Chapter 182



Whether it is the Alpha's efforts or Chen Ci's feelings, they are both so pure and so precious.

There was no reason for Bennett to refuse.

He immediately took Chen Ci to his workshop, where there were many materials and tools on the workbench, as well as eye sockets and eye lenses that were placed in the cabinet after they were completed.

There are actually many people who have had their eyeballs removed due to illness or external injuries. In order to prevent eye muscle atrophy and facial changes, almost everyone chooses to wear an artificial eye.

First, the eye socket needs to be implanted into the patient's eye socket, and then a suitable artificial eye piece is placed. The artificial eye usually refers to that thin artificial eye piece.

Prosthetic eyes like Fu Tianhe's, which are completely in the shape of an eyeball, are rarely used in practice.

Fake eyeballs often cause various problems in daily life and are far less convenient than artificial eyes.

The artificial eye can be put on, taken off and replaced by the user, which means that the user can have a variety of eyes of different colors and shapes.

Sounds good.

Bennett opened the display cabinet and introduced to Chen Ci the eye lenses and eyeglasses he made by hand one by one.

They need to be customized according to the specific conditions of the user's eye sockets. Most of those in the cabinet are made by Bennett for daily practice, or for customers to choose the style.

Chen Ci saw nearly a hundred types of eye lenses.

The black irises are sparkling with colorful diamonds, creating a remarkable fluorescent effect; the silver-white flowing like a galaxy forms a blooming rose; the clear and intoxicating light purple is like the precious eye color of a shablet; the red pupils contain vortices that can fluoresce in the dark; or there are gradient colors of hexagrams or inverted crosses.

You can even write inside it, and you're guaranteed to be the coolest guy on the street when you wear it.

Let's start with the basics.

Chen Ci followed Bennett in selecting materials and began to polish. He already knew the size of Fu Tianhe's eye sockets very well. For countless days and nights, he closed his eyes and gently kissed Alpha's empty eye sockets.

Today is the third day that Chen Ci has been at Bennett's house. He has completed the outline of the eyeglasses.

Thanks to the cooking and flower arrangement classes previously arranged by Bai Ta, Chen Ci is very dexterous and learns very quickly.

At first, Bennett was worried that due to his noble status, he might not be able to do manual labor and would be difficult to handle if friction arose during the teaching process.

Soon Bennett realized that he was worrying too much. Chen Ci's high level of comprehension almost gave him a surprise. It was really a blessing for him to have such a little apprentice.

Chen Ci sat at his workbench, facing the window, allowing natural light to illuminate every detail of the object in his hands.

After the eye socket is made, it must first be transplanted into Fu Tianhe's eye socket through surgery, and then a prosthetic eye is made based on the space between the eye socket and the eye socket.

Bennett gave instructions from the side, often reminding Chen Ci to pay attention to some details.

When the last ray of sunset glow faded and night and the stars fell, Chen Ci had completed the work at hand.

The lights in the studio were already on, and he stood up and thanked Bennett as usual.

"You are too polite, Your Highness."

Under normal circumstances, making eye sockets and artificial eyes is not that troublesome, but Chen Ci insisted on using the most primitive manual craftsmanship, so that the eye sockets made can best fit the eye sockets and be more comfortable.

He must give Fu Tianhe the best.

Chen Ci declined Bennett's invitation to stay for dinner and left the villa area alone. Just like when he came, he stood on the street, hailed a taxi, and went back to the hospital.

More than a week passed like this.

Chen Ci survived the fever period. He curled up on the hospital bed, enduring the burning heat erupting from his body.

Before, Chen Ci had never used the things that Bai Ta specially prepared for him, but now, he hoped that there was something that could comfort him and replace the feeling of fulfillment that Fu Tianhe gave him.

His disordered breathing and sobbing were trapped in a room where he was the only one in it. His pillow was soaked with sweat and natural tears. Just a few steps away was the intensive care unit where Fu Tianhe was.

This was Chen Ci's first feverish period after they got together, but they could only spend it apart like this.

