Chapter 3 Humans Are Hard to Understand
How would the locals react if they discovered aliens?
Especially for a "parasite" like it that invades the human body, according to the TV shows and movies it has watched, humans who discover this will only scream in horror or shoot them in the head.
Xiao Zhen pondered over this question. Within 0.3 seconds, he had thought of many solutions, including rewriting Liu Xingquan's memory.
Then he received Liu Xingquan's shallow consciousness, curious and surprised, but not afraid.
Liu Xingquan stared at the pen on the wall and asked, "What did you do?"
Indeed, throwing a pencil directly into the wall is outrageous, but it is not to the point of exposing one's identity.
So Xiao Zhen remained calm and said in an exaggerated tone: "It's time for you to know my true face."
"ah?"
"The one standing before you is the one who has saved citizens from danger countless times, the guardian knight of the dark night, the messenger of justice of the light, the thief Lothar!" Xiao Zhen was reciting a very popular animation line.
"...Lothar in the animation is a fox." Liu Xingquan turned his head and continued to stare at the wall. "You stuck the pen into the wall? How did you do that?"
Xiao Zhen continued to talk nonsense without changing her expression: "Because I poked a hole in the wall beforehand."
"ah?"
"First poke a hole, then put the pen in." Given the muscle strength of human teenagers, it is simply impossible to throw a pencil directly into reinforced concrete. Xiao Zhen was not sure how much Liu Xingquan had seen, so she simply used this excuse that humans could accept to perfunctorily deal with it.
Liu Xingquan was half-believing and half-doubting: "Really?" He reached out to pull the pen on the wall, but the pen didn't move at all. He gritted his teeth and tried hard, but the pen still didn't move at all. "Why can't you pull it out?"
"It took me a long time to practice before I could put it in." Xiao Zhen made a pose, "How is my performance? Is it cool?"
"Auntie will scold you."
"It's okay, I'll put a poster up to cover the hole." Xiao Zhen stepped forward and easily pulled out the pencil, turning it in her hand, "Don't tell my mom."
"...You went to the trouble of drilling a hole just to put a pen in front of me to show off?"
You think too much. "That's right."
Liu Xingquan grinned. "You are so boring."
This was the first time in the past few days that Liu Xingquan smiled at Xiaozhen. It was no longer a rigid polite smile, but a lively smile unique to young people. The subtle gap between the two seemed to melt away in that instant.
The next few days were uneventful, and Liu Xingquan came to Xiaozhen's house to do his homework as usual. Then one day, Liu Xingquan, who was supposed to visit on time, suddenly didn't come.
Liu Xingquan didn't come the next day either.
Liu Xingquan still didn't come on the third day.
Xiao Zhen didn't care. It was good that Liu Xingquan didn't come. He would have more free time to surf the Internet and learn about the civilization of this planet.
Mother Yan was very anxious. In the past, Xiaozhen was never the type to sit quietly in the study room and study. This summer, after Liu Xingquan came, her Xiaozhen could actually do her homework properly, and she could spend an entire afternoon doing it, which had never happened before. This must be the role model of a good child.
Liu Xingquan's good example was beyond doubt in Yan's mother's eyes. She tiptoed to the door of Xiaozhen's study and saw Xiaozhen using the computer to surf the Internet, enjoying herself.
After all, you still need a learning object.
After thinking it over, Yan's mother picked up the phone and called the Liu family. The person who answered the phone was Liu Xingquan's mother Luo Qingxi. After a few pleasantries, Yan's mother suggested that Liu Xingquan come over to accompany Xiaozhen.
Luo Qingxi agreed.
Mother Yan put down the phone with satisfaction. She did not notice the hesitation and pain in Luo Qingxi's voice.
In the afternoon, Liu Xingquan appeared at Yan's house on time.
In front of Xiaozhen, he became the cold boy again, silently distanced himself from Xiaozhen with his resistance. It seemed that their relationship improved in the past two days was just an illusion.
Xiao Zhen thought he knew nothing about human emotions and the subtleties of interpersonal relationships, and he had no time to study the psychological issues of this teenager. So Xiao Zhen buried his head in his homework and was too lazy to pay attention to Liu Xingquan.
The atmosphere between the two was so depressing that even Yan's mother was a little strange. Probably to adjust the atmosphere, after the two finished their homework for the day, Yan's mother asked the driver to take Xiaozhen and Liu Xingquan to the nearby street market to play.
The street market is at its busiest in the evening, and as it is the weekend, the streets are crowded with people under the bright lights.
