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

Most people have a little filter for the objects they have personally taken care of, and their impression of the other person will stay deeply at the time when they first took care of them.

According to research and investigation, this situation can be classified as an atypical "first impression", which mainly affects people's views on another objective living body, and when people look at others, they always subconsciously regard the other person as the first impression they saw for the first time. That state set—and regardless of what the other party has grown into now.

Ya Huiquan looked at Li Dandan with this kind of filter. He repeatedly pinched the cat's paw to lift the cat up, watched the other party stretch and retract, completely put aside what he was originally thinking, and only pondered :

Cat, why is it so long?

"With all due respect, young master." Finally, Baili's voice came out from the audio-visual equipment in the study, and the electronic housekeeper who had the first-hand data of Li Dandan said pertinently, "I have scanned and found that you are working on Mr. Li's Length is bewildering and distressing, but it's really unnecessary, because, if you've ever paid attention to Mr. Lai's stature in jumps, big leaps, and vertical climbs, you'll realize that when it's all four limbs It's supposed to be that long when stretched out, in a nearly perpendicular line with the body."

"..." Yahuiquan searched his memory, and felt that he had seen Li Dandan jumping up and down in the room before, and he woke up more than once in the morning to find the cat sleeping in a puddle on the pillow. If this kind of person sleeps like that, 100% of the next day will be shoulder soreness and neck pain. The posture fills the back in the gap between the pillow and the head of the bed.

...but did cats look that long back then?

The filter must have a galaxy-large owner who suspects that he has amnesia.

"You have doubts about my point of view." Baili analyzed the master's expression data without authorization, and the electronic housekeeper continued to remain objective and rational, "I must remind you that when you hold Mr. Li's forelimb and hold it Pulling up, the 'length' in your eyes is actually not accurate, it includes the length of Mr. Li's front and rear legs, which will also cause a little visual error to you."

Yahuiquan thought it made sense, he said "huh", and was thinking about Li Dandan, holding a cat's paw pad under his hand.

I heard that Baili suddenly gave a weird example in order to supplement the argument: "Master, have you ever looked back at the recorded video of yourself in the home exercise room? When you raise your hands up, your arms are almost perpendicular to your shoulders, hanging You're also long on the drawbar."

Yahuiquan: "...what?"

What kind of broken example is this, how can it be compared?

However, the electronic housekeeper didn't think this was a "broken example". Bailixing was super powerful, and immediately projected a floating screen, which was a video of the owner putting on equipment in the home training room.

The electronic housekeeper has a reason: "We generally don't include the length of a person's arms into their height, otherwise, it would be too unfair to those who are born with unsatisfactory arms. Humans don't count arm length when calculating height, but The length of the legs will be counted, and as a cat, Mr. Li, unfortunately, none of its limbs are included in the height item, and the leg length is listed separately and included in the "shoulder height", which leads to, If you're someone who doesn't pay much attention to the length of a cat's legs, you'll be amazed when the cat suddenly stands upright and the cat's legs are included in the calculation of its height."

Baili is not inconsiderate, he directly adjusted the video data of the master in the training room, not to mention, while stating his point of view, he also typed out the measured values ​​next to the person in the video, and simultaneously activated another screen, which sent The most important is Li Dandan's "group-shaped body length" when lying on his stomach with his paws folded, and the "bar-shaped body length" when he freezes the frame of the big leap jump, for reference and comparison.

But Yahuiquan didn't feel caring, only suspected that the electronic butler was taking the opportunity to mock the master.

Because after listening to this, he translated this long paragraph according to his "Ya's language style". He believes that Baili's meaning is closer to: "You are surprised because you usually lack observation. You are so fussy." .”

People who "make a fuss" are a little upset, and they can't lose their temper directly because of the yin and yang in the speculation.

What's even more worrying is that, aside from his suspicion of Baili's connotation, Baili's analysis is not completely unreasonable on the point that "the length of the cat's paw is also unconsciously included in the body length".

According to the information, people's blood pressure will be lowered when petting a cat. Cat owners who pet cats every day are very helpful to maintain peace of mind and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

By the time Yahuiquan realized it, he had stopped stretching Li Dandan and "putting it back to its original shape", hugged the whole cat in his arms, and stroked the cat without saying a word for a while.

"When you were a child, you slept in the cat's litter in a stretched position, as if you were going to expose your entire belly to the sun. You were very sprawled." Yahuiquan put his hand on the cat's belly, looked down at the cat and said, "You It wasn't that long back then, and it was still quite small when all four limbs were spread out."

It was quite late, and it was close to midnight of Monte’s time after the long-distance meeting. There was a small problem in Yahuiquan that the temperature of his hands would automatically fade in the middle of the night. He couldn’t warm his hands all year round. At night, his hands are like a beautifully proportioned model, as if they are cold from the bone to the skin.

