Chapter 4 - Day 3

08:00 am

After finally falling asleep, Huo Changzhi was woken up many times by messy dreams. He slept so badly that his biological clock couldn't wake him up in the morning.

Opening his eyes, Xu Chu was no longer in bed nor in the dining room. He ran to the study.

When Huo Changzhi saw that Xu Chu hadn't made breakfast, he dug a few apples out of the refrigerator, cut them a into pieces and piled them on the plate.

He approached the study with an apple and heard Xu Chu muttering. When he went in, he found that he was operating the computer with a voice-assisted system and his hands were still typing on the keyboard.

"What are you doing?" Huo Changzhi asked him.

Xu Chu heard Huo Changzhi’s voice not far from him. He was startled first then relaxed, stopped his hand typing on the keyboatd and said, "Find something."

"I cut the apple," Huo Changzhi fed the apple to Xu Chu’s mouth: “Should I help?”

Xu Chu felt the cold and moist touch on his lips, stretched out his tongue and licked it, tilted his head and said to him: “It’s so sweet, Huo-ge "

Huo Changzhi now has a completely different mentality when he was molested by Xu Chu. He shook his hand and roughly stuffed the apple into Xu Chu's mouth.

Xu Chu obviously didn't expect him to react so much. He ate the apple pieces in his mouth and opened his mouth to say something. Huo Changzhi quickly stuffed it in again.

"Okay, okay, I'm not going to say anything, stop stuffing it in," Xu Chu quickly begged for mercy. "Please help me see what is written in the document on the screen. "

Huo Changzhi looked down at the display screen: "Code."

"Can you read a paragraph for me?" Xu Chu requested.

Huo Changzhi read him a short paragraph. The program code looks simple, but not the symbols. Huo Changzhi read it for five minutes and read only half a page. Xu Chu told him to stop when he finished speaking a word.

"How big is this document?" Xu Chu stood up, gave Huo Changzhi a seat, and Huo Changzhi sat down to help him read the size of the document.

Xu Chu stopped, did not speak, and fumbled around on the table.

Huo Changzhi asked him what he was doing, he told him to eat an apple. Huo Changzhi pushed the fruit plate to his hand, Xu Chu took a piece and ate it.

"Is Huo Jiu'an's relationship with his family very poor?" Xu Chu thought jumped.

"I don't know," Huo Changzhi said. "He has a good relationship with my father."

Xu Chu frowned, "Really..."

Huo Changzhi thought for a while and told Xu Chu about the situation in his family, “When I was ten years old, my parents divorced. Huo Jiu'an followed my mother to Xiangdao. My father and I were in Haicheng. So I understand his situation. He’s really limited, and this time...by a coincidence, he found me to see you."

Xu Chu nodded: "Fortunately, I found you, otherwise I don’t know how to deal with a personality disorder like him."

"......" Huo Changzhi didn't know if he should thank Xu Chu for removing himself from the personality disorder category.

"When Huo Jiu'an cheated me over, he said he wanted to give me a gift. I used to think he was fooling me. It turned out to be this gift," Xu Chu said mockingly. "This design is what Huo Jiu'an stole from me."

"Steal?" Huo Changzhi put down the mouse and looked at Xu Chu.

"There are two sets of detailed pictures of the room, do you know why?" Xu Chu approached Huo Changzhi, lowered his voice like telling a ghost story, and said, "Because Huo Jiu'an's design originally had two sets. The circuit, one set is under the floor of the room we are in, and the other set is installed on the ceiling downstairs."

Xu Chu's voice is cold and the content is also terrifying. Whoever listens to him speaks like this would be terrified.

"When Huo Jiu'an was enrolled in my junior year, he happened to rent in the same apartment as me," Xu Chu sat back in his chair. "I took two majors, one in applied mathematics, and the other in computer science, just like Huo Jiu'an. Huo Jiu'an is very good at disguising himself... Anyway, at that time, I really thought of him as a younger brother."

