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"Father, when I grow up, can I go to the rock star you mentioned to study? I also want to be a good doctor like you..."

The immature voice of a child echoed in my ears, as if it happened yesterday.

When he was very young, he lived with his father in the "dead city" for a while.

I still remember that there is always a humid atmosphere in the dungeon. In the huge dungeon, there are only a few old people from the Undercurrent Organization and their father and son. Every day, my father tells him various old stories. He has always remembered the name of the rocking star in his heart—because he knew that his father had studied in the best military medical school in the rocking star.

Snow's favorite thing when he was a child was to lie in his father's arms and listen to him tell various stories.

Ling Feng's voice was very soft, and the stories he told were especially nice. Snow nestled in his arms, and listening to him tell various ancient legends, he felt particularly peaceful and happy in his heart.

He didn't have any playmates in his childhood, only his father was a relative.

For little Snow, his father is his heaven and his whole world.

Such a peaceful and stable day lasted for nearly half a year.

This Locke Castle, known as the "Dead City", has been isolated from the outside world for many years. Many of the food stored in the Locke Castle have expired. In addition, the air in the Locke Castle is dirty. Snow is still a child and has weak resistance. There is nothing he can do here. Live for a long time.Ling Feng had no choice but to take his son back to the Oman planet.

Probably because of the many twists and turns during pregnancy, Snow had a heart problem when he was born, and it couldn't be repaired, so he had to undergo a heart transplant.Ling Feng took his son to the home of his best friend in college, Dr. Hua De.Hua De has an independent laboratory on the planet Oman, which is convenient for Ling Feng to take care of his son.

Snow's childhood memory is the memory of running around with his father.

Snow and his father depended on each other for life, and because of his poor health since he was a child, he was already very sensible at the age of five, and he listened to what his father said.Compared with those mischievous children of the same age, Snow was so obedient as a five-year-old boy.

He is too obedient.Therefore, when Ling Feng suddenly brought him into Dr. Huade's secret laboratory and put him in the cryotherapy cabin to treat him with cryotherapy, he had no doubts, and obediently lay down there. , and comforted the sad father and said: "It's okay, Dad, I'll just pretend to be sleeping..."

This kind of cryotherapy cabin is usually used for patients with multiple organ failure. It can temporarily freeze the human body and rely on extracorporeal nutrient solution to maintain life.Snow's heart was failing day by day, and his heartbeat was frighteningly slow. It seemed that he would stop beating at any time. He might not be able to survive without a replacement operation.

That's why Ling Feng ruthlessly froze his son, took cells from him and began to grow organs.

This kind of organ cultivation method similar to copying and cloning is very troublesome. If you are not careful, the cultivated organs will not be able to be transplanted due to various defects.The young Snow didn't understand these things, he just fell asleep obediently in the cryogenic cabin, ignorant of everything outside.

By the time Dr. Hua De finally performed the heart transplant on him and woke him up, five years had slipped by quietly.

When Snow woke up, he didn't even know where he was. The long-term freezing made his entire body muscles almost atrophy, and he was as thin as skin and bones.His body is still that five-year-old child, but his actual age should be ten years old. Five years seem to have been completely removed from his life, leaving only a blank space.

He never saw Dad again.

According to Dr. Hua De, many things happened during his sleeping period. General Ling Yu was expelled from the military, the secrets of the undercurrent organization were exposed, the military department carried out a blanket search and hunt for the undercurrent members, and my father temporarily left here for refuge. , missing.

Snow listened in a daze, his dull brain struggling to digest the unbearable bad news.

Probably because it was frozen for too long, when he heard that his father was missing, he almost forgot the feeling of crying.

From that day on, Hua De adopted Snow as his adopted son, and told outsiders that Snow was an orphan whom he had picked up with both parents dead. He was five years old this year.

He secretly injected Snow with inhibitors, allowing Snow to grow up as a Beta.

It's just that the five-year-old child has become more and more silent. He doesn't like to make friends, doesn't like to talk, and always curls up in a habitual sleeping position, just like he once curled up in that small cryogenic cabin .

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The reappearance of the three words "Luoguangxing" seemed to tear a huge crack in Snow's heart.

Those distant childhood memories surged out like a tide in an instant, and the icy feeling of lying in the freezer slowly climbed up the back of my mind, and the blood in my whole body seemed to be frozen.

Snow stood there stiffly, looking up at the strange man.

The man's appearance was very ordinary, but he had a pair of extremely black and extremely bright eyes. When he met his gaze, Snow couldn't help trembling slightly in his heart—these eyes had appeared in dreams countless times, similar to the gentle one in memory. Men are so similar.

As if to prove his conjecture, the man looked back at him deliberately before leaving the specimen showroom.

Snow didn't hesitate any longer, stood up immediately and said, "Teacher, I'm a little uncomfortable, go to the bathroom."

