Be careful from the male insect [Interstellar]

"So," Ai Wen asked, "What exactly does promotion mean?"

The staff members of the research institute moved really neatly.As soon as the elevator door opened, some worms had already packed up Aiwen's things in the cubicle, and were standing at the elevator door waiting for him.The convenience of this is that Aiwen doesn't have to take a step out of the elevator at all, he only needs to finish the huge kraft paper bag, and then go straight to the office that was prepared separately for him before.

When he's done putting away his stuff, Holden tells him he's busy, but another bug named Dominique is waiting for him.

This Dominique is the responsible bug between the research institute and the associated factory.Ai Wen didn't do anything for half an hour, just took the elevator to play, because as soon as he and Dominic connected, the latter took him down the elevator again, this time all the way down to the sixth floor, and then took Ai Wen Wen Yin went to a tunnel car and told him to fasten his seat belt.

"You might get dizzy later, Yuko," he asked. "Do you need motion sickness pills?"

Ai Wen: "No, thank you."

But obviously, Ivan underestimated the danger of the tunnel car.It rushed forward with a "swish", twisting and twisting.The first thing Ai Wen did after getting off the car was to find a place to vomit.

"I'm so sorry, Yuko," Dominique said, looking very sincere.

Then he led Aiwen to the front, the real inside of the factory.

"Mr. Holden contacted me and said that you were invited to participate in our research." He said as he walked, "He said that you are a very suitable candidate. He also revealed some small other information to me... Xiongzi , would you mind doing a little physical examination?"

"I don't mind." Evan said.

So they entered a spacious and bright small room, and Ivan was invited to a very comfortable medical cabin, where he lay down for four to ten minutes, and finally Dominic woke him up.

The first thing Ivan saw after opening his eyes was an iron tray with a... er, bloody small part on it.

"Mr. Holden specifically asked me to help you take this out." Dominic said with a very flat expression, as if digging out a small monitor from the body of a cyborg male was a very common thing, "Mr. Holden Say, you can do what you want with it."

"I understand." Ivan nodded and put it on.

Dominic then starts gushing about how good Alvin's body modification is, how it utilizes the Starfire technology almost perfectly, and can even be extended further.

Then he said that since Ivan had rested, it's better to know more about this place.

This time they entered a room that looked like a conference room, and Dominic opened the PPT to give Ivan an all-round introduction to what Roselle's research institute does.Obviously, they are studying the technology that Holden implemented on Ivan, with the purpose of further promoting the mechanical transformation of the body for the benefit of the masses.

"Think about it," said Dominique, "how wonderful it would be if the worms would no longer suffer from physical disabilities one day in the future."

"It's amazing." Evan said.

He was a little absent-minded, because although he took a nap in the medical cabin halfway, but perhaps because of seeing the removed monitor, he felt that the distraction goal he had hoped to achieve before was perfectly achieved, and wanted to go home and rest with Ryan rest.

But Dominic obviously didn't mean to let him go.

He smiled and asked, "Would you like to visit this place further, Yuko?"

"Then let's take a tour." Aiwen said, "Let's try to finish reading the content I should be familiar with in advance today."

"Good idea." Dominic nodded repeatedly, showing approval, "Please follow me."

This time they took a strange elevator.The reason why it is strange is that it is not limited to moving up and down, but can move left and right and diagonally at the same time, and its ability to induce vomiting is first-rate.But this time he had nothing to vomit, so he slowly adjusted himself for a while, and followed Dominic without changing his expression.

Then they entered through a carved iron gate.

Although the shape of the door was beautifully designed, Ivan felt a little strange when he passed by it.

He didn't have time to think about it, so he was led into another bright room.There were a few worms sitting together in twos and threes. When they saw them, they immediately stood up and said hello:

"Mr. Dominique!"

Then he looked at Ivan, "This is...?"

Alvin didn't answer for a while.

He just watched them, transfixed.

"This is a new research bug, Aiwen Xiongzi." Dominique emphasized, "Today I will accompany him to inspect, just to see your situation. Guys, let me introduce myself to Mr. Aiwen."

The worms immediately tensed up.

Then the first of them walked up to Ivan and said, "Hello, Xiongzi. My name is Jamie."

Ivan looked at the female named Jamie.

