can you stop thinking about it

The thick cloud over the central area of ​​the capital has been accumulating for two days, and finally, like a water-absorbed sponge, someone twisted it, and it rained heavily.

The humidity in the air increased sharply, and the slight stagnant feeling from the joint of his right arm reminded Gu Xiuhan that he hadn't maintained his robotic arm for a while.

The more sophisticated the machinery, the more tedious maintenance is required, and some steps require manual operation.Because he couldn't bear the closeness of outsiders, nearly half of the work that should have been done by mechanical technicians was done by Gu Xiuhan himself.

The maintenance tools were lined up on the table, Gu Xiuhan unbuttoned his shirt for a count of three, and pulled out his right arm from the sleeve.

On the top of his upper arm, a circle of skin about five centimeters away from the shoulder still has dark red scars in the form of splashes, as if the whole strip had been soaked in strong acid.

Below the scar is an alloy arm with a steel-blue main body. Flesh and machinery have long been integrated at the nerve junction. A light yellow halo indicates that the current mechanical maintenance level is C+, and there are a series of problems such as poor contact of electronic components.

Gu Xiuhan cut off the nerve sensor and was about to start work when the door of the underground maintenance room suddenly opened.

Ruan Yu stuck out half of his head, his silver hair was fluffed by the light in the corridor, his big eyes met Gu Xiuhan's icy black pupils, and his tail fin swished, making the sound of the wind, like he was searching for a breeder from room to room White milk dog on the trail.

Gu Xiuhan was silent.

This little tail can't be shaken off at all.

"Brother Xiuhan." Ruan Yu came out from behind the door, holding a box of tools instead of the blanket in his arms, "I think your robotic arm needs maintenance..."

In the past few days, the pain in the tail of the fish has become more and more frequent. When Gu Xiuhan was massaging him, he felt a slight sense of stagnation in the mechanical arm.

Ruan Yu didn't finish his sentence, and his eyes glanced at the tools laid out in front of Gu Xiuhan. Because of this tacit understanding, he cocked his tail proudly, and steered the scooter to drive in.

Gu Xiuhan pursed his thin lips into a line, and said coldly, "You don't need it."

His shirt would be faded, exposing a large expanse of pale wheat-colored skin on his right shoulder, neck and chest.The body tempered through blood and fire is as strong as iron, with undulating muscles, light and shadow scattered like sculptures, and a blue tendon on the side of the neck is bouncing slightly for unknown reasons.

This look is inconvenient.

Gu Xiuhan was about to put on his shirt, but Ruan Yu approached him, grabbed his empty right sleeve, and tied it childishly, preventing him from putting his arm in.

"..."

Gu Xiuhan turned his face expressionlessly and glanced at Ruan Yu.

No matter how slow Ruan Yu's reaction was, he could sense that Gu Xiuhan was trying to avoid suspicion. Last time he said he didn't stare at him, no matter how he defended this time, he just stared at him.Ruan Yu hesitated, explained in a low voice and asked rhetorically, "You have to use your left hand to maintain it yourself, which is much slower than mine... What are you afraid of, don't I look like this too?"

Also look like this?

These words seemed to give Gu Xiuhan the permission to glance at Ruan Yu's body, his eyes flicked over Ruan Yu's waist, which was as tender as mussel flesh.

Very thin.

It is so thin and tough that it gives the illusion that it can be grasped by the palm of the hand. It is thin and has no excess meat, but it makes people feel soft for no reason.

The palm of Gu Xiuhan's left hand resting on the edge of the table was bent inward at an imperceptible angle, like a shallow grasp of the air, and also like a small unconscious movement that would not attract anyone's attention.

Ruan Yu and him... obviously look different.

But it's hard to say exactly where it's different.

Saying it is like sexual harassment.

Gu Xiuhan suppressed the heat surging in his stomach, disassembled the mecha in his mind to divert his attention, stared ahead, and remained silent.

According to Ruan Yu's perception, in just over a minute, Gu Xiuhan's mental body first turned from gloomy dark blue to restless light red, then rapidly heated up to blazing white, and finally fell back to dark blue suddenly. .