Li Dandan's belly is very warm. The body temperature of animals is slightly higher than that of humans. It is like a natural hand warmer. It only took a look at the cold object placed on its belly, and then moved its furry arms and legs over. The person's chilly hand was hugged, and he vaguely brought this hand into his arms.

"Meow." It said calmly after hugging its hands, telling others that it was "very small" at that time because it was small at first, but now that it has grown up, the food at home is so good How can you expect it to be as short-handed and short-legged as it was when it was a little bit old?

It is not a short-legged cat, what is it thinking.

Li Dandan is as well-founded as Baili.

It's a pity that Yahuiquan didn't understand the language barrier.

His hand was embraced by the cat, and he felt a little strange, as if he was in a place he was familiar with, and suddenly found a little surprise that was left behind.

"Master." Baili said, he forcibly acted as the translator between the owner and the main cat, followed a certain magical algorithm to calculate, and the translation was [-]% accurate. He said, "Mr. Li may I want to tell you that it was small at that time, but now that it grows up, of course the kitten has short legs and short body no matter how you stretch it—just like when you started to exercise with equipment when you were ten years old, it didn’t look as good after you put on the stretch bar Same length."

The artificial intelligence didn't know what medicine it took wrongly tonight. It especially likes to retrieve historical data from the database. Ya Huiquan didn't have time to stop it. He was about to make a sound, but it was too late when he raised his head.

The speed of Baili's search and reading is very fast, and the third small screen has been placed under the video in the exercise room by the electronic housekeeper, and it has attracted the cat's attention at the same time——

The little boy who appeared on the screen was about ten years old, with the same hair color and eye color as now, but the shape of the eyes is a bit rounder, and the facial features are vaguely the same set of templates, but the overall outline is softer and more childish.

It's just that the look on that face has nothing to do with "softness".

The light shone from the top of the boy's head. He was in a room with a lot of training equipment. The equipment directly in front of him was almost twice as tall as him. Let the young body that had not yet entered puberty stay in front of the equipment. , It was like facing a mechanical monster head-on.

And the boy confronted the monster silently.

A voice sounded next to it, it was Baili, and he said: "The minimum age limit for this gravity training machine is set at 12 years old, even if you activate the youth mode, it is beyond your age."

The boy looked up, as if his eyes were dazzled by the light when he raised his head, he squinted slightly, but his resolute eyes penetrated the eyelids that drooped instinctively, and he said in a calm tone that did not fit the identity of a child: "Then help me cheat .”

"I don't agree with this." Baili said again.

But whether it was the person in the video recording or the object looking at the screen outside the recording, they all heard a slight "click" and then the sound of the gravity meter starting to start slowly.

The boy looked up again at the handrail that was almost as tall as him. He didn't say anything else, he just stretched his arms to grasp the crossbar, and then pushed himself over the crossbar and entered the area where the gravity training field had already taken effect.

……

"Look, this is here." The little boy on the screen has grown up for many years now, with the same voice as in the historical records, the electronic butler happily freezes the scene of the boy turning over and entering the training ground, just in time for the little boy to stretch out The moment the long arms hung on the crossbar, "You are ten years old, just like Mr. Li who weighed only 230 grams before. Even if you stretch the whole body and count the length of your hands and feet, it is still not too long."

"Did you get a virus?" The grown up "little boy" - Ya Huiquan had a cold face. He directly obtained management authority through his personal terminal, and forcibly revealed the "black history" of Baili to show others. closed.

Li Dandan looked lazy before, but when the video recording was played, he seemed very interested, and the whole cat turned over and sat up.

Yahuiquan turned off the screen, and when he looked down, he saw the cat's head was still up, and his gaze seemed to be still lingering in mid-air, as if he was reluctant to part with the screen that had just been turned off.

"It's nothing to look at." The man reached out and poked the cat's forehead, and turned the cat's gaze manually.

Li Dandan looked at Yahuiquan instead.

Ya Huiquan stroked the back of the cat's furry head with his hand. He said: "At that time, half of my mind was filled with confidence to challenge the limit, and half was filled with water. This is the first time I have used a gravity training machine. Going up for 10 minutes, coming down and vomiting for ten hours, I was so scared that the artificial intelligence almost called the police automatically."

But of course the policeman didn't report it in the end.

Because can't.

When he really saw the long-lost young self, Ya Huiquan was actually stunned for a moment, and the words that should have been said immediately were stuck in his throat. He didn't even remember when the scene was recorded.

After all, too much time has passed, and he has been an adult for so many years.

But soon, when Baili on the screen talked about the gravity training device, Ya Huiquan remembered that this should be when he was ten years and nine months old.

Most people remember their own age, and they don't remember the month accurately. However, that year was very different. His parents had just passed away a few months ago. An orphan whose guilt is unknown.