When Xu Chu couldn't see it, Huo Changzhi was able to stare at his face unscrupulously, When Xu Chu recalled the story, his face was expressionless, as if he was talking about something unrelated to him.

"He always gave me a feeling of eagerness for success," Xu Chu thought about the matter, frowned slowly, "He would stumble people who got the full prize in the same profession because he won half the prize. We lived together for a year—no, what did I say!”

Huo Changzhi was listening attentively, Xu Chu suddenly stopped remembering, and started directly: “I was bored in my senior year so I designed a security system. It was a very immature and unrealistic concept, but was bored, so I have done it very well. Among the people around me, only Huo Jiu'an knows that I made this thing. To put it simply, it is—"

Xu Chu stretched out his hand and touch the fruit plate, he placed it in front of him: "These apples are the safe in the bank, and this fruit plate is the vault."

Huo Changzhi looked at the plate silently, and said he was listening.

"The vault itself has a set of independent circuits including a generator. It can only transmit information to the outside and cannot receive information. This ensures that the plate cannot be replaced, and as long as the apple moves, the plate will drip. There will be a glass cover to cover it," Xu Chu paused and asked, "Does Teacher Xu make it clear?"

Huo Changzhi was puzzled by Xu Chu's character of taking advantage of others at this moment, but he still said: "You continue."

"I placed a set of spare lines in the darkroom on the other side of the vault which are divided into eight lines to connect to the vault. As long as there is an abnormal situation in the vault, the system immediately switches the spare line. The intention of this design is that even if the glass cover of the plate is broken and the plate is smashed, the person who steals the apple will have to break another cover to leave, which will buy time for the protector of the apple." After Xu Chu finished speaking, he took a piece of apple and ate it again.

After eating the apple, Xu Chu stretched out his hand and shook his five fingers apart: "Is there anyone who can wipe this hands for Teacher Xu?"

Huo Changzhi took a tissue and wiped Xu Chu's hands very conscientiously.

"I was really bored at the time," Xu Chu emphasized again, "I made all the diagrams and programs. Huo Jiu'an said he was very interested. I copied all the informations to him. A week later, someone broke into our apartment and my computer was stolen. A month later, Huo Jiu'an won a very important design award. I took a look and it was what I made. I called this design Yin and Yang, but the English spelled it wrong, even this, he didn't change it."

Huo Changzhi observed Xu Chu, he did not show any sadness, but Huo Changzhi intuitively felt that Xu Chu was very disappointed at that time.

"What I care about is not that Huo Jiu'an stole my things," Xu Chu stated his thoughts with difficulty, "This design is nothing to me. I can make a thousand more, but Huo Jiu'an's motives and what he did from the beginning to the end made me feel terrible. So I moved out of the apartment and broke contact with him."

Huo Changzhi waited for a while, Xu Chu did not continue to say, so he asked: "But why did you later..."

"What happened later has nothing to do with these, I won't talk about it," Xu Chu quickly interrupted him, "The room we are in now has a similar design, except that we have become apples and the room has become a fruit plate."

"Then can you open the glass cover?" Huo Changzhi said following his train of thought.

"...maybe I can." Xu Chu hesitated for a moment, but finally did not tell Huo Changzhi the truth.

Huo Changzhi can go, but he can't.

Because Huo Changzhi is just an apple, Xu Chu is a water ball sandwiched between a plate and a glass cover. If the protective cover is removed, those fragments will pierce him.

10:00 am

"Stop talking nonsense, Huo-ge, can you help me see if the drawing of my handcuffs is good," Xu Chu touched the plastic ring on his hand. "I always think it’s like a time bomb."

Huo Changzhi stared at Xu Chu for a few seconds then refused: "Not good."

Xu Chu was stunned: "Huh?"

"Teacher Xu, we have a break between classes." Huo Changzhi pulled Xu Chu up and pushed him out of the study.

Xu Chu couldn't see, he was pushed away and unable to control his steps. He was instinctively afraid of bumping into something. After rushing forward a few times, he turned around and took Huo Changzhi's left arm and complained: "Can you be kinder to the blind?"

