Chapter 52018 Life is finally back on track
It only takes a moment to lose your sight, but how long does it take to regain it?
It took Wu Cisheng four full years.
Many years ago, he just fell into a coma and woke up, and his world lost its light forever. This time, he also just slept for a short while, and when he woke up, there was a thick gauze on his eyes.
Lucas said that he had not seen the light for many years. This was to allow him to adapt little by little, and it wouldn't take long. He said that if he removed two circles a day, it would take about two or three days to remove it.
"Oh, I see..."
Wu Cisheng couldn't hear clearly what Lucas said next. At that time, he saw a dim light through the gaps in the gauze.
Finally, I can see a little light.
Light…
It’s light…
The long-lost light...
Wu Cisheng stared at the faint light for a long time, until his eyes were sore. Then he heard Lucas ask him:
"How do you feel? Do your eyes hurt?"
"Feel…"
Wu Cisheng tried his best to focus all his attention on his eyes, and awakened the little white weasel in his sea of consciousness, so that he could feel his eyes again.
"It feels fine, no pain at all, no other discomfort, just a little cool..."
There was no discomfort at all, and even the gauze covering the eyes was very soft and not tight at all.
If it weren't for that little bit of faint light to testify, Wu Cisheng would have thought that nothing had happened, just an extra piece of gauze.
"That's good."
Despite 03399's assurance, Lucas was still a little worried. He was relieved only after hearing Wu Cisheng admit that he didn't feel much pain.
The young man in front of him had a piece of gauze covering his eyes. He carefully touched the gauze on his eyes and "looked" in the direction of Lucas.
He didn't say anything, but Lucas understood what he meant tacitly. He bent down and put his head next to his hands so that he could feel his eye sockets.
The warm fingertips moved across the skin, and Lucas' heartbeat began to thump. The spirit that best represented its master's mood tried to escape, but was controlled by Lucas.
At this time, Wu Cisheng's exploration was nearing its end. The area around the sentry's eyes was obviously hotter than other skin, but his eyeballs were cold.
"How does it feel?"
Wu Cisheng asked this.
"I think it's pretty good."
03399 was quite generous and gave Lucas an artificial eye that was much clearer than his own eyes. Combined with his already outstanding five senses, he could almost clearly see the faint airflow when Wu Cisheng breathed and the tiny hairs on his skin.
Of course, more importantly, he could see his own eyes in his eye sockets through the gauze and his tightly closed eyelids.
Although Cisheng didn't seem to know the special meaning of "white beads", Lucas still felt an indescribable joy.
Will he like his own eyes?
In fact, he could have just asked the system to exchange for a prosthetic eye, right? But he gave him this roundabout way.
Would he be angry if he knew?
The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence for a moment. When Wu Cisheng wanted to ask something else, Lucas changed the subject.
"Breakfast is ready, let's eat first."
"good."
In the next two or three days, the gauze on Wu Cisheng's eyes was removed one by one, and he could see more and more light, until the last day, when as the last round of gauze fell, he opened his eyes and saw the world again.
He stood there motionless, looking out at a luxuriously decorated hotel. The overhead lights were warm yellow, and the soft carpet under his feet was charcoal grey with gorgeous curly grass patterns.
Probably for the sake of his eyes, the blackout curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows were closed, and only some bright sunlight could be seen in the corner.
The furniture, sofas and even the murals on the walls of the entire room came into view one by one. Those objects that he had touched with his fingers countless times in the past actually looked like this.
Wu Cisheng didn't even want to blink.
After looking around the entire room, he slowly moved his gaze to the tall man in front of him.
The other person was looking at him worriedly. Seeing that he didn't move, he raised his hand and waved it in front of him: "How are you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Wu Cisheng shook his head and his gaze fell on the sentry. Even though he already knew his height and build, and knew he was tall, seeing him in person still felt different:
The naturally curly red hair was unrestrained and flamboyant, like a burning flame. The skin was a slightly darker wheat color, the facial features were sharp, the nose was high, and the brow bones were prominent, which made the eyes look deep and sharp. The facial features were indeed very exotic.
