Chapter 16 Xiaozhen Starts School
Xiaozhen has started school.
The students' happy vacation is over. Many primary and secondary school students lament that time passes so quickly and are looking forward to the start of school with dejected mood.
Xiao Zhen didn't have much understanding of this. To him, it was just a change of place to play his host.
Teacher Feng turned out to be his homeroom teacher. Xiao Zhen secretly felt lucky that he had not revealed anything when they met last time. Teacher Feng was gentle and humorous, and he talked and laughed with his classmates without any airs, and was very popular among his classmates.
Xiaozhen and Liu Xingquan were in the same class. Liu Xingquan was the monitor of the class and the model of a perfect student in the eyes of all teachers and parents. He was polite, well-behaved, had excellent grades, and was good-looking. These three factors combined made Liu Xingquan the most popular student star in the school. But Xiaozhen noticed that his classmates felt alienated from Liu Xingquan. It was because the students naturally kept their distance from the teacher's favorite.
After class, the students dispersed into small groups and chattered. Xiaozhen was curious about which group he originally belonged to. Liu Xingquan sat there without moving, reading a book seriously, and had no intention of talking to anyone. Cui Mingzhi, his friend who came to play with him during the summer vacation, was in the next class 1. He was having fun next door and was not Xiaozhen's first choice for chatting during class breaks.
Xiao Zhen sat in his seat, identifying the faces of each classmate and matching their names one by one. The noisy classmates were chatting about strange topics. He listened for a while as two boys next to him argued about whether a girl in the class had drawn eyebrows. He thought it was too boring, so he took out a book from the library and started reading.
"Yan Zhen!!"
A female voice sounded from behind.
Xiao Zhen turned around and saw a girl named Wei Jingjing sitting behind him. She had a ponytail, a pointed chin, and big eyes. She looked like a little beauty. If it weren't for the arrogant look on her face, she would be even cuter.
"Your back is against my desk." Wei Jingjing's voice was the same as her expression, proud and cold, and her tone made it seem as if Xiaozhen had defiled her noble desk.
"Oh." Xiaozhen moved her chair and kept a distance from her desk. Wei Jingjing was the only daughter of a well-known industrialist, and was called Miss Wei by her classmates. Although she looked pretty, she always had a stern face and spoke to people in a stiff tone.
Xiao Zhen guessed that his host Yan Zhen would not have a good relationship with her.
Wei Jingjing's shallow consciousness flooded into his mind. He didn't mean to explore her brain, but her consciousness was like a smell, unconsciously emanating from the surroundings. He saw her applying lipstick in front of the mirror before going out, looking at herself, and then wiping off some of the lipstick with a wet tissue, so that her lips would look naturally bright red.
Middle school students are not allowed to wear makeup to school, so this is a little trick she puts on herself.
She cares a lot about her appearance. Xiao Zhen smelled a scent from the depths of her soul, which was not a natural smell that could be described. The Heart Eater, a creature that could sensitively taste the emotions of intelligent life forms, knew very well that it was the smell of craving for recognition from others.
At the end of the day, Xiao Zhen recognized the faces of all the classmates and saved their names in his database. A boy named Gao Yuan was very enthusiastic about Xiao Zhen. He took a dozen game cards and asked Xiao Zhen if she had collected any new cards. Xiao Zhen recalled that he had a box of such cards in his drawer, so he promised to bring them to him the next day.
But most of the time, the topics discussed by the junior high school students were as difficult for Xiaozhen to understand as the Arabian Nights. When the get out of class was over, he simply ran away with his schoolbag on his back.
As soon as he went downstairs, the cats he met during his last campus investigation saw him and came over.
Still want some ham? I won't buy it this time.
The cats came over and rubbed Xiaozhen's legs, calling out in sweet voices.
(Eat eat eat eat eat eat)
(I want to eat, I want to eat, I want to eat)
The cats' shallow consciousness flooded into his brain.
Mr. Cat was not around, so Xiao Zhen could only read the cats' simplest consciousness. Seeing the cats surrounding him and acting like spoiled brats, rubbing against him and rolling on the ground, Xiao Zhen squatted down, and his body made subconscious movements, caressing the cats in various ways.
(Give me food quickly, give me food quickly, give me food quickly, give me food quickly)
(Don't just touch me, give me something to eat)
Looking at the postures of these cats, Xiao Zhen felt a little uncomfortable, even at a vague level.