Huo Changzhi looked down at Xu Chu. Xu Chu looked forward with his eyes out of focus. If the corners of his mouth were not uplifted, the lines would be cold and sharp, he would looked unkind.

This person was the same person as yesterday, but Huo Changzhi felt completely different.

Huo Changzhi took Xu Chu's hand around him with his right hand, held his waist with his left hand, and walked out.

Xu Chu was led by him and felt that the atmosphere had become uncomfortable, so he stopped talking for a while.

There is no TV in the living room, and sitting still is very boring. Xu Chu had a whim to play flying chess with Huo Changzhi.

"I remember there was a pair in the living room," Xu Chu happily squatted on the coffee table in the living room.

"Huo Jiu'an once brought it back from work and asked me to play with him, but I didn't agree." Huo Changzhi strictly forbade him to move. After the chaos, a chess set was found in the drawer under the coffee table.

"But how do you play?" Huo Changzhi was puzzled.

"I'll roll the dice, you help me see it," Xu Chu said, "I want to take the color of your diagonal."

Xu Chu chose blue, Huo Changzhi took his diagonal red. Xu Chu, relying on his inability to see, asked to give a priority to the disabled and threw a six at the same time.

Huo Changzhi didn't know what special flying chess skills this blind man had. Whenever he managed to throw a six, he would be accurately killed by Xu Chu who happened to pass by. When Xu Chu's four planes reached the end, Huo Changzhi still had two struggling halfway, and one did not set off on the tarmac.

"I'm still so lucky." Xu Chu triumphantly pinched the last plane to the end, his pale and slender fingers dangled in front of Huo Changzhi's eyes.

Huo Changzhi spent a lot of effort and didn't reach out to grab it.

"What time is it Huo-ge?" Xu Chu asked him.

"10:48." Huo Changzhi looked at his watch and said.

Xu Chu lowered his head to fiddled with the aircraft, and exposed the red mole on the back of his neck, which appeared to Huo Changzhi to be particularly erotic. Huo Changzhi calmly moved his eyes away.

"You're almost here for two days," Xu Chu didn't look up and muttering, "Do you want to hurry up and fly away from me, a troublesome disabled person?"

Huo Changzhi frowned, "You don't need to say such things."

"When Huo Jiu'an was shutting me up, I thought, I still have to do a lot of things." Xu Chu finally put down the small plane and straightened his head, Huo Changzhi could see his eyes, but he couldn't see Huo Changzhi, "But now that I think about it, those things are not so vigorous."

Huo Changzhi didn't know what he was going to say, so he waited quietly.

"But if I can, I will let you go," Xu Chu said, "you are irrelevant to this, there is no need to accompany me to suffer."

"I don't— " Huo Changzhi denied Xu Chu and blurted out. He changed his mind, "What do you want to do if you can leave the house?"

"I have a lot," Xu Chu said, "It's also very complicated. For example, if I can see the light again, go see my parents, see the sea, or something else."

"Do you like the sea?" Huo Changzhi thought of the night when they were on the sea and couldn't help asking.

Xu Chu nodded: "The sea is beautiful."

He was quiet, and said with some nostalgia: "My first night was also at sea."

Huo Changzhi's head turned to Xu Chu, and his heart jumped heavily. He made a calm voice: "Oh?"

"You actually answered me," Xu Chu said in surprise, "Why, Huo-ge is interested?"

"... Let’s listen?" Huo Changzhi’s heartbeat was so fast.

Xu Chu smiled: "You really want to listen. I'm afraid you will feel uncomfortable. You don't like men, do you?"

Huo Changzhi almost shook Xu Chu's shoulder and forced him to speak quickly. Xu Chu felt that Huo Changzhi really wanted to hear it. He simply summed it up: "It's very common, it's a cruise party, and it's messy after drinking. But the other party is tall and high, handsome, and......"

"And what?"

"Twenty centimeters."

"...................................."

