Puppeteer [Interstellar]

Because there is a big stove by his side, Lyle, who doesn’t have to worry about freezing anymore, happily packed up the tent and everything else, and recovered the scouting robots scattered around patrolling one by one. After confirming that nothing was left behind, they continued to set foot on the road. journey.

It was too cold at night, but fortunately there was no strong wind like during the day, so Lyle could take out his own magnetic levitation skateboard, which was big enough for him and the puppet to stand on it.

There was also a steering wheel on the skateboard that could control the direction. Lyle let the puppet stand behind him and hugged him, while Lyle fixed the electronic map and flashlight on the steering wheel, and opened the way with the guidance and light of the map. Drive towards a place deeper in the mountains.

Traveling at night is much faster than during the day, although it is cold, but because of the big stove of the golem, Lyle has nothing to worry about.

It’s just that the puppet seems to be hungry very quickly. Before departure, Lyle fed him food, but in the middle of the night, the puppet seemed to be weak, almost lying on Lyle’s body, and the body temperature seemed to drop. Quite a few, which made Lyle realize that if the puppet wants to maintain this high body temperature, it should be a very exhausting behavior.

Therefore, Lyle took a bite of the food he had prepared for himself, and stuffed the rest into the golem's mouth.

Their food reserves are quite a lot, and fifteen days should be enough, even if the golem has to eat double the food, but if it exceeds fifteen days, it will not be good.

While driving forward on the skateboard, Lyle silently calculated in his heart that the substances carried by himself and the puppet could support the two of them to find the group of lost people smoothly?If they couldn't find it, Lyall had to reserve a part so that they could return to the place where the escape boat was parked.

Lyle used the signal transmitter every eight kilometers, but even then, he still didn't get any response, and there was no one around.

Then to Lyall's surprise, although he saw no traces of humans, he saw traces of animals.

There are very few animals on the earth. There are almost no animals and plants on the surface. Even if there are, they will be sunburned to death, or frozen to death at night. The huge temperature difference makes it impossible for many creatures to survive normally, but there are also some extremely tenacious ones. Organisms can survive in such an environment.

After thousands of years, these tenacious creatures have mutated or evolved in form, and they are completely different from the creatures in the earth illustration that Lyall saw in history class.

What Lyle saw should be a rodent creature, some kind of rat mutation... or an evolutionary form, it seems to be a creature that lives underground, and it is nocturnal. It has thick fur, a long nose and sharp claws, but It seems to have no eyes. Lyle occasionally saw this creature appear on the ground, dig a hole in the soil, poke its head out and sniff around with its nose.

It is not small in size, much larger than the ordinary mouse in the illustrated book, and similar to a cat. Every time Lyle sees it, he can't help but think about the possibility of catching it.

Although Lyle said that he has food reserves, they are all compressed foods, and there are even things like nutrient solution, which are really tasteless and taste like chewing gum. Apart from supplementing nutrition, these foods have no taste enjoyment at all .

So Lyle occasionally wants to catch this kind of creature and grill it to eat. I don't know what the taste is like. Generally, it can be eaten after it is cooked. As long as it is a kind of creature, it can be defined in the category of food.

After all, even humans can be eaten by the Zerg as dinner, and the era when humans were the only ones on earth has long passed.

After thinking about it, Lyle decided to try to capture this small animal, and... Lyle thought, looking at the puppet beside him.The sight of the puppet seemed to be attracted by the weird rat creature on the ground, and it stopped staring at Lyle.

Well, it's a good time to try the attack command.

Even though Lyle doesn't know much about golems, he also knows that the real purpose of golems is not to serve tea and water to the master's housekeepers. Golems are used for fighting. They are natural fighting machines, killing people without blinking an eye. The executioner has a bloody and brutal nature in his bones, and this was already noticed when Lyall saw the puppet for the first time.

The power to split a person in half with one claw is amazing.

So Lyle threw an order to the puppet. He pointed to the little thing poking its head in the mound over there, and said, "Grab it!"

Then the puppet moved without hesitation at all. Its movements were like flowing clouds and flowing water. It rushed out at the first time. The speed was so fast that Lyle's eyes were blurred. When Lyle reacted, the little animal over there moved With a scream, Lyle took a closer look and saw that it had been pinched in the palm of the hand by the puppet.

The puppet seemed to be taking a leisurely walk, holding the little thing's tail, jumped back, jumped on Lyle's skateboard, and brought the little animal to Lyle to show him.

