Walking against the light - rebuilding Homo sapiens

The ghost town is much better than Dan imagined.Not only are huge air conditioners blowing everywhere here, you can eat long-lost lettuce, but there are also creatures that can be seen everywhere, even if it is an ugly alien, he also has a feeling of finding the same kind. The loneliness buried in my heart is offset, but after all, it can also be buffered.One more thing, he met his old acquaintance Allen again!

Not rushing back to origc made Allen heave a sigh of relief.Although he always warned Dan - I am a robot!But I still wanted to have some time to spend alone with him, even if it was suggested to Lance, to stay for two more days.But why he had such an idea, he couldn't figure it out himself.

"Are you losing weight?" Allen still likes to sit on the windowsill, and the window of this room faces the distance outside the city.

"Huh?" It had been two or three hours lying on the bed, but Dan didn't realize for a moment that Allen was talking to himself.

"I ask you……"

"Yeah!" Dan agreed without waiting for Allen to ask again.The nutrient solution injected by Reagan and Hu is no problem to maintain his vital signs, but it is unrealistic to rely on that to grow flesh.

"Are they treating you well?" Allen's voice was flat, and the room was dark, but Dan could only vaguely see a silhouette, not clear about his expression.

"Ok!"

After the sound, Dan fell into silence for a while, and Dan began to think—are the two of them treating themselves well?

"Why did you go back to origc?" After a long time, Dan also asked Allen.

Allen looked out the window in silence. If Dan didn't know that the humanoid robot can't sleep, he thought he was asleep, but it might have died, even though he had never seen Allen die.

Dan is still purely pitiful. Allen doesn't know how to answer him. Going back to origc is not his own wish, but with a purpose—to catch him back and obtain raw materials from him—he is a robot that can't lie, and can only be silent.

On the night of the reunion, the two were silent and sleepless, each thinking about their own thoughts.

In the early morning of the next day, a round of red sun gradually jumped out of the distant horizon, and Allen jumped down from the window sill. Being full of energy is like a superstition.

"Are you awake?" Allen was about to go out when he saw Dan with his round eyes open on the bed.

"Hmm~" Dan just groaned, his face was pale and the corners of his mouth were chapped.

Allen came closer, frowning, feeling something was wrong with Dan, "What's wrong with you?"

"Uncomfortable!" Dan curled up and squeezed out these two words with all his strength.

Allen came closer, big beads of sweat hung on Dan's forehead, it didn't seem like he was pretending, "How uncomfortable?"

"Nauseous, dizzy, and tired!" Dan finished the sentence between his teeth, his eyes still wide open, looking into the distance, as if it was the window sill that Allen sat on before.

Allen leaned over and touched Dan's forehead lightly, it was hot - very bad!

Dan has never been vaccinated and has no pain. He cannot express the feeling of many diseases in words. Allen has been a robot for hundreds of years and has no experience in fighting diseases, so he panicked.

This kind of panic is something that Allen, who has been a humanized robot, has never experienced for hundreds of years.He has always been independent, invincible, fearless of all difficulties, or indifferent to everything, but Dan in front of him is a flesh|body, without a trace of mechanization, sick in a messy city!

Seeing Dan getting weaker and weaker, in desperation, Allen knocked on Reagan and Hu's door.

"What's the matter?" It was Hu who opened the door, and he asked Allen with a smile. People who don't know may think that they have known each other for a long time.

"Yesterday, you said that your partner is a biochemical expert?" Allen asked cautiously, "Dan is sick, can you let him go and have a look?"

"Huh?" Reagan inside rushed over immediately, and the last thing he wanted to see happened. Dan fell ill in a ghost town full of living things.

Reagan and Hu slightly opened the door immediately, and almost jumped at Dan who was curled up on the bed.

"How does it feel? Are your muscles sore?" As soon as the words came out, Reagan gritted his teeth and shook his head—he forgot that Dan didn't feel pain.

Dan looked weaker than before Allen left, his eyes were not open, they were closed tightly, his brows were frowning, and his body curled up even tighter.

"It's so cold!" Dan said as if he was taking advantage of his breathlessness.

Reagan looked at Hu and Allen beside him, "It seems that they are infected with some kind of virus. I need some time to find the right medicine."

"Go! I'll stay with him!" Hu pushed Reagan away.

"Forget it, you two go together, I'll do it here!" Allen knew that having an extra software engineer by his side would be helpful in cracking the alien's biological database.

"Yeah!" Hu pushed Reagan and walked out together.

When Allen turned his head again, Dan looked even more painful, clenching his teeth tightly, sweat pouring out continuously.He leaned against Dan's ear and asked him softly, "How do you feel?"

"Grilled...meat..."

"What?" Allen was a little unfamiliar with the noun Dan said.

"Barbecue!" Dan's throat was already a little hoarse.

"Heh~" Allen understood. He didn't expect that the barbecue he made for Dan in the eco-house before, he still remembered, "Well, when you get better, I will cook it for you, as much as you want!"

"Aaa…llen…" Dan called his name.

"What?" Allen tilted his head so that his ear was next to Dan's mouth, so that he could hear it without trying to speak.

"I... miss you so much!" Although he was still in a daze, Dan was shocked even by the words, opened his eyes immediately, turned his head slightly, and saw a mass of dark hair , that was Allen's, and immediately closed his eyes again.

Should I say "I miss you too?" Allen hesitated.Ever since he met Dan, he always hesitated, he really hated himself like this.He straightened up and lightly slapped Dan across the face, "Go to sleep, you're sick!"

This guy!

Allen sat on the window sill again, wondering if it was because the first ray of sunlight in the morning hadn't been absorbed, and now the battery was a little low and he became dizzy, anyway, he was not well.At dawn, Allen looked at the huge parking lot outside the ghost town, with waves of cars coming and going. Did all the people who came to the black market, regardless of their race, return with a full load?

Lance went out early in the morning, and Allen didn't know what business he was going to do, but anyway, he just wanted to be happy.Now that Dan is also sick, it seems inappropriate to forcefully drag him back to origc, it is more important to let him recover as soon as possible...

Thoughts wandered for a while, Allen looked back at Dan who was asleep on the bed, and quickly turned his head out of the window. Dan's words "I miss you so much!" still linger in my ears, like a spell that can suck my energy away just thinking about it, making people dizzy.

Only three hours later, Reagan and Hu knocked on the door.

Allen let them in, "What's going on?"

"The symptoms are very similar to a sa virus that is prevalent on the queen star, but we need to draw some blood and take it back to the car for testing." Reagan said very firmly, and Allen could see the professionalism at a glance.

"The virus on the queen star?" Allen asked casually, recalling the Wooll star being controlled by the queen star, he immediately felt uncomfortable.

"Hmm! This..." Reagan seemed to have something he didn't want to say, and Hu took over the conversation, "It seems to be a virus deliberately spread by the queen!"

"Huh?" Allen stared angrily, "On purpose?"

"Dong dong dong~" The door knocked, and Allen turned around to open the door. It was Lance.

He was hot all over, he must have been running all the way, Allen sideways let him into the room.The air conditioner in the room could not immediately cool down his body temperature.

"Quick!" Lance yelled as soon as he entered the room, "Take Dan away quickly, there is a virus here!"