[Full-time master] mottled

Things didn't go as smoothly as Zhou Zekai thought.

They met Shi Wengao in the small stairwell outside the emergency room. Zhou Zekai thought that he had specific clues about the two bastards who were trying to kidnap Jiang Botao, but Shi Wengao scratched the back of his head in embarrassment and told them that at present it was only based on The road surveillance tracked the escape route of the two gangsters all the way, and they disappeared near a residential area in the urban-rural fringe of Wenpu District, because the Skynet system in that area has not yet been fully covered, and there is a large flow of people. The composition is complicated. If we want to track down the specific whereabouts of the two people, we have to wait for the investigators to go to the field to obtain the surrounding civilian surveillance.

Zhou Zekai couldn't help but feel a little disappointed after hearing this. Jiang Botao tugged at his clothes, and shook his head lightly when he met his gaze: They have already caused too much trouble for the police department, and they shouldn't be too demanding. More.

So Zhou Zekai didn't say anything more, he silently took Jiang Botao's hand to express his thanks to Shi Wengao, and then led his guide back to the ward.

——Jiang Botao's injuries haven't fully healed yet, so no matter what he says today, he can't be tormented anymore.

Given that Jiang Botao was out of danger, there was no need to stay in the MICU for observation, and there were no vacant beds in the single ward. For various considerations, the hospital arranged Jiang Botao in an ordinary double ward. inside.

Fang Minghua, who got a paid vacation, immediately rubbed his feet on the soles of his feet and went home from get off work as soon as he was free. Therefore, the doctor who came to the ward to review Jiang Botao became Director Zheng Guohao who was in the same department as him.Director Zheng checked Jiang Botao's recovery from left to right. Although the guide's self-healing ability was not as good as that of the sentinel, it was unimaginably faster than ordinary people——Jiang Botao recovered very quickly, although his whole body She still looks a little listless, but the internal and external injuries on her body have healed [-]% of the time, but the hyoid bone is too severely injured, and she cannot eat solid food for the time being.

Zhou Zekai stood by the bed and listened, and couldn't help but start to wrinkle again.Seeing that the corners of his mouth were about to droop again, Jiang Botao quickly stretched out his hand to grab the corner of Zhou Zekai's clothes, expressing with a smile that he was already fine.Zhou Zekai lowered his eyes, wondering what he was thinking, and when he raised his head again, most of the gloomy expression on his face had disappeared. He took Jiang Botao's hand back, and stroked his knuckles gently and carefully.

The aunt who lived in the same ward with Jiang Botao was a talkative and close-knit aunt. Seeing that Director Zheng had left, she took the initiative to talk to the two of them, asking about everything from Jiang Botao's condition to Zhou Zekai's occupation like a cannonball.

Zhou Zekai was the worst at dealing with this kind of overly enthusiastic familiarity, coupled with her plastic Mandarin mixed with a Northwest accent, it made people feel even more irritated.

When it was time for dinner, Zhou Zekai thought about going out to get some chicken soup for Jiang Botao to warm him up, so as to escape the aunt's chatter.Because Jiang Botao, who was isolated and observed in the MICU, almost had an accident, Zhou Zekai would not let him stay alone in the ward at this time. After two turns, with a little force on his hind legs, he jumped onto the bed lightly, and lay down at Jiang Botao's feet very obediently.And Zhou Zekai, who was a little relieved, ran out of the ward as if running away, avoiding the life-threatening questions from the familiar aunt.

The most indispensable places around the hospital are those fly restaurants that only earn money from the families of patients. Zhou Zekai has already packed several soups without spending much effort. Just when he was thinking about whether he should bring another hot porridge back, He accidentally ran into the person he least wanted to meet—Chen Zilu, who had been entangled with him several times because of the influence of "tearing", was busy picking oranges at the fruit stand ten meters ahead.

