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

If it hadn't been for being stopped by Donaldo and having a few more conversations with the teacher whom he hadn't seen for a long time, in Yahuiquan's plan, he should have withdrawn from the banquet a long time ago, only showing his face before leaving.

He was invited to the ball, kept his personal promise, brought a "mate", and showed everyone his cat publicly.

From General Yashang's point of view, this was already an act of giving way to the host of the banquet.

Besides, this dance was heavily political and involved a marriage. It was essentially a large-scale blind date party. He was known to be married now. As a married person, why would he stay in the blind date crowd to join in the fun?

If someone makes an excuse for his early departure, General Yashang has already thought about it. He can remind the other party "politely" that he is in the protection period of military marriage. The new marriage law absolutely guarantees the safety of military marriage. I hope others will not force him to persuade him Married generals stay on such occasions long enough to avoid being accused of sabotaging military marriages.

Donaldo's oral composition skills are astonishing, and he deserves to be a teacher who taught two theory courses by himself.

Ya Huiquan was originally scheduled to attend for 10 minutes, but under the teacher's extraordinary skills, he had to stay in the banquet hall for almost two hours.

The old general belatedly studied the expressions of the students.

"Hey." He finally said, "I can see from your expression that you can't stay still any longer and are planning to run away?"

Yahuiquan, who wanted to leave an hour and a half ago: "..."

You have such a good eye.

"But I'm afraid you can't leave now." The old general suddenly lowered his voice. He made a small movement of looking behind Yahuiquan, then quickly pulled his gaze back, and said quickly, "Wait a minute, I saw the special forces on the opposite side. Someone is walking towards you."

Yahuiquan had a meal.

Although the banquet looked joyful and peaceful, a group of celebrities and dignitaries from the Star Alliance and foreign alliances gathered, everyone was dressed in fragrant clothes, and they talked and laughed.

But in fact, if you look carefully, you can find that there is still a clear boundary in the field.

Those who can chat friendly and maintain the politeness of coming and going are basically administrative officials on both sides, as well as cultural specialists and technical scientific research personnel who do not have much conflict with each other, such as representatives of the United Army, representatives of the Star Alliance, etc. The military personnel who have been fighting against each other for decades on the battlefield, toasting each other politely and respecting each other, it means that the two sides are conveying friendship as much as possible, indicating that there is no war today and long live peace.

Then there are more conflicts in the past, constant conflicts with each other, and conflicts are more difficult to reconcile today-such as the extraterritorial joint special forces, Yahuiquan and its glorious wings, "peaceful poor households" like them, in order to maintain the banquet as a whole Stability in the general direction, from the moment the general appeared on the cliff, the group of them and the representative of the special forces had already grasped each other's real-time coordinates, and they had always been on the farthest diagonal line in tacit understanding.

No one took the initiative to flirt in front of each other.

...But at this time, people from special forces came over on their own initiative?

Ya Huiquan turned his head and met the lady who was wearing a skirt and walking with great strides.

"I'm just here to take a look, alone." The woman said straight to the point, she glanced at the general on the cliff, and then smiled, "Is the welcome for me so grand?"

The "grand" in her mouth refers to Pelangcui and Lu Siming who approached the officer a little bit calmly because they couldn't figure out the reason for her visit.

There was also Donaldo who stayed by Yahuiquan's side, fearing that there would be disputes, thinking that he could still help mediate.

It was true that there were no other members of the extraterritorial joint special forces behind the woman. With a wine glass in her hand, she gestured to the old general and the two captains from the air before turning her gaze back to Ya Huiquan.

Yahuiquan's gaze quietly slid over the other's face that was similar to her sister.

Admiral Yashang greeted him by calling his name: "Usanna Soturent."

"It's me." Ursanna nodded, and she seemed to squint her eyes when she heard her name being called out accurately, but the movement was too fast for people to distinguish clearly.

She added: "Don't get me wrong, Admiral Ya, I said to take a look, but I didn't come here for you—I'll take a look at the cat."

Yahuiquan: "..."

Lions are also cats, and some people call them "big cats".