Chen Ci used three times more inhibitors than the normal standard. Overdose would have an impact on the body, but Chen Ci no longer cared.

The fourteenth day since Fu Tianhe was brought back.

The Ashes in the body fell silent, and Fu Tianhe was transferred to a general ward, but there was still no sign of waking up.

The words the doctor said to Chen Ci with a worried look on his face seemed to become a prophecy - Fu Tianhe's brain was damaged and he might never wake up in his lifetime.

A lifetime...huh?

Chen Ci sat beside Fu Tianhe's bed and massaged his arms again.

He hadn't felt the muscles in Fu Tianhe's arms shrinking yet. The Alpha's arms were still strong, but he could no longer exert the strength to hold him in his arms.

Chen Ci lowered his eyes and rubbed his hands. It was very easy for people to lose their concentration when doing repetitive mechanical tasks, and he was no exception.

Since he was able to experience emotions, Chen Ci found it more difficult to concentrate than before.

Those emotions were like tiny flies, constantly surrounding him. They didn't really affect anything, but they always managed to divert some of his attention, causing his thoughts to wander if he wasn't careful.

Chen Ci was inevitably a little troubled; he could not tolerate the decline in his work efficiency.

Chen Nian said that it was because he was in a bad mood during this period. When he encounters happy things in the future, he will understand how happy it is to have feelings.

What does it feel like to be happy?

Nearly half a month has passed, and Chen Ci still hasn't realized it.

The boy's hands moved along Fu Tianhe's forearm to Alpha's wrist. The wrist bones on both sides were prominent, and his big hands had distinct joints. The fingertips and palms were hardened by years of hard work.

Fu Tianhe really likes holding his fingers. Alpha says that it’s a bit silly, but actually he holds them tighter than anyone else.

Of course, Chen Ci has never shaken hands with anyone, and there are only a handful of people who have had physical contact with him.

He pressed with his mind blank, when suddenly, he felt the center of Fu Tianhe's wrist move slightly.

The movement was so slight that it was almost impossible to perceive it accurately, but Chen Ci noticed it immediately.

That was the ups and downs caused by the pulling of the finger bones. Chen Ci immediately lowered his head and saw that Fu Tianhe's index finger was trembling slightly.

My calm heart was suddenly struck by some unfamiliar emotion.

The steady heartbeat suddenly became rapid, and the demand for oxygen also increased rapidly, and the breathing could not help but speed up.

Chen Ci stared at Fu Tianhe's hand and saw that his index finger was twitching and moving slightly.

Again and again.

"Fu Tianhe."

He called softly, his voice unsteady, "Can you hear me?"

The trembling of the fingers stopped for a moment, and then resumed at a slower speed. If the previous twitching was more like a conditioned reflex, then now, they were truly controlled by the owner of the body.

Chen Ci didn't move, fearing that his heavy breathing would disturb Fu Tianhe's movements.

He shifted his gaze to Alpha's face. Fu Tianhe's brows were slightly wrinkled, as if he was struggling hard in some predicament.

Struggling to wake up.

The hands of the wall clock turned silently round and round, and the trembling of the index finger gradually spread to other fingers. In the end, the whole hand groped and moved slowly. Chen Ci saw his white eyelashes trembling constantly, as if he was struggling hard with an invisible force.

After more than ten minutes of struggle, or perhaps only a few minutes, the eyes finally opened slowly and tiredly.

Chen Nian met an unfocused black pupil, and also saw the healed eye socket on the other side.

My nose suddenly felt sore at this moment.

Familiar, too familiar in fact. Twenty days ago, they returned from the Greenland ice and snow plateau. Fu Tianhe underwent his first operation. When he woke up after the operation, what was his reaction?

Chen Ci couldn't remember it clearly, because the surging waves that erupted at that moment were so strong that he forgot everything else and was instantly drowned.

Chen Ci held Fu Tianhe's hand. Alpha finally woke up, but he still didn't dare to be careless. Waking up was certainly a good thing, but other bad situations might occur.

"Do you remember who I am?" he asked softly.

