Puppeteer [Interstellar]

"Alice?" Lyle poked his head out of the gate and looked at the empty dock nearby. There was no one there, only mechanical and cold escape ships parked where they should be. Alice, as expected It was gone.

Lyle watched cautiously for a long time, but found no other dangers. The two pirates guarding the gate had never returned. Various alarms were still ringing in the corridor outside the gate, and one or two sounds seemed to be heard far away. Sporadic gunshots indicate that the disaster is not over yet.

Lyle remembered what Alice had said before, that she was going to the monitoring room at the docking port, and hacked into the central computer to gain access to the escape ship, so that they could leave this ghost place in the escape ship.

Lyle and the puppet have been spending a long time in the pirate's battle spaceship. It is not safe for Alice to stay outside the door. The two pirates who were lured away by the broadcast will turn back at any time. She must have realized this, so she decided to Go to the monitoring room first, get the permission of the lifeboat first, and plan other things later.

That being the case, Lyall felt that he could not delay, without further ado, he had to find Alice immediately to join her, because Alice was almost his only hope to escape from this war-torn passenger ship.

Only, if Lyle is going to go...

Lyle looked back at the puppet who was still staring at him intently.

Is this strange guy going to be taken away?

Lyle is not sure. In fact, he still doesn't quite understand whether he really signed a contract with this puppet... After all, he was interrupted by that tragic pirate just now, right?What the puppet wanted to do to Lyle was interrupted.

Although being interrupted made Lyle feel a little lucky, but for some reason, he also felt a subtle sense of loss.

Lyle glanced at the earth-shatteringly handsome and beautiful puppet next to him. He only felt that after the horror and fear that the other party brought to him at first gradually disappeared, he thought this puppet looked good. All these things made Lyle's cheeks turn red in an instant.

"It doesn't matter, he's just a puppet." Lyle said to himself, but his cheeks turned redder.

In the concept of most people in today's society, a puppet is a tool, a kind of pure tool without self-will, no self-personality, can be driven by the puppeteer at will, and can easily complete any order of the puppeteer .Owning a puppet is equivalent to owning a handy prop, which can bring you fame, fortune, income, and power, and can make an unknown ordinary person attract the attention of everyone overnight.

Therefore, many people want to become puppet masters, and many parents hope to send their children to test the spiritual talent of puppet masters. As long as they become puppet masters, it means that they can have golems, and they can walk At the pinnacle of life, you can get everything you dream of.

But Lyle, who is not deeply involved in the world, has never thought about it this way... After all, when Lyle was still in the family base, no one told or revealed information about the puppet. seen in.Even when he was pushed to test his mental strength when he was 15 years old, he was ignorant and followed him at a loss.

In his mind, the puppet is just a kind of creature different from human beings. Although it was artificially created...but it is indeed a kind of creature.

Because when he was hugged by the puppet, although the ups and downs were very weak, Lyle could indeed feel him breathing, he had a slight temperature, and he could feel some heartbeat.

So from the very beginning, Lyle had no way to regard the golem as a tool or something. A living life should not be a tool in any way, and from the outside, the golem really looks like a human being. , the movement of following Lyle is also very natural, and will respond to any request from Lyle.

No one ever responded to Lyle's request.

So when someone is willing to respond to Lyle, Lyle has a special feeling about it. He can't tell what it feels like, but he feels inexplicably good, and he suddenly likes the puppet in front of him.

Although the puppet planned to do terrible things to Lyle like that before, but since it failed, Lyle decided to forgive him without remembering the villain's mistakes.

However, do you want to take this puppet with you?

If Lyle is wise enough, he should understand that he must not take this puppet with him.Leaving aside the threat that the puppet itself might pose to Lyle, just the fact that this puppet was stolen from the military R&D base by a group of interstellar pirates is enough reason for Lyle to give up. him.

Lyle recalled the above-board negotiations between the pirate leader and his father Rein. Rein's attitude was clear, and the military obviously decided to completely abandon the hostages, and the primary goal was to kill the pirates.

They don't even care about the safety of the stolen puppet...Of course, with the puppet's ability, it is really not that easy to kill him, so it is unnecessary to care about the safety of a puppet from the beginning .

Therefore, although the military does not seem to care much about the puppet on the surface, Lyle knows that they will definitely try their best to find the puppet. If Lyle takes the puppet away, they will definitely become the targets of the alliance government. It is extremely unfavorable for Lyle.

