It's too late to marry a cat [Interstellar]

Wo Xiu's reaction was not slow. At that moment, he realized that something was wrong. His waist, abdomen, core and thighs had already accumulated strength, and he was able to bounce away from the wall that made the abnormal sound by himself.

But before he could do anything, he heard Yahuiquan approaching.

Yahuiquan's reflexes were almost on par with Wo Xiu's. The hand that reached out to clasp Wo Xiu's shoulder was steady and precise, very firm. Wo Xiu was surprised for about half a second, and then quickly changed his contingency strategy. , canceled the force accumulated in the opposite direction, and was pulled along with the drag of Yahuiquan very cooperatively.

Because of the blink of an eye, he also realized one thing - Ya Huiquan pulled him with the injured arm.

General Ya's right arm was still bandaged from the forearm to the shoulder. After pulling someone with his injured arm, he immediately sneered and ridiculed, and his right hand casually hung back to his side... and disappeared into the shadow that the floating probe above could not care about. , as if habitually hidden from others.

He also didn't show any discomfort in the wound, as if he just used the injured hand to make his explosive power worth mentioning.

However, Wo Xiu knew very well that with his own weight, coupled with the force and speed at which Ya Huiquan pulled him back, it was basically impossible to burst out with such force in a short period of time without tearing the wound under the bandage. possible.

The day they explored the revolving corridor together was the second time Ya Huiquan had been lying down in the medical cabin to treat his injuries. In Wo Xiu's eyes, General Ya was really a strange man who knew "endurance". He entered the medical cabin for the second time. When repairing the deep wounds and various bone fractures that were torn apart, he took the initiative to adjust the surgical parameters preset by Wo Xiu from the perspective that the medicines in the medicine cabinet were limited and they did not know how long they would be stuck here. I got up after lying in the medical cabin for less than half an hour.

At first Wo Xiu didn't notice that the man changed the parameters without saying a word. He only saw the man lying in the medical cabin. He estimated that the operation would start at least an hour later. The bed was put into the rest area that was simply drawn out, and then I thought about how to use limited resources to achieve local environmental dehumidification, three-dimensional space insulation and other issues.

...As a result, just as the basic framework of the project was built, Wo Xiu was shocked to find that the person who was supposed to "start in one hour" actually came out!

"Why are you so fast?" Wo Xiu couldn't hide his astonishment, and he subconsciously asked Yahuiquan.

Ya Huiquan, who was wearing a coat, gave him a cold look, as if he felt offended by Wo Xiu's attitude and that caring words.

People who have been working in space in enclosed vehicles such as mecha battleships all year round have paler skin than ordinary people. After injuries and blood loss and minor surgery, Yahuiquan will look so pale that it will almost become transparent. , his wrist was hanging by his side, protruding from under the coat, and the blue blood vessels under the wrist were clearly visible.

Weakness gave Yahuiquan an extremely false sense of fragility.

When Yahuiquan stepped forward and walked towards Woxiu, the moment he moved, these two false fragility were like a fragile cover, broken by him himself, and disappeared without a trace.

Wo Xiu was a miraculous discovery. Not only was General Ya able to bear it, but he was also the kind of person who was blessed with a weak state. As long as he had eyes, he could tell that the other party was in poor health at the moment, but he didn't lose his aura at all.

Ya Huiquan walked up to Wo Xiu steadily, and finally replied condescendingly to Wo Xiu: "Maybe because our Star Alliance regular army is not as delicate as the Outer Territory United Army, and we still want to be treated comfortably when supplies are scarce?"

In addition to being able to endure, General Ya is also really good at ridiculing, because he took the initiative to raise the topic to the level of alliance between the Star Alliance and the outside world. The peace agreement between him and Woxiu almost collapsed on the eve of signing.

To be honest, Wo Xiu also thought that his idea of ​​peaceful coexistence was shattered. He said that the comfortable treatment was not prepared for me. It was because he was afraid that you, a deadly enemy worth keeping more, would perish in the deserted star. It was not worth it. ?But you, in turn, mocked me for my coquettish handling, which is simply unreasonable. Would it kill you to ask you to accept the favor?

