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Sa’e was pushed by him like this, but still didn’t move or have the slightest intention of waking up. This was actually quite strange, but Chu Si couldn’t care any less at the moment. He focused all his attention on suppressing the pain and couldn’t spare much energy.
Although Chu Si was well-dressed and looked like he belonged in an office, he was still a person who came out of the training camp, and his physical strength was actually very great. In a normal situation, not to mention pushing someone, he wouldn’t have an issue lifting them up and throwing them out.
But right now, under the side effects of the nutritional soup, he felt as if the tendons in his wrist had been cut and he couldn’t exert any force. Even a couple of pushes couldn’t make Sa’e move much.
The space available could just barely accommodate a person.
Chu Si furrowed his brows and gave another few weak attempts before finally, his patience ran out. His last attempt was not so much a push as it was a slap on Sa’e’s arm, so it didn’t do much.
As he lay down on that spot, another wave of side effects crashed over him, and even before his head touched the bed, he reluctantly closed his eyes to alleviate the dizziness.
Sa’e Yang lay facing the wall, and Chu Si had intended to try to distance himself as much as possible, lying on his side with his back to him.
But when he really collapsed on the bed, he couldn’t figure out whether he was facing the right way or not, and he didn’t have the extra strength to worry about it.
He couldn’t even keep his eyelids open now, not to mention rolling over or adjusting his arms and legs.
When he was a child, he always dealt with his headaches like this, finding a place to lie down and closing his eyes without saying a word. In the orphanage, there was no use crying or shouting. The excruciating pain would not subside, and the more effort you expended, the more severe the pain would become.
Even when he got older, he still did the same thing. When Jiang Qi was not at home, he would find a nearby sofa to lie down on. If Jiang Qi was at home, he would rub his eyes and droop his eyelids, pretending to be sleepy, and say to Jiang Qi, “I’m a bit tired.” Then he would close the door and stay in his bedroom.
Chu Si was experienced in dealing with this kind of headache.
Don’t open your mouth, don’t use up your energy, maintain a position and breathe as gently and smoothly as possible, which was much better than blindly tossing and turning.
The experience he accumulated over the years was not entirely applicable at the moment, as he was not only suffering from a headache, but also stomach pain and a fever, distracting him.
In the past, he was able to stay awake and vigilant even after lying down for a long time, but now, he couldn’t even keep it up and fell asleep in the blink of an eye.
He didn’t sleep soundly at all. Almost as soon as he fell asleep he entered an absurd dream—
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Chu Si really lowered his head.
With this movement, he felt something pressing against his forehead. It had a strange texture, like a wall but unlike a wall, hard and somewhat warm.
He was already not sleeping very soundly, and laid against that thing for a while before realizing it wasn’t a sensation in his dream. He half-lifted his eyelids to glance…
It was Sa’e’s back.
He clicked his tongue in his heart, “Facing the wrong way.” But he was too tired to move, so he pressed his forehead against Sa’e’s back and fell asleep again.
There was still a burning pain in his stomach, but his headache miraculously alleviated a bit.
Le Pen was not wrong. Once you stopped moving, your body gradually cooled down, the cold drilling down your skin and into your bones bit by bit.
Chu Si felt a bit cold.
Perhaps it was precisely because this cold would not dissipate that he dreamed of an accident many years ago.
At that time, he had just entered the training camp for less than half a year and hadn’t learned much, but was already one of the most outstanding trainees at that time.
If it weren’t for Sa’e Yang, it wouldn’t be a problem to remove “one of.”
In the various simulated missions of the training camp, they were never grouped together.
Firstly, it was to ensure the gap in strength between each group was not too significant. Secondly… in everyone’s eyes, both of them were difficult to deal with, and their relationship was very tense. Flames could ignite at any time, and if things really started burning, no one could extinguish them.
But in rare cases, they were still brought together.
That time, the mission team originally sent out by the training camp had a problem and urgently needed to be replaced, so they forked him and Sa’e Yang out together.
The missions of the training camp were mostly assigned by the Military Department when it was inconvenient for military identities to directly appear, with a few of the General Government’s occasionally mixed in.
That time, the mission came from the Military Department. It let them explore a newly formed inspection module that emerged on the planet Nas at the junction of the pi and theta star regions.
It wasn’t difficult to go to Nas, but the defense system around the inspection module was almost flawless, and the autonomous attack system scanned all objects attempting to approach in all directions.
The training camp sent out three teams, but they were unable to succeed. Not to mention exploring, just landing on Nas was difficult enough, and there was even a team whose life or death was uncertain.
