Love at Second Sight [Interstellar]

Zhuang Yan stood on a plane formed by a cloud-like gas, looking around in confusion.

Beyond this broad plane lies a vast, boundless, sea-deep universe.Countless stars twinkle in the distance, like sparkling fish swimming in the deep sea.

The strange thing is that Zhuang Yan is alone in such an empty scene, but he doesn't feel lonely, but an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

The plane is not completely flat, cloud-like gas rolls around Zhuang Yan's feet, some gas and dust condenses and rises up from the ground, as tall as a dozen people, rising in a tree shape, and then hanging down like branches, there are many such The famous "cloud trees" line into a sparse forest, the branches are interlaced into a net, and the branches are even condensed into the shape of leaves.

Zhuang Yan walked into the "forest", and he saw that the leaves were shining brightly, and the surface was like an ice edge, which could reflect people's shadows.

Zhuang Yan took a closer look and found that what was reflected on the leaves was not him at all, but frame by frame.Like a freeze frame in a movie.

Those pictures are...

Zhuang Yan's pupils shrank, and he looked at his mother, A Xu, and many scenes in his past that were engraved in his heart.He couldn't help but took two steps forward, moved a little closer, and reached out to touch the leaves.

"Hey, don't touch it." A voice suddenly said.

"Who?!"

Zhuang Yan immediately turned around and followed the sound, only to see the vast and dark universe, while the plane and the forest trembled at that moment, the condensed gas and dust dispersed again, turning into countless light spots—— —

"Mr. Zhuang?"

Zhuang Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

The doctor in a white coat leaned over to look at him with the light panel between them: "How do you feel?"

Zhuang Yan looked at him for two seconds, then refocused his eyes and asked, "Where am I?"

"This is the port hospital in Xueli Port. You have been in a coma for a day and a night."

The medical assistant stretched out the camera and "clicked" to take a photo of Zhuang Yan. Zhuang Yan squinted his eyes and subconsciously raised his hand to cover his eyes. Only then did he feel his whole body was weak and his brain ached.

The doctor analyzed the medical three-dimensional image: "The trauma has fully recovered, but your brain—the guide's brain structure is more complex and fragile than that of ordinary people. We have detected that you have been traumatized, but we dare not use too much medicine on you. .”

"You should take some liquid food first. Although there are nutritional supplements, your stomach needs a little comfort." The doctor said, "If necessary, I can have the robot deliver it immediately."

"Thank you." Zhuang Yan nodded with a pale face.He stretched out his finger, pressed his temple, and finally remembered what happened before the coma, the attack, the kidnapping, the island...

The doctor said: "Then just ring the bedside bell to call us if something happens."

"Wait." Zhuang Yan called to stop him at this moment, "Is anyone else in this hospital besides me?"

The doctor said: "The wounded in the attack are recuperating here. The pirates have escaped and the garrison has been transferred back. Now it is safe here."

Zhuang Yan nodded after listening, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Then, Admiral Zhou also..."

The doctor suddenly understood the point of his question, and said with a smile: "I am not responsible for the general's injury, but it is said that it is not serious. The shot on the thigh was quite precise - neither bone nor injury. Injured a tendon."

Zhuang Yan nodded again, and said to the doctor, "I see, thank you."

The doctor looked at him with a smile, turned around and went out.

Zhuang Yan was lying on the bed, looking at the ceiling of the room, his brain was still a little confused, and soon his vision gradually blurred, and he fell asleep again.

There were no more grotesque dreams in this sleep, and when I woke up again, my spirit was obviously much better.

He opened his eyes again and found someone sitting in front of the bed.He frowned and said, "Steven?"

Stephen was dozing off with his head down, but he immediately opened his eyes and raised his head when he heard the sound, "Are you awake?"

He felt that his body had recovered a little, and moved to sit up. Steven leaned over and helped him adjust the pillow: "Recently, if you have bad luck, remember to read the almanac. If you go through this a few times, don't say you I'm going to die of exhaustion on the road."

Zhuang Yan said: "Do you think it's just a matter of bad luck?"

Steven and him looked at each other, and sat back on the seat: "Uncle heard me tell you about your situation, so he went to work. This time the incident was very big, and the media reported it as soon as possible. I think the next few days Within a month, the people of the empire will firmly remember your and Zhou Yuchen's names."

Zhuang Yan frowned. Steven knew he was thinking, and he had a lot of guesses about the matter in his heart, but he still warned: "Don't think too much when you wake up. Your mental strength is too exhausted. , I heard that you were helping the soldiers on the spaceship, and then you were injected with drugs by the kidnappers? We are not like sentinels. They are mentally injured and can rely on their own guides, but the guides can only heal themselves. Mental overdraft is very dangerous thing."

Zhuang Yan heard the last few words from him and said, "So isn't this very unfair?"

Steven crossed his legs and said with a smile: "It's not fair? That's not necessarily true, Zhuang Yan, you seem to be very resistant to the guide's weak and dominated relationship with the sentinel, but you have overlooked one point. In terms of spirit, the sentinel is extremely dependent on the guide. Although the guides are weak, they are more independent in this regard.”

"This kind of dependence is not just because the guide can help the sentries to provide spiritual counseling and prolong their lifespan."

Zhuang Yan said expressionlessly, "Then why?"

"Hmm..." Steven thought for a while, and it was a little hard to describe, "Based on what I have seen over the years, basically all sentries will subconsciously use their mental power to perceive the location of the other party when they fall in love with a certain guide. Mental fluctuations, you know, the farther the Sentinel's mental tentacles are opened, the more disturbed they will be by the noise, but they just can't help it, and many Sentinels will become extremely anxious if they can't sense their guide ,irritable."

