Chapter 66 Chapter 66
Yumi had a dream.
In the dream, he and Anxius were walking hand in hand, and the ground began to shake again. They didn't have time to react, and they were both pressed into the cracks in the ground...
It was pitch black all around and Yumi couldn't move. After the initial fear, Yumi calmed down.
In such a situation, he did not feel hopeless. Yumi was even glad that they always held hands and stuck together. If they were together, they would not be so afraid even if they died.
It was too dark around and Yumi couldn't see anything clearly. He felt Ansius holding him, and he held Ansius with all his strength.
It’s so dark, like the end of the world.
Yumi's heart was beating fast, and the long darkness made him start to panic... For a moment, the amber he had seen in the textbook flashed through his mind. Amber can keep insects from decaying for thousands of years.
If only he had amber, when the world ended, he could take people into the amber... No, you can't breathe in amber, he has to think of a better one.
Just thinking about it, his whole body began to feel numb, and Yumi felt light and fluttery, as if he was really floating. He saw his soul spreading out like the Milky Way, and then he felt like he had turned into a bubble, and finally he touched another soul tentatively...
Suddenly, he saw a very large golden circle, just like the sun, and his whole body felt warm and comfortable... After that, Yumi was completely unconscious.
Oh, headache.
This is how Yumi felt when she woke up.
Fortunately, the headache only lasted for two seconds. Yumi opened her eyes and saw a vast expanse of white in front of her. Although she was not very clear where she was, she had a hunch that she was lying in a silkworm cocoon.
It is indeed a silkworm pupa, surrounded by soft silk, white and clean.
He turned his head and saw the humanoid Anxius who was also lying there.
The other person was still asleep, but even in sleep, their hands were still tightly clasped together.
Yumi blinked in confusion...were they really pressed underground?
But if it is underground, even silkworm pupae cannot emit white light, right?
What is going on? It is impossible that they were reincarnated as silkworms together, right?
Although I knew it was impossible, the image of two caterpillars, one big and one small, living together automatically emerged in my mind...
Yumi tilted her head and looked at her sleeping boyfriend. She was immersed in this lovely fantasy when she suddenly heard footsteps.
Yumi quickly pricked up her ears.
With a creaky sound, the door was pushed open.
Then, it seemed as if someone was looking around them for a while, and finally there was a familiar voice.
"It's already the third day, why is it still like this? Was the operation really successful?" It was Carl who spoke with an anxious tone.
Yumi was immediately relieved.
"Of course it succeeded. If it failed, what we have in front of us now is not this silkworm pupa, but two corpses..." Ye Xi sighed, "Mr. Carl, you don't have to worry. Yumi has the ability to change his form. He turned into a silkworm pupa due to vibration stress before the operation. During the operation, he may feel bleeding, so he remained on alert. Once the operation is over, his skill limit is much higher than before, and he will subconsciously wrap himself and His Highness with silkworm pupae. This is a kind of protection... It takes time to recover after the operation, so you can't rush this kind of thing."
"But it's been so long since you changed back, won't something happen?"
"No, let's wait until they wake up. I will give them nutrition every day." Ye Xi paused and continued, "If they still don't wake up after ten days, it will be dangerous... Now there is nothing we can do except wait."
Carl was silent.
As the footsteps faded away, intermittent sobbing sounds were heard outside, which seemed to be Lin En's.
Yumi felt dizzy after listening to the whole thing. He wanted to respond, but the feeling at this moment was like sleep paralysis. He was conscious, but his whole body was weak, let alone calling for help.
After trying once, he found that he didn't have the strength to speak, so Yumi didn't insist anymore. He just lay there obediently and started thinking about those words.
Surgery? Silkworm pupae? What on earth is going on?
He clearly remembered that they went to the mountains to collect herbs and then encountered an earthquake, but they all ran out in the end and saved many people. Later... later he fell asleep in his boyfriend's arms.
Why would he have surgery? Even if surgery was needed, it could only be for the injured Anxius, right?
But Karl said that they performed the surgery together and he was in a coma for three days?
As for the silkworm chrysalis and transformation skills...
It couldn't be that he turned into a silkworm chrysalis and wrapped Anxius up, so he was also packaged for surgery? This is too absurd.
In such shock and confusion, Yumi slept for a while in a daze. This time the sleep was very short. He felt someone moving around him, so he opened his eyelids forcefully.
A familiar face was close at hand, but the eyes were still closed.
Yumi was stunned.
Antheus's deep facial features were partially covered by the silk, and his pale face was getting closer and closer to him. When he was about to touch him, Yumi opened her lips and whispered to him, "Dear."