"..."

Ruan Yu frowned slightly in confusion, withdrew his mental energy, and paused for a moment with his hand picking tools.

It's not that Ruan Yu has never seen other people's emotions fluctuate greatly, but most of them are prone to ecstasy or sensitive emotions.Gu Xiuhan has always been calm and solemn, holding himself like a machine. Unless his mental power exploded or was on the verge of an explosion, his mental body would never jump up and down like this illogically and crazily.

Brother Xiuhan's mental state is really not stable...

Maybe jet lag hasn't healed yet.

Ruan Yu, who had been staring at Gu Xiuhan taking medicine for the past few days, pursed his lips, pulled off a piece of medical cotton, sprayed some machine-specific disinfectant, and dusted the outer shell of Gu Xiuhan's right arm.

It may also be that I have stayed too long in the harsh, closed and sunny frontier, and I have a psychological problem without knowing it.

Still have to pay attention.

While thinking about it, Ruan Yu carefully removed the alloy shell of the mechanical arm to clean the inside.

Ruan Yu has done this job too many times since he was a child. Gu Xiuhan has all the structural diagrams of each type of robotic arm in his mind. He is so clear that he is so proficient that he can find the inner hair even with his eyes closed. thicker wires.

But no matter how proficient Ruan Yu is, she is as cautious as the first time she maintains.

Because she was too focused, Ruan Yu's mouth was tightly closed. The two lips were thin but still sensual, soft and rosy, and when they encountered delicate parts that were not easy to clean, they were difficult to squeeze, slightly deformed...

Gu Xiuhan turned back his eyes and let out a heavy breath like torture.

This sound fell on Ruan Yu's ears, and it was interpreted as Gu Xiuhan's sigh of regret due to his mutilated limbs.

Now Ruan Yu's lips were not only red, but also the circles of his eyes slowly turned red.

When Gu Xiuhan inadvertently swept his eyes away again, he saw Ruan Yu's eyelashes clinging to each other, silently, and the tear crystals that broke before they could condense in time swayed on the tail of the fish.

Because he was afraid that tears would fall into the mechanical arm, his body was still leaning back awkwardly, pitiful and cute.

"Go wipe it." Gu Xiuhan understood immediately, and his heart couldn't be softer. He tried to lower his voice and said word by word, "I don't care."

Ruan Yu obediently took out a few pieces of paper, wiped his face clean, but still clouded with gloom.

How could you not care?

Let alone missing an arm, Ruan Yu felt that he would be very concerned about the loss of a fin.

Chest tightness, like a very sour clot in the lungs that has been soaked by tears. I have cried once, but the pain is even worse.

Heartbroken, distressed...Ruan Yu had personally tasted these complicated feelings when she was very young.

That was the first time he figured out why Gu Xiuhan had to wear a hard and ugly metal arm.

It's because I can't use my real arm.

Got spoiled by that monster like a big bug.

But the new robotic arm is also very useful, and it is stronger than before...

——Shen Jingya didn't want to deceive Ruan Yu, so when faced with Ruan Yu's inquisition, she tried to explain it to him in simple and easy-to-understand terms.

Unexpectedly, the little Ruan Yu, who was only two years old at the time, looked at Shen Jingya in a daze, was stunned for a while, and then suddenly hugged Gu Xiuhan's mechanical arm and burst into tears, hiccupping and breathless. , teardrops crackled all over the floor.Crying and crying, Xiao Yuzai cried himself out, let go of the robotic arm, held the water bottle to fill up, and then came back to cry.

Facing such a crying bun, the young Gu Xiuhan would just stare with a cold face, but luckily Shen Jingya was there.

She tried her best to coax Ruan Yu to calm down, told Ruan Yu that it was not his fault that his brother was injured, and asked him why he was crying so sadly.

Ruan Yu, who had already learned a lot of imperial language vocabulary, pointed at Shen Jingya's heart, and said with a sob, "Auntie's place, it hurts."

As a mother, no matter how long the incident has passed, as long as she thinks of the tragic injuries her child has endured, Shen Jingya's heart will be filled with huge waves.

