The Name of the Rose [Interstellar]

〖I don't feel regret, pain and sorrow

The flowers are blown away and the song is over

Golden autumn covers the earth, tomorrow is coming

I will never be young again.

——Yesenin "I Don't Feel Regret, Pain, and Sorrow"〗

There are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.

Not long ago, the two people who were at war with swords and sneered at each other, now huddled together, staring at the screen in front of them with the same expression.

They have entered their secrets into the computer and are waiting for it to produce results.

During the conversation with Joey, Xue Yuan played some tricks.

When playing chess, he knew a trick to distract opponents: making repetitive rhythmic sounds or small movements while their opponents were thinking about their moves.

For example, tapping a table seemingly inadvertently, or repeatedly flicking a piece next to a chessboard with the same frequency.

It's a nasty trick, but it's effective and insidious: the opponent is often unwittingly driven to think faster and end up making an ill-advised decision.

He did the same trick on Joey.

The rhythmic knocking sound, the continuous splashing of water drops, and the approaching water flow will give people a sense of urgency.What's more, Joey was already tormented by stress and anxiety.

Not only that, Xue Yuan deliberately made Joey feel that he wanted to tell him something, but changed his mind.

Human beings all have a kind of "lost aversion", and they often have an extremely strong obsession with things that "almost got it, but didn't get it in the end".

This is why hesitation can be so irritating to the other party: the other party feels that they have lost some information.

As expected, Joey accepted such a hint, and almost impatiently made a request to exchange secrets.

However, the secret he revealed was a bit beyond Xue Yuan's expectation: he also held a plane equation in his hands.

"But don't ask me where I know that, that's another matter." He said with a cold face.

When Xue Yuan entered the two plane equations into the computer, Joey's heart was frozen.

Although a single equation seems to be unable to explain anything, maybe two equations together will be different, and there may be something earth-shattering.

At the moment when the result of the calculation was displayed on the screen, he hallucinated himself as a prophet with insight into the ultimate universe, waved the sword of truth in his hand, and broke through the mysterious method of the kingdom of gods.

Soon, soon.

The time to save all mankind is coming!

...but it's of no use.

The facts are as they see before their eyes: two planes intersect in the three-dimensional coordinate system, and that’s it, it’s gone.

"What exactly does this mean?" Joey frowned, Huhu stared at Xue Yuan, "Just want to tell us that these two planes will intersect?"

Xue Yuan stared back unceremoniously: "How would I know? Do you think I have more information than you?"

"That's hard to say," Joey muttered a little discouraged. "You're always hiding it.—Couldn't you make up a random equation to fool me?"

"Hey, are you doubting the meaning of your allies by saying that?" Xue Yuan said with dissatisfaction, "Although a plane equation is common, it can't be made up casually, right? The exchange of information was proposed by you, no matter what Look, you should be the one who came prepared. If you say doubts, I should doubt you."

Joey made a stop gesture, "Okay, it's my fault. I don't need to be suspicious, and I don't need to be suspicious. Let's trust you. So what should we do now? These two plane equations don't seem to tell us anything."

Xue Yuan pondered for a moment, "I think there should be an equation. The intersection of three planes is a point, so we will get a coordinate."

A plane or a straight line may not refer to anything conclusively, but the information revealed by a coordinate point must be much clearer.

"That is to say, we have to find a third party?" Joey was in a bad mood.He has already worked so hard to find Xue Yuan, and now he has to search for a third person who is not sure whether he exists without the slightest clue.This is simply looking for a needle in a haystack, and it is an unnecessary needle.

Xue Yuan sighed: "I'm just proposing a possibility. As for whether it's feasible or not, no one can say right now, so we can only take one step at a time."

"Do you take one step and watch one step..." Joey smiled, "That's not like what you would say. I heard from those who played chess with you that you have to watch at least three moves when you take one step. Maybe, you Are you already predicting my next move in your heart?"

Joey's concerns are obvious.Now, both he and Xue Yuan have mastered the two plane equations, and whoever finds the third party first will seize the opportunity.

