Chen Nian watched the three people's faces change from white to red, from red to blue, and from blue to black. It was so exciting that he couldn't help but laugh. The boredom that had been in his mind for several hours was swept away.

He also relaxed. No matter how scary the White Tower was, in the current situation, even if the sky fell, there was Tsavorite to support it.

"Your Majesty will not allow you to act like this." Qiu Xuetong took a deep breath and adjusted her state.

She knew very well that the eldest prince was of a calm character, and if he said so, it meant that in his opinion the matter had to be dealt with. However, as the direct stakeholders, they could not let it go so easily.

"The Ashes have not been completely wiped out. Both Master Chen Ci and Master Chen Nian have responsibilities on their shoulders. Their safety is not only related to themselves, but also to the future of all mankind. They must not be so willful!"

"We will solve the problem from the root." Shafley said to her, "You only care about the present. Have you ever thought about what will happen in a few decades? As long as the Ashes exist, will they continue to be managed in this rigid way? In the future, not only will it be clichés and ideas, but even their descendants will be forever restricted because they may have the same talent?"

"But there is no cure for Ashes. Over the past decade, the research institute has tried everything but failed to save even one infected person. Vaccines are the only solution at the moment."

Qiu Xuetong paused and said sincerely, "I understand your eagerness to protect the people around you, but everything the White Tower does is for the safety of more people."

"In the more than ten years that we have protected Master Chen Ci, he has never been seriously injured like this, or even in a life-threatening situation."

"Master Chen Ci grew up in the safest environment. Didn't the White Tower do a good enough job? If Master Chen Nian had been protected by us, the tragedy yesterday would not have happened."

Shafley's voice turned cold. "Well done? Don't you realize how Chen Ci has been taken care of by you?"

"He will be nineteen soon, and he has only a few opportunities to step out of the White Tower and go outside. He is the most distinguished Elector of Cinnabar, and my future Princess Consort. But has he received the respect he deserves over the years?

"The nobles took advantage of him never showing up and made random assumptions about him, spreading rumors everywhere. The public only knew that Marshal Chen Wei had a child, but didn't even know his name."

"When he was little, I took him to climb trees and wanted to play games with him. I would sneak out with him, but every time you found out, I would be scolded."

"You used the danger as an excuse to deprive him of all his dopamine sources, making him more and more silent day by day until he was too lazy to even speak. And you still think you did a good job?"

"He lacks emotion, but you take it for granted and are thankful that he doesn't cry or make a fuss, which makes it easier for you to manage him in the laziest and most hassle-free way."

"In your eyes, is Chen Ci's value just to provide raw materials for vaccines? Do you regard him as a real person?"

"Qiu Xuetong, I advise you to stop making excuses for yourself. If your own child was 'protected' like this from childhood to adulthood, how would you feel?"

"Your Highness!"

Shafley's words were so serious that Qiu Xuetong couldn't help but try to stop him. She gritted her teeth and confronted him head-on:

"I know freedom is extremely important to a person, but Master Chen Ci's talent means that he cannot live like an ordinary person."

"Yes, after all, everyone is losing their lives, but the two young masters are losing their precious freedom."

Chen Nian: “Cough cough cough!”

Qiu Xuetong's words were speechless. Chen Nian was choked by his own saliva. His chest vibrated due to coughing. Even after taking a painkiller, his whole face was wrinkled in pain.

Shafulai quickly pressed down on his shoulders and helped Chen Nian to steady himself. They looked at each other, and Chen Nian saw unprecedented anger in those violet eyes.

So much so that at this moment, even though he knew it was not directed at him, Chen Nian still felt a little scared.

After settling Chen Nian, Shafley turned around again. He looked at the three people beside the bed and said in a deep voice, "I understand."

"Chen Ci is the Elector of Cinnabar, my princess, the child of Marshal Chen Weiyuan, and an indispensable person for the Ashes vaccine. He is the person with the strongest mental power so far. As long as we can keep him firmly in our hands, it means that the White Tower can become an existence that the royal family, the research institute, the military, and the beacon must respect, right?"

From Qiu Xuetong's suddenly widened eyes, Shafla knew that he was right.

Shafley sneered: "You will never give up the power you have worked so hard to obtain so easily. I guess your senior executives have benefited a lot from it over the years, right?"

