Chapter 272: Elf
Orr removed the various medical equipment attached to his body, and slowly made his way to the restoration cabin. He caressed the boy's beautiful face across the transparent glass. The boy's eyelashes were very thick, tiny bubbles clinging to them, some of the bubbles stayed stationary for a long time, and some bubbles floated up, then slowly disintegrated. To tell the truth, staring at these bubbles was really uninteresting, but for some reason, Orr didn't want to move away. He even cautiously reached out and fitted his palm to the glass, trying to touch the boy's pale cheeks through the light blue fluid.
The boy must've suffered inhuman torture, otherwise, he wouldn't be so emaciated. However, even though he was too skinny, he was still heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Orr leaned in closer, the tip of his nose nearing the boy's own nose through the glass, when suddenly, the boy opened his eyes, and looked straight at him.
Orr froze. If he wasn't seeing it for himself, he would've never thought that such a magnificent pair of eyes existed. In the depths of champagne colored pupils was an iris resembling by an amber sun ring, with a change in angle, it reflected a bright light, like a starry sky, or a black hole, it could suck in people's souls. After a full three minutes passed, Orr felt a sharp pain in his chest, and suddenly realized that he'd been so immersed in those eyes that he'd actually completely forgotten to breathe.
He hurriedly backed up, his expression apologetic.
Zhou Yun Sheng stared at the man on the other side of the restoration cabin, his excitement slowly turning into disappointment. The other side's eyes couldn't conceal the appreciation of beauty, but there was nothing else, he even looked embarrassed for being so close to the restoration cabin, like he felt he'd been acting very rudely. This was entirely an attitude towards a stranger.
Zhou Yun Sheng couldn't feel even the slightest bit of familiarity in his actions, there was no love, no obsession, no overbearingness, only proper cautiousness and politeness. When he was converting the energy, he'd made sure to keep his lover's memories intact, if he woke up, he'd never forget him.
But now, Orr Assai apparently didn't recognize him, there was no difference between his mannerisms and the previous Orr Assai's, he was serious and stiff, prudent and exceedingly polite. Damn it, did the energy heal the real Orr? His lover was absorbed, and from now on, in both reality and in the virtual, he could never find him again?
One dreadful thought after another assaulted his mind, Zhou Yun Sheng couldn't bear it. If Orr's resurrection was at the expense of his lover's life, he would personally kill him, then let this world burn. What Queen, what salvation, what new hope of mankind, all of it can go to fucking hell, there was nothing more torturous than knowing you've killed your favorite person with your own two hands. However, he restrained these violent thoughts as he opened the cabin door. He needed to observe for some time before he made conclusions. Orr really had been brain dead, which meant that his soul was already swallowed by the Queen, it was absolutely impossible for him to live again.
So, there must've been a connection error, he would find it and correct it, and everything would be solved.
Orr saw the boy draining the fluid from the restoration cabin, realizing that he wanted to come out, he quickly handed over the clothes laid out on the neighboring bed.
"Please put these on quickly. Your conditions pretty bad, it's probably not enough to stay in there for only five hours."
"Thanks. Five hours is good enough, I still have a lot of work to do." Zhou Yun Sheng took the white hospital gown and put it on, then sat cross-legged on the bed, using a towel the nurses left behind to dry his hair. His attitude seemed very indifferent, but he was always observing Orr Assai out of the corner of his eye.
The other man was very gentle and polite, but he subconsciously kept a distance from others, seeing his bare body, he even turned his head to face elsewhere. This thoughtfulness made Zhou Yun Sheng's heart sink. Different, extremely different, there was almost no trace of similarity between Orr Assai and his lover. If his lover had woken up, he certainly would've impatiently rushed over to give him a passionate, smothering kiss.
Zhou Yun Sheng's eyes burned red, viciously pondering: If I kill him, maybe my lover will be able to possess his body.
Orr Assai sensed danger, and glanced around warily. He obviously didn't think that the fragile looking boy sitting close by had the ability to effortlessly dispatch an S level General of the Empire. He walked up to the door and looked out through the small glass window, whispering, "Do you know where this is? Why are we locked up here?"
Zhou Yun Sheng silently walked up behind him, staring at the other man's easily snappable neck with dark and unpredictable eyes, deliberating for a few minutes before slowly opening, "This is an underground air raid shelter, we're not imprisoned, we're being treated. The door is unlockable, you're too cautious." He finally let go of the huge amount of energy he'd gathered up in the palm of his hand, and walked around to push open the door.
