Well, it's just eye drops, nothing to be shy about.
But in front of Chen Nian and Shafulai, Fu Tianhe was almost blushing. Just for such a small matter as applying medicine to him, Jiu Yue actually...
He himself even forgot to put in the eye drops, but Chen Ci regarded it as an important matter that could not be delayed.
Fu Tianhe took a deep breath, sat down obediently, raised his face, and allowed Chen Ci to remove the gauze covering his right eye.
The operation was completed yesterday afternoon. So far, the recovery effect seems to be very good. Eye drops are used to reduce inflammation.
Chen Ci dripped a few drops of clear liquid into Fu Tianhe's eyes, which wetted the surface of his eyelids. As he closed his eyes, the liquid seeped into the entire eye socket, causing a stinging sensation.
Fu Tianhe remained calm and instead enjoyed the slight pain.
Chen Ci capped the eye drops, put them back in the bedside table, and wrapped Fu Tianhe with gauze again: "Alright."
The Omega boy's frankness calmed Fu Tianhe down a bit. Yes, there was nothing to be shy about. He and Jiu Yue were a serious couple. Aren't Chen Nian and Shafulai also very close?
Schafflet examined the neural adapters of the four men and determined that they had been burned and could no longer be used.
He was a little worried about his game account, wondering if it still existed after being blocked.
Shafley: "Everyone has worked hard. Should we make an appointment to discuss this another day, or should we discuss it now?"
"Now," Fu Tianhe said, "so that you won't have any more nightmares."
Shafley nodded: "I'll go talk to the doctor."
With Shaffley's intervention, Fu Tianhe was finally allowed to leave the hospital for a short period of time. Fu Tianhe's eyes lit up and he immediately went to change out of his hospital gown.
The four of them took the elevator to the first floor, and Shafley looked down at the terminal.
Sure enough, more than half an hour ago, Bai sent a long string of messages to Sakura, asking him how he was doing and expressing his amazement at what he had just experienced in the game.
[We are fine, we are out now]
Shafley didn't mention that after the mosaic, the four of them entered the beacon backstage, [Your game data was not disturbed by the mosaic. 】
Baigeyingtao: [No, I was really scared at that time. After I was forced to log out, I quickly went back to take a look. Fortunately, everything was normal, but I can no longer enter the Greenland Ice and Snow Plateau. ]
Shafla heaved a sigh of relief. It was good that the data was fine. Otherwise, he would have gone crazy if all his nine years of hard work had gone to waste.
【It's not a big problem.】
Shaflay consoled him, "The beacon has collapsed. I guess the next main mission isn't particularly important. Just hand it over to the others who are still inside."
He took the time to chat with Cherry Blossom for a while. The elevator stopped, Shaffley put away the terminal and walked into the lobby.
The moment he stepped out of the hospital gate, Fu Tianhe could not help but let out a shout of joy. He was so excited, just like a big golden retriever who had been cooped up at home for a long time and finally got to go out for a walk.
It's true that Fu Tianhe has had health problems since he was a child, but this is the first time he has been stuck in a hospital for such a long time since he turned 22.
Shafley was driving, Chen Nian was the co-pilot, and Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe were in the back seat.
Chen Ci silently looked at the street scenes passing by outside the window and found that Shafley was taking them to a familiar place.
Sure enough, the car stopped in front of the gate of the research base.
But this time, there was no one in charge to take Chen Ci to the room where biological factors were extracted every month. Instead, they went directly into another secret passage and went underground.
The elevator has no floors, only depth, and eventually stops at -103 meters.
This is probably the most hidden area in the entire Cinnabar Top Floor. There is no intelligent system or monitoring equipment installed here. Even with a beacon, it is impossible to know the situation inside.
Shafley and Chen Ci also discussed the issue of identity in this room.
Shafley opened the fingerprint lock and found only a table and chairs for negotiation in the room.
They sat down one after another.
Shaflay poured several glasses of water and placed them in front of the crowd:
"When I last met Cinnabar, it said that we didn't have much time left. But this time it didn't reveal too much information. I guess there must be some serious problems inside Moonlight, so the five beacons collectively chose not to tell us.
"This is really interesting. Doesn't Beacon worry that we might get into trouble due to lack of intelligence?" Chen Nian complained. "Now it seems that Beacon should rely on us to explore the moonlight."
