Chapter 49015 The Second Permanent Solution

The accident that day happened without any warning, but fortunately in the end nothing serious happened.

Thinking about it carefully after the incident, everything seemed like an absurd farce.

From the moment he woke up in a strange room, to the moment he bound himself to the system numbered 0255 in the ring, to the moment he communicated with it to ask it to help eliminate something called a buff from his body, to the moment he sent a message to Lucas, to the moment he released the ferret to meet him, everything happened within just a few hours.

And since Lucas arrived, the outcome of the matter was not surprising at all:

——Wu Cisheng was rescued.

That evening, the foreign control officer quickly dispatched a vehicle to Sanhe Town to pick up the two men. On the way back to the city, Lucas and Wu Cisheng chatted for a while.

This was probably the first time they had such a frank communication in the nearly one month since they knew each other. There was no overt or covert testing, suspicion or doubt in their previous conversations.

After all, the reasons why Lucas approached and his background were clearly laid out before Wu Cisheng.

If the sentry was a mysterious figure shrouded in mist in Wu Cisheng's eyes before, now all the mist has dissipated.

Lucas's expression was no longer as heavy as before, but rather more relaxed. He even took the initiative to talk about the world full of danger and mystery.

He talked about his family, how he built up the pirate crew step by step, and shared many interesting stories about the members of the crew.

As a child of slaves, Lucas' parents were of course also slaves in the aristocratic manor.

When he was four years old, his parents died one after another because of a small mistake. The passing of two lives in the manor was like two drops of water falling into the sea, without causing the slightest ripple.

The life of a slave is so lowly.

However, even when his parents were around, Lucas didn't have much chance to spend time with them, as they were busy with work most of the time.

He had no feelings for his parents, so when they died, he didn't feel particularly sad. His first feeling was even confusion.

Later, he accidentally made a mistake, but instead of passively waiting for punishment, he ran away at night. After running away, he wandered around different planets and met many companions in similar situations.

There's the talkative and amusing deputy commander Vito, the boastful drunk Alonso, the stuttering dwarf Jarre, and so on...

Most of these people are orphans like him, and some of the luckier ones are accompanied by surviving brothers and sisters.

Vito was such a lucky man. He cared deeply for his younger brother: he could be a homeless pirate, but his brother couldn't. He spent a lot of effort to obtain legal residence for his younger brother on a habitable planet, paid for his education, prepared clean, soft clothes, and nutritious food for him, even if he didn't eat himself, he would always prioritize his frail younger brother...

He said that brothers are like this. You can't help but want to give everything for them. Sometimes you'll be especially happy when you see them happy, and when you see them hurt and sad, you'll also worry and feel anxious...

At that time, Lucas only understood half of what he heard. He couldn't comprehend this kind of feeling and asked Vito, what would be the reward for this?

Vito rolled his eyes. "Do you think you're taking a mission? This is different. A brother is someone you love deeply. He's the most special person in your heart. How can you expect anything in return? This is what you should do, and you did it willingly."

Lucas still didn't quite understand.

It was not until I met Wu Cisheng later that he said he seemed to understand a little bit what "willingly" meant, but only a little bit.

He mentioned that at first, when he learned that he was bound to an inexplicable system and had to complete a task, he was resistant.

He said that what he hated most was people forcing him to do something, as it always made him think about some of the bad experiences in the past.

So he refused without thinking, but the system kept persuading him to look at the task information. He saw the handsome young man with shiny white skin and a high nose bridge at a glance.

The recorded video at that time showed Wu Cisheng not long after he lost his sight. He had a thick bandage on his eyes and was wearing a loose blue striped hospital gown. He was stumbling in the stairwell of the hospital. His confused look instantly struck him.

During the following days of sailing, he repeatedly reviewed the video footage of Wu Cisheng.

Perhaps it was loneliness, or perhaps some other reason, but in the process of repeated reading, Lucas developed a vague sympathy and curiosity for this mission target whom he had never met before.

His original resistance to the mission gradually dissipated during the process, and when he was about to arrive, he even felt a trace of indescribable nervousness.

To use his own words to describe it, this feeling is too strange.

