Chapter 11
Seeing that Araki was about to faint again, the World of Truth was a little anxious, and hurriedly jumped and shouted to urge Araki to go to bed and rest: How can you sleep on the floor like this? Even if you are extremely sleepy, you must close your eyes and go to bed! I don’t care if you are dying of fever or not? I finally fed you the medicine! If you die like this, it’s not my fault.
Anyway, hurry up and go to bed!
Under the urging of the World of Truth, Araki squinted his eyes, his face was pale, and he carried his dying body. With a confused and tired mind, he drove his zombie-like body to lie on the edge of the bed. As soon as he lowered his head, he fell into a drowsy state.
The True World was startled and tried to wake Araki up. It continued to urge him to lie down on the bed and cover himself with the quilt.
Araki was stunned for a long time, nodded, and drowsily lifted the quilt, crawled in, pressed on the pillow, and fell asleep.
I don’t know if it was the sequelae of the True World being forced to wake up repeatedly before, but after a while, Araki suddenly opened his eyes, as if he was scared by a nightmare. His face was extremely pale, and he gritted his teeth, making a sound of teeth hitting each other. He stared with his eyes full of bloodshot. He clearly looked like he hadn’t rested for at least three days and three nights.
The True World jumped up and called him twice from the bedside table.
Araki heard the sound, slowly turned his head and looked at the world of truth. The world of truth saw his eyes for the first time and was startled by his state. When he came to his senses, he saw Araki reaching out to grab him, and was startled by Araki's eyes again. He shouted, and Araki caught the world of truth who had only jumped once, retracted his hand, and murmured: "Don't leave, don't leave."
He fell asleep again soon, as if he hadn't finished a sentence.
The world of truth tried to get out of his hand, took a breath, and crawled to the gap between the quilt and the pillow, intending to get out again. It would be better to lie on the bedside table to rest. Araki would be able to see it when he turned his head after waking up, and it would not be easy to suffocate to death.
As for the coldness of the bedside table, it was not as good as the softness and warmth of the pillow, so it was not a big deal. Anyway, living in a bird cage would not be much better.
I don't know whether Araki didn't know what to prepare for raising birds or no one took his order seriously. Anyway, before the bird cage was taken away, the True World didn't feel comfortable living in it. It was empty, as if there was nothing in it. There were drafts on all sides. No matter where you huddle, you can't hide. You can only be illuminated by the light. You feel like you're going to die in the next second. Of course
, this feeling may also be due to physical reasons, so the True World doesn't think it's Araki's problem.
It's just a little bit uncomfortable with the current living conditions.
It's no big deal. It can't adapt now, but it will adapt sooner or later.
It's just a matter of time. It still has time, which is good enough.
Thinking this, the world of truth lay on the bedside table and gradually fell asleep. After a while, he woke up again. Because he was too worried about Araki's physical and mental state, the world of truth could not help but wake up from the dream and had to look at Araki. Coincidentally, at this time, Araki also suddenly opened his eyes, as if he was suddenly knocked down by a lion while walking on the road.
He turned his head to look at the world of truth and found that the world of truth was still there. He breathed a sigh of relief, moved his fingers, and murmured to the world of truth as if complaining: "I don't know where you are. I remember that you were clearly in my hand before. My hand was stiff, and it made a crackling sound when I moved it, as if my bones were broken. Your bones are not broken, right? Fortunately, you are fine."
He fell asleep again.
The world of truth felt that something was wrong with him, but Araki had already drunk the medicine. Araki did not tell the world of truth other ways to deal with abnormal conditions. The world of truth could only watch Araki do this several times, waking up from his sleep, turning his head to look at him, saying a few words, and then falling asleep uncontrollably. It was getting dark soon.
Someone came and knocked on the door.
No one answered.
The person outside the door quietly unlocked it.
The person who came in was the queen. After checking Araki's physical condition, the queen felt that he was ridiculous. She could not help but frown and scold him: "You are really something. Is it necessary? For a bird, you argue with your parents who have always taken care of you and loved you? You are so angry. Do you know that you are wrong? Do you know where you are wrong? Do you know why I did that?
You are like this. You only care about yourself. You are wholeheartedly devoted, so how can I become the sinner who torments your original intention? You are too much. What do you think you know? You know nothing! I am doing this for your own good! You don't appreciate it. You are so disgusting, you ungrateful person, you are just a dog biting Lu Dongbin who doesn't recognize the kindness of a good person.
