Puppeteer [Interstellar]

No matter whether Lyle's speculation is correct or not, no matter whether the Queen of Worms really has such a key part as a "heart", at least trying to collect Queen's fragments and investigate the battlefield after the war is absolutely not a wrong choice.

As far as searching the battlefield, Lyle couldn't help much, so he could only stay on the spaceship and wait with Scar.

The battle had come to an end, and the victory was so unreal. Lyle held Scar's hand and huddled with him in his own small room. Simply sitting together, Lyle held a book of fairy tales and told Scar.

This is a simple and beautiful story, telling a series of stories about a little boy who lost his parents in a car accident and was then taken back to the countryside by his grandfather to live on a farm.

Losing his parents makes the little boy feel depressed, and there are no other peers to communicate with the boy on the farm in the countryside. The lonely boy is always depressed and unhappy.

In order to make the child happy, the boy's grandfather used his ingenious woodworking skills to make an exquisite wooden doll for the boy.

This puppet is only ten centimeters high, with a small round head, hair braided with string, lifelike facial features, and even movable eyeballs, eyelids and jaws.

The finely carved wooden hands and feet, even the fingers and toes are carefully separated by bones, and the joints are replaced by small iron balls, which are very mobile and can pose various complex shapes.

The boy was overjoyed. He liked the little doll his grandfather made for him very much. He hugged the doll he just bought and cheered happily, walking around the farm.

Afterwards, he treated the doll like the most delicate flower bud, put it on the fluffy cushion, made its quilt with a thick woolen blanket, and borrowed the leftover patterns and plaids from Mrs. Fairmont next door, Sew the doll's clothes by yourself.

The boy cherishes this doll so much, even though the doll is just a human doll, it cannot speak or communicate with the boy, but in the lonely farm, the boy still regards it as his best friend.

Seeing that the child liked the gift he made so much, the boy's grandfather was very pleased, and couldn't help asking the boy: "My child, what other wishes do you have?"As long as I can do it, I will help you do it.

The boy asked naively: Can grandpa bring my doll back to life?I wish to speak to him.

Of course this is impossible, a doll is just a doll, a delicate toy, and unless there is real magic in this world, it will never be able to have life.

In fact, grandpa didn't want to deceive the boy, but he also didn't want to disappoint the boy.

It's just that grandpa thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a way to tell the child this cruel fact. He could only say euphemistically: Son, grandpa can't make your doll come alive. This is something grandpa can't do. However, when you grow up, you may meet the guy who can bring your puppet back to life.

The boy was very pleasantly surprised: Can my doll really come to life?Who is that guy?

Grandpa stroked the boy's hair: My child, I don't know, that is the person you will meet when you grow up. What you have to do now is to grow up healthy and happy.

Many years have passed, the boy is growing up day by day, and the grandfather is getting old day by day.

In the end, on the day when his grandfather also passed away, the boy realized that what his grandfather said had deceived him after all. This world is so cold and cruel, and it is impossible for a guy who can bring someone back to life to exist forever.

A boy graduates from school, enters the society and enters work. He has transformed from a boy into a mature man.

One day, the man met a person at a reception. He fell in love with that person at first sight, and couldn't help making a romantic invitation to him.

The man brings his lover home, and they live together, developing a sweet relationship and being happy.

One morning, the man was lying on his bed and sleeping late, and his lover was cleaning up the house. In a dilapidated cabinet, the lover saw a pile of old clothes and a dusty little puppet.

The lover secretly took out the doll, took care of it, and walked to the man's bedside with the doll.

The lover pinched the left and right hands of the doll, patted the man's cheek with the small hand of the doll, imitated a funny tone with a low voice, and shouted: "Get up, get up, the sun father-in-law is showing his ass!"

As soon as the man opened his eyes, he saw the lifelike little doll in a beautiful dress swaying its hands and feet in front of him, with a funny voice: Wake up and have breakfast!

I was wrong about grandpa, he didn't lie to me.

At that moment, the man thought in a daze: So in this world, there really are people who can bring the puppet back to life.

There is only one thin book of stories, and Lyle finished it very quickly, and Lyle couldn't help but indulge in it when telling the story. This seems to be just an ordinary and beautiful fairy tale, but it fascinates Lyle very much.

He closed the storybook and looked at the title of the book, only to find that the storybook had no title, only a colorful cartoon on the cover, which showed a beautiful doll in a calico dress, holding a He was also carrying a flower basket, which contained not flowers but cartoon red hearts.

Perhaps what the boy in this story wants to resurrect is not a doll, but a dead love.

Lyle didn't expect that he would be so moved by a storybook written for children, he dropped the storybook, turned around and threw himself into Scar's arms beside him, rubbing against his chest.

Ska reached out and rubbed Lyle's hair, then kissed Lyle's lips hard, and said with a smile: "Your little puppet has come back to life and keeps kissing you, are you happy?"

Lyle laughed straight after being kissed by him, and mumbled intermittently: "Happy!"

"I will keep you happy forever." Scar pressed Lyle's forehead and said softly, "Let you rely on me, and you can't live without me, so I don't have to worry about you when I get old and fading." I will run away!"

"I don't know how to run!" Lyle hugged Scar's back, rubbed noses with Scar, couldn't help laughing, "I'll grow old with you."

