Don't treat Omega as a man [Interstellar]

"Where is he?" Will asked persistently.

Ren hesitated for a moment, he didn't know how to explain to Will that Don Kerry was no longer there.

Finally he said, "I'm sorry."

It was the most euphemistic expression he could think of, but Will didn't seem to understand what he meant.

"He's never been away for this long," Will said, "and it's not normal."

"Will," Ren said through gritted teeth, "Don Kerry has already died."

He was answered by a long silence, Will seemed to be dead, only the display screen was still on.But it didn't take long for the picture to flicker, and it finally went dark.

Just when Ren began to worry, Will's voice sounded.

"Did you do it?"

"What?" Ren was taken aback, "Of course not!"

"Then why are you apologizing?"

There was no trace of emotion in Will's deep mechanical voice, and the deliberately raised tone at the end of the sentence made it sound like he was asking an ordinary question.

"..."

Ren didn't understand how the brain circuit of this mecha was developed, and why it came up with such a strange answer after connecting with the context.

"I don't know him, Will," Ryan patiently explained to the mecha, "I'm just a new soldier, Shirley assigned you to me just now. And the apology is because... er, because I Saddened by his sacrifice."

"It's weird when you feel bad and apologize to someone," Will said.

"...Let's change the subject." Ryan felt that he couldn't understand Will's thinking, and Will couldn't understand his, "Can you tell me why your start button doesn't respond?"

The gigantic mech checked itself for a moment, saying, "Key lock."

"Really?" Ryan looked at the console, but couldn't find the unlock key. "The hardware doesn't have an unlock key, so do you need to use software to unlock it?"

Will didn't answer him.Ren waited for a while without getting an answer, so he looked up.

"Will, unlock the keys, I need to be familiar with the operation."

There was a creaking sound somewhere inside the mecha for a while, and Ren heard Will say, "No."

Ren gave a pause.

He looked around in disbelief, Will's body was too huge, and Ren didn't know which part of it he should stare at.

Ren said tentatively, "Will, you are my mecha now."

No mecha soldier needs to act according to the face of the mecha. Ren doesn't know what kind of temper Will was created by Don Kerry, but he can't always take care of this guy's emotions.

If it has emotions.

Will also seemed to be hesitant, the gears on its chest were spinning rapidly, as if dissipating heat, giving it room to think.In the end, the answer it got was still, "No."

"why?"

I have to admit that Ren was a little anxious.Shirley gave him one afternoon plus one night to get used to it, and he will be training tomorrow, so he can't lose any more chains.

He reached out to touch the display screen, but Will cut off all the power to the console before he did.

"Here's the lock on him," Will said stubbornly. "Only he can unlock it."

This "he" refers to Don Kerry, of course, no matter how stupid Ren is, he can understand what Will means.

"He's gone, Will, you have to unlock the lock before I can operate on you." Ren supported the console with both hands, and said to the mecha earnestly.

"Can I say no?"

I don't know if it was Ren's illusion, he always felt that Will's words were obviously groundless, but he still said them without hesitation.

Emotionally speaking, Ren understands its nostalgia for its former owner, but at the same time, Ren also has tasks that he has to complete.He can't hold off any longer.

Ren answered Will with silence.

"You're going to overwrite the data he left behind," Will said. "Did Shirley tell you to deal with me?"

Ren was amused by its thought, "Heaven and earth conscience, I know for the first time today that traditional humanoid machines can also talk. I, like you, are at a loss about what is happening now."

Will's voice was muffled, and he accepted his rhetoric.

"I need to think," Will said.

"how long?"

"do not know."

All right.Ren patted the console in front of him and said, "I'll give you time, but it won't be too long. I also have tasks to complete. Also, don't run away by yourself."

Will seemed amused by what he said, "I can't activate the motor system on my own, he didn't give me that right."

"That's good." Ren breathed a sigh of relief, turned and pushed open the hatch, "Let me go down."

"Where are you going?" Will asked.

"Go out for a walk."

Ren jumped down from the lowered cabin door, jumped to the ground, and patted the mech's calf with his backhand as a comfort.

