Old couple reborn daily [Interstellar]

Many years ago, when Xia Qiaoan, who had not yet been reborn, and Ian Golden Lizard first introduced Ritsu, Lu happened to be absent that time. He called up the three-dimensional image stored in the terminal, pointed at the projected tall female insect and introduced: " This is my match."

The two newly made friends have tried the word "match", and they are not sure what kind of match is the "match" in the mouth of the higher Zerg. The golden lizard is more lively than Ian, who has become more taciturn after losing his brother. Few, usually they are warm-up and talkative, so he immediately asked the young male worm humbly: "It's the partner assigned to you by the Zerg official... Is that what you mean?"

Young Master Xia realized that he had neglected the differences in word habits between different races, causing a little confusion to his two new friends, he shook his head and nodded, and changed to a more colloquial expression: "No—of course" cooperation "Partner" is also right in a certain sense, but this kind of "cooperation" is a limited and more intimate cooperation, and the "matching partner" is the best combination of insects assigned to me by the official system of the parent star. It's a preliminary partnership, if the two get along well during the running-in period, they can become regular partners in the future and become real legal partners."

"Imperial Marriage System" is not a rare term. There are quite a few high-level intelligent races who like to engage in genetic matching. Among the other friends Ian and Golden Lizard know, there are people who have experienced or are currently experiencing matching marriages But when the boy in front of them introduced his prospective partner to them in a serious manner, they looked at the adult female insect that appeared in the projection, then at Xia Qiaoan, who was obviously only a teenager, then at the female insect, then at Xia Qiaoan...

Young Master Xia originally just thought that he would join up with the team led by Li to pick him up after a while. In order not to cause additional misunderstandings, he should first inform the female about the appearance of the female and the relationship between the other party and him. New friends, unexpectedly, after listening to him, the expressions of the two friends were a little weird.

Golden Lizard hesitated to speak, but Ian frowned slightly, as if he had just learned something that he disapproved of.

"What's wrong?" Xia Qiaoan asked inexplicably.

Ian didn't answer, but instead threw him a question: "He—"

The taciturn young man gestured to the female in the projection: "How long have you been an adult?"

This time, Young Master Xia has passed the "hostility period" long ago. The days of traveling outside the stars were far more difficult than those inside the stars, but they sharpened his temper well. Eight years? When the matching notice came out, he had already graduated from the Imperial College of Higher Education, and had worked in the initial assigned station for more than [-] cycle months before he was transferred to the Central District because of his outstanding performance in the assigned station. .”

"So." said Golden Lizard, who thought he was particularly good at focusing on key points, "When he became a 'prepared partner' relationship with you, he had already been an adult for five or six years."

Xia Qiaoan nodded.

Ian: "...and you were still in middle school, a child who has not yet grown up."

Xia Qiaoan still didn't understand the subtle and complicated feelings of his new friends, but he remembered that he was not yet an adult. He hadn't accidentally used the testing equipment of his friends to check his body. He didn't know that the opportunity to break through the barriers of evolution would be In front of my eyes, I was just a little frustrated with the delayed evolution.

Some big things that are stuck at the critical juncture of worm life are that even if you can gradually stop worrying about them as time goes by, you will not really let it go, and simply throw it away as an indifferent thing. of.

"That's right." Young Master Xia sighed, "I'm still not an adult yet."

He is sincerely worried about his own evolution.

But his little friends are really worried about the matter of "the marriage culture of the advanced Zerg race is so cruel, and the minds of the underage insects are not yet mature, how can they form a matching partner with the long-grown 'old fritters'" .

The brain circuits of the two sides failed to connect, and they were strangely unaware of each other's harmony.

When Lv finally arrived with his team to welcome his young master back, he found that he had been scrutinized by two of young master Xia's traveling companions for a long time with inexplicable and prudent eyes.

However, in the past two years when he and Xia Qiaoan became a matching partner, Lu received a lot of scrutiny, even with obvious malicious prying eyes, he has already responded as usual, and he basically doesn't care. The sizing up of the object only made him slightly puzzled in his heart for a moment, but he didn't take it to heart.

He didn't have much contact with Ian and Golden Lizard afterwards, and he didn't even remember what they looked like.

Xia Qiaoan only found out after a while that Luna would be labeled as "suspected of abducting minors" by her friends.

This is a big misunderstanding.

