imperfections

But my dear first believer, when you asked me to wait for two hours, I sat obediently in the basement and waited for you all day.

And you?Okay, when I am 50 years old, I will take you to Watto to see the general's mansion?

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How hard is it to raise a child?In the eighth galaxy, this is a very hypocritical problem-there are not many formal breeding institutions here, and most of the children are born in the mother's womb. They are like the cubs of bobcats and wild dogs, born inexplicably, and then they are poor. If you are lucky, you can get through puberty without incident, and you are considered a person; if you are unlucky, you put the rags into the garbage in a roll, and go back and forth from wherever.

But if you ask the one-eyed eagle, you will really be able to ask a mouthful of blood and tears.

When Lu Bixing was "five years old", he was tired of those fairy tales with similarities and differences, so when Cyclops tried to please him with a children's picture album full of silly animals, he said something that made the arms dealer speechless.He said: "I don't want to watch this anymore. Every story ends with a happy life with friends. It's all fake, right? There are no friends in the world, and I have never seen them."

It is impossible for the "five-year-old" Lu Bixing to have friends. He doesn't even have his own body. He lives in a highly intelligent nutrition cabin. The complex sensors are his five senses. Through these sensors, he opens and closes every day. What the eye "sees" is the same laboratory, the same person, like a consciousness floating on the edge of the world.

In the past five years, Cyclops has almost given up all his personal life. The little life in the nutrition cabin is as fragile as a sandcastle under the wind and waves, and will disappear completely if he is negligent, so he dare not let anyone approach the laboratory. Hastily dealt with the outside affairs, and rushed back to accompany the little consciousness in the nutrition cabin, and communicated with him tirelessly. Lu Bixing could "see" him when he opened his "eyes" in the nutrition cabin, and he would only be able to sleep when he fell asleep. Sneak away—for a while.

Later, Lu Bixing finally had a small and fragile body, but for a long time, there was no difference between whether the body was present or not, and he could only live on the nutrition cabin, using sensors instead of senses.A child's curiosity to explore the world cannot be suppressed in the laboratory. Parenting books also say that keeping him in one place for a long time is not good for his physical and mental health. So the one-eyed eagle taught him how to use the nutrition cabin. Its intelligent system is connected to the Internet, and it can observe the outside world by hacking into the surveillance cameras on Gloria.

Unexpectedly, Lu Bixing was very enthusiastic about it. He couldn't experience the fun of games like ordinary children, and wanted to go out like crazy, so he spent all his waking hours reading those dirty books and was "forced" to grow up. Became a child prodigy.One day, when the one-eyed eagle came to visit him, he saw his son showing him a small yellow picture on the computer screen, and curiously asked what it was doing. Only then did he realize that his personal terminal had been hacked by this kid.Mr. One-Eyed Eagle turned pale with fright. Because he himself is ignorant, there are only two kinds of leisure reading materials in his personal terminal-erotic literature and horror stories.Cyclops modified the encryption of his personal terminal overnight, just in case, and deleted all his adult books, and replaced them with a bunch of chicken soup books for the soul.

Regardless of whether Lu Bixing himself believed what was written in the book or not, this early reading experience still greatly affected Mr. Lu's taste when he grew up.

After the age of eight, Lu Bixing finally got rid of the sensor completely and opened his eyes. At the same time, his "happy childhood" was over. When the brain is no longer docked with sensors, but actually forcibly combined with a non-original body, the mismatched brain and body become a pair of inseparable bitter couples, neither of which listens to the other, and hinders each other every day.Even for simple personal terminal operations, it took him a month or two to get used to poking with one finger.For little Lu Bixing, life began to feel like years.It is really difficult for an eight-year-old child to ask him to be "disabled and strong", and the impact of illness on a person's character is often beyond people's expectations. Impatient, sullen and irritable.And he can't even vent his emotions by throwing things and making a lot of noise, he doesn't have the strength.

The one-eyed eagle saw it in his eyes, and was so anxious that he developed endless mouth ulcers. After spraying the medicine, it disappeared, and it would grow back lingeringly in two or three days.But he can't help it, "Nuwa's magic" must go through this last step, and the pain is the same. If the boy can't adapt, he will never be able to have his own body, and he will never be able to live like a normal person.He has to suffer this crime, and no one can replace him... Even killing all the alliance dogs that killed Professor Muller back then will not help.

