"What's wrong?" Yu Zhen noticed that Su Mo looked a little pale, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Su Mo came back to his senses and said, "No, maybe I ate too much."
Yu Zhen had some doubts in his heart, but he didn't think much about it, "Let's go out for a walk to help digest the food."
Su Mo said: "I wanted to go home, and suddenly I remembered that I didn't bring the medicine with me."
"Okay, let's go back first."
After paying the bill, the two left the breakfast shop. On the way, Su Mo was obviously not in good shape and spoke much less.
Yu Zhen dropped the man off near his home before leaving. Su Mo watched him leave before slowly going upstairs himself.
At home, Lele had already cleaned the house and was busy in the kitchen learning a new recipe. When he saw Sumo coming back, he asked, "Sumo, why are you here so early today?"
Su Mo sat on the sofa, took out the medicine that Lele had packed for him in the morning from his pocket, and drank it all with the cold water in the cup on the table.
The bitter and cold feeling spread on his tongue. He leaned back on the sofa, his mind in a mess.
That year, because of temporary work, his parents left in a hurry and did not have time to arrange work for him, leaving one person to accompany him. They just told him that the temporary work would last for a week, and when the work was done, he would have a half-year vacation to accompany him. He will always remember that one night, he and Lele sat in the living room waiting for their parents to come home, but instead of his parents, they waited for a hurried uncle.
"Something went wrong with the jump, and the people over there didn't pick them up."
"Judging from the location, it is estimated to be near the Sui Han Star Region. The guards did not dare to go in and could not rescue them."
"The spacecraft has lost contact, and all 43 researchers from the institute are inside..."
"Old Su doesn't have many relatives, what should we do with this child?"
The noisy and chaotic sounds seemed to come to his ears again clearly along with time, the anxious voices of his father's comrades, and the discussions of other people in the institute. The anxious faces of everyone back then seemed to gradually appear in front of him, and he was held in the arms of someone and stood among the crowd... He clearly realized that his parents might never come back.
"Su Mo!" Lele suddenly shouted.
Su Mo stood up and exhaled heavily, "I'm going to the lab. I won't be answering calls this afternoon."
Lele was surprised: "Don't you want to play games?"
Su Mo said sullenly, "No, I won't play."
Lele watched Su Mo walk into the laboratory and pace back and forth anxiously, feeling a little uneasy.
The machines in the laboratory were still running. Su Mo walked to the glass cabinet and pulled out a box that had not been opened for a long time. He sat cross-legged in front of the box and remained silent for a long time. It was not that he had not done other things in his youth, but his memory was too far away. At that time, he heard a few words from his elders about the "Sui Han" star field. He used his optical computer to search for a long time but could not find any signs. He was more inclined to believe that he had heard it wrong.
His finger lingered in front of the lock of the box. It was obvious that it could be opened with just a slight push, but he didn't.
"I heard about the Sui Han Star Region today. It turns out it's called the β2 Star Region. I got the name wrong."
Su Mo patted the box and continued mumbling: "It seems to be quite far away, I don't know if you can see me. My physical condition is f, the doctor said that if I persist, there will be hope of recovery. I can play holographic games, which is fun, and I met a few friends... I bought a new outfit for Lele, and it likes it very much. The tutors in school are all very good and take good care of me. My senior brother will return to the laboratory in a few days, and I may be busy again... I have a very good friend who took me to eat buns this morning. Lele doesn't know..."
At the end, his trembling voice sounded a little depressed.
"I kind of missed you guys."
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After Yu Zhen went back, he looked at some documents before going online. Unexpectedly, he did not see Su Mo in the game.
The other three had already formed a team, waiting for the two of them to go together to complete the demon mission. Qingfeng Xulai was originally a night owl, but after following their fixed group for a month, he successfully changed his life schedule. Hong Guoguo was even more of an early riser. It was said that his real job was to open a shop and he had to get up early every day to move bricks, but he had plenty of free time to play games. Zhige was a college student, so he was busy when he had classes, and very free when he didn't.
Hong Guoguo made money every day, while Qingfeng took Zhige to the wild to block people. During this period, there were no other dungeons except daily dungeons, so the few of them played daily dungeons every day when they logged in to earn points.
"Big Brother? Weird, he hasn't come online today." Hong Guoguo was tinkering with the store. "He asked me to buy some materials yesterday and said he'd pick them up this morning. I've been waiting for him for more than half an hour."
"Oh, by the way, all the props I bought yesterday are sold out today. A lot of people in this thread asked me if I would have new ones today."
Hong Guoguo enjoys making money and gets up early in the morning to make props. This week is the last week, and many players are working hard to clear the seven-star dungeon and get the golden equipment chest. The sales of various props are good, and the store's turnover has doubled compared to the past.
Qingfeng looked at the group and came back, "There's no news in the group, maybe it will be online soon."
Several people waited for a while, but no one came online.
Hong Guoguo came back after finishing her work and said, "My brother isn't online yet?"
