Invade the World

  Chapter 118 The Back of Him and Her

  The time flickered, and the first day of the sports meeting ended in this way, and the moment of sunset was approaching.

  The sun is no longer as strong as it was during the day, and the gentle light from the slanting sun stretched the shadow of the concrete steps on the runway.

   Standing in the auditorium and looking down, people on the track are packing up sports equipment. Scattered students in school uniforms are walking down the track, meadows and playgrounds like swarms of ants.

  People come from all directions, converge into a crowded trend at the exit, and slowly leave the stadium.

  The sky slowly darkened, and after the temperature dropped, the wind blowing from the vast area at sunset was actually a bit colder.

  Each class is busy cleaning the garbage on the concrete steps, putting the used mineral water bottles, paper and other waste into a whole garbage bag, and sending people to the nearby garbage station to throw it away.

   "Okay, well, everyone can go back."

  The head teacher standing on the edge of the runway clapped his hands and said loudly to the students in the audience and gathered around.

  "The bus has arrived, so go to the door early to gather when you are done. If you plan to go back by yourself, let your parents notify me so that the teacher can rest assured, you know?"

   "Got it~"

  The students responded in unison.

  After throwing away all the trash on his seat, Xu Xiangyang clapped his hands, picked up his schoolbag and prepared to follow the army back to the school gate.

  When he walked under the shadow of the middle rostrum, there was a sound of footsteps behind him. Before he could turn his head, his hand was grabbed by someone.

  He looked back and found that it was Lin Xingjie.

  The two were standing in this place that was not easy to attract attention. She looked at the departure of the classmates from a distance, as if afraid of being discovered by the teacher, she whispered:

"Do you have time?"

   "Yes, don't you want to go back?" Xu Xiangyang didn't understand what she meant, "There should be nothing else."

   "Then..."

  The girl made up her mind and suggested:

  "Shall we go play around for a while?"

"what?"

  Xu Xiangyang still did not react. He thought that the other party just wanted to take the opportunity to go for a walk and relax.

   "It's better to go back earlier, it's getting dark, and I don't know what time it will be when I get home." Xu Xiangyang subconsciously changed into a parental persuasion tone.

  Until the other party frowned and asked seriously, "Have you forgotten it? Our appointment this morning..." Xu Xiangyang remembered it seriously, and then it suddenly dawned on him.

   "...I didn't forget."

  Yes, he did agree, to find time for the two to go out together.

The cause of this incident was the last time he was in the mall, from the exchanges between the two girls, he realized that he usually controls Xingjie a little too strict, and occasionally needs to relax; more importantly, there must be Time to play happily with friends is something he should have done but accidentally ignored.

  So, Xu Xiangyang felt guilty in his heart, and made an agreement with Xingjie to go out to play together.

  According to her idea, in addition to three people going out to play together, there must also be time for two people to go out to play. The sports meeting cannot be counted as a group activity.

so--

   "So, be prepared for next time."

  This morning, she smiled and said to herself.

  Xu Xiangyang glanced into the distance. At the end of the sky, there was a vermilion twilight dyed with stratus clouds.

"now?"

   "It's fine now."

   Lin Xingjie nodded vigorously.

   "Of course, if you are not free, you can change the time, I'm fine!"

   Xu Xiangyang heard this, but didn't answer immediately. Instead, he turned around and took out a colorful piece of paper from his backpack, and looked at it seriously.

"Uh, that... if you don't want to go, it's okay." She watched the boy's behavior and said cautiously, "However, I won first place in the running competition today. Can this be regarded as a reward for me? ..."

  Seeing that Xu Xiangyang hadn’t answered, Xingjie’s voice became softer and quieter, and she didn’t say anything at all.

   "...... Still not going, right?"

  The girl dropped her shoulders, looking a little depressed.

  After hearing this sentence, Xu Xiangyang came back to his senses.

   "No, what are you thinking about? Of course what I promised you will come true."

  He smiled and shook the paper in his hand.