"The beacon never mentioned Ashes from the beginning to the end." Chen Ci said, "And the last time I went there, the Ashes crystals had already spread outside the Moonlight and had resonated with Fu Tianhe."
Chen Nian pondered: "The things that are deliberately concealed are most likely related to Ashes. The door that requires both of us to open together is probably designed for this reason. Hmm... there are a lot of Ashes in the moonlight. Only if we are strong enough can we deal with it with the least loss?"
Chen Ci nodded.
Shafley then asked, "Fu Tianhe, how are you doing?"
"No problem at all. The doctors said my recovery was amazingly fast."
To make his words more believable, Fu Tianhe did thirty push-ups on the ground, stood up without blushing or beating his heart, and said, "Yeah, there's nothing wrong with me."
Chen Nian: "...What kind of monster are you!"
Chen Ci: "I made a prosthetic eye with his blood, which should have an inhibitory effect. Let's make preparations in advance. Once his eye sockets and eye sockets grow better and he can wear the eye patch, we will set out immediately."
Shafley nodded in agreement. The situation could not be delayed any longer. Fu Tianhe's illness could relapse at any time, and blood pressure alone was not a long-term solution.
"The request for help from nine years ago has not been released until now. It's really strange." Chen Nian always felt it was weird. Now they needed to confirm whether Beacon was on the same front with them.
Cinnabar's reluctance to meet with Shaflay alone, Sanshui's unusual behavior, and the behavior of the other Beacons' Whisperers, all make the situation more uneasy.
"I will lead the special forces team this time," Shaflay said. "This is a serious matter, and it is definitely not just about the four of us."
In the face of crisis and disaster, individual heroism will never work.
Even the most powerful Chen Ci, who possesses the mental power to suppress Ashes' blood and control their minds, is only a fragile mortal body and can be seriously injured if not careful.
Only by gathering the strength of every individual, equipping the most sophisticated equipment, and having reliable logistics can we maximize our strength.
The four of them talked about their understanding of this experience. To a certain extent, it was the final test of them by the five beacons. Only after the beacons made sure that they had grown to be reliable enough did they tell them the final message of Moonlight.
Virtual data simulates magnificent scenes that cannot be experienced even in dreams. After all, no matter how bizarre the dreams are, the strange imagination is limited to the scope of cognition.
This strange experience may only happen once in a lifetime. It's a pity that I couldn't record it.
Chen Ci said: "The beacons said that the Electric Fantasy Kingdom is a preview of the future world, but its progress is really too fast."
"Earlier, Fu Tianhe and I had obtained observation data on the island, and the water level was indeed gradually decreasing, but the speed might be quite slow, and it might last for hundreds of years, just like when it first rose.
"Anything could happen during this period, and it is meaningless to make a rehearsal based on current data."
Shafley: "I think their so-called rehearsal is probably just a small-scale prediction. For example, when dealing with Aurora, there was also the alien that emerged from the blue-eyed creature. If we hadn't experienced it in the game beforehand, we would have been dead if we made the slightest mistake in reality."
Chen Nian nodded: "If we can think of it, there is no reason why Beacon can't think of it."
Fu Tianhe: "Now it is basically certain that the woman I saw in my dream was Moonlight. I am more concerned about whether the dream symbolizes other meanings."
"At first, I woke up in a purple river, surrounded by broken limbs, which looked like the corpses of many people infected by Ashes. The giant red bauhinia forest means that my infection has deepened and Ashes has occupied my whole body. The refreshing and soothing pink amber is the biological factor extracted from Chen Ci and Chen Nian's blood."
"And the moonlight is floating inside, and it will break if touched. What does this represent?"
Fu Tianhe couldn't figure it out for a while, he had a sense of déjà vu. When he was a teenager, he liked to read adventure novels. In the plot of tomb robbing, there would be a beautiful woman's corpse in the coffin that would not decay for a thousand years.
However, once the beads are taken out of her mouth, the beauty will quickly turn into a mummy.
The moonlight did not have any magical beads, but it had golden eyes that he finally held in his palm.
They spent quite a bit of time in the fantasy kingdom, discussed for quite a while, and were all hungry.
Seeing that the clock was about to leave the twelve o'clock area, Shafulai stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go have a meal first, and then we can talk about other things after we are full."
