Jiang Zhihuo was completely dazed when he walked out of the hospital.
There was no need for him to be hospitalized in his condition, but the doctor's words went over in his mind again and again, and his hands were shaking as he opened the car door.
He had never felt the reality of the secondary differentiation into an omega before. He thought that the only difference was that he had to take inhibitors, and nothing else. Now that the doctor told him that a reproductive cavity was growing in his body, he suddenly remembered that he had overlooked the most important thing.
Jiang Zhihuo touched his lower abdomen and finally felt the ultimate difference between alpha and omega.
—Omegas can get pregnant!
Today is Sunday, so Jiang Zhihuo doesn't have to go to school. Li Muhe drove here and sent him to his residence. He wanted to ask where Yan Mu's home was, but Jiang Zhihuo answered for him: "Pack up and send it to where I live."
When they got downstairs, they got out of the car. Jiang Zhihuo pulled Yan Mu and helped him carry the suitcase down. He said to Li Muhe, "Brother Li, I'm going up first. I'm a little upset today. I'll come back when I'm better."
Li Muhe smiled gently and said, "Okay."
Yan Mu also nodded at him.
He really didn't know what to say to Li Muhe. The scene of Li Muhe grabbing Jiang Zhihuo's hand in the hospital last night was too shocking. Then he thought about how he had been with Xiaozhou all these years, and he felt sore all over and his teeth were sore.
But he couldn't really show his emotions to Jiang Zhihuo and Li Muhe, so he could only nod.
Li Muhe was also speechless, and only said, "Go up."
Li Muhe did not drive away immediately, but sat in the car and watched the two people's backs as they disappeared into the corridor.
After coming out of the ward, the doctor talked to him alone for a while.
Li Muhe had always known about Jiang Zhihuo's secondary differentiation, and Jiang Zhihuo would tell him, but he didn't know that Xiaohuo was marked by an alpha on the first day of the secondary differentiation, and therefore had to rely on alpha's pheromones to suppress fever.
When the doctor confirmed the identity of his family member and told him about this, Li Muhe's heart sank and he wanted to catch the person who marked him and beat him up on the spot. Xiaohuo was also upset that such an important matter was not told to him.
"And then?" Li Muhe's tone became urgent.
"Don't be nervous. That alpha boy is very responsible. He didn't run away. I accompanied him to the hospital every time. Just like what happened just now, if I wanted to beat him up, I would go home and beat him up. He was just making trouble in the hospital." The doctor saw what Li Muhe was thinking and made a joke. Then he said, "It's all right now. The change from A to O is a special case. The mark will gradually disappear and there will be no impact. Don't worry."
After the doctor finished talking about this, he briefly told Li Muhe about the reproductive cavity. After all, he was a family member, and although he was a beta, the doctor had an obligation to tell him the truth.
Omega and alpha have different sexual characteristics. Male omega does not have a uterus and will slowly grow a reproductive cavity after the second sexual differentiation.
"Right now, lower abdominal pain is normal. The patient is differentiating the reproductive cavity, and the pain is an external manifestation. In this case, taking medicine is useless. It is best to have alpha pheromones to act as a soothing agent, otherwise you can only endure the pain. We just talked about it inside, it's not a big problem, you don't have to worry too much."
Li Muhe let out a long sigh.
The sky is blue, the streets are covered with sycamore leaves, the houses in the old neighborhood are uneven in height, and there is a long graffiti wall in front with various colors of paint mixed together. It is crowded and lively.
Looking at this old street block, he would always think of the scene when he picked up Jiang Zhihuo.
He and Jiang Zhihuo lived together for many years, and they met in an old neighborhood that was very similar to this place.
It was the end of the year, and Li Hao was sent to a lower-level dispatched agency to conduct random inspections. Li Muhe was going crazy at home, so he followed him. As soon as he got there, he saw a child wearing only a thin sweatshirt coming to report a case.
He is young and thin.
Such a young child said he wanted to report a crime. This was no joke. At first, the receptionist thought he was just being playful and asked, "Does your father know you want to report a crime?"
The child calmly replied, “I don’t know.”
Then he rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs in front of the receptionist, with injury reports and recorded evidence.
The child pointed to the sound and said, "That's my dad."
The police officer listened to the recording over and over again. He was just a receptionist and had to write down the details and report them. The child saw him like this and frowned: "Not enough evidence, right? Then I'll go back and find an opportunity to record a video. Is that okay?"
Li Hao walked over at this time.
He was in uniform, and the young police officer immediately recognized his rank and stood up immediately.
Li Hao said: "You don't need to report this matter to your superiors, just leave it to me, I have heard everything."
Li Hao was taken in by the police and the child was handed over to Li Muhe. It was January, close to the Chinese New Year, and the temperature was extremely low. The child's face was frozen purple and his lips were pale in a thin sweater.