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Daryl eventually gathers the Queen's pieces, and they scour the area for any pieces that may appear to be part of the Queen.

Then Daryl showed these fragments to Lyle and Clarence, and Lyle showed these fragments to the little queen Heidi. Everyone looked around and looked for them. The queen's fragments were indeed fragments, but they were not Nothing resembling a "heart" was found.

Heidi didn't give any special reaction either. She seemed to prefer to eat the nuclear power battery that Clarence brought her compared to these queen fragments.

Lyle couldn't help thinking, could it be that his previous speculation about the "heart" was wrong, the queen is no different from the general Zerg, if she dies, she is really dead, the one who chased after the queen died and killed Lyle and Scar The Zerg is just a special Zerg?

But something happened later that proved that Lyle was not wrong.

After the battle against the queen, Caesar, who was ordered by Lyle before the battle to escape with his master, returned, and Caesar took Al back to Lyle's spaceship.

Not only did Caesar bring back Al, but he also brought back something unexpected.

"This is something I snatched from an elite Zerg after I killed it." Caesar said, taking the thing out of his pocket.

That thing is very small, the size of a fist, oval shaped like a cocoon, but its outer shell is not cocoon silk, but a red semi-permeable membrane, which is wrapped with a viscous red liquid.

Don't know what it is, but it seems to be alive, because it wriggles slightly.

"Do you know what this is?" Lyall asked Caesar.

Caesar shook his head to show he was not clear, he said: "Shortly after I left with Al in a small spaceship, I saw you fighting with those bug swarms. Can you be of any help?"

"Then you put out anti-matter bombardment and killed the queen, and the swarms of bugs immediately scattered and fled. Among them, a larger Zerg that seemed to be an elite flew towards me. It held something in its claws, which is This is what you see now."

"I had a bad instinct, so I killed it and snatched this thing." Caesar poked the wriggling red cocoon with his paw.

After hearing what Caesar said, Lyle suddenly burst out laughing.

Lyle said: "Although it was a mistake, it became our foresight. I just wanted you to take Al to escape, but I didn't expect you to become my back!"

Caesar didn't seem to understand what Lyle said, but he also realized that he had made a great contribution, and a smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

Lyle asked Caesar again: "How did you kill that elite Zerg and take things from it?" The one that Lyle and Scar had encountered before was quite difficult.

"It was injured in the explosion." Caesar said, "It fled in a hurry, a little panicked, and hit my gun, so I killed it very easily."

"Great, you really... did a great job!" Lyle couldn't help but praise him.

Caesar was a little embarrassed by the praise, so he started to help himself. He moved a person from the small spaceship, which was the recovered Al.

Al was awake, but seemed to be in a trance. After seeing Caesar, he instinctively stretched out his hand, and Caesar took him into his arms and stroked him.

"Al!" Lyle called Al, but Al didn't respond. He turned his head and glanced at Lyle belatedly, his eyes full of confusion, and then turned his head again, leaning into Caesar's arms.

Later, Clarence checked Al and said that the death experience injured Al's brain, which made Al lose his memory, and his intelligence and behavior were very slow, but it was not impossible to recover, just that It takes quite a while.

Lyle didn't push for more. Al's resurrection was already a great surprise for him.

The good news is not just Al. When Lyle sent the strange cocoon that Caesar snatched back to Heidi, Heidi immediately went crazy, and rushed to eat the cocoon. Hiccupped, patted his belly and acted like a baby to Lyle.

The red cocoon is indeed the "heart" of the Zerg Queen. The succession of the Zerg Queen depends on the old queen sacrificing this "heart" to feed the new queen. Otherwise, the new queen will not grow up, and the old queen will still grow old. .

The old queen can also delay aging by eating her own children, but I'm afraid this is not a long-term solution, because aging is only delayed, not stopped.

Now that Heidi has successfully obtained the queen's heart and has been promoted to be the new bug queen, Lyle feels it's time to terminate the contract and let Heidi develop freely.

But Heidi seemed reluctant, she asked Lyle pitifully, "Aren't you afraid that I will lead my younger brothers to beat you again?"

"Not afraid." Lyle laughed, "If you come back in the future, you will definitely come back hungry and look for me to eat."

"No, no!" Heidi cried and rolled, "I don't want to be separated from Lyle!"

"Be obedient, Heidi, you need to grow, and you won't grow if you stay here with humans." Lyle told the truth, "Humans are too complicated, and they have a long-standing grudge with the Zerg, not everyone can be like me. I will tolerate you as well, you will only get hurt if you stay here."

"So I want you to take those Zergs who are willing to follow you and you are pleasing to the eye, leave this area and develop into a wider starry sky, okay?"

"I will help you take good care of your mother Alice. She is doing well. Clarence will heal her. When you come back, you can see her."

Heidi finally understood what Lyle said, and she promised Lyle that she could lead the swarm to leave for development, but before leaving, she asked Lyle to promise her a condition.

Lyle asked what the terms were.

Heidi said: "I don't want to break the spiritual contract with you, can I keep this? If I want to come back one day, I can easily find you according to this contract."

"Okay, my sweet little Alice." Lyle reached out to rub her little head, "We will meet later."

Heidi learned this word, she nodded and smiled: "There will be a period later."

The author has something to say: the main text is over, and the episode will drop tomorrow.