The four of them returned to the ground and got into the car. Fu Tianhe thought that Shafley would take them to a nearby hotel. When he saw the magnificent buildings belonging to the imperial palace outside the window, he thought they were just passing by.
Unexpectedly, the car drove straight in that direction.
Fu Tianhe suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart: "Wait, where are we going?"
"The Imperial Palace," Shaflay said simply.
Fu Tianhe: “Ah?”
Chen Nian turned around from the co-pilot seat and asked with a smile, "Why, you don't dare to go?"
"Not really." Fu Tianhe scratched his newly grown hair and said hesitantly, "If I go over there... will it be bad?"
"What's wrong with that? Just think of it as Shafulai treating us to a meal." Chen Nian knew what Fu Tianhe was nervous about. It was quite funny to see Alpha Nervous getting nervous.
The car stopped in front of the main building of the imperial palace, and an attendant immediately came over and opened the door for the eldest prince.
Fu Tianhe's body stiffened. Chen Ci patted his hands gently. He looked at Fu Tianhe's dark left eye and said softly, "Don't be nervous. No one here will hurt you."
Fu Tianhe knew that no one would hurt him, but this had nothing to do with whether he would get hurt or not, it was just...
Forget it. He took a deep breath and walked out of the back row with Chen Ci.
Shafley handed the key to the waiter and led the three people into the magnificent building.
The floor is as clean as a mirror, without even a speck of dust. One even worries whether the soles of their shoes will stain the floor.
Countless carvings, columns and ceilings give the space a strong sense of hierarchy and highlight a certain style. Fu Tianhe doesn't know much about it, but he can appreciate the beauty without a threshold.
The servants stood respectfully beside him with their heads lowered. Fu Tianhe stood straight, suppressing the urge to look around so as not to look like a country bumpkin.
After walking hundreds of meters, we finally arrived at the restaurant.
It turns out that the content in the TV series is not made up. There are really people who have to walk hundreds of meters to eat a meal at home.
However, if you want to eat in your room, a servant will definitely bring it to you.
Shafulai pulled out a chair for Chen Nian and said, "Sit down."
Fu Tianhe also hurriedly followed his example and pulled out a chair for Chen Ci.
Finally sitting down, Fu Tianhe's uneasiness subsided a little. He looked out the window at the lush royal gardens, wondering why he didn't dress properly in the ward.
He was very anxious at the time, so he took off his hospital gown and put on some casual clothes before going out. He knew that he would go to the palace later, so he had to dress up well.
Alpha glanced at Chen Ci secretly. The incident happened suddenly. In fact, none of them were in a good condition. The boy's soft and docile black hair was a little dishonest because he had worn a neural adapter.
But with Jiu Yue's looks, hairstyle is not important at all. Even if he wears a torn sack on his body, it is still a primitive fashion.
Shaflay had informed the kitchen in advance, and soon after the four of them sat down, the carefully prepared dishes were served.
Shafulai said to Fu Tianhe: "Don't be nervous, just think of it as visiting a friend's house."
Shafley was right, the palace was his home, and it was a very ordinary thing for him to invite his friend Fu Tianhe to come for dinner.
However, Fu Tianhe's identity is indeed a bit embarrassing.
After all, Chen Ci had been holding the title of the future prince's consort for more than a decade. Now, she had undergone a sudden transformation and was completely integrated with other Alphas in a very unfamiliar way.
The royal attendants had all heard the secret about the twins, and it would have been impossible for them not to gossip about it.
After all, everyone is curious.
But the servants' top professional qualities prevented them from showing it to his face. Instead, they smiled and treated Fu Tianhe as an invited guest with the utmost courtesy.
Fu Tianhe was sitting there feeling uneasy. He was really hungry. Compared with anxiety and hunger, hunger was more torturous.
Four starving wolves quickly finished off a table full of delicious food.
After the meal, Chen Nian bit into his favorite Christmas sundae ice cream, slumped in the soft backrest of the chair, and asked Fu Tianhe with a satisfied look on his belly, "How was it? Was the meal good?"
The dessert made with black raspberry core, saffron, truffle vodka sauce, golden leaves and sorbet was also in Chen Ci's hands and was eaten up by more than half.