Will fell silent.There was plenty of sunlight in the afternoon, and the bright light shone on the huge training ground. Ren went to the distance and turned around, looking at Will bathed in the sun.The silver-white shell seems to be coated with a layer of warm-colored film, which wraps the entire humanoid mecha inside, making it soft and fragile.But the body of the mecha is still tall, and Will's fuselage is designed to be very strong, but not bulky. It can be seen that Don Kerry put a lot of effort into designing the frame for it.Looking at Will alone, Ren had to admire Don Kerry's technology. He felt that even if all mechas had memories, they would not all desperately remember their creators.Will doesn't want to forget the data left by Don Kerry, and this alone is enough to make Rennes envious.

Xiu said that the mecha and the mecha soldier are somehow connected, although what he meant at the time was that subconsciously, the mecha soldier should regard the humanoid machine as his partner. It's hard to do, but Don Kerry gave Will the ability to talk, which makes Ren hesitate a bit in its existence.

Is he really going to convince Will to be his mech?Ren didn't know if it was right to do so, and he didn't think Shirley, who had always been steadfast, would replace him with another mecha.But even though Will's voice was synthesized with radio waves, Ren no longer wanted to hear any words of rejection from its mouth.For the time being, he has not been able to completely divide the things that can talk to non-living things. Will is like this, and so is Alastor.

Thinking about it, Ren sighed softly.He started to run around the training field. The wind on this planet is very gentle, and it gently patted on Ryan's face. Will was standing on the track, and every time Ryan came to him after running a lap, he would Go around.Will just stood there quietly, without moving or speaking.It's as if it's really thinking.

Ren didn't bother it, maybe it would be laughed at by Miria and the others, but Ren really hoped that if Will could, he hoped that this big guy could adjust its system and take the next operation seriously member.

Ren ran from 01:30 pm to [-]:[-] pm, but Will still didn't move.He stopped and stood beside the mecha, looking up at the big guy with his head on his hips.

"It's already five o'clock, Will." Ren took a deep breath and said calmly. After Shirley's special training, his physical strength has been able to support him to complete the long-term training, even if he lies on the hospital bed for a few days. The sky has no effect at all.

Will slowly opened the hatch.It still didn't speak, and Ren was not in a hurry to go in, but just stood outside the door and asked, "Have you already thought about it?"

Will's deep voice sounded, "You should know, I didn't think about this function."

"I guess so." Ren grinned and walked into the operating cabin.

When the hatch was lifted into place, Will asked, "Then why did you give me time?"

"Because I hope we are equal." Ren touched the console and said softly, "At least I want to respect your choice."

Respect the other party's choice, this is the way of life that Ansel taught Rennes.

The word "equality" didn't seem to be in Will's cognition, but it didn't matter, Ren didn't need it to understand.

After running on the training ground all afternoon, one thing Ryan thought clearly was that he was just a recruit and it was impossible to replace the legendary Don Kerry.But Shirley seemed to plan that way, otherwise she wouldn't have assigned Tang's former mecha to Ren.

Shirley is not someone who rushes to the doctor in a hurry. She must have a reason for her choice. Ren doesn't know if he can respond to her euphemistic expectations. He wants to try, but the premise is that Will cooperates.

So whether Will is "thinking" or not, he has to wait.

"You're weird." This is Will's thoughts.

Ren smiled. He knew that Will must be secretly scanning his facial expressions with internal surveillance. Mechas and soldiers need to understand each other, and he doesn't mind such trivial things.

"I have also experienced a lot of things recently." Ren sat on the safety chair and spun slowly. "If you have the opportunity to connect to the base's intranet, you will see some stupid things I do. It is very embarrassing."

He recalled everything before, and he couldn't find any other words to describe himself except "shame" and "stupid".

People always find out the mistakes they made when they look back after things happen.Ryan is no exception.

"Have you lost anything important, too?" Will asked him.

"You can be a poet now." Ren smiled, "Yes, I also... I have lost something. But if it weren't for this, I wouldn't be able to sit here and talk to you as a reserve."

Ren knew that if he hadn't completed Ansel's mission on Noah's planet, he would definitely have gone back to his hometown by now.Shirley continued to train him because Ryan was doing pretty well at the time.

