“Cough, cough…”
His eyes were scattered as he coughed, a sweet and hot liquid kept pouring out from his throat, he could only think blankly: What’s wrong with me?
What’s going on, what’s happening? Why is it so dark, no… Jiang Jianming’s pupils kept contracting, his limbs shaking more and more violently.
Silence, pain, darkness, weakness, cold, and the chaotic crystal particles within his body… all of these were constantly stimulating him. Like a red-hot iron and pitchfork, repeatedly smashing and stabbing into his spirit, the sense of collapse it brought made people wish they could die.
Suddenly, a familiar pain exploded within his body, as if millions of steel needles had pierced his organs at once!
“——Ah…!!”
Jiang Jianming let out a miserable gulp, his body suddenly convulsed and arched, the pain causing the fine veins on his forehead to twitch, his consciousness flew away for two seconds.
His defeated lips trembled, he closed his eyes and opened his mouth, gasping for breath with his fingers clutching his chest, “Cough… cough…”
…It was too late, Jiang Jianming was about to faint from the pain before he sobered up a bit, and realized his current situation after the fact.
He collapsed on the ground, squinting around… it was still too dark, he could hardly see anything, and there were no signs of people.
Medicine…
Jiang Jianming used all his strength to lift his arm, his fingertips groping to get the medicine, he grabbed several times before he could take it out.
His consciousness gradually thinned, he gasped in vain, his hand had lost its strength, he could only tremble and put the bottle mouth between his teeth to try to bite it open.
But another wave of pain hit, the medicine slipped out of his powerless fingers, and rolled a few steps away before stopping.
“…….”
Jiang Jianming’s brain was dizzy, his eardrums were buzzing, he looked at the shadow of that small bottle, for the first time he felt so heartbroken about the weakness of this sick body.
Even when he was tortured by the Crystal Cult, he had never fallen into such a helpless situation.
At least at that time, he had a plan in his chest, knowing that the enemy wanted to keep him alive, and would not rashly put him in a deadly situation, unlike now…
He wanted to pick up the medicine, but he couldn’t move.
He wanted to call for help, but he couldn’t make a sound.
In the despairing darkness, Jiang Jianming’s body kept convulsing, his breath becoming weak and difficult to sustain.
His fingers struggled to move, his nails scraping faint scratches on the ground, his eyes gradually dispersing in pain.
It…it hurts so much…
He couldn’t pass out, but he was almost unable to hold on…
His tense body gradually relaxed, Jiang Jianming’s pale cheek tilted, he closed his eyes, and finally his half-open lips moved.
…Ryann…
Just when the pain reached its peak, about to snap the string at its limit, Jiang Jianming vaguely heard stumbling footsteps.
Someone quickly picked up his sweaty body and gave him a few injections.
Then they lifted his face, pried open his clenched teeth, and fed him some liquid.
Jiang Jianming was already in a near-comatose state, too weak to open his eyes, but he faintly sensed a familiar presence, and knew in his heart that the only person who would come to hold him at this time would be Ryann.
He immediately relaxed, exhaled weakly, and swallowed the medicine that was delivered to his throat with the last of his strength.
He also felt His Highness’s crystal bone wrap around him, soon, all the discomfort on his body began to fade. The chaotic crystal particles inside his body calmed down.
…? Normally, the effect of the medicine shouldn’t be this fast, could it be a new drug from the base? Jiang Jianming leaned against the huge crystal bone in a daze, several times he thought he could wake up, but he just couldn’t open his eyes.
He gradually felt that something was wrong.
The surroundings were still so deathly silent, the wind blowing past his ears was still so desolate.
Ryann had not spoken, not even calling his name once, just holding him in his arms with his huge crystal bone. Apart from feeding him medicine, he occasionally touched his facial contours quickly, his movements were awkward and stiff.
“…”
A few minutes later, Jiang Jianming struggled to open his eyes, the word “Your Highness” had already reached his tongue, but before he could call out, he felt a chill in his heart.
——The person in front of him was indeed Ryann Kaios, but in the darkness, only his platinum curls were seen falling messily, the face of the Crown Prince seemed to be frozen by ice, without any expression fluctuations.
No expressions filled with human emotions!
Seeing Jiang Jianming open his eyes, his beautiful thin lips moved a bit, slightly opened his mouth, revealing cold white fangs, but no sound came out.
Only those pair of emerald eyes, eerily, wildly, staring straight at him.
As if hiding a whirlpool of madness and chaos, bottomless.
Jiang Jianming’s scalp exploded instantly, his blood cooled by more than half.
That close gaze fell on him, making him feel as if he was being watched by some sinister existence awakened from the depths of the universe.
This was definitely not a normal state!
Jiang Jianming’s body stiffened, instinctively struggling backwards!
Ryann seemed to have not expected his sudden reaction to be so big, the crystal bone loosened, Jiang Jianming couldn’t hold on, and directly fell to the ground.
“Ugh…! Cough cough…”
Suddenly, the symptoms that had just subsided came back, he was trembling with pain, coughing incessantly.
Ryann’s pupils contracted, and that strange and crazy pressure surged instantly. His crystal bone moved towards Jiang Jianming, making a crackling sound as it grew.
However, at this time, Jiang Jianming’s nerves were stretched to the extreme, he endured the weakness and severe pain, and pulled out the gun from his waist!
Just as Ryann’s crystal bone wrapped most of his body, the muzzle of the Wings of Venus also clicked against the Crown Prince’s crystal bone.
“Don’t touch me!” Jiang Jianming gasped and raised his eyes, shouting coldly.