The past few days have been so tortuous and ups and downs, the level of thrills is comparable to a roller coaster, so that the exhausted Zhou Zekai completely forgot that there is such a person as Chen Zilu.Now, the first time they met, even though it was just a glance from such a distance, it actually gave Zhou Zekai the idea of ​​running away.

Although rationality tells Zhou Zekai, if they are willing to explore when, where, and why Chen Zilu was affected by the "tear", this will be a good way to find out the monitors around them However, Zhou Zekai personally did not want to have anything to do with Chen Zilu, the false love from her was so frenzied that he was almost suffocated.

However, if Zhou Zekai allowed Chen Zilu to become more paranoid and crazy under the influence of "tearing", he couldn't bear it. After all, Chen Zilu was an innocent victim from beginning to end.

... Wait until the matter is over, and then find a way to help her.Thinking this way, Zhou Zekai lowered his figure, and quickly fled into the hospital under the cover of a passing SUV.Zhou Zekai, who was hiding behind the security booth, leaned out half of his body carefully and looked back. Chen Zilu was still concentrating on picking fruits in front of the fruit stall. It seemed that she didn't realize that her "favorite" brother Zhou was nearby.

Zhou Zekai couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, and hurried to the inpatient department with the takeaway in his hand.In the end, before he could enter the ward, he heard the overly enthusiastic acquaintance in the next bed speaking plastic mandarin, preparing to introduce his daughter to Jiang Botao as his girlfriend: "...Young man, isn't it?" I said, our family Xiaojing is really outstanding, gentle and virtuous, beautiful, and a high-achieving student. There were many boys chasing her in college! If it wasn’t for the busy work after graduation, she wouldn’t be here today. A boyfriend. Speaking of work, our Xiaojing works in a foreign company, what is she doing? Oh, anyway, I heard that she is in charge of personnel affairs, and hundreds of people in the entire company are in charge of her!"

In the face of his aunt's endless "matchmaking", Jiang Botao always had a gentle smile on his face - eight parts of helplessness and two parts of embarrassment were hidden in that smile - the aunt saw him smiling like this all the time, still Thinking that Jiang Botao was really interested in his daughter, he put in more effort in introducing her.

Jiang Botao maintained a commercial smirk on his face, on the surface he pretended to be very interested in what the aunt said, but in private he kept pinching the black wolf's claws to release the pressure.Zhou Zekai's spiritual guide was lying on Jiang Botao's body, his face innocently pinched by his half master's claws. If it sticks out half of its tongue, it might look like a pure black husky.

Zhou Zekai opened the door with a serious face and came in. Jiang Botao saw his eyes light up and sat up as if seeing a savior, but the aunt was even more excited when she saw Zhou Zekai back: "Hey! Young man, does your friend have a girlfriend? Auntie, I have a niece named Li Xinzi, although her job is not as good as mine, she still earns tens of thousands of yuan every month!"

"...No, thank you, auntie." Zhou Zekai walked between the two hospital beds, "I have a boyfriend."

After Zhou Zekai finished speaking, regardless of the aunt's reaction, he immediately stretched out his long arms, quickly pulled the bed curtain, and put up a mental barrier, "isolated" this world from the aunt's nagging.

Jiang Botao looked at his displeased face, and couldn't help feeling a little funny. He held the black wolf's paw and pointed it at Zhou Zekai, and opened his mouth to the black wolf seriously, as if to say: Look, cheapskate.

The black wolf with its claws pinched stared at a pair of golden pupils, tilted its head to look at Jiang Botao, and then turned to look at Zhou Zekai. It didn't have the slightest majestic and fierce look in the past, but more like a wolf being teased by its master. Silly dog ​​who is at a loss.Zhou Zekai glanced at him, pulled a chair and sat down by the bed, conveniently put the takeaway on the bedside table, and took out a portion of chicken soup from it. After testing the temperature and making sure it would not be too hot, he handed the soup to the Jiang Botao.

Holding the bowl, Jiang Botao didn't intend to drink, but first winked at Zhou Zekai.