The heartache and regret were too strong, captured by Ruan Yu.

"Ruan Ruan here..." Then, Ruan Yu pressed his heart with his chubby little hands, his face wrinkled, and he was so sad that he burst into tears, "It hurts too."

He couldn't help but feel pain for Gu Xiuhan.

He still remembers that day clearly.

Those ferocious and disgusting monsters came from outside the sky and invaded their ocean.

Being crushed in all directions by size and combat power, the mermaid clan is as insignificant as ants in front of the alien species, and has no power to resist.

The azure sea water was no longer gentle, and the waves were filled with groups of corrosive pus that made the gills sting unbearably, and the white and swollen limbs of the royal guards floated above the sea.

The guards died together with a medium-sized mutant. Before they died, they stuffed the young prince into a colorful and dense coral forest, hoping that he could live for a few more days under the cover.

The terribly obedient mermaid cub strictly obeyed the chief guard's dying instructions, gritted his teeth and suppressed the instinct of finding relatives, hugged the short and fat fish tail and curled up into a small ball, tightly gathered the billowing fin yarn, so that the body was deep Trapped in a coral forest.He had been hungry for several days, and was so hungry that he panicked, but obediently, he did not swim outside to look for food. He only swallowed the sea water with his white lips and absorbed a little bit of nutrition through the plankton.

Don't even dare to cry.

Tear crystals may attract xenomorphs.

In the past few days, there have been many small and medium-sized xenomorphs swimming through this coral forest, and any clues may cause life-threatening.

Originally, Ruan Yu thought that he would starve to death just like this, and turn into a tiny dry bone in the coral forest.

Until that day, through the intricate branches of coral, Ruan Yu saw an incomprehensibly huge black shadow floating above the sea.

That is the alien leader, one of the husbands of the alien queen, a giant Leviathan creature, almost a floating fortress in the sky.

It cautiously measured the seabed inch by inch with its hair-numbered limbs, searching for surviving mermaids.

Like a stubborn vermin in cleaning out the new quarters for the Empress.

The deformed, swollen limbs of the xenomorph plowed deep into the white sands of the ocean floor.

The fragile coral forest fell apart in an instant.

The smoky sand covered the sky, and accompanied by the dull rumbling sound of the superficial stratum vibration, Ruan Yu finally had nowhere to hide. He covered his mouth desperately, swung his fish tail, and swam swiftly and silently towards the unknown place like a water arrow. The sea area evades hunting.

The unspeakable fear and despair forced Ruan Yu's accumulated tears to flow out of his eyes, flying like beads, and his small chest heaved wildly.

But the cub's desperate escape was slow as if frozen in the perception of the alien leader.

A grotesque tentacle wrapped Ruan Yu lightly and deftly, and dragged him from the deep sea to the surface at a speed far beyond the limit of the mermaid's movement. The sudden change in water pressure made Ruan Yu dizzy and spit blood from his mouth and nose.

When his death was approaching, Ruan Yu still refused to give up the lifeline that the mermaid guards had earned for him. The short, fat fish tail slapped the tentacles fiercely, causing the scales to explode, and the blunt teeth were deeply embedded in the horny skin of the alien species Bite until the gums ooze blood and refuse to let go.

The speed at which the tentacles tightened suddenly slowed down, becoming extremely slow.

The leader of the alien species blinked and his nictitating membrane clicked. He was happy to observe the tragic situation of this kind of creature with a strong desire for survival being crushed to suffocation bit by bit.

"Ugh..."

The last bit of air in the alveoli is about to be squeezed out.

His strength was completely exhausted.

The near-death experience made Ruan Yu's consciousness blank for a moment, and his mind seemed to be stuffed with cotton.

And at that very moment.

Ruan Yu's eyes suddenly brightened——

More than a dozen long-range high-energy particle beams of unknown origin penetrated the ferocious and bloated body of the alien leader.

Before being hit by the particle beam, the alien leader swiftly avoided the fatal part, but was still seriously injured, roaring in pain and being loaded into the sea, setting off huge waves.