After so many days here, this was Xiao Zhen's first day of close contact with so many local humans. Everything in front of him was new and interesting, and also a physical headache.
He has the ability to detect human emotions. But it is really uncomfortable to have hundreds of people's emotions rushing into his brain at the same time. Xiao Zhen felt that he was just a small water bottle, and now a surging flood was desperately pouring into it. He didn't care about his original body, but he was afraid of causing damage to his host body. Xiao Zhen immediately retracted his consciousness receiving tentacles.
Now that his mind had calmed down and the turbulent torrent was receding, Xiao Zhen let out a breath and started shopping.
He squeezed into the crowd, first watching an old man spin out cotton candy, then watched eagerly for a while as he threw rings and smashed the prizes. When he turned around, Xiao Zhen realized that Liu Xingquan had lost him without knowing when.
Just as he turned around to look for Liu Xingquan, a voice sounded in his head.
The sound was like a noise that cut directly into the brain, with a vague burning sensation.
His body was subconsciously disturbed by this intrusion. But Xiao Zhen was very familiar with this feeling. This was the way they communicated with each other.
(Hey, hello!)
His own kind were greeting him.
Their species has no vocal organs, but they can send brainwave information to their own species within a certain distance. This is their unique way of communication. Although he had already prepared for the possibility of alien visitors on this planet, he was still surprised.
He didn't expect to meet his own people so soon.
Xiao Zhen replied: "Where are you?"
(I'm just giving you a heads up, there are a few human thugs following you.)
"…Why are they following me?"
(I don’t know, maybe he wants to have some intense physical contact with you.)
“…”
(They come over.)
Xiao Zhen said to her fellow tribesmen in her mind: "Won't you help me?"
(You can definitely handle this little thing.) The voice in my head seemed excited, as if waiting to see something exciting happen.
A few young men with bad faces came over from a distance. They looked like high school students. They came straight to Xiao Zhen, dragged him by the arm and dragged him into a small alley nearby. One of them pushed Xiao Zhen hard, and Xiao Zhen took a few steps back.
Xiao Zhen asked: "Do I know you guys?"
"Don't play dumb." The leading thug sneered, "Old rules, give your big brother some money."
Xiao Zhen blinked, recalling the plot she saw on TV, and asked, "Are you blackmailing me?"
The gangster said impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense and hurry up."
“I won’t give you any money.”
"Huh? Don't you feel great when you bully people by taking advantage of your power? Now you realize you have no money?" The leading thug raised his fist, "It seems I have to teach you a lesson."
Xiao Zhen said kindly, "It's not nice to hit teenagers."
"Stop talking nonsense! Brother, I'm just asking you to be smarter!" He reached out to grab Xiaozhen's collar.
Xiao Zhen slightly turned her body to avoid his hand. His speed was slower than Xiao Zhen had imagined.
"Do you want to hurt my body?"
After the thug missed, he tried to grab Xiaozhen again, but missed again. "I'll teach you a lesson!!"
"Then I must protect my body." Xiao Zhen said. He grabbed the gangster's right hand and twisted it downward, causing the gangster to scream. At the same time, Xiao Zhen hooked his foot around the other's knee and knocked it downward, causing the gangster to fall to the ground. In the next second, Xiao Zhen spun his left foot and kicked the other gangster's hind legs, then grabbed his arm and threw him backwards, causing the gangster to fall to the ground screaming.
In a flash, two people were knocked down by him. The remaining man stared at the scene in disbelief. Everything happened too fast. And there was only a child standing there. He was shocked and angry. Xiaozhen waved at him, and he screamed, "You, you remember this!!" Several hooligans ran away together.
Xiao Zhen turned his arms. After several days of research, he had made great progress in controlling Xiao Zhen's body. Now this body was too weak, so he had to focus on controlling the precision and accuracy for the time being, and he couldn't fight for too long. Xiao Zhen thought to himself while holding his hands.
Liu Xingquan shouted at the entrance of the alley, "Are you okay?" He rushed over with a pale face and a worried look on his face: "Are you okay?"
At this moment, the voice of that fellow tribesman rang in Xiaozhen's mind again: (Is he your friend?)
"My host's friend."
(He is in the same group with those hooligans.)
Xiao Zhen was surprised: "What did you say?"
(Before those thugs targeted you, they talked to him. I heard that those thugs were friends with him.)
“…”
Liu Xingquan was looking at Xiaozhen with concern. Beads of sweat formed on the boy's nose, and his eyes were filled with anxiety and uneasiness.
I really don't understand the emotions and behavioral logic of human beings.