As if he was awakened by these words, Fu Tianhe, who was staring at the ceiling in a daze, rolled his eyes and shifted his gaze to Chen Ci's face.

He stared at the boy for more than ten seconds, then blinked very, very slowly.

Chen Ci's heart suddenly began to tighten, making it hard for him to breathe.

Why do I feel this way? Isn't the heart firmly fixed in the chest cavity by muscles and blood vessels? Not to mention the lungs and bones, how can it be mentioned?

Fu Tianhe narrowed his eyes slightly, and the corners of his lips moved as if he was going to raise them, but because he was still very weak, he didn't do it well enough.

This smile, revealed in extreme weakness, seemed to answer Chen's words: Are you kidding? How could I forget?

My heart fell heavily again.

Such a distinct feeling of falling caused a vibration that made all the internal organs in the body feel uncomfortable.

For Chen Ci, who had just begun to understand emotions, the situation was extremely unbearable. He even experienced symptoms such as accelerated heartbeat, nausea, abdominal pain, astringent throat, and a sore nose.

In an instant, the eye sockets were filled with warm liquid, and before Chen Ci could wipe it off, it fell onto Fu Tianhe's face.

Fu Tianhe blinked again.

He had probably recovered a little from the long and bizarre dream, and the scattered memories of reality were recalled again. The tears falling from Chen Ci's eyes seemed not to be warm, but to be boiling hot, so hot that he wanted to shiver.

...Is September crying?

It was the first time that Fu Tianhe saw the young man shed tears. No, to be more precise, it was the first time he saw him frowning, biting his lower lip, and his amber eyes filled with sadness.

The boy he was most familiar with, who was always cold and indifferent, actually shed tears for him.

Fu Tianhe's first reaction was disbelief.

He even thought he was not awake. Everything he saw now was actually a deeper dream. Escaping from the pink and turbulent world, he fell into the paradise lost in his subconscious.

As far as he knew, it was impossible for September to shed tears.

The young man didn't shed a single tear when he knelt in front of Donald and dug out his eyeball, which had long since merged with his flesh and blood.

Chen Ci said that it was because he had been emotionally deprived since childhood and he was actually unable to experience overly dramatic emotions.

Fu Tianhe knew that what he said was still quite tactful, and September probably didn't feel anything.

He had never seen the boy cry, nor had he seen the boy laugh. No matter how thrilling, ridiculous, or warm and peaceful the event was, that delicate and handsome face like a porcelain doll always had a calm expression.

But now, the tears actually fell on his face, still hot.

Even in a dream, Fu Tianhe still tried his best to open his eyes wider, not wanting to miss any details in front of him.

The long, curved eyebrows were almost twisted together, and the dark eyelashes were wet with tears, forming two dark clouds shrouding the amber eyes. Those beautiful eyes were raining, reminding Fu Tianhe of light-colored drops of water falling from the cracks in the pink sky.

He wanted to move his body and raised his hand to wipe the tears from Chen Ci's face.

But this level of dream was even more difficult than the previous one. At least before, he could rely on his strong will to struggle to escape from the turbulent purple torrent, but now he didn't even have the strength to move a finger.

As if realizing Fu Tianhe's intention, Chen Ci grabbed his hand and pressed it on his cheek.

Tears flowed through Fu Tianhe's fingers, the feeling was so real, so real that Fu Tianhe almost thought it was not a dream.

No, he couldn't indulge in it.

He still has to wake up and see the real September.

The scene before his eyes must be an illusion, created by Ashes in order to paralyze his mind and destroy his consciousness.

But Fu Tianhe was really powerless to break free.

He heard the groaning from Chen Ci's throat, just like a small animal enduring the pain alone in a corner after being injured. The defense line that he had built with great difficulty was suddenly destroyed.

Don't cry.

Don't cry even in your dreams.

I would rather you always look at me with that confused, calm and self-controlled expression.

However, no matter how many ideas he had, Fu Tianhe could not do anything.

He seemed to have been unconscious for a long time, and his brain could not establish a smooth connection with his body. But it should not be a big problem because he was feeling extremely clear in his hands.

