I am really sorry for calling you a scumbag for the Law on the Protection of Minors because of various news.
That being said, I still couldn't figure out what was going on with that little girl in the end.
Now she is sitting obediently at the dining table, motionless—not even the ups and downs of her chest breathing. Her appearance makes melon eaters who don't know the truth at first glance may think that she is a very lifelike statue.
If it wasn't for the clever way she looked at me every time I looked over, even I would think she was like a statue.
But to be honest, when I stare at her motionless, there is always a strange feeling of staring at a wax figure...
It's not that I'm timid, but this feeling is really scary.
In addition, although I can't be sure, I still thought of a possibility-the girl might have been transformed by the metal ball yesterday.
After all, yesterday's metal ball also showed the ability to change, and today I searched all over my room but couldn't find it. Although it's a bit unbelievable, but for now, I can only think so.
"Is it okay to have porridge for breakfast?" I leaned out from the kitchen and shook the spoon in my hand to the girl: "Even if you say no, my family doesn't have anything to eat except preserved eggs and fermented bean curd."
The girl didn't seem to understand my joke, no, it should be said that she didn't even seem to understand the meaning of my previous question, she just blinked her big eyes and stared at me curiously.
Tsk, although this made me a little more angry, and it did lose the feeling of a wax figure before, but I always feel that the way she looks at me is the same as a child looking at a monkey in a zoo, which is weird.
In short, let's serve her a bowl of rice porridge and put all the side dishes in front of her. I also pulled out the chair and sat down across from her.
It's a pity that the rice porridge is not pork chop rice, and there are no lamps on the dining table, otherwise it would really have the atmosphere of a criminal drama.
After watching me take a few sips of porridge, the girl curiously approached the porridge bowl in front of her, sniffed it with her small nose, and then dipped her finger in it. As a result, it was still a little hot after it was just out of the pot. The porridge was so hot that he retracted his hands, and looked at me who was drinking the porridge as if nothing had happened with a look of admiration.
Could it be that this guy thought rice porridge was a dangerous item
In desperation, I had no choice but to give up the habit of eating porridge by the side of the bowl. Every time I scooped up a spoonful, I blew on it to let it cool before putting it in my mouth.
After repeating it several times at a speed that can be called slow motion, the girl began to imitate my movements and drank the porridge.
How should I put it... Although I know that this analogy is not very good, but now I really have an inexplicable sense of accomplishment after training the dog well...
You from Centaur (5)
It can be seen that the girl doesn't like to drink porridge, but probably because of my strength as an example, she finally drank the rice porridge in the bowl without leaving a drop.
And while I was washing the dishes, I also started to worry about new problems.
I'm just a student. Although I have accumulated a small amount of savings including my parents' pensions, it can be seen from the fact that I have to budget carefully to buy a telescope. In the absence of a stable source of income, I am not the kind Situations where money can be squandered at will.
Not only that, although the occasional skipping class or leaving school early will not be held accountable, but if I plan to skip classes for a long time, I will definitely be the one who will be unlucky in the end.
But now is not the kind of time to take a leisurely class.
That amazing girl seemed to recognize me, followed me wherever I went, and even mimicked my movements—for this, it took me a lot of energy to even go to the bathroom to close the door outside. Even so, she could still hear her scratching the door outside...
If I still go to school as before, this guy will definitely follow me, and it will be really troublesome then.
“Oh, please don’t let me die…”
The melodious music sounded suddenly, and the girl behind me looked startled, looking around blankly, as if trying to find what was making the sound.
I took out my mobile phone from my pocket, and found that the caller ID on it was "Walking Grass Grape".
"Hello, Jiang Fan? What's the matter?"
Jiang Fan, even in my class, can be regarded as a weirdo among weirdos, and his reputation among girls is worse than that of cockroaches and mice. There are even rumors that this guy is registered in the police station because of running wild. , but there has been no actual evidence, so he was not arrested.