Xue Yuan's tone turned cold, "I thought we were in the same camp now. You can keep your guard against me for other things, but you don't have to worry about this matter alone." Tap the mouse on the screen , cleared all usage records, "This equation is the only thing my father left me, and I want to decipher its true purpose more than anyone else."

The two looked at each other again.This time, no one hastily averted their eyes.

In chess, the knight is a very special existence.When most of the chess pieces are crowded in the center of the chessboard, only the knights can turn and jump around, without being affected by the road blockage.

The current situation is like a closed chess game with no way forward.If I could get a knight—

Perhaps, it can really be the key to opening up the situation.

The printer creaked and spit out a prescription.

Anna tore it off, signed it and handed it to Xue Yuan: "Take this to get the medicine. Remember not to use too much, you will become dependent after a long time."

Xue Yuan rubbed his temples and sat up.When he was stressed, his bipolar mood disorder would attack, and his whole person was like a crazy needle, oscillating between the two extremes of mania and depression.

In order to prevent this from happening, he regularly visits Anna to prescribe some preventive medicine.

"By the way, do you think I have a dual personality?" He asked lightly.

Anna was a little surprised by this question, "It needs to be confirmed through a psychiatric diagnosis. If you want, I will arrange another doctor for you." According to regulations, psychologists cannot diagnose and treat their relatives and friends, and must avoid them.

Xue Yuan shook his head: "No need. I can't trust others."

"What's the matter, do you suspect you have a dual personality?" Anna asked anxiously, "I haven't found any such signs."

"Not at all?"

Anna moved her chair back, trying to think about the words as concisely as possible, "How to put it, everyone's spiritual level is actually impossible to be highly unified. When facing one thing, there are likely to be two things in the heart at the same time." A diametrically opposite emotional experience, such as both joy and self-blame. But hysteria is not so easy to form. Generally speaking, it is either the stimulation of some major events, or long-term strong self-denial, which leads to the appearance of the patient's self-cognition question.—Have you been stimulated in any way?"

"No, my life is going well."

"Have you strongly denied yourself and wished you were someone else?"

"No, I'm strongly narcissistic."

Anna spread her hands, "So I said, you don't seem like someone who will suffer from hysteria. But this is not a clinical diagnosis, it can only be used as a reference."

Xue Yuan didn't say anything else, and picked up the coat on the back of the chair.Anna folded her hands and looked at him seriously, "Compared with dual personality, I think you need to worry more about schizophrenia."

"Schizophrenia can be avoided, but I really hope to learn how to reproduce by splitting." Xue Yuan looked at the flowers in the dressing mirror with great self-pity, "The purpose of living things to produce offspring through sexual intercourse is to diversify genes. My genes It is already so perfect, it only needs to reproduce itself."

Anna sighed: "I understand why Chi Caifan always only said one word to you." She pointed to the door, signaling Xue Yuan to get out quickly, "I also want to tell you that the so-called 'perfect gene' is actually very It may be flawed instead, such as Qi Lian."

Hearing Qi Lian's name unexpectedly, Xue Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately stopped and looked back: "What's wrong with him?"

"Well, don't you think he is always calm, as if he would never panic?" Anna explained, "Emotions such as anxiety and uneasiness can occur even in babies, and have nothing to do with age and experience."

Yes, Xue Yuan also thought about this.Qi Lian was born in the form of an intellectually mature adult, logically, he should instinctively feel anxious and bewildered by the unknown surroundings.Imagine, if an adult suddenly time travel + amnesia, what kind of terrible feeling would it be?

But Qi Lian obviously didn't have such emotional distress.For the outside world, he basically only showed curiosity.As for negative emotions such as anxiety, there is almost no trace.

"So, what's the reason?" he asked eagerly.

"When I gave him a hormone test, I found that he lacked CRF (corticotropin-releasing factor) receptors, did not experience anxiety, and was not prone to mental problems. It is not so much a character advantage, but a gene. defect."

Xue Yuan was speechless.

Qi Lian's genetic sample was determined after thousands of selections.Since Anna can discover this so-called defect, it is impossible for the biological science officers not to notice, unless it is intentional.

