The last orange cat Omega [Interstellar]

"Stone?"

"En!" Doudou nodded heavily, and emphasized, "It's a very beautiful little stone."

small stone?

Hailou didn't expect that the gift that Doudou was so proud of was just a small stone, but it also fit the character of the little cat.In the eyes of DouDou, even the most inconspicuous rope is full of charm, enough to play with for a whole day.

"Sounds very good," Hailou praised sincerely, "What kind of rock is it?"

At the same time, Hailou quickly sifts through the existing gold stones in his library in his mind, perhaps Doudou will be interested in some of them.

"It's a piece... Well, what do you call it?" Doudou hesitated to choose the words, "It should be called ore."

"Ore? Is it a mineral stone that contains energy?"

Doudou shook his head and said: "I don't understand either, but I like this little stone because it looks like a kind of ore that can be used as paint, that is, paint for painting. It's amazing, I can actually see this stone here. plant stones."

"Huahua?" Hailou was even more surprised.

Doudou asked strangely: "Why, don't the beasts even know how to draw?"

He wrinkled his nose, showing the pitiful look of "you are so pitiful" that is typical of kittens.

"But this is also very strange, beasts and beasts can even make wool felt, why can't they paint?"

Of course, the poking needles and other tools collected around are not special tools for wool felt, but some similar hand-knitting tools.

"There are indeed many people who make handicrafts by themselves," Hai Lou said, "but the purpose of the orcs who use these tools may be different from what you imagine. Our handicrafts are not for decoration or purely Hobbies, but to improve the accuracy of the use of mental power. The finished product is generally a simulated item, simulating things that exist in reality, and the verisimilitude is used as the measure.”

Doudou thought for a while, and replied: "So that's how it is, that's so boring. What about painting? Doesn't anyone know how to paint?"

Hailou smiled slightly, and said, "Of course there are, and they mainly copy photos, but there are very few, and there is no need to use extra colors."

Doudou was taken aback for a moment, and then said clearly: "I understand, do you also use that kind of pencil to draw?"

What Dou Dou thinks about is the sketch in the Earth Age, but he only has a vague idea.

"Do you still remember the story about the cat detective I told you? Once, when the cat detective was chasing a rogue rat, he strayed into a human studio, accidentally knocked over the easel, and broke everything in the box. pencil."

Doudou said seriously.His brows were slightly furrowed, and even the tip of his beard looked very serious.

Hailou suppressed a smile, and said, "It sounds like a troublesome matter, how did Detective Cat solve it?"

"Poor Detective Cat was surrounded by humans in the studio. They cornered Detective Cat and accused him of bad behavior. Detective Cat was a kind and upright kitten who had to stay in I worked part-time in the studio to pay off my debts, and worked for three full days before I redeemed myself. Alas, what a poor kitten."

Doudou spoke half-truths and half-truths, and sighed a lot, as if he still had lingering fears in his heart.

"What odd job?" Hailou lightly pinched Doudou's ears.

Dou Dou shook his ear tips as if he was afraid of tickle, tilted his head and said, "Sharpening pencils, washing paint trays, tearing tape and paper... There are many, many tasks that need to be done by cat detectives. Humans are clumsy and clumsy at all. You don't know how hard it is to wash off the old mud on the paint tray, and the white claws of the cat detective are soaked in sewage and get dirty, and it doesn't fade completely until winter."

After finishing speaking, Doudou raised his snow-white fur paw, showing his plum-like fleshy palm, and sighed, "Oh, what a dexterous cat's paw."

Hailou covered his lips with a wrist, and just laughed in a muffled voice.

Dou Dou turned over and covered the upper arm of the human being, perfectly fitting her belly into the gap between Hailou's arm and chest.He patted Hailou's cheek with his claws, and said dissatisfiedly, "Don't make fun of me, I'm telling this story very seriously."

Hailou caught DouDou's paw and said with a smile, "It's my fault. Go on."

"All in all, it was in the human studio that Detective Cat learned about the so-called world of painting, and left behind a masterpiece of his own. Human beings who have seen it said it was good, with bright colors and extraordinary artistic conception. Detective Cat is probably the same One of the few cat painters in the world."

Hailou turned his face towards Doudou, and said softly, "It sounds very good. I really want to see the paintings of Detective Mao with my own eyes."

DouDou became shy, retracted his two palms to cover his eyes, and said in a low voice, "Actually, it's not that good. If you like it, I'll draw you another one, guaranteed to be better than the one drawn by Cat Detective. "

His tail was not so modest, frantically whipping Hailou's waist.Hailou reached out, pulled Doudou into his arms and kissed her.

Doudou meowed for a while, then continued: "Anyway, although black and black paintings are not bad with just pencils, but if you can use colors, it will definitely look better, right? Just thinking about it is very good. , a colorful world of painting. I heard someone say that all people are born to draw, of course the skills will be different, but everyone can be a little painter. Isn’t it a little strange not to know how to draw?”

Hailou didn't answer, Doudou thought about it for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he made sense, so he nodded emphatically to express his affirmation.

"Everyone should try to draw by themselves. Of course, I must be the kitten who is especially good at drawing. I must draw for you!"

DouDou raised his chin, squinting at Hailou.

"But you have to wait until you make the paint out first."

"To make paint?" Hailou asked puzzled, "How to do it?"

