He and him in another life

case, when the plan is realized, he will take Cao Pi to leave the last island, and he will have a lot of time to listen to Cao Pi's stories that he has never told in his heart.

The new communication method established with Cao Pi seems to be very good. Sima Yi prepared two notebooks. Every weekend, he went to the research institute in person or through Xun and Guo Jia to get the notebook in which he wrote new content this week from Cao Pi. For him to continue writing while he reads.Nearly two months have passed in the blink of an eye, and the two notebooks have turned over dozens of pages, all of which are Cao Pi's review of his experience in the battle, about the details on the battlefield, and about his mood changes before and after the war.Sima Yi looked at them, and often had the illusion that they had returned to those two years.Especially when he saw Cao Pi's account of his first battle last time, the emotions of anxiety, fear, annoyance, sadness, etc. were fully portrayed. It seems that after writing, the boy is still the same boy as before.This made Sima Yi's psychological desire to take Cao Pi away from the last island more and more intense. Fortunately, the three-month deadline for the meeting with Xun Yu was slowly approaching.

However, something strange happened.

This week, there was no new content in the notebook that Guo Jia handed over to him.

The next week, Sima Yi went to Cao Pi's observation room in person.He took the notebook on the bedside table and opened it, but there was still nothing to add. Sima Yi couldn't help looking at Cao Pi who was sitting on the sun lounger by the window.

Sensing his gaze, Cao Pi looked up at him, then at the notebook in his hand, and smiled, "I don't have anything to write recently."

Sima Yi stared at his silhouette softened by the light in the sun, dazed for a moment, and finally said nothing, put down his notebook, turned and left.

At the same time, Guo Jia was puzzled by the test results of Cao Pi's supernatural powers. From his body sample extracts, no reaction marks that should be found for agile or aggressive supernatural powers were detected.For this reason, Guo Jia consulted a large amount of information in the database, but unfortunately still found nothing.Wandering back and forth in the archives building in shock, Guo Jia somehow stepped into the archives room again.It still maintains the same appearance as when he left last time, with a stack of files and his black teacup on the window sill.Guo Jia walked over to pick up the stack of files and wanted to put them back, but inadvertently saw the file number on it, which seemed familiar.Sitting on the window sill, he leisurely flipped through the four files in his hand, and Guo Jia had a rare solemn expression on his face.After closing his eyes and meditating for an unknown amount of time, he opened them suddenly, as if realizing something terrible, left the pile of files and ran outside.In a hurry, Guo Jia vaguely felt that the scene just now seemed familiar, but he didn't have time to think about it now.

"Teacher!" Guo Jia panted after finding Xun Yu in the laboratory, "I understand! I understand everything!"

"Understand what?" Xun Yu looked sideways, and couldn't help but smile when he saw his joyful and rash look.

"I understand, Cao Pi's ability is not at all based on extremely fast attacks to control the enemy in an instant, 100% hit." Guo Jia said almost without pausing.

Xun Yu nodded, not surprised, "I remember that when you first took charge of Cao Pi's experimental research, I told you that his supernatural attributes and abilities were unknown."

"No, it should be known." The joy in Guo Jia's eyes made his eyes look extra bright, and he took a small step forward to get closer to Xun Yu, and he whispered his own words. inference.

After a brief surprise, Xun Yu asked, "How can there be such a supernatural power?"

"Although this is just my guess, it can't be wrong, definitely not." Guo Jia looked at him with a very firm tone.At the end, he rarely sighed sadly, "It would be great if there was enough time."

After a shower in early summer, the sky above Mo Island was clear, but Sima Yi knew that the rainy season here had just begun.But it doesn't matter, this is the third month after Cao Pi agreed to the experiment, and there is one week left before they can bid farewell to this place and go to where they want to go.

Thinking of this, Sima Yi's steps became much lighter unconsciously.Standing still in front of Cao Pi's observation room, he glanced through the one-way window at Xun Yu and Guo Jia who were standing by Cao Pi's window, raised his hand and knocked on the door and walked in.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Xun Yu and Guo Jia turned their heads at the same time, and after confirming the visitor, their faces changed.

Sensitively capturing their unnatural expressions, Sima Yi frowned, and his eyes drifted to the bed, "What's wrong with him?"

Stepping away from the bedside, Guo Jia watched him come closer to check, and for the first time felt afraid to speak, "He... when we came in the morning... he didn't have any vital signs."

Lifting off the white sheet covering Cao Pi's face, Sima Yi stared at his withered face motionlessly, not knowing how to react.After a while, Sima Yi put the quilt back on his face, looked at Guo Jia coldly, "What did you do to him?"

