the days before i bought the galaxy

Chapter 2 Lonely Childhood

Warren Slim spent his childhood on an E-class planet.

No one knows who his parents are, which is very common among interstellar developers.Developers come and go, and they must seize every minute to occupy those unclaimed planets.The universe is so big for Earthlings that they didn't even encounter any other intelligent life in the first few hundred years.In the era of great interstellar colonization, the army of developers is advancing in all directions, like a drop of water melting into the ocean.They traveled about 12000 light-years before roughly completing the initial stages of colonization.Men and women, they are getting farther and farther away from each other during their travels. Even if there is a short meeting, not many of them really settle down to form a family.Children are often taken away by their mothers and embark on their own journey as adults.

Warren was born towards the end of the first phase of colonization.He has beautiful bright golden hair, and a pair of colorless eyes called different pupils by interstellar developers.Only the pupil part of this eyeball reflects ambient light, and the rest of the eyeball is nearly transparent.Only mothers who conceive in the universe will give birth to offspring with different pupils, and the specific genetic key has not been deciphered so far.Another notable feature of Warren's facial features is his mouth.His mouth is larger than average, and even appeared to be almost connected to his ears as a baby.It is caused by a rare genetic defect, most likely inherited.Such a rare appearance seems to have destined the baby named Warren Slim to have a special life from the beginning.

But Warren's luck at the beginning was actually quite bad.After his mother gave birth to him, she casually abandoned him on an E-class planet that belonged to her.According to federal law, if parents choose to be cared for by robot nanny, they must leave a property sufficient to maintain the child's future life.So of course, this small E-class planet has become Warren's private property from this moment.If he does not choose to leave in the future, he is likely to live his whole life on this planet like many down-to-earth operators.

It is worth mentioning that although this planet is classified as E-class, it is not short of resources.There is an extremely rare resource on it, which can largely guarantee Warren's well-being.But beyond that it's pretty much worthless.The single type of resources is the reason why this planet, whose diameter is half smaller than that of the Earth, is considered the lowest E-level among all available planets.

After being abandoned by the mother, the second bad thing that followed, according to the statistics of Stark Machinery Manufacturing LLC, the probability of it happening is only 50 in a million.The company mainly produces medium-sized spacecraft, and also has an acquired line of robot nannies.Although this production line has a history of more than 200 years, its product failure rate has been maintained at an extremely low level.Only three of every [-] million robot nannies will fail, two of which can be automatically repaired by maintenance robots, and only one may have unpredictable failures and cannot be repaired.

Unfortunately, what happened to Warren was the last [-] in a million.Before his mother left for him, he left a tiny spaceship with a simple robot nanny installed on it.The machine looks more like a steerable terminal attached to the inside of the hull.If nothing else, it will be responsible for Warren's life and education until he reaches his full age.But the accident still happened.When Warren was just over four years old, his robot nanny started creating virtual companions for him.

This virtual partner is synthesized by projection technology and super-perception technology.That is to say, even though they do not really exist, to Warren who has been implanted with a super-sensing terminal, they are all no different from real people.Virtual companions are created primarily to combat loneliness.For a person traveling alone on earth, interacting with a virtual companion tailored for him is the best way to relieve the loneliness of the journey.All robotic nannies come with this technology built in to meet young children's need for a companion as they grow.

But it's clear that Warren's robot nanny has malfunctioned.It created about a dozen virtual buddies around Warren in the first few weeks.This amused Warren.According to the normal procedure, unless the user enters other instructions, the virtual companions created by the robot nanny are usually earthlings.But none of the friends around Warren is from Earth. It is conceivable how excited the four-year-old Warren was at the beginning.

He touched the tail of this alien life form for a while, studied the scales on the back of the alien life form for a while, and sometimes counted the eyes of a certain alien life form with great interest, although the pair of small An almost impossible task for Warren, whose "many-eyed buddy" is covered in eyes all over his body.All in all, Warren made friends with these virtual companions with little effort, and even learned where to touch them to make them happier.

