Arknights, but the family has fallen again

No conclusion can be drawn using current means.

"Bring me a piece of Originium."

"Give!"

Soon, Mel handed a sealed piece of pure Originium to Otto.

After taking a deep breath, Otto closed his eyes.

Under his skin, a mass of flesh and blood grew and dissipated from all parts of Ott's body, like a movement. Then, this restless healing power, with nowhere to consume, exploded under Ott's latest wound!

It's Ott's left arm.

Previously, in the copy, in order to test whether the wound could be brought back to reality, Otto scratched the place with his own hands.

It was also the place where Otto's tentacles grew when he first used Fate Reconstruction on himself...

The probability of bloodshed caused by the reconstruction of fate that channels the power of Originium should be extremely low...

Ott suddenly realized: the intervention of the Originium had indeed caused a healing force to flow through his limbs and bones. However, the fact that there was basically no way to heal him had caused the flesh to grow and break through the constraints of his skin in his most vulnerable areas.

This is the same as the "Critical Hit, Bleeding, and Zero Healing" version of Destiny Reconstruction in appearance, but with a different principle.

After experiencing it himself, Otto suddenly understood why guiding the Originium in the Patriot's body to initiate the reconstruction of destiny still caused him to grow a tumor.

Because, the Patriot likely didn't have any "illness" to speak of. The parts of him that had been eroded by Originium for so long, completely crystallized, had already become part of his body. Only those areas that had been eroded more recently were subject to the tragic "healing" of fate's reconstruction.

In that case...it might come in handy later.

"PhD!"

"Doc Otter!"

"Dr. Ou!"

……

While Otto was still daydreaming, everyone in the engineering department started to panic again.

This made Otto "once again" realize the hearts of the people he had won over.

"My condition is a bit bad, and I haven't mastered the Originium technique well."

The spasm had temporarily left Ott.

He said seriously, "Give me a cup of hot water."

……

In the temporary hospital, Kal'tsit deliberately dismissed the others and sutured Otto's wound again by herself.

Still the same left arm…still the same person.

She suddenly asked, "Did you know this would happen?"

This is a question, but it is very certain.

Strictly speaking, Otto did know there would be consequences, but he thought it was other people who might be in danger.

Ott realized that this was a key branching point.

He continued sincerely, "Half and half. I deliberately chose to leave my body in the town and follow you to the bay with my spirit, precisely so that I can expel the operators from the border area at any time."

Chapter 4: Live Up to the Future, Live Up to You - Revised

However, the development of the matter was almost the same as Otto had expected.

Snapped!

Kal'tsit lowered her head, slapped Ott, and then quickly threw herself into Ott's arms.

Why are you so afraid that he will get hurt?

Use some more strength!

Otto's senses were not as sharp as those of the Terrans, but if he observed carefully, he could still see the cat's shoulders shrugging.

He himself had some...tear marks on his chest.

As expected, you deliberately dismissed the others... From that moment on, the decision was made.

He stroked Kal'tsit's hair all the way down to her back.

Explanation?

how to explain?

Just fool around.

Thinking this way, he suppressed the urge to ravage the cat's ears and sang softly: "...I am a star, a sharp sword with a cold and piercing edge~a silver star that will never fade..."

"If I don't look back, I will never be able to return to the time of my hometown..."

"...I am a star, I am willing to throw myself into the ~uncertain~ future~ of the stars... to keep my dream bright..."

But Maomao suddenly sealed Otto's lips with her index finger, pretending to silence him.

Then she raised her head, her eyes red, and her voice hoarse: "Don't... don't sing the next line."

Does the transition between "don't" and "don't allow" mean that she has completed the transformation of her role positioning?

Without giving Ott the chance to activate the silence indicator, Kal'tsit destroyed Ott's balance and caused him to collapse on the sickbed.

"Let hope be my silent and eternal...epitaph." These unspoken lyrics of Otto were blocked by a cold softness.

The hunt has begun.

In the wild nature, the unarmed late Homo sapiens mistakenly entered the lynx's hunting grounds.

"What happened to the stinky otter?!" W asked anxiously.

An engineering officer tried in vain to explain, "Dr. Ott was acting a little strangely just now."

"Isn't it the same as if you didn't say anything!?"

Despite saying this, W still stayed outside the hospital obediently.

In the church, a strange blush appeared on Ghost Shark's face.

Skadi was confused and asked with concern: "Shark, are you okay?"

She shook her head, her eyes empty, and whispered, "It's okay."

In the hospital, Kal'tsit's attempts to gain dominance backfired - Lynx became Ott's captive.

Domestication is the process of transforming the natural reproduction process of wild animals and plants into "artificial control".

