Ares

Ares didn't answer him, picked up the food in his hand, and ate it bite by bite. Eddie's eyes widened instantly when he saw his movements, and he couldn't help but exclaimed at almost the same time: "Aris! You what are you doing?!"

Ares didn't understand, so he turned to look at him, "Huh?", but because he was chewing the food in his mouth, he couldn't answer. After the food was completely swallowed, he asked him, "What's wrong?"

Eddie suppressed his panic before speaking with difficulty: "You...why do you want to eat human food?"

He is very clear about Ares' physique. They have been together for so long, and he also knows that Ares does not need to eat human food at all. That kind of thing is not good for him at all. Nutrients produced by man supplement energy, it doesn’t matter if there is no nutrient, time will help him regain energy.

"You don't need to eat human food at all." Maybe it was because the voice was too loud just now, and Eddie realized that his reaction was a bit extreme, which caused Ares to be in a state of confusion until now, "Why do you want to eat Human food?" He tried to keep his tone as mild as possible.

Ares looked at the bread he had bitten into in his hand, was silent for a while, and put the bread away, "I'm used to it."

"Habit?" Eddie didn't understand why he had developed such a habit. "Why?" Probably not, but he was curious.

Ares blinked and looked at him: "This is more human-like, isn't it?"

Eddie's heart skipped a beat, and that's it!This is where something is wrong!

Reunited with Ares again, Eddie had a strange sense of fear at the beginning. At that time, he only thought that the few words left by Rob had affected him, and he didn't feel that Ares was threatening in nature.

But now, he finally understood.

The weird thing about Ares now is that he is too human-like. The way he speaks, all kinds of small movements, micro-expressions, and even his eyes have become as complicated as humans.

He can speak very long sentences, his tone of voice is the same as that of ordinary humans, his voice can fluctuate from high to low, and...he habitually eats human food, and he also considers various issues from a human perspective.

"Why?" Eddie still only had this question, why should he be like a human being?Why force yourself to eat human food?

He forgot some things, but he remembers them very clearly. When he first met Ares, his eyes were only novel, guarded, cautious, and pure. He once tried to make Ares eat the food he ate, but Ares was not interested at all. Although Ares didn't say it clearly, Eddie knew that he was actually not interested in what they ate, and even felt a little disgusted.

why?

Ares also seemed to be confused for a moment. All the complexities in his eyes disappeared. When he looked at Eddie, there was only sadness in his eyes. With a move in Eddie's heart, the familiar intimacy returned in an instant.

"I don't want to be Ares anymore. Besides, don't you like Lizzie as a human more than me?"

"What?" Eddie was puzzled for a moment when he heard Lizzie's name, and seemed to think for a while before remembering this character design, "Why did you mention him suddenly?" The focus seems to be wrong, "You want to be a human because you think I like humans? Because you are not human, so I don't like...do not accept you?"

"Yeah." Ares nodded.

Eddie was a little dumbfounded.

"It's not like that." He answered directly, without any oblique meaning. He didn't like the unfamiliar Ares just now, and he repeated and corrected seriously: "Aris, that's not the case."

"I don't like every human being." Eddie said: "Aris, I have a crush on you, not just a little bit, so I will wish you well and hope you are safe, but I know in my heart It’s far from reaching the level of a lover.”

Ares listened to him without saying a word, and waited for him to finish before speaking.

"If I give you time, will this favor increase? Will it... become the kind of love of a lover?"

He asked seriously, and Eddie didn't know how to answer for a while, so he fell silent. After he reacted, he realized that he had begun to seriously think about his question.

When Ares saw him, it wasn't that he didn't know how to refuse, but was thinking, waiting calmly.

Eddie thought for a long time, and finally looked up at him sincerely: "I don't know."

Ares nodded, "It's okay, let's try it, I will give you time, and I can wait for you."

Although Eddie didn't want to admit it, he was indeed a little moved by the person in front of him.

He would never hate Ares anyway, and the person in front of him thought that he didn't want to like him because he was not an ordinary human, so he wanted to be an ordinary human so strongly.

Ordinary humans, such fragile creatures.

"Okay." Eddie nodded to Ares.

Ares didn't have much expression on his face, only the corners of his mouth were raised slightly, his joy couldn't be hidden.

