don't talk to aliens

April 11

cloudy to sunny

This time, the four of them went camping in Fangshan on the weekend, and it was still Chen Zhen who drove the car when they passed by.

Before departure, I felt that he was prone to fatigue when driving back and forth.

Li Xie casually said to the other party that he or Fu Bailong could drive the return journey, but Chen Zhen smiled and replied, "It's okay, Bailong doesn't like him to drive when there are other people in the car, you sit in the back." Enough.

This seemed to be the first time he had heard of it.

At that moment, Li Xie saw that Chen Zhen, who had turned off the gas tank and got back into the car, had no intention of having an in-depth chat with him, so he didn't ask any more questions. The four of them packed up and loaded the car together and set off.

Right now, the gray family car is driving on the road from Longjiang City to Fangshan, which passes through countless wild forests and bird habitats.

In the trunk of the car are the picnic tools they prepared in advance, as well as tents and many other camping equipment.

Because as a pair of 'false couples', they will definitely have to squeeze into a tent when camping in the wild.

Fu Bailong, the young master, prepared a separate sleeping bag for each person, and before that, he had already negotiated with Li Xie privately about the rules of getting along with the two-day, one-night 'fake couple' weekend camping.

"Let me declare first that when they go to bed at night, we will find a way to sleep separately."

Because even the closest relatives and friends have never slept with anyone.

Even if it was only in a tent, Fu Bailong, who had inexplicable seizures, still hated such a strange and intimate way of camping from the bottom of his heart.

It was okay for Li Xie to hear this, but seeing his inexplicable reaction, he deliberately raised his eyebrows and asked,

"Why are you making such trouble again? Let's just share a tent with one another. Who said couples must sleep together? What if you have cleanliness and insomnia like you, and you're so picky."

"No."

"No? Why not?"

Li Xie couldn't figure it out, so he could only ask him this.

"Because of this, the two of them will only wonder if our relationship has broken down. The three-month contract has to be faked, not less than a day."

In this life, I have never seen a person who is desperate for face, cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

But obviously, after tasting the embarrassing and depressed sweetness of not having to watch those two people show affection with himself before, Fu Bailong has become more used to and adapted to this kind of "fake love" game with him recently.

Li Xie, who was still accompanying this person and continuing to deceive people, was a little speechless, and finally said simply, then prepare two more sleeping bags, each sleeping in its own at night, and no one paid attention to anyone.

Whoever wanted to hear this, Fu Bailong took it seriously, and finally prepared sleeping bags for the two of them.

There is obviously no opinion on this.

If it wasn't for coming to Fangshan this time, Li Xiezhang, who obviously didn't want to squeeze into the tent with him, looked at the scenery outside thoughtfully.

On the co-pilot in front, Lu Yiming, holding a professional zoom telescope and carrying a large hiking bag full of snacks and game consoles, was playing with the sunglasses he snatched from Li Xie's face.

"Brother, did you get beat up by others for owing money outside again? Why has it been so long, the injury on your face hasn't healed yet, and you still wear sunglasses to pretend to be an erhu performer? Ouch! Why are you beating me again Li Xie ..."

If you say that your own brother is your own brother, for the sake of sparing no room for complaints about his brother, he will always be more direct, rude and sharp than outsiders.

Hearing this, Fu Bailong, who usually looked out the window with a cold face and ignored the two of them, suddenly raised the corner of his mouth suspiciously when he heard it.

And Comrade Li Xie, who sat in the back seat with his long arms and long legs, showed the majesty of the big brother, didn't give Lu Yiming a chance to continue his slander, he raised his hand and punched him from behind, and said another sentence.

"You're just playing the erhu, here you go, sit down."

"Woooo——Chen Zhen, look, Brother Bailong, this bastard Li Xie hit me on the head again. I was such a smart person when I was young, and I just let him beat me like this—"

"Shut up, it's so noisy, you also had an underdeveloped cerebellum when you were young."

"Who said, I used to repair the washing machine for Uncle Wang next door to our house. I could repair the washing machine and refrigerator when I was nine years old! The teachers and adults in the school praised me as the smartest person in our old Lu family in the future. , this is something that all the neighbors, uncles and aunts near our house know..."

"Yes, then why are you like this now?"

"..."

"Oh, I see. It must be because of the game's changeable brain. Then why do you break the game record and score higher than me?"

He heard Lu Yiming chattering with himself.

Lifting his foot and kicking him like a stinky hooligan, Li Xie sat in the back and began to beat this guy mercilessly with all his might.