All he did before was plundering, and he was not the kind-hearted type. Even the members of the group were only accepted because they had a special skill, either they could repair weapons or they knew how to make potions, otherwise he would not accept them at all.

But at that time, he didn't consider what benefits he would get. He just wanted to help Wu Cisheng get out of the quagmire.

He felt that he should save this poor man, not just want to, but should.

"It feels like..." He pondered for a moment, as if trying to think of the most appropriate words to describe it. Finally, he said, "It's like you're my brother whom I've never met. I really want to do something for you, to protect you, even if I get nothing in return."

He thought that this was the closest relationship between two boys, willing to go through life and death for him and willingly hope that he would be happy.

A long time later, when Lucas recalled this period, he realized that he had understood the essence of love before he knew what love was.

“…”

Faced with Lucas's candid monologue, Wu Cisheng listened very attentively, as if he were listening to calls from listeners on the radio in the past.

The vehicle slowly drove into the city center of Chunhui City, but in the blink of an eye it stopped steadily in front of the hotel.

When Wu Cisheng was helped out of the car, several staff members and reporters who had been waiting for who knows how long swarmed over him.

The reporters asked him all sorts of questions, asking what had happened, how a mutant like him could be imprisoned by ordinary people, the condition of his eyes, his relationship with Lucas, and his previous corruption in the tower.

Among the group of reporters, there was a store manager on duty that day who tried hard to come forward and apologize to Wu Cisheng sincerely, saying that everything was his own negligence.

Even Wu Cisheng found it noisy, let alone the sentinel whose senses were several times stronger than the guide's. But Lucas only saw Wu Cisheng frown slightly, and immediately took the initiative to block in front of him.

"He's going to rest today. Whatever happens or what problems he has, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Lucas was tall and muscular, and at that time his face was dark, like a beast ready to get angry at any time.

Ordinary people are naturally afraid of aliens, let alone someone like Lucas. Seeing this, he could only smile and say that he had not thought it through.

That night, Lucas did not leave after sending Wu Cisheng to his room. He told Wu Cisheng that he was in the next room and that no matter what happened, he could just knock on the wall gently and he would be able to listen.

Wu Cisheng agreed.

That night, he thought he would not be able to sleep after experiencing all that, but fortunately, he fell asleep quickly and had a dreamless night.

*

The next morning, Lucas accompanied him to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination.

While waiting for the examination, he probably worried that Wu Cisheng would be nervous, so he tried to comfort him.

However, Lucas was not the type who was good at comforting others. He kept telling him not to worry and that no matter what the condition of his eyes was, he had a way to cure his eyes.

Wu Cisheng replied, "Okay," and followed the doctor. Before leaving, he could clearly hear the sentry's breathing and heartbeat were abnormally disordered.

——He was actually more nervous than me.

The test results were not available on the same day but had to wait until the following week. During this week of waiting, Wu Cisheng was extremely busy.

The news of his case leaked out at some point, and more and more people were paying attention to it.

After all, nowadays, any conflict involving aliens and ordinary people will attract special attention, not to mention that he has such a bumpy experience, so the discussion will naturally be more heated.

During that week, Wu Cisheng met many people one after another, the first wave of whom were people from the hotel.

After all, he had an accident in their store, and he deserved compensation and an apology. The store manager, a hotel manager, and the waiter who worked on the day of the accident came to apologize with a sincere attitude and took the initiative to make corresponding compensation.

The next few waves of people were mostly cross-individuals, including people from the Abnormal Control Committee, people from the Capital Tower, people from local departments, and various reporters, even including colleagues from his previous department.

Wu Cisheng didn't have much trouble dealing with these people, but Lucas was worried about him and always wanted him to rest more.

During one of these interviews, a reporter was interviewing him about his past. Perhaps hoping to uncover some scandal, he shifted the topic to Lucas.

Lucas already disliked reporters' nagging, and when he saw the reporter asking him again, he responded with a cold and uncooperative face, and choked the reporter with a few words.

It was Wu Cisheng who was standing beside him who glanced sideways and looked at him silently. Only then did the tall sentry restrain his expression and answer seriously.

