Be careful from the male insect [Interstellar]

The team that hunted the air horned bat left early the next morning.Ryan was already awake by then, sitting in his office sorting out military affairs—or so his adjutants thought.

What the adjutant doesn't know is that Ryan is also secretly preparing for the work that needs to be handed over, so that when he sends Ivan away and returns to the Federation for a military court, everything on Serbia will continue to operate smoothly.Of course, he hasn't spoken to the adjutant yet.He was going to find a more suitable time to talk about it, it's best to wait until everything has settled, at least after this round of alien beast tide has passed.

"Thank you, Sauron," he said to his orderly, "I see, you go out."

Sauron is out.Ryan continued to prepare to hand over the materials, but he let out a long sigh and slowly stopped his hands.The team that hunted down the air horned bats was there for Aiwen.His handover is also because of the series of changes in his fate brought about by the appearance of Aiwen.In any case, he had to think of Ivan, and felt an indescribable sadness in his heart.

Especially when thinking about the following two points:

One is that after a long, long time, Ivan will learn that, even if it is not out of his subjective will, it is indeed his existence that sent Ryan to a military court.

The second is that before that, the only role Ryan played in Alvin's life was nothing more than an unkind frustration.

Will this make Ai Wen feel better after the "one" happens?

Ryan didn't know.

He didn't know what to think about it either.

Because at least for a bug like him, many things are not "what do you want", but what will happen to you whether you want to or not.

It suddenly occurred to Ryan that he had stayed with Serbia Star for many, many years.

The worms of Serbia also take vacations, but unless there is a special reason, their furthest vacation place is the same deserted planet Tobias.They don't go back to the main planet because, like Ryan, most of them are war orphans.

That was not a war against foreign enemies, but a Zerg civil war before the establishment of the Federation.

A few decades ago, the federation was not a federation, but a place dominated by imperial power.In the end, the empire was destroyed, the federation was established, and countless worms lost their lives in the civil strife, large and small, and various factions split and merged, and finally formed two different camps.One faction is the declining old aristocrats, who don't expect to regain the imperial power, but still hope to maintain their old glory; the other faction is dominated by members of the Civilian Revolutionary Army before the civil war, with the establishment of major companies on the main star as the foundation, Always trying to completely suppress the old aristocracy.

The struggle between the two factions is endless, a story does not end, and countless new stories have begun.

The Federation has been established for less than a hundred years, and many settings are not satisfactory.

At the end of the war, the orphans whose families were ruined had no rights to insects, and were unable to change their destiny, so they could only passively let the federation arrange it.Among them, one or two males were adopted sporadically, forgetting the past; while most of the females entered the military academy, and then were sent to the desolate border star, where they were accompanied by strange beasts and loneliness all day long.

Except for marriage, females have no other channel to cross class.

And no male will bond with a lowly female.

In the Commonwealth, birth and sex determine the only destiny.

Ryan suddenly remembered that a long time ago, he and Ivan were about the same age now, and when they were still studying in the military academy, they would occasionally go on a day trip to the city on vacation.

They are all very young females, and they still hold a trace of fantasy that as long as they are good enough and work hard, they will not be assigned to the Serbian star as soon as they graduate, and every worm is full of vitality.They took the star tram to the city four hours away from the military academy, and it happened to be a heavy rain.Different from the low buildings in the barracks of the military academy, the city is full of high-rise buildings. During the period, various projections dazzled the insects, and there were small flashing lights everywhere.They went to the movies, then went for a walk down the street, buying gadgets that he wouldn't be stereotypically interested in.Finally, they calculated the closing time of the school gate, and hurried to catch the next Star Tram to go back.The rain had stopped, puddles of puddles of water on the ground reflected the bright purple-blue sky.

This is all Ryan's impression of the prosperity of the main star.

Another part of the impression comes from the radio broadcast they listen to together every week.The Federation has never stopped researching the spark technology, trying to apply them to the worm body, but until now it has not been completely successful.Ryan remembered the coded photo of the experimental subject in the internal news.In the photo, half of the female insect's body is a strangely shaped prosthesis, looking straight at the camera with a dull and blank expression.

Ryan vaguely remembered that at that time, he had heard about Holden's deeds.At that time, Holden had already gone to Tobias Planet, but it did not prevent his deeds from being spread on the main planet.He suddenly remembered that, like himself, Holden was also a war orphan—it was not the same experience as Ryan's parents, but when he thought about it carefully, there seemed to be not much difference during the period.All in all, Holden seems to have changed his destiny by virtue of his talent and contribution to Starfire technology, and successfully gained a place in the main star research institute, and has also become a hot topic among lowly females.

But the question is: Has Holden really changed his destiny?

Did he really leave because he was angry at the injustice of the institute, or was that his only way out?