Probably because the room was air-conditioned, he was wearing a black base shirt that perfectly outlined his strong muscles, broad chest and tight abdominal muscles.
He paired it with a pair of thick overalls with multiple pockets, bulging with small items. The metal buckle of the leather belt shone coldly in the dim light.
"You're not much different than I imagined."
"Really?"
The sentry raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile that was incompatible with his tough, unapproachable demeanor.
"I was worried you wouldn't like it..."
After noticing that Wu Cisheng seemed to be observing his eyes, he took the initiative to move closer and bent his tall body so that he could see more clearly.
"How is it, did you see it clearly?"
The fierce features on his face and the gentleness in his eyes formed a strong dissonance, but he himself seemed completely unaware of it.
Lucas was particularly satisfied with his artificial eye. He reached out and tapped his eyeball with his fingertips, and the color of his eye changed accordingly.
Finally, the light blue like the sky was fixed on his mind, and Wu Cisheng could clearly smell a scent of perfume, which was not usually on Lucas.
"Do you like this color?"
Wu Cisheng was slightly stunned, then nodded and said he liked it. The sentry's joyful expression became more and more obvious. Suddenly, a pair of fluffy ears appeared on his head, and a huge fluffy tail appeared behind him, shaking gently from time to time.
After noticing Wu Cisheng's gaze, the shaking arc became more obvious. The sentry was obviously trying hard to control it, but the effect was not obvious.
Wu Cisheng chuckled:
"Hmm, so that's how it is."
*
There was no way Wu Cisheng could hide the fact that his eyesight had been restored, but he had mentioned before that Lucas had a way, so when someone asked about it, he used this excuse to deal with it.
No one was quite sure about the specific condition of his eyes, and Lucas's background was so mysterious. When the information was recorded in the previous file, several indicators including strength and speed directly broke the record. For this reason, the official website of the Abnormal Management Committee even specially issued several public announcements for the first time.
Because of these halos, many people thought that there might really be some magical method, so they believed it.
The only impact was that there were a lot more invitations to interview him in his mailbox, but that didn't matter.
On the second day after his eyesight was restored, Wu Cisheng's return to school procedures were successfully approved, and the notice from the Abnormal Control Committee urging Lucas to attend training was also sent to Wu Cisheng's email.
Once an alien has his information entered into the Alien Management Committee, he will be considered a member of the Alien Management Committee. According to the process, he should first receive a one-month training before starting to take on tasks and earn income.
But Lucas never went and didn't reply to any of the messages sent.
It would be fine if he was just a sentry with mediocre qualifications, but he happened to have such outstanding abilities. So in the latest email, the staff specifically noted in the letter that Wu Cisheng also needed to go to the capital to take the graduation exam, and they just happened to be going there.
This time, Lucas finally responded and bought two tickets departing for the capital a day later.
The day before leaving Chunhui City, Wu Cisheng suddenly had an idea and wanted to see what this city where he had lived for more than four years was like.
So he walked around the place where he lived, slowly following the familiar route.
Sometimes I stand at the intersection and watch the passers-by coming and going, carefully observing their every move; sometimes I stroll leisurely in the supermarket, listening to the conversations coming from between the shelves; sometimes I squat on the side of the road, quietly gazing at the newly grown nameless wild flower in the cracks of the cement.
In the evening, Wu Cisheng randomly bought a movie ticket and watched a re-released comedy movie. He then sat in the same seat as before in the restaurant and had a meal.
They were all just ordinary daily events, and Lucas was there for every one of them.
Although the sentry looked like he had a bad temper, he was very patient. He never urged anyone throughout the whole process and never even asked why.
An ordinary day ended, and Wu Cisheng got into the car with Lucas, taking the few things he had left.
There is no airport in Chunhui City, so they need to take the high-speed rail to the city airport next door. In the car, Wu Cisheng looked at his face for a long time through the reflection in the glass.
It’s like looking at another stranger you don’t know, looking at the somewhat unfamiliar eyebrows, eyes, lips, and nose, especially the eyes.
He remembered that his eye color was amber before, but now it has changed.