"You drink the soup, I'll eat the rest." Zhou Zekai naturally understood what Jiang Botao wanted to ask, so he answered.The sentinel was already more resistant to hunger, and now that all his thoughts were on Jiang Botao, he really had no time to control his appetite.

Hearing what he said, Jiang Botao didn't worry about anything anymore, and went to drink soup on his own.

Zhou Zekai originally wanted to take back the spiritual guide, but thinking about Jiang Botao having so much fun with it, he just drove the black wolf to the end of the bed so that it would not interfere with Jiang Botao's soup.

There is one thing to say, opening restaurants outside the hospital is indeed making money.After Jiang Botao finished his soup, there was almost no dry goods left in the plastic bowl, it was all bits and pieces of chicken, bones and medicinal herbs that had been boiled into a ball.Jiang Botao frowned looking at the mess at the bottom of the bowl, but Zhou Zekai didn't care about it. He reached out and took the plastic bowl from his hand, and handed him a bowl of squab soup. Pick and choose two pieces of dry chicken breast out of the pile of chicken soup bottoms, threw them into his mouth and chewed them.The two of them had a clear division of labor and finished the few bowls of stew that Zhou Zekai had brought back. Jiang Botao, who added some calories, looked much better.

Get a good night's sleep tonight, and maybe I'll be all right in the morning.Jiang Botao typed such a sentence in the memo on the phone with a smile.Zhou Zekai pursed his lips and smiled, and tidied up the takeaway boxes piled up on the bedside table, ready to take them out and throw them away.

As soon as he opened the bed curtain, he was hit by the plastic mandarin of the aunt next door: "Oh, let me tell you, that person—"

The aunt wanted to say something, but when she saw Zhou Zekai, she fell silent with a face full of ghosts.The middle-aged man sitting beside her bed was confused, but he nodded to Zhou Zekai out of politeness.Zhou Zekai didn't care about the aunt, but nodded to the man as a return of greeting.

When he returned to their cubicle after throwing away the takeaway boxes, Jiang Botao had already played with his spiritual guide again: he held the black wolf's fluffy tail and rubbed the hair on the tip of the tail against the black wolf's. Nose, the black wolf nestled in his arms stared at the tip of his tail with his golden pupils that were about to become cross-eyed, and poked it with his paws from time to time.

Zhou Zekai sat down by the bed again, smiled and watched a man and a wolf play around, but his mind was not here: too many things happened in the past few days, almost every one of them was very important, but every one of them was very important. It was just the tip of the iceberg, and he had no idea what huge conspiracy and secrets were involved under the iceberg.There seem to be many clues in front of them, but these clues are intertwined and entangled. With their energy, it is really impossible to sort out every clue at the same time.Now the best way seems to be to hold on to one clue, track it down to the end, and then slowly remove the fog that covers the truth one by one.

Jiang Botao noticed that Zhou Zekai was just sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, and understood that his sentry might be thinking about something important, so he stopped teasing the black wolf, just hugged it to his full arms, and turned to focus on it. Zhou Zekai.

Zhou Zekai pondered for a while about the priorities of the several things in his hands. Before he could get a general idea, he suddenly felt that the surrounding seemed a little too quiet. When he looked up, he found that his guide was lying on his side on the bed with his wolf in his arms. Blinking a pair of bright black eyes looked at him.

"I'm fine." Seeing that he looked like a child, Zhou Zekai couldn't help a little smile in his voice.

Jiang Botao, who was still lying on his side, suddenly stretched out his hand to him, Zhou Zekai grasped it without knowing why, but was thrown away by the former.Zhou Zekai and him looked at each other for a few seconds, then he sighed as if he was defeated, and leaned over on the side of the bed.Only then did Jiang Botao reach out and stroke Zhou Zekai's hair in satisfaction, and then he stroked the hair of Hei Lang in his arms, feeling that the texture was similar.

"Why do you start to get skinny like a child when you have a little strength?" Zhou Zekai leaned on his arm and said vaguely, as if complaining or teasing.