It turns out that the genetic modification project is not limited to human physique, but also has biological and spiritual aspects.

Wandering in the long and empty corridor, Xue Yuan was a little lost.

He knew that the transformation of Qi Lian was not over yet.Qi Lian is now like a program that has been put into operation, and will continue to be patched and upgraded to become stronger and stronger.

What will Qi Lian look like after the upgrade?

Will you feel no pain, no joy, no emotion at all?

Can such a person be called a perfect human being?

Just like there is a special field for learning to drive, there is also a training ground for driving mechs.

Seeing Xue Yuan showing up here with Qi Lian, the pilots who were training greeted warmly: "Hey, Little Rose is here! Are you being a trainer for someone today?"

Upon hearing the words "Little Rose", Qi Lian's expression became "...".

Xue Yuan was afraid that he would say something about 20 centimeters in public, so he hurriedly interrupted: "Yeah, yeah, it's the most annoying to take a beginner."

An eye-catching mech has quietly stood in the center of the field.The surface of the armor plate is plated with gold, shining brightly.Qi Lian watched it with anticipation in his eyes.

Xue Yuan dragged out an input interface, and pushed Qi Lian over: "Here, this guy is yours, give it a name you like."

"...(///v///)"

"It can't be Little Rose!!"

"..." Qi Lian could only continue to think hard for a long time, and finally typed "Laika".

Xue Yuan was startled, "Why Laika?"

"Because you seem to like this name very much." Qi Lian whispered cautiously, "I've seen you search for it on the web."

Xue Yuan recalled that he had indeed searched for this name in front of Qi Lian.However, he remembered that Qi Lian seemed to be concentrating on studying at that time, and didn't pay attention to the things around him.

Qi Lian seemed to see his doubts, and explained: "Because you were staring at the webpage at the time, and seemed to have something on your mind, so I took a sneak peek and wanted to know what you were thinking."

...So, is this guy worried?

Xue Yuan stroked his hair silently.Qi Lian enjoyed this kind of caress very much, and bent his eyes comfortably, like a big dog lying leisurely at his master's feet.He didn't seem worried about the upcoming mech pilot training.

Even if normal people are learning to drive, they will feel a little nervous.

"I'm asking you something, have you ever been anxious?" Xue Yuan tried to describe it, "It's just a feeling of...irritability, worry, nervousness, and wanting to find someone to beat up to vent."

Qi Lian's expression was a little surprised, "Why do you want to beat others?"

"It's just an description, it's not really about beating people up. ——Have you ever felt that emotion?"

What's the point of asking Qi Lian such a question, Xue Yuan couldn't tell.But he hoped that Anna's statement was wrong.

Qi Lian's psychological quality is inherently better than that of ordinary people, and he can control negative emotions, not because he lacks certain emotions - he prefers to believe that this is the case.

However, Qi Lian's answer disappointed him a little.

"No." Qi Lian tried hard to think, "I have never experienced the feeling you mentioned. At first, when they locked me in the glass room, I was a little scared. They told me that soon Someone came to talk with me. I am not afraid anymore, I just waited there. Then... you came." The dark green eyes glowed with joy, as if immersed in supreme happiness, "Although you see It sounds a bit fierce, but I still like you very much."

...Really, it's the most troublesome to just say that the guy you like is the most troublesome.

In his memory, when he met this guy for the second time, he said these two words to himself without shame.Up to now, have you made no progress at all?

Xue Yuan clicked the clear button on the input interface, and the "Laika" that Qi Lian typed just now disappeared.He switched to Russian, typed a long word: возлюбленный (beloved), and clicked to confirm.

The system was activated, and the electronic voice sounded: "The name has been confirmed: возлюбленный. Pilot: Qi Lian."

Seeing that his mech was named by Xue Yuan without authorization, Qi Lian didn't care at all, and just asked, "What does that mean?"

"I won't tell you." Xue Yuan gave him a proud look, "After you understand the meaning of this word, come and tell me that you like me. Before that, I won't accept any 'like' you said."

