"Looks like it's a human?" I felt my voice suddenly sharpen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Humans? Is that sleeping? Is it sleeping? Wake her up, right? Wake her up! Xiao Ming and Xiao Hong's mood seemed to be a little higher.

I was conflicted, wanting to admire the artwork lying in the cocoon in front of me, but also desperate to wake her up to see if she recognized me and ask her what she wanted to say to me at the time.

Xiao Ming Xiaohong didn't have so much troublesome mental activity as me, it quickly put into work after the cocoon was scratched, and began to do physical examinations for girls in various ways that I couldn't understand.

Speaking of inspections, it doesn't even need to touch the girl, just fiddle with her body for a while with various instruments.

"The situation...... What do you think? ”

"It's hard to say, it's hard to say. Although I can confirm that there are signs of life, I can't be sure of her species, and I have already informed Qing Shaodu, and this matter will have to be dealt with. ”

"Wait, what will it do to Qing Shaodu after you notify her?"

Before Xiao Ming Xiaohong answered me, Qing Shaodu had already pushed the door in.

"How's it going?"

Qing Shaodu asked Xiao Ming Xiaohong in a cold tone. It was wearing a black tuxedo today, as if it was on its way to a show. It is one of the few Poma people who insist on taking human form most of the time, as if to assert its position that it is responsible for human affairs.

It was apparently surprised by my presence, and its chosen human figure raised its eyebrows exaggeratedly.

"You...... I remember it was Aya 17. Why are you here? ”

I found that this was the first time I had seen Qing Shaodu himself instead of a stereoscopic projection, and although I couldn't tell the difference between the projection and himself with the naked eye, it was the first time that such a one-on-one conversation had happened.

"Aya 17 is Xiao Ming Xiaohong's friend, and it comes to accompany poor Xiao Ming Xiaohong." Xiao Ming and Xiaohong answered directly for me.

"Pathetic? As I said before, you have too much contact with human beings, and you are too emotional. Qing Shaodu turned his head, "This is the cocoon that was 'pushed' out when the Spirit Star Passage was attacked?" ”

"Do you know who she is?" I asked.

"We also want to know, but we don't have any clues at hand."

"No clues?" I began to wonder what was true or false in this sentence, should I tell them about the things I had seen her in the Psionic Passage? Do they need to deceive me? Should I trust them? Do I have any other options in this place?

"We can't even be sure what kind of creature she really is, in a sense, maybe she's very dangerous, maybe even the source of the breakdown and the attack."

"Physically, as you can see, she's a human, but if you look closely at her makeup, there's only a bunch of data, which is anomalous. I've been in contact with you humans for a long time, and I've seen the data of all humans on the entire planet, but I've never seen a human like this. ”

"And what are you going to do with her?"

"Anyway, put her in a place where there is no threat to our safety first, and observe further before making plans. Do you really like to get to the bottom of it? ”

Several times I wanted to tell me about meeting her, but I couldn't fathom what would happen if I actually said it. If her existence was already known to the Puma people, then what was the point of them pretending not to know? If this is a matter that needs to be pretended not to know, then Xiao Ming Xiaohong should have received a confidentiality order here, why can it take me into this room so casually? But it's also very likely that when it was still in a cocoon state, the Puma people didn't know its true body, and now they do, but I'm already on the scene, and it's too late to lie.

Come to think of it, it doesn't seem to have any positive effect other than wrapping yourself in.

"Human, do you have any thoughts on this?" Qing Shaodu suddenly asked my opinion coldly.

"Uh...... Ah, by the way, I was teleported by you on Earth when I entered here before, so how do ordinary people pass through the Psionic Passage? Is it just a casual come? ”

"Creatures entering the psychic passage for the first time need our consent, and the entrance will only be opened after we agree, and it is theoretically impossible to sneak in."

"So has this girl submitted an application before? Or is it not the first time she's here? ”

"She didn't have any application records or access records on her."

"However, there are exceptions," Xiao Ming Xiaohong interjected, "When we transported humans from Earth before, none of those humans submitted applications. ”

"Do you think they have what it takes to submit an application in the state of the earthlings at the time?" Qing Shaodu retorted solemnly.

"Nope. But you can't deny that there are exceptions, maybe other humans have entered the passage before? Xiao Ming Xiaohong argued seriously.

