Han Yanyan and the scavenger pointed at each other with laser guns for a while, and the man slowly raised his left hand to signal.
"Don't be nervous," he said. "You want this? No problem. I'll give it to you."
He stepped back slowly and left.
Much gentler than other scavengers.
On the way back, Han Yanyan said, "He looks good."
Ding Yao was noncommittal.
Two months later, they met this person for the second time, and this time Han Yanyan talked to him.
"My name is Abbock," he asked. "How about you?"
"Nita." Han Yanyan said.
They both knew each other was speaking a pseudonym. The scavengers are not too weak, at least they have the ability to protect themselves. They left the human settlements to live here, each for their own reasons. Most of them hide their heads and tails, and do not show their real faces or real names.
For example, Han Yanyan has hair like a bird's nest and a mask.
But those eyes that are exposed outside the mask are already beautiful.
"Nita, is this your child?" Aberke asked.
"Yes." Han Yanyan asked back, "Are you alone?"
Aberke avoided answering and asked, "Where's the boy's father?"
Ding Yao replied directly: "I went to the town early in the morning."
It was already afternoon, and if you went early in the morning, it meant that you were coming back soon.
Han Yanyan didn't speak, and acquiesced to Ding Yao's answer.
Aberke snorted and said, "I'm good at making nutrient solution. If you want to buy nutrient solution, you can come to me and give you a cheaper price."
Ding Yao looks very healthy and strong. At first glance, he looks like a child who often drinks nutrient solution. That's what Abbock would say.
Han Yanyan nodded and said, "I'm a mechanic, you can come to me if you need this."
But she didn't mention "the child's father". Both Ding Yao and Aberke noticed her flaw. Ding Yao glanced at her, but when he interjected again, the flaw was more obvious, and he remained silent.
There was a smile in Aberke's eyes.
He and Han Yanyan exchanged communication numbers.
On the way back, Ding Yao warned Han Yanyan: "Don't trust him casually."
Han Yanyan said deliberately, "Fortunately, he doesn't look like a bad person."
Ding Yao was very unhappy. But he couldn't directly say that Aberke had a man-to-woman intention for Han Yanyan. One was because he was too young to say so, and the other was because "Xiaoyan" had always lived in isolation. Although he was sensitive to malice, he was not interested in men's behavior. A normal intention but insensitive, he didn't want to wake her up.
Aberke and Han Yanyan met several times, apparently on purpose. He also gave them a small package of nutrient solution: "I made it, you can try it."
Han Yanyan took the nutrient solution back and tried it. The taste was much better than the one they bought before, and the quality was also good.
"You can keep in touch with him in the future," she said happily.
Ding Yao frowned.
However, he couldn't stop Aberke from appearing in front of Han Yanyan again and again. They gradually built up a sense of trust and became familiar.
Finally one day, Aberke said to Han Yanyan, "Nita, you can live with me."
"I'm twenty-nine, and I need a woman," he said. "You don't actually have a man at all, and Xiaoyao doesn't have a father, right? He's not your child at all, I guess, he picked it up?"
Han Yanyan seemed to be caught off guard, not knowing how to react.
Aberke knew he had guessed it all.
"It's easier to live with two than alone. You think about it," Aberke said.
After he finished speaking, when Han Yanyan seemed a little dazed, he suddenly reached out and took off her mask. He just wanted to see what she looked like, but he didn't want to see unexpected beauty.
Aberke was surprised, and then realized: "No wonder you are a scavenger."
Growing up like her, in a crowded place, she was coveted by others every minute. If you don't have the ability to protect yourself, you don't know what will happen.
"Nita, consider my proposal seriously." He was even more eager, "You are over twenty years old, you will have to find a man sooner or later."
Before Han Yanyan could answer, Ding Yao suddenly appeared: "Mom, there is a machine tool here."
"Oh! I'll go take a look!" Han Yanyan hurriedly pulled on her mask and ran away first.
There was absolutely no calmness in the confrontation with Aberke when he drew a gun at the first meeting, which made Aberke in a good mood.
Ding Yao didn't follow him away. He came over and said to Aberke who couldn't help smiling, "Uncle, do you want to be my father?"
"Yes, little clever ghost." Aberke rubbed Ding Yao's head and took out a small packet of nutrient solution for him.
Ding Yao took it unceremoniously, sat next to it and drank it, acting like a real child.
Although he deceived Aberke when he first met, Aberke always believed that "Dad" or something was taught to him by Han Yanyan. It was impossible for him to think that the child in front of him was a transmigrator. Therefore, he was not at all wary of Ding Yao, who was less than six years old.
He squatted down and asked tentatively, "If uncle becomes your father, you will have an endless supply of nutrient solution, Xiaoyao, do you think it's great?"
Ding Yao sneered in his heart, but let go of his mouth, nodded vigorously and said, "Great!"
Aberke was smiling and blooming, and Han Yanyan came back.
"Although it is old, the bearing can still be used, and other parts need to be replaced. It is too big, and it can't be transported once if it is disassembled. Let's pull the bearing back today." She said.
