Be careful from the male insect [Interstellar]

It's an anonymous bug.

That strange thought intensified.

"What's wrong?" Ryan found that Ivan's expression was wrong.

Ai Wen took the optical brain in his hand and turned it around twice.

"I have been thinking about which worm has the ability to bypass Holden and do things to expose the Liberal Party." He raised his head with a serious expression, "But we have been ignoring another guess - if this worm, Is it Holden?"

Ryan: "?"

Ivan lowered his head, still looking at the light brain.

Ryan quickly calmed down from the shock just now: "Since you guessed that way, are you quite sure?"

Ivan opened that dialog box again.

"Yes." He slowly flipped through the previous chat records of the two worms, "I'm sure. If he is, all doubts will be explained. I can even explain why he wants to do things for the Liberal Party while keeping The reason it overturned—he is such a crazy bug. When he worked with Roselle, I always felt that something was wrong."

"But I now decide that I never knew him any more than he knew me."

Ai Wen still lowered his head, did not look at Ryan's expression, and began to type slowly on the optical brain.

Information editing is complete.

send.

He let go.

Ryan: "What did you tell him?"

Alvin turned around suddenly, and buried his face in Ryan's chest like he always did before.

Then he said, "I said, I know who he is. I want to see him one last time, if it's convenient."

"Because if I don't do that, I probably will never be able to untangle this knot."

Aiwen did not mention his specific guess in the message, and Anonymous did not continue to make confirmation inquiries in this regard, as if he knew very well that if Aiwen had a guess, it must be a correct answer.

He just sent a coordinate.

Ryan did some research for Ivan.

"Very close to the pier," he said. "If you must meet him there, it's a quarter of an hour's walk back to the pier. . . . But are you really going? Or do you go by yourself?"

Of course Alvin is going.

He also decided to go by himself.

After all, that landmark is just a secluded public place, not some movable dangerous starship.

"Who knows Holden will hide there." Ivan said while packing his things.

He's a little absent-minded, after all, even though he's the one who's asked to meet Anonymous (or Holden?), he's still a little uneasy about it himself.What do you want to say to Holden when you see him?Of course, Ivan had similar thoughts when he reunited with Holden last time, but this time it was different.When they parted that time, they were still a pair of ordinary female father and male son, so it was not Ivan who needed to be nervous.

But this time is different.

Aiwen still clearly remembers how they yelled at each other like hyenas when they met last time, and perhaps he himself will never forget those words he said.And the body parts he sent to Holden, and Holden's auction... Was that also part of Holden's plan?

Aiwen was very nervous until he arrived at the coordinates.

He stayed in that small passage for a while, and suddenly thought: Maybe Holden is lying to him again.He will not come again.

Holden is a wanted man, after all.If Aiwen's sense of justice is really as strong as the news said, he should inform the police in advance and let them wait here.But since the reasons supporting him to do so are so full, why didn't he do it?

Good question, Ivan doesn't know the answer either.

But the question came up just right, so he leaned back and thought and thought, until the dim overhead light in the underground corridor flickered, and Holden appeared there as if by magic.It was him, but it was a little different: instead of ill-fitting suits and roses, Holden wore very ordinary clothes, as if he had just walked out of Star Tobias's house.

He didn't look embarrassed at all.

This was Ivan's first thought.

"Where are you from?"

This is the first sentence Ai Wen said.

It's a fairly fitting opening line, without seeming like nonsense, and without bringing back the scariest memories of that time.Holden shrugged, showing Ivan's familiar expression, and turned his head to glance at the end of the corridor.

"You are wanted." Ivan said again, "And then you parked the aircraft outside with such a big fanfare?"

Holden slowly rubbed his hands together.

"What," he asked, "are you going to denounce me?"

His tone was as angry as what Ivan heard when he first arrived at the main star.