However, just like what was written in the notes of my mobile phone contact list, this guy has a lot of "resources" that everyone knows well, coupled with his familiar personality, so he is unexpectedly popular among boys.
Although I don't want to admit it, the inventory in my computer is a gift from this person, so I can barely count as a friend, and I exchanged phone numbers with him.
But he has never called me before, and he doesn't know why he called me suddenly this time.
"Wu Jiu? It's great that you're fine! Do you know what happened yesterday?"
"more or less."
There were too many things that happened yesterday, and I didn't quite know which one he was referring to, so I could only speak vaguely.
"I think so. After all, you like to go to the observatory to look at the stars... A fire broke out in the mountain behind the school yesterday. Although the fire was finally brought under control, it still had some impact on the school. The teacher said that classes would be suspended for two days. Classes can only continue after passing the security check."
Jiang Fan didn't doubt that he was there, and said with a single brain: "You are too withdrawn, the teacher and the others don't have your phone number, so they can only let me call you in the end."
It's a shame I have so few friends.
Pushing away the girl who came over and wanted to look at my phone, I tried to say in a normal tone: "Understood, thank you, if there is nothing else, I will hang up."
"Don't be so cold, anyway, we are also friends who know each other's sexuality, right~" Jiang Fan joked in a pretentious voice on the phone: "Right, silver-haired dress lolicon~"
"Shut up, naked peeping tom!"
With a click, I quickly hung up the phone.
That's why I hate talking to that guy.
Wait, after being told by Jiang Fan, I suddenly realized why I had a considerable affection for girls in the first place—this girl's element is completely my strike zone
It's highly unlikely that this was entirely a coincidence.
I suddenly remembered that I seemed to vaguely feel that someone turned on my computer last night...
I glanced at the girl who was still perseveringly approaching: Could it be that she looked into my preferences and became like this
So I pinched her cheek.
Contrary to what I expected, she didn't struggle with this, but just looked at me with very innocent eyes, as if asking what I was doing.
I tried my best to suppress the condemnation from my conscience, and tried to ask her in a very serious manner: "What is the reason for you to become like this?"
The other party blinked his eyes, and then said in a slightly more proficient language than before: "Disk D... "Seasons and Climate Effects on Celestial Bodies" folder... "Silver One Piece"..."
"Shut up!"
Digged my own grave.
By the way, this guy really investigated my hobbies, hey!
At first I thought she was an alien who didn't understand anything, but looking at it now, I'm afraid she is not as ignorant as I imagined, but a type with certain knowledge and skills.
It's just that the feeling of being so pure that it's almost a blank sheet of paper doesn't seem like it's faked.
With such a connection, maybe she was originally an alien astronaut or something, but when she landed on the earth, she lost her memory for some reason, and then because I was the first person to see it, as something similar to some The adaptability of animals regards me as her father, that's why they are so close to me.
This way things can be explained.
"..."
Although the matter can be explained, I still don't know what to do next... If the other party still looks like that ball, I can harden my heart and hand it over, but now that I have become a girl, I always I don't think it's a good idea to do so.
I let go of the hand that pinched the girl's cheeks, and sighed helplessly.
In the end, the other party didn't care about my actions just now, and instead continued to move towards me with a cute face.
Her target should be the cell phone in my pocket.
I thought about it, and felt that in the state of locking the screen, she shouldn't be able to play ugly things, and if I continued to stop her, I always felt that she would lick it, so I simply handed the phone to her. girl.
The girl took the phone and sniffed it with Xiaoqiong's nose. The appearance of a hamster circling around the food was surprisingly cute.
As expected of the appearance right in the middle of my strike zone.
Then she was watching under my warm eyes...
"Kacha Kacha"
Eat my phone like a cookie.
"Damn it—?!"
I hurried over to stop her, but it was too late, she had already gnawed the whole phone away while I was stunned.
"..."
I think I need a 120 ambulance now, and a new mobile phone that can be used to make 120 emergency calls...