Distant home planet (3)
—No matter whether the home planet sees them or not, someone definitely hasn't seen Lin Si.
Lin Si remembered the little guy he had left behind.
He walked out of the monitoring room and turned off the do not disturb mode of the communicator. To his surprise, he did not see many messages popping up.
There is only one message on the waiting list, which was from Ling Yi.
An hour ago: "I won't play with you anymore."
He felt something wrong, flipped up the list of reads, and found out that he had received a message from Ling Yi two days ago: "When are you coming back?"
At that time, his communicator was being bombarded wildly, and this short message was submerged in other messages.
Lin Si felt guilty.
He sent a communication request to Ling Yi.
No one responded.
Lin Si was a little worried and switched to the positioning function.
The positioning showed that Ling Yi was still in the room, and Lin Si entered the command to display the path.
A few seconds later, Ling Yi's two-day activity path appeared on the light screen. It was erratic like Brownian motion, but it was only fixed in the room and did not take a step out of the door at all.
Lin Si frowned.
He found a name "Adelaide" in his contacts.
Adelaide is the only psychiatrist on the entire spacecraft, as well as Lin Si’s roommate and friend when he was at school.
The communication was connected, and a young man appeared on the light screen. Adelaide was a Nordic, with platinum blonde hair and green eyes that were always ponytailed, and he always wore a cynical smile.
"Tsk, my Lin~" he raised his eyebrows, "You haven't contacted me for a long time. Have you finally figured out that you want to receive treatment?"
Lin Si replied, "I adopted a child."
"Are you kidding? There are children on the spaceship?" Adelaide smiled: "You picked it up from a black hole?"
Lin Si did not take his joke, but said: "I left for two days and didn't contact him midway. Now he doesn't pick up my communications, and he didn't leave the room for even one step during this period."
"His age?"
"Physiological age is fifteen, but his situation is very special." Lins sorted out the language, "He lost all memories, all common sense of life is being understood from the beginning, he loves crying and being angry very much, I don't quite understand him. Unique Pattern of behavior."
"So," Adelaide stared at him, "You leave a little guy who doesn't know the human world in the room for two days regardless— if this happened on the peaceful earth, you, as an irresponsible parents will face prosecution from the neighbors."
"He sent me a message, but I ignored it," Lin Si said, "I'm sorry."
"Do you think he can go out? A young kitten was just brought back home, but was thrown away by the owner. Without any attention, of course he could only shrink in the corner and lick his fur." Adelaide shrugged.
"How should I apologize to him?"
"Go to him, immediately." Adelaide said: "Since you have not had any experience with human larvae in your previous twenty-seven years of life, I suggest that you ask the older lady for advice after you are finished, or read some books to learn how to be a qualified guardian."
At the same time, Ling Yi was sleeping.
The hazy dream came again, continuing with the one that was interrupted before it was finished.
"What are you going to do?" he asked the indistinct woman.
"Dad and mom have very important jobs. They will be away for a period of time. You have not grown up. Mom asked someone to take care of you. They are a very good person. You have to get along well with them."
He pulled the sleeve of the woman and asked: "Then when are you coming back?"
"Baby..." The woman suddenly lost control, she hugged him tightly in her arms, her gentle voice was sad, and she cried: "Baby, stay alive, no matter what you encounter, stay alive... .."
Ling Yi felt his chest tighten, and the whole person was overwhelmed by a sadness that made him unable to breathe.
When the uncomfortable feeling reached the critical point, he woke up again in his dream.
He looked at the silver-white ceiling blankly, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. The room was empty and there was no other sound, which made people very scared. Lin Si said he would wait for him to come back by himself, but a long time has passed. He sat up from the bed, wrapped his hands around his knees, and curled himself up to gain some sense of security.
——What Lin saw saw when he opened the door.
The small body curled up into a ball, even the beautiful black hair seemed to lose its luster.
Lin Si suddenly felt a strange feeling bloom inside his heart.
He has lived a life where he has not communicated with people outside of work for a long time, and now suddenly he has a little life that needs his own care and his company.
