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Chapter 30: Forum
Cavallo works in the divorce department, which shares a wall with the registration office. Due to a minor internal network issue in the morning, he had to use the registration office’s machines to upload information.
After work, he returned home and pulled out his terminal to browse today’s topics on the forum.
A prominently highlighted post immediately caught his attention.
“Passionate Kiss on the Eve of Getting the Marriage Certificate!!”
The poster’s nickname was “Eisen’s Luo”, a grassroots government employee who often shared bizarre incidents from his work, making him popular on this forum where people enjoyed gossip.
The title itself wasn’t particularly appealing, but the poster’s reputation drew attention.
The text was unusually concise: “No time, watch the video, remember black hair is the male, brown hair is the female!”
[Video]
The video showed the familiar environment where Cavallo had worked for three years. Among the couples waiting in pairs, one stood out with exceptional grace. The black-haired figure was particularly striking. He glanced to his right, muttering something with an angry expression. Standing slightly taller behind the black-haired figure was a brown-haired person, looking submissive with eyes lowered. One hand was wrapped around the black-haired person’s arm as they said something, and the black-haired person pulled the brown-haired person closer, embracing passionately like one entity. The kiss lasted for a while, leaving the brown-haired person unable to stand steadily when released, quickly hiding behind the black-haired person. The black-haired person turned away from the camera, holding the brown-haired person with one hand while the other did something.
After a while, the two entered the registration office.
Cavallo was dumbfounded, watching repeatedly. He even stared at the progress bar timing the kiss, which amazed him. It was truly a sizzling moment of the year.
Are young couples nowadays this open?
Cavallo pondered carefully. Judging from the lighting in the video, it was in the morning, but he didn’t recall seeing this couple before. He couldn’t help but sigh at having missed such a spectacle!
Below were various comments:
Doubters:
“Hahaha, OP, how much did you pay these actors? Which male would get this close to a female? He looks repulsed!”
“OP, are you kidding me? This can’t possibly be a male. Males are all so delicate and cute. The one in the video is almost as tall as ‘Brown Hair’. PS: Eisen, you colorblind person, that’s not brown, it’s ash blonde!”
“OMG, Eisen, are you sure ‘Brown Hair’ is a female and not a sub-female? How could such a shy person be a female like me, who protects the country with a muscular physique? ‘Black Hair’ looks so fierce, yet comforting after turning around. A male like that, both fierce and gentle, doesn’t exist, right?”
Infatuated Faction:
– “Oh my god, the black-haired one is so handsome, so handsome, so handsome! He’s even more attractive than a female! My whole thirty years of life and I’ve never seen anything like him.”
– “Wait, wait! Turns out the OP is in Siming! I’ve seen this male before, in the supermarket this summer. His face is super, super good-looking. I was stunned when I saw him, he’s much shorter than me. He asked me twice if I could help him get nuts from the top shelf. His voice is super gentle. When I came to my senses, he had disappeared. I went to that supermarket many times in the second half of the year but never saw him again. TvT.”
– “Off-topic, shouldn’t the focus be on whether there really are fairy-tale-like passionate male and female zergs in this world?!”
Rational Faction:
– “As a medical student, I brought out the textbooks before finals and the census data from the last ten years. It’s entirely possible for males to reach the height of females, it’s just that 5-10% of males might. If you don’t know, search for the former Minister of National Defense Ye Qing, who was tall enough to scare you if you haven’t seen it.”
Personal Witness Faction:
– Cadill: “Today my partner and I were right there, waiting to get our marriage certificate. We watched this couple the whole time and were completely dumbfounded.
The scene went like this: a male and female zerg walked out together. The male is a typical male zerg, and when he came out, he mistook the black-haired one for the female and nearly got into a fight with him. Then the female and the brown-haired one got in a fight, too.
Did you see what the male was saying at the beginning? He was cursing… cursing, and then the brown-haired one went up to comfort him. I, a female, watched nervously on the side. When my partner gets angry, he really pinches and bites me (looks like I’ve exposed something – -). As a result, these two inexplicably kissed each other!!
At the end of the video that you can’t see, I can see it! The black-haired one was drawing on the brown-haired one’s hand??
Drawing??
They did this before the timeline of the video!! The black-haired one just pulled the brown-haired one over and started drawing on their hand.
So sweet, right!! (My partner’s angry tone)
Don’t ask me why I remember this so clearly, my partner is a fan of beauty!! Seeing the male will instantly turn into a fervent fan, if I don’t hold onto my marriage partner tightly, I’m going to lose him!!”
