Chapter 54 He is my life
The tenderness just now seemed to be drained away in an instant, and a heavy atmosphere filled the air.
Chi Cheng's body tensed up visibly, and the muscles in his arms around Wu Suowei's waist instantly stiffened like iron.
A violent storm surged in his dark eyes, pain, regret, despair... so strong that it almost overflowed.
Wu Suowei could clearly feel the changes in his body and his breathing suddenly became heavier.
He did not urge her, but simply gripped the fabric of Chi Cheng's chest tighter and buried his face deeper into his arms.
He wanted to know... he needed to know... he had to know...
The long silence was so oppressive that it was suffocating.
Finally, Chi Cheng took a breath with great difficulty. The sound seemed to be squeezed out from deep in his chest, with a heavy feeling of gravel.
"...Huang Long...I'm clinging to you..." His Adam's apple rolled violently, as if he had swallowed a mouthful of bloody glass, "...I'm clinging to you..."
The floodgates of memories were forcibly pried open, and those deliberately sealed away images instantly rushed into my mind.
The cold snake body, the suffocating feeling of being entangled, Wu Suowei's face instantly turned purple...
Chi Cheng's voice seemed frozen, with a mechanical coldness:
"I rushed over... and pried it open..." His arms tightened unconsciously, causing Wu Suowei some pain, "...I couldn't pry it open..."
At that time, his eyes were bloodshot, but he knew that using brute force would only have the opposite effect, so he could only try his best to appease Huang Long.
But Huang Long was frightened, and his instinct to strangle was aroused, so he wrapped himself even tighter.
Wu Suowei made a "ho ho" sound as if he was about to die from his throat, and his eyes were fixed on him, filled with desperate fear.
"You...you held my wrist tightly..." Chi Cheng's voice trembled, with an unbelievable and broken tone, "...you said...'no'..."
He suddenly closed his eyes, as if he couldn't bear the huge impact of the scene, "...you said...'Chi Cheng...likes snakes'..."
The shock and severe pain at that moment were more deadly than being bitten by a yellow dragon.
When he was on the verge of death, his fear was not to ask for help, nor to blame him, but... to worry that he would be sad?
Because he likes snakes?!
He suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were bloodshot.
"...I fucking..." His voice choked, with a heavy nasal sound and unspeakable pain, "...I fucking..."
Jiang Xiaoshuai's terrified scream exploded in the chaos, filled with piercing despair: "Chi Cheng——!! Which is more important, the snake or the human——!!!"
Guo Chengyu held Jiang Xiaoshuai tightly as he tried to rush over. His roar was like thunder, striking Chi Cheng's confused mind.
What could be more important than Wu Suowei?!
In those scarlet eyes, there was only a kind of madness that wanted to destroy everything.
He exerted force suddenly.
He used all his strength, almost crushing his finger bones, before he finally broke free from Wu Suowei's cold hand that was tightly grasping his wrist.
That hand, at the last moment of its life, was still thinking about protecting his favorite...
A cold light flashed in Chi Cheng's hand.
“Puff!”
However, its position was deviated due to the obstruction of Wu Suowei's body and the sliding of the snake's body.
Failed to hit the vital point.
"Roar!" The severe pain made Huang Long completely crazy. The snake head twisted violently, and its cold vertical pupils locked onto Chi Cheng. The smelly snake mouth opened wide and bit towards Chi Cheng's arm.
Severe pain!
Chi Cheng groaned, but the madness in his eyes did not diminish at all, only a stronger determination to die together.
He ignored the huge snake head hanging on his arm, and with his other hand, he tightly grasped the dagger and used all his strength to stab the yellow dragon again at the seven-inch position.
"puff--!"
This time, it was incredibly precise!
The huge snake's body suddenly stiffened, and the entanglement force loosened instantly.
Those cold vertical pupils quickly lost their luster and drooped weakly.
Chi Cheng didn't even look at the dead python, and didn't even care about his arm that was bleeding.
He rushed over like a madman and caught Wu Suowei's limp, cold and stiff body.
“Dabao——!!!”
A shrill and desperate roar cut through the bloody and cold air.
In the blink of an eye, it was the pale hospital corridor.
The smell of disinfectant was pungent and the red light in the emergency room was blindingly bright.
Chi Cheng leaned against the cold wall, his arm wrapped in a thick, blood-stained bandage.
His face was pale, his eyes were filled with dead emptiness, and his body and hands were stained with blood, which had dried and turned black.
Jiang Xiaoshuai slumped in the chair opposite, his eyes swollen like walnuts, tear marks on his face, and his eyes dull.
Guo Chengyu stood against the wall, his face equally grim and his brows furrowed.
Time passed by minute by minute, and each second seemed as long as a century.