No response.
"Antheus."
No response.
"Dear Antheus." Yumi rubbed his chin hard.
The face moved, squeezing his cheeks crooked.
With the help of the other's strength, Yumi put his forehead against his. Although her boyfriend was not awake yet, he felt at ease when he felt the warmth of his body.
After being intimate with his boyfriend, Youmi felt himself falling into great fatigue again. He yawned loudly, blowing hot air on his boyfriend's face. He glanced at the white silk with his sleepy eyes, closed his long eyelashes weakly, and fell asleep again.
It seemed like she slept for a long time. Yumi slept very well. When she was about to wake up, the soreness caused by fatigue in her body had mostly subsided. Just as she was about to open her eyes, she heard her boyfriend's passionate call:
"Mimi?"
"Baby?"
"Baby Mimi?"
“…”
Yumi: We are so in tune with each other!
Gathering all her strength, Yumi opened her eyes and looked at the stunned Anxius with a smile: "Honey, I'm awake!"
Even though his body was imprisoned by silk, Ansius still hugged him tightly, as if he was really a fragile silkworm: "Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?" His voice was hoarse.
"No, I feel very good." Yumi looked up at him. Compared to the doubts she had when she first woke up, Ansius looked much calmer, as if he was not at all surprised by the strange situation at the moment.
"But you see, this silkworm pupa seems to be transformed by me," Yumi leaned close to her boyfriend and pointed at the silk. He felt that the silk was almost integrated with his body, which looked very strange, "but I can't change back now."
Antheus didn't see any problem with it at all.
"It's hard for people who just had surgery to even get out of bed, so it's normal that they can't change back." He hugged Yumi and glanced at the IV tubes on their wrists. "During this period, Ye Xi will give us nutrient solution, so it's okay even if we don't eat."
That night, Yumi was stressed by the bumpy ride in the car, and subconsciously thought that there was an earthquake. In order to protect herself and the people around her, she turned into a soft but strong silkworm pupa...
That was Yumi's limit.
After exhausting her energy, Yumi fell into a coma in a transformed fake form. If she didn't undergo the symbiotic surgery as soon as possible, no one knew what would happen next.
It was really too rushed at that time. Lin En, whom Ye Xi originally wanted to use as an assistant, fell ill, and the underground operating room had not been set up yet... The only thing to be thankful for was that Anxius had already prepared all the necessary medicines and surgical materials.
In an emergency, Ye Xi and Linda disinfected the operating table and tools and had to start the operation.
In case Yumi wakes up during the operation, they gave her anesthesia first.
When they wanted to give Ansius anesthesia, he refused. He was worried and could not accept any mistakes in the operation, so he insisted on watching the operation succeed while awake.
Ye Xi had no choice but to secretly give him a local anesthetic. Ye Xi couldn't let the patient endure pain during the operation without a shortage of anesthetic.
Symbiotic surgery is different from humanoid surgery. The latter has never had a successful case before Ansius, while the former is already a very mature surgery on Sna. Even on a garbage planet with poor conditions, Ye Xi does not think it will fail. The only thing that makes Ye Xi feel pressured is Yumi's cocoon state.
Fortunately, Ansius was conscious at that time and accurately pointed out the location of Yumi's heart.
As dawn approached, Ye Xi and his wife in the operating room breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
At that time, Anxius' consciousness was unclear, but he did not fall into a coma. It was not until he heard Ye Xi's "the operation was successful" that he closed his eyes as he wished.
While he was sleeping, he saw white silk spreading out and swallowing him up in an instant...
He liked the yummie smell of silk.
…
"Surgery?!" Unable to get out of the cocoon, Yumi could only get information from her boyfriend. He was extremely surprised, with deep worry in his eyes. "Why did we have surgery together? Did we get injured together on the way back?"
"……Um."
Yumi looked at him suspiciously, if she was injured, how come she didn't feel anything?
In silence, Yumi looked at the silk connected to his body, and recalled everything about the awakening skills again... He remembered that Bruel said that he should try not to use skills as it would consume energy... Could it be that he was injured because he suddenly turned into a silkworm pupa?
But why does it turn into a silkworm pupa?
Ye Xi and the others are safe now, which means there were no accidents on the way back...
There was no way the earthquake in my dream could be real, right?
Yumi looked serious: "We encountered another earthquake on our way back?"
Anxius held Yumi's hand, which was wrapped in silk like a steamed bun, tightly and said, "...No."
Yumi: It was a dream after all!