"The cats like you very much." said a girl holding a bag of cat food.
That was his classmate, named Chen Yuxin. She looked very quiet and spoke in a soft voice.
As soon as they saw Chen Yuxin carrying a bag of cat food, the cats left Xiaozhen and began to worship Chen Yuxin.
“Do you feed the cat often?”
"Yeah, I like cats very much." Chen Yuxin reached out to touch the chin of a kitten, and the cat rubbed her palm comfortably, making a purring sound. She smiled, then frowned and said, "There are fewer cats again..."
Xiao Zhen recalled that during an investigation a few days ago, the cats complained that their brothers and sisters had been decreasing, and that it must be a cat thief who was stealing the cats. He also provided a suspect, Lao Wang. He scanned the cat colony and found that the number of cats had decreased again compared to last time.
“Are cats getting fewer and fewer?”
Chen Yuxin gritted her teeth and said, "Who is so wicked as to steal cats again!" Her face flushed with anger. "It would be fine if they took the cats home to raise. But I heard that some cat thieves now kill or eat the cats after catching them. These people are really despicable."
The cats whimpered. Xiao Zhen felt their superficial emotions, which were sadness for their brothers and sisters, lamenting their sudden departure. Cats' emotions were very similar to those of intelligent life forms such as humans, but their consciousness was more vague, yet more pure and intense. Chen Yuxin was sad for their missing brothers and sisters. The cats were not supposed to understand human language, but at that moment they responded to Chen Yuxin and whimpered with her.
I'll find out who the cat thief is when I get a chance, he thought.
When leaving the school, Teacher Feng called Xiaozhen. This teacher, who was just 30 years old, was a cheerful young man. When he smiled, it was like a spring breeze. Even when he didn't smile, he gave people a friendly feeling. Almost all the students he taught liked him.
Teacher Feng pushed his bicycle to Xiao Zhen's side. "Yan Zhen, were you looking for a husky last time ?"
"yes."
"I remember now, Teacher Yuan has a Husky." Teacher Feng said with a smile.
Xiao Zhen was about to say that there was no need to look for it, but she heard Teacher Feng say the next sentence: "Her dog is called Qiuqiu."
"Ball?"
"Yes, Qiuqiu is a very cute Husky."
Qiuqiu? The husky in the bounty mission is also called Qiuqiu. Xiaozhen blinked. This is quite interesting.
Yan's house.
Captain Madara asked, "Are you saying that one of the teachers at your school is an alien?"
"right."
Mr. Cat said, "Oh, did you see her?"
"Yes." Xiao Zhen said, "The interesting thing is that I didn't notice anything unusual about her at first." For primitive planets without interstellar communication, aliens often disguise themselves as local natives to avoid disturbing the local ecology. The Heart Eater has natural identification skills and mental resistance. Whether it is optical camouflage or mental misleading, nothing can escape the Heart Eater. Whether it is the fox merchant boss Han or the Gnus man, they can't deceive them. But now there is an exception.
Teacher Xiao Yuan taught Xiao Zhen's class today. She was an attractive young woman with brown hair and bright eyes. Within a few minutes of the class, she had won over all the students. Xiao Zhen, however, did not realize at that time that she was an alien visitor.
"You didn't even recognize she was an alien?" Chicken said, "Maybe it's just a coincidence. Maybe she's a normal aboriginal. Qiuqiu is a common name for dogs."
Xiao Zhen shook her head. "She must be an alien."
Mr. Cat became interested: "How did you identify it afterwards? Is there any method we don't know about?"
"Because I saw her hand was separated from her limb and crawling on the table."
“…”
“Why are her hands crawling alone????”
"How would I know?" Xiao Zhen was intrigued by Teacher Feng's words and deliberately turned back to the office. It was after school and the office was empty except for Teacher Xiao Yuan. She was staring at the screen intently, which should have been a very common scene. But then her hand suddenly left her arm, crawled leisurely on the table for 2 minutes, and leisurely picked up the teacup. This scene would be too shocking even if witnessed by the alien creature Heart Eater. Xiao Zhen rubbed her eyes twice to make sure that she was not optically misled.
"Organs are out of autonomous motion?? What kind of race is this?"
"That's why I said she's definitely not a local human."
The three Heart Eaters thought carefully about the galactic races that could cut off organs and move autonomously, but none of them seemed to match. There were creatures in the universe that barely met this characteristic, but they had never developed into a civilized society. Judging from the thermal reaction, she was not a bionic creature or a robot.
