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Chapter 3 Sleeping

Li Zhen felt that he was having a very long dream.

I dreamed that I fell into a river, but the river water was solidified. He turned around and looked around. There was a white mist between the sky and the earth, like a non-realistic space. Well... a non-realistic space? He thought, is this a dream?

Then he raised his legs and wanted to leave the water. However, the next moment, countless fish of thumb-sized belly suddenly jumped out of the water. The fish had only one head, and only had a mouth on their heads. They bit on his body viciously and pulled off large pieces of bloody flesh.

He was about to scream, but found that it didn't hurt to be bitten by the fish. On the contrary, it was numb and a little comfortable. It was as if the flesh and blood were originally shackles that imprisoned his body, and were now being removed one by one. So he stood in the river, letting the boiling blood dye the large surface of the water red until...

He looked down and saw that he had turned into a red skeleton.

So he was shocked and woke up.

Before dawn, the energy-saving lamp above her head emitted a pale light. The only bed in the ward was lying, and it seemed empty. Someone around her made a uniform breathing sound, which was because her mother was asleep. But the door behind her was not closed, and the cold wind blew in one gust after another.

Have you been sleeping for so long? I remember it was the morning when I fell asleep. He felt that he was in much better condition - the place where he was hit by a truck before was no longer hurt. On the contrary, it was like soaking in warm water, warm and relaxing. And there was no pain in other places, just like an ordinary morning that woke up from sleep countless times.

It's no big deal. Li Zhen told himself, and then planned to hold up and close the door.

However, when he tried to exert force, he was stunned for a moment.

The body was out of control. He could still feel his limbs, but... it was like being pressed tightly by some heavy object, and he could not move a little bit of strength. Li Zhen was a little panicked. His first thought was - is he paralyzed all over his body?

He wanted to try harder again, and then try again. However, the next time he exerted force, the pain came overwhelmingly. Just as the waves were calm the moment before, the next moment it was turbulent. Every cell in his body jumped, as if it turned into the little fish in his dream, biting his nerves bit by bit.

It hurts!

He wanted to shout, but there seemed to be a ball of cotton in his throat, and he could only let out a roar like a beast. His body shivered due to the pain, awakening Song Chenxiao beside him.

The mother raised her eyes and found her son's eyelids that were rapidly opening and closing. She pounced on her like a female beast, touching his body up and down, and asked in a crying voice: "What's wrong? Li Zhen, what's wrong with you? Where does it hurt?"

However, he couldn't speak, and white foam quickly spilled out of the corners of his mouth. Song Chenxiao immediately ran out of the door and shouted: "Doctor, doctor!..."

...

...

Zhang Kesong returned to the car and fell onto the door. The heating that hit her face made her head dizzy, and her eyes were even more hazy, blocked by tears.

Zhang Chaoyang looked at his daughter's expression, pressed the cigarette butt in his hand, and gently patted her shoulder: "Isn't the situation good?"

The girl cried and shook her head, then threw herself into his arms: "How could this happen? It was obviously just a car accident... but I could feel that it was all dispersed, all dispersed..."

Then he burst into tears.

Zhang Chaoyang patted her spine, comforted her silently, turned to look at the hospital gate, and sighed in his heart. It was a good child. He thought to himself, why did he get involved in such a thing? Since Kesong said... they all dispersed, it might be really impossible.

Although he had only seen Li Zhen a few times, he still had a good impression of the boy. Although it is not as heartbreaking as his daughter, the elders still feel sad about the younger generation.

This child is a pity. Kesong's college entrance examination is probably delayed.

The daughter in her arms suddenly raised her head and grabbed the drowning straw and grabbed his clothes: "Dad, think of a way to find them - they must have a way, right? They can save Li Zhen, right?"

Zhang Chaoyang looked at his daughter's face, held her in his arms and patted her gently. After a long time of silence, he said, "Dad likes that child very much. He also... has asked. But there is nothing he can do."

The daughter's body stiffened in her arms. So he sighed again and repeated in a gentler tone: "Dad is the only daughter you are. But Dad really has no choice."

After a while, Zhang Kesong finally started to cry loudly, vent his anger.

...

...

On the fifth day of admission.

Li Zhen's life indicators have dropped to the point where he is close to the cordon. He is unconscious for a long time and his limbs have lost their stress response. The pustules are ruptured at every moment, and red and yellow flesh are turned on. Most of the time when he is awake, he will only say one sentence: "Mom, I'm hungry and want to eat meat."

Whenever this happened, Song Chenxiao was so angry that she couldn't breathe, so she could only let Li Kaiwen help her out.

But I'm really hungry!

Li Zhen thought this way. In fact, most of the time, he felt that he was awake. His eyelids were so heavy that he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes. The doctor whispered to his parents that he might not be able to do it anymore...

However, he had another feeling - although his consciousness was becoming more and more blurred, his body... was becoming more and more active. He felt that he was growing every moment, just like a small tree bathed in the sun and rain, growing happily. The shackles that bound his consciousness were gradually untied, and he thought he was about to fly. He wanted to live...at least this body told him: Don't die, don't disappear, and stay alive.

Actually, this is exactly what a person reacts before he dies. Sometimes he will tell himself this way. Is the feeling of flying? Is the soul going to escape from this body?

When he tried to open his eyes for the last time, he felt like a ball full of hydrogen, which would rise to the sky in the next moment. His father and mother were both watching him by the bed. Behind them, there were a group of doctors and nurses in white coats, with a look of compassion on their faces.

Li Zhen slowly turned his eyes and looked at them, imprinting the expressions of his father and mother into the deepest part of his memory. Then he wanted to raise his hand to touch their faces, but failed.

So he rested for a while and said to them: "...Dad, mom, I don't want cremation."

Then the consciousness really flew up.
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