Xu Chu thought that Huo Changzhi felt unwell. "It's you who want to listen."

"It's me." Huo Changzhi admitted.

"Ye Gong is a good dragon." Xu Chu commented on him.

Huo Changzhi looked at the blush on Xu Chu's cheeks because of his shyness and anger. He felt that Xu Chu was a little cute like this.

"Xu Chu," he walked back to the original point and relieved Xu Chu, "I don't think you are troublesome."

Xu Chu heard him say this, and he hung his head down and his expression softened as if he had inherited his great kindness. After a few seconds, he said, "Then, please go and cook some food."

Huo Changzhi went to the kitchen.

All in all, Xu Chu only had food in his heart.

02:00 pm

"Starting from the interface," Xu Chu asked Huo Changzhi to bring the design drawing to the living room. He said that the chair in the study is not comfortable and the sofa is better. "It should be the AA section of the front view, right?

"Yes, there is a chip on the cross section, and a thin ring with a smaller diameter on the circumference near the edge." Only a reading lamp was installed on the wall of the living room. Huo Changzhi pulled the lamp down and followed the drawing. While reading, Xu Chu asked him to skip the chip circuit and remove the most complicated things. Huo Changzhi had experience in talking about design drawings, and soon he was almost done with the structure of the handle ring.

Xu Chu just listen, leaning on the sofa with long legs on the coffee table, making Huo Changzhi think himself as the secretary, "There are always so many days in a month".

After Huo Changzhi finished talking about the last point, he asked Xu Chu where he was uncomfortable.

"No," Xu Chu waved his hand. "Done?"

Huo Changzhi looked at it again, there was nothing left.

Xu Chu put his hand aside at random, Huo Changzhi glanced at it. He don't know if it was an illusion, he felt that the light on Xu Chu's hand was flashing a bit fast.

Before he had time to ask in detail, Xu Chu got up: "No, I still have to unlock the lock."

Huo Changzhi took the key and went to the study. Xu Chu was already sitting on the carpet in the corner of the study, waiting for him with his legs crossed. The texture is soft, with a small half of the ankle exposed.

Xu Chu raised his head and waited for him, looking very obedient.

He sat down next to Xu Chu, lifted the carpet, and pushed his thumb to one side against the floor.

"Huo-ge," Xu Chu called him nervously, "What if the key is wrong?"

Huo Changzhi ignored him, inserted the key into the keyhole, relaxed to the end, and turned to the right. "That's right."

Before the words fell, the bookshelves rang, and the three rows of bookshelves in the lower right corner moved and pushed upwards. Huo Changzhi walked over and looked at the bookshelves on the lower right side. The fourth floor is made of exquisite paint and wooden shells. Can't tell it's fake.

After the bookshelves were stacked into the upper wooden boards, a one-square-meter concealed cabinet was exposed, with a small handle inlaid on the cabinet.

"What's the matter?" Xu Chu was still on the spot, asking in the direction of the voice.

Hall Changzhi walked back again and, brought Xu Chu over and told him, "There is a cabinet, do you want to open it?"

"Open it." Xu Chu leaned on Huo Changzhi tightly. There was a light shower cream fragance on his body. His soft body rubbed Huo Changzhi unintentionally, and the place where Huo Changzhi was pressed against him became a little hot.

Huo Changzhi settled down and opened the cabinet.

The cabinet was very thin, and several boxes were placed inside. Huo Changzhi took them out, put them on the ground, and opened one of them. Inside was a crystal trophy. He read the English name of the award.

"This is the prize he won with the design drafts I made," Xu Chu said, "Go on."

Huo Changzhi opened the largest square box. The moment he saw the contents of the box, Huo Changzhi was stunned. He took the things out and turned them over, his expression turned ugly.

Because this box is too private and too unbearable.

"Brother Huo?" Xu Chu asked him, "What's wrong?"

Huo Changzhi looked at the secretly taken photos of Xu Chu in his hand. The top date is the most recent. Some of them were asleep, eating, and even taking a bath naked. The earliest date that follows goes back to seven or eight years ago. Xu Chu didn't even look at the camera. They were all secret shots.