Now, Xia Qiaoan was reborn once again, driven by worm power and coincidence, and successfully met with future friends in advance.

When he left the medical cabin before, he only emphasized that the female worm is one of the "minority" in this universe who will never harm him, and is the object of his absolute trust, but he did not directly explain the special relationship between the two worms, that is, I suddenly remembered the misunderstanding in my previous life, and I wanted to wait for the "main misunderstanding" in front of me to be resolved first, and then reveal the consideration of the relationship between the two parties after popularizing the matching background with my friends.

...Who knows how much younger the Golden Lizard is than the one he knows is out of his mind.

The misunderstanding of "old fritters abducting minors" has not appeared for the time being, but a "parent card" has been issued, and it is still issued in front of Lu, which is extremely lethal.

"...No, there's a new misunderstanding here. He's not my parent." After finally coughing, Xia Qiaoan, who felt that her throat and lungs were a little "overworked", slowed down, and then waved her hands ironically.

In terms of taking care of young master Xia, Lu's skills and accomplishments can be called "professional level".

It was obvious that the worm had been slapped face-to-face by a "parent card" just now, and the whole worm fell into a short-term self-doubt, but the moment Xia Qiaoan coughed heart-piercingly, he "alive" again, The hand moved faster than the brain, and pressed the young man's back lightly, and the pat was just right, and the other paw took the time to pour a cup of hot water.

After Xia Qiaoan finished coughing and quickly explained, the cup filled with hot water was handed to him.

He took a sip and found that the water was hot but not scalding.

The female next to it even controlled the water temperature.

Xia Qiaoan: "..."

Xia Qiaoan's thoughts wandered for a few seconds, and she secretly felt that since he has been taken care of to "open his mouth", it's no wonder that the Golden Lizard on the opposite side misunderstood...Lv is really a bit like his parent.

But it's not.

If this misunderstanding is not resolved in time, it will only lead to more problems in the future.

"It's fine to say it's a 'house bug'." Facing the three pairs of questioning eyes on the opposite side, Young Master Xia pulled the hand that the female bug had retracted from his back, and put it back on the opponent's leg.

He took that paw between his palms, so that the three of Dean could clearly see this small gesture of intimacy, and declared frankly: "This is my match partner, and we are currently in a 'prepared partner' relationship."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for history to repeat itself, causing the two opposite partners who cared for minors to think in the direction of "abducting minors", Xia Qiaoan continued: "I shouldn't have participated in the matching as a minor... It's my problem, there is a situation in my body that I haven't been able to find out for the time being, so I can't evolve into an adult smoothly, and I'm stuck at the threshold of adulthood."

Hearing Xia Qiaoan talk about his physical condition, Dean showed worry on his face. Ian pressed his younger brother's head, and Golden Lizard showed a thoughtful expression.

None of them took their eyes off the boy's face.

Naturally, he also clearly saw the small movement of the young man lowering his head slightly.

As if suddenly embarrassed, the young man coughed, and then said: "Evolutionary barriers are very rare for advanced Zergs. Many Zergs think it is a disability. Evolution, they will not only talk about you, but may also extend to your family, muttering behind your back that maybe your family’s genes are not good, and the whole family’s genes are inherently flawed.”

"Before I encountered this blow, I had been living a smooth life, so it was difficult to accept the gap, and I did a lot of things that were purely based on my will."

"Unwilling to lag behind the Zerg of the same generation in the matter of matching, forcibly participating in the matching is one of them."

With Xia Qiaoan's embarrassing explanation, even little Dean, who is still ignorant of words such as "matching" and "partner", can at least understand why his little brother would There is a reason why a relationship with such a large adult Zerg has become more than a "lovers".

"The marriage system of nobles actually allows this kind of operation." Ian made a judgment like this, with a flat tone, although he could still feel that he disagreed with this, he didn't say anything more.

Xia Qiaoan couldn't help but glanced at him.

Ten years later, Ian, probably because he was still unable to let go of his younger brother's death, cared and was patient with all the underage children he met—whether he was familiar with him or not.

Xia Qiaoan used to think that this was a particularly long and strong empathy, which originated after Ian lost his brother, and there was no time limit for the termination. It might last until the other party untied the knot, or it would be indefinite at all.

Now, he returned to the time when Ian hadn't lost his brother, and accidentally helped him save his brother. He suddenly discovered that he didn't know enough about his friends in the past.