Lyle took the little animal from the puppet and held it in the palm of his hand. This little thing is quite cute, round like a ball, gray fur is fluffy, and there is a pinch of it on the top of its head. White hair, it has small flexible ears and a long tail. It seems that it has no eyes, but it has a long, pointed and pink nose, which keeps sniffing and sniffing, and occasionally makes a small sound.

After the puppet handed the little animal to Lyle, it subconsciously reached out and hugged Lyle again, providing him with warmth.

"It's too small." Lyle curled up in the puppet's arms, feeling pity in his heart, and felt that he who had just had the idea of ​​eating it seemed a bit cruel, although this was a cruel world to begin with.

The little animal screamed softly in Lyle's hand, and was still trembling, looking extremely pitiful. Lyle sighed and said, "Forget it, let you go."

Anyway, Lyle still has a lot of food reserves on his body. Although it is not delicious, it is enough to satisfy his hunger, and just because of his greed, he wants to kill extra lives to satisfy his desire... Only human beings can do this.

Many animals in nature, after hunting enough food to feed themselves, will not kill other prey, unless it is for the winter or to store food.

Only human beings will kill many lives for unnecessary desires, which is probably the reason why the earth is going to perish.

Desire is a bottomless pit that can never be filled.

Lyle squatted down and put the little thing on the ground. The little animal realized that it had been released. It sniffed the left side of its nose and the right side, then turned around and sniffed Lyle's fingers, and then ran away quickly. , Lyall saw it go back into the hole he dug.

The behavior of letting go seems to be just an unintentional move by Lyle, but he never thought that he would get a small surprise because of it.

He and the puppet continued to advance through the night, and they stopped and stopped for an unknown amount of time. Anyway, when it was almost dawn, the east was slightly pale, and Lyle also felt the temperature rising slightly. , he finally found the water source.

It was a water source in a valley. Lyle's electronic map analyzed that there was plenty of water nearby, so he drove a skateboard around here and found a pool of clear water in a relatively sunken gully. There was still water beside the pool. There is a small spring.

The place where the water source is located is in a ravine. There are many rocks and mountains around to block the sun's exposure. This place is very shady and cool, so this clear spring has been preserved. It is very clean, the water is crystal clear, and you can see a fish or two swimming.

Lyall used the signal transmitter again near the water source, but the result was still disappointing. He still didn't get any reply, which proved that there was no one around.

But when you think about it, although the water source in this ravine is clean and unpolluted, and the place is shady and cool, the terrain is too rough. Lyle was able to come down because he has a magnetic levitation that can almost be used for flying. Skateboards, but if it is the poor human beings left behind on the earth, they may not have such high technological development, because their resources are too few, and it is difficult to even fill their stomachs.

This is also the reason why Lyle felt a little strange. He didn't quite understand why Alice asked Lyle to go to such a group of people for help. They couldn't protect themselves. How could they help Lyle and others?

But Lyall had no other choice but to move on.

Lyle took out the water glass and water bag in his backpack, and after filling it with water from the clear spring, he decided to take a rest in this place, and it happened to be dawn, so Lyle could also camp here and sleep. Wait until evening before moving on.

The puppet over there also seemed a little tired, so Lyall fed him food.The golem eats a lot, almost twice as much as Lyle's. The compressed food is so full that Lyle can't eat it after two bites, and the golem is still trying to swallow it.

Lyle ordered him to eat gracefully, so the puppet could not eat as fast as before, but could only chew slowly, which seemed to be an uncomfortable behavior for the puppet, at least he did not It looks so fun.

But Lyall liked it, he put his hands on his chin to watch the puppet slowly gnaw the food, and he felt very happy just looking at it.

"By the way, what's your name?" Lyle suddenly remembered this, and asked the puppet.

The golem swallowed the food in its mouth, raised its eyelids to look at Lyall, its eyes were bright.

Seeing that the puppet did not answer, Lyle tilted his head and continued to ask, "Don't you have a name?"

The puppet still didn't speak, still staring at Lyle.

Lyle thought for a while, and suddenly ordered: "Say your name!"

In the end, this command didn’t work, and the puppet was still staring at Lyle blankly. If you observe carefully, you will find that the puppet’s gaze has been fixed on Lyle’s lips. Maybe he wants to kiss Lyle. of.

Lyle didn't notice, he touched his chin and thought, is there really no name?After thinking about it, Lyle said to the puppet: "I'll give you a name, um... what should I call it?"

I don't know what's going on. At this moment, Lyle remembered the "ska" that Alice said before. This is a kind of illusion like a ghost. Naturally, Lyle yelled at the puppet: "Ska."

The puppet actually reacted, he blinked his eyes, and Lyle even vaguely saw him smile with the corners of his mouth raised.