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☆, sad

In movies and anime, psycho-powered mechs are always all kinds of cool, handsome and domineering.The driver only needs to yell coldly or passionately, and the synchronization rate with the mecha will explode.

... However, reality, reality, it is always so cruel.

For the hundredth time, the golden "Lover" fell helplessly in front of the observation platform with its hands and feet straight.This time, it simply stood still.

"Don't pretend to be dead, get up and continue!" Xue Yuan shouted into the headset.

"Tired." There was something that could be called grief and anger in Qi Lian's voice.

Xue Yuan could imagine that it was not easy for Qi Lian, but there was nothing he could do.The various body movements of human beings are already instinctive, and interfering with consciousness will have the opposite effect.You can close your eyes and imagine that you can control your hands and legs to walk consciously, and you will find that it is a difficult thing: you can't quickly react which leg to swing which arm is correct.

After training for a whole half a day, the onlookers went home for dinner in a dispirited manner, and Qi Lian still didn't even learn how to walk.

"I read in the book, isn't there a balancing algorithm for biped robots? Write me a program. _(:з"∠)_" Qi Lian still lay on his stomach.

"If the program is useful, why do you want it?" Xue Yuan lowered his voice, "If you are disobedient, all future kisses and bites will be gone."

"…………"

This threat was so intimidating that the "Lovers" had no choice but to climb up again, listening to Xue Yuan's instructions in the earphone:

"Now try to imagine, raising your left arm. Slow down. Just imagine, hold your own arm, and hold on to the connecting rod."

Qi Lian closed his eyes and concentrated, slowly raising the mechanical arm on the left side of the "Lover" as if manipulating his own body.

"Very good, now take your right leg and walk forward. Good boy, obedient children have meat to eat."

I don't know if it was inspired by the meat, but this time the "Lover" actually staggered to walk.

Like swimming and cycling, once successful, it gradually becomes an instinct.Qi Lian's sense of novelty was hooked up again, his tiredness receded, and he walked around the venue until he was able to run and jump.

"It's really good." Xue Yuan praised, "With this level, you can directly join me in an epic mission tomorrow."

"What task?" Qi Lian's eyes sparkled.

Xue Yuan solemnly raised his finger: "Nature's water porter."

"........."

Joey weighed the heavy items in his hand, lost in thought.

In his hand is a pack of dehydrated compressed food that is standard for the fleet. The standard size is 500 grams, which can provide the nutrients an adult needs to survive for a week.The ingredients mixed with meat, dehydrated vegetables, dairy products and starch are pressed tightly and firmly, and it is a good brick when you lift it.

In the past two days, while counting the ration inventory, Joey discovered a strange thing: the amount of compressed food did not match the account.

At first he thought he had miscalculated.Who would steal compressed food?Now is not a time of famine, the fleet is still abundant in supplies, and the soilless greenhouse can continuously provide fresh vegetable food for the entire fleet.

With fresh food, no one would like to eat compressed ones.The stuff was hard and tasteless, hard to swallow.No matter how well-made compressed jerky is, it can't compare with a raw steak sizzling on an iron plate.

But again, the result is still not right.Only then did he believe that the inventory was really low.

Further investigation made him even more surprised: the several inventory reductions all occurred during Xue Yuan's duty.He did it very cleverly, the books were flat and beautiful, and it was difficult to find problems without paying attention.But because of the relatively large number, they still failed to escape Joey's sharp eyes.

Joey threw the "brick" aside and raised his cheeks.

It's so weird.

This guy doesn't have to worry about food or drink, what is he secretly hoarding compressed food for?

The first thing Joey thought of was that maybe this fox had a premonition that the future of the fleet was not good, so he packed up the soft food and grass early, and planned to grab a small spaceship if the momentum was not good, and escape alone.

But he quickly shot down the idea.If a person like Xue Yuan really had hidden such intentions, it would never be just such a trick.In any case, it must be like Zhang Beihai in "The Three-Body Problem", who directly snatched up an entire warship and ran away, with more than 300 packs of compressed food for nothing.

Joey shook his head, and picked up the "brick" again to play with.

