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

Wo Xiu paused: "Have you seen the model?"

This time, Ya Huiquan was no longer the only one with a subtle tone,

Hearing that Wo Xiu's tone was not purely questioning, he cast his eyes on the Yahuiquan in front of him and turned his head.

"What?" he asked. "You sound surprised."

The accompanying guards guarded the outside of the passage, and the internal area has been carefully checked. Although the passage is narrow, the structure of this entire area is similar to a thin-necked pot-bellied bottle, and the internal area is not small. The personnel of the investigation team They were gathered at the other end of the circular stone platform, separated from the two commanders, so it was more convenient for Wo Xiu and Yahuiquan to talk.

However, out of caution, Wo Xiu quickly raised his eyes and looked around for a round, and walked a small half circle around the round platform quietly, taking Yahuiquan and himself farther away from the crowd, and then said softly: "I was surprised, because this thing is not common in foreign associations - where have you seen the model?"

Ya Huiquan said: "My family."

Wo Xiu: "...huh?"

"It's not the current mansion." Yahuiquan knew that he had caused misunderstandings, he was silent for a short time, and then added, "It's another 'Ya's house' I lived in before I was ten years old."

It should have happened when he was nine years old, or maybe seven or eight years old. Yahuiquan can't remember the exact time, after all, it has been so long.

He only remembered that it was an afternoon, he finished school step by step, was picked up by the electronic nanny, and found that there was a record in Baili that his parents had arrived home an hour ago, he didn't see anyone on the first floor, guess they might be upstairs in the study , So he stood at the top of the stairs and walked around. For a while, he felt that he should go to greet his parents and say hello to them. Unfinished work or other errands to be done, and children are not always welcome in formal occasions like the latter.

In the heart of a little boy who is only as tall as an adult's legs, the study room is a forbidden place that he can't easily set foot in.

So Yahuiquan didn't go upstairs in the end.

He just stood silently at the stairs for a while, holding onto the handrail of the stairs and looking upstairs.

From a certain angle in the stairwell on the first floor, he could vaguely see the half door of the study room on the second floor. He just looked at the tightly closed door for a while, and Baili strolled over with a small robot on his back. Turn around his legs and tell him very intimately: "Master, if you are looking at the study and want to say hello to Mr. and Mrs., if you are too embarrassed to go up directly, I can go up first and greet Mr. and Mrs. Say you're back."

"...No need." The young master said, he stopped the enthusiastic electronic housekeeper, "If they are talking about important things, it is inconvenient to be interrupted? Whether I go up or you help me pass it on, it is too disturbing."

The little boy, who was not yet ten years old, imitated the tone of an adult and spoke solemnly. When he looked upstairs, his eyes were rather wistful.

The artificial intelligence hadn't experienced layer-by-layer upgrades back then, and didn't quite understand such complex contrasting behaviors, so it had to respect the instructions of the little master, sighed very humanely and said: "Although I don't think, knowing that my child has arrived home safely It can also be counted as an interruption, but okay, I respect your wishes—Master, the teaching system shows that you still have two homework to complete at home tonight, you want me to prepare a room suitable for you to study , or do you want to designate a place to do homework?"

The boy thought for a while, because he felt that he would stay downstairs if he didn't go up, and the parents in the study would be able to see his thoughts as soon as they went downstairs after they finished their work. He told the electronic housekeeper: "I want to go to the remote hall."

"Ok."

Baili prepared a side hall for him.

The door of the study was opened when Ya Huiquan was writing his second homework. He heard his parents talking and going downstairs.

Ya Yisong and Yu Jianyue seemed to be very busy that day. They didn't even realize at the first time that their children had gone home from school. Ya Huiquan came out of the side hall and poked his head out from behind the decorative pillars. I saw confiscated floating screens floating beside the two adults, and flickering light and shadow blocks spread along the way.

The boy poking his head from behind the decorative pillar was like a small animal that was elusive. He found that no one was paying attention to him, so he kept quiet. His eyes were involuntarily attracted by the screens spread all over the room, and he unconsciously stared at an old stone. Taiwan watched for a long time.

"...Huiquan?" It was Yu Jianyue who seemed to have a feeling after a while, and glanced to the corner inadvertently, and met the boy's eyes.

She looked surprised, which startled the boy.

The reason why Ya Huiquan remembered the model projection of the stone platform was because that day, he thought he had caused trouble, like a decathlon top student suddenly made a big mistake like cheating, and he was very worried for a while. Slowly move out behind the decorative pillar.

But unexpectedly, the parents didn't seem to mind his interruption, and didn't think he made a mistake. They finally found that they had ignored the entry and exit records, and they only gently asked when the child came back, rubbed the little boy's furry head, Glancing at the time, he lightly patted his son's small shoulder, signaling that dinner preparations had already started at this point. When the family walked to the restaurant, Yu Jianyue took away the screens that covered the entire road.

