A Couple Made in Heaven [Interstellar]

It was a long and narrow corridor, the surrounding light was very dark, and there was only a little light at the end. The strong smell of disinfectant and culture fluid were intertwined. For people with a keen sense of smell, the lethality was comparable to biochemical weapons.

Gu Jiangchu dreamed that he was inexplicably standing at the front of the aisle. Behind him was a closed door, which failed to open after two attempts. He wanted to activate the aisle’s lighting system, but there was no response to the touch lighting switch, so He had no choice but to walk forward in the darkness, and after not walking far, he felt that his foot had stepped into the water.

Of course the water was not deep, it was just a small puddle on the ground, but the texture of the "water" was very strange, with a strange stickiness. When Gu Jiangchu moved his feet away, he felt a sudden discomfort in his heart, and he lowered his head subconsciously. Go to the details——

The soaring fishy smell rushed to his face.

The action of "bow your head" is like a sensory activation hub, which instantly makes Gu Jiangchu's five senses that were blocked just now collectively return to their positions.

While smelling the indescribable fishy smell, like a severely myopic man who finally put on glasses, he saw clearly the things on both sides of the aisle——two rows of cylindrical transparent containers that went straight to the top were arranged symmetrically, lined up one by one, Each of them is equipped with a whole set of biological docking equipment, and most of them are empty inside. Those wirings that have lost their targets are gathered together, and countless small sensing suction cups hang quietly in the container, like a entangled in the column. The many-legged monster waited silently for the next prey.

The description of "the vast majority" means that there are still a small number of containers that are "full of customers".

Just like the one next to the "water beach" that Gu Jiangchu stepped on.

Rao Gu Jiangchu has seen quite a few alien life forms. He has also read several "Cosmic Biological Electronic Atlas" published by different publishers, but the "person" in the container still surprised him. It looks like a species that has been dismantled from multiple races and assembled with imagination. The body proportions are extremely weird, and it almost makes people doubt whether such a body can really survive out of the cylindrical cultivation cabin, and has the ability to move. ability.

That puddle of thick "water" just flowed out from the opponent's training cabin.

His training cabin was broken from the inside, and half of his body protruded out. He tore off half of the sensors on his body, and the disconnected wiring was caught in his already stiff hands. The sharp edges and corners of the ruptured container hurt him. Bare/exposed skin, where a patch of dried blood coagulates.

Maybe he died from excessive blood loss, maybe he died from an organ injury, or maybe he really couldn't survive without the culture medium.

I don't know whether this is a "new species" born out of the creator's deformed aesthetics or to achieve a more obscure purpose. He can't decide his own birth, and he doesn't want to succumb to the fate of staying in the cultivation column day after day. So I tried my best to win for myself the only independent decision in my life.

When Gu Jiangchu looked at the broken training pillar, his gaze was from bottom to top. He thought he would see a face frozen in a mixture of unwillingness, hatred and pain, but he didn't expect that the expression on that face was not only calm , with a bit of relief.

The other party ended himself as if fulfilling a wish.

"..."

After staring at the pair of eyes that would no longer show any brilliance for a while, Gu Jiangchu's throat was a little congested, and he slowly stretched out his hand to the other party, wanting to replace the other party who didn't even glance at the door leading to the outside room on his deathbed. Close your eyes.

At this moment, a hoarse cry sounded like a kitten being strangled.

Gu Jiangchu's outstretched hand paused. He could tell that the crying was coming from the light source. He felt flustered for no reason, turned around and ran towards it, but the aisle, which had a normal sense of space before, suddenly turned into an endless space. He ran for a long time, but he didn't get too close to the light source, but the soft crying sound was amplified in his ears, which made him recognize that it belonged to infants and young children.

Amidst the cries of the child, there was also vaguely the voice of the dialogue of the adult living body.

"……Or not……"

"...Do you want to give up?"

"...No, try readjusting the value..."

What values ​​are they resetting?

The image of the "new creation" that traded life for freedom was lingering in front of Gu Jiangchu's eyes. He instinctively connected the "value" with the training cabin, even if the distance from the light source did not shorten, he kept running.

His efforts to get closer were not entirely in vain.

At least, this allowed him to hear the conversation coming from the other side further.

"I really hope this is not another 'waste'. Our recent actions have been a bit big, and the resource consumption is too fast. It must have aroused someone's suspicion."

"Do you think I don't want that? But this little trash is even worse than the previous ones. Look, he's already crying to death, but his Atropos value hasn't increased at all!"

"Try again for the last time, just make sure it won't kill you. If there is still no significant increase this time, mark him as 'waste', and go to test the next one."

"Okay, what you said."

The two adults who had negotiated stopped talking at this point. Gu Jiangchu, who hadn't run to the light source, didn't know what they were going to do, but he was startled from the premise of "it won't kill you".