Thick blood splashed, and the high-pitched howling of the alien leader made Ruan Yu's eardrums sting, and his tinnitus was so sharp that it drowned out all sounds.

In the confusion, Ruan Yu only knew that the tentacles that bound him were painfully loose.He plunged into the sea in a daze, struggling to maintain his breathing and balance amidst the violent shock and turbulence. In order to avoid being affected, he instinctively dived towards the deep sea.

The alien leader's tentacles shot high into the sky, and a huge dark blue mecha was entangled and fell heavily into the sea.

The two sides fought together, and the leader of the alien species had the advantage in size, but his mobility was far inferior to the mecha operated by an SSS-level genetic driver.

The plasma light knife cut off bunches of joint limbs like harvesting straw, the wound tissue melted like hot wax, and the stench juice splashed, burning out scorching marks on the protective layer of the mecha.

Alien species can autonomously collect and fuse the environmental favorable genes in the prey through eating, and the body fluid corrosion intensity of this leader has undergone a new round of evolution.

After several rounds of confrontation, the leader of the alien species retreated steadily and gradually failed.When it was on the verge of death, it did not hesitate to self-dissolve part of its limbs, trying to force the mech to retreat by corroding the cockpit, and gain a chance to come back. The abdominal cavity of the alien leader blasted all those tough organs into pieces...

……

Everything returned to silence.

The thick clouds above the sea seemed to have been torn apart by this battle.

The light of the stars spilled from the edge of the clouds to the ravaged azure sea.

The water waves are churning, the wave heart is gentle, and the sun is like crushed gold leaf dotted on the top of the waves.

The steel giant was covered with corrosive liquid from head to toe, its outer shell was mottled, pitted and pitted by acid, and the strands were steaming.

It pointed the head of the mech at the seawater under its feet, and scanned the sea area for vital signs according to the Indigenous Peoples Protection Act in the Engagement Area.

After a few minutes, the Scan attention light turns on.

The iron giant lowered its upper body, put the five fingers of its huge left palm together, and gently pushed aside the residual limbs and acid on the surface of the seawater with the edge of the palm, and then probed into the depths to search.

After a while, it scooped up a handful of sea water in a gesture of almost pity.

In its palm, in the sky-blue sea... a very, very young mermaid was swimming.

There are bruises on his body, and the tail of the fish is mottled with blood.

He was as fragile as a wisp of sea foam about to dissipate at sunrise.

……

Brother Xiu Han's arm was broken at that time.

When saving Ruan Ruan...

Little Ruan Yu figured out all the key points, including why the steel giant's basically intact right arm was hanging by his side all the time, and only the left arm was the one that picked him up and sent him to the storage bin.

Wrapped in great guilt and regret, Ruan Yu couldn't stop crying, Shen Jingya couldn't coax her no matter how hard she tried.

The young Gu Xiuhan walked around holding the little crying bun in his arms.

He didn't understand.

Obviously such an immature, small ball, only a little big when hugged in my arms, how could she shed so many salty tears.

Due to a serious barrier in expression, the young Gu Xiuhan couldn't speak much, and couldn't even mobilize any expressions. His face was paralyzed, and it was so cold that it could drop ice balls.

Many comforting syllables were blocked in my throat, unable to pour out.

He knew that Ruan Yu could hear heart sounds.

then……

He concentrated and repeated the words that were difficult to put into his mouth.

[Ruan Ruan, don't cry. ]

[It doesn't hurt anymore. ]

[The robotic arm is handy, I don't care. ]

[It's been on my to-do list, not because of you. ]

[Don't beat yourself up. ]

[......]

A heartbeat, cool and soft, fell on Ruan Yu's ears.

again and again.

After a while, Ruan Yu suddenly pressed her small face against Gu Xiuhan's mechanical arm, wiped her eyes, and obediently stopped crying.

Gu Xiuhan's warm voice...he could hear it all.

The author has something to say:

【small theater】

Admiral: Excitement, remorse, excitement, repentance...

Yuzai (worriedly writing the medical record): My brother is really crazy.