Be careful from the male insect [Interstellar]

Ivan sat alone in the mecha for a long time.In the end, he heard the voice outside through the secret door, and realized that his optical brain was still outside, so he hurriedly untied all the connections, and crawled out the same way in disgrace.Aiwen hurriedly put on his gloves and shoes, and at the same time went to answer the fatal serial calls from Ryan.

—Where did you go?

——Aiwen, are you still in the barracks?

--Please reply.

Alvin hurriedly typed with one hand:

——I'm in the mecha research room.

After typing, he felt particularly guilty, so he added another one:

——I went secretly, sorry QAQ

Ryan's reply came quickly:

—Stay there and don't move, I'll come over to fetch you soon.

Ryan didn't ask him what he was doing in the mech research room, so he must have already guessed it.Aiwen's hands and feet were convulsed due to excessive excitement, and he barely remembered to put the mechanical heart back in, and then got down from the lifting platform, and then began typing with excitement.He wanted to say that I finally understood what Holden meant, although he didn't know why he was so crazy, let me be a mechanical heart and didn't tell me.He wanted to say that the mechanical heart is actually not what you imagined, Mecha Alpha...

Ai Wen typed a long paragraph of content, and was about to click send when he suddenly stopped.

He is the real mechanical heart.

In other words: a male is a mechanical heart.

At that moment, Ivan suddenly remembered the incomprehensible and unbearable care of the entire Serbian star garrison towards male insects.He couldn't help but feel a creep: If you tell everyone the truth, will they really be happy?

Will the Serbian star really be protected?

Will these army females get into trouble again because of their over-emphasis on males, and even choose to give up using Mecha Alpha to repel the alien beasts?

Ai Wen stared blankly at Guangnao for a while.

He deleted all the content he just typed, and resent:

- I just wanted to try again

— but still something went wrong

Ai Wen finally confirmed the message he sent, and turned off the light brain.

His legs were still a little weak, so he leaned on the wall and walked out step by step, passing through several small cubicles.One of them seemed to be a utility room. Ivan glanced at the door and found that it was full of dust.

Ryan didn't know when he would come, but before that, Aiwen had to find something to pass the time, and pass his heart going up and down, like riding a bumper car up and down.

Alvin walked into the utility room.

After brushing away a lot of dust, he keenly noticed that there was a table in the corner, and on the table was a——

Obsolete old computer?

Alvin was suddenly excited.

For a moment, he felt that Gu Chong was not deceiving me, and that the things he wanted would come one after another at the same time.He counted the time, almost pounced on the old computer, and soon there was a clanging sound around it.As an obsolete computer, it naturally has no electricity, and even if it is an obsolete computer, it still needs a password to open it.

However, if such a trivial matter can stump Ivan, he really has no face to claim to be Holden's adopted son and student.

While figuring out where Ryan had been, he used the speed of his brain and hands to successfully solve all the problems in less than a quarter of an hour and entered the main page.Even though it is connected to the optical brain, the computer still runs at a very slow speed. Aiwen had to wait patiently for the search page to turn up. During this period, he couldn't resist the urge to squeeze the slow screen countless times.

But what Ivan wanted to know was finally revealed.

[Federal male insect protection law and related laws, insect star calendar 2020 version]

Ai Wen opened his eyes wide, almost hoping to record all the content he could find into his brain in an instant, so that he would have time to read it slowly in the future.

In fact, he didn't need to do this, because under his full attention, the contents on the list have entered his mind through his vision one by one, first becoming images, and then slowly being decomposed and understood.

Aiwen became more and more anxious, trying to find something that really matched his current situation.

Then he saw it.

Ryan came to pick up Ivan in an exclusive mechanical car.With the current level of technology, this kind of car does not need a separate driver at all, and can fully adapt to autonomous driving.However, the system on the Serbian star is a bit old, and it still can't stand alone in battles that require high-intensity responses. Therefore, when encountering situations similar to airhorn bat hunting battles, soldiers still need to drive manually.

But if you are just driving on a flat road to pick up insects, you don't have to.

Ryan was looking down at the optical brain all the way, waiting for the mechanical car to stop, then squinting and looking at the periphery of the mech research room.It was very cold outside, but Ivan was sitting listlessly in the waiting area outside, wrapped in his iron bucket-like coat, looking as if all his happiness had been taken away.

Is it because of another failure?

Ryan frowned.

He walked up to Ivan.

"Xiongzi," he said, "I'm here to pick you up."

Alvin let out an "oh" and stood up.