When Yahuiquan first noticed Usanna approaching him, what he thought of was what her sister Usansa had let go in the conference building.

It's not malicious speculation, but of course, he didn't think that this lady came here specially to chat with him or even "enhance friendship".

Usanna frankly stated that she only wanted to see the cat. This reason seemed unconvincing at first glance. Perantry and Lu Siming looked at each other, and the two captains saw hesitation in the eyes of their colleagues.

However, Ms. Lion soon proved with her actions that her interest was really only in cats.

"Is the little one asleep?" Ursanna lowered her voice a few degrees as she cast her eyes on the cat.

The timing of her arrival was unlucky.

Li Dandan was sober for so long before, and acted as Donald's most loyal and conscientious listener, listening to the old man's words completely.

By the time Ursanna came over, the cat's energy had already been declared exhausted. Before she approached Yahuiquan and her party, the cat's entire head was buried in the man's arms, and its long tail that was hanging down was coiled up.

Li Dandan rolled himself into a fluffy fur ball, relying on someone to use it as a mobile cat bed anyway, and fell asleep very comfortably.

The big cat lady who made a special trip to see the kitten is very sorry. With the cat's current posture, she can only look at the cat's butt.

"Miss Usanna." Donaldo said at the right time. Taking advantage of the friendly atmosphere, the old man remembered the cat breed issue he hadn't discussed with the students just now. He expected that the Outer Territory Union should have more information on this aspect. He politely asked, "Can you tell what kind of cat Huiquan is?"

After listening to Usanna, she glanced at Ya Huiquan, and made a mark in her heart on what she had just heard that this person didn't like small animals. She said in her heart that she was married, but she didn't even know the breed. I love the look of small animals.

…But look at the action of this person hugging the cat, and the state of the cat relaxing and sleeping on the person, think about how long this person has been holding the cat since he entered the arena, but he has never shown I am impatient, and have no intention of handing over the cat to the guard.

The big cat lady who cares about kittens slowly crossed the mark again. She carefully observed the pattern on the "cat group", pondered the pattern in the limited observation area, and answered seriously: "Look at this pattern, It's kind of like a tabby, and kind of like a Bengal."

The daily state of General Ya's social life is that he has nothing to say to others. From the time when Usanna came over to the moment when the other party was studying varieties with the teacher, he said less than ten words in total.

Among them, Usanna's full name has only seven characters.

The remaining two are clearly "um" and "yes" to answer whether the cat is asleep.

"Is it possible for these two cats to be congenitally disabled?" Ya Huiquan asked abruptly, and joined the conversation between Usanna and Donaldo, who were stunned for a moment.

"Congenital disability?" Ursanna recovered.

"The ear, but it doesn't affect hearing. There is no problem with the hearing test and the normal ear turning." Ya Huiquan succinctly mentioned the problem of his cat's ears.

Ms. Big Cat shook her head after hearing this: "I haven't heard of such a situation, but if it doesn't affect hearing, it may be caused by a bad environment after birth. As long as it doesn't affect life, it's not a problem."

Usanna was talking, and she couldn't tell why, the cat in Yahuiquan's arms clearly showed her some fur, and at a glance, she couldn't even tell which was the head and which was the tail .

But she has a high affection for this cat for no reason. She always feels that this cat is very eye-catching, and she wants to get close to it.

"Hey, poor boy." Usanna muttered about the cat's ear disability revealed by Ya Huiquan, and wanted to pet the cat.

The hand she stretched out was empty.

General Ya took a step away with the cat in his arms, just in time to miss Ursanna's hand, and said coldly, "It's asleep."

Ursanna: "..."

When you fall asleep, don't you still touch it every once in a while, stingy!

But whoever owns the cat has the right to be stingy.

If someone wants to rape Admiral Ya's cat, he will give him a cold stare and be reminded: "Please don't harass other people's friends casually."

Ursanna just wanted to rub a cat, but she didn't want to mess with it. She seemed to be meddling in someone else's family. She withdrew her hand that didn't touch the cat, feeling like she had finished watching everything she wanted to see. The cat that she didn't touch probably wouldn't be able to touch it this time. up.

