Chapter 40 006 It’s hard to believe, but he actually had a premonition at that time…
Two days have passed since Wu Cisheng last received information from the sentry. During these two days, there has not been much change in his life.
I eat something casually in the morning, order a fixed set meal in the cafeteria for lunch, have dinner at a fixed restaurant and a fixed place near the company, take a hot bath when I get home from get off work, and listen to some music before going to bed.
There may be only two differences.
One is that his partner started to pick him up and drop him off at get off work every day for various reasons, and the other is that he seemed to have become very busy recently. The phone would always ring rapidly while he was eating, and then he would hear his hurried footsteps going to the courtyard outside to answer the phone. From time to time, he would go out after answering the phone.
His reason was work-related matters. He said the newly promoted manager was not very experienced and always made mistakes, so he had to pay more attention.
Wu Cisheng said at the time: "Since it's so unsatisfactory, why not just replace it?"
The partner was silent for a moment, and finally said, "That's true, but we've known each other for a long time."
This is really strange. He said he was new, but also said they had known each other for a long time and had feelings for each other.
Wu Cisheng didn't ask any further questions, just like even though he had learned a lot from the sentry, he didn't question Cheng Yuan immediately.
He likes to play things safe.
Sometimes my partner would come back very quickly, sometimes he would take a long time to come back, and once he didn’t come back until almost dawn.
Wu Cisheng asked him dazedly what was wrong. His partner was silent for two seconds, didn't elaborate, and then said he had encountered a problem. Wu Cisheng didn't ask any further questions, just said "oh".
The next second, the phone in the partner's pocket began to buzz. After a slight sound of fabric rubbing, the originally muffled vibration sound became clearer.
He must have taken out his phone, checking who was calling, right? Wu Cisheng thought, and keenly sensed the sound of breathing approaching. He subconsciously dodged, and the warm heat shifted and landed on his solar plexus.
The partner didn't seem to expect Wu Cisheng to do this. He was stunned and wanted to say something, but the vibrating sound continued to urge him. He could only say, "Sorry, Cisheng, I have something to do. I'm going out to answer a call. You should get some sleep." Then he hurried away.
The sinking feeling of the bedside eased, and the footsteps gradually faded away. Wu Cisheng was stunned for two or three seconds, then he raised his hand to wipe the place that had just been touched, and a very light laugh came out of his nose.
How strange.
Actually... managed to dodge it?
The sound of his partner making a phone call could be faintly heard from the room outside. He seemed to be scolding the other party for not being able to handle such a small thing. I didn't know what he was saying on the other end, and his breathing became more and more rapid.
Wu Cisheng closed his eyes. He not only knew exactly what his partner was facing, but also knew exactly what the sentry was doing at that moment.
According to what the Sentinel revealed a few days ago, he didn't know where he got the business secrets from, and even a slight leak of them could cause considerable losses to his partner.
Although his partner didn't say a word to him, Wu Cisheng's ears were fine and he could hear some news from time to time, such as that a certain group was suspected of violating certain laws.
The sentry said that he had collected the information he wanted, which was supposedly information about how the partner obtained the banned chemicals, how he bribed the doctors, and even evidence of several bribery exchanges between him and the local police station after he reported the case.
Everything was going very well, and it seemed to be just as the sentry said. Wu Cisheng didn't have to do anything but wait quietly, like the "princess" in the fairy tale who was unfortunately abducted by the dragon, sitting on the high tower, waiting for the brave knights fighting outside to defeat the dragon.
At this rate, perhaps all he would need to do was testify in court? This was too smooth and easy, like a trap filled with scent and bait.
Can I come in?
Wu Cisheng thought.
Of course, he had to go inside.
*
The room was too quiet, and the ticking sound of the second hand of the alarm clock on the bedside table seemed particularly abrupt.
Wu Cisheng turned over calmly. He couldn't see the time, so he could only roughly estimate based on his experience that it would take about two hours before he had to get up.