Later, after many interviews, the reporters learned their lesson. Instead of asking Lucas questions, they would ask the easy-going Wu Cisheng instead. Before asking Lucas questions, they would signal to Wu Cisheng first.

Generally, as long as Wu Cisheng nodded, the sour-faced sentry would cooperate a little.

A week later, they received another text message from the hospital. The message was very brief, reminding them to go and pick up the examination report.

The examination results were similar to what I had imagined. Most of the nerves were necrotic, and with the current medical level, it was impossible to completely restore the patient's sight.

As Wu Cisheng guessed, after reading the report, the doctor proposed the best solution at present based on the identity of the alien.

When the strange voice asked if he needed help recording his information and matching him with a suitable sentinel in the file, Wu Cisheng himself hadn't spoken yet, and the sentinel next to him took the initiative to refuse on his behalf.

"Wait, there's no need to pair him with any sentinels… He doesn't need them." After he finished speaking, he seemed to realize something and looked at Wu Cisheng again, asking for his consent, "Is that okay?"

Wu Cisheng didn't answer Lucas, but said to the doctor in front of him, "Sorry, we need to discuss this."

The doctor's eyes swirled between the two of them, and finally nodded: "Since you have a candidate, then there is no need for system matching..."

*

In the rest area outside the consultation room, Lucas once again firmly told Wu Cisheng that he had a way to cure his eyes.

Wu Cisheng was not surprised by this. He asked calmly, "How are you going to cure my eyes? Will you use the first method you mentioned earlier?"

Lucas said: "No, there is actually another way to solve the problem once and for all."

"Oh?" Wu Cisheng frowned slightly, "What's the solution?"

"I can give you my eyes."

Wu Cisheng, who had originally drooped his brows, raised his head upon hearing this: "Are you kidding?"

The sentry sensed the doubts in Wu Cisheng's heart, but he did not get angry. He continued to explain the feasibility of the method in a calm tone.

We all know that transplanting an organ from someone else can cause rejection. So why does rejection occur? Isn't it because the body doesn't recognize the organ as genuine?

Then wouldn't it be enough to generate a simulated experimental subject and conduct an allogeneic assimilation experiment before transplantation?

Failure once is nothing, wouldn't it be fine if we debugged a few more times? They weren't cross-species, so why couldn't they succeed?

Wars often occur in Lucas's original world, and the corresponding artificial mechanical organs are very advanced. However, the most popular and most expensive products on the market are still real human limbs with flesh and blood.

Organ trading is a very common and popular business. Most buyers are wealthy aristocrats and wealthy middle-class people, while commoners and lower-class slaves are also sellers.

It is very common for some poor families to sell their limbs when they have no money and install some cheap mechanical prostheses.

Since this business is so popular, the so-called rejection reaction has naturally been solved long ago.

Before Lucas's pirate crew became as famous as they did later, the deputy captain once sold one of his eyes and one of his arms in exchange for cheap artificial eyes and limbs in order to buy medicine for his sick brother.

“…”

Lucas's original words were: "So you don't have to worry, this kind of thing is very common where we are. Some couples in our place will even deliberately implant parts of each other's organs..."

At this point, the sentry stopped talking.

Wu Cisheng clearly felt that there was something in front of his eyes, as if it was his hand?

At the same time, as the top student in his grade who had read a lot of books, Wu Cisheng's mind quickly flashed back to a passage he had read in a textbook:

[There are many types of receptors in human skin, and the receptors of aliens are distributed more widely and densely.

Among them, the tactile corpuscles can sense slight touch; the annular corpuscles can sense pressure and vibration; and the free nerve endings are more sensitive to stimuli such as pain and temperature.

Even without vision, your skin can still see when someone brings something close to you or touches you...]

He was sure that they were warm hands.

Because his skin "sees".

The hands were raised lightly, touching his eyes through the air. Wu Cisheng could even feel the sentry's gaze filled with deep pity and heartache.

Since he lost his sight, he has often received similar looks.