But the next second Wo Xiu felt that the "agreement was broken", Ya Huiquan sat down next to him in a coat, and after the ridicule, this man sat side by side with him as if nothing had happened.

"Take it out." General Ya seemed to be giving an order to the enemy, and he asked Wo Xiu confidently, "Didn't you list the basic peace rules? Show me."

"..." Wo Xiu said, "General Ya, if one day the ninth miracle of the universe appears, the extraterritorial alliance and the Star Alliance will really stop fighting, and everyone will start collectively preparing a peace plan. I sincerely advise you to stay away from the peace negotiation table. , This is not a job suitable for you, you must hire someone more professional to do it for you——Your way of talking about peace, it is estimated that you can directly talk about the second Star War."

General Ya snorted, and said, "Stop talking naive nonsense, will you take it or not?"

At that time, they still only regarded "stop fighting" and "peace negotiation" as jokes and unrealistic ridicules, and no one thought that it would really happen one day.

For those who are still in wartime, it is dangerous and unwise to over-think peace and security.

So Wo Xiu quickly turned this idea about peace, and he only quietly remembered that the person next to him might have a little—a very small point—duplicity.

And on the day when the two walked into the revolving corridor together, Ya Huiquan pulled him back suddenly with his injured hand, once Wo Xiu realized that the person behind him used his injured right hand, his mood was extremely complicated at that time, which made him While calmly deepening the cognition of "duplicity", he also automatically skipped Yahuiquan's mocking imitation of him.

"Your hand..." Wo Xiu lowered the hovering probe, trying to pull out the right arm that the man in front of him deliberately put in the dark, and check it.

Ya Huiquan didn't wait for Wo Xiu to fight with him, so he was also very surprised. Hearing that this was not only not tit for tat, but also seemed to be mild and worried, Wo Xiu's eyes with excellent eyesight could clearly see that General Ya tensed up. , he seemed particularly uncomfortable with receiving such attention, and not just because it was given by his enemies.

He just wasn't used to being treated like this.

It's like General Ya has grown up to such a big age and has been alive and kicking in this universe for so many years, but there is no one around him who will care about him in a friendly voice or ask him what's wrong.

"It's okay." Ya Huiquan quickly took a step back after regaining his senses, as if he could avoid the invisible concern by putting a little distance away. Concern was misfired by the reverse move.

The floating probe was pulled away by his left hand, but it missed his right hand. He let the probe float to the wall, and changed the subject, saying: "Look at the wall behind first."

The wall has been making rustling noises since Wo Xiu accidentally swept it, but fortunately, it just keeps making strange noises. The things on the wall seem to be restricted in their movement space and cannot leave the wall. Only then did Ya Huiquan and Wo Xiu have a little time to communicate.

Wo Xiu's sense of smell is as keen as his vision, and his nose has caught the traces of blood floating in the air.

He cast another glance at Yahuiquan's right hand, and when he turned to walk towards the stone wall, he intentionally or unintentionally blocked him from behind.

After re-examining the wall, Yahuiquan and Wo Xiu found that it was not the algae moss attached to the wall that made the abnormal noise, but between the seaweed on the surface and the wall, covered by dark plants, in the middle layer It contained a parasite about the size of a human fingernail.

That picture can easily cause dense phobia patients to commit trypophobia on the spot. The seaweed is stuck behind the seaweed in patches. They are covered with lime-like shells, like weird hard "double-sided tape" that grows between stone walls and algae ".

Wo Xiu said, "Strange."

Yahuiquan didn't see what these little things with miniature legs were. After seeing their appearance clearly, he listened to their rustling when they were moving together, and he only felt a faint feeling on his body like a hallucination. itch.

"You know what this is?" he asked Wo Xiu.