This fresh little life is full of vitality, but also very fragile. He hasn't grown up yet, and he doesn't know how to face difficulties and loneliness.
Lin Si stepped forward, knowing that Yi Ling's keen awareness must have already noticed that he had come in.
But the little guy was motionless, obviously in anger.
"I'm back." He said, standing by the bed.
Ling Yi remained motionless.
Lin Si smiled helplessly, and reached out to rub his soft black hair: "It's me who is not good."
Ling Yi refused his contact, and shook his head desperately while shrinking back.
Lin Si reached through his armpit and picked him up.
Ling Yi tightly encircled Lin Si with both arms, and bit down on his shoulder.
——This is not the first time, but this time the little thing managed to control some strength, and it was released after a heavy bite, without breaking the skin and seeing no blood.
He buried his face in Lin's neck, for fear that he would leave him again.
Lin Si patted him on the back and hugged him for a long time, so that he could comfort the little thing.
"Why are you ignoring me?" Ling Yi asked while sounding aggrieved.
"I have a very important job," Lin Si said, "I can play with you when I'm done."
Lingyi suddenly remembered his dream, the woman in the dream, she said the same—she has a very important job to do.
He recalled the scene in his dream, a little dazed, and muttered: "Lin Si, have we always lived on the spacecraft?"
"No, we used to make a home on the earth." Lins said lightly: "She is very big."
"How big is it?"
"You can walk around the entire spacecraft, but you can never walk through all the places on the earth." Lin Si saw through the open door and saw the endless sea of stars outside the huge porthole. His always cold gaze was slightly faint at this time. It was erratic, as if passing through the stars, looking towards some place in the distance.
"Then why are we on the spaceship?"
Lin Si was silent for a long time before he said: "When you were very young, many bad things happened on the earth. War, radiation, and viruses have killed many people."
The concept of death was too far away from Ling Yi. He tried to remember, but in any case he could only recall the hazy sky in his dream.
He asked: "Then my father and mother were killed like this?"
This time, Lin Si was silent for a longer period of time, and finally did not give an answer. He said: "If you want to have a loved one, you can call my brother."
Ling Yi sniffled.
Lin Si didn't have much free time, and in a while, someone had already started calling him.
He was going to leave, but Ling Yi tugged his sleeves to prevent him from leaving. Lin Si thought of the helplessness of the little guy curled up in the room, his heart softened, and finally took him with him.
-Those high-energy instruments are no longer needed in the current treatment stage. There is no need to worry about radiation damage to the child's body. Moreover, Ling Yi's personality is very quiet and will not affect other people's work.
Therefore, Ling Yi logically occupied Lins's desk, and could see what Lin Si was doing at any time— people who came and went also remembered this beautiful and quiet young boy who could not do without Dr. Lin.
Mr. Lambert, who is recuperating, has been highly excited about the results of the experiment. If Lin Si hadn't refused to provide all the tools, he could immediately ignore his physical condition and write a detailed report of the results all night long.
Mr. Lambert, who was always in a good mood, liked it very much when he saw Ling Yi.
He asked Ling Yi very kindly: "What's your name, beautiful baby?"
Lingyi was not quite used to dealing with strangers, and said his name stiffly.
This gentleman is obviously fluent in Chinese, and his expression is very admiring: "A wonderful name!"
Ling Yi tilted his head: "Why?"
Mr. Lambert said: "This opinion comes from a friend of mine who happens to have the same surname as you! He serves the military and is a legendary computer scientist. We had a chat, and he said that he was having a son. The best name that comes to mind is this! Zero and one, the binary used by all machines and systems, we have binary, which means we have everything!"
After that, he shook his head again: "But I don’t know why, he is not on the list of Voyagers. This is really a very strange thing. You must know that the military is still using it until now and has never released it. The internal system that was wrong was in his hand. If he didn't even get a ticket, it would be even more impossible for the people in the fifth district to study Lucia."
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Jiujiu, early~
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