It hurts to touch me [Interstellar]

Li Ou stood in front of his house in a daze.

The torrential rain that afternoon left him in a panic. What was even more embarrassing was the umbrella in his hand, which became limp on the outside of the waterproof cloth. Still keep falling.

It's strange that there is always a voice in his head today, telling him to treat himself better?

【Leo...】

The voice seemed to be laughing or panting.

But who is Leo!

The outer layer of the computer bag was also wet. He took out the key from the inside, stopped suddenly, did something he would not do normally, and took off his shoes.

The two leather shoes were soaked in water, and they were even more shiny than when they went out. They sucked their feet tightly, and when they pulled hard, the black socks were all scraped to the soles of their feet.

Li Ou poured the water out of his shoes while holding the anti-theft door, and temporarily threw them aside together with his socks. The moment his feet stepped on the doormat, the cold soles of his feet that had tortured him for hours quickly warmed up, making him feel relaxed.

Before the umbrellas were folded layer by layer, the door opened with a bang, almost hitting his head which was serious about folding the umbrellas.

The person who opened the door used a lot of strength, grabbed the doorknob, and leaned out his upper body from a distance. He was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old—actually only 16 years old, with a beautiful and indifferent face.

The other party slowly looked at Li Ou outside the door up and down, his eyes stayed on those two bare feet for so long that Li Ou couldn't help moving his toes, and the other party shouted at the top of his voice: "Mom—my brother is back! "

A chubby shadow appeared like lightning, and a big towel flew across the sky. The young man raised his hand to grab it like a relay. The weight on his head was heavy, and Li Ou's eyes were covered, and the umbrella in his hand was taken away.

"Why fold it again, anyway, it has to be dried."

After some turmoil, Li Ou, who had been in a hot bath for a long time, stopped his mother and brother from arguing over whether to drink potato soup or cold medicine first, and decided to continue working first.

My mother chose the next best thing, "Let's have a cup of hot water!" She said and got into the kitchen.

Li Ou slowly lifted up the display screen of the notebook, and checked it out. The casing was indeed a little damp. He didn't put the notebook upright on the table until it was turned on successfully.

My brother said something vaguely, and my mother came over holding a cup: "Okay, just drink some hot water!"

Li Ou took the cup and held it up obediently, feeling the warm steam rushing towards him. Yu Guangzhong, the young man got up from the sofa, put on his slippers with a stinky face, "I'm going to serve the soup."

Li Ou's lips pressed against the glass couldn't help thinning - he couldn't help laughing.

The smile didn't last long.

He blinked, just because the heat was approaching, his eyes became hotter and hotter, and the surface of the eyeballs seemed to be burning——

"mom……"

He closed his eyes tightly and took away the cup reflexively, only to realize that there was nothing in his hand.

"Mom?" He clenched his fists: "Li Mai?"

The hazy response in the ear was like a hallucination that was going away at a fast speed, and the sudden darkness even erased the memory - Li Ou couldn't remember the faces of the two people who were still by his side just now.

Until the slightest chill fell on the top of his head, Li Ou raised his face, his eyes trembled under his wrinkled eyelids, the pain dissipated, he opened his eyes suddenly, and bright white raindrops fell in the cold black sky.

He is no longer in the bright living room, there is no soft fabric sofa, no fat and friendly figure, no boy in pajamas.

It turned out to be a dream.

But where is this, is it also a dream?

Wait a minute, do dead people dream too?

The remaining warmth faded away, he hugged his arms to keep warm, the cold water under his feet was as smooth as a mirror, only his feet could make huge ripples.

In the short-term confusion of mind, the fiber-like rain line suddenly bends and gradually connects with his body, which can be called worse.

Before long, he was like a marionette, or a Christmas tree, or a glowing plant.

"..." It was obviously a weird scene, but Li Ou suddenly calmed down, his brows calmed down, his arms relaxed, and a few white lights took the opportunity to penetrate into his fingers, "Exit the virtual scene," he said tentatively.

A pure, emotionless, unhurried female voice responded beside him without warning: "...The repair has been completed. The detection function has restarted—"

"Your heart rate is too fast, and historical data is being called—the data is missing, and it is being re-tested for you..."

"—has exited the virtual scene."

The empty, dark space disappeared as expected. Soon, Li Ou realized that he was actually lying down, and couldn't help but move slightly. It would take a second to actually open his eyes.

The tip of the nose is almost touching a soft wall exuding a yellowish halo.

It looked more like the bottom of a sunken ship than the inside of the eggshell.

He was probably inside some kind of special testing chamber.

The moment he returned to reality, many memories that did not belong to him suddenly appeared in Li Ou's mind, which made him dumbfounded.

"—Your heart rate is too fast again, may I ask you to enter the medical scene?" The female voice was looking for something to say.