After some discussion, they decided to meet this strange alien.
When Mr. Cat, Captain Spot and Xiaozhen visited Teacher Xiaoyuan's home, Teacher Xiaoyuan was leading her husky to go out. She was wearing short sweatpants and a thin sports coat, which made her look curvy and energetic.
"Yan Zhen? Are you looking for me?" Teacher Xiao Yuan looked at Xiao Zhen, who was carrying a cat and a chicken, with a confused look on her face. She was impressed by this student and had a good impression of him. Her eyes quickly stopped at the chicken, "Why are you carrying a chicken?"
Mr. Cat said directly: "Hello!"
Teacher Yuan took a step back in surprise.
Mr. Cat bowed and said, "God of the stars, I never thought I would meet a stranger here."
Teacher Xiao Yuan blurted out: "Alts?"
"Yes, I am a traveler from Elt." Mr. Cat sat in an elegant posture, "I am very happy to meet a traveler from afar in this remote place."
"Star Spirit, I'm glad to meet you too." Teacher Xiao Yuan glared at Mr. Cat, "Why is my student with you? You made my student an insider? And why is there a chicken?"
"Yan Zhen is my local assistant. I'm here just to verify one thing. Did you commission the Interstellar Bounty Guild to find your pet a few days ago?"
"It's me." Teacher Xiao Yuan frowned. "All procedures for my pet Qiuqiu are legal and compliant. I have a quarantine and protection license. Even the safety committee can't find any problems."
"Don't worry, I'm not here to ask for an explanation." Mr. Cat wagged his tail, "I'm just curious."
"curious?"
Xiao Zhen said, "I'm curious too!" He said with an innocent tone, tilting his head, "Mr. Cat told me that you are an alien. Before this, he introduced many alien races to me. But Mr. Cat has no idea what species you are. That's why I asked Mr. Cat to bring me here to ask you."
"Just for this?"
"Yes." Xiao Zhen deliberately made her tone even more innocent and stupid, "I pestered Mr. Cat to come here. Teacher, please tell me."
Teacher Xiao Yuan glared at Mr. Cat, with a look on his face that said, "You dragged an ordinary human to bother me with such a boring question." Mr. Cat shrugged: "Anyway, once I leave this planet, this ignorant human will erase this memory according to interstellar law. You don't have to worry too much."
"..." Teacher Xiao Yuan pondered for a while, glanced at Xiao Zhen, who was full of excessive curiosity, and turned around and said, "Since you are my student, please come in with me."
Teacher Xiao Yuan poured two cups of tea for Xiao Zhen and Mr. Cat. The chicken was completely ignored. Before the chicken had an attack, Xiao Zhen stuffed the chicken into her schoolbag. Anyway, even if the chicken was left outside, the only question would be "Why is there a chicken here?" and "Why did you bring a chicken?"
"You are truly courageous. What if I am some hidden interstellar fugitive?"
Mr. Cat lowered his head and licked a sip of tea. "It doesn't matter to me. Even if you are a fugitive, you have to live under the eyes of the Security Committee and the Oversight. It is too costly to quietly wipe out an indigenous human who has contact with alien visitors. Don't you think so?"
Xiao Zhen said: "Teacher, don't worry, I will keep it a secret!"
"Haha." Teacher Yuan chuckled. The husky Qiuqiu ran over and squatted beside her. It tilted its head and looked at Mr. Cat and Xiaozhen with an arrogant look. Xiaozhen didn't know whether it was because Huskies were born with an arrogant look, or Qiuqiu deliberately showed this stinky face because he had been caught by them before.
"I'm an interstellar traveler. I like this planet and the people here, so I want to live here permanently." Teacher Yuan let her hair down, her long, smooth hair swaying in the air. "Let me be clear, Alte, my true form is non-human. If the human kid next to you faints from shock, I won't be responsible."
Mr. Cat said: "If this kid gets scared to death, I will immediately terminate my relationship with his assistant and erase the relevant memory."
"That's good."
Teacher Xiao Yuan looked at Xiao Zhen again and said in a gentle tone: "Yan Zhen, I don't mean to scare you on purpose. I like humans very much. But humans' aesthetics should not be able to accept my true form. If it makes you uncomfortable later, please don't be too nervous."
Xiao Zhen nodded to reassure the teacher.
