It hurts to touch me [Interstellar]

Any planet with artificial light sources will reveal its unique style when the day of growth passes and night falls.

Like Proxima Centauri, on this vast and sparsely populated super-class planet, the temperature and brightness plummeted 10 minutes after the clock reached [-]:[-] p.m., and finally the places where people lived were filled with hazy light.

The Medical Ward stands at the apex of Alliance research, but at the same time it seems to be on the fringes of human civilization.

During the day it was still busy and lively, but when night fell, the calm and weak light to save energy was a bit more lonely than the moonlight in the wilderness of Li Ou's hometown in his heart.

Due to insomnia, Li Ou had no choice but to stare at the empty scene outside the window, and did not fall asleep until the middle of the night.

Before that he was so bored that he violated several "Tyrant Sleep Agreements", a few pieces of Lulumia's shiny red sugar wrappers were thrown on the bedside table, a water glass with a fifth of liquid left, and a stack of papers The quality playing cards were scattered around.

The room gradually fell into the same silence as the outside world, and the only sound of even breathing was as low as a child's.

But this kind of tranquility didn't last long. From a certain moment, the sound of breathing gradually increased, and the slender body under the soft quilt suddenly struggled, and the quilt was lifted.

When the fluffy quilt fell again, the candy wrapper on the bedside table was blown and fluttered to the floor by the window.

The surface of the bright brown sugar paper refracts the light of night lights, like a fire all over.

……

——The bright flames in the sky occupy the field of vision, and the air has already been squeezed dry.

Leo sits at the highest point of the world, the end of the world—let’s just guess, because apart from the redness in front of his eyes, there is a vast darkness in all directions. He? Sitting on the edge of the cliff with strange rocks, panting helplessly , raised his head and looked at a pair of extremely indifferent red pupils.

Li Ou stared at those condescending eyes that seemed to be contemptuous of him all the time, and felt that his size was not as good as the tip of its nose.

It's not that it has shrunk, but that it has grown bigger.

The messy long red hair of the red thorns seemed to be floating in a vacuum. Occasionally, a strand of hair would be drawn on Li Ou's shoulder, and Li Ou could feel its sharp weight.

Below his dangling feet is a dark red viscous blood-colored abyss, and the red thorns are submerged in it from the waist down, but it looks quite comfortable.

And Li Ou, obviously just sitting quietly, felt that the depths of his body were constantly burning and being consumed.

……

Li Ou was used to such scenes, he knew he must have fallen asleep.

Whenever they meet each other like this, Red Thorn is like a perverted child, always staring at him without saying a word.

Now there is no one else here, no Saoirse, no researchers, no Asland, only Leo and it.

Today I couldn't help but look at it a few more times, Li Ou thought, should Shan Xuan really see it with his own eyes? This thing is growing faster than anything else, how to control it, where does everyone have confidence?

But the mental body is ignorant, Li Ou will not be ignorant, Li Ou always wants to break the silence.

"hold on."

Li Ou looked at it and said slowly:

"hold on."

We have common goals, we have unfinished business, we have homes that have not yet returned, and we still have our original aspirations.

I am not your enemy, we are two sides of one.

and so……

Please stop staring at me please please!

Boom————! ! !

Suddenly, a dull loud noise broke the tranquility of this red dream.

The voice was violent without warning, as loud as it was around Li Ou.

In an instant, Li Ou returned to the darkness, and felt his hands and feet touching the soft fabric of the big bed.

The lingering sound of the loud noise was still in his ears. He suddenly opened his eyes, and at this moment, a dazzling white light directly penetrated the large window and the wall, filling the entire space like a nebula with ripples .

Lying on the bed, Li Ou opened his eyes and looked at the sudden silver ripples in front of him. After a while, he raised his hand to touch it. The place where his fingers passed, it was like pulling away layers of tulle.

The light is like luminous plankton, which turns into bright blue when frightened, and the new brilliance spreads rapidly.

"Leo..." Saoirse, who stopped talking after saying goodnight to Leo, called out his name.

The little girl's soft voice gently shook his eardrums, forming a calm but rather depressed atmosphere in Li Ou's mind.