Wet tears, hot tears.

"You slept for half a month." Chen Ci finally managed to calm down a little. His voice was hoarse, and he held back his sobs as he said, "Chen Nian and I found you in the recycling station. At that time, your condition was very bad. The doctor said you might never wake up again."

Recycle Bin?

Could it be that... this wasn't just his hallucination?

Fu Tianhe fell into confusion.

Is this true? Did September really cry?

"If you can feel me touching you right now, just blink."

Chen Ci still held Fu Tianhe's hand on his face, and his other hand was on the Alpha's thigh, gradually applying force.

Fu Tianhe certainly felt his touch.

Although he didn't know why, he still blinked very cooperatively.

Chen Ci was completely relieved.

The Ashes crystals caused a certain degree of damage to Fu Tianhe's brain and nerves. The brain is the most sophisticated part of the human body, and to this day, medical scientists are unable to understand all of its functional areas.

The fact that Fu Tianhe was able to understand what he said and respond meant that the functions of his brain areas should not have been affected too much.

Very good.

Very good.

Chen Ci closed his eyes tightly to squeeze out all the fluid in his eye sockets. Without wasting any more time, he pressed the call button next to the bed and informed the medical staff of the news.

Seeing the doctors and nurses quickly enter the ward, Fu Tianhe finally confirmed that this was not a dream.

He has woken up.

A lot of things happened next, and he seemed to be undergoing further examination. Fu Tianhe was not quite sure. He had just woken up and his mind was still a little fuzzy.

Chen Ci had been standing behind the doctor, looking at him quietly, his eyes no longer shedding tears, but still wet.

After a few hours passed in a daze, Fu Tianhe felt that strength was returning to his body.

If he heard correctly, Jiu Yue said that he had been unconscious for half a month and had been lying in bed unconscious for more than ten days. Logically, he should have severe back pain by now, but he didn't feel particularly uncomfortable.

It was obvious that he was taken very good care of during this period, with someone constantly turning him over and relaxing his muscles.

Fu Tianhe tried to turn his head and look at the boy outside the crowd.

Turn -- head --

OK, this time it worked!

He blinked, much more briskly than before.

The doctors confirmed that Fu Tianhe was fine, and everyone's face was filled with joy. After going through so much hardship and undergoing surgery in an extremely critical condition, the patient actually woke up successfully. Initial judgment was that he had not suffered any other serious effects.

A new medical miracle has been born, and from now on, every day Fu Tianhe survives will break the record.

In order to avoid causing too much disturbance, the doctors and nurses left quickly, eager to share the news with more people.

So Chen Ci was the only one left in the ICU.

Perhaps because he slept for half a month in one breath, Fu Tianhe did not look exhausted like in the TV dramas. He was in good spirits.

Fu Tianhe tried to swallow, it felt a little strange, after all, he hadn't moved his throat muscles for half a month.

"September... September..."

The sound is as quiet as a mosquito's buzz.

"Yeah, I'm here."

Chen Ci sat on the accompanying chair beside the bed, tidied the quilt for Fu Tianhe, and held Alpha's hand again: "Don't talk if you don't feel well. It's important to rest well now."

But Fu Tianhe really wanted to say it.

He had a lot of questions in his mind. He wanted to know how they caught up with him when he was unconscious; he wanted to know whether his escape had affected others; he wanted to know why September suddenly burst into tears; he also wanted to tell him about the bizarre dream he had experienced when he was unconscious.

Only a few hours had passed, but when Fu Tianhe recalled it, many scenes had become quite blurry. He was afraid that if time went on any longer, he would forget everything.

He had had many dreams, but this one was particularly special, so special that Fu Tianhe knew he had to record it.

So he put aside other issues, endured the discomfort, and continued to tell his dream experience in a discontinuous manner.

In his dream, there was a rushing purple river, and countless broken limbs were washed away with him. He tried his best to pass through a fairy-tale-like but murderous giant amethyst jungle and came to a pink lake.

In the middle of the lake floated the body of a strange woman. She was wearing a gorgeous dress with patterns on her neck and face. Between her eyebrows was a silver vertical line, just like... just like...