Ian is born with a strong sense of empathy. When he meets an underage child, he will instinctively put himself in the position of a protector and take the initiative to think about the other party.

But at the same time, we should also grasp the speed, express our views in a timely manner, and wait and see whether the other party really needs help.

Xia Qiaoan has no doubt that if he really showed resistance when he introduced the "match" just now, Ian would definitely keep this in mind.

Even if the firepower on this carrier plane is not enough to fight against the Zerg team for the time being, the opponent will find another opportunity to try to give him an olive branch of assistance.

"...!"

The insect claw that had been tamed and held in the palm for a long time suddenly moved, and gently poked the tender palm with the tip of the claw that was tightened.

Xia Qiaoan was brought back to her senses by Lu's poking, and turned to look at the female insect. She saw a very serious side face of the female insect, as if nothing had happened.

Just like when he thought that the male had been looking at the young man of the foreign race opposite him for a long time, he was not the one who quietly raised objections.

This small movement was far smaller than Xia Qiaoan's previous movement of pulling Li's hand, and no one saw it clearly.

"It's been a bit too long to watch the young people of different races", which is actually just the female's subjective feeling. Xia Qiaoan seemed to have thought a lot about Ian just now, but in reality it didn't take too long.

Calmly, he squeezed Lu's finger, but after being entangled with that finger full of joy, after all, Young Master Xia had practiced "Gougou Entanglement" on many occasions in the previous life, and his expression remained unchanged. .

He followed what Ian said just now: "The system allows me to do this, which is actually a special case. I also have a fantasy that maybe the evolutionary barrier will be unbreakable in the near future, and I will be able to grow up smoothly."

With the hands of the two worms entangled together, Young Master Xia shrugged his shoulders: "But everyone has seen that I am still a juvenile worm. It is precisely because of the evolution that I have been anxious for a long time that I think about it." I wanted to come out for a walk, and rejected the conventional way of traveling with a coordinated escort team, and only invited an adult as my companion, and then concealed my ethnic identity, pretending to be an ordinary passenger and going out to relax."

At this point, a juvenile male insect that should be very precious to the higher Zerg race and should be well protected, why would he wander around the space station alone, and the antecedents are also understood.

"But brother." Dean saw that Xia Qiaoan hadn't finished speaking, and he didn't interrupt rashly. At this moment, he felt that Xia Qiaoan's words had come to an end, and hurriedly opened his mouth, trying to comfort the young man who seemed a little depressed after talking about evolutionary obstacles, "Even if you It has not been able to evolve successfully for the time being, but it is still very powerful!"

The boy said sincerely: "Just now the golden lizard said that males who can fight with mental power are rare these years, which means that even if you haven't evolved, you are already a minority in the same family. Once you find obstacles Root cause, get rid of it, it will only be more powerful!"

The fingers wrapped around Xia Qiaoan's hand suddenly tightened a little.

Young Master Xia felt helpless, knowing that even if he wanted to hide the fact that he had fought, he couldn't hide it, so he rubbed the female's fingertips and passed on a silent gesture of goodwill and comfort.

"If you can't find out what the root cause of the obstacle is with your equipment." After Dean sincerely expressed his concern, Golden Lizard, who seemed to be thinking all the time, opened his mouth. He didn't look like the brothers around him secretly Pay attention to the interaction between the two worms on the opposite side. Xia Qiaoan and Lu looked over at the same time, and while thinking about serious matters, he suggested, "Do you want to consider using our detector?"

Finally waited!

Xia Qiaoan lowered her eyelids, as if she was seriously thinking about this proposal, but in fact, she quietly hid the light in her eyes.

From the reunion till now, apart from Golden Lizard taking the initiative to do a rough inspection for him, none of these future friends mentioned that they have sophisticated testing equipment. He had known for a long time that the other party had such an instrument, and after turning two corners, he introduced the topic that his physical condition was different, and the inspection equipment in the star did not find out the reason.

Probably because he thought that the boy's hesitation was tainted with suspicion. After all, the high-level Zerg technology force has a reputation of being "double-front". The instrument level of the interstellar passengers who came was low, and Ian explained further: "In addition to me, Dean, Golden Lizard, and Delk who controls the carrier aircraft in the front cab, we also have many companions from other races. In nature, they are a bit like a The "Ronin Group" that recruits the prodigal sons of various stars is also because everyone belongs to different races, so we tried to improve a lot of equipment together, making them as universal as possible for multiple races."