The scope of this "good" is very broad, and it may also include Ren's obsession when he was in the new barracks, which is why Ansel gave him the qualification to be depressed.Looking back now, Ren felt that Ansel was too tolerant of him.

Perhaps that was why Ansel's existence seemed so impractical.As a lieutenant general, he has his persistence, and as a soldier, he is extremely gentle to those around him.Ryan didn't want to disappoint Ansel's kindness, which was one of the reasons why he had to get back together.

The display screen lights up, and there is a memory statistics graph on the screen. The memory stick that should have been all green is now occupied by about one-fifth, and that one-fifth has turned red.

"I pack and compress his information, it won't take up too much space."

Will's voice sounded more like a notification than a request, and Ren shrugged, saying that he had no objection to this.

"I won't let you delete those things, don't worry." Apart from verbal assurances, Ren didn't know how to comfort this persistent guy.

Will was silent for a moment, then asked him, "What do you want me to do."

Ren was overjoyed, Will agreed with him to manipulate himself, and there were less than three hours before returning the mech at night, so he had to seize the opportunity.

He cleared his throat and began to sort out his practice thoughts, "First, turn on the power of the console."

The power light on the table suddenly lit up.

"Close the gate."

There was a dull sound from Ren's feet.

Ren pulled the safety chair closer to the operating table, looked at it, and asked, "Are you following standard procedures?"

"Yes."

"Then I'm going to activate your motor system now."

Ren pressed the corresponding keys one by one.Will is doing activities for the first time after the renovation, and there are a lot of places that need to be adjusted.

The mecha vibrated slightly, which is a normal phenomenon of the motor running. Ren waited quietly. When Will told him that all the parts were running well, Ren took a deep breath and put his hands on the operation keys for walking.

The first run-in always has a high chance of ending in failure, and Ren and Will's movements are obviously not on the same frequency.

"Will, I'm controlling you, can you stop using the water lamp to remind me on the console? Also, don't lock the keys casually, it's very dangerous!"

After failing to walk for the fifth time, Rennes said frantically.

Will said quietly, "I'm not used to the way you walk."

"Walking is just alternating left and right feet back and forth! Where are you not used to it?" Ren asked it with a frown.

"I'm used to flying." Will said with some pride.

"...I can't even walk, I can't take you flying." Ren replied angrily.

Wil paused and said, "Okay then."

The mech's compromise made Renn feel very complicated. He let go of the hand holding the control lever, leaned his back on the safety seat, and said, "Will, you should know that I just want you to be like other mechs. Walking normally is the basic skill of a humanoid machine, what if your flight system breaks down on the battlefield? We cannot guarantee that you will be able to fly at any time."

"But," Will said, "his design can't go wrong."

"Will, what I'm talking about now is the basic operation, not the design!" Ren said sternly.He never imagined that there would be a day when he would scold mecha like a child.

"Okay," Will repeated, "what do you want me to do?"

"I……"

Ren was so angry that Will suddenly lost his temper.He stood up abruptly and walked back and forth in the cabin anxiously.

Will scanned his moving figure repeatedly and said, "Did I give you trouble?"

"What do you think?" Ren raised his head and stared fiercely at the high monitor.

"……sorry."

This apology sounded very sincere. Ren opened his mouth and couldn't think of anything for a long time.Eventually he just sits back in his chair, deflated, and says to Will, "No, I should apologize too. I'm getting edgy."

"But I'm really not used to your maneuvers," Will said. "He's never controlled my movements in this way before."

"Are you online now?" Ryan asked.

"Yes."

"Look up the standard operation of the mecha movement online," Ryan said, "put it on the display, and we will study it together."

Soon, the operating standards common to all galaxies appeared on the display.

Will said, "Well, it seems that there is nothing wrong with the way you operate."

"But you're not used to it," Ren propped his chin with one hand, carefully reading the words on the screen, thinking, "Maybe I should change the operation sequence of left-right balance and back-and-forth swing..."

Ren thought about it seriously, talking about possible changes from time to time.He was used to using standard operations to control the mech, and it was a bit difficult to accept changing it all of a sudden.But he still looked at it seriously.

