Be careful from the male insect [Interstellar]

Although he cried in front of Ryan, Ivan was still very careful, trying to convince Ryan that he was not crying because he discovered something he had been hiding.Holding a handkerchief, he played on the spot and tried his best to play the role of a male who was originally proud but was repeatedly crushed by unacceptable failures in a foreign country.

He just wanted to cover it up with a lie, but the more he said it, the more emotional he became, and he cried again.

He hiccupped from crying, and in the end he couldn't tell whether he was continuing to make up his own excuses or pouring out his grief about the real situation.There was even a passage in which he cried so hard that he couldn't even find his tongue, and in the end he didn't understand what he wanted to express.Even so, Ryan listened very patiently, as if Aiwen was not the naive culprit who was about to destroy himself at all.

"No," said Ryan at last. "You're certainly not an incompetent worm."

Ai Wen understood what he meant, but it was really useless to connect with the current situation.The only thing that could comfort him was that Ryan's tone was quite sincere for a character like him, which made Ivan finally fully confirm that he did not blame himself.

...and then he got worse.

With a little hope in the end, Aiwen asked:

"When I'm sent to the main star, can I go back in the starship by myself? Anyway, I remember when we came, it was also on autopilot. I went to the main star and pretended I didn't know anything, so they wouldn't Blame you for allowing the males to travel long distances by themselves?"

However, because he was too focused on crying just now, it is likely that a little water has inevitably entered his mind, so that his unclear words, coupled with his abnormal crying just now, have completely understood him. The matter was explained.Aiwen wiped his left eye again (only one eye can shed tears, so he didn't care about the other side), and found that Ryan's expression became silent again, which was an expression that Aiwen was also incomprehensible.

But Ryan didn't make a fuss.

He just said gently: "It's okay."

Aiwen heard what he meant, "It's okay, but Serbia still has to produce a bug to take the blame."

"Why?" Aiwen asked desperately, "If you leave me here and don't tell the worms outside the planet, can't you hide it?"

Ryan hesitated to speak.

Aiwen broke out in a cold sweat, because he immediately remembered that besides the Serbian star garrison and Aiwen himself, there is still a third worm who knows all this.He didn't know what Holden wanted to do, but if he really revealed this matter to the main star secretly (what else could he not do?), then the entire garrison barracks could not escape the responsibility, and the court-martial would be the same. It's not just Ryan being a bug anymore.

But Holden...

Over there Ryan said:

"Let's go back to what happened just now. When you leave, I won't leave with you again. Kono will ensure your safety along the way."

Alvin was taken aback.

"No," he asked, "wait a minute, what do you mean?"

As he asked, a little hope emerged in his heart, hoping that his understanding just now was actually wrong, and everything could still hope to develop in a more optimistic direction.

But Ryan's next sentence literally poured an ice bucket over his head.

"The tide of alien beasts is coming." Ryan's gaze was still very calm, "And the adjutant has no combat experience like mine, so I can't take such a risk."

Ivan was surprised: "You want to—"

"I will personally drive the Alpha into battle."

"But didn't you say that its energy cannot support a long battle?"

"That's right." Ryan sighed, "But that doesn't mean that the mech can't be activated. It just can't... exert its full power, so it also needs the experience and ability of the pilot."

"But didn't you need the mechanical heart to activate Alpha because it can exert power that other mechas can't achieve? What's the difference now?"

"The situation is better now than before." Ryan rubbed his eyebrows.

Alvin's face had turned pale.

"What do you mean." He raised his voice sharply, "You are bringing Alpha..."

Ryan didn't admit it, and he didn't deny it.

He sat quietly for a long time, as if concentrating on the scenery outside.

"But I will know sooner or later." Ivan said behind him, "Just like you tried everything to keep me from knowing about the male insect protection law, but even if I don't know now, when I go to the main star, I will still Someone will tell me. You don't want to answer my question now, when the tide of alien beasts comes, I will still..."

"You're not going to see that," Ryan said over his shoulder, his voice very soft and his meaning very grim.

Ai Wen was silent for a moment, "Is the tide of alien beasts coming soon?"

"very soon."

"You mean, send me away before then."

"Yes."

"But what if I meet it on the road?"

"I will arrange it as soon as possible to prevent you from encountering related dangers."

"When was that?"

Ryan paused, "Tomorrow."

Alvin sniffed.

In fact, after such a while, he can already speak in a normal tone.

Ai Wen said: "I always feel that with you, I have heard many tomorrows."

Rui Jing stared at him for a moment, then asked, "Are you afraid?"

Alvin sniffed again, without denying it.

"Don't be afraid." Ryan seemed to hesitate for a moment, but still reached out and touched his head, "The entire Serbian planet will protect the male son."

"You know I'm not afraid of that." Ivan stared at him, "I'm afraid of your death."

Ryan froze.

"Are you thinking," Aiwen continued to ask, "to "apology with death"? It's better to die in the bug swarm than in prison?"

After all, what was Ryan guilty of?

"And," Ai Wen pointed out, "Alpha will be destroyed."

Ryan deliberately ignored his implication, "This is the last resort. The help from the main star has not come for a long time, and the only way to go is to activate Alpha. Its lethality can guarantee longer-term peace, and after... , Its wreckage will fall back to the ground, and the worms in the military camp will send worms to recover and reassemble it to reduce waste as much as possible.”

He answered too seriously, and Ivan was also taken away by him for a while, and it took a while to remember what he wanted to ask at the beginning:

"how about you?"

Ryan began to sigh again.

"Xiongzi," he said in a resignedly gentle tone, "I'm not important."

"No." Ivan retorted softly, "You are very important."

"Ivan?"

Alvin didn't speak for a while.

The mechanical car was still driving smoothly, and the familiar road had appeared by the window, and they would soon return to the barracks.Ai Wen knew exactly what would happen next: he went back, finished his meal, and went to bed.The next day, set off and leave.Arranged so programmed, the worms arranged for him according to the laws from the host planet, making him both inseparable and subtly excluded from everything that was about to happen in this place.After studying the laws especially about males, Aiwen has realized that in his capacity, it is too easy to stay out of the matter.Leaving Serbia, leaving the isolated garrison to a mecha that couldn't be fully activated, leaving Ryan to the overwhelming tide of alien beasts, and then pretending that everything had nothing to do with him.

Without the influence of uncontrollable external forces, the average lifespan of a worm is hundreds of years.

He is.He had so many days that he could forget the half a month he had been in Serbia and pretend that those bugs never existed.Pretending he'd never had love at first sight with an amber-eyed military hen on a remote pier in Bleakstar.Pretending that he never "goes with the flow" after falling in love with another bug and then watching the other bug step by step towards an unjust death.

Pretend Serbia never existed.

Pretend Tobias Star never existed.

Pretend he never sees those "things a male shouldn't see".Pretending that the brand new ivory tower on the prime planet he was about to enter was the whole world.

But how could he do it?

Ivan took a final sniff and looked up at Ryan.In the dimly lit compartment, Ryan's eyes were still shining, a color that did not belong to any mechanical artificial eyes.A worm with such eyes is alive, sentient, and valuable.

Did Ryan know what he was thinking?

Alvin blinked.

He was still looking at Ryan.

Alvin blinked again.

Then it occurred to him that Ryan might have known what he was thinking all along.

Then he leaned forward and reached out to grab the lining of Ryan's uniform.

Ryan didn't move or back away.

So Ai Wen succeeded in kissing him.