The Golden Lizard who made the suggestion answered: "The implementation of this type of modification on items such as medical inspection equipment means that our inspection equipment has a larger database, which is filled with data samples of uncommon symptoms of multiple races. And the retrieval response capability is also faster than general databases.”

Ian: "If you are willing to accept the proposal, and the schedule is not too urgent for the time being, we can contact our companions now and ask them to bring inspection equipment."

"Of course." Seeing that the expression of the adults next to the juvenile male seemed to be a little off, Golden Lizard realized the omission in Ian's words, and added, "Only our companions are here, and you are still such a small team, so be prepared The heart is also completely normal, we can discuss a new assembly point, and help to conduct inspections in a relatively safer environment - let your engineers first conduct a hazard inspection on the equipment we brought."

Golden Lizard interpreted Li's slightly different expression as that the females were worried that they would unilaterally invite "support" and that the strength of the two parties would be unequal at that time, which would bring some potential factors of instability to the juvenile males.

However, in essence, before the golden lizard raised this point, Lu didn't even consider this issue.

It wasn't until just now, when Golden Lily mentioned the key word "inspecting instruments", that he suddenly remembered the main purpose of the hero's appearance this time, and Lu realized that these people in front of him were probably the hero who came here specially to find them. "Future friend".

...And he chased these people all the way for "interstellar racing", even jumped on the opponent's vehicle, and directly cut a crack on the top of the carrier plane.

Right now, there is still a piece missing on the ceiling in the middle of the cabin, which is blocked by the protective gas whose density is urgently increased. Otherwise, the internal and external pressures in the cabin would have been unbalanced long ago, and the internal circulation and gravity system that can support the survival of living things would have been wiped out. up.

I, almost, personally destroyed the only hope of evolution currently known to the hero.

Lu silently repeated these words several times in his heart, and the worm quietly withered away, not even holding Xia Qiaoan's claws as confidently as before.

Feeling that the strength in his hand had decreased, it suddenly became a strength that he could shake off with a light struggle. Xia Qiaoan finally finished "hesitating" and nodded for Golden Lizard's proposal. He was about to continue discussing with the other party about the next step It's time to go, he noticed this, let go of the words he was about to say, and first grasped the paw that was hovering on the edge of loosening.

Don't think about it - Young Master Xia conveyed such a sentence with his hands.

After one cycle, the commander-in-chief who was still waiting for the latest feedback from the rescue team in the rear command ship, who initially only wanted to lead the team to do a routine patrol, stared at the message screen for a long time. He read the lines of communication several times, Taking a deep breath, he turned his head and pressed his adjutant's shoulder.

The adjutant's expression was just as complicated as his.

Relying on the fact that there are only the two of them around at the moment, it is rare for his parents and officials to let themselves go, and he suggested to him: "When it comes to your rotation, I will give you a leave of absence, and you change your clothes and go to the nearest interstellar fortune lottery site." Let’s go and buy a lottery ticket for the whole group.”

After finishing speaking, the officer thought about it, and added: "Just buy it under Lu's name—if you're brave enough, you can buy it from Young Master Xia."

During the cruise, he dug out undiscovered raw energy stones, and when he went out to relax, he got involved in interstellar smuggling. It is also said that he miraculously protected the cubs of the same clan and the cubs of other clans, and obtained a mysterious and abundant resources. Team assistance.

"General." The adjutant is not as good as his own official, Fang Fei, and corrected his superiors, "The young master of the Xia family is a minor, and he used his name to gamble. General Xia will [-]% fight with you."

"Maybe he won't be a juvenile soon?" The chief said casually, which was completely different from his daily style of commanding and issuing orders.

However, thinking of the old classmate who stayed in the star and seemed to be dealing with documents every day, but definitely did not give up training. In the past, the former classmate who was very painful when he got a bug, the Chief still silently revoked the option of "Little Master Xia".

He sincerely hopes that the team is really expected to help Xia Qiaoan break through evolution.

In this way, when he and Xia Qiaobei reported that the other party's younger brother was almost abducted by smugglers, and their team rushed to the rescue and failed to rescue him once, he could have a little more confidence!

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Xia Qiaobei: I'm sorry, Yu Qiu is an honest worm, I already know it.

[grinding wings]