"...No." Li Ou couldn't help asking, "What's going on?" But the too-young voice in his throat startled him.

"At 109:9:25 a.m. on the 30th of the 4th year of the new calendar, a type A star bite ring appeared outside the construction layer of the Changwan star field. Shutdown and communication failure, until the energy supply is restored, the whole process lasts for [-] minutes."

"Long Bay..." Li Ou chewed on these two words.

He remembers the area.

——Long Bay is a fully transformed star field, which has become livable only through technological construction.

In his own memory, Long Bay is just a rural place, but it is also somewhat famous in the Star Alliance, where it has been occupied by pacifists for hundreds of years, known as "Long Bay of Homeland" and "Long Bay of Joy".

And the reason why he remembered this small place was because the leader of the Changwan Peace Corps gave a six-hour public speech and "declined" him to go to Changwan for vacation with [-] reasons.

At that time, he secretly swore that he would not die, "Long Bay of Dog Day".

The female voice in the ear suddenly increased the speed of speech, quite beaming: "The pheromone content in your blood has increased by [-]% compared to the previous test! It is a step closer to the differentiation stage, which is really good news!"

This passage made Li Ou choke: "Differentiation?"

Before he could ask for the specific data, he snorted, and the hatch in front of him suddenly separated from the middle like the elytra of a beetle, and each of them slanted and slid to a higher place.

Noisy voices suddenly came from all directions, countless tall figures shuttled back and forth, and the conversation was buzzing, as if something difficult had happened.

Li Ou's arms tightened, and before he could react, a passing figure roughly pulled him out of the testing cabin.

"how do you feel?"

Li Ou was still a little dizzy after being forced to sit down by his shoulders, but the voice of concern followed closely.

He looked intently, and the person who dragged him out just now knelt down in front of him, holding his elbow and observing his reaction.

"Feel dizzy, want to vomit, or feel pain?"

Li Ou knew that being rude might be a bit of a misunderstanding, he lowered his head with feeling, and saw that he was wearing a thin, silky blue-black protective suit—very conspicuous against the surrounding white and light yellow background.

This is a special protective clothing for league minors.

Look at the wrist on the knee—weak, vulnerable.

In contrast, the person in front of him has broad shoulders, strong and straight.Such an adult, no matter how much strength he uses, I'm afraid the current self will find it unbearable, right?

It's a bit ironic, after all, this is how Li Ou used to speculate about minors' feelings.

Right now, it just feels rough, which means that the person in front of him has fully noticed the difference in physique between the two, and has greatly controlled his strength.

It is not easy to do this, Li Ou has practiced it deliberately.

There is a badge on the chest of the man in front of him, which is a golden vein. The left end is gathered together, and the right end is like three forked roads scattered. The shape is not very regular, and there is a row of numbers at the bottom end.

It turned out to be the people who divided Hong Kong.

Combining the words of the electronic intelligence in the testing cabin before, Li Ou's brain, which has not fully absorbed the body's memory, realized a fact——

He has indeed become a minor, and now he is in the split port base in the Long Bay star field, and he may not be far from "split".

Differentiation——is a physiological term unique to interstellar humans. It refers to a very special period between underage and adulthood. Calculated according to the unified star time of the Star Alliance, it can be as short as a few months or as long as a year. It is not recommended to travel.

If a minor passes through the differentiation period smoothly, there will be a terrifying leap in terms of mental power level and even physical fitness, as if he has completed tens of millions of years of evolution in an instant, and finally transformed into a higher race.

On the contrary, if the differentiation is difficult or even stagnant, it will stay in the minor stage forever, maintaining the appearance and stature of a minor and low viability.

It is usually accompanied by serious physiological defects, such as irreversible damage to vision, hearing and other sense organs, shortened lifespan to less than 100 years, and shrinkage of pheromone glands to disappearance.

Either way, the failure of differentiation is tantamount to severe disability, and one can only rely on alliance relief to survive at the bottom of society.

"I'm fine." The man in front of him kept asking, but Li Ou could only answer.He looked at the messy scene around him, the vocal cords were still as if they hadn't been used for a long time, and each syllable required more effort, he asked, "What happened?"

"Someone fainted in the testing cabin after the energy was cut off... Are you really okay?" The nurse doubted the authenticity of Li Ou's answer, as if Li Ou dared to show the slightest dizziness at this time, and he would be put down and sent to rescue immediately .

"..." There was a complete change of people inside, and I don't know if this counts as "something"?

But the nurse not only didn't believe him, but also seemed to be condemning Li Ou's negligence of his body. Li Ou could only keep his eyes still.

During the intermission of the questioning, the adult nurse in front of him operated the medical terminal of Fever Port again, and called up the test results that Li Ou just had.

