Be careful from the male insect [Interstellar]

"Since when did you have the prosthetic body?" Ivan thought, "I'm not sure. It seems to have been there since I can remember. It should be replaced when Holden just picked me up."

Ryan immediately caught the key word: "Pick it up?"

Ai Wen nodded: "Yes! When I was young, he told me that I was built by him alone, and he told me the truth later. It is said that when I was young, my whole family was ransacked by mobs, and all the other bugs died. Only I was thrown into a mass grave. , I was gnawed badly by the hyena bearded beast, and I was only breathless. Holden picked me up, and where there was something missing, I used machinery to make up for it.”

When Holden told the truth, he shook his head and spoke vividly.After the description, he added a very wicked sentence:

"You were like a rag doll when I found you."

Ai Wen looked at himself and said: Ah, that is really miserable...

Alvin has no memory of his own tragic past, and when you don't feel all the tragic things, it's very easy to be optimistic.

Although the limbs are more or less original, the key is that they are cool and easy to use!

But Ryan clearly didn't think so.

Ai Wen glanced at Ryan, who had "what a poor little boy" written all over his face, and suddenly realized that he might have sold it badly by accident.

He remedied it by saying:

"But I really don't have any impression of it myself! There is no problem with daily life or anything, and Holden drives me to the old city clinic every year for a physical examination. My indicators are normal in all aspects. Ah, but speaking of this, this year's The physical examination has not been done yet... Usually it is a few weeks after my birthday, but since I am here, it may be okay to postpone it a little bit."

Ryan was listening to him, but now he suddenly remembered: "By the way, I should give you another test."

"What test?"

"The mechanical heart is suddenly seamlessly connected to your body, and the reaction in the middle may add other burdens to your body."

"Oh." Ai Wen looked blank, "Then let's do it... shall we go after we land?"

"No need." Ryan got up, "It's fine on the starship."

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Aiwen lay obediently in the inspection cabin, observing around as calmly as possible.In the past, Holden drove him to the physical examination.He only had one chance to leave the town once a year, so every time he sat in the co-pilot, the whole bug was almost stuck on the window to see as much as possible.Often, though, there isn't much to see: two worms sitting in the big truck that Holden uses to pull parts, rumbling across vast expanses of wilderness with nothing but dead grass and pale driveways.

Then when Aiwen lost interest and fell asleep, they would enter the town again.Holden parked the car in the suburbs and took him on foot to a small three-nothing clinic.The walking distance is very long, but Holden does not allow Ivan to use the pulley.

Finally, they will meet the main worm of the clinic, the only blindfold worm in Ivan's memory besides himself.The blindfold doctor will talk to Holden, and then Ivan is led into the dilapidated consulting room, where the blindfold doctor uses a bunch of broken instruments to perform a full body examination on him.Eventually the doctor would tap his knee to say everything was fine.

They will then spend the night in the clinic.

The reason why I choose to go after my birthday every year is because the town here is a little less prosperous than Holden Ivan's residence, so the physical examination can also be regarded as a small celebration.The next morning, Alvin would wake up early and drag Holden around the street like a wild dog.So either the two worms went to watch a movie together (actually, Holden would snore halfway through those few movies every year), or went to the hardware store to find treasures, or bought patterned stick candies for Ivan.All in all, they always come back with a rewarding experience in the end.

For safety, the robotic arm will gently fix Aiwen in the lying position.He carefully stroked the inspection cabin that had been used for a certain number of years but was still exquisite and advanced within the range he could get, and he couldn't help sighing in the dark.

The previous birthday process was "driving to a clinic far away" - "physical examination" - "going home".

This year's birthday process is "going to the pier far away by car" - "medical examination on the spaceship" - "going home (?)"

Thinking about it this way, it seems that there is actually no difference.

While thinking, Aiwen listened to the sounds around him and thought about it.Finally, he was automatically spit out by the machine, regained his freedom, sat up dizzily, and almost fell to the ground.