She wanted to continue asking, but suddenly she saw her boyfriend's tense face out of the corner of her eye. Yumi was startled and subconsciously pursed her lips.
The two of them snuggled in the closed cocoon. After a while, Yumi finally made up his mind. He whispered, "Antheus...um...do I have cancer?"
In his opinion, even if using skills consumes energy, it doesn't require surgery, and he will be fine after a rest. Especially his health was really not right some time ago. He was lazy every day, felt tired after doing a little work, and was very sleepy. Although he was not sick, Anxius asked Ye Xi to check him every day...
Yumi recalled the idol drama she watched with her mother when she was a child. The protagonist had cancer, but his lover and relatives always kept it a secret from him.
Before Ansius answered, Yumi had already begun to imagine the scene of a life-and-death love story in which Ansius held her dying arms while they watched the sea.
As he thought about it, tears started to form in his eyes... It was too horrible. He didn't want to act in such a melodrama!
Antheus was obviously shocked by his words and frowned immediately: "No, you are very healthy."
But Yumi's mind was full of the endings of those melodramatic dramas, and his little heart had begun to tremble. He stammered, "You, you don't have to lie to me... I can bear it, I'm not afraid." No, he was afraid, he didn't want to die at all.
I want to live to old age, make a lot of money, and live every day well with my love and friends.
In silence, Ansius leaned over and looked at his cute boyfriend baby with loving eyes.
This operation was too hasty. Ansius' original plan was to slowly tell Yumi about this matter and then perform the operation when Yumi was in the best physical condition, there were no threats around, and all equipment was ready... when everything was foolproof.
But God caught him off guard.
Now Yumi is still weak. Even if she can change back now, Ansius will not allow him to exhaust himself at this time. He hopes that Yumi's body and mind are in the best condition. Therefore, he does not intend to talk about the symbiotic surgery during her recuperation. But looking at Yumi's sad face... instead of letting him think too much, it is better to tell him everything.
"You are not sick," helpless Anxius kissed him on the cheek and finally confessed, "We performed a symbiotic operation."
"...Symbiotic surgery?" Yumi was stunned. "Why are you doing this kind of surgery suddenly?"
When Lin En was learning medicine from Ye Xi, Youmi vaguely heard him mention this kind of operation, which is an operation that allows two people to share their lives. Generally, this operation is performed on healthy couples.
The human lifespan is only a few decades, which is indeed not as good as the lifespan of the Sna people. But Yumi is only nineteen years old now. Isn't it time to consider her lifespan yet?
Seeing what he was thinking, Ansius held his waist with both hands, and slowly told him about the awakening of skills in the Leia Continent, and then told Bruel about the impact of activating skills on human lifespan...
Humans cannot bear the consumption brought by skills, and if they do not undergo symbiotic surgery, their original lifespan will be greatly reduced.
The reason for the sudden surgery this time was that the car bumped a bit on the way back...
Even if Ansius didn't say it, Yumi knew everything that happened afterwards.
He stared blankly at the silk connecting the hands and feet, and the silkworm pupae covering the two people. What else could he not understand?
In his dream, he mistook the car's bumps for an earthquake, and instinctively used his skills to transform into a fake silkworm chrysalis, thinking that he could protect himself and the people around him like amber preserves insects, but in the end, he used up all his energy...
If he doesn't undergo the symbiotic surgery, he may never wake up again.
“…”
Yumi hasn't actually recovered from the fact that her boyfriend discovered that she's a human. Now her skills, her lifespan, and the symbiotic surgery... are all filling her brain.
Yumi felt her head buzzing. Although it was not cancer, it seemed not much different from being notified that she had cancer, except that this "cancer" had been cured.
No wonder… No wonder he has been so lazy since he awakened his skills.
But at this moment, Yumi didn't have time to worry about these things. He looked at Ansius. He didn't know that the symbiotic surgery was related to humanoids, but this surgery alone was enough to worry him. He scanned his boyfriend's body and asked, "Will this surgery be bad for you?" Will it be the same as a human kidney transplant? But the person who donated the kidney lost a kidney, so how could his body not be affected?
"No." Anxius said, "If I can live to 300 years old, after the symbiotic operation, we can both live to 300 years old. This operation will have no effect on me."
Even if it had an impact, he would rather live with Yumi for only a few decades than live alone for hundreds of years.
"...Really?" It sounded beneficial and harmless. Yumi looked at him doubtfully, "Is there such a good thing in the world?"