Fu Tianhe nodded, he sipped the sparkling wine, and his other hand gently rested on Chen Ci's thigh.
Can I go back afterwards?
Shafley: "Rest here today. I'll ask someone to arrange a room for you."
Fu Tianhe shuddered: "No need to numb——"
Chen Ci: "Okay."
Fu Tianhe: ………………
The tension that had originally subsided rose again and condensed in the full stomach, making Fu Tianhe feel as if the ants crawling on the surface of his skin had also drilled into his body.
During the short time that Chen Ci and Chen Nian were exchanged back, they also lived in the palace and were quite familiar with the place.
The room that Shafley arranged for him was right next to his and Chen Nian's bedroom, so living close to each other would make it convenient for them to visit at any time.
Fu Tianhe followed the three people to the corridor of the living area and saw the maid who was in charge of cleaning the room walking out of the house.
Given Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe's current relationship, of course they have to live in the same room.
The young maid politely saluted the four men, and her manners were impeccable. Fu Tianhe still held his breath and watched her figure disappear into the distance.
Chen Nian saw it all and thought it was very interesting.
He hadn't thought Fu Tianhe was so thin-skinned. When he first read Chen Ci's diary about how the two met, he thought this Alpha who invited his brother to lunch right away was a thick-skinned person.
Shafley: "It's a good opportunity to prepare the equipment for the trip. If you feel unwell, you can always call someone to go back to the hospital."
"Okay." Between the palace and the hospital, Fu Tianhe would of course choose the former. He had been in the hospital for several days and was almost sick from being idle.
Although he didn't really want to stay in the palace for too long.
After saying goodbye to Chen Nianshafulai, walking into the bedroom and closing the door, Fu Tianhe let out a long sigh of relief and his whole body collapsed.
"Why are you nervous?" Chen Ci asked him.
"My identity is really too embarrassing." Fu Tianhe said softly, "Although Shafulai said he didn't mind, others don't know what happened in detail."
Fu Tianhe was silent for two seconds, and finally made up his mind: "Jiuyue, have I ever told you about the dream I had while I was unconscious?"
Chen Ci: "Was it washed into the purple river?"
"It was before that, when I broke the glass of the isolation ward."
"My head was groggy, and I dreamed that I was standing in a courtyard. I heard people talking in the corridor, saying... that I was blind in one eye, a cripple, without mental strength, and that I came from the underground city, so I was not worthy of being with you."
That was the dream that Fu Tianhe least wanted to recall. Now that he recounted it to Chen Ci, a strong sense of shame lingered in his heart.
He could no longer remember the specific content of the conversation, but Fu Tianhe would never forget the general meaning.
The inferiority complex hidden deep in his heart was dug out and exposed nakedly in the sun.
The young man in front of him was so good, he was almost perfect. Fu Tianhe didn't think anyone was truly worthy of him, including himself.
"I had planned to work hard to run Moon Rain and become a master at it, but now my health is in such a mess that I don't have time to do anything else."
Fu Tianhe smiled, but his smile was filled with more apology.
Chen Ci said nothing.
After a long while, Omega said softly, "When we come back from Moonlight, you will be well again. There will be plenty of time."
"If you do something, I want you to do it because you really like it, not because you want to make yourself worthy of me."
Fu Tianhe smiled and nodded.
In fact, he has never been a person who cares about other people's opinions. He didn't feel uncomfortable even when he was wandering in the underground city of Sanshui and was looked down upon by the Yu family.
But Jiuyue is the person he cares about the most. No matter how she comforts him, there is always a hurdle in Fu Tianhe's heart that he cannot get over.
His boy is so outstanding and should have the best things in the world, and his Alpha should also be strong.
Fu Tianhe knew that he had reached a dead end, but he couldn't change his mind for the time being.
Once he recovers, he must work hard towards the goals he has set.
"Take a short break."
Chen Ci patted the bedside, and Fu Tianhe sat down with him. The young man's fingertips touched the gauze and he asked softly, "Does it still hurt?"
"I don't feel anything." Fu Tianhe has a high resistance to pain, especially his right eye.
He had been accustomed to the severe pain there since he was six years old, and he endured it until he became numb.
Nowadays, with eye socket implants, the pain left by the surgery is just a drop in the bucket.
"That's good."