Li Ou asked, "Who is it?"

Saoirse replied, "It's the boy named Eli."

Li Ou propped up his tired body from the big bed.

Although he slept for a while, thanks to the red thorns, he seemed to have been stabbed thousands of times by that guy's eye knife.

As soon as he moved, his body could not help but be enveloped by soft and lively blue light. On a dull and boring night in the medical area, this ocean of blue light conformed to most people's fantasies about wonderful things, and undoubtedly brought some strange joy.

—Eli is a good boy.

Li Ou grabbed a handful of this joyful spiritual power that symbolizes liberation, looked at the faint red light circle in his palm, caught the dots of blue dust, and watched the blue light go out little by little , returned to transparent air, this mental power? It completely disappeared.

"This is his wish," Saoirse said softly, "He? wants to become a supernova."

Li Ou raised his eyes and looked out of the big window, "I didn't see it unless you said it."

"Yeah, the colors are a bit monotonous, but he? Has been working hard all night."

Li Ou fell silent. Outside the window—the center of the fantastic aurora right now, there was dust and flames from the explosion. The flames had been half-extinguished, and there was also a noisy airflow. A large number of aircraft landed there.

He got out of bed and walked to the window with bare feet, the sky over there was imprinted in his eyes, and the gleaming blue light made his eyes a little uncomfortable.

But soon, Li Ou discovered a new problem: "Why are they still reinforcing?"

"it's not finished yet."

"No?" Li Ou looked back, the light in the space was disappearing, and the room would become empty again in a short time.

"No," Saoirse said absently, as if her eyes were elsewhere. "Eli's friends are crying for him."

Li Ou caressed the big window with his fingers. The temperature inside the window was suitable, but the glass was icy cold.

Everything in the distance seems to have nothing to do with him, but inexplicably, everything here must have something to do with him.

Sighing, Li Ou walked back slowly to the big bed and put on his indoor shoes.

"It's cold outside," Saoirse said.

Li Ou picked up the nightgown jacket from the foot of the bed and shook it, pinched the cuffs of the thin pajamas and stretched his arms into the nightgown. After putting it on, he closed the skirts on both sides, folded them in front of his chest, and wrapped himself up.

Putting on the Quwei glasses, Li Ou walked to the door. The room was very quiet, only his uniform footsteps, the communication at the door, including Li Ou's personal terminal, was always silent, and no one came to him.

Although this is a "small matter", Li Ou actually didn't want to cause trouble for them, but who made Saoirse's voice lose its vibrancy and sighed, as if it was going to annoy him to death.

"She was just throwing a tantrum."

"She has no relatives, and her only friend now? Has left."

"She's been terrified all night, terrified all night, and now that the nightmare has come true, they should put up with her more."

"She's still a human baby."

When Leo stood in front of the door, Saoirse paused for a few seconds, until Leo stepped onto the clean corridor, a single-person flight pad automatically slid to his feet, Leo stepped on it wearing slippers, and at the same time put the Wrapped himself tighter.

"I love you so much, Leo."

"kindness."

"I really love you, Leo."

"Yes."

"What about you, did you go out because you love me?"

"emmm..."

"Does emmm mean negative?"

As soon as the door on the first floor was opened, a strong cold wind poured in from outside, and Li Ou couldn't help shivering.

In the next second, the flight pad lifted off quickly and flew towards the scene of the incident. Li Oucai said solemnly, "It means 'of course'."

Saoirse's voice suddenly became louder: "Of course I know."

"Saoirse," Leo said solemnly.

"What are you doing, stinking man."

"Promise me, you won't upgrade casually in the future, okay?" Li Ou was worried, "You will become weird after you upgrade."

"Don't worry, I should have entered puberty."

"..."

"Leo."

"What are you doing, Miss Priest?" Li Ou said casually.

"Save her."

"Oh," Li Ou smiled, "of course."

"You should have said 'emmm'."

"..." Are you back to normal at this time? It's too inappropriate! !

……

The flight paddle was driven to the maximum speed. A few minutes later, Li Ou, who had already heard the chaotic shouts, suddenly blurred, and all the natural colors disappeared. A strange purple-gold mountain suddenly rose from the ground, standing crookedly on not far away.