For a moment, he thought of Todd, because he was similar in size to Jamie.But there are indeed great differences between the two worms. The most prominent one is that Todd is a healthy and big male, while Jamie looks big, but the exposed skin is only supported by thick bones.Besides that, he has only one arm—a mechanical arm.

"The direction of my transformation is the arm." Jamie continued to introduce himself, "The research bugs will change my two arms into mechanical arms, so that they will be more powerful, able to perform long-term labor, and move at the same time. More agile."

After speaking, he tried to shake his mechanical arm at Ivan.

And obviously, he wasn't very skilled at using it.Even at the moment when his arm was raised, Ivan noticed a painful expression flashing across his face.

"There's no need to show it." Aiwen said, and couldn't help asking: "In this case, where is your left arm?"

"Because the process of grafting each arm is very delicate." Jamie said shyly, "so we can't conduct the experiment at one time, we need to do it one by one, so as to avoid risks."

Evan responded hesitantly.

Then Jamie pushed another bug named Andy up.The push was necessary because Andy was in a wheelchair and had only one eye.

"The operation just ended, so the eye is a little sore." Andy said, "This is normal, indicating that the operation was successful."

After them, six or seven bugs in the room introduced themselves.Ivan chatted with them kindly, and took off a glove under Dominique's hint, and shook hands with them one by one.He knew that this was a friendly gesture from the male worm, but he didn't know why the worms all had strange expressions after shaking hands. Even when Ivan and his party were about to leave, Jamie kept holding his mechanical hand, crying with joy.

"Why is he crying?" Ivan asked Dominic after going out, "Because I shook hands with him?"

"Because you have a robotic arm that looks like a real arm." Dominic explained, "It's great that you are willing to shake their hands. This way, it will be easier for them to have confidence in the next experiment."

"They do deserve sympathy," Ivan said. "It's painful to regain a limb, but it must be good."

At this time, he found that Dominic's expression was a little unnatural.

Evan: "What's wrong?"

"I'm afraid you've misunderstood something," said Dominique. "These bugs aren't born disabled."

"What do you mean?"

"They are worms participating in factory experiments." Dominique explained, "We release recruitment to poor areas and exchange with them on an equal basis. These worms come to us and sign a consent form according to the experimental requirements, agreeing that the research worms will part of their limbs Become mechanical. In return, they get a lot of money."

Alvin stopped suddenly.

"Sorry, I'm afraid I didn't understand something." Ai Wen said, "You talk like this, I almost think that they are all healthy bugs. But in order to participate in the experiment, you will cut off their healthy body parts , and then press the mechanical prosthesis?"

"You understand me right. Xiongzi, I need to emphasize again: they will get money. This is a free trade. The worms involved in the research are very poor, they need the money, and participating in the experiment is completely voluntary. "

"What's the content of the experiment? I thought you guys already mastered the technology of body modification, after all you have Holden."

"Yes." Dominic said, "but do you know how much precious materials you have spent? Mr. Holden was afraid that the transformation he gave you would fail, so he used almost all the F2F materials he could find. If you use that It is absolutely impossible to modify these bugs by a large amount, and it is impossible to conduct large-scale experiments."

Alvin stared at Dominic.

"So," he finally understood, "The content of your experiment is to see how to use the least amount of F2F matter to complete the experiment successfully? If it doesn't work, just go back to the furnace and add a little more until it succeeds? In the middle How many surgeries have to be done! That Jamie just now had one hand empty because he failed the first grafting, right? In fact, I think he also has a problem with his other arm."

"Yeah," Dominic sighed, "he is a high-strength saboteur, and he is very uncooperative. In fact, his hands are not qualified, but in order to prevent him from causing damage, we only connect one arm to him for debugging."

Ai Wen asked in a strange tone: "This is what you said, "I want you to"? He has suffered so much, how will you pay him a huge sum of money?"

They have returned to the position of the tunnel car.

Dominique said a number.

"That's just my two months' salary." Ivan said incredulously, "It's not enough compared to his sacrifice, is it?"

"But it's a huge sum of money for him." Dominic shrugged. "Every time that number is mentioned, he can survive every postoperative reaction. Yuko, with all due respect, your knowledge is quite insufficient. You may Can't imagine what life is like for a ghetto bug - well, we're going to drive."