Chu Si took on the mission at that time because he heard the Military Department had received uncertain information that the inspection module was trying to target the White Eagle Military Research Institute, which was where Jiang Qi had stayed and was blown up.
And as for Sa’e Yang…
Chu Si felt that he also accepted the mission for some unknown purpose. Furthermore, the mission was very dangerous, very exciting, indeed in line with his usual tastes.
The two of them did not disappoint expectations and successfully landed on Nas. They also collected some information about the inspection module, but encountered some trouble when leaving.
The autonomous attack system of the inspection module unleashed full firepower and almost destroyed half of the planet. In order to interfere with the system’s target positioning, they each carried a leap module in opposite directions.
Chu Si’s luck in this lifetime was indescribable. A chain fell off his unlucky leap module at a critical moment and he was caught by the autonomous attack system. It immediately switched on 80% of its firepower to bombard him.
That was probably his worst mission result since joining the training camp. He had to give up the leap module and use it as bait to attract the firepower, while he himself temporarily took refuge in a cave.
Nas was inhabitable, and its nights were extremely long, so it was also extremely cold.
Chu Si was injured then; he sat on a rock in the cave with one leg bent, the edge of his oxygen mask pressing against a wound on the side of his face, causing him pain.
Without a tourniquet, the blood from his wounds quickly soaked through his clothes, making them stick to his skin uncomfortably.
He estimated that around the time when there was a malfunction on his side, Sa’e Yang’s side should have successfully leaped. Under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t be long before he took the information they gathered and returned to the training camp, finishing the mission.
When the other side realized he hadn’t returned, they would send people to rescue him. However, by then he probably would’ve become a frozen corpse in the cave.
At that moment, Chu Si thought of several different possibilities, even the extremely unlikely case of Sa’e switching tracks and turning back halfway. But successfully returning to Nas by evading the already crazy autonomous attack system would take a very long time.
He couldn’t last for that long.
The rapid loss of blood caused his body to quickly cool down. The surrounding environment was already unsuitable for human survival, even worse than an extreme environment on the planet he lived on.
He didn’t remember how long he sat in the cave, only remembering the fleeting chills and his blurring consciousness. His body began to lighten like a kite string slowly being released, about to break.
Then… in the middle of his dazedness, he felt someone patting his face.
He struggled to barely lift his eyelids and focused for a long time before realizing the person in front of him was Sa’e Yang, who should’ve leaped back to the planet.
No matter how many possibilities he had thought of, Sa’e Yang returning at this time was impossible.
He furrowed his brows, thinking that these were just his last hallucinations before his death. He even tried to raise his hand to touch Sa’e’s face, to see if he was real, but the instant he touched his cheek, he lost all his energy. His hand fell, softly brushing Sa’e’s skin on the way down, before landing on his arm. With a conflicted voice, he said, “Why is it you…”
What he was trying to say was, why did you come back at this time? Isn’t this the wrong time? But because he hadn’t spoken to Sa’e Yang in so many years, the moment he opened his mouth, his words became as such.
At that time, Sa’e Yang still had the characteristic lankiness of youth, but his arm was already very lean. He glanced at Chu Si’s hand, then turned his head away. His gaze fell on the wound on Chu Si’s side, and he snorted, replying, “And I wondered why you suddenly softened up. What a rare scenario.”
Back then, Chu Si was also young. Half of his life had drained away, yet he still managed to toss out a sentence: “If you’re done looking… then scram.”
Sa’e raised his eyebrows and nodded, before really standing up and leaving.
Chu Si snorted, and closed his eyes again.
But when he woke up for a second time, he found himself on Sa’e’s back, steadily being carried towards the cave entrance.
“Are you…” Chu Si said these words, but was interrupted by Sa’e. “You’re awake again? Since you’re awake, save some energy and don’t mumble. You’re making my ears itch.”
At that moment, Chu Si’s chin was pressed against his shoulder. Sa’e tilted his head slightly as he spoke, and the tip of his nose almost brushed against Chu Si’s cheek.
Chu Si tried to move back a little, eventually lowering his head and pressing his forehead against Sa’e’s shoulder.
He had to admit, the moment he opened his eyes and saw Sa’e Yang, he really breathed a sigh of relief. His drifting consciousness sank back into his body, like the kite string that was about to be released had been held again by someone.
This was probably the most relaxed and precarious moment in his relationship with Sa’e, so much so that even in his dreams, even after so many years, it was still as clear as if it had just happened last night.
I expect some unintentional cuddling when they wake up 🙂
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Awww so cute 🥺🥺
Exactly my reaction