"Qiu Xuetong, your son entered the military two years ago. What position has he been promoted to now? Do you mind if I check?"

The ward fell into deathly silence.

Chen Nian secretly clenched his fists under the quilt, feeling relieved. It was really so relieved!

It turns out that these people in the White Tower have other plans!

Qiu Xuetong was breathing rapidly and was unable to refute for a moment. Of course, she had many tricks at her disposal, but she knew that these were useless in front of Shafla.

The eldest prince's current attitude clearly shows that he is about to fall out.

"I will discuss the specific situation with my father. At least during this period of time, the White Tower has no right to interfere with or manage Chen Ci and Chen Nian in any form."

"If you are not satisfied, feel free to ask my father. However, I cannot predict how he will respond to your abuse of public power for personal gain."

"Someone come!"

The royal guards outside the door obeyed the order and entered the ward immediately.

Shafulai sat back in the accompanying chair, stared at Chen Nian, and said calmly, "Please leave, all three of you. Do not let anyone from the White Tower in again."

"Yes! Professor Qiu, Mr. Ai Bo, Dr. Enard, please go back."

The three responsible persons were forcibly asked to leave.

No matter how shocked, panicked, or unwilling they were, they had no choice but to leave, because no one knew if they stayed here any longer, the eldest prince would directly order people to resort to force.

Obviously, Shaflay didn't want to waste time and energy on arguing with the White Tower, so he simply threw them to his father -

I have said everything I wanted to say. If you have anything else to say, don't tell me. Tell my dad.

Chen Nian witnessed the dispute up close and was almost overjoyed.

The White Tower would certainly go to the Emperor for confirmation, but they would never have thought that after talking with Shafla, the Emperor had already sided with them.

For the time being, this kind of protection by means of confinement can finally disappear on Chen Ci.

And he would not fall into the same situation as his brother.

The lives of more people are important, but they don't want to abandon their responsibilities for their own freedom. They want to go to Moonlight to uncover the truth of everything.

The life stories of the two brothers, the collapse of the moonlight, and the truth about Ashes.

Shaflay asked softly, "Are you curious about why I didn't break off relations with the White Tower before?"

Chen Nian nodded. "I've read my brother's diary. He was extremely bored in the White Tower. He spent the whole day lying on the windowsill counting birds and watching the workers working in the clock tower across the street."

"I tried, but I didn't have enough power at that time. Every time I took Chen Ci to do something outside the rules, I would be scolded." Shafley curled the corners of his lips. "Later, I could only take the opportunity to help him keep watch when the group went out, so that Chen Ci could go out alone for a while."

"My father gave me the White Tower, and only he can take it back.

"Before this, Chen Ci was irreplaceable. If anything happened to him, it would mean that the situation in Ashes would be out of control. So even though my father knew that the White Tower was strictly managed, he turned a blind eye."

Chen Nian finished the rest of Shaflay's words: "Now, my appearance has changed the situation. In addition, the mysteries from many years ago are being revealed. Ashes may really be completely solved. We need to explore the truth ourselves, so the function of the White Tower can also be changed."

Shafla nodded.

Alpha was silent for a moment, then continued, "I...actually I have always tried to help Chenci. When he was little, he would play with me, but because he would always get scolded, over time, he began to be unwilling to talk to me. Many times, I simply could not understand what he was thinking."

Chen Nian: "In the final analysis, it's because you two have very similar personalities. You're both relatively introverted."

"I have met Fu Tianhe twice before in the dungeon. He is a very enthusiastic person, even a little silly. I guess only someone like him can stay by my brother's side."

"Look, whether it's you and me, or my brother and Fu Tianhe, we've all proven with facts that two people with complementary personalities are more likely to be together."

"Yes." Shafley said, "When I went to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to pick up Chen Ci, I also met Fu Tianhe. He is indeed the most suitable person for Chen Ci."

For a moment, neither of them spoke. Chen Nian silently thought about everything that had happened in this short day, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

If, if he had not met Chen Ci by chance in the bell tower, the situation would be completely different. All the thrills, love-hate entanglements, would no longer exist.

"Under the current circumstances, it is not appropriate to publicly tell everyone your true identity."

Shafley held Chen Nian's hand and whispered, "I will definitely restore your identity in the most sensational and honorable way."

"I don't care about these empty things."