Yahuiquan remembers the "round stone platform", which is a mark in his memory, representing the moments when he communicated with his parents like an ordinary family in his childhood.

It's just that this kind of moment is too rare, and it is easily squeezed to the corner by the huge memory later. If he hadn't seen the ancient experimental platform that Wo Xiu said with his own eyes, Yahuiquan would have almost forgotten that there is such a past.

"...The two of them stood there talking that day, and they didn't notice me. I just stared at the projected model for a long time." He deleted some redundant parts of the past, and picked up the key points for Wo Xiu to listen to.

This is the first time Wo Xiu heard Ya Huiquan talk about each other and his parents after meeting Vice President Ning last time and hearing the story of Ya Yisong and Yu Jianyue from Ning Bolang.

Wo Xiu listened quietly, he knew it was not suitable to interrupt at this moment, they were in the closed area at the bottom of the deep sea ruins, this is not a suitable occasion for sensibility, and Yahuiquan would not be willing to show too much in this kind of place Emotions, talk about the heart.

"So that's how it is." Wo Xiu only said when Yahuiquan signaled that he had finished speaking, "I was taken aback. You said you were at home at first, but I was still thinking, why didn't I know that there is a model in our house. "

"Our family" changed General Ya's eyebrows slightly, and he glanced at Wo Xiu.

Wo Xiu's voice was as low as breath, and whispered to him: "Isn't it 'our family'?"

The corner of General Ya's mouth hooked slightly.

"Yes." he said.

After finishing speaking, as if he just answered a common question casually, Ya Huiquan seamlessly brought the topic over and asked Wo Xiu, "Why are you surprised? Now it's your turn to answer."

"I've also seen this model." Wo Xiu didn't hold back, "And I know it should be a test bench. The model diagram I saw directly has a guessing description of its use and specifications."

Yahuiquan frowned.

"Don't frown, I can't directly reach out to press your brows here." Wo Xiu said this first, rubbing the back of his hand on Yahuiquan's gloved hand before continuing, "It's a coincidence, I also saw it at my former home."

He and General Ya, whose eyebrows were loosened, looked at each other with astonishment in his eyes: "That's my parents' information."

Just like Wo Xiu kept silent that night and only gave Ya Huiquan the most gentle and patient company, and didn't ask too much about the other party and his parents, unless Ya Huiquan offered to ask.

Ever since he learned that Wo Xiu was the party involved in the "Scarlet Angel Incident" and the only survivor of the family of three, Ya Huiquan has also deliberately avoided the line of "family". He cautiously kept his mouth shut about Wo Xiu's old scars. don't talk about it.

But... that is the information of Wo Xiu's parents?

Wo Xiu's words turned "avoiding to talk about it" into having to talk about it.

"General Ya."

"Commander Woxiu."

Members of the survey team in the distance sent a call, wanting to ask the officers who had been standing beside the stone platform for a long time to move over there to see their new progress.

Right now is indeed not the best time to go deep into the past of their parents. Ya Huiquan and Wo Xiu glanced at each other, and a vague guess had already appeared in the minds of both of them. , In the part where the parents had communicated with the outside world, perhaps the gully drawn by the previous generation across the distance of light-years and prejudices and contradictions was trying to walk in the same direction, and the banner they tried to raise was the same color.

"Sir." The leader of the survey team saluted the approaching two people, trying his best to keep serious, but his eyes and tone conveyed excitement.

Because General Ya just stared at people coldly, he didn't mean to talk to people at this moment and asked nonsense, his usual style was to wait for people to finish the report and listen to people's talk directly, so Commander Woxiu gave this The leader of the survey team praised the scene and asked: "So excited, each and every eye can shine like a cat in a low-light environment. What did you find?"

Only the big cat Benmao, whose eyes really glow at night, noticed that General Ya secretly glanced at him when he said "like a cat".

The leader of the survey team was really excited, he said "report" excitedly, and then reported to the chief on behalf of the survey team: "Because Commander Woxiu mentioned the idea of ​​'paying attention to the distribution of arthropods' before, we This time, we paid special attention to this point when redoing the detection of the closed inner area, focused on collecting information on the living environment of barnacles, and obtained very valuable discoveries.”

Yahuiquan thought that the findings of the survey team leader might be valuable, but the long list of words before was of no value at all, so he asked meanly and coldly: "Then?"

"We found a special substance on the wall attached to the barnacles in the closed inner area. It only exists on the surface of the stone wall. The distribution of elements is very different from the inner layer of the stone wall. It is suspected that it may be artificially added."

"It is very attractive to arthropods whose ecological habits have changed in the relics and deviated from the original species."

"We collected the materials for inspection, and at the same time inspected the stone walls in the revolving corridor in the outer area, and found that this acquired substance still exists on all the murals in the corridor, and there seems to be a certain pattern in their distribution. We are working on It is suspected that it was artificially painted on the walls so that the arthropods could cover the designated area in groups and in an orderly manner."