Puppeteer [Interstellar]

The beautiful female doctor didn't say a few words to Laier, she just told Lyle that the leader of their lost army would come over later and would ask Lyle some things, she asked Lyle to be mentally prepared, and Let Lyle better not lie.

Before Lyle could understand the meaning of her words, the female doctor got up and left the shabby ward, leaving Lyle alone in the ward.

Lyle didn't wait too long, and the so-called leader of the Lost Army that the female doctor said soon appeared in front of Lyle.

But what surprised Lyall was that the leader of the Lost Army turned out to be a little boy who looked no older than ten years old.

It was a boy with a gloomy and gloomy face. When he came in, he was accompanied by a tall man. The man was dressed in black, with a slender figure, elegant movements, and a gentle appearance. At first, Lyle thought that this man was the lost army The leader, but as soon as the man opened his mouth, he pushed the little boy in his hand forward and told Lyle that this was the leader of their family.

Immediately, Lyle was taken aback, and looked down at the short boy carefully. The boy looked to be of mixed race, with black eyes, but his facial features were inclined to Europeans. He was wearing dark brown long trousers and a pair of A velvet jacket that was obviously much larger than his body size, with a hood covering most of his head, but the occasional strands of hair exposed under the hood turned out to be white.

He looked absolutely like a ten-year-old boy, maybe even a little smaller than that, because his figure was too thin, and his skin was as pale as bloodless. When he looked up at Lyle , Lyall noticed his eyes, there was a little emptiness in his eyes.

"You look surprised." Just when Lyle was surprised, the boy spoke, his voice was very hoarse, it seemed that there was something wrong with his throat, so he made that hoarse voice, that tone can be said to be Very ugly.

"I just... didn't think of it." Lyle had to admit that he was really surprised.

"Don't think too much, please treat me as an adult...or I am an adult."

The boy said to Lyle in a hoarse voice: "My body has undergone some mutations, and it has become what you see now, a state of reverse growth. To be honest, it has hurt my physical condition a lot. .”

Lyle was a little nervous and couldn't help swallowing.

The boy continued: "My name is 'Ban', you can also call me Aban, as you can see, I am the leader of the Earth Lost Army...not really a leader, but the one who leads these people That's all. First of all, I want to apologize to you, and I'm sorry that I brought you here in a more violent way."

When Aban said this, Lyle couldn't help thinking that when he met this group of leftover soldiers before, he seemed to be knocked out with a gun and took him away, so Lyle stretched out his hand and touched his head, and sure enough, it He felt a swollen area on his face, and a gauze was wrapped around his head.

"Actually we found you a few days ago, you have been using that signal transmitter to transmit signals, and one of our patrols caught your signal, but they didn't go after you at that time, and later When we went to look for it again, you seemed to be no longer there."

Aban said again: "Later, our equipment detected the distortion of space-time wormholes nearby. For safety reasons, we sent people to inspect, and then the inspectors saw you and brought you back gone."

Lyall keenly grasped the key point in Aban's words: "The distortion phenomenon of space-time wormhole?"

In fact, Lyle can understand that the so-called space-time wormhole is actually a channel that exists in a different dimension. Through this channel, people can jump from one place to another in an instant, just like opening an arbitrary door. .

With the scientific development of modern society, people have been able to successfully create things like "artificial wormholes". Before Lyle's escape spacecraft also jumped through this artificial wormhole to achieve the purpose of advancing at high speed in the universe, otherwise more than 2000 The distance of light years, if Lyle flies slowly in the spaceship, it is impossible to fly to the destination in this life.

Of course, humans are not the only ones who can use wormholes to move forward at high speeds. Zerg can also do this. They also use wormholes to jump from one planet to another without relying on any external objects at all. , its technology of using wormholes is even more superb than that of humans.

Human beings still don't know how the Zerg do it. They seem to have a random door with them. They can leave whenever and wherever they want, and they can appear and leave suddenly.

But later humans discovered that the Zerg could not use this skill casually. If they opened the wormhole to shuttle, especially the shuttle with a very long distance, they would consume a huge amount of energy.

Therefore, every time they use and arrive at a new planet, they will start the overeating mode, and start frantically looking for things with nutritional value on the planet to eat. When it is really impossible, they will eat rocks or minerals.

This is one of the reasons why these nasty Zerg are so aggressive.

And the distortion phenomenon of space-time wormhole mentioned by Aban is actually the additional space distortion phenomenon generated when the wormhole is opened. This phenomenon seems to be nothing on the surface, but it will cause confusion or failure of nearby electronic equipment, resulting in some things like It is a strange phenomenon of supernatural events, and it will cause certain impact damage to creatures, commonly known as internal injuries.

