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

The "angel" in the "Scarlet Angel" incident refers to a ship named "Peace Angel".

In star calendar 330, Ya Huiquan was only 15 years old, and he was still studying at Hengguang College. Coincidentally, it happened that the young master had a cold war with the electronic housekeeper. , I tried my best to focus on my academic training, and even increased my attention to the trivial news, trying to fill my mind with more miscellaneous information so that I could forget about the semester of the Cold War.

Yahuiquan heard at the beginning of the semester that the "Peace Angel" will set sail this quarter, and a group of cultural specialists from outside the region and several rare gene carriers will be on board to come to the Star Alliance for the "cultural trial" activity information.

The species culture database of the Star Alliance has been barren for many years. Cultural staff and scientists go to the gate of the parliament building every now and then to curse at the civilized street, denouncing the bullshit decision of the year, cutting off their cultural arms to kill the inheritance of civilization, but they dare to advertise that they are "the light of human civilization" .

After years of cursing and cursing, under the tireless efforts of these persistent people, the "Cultural Trial Dating" is a result they finally won.

If the event is successful, it will be of great significance. The trial exchange of culture will not only introduce new blood to the species cultural database of the Star Alliance, but also inject fresh vitality into the literature and research circle of the Star Alliance, which is about to be like a pool of stagnant water. From the cultural perspective of harm, it is very likely that after a hundred years of the joint "Cold War" between the Star Alliance and the outside world, the two parties try to re-engage and explore the path of peaceful coexistence.

Hengguang Academy is the first military academy of the Star Alliance. In addition to the students admitted with excellent grades and good data in the comprehensive physical fitness test, there are also some rich and powerful people who are admitted with letters of recommendation.

In this environment, due to the nature of their majors, students will naturally pay more attention to news related to the military and politics. Rao Hengguang College is closed management and full-time, but there are "powerful" students, they always have Ways and channels, you can get more information from your elders either directly or around the corner.

"If the test is successful, will the chances of violent armed conflicts between the two sides be reduced in the future, and the definition of pirates outside the territory will also need to be changed?"

"Did you learn military terminology in white? What nonsense are you talking about? Pirates are pirates, and extraterritorial alliances are extraterritorial alliances. A wandering organization with no position or control is not the same as a government that publicly declared alliances 200 years ago. thing."

"The chances of fighting..."

"It's really possible to lower it." A student with a high-ranking member of the Military Commission said affirmatively, and then shrugged his shoulders, his childish face showing the arrogance learned from his elders, "But to be honest Yes, even if there will still be a fight, so what? We have been ahead of the foreign alliance for so many years. They came to try to establish diplomatic relations with us. If they succeeded, they would benefit from our technology and equipment. In terms of nature, I think it is equivalent to the 'tributary' mentioned in the history of the ancient earth."

15-year-old Yahuiquan passed by a group of classmates who were having a heated discussion. He heard the others agree with the term "paying tribute", and thought to himself: "Idiot."

All the theoretical courses of Yahuiquan took two rounds. In the first year when he could only learn the theory repeatedly, Donaldo took him very carefully and supplemented him with a lot of knowledge outside the textbook.

Old General Donaldo has lived almost 200 years. He has seen the most prosperous moment of the Star Alliance, and when his youth is approaching, he can examine the status quo with a more objective attitude and notice the surging undercurrent.

In Donaldo's eyes, Yahuiquan is like a seedling. No one needs to pick it up. He grows up crazily by himself. Occasionally, he does extracurricular development for Yahuiquan. The old general is afraid that his self-reliance is too strong The seedlings have grown up, but there is a crisis of growing crookedly, and those more grand and profound viewpoints will be brought out, trying to construct a more sober and calm overall view for students.

Young Ya Huiquan is proud but not blind. When most of his classmates claim to be "superior" and comment with condescension on the upcoming foreign joint exchange group, he can stay out of the sense of superiority more rationally.

Judging from this result, he can be regarded as not wasting the painstaking efforts of the teacher.

In Ya Huiquan's memory, this matter was discussed everywhere in the school during that time, as if no matter where he went, he could always hear a voice chatting about the progress of the "Cultural Trial Dating".

Except for those who talked about the possibility of war in the future, and those who regarded the equal cultural trial as a kind of "tributary" activity, a group of young people who had not yet left the campus were actually discussing the future development and the direction of the situation with naive ideas.

There are also some people who are more interested in cultural exchange itself than discussing the current situation, and feel very mysterious about people and materials from outside the region.