Chen Nian smiled with a smile on his face: "Anyway, no matter what my identity is, you, the most noble prince in the world today, have already been marked as an Alpha by me."

Shafulai laughed, he stood up and came over, gently kissing the corner of Chen Nian's lips: "Are you thirsty? Do you want some water?"

"I want to drink."

Shafulai certainly didn't think that Chen Nian wanted to drink alcohol in the true sense of the word. There was still a hole in the Omega's chest. Drinking now meant he was totally dying.

Schafflet deepened the kiss.

The Alpha's pheromones were captured by the Omega, and the sweet taste of sherry bloomed between his lips and teeth. Chen Nian narrowed his eyes contentedly, like a greedy little beast that was finally fed. If he had a tail behind him, it would surely be swinging it leisurely from side to side.

Chen Nian was finally satisfied and began to think about other issues: "By the way, I still don't know what the captured alien looks like."

Shafley took out the terminal and showed Chen Nian the photos he had taken. It was a blue creature in the shape of an eel, with a big mouth on its head and a circle of densely packed, sharp, tiny teeth in its mouth. It looked like a creature from an alien planet.

"It should be a variant of some marine creature."

Shafley said, "Now that this thing has been taken away by Cinnabar, I will definitely do a more detailed study on it. Now, I would like to know what happened to your character in the game after this incident."

"Yes," Chen Nian also wanted to know, "The blue eye pattern that appeared on my belly in the game was obviously telling me in advance that this thing might happen. Now all the relevant plots have been played out in reality. Maybe the game will make new deductions. Did you ask someone to bring my neural adapter over as well?"

Shafley: "You are not fit to use it in your current condition, right?"

Chen Nian: "It's just a pain in my chest, it has nothing to do with my brain. Did you bring it?"

Shafley: “Yes.”

Chen Nian laughed: "Then what else do you say?"

Shafulai fed Chen Nian some water. Chen Nian wanted to go to the toilet, but in his current condition, he couldn't even sit up, let alone walk over there.

Shaflay: "You just peed in—"

"No!!!"

Chen Nian refused a thousand times. They were still in love, how could he do something that would ruin the atmosphere!

"Let the intelligent control system move me to the toilet! It should have this function, right?"

Shaflay didn't expect Chen Nian to react so strongly. He just wanted Chen Nian to pee in the urinal, which was actually quite convenient.

"Indeed there is." Since Chen Nian was extremely resistant, Shafley did not force him. With the development of technology, medical care has made great progress.

Shafulai adjusted the parameters of the intelligent control system. Chen Nian only felt that the hospital bed under him disintegrated, leaving only a small piece of his body. Then the narrow bed slid smoothly towards the bathroom.

Even the bathroom walls have been changed, and the door has been enlarged to make it easier for the bed to pass through.

Shafulai wanted to follow, but Chen Nian ordered him to sit quietly on the chair. He looked towards the bathroom and soon heard the sound of water. It turned out that the faucet on the washbasin was turned on.

The rustling sound of the water covered up other sounds and stopped after half a minute.

The haze in Shafulai's heart was thus swept away. All along, no matter what he did, Chen Nian was always the most shameless one, and now he finally caught the boy's soft spot to some extent.

Chen Nian was pushed back to his original position and the bed was reassembled under his body. While marveling at the advanced technology, he also prayed silently in his heart.

You must get well soon, otherwise it will be too embarrassing.

Shafley's two neural adapters were delivered soon, one was a silver-gray adapter specially made for him to perform core program maintenance on Cinnabar, and the other was for daily game use.

Chen Nian lay on the bed, looking sideways at Shafley adjusting the parameters of the neural adapter, and said, "There are no belts here to tie you to the chair, okay?"

"Okay, I usually don't make much noise, I just fix it just in case."

After Shafley finished the inspection and confirmed that everything was fine, he put the neural adapter on his head: "You also help me keep an eye on it. If you find anything wrong, press the call button immediately and call other people over."

"Okay." Chen Nian nodded in agreement.

Shafley fastened the buckle of the neural adapter, leaving only his cold and thin lips exposed, but Chen Nian knew that he did not act that way.

Shaflay concentrated his mental strength, and his thoughts and electrical signals formed a wonderful resonance, achieving a balance, and in an instant he entered that alien space.

In the pure white that stretched out in all directions, Shaflay entered the code in the air, pulled open the "door" that appeared before him, and walked in.