"Like a mutated barnacle." Wo Xiu quickly replied, "An ancient arthropod that usually lives in shallow seas and intertidal zones. Whales and turtles, but like seaweed and stone walls, they are not usually a choice for primitive barnacles, a habitat they would not have been interested in before, and I reasonably suspect that these small things can grow here. The environmental impact of the special sea area has undergone some variation."

The barnacles on the stone wall were disturbed, and they were still climbing between the seaweed and the stone wall, making the algae moss almost "swimming" on the wall, but it didn't want to burst into pieces and hurt people , also not very interested in the two unexpected guests.

Neither Yahuiquan nor Woxiu are experts in biological sciences. They can't see why they mutate or grow in non-primitive habitats. They haven't even finished exploring the ruins themselves, so they don't know who it is It is not known where the aborigines here are now.

After confirming that the barnacles on the stone wall will not disturb people, they just need to be more careful and avoid touching the seaweed on the stone wall. Wo Xiuxuan said let's go, and he deliberately moved the Yahui Spring away from the stone wall again. direction tape.

Yahuiquan felt that Wo Xiu always squeezed closer to him, so he stretched out his hand to press the man's shoulder again, and manually pushed the obstacle that squeezed him away by [-] centimeters.

"Wait." Ya Huiquan said, "Look under the rock wall again. After this small parasite crawled away with the seaweed, is there anything underneath?"

Wo Xiu was taken aback.

Back then, the lighting conditions were very limited, and the mobility of the two of them was also limited. It took Yahuiquan and Wo Xiu a long time to finally figure out that the "thing" on the stone wall turned out to be a relief with traces of tidal erosion. A fresco chiseled in rather primitive means.

But it is not easy to figure out that this is a mural. If you want to further understand what is painted on the mural, and whether it can reveal the secret of this ruin, it is another difficult problem for the two of them.

——But it is no longer a problem for Yahuiquan and Woxiu in 17 years.

"The stone wall is the starting point and end point of the aborigines of this planet. They originally lived on land, and for unknown reasons, the land environment continued to deteriorate, and the space for the survival of the ethnic group was getting smaller and smaller. The aborigines here lived in order to survive. , they had to start moving underground, even to the bottom of the sea, and they expanded downward, trying to create a new living world with their hands and technology."

In the simulated projection corridor, Wo Xiu looked at the stone wall that had been restored by technology, and he pulled Yahuiquan's right hand over and wrapped it in his palm.

"But this indomitable effort still failed." He said softly, recounting the ending that he and Yahuiquan explored all the way down the stone wall, and finally saw the ending under the guidance of the mural, "The aborigines hid underground, Hiding to the bottom of the sea, every migration means a turmoil in the number of residents. Some people will fall down during the migration, and a second part of people will fall down during the process of adapting to the new environment. People who have been screened by layers and survived the test and can live in this deep-sea complex seem to be the winners in this 'survival of the fittest', but they have not escaped the fate of annihilation. Years later, the last survivor carved the last stroke of the mural, and he returned to land with all the bones of the deceased people."

So when Yahuiquan and Woxiu repaired the first set of power equipment and could go to the top of the sea, they chose to go to the land of this small desolate star first, and arrived at the area interpreted through the mural.

The people on this planet moved from the ground to the ground, and then from the ground to the bottom of the sea. The murals in the underwater ruins were completed by the unfortunate survivors. The last aborigines drew the ending for it, pointing to the land above.

He went retrograde along the trajectory of the ethnic group. Sea water and humidity are natural "preservatives", allowing him to find and bring those bones that have not decayed.

The survivors found all the people they could find, took everyone back to the land, and placed the clansmen there with themselves.

Yahuiquan and Woxiu parked the motor boat on the coast. They crossed the beach that day, turned over the hill, and saw the rough and magnificent cemetery.

A stone tablet was erected at the entrance of the cemetery, covered with traces of wind and sun, with simple characters engraved on it, which was finally translated in the future, meaning——

[Where we came from, our return date. 】