When his mind was empty, he suddenly thought of many other trivial matters.
I thought about the fixed day for calling my mother at the end of the month and sending her money at the same time. My mother’s birthday is in mid-October, although it is still two months away, I can still think about the birthday gift in advance.
As he thought about it, he recalled the vague memory of his grandfather holding his arm and lifting him high on his shoulders when he was a child; the cloudy look in his grandmother's eyes before she passed away, filled with worry; and the slightly uncomfortable, rough touch of those hands, as dry as tree bark, gently stroking his face. He remembered so much more...
His scattered thoughts were like a light feather, drifting east and west in the air with the wind. Wu Cisheng thought of the night when the accident happened again.
That was a major turning point in his life and also the last memory of light in his mind.
It may be hard to believe.
He actually had a premonition...
That's right, when faced with the two forks in the road, he preferred to take the familiar main road. Even though he heard the kitten's cry and did have the urge to save it because of the impending heavy rain, he could also stay where he was and call his familiar friends.
He clearly had many ways to avoid stepping into that narrow, dark alley alone, but in the end he still took a step, as if he was controlled by something and walked over involuntarily.
From waking up to find himself blind, to meeting his future partner, to taking the initiative to apply for withdrawal from school and going to live in a strange city with his partner, everything was as if there was an invisible force prompting Wu Cisheng to do this, gently pushing him towards one of the predetermined paths at every fork in the road.
Speaking purely from the perspective of the matter, Wu Cisheng doesn't deny his partner's kindness to him. For the first six months after he became blind, his partner stayed by his side the entire time. He helped Wu Cisheng up again and again when he fell. And when Wu Cisheng had no income, he sent money to his mother on his behalf.
His partner often tells Wu Ci Sheng that she loves him and likes him, and kisses his forehead every night before going to bed. Maybe there is really love, but what about Wu Ci Sheng himself?
He didn't have much time to think about this question. In the past, he mostly thought about what was different about himself, so he called again and again to find out whether others had the same "helpless" experience as he did.
He didn't understand what it was, and he had no access to that invisible force. He could only attribute this inexplicable mysterious thing to fate. Perhaps this was his fate?
Wu Cisheng had always believed this, until that "message" appeared, and then he felt that the inexplicable power seemed to be starting to loosen...
He even had a few vague dreams. In those dreams without a beginning or an end, he lived a life that was similar to his current one but completely different from it.
The "self" in the dream did not seem to be blind, but had a leg injury and could only sit in a wheelchair all day, and his partner did not seem to be the one next to him.
Of course, it was just an appearance, after all, Wu Cisheng was blind. He didn't know what his current partner looked like, and he was just guessing based on his feelings.
Wu Cisheng never took speculation as evidence, but there was one thing he could trust: that "message" did bring a wonderful change to his life.
This feeling is difficult to describe with concrete words. He is like an NPC living in a fake world, who comes into contact with the real world for the first time. After the initial vigilance and precautions, he only hopes to have more contact!
Even for this reason alone, Wu Cisheng would definitely agree, no matter whether the strange sentinel named Lucas wanted to use him to deal with his partner or had some other unspoken huge purpose.
But I am really lucky. At least so far, none of the bad scenarios I had anticipated have come true.
The mysterious sentinel who suddenly appeared seemed to really want to save him. What he said about leaving everything to him and saying that he would solve the problem was not empty talk.
“…Save me.”
After chewing over the two words countless times, Wu Cisheng thought he should be happy at this moment, but for some reason he always felt that this scene was very familiar.
It was like a shadow passing by, he wanted to catch it, but it slipped out of his hands.
No matter what the future holds, at least the current development of the situation is indeed much better than imagined, Wu Cisheng thought with his eyes closed.
"Ci Sheng...is he asleep?"
After being blind for a long time, one becomes extremely sensitive to the gazes of others. Wu Cisheng could almost accurately repeat the entire trajectory of that gaze wandering on his face.