Jiang Botao stuck out his tongue at him, moved back a little while hugging the black wolf, and patted the empty bed with his palm.

"Isn't it too crowded?" Zhou Zekai understood what he meant, but the narrow hospital bed obviously couldn't fit two grown men and a giant wolf.As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Botao blinked, and immediately drove Hei Lang, who had been in his arms as a baby all night, out of bed.

Hei Lang circled around the bed twice, and jumped onto the chair beside the bed while Zhou Zekai climbed onto the bed.

The beds in the general ward were indeed a bit narrow. Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao lay nose to nose, and the close distance allowed their breaths to blend easily.Zhou Zekai looked at Jiang Botao, who seemed to be a little thinner, reluctant to blink, and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to bring him into his arms. Jiang Botao just smiled, but soon the smile faded: at such a close distance, he could easily You can see the exhaustion and haggardness in Zhou Zekai's eyes.

During the two days I was away, he must have encountered something very difficult.Thinking of this, Jiang Botao inevitably frowned, and in the next second, Zhou Zekai easily kissed his brows away: "Don't think too much, it's all over."

Jiang Botao lowered his eyes self-consciously. After a long time, he raised his face again and smiled at Zhou Zekai. The gentleness and love in that smile made people feel at ease as usual.

"Go to sleep, I'm tired today too, I'll save those things to think about tomorrow." Zhou Zekai said softly.

Then they exchanged a shallow good night kiss in the low night.

It is no exaggeration to say that tonight may be the most peaceful night for Zhou Zekai to sleep since this period of time.

He and Jiang Botao hugged and slept on the narrow single bed, his lover's peaceful sleeping face in front of his eyes, the reassuring warmth in his arms, and the smell of guide element that only he could smell in his breath, Zhou Zekai felt unprecedented peace and tranquility. All the fatigue and burnout accumulated these days were crushed by the warm wind brought by Jiang Botao's breathing.

Zhou Zekai rested his head on this peace of mind and fell into a dream.

This is probably a very common dream. They finished eating the snacks they hoarded at home, so they could only go to the hypermarket to replenish their stocks during the weekend.There are too many people in the hypermarket, they don't grab the shopping cart, they can only carry the shopping basket.Jiang Botao picked out a lot of puffed food and carbonated drinks, Zhou Zekai didn't have anything in particular he wanted to eat, so he just stood behind Jiang Botao, playing the role of an emotionless shopping-basket-carrying machine.

"Xiao Zhou, look!" Jiang Botao, who was squatting in front of the shelf to pick out snacks, suddenly called Zhou Zekai, and the latter, who was about to wander off, looked down for no reason, only to see Jiang Botao winking like a potato chip bag The cartoon spokesperson with exaggerated expression in the past, while learning, he put the bag of potato chips next to his face for comparison: "Do you look like it?"

Zhou Zekai was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but sneered.Jiang Botao saw that he smiled, so he stopped making that funny face. He put the potato chips back on the shelf, and stood up with a small smile: "That's right. We people always want to get a little fireworks Only when you breathe, can you feel alive.

"...What?" For a moment, Zhou Zekai couldn't understand what he was talking about in this nonsensical sentence. When he recovered, he was shocked to find that Jiang Botao was squatting in front of him. It was simply a strange boy in his teens.The boy looked at Zhou Zekai inexplicably, then quickly ran away with the potato chips in his arms.After the boy ran away, Zhou Zekai realized that the hypermarket that had been overcrowded just now was suddenly deserted, and Jiang Botao was standing next to the float in the aisle, looking through the expiration date of a certain boxed cookie that was being promoted.

Zhou Zekai realized at this moment that he was dreaming, but he didn't want to wake up for the time being—he hadn't experienced such an ordinary scene for a long time, and he really couldn't bear to leave—although some aspects of this dream seemed strange, but everything They were all within Zhou Zekai's acceptable range.