"You are quite good at acting." So Ai Wen said, "First you reported to me anonymously, then confronted me in the office, and then came up with an auction. You are so good at acting, why were you so aggrieved before? ... I I heard that you were engaged to the hero of Roselle."

Ivan himself didn't know how he picked out this sentence accurately from a bunch of fresh rumors about Holden.Maybe he really hated Holden's indifferent and superior expression, so he made up his mind to drag him off.Holden's experience is very strange to Ivan, but for some reason, this is the sentence he thinks about most.When he thought of the news that said "Holden and Rhodes are engaged", he couldn't help recalling another line.Holden texted him on his wedding day: You'll always regret it.

Aiwen was just very angry at the time, but now besides being angry, he also has an unclear feeling.

When Holden sent that message, was he trying to piss off Alvin?Or is he jealous of someone, or simply resenting something?

Now Alvin knows the answer.

Because the moment the question came out, Holden's expression twisted very slightly for a moment.

Then he resumed his smile: "Yes."

Holden put his hands in his pockets, his face was blurred under the light: "You saw the news, didn't you? Are you curious?"

Alvin didn't speak.

In fact, he found that even though he had achieved that trivial little goal, he was still not full of pleasure from it.

On the contrary, at that moment, he had an inexplicable feeling.

He didn't have a chance to figure out what it was, because Holden went on:

"We were all young. He graduated from the Higher Political School of Males, met me at a research fellowship, held a glass in his hand, and offered me a glass of wine. ... Very cinematic beginning See, didn't he? He looked—I almost forgot what he looked like. Small, big eyes, in a suit. Seven or eight years older than me, but looked very young. Very young."

Holden had nothing in his hand, but he maintained that weird smile and raised the non-existent wine glass into the air.

"Then we got together. The engagement went very smoothly. His family didn't agree with it, but he thought that although I came from a bad background, my future was limitless. I thought so too, until I was involved in an academic fraud. … Some bugs wanted to give my research results to another male bug in the team, but I was not happy to agree. There were some twists and turns in the middle, anyway, I was in Dalanke at the time - there was no vigilance at the time The difference between a prison and a prison, let’s say a prison—eight months.”

Holden withdrew his hand and made a regretful gesture, as if the virtual wine glass had just broken.

"So, you were in prison at that time." Ivan said suddenly, "When they made Alpha, you hadn't come out yet."

He took a step forward and asked with a little hope in his expression:

"So you only found out about Sn2 later, didn't you? You can't come out at all!"

Holden's expression looked very incomprehensible for a moment.

That was the expression that often appeared on his face. Every time Ivan saw it, the alarm bells would ring out: Holden must be doing something, or at least saying something nasty.He was almost certain that Holden would shatter his modest expectations again, and he had other things in his mind, vaguely, but none of them had time to take shape.

Because Holden shrugged again and said, "Yeah, I didn't know that at the time."

Alvin took a big breath out.

"Does this make you feel better?" Holden jumped on the spot, "Actually, it's not impossible to come out at all. Almost, almost I will get out of prison, so no matter what I think, I will definitely participate in the Sn2 plan That's it. Then you can sign that kind of agreement, you know? It's the kind you signed. . . . What kind of agreement is it called? Never mind, it has nothing to do with me anyway."

protocol?

Ivan suddenly remembered: the one he signed for Ryan.A promise to formally marry Ryan, followed by an agreement never to divorce.

"I was quite young at the time, so I thought he would sign it." Holden's tone was very brisk, "Of course, our smart Mr. Rhodes didn't. Break up the relationship, and then marry Roselle. In this way, his reputation will be preserved."

"What about you?" Ivan couldn't help asking.

"Then I went to Tobias Star." Holden said lightly, "Then I heard that he was sick and died. Then by accident, I waited for Roselle, and I also waited for you.... He asked I made the mechanical heart and provided me with the data of Alpha. He said he could give me any material I needed, but he didn’t expect that the core carrier I chose was you. Guess why?”