The footsteps beside the bed gradually faded away, and it began to rain outside the window. The rustling sound of raindrops hitting the leaves mixed with the sound of wind whistling against the window. Wu Cisheng could almost smell the fragrance of the rain just by listening to these mixed sounds.
He thought that if yesterday's weather forecast was correct, it would continue to rain all day today. This intermittent rainy season would last for four or five days, and would not gradually stop until around eleven o'clock in the morning on the sixth day, ushering in a week of sunny days.
My drowsy consciousness gradually faded.
*
The weather forecast turned out to be correct. The air was filled with moist vapor throughout the entire day of the next day.
After hanging up the line with the last viewer, Wu Cisheng sat in the studio, vaguely listening to the dripping sound of rain outside, and thinking about one thing:
——Did Cheng Yuan discover something?
The story begins in the morning.
When he woke up in the morning, the damp and cool air like yesterday made Wu Cisheng realize that it must have rained all night. He also thought that the temperature today would not be high. Yesterday's coat was obviously too thin, so he had to change into a thicker one.
He subconsciously reached out to touch his side, but found the bedside empty. He then raised his hand and took out his charging phone from the bedside. He touched the screen and heard the current time.
The moment he heard the time, he sat up immediately, his heart filled with surprise. It was actually this time? Why didn't he hear the alarm?!
Just as he was about to check his phone, Wu Cisheng heard the familiar sound of footsteps rubbing against tiles not far away, and at the same time, a fragrance mixed with rice porridge wafted from the kitchen.
Then came the familiar voice of my partner:
"Cisheng, are you awake?"
The footsteps were getting closer, and my partner's voice was becoming clearer and clearer: "I'll turn off the alarm for you. By the way, it's been raining so hard these past few days, I'm worried about you being out there. Why don't you just take a few days off and rest at home..."
“………”
There was a sinking feeling at the edge of the bed, followed by the familiar ocean scent of my partner and that unignorable gaze.
"Cisheng, I made breakfast, you can try it. It's the shrimp and vegetable porridge you said was delicious before..."
"I know you want to do what you can, but we are family after all. I thought seriously about it last night. How about we celebrate our anniversary early this year?"
At that time, Wu Cisheng did not agree to Cheng Yuan's words, nor did he eat the breakfast made for him by his partner. After hurriedly washing up, changing his clothes, and taking his guide stick, he went out.
Breakfast was bought on the roadside.
Although I got up a little late, I left home early, so the time I arrived at the radio station was almost the same as usual. When I entered the company gate, I didn't know who had placed an umbrella bagging machine at the door.
Like its owner, the ferret has no vision. The only information it can convey is the size, volume, material, and other data of the obstacle.
Wu Cisheng guessed based on this information and the conversations between other colleagues. He fumbled to put the bag on his wet umbrella and walked towards his workstation with ease.
During this time, I overheard a colleague at the front desk say that a new employee was fired yesterday morning.
This shouldn't have been Wu Ci Sheng's business, but as luck would have it, the newcomer was the one who had tried to help Wu Ci Sheng before.
“…”
Is it an accident?
Since when did Wu Cisheng always keep to himself at the radio station, with so few people around him talking to him or offering him a helping hand?
Even if someone shows goodwill to him, it won't be long before this person disappears from the radio station. Either he resigned voluntarily due to something happening in his hometown, or he was fired because he was not suitable?
Including the good friends he had met in the tower before, why had he never thought of contacting them before?
And when did the blind Wu Cisheng start trying to make his own breakfast instead of eating food prepared by his partner?
I remember when Wu Cisheng first got together with Cheng Yuan, he suddenly lost his sight. Everything in the outside world was like a flood and a beast to him. He and his spiritual body, the little white weasel, spent most of their time in a daze and deep sleep.
Cheng Yuan has always prepared his three meals a day, and his cooking skills are really good. He takes good care of his daily life and talks to him every day.
Looking back on these days, it seemed like a dream, hazy and unreal. Until one day, Wu Cisheng felt that his brain had woken up.