It is usually accompanied by a few sighs and comments like "how pitiful" or something like that, but after all, it is not happening to you, so this kind of superficial sympathy will not last long and will disappear at the slightest breeze.

But the sentry named Lucas was different. The pity in his eyes was even more intense than any he had encountered before.

We've only known each other for a short time, but he seems to think of himself as someone to be protected?

Oh, no, to use the words he often said, he considered himself a very good friend, a buddy, a brother without blood ties...

This statement is novel.

Wu Cisheng had red lips and white teeth since he was a child, and he always smiled at everyone he met. He was very popular in Wutong Town. When he grew up, whether he was studying in an ordinary school or after being admitted to the Capital Tower, he always received love and gifts from others.

Among them are men and women, and their confession methods are different, including implicit and restrained confessions, wild and straightforward confessions, literary and graceful confessions, and so on.

He had seen all kinds of confessions, but he had never seen this kind of "brotherly" one.

This is really interesting, Wu Cisheng thought to himself, while still listening carefully to the explanation of the second method.

"What about you?"

"What me?"

Wu Cisheng patiently explained: "You gave me your eyes, but what about you?"

"I hadn't thought about it before, but the system, oh, that thing that pulled me in to do the mission. It gains a lot of energy by completing the mission, which can be exchanged for a pair of bionic eyes..."

Although it was a little beyond Wu Cisheng's understanding, he still tried hard to understand it. Well, it probably had no effect on him.

But, since he could exchange for bionic glasses, why not just give it to him directly? Instead, why go through this roundabout way?

Wu Cisheng was thinking.

But perhaps because he didn't say anything, Lucas thought Wu Cisheng was disgusted by his eyes, so he enthusiastically introduced his eyes: dark blue, red hair, and skin that wasn't as white as his, but a little darker than his...

"Oh, you look like this..."

Since he lost his sight, Wu Cisheng could only rely on his previous memories to imagine many things and the people he communicated with.

For example, Wu Cisheng's colleague next to him had a hoarse voice, which was very similar to a health teacher he had met in the tower before. So Wu Cisheng always remembered that colleague as the former health teacher.

Lucas's voice is quite unique, and he has never met anyone with a similar voice in the past. Therefore, in Wu Cisheng's imagination, Lucas's face has always been a blurry blank.

After Lucas clearly stated his personal characteristics, Wu Cisheng once again pieced together a vague image like a puzzle:

Red hair, blue eyes, darker skin, combined with his height and general build, is this what Lucas looks like? Wu Cisheng was a little unsure.

"Blue eyes?" Wu Cisheng imagined, "Are they the same as the sky?"

“…It’s actually a little deeper than that.”

There was a hint of apology in Lucas' tone, as if he was apologizing that his eye color was not the color that Wu Cisheng liked.

"That's pretty good too."

The two of them were in a separate alien rest area. The outer walls were equipped with special soundproofing devices. It was so quiet that it seemed as if they were the only ones left in the world.

"Are you hungry?"

Lucas asked.

"A little."

Wu Cisheng took out his mobile phone and swiped his fingertips across the screen. The electronic sound in the headphones began to broadcast all his movements in real time based on his movements.

'The time now is 11:41 am...' Wu Cisheng listened to the prompt in the headphones and was surprised to realize how fast time passed. It was time for lunch.

The two left the hospital and randomly picked a newly opened restaurant nearby.

While waiting for the food to be served, Wu Cisheng thought about the day he would call his mother tonight, and wondered what he should say on the phone.

A lot has happened in his life recently. According to the student affairs teacher who had met in the tower before, his student status can be restored in this special case. The express delivery should arrive in two or three days, right?

As for the eyes, Lucas was impatient and wanted to dig them out with his bare hands when the idea was proposed. In the end, Wu Cisheng refused.

Take your time.

Didn’t we get through those years before?

The two of them were sitting right by the window. Wu Cisheng's thoughts were swirling when he heard someone across from him say, "Will you feel the sun be too strong?"

Wu Cisheng shook his head.

The sunlight was warm on the skin. The little ferret had emerged from its spiritual sea of ​​consciousness at some point and was lying on my shoulder, squinting its eyes and basking in the sun.

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