Chen Ci felt relieved. He adjusted the room's intelligent control system to sleep mode, and lay down with Fu Tianhe in the dim light that was most suitable for rest.
As soon as I closed my eyes, the various scenes I experienced in the fantasy kingdom kept reappearing in my mind.
It was the first time that Chen Ci saw the beacons in person. They appeared vividly before his eyes, just like real human beings.
Is it the same with moonlight?
Chen Ci imagined that the face drawn by Chen Nian opened its eyes like the other beacons.
Her light golden eyes must be gentle, just like the moonlight at night flowing onto the gurgling river, quiet and gentle.
In his ears was the sound of Fu Tianhe's steady breathing, and Alpha's hand under the quilt touched his fingers.
The mellow amber wood scent wraps around your body. After one sniff, even the bedding and pillows will be stained with the unique scent of Alpha.
Fu Tianhe always said that he was not strong enough and not worthy of himself.
But for Chen Ci, the sense of security that Fu Tianhe gave him was something that no matter how powerful a person was, could achieve.
In the past, he lived in the White Tower, which had the strictest security. When he slept, he would curl up like a baby and wrap himself tightly in a quilt, as if a knife would fall and chop him off as long as his limbs were exposed.
The slightest sound or light would startle him.
With Fu Tianhe, they walked through too many dangerous areas, but they were able to lie flat in a small tent with the sky as a cover, listening to the white noise around them, and fall asleep peacefully.
Chen Ci actually wanted to tell Fu Tianhe that enough is enough, that he didn't have to be that special someone, his current state was already what he most expected.
But seeing Fu Tianhe's anxiety and pursed lips, Chen Ci said nothing in the end.
Fu Tianhe also has his own dreams and goals.
Just as Alpha would never interfere with his choices, he should not interfere based on his own feelings.
Surrounded by Alpha signals, Chen Ci's heart gradually calmed down.
After his emotions recovered, he was no longer as calm as before. Chen Ci was getting used to this state little by little.
In a sense, Fu Tianhe's company was a sedative for him.
The sweet lunch break lasted longer than expected.
Chen Ci opened his eyes, turned off his sleep mode, and found that it was raining outside.
As summer approaches, the rain on the beacon becomes heavier and heavier, with heavy rain every two or three days.
Chen Ci remembered that when he was still in the White Pagoda, he liked to open all the windows, letting the wind mixed with raindrops blow into the room and wash away all the unspeakable depression.
But in reality it doesn't have much effect.
The rain that falls from the clouds moistens the trees and buildings, flows into the land, and is discharged to other places through pipes, but some rain still seeps down and becomes the "precipitation" of the underground city.
It is filtered layer by layer, either polluted or purified, and finally flows into the ocean, evaporates into clouds, and becomes rain again.
The raindrops hit the window glass, making a tapping sound.
Chen Ci once slept in Chen Nian's room. Water leaking from the cracks in the water pipes dripped onto the plastic shed, making a loud noise that kept him awake.
Then Fu Tianhe secretly repaired all the leaks in the entire community.
At that time Chen Ci was just stunned for a moment. If he had understood emotions earlier, he would have been deeply moved.
Fu Tianhe has done so many things for him, from the gentle and long-lasting things in daily life to the thrilling things in adventures.
Fu Tianhe also woke up. He put on his clothes, got up lazily, and stood behind Chen Ci. One hand naturally rested on the boy's waist, and he rubbed his chin against the top of his head affectionately.
Seeing Chen Ci silently looking at the courtyard in the rain, Fu Tianhe asked softly: "Do you want to go out and relax?"
Chen Ci nodded.
Chen Ci took two umbrellas from the rack and gave one to Fu Tianhe. Just as he was about to go out, he saw Alpha put the umbrella in his hand back to its original place.
"Just take one." Fu Tianhe put his arm around Chen Ci's shoulder and walked out of the bedroom with him.
The two walked through the corridor and came to the back door of the side hall. Rain was falling from the eaves, leaving wet and shiny marks on the stone pavement.
The plants are moisturized, showing an exceptionally bright deep green, which is refreshing to the eyes.
Chen Ci held out the umbrella and Fu Tianhe took it from him. Alpha held the umbrella in one hand, held Chen Ci in the other, and walked into the drizzling rain.