The group of "theoretical visionaries" in front were so noisy that Master Ya had a headache. When he saw the former, his stinky face stretched longer, and he could start releasing air-conditioning ahead of time at a distance of five or six meters. Machine, walked around the other side with a cold and impatient face.

Passing by each other is still very fast, and I am very worried that the virus of ignorance will be transmitted by air and saliva.

Once, someone in the "Dreamers" noticed Ya Huiquan approaching and tried to lure him into the group, and he only had time to say "hey" in greeting.

Hengguang Academy is a military school, and the school uniform is also a military uniform. There are metal buttons on the cuffs and shoulders of the coat. The other party's hand that wanted to pat Yahuiquan's shoulder fell to nothing, and only the metal button on the sleeve collided with Yahuiquan's shoulder. , making a buzzing sound of metal colliding, and the words after "hey" could not be continued immediately, Yahuiquan had already strayed away.

"What are you calling him for?" said a man who couldn't get used to Ya Huiquan's aggressive appearance, "You put your hand on someone's shoulder to show that you have a good relationship, and he is probably thinking, just you, how dare you put your paw on him? ?”

"Yes." The people next to him echoed, "Besides, what does he know? Does anyone in his family keep him updated?"

After saying this, there was silence for a few seconds.

Yahuiquan in front of him seemed to have a clairvoyant ear. He didn't look back, but turned his straight back under the uniform towards the group of people behind him, holding two data pads with homework recorded under his arms.

But he stopped.

When the student who spoke last saw Yahuiquan suddenly stopped, he was actually a little bit embarrassed, and his companions repeatedly bumped him with their arms, signaling him that enough is enough, and let the matter go on.

However, when I was a teenager, I am afraid that "youthful and vigorous" and "impulsive and brainless" are common problems of teenagers. When this person was persuaded by his companions, he became rebellious and insisted on continuing the conversation. "Oh, look at my brain—Master Ya, don't you still have an artificial intelligence? If the AI ​​becomes a hacker and does something illegal for you, you can still get the latest news and have the first Is it the first-hand news channel? If it fails, it will be blamed for the AI ​​​​out of control. After destroying it, you can replace it with a new one. Anyway, it’s just a broken artificial intelligence..."

The following words could not be finished, because a data tablet flew past his ear and smashed into the wall against which the man was leaning.

boom!

The sudden splashing of the data board components and the loud noise at close range made people's heads buzz, and the boy stood there in a daze - including his companions.

After a few minutes, or maybe just a few seconds, he gradually felt as if warm water was flowing down his ears, and his reaction was delayed by more than a beat, so he wanted to reach out to touch it.

But the wrist seemed to be bitten by shackles, and the arm was snapped back.

Only a few seconds had passed in real time, and Ya Huiquan, who had dropped the data board, had already returned to the front in three or two steps, and slapped the unresponsive person back to the wall like a data board, and then raised his clenched fist——

In this fight, the other party ended up in the school hospital and lay down in the medical cabin for a full six hours, while Yahuiquan was called to receive a reprimand, listened to the scolding for an hour, and wrote a [-]-word examination. They were all fined half a month of on-campus labor as the end.

In this regard, whether it is about the "Angel of Peace" or the "Cultural Trial Diplomacy", no one has mentioned this matter in front of Yahuiquan. Even those who don't care about the situation and only care about the content of the exchange itself, they listen After hearing the rumors that "Ya Huiquan fought violently because he didn't want to participate in the real-time communication", they also kept a respectful distance from this uncle who was not easy to provoke and had strong combat effectiveness, and shut up automatically when they saw him from a distance.

The reason why Ya Huiquan actually fought has nothing to do with the "cultural trial" of course. He was furious because of the nonsense behind the other party. The other party called Baili a "broken artificial intelligence". pour hot oil on his anger.

His punishment for fighting was notified to the Academic Affairs Office to file a copy, to report to Mr. Donaldo who took good care of him, and to send a copy to the family at the same time - sent back to Monte, and reported to the electronic housekeeper.

After Baili took the initiative to reconcile with the young master, the artificial intelligence took the lead in reflecting on its mistakes, and it was very likely that it had something to do with seeing this punishment notice.

In any case, for a long time, Yahuiquan has not heard of any new developments in the cultural trial exchange project.

When he learned of important information related to it, he only heard bad news.

Under the attention of the public, the "Peace Angel" was attacked by large-scale pirates during the voyage. Together with its eight frigates, they were all sunk under heavy fire.