If you are not My son, I would have lost my temper with you and killed you a long time ago. Do you think you are still alive today? Whose credit do you think it is that you are still alive today? It's me. If it weren't for me, you would have died a long time ago. You should have died a long time ago.
If it weren't for me, you wouldn't even have the strength to walk, let alone stand up and argue with me, just like now.
Don't you understand me? I just talk a little too much, but my heart is good! If it were someone else, do you think I would be so earnest to persuade you to take the right path? You are too much, child, you don't know how to be considerate of others. You are not thoughtful, and you do things so roughly! "
Even though she knew that Araki couldn't hear what she said now, she still wanted to say it.
As the queen spoke, her face suddenly changed, as if she thought of something, and she quickly asked the servants to go out to find someone.
When the servant came back, he found a magic potion master who came from outside the palace.
"Your Majesty, this situation is too critical. I remember that I told you last time that you should find me before the prince fell into a coma. Now he is not only unconscious, but also dying. How can I help him?"
"Why not? He is sick, why don't you cure him? What else can you do!"
"But he has been sick for a while now. It is not so easy to cure him. It will take some time at least!"
"Then you can use some time to cure his illness!"
"It's not like that, Your Majesty. The prince was born with half a heart missing. It's a miracle that he has survived to this year. It would be a great misfortune if he continues to live without a heart. Even if his current illness is cured, there is no way to make up for the half heart. It would be extremely painful for him to live. It would be good if he can live for another half a month. Moreover, given the prince's current condition, I'm afraid there is no time for me to cure his illness."
"Didn't you say before that there is a way? What is the way?"
"I said there is a way, but you also need something. A good cook cannot cook without rice, right?"
"What do you want?"
"I said that the half heart that the prince was born missing will appear in front of him at the end of his life. Is there anything new around him recently?"
"Yes! There is an extra bird. It was brought back from outside the palace. I told him not to keep it, but he didn't listen to me and insisted on keeping it. Now he is like this because he didn't listen to me! Woohoo--"
"Your Majesty, don't cry yet. Where is the bird?"
"Do you mean that catching the bird can cure the prince's illness?"
"No, if the bird is still here and volunteers to be used as medicine to treat the prince's illness, I can use it as the other half of the prince's heart, prolong the life of the prince, and save the prince from pain and torture. However, I have rarely used this technique before, and there is a high possibility of accidents. I cannot guarantee that it will succeed."
"Voluntary?"
"Not only must they be willing, but also His Royal Highness the Prince and it, it and His Royal Highness the Prince, must have a deep relationship. Otherwise, it will be counterproductive and get half the result with twice the effort. This is the magic of this technique. It must be done this way. There is no other way."
"If they are not willing? "
"Everyone will die together. Not only His Royal Highness the Prince and the bird, but also us. I am afraid that no one in the entire palace can escape."
"Why is it so powerful?"
"Maybe it's because there is some flammable and explosive material in the technique?"
"Why does the technique for curing diseases contain those things!?"
"Because generally there is no other way, you can only fight poison with poison. Fortunately, the experiment was successful, otherwise, even this method would not work."
The pharmacist was calm: "If you don't want to, forget it, I have other things to do."
The queen shouted: "I am willing!"
She said to the servant: "Now go find the bird! Find it no matter what!"
The servant nodded repeatedly: "Yes."
After hearing this, the World of Truth came out from its hiding place, flew to the bedside table, called out to everyone twice, indicating that I am here.
The queen's gaze suddenly focused on the World of Truth, like a torch that could see into people's hearts: "When did you appear here? No! You were hiding here before, how much did you hear? My son always says that you are spiritual. If you really are spiritual, are you willing to be used as medicine for my son?
Nod if you are willing, shake your head if you are not willing!
You also know how much he cares about you, right? Can you watch him die like that?"
The World of Truth nodded.
The queen was stunned for a moment. She didn't take the world of truth seriously. She was just desperate and said a few words. Seeing the response, she smiled and said, "It turns out that there are some differences. Well, in this case, there is one more thing I want to tell you. He cares too much about you.
This is not okay.
As a prince, nothing he cares about is more important than the country and the people.
As a son, nothing he cares about can compare to his parents.
Do you understand what I mean?
He will be a husband in the future, and he can't care about anything more than his wife.
You don't want him to be scolded by others, right?"