"Well, I don't deny this exception." Qing Shaodu nodded, "But that's also a long time coming, and we haven't been transporting humans from the earth recently." ”

"If the question of what exactly is in the spirit star passage is not clear, it is difficult for me to provide any valuable advice." I confess.

"It's been a long, long time since the creation of the Psionic Passage, and if I were to explain it, it might be difficult for you to understand everything about it in human language. In a nutshell, it's mostly data. ”

"Do you have anyone to 'clean' or clean the inside of the passage on a regular basis?"

"'Cleanup'? There is no need for this. ”

"From the moment I felt when I entered the psychic passage, it seemed like a place where it was easy to get lost."

Qing Shao was silent, it seemed that it should not have entered that place itself.

"Are there any creatures from other planets that have gotten lost in there?"

It could be seen that this was not a topic that Qing Shao was willing to touch, and its brows furrowed.

"We can't say that there is no ...... at all But the odds are absolutely slim. ”

Are the odds really small? At least as a human being, I don't think so.

"In that case, I have a conjecture," I cautiously suggested to Qing Shaodu, "Could it be that this girl is one of the humans who was transported to the sub-gap a long time ago, but failed to teleport in the channel, and the long stay caused her to suck in too much data, and become the current state of 'data man', and then because of this impact, the channel 'spit out' everything, so she can appear." But this is just a conjecture, because I don't know anything about the Psitron Passage, and I don't know if the humans who are lost there are still conscious, whether they have basic needs such as food and clothing, whether they need to rely on the outside world for survival, etc......."

"Your guess is not impossible," Qing Shao accepted this assumption calmly, "When all living beings enter the Psionic Passage, they are completely 'stationary' in the same state as you humans in the inter-chastic state, there is no metabolism, and no external matter is needed to sustain life, which is similar to extending a second indefinitely...... But if you stay in a group of data for a long time, IMHO, it's likely to be more than the human brain is overloaded. The amount of data in the Psionic Channel is too large and too extensive, and we can't be sure of the specific source of these data ourselves, and even if we want to investigate, it is impossible to be very accurate, and we have indeed done similar data collation, but we can only deal with some of the redundant data. ”

Suddenly, I felt the girl's eyelids move.

"It looks like she's about to wake up," Qing Shaodu looked down at her, his expression a little complicated, "Even if I admit that the possibility of your speculation just now is not zero, but according to the most positive and optimistic calculation results, the probability is only one in a hundred, it does not mean that there is evidence to prove that it is the truth, let alone that she is not threatening, we cannot let our guard down." In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Van Si people have always been friendly with us, your suspicions in the recent series of anomalous events would not have been completely erased. ”

"Ah, ah, interrupt, I have to interrupt, although I know it's not good to interrupt you, but I have something to say, to you, Qing Shaodu, I don't want to be a nanny, I'm a prodigal son, prodigal son, do you understand? The prodigal son can't be restrained by a creature, of course I do like humans, but it's too boring to be a creature, I'll have nothing to do, and I only know how to take humans to the living quarters, I don't know how to take care of them, and it seems like a very troublesome thing to watch movies and TV dramas to introduce it. ”

"Goo...... Yes! ”

The sound of our noise finally woke the girl up completely, and she moaned softly for a while, then suddenly jumped up and sat up as if she had woken up from a nightmare, and then gasped vigorously.

There was no cover on her body, so I quickly grabbed a blanket from the side to cover her body.

"Hello, this is the sub-gap of Puma Star, do you remember your identity?" Qing Shaodu gave her an "official greeting" very officially.

"Provinces?" The girl repeated the pronunciation of the last two words of Qing Shaodu in a slightly out-of-tune voice, and then immediately covered her throat with wide eyes, as if startled by her own voice.

"Can you understand the lingua franca?" Qing Shaodu seemed to ask questions in a different language, but it was also automatically converted into something I could understand by my chip.

The girl did not answer it, but cautiously turned her head and looked around. Apparently, this unfamiliar environment plunged her into a great panic, and she began to tremble, curl up in a ball, and convulse incessantly. Something resembling data has been bubbling around her body the whole time.

"Capture that data and see if it can be useful." Qing Shaodu turned his head sideways and said to Xiao Ming Xiaohong.