"Angel of Peace" has a name that carries a beautiful sustenance. It is the only unarmed ship in the fleet. By.

They were all blasted into a cloud of cosmic fireworks along with the Peace Angel, and were wiped out in a gorgeous and ominous light.

No one on board survived.

The death list spread to the Star Alliance along with the restless wind. In this tragic terrorist attack, the youngest victim was reported to be only five years old. He was the child of a couple with a rare gene carrier. On the highest protection list of the Extraterrestrial Union, it is said that the heterogeneous genes they carry are derived from a primitive species that was completely extinct 600 years ago.

The original species corresponding to the gene has long been extinct, and the gene carriers have been searched all over the universe. At first, there were only the couple, and their children were added later. There are three children in total, which are really rare and precious.

They traveled as members of a delegation, which was supposed to symbolize the sincerity of exchanges. However, sincerity ran into the muzzle of unknown pirates, the opportunity for peaceful exchanges that was only won through the hard work of generations, and the peace that they did not have time to actually meet and appeal to each other. Willing...they're all fried to pieces.

The hope that appears for a short time is like a short-lived epiphyllum, and it withers in a hurry.

Because the pirates came at a strange time, their firepower rationing was almost prepared in comparison with the frigate arsenal rationing. They also accurately grasped the delegation's navigation route, and ambushed just before their next transition point, completely catching them off guard.

Is someone manipulating it behind the scenes?

Who leaked the information?

If someone really reported to the pirates in advance and made connections with them, which party is responsible for this, and who is responsible for the blood-stained angel?

No one can tell, only the situation is getting more and more turbulent.

The incident was later named the "Scarlet Angel", and the bombed Peace Angel will remain forever in the history of both parties.

It effectively fueled greater hatred and laid the groundwork for more violent conflicts to come.

The 15-year-old Yahuiquan ended the vacation of that school year. With the teacher's constant reminders, the boy's eyes saw the coming wind and rain from afar.

Later, in 358, 28 years after the Scarlet Angel incident, in that deep-sea ruins, for a short moment, countless responsibilities were already heavy on his shoulders, and Yahuiquan, who was enough to support these responsibilities, he After Wo Xiu said the question of "what would you do if you didn't fight?", he glanced at the other party, and briefly remembered this big event recorded in history.

If the Angel of Peace in 330 hadn't been stained with blood and the exchange had gone smoothly, the commander of the extraterritorial alliance would have been only five years old at the time—Ya Huiquan had seen the other party's date of birth when researching the other party's information.

The successful establishment of diplomatic relations will make the barely maintained peace and stability continue for at least 20 years, which just covers the golden stage of a person's study and career choice, and the other party may study a more imaginative major and develop his creativity in other fields and talking ability.

Wo Xiu didn't answer his idea of ​​"another possibility" at that time, and Yahuiquan didn't ask, but Yahuiquan arrived at the Star Alliance from the "Peace Angel" and set off, and even made some ideas for others without authorization.

He himself doesn't know where his brain is so empty, even thinking about this kind of thing.

So of course, the content of this idea was quickly sealed by General Ya with a straight face.

He never said a word to Wo Xiu.

Time is really too fast, and many years have passed in a blink of an eye, the world has turned upside down several times, the Star Alliance and the Outer Territory Alliance are no longer fighting, such as the "Scarlet Angel", which is a more sensitive event, it will never be forgotten, but it is indeed happening It has been intentionally weakened, using brand new and normal interactions to dilute the blood accumulated in past conflicts.

"We have started to cooperate with the literature and research center jointly established outside the region. After the two sides shared some information, we have a discovery that... we still need to collect more evidence to support it, but we have been able to make preliminary inferences." Voluntarily mentioned "Scarlet Angel "Vice President Ning folded his hands.

The topic was carefully prepared by him, and the meeting invitation was also invited by him on his own initiative. However, when he really talked about the details, he paused for a moment, and first set his eyes on the face of the general on the opposite cliff, as if he was carefully exploring the reaction.

General Yashang had excellent facial expression management skills, and looked at Vice President Ning coldly.

Vice President Ning had no choice but to continue: "This new discovery may be able to reverse the case for your parents. Back then, they believed that they had contacts with outsiders, including accidental attacks...the result was wrong,"

The word that was vaguely used by Vice President Ning was "unequal distribution of spoils".