"Nothing." Huo Changzhi wanted to close the box. Xu Chu grabbed it. He happened to grab Huo Changzhi's hand holding the photo. He recognized the touch in his hand and asked: "Photo?"

Silence is the default.

"Mine." Xu Chu was very sure.

"I really don't understand why Huo Jiu'an likes to be tied up with someone who will never have feelings for him." Xu Chu's expression is cold.

Huo Changzhi installed the box and said, "It will be burned in the kitchen in a while."

Xu Chu curled his lips, "According to Huo Jiuan's character, he might put it in ten places."

Huo Changzhi simply flipped through the remaining boxes. They were all old things. There were a few letters with addresses that were not sent out. Look at the handwriting, they look like what Huo Jiu'an wrote when he was a child.

Xu Chu said he was going to take a sip of water, stood up and walked out of the room.

05:00 pm

Huo Jiu'an's letter was written in the third grade of elementary school. It is not long, simple, with typos and some unclear expressions, but the content makes Huo Changzhi's back chill.

This was written by Huo Jiu'an to their father. The letter said that his mother was terrible and begged his father to take him home. Huo Jiu'an asked why he was taken away instead of his brother.

For some unknown reason, the letter was not sent.

Huo Changzhi has not studied the reasons for his parents' divorce. He followed his father because his grandfather meant it. Huo Changzhi's father was just the second generation ancestor who had been emptied.

Huo Changzhi has been a serious and indifferent personality since he was a child. He has strong insight and purpose, he is not moved by unimportant things. Compared with his stubborn and innocent brother, he is more suitable for training as an heir. This is the consensus of everyone.

When the parents divorced, their mother had only one request, she wanted to take a child, so it was Huo Jiu'an who followed her mother.

It turned out that Huo Jiu'an had a bad time.

But thinking about what happened between Huo Jiu'an and Xu Chu, what Xu Chu said or didn’t say, Huo Changzhi couldn’t talk about being touched by this stranger who shared his genes. Everyone in the world has such troubles and dissatisfaction, but no normal person would use this method to express.

While thinking, Xu Chu excitedly called him outside: "Huo Changzhi! I figured out a way!"

Huo Changzhi put down the letter paper in his hand and walked out. Xu Chu held a glass of milk in one hand and supported the wall with one hand, he moved eagerly.

He sat down in front of the computer, asked Huo Changzhi to help him open the compiler on the computer on the left, and confirmed the keyboard layout with Huo Changzhi again, and started a real touch typing, telling Huo Changzhi to watch it watch.

"Tell me if you think the picture is not right or the words look strange," Xu Chu said as he knocked, his slender fingers moved quickly on the keyboard, making Huo Changzhi dazzled, "A dead horse is a living doctor."

Huo Changzhi had to stare at the screen.

"Teacher Xu ate apples in the kitchen just now," Xu Chu took the time to explain to Huo Changzhi, "It suddenly occurred that the signal in the room is shielded, but it can transmit information to Huo Jiu'an directionally. Only these two computers in the main design have this function, which means that at least one of them can send a signal to the outside world."

"I' making a test program now, and you can run it for me to try it out," Xu Chu said, "It's easy."

Huo Changzhi just wanted to say yes, Xu Chu stopped, his little thumb twitched unnaturally, trembling a few times, and typed a few characters on the keyboard that had nothing to do with the program. Huo Changzhi helped him delete the characters, so he was not allowed to touch the keyboard anymore.

"Eat first, the procedure is not in a hurry." Huo Changzhi said.

"Why is this not in a hurry, do you still want to leave?" Xu Chu insisted on completing the procedure, raised the volume to argued with Huo Changzhi, and begged him softly, "It will be fine in another half an hour. Wait a minute.”

Huo Changzhi saw that Xu Chu was not obedient. He pinched his hands. Xu Chu was stunned by Huo Changzhi’s direct behavior. Before he could react, he was pressed into the dining chair by Huo Changzhi.