Lu Bixing began to become taciturn. One day, he spent two hours smashing all the mirrors in the house. Since then, he never talked to anyone, nor was he interested in the outside world, and he never logged into Gloria again. He only shut himself in an empty room, writing and drawing with his clumsy hand.One-eyed Eagle accidentally flipped through and found that his recent reading records were all about mechs and weapons, and even designed a whole book of weapons of mass destruction by himself—although most of them are whimsical and the technical content is open to question, but they can make people It can be seen from this that he wants to fry the eight major galaxies of the alliance.

The one-eyed eagle was terrified, fearing that it would make Lu Xin's son an anti-social person, so he had to spend a lot of time with him again, hoping that the child would lose his temper with him and relieve a little. Anyway, the old arms dealer has a rough skin and a thick flesh. It can't be broken or scratched.

But I don't know which of Lu Bixing's biological parents' genes has given him a lingering gentle background. He seems to always remember the one-eyed eagle who accompanied him when he was very young, and he is careful not to let him down, although He no longer communicated with the one-eyed eagle, but when the old Persian cat was around, he always forced himself to endure the pain and calm down, and refused to stretch his claws to this father.

So Cyclops had an idea, tried to take advantage of Lu Bixing's tolerance for himself, and squeezed into the child's self-enclosed world step by step. When Lu Bixing didn't speak, Cyclops pretended not to understand his face, and forced him into a wheelchair every day. Watching him walk around the yard, when he went out on the first day, the veins on the back of Lu Bixing's hands were about to pop out. On the verge of explosion, fortunately, the one-eyed eagle was not too far-fetched, and cleared away all the idlers at home. Outside, the yard and the farm were as silent as the cabin.After pushing like this for a few days, Lu Bixing gradually got used to the "outside" which was as quiet and safe as "inside", and he was not so resistant at first.

Just when Cyclops was delighted with his progress and was about to lure him a step further, there was a problem with an arms deal, which required him to go to the secret channel on the edge of the galaxy to solve it himself. Chattering and instructing Lu Bixing for an hour, he repeatedly promised that he would go for a day at most, and he would definitely come back within 100 hours.As usual, Lu Bixing didn't say a word and didn't respond to him. When the one-eyed eagle came to the door, he remembered something again, and planned to turn back in a hurry to make up for it.

"Like a big cat anxiously chasing its own tail." Lu Bixing looked at him and suddenly thought so, so he smiled slightly.

The one-eyed eagle saw his rare smile, forgot what he wanted to say for a moment, said some nonsense like "Daddy brought you a gift" incoherently, and left in a panic, and when he went out, his right eye was wet—— -His left eye is artificial and has no tear function.

He thought everything was getting better.

However, on the second day after the one-eyed eagle left, Lu Bixing's smart wheelchair walked along the same route countless times and recorded the path habits. When the time came, it pushed the boy with handicapped legs out on its own initiative.The one-eyed eagle was not at home, and Lu Bixing didn't want to go out by himself, so he tried to turn the automatic wheelchair around.But his fingers were too inflexible, and he slipped away from the control panel in a short time, and the wheelchair got stuck on the handrail in the elevator. When he got himself and the wheelchair down in a cold sweat, the elevator had already Sent to the sixth basement.The dark elevator door opened, and the wheelchair slid out. In front of him was an electronic door that prohibited entry and exit.Lu Bixing stared blankly at the skull warning sign above for half a minute, then connected to his personal terminal by accident.

Cyclops' electronic lock is exactly the same as the encryption method of his personal terminal. Lu Bixing has no other obstacles except shaking hands and not being able to issue voice commands after a long time of silence. He concentrated on his hands and spent 5 minutes, Barely holding on to a few twitching fingers, he cracked the encryption of the electronic lock... Slowly unfolding in front of him was a strange pet with a human face and a snake body, imprisoned in a nutrition cabin and unable to move.

Lu Bixing will never forget the appearance of that beautiful snake. Her limbs are fixed by the life-sustaining nutrition system, twisted into a strange posture, facing him, seeing someone coming, there is not even the slightest fluctuation in her eyes, empty, Numb, as if she doesn't care about life and death, and doesn't care about being naked. If it weren't for the slight ups and downs of her chest, she would be like an ugly and weird wax figure.