Today's teacher has a very good temper. Seeing Snow's pale face, he nodded quickly and said, "Hurry up, tell me if it's serious, and I'll take you to see a doctor."

Snow nodded, and quickly walked out of the showroom.

When he went out, he saw the man waiting for him at the end of the corridor.

The two looked at each other across the long corridor, and neither of them spoke, but the familiar feeling made them recognize each other immediately.

dad……

Snow's eyes turned red immediately, his voice was stuck in his throat, but he couldn't utter a single syllable.

Ling Feng's eyes were also a little moist, but he could only turn around and walk to the bathroom pretending to be calm.

There are surveillance videos everywhere in the corridor of the hospital, Ling Feng dare not speak to Snow in the corridor at all.

The two walked into the bathroom one after the other, but there was no one there, so Snow closed the door and turned to look at the man in front of him.

The man asked softly, "Is it... Snow..."

Snow nodded stiffly.

The man reached out and peeled off the special bio-glue mask from his face, revealing his original gentle and handsome appearance.

Snow: "..."

Even though he missed it in his dream for more than ten years, when this familiar face appeared in front of him again, Snow was stiff and didn't know what to do.

He is no longer the naive child who likes to lie in his father's arms and listen to stories, regards his father as his whole world, and listens to his words in everything.

After more than ten years of separation, he even accepted the fact that "father may be dead".

At this moment, Ling Feng suddenly appeared in front of him, and Snow's first thought was that he might be dreaming.

Ling Feng took a step forward, reached out his hand to touch his son's hair, met Snow's eyes, but stopped his hand stiffly.

Looking at the boy who was already as tall as himself in front of him, Ling Feng felt like a knife was twisting his heart.

He always remembered that when he left the planet Oman, he looked at the child curled up in a ball in the cryogenic chamber, seeing the pale face of the five-year-old Snow and the body covered with various needles, his heart ached... almost It's about to crash.

However, his son is waiting for an organ transplant in the freezer. He cannot take him away, so he can only entrust his friend Hua De to continue the experiment of organ cultivation, hoping that the child will survive.

When he and his younger brother Ling Yu hurriedly fled to the Iswell galaxy, Ling Feng even thought desperately that that obedient and well-behaved child might never see him again, and if the experiment failed, he would not be able to survive.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a boy named Snow was standing in front of him like this.He has a handsome appearance, a slender and well-proportioned figure, a pair of clear blue eyes and a head of soft platinum-blonde hair, all of which resemble his biological father Udyr.

The father and son looked at each other in silence for a long time, and Snow finally came back to his senses, and said softly, "...Dad...Dad?"

Snow hadn't called the word "father" for many years. When he said it, because it was too unfamiliar, his throat was extremely dry, and the choked voice even made the simple words blurred.

But Ling Feng immediately heard it clearly, his back suddenly stiffened, and then he stretched out his arms and hugged his son forcefully.

"Xiao Nuo..."

Unlike the soft child in his memory, the boy in his arms was slender and flexible, almost as tall as himself.

Ling Feng tightly tightened his arms, feeling the body temperature of the young man, a vacant corner of his heart seemed to be finally filled with something.

Snow also stretched out his hand, and hugged the man in front of him tightly.The refreshing smell and gentle breath of a man are the things he liked most in his childhood and missed most in his youth.It is the warmth between father and son whose blood is thicker than water and that cannot be parted.

Snow buried his face deeply in Ling Feng's arms, the long-lost familiar tenderness made Snow almost shed tears.

Although I really want to have a good chat with my son, but this is a public place after all, if someone comes in, the gain will not be worth the loss. Ling Feng has always acted cautiously. Go out, come to the address I gave you after school tonight..." Ling Feng stuffed a note into his son.

Snow nodded and said, "Okay."

After Ling Feng left, Snow waited for about 5 minutes before turning back to the specimen display room.

The students thought that his unusual complexion was due to his stomach discomfort, and they didn't doubt him. Besides, Snow was usually cold and didn't know many people in class, and no one took the initiative to ask him.

The afternoon visit ended quickly, and more than 50 students returned to school for dinner under the leadership of teachers.

Snow didn't go back to school, but turned around and walked to the address his father gave him.

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Ling Feng rented a house in a residential complex in Yaoguangxing, and also used the pseudonym "Charlie".After he arrived here yesterday morning, he tidied up the house first before going to the hospital for an interview. He used to move frequently. Ling Feng has already been very proficient at tidying up the room. In less than half a day, he arranged the furniture in the house to his liking, and cleaned the room thoroughly. again.

When Snow came here, what he saw was a warm and tidy two-bedroom residence.