Lucas also said it was amazing, saying that it was clearly dark blue in his eyes before, but in Wu Cisheng's eyes it became another color:
A water blue with green in the blue and blue in the green, like the water in the Nordic fjords, sparkling in the sunlight, clear and gentle.
Such a pair of eyes, coupled with Wu Cisheng's fair jade face and thick black hair, is simply dazzling.
When walking on the street with Lucas, he could clearly feel that the number of curious eyes looking at him had increased significantly.
The alien carriage was very quiet. Soon after Wu Cisheng got on the car, he began to close his eyes and rest. The little ferret also curled up comfortably on his shoulder.
The atmosphere is tranquil and peaceful.
Lucas stared at the young man beside him, looking at him intently without blinking, for a very long time before he was willing to blink.
03399 was used to his behavior, but she couldn't help but ask Lucas in her mind: [Have you really decided?]
Lucas responded.
【Um. 】
*
Studies have shown that people's perception of time is related to their current emotions. The same person's perception of the passage of time is completely different in different emotions and states.
Sometimes I feel like every minute and every second seems to be stretched ten thousand times, and sometimes I feel like time passes by in the blink of an eye.
After arriving in Baigang City, Wu Cisheng's life seemed to be accelerated. He arrived at the Capital Tower to handle formalities the afternoon before, and started to take the graduation exam the next morning.
Although the examination format and grading standards have undergone several updates and iterations in recent years, the overall core content has not changed.
The guide's final exam mainly focuses on "spiritual healing", "spiritual communication", "imagery", "spiritual attack" and other contents. The first and second are compulsory subjects for guides, and the third is a secondary subject. Although it is also tested, it does not account for a large proportion in the score.
The invigilator probably had heard about Wu Cisheng's situation and was very kind to him.
Before the first basic mental micro-control test, he still wanted to comfort Wu Cisheng, saying that he had not received any training in the past few years, and it was normal even if there were mistakes or failures, and told him not to be discouraged.
But the comforting look came to an abrupt end when the indicator showed excellent, and the teacher was stunned.
A guide who had been away from the White Tower for several years, an alien who had lived among ordinary people for several years, returned to the tower after several years. His control over his mental power had not deteriorated at all, and it had even become more refined.
Not only in the actual combat, but also in the second written test, he did not forget any of the lengthy theoretical knowledge.
The handwriting is neat and the paper is clear.
After the test paper was circulated, several grading teachers outside the examination room and the senior guide who was responsible for supervising the entire process looked at Wu Cisheng with a little more appreciation in their eyes.
The counseling session came soon.
The tower just happened to be trying out new regulations this year. Originally, during each guide's counseling test, a few specific sentinels would be selected and asked to perform pseudo-disorders, and then the guides would counsel and cure them. After the test, the results would be judged based on the subjective scores of the sentinels.
However, after a number of incidents of bribery occurred, random selection was implemented this year.
The invigilators and judges in the examination room have separate examinations, and soundproof booths are built one after another in the center of the examination room as examination sites.
Each guide candidate draws lots on his or her own and blindly selects a mentally abnormal sentry from the sentry database for a counseling test. The score is also based on the sentry's final mental state value.
When the new regulations were first announced, many guides complained, saying that it was too dependent on luck.
If you are lucky, you can pick a less disordered one and cure it easily to get high scores. If you are unlucky, you can pick a very bad one and fail to cure it, won’t you lose points?
Even so, the tower has implemented this new rule, and only explained that if such special circumstances really occur, the score will be adjusted accordingly.
Wu Cisheng was not very lucky. After pressing the select button, the numbers of different sentries flashed on the screen. Among them, there was a familiar number. Wu Cisheng remembered clearly that it was Lucas's.
When it was about to stop at his number, the time was still not up, the numbers continued to scroll, and finally stopped at a red page: This means that this is a dangerous sentinel with severe rejection of guides.
When the person he was counseling appeared on the big screen, several invigilators in the examination room and the judges outside shook their heads.
At this time, he had two choices: one was to continue taking the exam, and the other was to give up the exam.
Wu Cisheng chose to carefully check the sentry's file information.