Li Muhe took off his down jacket and gave it to him. The child, who had been looking sullen just now, was stunned for a moment, then raised his face, showed him a sweet smile and said, "Thank you, brother."
This attitude change was quite big, and Li Muhe took note of it.
After he had lived at home for a few years, Li Muhe asked Jiang Zhihuo this question.
Jiang Zhihuo rubbed his nose, too embarrassed to speak.
Li Muhe took out the freshly fried crispy meat from the frying pan and put it on a plate to cool. "You must tell me. If you don't, I won't go with you."
Jiang Zhihuo hesitated for a long time. The crispy meat smelled so good that he wanted to pick it up with his chopsticks, but was stopped by Li Muhe several times. He felt very uncomfortable only being able to look but not eat, so he had to speak out. He said, "I was cold at that time. If you gave me clothes, I couldn't refuse to wear them, but who knew if you would take them away? If you were softer and acted cute, you would be embarrassed to take the clothes back."
After hearing the reason, Li Muhe laughed at Jiang Zhihuo, the scheming boy.
But he also knew that this scheming was the result of his father treating him badly and the suffering he endured.
So Li Muhe treated him as his own brother, and Xiaohuo also treated him as his own brother.
Jiang Zhihuo didn't like studying and went out to work part-time when he was still young. He used all his first salary from his part-time job to buy gifts for Brother Li. No matter what happened, big or small, even if he saw a new candy store opened on the street, he would buy the first candy for his brother.
But he is just my brother.
Li Muhe was also there on the day Jiang Zhihuo differentiated into alpha.
The alpha differentiation process is very painful, and there will be a susceptible period of about three days. You can either find a ward in the hospital to endure it, or lock yourself up at home to endure it.
At that time, Li Muhe could only stay outside the door.
He couldn't help in any way. He couldn't even smell Xiaohuo's pheromones. He could only listen to his painful roars through a door.
He also went in when he was unconscious. Jiang Zhihuo held his shoulders tightly with his hands. It was then that he saw the tattoo on Jiang Zhihuo's shoulder. He didn't know when he had tattooed it behind his back. It was half a shell.
Before going to college, Li Muhe once asked Jiang Zhihuo what his pheromones smelled like.
The sky was just as blue at that time. The two of them were sitting on a large lawn with a long white railing behind them.
Jiang Zhihuo might have released a little bit of it, but Li Muhe couldn't smell it.
He smelled his hand, and then again. The report said it was the smell of alcohol, but he couldn't describe it. "Those involved are often confused," he said. He would find someone else to ask another day and then tell him.
Jiang Zhihuo didn't think too much when he was talking. He answered whatever Li Ge asked. It was just a small talk. But Li Muhe would think that he knew he couldn't be the "other person" who could smell pheromones.
After thinking a lot, Li Muhe didn't want to think anymore. He lifted the handbrake and stepped on the accelerator. The wheels rolled up dust and two fallen leaves as they ran forward.
Jiang Zhihuo poured two glasses of water, one for Yan Mu and the other he drank with shaking hands.
This is Yan Mu's first time here.
Last time I just sent it downstairs and never came up.
It was a very shabby little room, but the rent was not expensive, not even half of Yan Mu's. It was decorated cleanly and nicely, the bed was neatly made, and there was a fur-colored carpet next to it. There was a low coffee table with a computer and several open exercise books.
After Jiang Zhihuo finished drinking the water, he turned the quilt upside down on the table and took several deep breaths.
The news that there is a reproductive cavity is quite confusing.
It's just a new organ growing, which gives him the illusion that he is pregnant. He often feels pain, but that's because the baby is kicking him playfully.
Just as he finished thinking this, his lower abdomen started to hurt again. Jiang Zhihuo's expression became more and more painful. Yan Mu noticed Jiang Zhihuo's expression and released pheromones. The fresh smell of rain instantly suppressed the pain.
"Are you going to stay at my house during this period?" Yan Mu asked.
"Ah?" Jiang Zhihuo said, "You want to live with me?"
"I want to." Yan Mu said very bluntly. He didn't put away the pheromones, so Jiang Zhihuo would feel much more relaxed. "Or I can move here."
This proposal was actually very tempting. After all, when Jiang Zhihuo first moved back home, he missed Yan Mu's Simmons mattress for several days.
But things have been a little tricky lately.
Fu Xiuwang has already handed over his business card and said he would take him to find his ideal, so Brother Yan cannot be dragged into this.
Jiang Zhihuo thought about it and refused: "No."
He made a patch, not saying it was fatal: "Not recently."
Yan Mu didn't hesitate too much and just said, "Then come to me if you feel pain."
This time, the so-called use of pheromones as a soothing agent is really just pheromones, no touch is needed, Yan Mu just needs to release a little bit and Jiang Zhihuo will feel much more comfortable.