But the Jiang Botao in the dream spent too much time picking out the cookies. He had already stood there holding the same box of cookies and looking at them over and over for nearly 10 minutes. His movements were dull and mechanical, like a VCR stuck.

This is not quite right.Zhou Zekai in the dream thought so, and subconsciously took a step in Jiang Botao's direction.However, something restrained his hands and feet, and he still stood there, motionless.Zhou Zekai frowned, tried his best to move his hands and feet, trying to go in Jiang Botao's direction again, but no matter how he struggled forward, it was of no avail.

——Zhou Zekai was horrified to find that he had turned into a doll in a box. Strong plastic cable ties bound his hands and feet, and firmly fixed his whole body on the cardboard behind him. Looking at the slightly deformed transparent plastic sheet, Jiang Botao's figure standing in front of the float looking through the cookie box became a bit funny and distorted.

Just when Zhou Zekai was trying his best to break free from the plastic cable ties, Jiang Botao over there finally stopped looking through the cookie box repeatedly. Zhou Zekai who was in the box beckoned: "Xiao Zhou!"

"What's wrong?" Zhou Zekai, who had turned into a doll, suddenly heard his own voice coming from not far above his head, and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat: Another "Zhou Zekai" was carrying a shopping basket, walking through the room where the dolls were placed. shelf, and walked straight towards Jiang Botao.

"Look, it's raspberry-flavored cookies." Jiang Botao held the box of cookies and turned to "Zhou Zekai", with stars shining in his eyes, "The kind that really has pulp."

"Okay." "Zhou Zekai" nodded, took the box of cookies and put them in the shopping basket, and asked again: "Pick two more boxes?"

"Hmm..." Jiang Botao tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "One box is enough. Let's go to the freezer, I want to drink yogurt."

That "Zhou Zekai" seemed to be smiling, Jiang Botao took his arm, and the two easily walked out of Zhou Zekai's sight.

"Wait! That's not me! Jiang Botao! That's not me!!" Zhou Zekai clearly knew that this was his dream, and everything that happened before his eyes was false, but he just couldn't stop worrying.However, no matter how heart-piercing Zhou Zekai roared, these words never reached Jiang Botao's ears - after all, he is just a doll sealed in a box now.

Wake up, wake up, wake up! !In the dream, Zhou Zekai yelled madly at himself from the bottom of his heart, but fortunately his psychological suggestion to himself had an effect, Zhou Zekai suddenly opened his eyes in the darkness.Not far away was Jiang Botao's still peaceful sleeping face, and the warm breath blew on the skin of Zhou Zekai's neck, making it itchy.Due to the support of the mental barrier, the entire ward was very quiet. Zhou Zekai, who had successfully awakened himself from his dream, heard Jiang Botao's delicate breathing next to his ear, and felt that his heartbeat, which had suddenly accelerated due to the startled awakening, was gradually recovering. normal.

Just when Zhou Zekai was about to relax again, he noticed that there was another black shadow beside the bed—it turned out that the black wolf who had been guarding the chair had noticed Zhou Zekai's strange movement, and rushed to the bedside to confirm the owner. Zhou Zekai, who was completely relieved, rubbed Hei Lang's head, indicating that he was fine, Hei Lang stretched out his rough tongue and licked Zhou Zekai's palm, then jumped back on the chair beside the bed, Squinting his golden pupils, he continued to doze off.

Zhou Zekai, who sighed softly, rubbed the pillow and closed his eyes again, but this time he only lay down for a while and felt a little thirsty. After careful calculation, Zhou Zekai started from opening his eyes in the morning, not to mention eating, Even without taking a good sip of water, it is reasonable to feel dry mouth at the moment.

In order not to wake up the sleeping Jiang Botao, Zhou Zekai moved out of bed extremely slowly in a rather comical posture. Zhou Zekai conveniently squeezed it again.

After getting out of the mental barrier, Zhou Zekai realized how "lively" the ward was: apart from him and Jiang Botao in the ward, there was only the talkative aunt in the next bed and the middle-aged man sleeping on the small bed in the aisle. The snoring came one after another, one after another, as if Thunder God and Mother Thunder were having a meeting to study the rainfall index for this month.