Regarding animal domestication, it's generally believed that the brain structure of an animal population undergoes certain changes before and after domestication. Due to the resources humans provide, many nerves and structures that require extensive mobilization in the wild are no longer as important. Furthermore, the functions that humans prioritize cultivating can negatively impact the brain structures that control them.

However, what's interesting is that when you put the relationship between humans and dogs into this model...ever since dogs were domesticated, humans have gradually let their already less sensitive sense of smell go, allowing it to deteriorate.

Therefore, some people point out that the relationship between humans and dogs is not just about domestication, but also about being domesticated.

This makes people wonder another question: What about the cat?

Unfortunately, although cats have been bred into many breeds as pets, humans have not yet fully domesticated them.

They are still wild.

But this "wildness" at the population scale cannot cover up a basic fact: at the individual scale, cats... lynxes, can be bred to be intimate.

……

It's hard to say what sparked Kal'tsit's... desire. Otto had only anticipated this when she dismissed everyone, but... why?

Ott, disheveled and with a blank mind, actually began to ponder Kal'tsit's motives. For someone like him, this was a rare occurrence—it was clear that he really had no "reserve troops" left.

Are you worried about my life?

Or do you blame yourself for not being able to notice and stop me from doing something stupid in time?

Scared?

Afraid of me... Come to think of it, shouldn't she have taken off her clothes just now?

For well-known reasons, at this moment, Otto's thoughts are boundless and lack a certain purpose.

In reality, neither of them was able to remove the other's clothing. Consequently, their clothing had become distorted and difficult to disentangle during the violent... "foreign language learning" process. On Ott's body, the tattered trousers beneath his coat further demonstrated the Terran's physical prowess.

Is this the reason why you have too many ellipsis marks?

But even if you can't figure out why Kal'tsit did this for a while, it's time to get up - if you don't drive the cat out of the hospital, you won't be able to do the experiment later.

No, you...you bastard, do you have a heart?

Ott said softly: "It's time to go. There are a lot of things to do in reality."

"...Yeah." Kal'tsit responded.

I can only say that this is a cat, and Otto is a scumbag.

1096年12月27日23:15:52，罗德岛本舰。

With the ship already docked and the Longmen business negotiations concluded, Ott had already left the office and returned to Rhodes Island to rest. Kal'tsit, still using her power for personal gain, claimed to be on guard against a potential conflict between Ott and Ghost Shark, while openly hugging each other.

Leaving the border, crossing the dream, and returning to reality, the heat surging within Maomao failed to quench. Kal'tsit touched her cheek with the back of her hand and felt only a burning sensation.

She turned her head and looked to the left. The white-haired young man was grinning even in his sleep.

Laugh...what are you laughing at!?

This makes the cat even more embarrassed and annoyed.

She wanted to do something, but when her body rolled up the quilt, she touched the body of the ghost shark on her left.

Kelsey immediately deflated.

Forget it.

She snuggled up to Otto's body like a real cat.

Then she recalled an action of Otto just now.

Although no one could see her at the moment, she still looked around with a guilty conscience. After confirming that there was no one around, she buried her nose in Ott's neck.

Beside the bed, the breathing light of the PRTS terminal flickered.

At first, Kal'tsit only took small breaths, but soon, her chest and lungs were immersed in the faint soapy smell of Otto.

Or, to put it more bluntly… hormones.

Without the despicable person's meddling, Kal'tsit was able to listen to Otto's singing again.

It's a rather old piece, dating back to the early third millennium of Earth's civilization. It seems to be from a science fiction anime?

But Doc Otter didn't sing the song from the beginning, which means he was impressed by the part he sang.

Maomao buried his head in Otto's neck, calculating carefully.

She circled around the surface of the riddle, sniffing Otto's faint body odor after bathing.

Miraculously, this actually soothed Kal'tsit's restlessness. Her trembling skin and howling spine gradually calmed down. And just like that, the mechanical cat dreaming of cyborgs, smoothly inhaling and exhaling hormones from Otto, fell back into...sleep.

…I wish to throw myself into the stars, whose future is uncertain, to keep my dream bright… Let hope be my silent and eternal epitaph…

With Kal'tsit's usual way of thinking, she should have easily come to the conclusion that Otto voluntarily became the "last remnant" of mankind on the land of Terra, not to let down the future... nor to let you down.

All of this should have been so obvious...but she subconsciously refused to accept it.

Chapter 114: Waking up every morning with back pain

who am I?

where am I?

What did I just do...what was I going to do?

After opening his eyes for a while, Otto gradually woke up.

To his great surprise, Kal'tsit was still sitting next to him.