He continued: "The so-called 'discovering a close contact signal from outside the territory' in the personal terminal', after inadvertently comparing a set of internal coding materials provided by the extraterritorial alliance, we found that the signal back then may not point to some uncontrolled Unorganized armed forces, but a joint legal citizen outside the territory whose whereabouts are relatively uncertain, because the coordinates of the opponent often change, it will give people the illusion of 'running' like interstellar pirates."

"Your parents, more likely out of the hope of peaceful exploration, actively communicated with cultural practitioners who were united outside the region to promote the cultural trial exchange project."

"Your father was also one of the earliest advocates of 'Cultural Trial Dating'."

After the end of Vice President Ning's words, the administrative office became silent.

Only the noise from the outside venue broke through the gap of the window that was not tightly sealed, and a slight sound of popularity was transmitted in.

Yahuiquan still had little expression on his face, showing no emotion.

In the distant Ya's house, Wo Xiu had already finished reading the scan data of his first month in Yahuiquan's house. Zhong, found that the pre-processing time of the reserved ingredients was up, so he let the screen full of dense numerical values ​​float in the air for a while, went to the kitchen by himself, turned on the open flame button on the stove, adjusted it to high flame, and then operated it with his claws The food self-service dispenser on the side takes out a whole piece of fresh beef that was delivered to the door by the delivery robot in the morning, and prepares to wait for the fire to boil the water in the deep-caliber pot, and then throw the beef in to blanch.

Baili and Woxiu heard the reminder at the same time, but the electronic housekeeper was doing housework in another corner of the house, multitasking and cleaning.

When the AI ​​​​turned over the program, the cat had already arrived in the kitchen first, and told Baili through the previous screen: "I'll do it."

"Thank you for your help, Mr. Li." The electronic housekeeper moved slowly to the kitchen, and simply helped Wo Xiu bring over the materials that he hadn't finished reading, and let the screen of the re-delivered materials hang in the kitchen.

This is just convenient for Wo Xiu to stay in the kitchen and continue to read his scan report without going out.

As an artificial intelligence, Baili deserves to be a master at data integration. Woxiu said that he needs to check all his previous scan data. When Baili showed him the data, he just arranged the pure numerical items by date and cut them out. Other irrelevant information was discarded, and a purely waterless data summary was sent to him.

Other "watery materials" such as medical consultation manuals from professional veterinary medical institutions, medical certificates issued by veterinary doctors, and medical orders are placed at the end of the data list by Baili for Wo Xiu to read before. Select the content as needed.

"Speaking of which, I've always had a question." Baili stayed in the kitchen for a moment, watched the cat calmly read the information by the open fire, and then a mechanical arm came out again, and a temperature indicator lighted up on the wrist. Detector, the AI ​​pointed to the red reading on the detector, and said curiously, "Mr. Li, this is not the first time you have stayed very close to an open flame. You have never felt that an open flame is scary, or that the temperature near a fire If it's too high, will it pose a threat to yourself?"

Wo Xiu quickly scanned another page of information, and he decided to drag out the document that Baili specially attached at the end to take a look. While deciding which one to open first among the several attachments, he answered Baili nonchalantly: "Indeed Neither."

The mechanical arm shook in confusion: "Why?"

"Because I've come back from the fire twice." Wo Xiu said, setting his next browsing goal, and opened the pet hospital's consultation brochure.

"Huo is my old friend." He finished this sentence in a suddenly complicated tone, and his eyes fell on the screen interface.

Baili was still confused, trying to analyze his words, he roughly scanned the patient information in the manual——

[Patient's name: Li Dandan]

Well, it's okay, his mental quality is really strong, and he can already accept this name with peace of mind.

[Age: less than two months old, in the transitional period of weaning]

...Weaning is okay, special treatment in special cases is still acceptable.

[Special note: This patient is not an ordinary animal patient, and should not be treated as a pure pet. You should try to give it the same respect and care as a human being, so as not to hurt the partner's emotions]

Wait, why is there a special note?

... What else is called "other partner emotion"?

Wo Xiu scanned the patient's information at a glance, and when he saw the last place, he felt that he had overlooked something, and slowly sat up straight.

He quickly turned back, starting from the first line, and carefully read the information again.

Finally, after "Characteristics" and before "Special Note", Wo Xiu found the column listed as "Relationship".

It says--

[Relationship: General Yahuiquan's legal spouse, public partner]

There is also a fine print below:

[Married cat lovers, please do not shoot, pet, tease and do other behaviors beyond the scope of seeing a doctor at will, otherwise it will be regarded as harassing other people's partners without authorization and suspected of interfering in military marriages. 】