It's too late to marry a cat [Interstellar]

Chapter 111 Assume "Give you a reward of 1 point."

Even if Wo Xiu is a person with the best memory, it is not a short period of 17 years. During this period, countless things happened, such as cosmic dust and small planetesimals that can be seen everywhere in the star area, but he crossed these "dust" and " Xingzi", said, and he still remembers that the number of arthropods crawling up the murals that he only glanced at back then was wrong.

Yahuiquan himself only remembered the difference in the aggressiveness of the barnacles on the murals when he was reminded by the "easter egg". Woxiu's point was even more detailed.

Hearing Wo Xiu's words, his first reaction was not to look at the wall - anyway, he felt that it was similar to that year.

Back then when I walked to the bottom of the spiral staircase, the energy reading dropped below the safety line. The suspended probe narrowed the illumination range. Most of the bottom stone wall was submerged in darkness. The probe dome light was only enough to illuminate a limited small area. , Yahuiquan was basically invisible, and there was no way to compare it with what I saw today.

He subconsciously asked, "Are you sure?"

"determine."

"The light in that place is so dim, we stayed for no more than 3 minutes, do you still have the mind to pay attention to the overall condition of the gadget on the wall?" Ya Huiquan continued to ask.

It's not that he has to question Wo Xiu's ability, he's just worried about this kind of over-detailed place, and when he thinks about it after many years, people's memory is not very reliable. Implications are easy to confuse, allowing the illusion of "thinking it happened" to replace reality.

Wo Xiu was questioned, but his attitude remained firm when he answered again.

"Why didn't I have the time to watch?" Wo Xiu gave Yahuiquan a half helpless look, "As soon as you approach the wall at the bottom, those little things are like a celebration party, ready to jump on people at any time. The stone wall is more careful than the study of the murals, for fear that there will be human parasitism in the environment where there is nothing to be desired.”

Moreover, with the feline gene blessing, Wo Xiu can see up to [-] degrees as long as he is in a low-light environment without becoming a beast. For ordinary people, places that are too dim to see are still "high-definition version" in his eyes. ", he can see the environment very clearly.

Yahuiquan asked the question out of caution, but unexpectedly received an extra concern that he didn't know or notice back then, which gave him a slight meal.

Wo Xiu blinked his eyes, and ended the questioning session with a tease: "In retrospect, I may have secretly fallen in love with you from this time on, so I paid close attention to everything related to you, and I have kept it to this day. Deep memory."

Yahuiquan's meal was completely turned into speechless by this frankly expressed secret love.

Yahuiquan has never paid much attention to other people's love affairs, and he doesn't know whether ordinary people have the step of "confessing their secret love" when they fall in love. Those who are so confident are confident little bastards.

You have to have sufficient and solid self-confidence, and the confidence that you will definitely not receive a response to resistance, so that you can dare to reveal things like secret love that are usually hidden, without hesitation or worry, and even more so. I am not afraid that others will use the emotions I have personally revealed to restrict myself in turn.

The small creatures attached to the murals opened up new ideas for the two of them. Wo Xiu once mentioned that barnacles are species that should not parasitize the stone walls of buildings. Some kind of mutation may have occurred. Combined with the content of the murals, it can be inferred that this variation is extremely Most likely it was caused by the deterioration of the local environment. The drastic change in the environment forced the creatures on Xiaohuangxing to undergo various habit changes and even form changes in order to survive.

But Ya Huiquan restrained his emotions from being affected by "obvious secret love", let his mind return to business, and he quickly reorganized the clues he and Wo Xiu found.

His intuition, which is far more accurate than talking about feelings in business matters, felt that something seemed wrong, and their initial inferences were biased.

Aggression is enhanced from top to bottom. If this can be seen as a manifestation of the deepening degree of mutation, then... This also means that the factors that are suspected to affect the mutation are hidden in the rotating corridor. In the space at the bottom, that's why the native organisms closer to the bottom have a great change in temperament. They are like two sets of habits with the same kind that are only slightly affected in the upper layer, and they are about to become two species of the same genus.

This, however, creates a paradox.