Zhou Zekai couldn't laugh or cry as he stepped over the leg of the middle-aged man who slept poorly and stretched it to the aisle. He only felt that he was wise and mighty for not removing his mental barrier before going to bed.

It was past three o'clock in the morning, and the entire inpatient department was silent.Seeing Zhou Zekai coming out, the little nurse on duty at the nurse station rubbed his eyes hastily, and leaned over to ask him if the patient had any emergencies.Zhou Zekai shook his head at her, saying that he just came out to get some water to drink, the little nurse was relieved and sat back, covered her mouth and nose with her hands and yawned.

Zhou Zekai bought two bottles of mineral water from the vending machine in the hall downstairs. After downing one bottle in one gulp, he opened the other bottle, took a sip, and went back to the ward.

Lei Gong and Dian Mu were still in the meeting in the ward, Zhou Zekai stepped over the arm of the middle-aged man to the aisle again, and returned to the mental barrier where the needle drop could be heard.Zhou Zekai walked around in the cold night, and he inevitably got a lot of cold air on his body. He stood there for a while, but his body didn't warm up anyway, so he could only lie down carefully under the blanket again.In order to avoid freezing Jiang Botao from the cold on his body, Zhou Zekai purposely lay a little farther away, almost his whole body's center of gravity fell on the edge of the bed, and if he was not careful, he would fall directly.

Jiang Botao seemed to have been asleep and was not woken up by Zhou Zekai. The latter heaved a sigh of relief, laying his head on his arm and was about to close his eyes when a hand suddenly stretched out from under the blanket and grabbed Zhou Zekai's skirt, pulling his whole body Drag it into the bed.Zhou Zekai politely asked Jiang Botao to drag him back onto the pillow. Jiang Botao, who still had his eyes closed, snorted in a daze, as if he was asking Zhou Zekai why he ran out in the middle of the night.

"It's okay, I'm thirsty and went to drink some water." Zhou Zekai explained softly, and at the same time moved back calmly to avoid Jiang Botao touching him.

Jiang Botao snorted again, curled up into a ball and went straight into Zhou Zekai's arms, finally found a comfortable place on the left and right, then settled down, tilted his head and continued to sleep.Zhou Zekai smiled silently. Jiang Botao is now almost all on top of him, and even the slightest movement of his will affect his sleep. What's more, Jiang Botao's body is really warm. Zhou Zekai half hugged this warmth and couldn't bear to sleep moved away.

Zhou Zekai, who had warmed up again, heard Jiang Botao's even breathing, and gradually fell into a dream again.

Strangely, this new dream seemed to be connected to the previous one, Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao were still shopping for snacks in the hypermarket.But this time the dream was too much, Jiang Botao didn't get stuck, and Zhou Zekai didn't suddenly turn into a doll.As they chatted, they walked through the shelves, and the shopping carts were piled up with various snacks.

Although their main purpose was to buy snacks and replenish inventory, some daily necessities at home also needed to be replenished, so the two of them finished shopping in the food area and then pushed the shopping cart to the daily necessities area.

When passing by the bedding section, Jiang Botao dragged out a round pillow shaped like a carrot from the lower shelf. He didn't actually plan to buy it, but just wanted to hold it in his hand and play with it.Zhou Zekai squeezed it twice with his hands, and felt that the round pillow was really comfortable to the touch, and secretly decided to buy it home when he checked out later.

Just as the two of them were pushing a shopping cart and the other was about to buy some shampoo with a round carrot pillow, the hypermarket suddenly fell into darkness, as if someone had turned off the switch.Zhou Zekai, who has excellent night vision ability, looked around and felt that the situation was not so simple - the whole hypermarket didn't lose the light source, but was completely eroded by darkness - except for the darkness, he couldn't see anything. He couldn't even touch it, and Jiang Botao who was standing beside him was gone.