Qing Feng said: "No, he didn't respond in my group."
Yu Zhen paused. He hadn't replied to the message he had just sent to Su Mo. "Let's do the points task in the evening. Maybe he has something urgent to do."
The other three people in the team didn't take it seriously when they saw this, but the formation master in the team just finished speaking and went offline in the blink of an eye, and the team of four suddenly lost one person.
"Ah? Why did Brother Xing suddenly get off?"
Qingfeng was just about to ask Xingzhi Wuji whether he was going to the wild to wait for people, but in the blink of an eye, he disappeared.
"Brother Xing has been acting strangely lately. When I go online, I always see him teaming up with my big brother, and he never brings me along." Hong Guoguo was still sorting out the store's cash flow, and continued, "Look, he looks for my big brother as soon as he comes online, asks about me when he joins the team, and logs off when my big brother isn't around. He's acting mysterious."
Zhi Ge recalled, "The day before yesterday, when I was testing the props, Brother Xing left as soon as he came online, and then the two of them went to the main city to look at the materials."
Qingfeng was even more puzzled: "Are they two organizing some private group without us?"
Hong Guoguo: "Two people are not called a group, that's called a private chat."
He corrected, "I still have a very high status in my eldest brother's heart. I will definitely know if there is anything going on between them."
"I don't understand. Isn't this just like my friend?" Qingfeng turned on the live broadcast to hang out. He said, "He found a sister in the game to play with. He used to look for me when he went online, but now the two of us are teaming up and flying together. Fortunately, I played with you guys in the beginning, otherwise I would have been abandoned by him now."
"What do you mean by 'living together and flying together'? What are you thinking? Isn't this just like those people on the forum who are into couples? They discuss my brother and Gui Zhen together every day, and talk about some kind of 'Wu Qu Shan Tian Ming CP'. My brother and Gui Zhen are not even close." Hong Guoguo said halfway, "But the fan fiction is pretty good. I almost thought it was true. It's just that the updates are a bit slow. It's better than the fan fiction of Apple and Xiao Yinhua."
Zhi Ge: "... Do you read these on the forum every day?"
Hong Guoguo said, "You don't understand this. As a businessman, I have to keep abreast of market trends. Gossip posts are compulsory, and fan fiction is an elective. Understanding the love and hate of the big guys will help me maneuver between the bosses."
Qingfeng said: "My live broadcast room is different. People are clamoring to watch Brother Xing every day."
Zhi Ge: “…”
Forget it, I don’t really understand your topic about boys.
The game was still going on, and Yu Zhen went out after logging off. It was not until he reached the bottom of the Sumo building that he suddenly remembered that he hadn't brought anything with him. Yu Zhen rarely acted before thinking in recent years. If he had encountered this situation in the past, he would first consider whether the other party was busy and didn't have time to answer the call, and then deal with the matter later.
But when Su Mo didn't reply for an hour, his first thought was to go to Su's house to check on him.
It was still morning and there were many people walking around in the community.
As soon as Yu Zhen arrived at the bottom of the Su family's building, he ran into Zhang Qi's grandfather and couldn't help but say hello.
"Hey, isn't this Xiaoyu? Are you here to see Zhang Qi for the weekend? He just came back yesterday."
Uncle Zhang responded enthusiastically: "Maybe he's still sleeping in."
Yu Zhen paused: "Don't worry, are you going?"
Uncle Zhang: "Let's go to the square to play chess. I've made an appointment with Lao Li."
The two chatted for a while and then Uncle Zhang left.
Yu Zhen went upstairs without hesitation, passed by Zhang's house but didn't go in, and rang the doorbell of Su's house on the same floor. After a long time, the robot Lele came to open the door, "Mr. Yu Zhen?"
"Is Su Mo at home?" Yu Zhen looked inside through the back of the robot. It seemed that there was no one in the direction of the living room.
Yu Zhen often came to Su's house, and Su Mo also told Lele about the situation. Lele said, "Su Mo is in the laboratory, please come in and sit down first, I will go and ask."
The room was very quiet. Yu Zhen was relieved when he heard that Su Mo was in the laboratory. But when he saw Lele heading towards the laboratory, he felt a pause in his heart.
When I entered the house, I could smell a strong fruity aroma and it seemed like something was being cooked in the kitchen.
Yu Zhen sat down in the living room and suddenly saw a small medicine bag under the water cup on the table.
Lele came over and said, "Su Mo will come out in a while, Mr. Yu Zhen, please wait for a moment."
"Is he busy?" Yu Zhen asked.
Lele thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be busy."
After a while, the door of the laboratory opened.
Su Mo calmed down. He was a little surprised to see Yu Zhen. Thinking about his own behavior in the morning, he took the initiative to ask, "Why is Brother Zhen here?"
Yu Zhen suddenly heard a voice and turned around, and saw Su Mo still wearing his morning exercise clothes, but his face didn't look very well, even a little flushed.