"Stay obediently, I'm going to cook," Huo Changzhi said, "I don't need me to tie you to a chair, right?"

Xu Chu had to shrink in the chair, eagerly thinking about all the codes to be entered again in his heart, hoping the program can be compiled faster in a while.

Xu Chu didn't know how much time he still had. He was a hard-talking man, and he was very resigned. His last wish was to send Huo Changzhi out of this sick house in peace.

At 08:00 pm,

Xu Chu hurt his hand before finishing the test program.

From the index finger to the middle finger on his right hand, a deep scar was cut by the razor. Fresh blood dripped on the light-colored marble countertop of the bathroom sink, mixed with the water splashed when he was washing his hands, a large patch of red. It spread out and looked terrible.

Xu Chu tried his best to support the sink with his left hand, barely able to stand, the tip of his right finger was tingling, he could feel the blood pouring out of the wound, and the back of his hand to the palm of his hand was numb and cold.

Yesterday Xu Chu originally wanted to cook dinner, because Huo Changzhi was really not for this, but when he just walked out of the study, there was a slight tingling on his wrists.

He didn't react the first time. When he opened the refrigerator door, he felt an electric shock which made Xu Chu realize that Huo Jiu'an had arranged another show for him.

He didn't want to make the atmosphere more serious, so he said nothing.

When playing the first half of the program in the afternoon, the current every two minutes suddenly increased. Xu Chu didn't control his strength, he told Huo Changzhi that he had cramps and grab him to rest.

After dinner, Xu Chu thought that he could always return to the study to solve the second half of the program. Huo Changzhi stopped him and handed him a glass of milk.

"The milk is about to expire," Huo Changzhi said, "Drink it."

Xu Chu took it, raised his head to drink, he felt a pain in his wrist, shaking his hands and spilling all the milk on his body.

Huo Changzhi couldn't turn back to close the refrigerator door, and Xu Chu poured himself thoroughly, exuding a milky smell all over his body.

"What's the matter?" Huo Changzhi pulled a paper towel to help Xu Chu wipe the milk on his face. Xu Chu took off his coat annoyedly, revealing his thin white upper body, with two light red nipples on his chest. There was some residual white liquid, Huo Changzhi couldn't bear to hold a tissue and press it on Xu Chu's chest: "You can wipe it yourself."

"I'll take a bath first." Xu Chu grabbed the clothes in a ball, took the tissue in Huo Changzhi's hand, wiped it at random, put it back into Huo Changzhi's hand and went out.

Huo Changzhi threw the tissue away and helped Xu Chu to walk forward.

"Xu Chu, your legs..." Huo Changzhi was strange. Sometimes he felt that Xu Chu was walking normally, and sometimes he was lame.

"Rheumatoid arthritis," Xu Chu said, "I have been injured before, and it hurts on rainy days."

Huo Changzhi saw Xu Chu was struggling to walk, and then hugged him sideways.

Xu Chu didn't resist, the electric shock of the shackles was getting stronger and stronger, and the time was lengthening, he almost couldn't stand up.

Although Huo Changzhi hugged him and walked very steadily, Xu Chu was still not used to hanging in the air, so he opened his mouth to tease Huo Changzhi: "Huo-ge, you hold me to walk now, if I get used to it, then if my leg hurts again when you are gone, what should I do?"

As expected, his ridiculous words did not get a response from the other party.

Huo Changzhi is a very good person. He talks bad, but is not a bad person at all. He shouldn't suffer this kind of crime.

Nor should he be desperately waiting for death in this gloomy house that had been closed for more than 100 days for Xu Chu.

Huo Changzhi put Xu Chu in the bathroom and asked him if he had any problems taking a bath. Xu Chu told him to go out quickly.

Hearing Huo Changzhi closing the bathroom door, Xu Chu breathed a sigh of relief. He sat by the bathtub and rested for a while, then briefly washed his body and changed his clothes.