Tears streamed down his face after being hurt by his elder brother. Brother Lu, who had lost to him in the last two singles on his favorite game console, also cried, and retreated to his boyfriend in grievance, and muttered indignantly,

"I won't tell you anymore. Talking to you is worse than looking at the monkeys on the roadside trees. Chen Zhen said that there are many monkeys on the mountain. Monkeys are very smart and are close relatives of human beings. I want to take more pictures of monkeys, no Pat you."

"Don't worry, you don't need to take pictures. I never take pictures of your brother, not even a picture of this size."

"That's fine, I'll just take pictures of monkeys, and I won't take any pictures of you. When I have a relative like a monkey, I won't need you as a big brother..."

Chen Zhen, who was driving next to him, laughed at the conversation between the two of them, but he didn't intervene in the inexplicable and interesting exchange between the Lu family brothers.

Just at this time, the car passed a section surrounded by heavy mountains on the road outside.

After gradually approaching the distant forest along the way, the initial appearance of the green mountains gradually appeared in front of everyone.

A bird whose shadow could not be seen flew across the dark sky, dropping half of its feathers.

Gray and green, turned into two natural spiritual colors in nature, are dyed with a holy golden halo like the skirt of the mother of the forest.

At the end of the sky, flocks of birds flew by.

Accompanied by the sounds of various birds passing overhead for a while, and the scenery witnessed when passing through the mountain road along the way, the usefulness of Chen Zhen's live encyclopedia is reflected at this time.

"Have you heard it? This is the cry of the kestrel. In Xinjiang and Liaoning, this small raptor is very common. They usually glide in a small range in the forest in the early morning. Their eyes are very bright. Like glass beads..."

"Wow, I found that there are really many mountains in China, especially the road from Qinjiang to our city. This season is full of wild forests and birds. I even saw an eagle on the road just now. Such a big bird..."

"Well, that's because the soil surface layers of the Qinjiang River and the Longjiang River already existed on the earth during the first crustal movement, and most of the other places on the earth were still submerged by sea water, so there was already land soil here, and vegetation began to grow. Above sea level, a large number of creatures that landed on land came to settle here and became reptiles, and some lived in trees or in the sky since then, which is common..."

"..."

"And about 20 years ago, a small dinosaur with feathers was unearthed in Rehe, not far from Longjiang River. At first, a kind of animal called crocodile lived on land, and then crocodile began to turn into a dinosaur. , and then dinosaurs began to transition to birds again. This creature that transitioned from dinosaurs to birds and could run on the ground and fly in the sky is called Confucius bird. Its appearance is very similar to modern birds. Hundreds of millions of years ago, These Confucius birds should be everywhere in the sky above Fangshan and in the forest..."

Saying this, it happened that their car also passed a natural lake halfway up the mountain facing Fangshan, and then drove into the forest farm surrounded by barbed wire.

As soon as you enter the forest area in the mountain, you can instantly feel that the trees growing above your head are getting denser and denser.

There was fog in front, and even the temperature became chilly.

At the foot of the mountain in the distance, there is faint smoke from tourists cooking in the camping area at noon. There are also normal forestry workers riding bicycles on the road, collecting plastic bags and bottles that may be left along the way.

"Master, is the Fangshan camping area in front?"

"Yes, you are tourists who come to watch birds on weekends?"

"Well, is the weather okay these two days?"

"It's ok, it's okay. Some people went up the mountain yesterday, including students and people from the society. They have been playing for several days."

These words verified what Chen Zhenlai said before.

After more than 20 years, after the last mysterious disappearance of tourists in Fangshan, this place has been completely modernized and turned into a normal scenic spot. Not only them, but there are other normal tourists in the mountains right now, so the safety issue must be guaranteed. .

So, the car then drove into the mountains unimpeded all the way.

11:00

They found a clearing in the camping area.

Fu Bailong and Li Xie got out of the car to buy water nearby, while Chen Zhen and Lu Yiming stayed behind to find a place to park and set up a tent.

During the process, Lu Yiming, who was holding the binoculars and the digital camera, said that he wanted to stroll around and take some photos.

Chen Zhen asked him to keep in touch with his mobile phone, and waited by himself, saying to see if he could contact the two female students who talked about it last weekend and haven't handed in their homework yet.

11:08

Li Xie and Fu Bailong came back with mineral water. They saw the tourists who had had a picnic in the scenic spot store. They heard that they came from the south. They also shared some precautions for climbing in the morning with them.

11:18

Lu Yiming came back with his camera and binoculars.

He said he just got a lot of pictures under the woods.

Although his photography skills are really bad.

Except for a few monkeys on the road at the beginning, most of the other photos were taken by Fu Bailong and looked at, and found that they were all out of focus.

But at this moment, Chen Zhen suddenly told them that the two students in his research institute who were said to have stayed in Fangshan to watch birds and hadn't returned to the city seemed to have their phones suddenly turned off.