When I think about it, it always seems impossible. If this were possible, wouldn't it be possible for someone who is about to die to find a healthy person to perform a symbiotic surgery to extend their life?
No, Yumi had heard about this kind of surgery from Lin En. The average life span of aliens is long, and no one can predict how old another person's body can live naturally. Except for couples who want to grow old together, basically no one will do such an uncertain surgery.
For example, if the wife could have lived to be 300 years old, but the husband could only live to be 200 years old, and after the symbiosis surgery, they both lived to be 200 years old, wouldn’t that be a huge loss? And if a terminally ill person underwent symbiosis surgery, what if the life span of both of them was reduced to the life span of the terminally ill person, wouldn’t that be a loss for both of them?
Thinking of this, Yumi's brows were almost twisted into earthworms: "Can this operation be undone? What if your life span becomes the same as mine? My life span is very short..."
No, if that happens, he will cry even if he turns into a ghost.
Anxius was heartbroken, and he held his face and kissed him: "No, humans cannot share their lives, so they can only bear it."
"Really?" His eyes, which were originally a little red, gradually brightened and his brows relaxed.
"Really, I'm not lying to you." Anxius' tone was smiling, which was reassuring.
The problem of panic just disappeared, and Yumi had a sense of unreality, but after looking at Ansius for a long time, she couldn't find any flaws at all.
Antheus was not lying.
Yumi felt relieved, and then she remembered that she could live for hundreds of years, and she belatedly exclaimed "Ah".
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay... It's like a dream..."
"It's not a dream." Ansius gently stroked Yumi's back, and his dry and warm palms gradually calmed him down.
"That day, you said you always knew I was a human..." Yumi looked up at him, "How did you find out?"
Even though her boyfriend already knew, Yumi still felt terrified when the word "human" was mentioned.
Ansius looked at him. "In addition to combat, I also have a skill for reconnaissance that can see through disguises."
“…”
"The first time I saw you, I knew you were human."
“…”
As he was distracted, Yumi couldn't help but recall many scenes from the past: Ansius watching documentaries and books about humans, their first meeting, Ansius giving him many things as if he was playing with a cat, and letting him take care of him personally as if he were the empire's little darling...
Everything has a trace.
After a while, Yumi hung her head, pursed her lips and said nothing.
Anxius thought that after telling Yumi everything, she would rest assured and recuperate, but the villain's current state made people even more worried...
He was a little at a loss: "What's wrong?"
After a few seconds, Yumi, who had curled up into a shrimp, stammered: "So, you like me because I'm a human?" Isn't it because of his charm and handsomeness?
“…”
Anxius never thought that Yumi would be entangled in this. He directly held Yumi in his arms and said, "Before you, I had no interest in humans at all. No, not at all."
Because of Yumi, he got to know everything about humans.
Yumi, who was being kissed and hugged, raised her eyelids to look at him and gave him a disgusted look.
So cute.
Ansius couldn't help but kiss him hard, rubbing his cheek and said: "Whether you are a human, a lamb, or even just a silkworm chrysalis... I like you, and I only like you."
Yumi's boyfriend coaxed her so much that her lips were almost hanging down to her ears. Her doubts disappeared and she immediately felt like joking: "After we recover, should we go and become sworn brothers? Don't we often see on TV the kind of thing where people don't ask to be born in the same year or month, but to die in the same year or month..."
"...No!" Lovers become brothers? I would rather die than do that.
"I'm just kidding, dear." Yumi tactfully nudged his face.
His heart was beating wildly, and Antheus held Yumi tighter, wishing he could hold her in his heart.
In the enclosed space, the two people's limbs are intertwined, as close as they can be.
Ansius liked this very much. He sniffed Yumi's breath, listened to her pounding heartbeat, then lowered his head and kissed Yumi's chest.
Even the heartbeat is so cute.
Yumi fell asleep quickly.
When he woke up again, he found that the outside of the silkworm cocoon was shiny, and Antheus was combing his hair with his fingers.
"Has another day passed?" Yumi asked.
"Um."
Yumi reminded him: "When Ye Xi and the others come over later, we have to tell them that we are awake."
Antheus: "They already knew. You were still asleep at that time. They said they would come to see you at noon."
"They've been here before?! But I can't see them anymore, I can only see the chrysalis..." Yumi was embarrassed, "Alas, the protective cabin is more impressive than this."
"No, it's very majestic. This is the most unique silkworm pupa I have ever seen." Anxius spared no effort to praise her boyfriend.