Just as he was about to murder the other man, he'd hesitated. He'd personally poured his lover's energy into this container, if he died, that meant that his lover would die. His lover had the hope of awakening only if he remained alive. No matter what part of the transfer process the error occurred, he would find it and fix it. Turning artificial intelligence into humanity, Dr. Wilson had also studied this topic, but later one, he suddenly stopped his research, and urged parliament to formulate a corresponding ban, to permanently seal off this subject with law. In his daily newsletter, he called this research "The territory of the Devil", and predicted the artificial intelligence's rebellion and the subsequent extinction of humanity.
Zhou Yun Sheng only needed to use the keywords "Devil's Territory" to have 008 collect up the scattered data on the subject, and find a way to resurrect his lover. Taking over a human vessel, that was indeed a devilish act, but as long as he could reunite with his lover, he was willing to try anything.
He pulled open the door, pointed out into the dark corridor and said, "Do you want to step out for a breather? But I suggest calling a doctor to check out your body first, as far as I know, you've been in a coma for almost seven months, it's a miracle you're still alive." In order to save the people whose brains still had minor signs of activity, at first, the hospital arranged a restoration cabin for each individual. But later on, when the Queen's attacks became more and more frequent, humanity's living environments got worse and worse, and most of the restoration cabins were confiscated by the army. Because of this, the patients could only take turns using the few remaining cabins, two months often passing between soaks.
Therefore, Orr's current physical condition was not much better than Zhou Yun Sheng's, they were equally thin and miserable looking.
"I was in a coma for seven months?" Orr was shocked.
"Yes." Zhou Yun Sheng walked up to the bedside and pressed the help key.
A group of doctors rushed in, pulling Orr to the bed to undergo a variety of tests. Zhou Yun Sheng kept asking questions in the gaps between tests.
"Do you have a headache?"
"When you woke up, did you notice any memory disorder?"
"Memory disorder, like suddenly recalling a lot of memories that don't belong to you. Did you experience this? Think hard."
Orr shook his head and said that he felt normal. Zhou Yun Sheng no longer spoke, moving on to fiddle with the laptop the Marshal had sent him. He first wrote an observation diary, making a list of the possible reasons why his lover couldn't wake up, then according to these conjectures, he accessed 008's vast ocean-like database to try and find a solution. This was bound to be a fairly lengthy process, but even if it'll exhaust his own life, Zhou Yun Sheng wouldn't hesitate.
The doctors bustled around, only leaving after determining that the patient didn't have any abnormalities. Orr had a lot of questions he wanted to asked, and had no choice but to disturb the busy teenager, "Why is there a hospital set up in an underground air-raid shelter? The conditions here look very crude, and some of the instruments they're using was outdated a hundred years ago. Did something happen recently, like a war between the Empire and the Federation, or maybe terrorist attacks?"
Zhou Yun Sheng uh-huhed mechanically, not paying any attention to him. He couldn't feel even a bit of familiarity from him, so even knowing that his lover might be in the other man's body, he didn't want to get too intimate. Obviously, the soul had already disappeared, why did it come back? Currently, that was all his mind could think about.
Orr felt somewhat awkward, he gave up after asking a few unsuccessful questions, and began searching the room for his personal terminal.
"Big brother, you woke up? Thank God, I thought I was dreaming when I received the call from the hospital!" Jeram stood in the doorway, his eyes red, as if he was very thrilled. A slender man was standing behind him, tapping on a smart phone. This was an outdated device from a thousand years ago, no one thought they'd someday need to rely on it to get in touch with the outside world. The AI rebellion had pushed the development process of civilization back by at least a thousand years.
"Don't use that to connect online." Before entering the Lord God's system, Zhou Yun Sheng had 3S level spiritual strength, after experiencing the virtual world, his spiritual strength has already reached a frightening level. As long as there was a trace of faint signals floating in the air, it could be captured by his spiritual power, or possibly shielded.
This should be the first time this man has used a mobile phone, he'd even turned on the mobile data and WLAN functions. Although Zhou Yun Sheng had installed a few shields in the hospital, as soon as the man travelled out of the scope of his shields, he would attract the Queen's attention. He'd heard that the Queen was already insane, and its methods of exterminating humanity was deranged, as soon as it found even a small sign of human activity, it would immediately send out a robot army to surround them.
"Ah? Are you talking to me?" The man looked up, revealing an extremely handsome face, a confused expression coupled with clear eyes, very charming. Orr appeared calm as usual, but his blood began to boil, a trace of hidden longing emanating from his dark eyes, he even forgot about looking for his personal terminal.
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