If it is called someone else, even if the other party gives a reason of "I used it as a snack", Joey can accept it.But it is related to Xue Yuan, so one should not draw conclusions lightly.If you assume that the opponent's level is too low, you will also lower your own level as the opponent.

A gust of wind blows from the air conditioner, and the papers on the desk are flying.Joey casually slapped the "brick" on it as a paperweight.

Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he fixed his eyes on the words "500 grams" on the side of the package.

——Who said that food must only be used to fill the stomach?

Chinese people are all familiar with the story of Cao Chong calling an elephant.Stones can be used as weights, but can't these "bricks" with precise weights?

Joey stood up and sprinted a few steps in front of the table with his hands behind his back.

Fox, fox, I seem to see through your tricks.

As in countless ordeals before, the Arctic Fox was ejected by the host ship's accelerator pod into the orbit of a comet.

Emma.Xue Yuan stabilized his mind and internal organs.No matter how many times I've been through it, I can't get used to the feeling of climbing out of the tumble dryer.

The "Lover" appeared in his field of vision ahead of him.The side of the body facing the light source showed a flowing color like liquid gold, and the signal receiver under the side flickered like the taillights of a passenger plane.

It has a pair of small wings spread out behind it, which are folding solar panels.Although the sun has now become like this bird, it can still be used by humans in the end.

This guy is running so happily, it seems that there should be no discomfort.Xue Yuan turned on the intercom channel: "How are you? Do you feel uncomfortable?"

Lover waved its little wings happily: "No, everything is fine." Qi Lian's voice was very relaxed, as if the inhumane ejection process just now was easier for him than eating.

...Damn it, I'm about to have a concussion and stomach perforation, hey!Xue Yuan thought bitterly.

His eyes turned to the other side of the porthole.What is different from more than a month ago is that many comets inside the Oort Nebula have begun to evaporate due to the increasingly powerful solar wind.

The icy comet they were about to land on had a thin and bright mist covering the surface of the comet nucleus.If it is closer to the sun, this layer of fog will spread and spread out, forming a long trail composed of gas and dust that traverses hundreds or even tens of millions of kilometers, which is the comet tail.

Xue Yuan couldn't help feeling worried.When the time comes, the fleet will be surrounded by these big broomsticks flying around, and it won't be a very reassuring sight.

Soon, two mechas landed on the surface of the ice comet.

Xue Yuan thought that Qi Lian would keep asking excitedly, but unexpectedly the channel was very quiet.For several seconds, the Lover stood motionless, like a sculpture frozen in time.

It—or Qi Lian—gazing up at the black sky above.Without the barrier of the atmosphere, the sky here is pure and transparent, dotted with the clear brilliance of the stars.

It took a long time for Xue Yuan to hear his murmuring voice: "This place is beautiful, but very lonely." These words sound familiar, as if a certain Russian astronaut once said them.

Lover walked clumsily on the surface of the comet and stopped in front of a glacier. "This star is so small. - Is the little prince's asteroid B612 only this big?"

Xue Yuan corrected him: "This is a comet, not a planet." After thinking for a while, he added: "However, B612 is probably not much bigger than this."

Lover raised its forearm and shot out a mechanical claw.When the paw returned, it was holding a crystal object, which reflected bright stars under the searchlight on the head of the mecha.

"Has this ice been here for a long time?" he asked.

The Arctic Fox was busy building a drilling platform, and chose a place where the ice was the most solid to lay a drill bit. "It's been a long time. Five billion years ago, before the solar system, they were already here. When the earth was first formed, there was no water, no life, just a dry rocky asteroid. Then one day, from outside An ice comet came to the solar system and hit the earth. It changed the orbit of the earth and brought water and microorganisms to the earth. Later, we humans came into being. If the earliest earth was an egg, these ice comets It's the sperm. We're standing on top of a big sperm now."

Qi Lian didn't speak.Xue Yuan saw on the screen that his expression became very solemn.To him, the origin of life on earth may be as mysterious and unpredictable as ancient myths.