Schafflet put his feet in the water, stirring up a faint stream of data.

Compared to before, the rain in this dark space seemed to be rising faster, passing through his fingers and hair.

Shaflay could even vaguely hear the sound of ripples, and the small scarlet figure was still sitting in the middle of the water.

He walked closer until he was in front of Cinnabar.

The red vertical pupils on Cinnabar's forehead were fully opened, staring into the void. Shaflay remembered that Chen Ci once said that he had seen similar red eyes on the island, hanging coldly in the sky, watching his figure.

At the junction of the sky and water data, some scenes vaguely emerged, passing by very quickly and chaotically. They were images captured by countless cameras, flashing in succession and difficult to be seen with the naked eye.

But now Shaflay is a conscious being. He gathers his mental strength and can barely see something.

He saw Chen Nian lying on the hospital bed, while he himself was sitting on a care chair beside him wearing a neural adapter. He saw a blue, thin, long alien rolling and struggling in a specially designed secret containment room, trying to break out of containment.

The White Tower was in chaos, with anxiety and helplessness spreading throughout it; the underground city's dark and chaotic streets were filled with a street fight going on.

The entire beacon is under Cinnabar's annotations.

She is everywhere.

Schaffrey thought he would be angry when he saw Cinnabar, but now, his mind was quite calm. Perhaps it was the habit of the past few years that caused this phenomenon, or perhaps the special neural adapter suppressed his emotions.

Relatively speaking, this is the best state, which allows him to think efficiently and avoid emotions affecting communication.

"Chen Nian has woken up. The water arrow aimed at his left chest passed through all the important blood vessels and only damaged his lungs."

Although Cinnabar must have known everything, Shafley still briefly said: "Someone from the White Tower just came. I have discussed with my father and have decided to temporarily abolish this organization. The White Tower is no longer necessary."

Cinnabar listened quietly and said nothing.

Shafley took a deep breath and continued, "In the deep cell, you were the one who captured the alien that jumped out of the monster's body. This was a plan you had set up long ago, right? Use Chen Nian to lure out the monster, and ultimately capture it and conduct research on it?"

Cinnabar finally spoke: "This is not my plan, but yours."

"From the beginning to the end, you made all the decisions by yourselves. Whether it was going to the Ocean Platform to test my mental power or taking him on a submarine to see the part of me under the sea, it was a decision you and he made together, without any interference from others."

"I am just trying to maximize efficiency based on this current situation."

Shafulai frowned. "So, even if you knew that the monster might kill Chen Nian, you refused to tell us the relevant information so that we could prepare in advance? If Chen Nian's heart had not been born on the right side, he would be dead now."

"I can't say." Cinnabar said calmly, "We must eliminate all possibilities of information leaking out."

"Even if Chen Nian will die because of this?"

"Shapley, I am not a human being. Please do not judge me by human rules."

"All the decisions I make are based on the best solution calculated. From the moment I was created, my only mission and principle is to ensure the continuation of the human race.

"It is not difficult to accept personal sacrifice in exchange for the future of the group. To you, Chen Nian is the most important person, but to me, he is no different from the other people living in my body."

Shafley: "He has the same gift as Chen Ci. His blood can also be used as a vaccine for Ashes!"

Cinnabar: "We still have a speech, don't we?"

Shafley's eyes widened. How could he not understand the meaning behind Cinnabar's words? Neither old words nor old ideas were unique and irreplaceable.

Their existence increases each other's tolerance.

Tolerance. What a cruel word.

"If you want to change the status quo, then find the truth as soon as possible. I have already removed a major hidden danger for you. Next, please speed up. We don't have much time left."

Cinnabar raised his hand, and Shaflay felt his body lighten. He flew backwards quickly, passing through the rising rain curtain, disrupting countless data streams, and being pushed into the endless distance.

Everything in front of his eyes went dark, and he was forced to exit the core program again.

Shafley took a deep breath, took off the neural adapter, and saw Chen Nian's hand on the call bell, ready to press it hard at any time.

Seeing that Shafley had woken up smoothly and normally, Chen Nian breathed a sigh of relief. He let go of the call bell and said softly, "You suddenly twitched violently just now. I was scared to death."

"I was kicked out of Cinnabar," Shafley paused, ruefully, "again."