As the pillar of the world, there is no day and night, no sunrise and moon setting on the boat, in order to indicate the time, at the beginning of its creation, a set of bionic system has been designed. Every hour the chime will be struck, one at one o'clock, two at two, and a maximum of twelve. In addition, the walls and floors change color according to the time of day, from pale blue in the morning to white at noon, and blue-black in the evening.

Now, the original white walls and floors have been replaced with blue-black, the lighting on the ceiling that mimics natural light has been extinguished, and the decorative lights embedded in the walls have changed from light blue to warm yellow, heralding the arrival of night.

Lying on the bed, Chihiro yawned boredly.

The décor in the room has long since changed, and everything that catches the eye is pink. The first thing you see when you enter the room of about 50 square meters is a white coffee table, a huge pale pink wardrobe with a pink and white wall, and a makeup table and a one-person high dressing mirror next to it. A pink double bed occupies the middle of the room, the lamp on the bedside table glows a warm yellow, and a plush carpet of rose pink under the bed stretches to the window, where a low couch is filled with kitten-shaped stuffed toys, and long pink curtains hang down to obscure the analog electronic window. These are all things she asked to place.

She loved the décor in the room, it was so girly, the only thing she didn't like was that there was nothing to entertain. She rolled over and buried her face in the fluffy pillow.

Now she was able to roll over on her own, but her legs were still not working, and it took a lot of effort for her.

Bell Bell ...... The chiming bell rang.

One, two, three...... Eight, exactly eight, it's eight o'clock in the evening.

She tilted her head and couldn't help but say, "Why does time pass so slowly!" It would be nice to have someone to talk to me! ”

When it comes to chatting with someone, the first thing that comes to her mind is Hachi. But today's quarrel was like a moment ago, and she didn't know how to reconcile with him. What if he really didn't want to deal with himself? She sighed, the foundation of her friendship with Hachi has not been laid yet, is it about to end?

No, it can't be over! She had to do something to change that.

Hachi was keeping vigil outside the door at this time, and Chihiro just had to call him in and talk openly and honestly, but her brain circuits were not normal, and she used another way - pretending to be sick.

She lay on her side on the bed, curled up, and began to hum.

The size of the voice must be able to be heard by Hachi, and it must be very weak, she tried a few voices and picked the most satisfactory one.

As soon as Hachi, who had a serious expression outside the door, put the golden pocket watch in his pocket, he heard the woman's humming sound.

5 minutes later than expected.

He had been waiting at the door, and finally, it was time to come.

Hachi entered the room without asking for permission, and the orange light hit half of his face unevenly, and the other half was hidden in the shadows, with a serious expression as if he had seen through Chihiro's tricks.

Chihiro heard her heart pounding and forgot to keep pretending.

Did he find out? What to do, will he hate himself? Chihiro was unsure, her eyes lowered, not daring to look at him.

Seeing Chihiro's reaction, where did he not understand that he was being teased? I sighed inwardly, not understanding why she always acted like a child.

Xiaoba stepped forward, re-covered her with the quilt, and asked gently, "Does it hurt?" ”

Chihiro shook her head, and the whole person shrank under the quilt, revealing only a pair of eyes.

"Not again next time." He didn't know why she was pretending to be sick, it wasn't a good habit.

"Humph!" She pulled the quilt angrily, revealing only her long hair.

After a while, a muffled voice came from the quilt: "Are you teaching me a lesson?" ”

"For your own good."

For my good, for my good, but I'm not good at all right now! Chihiro didn't know who to be angry with, so she buried herself in the quilt and continued to be a turtle with a shrunken head.

Suddenly, she felt a small worm crawling on her back, and the delicate real feeling made her freeze and not dare to move.

Don't you have bugs on the boat? Bugs in space, too?

She didn't know how the environment of the untethered boat was different from space, but she couldn't help but shudder at the thought of alien creatures.

As if sensing it, the bug on her back didn't move, but she knew it was still there because it was biting her.

The pinprick felt forcing her to stick her head out and look at Hachi pleadingly.

There are bugs on the legs too.

"Hachi, bugs, there's bugs on your body!" She said in fear.

What frightened her even more was that the bugs on her legs had burrowed deep into her skin.

Hachi didn't know why, and repeated: "Bugs? ”

"On the body, on the body, get in!" She was about to cry.

Hachi lifted the quilt and looked at Chihiro quietly from head to toe for a while.

There are more and more bugs on the body, and the pain is getting more and more intense. She wailed and rolled up the sleeves of her arms to see what was biting her.

The glowing fair skin warmed up in the dim light, and the two short horizontal lines were clearly visible and clear at the wrists.

She turned her arm in disbelief and looked around for nothing, but the bite and crawling sensation on her arm grew stronger.

"It's finally begun." She heard it, and Hachi behind her said slowly.

"The first symptoms are ant walking, right, Chihiro?"

She doesn't quite understand, what symptoms?

"How do you feel now?" At this moment, Hachi's cold voice was like a demon from hell.

Her heart sank to the bottom, and she felt as if the blood in her whole body was flowing backwards, and her hands and feet were cold.

Chihiro didn't answer him, but her face twitching from pain told him everything.

"Forgive me, I need to know everything." His words were full of apologies.

Something in my heart seemed to collapse. After so many days of getting along, she gradually trusted him, and in this place where it was possible to be lonely to the point of despair, he became her only support.

Are robots more trustworthy than humans?

"Hachi-......" she called to him, still unwilling to believe it, she seemed to have become his experiment.

"I'm here, Chihiro." The soft words were like a sigh, and he hugged Chihiro and let her lean gently against his chest.

"For ...... Miscellaneous...... Is it? Enduring the growing pain in her body, she had to ask before she died.

Why? She wanted to be friends with him before.

Hachi looked at her eyes, there were questions, grievances, disbelief, unwillingness, sadness, and there seemed to be other emotions, human feelings were too complicated, he couldn't understand them.

In the end, these were condensed into crystal tears in her eyes, and they flowed silently.