Chapter 51 017 [So you are proposing to him? ]
On the third day after the system scan, that is, the day Wu Cisheng filled out the documents sent back from the tower and sent them back, Lucas told Wu Cisheng a good news:
The initial data was very good, which meant that the rejection reaction between them was not strong, and that it would no longer take the tens of thousands of times predicted before, but only a few hundred times.
It will be cured in three days.
This time is much faster than the two to three months Wu Cisheng estimated. So, he can start the transplant tomorrow?
tomorrow…
Whenever Wu Cisheng thought of this word that was so close to him, he inexplicably felt a sense of unreality, as if he was dreaming.
That whole day,
Wu Cisheng was a little dazed.
In the morning, as usual, he stayed in the hotel to sort out the personal belongings brought for him by the staff, check the progress of the student status restoration process, reply to some messages from former classmates, friends and teachers, and deal with some young reporters who wanted to dig up information.
I repeated the mental control training throughout the afternoon. I had dinner with Lucas at the private restaurant we had eaten at before. After dinner, I wandered around the neighborhood for a few minutes before Lucas took me back to the room.
The day ended just like that.
Before Lucas left, Wu Cisheng knew he should go back to sleep. He would be undergoing surgery the next day. As he was closing the door, a question popped up in his mind:
Is everything now true?
He did not ask this question out loud, but perhaps it was revealed on his face inadvertently, so the sentry did not leave immediately that day.
"Wait a minute."
While Wu Cisheng was still wondering what he wanted to do, the next second, he felt his fingertips being guided to touch Lucas's eye sockets.
He felt the blinking eyelashes and the moist, moving eyeball that he could feel through the warm eyelids.
It should be very uncomfortable for the eyeball to come into contact with a foreign object, but he was able to remain motionless.
"It's already your eye." Lucas used the handshake as an excuse to turn his head and kiss Wu Cisheng's cool fingertips. "You can touch it now, or you can take it off in advance..."
"……real."
Wu Cisheng could clearly smell the faint smell of blood on the sentry, sense the trajectory of his gaze, hear his heartbeat, and feel his obviously heavy breathing.
He said, "Seeing you unhappy, I feel sad too. I want you to be happier."
He said, "You don't have to worry about me asking you for anything in return later."
He said, “This is what I want.”
Perhaps because he was from a foreigner, Lucas never understood what it meant to be subtle and always spoke bluntly.
He even repeated it a second time, in his deliberately soft voice.
Wu Cisheng pursed his lips, wanting to say something, but in the end he just said as usual: "I understand, you should get some rest early."
*
That night, Wu Cisheng couldn't sleep. He lay in bed, staring at the nothingness before him, and reached out to carefully touch his eyes, nose, and lips.
People are always most nervous when their dreams are about to come true, and he is no exception.
For countless days and nights in the past, he seemed to be walking in the dark on a path shrouded in thick fog, his eyes obscured by the fog, and he could not tell the direction.
And now, the beautiful dream that I had thought about countless times but was disappointed time and time again, has become a reality so easily?
The room was exceptionally quiet. He lay there quietly listening to his own heartbeat, pulse and breathing. He vaguely felt that Lucas next door seemed to be awake too?
He wanted to knock on the wall, but his hand rose and fell, rose and fell again.
Forget it.
Perhaps because they are all so-called saviors, Wu Cisheng recalled the memories of last week after a long time. He began to recall how he felt on the night when his paralyzed legs could be cured.
It's actually a little blurry.
He even didn't know how to summarize his feelings towards his previous savior.
Last week, he was a stranger who broke into his life, approached him at the right time and saved him; but this week he is a nearly perfect partner by his side, the two of them spend every day together, and before Lucas showed up, they were a model couple.
Even after this "house arrest incident," when some reporters interviewed neighbors, supermarket owners, and other acquaintances, they all exclaimed: "How is this possible? He loves him so much!"
Yes, Ning Yuan loves Wu Ci Sheng very much and often expresses his love to him, but how does Wu Ci Sheng treat him?
There's an old saying that goes, "A stone and a stone should have warmed up after being together for so long," but honestly, he didn't have any deep feelings for him.
Wu Cisheng heard clearly everything Lucas and Ning Yuan said during their quarrel and fight. He said that Wu Cisheng was using him and that he would also use Lucas.
In fact, this statement is not entirely wrong.
In a sense, Wu Cisheng in the last week did know how unlikely it was for a passerby to appear in the deep mountains, but he still pretended not to know and cooperated with his mission.
Including this week, he would not expose Lucas's seemingly perfect but actually full of loopholes excuse when they first met.
Why expose it?
These are all things that benefit him.
When a reporter wrote a biography for him, intending to make it a candidate for the next star, he asked a lot of questions about him and his ex-partner.
One question is, do you hate him?
