maraschino cherries

The next morning, Xi Hezhou only felt refreshed, and the boredom of fever was gone. Sheng Lin slept in Xi Hezhou's arms, as if he had failed to have a good dream.

Qi Lian's arrival broke the tranquility of the morning. He changed out of his military uniform, and without anyone behind him, he sat down beside the hospital bed in his normal uniform. Qi Lian noticed Sheng Lin sleeping soundly in Xi Hezhou's arms, his expression distorted for a moment.

"You really do everything for him." Qi Lian's voice was not loud, as if he was afraid of disturbing Sheng Lin, "There was no one in the whole experimental base, and he ran back."

"Speak up if you have something to say." Xi Hezhou was not polite to his former colleagues.

"You also took the samples that were kept back then, and let you analyze the ones that should be analyzed. Are you [-]% sure that it will be successful?"

"Have."

Xi Hezhou was very firm, Sheng Lin seemed to have been disturbed, turned over and went back to sleep.

"It's best to be like this. I've made a guarantee to the top. If you don't succeed, I will be implicated by you too."

"I see you are very happy, just take this opportunity to meet my sister."

Qi Lian choked up for a while after being poked at the center, and then resumed his previous cynical expression.

"I also didn't expect that you would do this to cure his illness. You didn't tell him that your Xi family are all like this."

When Qi Lian saw the approval report, he was not a good person. He was not sure what Xi Hezhou was thinking. He wanted to find out the plan ten years ago, and even applied for the right to use the research room of that year.

"I feel ashamed of him, and I should do everything I should. Besides, I don't want him to have psychological pressure."

"I shouldn't have let you go to the butterfly base back then. If I didn't let you see him, so many things wouldn't happen."

"Project Butterfly has problems. If I don't do it, someone else will carry out the plan."

The clean-up plan did go smoothly, but something happened to Sheng Lin, which was something Xi Hezhou couldn't let go of.

At this moment, Qi Lian suddenly received a call, and after hanging up with an ugly expression, he left after saying a few words in a hurry, and the ward became quiet again.

"Xi Hezhou..."

Sheng Lin didn't know when he woke up, and he didn't know how much he heard Qi Lian's words. He looked up at Xi Hezhou's surprised face, straightened up and sat up.

"I should call you Brother He Zhou." Sheng Lin almost sighed.

The title of "brother" is special to Xi Hezhou. It was a highlight of Xi Hezhou's military career, and it was also the source of the guilt that has lingered in his heart for the next ten years.

At that time, Xi Hezhou was only 22 years old, and his name was He Zhou at that time.

Sheng Lin was only 15 years old at that time, very similar to now, the only difference is that Sheng Lin at that time was invisible.

"sorry."

I'm sorry again.

"I'm not angry, if you tell me the whole story, I'll forgive you, Xi Hezhou, you only have this one chance." Sheng Lin sat up, got out of bed, and took the seat where Qi Lian was sitting just now.

Stop lying.

……

The 22-year-old Xi Hezhou was transferred from the headquarters to a remote experimental base to lead a team to do protection tasks. The 22-year-old young man is always arrogant, and Xi Hezhou feels that he has really wronged himself here.

There are many trivial matters in the experimental base. It is obviously a group of serious soldiers who can carry guns to the battlefield, but more often they deal with the messy trivial matters for the researchers and pay attention to the emotions of the experimental volunteers, just like the aunts of the neighborhood committee .

Xi Hezhou sat frustrated at the entrance of the research institute, looking at the rolling mountains in the distance, wondering if he would be kicked out of the army if he left now.

"hiss……"

Hearing the sound, Xi Hezhou turned his head and saw a boy fell to the ground with his knee scratched. The boy groped for a support, but Xi Hezhou realized that the boy's extremely black eyes were out of focus.

is blind.

The boy walked along the wall towards Xi Hezhou, taking every step carefully, and his movements did not look like he had been blind for a long time.

"Where are you going, kid?" Out of the purpose of serving the people, Xi Hezhou opened his mouth anyway.

The boy was taken aback, leaning on the wall to retreat.

"Stand there."

Xi Hezhou walked over and held the boy's arm. His wrist was so thin that he still had room to hold it with one hand.

"No, sir, I can go back by myself." The boy broke free from Xi Hezhou, stepped back, stepped on the gravel on the ground, and fell backwards with his whole body.

Fortunately, Xi Hezhou had quick eyes and hands to catch the person, otherwise he would have hit his head on the ground.

"Thank you." The boy was held by Xi Hezhou, and he was a little embarrassed to push away.

Xi Hezhou smelled a smell of cherries, which were not yet ripe, with a bitter taste. The institute did not have cherry trees, and the only possibility was this person in front of him.

Alphas rarely have fruit-based pheromones, so the person in front of them may be an omega, but the experimental volunteers of the Butterfly Project are almost all alphas, so why would an omega be mixed in.

"Are you an omega?"

The boy immediately covered the back of his neck.

"What is your name?"

"Sheng Lin."

Sheng Lin's voice was weak, and his breath was not very strong, as if he could pass out in a second.

Xi Hezhou questioned him for a while, but Sheng Lin faltered and couldn't explain why, so Xi Hezhou had no choice but to send him back.

The soldier's natural keenness told Xi Hezhou that there was a problem here, and he sent a message to Senior Colonel Qi Lian, reporting his doubts and guesses, but Qi Lian only asked Xi Hezhou to do his part.

Xi Hezhou could only give up, suppressed his curiosity, and continued to pass the day here.

Later, intentionally or unintentionally, Xi Hezhou would often see Sheng Lin, especially when it was not a group injection operation, and every time he came out of the laboratory, he would see him throwing up against the wall.

In less than half a month, Xi Hezhou could tell that Sheng Lin had lost a lot of weight.

Xi Hezhou had never seen Sheng Lin call his family. He wiped his mouth and returned to the dormitory every time he vomited. Because of his eyes, he always seemed to be on the edge of other volunteer groups.

"Sheng Lin, come and sit." Xi Hezhou stopped Sheng Lin during lunch time, "I brought you delicious food."

The food and lodging at the base is not good. It is obviously funded by the government, but there is indeed very little meat in the cafeteria. Xi Hezhou and other soldiers can come and go as they please, and eat outside most of the time, but those volunteers are different. For them, it is closed management, and it is easy to have no food when they arrive late.

Sheng Lin belonged to the kind who left very late, and basically all the meals he could get were some vegetables left over.

Xi Hezhou handed Sheng Lin a box of spare ribs. He packed them outside today, and he didn't know what was in his mind. He just thought that Sheng Lin would like to eat them.

Sheng Lin's eyesight was inconvenient, and he didn't know Xi Hezhou well. He fumbled to push away the lunch box Xi Hezhou handed over, but Xi Hezhou was upset. He picked up a piece of ribs and fed them directly to Sheng Lin's mouth.

The smell of pork ribs rushed into Sheng Lin's nostrils.

"Eat, I will take you out after eating."