"Really?" Yumi glanced at him, then looked at the silkworm pupa, and immediately felt that the silkworm pupa in front of her was extraordinary. "Not only does it look good, it's also very practical. Isn't it very soft to sleep on? It's a pity that they can't experience it."
As he was speaking, the sound of many footsteps was heard outside.
Yumi kept silent subconsciously.
The door opened.
"Your Highness, Yumi, this is Ye Xi, are you awake?"
Inside the room, in front of Ye Xi who was speaking was a fat white silkworm pupa connected to many instruments, and behind him were four young men, all of whom looked worried.
Yumi in the cocoon immediately said, "I'm awake!"
Anxius hummed, responding to Ye Xi.
The people in the room were very surprised. Lin En was the first to run to the bed. He looked at the big white silkworm pupa on the bed and asked with tears in his eyes, "Mimi, you finally woke up...Are you and Antheus okay?"
Yumi nodded, "It's good, don't worry, we are recovering."
Then came A Luo's voice: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Yumi: "No, how about you? Are you better now?"
This time it was Mei Kai who answered: "Everything is fine. The herbs you brought back that time are very effective. The people on the farm and nearby are basically all fine too. Don't worry."
Harvey agreed, "Yes, we even opened a small vegetable patch to grow the herbs you uprooted."
This surprised Yumi: "You actually know what kind of thing it is..."
"Of course," Lin En said, "Except for the ones you have, the rest of the herbs don't have roots. You can tell at a glance that they are kept for planting. If they can be planted, we won't have to travel so far in the future."
"Yes!" Yumi nodded in Anxius' arms, and then listened to Meikai say: "Recently, due to the earthquake, no one went out. A few people brave enough to go out hunting even sent some of the prey to the farm, saying that they were thanking Lord Yang Xiuluo... Yumi, the news that you joined forces with the Lord of the Skull State to rescue everyone that day has spread..."
It’s good that it’s spread. If something like this happens again in the future, at least everyone will know what to do.
Youmi hadn't seen anyone for a long time. He listened with great interest to his friends talking about recent events. He listened for a long, long time until Ye Xi asked them to have a good rest and took them away.
The room returned to silence. Yumi hugged her boyfriend and fell asleep again in a drowsy state.
When she woke up the next day, Yumi felt more energetic than yesterday. She felt good in every way except that she was a little greedy.
Although the daily infusion did not make him starve, his mouth tasted so bland... Before Ansius woke up, he tentatively raised his hand and moved the silkworm pupa.
After all, the silk was connected to the body, and Yumi was afraid that it would hurt. She did it gently at first, but gradually she found that the silk was like hair, and it wouldn't hurt no matter how she did it. So she used force to pull a hole, and instantly, a ray of sunlight poured in.
Yumi quickly squinted and raised her hand to cover her eyes.
After adapting for a while, Ansius next to him also woke up. Seeing the entrance of the silkworm cocoon hole above his head, his face turned pale and he immediately looked at Yumi.
Yumi had already adjusted to the light and looked at him with a silly smile: "I just tried it and it opened unexpectedly."
Anxius was almost scared to death by him, and hurriedly hugged the man to check left and right: "Is there any pain on your body?"
“It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt,” Yumi shook her head. “Although silk is part of the body, these silks should belong to the hair part, right? Cutting hair doesn’t hurt, so it’s fine to fiddle with it.”
His tone was so light that Ansius became extremely nervous.
Ansius was so afraid that something had happened to Yumi that it was not enough for him to check Yumi's head and face once. He lifted up her clothes and continued to check carefully to make sure there were no overlooked wounds.
Yumi was like a cooked crab in Ansius's hands. She was turned over and exposed but she didn't dare to make a sound.
Anxius, who had watched the whole process from beginning to end, even the hair seams, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked up at the silk hole, then at the shy Yumi: "You want to go out?"
"It's not that urgent," Yumi whispered, "I just felt bored, so I gave it a try. As I was poking, I found that it could be opened. In this way, we don't have to keep giving it an IV, right?"
Being able to eat is certainly better than having an IV drip, but this is based on Yumi's safety.
Anxius frowned and looked at the hole: "Wait for Ye Xi to come and check you out. If there is no problem, then there will be no need for the IV."
Sure enough, happiness depends on your own efforts!
Yumi was very happy: "Of course there will be no problem. We can open the cave a little more. This way, we can not only eat, but also meet everyone." It was funny to think that his friends would come close to the cave to look at him curiously, while he would close his eyes and scare them peacefully.
Seeing his joy, Anxius also became happy. He turned around and rubbed and massaged his boyfriend's baby, then hugged him tightly: "Okay."
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