Cadill is a well-known figure on the forum, famous for being in a same-sex relationship with a fixed partner, dedicated to continuously updating dog-food-like affectionate daily life. He posted about successfully proposing yesterday and today he’s here as a witness in this post.
Cadill is a semi-public female figure, known for thd truthful statements. Any doubts were quickly suppressed, replaced by envy and admiration, with some trying to find out the identity of the male and expressing interest in possibly getting involved with a female companion. Quickly, the first floor was built up very high in the thread.
The atmosphere of the post was particularly harmonious, and several radical individuals who popped up, fantasizing about sour females, were quickly attacked back by everyone, making the atmosphere jovial and harmonious.
This thread spanned over a hundred pages. Cavallo had mild OCD and needed to go through every single floor to feel comfortable, but this time there were just too many pages. If he climbed through them all, he wouldn’t be able to continue following updates on his favorite posts. He mentally prepared himself and decided to skip directly to the last page to reply, but the tone suddenly changed:
“I knew it, how could they possibly be a male and female zergs? Males simply can’t make such behavior that goes against their identity. They’ve been taken away, probably immigrants from some star pretending to be male, disgusting.”
“Hey, calm down, don’t speak out of turn. Discriminating against races outside the zerg Star, watch out for the officers, they might send you a package through the net cable.”
“Each female is shamelessly talking about happiness. If it were up to me, I’d say the black-haired one is just a female pretending to be a male zerg. Even trash with weak physical abilities has come to join in. I bet they just want attention. Cadill, how much bribe money have you taken from the film and television company? I used to quite like you.”
“Heh, wait a couple of days until the film and television company announces that the fresh meat newcomer has debuted!”
This turn of events left Cavallo utterly confused. He had to start flipping through from where he had left off, grumbling that such a big forum didn’t even have a ‘view only OP’s posts’ function. Under his persistent searching, he found this crucial turning point:
“Eisen’s Luo: ‘I thought they were just a couple showing affection innocently. Who would have thought? Maybe it’s because I’m too young, too impatient, too impatient. If I had waited a little longer, you would all be as clueless as I am now, bewildered and confused.’
“Not long after the main characters entered, I heard a sharp, high-pitched, penetrating alarm sound, followed by my secret crush, the officers with fair skin, big eyes, and sharp expression, along with his colleagues, coming in with serious faces. My legs turned to jelly!
“Back to the point, the officer and his three colleagues escorted the two who had just entered inside, all the way out the door.
“What’s going on here??
“Most importantly, the officer gave me a glare that made my hands tremble while holding the terminal. It’s not my fault that I automatically switched to video mode upon seeing something new; it’s just a subconscious habit of mine.
“To protect the officer’s face, I won’t show the video. Just a picture.
[Image]”
The picture showed four uniformed officers surrounding the backs of the black-haired and brown-haired individuals.
After this comment, the discussion immediately exploded, with all sorts of speculations and guesses about the various developments.
Cavallo recalled hearing the sharp alarm sound that morning while he was drinking coffee, and he even burned his tongue in shock from the piercing noise. It still faintly hurt now.
Such an ordinary day, and he had missed out on a good show happening right beside him, which was a real pity.
With a bit of gossip curiosity that everyone has, Cavallo continued scrolling down to find the answers he wanted to see:
“Regarding the appearances resembling Zerg Star inhabitants, there are only a few planets, aside from Tartar, the closest match would be Blue Star. However, no matter how similar they may look, genetic testing during medical examinations cannot be bypassed. It’s more likely that these are refugees trying to establish an identity here on our Zerg Star.”
“Establish an identity? Are you overestimating the ID card of this third-class planet, Zerg Star? Let me tell you, as a registration office worker, machine alarms are really quite common. Don’t think pre-marital medical examinations are just about compatibility reports; they extract every past medical examination report from the data to compare and check for changes in your body (Forced education: Since this promotion, the mortality rate of native Zerg Star residents has significantly decreased, which was the government’s goal when it enforced annual medical examinations twenty years ago).
The original purpose of marital examinations is to hold both parties responsible.
(Focus!) However, if the pre-marital examination data fluctuates and doesn’t match previous records, or lacks past records, or involves non-Zerg Star genetics, the machine will alarm.
So, being taken away under the officer, 1. Machine malfunction, 2. Loss of past data, 3. Non-Zerg Star genetics.”
Seeing such a rational analysis, Cavallo nodded satisfactorily, feeling like he had become a monk who grasped the highest truth. Contentedly, he went to the kitchen to find the leftover noodles from yesterday, planning to make a pot of hot and sour noodles. While part of his mind pondered the matters in the post, he was soon distracted by the mouthwatering aroma of the hot and sour soup boiling in the pot.