Wu Cisheng hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to say he hated her or not.
Because his true feelings are: indifference.
When Wu Cisheng was a child, he lived with his mother at his grandparents' house. He always behaved very sensibly. He would take the initiative to clean up the dishes and take a bath after meals. After school, he would take the initiative to clean the house and chat with the elderly.
Are you doing these things out of love for your grandparents, or are you trying to please them?
His aunt disliked him and was always making indirect accusations, while his uncle remained silent. His mother was confused and couldn't hear clearly, but Wu Cisheng could hear clearly, and some relatives were whispering in his ear.
Should he hate it?
Others say so, so it should be true.
After being kicked out, Wu Cisheng behaved more maturely. He would greet every neighbor he met with a smile and help them with small favors within his ability.
When he did these things, most of them were not done from the heart, but he just wanted to integrate into the community faster and get their help.
He has always calculated gains and losses like this.
He had never thought there was anything wrong until two strangers inexplicably broke into his life. The first one had passed away and was not mentioned anymore, but the second one seemed a little different, but some things in their eyes were exactly the same.
Maybe Lucas didn't notice it now.
Wu Cisheng knew it very well, but he still maintained an attitude of neither rejecting nor exposing it. After all, he had that magical system, and he was the only one who could treat eyes.
He just showed some depression intentionally or unintentionally, and the result was obvious: he didn't need to urge it at all, and the sentry began to treat him wholeheartedly.
Is this exploitation? Ning Yuan's words echoed in Wu Cisheng's ears again.
All his past knowledge was acquired through his own struggles in society, taking care of his mother and himself. Behind all his actions, there was only one purpose:
Want to live well.
A few days ago, a former classmate contacted Wu Cisheng and asked him when he would return to the tower. He said he wanted to treat him to a meal and talked about what happened that year.
Many students at the time couldn't believe he would do such a thing and demanded a re-investigation, but for some reason, a teacher in charge at the time kept shirking responsibility, and the matter was eventually dropped. After that, students also tried to contact him, but each message fell on deaf ears.
Without even thinking, Wu Cisheng knew it must have been Ning Yuan who did it. After all, he was blind at that time, and it was too easy to fool him.
Since there was no way to explain the magical supernatural system, and there was no way to say that the real murderer had long been gone from this world, and that the one in prison now was not the real person, he could only deal with it with a few words.
Fortunately, the student opposite did not ask any detailed questions, probably because he was worried about touching Wu Cisheng's scars. Most of the questions were about future discussions.
Later...
At that time, Wu Cisheng was chatting happily with his old friend on the phone, and talked about the results of his previous discussion with Teacher Tane.
When he was studying, it was still the old four-year system, and it was just changed to the new three-year system two years ago. If he followed the old system, he still had half a year to graduate, but according to the new system, he has already graduated.
After discussion, the tower finally gave two options: either study for half a year with the freshmen of this year and graduate normally, or enter the internship period directly after passing the graduation exam and accepting job assignments.
The person who conveyed the news to Wu Cisheng was a teacher with an exceptionally kind voice.
Her voice always reminded Wu Cisheng of his grandmother, and she was indeed considerate of him. She contacted him to schedule an appointment for the graduation exam first. If he could pass it, he could directly enter the internship period. If he didn't meet the requirements, it wouldn't be too late to go back and make up for the course...
After hearing this, my former classmates also thought this was a better option. After all, the treatment for aliens is generous and there are subsidies during the internship period. It is also a good choice to start an internship early.
The old classmate even asked Wu Cisheng to go to his department and he would guide him when the time comes.
Wu Cisheng agreed with a smile, and took the opportunity to ask his classmates about the content of the graduation test.
The phone call was very pleasant, but for some reason, when he talked about the future, there was always a hint of inexplicable gloom.
Will it really be so smooth?
Wu Cisheng blinked his dry eyes, still standing still listening to the whistling wind and the dripping rain outside.
It was almost two in the morning when he slowly began to feel a little sleepy.
*
Lucas next door also couldn't sleep.
When he repeatedly asked the system for the ninety-ninth time whether the eye transplant procedure for the next day was ready and whether the process would cause Wu Cisheng discomfort or pain, 03399 also replied to him for the ninety-ninth time:
[Preparing. No. No. Inhalation anesthesia is just a matter of sleeping.]
Lucas was still a little worried. This worry was not only about Wu Cisheng, but also about himself.
At 2:23 in the morning, Lucas, relying on his sentry's keen hearing, noticed that Wu Cisheng next door had fallen asleep, so he tiptoed to the bathroom to look in the mirror.
He relaxed his frown, then raised it again, rubbed his face, pulled his hair, and looked at the face in the mirror that he had seen for years. He felt unhappy no matter how he looked at it.