"Sima, calm down." Taking a step forward, Xun Yu signaled Guo Jia to back off, "I can assure you that we have abided by our agreement with you and have not performed any destructive experiments on Cao Pi. He died of natural causes. "

Confronting them blankly, Sima Yi had a cold light in his eyes, "Teacher, I'm sorry, I can't believe your words this time."

As if expecting him to react like this, Xun Yu was not surprised or annoyed, "We have no reason to deceive you, and we have no reason to kill Cao Pi. You should listen to Guo Jia talk about the experimental conclusions he drew before Be the judge."

His cold gaze fell on Guo Jia, and Sima Yi's lips were tightly pursed.

After handing him the experimental record and analysis report, Guo Jia put away his usual laughing expression, "The specifics are all there, I just want to emphasize one thing to you."

"You said." There was no ups and downs in the tone.

"Time, manipulating the time course of individual life is Cao Pi's real ability." Taking a deep breath, Guo Jia said.

When Sima Yi heard this, he felt a flash of lightning strike in his mind, leaving him nowhere to hide.

In just a flash, Sima Yi understood how Cao Pi managed to make Wang Can, Wu Zhi, Xia Houmao, and Xia Houshang all die of organ failure without exception, and their death would be worse than life. Looked a lot older.Possessing such abilities, it is no problem to speed up a person's life process, thereby rapidly aging and dying.

Then, he remembered the sentence Cao Pi wrote in his notebook that had been confusing him all the time——

The last ten seconds before his death were ten years of my long life.

It's no wonder that after the battle of Xisi Bay, your own body functions will decline sharply, and your appearance will also age.Sima Yi almost sadly thought, in order to prolong the time you spend with your brother, but you can't bear to slow down his life process, let him feel death like a second, you don't hesitate to speed up your own life process to fabricate more than ten years to spend together illusion.Even if you can only face a dying body and a face that is no longer fresh in these ten years, you will not hesitate.

Cao Pi, Cao Pi.

Cao Pi...

"Alright." Sima Yi looked at the thick research report in his hand calmly, exhaled lightly, then raised his eyes to look at Guo Jia and Xun Yu again, "In this way, I can go back and report to General Cao. Tonight Some time, I would like to ask you two to sort out Cao Pi’s personal file, death certificate and all relevant materials on the island over the years and hand them over to me. Farewell.”

"This, he is..." Feeling at a loss for the sudden change, Guo Jia stared at Xun Yu in a daze.

Turning around and looking at the empty doorway, Xun Yu shook his head and did not speak.

The day Sima Yi left Mo Island, it started to rain again on the island. It wasn't heavy, but it continued.Sima Yi stood on the deck holding a black umbrella, watching Mo Dao getting farther and farther away in his field of vision.Then, he looked down at the two notebooks in the other hand, unconsciously recalling the few words Guo Jia said to him before leaving.

"Cao Pi said that everything he wanted to say to you has been written in the notebook, and there is nothing more, so he didn't write it later."

"Ah."

"He also said that he was just a patient you treated. Six years ago, he stopped occupying your life, and he will no longer occupy your life."

"Ah."

"He also said, sorry."

"Ah."

Smiling wryly and sighing, Sima Yi raised his hand, threw the two notebooks into the sea, turned around and walked into the cabin, "You have never been sorry to anyone."

In the distance, the last island has turned into a black spot, gradually disappearing into the distant horizon.

I just dare not think about it, how long it would be to live without you for the rest of my life.

The rain is constantly falling on the sea, and the sky and the sea are the same color.

〓 end 〓

Phantom limb pain

"Ah—my arm! It hurts! Doctor, I'm dying of pain!!"

"Doctor! Quick, look at him, Doctor!"

"Ahhh! It hurts like hell! Help, ahhhh—"

"Patient's family members step aside." Pressing hard on the struggling patient on the hospital bed, Sima Yi said in a deep voice to the flustered nurse beside him, "Prepare for a sedative injection."

"It hurts! It hurts! Help me... save... help..."

The clarifying potion was slowly injected under the skin, and the patient's struggle became smaller and smaller, and his voice became weaker, and finally he became completely silent.

Sima Yi straightened up, took the medical record on the bedside table, wrote something skillfully on it, and explained to the opposite patient's family member with a nervous expression without raising his head, "It's okay, this situation just happened because The phantom limb pain after amputation is a normal physiological reaction." At the end, he added, "Of course, it also has a psychological effect."

"Phantom... phantom limb...pain?" The middle-aged woman on the opposite side of the hospital bed was obviously very interested in this medical name.