"I was looking at the bus route map just now, thinking about how to come back later. According to the records above, the nearest station is not far from the stadium, and a car can go directly to the commercial street near our house, which is very convenient. Yes, we can go back by car at that time."

   "So, Xiangyang, did you agree?"

  The black long straight girl raised her head in surprise, her pupils like black jade gleaming in the afterglow of the setting sun.

"of course."

  Xu Xiangyang smiled.

   "Let’s go now."

  ……

  With his character, since he has made an agreement with others, he has to do what he says—this can only be counted as one of the reasons.

  For Xu Xiangyang, what surprised him the most was that he did not expect Xingjie to take this matter so seriously. This was completely beyond expectation and even made him feel shocked.

  Xu Xiangyang feels that this can only explain one thing: Xingjie has been kept at home by him for too long, so he is so eager to go out to play.

  If this continues, maybe she will get sick.

  Xu Xiangyang couldn’t help but think of the girl galloping on the field this morning.

  Under the bright sun, sweat is flying and horse tails are flying.

   She is so free, she exudes youthful charm all the time, making people just want to stare at her intently; in the end, she is the only one left in her eyes.

  How dazzling she is like that, Xu Xiangyang, as a friend, can’t ignore it.

  Even if there is a reason to "study hard", the brilliance of the girl should not be constrained.

  Thinking about it this way, his guilt became stronger.

  Xu Xiangyang felt that he had no reason to refuse.

  ……

  The two did not follow the large group to leave, but dispersed from the crowd and walked along the side door.

  Before leaving, Xu Xiangyang suddenly thought: Shouldn’t she have a word with Zhu Qingyue, lest she will worry if she doesn’t see the two of them?

  However, they and her are in different classes after all, and should not be able to see each other on the way back, so Xu Xiangyang gave up after thinking about it.

  *

  The night is dark, and the lights are beginning to come on.

   Stadium Road near the stadium, a seafood market will be opened every morning. The freshest seafood will be transported to this place just after being sent off from the fishing boat.

  Purchasers from the major food courts and restaurants in the city come here early in the morning to buy goods; some people just want to make it easier to open restaurants around here.

  Over time, a whole street with food stalls has emerged in this place.

  The environment here is almost the same as the commercial street near the homes of teenagers and girls, or the street next to the residential area gives people a similar impression:

Low-lying terrain and uneven flagstone roads make it easy for water to accumulate when it rains; the dark eaves above the head and the dark electric wires are layered and staggered into a net; the crowded shops on both sides of the street extend along the end of the field of vision. , Colorful signs, people riding bicycles in the middle of the narrow streets, and bustling pedestrians.

  Xu Xiangyang and Lin Xingjie walked side by side on the noisy street, chatting while admiring the surrounding streetscape.

   "Ah, that guy is really useless after all."

   "In other words, I didn't use my full strength, so he just fell down."

  At this moment, they just chatted about that peer from the City No. 1 Middle School who planned to use his psychic abilities to cheat at today's sports meeting.

  They didn't want to care about it. They didn't expect this guy to have his idea in the game Xingjie participated in, so there is no reason to let him go.

  Xu Xiangyang described the situation to her.

  In fact, there is nothing to say, Xu Xiangyang's approach is the same as when he confronted the old man in the haunted house.

  It’s just that there was a fierce tug-of-war between him and the old man in the haunted house. Both of them remembered clearly that the confrontation between wills even condensed the surrounding air;

   And when Xu Xiangyang acted on the evil spirit controlled by Jiang Lei, he found that the other party seemed to have not had time to react, and had not organized any effective resistance at all. Facing his psychic ability, there was no resistance, and he was defeated.

   "I saw that guy suddenly fell pale, it is probably a sequelae of losing control of evil spirits."

   Xu Xiangyang guessed.

  Lin Xingjie nodded, but her eyes were still floating everywhere, obviously not interested in this aspect.

   "Hey, look! What do you think of that house?"

  Xu Xiangyang turned her head to look, and found that she was referring to a big sign that said "Big Brother Big Seafood", beside it, small light bulbs were used to form a pattern of crabs and shrimps.