When Lu Bixing came to his senses, he had already pulled out the other laser gun on the security robot that was dormant next to him. The gun pierced her head. Killing with blood...but his hands didn't shake.Lu Bixing's knees gave way, and he fell uncontrollably to the ground. Blood was everywhere in the nutrition cabin, dripping quietly down the clean cabin wall.There was a small smile on the face of the beauty snake.

Lu Bixing stared blankly at his twitching fingers again, thinking: "No wonder I'm different from others, so my kind is here."

He slowly tightened his palms, and grabbed the gun again like a ghost...

At this moment, all the screens in the laboratory turned on at the same time, instantly illuminating the gloomy basement as if it were under the noon sun. The strong light pierced in, but Lu Bixing's wide-open eyes refused to close, so tears burst into tears. out.Through the hazy physical tears, he saw the one-eyed eagle calling him heartbreakingly.

Lu Bixing was speechless. Looking at the one-eyed eagle, he thought to himself: "Why did you give birth to me? Why did you keep me? Why did you raise me? Dad, life is very painful."

"Bixing! Listen to me!" The one-eyed eagle seems to be in a moving mecha, and there are all kinds of noises around. Lu Bixing's smart wheelchair has a location. The one-eyed eagle received the alarm, but his mecha was passing through a very unstable particle flow, and the signal of the mecha was always interfered. When the one-eyed eagle saw the gun in his hand, his eyes were red, but he shouted " Listen to me." But his mind went blank, he was tongue-tied for a while, and the one-eyed eagle's shoulders suddenly collapsed, his hands were tightly intertwined, and he pressed against his forehead like a collapse, and he could only say incoherently, "You give me another —Would you like a little time, please...for a while...just two hours...haven't you reached the transition point yet? Then why don't you jump urgently!"

Someone next to him reminded urgently: "Boss, I have made emergency jumps four times in a row. Both humans and machines can't bear it..."

The one-eyed eagle pushed the man away angrily, and roared like a trapped animal: "Give me the driving authority!"

"Boss, particle turbulence..."

The communication was cut off with a "stab", and Lu Bixing's hands clasped tightly on the laser gun trembled again. He raised his head slowly, and saw the last scene before the communication was disconnected on the screen. The eye circles of the one-eyed eagle were so red Like crying. ~

The basement was dark again, the dead beauty snake was smiling, while the father on the distant waterway was crying, the boy was precariously caught in the middle, the line between life and death was only as thick as a hair.

The one-eyed eagle tore through time and space all the way back to Gloria Star, and rushed into the basement with a shattered liver and guts. He saw the treasure he had poured out of his ten years of hard work against the blood-stained nutrition cabin, side by side with the automatic wheelchair and the gun.Cyclops almost lost his footing, rushed in and picked him up, and kicked the laser gun tens of meters away. It took 2 minutes for him to feel a little bit of reality from the warmth of his tiny body. Pulling himself together, he ran out and vomited—a hangover from an overdose of sedatives—he threw up all the bile and didn't let go.

Lu Bixing was pulled by him so that his arms were crossed, and his posture was uncomfortable, but he was quiet and silent. After a while, he hesitated to raise a small pale hand and put it on the back of the one-eyed eagle.

His hands stopped shaking again.

The one-eyed eagle was frightened by him, and ran desperately. When he came back, he fell ill, and when he recovered, the old Persian cat also calmed down. He found Lu Bixing and had a serious talk.

"About why you are different from other children, I have not told you, because I am afraid that you will have a burden in the future," the one-eyed eagle told him seriously, "because you are not an ordinary person, you are a superman. You were in the basement that day. The girl I saw is a special product of the eighth galaxy. We robbed her from a smuggler. We can't help her, so we can only raise her like this. Our eighth galaxy suffered from the rainbow virus more than 100 years ago. Dad I told you about this history, right? Afterwards, the Alliance didn’t fulfill its promise and let us fend for ourselves. There are still many poor people like those snake girls. The reason you were born in this world is to save them .So you will be like a caterpillar growing into a butterfly, reborn again and again, and finally... maybe when you are 50 years old, you will become a superhero. But every rebirth is painful, as painful as it is now, for Those who are waiting for you to save, can you do it?"