Its existence undoubtedly affected everything around it, so much so that Leo's vision also faded away from human vision, and became the wavelength of ultraviolet light seen by insects.

That mentally powerful mountain, even though it was so far away, Li Ou could still clearly see the soft and sticky bumps on the chaotic mountain.

It is entirely made up of unknown objects. These indistinguishable outlines are entangled with each other like exposed internal organs. Some of them protrude and vibrate slowly and rhythmically.

Between the layers of high mountains, there are sharp elytra, slender and knobby legs, and a well-developed upper jaw shaped like stag horns—the limbs of insects are inserted into the entire mountain.

The mountain was surging and expanding, some sticky matter on the surface suddenly sank into it, and some limbs were pulled into it.

Putting it together, a huge thing gradually took shape inside the hazy Worm Mountain.

……

Looking at the unknown worm inside, Leo thought that there was something he hadn't told others - Lydia didn't lie, the big beetle was indeed in a riot.

……

The shouts in the distance became clearer. Li Ou was about to hurry forward? A beam of light suddenly shone on him, and Li Ou raised his hand to block it.

"who?!"

But almost immediately, the light beam moved away, and a panicked voice sounded from below: "Li, Lord Li Ou?!"

It seemed that a message had been sent out, and for the next section of the road, no one stopped Li Ou, until a panting red-haired young man suddenly appeared in front of Li Ou stepping on the same type of flying pad, and the two almost collided .

Saoirse controlled Donghe's flight deck to tilt, only Donghe was thrown out and fell hard to the ground.

Li Ou saw that Shan Xuan and the others were only a hundred meters away, surrounded by heavily armed soldiers, and farther away was the place where the most chaos was concentrated. The building collapsed in the explosion. Although the fire had been extinguished, there were still many Injury - Eli's strength? It was beyond Leo's expectation.

……

Dong He got up in a daze, and immediately rushed to Li Ou, hugging his foot.

"My lord!" Dong He said in a trembling voice, "Master Li Ou, your mental body is also unstable. For your safety, you should stay in the room."

"Is it up to you to decide what I should do?" Li Ou said to Donghe indifferently.

"No, I..." He had never heard Li Ou's tone before, and Donghe suddenly panicked: "I mean, we can handle it well! Although it seems that the situation is not optimistic now, Lydia is my patient , I, I am an evolutionist, I can solve this problem! Master Li Ou, I understand why the Shanxi scholar called you here..."

"... Shan Xuan didn't call me here," Li Ou said impatiently, "Don't waste my time."

Dong He immediately hugged Li Ou's leg even tighter, and said desperately, "Lydia, Lydia is still a child...they are forcing you to do something wrong!"

"Forcing me to do what?" Li Ou was really surprised by his thoughts: "Did you kill Lydia? Isn't she a spiritual force? A riot?"

"Yes," Donghe's voice was very depressed, "It's spiritual power? A riot, but she...she can still be saved!"

Now Li Ou couldn't distinguish Donghe's face, but he could see that his eyes were moist.

Li Ou's eyes fell on the messy mountain made of mental power again.

"..." Could it be that the spiritual power? The riot is about to kill it directly?

After a long while, Li Ou said, "10 minutes, give me 10 minutes, if you can't figure it out, I'll..."

"Okay, okay!" Donghe was relieved, and the researchers who followed behind him looked back at Lydia's mutated mental body, feeling even more frightened and uneasy.

The stag beetle is an invertebrate that uses a hard exoskeleton to protect its soft internal organs. Now, this rule seems to be messed up.

It shows that Lydia's thoughts have completely turned into disordered chaos.

But amidst this chaos, an order is taking shape.

……

Leo looked at the huge worm body that had already formed part of the fuzzy mountain - it was going to reach the peak of SS rank.

This spiritual body itself is formed during the countdown. When it takes shape and even breaks through the SS level, the newborn it will completely disappear into the world together with another young life.

In just one night, it is enough to see a flash.

Leo thought.

……

"Eli..."

"Eli..."

At the foot of the Insect Mountain, Lydia stood blankly, looking at the last blue aurora in the sky.