He was burning with anxiety, but he couldn't even spread out his mental field. He could only hear the crying in his ears suddenly raised, and then stopped abruptly like a broken string, and then there was no more sound.

"asshole!"

Gu Jiangchu cursed in the dream, he continued to run forward without giving up, but the aisle began to fall apart, he stepped into the air as he ran, his body felt the weightlessness of falling from a high altitude, and finally hit the ground like a rubber ball. On the elastic cushion, the whole figure is like a fish out of water, and it has completed a stretch in the medical cabin with moderate temperature and humidity.

At this time, twelve hours had passed since Gu Shao, who had lost his chain, fell down without warning in the transfer station.

Gu Jiangchu opened his eyes and saw the opaque roof of the medical cabin. He was still awake, half of his mind was still immersed in an overreal dream, and he couldn't tell where he was for a while, and his heart was still worried about the broken Crying is uncomfortable.

What happened to the kid in the end?

What is the Atropos value?

And the "waste" and "suspect" mentioned in the other party's words... By the way, why is he lying here?

The questions brought about by the dream have passed in the mind for a round, and the remaining problems in reality are lined up into the "thinking hall".

Gu Jiangchu finally recognized the roof of the medical cabin. Remembering that he should have been in the transfer station before, he stretched out his arm, ready to go out of the medical cabin to ask where Wei Pingrong was, but the stretched arm hadn’t touched the person in the cabin. Operating the screen, he touched a warm body first.

a... body...

Who is next to him?

Up to this moment, Gu Jiangchu's lingering drowsiness flew away in a jerk. He was extremely awake, and at the same time realized that there was indeed a heat source different from his own, and another breath was close to his ears.

Gu Jiangchu: "..."

For the first time in his life, he discovered that "turning his head" can also become one of the difficult tasks. Gu Jiangchu first carefully retracted his hand that was still touching the person next to him, and then slowly turned his neck as if suffering from acute cervical spondylosis, to see clearly The subject who was lying flat beside him.

The person he wanted to go out to ask for his whereabouts a few minutes ago was beside him.

Wei Pingrong was probably afraid of Gu Jiangchu who would be squeezed to the side, so he tried his best to move to the side of the medical cabin. He was lying next to the bulkhead on that side, his arms and legs were well-regulated, and he was controlled by his amazing concentration. within the minimum range of motion.

From his still-closed eyes and the steady heaving of his chest, he had no intention of waking up.

Gu Jiangchu carefully looked at the sleeping Wei Pingrong for a while, not knowing how all this happened, he was a little confused.

And when people are confused, because the main problems they are facing at the moment are not easy to solve, they tend to diverge their thinking and start to evade random thoughts.

When Gu Jiangchu came to his senses, he found that he had already studied Wei Pingrong's eyelashes, and he was just thinking that this person's eyelashes are actually quite long, but they are not curled up. You have to lower your eyes or close your eyes to see the length at once. There is also a small shadow on it.

"Is there something wrong with me? Why should I study his eyelashes?" Gu Jiangchu thought when he came back to his senses.

This cognition of "not panicking" is more important than "clicking" itself.

Gu Jiangchu's way of dealing with "caring" is rather peculiar—he used the medical cabin as the scope to spread out the mental field, and set up a disturbance barrier that weakened the sense of existence for himself, so as to ensure that Wei Pingrong would never wake up because of the noise he caused when he left. , slipped away quietly.

"woke up?"

He slipped out of the medical cabin smoothly, and just when Wei Pingrong put the cabin cover back on, Gu Jiangchu heard someone ask him this question.

He turned his head to look at Doctor Sharp-Eared who failed to greet him yesterday: "Uncle McAllen."

The sharp-eared doctor McAllen was still annoyed at Gu Jiangchu who entered the medical department lying down yesterday, but seeing him standing out of the medical cabin again today, the anger has long since dissipated.

McAllen nodded with a gentle face, and handed the two data pads at hand to Gu Jiangchu: "Your mental power test report."

Gu Jiangchu took the data board and thanked him, then saw McAllen's gaze suddenly passed him, scanning the medical cabin not far away.

The sharp-eared doctor coughed to cover up: "That 'Little Wei' is still awake?"

As a person who can understand the extended meaning of "squeeze dry", Gu Jiangchu is not as slow as Wei Pingrong in this regard. He feels that there seems to be a "sinister" intention behind the elder's question, but there is nothing wrong with this question , so he replied: "Well, my friend is still asleep."

McAllen said "Oh", and did not raise any objections to the "friend" he specially emphasized, but only thought in his heart: "A pair of duplicity young people."

"Then let him continue to rest." McAllen said pleasantly, "You just woke up, and go to the technical department with me to see what your mother brought back."

The author has something to say: Than, a little earlier than a few days ago [Hold your head