Dad loved cleanliness, and Snow always remembered that no matter where they moved when they were young, the two of them always kept the place clean and tidy.Looking at the familiar beige screens and soft sofas in the house, Snow suddenly felt a sense of "going home".

Just like his childhood memories, as long as his father is there, it is the warmest home for him.

Seeing his son looking at the room, Ling Feng couldn't help smiling, and said softly, "Come in, this is a house I rented temporarily."

Snow walked into the house, and immediately smelled a scent. Ling Feng turned around and brought out a casserole from the kitchen, which contained rich pork rib soup, and there were a few light home-cooked dishes on the table. Increases appetite.

Ling Feng told Snow to sit down at the dining table, picked up the chopsticks and handed them to him, and served him a bowl of rice himself, and said with a smile, "You've been visiting all afternoon, you must be hungry, right?"

Snow nodded, took the bowl and chopsticks from his father, and started to eat.

The two were eating when Snow's communicator suddenly rang. Snow took it out and took a look. When he saw Brian's name, he immediately refused to connect and sent back a few text messages: "I have something to do, you Let's eat."

Since Capital Star came back, Brian especially liked to cling to Snow. Every day, he made an appointment to have lunch and dinner together.Even many classmates in the medical school knew Brian—that handsome guy who waited for Snow at the gate of the medical school all day like a door god was Snow's boyfriend.

Seeing Snow's communicator beeping, Ling Feng couldn't help asking, "Who is looking for you? Is there something wrong?"

Facing his father's suspicious gaze, Snow hurriedly retracted the communicator in embarrassment, and said, "It's okay, my roommate is looking for me for dinner."

Ling Feng didn't ask any more questions, and put some vegetables in a bowl for his son with a smile.

After the meal, the father and son sat on the sofa together. Ling Feng cut a plate of fruit, but Snow was not in the mood to eat any more. He couldn't help but look up at him and asked softly, "Dad, have you been eating all these years?" Where? I haven't been able to find any news..."

Ling Feng was silent for a moment, and then said: "Back then, the military department carried out a blanket search for members of the undercurrent, so I had to entrust you to Hua De to take care of me, and temporarily left the planet Oman. Later, something happened to Ling Yu, and we fled to Isville together Galaxies, hiding there for many years."

Seeing his father's pale face, Snow couldn't help feeling distressed.As one of the top ten most wanted objects by the military - Dr. Sander, my father must have had a hard time hiding his identity all these years.

Thinking of this, Snow couldn't help holding his hand lightly, "Then are you safe now? Why did you come to Yaoguangxing suddenly?"

Ling Feng looked up at him and said, "Did you go back to Locke Castle to find inhibitors?"

Snow asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

Ling Feng said: "I told you once that I have a twin brother, do you remember? The person who stunned you with an anesthetic in the dungeon is Ling Yu."

Snow was silent for a while, before he said in disbelief: "That person wearing blue military boots? It's him?"

Ling Feng nodded, "He happened to be on a secret mission that day. He temporarily anesthetized you because he was afraid that you would run into His Majesty. He guessed that you were a descendant of an undercurrent member, so he took a few strands of your hair and asked me to do it after returning. I only found out about your whereabouts through genetic testing." Ling Feng couldn't help holding Snow's hand tightly when he said this, "I haven't heard from you in these years, and I thought you..."

Snow said softly: "The operation back then was successful. However, within a few years, Uncle Hua died in an accident. I sold the house he left and moved out from the original place..."

In order to conceal Snow's identity and avoid military investigations, Hua De secretly raised Snow at home as an orphan. Snow did not have a formal household registration on the planet Oman.Ling Feng only knew that Hua De passed away five years ago. He thought that Snow had failed the operation and was gone long ago, so he was always very sad...

Unexpectedly, Snow actually sold the house and moved out of the original residence.

Snow explained softly: "Uncle Hua De is gone, I don't have any living expenses... so I sold the house and found a cheap place to rent."

Ling Feng felt distressed and didn't know what to say.

How did this child survive all these years alone?Ling Feng couldn't even imagine how much he had suffered.

After being silent for a long time, Ling Feng asked: "Then...how did you get admitted to St. Romia Military Academy?"

Snow said with a calm expression: "I have wanted to be a doctor since I was a child, and I wanted to study at Shaking Star like you... When I was 13 years old, I made a fake ID card, stating that my parents were both Beta, and that I was in Beijing. I died in the battlefield, and then sneaked into the school to study, and the school didn't bother to check my background in detail, so I was allowed to go to school..."

At that moment, Ling Feng really wanted to hold Snow tightly in his arms like when he was a child.

However, looking at the calm and indifferent expression on the young man's face, and listening to him speak out these past events in a calm tone... Ling Feng knew that he no longer needed such hugs and comfort.

This child has already built a layer of cold and hard shell like a rock in his heart through years of hard life.

Ling Feng was silent for a long time.