Before she turned around and left, she calmed down and said something serious: "Just now there was a person who couldn't even tell my sisters apart from me. He ranted about General Ya for a long time and hinted at you Not good for the cat, I came here just to have a look, and I think you'd be okay in that regard - I guess I can say 'good cooperation' in advance."

"What cooperation?" Donaldo asked suspiciously until he walked away again.

Obviously, this is a message that the old general didn't get in advance.

Ya Huiquan only looked at Ursanna's back. He seldom had the habit of seeing off anyone, so he quickly turned his gaze back to his own cat, and stroked the fur on the kitten's back without saying a word.

As for the cooperation that was specially reminded by the people from the special forces, he hadn't heard the wind yet, but he had a premonition first, and felt that he could predict what it would be related to.

That's probably... a complicated answer.

Another week after the banquet ended, at the bilateral meeting that week, the cleaning work for the core of the natural disaster was officially proposed as a project.

All members of the extraterritorial joint special forces, Star Alliance Glorious Wings Fortress and Supreme Commander Ya Huiquan are listed as the main team responsible for this project.

"But Admiral Ya is not..." Someone in the representative seat of the Star Alliance quickly voiced doubts.

This man was still very skillful in speaking, he cut off his voice hesitantly, and moved his eyes back and forth between the opposite seat and his own seat.

Admiral Yashang himself happened to go to the medical monitoring center for a follow-up visit today. He didn't attend the meeting, but the captain of the second wing of the Glorious Wings, Peilantui, was present on his behalf.

Before Captain Pelencui was angry and spoke for his general, someone at the foreign joint representative seat spoke first.

"As we all know, the Special Forces and Admiral Cliff of the Covenant are indeed at odds, and there are profound past entanglements." The opposite said, "But after the general discussion of the Special Forces and the referendum, we agreed that instead of waiting for your alliance to roll the dice, randomly select one Partners, why don’t we just call names and invite our old rivals to come out, so that everyone at least knows the bottom line, understands each other, and is already familiar with the action patterns of both parties.”

"There will never be a tragedy where even the names of the members on both sides are unclear, causing a diplomatic accident."

These words made everyone in the Star Alliance seat look different, and the man who raised the objection first had an ugly look on his face.

Peirantui lost the opportunity to speak, and felt that his general would be on the winning side, so he picked up the policy of saying less and making mistakes again, obediently continuing to be his humanoid information transfer machine.

——and secretly gave a thumbs up to the foreign joint representative who spoke just now.

There was an undercurrent in the meeting room, and people with different thoughts were talking with each other.

Admiral Yahuiquan Ya, whose name is in the gushing center but not in person, has finished his follow-up consultation and left the medical monitoring center.

At home...grilling fish.

"Master, I have a piece of latest information obtained through a direct connection to Captain Pelencui's terminal. It is marked green and safe, but the importance level is A. I suggest you check it immediately."

Baili's voice resounded in the air above the outdoors, and it was rare for the electronic butler to talk to his young master outside the house.

The place Yahuiquan chose to grill fish was the small forest behind his main house. This area is still included in the scope of the Ya family’s mansion. He asked the electronic housekeeper to take care of the outdoor grill and clean the kitchen machines. Facing the bewilderment that Baili was about to materialize, the young master, who had lived for decades and hadn’t cooked with his own hands, went to the battle in person and studied how to grill fish with a movable floating screen hanging beside him.

"Say." Yahuiquan signaled Baili to report the information, but his eyes were still on the menu displayed on the floating screen.

As an AI, Baili should have faithfully followed the instructions given by his master, and he was also the one who suggested that Ya Huiquan check the news immediately.

However, because Yahuiquan's appearance is too rare, in Baili's database, he thinks that "the young master wants to grill fish" has reached an S-level anomaly.

Baili was very humanely silent for a while, and according to his priority, he first asked about the "S-level abnormality": "I'm sorry, young master, before passing on the news to you, I would like to confirm with you again—you know What are you doing?"

Yahuiquan was suspected by his electronic housekeeper of acting abnormally, and he also felt that the other party was quite abnormal-like a sudden artificial mental retardation.