This little joy should have been discovered by Eddie, but Eddie didn't expose him, and said other innocuous words tacitly.

He is very familiar with this kind of Ares, only the Ares he met for the first time before made him tremble unconsciously, but why, he couldn't find out the root cause.

Eddie suddenly thought of the few words left by Rob. What happened in the past year?In his mouth, Ares is such a terrifying person, and he has touched some edges and corners of his terrifying side, but now, Ares has turned into such a harmless appearance.

Eddie didn't understand.

Rob said he'd only figure it out if he remembered, but Eddie didn't know now whether he wished he remembered or wished he'd simply forgotten.

Eddie asked Ares where they were going, and Ares told him that he had come to find him, and it didn't matter where he stayed.

"See what you like," Ares said.

Eddie was not in a hurry to leave, and he forgot to ask questions that had not been answered before.

Previously, Eddie and Rob had been staying in the suburbs with almost no people in order to hide their whereabouts and not be found. Now that there is no need to worry about Ares, Eddie really wants to take a good look at this unfamiliar planet.

Speaking of which, Eddie has only been to two planets, one is Earth and the other is Steele. Earth is his hometown. Steele is a hell to him, and there is no comparison at all.

In Nichols, he seemed like a real tourist.

"Do you still remember that when we came back from Steele, we saw many planets in the universe. Although it was very inappropriate, I thought at the time that it would be great if I had the opportunity to take a look at other planets. After all, a human life is too short," Eddie told Ares.

"Haven't human beings thought about preventing death?" Ares asked naively, and Eddie felt that discussing death with him had a magical feeling of reality, "It's not that they haven't thought about it, but death itself will not be changed. , so more and more human beings will find ways to prolong their lives, but no one can really fight against death, remember what we said about death before?"

Ares nodded, it was when they just met, he became a little depressed again, "I won't die."

Eddie thought his point was weird for a while, "That's great, eternal life is something others can only wish for."

"But you will die." Ares added.

Eddie felt soft in his heart, and hesitated, "That's also... something that can't be helped."

He didn't think that his departure one day would have any major impact on Ares. After all, even two people who love each other will have to separate one day. To be with another person for a long time.

Whether Ares’s life has an end, he didn’t know before, just now he heard Ares himself say that he seems to live forever, I don’t know if it’s true, but if Eddie dies, Ares understands this When people leave completely, they will also look for another life sustenance. Eddie actually doesn't believe that feelings can transcend eternity.

He just felt moved, but didn't take it to heart.

People in Nichols look similar to humans on Earth, probably because of the similar geographical environment. I heard that a long time ago, each planet was very different, but when the various life forms on the planet could communicate with each other, they exchanged The substances on each other's planets have been imperceptibly affected for hundreds of thousands of years. The planets where life forms can exist, the environment is not too different, and the life forms that grow up are also not too different, with only subtle individual differences.

Eddie thought of Dunbar, and felt that he was like someone he had met in his previous life, too long ago.

His thoughts have gone a long way, but Ares is still stuck on the previous question.

"Steel's people have no way to continue their lives?"

Eddie didn't know whether to applaud his stubbornness or feel helpless, so he had to answer him patiently: "I don't know about this, but there shouldn't be any, otherwise, how could Steele let go of such a profitable person?" Opportunity?" They will definitely push this method to everyone, and there will be many people who want to live forever to pay for it.

Ares thought for a while, and it was not difficult to understand. He also agreed with this statement, so he had no choice but to end this topic reluctantly.

Seeing that he stopped talking, Eddie knew that this question was still lingering in his heart, so he could only persuade him: "I don't think there is any regret in death. Death is just the beginning of another form."

Ares' eyes lit up, "That is to say, you will come back again? In another form?"

Eddie didn't know how to explain to him the theory of reincarnation passed down a long time ago, so he had to vaguely agree, but he didn't expect Ares to keep holding on: "In what form?"

Eddie failed to change the subject several times, so he had to use the cliché: "For example...you like the clouds in the sky, or you like the rain on the earth, or you like Nicole Even the creeks in Sri Lanka may be me."

Eddie imagined that after a hundred years had passed, Ares wandered around the planets alone, cherishing everything he liked very much, and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Ares broke his fantasy all of a sudden, and didn't take this at all.

"You are lying to me."

Eddie opened his mouth and found he had nothing to refute.