Although Lyle said that he is not deeply involved in the world, he is not a fool after all. He knows that if there are some things that should be discarded, they must be discarded, and if they should be selfish, they must be selfish, otherwise he will not be able to survive in this cruel society.

Forget it, let's go without it.

Lyle thought that he would give the puppet a "don't move" order later. In this case, the puppet would stand here without moving, and when the troops of the alliance government outside searched it, it would naturally He moved the dazed puppet back to the research and development base, while Lyle followed Alice to other places.

Doing so is the best option.

Lyle could be sure of this, but he was actually a little hesitant. He actually felt some reluctance, so he approached the puppet, looked up at the other's beautiful red eyes, and the puppet over there also responded. Focused gaze, his eyes never moved away from Lyle from beginning to end.

"I'm going," Lyle told him, "but I can't take you."

The puppet didn't speak, but just stared at Lyle without blinking. I don't know if it was an illusion. Lyle could see some longing in his eyes, or there were more... Things that Lyle couldn't describe .

I don’t know if it’s because of Lyle’s reason for leaving. The puppet over there suddenly became anxious. When Lyle didn’t give him an order before, he would follow behind Lyle’s ass very honestly. Let's go, he will follow Lyle wherever he goes, and now as soon as Lyle said he was going to leave, the puppet started to get restless.

Lyle found that once the puppet started to move, the red in his red eyes would become darker, from a lighter ruby ​​red to a color closer to black red, a bit like blood that had solidified into black .

Once the puppet produced such a change in iris color, he seemed to become restless. He actually took a step closer to Lyle spontaneously, and his expression became subtly ferocious, just like he tried to rape Layle before. At that time, it gave Lyle the same shocking feeling.

Lyall was slightly taken aback by his sudden autonomous action, and couldn't help but take a step back, but the puppet got closer and grabbed Lyle's shoulder.

"Don't move!" Lyle repeated the order to the other party again loudly. Fortunately, his order was still effective. The puppet stopped moving again and looked at him quietly. The blood-red eyes were still full of some kind of longing. He Just looking at Lyle like this gave Lyle a pitiful impression.

Lyle felt a little uneasy. Abandoning this puppet made him feel a little guilty, but he had no choice. He took a step back and added an order: "Without my next order, stay here and don't move."

Then Lyle left. After walking a certain distance, he looked back and saw the puppet standing there motionless, but the other party turned his head and looked at Lyle pitifully.

Lyle held his breath, suppressing the entanglement in his heart. He turned his head and continued to walk forward, but he still couldn't take a few steps. He had to look back at the puppet over there. The puppet was still the same, standing there pitifully Looking at Lyle, with that look and expression, it seems that if Lyle abandons him, it is tantamount to letting him die.

In fact, the puppet abandoned by the puppeteer is indeed no different from death.

Lyle didn't know, but his heart softened. He sighed and walked back silently, and then walked back to the puppet. Seeing Lyle turned around, the puppet's eyes brightened a little, and stared at Layle fiercely. I see.

This is really foul.

Lyle looked back at the golem's messy face and his shining eyes, and suddenly felt a little soft in his heart, so at that moment, like a ghost, he went up and hugged the golem's neck, and tiptoed to kiss it.

The puppet who was kissed by others seemed to instinctively want to reach out to hug Lyle, but it also reacted to the order that Lyle gave not to move before, so the hands that were about to be raised just hang down abruptly.

After the kiss, Lyle realized what he had done, backed away with blushing cheeks, and secretly spurned himself in his heart, actually blatantly sexually harassing the other person because of his good-looking parents... This is really, too immoral!

But now that he has done everything, Lyle will naturally not deny it. He grabbed the puppet's hand, held the puppet's hand, then bowed his head and said, "Come with me."

Sure enough, Lyle still couldn't leave people here like this, what if those murderous pirates turned back and hurt him?What if this silly puppet really obeyed Lyle's order and remained motionless, and let the pirates beat him hard?

Lyle silently found a reason for himself to take the puppet away.

So not long after, Alice, who had found the monitoring room of the parking cabin and was working hard to hack the system, saw Lyle leading a tall and burly golem in.

However, the moment she saw the puppet, Alice's expression was astonished. She pointed to the puppet behind Lyle, and called the name in disbelief: "Ska?"