Then he took a few steps forward without saying a word, and with a bump, he buried his face in Ryan's front again, and wrapped his arms around his waist.The last time he'd done it to prevent Ryan from recognizing embarrassing cries in his words, this time he didn't care about the cries.Ivan hugged Ryan tightly, his eyes were wide open on the fabric in contact with him, and he already felt the tide of impotence and helplessness pouring down.

Aiwen still couldn't stop crying until he was half pushed and half hugged by Ryan to catch up with the car.He sat by the window, still sobbing strangely, watching his face in the reflection of the pane.It was a face that he thought was very ordinary before, but it was more childish, whiter and rounder than other worms he knew.Later he understood that it was the face of a male insect.Then, a few minutes ago, he understood that it was a face like the "ticket to death" in the movie.

Ai Wen finished reading the "Male Protection Act", which seemed incomprehensible to him, and thus understood why Ryan insisted on waiting until everything was over before picking him up.

And why Ryan was so wary of him.

And why Ryan had been so cold to him for a brief moment in between.

Before that, Aiwen couldn't imagine the reason behind it.

And now he knows: his own existence, just existence, is enough for Ryan, who is the highest official of the Serbian star, to go to a court-martial.

However, the worms in the military court because of the male worm incident often have only two endings:

Life imprisonment, or the death penalty.

Ivan thought of Holden again.

Strangely, he wasn't particularly worried about what would happen to Holden.

Compared to Ryan's passive acceptance of a male's arrival on Serbia without a declaration, Holden's "crime" is actually more serious, including but not limited to modifying the male's body privately, concealing the existence of the male in Tortoise. Star Bias, not surrendering the male to the federation, instigating the male to face the ferocious hyena... What Holden has done is enough to cause him to be quartered by five horses.

But Ivan just has a very strange feeling that Holden is more than capable.Holden is very aware of what his words and deeds have offended, but he still acts like this, and he has his own way out.

But does Ryan have a way out?Is there any retreat for the Serbian star?

Does Ivan have a way out?

What exactly is Holden trying to do?

And he obviously knew it all.He knew what the series of events such as the mechanical heart, the Serbian star and the male worm would bring to Ivan.He knew that Ai Wen would never go home after leaving, but when Ai Wen followed Todd to say goodbye to him happily, he didn't even show any strangeness.Perhaps for a bug like Holden, everything must be foolproof, but now, Ivan only feels that he is so strange.

Aiwen tried to recall some other, more pure and beautiful memories.

For example, Holden drove him to the medical examination, turned on the car radio while driving, and hummed softly on the dark and rainy driveway.For example, Holden carried a tin rake to the bottom of the garbage mountain to bring the fighting Ivan back home. Although he threatened him to "do it for himself" on the way, he still roasted him an extra piece of bacon after returning.For example……

Then he couldn't help thinking: Since you are so kind to me, why do you push me out like a real robot bug, and then play around?

Why do you want me to take on this role, a role that I simply cannot bear?

For the first time in his life, Alvin felt that he resented something.

It never occurred to him that the worm could be Holden, and when he was, it made it all the more painful.

Evan seemed to have never cried like this before.

He couldn't explain it to Ryan, and Ryan couldn't ask him anything other than to give him a handkerchief.Ai Wen didn't care about his appearance, so he wiped it on his face.There was a cold smell on Ryan's handkerchief that seemed to belong to him. Ivan smelled that smell, and his thoughts were pulled back to Serbia.

Alvin began to feel very remorseful.

He'd love to go find every bug he's ever seen and say sorry to them.Even though at this moment he only felt extreme guilt and fear towards them, and for various reasons, it was impossible for him to let himself go to them again.

So only Ryan was left next to Ivan.

Even though he knew he was a loser, he still gave him the handkerchief to Ryan.

Ivan took off the handkerchief from his face, he sobbed slowly for a while, and couldn't help but look at his reflection on the window glass again.After crying for such a long time, even the best face looks ugly, and Ivan hoped that he would look like this.He turned around very slowly, refolded the wet and dirty handkerchief, and looked at Ryan very carefully.

Then he ducked his head quickly, because the sight of Ryan's amber eyes made him want to cry even more.

At the same time, Ai Wen felt that his love was also covered with a dark haze.At first, it was like love at first sight for a joke, to the various ups and downs and small roller coasters in my heart, to the wishful thinking of life and death, to the military court.

Ai Wen felt that he really had no face to continue to like Ryan.

Even at this point, he found sadly that his feelings had begun to develop in an unstoppable direction.