Zhou Zekai panicked for a second, and finally realized that he was still dreaming.Before Zhou Zekai in the dream tried to wake himself up again, a closed door inexplicably appeared in the darkness not far from him.

——It is the rolling shutter door used by ordinary shops, and the white color steel tiles reflect an abnormal soft orange light in the pitch blackness.

Zhou Zekai stared at the door vigilantly. In the dark, he seemed to hear someone calling him from behind the door. He listened carefully for a few seconds, and suddenly realized that those voices were exactly what he was saying. Sentinel colleagues who disappeared in the "11.12 Mass Disappearance Incident"!

Just a second before Zhou Zekai was about to pounce, an inexplicable child's voice sounded from behind him: "Don't go."

A boy who was only about seven or eight years old and covered in injuries was standing about five meters behind Zhou Zekai. He was wearing a light blue shirt that obviously didn't fit well, and he was holding a strange three-headed boy in his right hand. The left sleeve of the puppet hangs empty.An overly bright white light shot down directly from the top of the boy's head, light and darkness intertwined and cut his face in a weird and terrifying way.Seeing Zhou Zekai turn around, Zhitong said again, "Don't open the door."

"Who are you?" Zhou Zekai stared at the boy and took a step back.

"Don't open the door." The boy noticed his little movement, but he didn't do anything, just said it again.

"Why don't you open it?"

"Don't open the door."

Zhou Zekai tried many times, but no matter what he asked, the boy just stood there blankly, repeating: "Don't open the door."

"What if I have to open it?" When Zhou Zekai said this, his back was already leaning against the rolling door.Zhou Zekai tensed his muscles secretly, the voices calling for help from the rolling door rang clearly in his ears through the thin colored steel tiles, he couldn't turn a deaf ear.

The boy holding the strange doll tilted his head, and finally said the second sentence: "Butterflies will die."

"What butterfly?" Zhou Zekai froze for a moment.

"The butterfly will die," said the boy softly. "The butterfly fell from the sky. When the butterfly died, I died too."

Zhou Zekai shook his head, he had already decided not to bother with this strange boy, he had to open the rolling door first.However, this rolling door was so heavy, even if Zhou Zekai tried his best, he couldn't shake it at all. It seemed that it had already merged with this darkness, and there was absolutely no possibility of opening it.

And the call for help from behind the door gradually turned into piercing screams, and finally those screams were submerged in a terrifying roar that shook the world, and Zhou Zekai woke up from his dream again.

The ward was no longer in darkness, the sunlight was blurred by the bed curtains into a hazy veil, falling on Jiang Botao's hair who had already woken up.Jiang Botao is currently half-supporting his head, staring at him and chuckling.

Zhou Zekai, who was still in shock, took a deep breath and decided to act coquettishly to his guide: He closed his eyes again, and while wrapping his arms around Jiang Botao's waist, he rubbed against Jiang Botao's side, murmuring inarticulately: "I'm having a nightmare. It's..."

Jiang Botao rubbed the messy hair on the back of his head and opened his mouth. After several attempts, he finally whispered softly in Zhou Zekai's ear: "I'm here."

I don't know if it was because he was comforted by his lover from the nightmare, or because he was relieved of Jiang Botao's recovery. On this cold winter morning, Zhou Zekai, who had immersed himself in the guide's routine, fell asleep soundly.

This time he didn't dream any disturbing and weird dreams, what he had was beauty and warmth, this peace gently wiped away all his tiredness and tension in recent days - in fact Zhou Zekai didn't dream of anything, and Maybe he forgot what he dreamed.

Zhou Zekai curled up on the bed and slept for more than two hours, until he was suddenly awakened from his dream by a sense of crisis that came from nowhere, and it was already around 11:30 noon.

