Jacob became a high-profile figure at school.

Most of this generation grew up in incubation centers, and the parents who paid for their upbringing would occasionally come to visit them, and very few parents would come with them. And having a father-like character like Jacob for many years is more curious than envious for them. So naturally, no one knows how to deal with a guy who has lost a loved one. Jacob got out of the bus and was stabbed with a blank gaze. Over the course of a week, Jacob felt someone staring at him everywhere he went.

His cubicle was the same as it had been a week ago. A poster of the free martial arts athlete was plastered across the single bed, blocking his credit sheet. I wonder if it must be shining a dazzling red color right now. Jacob was a little distraught, he didn't know what the credit chart was for, even if his credit sheet was green and oily, Grandpa Lan was lying under the dirt, buried and forgotten by the city.

Jacob ordered a soda, and his superintendent immediately jumped out to remind him to pay attention to balanced nutrition. Jacob really wanted to give it a kick, but remembered that any disobedience to the superintendent would cause his lights to turn redder, so he had to give up. Nutritionally balanced? Li Lin said that the superintendent's criterion is actually "pleasure balance", which can allocate "ladder pleasure" according to the time your brain concentrates, and if your light is red, it means that some of the most critical qualities of learning computer language have not met the standards required by the school, and there are many people who have been in school for many years and cannot graduate. Thankfully, Jacob was able to keep up with the classes, and sometimes vaguely considered whether he wanted to graduate on time. When ridiculed by the domineering student council members, Jacob even wanted to put a few lines in his head and be a half-cyborg.

"You are suitable to transform the second child, go to the Cowherd shop, and ensure that the business is booming." The freckled Pombeth said that he was a red-light boy like Jacob, who was on the verge of repeating grades, and had a bit of a literary talent, but he was only obsessed with horror novels, which was neither good for finding a girlfriend nor helping him write better programs. Regardless, however, the superintendent's fondness for the text allowed him to get away with it every time.

"Do you understand?" Li Lin felt that Pombers was a bit stupid, "It is forbidden to modify organs. If he doesn't want his arm to explode, he can't transform the second child. He can only implant a chip and then put on an artificial dick. ”

Jacob was anxious to end the conversation of the second child: "You see, Gao Yuan is coming. ”

The rush of fear made Pombers twist his neck. The members of the student council are three levels older than them, and they are out-and-out "top students" with excellent grades and always an embarrassing sense of superiority. He was the main reason Jacob covered the credit sheet with a poster.

Jacob broke out in a cold sweat. For he crossed Pombess's shrunken shoulders and saw Takato coming towards him with swift steps.

Gao Yuan's short legs are a bit of a loop, and he is always full of vitality when he walks. He walks like a spinning top. Jacob thought, but I wasn't going to be bullied by him today, I beat someone up in Kuroko Alley. He suddenly remembered that he hadn't bragged about it to anyone yet, and hoped that Gao Yuan would walk away quickly.

"Aren't you going to listen to the recruitment criteria of the Moorbay company?" Gao Yuan put his arm around Jacob's shoulders and said pompously, "Come with me, Lan, it's good for you." ”

"Spare me, we're only in sixth grade."

"Yes, we know you're going to work in Morbai, Brother Yuan." Li Lin said, as if telling Gao Yuan that there is no need to show off when he meets people.

However, Gao Yuan's strength was greater than him, and Jacob couldn't break free, and in the end, Jacob angrily threw him away.

Takato's first reaction was not anger but surprise. "Damn, boy, what did you bite?"

"Don't touch me." Jacob said with a gloomy face.

Takato made a threatening gesture to him, "I hope you don't feel too sad when you see what I'm about to write in my grade report." ”

"Write as much as you like." Jacob gritted his teeth and said, and Pombers looked at him in admiration.

"Little ghost, I don't know how many complicated activities your sensitive little head has experienced during this time, but it's better to be respectful when facing seniors, otherwise you will suffer."

"Then use your contact lenses to see what I've been through." If there's one real accomplishment for Takato, it's no secret that he wrote a cheating program for his contact lenses that he used to fool all the proctoring systems — the best students at the system language school are often the most lawless hackers.

Despite this, Gao Yuan is still very taboo about others openly mentioning this. He stopped, looking around as if he was afraid that someone at the school would suddenly decide to withdraw his degree. Wait and see. He told Jacob with his mouth.

"How did you do that?" Pombes and Li Lin literally fell to the ground, "You stood up today, Jacob!" ”

Jacob didn't answer. Don't they understand what it means to lose a loved one? Oh, of course they don't understand, just as they used to be indifferent to it. Between life and death is an invisible curtain, on which is written the sourness of not being understood.

Vile came in the third time zone, and she grabbed Jacob's hand and placed it on her lower abdomen. He couldn't remember how many times he had touched her, but this time it was a mixture of wonder and fear.