Evan took a deep breath.

Only then did he remember: No matter what happened decades ago, Holden is definitely not innocent this time.

Think about it, he hid a male worm in the deserted star and made him into an energy carrier!

Ivan looked at Holden for a while, and then said affirmatively:

"Because you hate what I represent. Is it the males, or the whole class involved?"

"Both." Holden put his hands in his pockets, and stood there shaking slowly from side to side.After he appeared, Aiwen didn't go forward, so there was always a distance of two meters between the two insects, which looked a little blurry under the unclear light.In Ivan's view, Holden's movements have a weird rhythm, as if he is performing a dance that is incomprehensible to parasites.

"If you ask me what I learned in the graduate school, then my answer is: nothing." Holden took two brisk steps back, as if turning half a circle, "—except for the selfishness and Despicable. So this is revenge. Since everything is guided by fate, why don't I obey my own heart and test my nature?"

Ai Wen remembered the scene when the two insects separated last time.

He said: "So, the choice is always with me. As long as I choose to run, the Serbian star will be finished."

"Yes." Holden said approvingly.

"In that case, Russell will not let you go."

"Of course he won't let me go."

Aiwen was incredible: "You bet a planet and all of yourself on me?"

Holden: "Rosell asked the same question."

Ivan: "Does Roselle know who you are?"

"He?" Holden scratched the ground, "Maybe he knew about my engagement with Rhodes, or he might have forgotten it. But I'm not the kind of worm who can be easily forgotten, so I tend to let him know. But that What does it matter? He and I are not close partners, in fact, if it is not possible, I think he would like to kill me."

Ivan couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

Holden stopped: "Because of the question you just asked."

Just that question.

"If I run away," Ivan stared at Holden, "will you really watch...?"

"I can do anything." Holden made a gesture of stretching his arms, "The newspaper office, other things, such things. In the first few years, I thought about such things every day. But you take When I walked out of that door with Mechanic Heart and Todd, I already knew that I don’t need to worry too much about it.”

Aiwen looked complicated: "You kind of believe me."

Holden immediately clarified: "I don't believe you."

"then you--"

"But I'm really thinking about the relationship between a worm's nature and his origin."

"Then what did you come up with?"

Holden didn't speak.

He also stopped making moves that seemed particularly comical under the lights.Ivan watched him straighten his cuffs on the spot, then turned around and walked over.Even so, he didn't completely walk in front of Ivan - he just touched his hair in a position where he could barely reach him, with unknown intentions.

Then Holden backed off again.

Aiwen realized within a second what his move meant: "Are you leaving now? Where are you going?"

He took a few steps forward, and Holden had already turned his back to him, and began to walk deep into the corridor, and the voice came back indistinctly:

"I can go anywhere. Don't you understand? I'm only here for a personal vendetta."

Holden had slowly disappeared down the corridor.

Ai Wen seemed to raise his foot to chase him, but he bent his knee slightly and stopped again.

He stood there dumbfounded, and suddenly called out:

"Holden!"

The footsteps belonging to Holden stopped.

"That day..." Aiwen asked intermittently in the darkness, "You deliberately wanted to provoke me, right?"

"When?"

"You said, wish I hadn't been born that day."

Although Holden's shadow was no longer visible, Ivan felt him turn around inexplicably.

"Shouldn't it?" He must have shrugged again, "After all, I'm really glad you were born. As for the rest, I'm sorry. But even if you were fuel once, those procedures will not cause sequelae. Maintenance If so, you should know what to do."

"I didn't mean to forgive you." Ivan said.

He waited for a while and heard Holden laugh.

"I know," Holden said.

Then he left.

"And the key," Ryan said, "and then we should be ready. What do you think, Evan?"

Evan let out an "oh".

He didn't say anything else because he was wrapping his arms around Ryan's waist from behind, hanging there like a real tail.He's been back 10 minutes from his meeting with Holden, but he's still as uncharacteristically slimy as he'd been when he ran back, following Ryan wherever he goes, looking particularly restless.