"It's that little rock."

After talking, he got out of Hailou's arms, jumped off the bed, dragged his little cloth bag and climbed up again, shaking the contents all over the bed.

A small piece of irregular cobalt blue ore rolled to the side of Hailou.

Hailou got up and sat up, carefully put away the small parts brought by Doudou with the vacuum bubble cover, and then took the ore to study.

A very common metal salt mineral, perhaps from a certain tourist star, is unremarkable, and is of little value in the interstellar era when boron energy is used on a large scale.However, in recent years, Interstellar also has collectors with unique tastes who like to study this kind of small objects, and the price of mineral stones has also risen with a wave.

Hailou quickly analyzed the composition formula in his mind, and when there was no solution, he handed the ore to Doudou.

Doudou retracted his four paws, hugged the ore-wrapped bubble tightly in his arms, and said, "I bought this from other beasts, and it cost me a lot of star coins, which is more than all your presents combined." Expensive. The most annoying thing is that when I bought it back, Peter told me that these stones were actually picked up from the stars, right? Every beast can be picked up, and if the quantity is small, it doesn’t cost money at all.”

DouDou wrinkled his nose distressedly.

"Forget it. All in all, the stone has to be crushed and ground into a very fine powder, and then it can be used to make paint for painting. Look at this stone, how beautiful it is blue, it can be used to paint the sea Woolen cloth."

The soft silver sand beach, the air is filled with the fishy smell of seafood.The blue sea is vast, and the seabirds hovering on the sea are like white waves.In the distance, the sea and the sky are the same color, and the sky and the earth are integrated.

Listening to Dou Dou's description, Hai Lou unconsciously sketched a beautiful blue picture in his mind, and he couldn't help yearning for it.

"Your name is Hailou, the sea is the sea of ​​the sea," Doudou sighed, "If you could see the sea, you would definitely like it very much."

"I'll make the paint for you," Hailou promised, "I'll wait for you to paint the sea."

Simply grinding the ore into fine particles and removing impurities does not sound complicated, and it can be easily done with smart equipment.

DouDou didn't know the reason, looked at Hailou with a full face of admiration, and praised sincerely: "You are so amazing! When you figure out what to do, we will go to other stars to pick up stones, pick up stones of different colors and different colors. Plant small stones, the kind that don’t cost money, and make them into colorful paints. We give the paints to my sister so she can paint by herself.”

Hailou looked at Doudou steadily, and asked, "Why do you want Hailing to draw?"

Doudou tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Actually, I don't know why, but when I saw my sister's big eyes like a deer, I thought she would like the colorful world outside. People who can't go out casually, generally Everyone likes to draw the world they imagined.”

Hailou rubbed Doudou's chin and sighed inwardly.Although DouDou always acts innocent and childish on weekdays, in fact, in some respects, he also possesses unimaginable insight and amazing intuition.

"Okay, listen to you."

Doudou twisted happily, thought for a while and said: "We'd better pile up more stones, I always feel that beasts are so boring, if they know something interesting and novel, they will definitely swarm to imitate it again. In case of price gouging, it’s not fun to turn free stones into something we can’t afford.”

Having said that, Doudou sighed exaggeratedly, and complained: "But aren't these beasts too boring, don't they usually have other things to do?"

"Yes, but outside of normal work and life, do you know what the orcs of the empire lack the most?"

"What is it?"

"time."

DouDou rounded his eyes.This was an answer he hadn't thought of.

"Because it is difficult to fall asleep, most orcs can't make full use of the rest time, and some people can even stay up all night. If calculated proportionally, this is equivalent to an extra third of the waking time of the original life span of the orcs. With such Sufficient time naturally requires different ways of venting. Many of them will pursue one or more hobbies, and will strive to achieve the ultimate level of refinement. Or, especially those Alphas who are energetic and competitive, they We often choose to fight in the wrestling field, improving our fighting skills while killing each other's time. All kinds of activities, including most of the Star Network activities, are all prepared for the extra third of our lives."

After thinking for a while, Doudou asked curiously, "Is there really that kind of person who doesn't sleep at all? Doesn't sleep at all?"

"Yes," Hailou replied affirmatively, "and there is more than one. These orcs who can't sleep at all or abandon sleep and believe in the long night are collectively called the Sleepless, forming a fairly mature social group. The number of sleepless members is several Quite a few, among them are even well-known sleep aid anchors."

It's funny that a sleep aid anchor whose mission is to help orcs overcome their sleep problems turns out to be a non-sleeper herself.Doudou was deeply curious.But the "night" is already deep, and the biological clock in DouDou's body is making a ding-ding sound: his human should go to sleep.No matter how fun things are at this time, it is not as important as coaxing the human beings to sleep.

Doudou kicked the blue ore away, hugged Hailou's arms in his arms, and let out a grunt from the depths of his throat, like a little goldfish spitting bubbles.

——Go to bed obediently, the kitty loves you.

Hailou fell asleep deeply with Doudou's gentle purr on his pillow, and had a good night's sleep.

Although DouDou failed to finish hearing the stories about the Sleepless, he was very interested.Unexpectedly, soon, DouDou had a chance to get in touch with the Sleepless.

The author has something to say:

Hailou: I also make the wool felt, and I also grind the paint, so it’s not so much a gift from you as a job you found for me, right?

Doudou: ... Hee hee!