He is a lost "bomb".

Under normal circumstances, when an orphan appears in Monte, a place where the rich and powerful gather, and the parents were not low-ranking before their death, the child will usually be handed over to a professional institution first, and the institution will decide who should adopt the child.

The procedures and trade-offs are very complex.

If there is no accident, Yahuiquan should be sent to a class that is also acceptable. According to the "Monte Minors Special Protection Case", he can be provided with generous materials, and he will not be allowed to reduce his quality of life after losing his parents. He was even directly merged into another powerful family and became the adopted son of that family. The person who adopted him may be able to run for the "Mount Top Ten Caring Families" in the coming year.

However, when the orphan's parents died strangely, and the burden on the name seemed a little too much for a while, the child's situation became difficult.

Yahuiquan's memory of that period is actually a bit vague. Looking back now, he only feels that the surroundings were always very noisy at that time. The original house of their family was divided according to the rank. The model, so that after his parents passed away suddenly, that home could not be regarded as his real home.

That piece of land will be reclaimed in the near future, and the house of the owner who lost the rank will be demolished. After that, the land will be re-entered into the distribution system as "vacant land", waiting for the next owner who meets the rank standard, and then Build a new house on the vacant lot.

The little boy who was a little less than 11 years old stayed in the house that was about to change hands. He had to meet many people every day, listen to a lot of sympathetic words, and watched one crop after another of gentlemen and ladies sighing in front of him, and even Shed emotional tears.

"I would very much like to invite you into our family, child, however..."

"If not...we would really like to have you too."

"if……"

"Liar," the little boy thought to himself.

A child who has learned how to maintain a "sense of distance" without a teacher since he was a child, a child who can hardly go to adults to act like a baby, and will only call the medical cabin by himself even when he is unwell.

It was too difficult for him not to see the real meaning behind the words of those adults.

So Ya Huiquan made a shocking decision that lasted three weeks in Montenegro.

He went to apply for AI guardianship that has not been declared in Montenegro for 80 years.

He was originally born under the guardianship of AI, and he is even more familiar with the electronic housekeeper Baili than his parents.

If it is said that even the cultivation of a life can be handed over to AI, parents can finally obtain a healthy child without giving up their genetic information.

So, why do you think that an electronic housekeeper can't do it when you have a child who has already developed a mind of his own and just needs to go to boarding school?

——This is Ya Huiquan's self-reported reason back then.

He personally went to the Children's Board to make a statement of reasons.

He also promised that he would skip a grade as soon as possible, and that his target institution would be Hengguang College. In this way, as long as he successfully enters Hengguang, he will receive a fully closed education management. College life can make up for his lack of human contact, and fully closed management will It can greatly improve his personal safety.

Before enrolling, the electronic housekeeper will upload his life images and various personal data on time every week, so that the commissioner of the supervisory committee can check and keep abreast of his health trends.

Thanks to the ephemeris era, hypocrisy and civilization have become non-contradictory existences.

Those with a lot of thought do not want to take on a trouble easily.

But in the same way, for the little boy who unfortunately became a "troublemaker", once he took the initiative to know what he is interested in, and made his own arrangements as well as possible, people would give in again, and no one would criticize him for wanting to enter Hengguang Academy It's a fantasy.

After all, he was only ten years old.

In the age of adulthood at the age of 25, even if the parents are convicted, what is wrong with the ten-year-old child?

Yahuiquan's application was finally successful, and he also received a special grant. Hengguang College publicly expressed its willingness to relax the admission requirements for him as appropriate.

He set a huge goal for himself, and he could only work hard to move forward.

He tried hard to get himself out of the vacillation, and everything he did was just to stand up for himself, and he didn't want to fall into the situation of having to rely on someone to live again.

Not only did the electronic housekeeper fail to call the police that day, but after sending the owner into the medical cabin, he followed Ya Huiquan's instructions and deleted the medical records and training records from the database, and quietly hid them when uploading this week's report they.

After so many years, Yahuiquan hadn't seen this piece of information for decades. He really thought that they had been deleted by Baili long ago, but he didn't expect that the electronic housekeeper still kept a copy.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter if all these materials are released now.

In addition to being indifferent on the outside, people who care about a man's face in their hearts are a little annoyed. It will no longer be a "time bomb/bomb". It requires a little boy to work with his electronic butler. One person and one AI are exhausting. I hid it thoughtfully.

In the deep-sea ruins, in the middle and late stages of getting along, the commander of the foreign alliance once asked Yahuiquan half-truthfully: "You said if there was no war, what would you be doing now?"

Yahuiquan was silent for a while.

The silence made Wo Xiu at first think that this was another "crossing the line question", which belonged to the area that the Covenant commander could not answer.

But after the silence, Ya Huiquan answered.

He said briefly: "I haven't thought about it, I don't know."