She stood up and walked to the middle of the room. In the next second, her body shrank like a deflated balloon. The young and beautiful woman shrank into a loose skin. Xiao Zhen stared at this wonderful scene with her eyes motionless.
As if the human-shaped leather bag had been pulled out of its bones in an instant, it fell loosely to the ground. Something emerged from the woman's human-shaped shell.
Xiao Zhen and Mr. Cat stared at each other. Captain Madara poked his head out of his schoolbag.
There are more and more of them.
Crab-like creatures, thumb-sized, waving their claws, emerged from the humanoid shells like an army. Their feet made a tiny chattering sound. They collided with each other and overlapped with each other. All the creatures made the same sound: "This is me, me, me, me, me, me..."
Slender-legged crab...
Mr. Little True Cat Captain Madara pronounced the name in his mind almost at the same time.
This was a species of alien crab that lived in groups. Xiao Zhen knew that this type of crab would stack up together to help each other and act as a group, but this was the first time he had seen a group of crabs disguised in skins like this.
"This is me, me, me, me, me, me, me..." The crabs kept repeating it, but because there was a time difference between the sounds made by each crab, it sounded like an echo that kept reverberating.
Xiao Zhen said, "It's really interesting."
"Aren't you afraid, afraid, afraid, afraid, afraid, afraid?"
"I think it's amazing, Teacher Yuan."
"..." The crabs were silent for a while, then they all said, "That's because you are not normal..."
Their shells were gray-blue with white spots, and they twisted and gathered. The humanoid skin twitched and rolled like waves, and the shriveled skin gradually swelled up. Teacher Xiao Yuan's body gradually became plump, and her limbs twisted strangely among the crabs. Only then did Xiao Zhen feel a little nauseous, which was the spontaneous discomfort of his host's flesh.
First her legs stood straight, then her abdomen, her body folded and hung down from the abdomen. Then she turned 160 degrees, her upper body stood straight. Her head turned back. Teacher Xiao Yuan used her hands to push her long hair behind her ears.
In front of them was the young woman full of youthfulness again.
Mr. Cat applauded: "I have heard of slender-legged crabs before, but this is the first time I have seen a group of crabs that can collectively plan to disguise themselves as Homo sapiens."
"This was my attempt, and later I thought it was a good idea." Teacher Yuan replied. Her "I" also means "we".
Xiao Zhen asked, "Will there be any inconvenience in daily life?" He gestured, "After all, you have a lot of companions."
"Most of the time I am focused," said Teacher Yuan, "but sometimes accidents happen. For example, I want to watch TV, but a small part of me wants to drink water. At this time, another small part of me will run out to drink water. You see, it's like this. I call this phenomenon noise." Her left arm crawled out and leisurely picked up the kettle.
…
"I thought you would have a mastermind who planned all actions."
"I am the mastermind, but I am also an individual and a collective." Teacher Yuan's left arm crawled back to its original place and was connected. "This kind of noise also bothers me. After all, I want to be a real local. So I need the ball."
"That 'Husky'?" Mr. Cat asked, "Did you raise it to brainwash the locals who witnessed the noise?"
"Of course not. My ball can't perform memory manipulation of that intensity. It can only make slight and harmless changes to the original memory, which is why I was able to get it as a pet through approval. I keep it to eliminate noise. It can help me eliminate distractions to the greatest extent and unify my mind. I am me, and I am also us."
Teacher Yuan stroked the husky beside him and said, "But I accidentally let it get lost when I took it to school a few days ago. This kid probably chose a place where it felt comfortable. It was lost for several days, which caused some unstable noises in me. In order to prevent the locals who accidentally witnessed my disintegration from thinking that I was crazy, I commissioned the Bounty Guild to find it."
Well, not to mention the local humans here, when I saw your hands crawling yesterday, I also thought there was something wrong with my eyes.
Xiao Zhen put down the teacup and asked the last question: "Teacher, why did you choose to be a teacher in school?"
Teacher Yuan looked at him and smiled, but did not answer immediately.
"Generally, alien visitors would choose to avoid the locals and live a low-key life. Teacher, why did you choose a school where there are a lot of locals?"
She smiled sweetly, her pretty face glowing with shyness, "Because I love Teacher Feng."
"ah?"
"I love Mr. Feng. According to the Homo sapiens culture tradition, I want to be his partner until the end of my life," she said. "This is my only wish now."