Lu Bixing: "..."

In order to convince Lu Bixing of his nonsense, Cyclops moved the boy out of the original deep house compound, and moved him to a street full of urban atmosphere. Places, together, form a market, which is very noisy every day.Cyclops secretly waived the rent for everyone on this street, and generously subsidized them 10% of the rent. They only gave them one task, which was to coax them to treat Lu Bixing as the future "savior" and to lure him every day. When faith worships.

It may be that the people at the bottom of the eighth galaxy have no sense of shame, and they don't have much shame in order to make a living, or it may be that they really look at the boy poorly. In short, the neighbors are very involved in acting. If something goes wrong, I will go to Lu Bixing's window and "buzz" and pray for "blessing".

This method is really effective. Lu Bixing's irritability, which was forced out, gradually calmed down amidst the ridiculous prayers of the brats. At the same time, his body got better and better. When he was fourteen or five years old , except that he looks a little weak, he can basically take care of himself like a normal person.

One summer evening, when Cyclops came home drunk after finishing unhealthy adult activities, he happened to see a snot-nosed cub standing under Lu Bixing's window, begging the "savior" to bless him to find his orange candy— ——He dressed up as a little monkey, and after attracting customers for a day, he earned a bag of orange candies. He wanted to take it home to his sister, but he didn't notice that there was a hole in his pocket, and the precious orange candies were lost on the road.

The window of "Savior" was open, and after listening to his chanting, he stretched out a pale and slender hand in response: "Go on."

The snot-nosed child raised his head in a daze, and two packs of orange candies fell from the sky and landed in his arms.The young man Lu Bixing poked his head out again and whistled at him: "I still have a small cake, do you want to eat it?"

The child's eyes lit up. Not only did he get what he wanted, but he also received a bag of small cakes by accident, and he felt that his faith has become stronger since then.

The one-eyed eagle saw that he had sent the child away, so he also staggered to the window, put his hands together, and muttered to the window of Lu Zhixing.

Lu Bixing couldn't laugh or cry: "What the hell, old Lu?"

"I also want to make a wish." The one-eyed eagle said with a big tongue, "Savior, hurry up and grow up. When you grow up, we will be able to travel to the eight galaxies, and then you will be able to help me realize my wish."

"What do you wish for?"

"I want to go to Votto once, to see the general's mansion, the marshal's mansion and so on, it's up to you!"

"I think you are drinking too much?"

"Nonsense, then how can two bottles of wine overwhelm me? I am the first believer in the hero Lu Bixing!"

"..."

Later, Lu Bixing found out that the one-eyed eagle uttered the truth after drinking, and his wish was true. He really wanted to see General Lu Xin's house, because he heard that General Lu Xin hung them in the corridor of his house. A picture of these Galaxy Eight brethren.

One-eyed Eagle is really unreliable as a father. He actually treated Lu Bixing as a real child. He didn't consider his terrible reading volume at all. Lu Bixing gave him face and never let it go.Thinking about it... Probably in the laboratory, when he saw the man on the communication screen crying without dignity and begging him to wait a little longer, he decided to cooperate with all the clumsy performances in the world and work hard to survive.

But they didn't expect that the lie that One-Eyed Eagle made up casually turned out to be true by mistake.In a sense, the 50-year-old Lu Bixing really became a superman, like a hero, he provoked the entire Eighth Galaxy on his shoulders.

The 50-year-old Lu Bi walked a long path, passed countless solemn tombstones, and came to the innermost one. He wiped off the floating dirt on the tombstone. He took the cigarettes and wine that Lin Jingheng handed him, and put the In front of the tombstone, he said to the old Persian cat staring at the two of them on the stone tablet: "Okay, stop staring, Jingheng will not quarrel with you. Also, Lao Lu, I have really been to Woto, wait for me I'll tell you. Watto, now..."

But my dear first believer, when you asked me to wait for two hours, I sat obediently in the basement and waited for you all day.

And you?Okay, when I am 50 years old, I will take you to Watto to see the general's mansion?

Just because I love you, can I break my promise and become fat?

"who are you?"

"I am your father."

"……dad?"

"Dad is the one who will always take care of you and protect you until you grow up."

"What about when I grow up?"

"Love you forever, more than anything else, including himself."