A report projection was suspended in front of the other party, and after only a few seconds of looking at it, the nurse's eyes had changed.

"The blood pheromone content has increased by [-]% compared with the last test...well...not bad."

It was clearly the same words, but the tone was completely opposite. Li Ou seized the opportunity: "How much is it now?"

"Twelve percent..." The nurse sighed, got up and brought Li Ou a small bag of rehydration fluid: "You can go back to your room after you take a rest."

Li Ou squeezed the flexible package of the refill solution, and the care worker trotted towards the most chaotic place, where a minor who had just got out of the cabin was vomiting loudly, surrounded by eight or nine care workers in a hurry.

Looking into the distance, the building on this floor is in the shape of a checkerboard, with hundreds of testing cabins with wings spread out neatly. When the hatches are closed, they look like small boats with their bottoms turned upside down.

On the edge of the white space are bright, semi-open consultation rooms, and Li Ou is in one of them right now.

There was no one around, Li Ou was finally able to calm down and examine the memory of this body again, and soon, he discovered the most crucial details——

This body is over 19 years old, and it will be twenty in three months!

He couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Although in the interstellar society, how long you can live is completely linked to your mental strength, and 20 years old is just a child, but compared to surviving yourself, surviving in Long Bay, and surviving in the split port of Long Bay, this fact about age is more important It's a joke of fate.

……

When interstellar humans are present, the level of pheromone in the body will increase, and then they will be connected to the local "differentiation port" for centralized care.

Under normal circumstances, after a few months, these juveniles will really enter the differentiation process, and the latest differentiation age on record has not exceeded 20 years old.

This body is obviously close to the latest age of differentiation, and the pheromone content in the blood is only 12.00%. It is almost certain that the differentiation is slow and difficult, but the original owner is still unwilling to accept the reality, and always holds a glimmer of hope .

While thinking, Li Ou suddenly felt like a glow on his back, feeling undisguised malice.

From the corner of the eye, several nurses surrounded the two teenagers with concern, but the two stared at them with disgust, and at the same time asked the nurses to go away impatiently.

"Your name is Leo?"

Li Ou looked away, and the male nurse just now went and returned.

Li Ou nodded, this body was the same as his real name, maybe it was one of the reasons why he woke up.

"Someone is looking for you, follow me."

At such a hectic moment, the nurse obviously didn't have much patience for a person like Li Ou who would leave sadly soon, so he took him to the reception hall on the next floor and left in a hurry.

The whole living room was noisy.

Because of the cosmic storm, a large area of ​​the Longwan Starfield was affected, and the existence of the Port of Disintegration is the most important thing. How many extremely vulnerable minors whose families are facing division are now in this building complex, so the energy recovery will only take a decade. In a few minutes, the tarmac in the distance was ups and downs, and anxious parents flocked here.

This body is an orphan, Li Ou is very clear, looking for him should not be a good thing.

"Leo, over here."

The person who called him was the administrator of the original owner's living area, and also a volunteer of Fen Hong Kong.

The other party was waiting at the edge of the crowd, but then he seemed to feel that Li Ou was walking too slowly, so he ran over and drove him to a reception room in the corner.

The door slid shut behind him, blocking out all sound and sight in the hall outside.

There were two adults standing in front of Li Ou, the first one was so tall that it seemed to cast a shadow on him.

"You may not have seen this gentleman." The administrator did not leave Li Ou alone. "This is the adjutant of that lord. He came here to deal with the last accident."

Because the degree of differentiation is too low, Li Ou can't feel the pheromones of these two strange adults at all, but the leader has a strong temperament, a slightly arrogant expression, wears expensive protective clothing, has a high social status, and is probably famous. "leader".

In contrast, the other adult, apart from his outstanding appearance, was well dressed and stood a little farther away, very low-key.

It is noticeable that even if the "leader" moves his little finger, the latter's eyes will instantly fall on the other party.

That level of attention simply cannot be concealed.

Generally, only the "ethnicity" who have newly joined the ethnic group will be in a trance because of the leader's every move. The relationship between the two is already obvious.

Li Ou had his own understanding of leaders and ethnic groups back then.

The "leader" is like the queen bee on the earth, and the "ethnic group" is like the worker bees affected by the queen bee's pheromone. After the bond is formed, the leader and the ethnic group will become a "family", and it is also a community of destiny that makes Li Ou's scalp tingle— — ethnic group.

Nowadays, there are also creatures that look similar to bumblebees, but they belong to the Zerg race, their size is unimaginably huge, and their habits are very ferocious. Li Ou was stunned when he first suppressed them.

Of course, the interstellar people look down on such low-level creatures and would not make such an analogy. Only Li Ou thinks so in private, and if it is cruel, the human race is even more cruel.

In the reception room at this time, Li Ou waited quietly. After a pressure-like silence, the other party opened his golden mouth: "Three differentiation and guided treatments, that's it."