Things that can affect the variation of species are hidden underground. The aborigines of Xiaohuangxing built a survival base all the way underground, and built murals carved with racial development there. Isn’t this a suicide in a certain sense?Are they building bases at the risk of mutation, keeping the most dangerous sources of danger by their side?

"A race that withdrew from the ground, dived into the ground, retreated all the way to the sea, and spent a lot of effort to establish a seabed residence should have a very strong will to survive. Their fundamental purpose is to keep their people alive and hope that the race can survive. "Wolshew said, "I don't think they will be so self-destructive and do something that looks like a family suicide."

"I don't think so either." Ya Huiquan said, "So there is another way of thinking here—if the environment is indeed deteriorating, the condition of the aborigines is also deteriorating, but this deterioration is not completely natural, it is adulteration. What about artificial ingredients?"

Wo Xiu raised his eyes, and he caught something in the blink of an eye, and his eyes met Yahuiquan in mid-air.

If it were someone else, Ya Huiquan might have to explain more about what is meant by "not completely natural" and what is meant by "artificial elements".

Wo Xiu is a person who can follow his train of thought, and understands what he means without saying too much.

Xiaohuangxing was affected by the gravitational field thousands of years ago, and was inevitably drawn into the restricted area from the orbit of the planet. Since then, the ecological environment of the planet has been in turmoil, and the aborigines on it can no longer coexist peacefully with the surface environment. At this stage, It can be seen as a natural stage of environmental degradation.

At the same time, the residents of Xiaohuangxing are a group with a strong sense of self-help, and they have been working hard for survival. When the drastic changes in the environment cannot be changed, people can only step back step by step and try to open up new residences on the planet. I have worked hard on myself, trying to adapt the racial genes to the changing environment again from the self - and this is the "artificial element" guessed by Ya Huiquan.

Assuming the latter is true, the important factors that can cause species variation are hidden in the bottom of the rotating corridor. It is a "test base" or "experimental area" built by the aboriginals of the small barren planet, or a place with other similar titles, then The residents of Xiaohuangxing carried it all the way, and it made sense to hide it in places where racial development was depicted.

"...It's just that it's too unfortunate if this is the case." Wo Xiu lowered his voice, and he shook his head at the astonishing hypothesis drawn by the two, "They worked hard from the ground to the ground, and then to the bottom of the sea, man-made The intervention was originally for self-rescue, but judging from the viciousness of those gadgets, perhaps self-rescue was not smooth, and may have caused new troubles."

Trying to solve a predicament creates a new one.

They thought they could solve the troubles, but the troubles hid in the troubles and grew, and finally dragged the whole race into a hopeless situation.

Is the last survivor the one who chiseled the last strokes on the mural while knowing that one of the culprits of disaster is nearby?

That's why he resolutely abandoned this undersea base built by his tribe, and returned all the way, taking the tribe he could find away from the "forbidden place" hidden deep in the sea, hoping that everyone can rest in peace at the original starting point?

Ya Huiquan and Wo Xiu were silent for a while, thinking about the most logical conjecture so far.

"I'm going to check the news." Wo Xiu said after the silence, he changed his posture leaning against the wall, and his left shoulder lightly touched the shoulder of Yahuiquan, "The reference material of the model is provided by the archaeological team of the ruins, near the vacant area The walls are not the same as the ones we have seen. This is also a doubtful point. When I go to the front, I can directly use the words "One of the first discoverers is very interested in the development process and wants to review the entire development process and make up for the gaps." The reason is to visit the special group in person, ask for the first edition of materials in the name of bilateral cooperation, and make a small talk by the way."

Ya Huiquan turned to look at him, and Wo Xiu smiled at him: "Why do you look at me like that? I'm also famous for my publicity in alliances outside the territory, so I don't go the same way as you. I am such a big man who finally came back in surprise As a living person, I want to see the whole process of the development of the ruins that I personally discovered, and ask someone to ask, and who can make excuses to stop me?"

Just like Ya Huiquan didn't need to say much, Wo Xiu just quickly understood what he meant and saved himself the trouble of talking.