  Of course, this is not the point.

  The focus is on the strong fragrance of the large and small dishes that the waiter walks out of the curtain.

There are several retractable dining tables and stacked blue plastic stools at the door. Men and women surround the table, talking and laughing while eating; beside their feet are beer bottles rolling down on the floor. There are a few middle-aged people. The man looked drunk and was fighting and punching there.

  It's not a very high-grade and clean place, that is, the so-called "fly restaurant", but the food from this kind of store always looks so attractive, you can see Lin Xingjie's salivating look.

   "The restaurants in this place seem to be night food stalls."

  Xu Xiangyang inevitably fell into paternalistic thinking again.

   "Will it be unsanitary......"

   "What are you talking about, you have come to this place and still think about hygiene?" The girl was anxious and couldn't help saying, "Eating well is the most important thing."

   "It's true."

  If it is normal, he will probably try to persuade, but the most important thing today is to have a good time.

   "What if I eat a bad stomach? You have a project tomorrow."

  "Then don't participate at all."

  She replied with a very natural expression.

  Just for this kind of thing, did you just leave the game aside? Xu Xiangyang couldn't help but shook his head and sighed.

  Sure enough, expecting Xingjie to have a sense of collective honor is completely thinking about it.

   "Then, let's go shopping first, come back and find a place to stay."

"good!"

  ……

  Not far behind them, followed a group of people who also wore the uniforms of No.15 Middle School.

  It's just a small accident, and they didn't even notice each other.

  They are from the second and fifth class of high school. Today, the players in the class performed well. This group of more than a dozen students, composed of several small groups, plan to come out to celebrate. There are men and women.

  Have a good relationship with all the students in the class, and the popular squad leader is naturally in it.

  Zhu Qingyue stood at the intersection of people coming and going, watching the back of the two people quietly.

  The front is crowded with people, there are many shops, and the neon signs extending to the street on both sides are dazzling; shouting, shouting, talking and laughing, the noise fills the ears, and the dense night covers the streets...

  Even so, she recognized her friends for the first time, even if they both turned their backs to her now.

  Zhu Qingyue watched for a while, then suddenly asked his companions around him:

  "Xiaofang, what do you think the relationship between these two people seem to be?"

  Sun Xiaofang looked in that direction, and finally followed the direction of the squad leader’s fingertips and found Xu Xiangyang and Lin Xingjie.

   "Are you a couple?"

  Without much thought, Sun Xiaofang replied directly.

  Even though she had a face-to-face encounter with each other, she was not familiar with either of them.

  "But I asked them, they said it was not that kind of relationship," Zhu Qingyue said seriously, "It's just a good friend, misunderstood. What do you think?"

   "It's a lie to hear it!"

  Sun Xiaofang answered without hesitation.

"After all, Xu Xiangyang is a good student. He still has to maintain his image in front of the teachers, but seeing their crooked energy, the two must have been together in private. Otherwise, how could it be like tonight when the sports meeting is over? , The two of them sneaked out to play in such a place? If it really doesn't matter, they would have gone back to their respective homes by now."

  Speaking of this, she suddenly remembered something, and quickly added:

   "By the way, I heard that the two of them are still neighbors. If the parents on both sides agree, maybe the two of them would have lived together long ago."

Sun Xiaofang, who had been talking for a long time, suddenly found that the squad leader beside him was silent.

  The warm evening breeze blew the girl's shoulder-length hair, and her snow-white cheeks became more and more hazy under the radiance of feasting.

   Watching Zhu Qingyue’s quiet expression, Sun Xiaofang subconsciously felt anxious, she couldn’t help but carefully asked:

   "What's wrong, Qingyue, is there a problem?"

   "Well, I just think, as expected, everyone thinks like this..."

  Zhu Qingyue seemed to have finally confirmed a certain idea and made a certain decision, she nodded slightly, her face showed a soft smile as always.

   "Let's go, you will be left behind if you don't go."

   After all, she took a brisk pace to keep up with the people in front of her.

  (End of this chapter)