"When was the last time you contacted them? Haven't they been here all this time?"

Unconsciously looking around the circle, Fu Bailong, who was more vigilant, subconsciously felt that this matter was unreliable, so he frowned and asked Chen Zhen, but Chen Zhen was stunned when he heard the words, and looked at the phone before saying in doubt,

"It should be... two days ago, right? Su Li and Yao Shanshan also sent me photos of the flocks of birds they took in the school group, saying that the other two students of the institute were also there, and they all ended last weekend. After working in the research institute, other people will follow in succession, but now I can’t get in touch suddenly.”

——Su Li and Yao Shanshan.

It was the names of the two girls who were said to be camping in Fangshan last week.

Before that, the two of them had been interns at the Institute of Atomic Energy as students of Longjiang University of Technology, and they were good classmates with excellent grades.It can be said that Chen Zhen and Chen Zhen are very familiar with each other.

"Maybe it's because the signal on the mountain is not good enough to turn off the phone? It's better to wait, anyway, it's not in a hurry."

With one hand in his pocket, Li Xie, who was standing under a tree in the forest and squinted his eyes into the strange mist halfway up the mountain, also said something silently to help Lu Yiming carry the overly heavy hiking bag.

"That's fine, why don't we... Let's set up a tent to live in at night first, Yiming, don't make trouble, if you don't know how to set up a tent, find a place to stay by yourself."

"Oh! Good!"

He knew that he couldn't do anything in front of these three people.

Lu Yiming, besides helping pass things, the guy who took tools also squatted aside and watched them start to work with peace of mind.

But I have to say, that's what it's like to travel with someone with a good brain and a smart mind.

Because Chen Zhen, Fu Bailong, and Li Xie, together, can basically do all the seemingly difficult things in the world without any trouble.

"At night, we keep the gopro on the car facing the tent. It should be able to record and prevent small animals from running down, and then find a support point and calculate the actual width from the foot of the mountain. This will ensure safety at night. , Hey, Bailong, did you adjust the length of the stand?"

Noticing their tent feet, they were handled with precision and care.

At first, he thought it was Fu Bailong who was talking to Lu Yiming not far away, and Chen Zhen asked immediately, but Li Xie who was passing by just said this sentence next to him, and handed Chen Zhen a bottle of water.

"I did it. I've been outside before."

"I see...but I rarely hear you talk about the past."

"There's nothing to talk about. They're all messy and not on the table. It's different from those of you who are studying abroad."

Li Xie replied like this, and asked again after thinking about it.

"What did Fu Bailong learn when he was studying abroad?"

"Huh? Bailong? He's studying finance."

Chen Zhen answered.

"Why doesn't he learn mechanics? I thought he was more interested in this."

"Because he can't pass his own psychological level. He can't do the actual mechanical operation and driving that are related to the safety and life of others. He can't do driving, flying an airplane or other means of transportation. As long as it is these, he can't do it."

Thinking about it this way, in the past, every time a certain person appeared in front of him, he would always appear with the driver, and noticing that Li Xie seemed to have thought of something, Chen Zhen didn't shy away from it, and took the initiative to verify his guess .

"Is it related to his family?"

Asking this, Li Xie, who happened to be taking the camping bag from the mountaineering bag in front of him to stuff the folding fishing rod, seemed to be not surprised.

"Yes, as long as there are other people in the car, he will not take the initiative to drive in front unless he is alone. Bailong is a very cautious person in everything. The previous incidents did bring him a lot of bad things. So much so that he still thinks about it from time to time.”

"..."

"But speaking of it, he still liked machinery very much when he was a child. There is still a black robot model with a flame mark on the bottom in his study. It was the toy that Bailong cared about most when he was a child. Once he accidentally dropped it Cried……"

Like an old hen.

Inevitably, our Dr. Chen once again told the story about Fu Bailong's childhood bedtime toys in front of others, like a grandmother who likes to praise her grandson's cuteness when she was young.

Li Xie didn't make as much fuss as Lu Yiming did before, but for a while, he asked back as if he felt a little familiar or heard about it somewhere.

"The flame mark... black robot model?"

"Yes, this is his biggest secret, and the following sentence is for you alone. I heard that it was given to him by the person Bai Long admired most when he was a child."

"..."

"He is always kind to others. He is a person who will not tell you, but will always be kind to you. He has always been afraid of losing people around him. Even for a subordinate like Miss Zhang who has been under him for many years, he cares very much. Yes, I think he does the same with some other...people around him."

Chen Zhen, who was a reserved gentleman after all, expressed very reserved words when he said these words and couldn't help laughing.

But there is one sentence that is not wrong.

That is, Fu Bailong has always been very cautious, he is the kind of subconsciously wary of himself and his surroundings, but he can't stop him from being kind to others in his bones.