Ryan thought about all this, and now that Holden adopted Aiwen, and then sent him back to the main star, which was full of doubts, and felt very disturbed.He worked for a while with this emotion, and suddenly stopped all movements in his hands.

He suddenly desperately wanted to see Ivan again.

Although Ryan didn't understand the feeling.The hidden hopelessness and confusion intertwined with the mechanical instinct of obedience made him very puzzled.So he looked at the official business again and decided that now is not a good time to meet the other party.

Let's go after work.

While Ryan was thinking hard in the office, Ivan had already joined the Airhorn Bat Hunting Team.He "hid in the back seat of the car on his way to the hunt" and "wasn't found until all the bugs had made their way through the barracks gate".The team leader Carson "was very surprised, but since they had already come out, it was not easy to send him back", and Aiwen "guaranteed that he would be obedient and never cause trouble."

The obedient Ivan, who never caused trouble, sat excitedly in the corner of the back seat, huddled with other bugs.As soon as he got out of the car, he jumped up and down a few times. At the same time, Lulas set up the scout mirror, and asked a military female to point out Ivan, arranging where he should stand.

"Don't get too close. To be on the safe side, you should not fight them."

Alvin nodded frantically.

everything's ready.

The big tree inhabited by air horned bats in reality is the same as the one in the projection. Aiwen hid behind the bushes in the distance, nervously watching how the team slowly walked through the weeds and slowly approached the tree.

The airhorn bats are sleeping on it, and soon they will be awakened, and then angrily pounce on the armed female in the attack until they are shot.Thinking of this, Ivan suddenly felt very sorry for these air horned bats.However, he also understands that all things are born to kill each other. This is the truth he understood when he was very young.

"If you don't kill the hyena beard, the hyena beard will kill you." He remembered Holden's expression when he said this. "It's the same with the worm. If you don't kill him, he will kill you."

Aiwen in cub form couldn't help shivering.

"But what if a hyena doesn't kill you?" he asked.

"It may have an agenda."

"It's just a hyena. It's not that smart."

Holden sighed, "Don't you have such a high IQ? I don't mean all hyenas."

Ai Wen seemed to understand, but he pointed out immediately: "But the law requires us not to kill insects casually."

"...You should wash up and go to sleep."

Later, Ivan grew up a little, and naturally understood what Holden meant.Compared with the mechanical heart, the fate of a mere air horned bat may indeed not be worth mentioning, just as the fate of the garrison on the barren star is not worth mentioning to the male worms of the main star.Aiwen suddenly didn't like this analogy very much, and for the first time, he was a little confused why he was here to watch other insects slaughter these airhorn bats that rarely actively attack the barracks for himself.The more he thought about it, the more he felt like the white lotus of the Virgin Mary who liked to cry in the movie, so he had to force himself to continue watching.

Is this the world of adult bugs?He thought a little sadly.

But when he looked at it this way, he could see that something was not quite right.In order to verify it more carefully, Aiwen adjusted the prosthetic eye magnifier so that he could see more clearly.Sure enough, when the females were fighting the airhorn bat, there was still a huge black shadow perched on the tree, as if something was still lurking there.

Every time they encounter an attack, the air horned bats will come out in full force, which is their behavioral instinct.

That being the case, what is that thing on the tree?

Aiwen very much suspected that there was a hidden airhorn bat in the tree.Now he doesn't have time to sympathize with the hunted airhorn bats, because he is a worm, not an airhorn bat. In comparison, the fate of the Serbian star garrison is more important.While doubting, he observed more carefully, and even turned on the perspective function of the prosthetic eye, making sure that there was definitely a hidden air horned bat on the tree.

It's motionless and unusually large, which makes its anomaly all the more noteworthy.

Ai Wen didn't know what this meant, but his body reacted before his mind knew it, and became extremely tense.He maintained this state all the time, staring intently at the giant horned bat until the military females in the distance dispersed, and a bug called out to him:

"Ewen, everything is going well, now we are ready to go!"

Aiwen quickly came back to his senses, and stepped forward to help his companion drag the air horned bat.

The air horned bats in the training room disappear after being killed, but in reality they will not disappear, and they must not disappear, because Ivan still needs the magical substance in their bodies.The substance will be extracted from the bone wings. At this time, the bone wings of the dead alien beasts are folded, and they seem to curl up instinctively after death.

Aiwen tried to grab the bone wing of a dead air horned bat as if forcing himself to watch the hunting process.

In total, they took five airhorn bats.The airhorn bat flies quite fast, but lands very heavy.Aiwen can lift one worm, but he still walks slowly, keeping pace with the other worms while thinking.

Halfway through, Ivan looked back for the last time:

The atmospheric horned bat still didn't move.It lurks in the shadows of the trees, as if it too is dead.

The author has something to say: a little earlier today