"Grilled fish." Ya Huiquan said.

Baili asked again: "Why do you want to grill fish?"

"For the cat." Yahuiquan said, "it will be seven weeks old this week, and it can start eating cooked fish."

Next to Admiral Ya with his shirt sleeves up, Li Dandan, who had grown up again, was indeed sitting there, with a decent bib tied around the cat's neck.

The whole cat is very demure, waiting for the first finished product to be born on the grill.

Baili still couldn't accept this answer, so he calmly called out the cat supply list at home: "But young master, the family has already prepared canned cooked fish for Mr. Li, and there are all kinds of fish on the market, so many that we can Go get involved with a stray cat rescue project."

In the matter of keeping cats, the rare and extravagant owner is deaf and dumb.

Without changing his face, the man patted off the "evidence" displayed by the electronic housekeeper, that is, he insisted on trying grilled fish.

"Master." Although Baili did not get a response from the master, but was not blocked, Baili waited for a while, and after analyzing that the person was avoiding the question, he said, "I think another unreasonable thing about this matter is that you never Do not eat this kind of food obtained through outdoor grilling, and my database has never recorded that you have this preference. I just reviewed all recent data and searched with 'grilled fish' and 'outdoor barbecue' as keywords. No matching information was found."

The man and the cat took a look at the nearest smart home appliance together.

"...Who said I haven't eaten?"

After a while, Yahuiquan was finally neither deaf nor dumb, he said lightly.

Today is winter, and the outdoor temperature is very low. In order to cope with the unexpected barbecue behavior of the owner, Baili built a temporary constant temperature area in the grove. The temperature in the area is stable, and an open fire is burning under the purely manual barbecue grill .

Since General Ya himself is still very knowledgeable about his cooking skills, he didn't season the fish by himself, so he transferred it to the grill as it was when it was taken out of the kitchen machine.

The small amount of fat layer of the fish meat was quickly melted by the high temperature, and there were strands of aroma floating in the air, which smelled quite similar.

Baili searched his massive database again, and judged that even if the owner had the experience of eating outdoor barbecue, it was definitely not done by himself.

The electronic steward asked: "Who made it for you?"

... However, the master did not hear this sentence.

Yahuiquan stays in this small constant temperature space independent of the low temperature outside. The rustling sound of the open fire and the aroma factor of the grilled food engulf the senses together, which will temporarily drag people away from reality.

Space and time are a little fuzzy.

……

"What are you holding?"

"And what are you holding... the nutrient cream that was dug out from the remnant of the mech? Are you going to eat this?"

People who have just come back from the outside still have moisture and cold on their bodies, and they can smell the unique smell of that planet's sea water.

The other party was dragging something in his hand. The part in his hand looked like the tentacles of some octopus creature, but it had serrated teeth. The ends of the tentacles seemed to be able to be opened, and the sharp mouthparts were vaguely visible underneath.

Ya Huiquan was even more shocked than the person who asked him the question, he couldn't understand how this person had the face to ask him "you'll eat this if you're going to eat it".

"What about you?" He said incredulously, "Can you eat that thing in your hand?"

It was 358 years of the star calendar, 17 years away from peace. Since Yahuiquan met Woxiu for the first time in 350 years, he and the captain and commander of the extraterritorial joint special forces have been "chasing each other". For eight full years.

This year, due to an accident during the battle between the two sides, he and Wo Xiu made an emergency landing on a deserted planet alone. The planet is in a "forbidden zone" where the gravitational field is chaotic. As a result, there are small-sized planetesimals rampaging here all the year round.

The deserted little planet itself is hidden behind a large number of celestial debris, and it is very hidden. When the planetary flow erupts, it will reveal an entrance that is not recorded in the waterway map.

The unique cosmic ecology in the restricted zone means that neither external rescue nor internal self-rescue has become so easy.

Therefore, after fighting for eight years, the two people who have been marked as "priority captives in each other's camps, persuading them to surrender when they see the opportunity, and enjoying the highest preferential treatment for prisoners of war" had to hold their noses and temporarily coexist peacefully, surviving together in the wilderness——