He didn't care much about his facial features or how he looked in the past. After all, in his line of work, he didn't rely on his looks to make a living.
But at this time he inexplicably became concerned. He looked at the deep and shallow scars on his arms, and his wheat-colored skin tanned by wind and sun, and began to regret that he had not taken good care of it before.
What do you think of my appearance?
This was also the hundredth time he had asked questions to the intelligent AI since confirming the time.
03399 answered almost numbly:
[This question is beyond my scope. I have no bias towards human aesthetics, but after searching online, I concluded that your appearance falls into the category of...]
Will he like this type?
03399 was stuck for a moment. This time, it didn't follow the previous mechanical answer, but generated a new answer:
"Didn't you say you treated him like a brother? Then why do you care whether he likes you or not?"
Lucas's expression was a little confused, but after a moment, he regained his composure and said, "Isn't it possible?"
"However, according to research, humans only overly care about appearance when they are in the presence of someone they admire, and brothers are considered family ties in secular ethics. So, you previously..."
03399's speech speed increased a bit, and different data images were densely packed in Lucas's retina. They were all scenes of Lucas interacting with Wu Cisheng after he entered the small world.
In the pictures, Wu Cisheng was either eating, walking, or listening to music, and Lucas always had the same expression:
She stared at Wu Cisheng intently, without blinking, as if she could never get tired of looking at him, with a smile on her lips that she didn't even notice.
The picture in the middle shows Lucas responding to Wu Cisheng's touch the day before and washing his pants in the bathroom.
Based on this information, 03399 came to the conclusion: [You must be in love with him. The probability is as high as 99.99%.]
Lucas pursed his lips and remained silent. After a while, he suddenly mentioned another seemingly unrelated thing.
[Do you still remember? When Cisheng first came out of Ningyuan's place, I was the one who went to talk to him every day and took him downstairs...]
But later he gradually adapted and started to have more friends. He chatted with his old friends and talked about the past.
Cisheng is truly amazing. That reporter asked him earlier, "This case was solved so quickly. Do you think you, as a mutant, exploited your identity to gain special treatment?" It was a pointed and difficult question. I was furious at the time, but he answered it perfectly...
[There are people like this in my world, too. They usually have big ambitions...]
[For a moment, I felt my heart suddenly constrict, and a very strange feeling made me breathless. I didn't know what this emotion was called, but I actually thought of Ning Yuan's words...]
He said that if I wanted Cisheng to stay with me forever, I would have to tie him up by my side...
I feel so weird...
03399 paused for a moment, and a hint of tension emerged from the cold electronic voice: [What are you talking about! Are you planning to imprison him too? No! No!]
"That was just my thought. I won't do it." Lucas paused and added, "He would be unhappy."
03399 was silent for a moment:
So what are you going to do?
Do you regret it?
Lucas shook his head.
We have a famous myth here. It tells the story of a soldier who falls in love with a princess and begins to pursue her. Pretty cliché, right? The first part of the story is all about the soldier's efforts to woo the princess: precious jewels, gorgeous clothes, exotic animal teeth, etc., but none of them can impress the princess.
How can a princess be so easy to pursue?
There is a plot in the later period where the soldier is promoted all the way to become a famous knight for the princess, but the princess still rejects him.
The princess had suffered from an eye disease since childhood. As she grew older, her vision became increasingly blurred. Upon hearing that another living person's eyeball was needed to save her, other suitors withdrew, but the knight, without hesitation, gouged out his eyes and gave them to the princess. Deeply moved, the princess accepted the knight's proposal.
On the eve of the wedding, a turmoil broke out in the kingdom. Many elite warriors were sent out, but none of them returned. Only the knights came back.
The reason was that the wizard possessed a magical ability that could capture souls by just looking at them. But the knight had no eyes, so he couldn't be affected by the spell...
By some strange coincidence, the knight returned. At the end of the story, the triumphant knight and the princess held a grand wedding.
Because of this story, we have a tradition where a pair of white beads are given as a proposal gift. They are about the size of an eyeball and have patterns similar to eyes painted on them along with some blessings, as a pledge of fidelity.
Lucas paused, his expression still normal, and his tone was flat:
When I first met him, I suddenly had a thought: maybe my eyes were meant to be in his eye sockets...
When 03399 was storing this story in its database, it happened to hear Lucas' words. It analyzed it and finally came to the conclusion:
So you're proposing to him?
Lucas didn't deny it.
03399 is even more confused:
【But he doesn’t know.】
It started to drizzle in the city at around 1 a.m. in the morning and it just stopped at around 5 a.m. This rain made the humidity in the air increase significantly.
Lucas stood in front of the French window, staring at the dawn gradually rising above the horizon.
【Cisheng woke up.】
[This time is much earlier than his usual wake-up time. It seems he is looking forward to it...]
I'm looking forward to it, too.
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