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

"what happened?"

Ya Huiquan stared at the floating window for a little longer, and the flickering screen light shone on his face, making his confused eyes invisible for a moment, and Wo Xiu, who was sitting next to him, could see it clearly.

Wo Xiu consciously turned his eyes away when Yahuiquan was fiddling with the terminal, and didn't look directly at the window that was suspected to be transferred to the email interface, but observing Yahuiquan was a bit instinctive for him, and he didn't look directly at it. , the eyes were moved away, and the corner of the field of vision that was naturally wider than ordinary people could still cover that person in a vain way. He took the other person into his eyes without authorization and secretly, and could not help but seem to capture the other person's movements in real time.

When Yahuiquan heard Wo Xiu's question, he realized that he was a little distracted. He twitched his brows habitually, and quickly scanned the mailbox of "Yao Wu Mao Xin" back and forth, and shot off the screen unhappy. up.

"Nothing," he said curtly.

Ya Huiquan didn't want people to know, because he found out that he hadn't received a message from a cat for seven days, and not only did he not have a trace of a cat in his email, nor even the cat-like condolences conveyed by the electronic housekeeper. And feel a little lost and dissatisfied.

Li Dandan is a smart cat, although for various reasons, it can't implant a chip like a real pet cat, wear a positioning device, so that its shit-shoveling officer, even though it is thousands of miles away from it, can't I can glance at the location from time to time to see where it went to play today.

At the same time, it has no way to install a personal terminal on the body like a human being, to use the terminal equipment flexibly, and to send and receive messages and make calls with people at will.

But Li Dandan, who has no contact information for private cats, can operate all smart home appliances at home that do not require "five-finger dexterity" by virtue of his ingenuity. With the help of Li, he can accomplish more things that ordinary cats can't do.

Li Dandan himself can't communicate with people, and letting the cat type on the keyboard is too embarrassing for Li Dandan's cat claw in Yahuiquan's view, but there are hundreds of miles at home, and there is an electronic housekeeper with superior performance. Baili made a call for Li Dandan, and the AI ​​completed the connection operation first and then let the cat appear on the scene. Is there any difficulty?

If it is the AI ​​and the cat, they both feel that it is not good to make long-distance calls when Yahuiquan is dispatched to lead a team to perform missions, and there are often delays in inter-planetary communication, and Yahuiquan may not have so much time to pick them up. A phone call of "3 minutes, half an hour delay" was just to take a look at Li Dandan's cat's face - regardless of whether their speculation was right or not, Ya Huiquan asked himself, and felt that it was worthwhile to take a look at the cat despite the delay.

Then instead of calling, Baili sent a greeting letter with a little bit of cat daily life, relaying a few cats meowing and nagging at home for Li Dandan, and sending a copy of Li Dandan’s daily life, what is this beyond? Is it difficult to achieve the electronic butler service level?

Ya Huiquan felt that all the above were not difficult, so he was even more puzzled.

As soon as the little emotions in my heart popped up, it was like spying on the weeds in the ground not far away in spring. On the surface, nothing could be seen, but underneath it began to rive.

So during the middle and late part of the return voyage, General Ya added doubts about the cat, and his mood was more uncertain than the weather changes on a natural planet.

This "unpredictable" state reached its peak when the fleet passed the checkpoint space station outside the Monte star and was about to pass through the Monte atmosphere.

With less than half an hour left before the official landing on the surface of Monte, Yahuiquan's personal terminal was quiet, and there was only one email in his e-mail box, which was displayed as "read" and sent by him unilaterally.

The mail was sent three hours ago, and the fleet had already jumped to the territory of the first galaxy. Ya Huiquan deliberately sent a message to the family mailbox at home. It is rare for someone to hint something before landing. What time does he arrive.

After sending the letter, General Ya began to wait quietly. He kept his appearance calm and checked the mailbox every 45 minutes to once an hour.

It was shocking. After three full hours, he waited for nothing.

Yahuiquan: "..."

General Ya personally couldn't accept this result very well. He even had a brief connection with the engineering department to make indirect remarks about the current stable level of the signal.

The operator of the engineering department is a stickler who focuses on technology. He has no idea that his general may be suffering from a family crisis. He happily reported: "Report! The overall state of the front star field is stable, and the signal transmission is stable. The galaxy that started construction the year before last The speed-up of the cross-satellite signal has achieved initial results!"

Yahuiquan had no time to share the joy of technological improvement with the technicians after listening to the report that was beneficial to people's livelihood.

With his hands behind his back, he moved every knuckle quietly, and the doubts in his heart continued unabated.