At this time, although Wo Xiu sounded like he was "spreading nonsense", showing General Ya the unscrupulousness and "universal permission" of this person's recent alliance outside the territory seemed to be a kind of showing off in the workplace.

But Ya Huiquan quickly understood what Wo Xiu had said.

At present, there are too many people in the Star Alliance staring at Yahuiquan's actions, and there are too many people who like to speculate. Wo Xiu doesn't want Yahuiquan to be on the cusp of this storm. Take the initiative to go.

I also don't want him to ostentatiously continue to attract attention with a high profile.

Anyway, in the minds of most people, Yahuiquan and Wo Xiu are still deadly enemies in the past. Occasionally, when a joint meeting is held, Wo Xiu takes most of the opportunity to speak to Yahuiquan. The relationship between the two of them is elusive in the eyes of outsiders. Don't tell me, no one will believe that they are really friendly for a while.

So Wo Xiu came forward and acted in a high-profile manner on the bright side. He was able to swagger to get involved in those cooperation projects that were related to culture, and he was also able to use his unique status to ask for information and meet core personnel.

Ya Huiquan didn't need to go out in person, he could collect important information by staying behind and share the information with Wo Xiu.

This feeling is really a little subtle. All along, Ya Huiquan was the one standing in front of the stage. He came to carry the banner of attracting attention, and he was used to walking in the front to meet all kinds of probing eyes.

It was the first time someone wanted to take on this laborious and thankless job for him. After doing the calculations, he found that this person was vaguely trustworthy. The purpose is to guess whether this person has ulterior motives, whether he will try to meet him at a certain link.

This gave him a wonderful sense of being taken care of, and when he realized it, it was like something poked his heart lightly.

"It's late, go to bed." Wo Xiu noticed that it was not early anyway, he raised his hand and disconnected the link with the model simulator on his personal terminal, letting the projections of the surrounding ruins fade away like a tide, revealing The real mansion and the deep night scene outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

He lightly pushed on Yahuiquan's arm: "Go upstairs and rest. If you have anything to do, we will talk about it tomorrow. Even if you dispatch troops, you have to wait for the reliable targets to get up and go to work. Now is the statutory rest time of the Star Alliance."

Wo Xiu deliberately teased the Star Alliance's devil-like rest regulations, knowing that this thing has always been a thorn in the eyes of a certain gentleman, but if this gentleman can get involved in the latest round of legal amendments, he will first propose the abolition of the mandatory vacation order. Demand the return of their workaholic compliant overtime privileges.

Yahuiquan seemed to be feeling cared for still continuing, he heard Wo Xiu's little joke, and didn't care about it, he turned around and went upstairs cooperatively.

Ever since Wo Xiu revealed that he was Li Dandan, he has been sleeping in the guest bedroom originally prepared for cats. Although these two have a lot of flirting with each other these days, they still give full play to their positions. It's from working at the workplace, to going back to their home, and they're all upright, but it's amazing that they haven't made any progress so far. When it's time to go to bed every day, Woxiu feels like he's living in General Ya for free. The roommate who rubbed the house at home, honestly returned to the guest bedroom next door.

This day, Wo Xiu was also preparing to go to the guest bedroom as usual. Before he turned around, he heard Yahuiquan open the door of the master bedroom, but he didn't expect footsteps to sound behind him again.

"What's wrong?" Wo Xiu also opened the door of the guest bedroom, he paused as he was about to go in, and was about to turn around, "Did you forget something..."

There is also a modal particle that I don't know whether it is "do" or "what" that I didn't say.

A person who came from behind was very rude. He stretched out his hand and slapped Wo Xiu, who had not finished turning his body, into the door. Wo Xiu was shot into the door without warning. With his superb balance ability, he didn't A stagger, however, before he had time to turn around, he felt the people behind him approaching... and there was a faint intention to press him on the guest bed in front.

Ya Huiquan's palm was pressed against Wo Xiu's back shoulder. He seemed to be a little slow in loading new modules. Tonight, the progress bar suddenly pulled from 90% to 100%, and his brain automatically reminded him that the new function could be activated.

He carefully felt the body temperature of another person, and found a reason for his behavior.

"For the sake of your hard work and caring." He said, "I'll give you a little reward."