Before Su Mo could wait for Yu Zhen's reply, he saw someone walking straight towards him from the sofa.
The tall figure of the man suddenly appeared in front of him. Su Mo couldn't help but take a half step back, and then a cold hand fell on the side of his face.
A serious and earnest voice fell.
"Sumo, do you have a fever?"
Su Mo paused and made an excuse: "It's a bit stuffy in the lab."
Yu Zhen's hand fell on Su Mo's forehead, and the latter shuddered. He tilted his head to look at Lele: "Lele, give me the thermometer."
Lele, who was standing next to him, caught the word "fever" and immediately pulled the instrument over, "Is it a fever?"
The thermometer detected the result very quickly, which was a little higher than normal body temperature, but not particularly obvious.
Su Mo was just about to say it was okay when Lele beside him anxiously brought a bunch of instruments, ready to test him one by one.
Before the machine finished measuring, Su Mo's temperature started to rise and his forehead started to ache. The medical device diagnosed him with a cold.
It is autumn now, the weather is changing dramatically and the temperature is gradually dropping.
Su Mo didn't change his clothes after working out in the morning. He probably caught a cold. The data from the medical device was quickly sent to Su Mo's attending physician, who quickly called to learn about Su Mo's condition in detail. He was relieved after confirming that it was just a common cold. "Why did you catch a cold all of a sudden?"
"I drank cold water when I came back this morning, sweated a lot, and didn't change my clothes." Su Mo has always been honest when it comes to his illness.
Lele: “!!!”
Doctor Wu: "…Why don't you change into warmer clothes?"
Su Mo reacted: "Just go."
Lele quickly pushed the person into the house to change clothes, leaving Yu Zhen in the living room.
Yu Zhen paused and asked, "Should I be careful when taking medicine in this situation?"
"The results of the medical device data analysis are not out yet. This child rarely catches a cold due to sweating during exercise. It may have something to do with the weather changes." Doctor Wu continued, "But there is one thing I am more concerned about. Has his mood fluctuated a lot in the past two days? The data here shows a large fluctuation in the spectrum... The child has always been able to control his emotions, but suppressing them all the time is more likely to cause trouble. Talk to the robot later and ask it to pay more attention to its owner's emotions."
Yu Zhen thought of Su Mo's sudden low mood in the morning.
Doctor Wu said, "I'll write a prescription for cold medicine. He should have some at home. Just give the prescription to Lele and he'll prepare it."
Su Mo changed his clothes and came out, wrapped in a blanket and lying on the sofa listening to the doctor's advice.
After Dr. Wu finished speaking, he hung up the phone. Su Mo watched Yu Zhen and Lele go to the kitchen, seemingly busy with something.
There were faint noises coming from the kitchen. Su Mo, wrapped in a blanket, caught a glimpse of the game loader next to him. He reached out to grab it and found that the shell of the loader was icy cold. He couldn't help but retract his hand and wrapped the blanket tighter.
When Yu Zhen came out of the kitchen, he saw the boy huddled up in a blanket, with his head slightly lowered, his hair sticking to the side of his neck, revealing a bit of white skin on the back of his neck. His black eyes were staring at the loader, and it was unknown what he was thinking.
The boy's hair seemed to be a little longer than when they first met, and he looked very small wrapped in a blanket, nothing like the high-spirited look he had in the game.
Su Mo glanced over and noticed the medicine bowl in Yu Zhen's hand, "Brother?"
Yu Zhen walked over and sat down. "You have to drink the ginger soup while it's hot. It might be a little spicy."
Su Mo habitually leaned over to touch the edge of the bowl, and when they touched it, both of them stopped.
"..." Su Mo shrank back awkwardly, stretched out his hand from the blanket, and tried to take the medicine bowl, "It seems a little hot."
He was confused because of the fever, and the other person was not Lele.
"It's hot. I'll hold it." Yu Zhen held the bowl more steadily. "I just tested the temperature. It's safe to eat."
Su Mo hesitated for a moment, then leaned over the edge of the bowl and drank it sip by sip.
The ginger soup tastes spicy and the heat seems to spread from the throat to the limbs.
"Sumo, do you want to... Oh, no thanks."
Lele came out of the kitchen with a pink straw in her hand. When she saw this scene, she turned around and put the straw back.
Yu Zhen leaned sideways, holding the bowl in one hand, and had no idea where to put the other hand, so he finally placed it behind Su Mo.
He lowered his head slightly and saw the boy's white neck. His slightly bent body was moving, and the sound of him swallowing ginger soup in his throat was particularly clear.
For a moment, his heartbeat unnaturally quickened a little.
The warmth of the medicine bowl in my hand seemed to spread through my fingertips to every part of my body.
Yu Zhen sat up straighter unconsciously.
“… Drink slowly.”
The author has something to say: Lele: The straw is no longer useful (regrettable)
Sumo: …
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Here we come!
Take a break tonight and update tomorrow~
My debt seems to be increasing orz
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