He thought: "What's going on, I led a team out for a trip, and someone who claims to have the most perfect security and the highest average literacy of residents in the Star League attacked my house, and kidnapped my AI and cat?"

Otherwise, how can you explain that he is going home and there is no movement at his house?

Could something have happened at home - this guess entered General Ya's mind.

But he thought it over and over again, and found it weird.

Not to mention other places on Mount Monte, as a place where dignitaries and celebrities gather, the security is first-class. The admiral’s mansion is well-secured, and a large area around the house is private territory. There are security robots around the clock. Patrol, there is an electronic butler inside to control the whole family.

There is also a ground garrison defense team in Mount Monte, which can activate the ground space field after receiving an emergency summons, jump to the scene of the incident immediately, and use powerful methods to deal with the situation.

Taking a step back, there is really a very low probability of an attack happening. The security system of the house is directly connected to Yahuiquan's personal terminal, and Baili's program also has an "emergency warning" file, which will notify Yahuiquan when the program encounters an attack. Huiquan.

In any case, Yahuiquan shouldn't be silent.

He quickly ruled out the possibility that someone attacked his house while he was out.

So, it's not a security issue, it's not an external issue...it's an internal issue, is Baili and Li Dandan ignoring him for personal reasons?

General Ya slowly came to an astonishing conclusion—even more shocking than the previous one.

He shook himself into a human sculpture for a minute, completely unacceptable, and his mood was fixed at "heavy rain", and he went to direct and prepare to cross the atmosphere with a cold face.

Regardless of whether it was Wings of Glory or the special forces, both sides knew that their trip was fruitful and the mission went well.

A special forces commander Woxiu was picked up from the mission site, and a team of anti-human elements was also captured. The news announcements related to it have swept across the entire star, and the news is flying faster than the fleet. You must remember the merits and win the first peace meritorious service in the beginning of the year.

However, after listening to General Ya's orders in the command ship of Glorious Wings and seeing General Ya's cold face through the screen, everyone had the illusion that they had failed in this mission and suffered a terrible loss.

"Boss." The special forces have a more "lively" atmosphere, unlike the soldiers next door who are forced to follow the general, and when General Ya's face is put down, they all have to be silent.

Wo Xiu was quietly asked by his subordinates: "What happened to the guy next door? Why is he about to land in the end? Everything seems to be going well, but he has such an expression?"

Someone on the other side helped him and muttered in a low voice: "Look at that face, I thought they helped us get back a boss, but in the end they had to 'buy one get one free', as if they were going to pay for their top person in charge .”

"..." Wo Xiu was poked by the metaphor of the person behind him, he quickly adjusted, stretched his legs and kicked the person's ass as if nothing had happened, "According to what you said, this is called giving one and getting one back. Shining Wings is actually as generous as a charitable angel institution."

The other party was kicked by Wo Xiu, danced and jumped forward a few steps, barely standing still.

Wo Xiu looked around at this group of gossips who had set up the parameters of atmospheric crossing, and were ready to be "hands-off shopkeepers" for a while, letting the ship run according to the settings for a while.

He suddenly realized a problem: "Speaking of which, why did you come here and ask me about General Ya next door? I've been absent for almost a year and a half. Why do you acquiesce that I have great powers and can continue to figure out other people's thoughts as soon as I come back? "

The two people who asked the question just now were members outside the "inner circle", and they were not among the first batch of people who learned of Wo Xiu's secret return.

The fact that Wo Xiu is Li Dandan has only been made public in the inner circle so far. His self-ridicule about "Ya Scholar" and other maintenance of Yahuiquan all happened in the inner circle.

But what's going on, when the ordinary members encountered something related to General Ya, they also tacitly asked the boss directly, and felt that Wo Xiu could answer everything related to Yahuiquan?

Everyone on the bridge—whether core or non-core—had listened to the boss's question, and gave Wo Xiu a disbelieving expression in unison.

"Are you kidding, Boss?" said one of the rank-and-file members. "You have been absent for so long, what's the conflict with you being the one among us who knows General Ya the best?"

Wo Xiu was actually asked.

A good-natured person also said: "I see the people inside the Shining Wing next door, and you may not know their boss like you."

Wo Xiu's first reaction was that he was a little speechless and amused. He didn't expect that the self-proclaimed "Yahuiquan research expert" could still achieve a large-scale consensus.

When he heard the latter sentence, Wo Xiu paused slightly. After he laughed, a place in his heart suddenly collapsed, as if he had been lightly pinched by two slender fingertips.

A person who has died on the surface, but the person who knows Yahuiquan best among the consensus.