So he proposed the idea of going out to work, and soon found a job at the radio station, and gradually began to learn how to make some simple breakfast.
At that time, Cheng Yuan was very worried that the blind Wu Cisheng would hurt himself. When he made breakfast for the first time, Cheng Yuan stayed by his side almost the entire time.
"Is the food I cooked not to your liking?"
“Why do you have to do it yourself?”
"Cisheng, what's wrong with you?"
The reason he gave for his change was that he didn't want to be a useless person who needed to be taken care of, and wanted to do something within his ability, but is that really the case?
As Wu Cisheng sat in the booth of the restaurant he often visited, he was still thinking about the details of his conversation with his partner before he went out in the morning.
It seemed that there was no difference from usual. Cheng Yuan just wanted to take care of him as before. He seemed to be aware of Wu Cisheng's abnormality, but also seemed to be unaware of it.
The rain outside was dripping along the eaves, looking like it was about to fall but not stop.
The sentry's message came again, and as Wu Cisheng was chewing the food in his mouth without any taste, the messages rang out one by one with a ding-dong sound.
At the beginning, he reported to Wu Cisheng where he was, who he was meeting, etc., as if he was reporting to his boss.
To summarize the core content: The progress is rapid, the evidence has been submitted, and the net has begun to close. Someone will contact him tomorrow morning or noon.
After talking about his partner, he began to express his daily greetings to him, and asked Wu Cisheng what he had eaten for lunch today. He also reminded Wu Cisheng to be careful recently and said that he could find him if there was anything unusual.
The second-to-last voice message was very long, with a blank space of almost ten seconds in front.
When Wu Cisheng thought that this message was a mistake and was about to quit, he heard the sentry on the opposite side stammering and saying that it was only a few days away and he could move to his place.
The sentry also emphasized that he really didn't mean anything else, he just felt that chatting with him was very congenial and regarded him as a good brother...
“…”
Even though Wu Cisheng could clearly feel that the sentry was trying to win his favor, or even trying to please him, he really didn't have the heart to think about it.
He replied:
Thanks.
The other side responded with a bunch of replies.
Wu Cisheng didn't click it, but concentrated on typing slowly according to his memory and the prompts in the headset.
After typing the entire message, I carefully used the voice reading function to check for typos, and only clicked send after confirming that everything was correct.
[Regarding moving to your place, didn't you say earlier that this was a critical moment and we shouldn't alert the enemy? I think we should avoid further complications. I'm not in any danger right now...]
But I have a favor to ask of you...
Could you please go visit someone for me when you're not busy these two days? Of course, this is just a suggestion. If you don't want to or don't have time, just ignore what I said.
This time, the other party replied within seconds, so quickly that Wu Cisheng even doubted whether he had read the message he sent seriously.
In the voice message coming from the headset, the sentry's answer was very concise. He didn't even ask Wu Cisheng who he was going to see. He just said yes and that if it was urgent, he could do it tonight.
Wu Cisheng immediately replied:
[There’s no need to be so anxious…]
[The address is Unit 2 of the Jiefang Road resettlement community in Wutong Town, Yungang City...
Her last name is Yang, but she often can't remember her own name. You can ask the security guard for the nanny's name. Her last name is also Yang, Yang Yan...
I want you to go and see if this aunt is taking good care of Yang Jiao, and also see how she's doing now. You don't need to mention me, and don't let them see you, okay?
Before sending it, Wu Cisheng still checked it carefully several times to make sure there were no errors before sending it.
"I've found the address. I know it. I'll go there tonight..."
【Actually, there’s no need to be so anxious…】
The sentry still didn't ask who Yang Jiao was to Wu Cisheng, nor did he ask why he went to see her. He replied that it was nothing anyway.
"Wait for my news—"
[Okay, thank you.]
After replying, Wu Cisheng skillfully deleted all chat records, including the cache, just as he had done in the past few days.
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