He stood in front of the sink, groping to brush his teeth, his feet were soft, his hands moved forward to grasp something to stabilize his body shape, his center of gravity moved forward, the weight of the entire upper body pressed on his hands, and he happened to press Huo Changzhi's razor.

Huo Jiu'an has an automatic razor. Huo Changzhi didn't want to use what Huo Jiu'an left behind, so he found a few travel-use disposable razors in the bathroom and used them. After using it up in the morning, I put it on the edge of the table and didn't threw it away. Xu Chu might have been in conflict with the house. Once he pressed it, he used a lot of force and pressed the blade directly against the flesh. He screamed in pain.

Huo Changzhi faintly heard Xu Chu's pain in the bathroom outside, and hurried to open the door, from the living room to the bathroom for no more than ten seconds. Blood had dripped on the back of Xu Chu's instep from the countertop, like the scene of the murder.

His brain heated up in an instant, he went to grab Xu Chu's hand and look at it.

The blood in Xu Chu's hand was shocking. Huo Changzhi remembered seeing the first aid kit in the glove box under the closet. He took Xu Chu to sit down by the bed, hurriedly found the first aid kit and wiped the wounds for Xu Chu.

Huo Changzhi felt that he might have been given a new type of drug by Xu Chu. His heart ached to death when he saw Xu Chu bleeding, he regretted why he didn't put the razor away, he wished to shrink Xu Chu down and protect him in his arms, not letting him go where there are sharp objects.

Xu Chu thought about was something else: "What should I do with Huo-ge, or I will read it and you will make the program."

"I'm not in a hurry," Huo Changzhi flatly refused, "Don't think about it, just wait for someone to find us."

"What if no one is looking for us?" Xu Chu was a little anxious.

"Xu Chu, I am a big man, and the whole world is looking for me," Huo Changzhi said as he disinfected him. "Someone may break the door of this house at any time."

Xu Chu's wound was too deep, the skin and flesh were turned out, and the bones were almost visible. Normally, such a deep wound requires stitches. But conditions didn't allow, Huo Changzhi could only search the medicine cabinet to help him do the most basic treatment.

"It's best to be like this," Xu Chu was stunned and whispered.

When he touched the wound with alcohol and iodine, he felt pain. He asked Huo Changzhi for medicine: "Are there any painkillers? Maybe anti-inflammatory drugs are needed."

Huo Changzhi took out the gauze and wrapped Xu Chu's fingers.

Because of the blood loss, Xu Chu's hands became colder, his fingernails were transparent and round, they were invisible because they were wrapped in gauze.

After Xu Chu's three fingers were wrapped like rice dumplings, Huo Changzhi went out to look for painkillers.

Xu Chu believed part of what Huo Changzhi said, and sat on the sofa and touched the gauze dumpling in his hand.

Anyway, for him, in the last days of his life, as long as he doesn't stare at Huo Jiu'an, nothing else matters.

Then wait two days. Xu Chu thought. Huo Changzhi came in with water and medicine, and fed him the medicine.

11:30 pm

The duration of the analgesic effect of painkiller is too short. Xu Chu lay down at more than nine o'clock and woke up at 11:30.

Although he took anti-inflammatory drugs, the wound was inevitably inflamed.

Xu Chu groaned uncomfortably, turned over and wanted to sit up.

"What's the matter?" Huo Changzhi didn't sleep deeply either. He woke up as soon as Xu Chu moved, and turned on the bedside lamp.

Xu Chu said, "I still want to take another slice of painkiller."

Huo Changzhi looked at his watch: "No, the interval is too short."

Xu Chu suffered a double impact from electric shock and fingertip pain, and painful cold sweat also broke out. He curled up on the bed and said, "Then tell me a story, Huo-ge."

Huo Changzhi wanted Xu Chu to stop talking, but he said: "What do you want to listen to?"

"Listen to you?" Xu Chu is curious, "It suddenly occured to me that we have not introduced each other."