During the many days that Wo Xiu left, no one tried to approach him like him, and kept thinking about this person's thoughts and heart.

"What would I do without me?" Wo Xiu thought for a moment.

He knew it was a little too self-important, too much of himself.

However, the target is Yahuiquan, who always has a way to live alone. He feels that he still has some qualifications to think about it for a moment.

When Ya Huiquan received Wo Xiu's private communication, the personal terminal lit up a projection on his wrist. He was looking at something before picking up the communication, and the metal buttons on his cuffs were shiny and reflective.

It is naturally impossible to build an interconnecting bridge for ships on the way. Unless the ship is in extreme situations such as severe energy shortage and loss of mobility, it must operate as an independent unit to maximize the stability of the navigation state.

Before the fleet landed, Yahuiquan and Wo Xiu could only communicate through the terminal. When he picked up the communication, he thought that there was something wrong with Wo Xiu, and it needed a direct connection between the commanders to coordinate and deal with it.

"Speak." Ya Huiquan said concisely to the audio port, and he dragged out the command window that can directly reach the entire fleet, waiting for Wo Xiu to talk about the problem.

The video window was switched on after the audio, and Wo Xiu's face appeared on the newly added floating screen.

The moment Ya Huiquan saw Wo Xiu's person, he felt that he might be worrying too much - Wo Xiu propped his head on the other side of the screen, leaning on the commander's wide-backed chair, it really didn't look like he had work to coordinate appearance.

Ya Huiquan cautiously stopped the hand that retrieved the order list.

I heard Wo Xiu say, "Are you in a bad mood?"

"...You just said this?" Ya Huiquan completely moved his hand away from the instruction sheet, so as not to touch it by mistake. After he asked Wo Xiu angrily, he still felt that the words were familiar, as if he himself had not long ago Where have I heard it.

"The ship is now basically in an automatic navigation state. The distance from the atmosphere to the ground can be sailed according to the setting. Obviously, there is no risk factor near Monte." Woxiu said, "I'm here to care about you."

In front of Yahuiquan, he could still keep listening indifferently, but at the end of hearing it, he was covered in goose bumps.

Thankful for his foresight to remove the instruction sheet, Ya Huiquan frowned and said, "Speak well."

"I didn't talk badly." Wo Xiu retorted calmly, and he lowered his arms that were slack in supporting his head. "You are prejudiced against modal particles."

What Yahuiquan did was to listen to the preparations for the coordination work. He never expected that Wo Xiu would come to chat. Even though he was indeed not busy at the meeting, Wo Xiu's analysis earlier was indeed reasonable. Extremely high, ships that have entered the docking orbit can return to the sending and receiving point as long as they sail automatically.

But he has never had the experience of chatting with people at this stage, and he didn't like chatting with people before.

For some reason, Ya Huiquan should have hung up the communication directly, and let Woxiu, who was still emphasizing that modal particles have no distinction between high and low, play with Air, and let the other party use modal particles all over Air.

But he still endured it silently, sitting in his chair and listening to Wo Xiu's blah blah.

Wo Xiu's communication was just right to some extent.

Yahuiquan was indeed in a bad mood.

Just a quarter of an hour before Wo Xiu sent the communication application, General Ya, who was suspected of having a family crisis, experienced a long wait, and a message popped up on his personal terminal, reminding him that he had finally received a reply from the family mailbox of Ya’s family. .

The person who replied was Baili. The electronic housekeeper warmly congratulated him on his smooth return and told him that the house had been cleaned up. He hadn't replied before because he was busy with housework and tidying up. He wanted to present him with the most stable and comfortable rest environment when he returned.

Baili was very considerate, and said that the dinner was already in preparation. If Yahuiquan could directly enter the rest stage after landing, other things would follow the practice of star performers. After landing, they should rest for 48 hours before proceeding. Report to work, then when Yahuiquan arrives home, dinner should be ready, and the picky young master who returns home can have a delicious meal produced by himself.

Ya Huiquan read Baili's reply twice, and accurately picked out the highlights from Baili's long-winded thoughtfulness.

He wrote back and asked Baili, "Where is Li Dandan?"

The other end of Baili was like a stuck machine, and the "read" mark appeared for another two or three minutes before the electronic butler replied evasively: "Mr. Li is not in a good position to reply to you at the moment."

Yahuiquan frowned, doubts flashed in his heart, he asked: "What is inconvenience?"

Baili seemed to be embarrassed by the question, and the artificial intelligence seemed to be fighting against its honest nature.

In the end, Ya Huiquan saw a new message popped up in his mailbox, and Baili told him with apology: "Mr. Li went out to play, and it is not there now."