Snow has grown up and no longer needs his father's protection.He has his own ideas and goals.He is willing to work hard for his goals.As a father, what qualifications do you have to stop him?

It wasn't until eleven o'clock in the evening when Snow had to leave that Ling Feng finally said: "Snow, you are an Omega, and staying in school would be very risky... If you want, you can Leave with Dad. I will stay here for about ten days, you go back and think about it carefully, and give me an answer then."

Snow was startled for a moment, then lowered his head and said, "...I will think about it."

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The temperature difference between day and night in Pojunxing is very large. It is very hot in the daytime, but it is bitingly cold at night.

After leaving his father's residence, Snow put his hands in his pockets and walked alone on the street at night facing the wind.

His biological age is, but he was actually born 23 years ago, and five years have been withdrawn from his life, becoming a completely blank memory.

Before he was four years old, he had a happy family. His father and father took him to live on the planet where it was always snowing heavily. He didn’t remember his father’s appearance clearly, but he only remembered that man always loved to hold him in his arms. , put his forehead against his forehead, and said softly: "My precious son, why are you growing up so slowly? Hurry up and grow up, and I will teach you how to play various mechs when you grow up."

However, before he grew up, his father left suddenly.

Dad took him to flee for a whole year. They went to the dark dungeon, went to the desolate planet Ryan, and found a place to live on the planet Oman.

When he was a child, he had a bad heart, and his father put him in a freezer for five years. When he woke up, the heart transplant operation was completed, and his father left...

Probably because he experienced too much when he was very young, Snow's personality became colder and colder, his emotions became numb, and he would involuntarily feel guarded against strangers.

When I saw my father today, I was a little happy, but he didn't have the strong sense of dependence on his father at all when he was a child.

Give up everything and leave here with Dad?How can it be?

In fact, Snow already had the answer in his heart, but he didn't want to hurt that man by telling the truth to Shang Lingfeng's gentle gaze.

——Your son no longer needs your protection.In the years you've been away, he's learned to take care of himself, he's been able to support himself, his heart has been replaced with a new one, and it's already solid.

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It was already twelve o'clock when Snow returned to the dormitory, and he entered almost at the time when the door was locked.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Brian sitting on the sofa in the living room, waiting anxiously. Seeing him coming in, he immediately rushed over like a large dog, stretched out his powerful arms, and hugged him tightly. Into the arms.

"Where did you go? The communicator has been turned off all the time. If you don't come back so late, you're worried about me, do you know?"

The boy rested his chin on his shoulder and started chattering, his deep voice showing obvious concern.

Snow froze for a moment, probably because he had been walking in the cold wind for too long, and was suddenly embraced by Brian. The refreshing warmth made the always cold and hard shell of his heart suddenly crack an imperceptible crack. gap.

Snow stood there quietly for Brian to hold.

He has experienced so much cold that he always has the illusion that such warmth will disappear at any time. He dare not open his heart to accept someone, he is afraid that he will be left behind again.

Once for father, once for dad, once for Uncle Walter who raised him...

Every time he was left behind, there was nothing he could do. As a young boy, he didn't even know how to express his sadness.

He was only four years old when his father left, and he didn't even know the reason why he couldn't wait for his father to come home.When his father left, he had just come out of the freezer, and after learning the news that his father was missing, he couldn't even shed tears.When Uncle Ward died, he had grown up, learned how to hide his sadness, and learned how to support himself.

Where's Brian?

Can I believe in his so-called...never forsaking?

After a long silence, Snow asked softly, "What will you do if I don't come back?"

Brian immediately tightened his arms, and said in a low voice: "Don't make such a joke... I will go wherever you go, anyway, I am a follower... If you dare not come back, I will turn the whole universe upside down." Come here and I will find you..."

Brian paused, and said in an extremely serious tone, "Snow, don't you know how important you are to me?"

Snow was startled.

Am I... important to you?

From childhood to adulthood, Snow had three very important people in his heart, the father he admired the most, the father he liked the most, and the uncle Hua De whom he was most grateful for. These people all left him for various reasons in the end. , leaving him alone on the cold planet to grow up with difficulty.

Today, for the first time, Snow felt the treatment of "being placed in an important position".

It was also the first time that he felt the warmth of being "waited for".

The gap in the cold shell of his heart seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and his stiff body gradually softened under Brian's embrace.

Snow said softly, "Brian..."

Brian immediately responded: "What's the matter? Are you unwell? Are you sick with such an ugly face?"

The boy tested the temperature of Snow's forehead with the back of his hand, with a nervous expression on his face and worried eyes.

Snow met his gaze, and his heart felt warm. He couldn't help leaning his head into his arms, and hugged him gently.

— Brian, thank you for putting me in such an important position.

——Thank you for persistently waiting for me to come back in such a cold night.