Holes of suitable depth were drilled at several stress points, and the Arctic Fox grabbed the ground with a steel cable, and the body rose into the air, accelerated its rotation in mid-air, and hit it head-on.

Duang~~~~!

The huge ice layer instantly split into pieces, and the cracks quickly spread to the entire surface of the comet nucleus.

Because the water is for people to drink and cannot be polluted, it is forbidden to bombard it with weapons, and they have to be smashed with physical impact.

Lover was startled by the miraculous feat of shattering the huge ice in his chest, and stood beside him without moving.

"Are you watching the show? Come and help!" Xue Yuan was annoyed.

"Oh." Qi Lian hurried over, cut the crushed ice into 1 cubic meter cubes with high-speed gears, and sent them to the ice ship.Ammonia and microorganisms are frozen in these ices, so they cannot be drunk directly, but must be purified and filtered.

Husband and wife match, work is not tired.The ice ship was soon full.The ice comet was flattened in half,

Arctic Fox to the ice ship "Did you hear anything?"

Xue Yuan listened carefully, "No, the intercom system is normal."

"It's not the voice from the intercom system." Qi Lian said with certainty, "It came from somewhere else."

"Check your cockpit to see if something is wrong."

There was a rustle in the earphones, Qi Lian said, "It's not the sound from the cockpit. I think it's coming from outside."

"That's why you have tinnitus. Even if your hearing is a hundred times stronger than that of ordinary people, it is impossible to hear anything here. No sound is transmitted in a vacuum."

Qi Lian didn't answer right away.After a while, Xue Yuan heard a slight tapping sound from the walkie-talkie, the rhythm was slow and fast: duk, duk.

"What I hear is the sound of this frequency." Qi Lian said, "It's very strange, it seems to come from a very far away place, and it seems to come from my mind, and it keeps repeating. Tinnitus is such a feeling Is it?"

Xue Yuan listened carefully to that frequency, his expression changed slightly, he dragged out an input interface, and typed in the Morse code according to that frequency:

-..---/-.----/.-..-------.-/-..--.-.-.-

DONOTLOOKBACK

--Do not look back.

Xue Yuan immediately remembered that the encrypted email he received not long ago said that the invisible wall sent a message to human beings.

But the message in that email was "don't stop," not "don't look back."

It was indeed tampered with.

"Is that all?" Xue Yuan asked, "Is there anything else?"

Qi Lian listened for a while, "There's nothing else, I keep repeating the same content....Ah, I can't hear anything now."

As soon as his words fell, there was a creak in the channel, and Chi Caifan's voice cut in: "Emergency, a large wave of high-energy charged particles is approaching you, it may be stellar wind. It is expected to pass by your place in half an hour. location, you guys hurry up and call it a day."

"Understood." Xue Yuan greeted Qi Lian, "That one over there, stop playing and go home!"

Cosmic radiation is the nightmare of astronauts, and it is a sharp knife that kills without blood.

In the era of the earth, the unmanned "Voyager" could fly to the outer solar system, but the manned spacecraft can only move around the low-Earth orbit, and radiation is one of the reasons.

The method adopted by the fleet is to use controlled nuclear fusion technology to generate electricity and form a magnetic field in the outer space of the fleet to resist the invasion of radiation.The price paid is that a large amount of energy is wasted in a vacuum, and the speed of navigation can only be limited to sub-light speed.

Qi Lian's ability to resist radiation is much stronger than that of ordinary people.According to the scientific officer, his DNA can withstand a radiation intensity of 1000 sieverts, which is [-] times the lethal dose of an ordinary person.

Thinking of this, Xue Yuan suddenly felt a little sad.

From the moment of leaving the home of the earth, natural human beings, as an ancient species, have quietly begun to draw their curtains.At the end of this great migration, carbon-based life may have been eliminated, and a new future of silicon-based life will be fully opened.Qi Lian's generation or generations of genetically modified people are the transitional form between the two.

Their bodies sank suddenly, and they returned to the artificial gravity field of the fleet.

A sentence that I forgot where I saw it suddenly came to my mind at this moment-"Sad souls bound by sub-light speed and three-dimensional space! When will you be able to break through this cage?"