"Most of the content is data left by people who pass through the tunnel, and there is no valid information...... Hey? Oh...... Well...... Wait a minute, that's a lot of data. ”

Xiao Ming Xiaohong suddenly stood motionless like a machine that suddenly struck, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd. Qing Shaodu looked at it, then at the girl, and then at me. I was suddenly very worried that Qing Shaodu would think that it was not appropriate for me to be present and want to kick me out, but he only asked Xiao Ming if Xiaohong could analyze more information.

"Temporarily lose the ability to speak, and the intelligence stays in the early childhood stage, but there is a lot of room for growth." Xiao Ming Xiaohong said quickly, "Other than that, I can't read other valid information." ”

"Ahh Yes! She whispered miserably like a kitten, clutching her shoulders with her hands and kicking the egg-shaped container back and forth with both feet, with a tendency to become more and more manic. My gaze seemed to be sucked in, and I couldn't take my eyes off her at all.

"What's going on? Does your data analysis have an impact on her? I asked.

"It's impossible, Xiao Ming Xiaohong is just reading the data ordinarily, it's really incomprehensible, is it because it's too uneasy to go to a strange environment? Well, some earthlings will do this when they first come. ”

"How do you deal with that kind of situation?"

"Oh, if the other party is a man, Xiao Ming Xiaohong will become a beauty, if the other party is a woman, Xiao Ming Xiaohong will become a handsome guy, and then gently give them a hug and say some lines from the movie or something, which is very effective. Of course, there will be big side effects afterwards, and some people will think that the kind Xiao Ming Xiaohong is playing with them and deceiving their feelings. But—"

I didn't continue to listen to Xiao Ming Xiaohong, the word "hug" kept echoing in my mind like a demon, and I recalled the feeling I felt when I met her in the spirit passage, the feeling of wanting to be close to her, to touch her, and to stay by her side forever.

Is this some kind of information interference? Or what is a virus that is only effective for humans? At this moment, I don't care about that.

As if in a fugue, my body moved on its own, and by the time I realized it, I had already held her in my arms. I patted her head as gently as I could, trying to soothe her, but my attempts were unsuccessful, I had never done anything like this before, so the movements were stiff and her expression was embarrassed, but she seemed to see a life-saving straw and clung to the clothes on my chest, and her nails sank in, scratching my chest painfully and itchy. Her body was still shaking, her head would hit my jaw every now and then, and the data would jump right on me, through me, and then drift somewhere. I put the blanket back on her and caressed her back and forth through the blanket, just like my mother did to me when I couldn't sleep as a child. It worked, and she finally calmed down and fell back into a coma.

"It seems that her mood is very unstable," Qing Shaodu said, "if she is always in the same state as before when she is awake, it will be a problem." ”

"Xiao Ming and Xiao Hong don't want to deal with her." Xiao Ming Xiaohong stretched out two hands from her body and raised them high in a gesture of surrender.

"Then only people who will see what planet through the transit station will be interested in her, and then send her out, such a life form of unknown origin and paralysis of the psionic passage will be a hidden danger to continue to stay in the sub-gap."

"--Don't send it out, I'll take care of her." I don't feel like my voice at this moment, but the fact of giving her to someone else makes me feel unbearable for some reason, "It's better to let other aliens take it away, it's better to stay, I'll take care of her." ”

"Oh?" Qing Shaodu raised his eyebrows, "Aren't you worried that you will take the risk of the unknown?" After all, we know almost nothing about her now. ”

"As someone who could disappear at any moment, I've taken enough risks to mind having another one." I said calmly.

"For the sake of the safety of the sub-gap, we will need to monitor her for a long time and study her regularly, and she will not be able to leave here, so that means you have to stay here, and your every move will be under our watch, is that okay? You humans are very particular about human rights and privacy, aren't you? Qing Shaodu said.

“…… No problem. "There is no room for repentance.

Qing Shaodu thought for a while, "Okay, that's it." We hope you move in right away, we will prepare a room for you, and you just need to make sure to bring her with you regularly to cooperate with our research. The rest of the time you are free to do as she pleases, but she can't leave without permission. ”

"Okay."

"Ah, yes, give her a name," Xiao Ming Xiaohong cheerfully proposed, "it would be easier to call her." ”

"Aya 17, it's up to you to name it, because her current state obviously doesn't have the ability to choose her own name."