Ryan quickly grabbed him.

"It will take a while for the test results to come out." He said, "You should take a rest first."

Rest means that Ryan has prepared nutritional supplements of different flavors for him.

Ai Wen glanced at the nutrition tubes marked with "sweet", "salty" and "slightly spicy", and fell into silence: "..."

Then, under Ryan's encouraging eyes, I tried "slightly spicy".

Five minutes later, Ivan stood in the bathroom angrily, wiping away tears.

"Is the taste of the Serbian star so strong?" He asked sadly, "It's "perverted spicy"! "

When he came out after washing his face, Xiaoyuan's face was flushed red, his eyes were watery, and he looked even more like a poor little boy.

She was indeed a squeamish child.

Ryan felt guilty again, "I'm sorry. It may be because of the low temperature in Serbia. Everyone is very used to this kind of nutritional supplement. I thought it was a special food for us there, but I didn't expect..."

"It's okay." Ai Wen waved his hand, and said in a low voice, "Actually, it's fine, take a closer look, it's quite... ah!"

His face became even redder, and he quickly ran back to wash his face, and finally returned to a normal bug.

Ivan rejected Ryan's proposal to search for some Serbian snacks for himself, sat down on the chair, and continued to study his right arm.During the physical examination just now, he took off both gloves.Because I wear long trousers and shoes all the year round, my legs are not fully armed like my arms, but only a pair of protective rings are put on the ankles of my feet.Now the things are temporarily taken off, and Ivan will put them on again when he is about to get off the spaceship.

The right arm is extended.

The mechanical heart beats in the center.

Ryan gasped for breath.

When Aiwen unfolded the robotic arm just now, the insects were still racing against time, and Ryan was naturally not distracted to appreciate it.However, now that he has relaxed briefly, he observes carefully and silently from the sidelines.

Different from the mechanical prosthesis in his impression, Aiwen's right hand is only in the form of an "arm" in the conventional sense when it is fully retracted. The thin and thin metal is gathered into the shape of an insect arm on the outside, and the inside is hollow. The entire mechanical heart is hidden in the arm and cannot be easily detected by others.

Now that the mechanical arm is opened, the bottom end stands on the table, and the rest can be pulled up by nearly one meter, becoming a giant standing in the middle of the table, but at the same time there is a shocking technological beauty.Aiwen was staring blankly at the mechanical heart in the middle, unwilling to continue manipulating the separation between the machines. Ryan speculated that he was trying to further expand the gap in the middle to allow the mechanical heart to separate autonomously.

Suddenly, he noticed that Aiwen seemed to be still staring at the mechanical heart, but the prosthetic eye turned around and glanced at himself quietly.

Ryan: "?"

For some reason, when he looked at the deformed mechanical arm with its teeth and claws, he inexplicably felt that it had become some kind of extinct large bird with colorful colors that liked to open its tail.

Aiwen's natural eyes focused on the front, but the prosthetic eyes peeked again.

Ryan suddenly understood what he meant.

"It's beautiful." He said sincerely.

This time he was right. Ai Wen's face, which had faded from drinking cold water just now, turned red again.He opened his mouth and was about to say something when Ryan suddenly received a prompt and looked down at his brain.

"It's your medical examination results."

The optical brain is directly connected to the detector, so Ryan can call up the data just sorted out without leaving the room.The first is a perspective view of Aiwen's worm body. The mechanical parts are all marked in deep purple. In addition to the organs that Ryan has already known, the scope also includes the center of the abdomen. I don't know if it is the central control program of the limbs or simply replaced a certain internal organ with machinery.

Alvin has come over.

Of course, he kept a polite distance, so that he could not directly see the content on the optical brain, but just showed a nervous attitude.

Ryan continued to look down: Below the picture is some basic information.Bone age, sex, first test...

and many more.

gender?

Ryan held the suspicion of "did I read it wrong", and swipe up the list again.This time, he carefully looked at the word "male" behind the gender column, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

Ryan was shocked: what? !