He discovered that the sentry was from the same class as him, but unlike him, he did not drop out before graduation. He had already graduated.
The data shows that he accepted tasks very frequently, but received guidance from guides only a few times, and the scores given by the guides were very low each time.
Since last year, there have been large areas of blanks in the mission records. I think it must be because my mental state is not very good.
The dangerous incident with a red exclamation mark records that he injured a companion on a mission last month, so he was ordered not to accept any missions until his mental state recovers.
Probably due to this past record, the staff at the examination center were worried that the sentry might hurt the guide, so when they sent him up, they specially put a restraint belt on him and tied him up tightly.
In the temporary counseling room, the timer on the screen under Wu Cisheng's name has started, which means that the exam has begun.
Wu Cisheng did not contact the sentry immediately. Instead, he began to observe his appearance patiently and gently introduced his name to him.
When he was five steps away from him, he took the initiative to ask: "Hello, can I come closer to you? If you are willing, just move your finger."
The atmosphere was very quiet. Minutes and seconds passed. After a full two minutes, the sentry's fingers finally moved imperceptibly.
Wu Cisheng then took the initiative to step forward, but at this time he still did not take the initiative to start counseling, and began to introduce his little ferret to the sentry.
"I heard that many young people nowadays like to give their spirit bodies names, but I didn't have any back then. We were all from the first class, so you should know how simple it was back then, right?"
He was talking to himself without any counseling procedures or mental connection, but the mental detection of the connected sentinel miraculously changed slightly.
When it comes to the formal counseling session, Wu Cisheng needs to first establish a neural empathy connection and then enter the sentinel's mental picture.
This step is considered the most dangerous in the entire guidance process. Each sentinel has a certain sense of territory, and the guide's behavior is equivalent to intruding into the other's private room.
Before proceeding, Wu Cisheng first let his little ferret come into contact with his spiritual body.
The black python's condition was the same as its owner's, with scars of varying depths all over its body, and it was obvious that it had not been healed for a long time.
The little ermine had a pair of round, bright blue eyes, and used its tiny claws to touch the sentry's listless black python bit by bit.
The subsequent counseling tutorials were textbook-level perfection, so Wu Cisheng once again received excellent scores in this exam.
However, he himself did not know his scores, and he had to wait until all the exams were over before he could come out of the examination room which was isolated from the outside world.
During the three days, he had no idea that more and more students and teachers came to watch Wu Cisheng's exam. So when he came out of the examination room, he was stunned for a moment when he saw the dense crowd and crackling flash lights outside.
But the surprise lasted only two or three seconds. Wu Cisheng quickly returned to his normal expression and answered various questions one by one in a neither humble nor arrogant manner.
His scores were very high, and the problem of not being able to find an intern teacher, as predicted by his former classmates, did not occur at all. Instead, he received many invitations.
He chose an offer that would allow him to gain more experience: to be a trainee guide in the counseling room inside the tower.
After receiving his special work badge, putting on the snow-white work uniform, and being taken to a personal office by his seniors to familiarize himself with the work environment and work content, Wu Cisheng, who was sitting at the desk, was in a daze for two or three seconds.
Everything before him was the scene he had imagined countless times in his mind years ago, and his life was finally back on track.
After watching his senior leave, Wu Cisheng suddenly felt as if something was missing.
What is it?
He subconsciously looked around and suddenly remembered that Lucas had gone for training.
You should know that sentinels will not only receive varying amounts of generous subsidies and certain honors for completing missions, but their status within the Alien Management Committee will also be correspondingly improved.
Lucas had specifically said before that he came to this world just for him and didn't particularly care about these false names, but he still went.
Since he appeared, he has been around Wu Cisheng almost all day long, guarding him closely and always within his reach.
Is this the first time you've been away for so long?
Wu Cisheng thought.
But even so, Lucas still sent him a message every day. The message he sent yesterday morning was too long. He had just started working and was very busy, so he didn't have time to read it carefully.
Just as Wu Cisheng pulled out his phone to check, there was a knock on the door, followed by his assistant's voice: "Guide Wu, there's a patient. Are you available now?"
Wu Cisheng put away his phone and said loudly:
"Come in."
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