I thought about it for a moment.

"Since it's a one-in-100 possibility, it's better to call it Youbaiyuan."

"Well, then you prepare, I hope you will be in the Psitronic Office immediately today."

"The Psionic Office? This is called the Psionic Office? ”

"Yes. I hope you don't come and go around the office, and I'll add a 'transition point' to this room to your chip so you can travel directly between here and other places. You can make some adjustments to the space and layout of the room according to your own needs, and the scope of adjustment may not be as large as if you were outside, but I believe it can also meet your life needs. Recently, as long as you stabilize her emotions first, when we feel that her state can enter the study, we will tell you what you need to cooperate with in the next stage. ”

"So, do you want to move in now?" I looked at them in disbelief.

"Yes, now, the rest is up to you." Qing Shaodu nodded to Xiao Ming Xiaohong, and then turned around and left the room.

"Isn't that too casual?" I asked Xiao Ming Xiaohong, "What procedures do you not need to go through, what procedures do you need to go through?" Just decided so casually? ”

"Oh, we Puma people don't pay attention to that. Xiao Ming Xiaohong has to prepare some things that may be used first, so leave for a while, bye-bye! Oh, by the way, according to your human habits, Xiao Ming Xiaohong thinks it's time for you to make a phone call and talk to Ning 08. ”

It is very right, such an important matter as moving must be notified to Ning 08. I thought that since we live together every day, this time I will have the opportunity to get to know my "mother" well, but it seems that people are not as good as heaven. But for me, maybe it's a relief, I wonder if she thinks the same way.

After Xiao Ming Xiaohong left, I recounted what happened to Ning 08 through the virtual image communication function of the chip, and she seemed to have a dignified expression in the form of a virtual image in front of her, and she listened absentmindedly to what I said.

"Oh, got it."

Although I didn't expect her to keep me or ask me to turn down the job, I was still a little disappointed by this attitude.

"But ......"

"How?"

"I don't know...... I always feel that I am very unaccustomed to the casual handling of the Puma Xing people, and there is even something wrong...... Don't you think? ”

"You have to get used to them. The way of highly intelligent alien beings is to sweep all the possibilities of a matter in their minds in a very short time, complete the trade-offs, and once they think that the feasibility of this approach is relatively high after considering all the factors they can consider, they will skip unnecessary arguments and make a direct conclusion. It's like asking to solve a system of equations, and a human needs to list the detailed process when they manually calculate, but the computer can directly give an answer in one second. Therefore, if the Poma people do not directly explain it, we can only speculate on what kind of thought process they used to arrive at this conclusion. But you should be able to imagine that this is very tiring, so don't think about it so much. ”

"I felt like I said yes too quickly, and I didn't think about what was going to happen next."

"Do you regret it now?"

"No...... But I'm not sure if this decision was the right one, and I certainly hope I'm right, but in case ......"

"There is no point in thinking about the inter-sub-gap. What happens here is something you can't control. Because according to the result of this decision of the Puma Star people, the simplest and most direct inference is that they do not have an efficient and uncontroversial way to deal with this girl at hand, and giving her to you can reduce their burden without affecting their observation of the girl. Moreover, even if something happens to the girl and you, Qing Shaodu has a good chance of solving all the problems that you may cause and taking all the risks. Of course, it may not be comfortable for you to live under the watchful eye of the Righteous Light, but none of us here dare to say that our life in the Gap is completely unwatched. ”

"You're right, there's no point in thinking about that."

"Be happy, it's not for everyone. This girl is a confidential matter, and the first team wants to study the Puma Star people and still doesn't give permission, because all non-human species in the psychic passage The first team has no permission to interfere. ”

"Okay......" Although it doesn't seem like a good thing for me to be happy about.

"That's it, since you said that it won't affect your normal life, you can still come and sit with me if you have time, and if you don't have time, you'll see you next time."

At the thought of Guicha, I couldn't help but shudder. "Well, goodbye." I pretended to look natural.

After interrupting the call with Ning 08, I felt that my chaotic brain calmed down a little, and my body temperature, which had been soaring since just now, was now back to normal.

I looked at Yu Baiyuan, who was sleeping quietly on the "egg bed", and I always felt as if I had forgotten something very troublesome.

But since it's a troublesome thing, it's better not to recall it.