Chen Nian lay on the hospital bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

At this moment he hoped he could fall asleep quickly, not because of the pain in his chest, but because he was too bored.

It has been three or four hours since Shafley passed away. The royal guards were loyally guarding the ward, but Chen Nian didn't know these young and strong Alphas at all. He was not an introvert. On the contrary, he was quite outgoing. But Chen Nian couldn't chat with them at all.

"Jason, you've been standing there all the time, aren't you tired?" Chen Nian learned the guard's name from the conversation just now.

"Return to Your Highness, I'm not tired."

The answer was exactly the same as before, first a respectful address, then a brief reply to the point, which was more concise than squeezing toothpaste.

Chen Nian knew that this was because of his current status. If he had to ask Jason to chat with him about all sorts of things, it would actually be making things difficult for him.

Now, every time he moves his arms, it causes pain in his chest. Not to mention playing with the terminal, even his fingers are a bit weak. Now he doesn't even have anyone to talk to.

Chen Nian sighed silently and could only wait patiently for Shafulai to come back.

About four hours passed like this, and finally footsteps were heard in the corridor.

Chen Nian's spirits lifted. The ward he was in was private, reserved for the royal family. Apart from medical staff, only people with special permission could enter. After several months of getting along with him, he was already very familiar with the steps of a certain Alpha.

The footsteps were extremely hurried, and as expected, they finally stopped outside the door. Chen Nian heard the guard outside whispering "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince".

Shafley nodded to signal them to keep quiet and walked in quietly.

He looked towards the bed and met those amber eyes. Seeing that Chen Nian was awake, he no longer deliberately slowed down his movements: "Why don't you rest for a while?"

"I slept too much just now and now I can't fall asleep." Chen Nian noticed that he didn't look well.

Now that he was back, there was no need for anyone to keep guarding here any longer. Shaflay waved his hand, and the royal guards in the ward left on their own accord and went to the corridor.

Shafley shut down the intelligent control system again. He sat on the accompanying chair beside the bed and whispered to Chen Nian, "I went to see the monster. It was held in a deep cell by the military and the research institute. When I got there, it was floating face down on the water. According to the researchers, it had been injected with a sedative that could stun a blue whale."

As soon as Chen Nian saw Shafley's narrative style, he knew there must be another story. He listened quietly, waiting for the next sentence.

In the past, Chen Nian might have eagerly asked “and then what?”, but now he would have chest pain if he talked any more.

"I approached the shield, wanting to see clearly what the blue eyes on its head looked like, but it suddenly woke up and threw itself onto the shield. The shield that was originally able to withstand the fierce attack of the Senna-class only lasted for three seconds in front of it. Fortunately, I was prepared and together with the others, I shot it with hundreds of bullets."

"It failed to attack me and struggled on the ground for a long time, blue blood flowing everywhere, and finally it lay face down on the ground motionless."

As Chen Nian listened, he couldn't help but widen his eyes; all of this was too familiar to him.

"We didn't know if the monster was killed directly. Someone tried to check it out, and when I stopped him, a big hole suddenly appeared on the monster's back, and a long, thin blue thing came out and flew towards my face."

"Fuck!" Chen Nian immediately looked at Shafulai's belly with a look of horror on his face: "Are you okay?"

Shafley shook his head, held Chen Nian's hand, and signaled the boy not to be nervous. He continued, "When the alien was about to touch me, a cover fell from the sky and captured it. The alien was successfully captured."

Chen Nian was stunned for two seconds before he breathed a sigh of relief and kept saying, "Fortunately, fortunately."

The result was completely different from what happened in the Electric Fantasy Kingdom. If Shaflay was really like his character, with his mouth drilled into his stomach, he would not be able to see Alpha anymore.

After all, reality is not a game where you can be resurrected no matter how you die.

"It's very similar to what you experienced in the Electric Fantasy Kingdom, right? Now I can basically confirm that everything we experience in the game is a preview of reality."

“The system will automatically simulate, and depending on the actions taken by the characters, there will be a variety of completely different results. In this way, you can prepare in advance in reality to prevent the worst possible outcome.”

"The only one with such powerful computing power is Beacon," Chen Nian murmured, "It was Beacon that set traps to capture monsters and aliens in advance."

Shaflay nodded. "I'll have to ask Cinnabar. I've sent for my neural adapter."

Shafley was talking when he suddenly stopped talking. He turned his head to look at the door of the ward, and Chen Nian also looked at him.

Although he was still very weak, his mental strength could still be released freely. Chen Nian sensed that someone was coming this way, and there were more than one or two of them.

"It's the White Tower," Shaflay whispered. "They're moving faster than I thought."

"Ah?" Until now, Chen Nian's understanding of the White Tower was very limited. He only lived in the White Tower during the first week of the exchange. After that, he was discovered by Shafla and moved into the palace.

Chen Nian actually always wanted to know how the White Tower worked in order to keep Chen Ci trapped inside, but he couldn't find a suitable source of information. Every time he asked Shaflay, he could only get a bunch of vague answers. Now he thought that it was Alpha who was hiding the existence of Ashes from him.

Now that the two had finally confessed, he hadn't had time to listen to Shaflay's detailed account of the White Tower's role in the Ashes.