"Bible·□□ Chronicle":

"Run for your life! Don't look back, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains, so you don't die together."

"When the sun rose, brimstone and fire fell on Sodom and Gomorrah, and destroyed these cities and the whole plain, with all their inhabitants and all the vegetation on the ground."

……

Xue Yuan closed the webpage, picked up the paper in front of him, and stared at the copied sentence:

Don't look back or stop anywhere on the Plain. (Don't look back or stop anywhere on the Plain.)

He drew heavy lines under the word "Plain" with a pen.There's an inconvenient coincidence: the word is a homonym for "plane."

In addition, plane also means plane, which is not too unfamiliar to game fans.

... This joke seems to be a bit big.

Could it be that there are "people" who are using the "Bible" to warn mankind that not only the solar system, but the entire plane will suffer?

So what does "flee to the mountains" in the next sentence refer to?

Could it be...

Is it the side of the "wall"?

Seeing that he was always in deep thought, Qi Lian childishly grabbed his arm and shook it: "What are you thinking? You've been in a daze since you came back."

"No, just think about something casually." Xue Yuan folded the paper and planned to put it in the drawer.After hesitating for a moment, he unfolded it and flattened it again, pressing it down with the matryoshka doll on the table.

"Hmm... do you have anything else to do later?" Qi Lian's eyes were bright, and he looked embarrassed + expectant.Of course Xue Yuan knew what this guy was thinking, so he flicked it on his forehead: "Kissing and biting are not everyday, if you are bored, go read more books, don't always think about something. Go, get a book and read it to me, and let me know what you're learning every day."

Qi Lian ran away depressed.

Xue Yuan closed his eyes and touched his forehead.For some reason, his mood was a little gloomy, and he didn't even bother to use the usual methods to make Qi Lian happy.

The reason Sodom was destroyed was that the people there indulged in male sex."Sodomy," a variant of the word Sodom, refers to the way males communicate with one another, and connotes sin.

... Such feelings, perhaps ... are indeed sinful.

Xue Yuan looked down at his hands.

Did my own hands and tongue make this pure gorse also stained with the sin of lust?

The footsteps came back.This guy is pretty fast.That's right, his room wasn't far away.

Xue Yuan didn't look back, "Killian, do you remember that I said that I very much hope that human beings can abandon their bodies?"

"..."

"That's my sincere thought. God may have created our souls with himself as a template, but our hardware configuration is too low. Human beings can't always control their emotions because our bodies can't support such powerful emotions. function, just like installing the Windows operating system on the 286 computer."

Xue Yuan paused for a moment and sighed.

"I have always believed that human beings will eventually have digital carriers one day. Human beings in the Cyber ​​Age will definitely have more free emotions than us, because they don't have to be sadly imprisoned by the body like us."

"Hey! Unexpectedly, Little Rose is quite sentimental." A joking voice sounded.Xue Yuan looked back in surprise, and the person behind him was Joey.

Xue Yuan was unprepared, jumped up and swept back quickly: "Why...!"

Accidentally, his back hit the shelf, and the perfume and essential oil bottles on the shelf were clanging.

Joey quickly took two steps back, "Don't look shocked, I'm not planning any evil, I'm just passing by. You said you can ask for more essential oils when you run out. I saw the door was open, so I came in."

His eyes wandered around the room, and suddenly stopped at the foot of the bed.

There is a long-necked glass vase on the head of the bed, half filled with clear water, and a few bright roses grow in it.A few scattered petals were scattered on the ground, and one of them was more than half pressed by the foot of the bed.

Joey raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "It's strange. If I remember correctly, every piece of furniture in every room is fixed to the ground. How could that petal be pressed?"

Xue Yuan also followed his gaze, his expression changed slightly.

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Satisfied with Xue Yuan's reaction, Joey took two steps towards the bed, squatted down and picked up a petal, and put it in his palm for a closer look.

"The petals just fell, so the bed must have been moved just now." He touched the ground near the foot of the bed, where there were a few