Ya Huiquan tried to analyze this sentence with his own understanding, and he also combined his previous "irrelevant" guesses, and some rumors he had read when he checked the information about raising cats.

He has a magical and sad deduction direction——

His cat, hasn't seen him for a while, plus he's been out twice as long as promised...

As a cat that was originally raised outdoors and seems to be unable to remember things at a young age, Li Dandan gradually became obsessed with the outside world...

Gradually, he became too obsessed, became wild, and ruthlessly forgot the shit-shoveling officer who had been out for too long?

For any shit-shoveling officer, this kind of inference is not a heavy blow.

Ya Huiquan further confirmed that the crux of his problem of not caring about cats is internal. He may have changed from the "important person" before going out in Li Dandan's heart to "dispensable, as long as I give me food, drink and shelter." people".

After thinking about it carefully, from the cat's perspective, the other party's food, drink and accommodation may be in Baili, which is enthusiastically provided by the electronic housekeeper.

The second half of the above sentence is not valid, and Yahuiquan only has the title of "dispensable".

General Ya analyzed himself until he was suffocated, and he was sitting numbly on a chair according to the worst scenario he imagined, with a cold surface and a depressed heart.

It was at this time that Wo Xiu's communication was sent.

Yahuiquan couldn't tell what kind of mentality he was in. He looked at Wo Xiu and listened to the other party unconsciously as if he was a mood regulator. At a very subtle moment, he actually had the feeling that Wo Xiu was talking to Li Dandan. Relay" illusion.

Li Dandan is the mood regulator of the previous generation, General Ya's intimate little padded jacket, and a cat who can only rescue people's precarious emotions in time.

But the cat is suspected to be on strike. The kitten has grown up in just a few days away from people, and has the idea of ​​​​exploring the world by itself.

Wo Xiu came uninvited, handed over to work seamlessly, and filled the vacancy of "no cat care" in Yahuiquan.

Ya Huiquan felt that his idea of ​​the relay was a bit strange, and he adjusted his posture slightly on the seat, trying to push this weird idea out of his brain by changing his posture.

Just as he changed his posture, at a very clever angle, Wo Xiu accidentally saw the floating screen that was previously blocked by his shoulder.

Before Ya Huiquan picked up Wo Xiu's communication, he and Baili's communication window and two data screens had not been put away, and after the call with Wo Xiu was connected, he just put these things aside, No wave off.

Wo Xiu suddenly saw a chat window, and his eyesight was too good. The words "Baili" on the top of the window and the sentence "Mr. Li is out to play" at the bottom immediately hit his eyes.

Before Wo Xiu could react, his field of vision was too wide, and the text content on the screen next to him also entered his eyes simultaneously, being received by his eyes and brain without authorization.

It was a screen projecting a search interface, and the owner's previous search terms were still kept on it.

The content of the entry that General Ya humbly searched before is——

[How long does it take for a cat to forget its owner without seeing its owner? 】

Wo Xiu: "..."

Wo Xiu: "..."

Wo Xiu shuddered, checked the time urgently, and found that there were no more than 10 minutes before the fleet landed.

It must not be long before Ya Huiquan returns home.

What is the mentality of those unlucky candidates who fell asleep soundly in the examination room, woke up suddenly before closing the papers, and started scratching their heads at the blank papers? Wo Xiu, who was intoxicated in the dream of reunion for a few days, finally remembered Li Dan suddenly The same is true for people who have problems.

He took advantage of Yahuiquan not paying attention, and took a deep breath that could challenge the interstellar breath-holding contest.

"What's wrong with you?" Yahuiquan asked suddenly, who was "not paying attention".

Wo Xiu almost lost his temper.

"...Nothing." He said with difficulty.

Then I added in my heart: "I was just thinking about how to deal with a matter of life and death."

Ya Huiquan couldn't read Wo Xiu's heart, and couldn't empathize with the ups and downs of the opposite person at the moment.

From his point of view, he only felt that Wo Xiu's state was a bit weird, as if some kind of hidden disease suddenly broke out.

The air pressure balance adjustment next door is not done well, or is this person just returned from a homeless life, and his body functions are still being adjusted by the medical cabin, so his condition is not as good as before?

Yahuiquan was even a little worried.

He spoke with imperceptible concern, and said, "If you feel uncomfortable, turn off the screen now and adjust the medical cabin. There is no shame in lying down and reaching the ground."

Wo Xiu glanced back at Yahuiquan, and heard concern, but his heart softened at the same time.

He said in his heart that I don't need the medical bay yet, but if I can't think of a solution, I promise you will send me into the medical bay yourself.