Will waited for his conclusion, then suddenly said, "Why don't you force me to carry out the order?"

Ren was stunned, he didn't know there was another trick.

He sighed, and tapped the display screen to turn the page, "If I had known just now, I would have done it directly. But now that I know that you are not used to it, it is best to find a solution."

"Because you want to control me?" Will asked.

"Because you are my mecha now." Ren replied.

"……You are a good person."

Ren was amused by his words, and said helplessly, "Maybe. Let me change the order of the balance and see if it makes you more comfortable."

"I have no senses," Will said unemotionally.

Ren choked for a while, and said for a long time, "Then you too...forget it, let's continue practicing."

Ren and Will practiced for two hours on the basic walking alone, and at least they got a little trick before returning the mecha.

Before Will went into the warehouse, Ryan patted his leg and said to him, "Keep going tomorrow, we have to train with the team, and we have to fight."

"Arguing for whom?"

"To ourselves." Ryan said, with such a competitive mentality that Will might not understand.

Sure enough, Will was silent for a long time and said to him, "Good night."

Ren smiled. He closed the screen door between Will and the other mechas, and said softly, "Good night, big guy."

The next morning, Ren brought Will to the training room on the fifteenth floor early.In order to take care of the size of the mechs, the roof of the building was built very high. The total area of ​​the site is as large as half a football field, which is enough for three or four humanoid mechas to move around.The walls here are the same as those in the maintenance room downstairs, and they can be opened. Ren guessed that he might control Will to jump out of here after a while.

It was a bit scary to think about that scene.

Shirley hadn't come yet, and the soldiers were either talking together or cleaning their mechs.The term mech soldiers here is very broad, and sometimes even engineering soldiers like William and Elvis are included.But there are only 12 real mecha soldiers. They are pioneers brought out by Shirley, and each has his own mecha.

Thirteen humanoid machines cannot be accommodated here.Ren took a brief look around and found that he was not the only one who needed to adjust the mecha, the other three mechas also looked new, and their mecha soldiers were chatting with their teammates, Ren sneaked closer to listen, It was discovered that it was a problem with the mecha system.

Someone patted Ren on the shoulder from behind.

"Hello," the man said.

Ren looked back and found that it was the captain of the armored soldiers, Ryan.Ryan only knew his first name, not his last name.

He reached out and shook Ryan's hand.

Ryan is a very gentle Omega, but his size is not proportional to his gentle personality.He was a head taller than Ren, and now he was lowering his head and smiling at Ren.

"They sent Will to you after all." Ryan said with emotion, "I hope it didn't cause you any trouble."

I don't know if Will can hear them talking outside, Ren smiled wryly, thinking, I hope it doesn't start to get awkward again because of this.

Looking at his expression, Ryan understood the general idea. He looked at Ren and Will with some sympathy, and said, "This is the first humanoid machine designed by Tang that can talk. It was adopted by Tang more than half a year ago. Forced hibernation. He said Will had a quality issue."

Ren raised his eyebrows, and Will didn't seem to have any hardware problems except that he wanted to take off.

"That guy Tang is a bit stubborn," Ryan said with a smile. "What he wants to make must be the best, because he doesn't know how many scrap mechs he has made. Of course, his finished product will never it's the best."

"He's a good operator, too," Wren whispered.

"Have you watched his video?" Ryan said a little excitedly, "Don Kerry is a rare genius in the history of mech soldiers."

Ren nodded. He knew that losing such a soldier was a very serious loss for the army.

Ryan patted him on the shoulder, "Don't show that expression, Don doesn't want us to regret his departure, he would rather have a cup of coffee as a sacrifice than tears of sympathy from others."

Meeting Ryan's gaze, Ren smiled slightly.

Both Don Kerry and the tall Ryan in front of him are very interesting guys.

Shirley entered the training room, and the soldiers began to gather in full formation.Ryan and Ryan walked last, and Ryan whispered to him, "Our running-in time is only this morning, you have to make sure you can keep up."

"Yes." Ren replied bluntly.

As long as Will can keep up, he must be fine.