Ding Yao said, "Mom, can't Uncle Abbock help us pull it back? His flying car can also hold things."
Han Yanyan looked at him in surprise.
Aberke said immediately, "I can do it."
Han Yanyan hesitated for a moment and said, "Then I'll trouble you."
So Aberke and Han Yanyan drove their own flying cars and pulled the all-terrain vehicle. Ding Yao rode the children's shuttle specially assembled for him by Han Yanyan and returned to Han Yanyan and Ding Yao's home together.
"It's a nice place." Aberke praised, looking at where they lived.
With a mechanic like Han Yanyan, the systems on the spacecraft are basically online, and the damaged Han Yanyan has already assembled a separate system to replace it. It can be seen that she is a very good mechanic.
"Uncle, is there my place where you live?" Ding Yao asked. Although it is a question, he looks a little proud.
Aberke laughed and said, "It's not so neat because the uncle doesn't have a wife."
But Ding Yao's words reminded him, and he sent Ding Yao a positioning: "This is where I live."
He squatted down and bit his ear with Ding Yao: "Bring your mother here. Uncle not only has nutrient solution, but also many other delicious foods. Uncle is very good at planting. I have fresh fruit there, but it's sweet... "
Ding Yao smiled happily and said in his ear, "I will definitely go."
When Aberke left, Han Yanyan asked Ding Yao while repairing the machine, "Do you like Aberke?"
Ding Yao asked back, "Do you like him?"
Han Yanyan avoided this question and just said to himself, "He is good at planting and making nutrient solution. He is a man and his body is stronger than me. It should be easier for two adults to take care of a child..."
It's like sorting out ideas.
In fact, Ding Yao could have spoken to her for a long time, but Han Yanyan's problem of talking to herself could not be changed. Even if he didn't say a word, she could talk by herself for a long time.
"Does mother like or dislike him?" Ding Yao asked bluntly.
Han Yanyan took off the protective goggles and heat insulation gloves, with a complicated expression, he hesitated for a while and said, "I don't know either."
She sighed and said, "He's nice. I'm just... I'm..." She said, seeming a little dazed.
"That's why I don't like it." Ding Yao said, "Go take a shower, it's getting dark."
"It got dark so early." Han Yanyan sighed as she took off her clothes, "It seems that there is no summer at all this year, and you must wear long sleeves during the hottest time."
She took off her protective clothing and asked Ding Yao, "Will you wash together?"
Ding Yao said: "You go first, I'll go out to see if the mouse trap has caught a mouse."
"Be careful." After Han Yanyan finished speaking, she went back to the bedroom by herself.
Watching her leave, Ding Yao turned around and went to the kitchen cabinet to find two cans of Han Yanyan's snacks. The nutrient solution is too unpleasant to drink. Now that the conditions are good, she will get ingredients to make some snacks from time to time.
Ding Yao brought snacks and rode on his toy-like shuttle. It looks like a toy, but it is carefully crafted by Han Yanyan, and its various performances are quite excellent. Ding Yao opened his brain, looked at the location that Aberke sent him, started the shuttle, and went to that place.
Aberke is eating fruit. As he himself said, he is very good at planting. He has cultivated a lot of plants. In addition to those used to make nutrient solutions, there are also several kinds of fruits that are difficult to grow on this planet.
He was thinking of taking some to send to Han Yanyan tomorrow, when someone triggered the alarm device he had placed outside. He got up immediately and pulled out the gun in his lower back.
Before I could go outside, I heard a familiar childish voice shout: "Uncle Aberke, Uncle Aberke! Are you there? Mom asked me to bring you snacks."
Aberke was surprised and happy, and ran out: "Xiaoyao?"
Sure enough, in the dark night outside, the familiar children's shuttle was parked, and Xiaoyao stood beside the shuttle, holding a jar in one hand, looking super cute.
"Uncle, come and pick it up." He shouted.
"Come, come, why are you here alone?" Aberke put away his gun, ran to him and crouched down, reaching for the two jars in his arms.
Ding Yao released his hand to him, and his right hand slid across Aberke's defenseless throat that was facing him.
The icy luster between the fingers flickered in the light of the shuttle...
Han Yanyan came out of the bath and didn't see Ding Yao, and she didn't care. Ding Yao is already five years old. This is not the kind of safe and stable environment in her hometown. At five years old, she is naive and ignorant. Ding Yao can do a lot of things at the age of five.
She put on the helmet to do her own thing, and when she was a child, she took off the helmet and found that Ding Yao had not come back. She called Ding Yao's communication: "Where?"
There was wind in Ding Yao's communication, and he said, "I'll go back soon."
Not long after, Ding Yao came back.
Hearing the sound, Han Yanyan turned around and said, "Why is it taking so long, where are you going..."
Her voice stopped abruptly, staring at Ding Yao.
Ding Yao's clothes were stained red with blood. Although his face was wiped, the bloodstains remained on his cheeks and neck. This is a large amount of blood spurting from the front.
Ding Yao threw several mice with their throats cut on the ground and said, "I'm going to take a bath."