What a negotiator, Li Ou thought in admiration.

"One more time than you asked for, and it was all within three months. The most recent time was—"

Li Ou heard the other party's mocking pause: "Two hours later. The officer also knows about your situation, and I'm afraid you won't be able to wait."

Until the so-called adjutant left his contact information and left with his ethnic group, Li Ou walked out of the reception room, still not recovering from such a neat "notification", but he still heard the voice of discussion not far away.

"...It's the first time I heard of such a condition, and that person actually agreed to it. Isn't this doing charity?"

"Whether he is charitable or not, it's too much to threaten others with this method!"

"Don't talk about it, if you lie down on the track, you can also ask for it, and it won't cost you a penny. Oh yes! You have to ask for more, after all, you are still a year away from turning 20, and three guided treatments are enough. What are you doing?"

Li Ou: "..." Ah, it's me.

It was the two teenagers upstairs just now, and there were a few minors beside them. They spoke harsh words and cast deliberately disgusted looks at Li Ou.

No one has ever dared to look at him like this.

Li Ou thought, most people used to think that they would get pregnant just by looking at him, so they didn't even dare to lift their heads.

It is conceivable how bold the eyes of this group of children are to Li Ou, it is simply in love.

"Please, are you stupid? You can only get this treatment when you meet a nobleman like Chief Wall. If you meet a poor man, can you hire an evolutionist? Go ahead and dream!"

Li Ou compared these teenagers with the people in the original owner's memory one by one in his mind, and recognized that they were all "acquaintances" of the original owner. The same batch entered the differentiation port, and the room numbers were all next to each other. Without them, the relationship is obviously worse now.

Moreover, Li Ou also noticed that no matter how contemptuous the other party's gaze was, there was still subtle envy and jealousy in it, and he finally found out the whole story in his mind.

The scolding is really true, the original owner is a Porcelain Party, at least everyone thinks so.

——As a result of the differentiation of human beings, besides "leader" and "ethnicity", there is a third attribute, which is the extremely, extremely rare "evolutionist".

An evolutionist can be a leader or an ethnic group. No matter who becomes an evolutionist, only the label of an evolutionist remains.

When people have problems with their spiritual power, no matter who they are, they need an evolutionist to treat them.The mental power is stuck in a bottleneck, and it needs the assistance of an evolutionist to break through.

Especially crucial, helping minors to differentiate is the main duty of an evolutionist.

Of course, it is even more necessary for those that are difficult to differentiate like the original owner.

But there is an insurmountable premise, money.

From the beginning of the establishment of the alliance, it was more difficult to make an appointment for treatment by an evolutionist than to make an appointment for a leader to wash your feet. The people who lined up anxiously circled the universe on average.

So far, evolutionists are still out of reach for ordinary people, and the Differentiation Port has no ability to allow all minors to receive guidance, so most people only have the way of drug-assisted differentiation.

But the medicine didn't work on the original owner.

A few days ago, the original owner was thinking wildly and was on the verge of a mental breakdown. He lied about going home to pick up things, and left the Port of Disintegration alone.

Li Ou can't tell whether he wants to relax more or commit suicide more. In short, he took the aircraft in Fever Port not far away. collided.

No matter what the reason is for a minor to take an aircraft marked with the sign of Fenfen Port, if there is an accident, the other party will have to take full responsibility if they sue it to the arbitration court. It is also light.

And the original owner seemed to have grabbed the last straw and asked for privacy.

Coincidentally, the other party to the accident was not only rich, but also able to help him get an appointment with an evolutionist in a short period of time, which was difficult to do with any amount of money.

Everything seems to be going well, and the fate of the original owner seems to be finally developing in a good direction. Unfortunately, something went wrong with the "sir". Promote the original owner of the Porcelain noble officer.

So Li Ou discovered another commonality between himself and the original owner, that is, their reputations are relatively bad.

"How about giving it to you?"

The teenagers suddenly quieted down, and Li Ou put on a rather nasty smile on his lips: "I will give it to anyone who wants this opportunity. Do you want it? You?"

"Leo, you, what do you mean?"

"That's what you think." Li Ou felt bored, "It's a pity that none of you have the courage. You are also poor, and you can only dream."

After a deathly silence, Li Ou suddenly repeated as if on a whim: "I'll ask again, you guys have thought it through clearly, I will give it to anyone who wants the opportunity to guide the treatment, who wants it?"

The faces of the teenagers turned blue and red, and finally the leader didn't hold back, and rushed forward with clenched fists, but was easily stopped by the sharp-eyed nurse.

Li Ou didn't move, and even smiled again.

Until the matter calmed down quickly, his expression returned to indifference.

——Spiritual guidance?

for me?

What a joke!