Does he dislike Vier? Jacob was shocked to realize that the question was stupid, and in the face of the reproductive forces that had been actively abandoned by this planet for a long time, whether to like it or not was really a secondary matter.

"Fun, huh?" Vile asked a little excitedly.

Jacob found it hard to call it fun. Vier's previously thin body seemed to have become plump and attractive, and he couldn't figure out what this change meant, as there seemed to be a whirlpool in Vier's body, and it had to suck the two people who created it together. Jacob clearly felt the power of this ancient contract, and roughly understood the reason why the ancestors sealed this way of reproduction. The power is too heavy and almost out of control for humans to handle.

At first, Vale thought it was a wonderful thing, until she was told that her figure would gradually become exaggerated and out of shape, and what kind of "error" there would be in such a child, that she was frightened and had to come to Jacob.

"I know you're at a loss, because you're even more ignorant of this kind of thing than I am. But I just don't want to face it alone. ”

For this kind of thing, I'm afraid the whole planet doesn't have enough experience to deal with it. "What do you want to do?"

"The doctor at the school advised me to have an abortion."

"Abortion? What does that mean? ”

"An ancient word that means to kill a fetus in the womb." She shuddered at the mention of the word "kill." "But I decided to wait and see."

"'Wait and see'?" Jacob couldn't understand.

"I have the feeling that the birth of this child was not a coincidence, but a matter of fate, Jacob. Your fate and mine. ”

Jacob simply didn't know what to do. He realizes that the fact that Vier is pregnant will more or less affect his own life, and suddenly he can't keep his peace. The waves of memories rushed over him, and he suddenly remembered the book that Vale was interested in, "Why Humans Always Go to Misfortune", she was a complete fatalist. Jacob was shocked to find that he knew so little about Vile beyond physical contact. After all, what can a delicate-minded girl expect from a mulatto with a big nerve?

"What a fun experience to be so close to another life!" Wei'er touched her lower abdomen and sighed, "Don't think about it, but I know what your grandfather wants to do with us, and it is difficult for people to believe that it is not the arrangement of fate." ”

Growing up in a parenting center, Vile had no idea about parenthood, and he didn't know if he needed to marry Valle in this situation - there had been few marriages on the planet for a century, and almost all the marriages he knew of were political marriages, the most representative of which was the union of Cha Cha's father, Lance Luke, and Inzak's consul Yin Bixuan, and the two people's untimely love in marriage brought the whole family a long pain. Jacob felt great fear come over him.

I'm not a big deal, and it's not a political marriage. He tried to convince himself. Even though Vale clearly didn't get the response he wanted, she didn't look sad. Vile never met her mother, except for her father, who showed up twice a year to ask what she wanted for her birthday and Christmas Eve. But the girl had a wonderful passion for motherhood, which Jacob found incredible.

"Drinking?" Jacob remembered that Vile loved to drink bitter premixes.

"You don't know what's going on with pregnancy, do you?" Vile said with disgust.

Jacob felt like he was in a hurry. He was going to act a little cooler, but he turned out to be like a young boy.

"We—we're only sixteen."

"I'm seventeen." Vale said that in this moment she was like a sister, the kind of sister Jacob had always longed for. He kind of remembered why he was with Vile in the first place. When he entered the school, he was in the era of powerful female politicians, and Aldo Halva's clever words, Jiang Wei's shrewdness and spicy old spicy and "Twilight Star" were all kinds of admirable traits that became aggressive when imitated by girls. They nicknamed the boys "Caramel Dolls" (Jacob's called them) and forced him and his friends to do all sorts of humiliating things. It was the first time Jacob had truly experienced how unavoidable malice from a girl could be. He spent three years in this bizarre feminist atmosphere. It wasn't until the year when the Heavenly Wheel killed the "Twilight Star" that the first sexual enlightenment of their level came, and the arrival of this period made the situation in the school level suddenly reversed. Boys become stronger and more powerful, and some even start dating girls of the same level, and they try to compensate for the fear of women that they developed when they were young.

Even at this point, no one wants to be with Jacob Lan, the "Caramel Doll". In a brain science class, the teacher asked them to do a small experiment in pairs: combining the brain cells of two people to make a rudimentary life. It was the first real communication between Vile and Jacob, and she took the trouble to drag him into the sterile room to look at the tiny, microscopic single-celled creature, and together they watched it probe every tiny signal in the petri dish, while the new life they had made together was restrained but brave enough to carry out every adventure in its short life. Seven months later it died, and Vile cried very sadly.

As for secretly making out with Wei'er, it was after the fifth grade. Jacob grew ten centimeters in a hot season, which is impressive. After a pool party at school, Jacob shows Vile that it's not just his height that he's growing. He had always thought Vale was cute, but he never thought that he would one day be able to admire her from this perspective. In the school's couple's room for upperclassmen, Jacob felt it was the most amazing feeling in the world.