Zhuang Yan said: "That's a perverted desire for control, determined by their mutated genes, and it's caused by a strong sense of territoriality - it's just divorced from rationality and close to animal nature, it has nothing to do with whether they love their guide or not."

Hearing Zhuang Yan's merciless evaluation, even though Steven himself was a guide, he couldn't help but said, "You can't say that, right? Human emotions are the most complicated, and you haven't experienced it yourself. How can you comment so decisively?"

"Isn't staying on the sidelines the most objective evaluation attitude?" Zhuang Yan said, "And I've loved Helena before, and I know what it's like to stay away from animal feelings."

Steven looked at him, sneered and said: "Except for the so-called 'territorial awareness', if a sentry is impulsive and reckless, irrational, and very careful when facing you, he will pay attention to your every move , always speaking inconsistently, and always acting inexplicably. Why do you think this is?"

Zhuang Yan thought for a while and said, "Because he needs to be counseled urgently, and there are some pheromone disorders?" Pheromone disorders often lead to misjudgment of the information collected by the sentry, contradictory language, and chaotic behavior—this is what the guidebook said.

"It's because he likes you!" Steven said angrily.

"..."

Steven mocked: "This is a common feature of human beings falling in love. Zhuang Yan, are you ashamed to say that you have loved someone else?"

Zhuang Yan straightened his upper body and argued: "Rational love should be about understanding each other and having a common..."

"Okay, okay." To be serious with Zhuang Yan, Steven thought it was better to forget, "Human emotions are ever-changing, and there will always be times when you can't apply what you do to others."

Zhuang Yan abstained before the debate began. He immediately felt like punching cotton and was a little displeased, but he changed the subject and said, "When shall we go back?"

Steven said: "Uncle hopes that you will rush back as soon as possible. I brought an extra team here this time. There are also garrison escorts here to ensure safety."

Zhuang Yan said: "Then we will set off after the military investigators come to ask questions."

Steven said, "Don't you want to take a longer rest?" He beckoned for the robot to come over and brought up the liquid food to appease Zhuang Yan's empty stomach that had been empty all day.

Zhuang Yan drank a bowl of white porridge and ate some special products from this planet. Feeling that his strength had recovered, he lifted the quilt and said, "Do you have a change of clothes?"

Steven said: "The investigator will come in the afternoon, what are you in a hurry for?"

Zhuang Yan stood on the ground and said, "I'm going to visit Zhou Yuchen."

Steven was taken aback for a moment, and then he showed a meaningful smile. He knew Zhou Yuchen's "heroic rescue of the beauty" in the attack: "It seems that you..."

"You're overthinking." Zhuang Yan walked over, took a set of clothes and went to the bathroom to change.Then went out.

Steven leaned on the chair and looked at his back, raising his eyebrows.

Compared with Zhuang Yan, Zhou Yuchen, who was also recovering from his injuries, was much busier. First, the governor of the Leon galaxy came to apologize to him in trepidation, followed by the officers of the galaxy garrison.

"The troops on Star Leon are so empty, and the reinforcements didn't come when the attack happened." Zhou Yuchen said, "I think the two of you must give a reasonable explanation. Star Leon is under the jurisdiction of His Royal Highness, which concerns the dignity of the royal family. "

"Yes, yes." The two replied anxiously.

Zhou Yuchen glanced over the expressions of these two people lightly, and motioned for the adjutant to send them out.

People retreated, the door was closed, Zhou Yuchen closed his eyes and rested.The snow leopard lay beside it, boredly pushing a round orange with the tip of its nose, and then pulling it back with its paws.

Suddenly it raised its head, and its two round ears moved. Zhou Yuchen also noticed it and opened his eyes.

A guard knocked on the door and said, "Your Excellency, Mr. Zhuang Yan is here to visit you."

"Please come in."

Zhuang Yan walked in, wearing regular clothes, Zhou Yuchen looked at it and said, "Mr. Zhuang, are you leaving?"

Zhuang Yan paused and said, "Yes, I will leave after the investigation in the afternoon."

He sat down on a chair by the wall, opened his mouth, and said for a moment, "Let me...see your injuries."

"Well." Zhou Yuchen said, and then added: "It will be cured in two days, there is no problem. Instead, it is you." He looked at Zhuang Yan, "I sent someone to visit you, and he said that your mental strength was exhausted It’s not good for the guide.” In fact, he doesn’t know much about guides, and the guide’s subordinate who he sent to visit Zhuang Yan even explained it to him carefully.

"I'm fine." Zhuang Yan said.

He held the armrest of the seat with one hand, rubbed it, and found that he had nothing to say for a moment, and wanted to say thank you again?Thank you for your kindness, that would be too much.But when he wanted to talk about something else, he was speechless for a while, because he had always regarded Zhou Yuchen as a rival in love. He could say he knew his deeds, but he never thought of sitting down with this person and exchanging true love for each other by talking. understand.

On the small island, the acquaintance born from the crisis he had just experienced disappeared here again, and Zhuang Yan remembered the image of Zhou Yuchen in his heart before, unfamiliar and antagonistic.

Rival turned benefactor, dealing with this coincidence is really tricky.

After much deliberation, Zhuang Yan decided to say thank you again and leave.It's enough to keep the favor in each other's hearts.

He raised his head and said, "General Zhou..." looking at Zhou Yuchen.

He is watching him.Zhuang Yan suddenly had a feeling: he has been looking at him.