Although human wormhole technology is not extremely advanced, it is definitely the first in stability. People will take a lot of precautions and preparations when opening wormholes, so when opening wormholes, they generally do not or do not create such a space too much. Distortion, only the Zerg can be so unscrupulous, because this distortion has no effect on them at all.

As Gu Aban said, the space-time distortion they detected almost happened at the location where they found Lyle, that is to say, right beside Lyle, someone... or a monster once opened the wormhole.

At this point, Lyle was finally able to figure out why his puppet and the Zerg disappeared.

"Judging from the equipment you carry and your attire, you should be the group of people who left the planet... yes, their descendants." Aban looked at Lyle carefully, and the child let go of the man next to him. His hand reached the edge of Lyle's hospital bed, sat down on the edge of the bed, and talked with Lyle at close range.

"What's your name?"

Lyle replied obediently, "My name is Lyle."

Aban tilted his head, perhaps the appearance of a child gave him some kind of advantage, he looked unwarranted, and even felt that some small movements were cute, even though he said a mature that did not match his appearance He said, "Hello, Lyle. I want to know what happened to those humans who left at the beginning?"

Aban asked such a question, and Lyle couldn't help but began to think about the current situation of the alliance. He and Aban roughly explained the overall development of human beings after leaving the earth, scientific progress, economic development, and the battle against the Zerg. Aban Hearing this, he smiled a little and said, "It's really outstanding. You have developed to this point, but you never thought of coming back to rescue the human beings who are still on the earth."

Lyle was a little speechless, trying to refute something, explaining: "The alliance government seems to have sent an interstellar rescue team to return to Earth a long time ago, but they later said that there is nothing left on Earth, there is no life It is suitable for human survival, so after that, no one cares about these things anymore."

"Now it seems that those are all perfunctory lies for you." Aban said, "You believe what the government says, and ignorant citizens can only continue to be ignorant. Of course, you don't have to have psychological pressure. I'm not blaming you. "

"Of course I'm not completely ignorant of the Alliance." Aban lowered his head slightly, as if he was recalling something, "In fact, a long time ago, I had let one or two spies leave the earth and successfully infiltrated into the Alliance society. We have obtained a lot of information and scientific research results, and we will also make transactions with pirates and black merchant spaceships that occasionally come and go, so now, we are not really trapped on the earth. If we want to leave, it is the same with our current technology You can leave."

"Then why don't you leave?" Lyle asked him.

In Lyle's view, the earth is too desolate today. If you can get better resources and a more comfortable life if you leave here, Lyle feels that there is really no need for Aban and his group to stay here.However, Lyell still got some information from what Aban said, and he realized that Aban and his group might have a certain...even great hostility towards the Alliance.

They hate the Alliance government, that's why they took root on Earth, and they call themselves the Lost Army.The reason why they hate the Alliance should be based on the grudges left by them when they were abandoned thousands of years ago. Conditions, lingering on the earth.

It is impossible for those who remain not to hate.

These people also deal with black merchants and pirates, so they have a lot of arms and resources in their hands, and they have a certain understanding of the current situation of the alliance. The reason why they asked Lyle just now about the current situation of the alliance may be because Just test Lyle.

"Haven't you thought about joining the Alliance?" Lyle asked them, "After all, that is the base camp of mankind. Now the alliance's power has expanded by more than a dozen galaxies, and there are many alien colonies with a total population of hundreds of billions. Nothing. Que, if you go back, you should live better than now."

"Do you really think we can join the alliance?" Aban didn't answer Lyle's question, but instead asked Lyle. He asked very seriously, and he even repeated it. He stared at Lyle intently: "You Do you really think we're going to join the league just the way we are?"

Lyle was defeated and sighed: "No, you won't."

Aban and his group will not join the alliance, and even if they try to return to normal human society, the alliance will definitely not accept this group of people. There is no reason, but Lyle knows that the final result must be like this.

This group of people hates the alliance. For them, the alliance government is the enemy, who abandoned them, and is irreconcilable.As far as the alliance is concerned, this group of leftovers is also criminals who are in the same league as pirates or black merchants.

It makes no difference to either side.

"I'm curious, why did you come to the earth? And you sent us a rescue message with our encrypted code, although this encrypted code is from last year." Aban didn't know where to find it out The signal transmitter that Lyall had used before was fiddling with in the palm of his hand for a while.

Lyle suddenly thought of Alice, maybe because he had been asleep for too long, Lyle's mind was a little muddled, and he didn't think of it at the first time. Thinking of it now, Lyle was so anxious that he almost jumped out of the hospital bed , Said: "By the way! Alice! You have to save Alice...she is still on the escape boat!"

This name made Aban over there frown, "You said...Alice!?"