Jiang Botao wasn't on the hospital bed, and even the bed beside him didn't leave any residual warmth. Zhou Zekai was startled for a second, sat up reflexively, and was about to roll over and get out of bed to find someone, but when he turned his head, only It was found that Jiang Botao was sitting on the edge of the bed, while Ma Jianlin was sitting on a chair by the bed with his legs crossed, and Shi Wengao was standing beside him.

The sound of Zhou Zekai waking up interrupted their conversation, the three of them turned their heads to look at him, Jiang Botao smiled slightly, Shi Wengao blinked, Ma Jianlin saw that Zhou Zekai was still full a second ago Looking for a partner nervously, the next second he found that he was fine and immediately returned to his sleepy and decadent look, he couldn't help teasing: "Are you willing to wake up?"

As a result, Zhou Zekai ignored him at all, and just asked Jiang Botao, "Why didn't you call me?"

"Seeing that you were sound asleep, you didn't cry." Jiang Botao's hyoid bone injury had just recovered, and his voice was still a little hoarse when he spoke.Perhaps because he knew what Zhou Zekai was going to ask next, Jiang Botao paused, and then continued on his own: "Director Zheng has come to see him, and he will stay in the hospital for observation for a day. If there is nothing to do tomorrow, you can out of the hospital."

After hearing this, Zhou Zekai just nodded, rubbed his cheeks, and was about to get out of bed and go to the bathroom to take care of himself. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped on the ground, his feet went limp, and he almost fell down. Giving him a hand prevented Zhou Zekai from falling to his knees on the floor and hurting his knees.

"It's okay." Zhou Zekai waved his hand at him, and Hei Lang, who was wrapped into a cake at the end of the bed, immediately jumped out of the bed, turning into a ball of light and melting into his body.Zhou Zekai set up a mental barrier all night, and released his spiritual guide for another night. The mental consumption was indeed a bit heavy, not to mention that he was tortured by nightmares all night, and he fell asleep peacefully after dawn. , even if the spiritual guide has returned to his body at this time, Zhou Zekai's mental state still looks as sluggish as if he hadn't closed his eyes for three days and three nights.

Jiang Botao couldn't help but feel distressed when he saw his footsteps so flimsy but still struggling to go to the bathroom on his own. Zhou Zekai's physique was different from his, and the consumed mental power could not be replenished by taking in extra calories, only by sleeping or resting. self recovery.But there are still many things waiting for them to deal with right now, it is very difficult for Zhou Zekai to get enough sleep time, let alone guarantee a sweet and comfortable sleep quality.

It won't work like this.Jiang Botao thought to himself.For the sake of Xiao Zhou's health, it is better to delay telling him about the whereabouts of the two gangsters.

Jiang Botao shared his thoughts with Ma Jianlin, who immediately nodded in agreement, and assured Jiang Botao that the two grandsons would be arrested within two days: "The police department can still handle this matter. We have to leave everything to the two of you to follow up, wouldn't we just be living for nothing?"

"I'm sorry, Captain Ma, it's all caused by us." Jiang Botao said, "The matter of Doctor Fang is the same as the matter of Meng Ping being silenced, and so many innocent people were implicated—"

"Hi!" Ma Jianlin interrupted him, "How can it be said that you caused the incident? In the final analysis, this incident is just because of bad guys. Besides, there may be more cases in the future that rely on your ability Uncovering the truth, so it can be regarded as making up for it, right?"

Jiang Botao was dumbfounded, and then he smiled, no longer entangled in these things, but continued to chat with Ma Jianlin along the topic that Zhou Zekai interrupted earlier.

It was very quiet in the ward today, the talkative aunt on the next bed is not in the ward at the moment, I don't know if she went to receive examination and treatment, or went downstairs to bask in the sun, Zhou Zekai didn't see her when he came back from the bathroom.Since she wasn't there, there was no need for Zhou Zekai to maintain a mental barrier to block the noise. Besides, Jiang Botao had been surrounded by bed curtains all night, so it was time to open up and breathe.

When Zhou Zekai opened the bed curtain, Ma Jianlin happened to be guarded outside after talking with Jiang Botao