"Brother Bailong, I don't know how to pitch a tent."

"Take it yourself."

"But I really can't, you can teach me, okay..."

On the other side of the car, Lu Yiming, who had finally finished filling up the trunk, started pestering him again.

Bowing his head to prepare tents and other things, Fu Bailong, who was still thinking about the two female students who lost contact with Fangshan for no reason, said that he was very impatient.

But seeing that the kid was sticky looking at him all the time, he still frowned, and helplessly knelt down to help him start to fold one piece.

"Did you grow up eating food?"

"Yes, my mother said that when she was pregnant with Li Xie and me, she had a big appetite!"

He didn't realize that Fu Bailong was actually mocking him.

Lu Yiming, who looked at him with his chin adored and smiled, nodded and replied.

As soon as Mr. Fu heard that his unlucky brother who had to "entangle" and "fight" with him tonight, his expression became even worse, and he simply ignored him with a stinky face and continued to set up the tent.

But seeing all this in his eyes, even if he didn't hear what they were saying clearly, he could still see the expression on Fu Bailong's face. Li Xie thought about something, and then he didn't talk to Chen Zhen much, just exposed the matter like this passed.

……

In the afternoon, because the group of gray mist on the mountain has not dissipated.

So the group of them was not in a hurry to go up the mountain with other tourists, but drove a gopra nearby to take some video clips during the trip. After all, Chen Zhen, who is a professional, captured many photos of rare birds at the foot of the mountain.

Such as eagles, vultures, owls, harriers, and kites, there are many types. Accompanied by the increasingly heavy gray fog on the middle of the mountain, it really gives people the feeling that these birds are protecting the distant mountain like guards. .

This night, because we have to get up early to go to the mountain tomorrow morning.

The four of them didn't say much, they packed up their things early in the morning, divided them into tents, and went to sleep separately.

But everyone allocated their own tents according to the corresponding relationship.

All day today, Fu Bailong, who kept a certain distance from Li Xie in a weird way, watched someone spread his sleeping bag first, and after lying down, he closed his eyes and looked at him. Here comes such a strange sentence.

"If you feel that you won't be able to sleep later, you'd better cover your ears earlier."

"What do you mean?"

"It's nothing interesting. It might be a little noisy later. Go to bed early."

For some reason, Fu Bailong didn't understand Li Xie's words.

After the two guys who didn't want to chat with anyone in the middle of the night lay down, they put a bunch of things in the middle and drew a line as if they were deliberately angry, so as to achieve the kind of 'safety' that Young Master Fu personally wanted distance'.

It was getting dark quickly outside.

The wind on the mountain is very strong at night, because it is foggy during the day, and there are no stars at night, only the rustling of the woods and the sound of small birds gliding back to their nests.

The gopra on the car emits red electronic light, and turns the camera lens to record everything that cannot be seen by the naked eye at night, facing the foot of the mountain and the forest in the distance.

All of this was inexplicably noisy for the two people who were sleeping in sleeping bags with their eyes closed, but they were not really asleep.

But soon, Fu Bailong understood the real 'noisy' and what Li Xie meant by covering his ears just now.

Because in about an hour.

He thought he should have been asleep in the tent next door, and suddenly there was a strange and subtle sound cautiously.

First accompanied by the intimate whispers of the two, then Lu Yiming shyly buried himself in the quilt and whispered something, and he laughed unconsciously and happily.

Fu Bailong: "..."

In the ears, Chen Zhen and Lu Yiming seemed to be kissing.

There was another subtle rubbing sound here and there, and maybe something else, but anyway, the two of them must have been careful, and kept as polite as they could be to others, doing what a normal couple's evening would do—

"I told you earlier that you might as well not come, or go to bed earlier."

"..."

"Hey."

"..."

"Do you want to talk about some serious and heavy topics to relieve your inner embarrassment, upset and flustered?"

It seemed that he had foreseen the inevitable predicament that Fu Bailong would face next.

Li Xie, the bastard who had already guessed everything in advance, immediately spoke to him with his arm on his pillow outside the '[-]th line' between the two sleeping bags.

And suddenly from the shock, embarrassment, shame, and bewilderment at the beginning, he barely pulled out.

His face was weird and irritable, he didn't even know where to put his hands and feet in the sleeping bag because of all the things in front of him, even the guy beside him was frowning, and Fu Bailong, who kept calm and spoke with enthusiasm, immediately asked anxiously said a word.

"What serious and heavy topic do you want to talk about?"

"I'll think about it."

"..."

"Why don't we take advantage of the big moon tonight and let's talk about our uncles and aunts, that is... How many years have your parents been gone.

Fu Bailong: "..."