Chen Ci: "Like closed eyes?"

"Yes, it was almost like a closed eye." Fu Tianhe continued, "I wanted to see if she was still alive, so I reached out and touched her. As a result, her whole body shattered, and a golden eye floated in front of me. I caught it in my palm."

"Now that I think about it, the eyes might also be contained below the vertical line between her eyebrows."

Fu Tianhe wanted to describe the strange woman's appearance to Chen Ci in detail, but he couldn't remember it clearly no matter what. He only remembered that she was very beautiful, so beautiful that she didn't look like a human.

"I don't know if the golden eye is related to my prosthetic eye."

Although a long time has passed, Fu Tianhe still misses that eye very much.

Then the sky broke and pink rain fell. It must be the doctor using a scalpel to cut open his head, then using a pair of forceps to open the wound, and using biological factors extracted from the brothers' bodies to flush the amethyst on the cerebral cortex.

Fu Tianhe couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his head, which was still wrapped in gauze. His hair must have been shaved off during the craniotomy. He hoped that it would grow out quickly.

Chen Ci wrote down what Fu Tianhe said and sent it to Chen Nian, hoping that his brother could recreate the scene through painting.

"Stop talking." Seeing that Fu Tianhe had finished speaking, Chen Ci stopped him, "Take a good rest first, there is no rush for other things. We still have a long time to discuss other things."

He brought the warm water from the table, inserted the straw into it, and brought it to Fu Tianhe's lips.

Fu Tianhe bit the straw, held a mouthful of water in his mouth, and swallowed it slowly.

There were pains in many places on his body, probably because the crystals had pierced his skin. When he thought about the many scars that might be left behind, Fu Tianhe sighed and felt sad.

His condition is getting worse and worse. He used to be considered a handsome guy, but now his hair has turned white, his right eye is scabby, and he has many scars on his body. It seems that September has a filter for him and will not leave him.

Fu Tianhe even dislikes himself.

Upon learning that Fu Tianhe had woken up, Shafulai and Chen Nian rushed over.

They went into the ward to visit. Fu Tianhe was still in the ICU and the doctors only allowed them to stay for a dozen minutes.

Everyone who knew Fu Tianhe's true situation was extremely happy, including Chen Nian and Shafulai.

Shafulai ran on the snowy field carrying the vomiting blood Fu Tianhe on his back, taking him away from the gate, then rushed back and sent Fu Tianhe to the hospital. He also underwent countless physical examinations and isolation. Fortunately, the vaccine and the blood provided by Chen Nian worked, and he was not infected.

Afterwards, Shafulai listened to Chen Nian's detailed account of what happened in the recycling station while they were tracking Fu Tianhe.

Upon learning about the tragic situation faced by Fu Tianhe, Chen Ci shed tears, and Shafulai was speechless for a long time.

Chen Ci finally understands emotions, which is an obvious good thing.

But the price of lifting the seal is too heavy, so heavy that it carries a strong sense of fatalism.

Just when they determined that Chen Ci was unable to open the door for some reason, Fu Tianhe suddenly escaped, and used his miserable condition to stimulate Chen Ci to tears, breaking the seal.

Is it a coincidence? No one knows.

But a series of events that happened in just a few days really made Shafley think more.

Now they can open the door.

He told Chen Nian about his thoughts, and Chen Nian had similar feelings.

"I just feel so sorry for Fu Tianhe and his brother."

Chen Nian said softly, "Alas, they are in such a mess over there, and we don't know what will happen to us in the future. Do we all need to go through this shitty fate before we can solve the problem?"

Shafley said firmly: "I believe there will be a good outcome. No matter what happens, we will face it together."

Chen Nian smiled and said, "You are a person favored by God. You have grown up in happiness since childhood. Of course you have the best hopes for the future. I am not that optimistic."

"I share everything I have with you, and now you are also loved by the whole world." Shafulai rubbed Chen Nian's hair.

Now things seem to be going in the right direction, will it continue? He doesn't know.


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