Huo Changzhi thought about it seriously, and really introduced himself: "My name is Huo Changzhi, I am 32 years old this year... "

Xu Chu laughed after hearing a few words from him. By the laughs, his fingers hurt even more: "Alright, Huo-ge, why are you so honest?"

Huo Changzhi helped him wipe the sweat from his forehead. "What about you?"

"My name is Xu Chu, and I am 28 years old this year," Xu Chu smiled again after he finished speaking, "We are like blind dates like this."

"My birthday is April 10th," Huo Changzhi said, "What constellation is it?"

"Taurus, from astrological point of view, my Cancer is the best match," Xu Chu's left hand touched Huo Changzhi slowly and shook hands with Huo Changzhi, "I am glad to see you."

Huo Changzhi cautiously let Xu Chu shake his hand and let it go.

He asked Xu Chu why he couldn't see.

Because when he first saw Xu Chu, the eyes under Xu Chu's mask were still looking forward to flying, with sparkling water, as charming as the sea in the middle of the night.

Xu Chu heard the words and looked around, looking hard to say: "An accident."

"Huh?" Huo Changzhi asked him to continue.

"I originally had high myopia, but I didn't pay attention, overuse my eyes, and combined with various reasons, I got keratoconus." Xu Chu said quickly.

This reason is really hard to accept by Huo Changzhi.

"Before I went blind, I was a lecturer at Xiangdao University. I was very busy." Xu Chu changed the subject. "So it's really Teacher Xu. It's not that I took advantage of you. In the future, I will become a blind masseur, which can also be called Master Xu."

Huo Changzhi laughed: "Do you really want to learn Tuina for the blind?"

"No?" Xu Chu said in a sincere tone, "Huo-ge has sore waist and leg pain. I'll massages it for you."

"You won't be blind all the time," Huo Changzhi assured him.

Xu Chu smiled and didn't answer his words: "When Huo Jiu'an asked you to come to me, how did he tell you?"

Huo Changzhi didn't know the purpose of Xu Chu questionibg him, so he avoided the importance and ignored it: "Just asked me to take care of you."

"I always feel that I missed something," Xu Chu frowned, "there is a general error, but I can't tell what is wrong."

Huo Changzhi said: "Which aspect is wrong?"

"All of them." Xu Chu opened his eyes wide, his surroundings were always dark and silent.

Xu Chu’s brown pupils were brightened by the light under the light, his pale lips moved and he said, “Since you entered this room, everything that has happened is wrong. Why did Huo Jiu'an want you to come here? Want to harm you or me? If his original intention of designing the house is to shut down a disabled person like me, is it necessary to make it so complicated? You said, if we think simpler, it will be easier to solve the problem?"

"Xu Chu..." Xu Chu became more excited as he said. Huo Changzhi want him to calm down, too strong emotions are not conducive to wound healing.

Xu Chu suddenly guessed nervously: "Will he actually observe us in the dark? We are all his test subjects..."

"Xu Chu." Huo Changzhi increased his tone and called him.

Xu Chu finally stopped.

"Huo Jiu'an is dead," Huo Changzhi told him, "the night before I came to you, acute myocarditis, I watched his broken heartbeat, and I got his death certificate personally. He was dead."

Xu Chu was stunned.

After a long time, he said to Huo Changzhi: "Really?"

"Yes, before he died, he begged me to go to his company to get the design drawings and come to you," Huo Changzhi simply told Xu Chu, "he said he would give you the cornea."

"I don't want it." Xu Chu said without hesitation.

Huo Changzhi did not speak. This may be the reason why Huo Jiu'an did not let him tell the truth, or it may not.

Xu Chu paused for a while before he said: "I don't even think about it. I thought Huo Jiu'an..."

"Then don't think about it, go to sleep." Huo Changzhi's voice was like a driftwood in the dark water, Xu Chu wanted to hold him tight and let the driftwood take him to the shore.

Huo Changzhi patted Xu Chu on the shoulder, comforting him.

Xu Chu's body seemed to be accustomed to the pain, and his sleepiness came to him.