He curiously explored Liu Xingquan's shallow consciousness, which was also one of its inherent skills. Shame and regret were rolling in Liu Xingquan's mind. Human emotions are like fine sand, flowing and invisible. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... Liu Xingquan's apology condensed into an invisible halo, and when Xiao Zhen wanted to lock it to see what was going on, it flowed away like fine sand.
"Fortunately nothing happened, otherwise Auntie would be worried to death..."
Xiao Zhen interrupted Liu Xingquan: "Do you know them?"
"What?"
"Do you know the thugs who just gave me trouble?"
Liu Xingquan froze, his eyes flickered a few times and then floated to the ground, standing motionless to resist Xiaozhen's questioning.
"So you know them?" Xiao Zhen continued, "Are you in the same group with them?"
"I……"
It seems so. What is the most logical human behavior at this time? Let me think about how the TV series plays out.
Xiao Zhen said: "So you want to apologize to me."
After saying this, it was as if the invisible shackles that bound Liu Xingquan were instantly torn apart. Liu Xingquan raised his head. Xiaozhen had never seen Liu Xingquan with such an expression. His handsome face was distorted by anger, and his dark eyes kept shaking, as if sparks were flying. He shouted: "You should be the one to apologize!!"
"ah?"
"Yan Zhen!! Do you think that the world revolves around you and everyone has to serve you? You are just relying on your parents' wealth!" The young man gritted his teeth, "I am not a servant that you can summon and dismiss at will, I am not!!"
Xiao Zhen looked at the boy in front of him in confusion. Tears welled up in his eyes, and his original anger faded with his roar, leaving more sorrow in his dim eyes.
He turned and ran.
Xiao Zhen was stunned for a long time. He admitted that he didn't understand humans at all.
After Liu Xingquan left, Xiao Zhen followed the guidance of the voice of that fellow tribesman and went to find it.
At the entrance of a snack bar, he found his fellow tribesman. Only then did Xiao Zhen understand why his fellow tribesman was unwilling to help him.
Because it was kept in a chicken coop.
This one is jumping around in the chicken coop. Its host is a chicken.
The chicken stared at Xiao Zhen outside the chicken coop with dissatisfaction: "You criminal! You violated the law, you invaded intelligent life..."
Xiaozhen turned and left.
The chicken neighed, "Wait! Don't you want to take your kind with you?"
"In no mood."
"I just reminded you."
"I can do it without you."
"I don't think that was a done deal. What did you do to your human friend? He ran away crying."
"I didn't do anything. Goodbye."
"Don't you have any compassion for your own kind?"
"No."
"fart!"
"It's not impossible to take you away." Xiao Zhen touched his chin and said solemnly: "Who do you serve? The Parliament or the Legion?"
"... In such a remote corner, you still want to engage in factional struggle?"
That night, Mother Yan stared at Father Yan in horror. She couldn't believe her ears.
"What? Driver died in an accident?"
Yan's father looked very sad: "Old Liu has been driving my car for almost ten years, and I didn't expect that he would be gone all of a sudden. I thought he would no longer be a driver and now he can finally work from nine to five to take care of his family. I never expected it..."
"How could it be..." Mother Yan still couldn't accept it, "I called Luo Qingxi today, and she didn't say anything."
"Lao Liu's wife has always been like that. She doesn't want to cause trouble for others. These days she thought he was just out of town. She probably didn't want to make it public before she was sure."
"Oh... Qingxi is really..." Mother Yan whispered, and then she raised her head suddenly: "Oh no, I asked Liu Xingquan to come out and play with Xiaozhen today..."
"His family is in such a state, and you still asked Liu Xingquan to come out to play with Xiaozhen?" Father Yan couldn't help but speak in a heavy voice.
"I didn't know something happened in his family... Liu Xingquan didn't say anything either." Mother Yan lowered her voice, "Am I going too far?"
Father Yan sighed, "This is not your fault. Let's find and help him with any difficulties."
"Well, we'll go together. But Qingxi has a strong sense of self-esteem, I'm afraid..." Yan's mother sighed. At this time, there was a noise from the living room. They walked out of the room together and saw their son Yan Zhenzhen half-crouching on the ground, holding something in his hand.
Mother Yan asked in surprise: "Xiao Zhen, what are you doing?"
Xiao Zhen let go, and a chicken jumped out from under him. The chicken pecked its feathers, jumped on top of Xiao Zhen's head, tilted its head to look at Yan's father and mother, and opened its mouth: "Ka."
"chicken????"
Xiao Zhen reached out and held the chicken on top of her head, and said:
"Let me introduce you, this is my new friend. His name is Captain Madara."
