Chapter 10: The Mystery Man
In the 23rd century, what parents are most proud of is that their son won the "breeding war".
There is no competition in human society as fierce and dangerous as breeding wars.
Winning means that their sons have won the "right to mate" and they are almost certain to have offspring and be able to enjoy holding their grandchildren.
When I got home, the originally peaceful family blew up.
"If you win the second place, is it considered that you have the right to mate?" Mom asked.
"The higher the ranking, the higher the probability." I said in a reassuring tone that I was acting extra relaxed to prove that I was really okay.
At this moment, my brother Xiaomi, walked out of the room with his boyfriend. Millet looked at me for a moment and asked, "Where did you go again?" The face is so bad! β
"It's okay, I participated in a simulated breeding war."
"If you go to the mating war now, it's a dead end!" Xiaomi threw down the sentence and turned around and walked back to the room. Xiaomi's boyfriend, Jade, looked at me awkwardly and followed.
I'm not angry. When I decided to sign up, my brother was desperately against it. Since two years ago, after Xiaomi's failure to participate in the "mating war", it seems that she has completely changed as a person, not only has her personality become a little hysterical, but she has also completely changed her sexual orientation, vowing that she will no longer have sexual interest in women. At the end of that "mating war", Millet failed to come out, and the family was very worried, thinking that Millet had died inside. After the search and rescue team entered, they accelerated their search, and finally found Millet in the corner of a cave sobbing quietly.
No matter how the family interrogated, Millet refused to say what happened in this "mating war", and he gradually began to contact all kinds of gay circles, and met his current boyfriend, Wang Yu, a mild-mannered Chinese teacher.
In this era, the gay community is unprecedentedly large, and many people are not satisfied with winning the mating war, and are not satisfied with immersing themselves in virtual VR girlfriends, so they have to focus on men, which is the same as men in prison. As a result, the task of the so-called "inheritance of the lineage" fell on me.
My mother seemed to believe my words. Dad was silent, but he looked at me meaningfully. Growing up, I had very little communication with my father, who was a criminal police officer for many years, and occasionally barely spoke at home, just lying on the sofa and watching VR TV. Only when I get drunk with my colleagues, friends, or myself at home, will Dad's chatterbox open and spit out the old things that sound boring to me.
There is very little positive communication between father and son, but there always seems to be some kind of tacit understanding. I always have a feeling that even if he doesn't talk about some of the hardships he has experienced, Dad seems to know about it.
"Let's eat first, and then let Brother Fan show you the wound." Mom said. Brother Fan's household robot, which has been with me for 20 years, has become rusty, but in addition to most household chores, he can also do some simple medical technology, such as small problems such as bruises.
Only regular hospitals have surgical robots that can perform incision on patients.
Fortunately, I only have flesh wounds. I sat silently at the dining table, pressed the "Eat" button on the dining table, and Brother Fan immediately brought the food. There are pot-wrapped meat, four-happiness meatballs, sauced beef, and fried fungus, and I pick up a piece of pot-wrapped meat and chew it slowly in my mouth, which is sweet. It must have been ordered by Wang Yu. I thought to myself, because the pot wrapped meat is divided into sweet, sour and salty, and the south is generally light and light. I'm an exception, I like to eat salty meat, or spicy meat is fine. It doesn't matter what the vegetables are, but I always feel that if the meat is not salty or spicy, it will not taste so good. Originally, every morning I ordered a day's food from Brother Fan, and my family would order me a salty or spicy dish alone, my mother would usually ask for a stew, my father liked cooked foods such as smoked chicken and sauced beef, my brother liked vegetarian dishes, and the rest was mine. But since Xiaomi's boyfriend Wang Yu moved into the house, my salty or spicy "quota" usually became Wang Yu's sweets. Xiaojun thinks that her parents are always like this, and they will take more care of outsiders.
Not the right appetite, but still eat wolf, not long ago battle, both physical and mental power is a great drain.
After eating, I went back to my room, and Brother Fan admonished me in that typical mechanical bass: "Please relax completely in three days." I knew I didn't need any response, but I nodded subconsciously.
In the first and second grades of primary school, Xiaomi and I used to treat Brother Fan as good friends, once while our parents were traveling, we secretly brought Brother Fan to school and introduced him to my classmates, but the classmates did not respect Brother Fan at all, and spat on him and threw stones, "Your friend is just a pile of scrap metal!" One of the classmates said. So, I went crazy and threw my classmates to the ground, biting and punching. In the end, he was stopped by the teacher who arrived in time, and his parents who were still on vacation were notified on the same day.
After Fan Ge finished bandaging, he found a bruise on me that I had hit when I fell on the hard floor after the end of the simulated breeding war. He stretched out his tentacles and sprayed them with sprays that dispel blood stasis and activate blood. After that incident, I finally understood that Brother Fan was just a robot who could not produce any feelings or thoughts. As I get older, I no longer have fantasies, but I still subconsciously respond to what Brother Fan says.
"I wonder if that's the case with my dude?" It seems like it's been a long time since I've seen my brother interact with Brother Fan.
Another slight vibration, the ring. It's just that this time the caller initiated an ordinary call, and he couldn't see his face. I turned the ring and said, "Hello." β
"Hello." The voice on the other side of the phone was flat and straightforward, and he only replied to my greetings, and did not say a word about the extra words.
I had no choice but to continue talking: "Who am you looking for, please?" β
"You're an envy, aren't you?"
The other party's serious tone made me feel a little uneasy: "It's me, you are?" β
There was an awkward silence.
I waited for a while, and then asked, "Uh...... Is it still there? β
"Call me Eagle, and I'll start training you tomorrow for mating warfare. Oh yes, eat early, but don't overeat. β
"My training course has ended, and I don't plan to sign up again for the time being." My first reaction was the mating warfare training course that I just finished some time ago. I don't have enough money to attend advanced courses that are often sky-high, and even if I don't pass, I'm only getting a partial refund.
Hawk? It seems that this name has been heard somewhere, and where is it......
Eagle's tone was not emotional: "No, I was commissioned by a person to train you for free. The reason for the silence just now. I'm trying to tell you how. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to use this easiest way. β
Me: "Who's entrusting you?" You...... What's in it for him? "My first instinct was that someone was playing me. Because my best friends, including Wen Shu, are almost as poor as me; No, it can't be my parents or my brother, except that money is a problem, and if they do it, they won't hide it from me. Could it be that which elder is secretly concerned about himself?
"No comment. But don't worry, it's for your own good. I've watched your fight today, and frankly, it's hard to win with your current strength. β
Hearing this, my heart suddenly tightened, could it be that this person shot the gun? "Are you the one who reached out today?" I deftly avoided the topic of guns.
"Still no comment. Don't ask any more, when you can beat me, I'll tell you all the answers. β
A somewhat contemptuous remark, could it be that he is also a robot? I responded, "What if I beat you tomorrow?" β
For the first time, the eagle's voice smiled slightly, as if I was telling a joke. "In that case, of course I'll answer you. I'll send you the address later, and you'll be there by nine o'clock tomorrow. β
"But ......"
βjustβ¦β¦ be there.β With that, Eagle cut off the call.