Who would have thought that the world's greatest would be overtaken so quickly?

Jacob sometimes feels a little unlucky, why is he? Sometimes I feel extremely lucky: why him? Countless wonderful but unformed thoughts swirled in his mind, did I need to drop out of school to have a baby? What is his responsibility for this? Jacob knew that many biological fathers never cared for their children, but his instincts told him that it wasn't appropriate.

He and Vayl walked along the school's semi-open corridor, next to the Red River, whose banks were dotted with landscape lights for romantic evenings. Jacob walked after Vale, not knowing what he should do, but feeling that the only option he had at the moment was to follow her. After a while, Vile's light steps unexpectedly relaxed his nerves, which had tensed so much that he was tired. When she reaches out her hand to him, Jacob realizes that she is not another trouble in his bad life, but his salvation. A person who has loved always needs someone to love.

Then he was surprised to realize that this soon-to-be-born child also needed love. Just like Grandpa Lan once gave him.

They pass by beer halls and small restaurants that often eat oden together, and unfamiliar faces from three time zones sit in cramped dining rooms eating steaming sukiyaki. Across a time zone, everything begins to magical, as if the future can't wait to break into their lives.

"Who are the people living in the three time zones?" "It suddenly occurred to me that I had never spoken to anyone in this time zone. ”

"Are you working too hard?"

"Effort?" Vile seemed to be struggling to think, "Probably, there's nothing else to do at school. ”

They had nothing to say again. Jacob wanted to find out what Vail wanted from him, and the subtle atmosphere of breathing in and out seemed to be less intimate than before, and the two had to face the predicament in front of them together, but also care about their relationship. They didn't have a contract, they never even had a relationship, they were just together. And now everything has changed. They became the two closest under Saturn, and in times of loneliness, there seemed to be an unbreakable bond that bound them together.

"I'm wondering if I can take him out and send him to the incubation center." When they looked at the blue garden of the lake downstairs in the girls' apartment, Vile said to him, "But it will cost a huge amount of money, and I can't afford it." ”

"I—I can give you money." Jacob said stupidly, "Don't get me wrong, Vile, I didn't mean that, if—I have some money if you need it." Of course, maybe you don't-"

"I need to!" Vile interrupted him, and Jacob was horrified to find that her eyes were red. "Don't you understand? No one on this planet cares about him but me! Look down on me, Jacob, I really need money! ”

Jacob felt that he didn't quite agree with what Weier said about the child, but he didn't dare to argue. Tears are like nuclear weapons, they kill people when they fall, and they are even more powerful when they don't.

"You're being angry." He said, "How can I look down on you? He felt that his mouth was so stupid that he couldn't even say a word of comfort.

Vile really cried.

Jacob scrambles to wipe away her tears, but is shaken off by Vier.

Is this the best solution to the problem? Is it money? Jacob watched Vile upstairs in confusion, and couldn't help but notice that she hadn't even looked back. He pondered for a while and decided to give a portion of Grandpa Lan's estate to Wei'er. After using the bank butler, he sat by the river, closed his eyes and wondered if he had said the last words to Willow.

He can take the car to Cha Cha's house, just like these days. But there was something that made him feel awkward, a fee and a child. Why did such a simple thing make him care so much? He loved being with Li Lin and Pombeth, but now he just wants to sort things out by himself.

The rolling news in the canopy above the Red River tells in a playful tone about the bad things that are happening on Earth. It's as if bad things are always happening on Earth, and Eurostar is an oasis of escape. Jacob wondered, why did the great powers of the earth bother to compete for the deserts in the remote areas. Almost 99 percent of Eurostar's areas are absolutely uninhabited reserves, and the group does not recommend people to go to reserves, and no one wants to go to them - in intercity travel, once the oxygen reserves are depleted, it often means death.

A few vending trucks were parked in the block next to the semi-open corridor, one of which was blue with yellow spray paint painted in the letters "GAAAP" and a banana boat painted next to it. It's a popular GAP fast-food restaurant on the planet, serving both breakfast and a simple late-night snack. Jacob ordered a roasted cheese potato tart at the shop, got some brown mushroom sauce from the faucet next to him, and went back to the riverside steps to eat it while looking at Saturn. Jacob is skeptical that the cyclones on Saturn's surface are ever-changing, and that there is something that can guide the fate of the people on the planet, but it is hard to imagine that those hurricanes with a radius of thousands of kilometers will have the time to take care of their little humans.

He tried to believe that a spot wandering on the clean and decent surface of Saturn represented his unborn child, only to realize to his surprise that he had been thinking about the child: Was he male or female? Is his skin black or white? Which school would he choose when he was thirteen? What kind of sauce does he like when he eats potato tart? He wanted to know this, and for some reason, he was afraid but he was looking forward to a life. Jacob calculates that if Vile takes out the embryos, he'll have to go to the breeding center for himself.