Therefore, after class during this period, Jiang Zhihuo always liked to find Yan Mu. He would do nothing but snatch Xie Qiu's stool and sit next to Yan Mu.
There are many more CP photos on the forum. Those who are still admiring the popularity are all "Ahhhhh", but those in Class 4 have seen so much that they are used to it. They were surprised at the beginning, but they just wanted to sneer when they saw it later -
Haha, you dog man, you feed me dog food again!
Jiang Zhihuo is a person who can never calm down. In Class 4, the class for top students, every student would sit down and do exercises after class. Unless he was so exhausted that he had to go to the toilet, whoever got up first would lose. The student sitting in front of him would be upset if he did one less big exercise than the student sitting behind him.
As soon as Jiang Zhihuo arrived, he brought a group of people from Class 4 together, and they added friends one by one to form a team to play games. They didn't play much, just one game a day, which lasted about fifteen minutes. Brother Huo had good skills, and he could score points and crush his opponents under his feet, which gave him a great sense of accomplishment.
The class, which was originally lifeless and focused only on studying, has become a little more lively after being led like this.
Li Muhe has been busy these days as a new project has started. His supervisor has put in a lot of effort to bring the entire team to Lincheng. Li Muhe stays in the graduate school all day long. Occasionally, when he has half a day off, he will cook some food at home and send it to Jiang Zhihuo.
What we make are some small snacks, such as nougat, small biscuits, dates wrapped in yogurt and the like. They are sweet and can be eaten for several days.
Of course, it is impossible for Li Muhe to deliver the food all the time. Jiang Zhihuo would often order takeout to the laboratory. It was not as clean and delicious as the food made by Brother Li himself, but it was a token of his love after all. Brothers do not seek benefits but the token of love.
One time when he came to deliver food, he happened to meet Yan Mu. The two of them greeted each other and Yan Mu called him "Brother Li". Li Muhe smiled and gave the food to Yan Mu. He was in a hurry and had to go back after delivering the food. Yan Mu didn't move on the surface, but as soon as he closed the door, he hugged Jiang Zhihuo tighter, releasing pheromones as if he was marking his territory. He wanted to wrap the person in his arms with his scent to feel comfortable.
This is how I spend these days. Omega sometimes really can't live without alpha. When my lower abdomen hurts so badly, a hug from Brother Yan will make me feel much better.
During the physical education class that day, Jiang Zhihuo suddenly stopped playing basketball halfway through. Yan Mu saw him, put down the question he was doing halfway through, and walked into the equipment room with him.
There was no one in the equipment room, Jiang Zhihuo was lying on Yan Mu's shoulders, Yan Mu was hugging him. This position was too passive for Jiang Zhihuo, a position of being protected by others. Brother Huo had grown up in the wild for 18 years, and he had never been protected like this. It would be embarrassing to tell others about it.
But my stomach hurts so much that I feel like passing out. I have no face left. So, go ahead and do it.
I was used to kissing before, and I almost bent down to kiss her. Compared with these, hugging and smelling pheromones were just trivial things, not even ambiguous.
The two of them didn't communicate, just leaned against each other. The faint pheromone made people feel comfortable physically and mentally. The only sound in the quiet equipment room was the sound of heartbeats.
Apart from his part-time job at the bar, Jiang Zhihuo stayed at school. On weekends, he and Yan Mu went to the hospital again.
Li Muhe was waiting for his number outside the clinic when he called. He became nervous when he heard Jiang Zhihuo say that he was in the hospital.
"Has something happened again?" Li Muhe asked, "I'll take a leave and go over there."
"It's okay." Jiang Zhihuo said, "I'm here for a checkup."
Li Muhe finally breathed a sigh of relief.
There was indeed nothing wrong. After taking an X-ray, the doctor circled the reproductive cavity which had just been differentiated and had only a contour.
There is a vague shape in the red circle, which is quite embarrassing to look at.
The doctor saw it many times and didn’t have any idea: “Just a reminder, the growth of reproductive cavity means that there may be estrus.”
"At present, the Capital Hospital has given a diagnosis of unstable estrus period. We don't know when it will occur. Also, your special inhibitor for estrus period may not be of much use. I'll prescribe a few estrus-specific drugs here and we'll see when the time comes."
The doctor only said half of this sentence, Jiang Zhihuo asked: "What if it doesn't work?"
There was no one else in the consulting room. The young nurse had been sent out by the doctor, leaving only Yan Mujiang, Zhihuo and the doctor.
The doctor gave common sense to Jiang Zhihuo, who was half-o, "There are three solutions for omega estrus. Suppressants. Those who don't want to use inhibitors can lock themselves in an isolation ward to get through it. Those who don't want to lock themselves up..."
The doctor coughed and said, "Just find an alpha. I don't need to continue talking about this, right?"