The door to the emergency room finally opened.
The doctor in a white coat came out with a tired look on his face and took off his mask.
Chi Cheng and Jiang Xiaoshuai jumped up almost at the same time and rushed over.
Chi Cheng moved even faster, grabbing the doctor's arm with such force that he almost crushed the doctor's bones.
He stared at the doctor's mouth, his lips trembling, but he couldn't ask a word. Only in those bottomless eyes was burning the last bit of desperate light that was about to go out.
The doctor frowned as his grip hurt, but he quickly said, "Your life is saved for now."
Chi Cheng and Jiang Xiaoshuai breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, their bodies shaking a bit.
But the doctor's next words instantly sent them back into hell.
"But... his internal organs are severely damaged, his ribs are broken, his lungs are bruised... he's lost too much blood... his condition is extremely critical." The doctor's tone was heavy. "Whether he can escape death or not... depends on further observation."
"Observe?" Chi Cheng's voice was hoarse. "...What do you mean?"
"What it means," the doctor said with pity, looking at his pale face, "is that he could... deteriorate at any moment and not make it."
Chi Cheng's body shook violently, and his vision went dark.
Jiang Xiaoshuai let out a suppressed whimper, covered his face and squatted down.
Wu Suowei was pushed out, his body full of tubes and an oxygen mask on his face. His face was as white as paper and the rise and fall of his chest was so weak that it was almost invisible.
Chi Cheng watched helplessly as the mobile bed was pushed into the intensive care unit. The heavy glass door separated the inside and the outside.
He was allowed to watch through the glass.
The wound on his arm was excruciatingly painful, but it was not even one-tenth as painful as having a piece of flesh gouged out of his heart.
Jiang Xiaoshuai and Guo Chengyu came and went, bringing him food and urging him to rest.
Chi Cheng turned a deaf ear to it.
The rice was placed next to him, it was cold and rotten, but he didn't even look at it.
He stood stubbornly outside the glass wall, staring at the people inside with his bloodshot, sunken eyes.
Two months.
Time has lost its meaning.
Day and night, to him, are just the changes in brightness and darkness of the light outside the window.
Guo Chengyu came over again with the thermos bucket. He looked at Chi Cheng's wrinkled and blood-stained clothes that he hadn't changed for several days, the wildly growing stubble on his chin, his sunken eye sockets and the dead grayness inside, and sighed heavily.
He placed the thermos at Chi Cheng's feet, opened the lid, and inside was warm porridge.
"Eat something, Chi Zi." Guo Chengyu's voice was also filled with fatigue. "If you keep going like this, you'll collapse before he wakes up."
Chi Cheng seemed not to hear.
His gaze still penetrated the thick glass and was firmly fixed on the motionless figure on the hospital bed.
After a long, long time, so long that Guo Chengyu thought he would not speak again, he heard a hoarse voice, slowly ringing out, without ups and downs, and without emotion.
“…He is my life…”
Chi Cheng's gaze was still fixed empty on the hospital bed behind the glass, his voice was light and fluttery, with a kind of numbness that came from being completely soaked in despair.
"...What Huang Long...what Wang Shuo..." He pulled the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile uglier than crying, "...How can he be more important than Dabao..."
Guo Chengyu looked at him like this, and his heart was upset, and his eyes turned red in an instant.
"Chizi..." His voice choked.
Chi Cheng seemed to be immersed in his own world, continuing to whisper in that calm voice, more like torturing himself.
“…I hate myself…”
“…If only it could be faster…”
He shook his head violently, his movements stiff and violent, as if trying to get rid of some terrible thought.
"……No……"
His voice suddenly rose, with a sharpness and fear that seemed to be on the verge of collapse.
"...if I hadn't found those snakes...if I hadn't kept them...if I hadn't..."
The last few words seemed to have exhausted all his strength and he stopped abruptly.
He bit his lower lip so hard that it bled, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
However……
"drop------------"
A sharp, monotonous, continuous cry.
The voice was cold, mechanical, and devoid of emotion.
The blood color on Guo Chengyu's face instantly faded away.
He suddenly turned his head to look at the instrument in the ward that was making a long, shrill sound.
On the screen, there was a straight, unwavering, cruel line.
He turned his head slowly in disbelief and looked at Chi Cheng.
Chi Cheng was completely frozen.
The expression on his face was frozen in the numb pain of the previous second, without sadness, fear, or collapse.
There was only a dead silence.
His eyes were still fixed on the figure on the hospital bed, surrounded by instruments, behind the glass.
It was as if the long cry that announced death had never sounded.
The only sound left in the room was the cold "tick-tick" sound, which echoed sharply in the dead air like a death knell.
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