However, when the number of virtual partners grew to more than 200, Warren also found that something was not quite right.His spaceship was almost full of people, which made this small spaceship look like a refugee camp.In fact, if these projections could not overlap when necessary, it would be impossible to squeeze so many people into the miniature spaceship.Every few minutes, a virtual companion comes to fulfill the "duty of companionship", which makes Warren very uncomfortable.

This kind of life lasted for about half a year, and the self-checking system of the robot nanny finally played a role.It tried to operate the maintenance robot to repair itself, and automatically switched to passive mode after the repair failed.Now Warren's world is completely clean, and although he is not used to losing all his friends suddenly, it is better than being tortured to sleep deprived for a long time.Warren has always hated lively places in the following years, which should be the sequelae of this accident.

In any case, five-year-old Warren has since had to teach himself.This age is a bit too young for most people on Earth.Fortunately, after the robot nanny malfunctioned, its education of Warren became disorganized.Warren has memorized a lot of things he shouldn't have learned at his age, so he at least knows how to operate the robot nanny in passive mode.

In the passive mode, the robot nanny is almost equivalent to a miniature Lightyear network terminal, but it also has some educational screening and association functions.Warren gained all kinds of knowledge by manipulating the robot nannies, and he even got a first-class degree in mechanics before he was 12 years old.His mind is far more active than the average person, which can be seen from the courses he chooses.In addition to mechanics, he is also interested in forty or fifty disciplines such as entomology, ancient etiquette, literature, and nutrition.Of course, he often turns his attention to the next subject after only knowing a little bit. What is important to him is not the degree, but the interesting knowledge.

Warren no longer makes virtual companions for himself, although doing so is actually quite simple after learning more about how the robot nannies work.He put aside the super-perception terminal in his body, preferring to live alone.

As a teenager, Warren already looked quite special.Although in the absence of a reference object, he himself does not know this.He is taller than average kids.As he grew older, his much larger than average mouth finally seemed less prominent.To some extent, in fact, he already has a unique charm.His handsome face, rare precocious temperament, and rosy and healthy complexion all make him look very special.It's just that because he hasn't been baptized by the legendary career that followed, he has less aura at this time than when he was an adult.

The long period of independent life allowed Warren to form a strong character.Probably because there is no one around to talk to, he is more taciturn than ordinary people.He has no fixed goals and likes to do whatever he wants.Since the age of five, he has never stopped exercising his body.Most of the time he spares from studying and exercising is used by him to browse all kinds of information on Light Year Online.

Warren enjoys browsing the gossip that developers and operators from all over the world send to Lightyear.com.He has a very peculiar habit of never sifting through the news based on when it was posted.When Warren was growing up, people on Earth had already traveled more than [-] light-years away from their home star.That is to say, even on the light-year Internet, where news spreads at the speed of light, the "latest intelligence" Warren saw may have been disseminated online for hundreds of years.What's more, he always reads in a random way, which gives him even the opportunity to come into contact with all kinds of old news that have existed since the establishment of Guangnian.com.

Gathering intelligence that is of no use to ordinary people is one of Warren's great interests.His memory is very special.He can remember the key words in all the messages, and once something triggers these key words, he can always find out the message he has seen from Light Year Online.

银河历1206年,沃伦12岁了。他拥有一颗E级星球,该星球每个地球月可以为他提供2500银河盾的收入。他的其他主要财富是一艘价值80000银河盾的微型飞船和一个价值35000银河盾的特殊作业用机器人。

The robot was pretty much the only being who accompanied Warren through the first stages of his life.Warren was fascinated from the first moment he saw him, it was a fateful meeting...

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SB: Mr. Slim?

Warren: Sorry, I was a little distracted.

SB: (nervous) What's the problem, if you think this paragraph is a bit overly rendered...

Warren: No, Blue has always been good, although I didn't realize it at first (look nostalgic).The shape of your eyes is somewhat similar to his, and if you look closely, it seems that the shape of your face is also a bit similar.

SB: (whole body stiff) Mr. Slim, can I... go on?

Warren: Don't be so nervous, no one can replace him in my heart.Besides, after recalling so many things, I'm not interested in Lieyan now.I won't be distracted anymore, let's get on with it!

SB: (relaxed) All right, Mr. Slim.

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