His wrist holding the gun was trembling non-stop, his whole body was also trembling, sweating, and breathing rapidly, “Put away the crystal bone.”
Ryann’s movements paused.
Jiang Jianming: “You’re not Ryann…cough, cough, what are you?”
The severity in his gaze increased, he slowly raised the muzzle, the aim moved from the crystal bone to the other’s brow. “Speak.”
After a long time, a helpless emotion gradually appeared on Ryann’s frozen face.
He opened his mouth, but could only make a hoarse syllable.
He looked somewhat blankly at the pale black-haired youth.
He seemed to not know why he couldn’t speak anymore.
Ryann hesitated to reach out his hand, across the vast night, wanting to touch the person in front of him, but was slapped away by Jiang Jianming with the muzzle.
“Can’t speak? Can’t even understand? I told you to put away the crystal bone!”
Jiang Jianming’s black hair was completely soaked with cold sweat, there was no trace of blood on his handsome face, he was now weak and pale, his lips were stained red, and he didn’t know where he got the strength to exert such a compelling edge.
In fact, he was very clear in his heart, just a gun, even if it was loaded with new crystal mechanical bullets, it couldn’t hurt Ryann at all.
He didn’t draw his gun for self-defense, of course, he didn’t expect to deter the Crown Prince with harsh words and cold language, he just wanted to test what the situation was on the other side!
To see if Ryann still recognized him, whether he could understand his words, whether he still had reason.
But the crystal bone did not retract. Ryann’s pair of emerald eyes stared fixedly at Jiang Jianming, slowly shaking his head, and once again tried to speak with difficulty.
“…!”
“…——!!”
Still unable to make a sound, the Crown Prince gasped heavily, suddenly choked his own neck with one hand, his expression was furious and mad, sad and wronged.
He wanted to speak. He wanted to speak to the person in front of him, he had too many, too many words to say, he wanted to go mad with desire.
But he couldn’t say it, he didn’t know how to speak anymore. He even scared the other party and stimulated the fragile patient.
“You…”
Jiang Jianming was uncertain, just about to speak, but suddenly endured a frown and groaned, “Uh…!”
Clang.
The silver-gray Wings of Venus fell to the ground.
The black-haired youth finally couldn’t hold on, his arm fell weakly. Jiang Jianming closed his eyes and gasped rapidly, suddenly convulsed twice, his lips kept bleeding, his head drooped forward and he collapsed, if it weren’t for the crystal bone supporting him, he would have fallen to the ground.
Ryann suddenly looked up, he couldn’t believe he was watching Jiang Jianming vomit blood and collapse, as if he was seeing an inescapable nightmare!
He suddenly went mad again, he crouched on the ground and roared, biting his own arm, choking himself to retch, crystal bone and crystal bone were killing each other in self-mutilation.
The night seemed to be congealed ink, covering the splashes of blood.
Jiang Jianming’s consciousness was blurred, he murmured with a thread of breath. “Don’t, don’t… what are you doing…”
He gritted his teeth to pry Ryann’s hand, “Your Highness, cough… Your Highness, don’t…”
When he found out that he couldn’t make a normal sound no matter what, Ryann finally stopped his mad self-mutilation.
He cried silently.
The Crown Prince’s eyes were red, and two lines of tears rolled down his cheeks. He hunched over and trembled, making indistinct sounds from his mouth, like the whimper of a beast.
Jiang Jianming was completely unable to speak, his mind buzzing, half in shock, half in fear.
Ryann looked sad, he voluntarily leaned over to help Jiang Jianming pick up the gun and put it back in his hand.
Then he leaned forward, pressing his forehead against the muzzle, the intense emotions in his eyes were tangible!
“There’s no need for this, I know, I know…” Jiang Jianming pushed away the gun, weakly said with a pained expression, “…you don’t want to hurt me.”
“But,” he smiled bitterly, “this is still the military department, don’t you recognize it, Your Highness? Cough… if you release your crystal bone like this, what if someone sees…”
The next second, the Wings of Venus were carefully placed back in his arms, Ryann held him with his crystal bone and stood up, taking one step at a time towards the front.
He quickly reached a place with light, Ryann paused, looked down at Jiang Jianming’s face in his arms, and then continued walking.
Where is he taking me? Jiang Jianming was drowsy, not knowing if he was overthinking, Ryann seemed to be deliberately making sure that he was always in a bright place.
Do you still remember your own stress response…can recognize people, understand human speech, crazy but seems to have a clear sense of self, not the same as that time on the battlefield in the universe domain…what happened?
Half a minute later, Jiang Jianming was put into an air vehicle, Ryann did not buckle his seat belt. After all, the crystal bone was clinging to him, more secure than any seat belt.
Jiang Jianming didn’t know where His Highness was taking him, and he doubted whether this person who suddenly couldn’t speak could operate an air vehicle.
He actually wanted to ask for help, like asking the base leader what this phenomenon was. But as long as he slightly perked up and moved, Ryann would vigilantly sweep his gaze over with red eyes.
Jiang Jianming didn’t know whether to laugh or cry..
He could only soothe, “Okay, okay…I’ll lie quietly, rest for a while, okay? Is that what you mean?”
The other party silently looked at him. Jiang Jianming sighed lightly, struggled to raise his hand, and rubbed the Crown Prince’s messy long hair.
“I’m sorry, I scolded you just now, did I make you cry?”
Before withdrawing his hand, he used his fingertips to poke away the tear stains at the corner of Ryann’s eyes, “If you want to take me somewhere, just go, don’t cry, little Highness.”