He didn't say what was wrong, just told Ryan that he needed to think.

After a while, Ivan said that he might have come to a conclusion.

Ryan: "...so what did you come up with?"

"I still hate him very much." Ivan sent his hand, and walked to the front, "I sympathize with him, but in fact he doesn't need my sympathy. He just came from a humble background and longed to change his destiny through his talent all his life. But he was knocked down again and again. But I always feel that after he made this big move, no matter where he goes in the future, he should not be so extreme."

Ryan sighed and stroked his hair.

Ai Wen: "And you know? When I was talking to him today, something on him reminded me of you. There may be other bugs. I don't know...forget it."

His attention was quickly attracted by the light brain.

This time, it wasn't that there was another news, but the binding software reminded him that the starship was about to take off.They didn't have a lot of luggage, and they were easily transported across the orbit with the help of the staff. Finally, they sat down again, but in the small living room of the starship. There were some small snacks on the tray on the table. have.

Ivan picked up one and studied the sawtooth on the packaging bag.

The starship began preparations for takeoff.

"When we go back, I want to do another one in the barracks." He said suddenly, with a rather happy expression on his face, and he probably had temporarily forgotten about Holden.

Ryan was taken aback: "No."

"Why?" Ivan raised the optical brain and showed Ryan the content on the screen, "Didn't you receive the welcome letter? I think they seem to be happy to celebrate us again."

The next second, Ryan's optical brain also rang.At first Aiwen thought it was a little delay in the information, but when he saw it, he laughed for a long time: the welcome letter to Ryan was written by his old subordinate Ko Nuo, and the whole article was very deep and serious; Talking about something here and there, the core content is to hold a big event in the cafeteria, and Luras, who didn't have the turn to wrestle his arm last time, will also try it when he is waiting for the banquet.

"Good guy, treat them differently!" Ivan shouted.

The starship has sailed into space.There was some new information coming in, and it was the editor-in-chief who wanted to know if they were on their way.Aiwen replied to the messages one by one, raised his head, ran to the window like a new continent, and then lay there motionless.

"Look." He turned to Ryan.

So Ryan also came over, and watched the distant stars with Ivan for a while.

"If I'm hungry again later, I want to try the chili-flavored nutrient supplement again." Ivan quickly jumped to another point of association, "But it's summer now, shouldn't it be so cold there?"

He said while stroking his belly.

Then he didn't know what to think, and his expression became very strange for a moment.

Then he quickly reached out and placed it on Ryan's stomach.

Ryan: "?"

Ai Wen suddenly looked up, looking very happy: "Maybe one day you will have——. At that time, we can take a long vacation."

"That should be a long time later."

"A long time later." Ivan agreed, "I don't know whether the Liberal Party or the old party will be in power at that time."

Ryan: "But no matter who it is, after such an incident, there should be a big change."

Ivan put his hands on his stomach before, but now he slowly moved back and put his arms around Ryan's waist.Standing in this posture, Ryan also slowly hugged Ivan's shoulders. They stood together and looked at the window, as if they would never be separated again.

Outside the tiny starship, a large expanse of bright starry sky swirls and flickers like a sunrise.

"Look." Ivan said, and finally yawned, "A new day is about to begin."

作者有话要说：感谢在2021-01-2812:55:46~2021-01-3020:48:31期间帮忙准备婚礼的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Yuqianli;

Thank you so much everyone for supporting me, I'm finally done! !

The result of impulsive writing is that the whole process is full of fear, for fear that the writing will collapse. Fortunately, although the gods unfolded halfway, they did not lose control...

In short, I wish Ivan, Ryan and the little angels a happy life forever, and thank you for your company all the way, there will be a period later.

PS: Do you want to order an extra episode?I try to satisfy everyone's wishes