"Don't worry, leave it all to me," Shaflay said with heavy eyes, "No one can take you away from me."

Chen Nian's hand under the quilt was held tightly by Shafley. He was just about to express his emotion for a while when there was a polite knock on the door of the ward.

Shafley: "Come in."

Three people walked in. They looked quite old, which meant they must hold high positions. The others waited in the corridor.

The three were a female Omega, a female Beta and a male Omega. They all had gentle looks, but their ugly complexions made them appear quite serious.

They first saluted Shafley who was sitting steadily in the accompanying chair, and then looked at Chen Nian who was lying on the hospital bed.

The young man lay on the bed, his black hair softly scattered on the clean pillow, his amber eyes still carried the fatigue of a serious injury that had not yet healed. The pain made him lack the healthy blood color, and it revealed a sense of frailty like a glass beauty.

As the three senior managers of the White Tower, they don't have many opportunities to get close to Chen Ci on a daily basis, and most things are done by the personal maids in the White Tower.

But judging from their appearance, the twins look exactly alike!

From the shock and panic when she heard that Chen Ci was assassinated and pierced through the left chest, to the relief when she learned that the rescue was successful, to the stunned and unbelievable feeling when she learned that the prince's wife's heart grew on the right side...

After more than a decade of examinations, they all knew Chen Ci's physical condition very well.

Chen Ci's heart is on the left side, how come it suddenly appears on the right side?

There is only one most likely explanation - the prince's wife was replaced by someone else without anyone knowing.

Someone who looks exactly like him, so similar that it's hard to recognize him.

"How do you feel now, Your Highness?" The leading female Omega whispered, "Maybe I should call you Your Highness Chen Nian?"

"Very good." Chen Nian saw that she was obviously here with bad intentions, and the rebellious spirit in his bones surged up uncontrollably. "I would feel better if you guys didn't come to disturb me."

Whatever the reason, he had no good feelings towards those people who had imprisoned his brother for eighteen years.

The people in the White Tower thought that Chen Nian would be surprised that they had exposed his identity, but they were sneered at in a sarcastic tone instead, and they were unable to respond immediately.

Shafley said, "Professor Qiu Xuetong, the princess was seriously injured and just woke up not long ago. You should finish your conversation as soon as possible to avoid disturbing her rest."

Qiu Xuetong subconsciously reminded him: "Your Highness Shafley, the one you are engaged to is His Highness Chen Ci——"

Shafley said calmly, "No, the other person I was engaged to was a child of the Chen family. Unless you don't want to admit that Chen Nian is also the child of Marshal Chen Wei, then why did you come here?"

After several attempts, Qiu Xuetong has confirmed that Shafulai and Chen Nian are on the same front. Yes, otherwise how could Chen Nian's identity be kept secret for such a long time?

Qiu Xuetong: "Where is His Highness Chen Ci now?"

Chen Nian sneered: "Aren't you guys always monitoring my brother's terminal? Don't you know where he is?"

Of course, Bai Ta didn't know, because according to their data, the end of Chen Ci had always stayed obediently in the palace, and even when he went out, he always followed Shafla.

Who could have imagined that right under their noses, the twins actually exchanged identities and even wore each other's terminals?

No, it should be said that they never imagined from the beginning to the end that the younger brother who died in the fire many years ago was actually alive all this time.

The news was so shocking that even the White Tower could not reach a consensus on how to deal with it, but they had to come earlier to make their position clear.

"Everything we do is to ensure the safety of the two princes. Just like this time, if you stay under our protection, you won't get hurt.

"Excuse me, Your Highness Shafulai, it is very dangerous to take Master Chen Nian to the Huanhai Platform. If I remember correctly, you and Master Chen Nian were also attacked by primitive creatures there two months ago. Why did you go there again this time?"

Your Highnesses. Chen Nian curled his lips. It seemed that they were not only targeting Chen Ci, but also wanted to include themselves in the scope. Their appetite was really big.

This man obviously came to question Shafla.

"Are you accusing me of being unruly?"

Shafulai directly put a hat on him, a hat that he absolutely could not accept, although in their eyes, Shafulai did not protect Chen Nian well.

Qiu Xuetong immediately said: "Your Highness, you know that's not what I meant."

"But what you said really made me think about it."

Shafla looked at her coldly, his voice emotionless: "The White Tower was originally established just to ensure Chen Ci's safety, so that he could live and grow up in the safest environment.

"But rules are dead, people are alive. More than ten years have passed, and the situation outside has been changing. The functions of the White Tower should also change accordingly."

When the three people present heard Shafley say that he wanted to make changes, they became a little anxious.

This is a separate funding project. If it is cut, not only will they lose a lot of money, but they will also lose their current status as the person in charge of the White Tower.

Qiu Xuetong took a deep breath and said, "Your Highness, you are only the eldest prince now, and the White Tower directly obeys His Majesty the Emperor. If any changes are required, His Majesty must give the order personally."

"Really?"

Shaflay said calmly, "I'm sorry, this is also my father's decision. From today on, the White Tower will be abolished, and you will no longer be responsible for anyone's safety."

"Please go back. As for the situation of Chen Ci and Chen Nian, I will be fully responsible from now on."