Chapter 294: A Whisper of Sakura
Li Mo got up and walked to the door, feeling incredibly satisfied as he looked at the neatly arranged furniture inside.
It couldn't compare to modern facilities, but these were all made by him and Sakura with their own hands, giving them a more intimate feeling.
Li Mo threw himself onto the bed, facing the ceiling.
The next second, Sakura also got on the bed, kneeling on Li Mo, her body leaning forward, her long cherry-pink hair falling on both sides of him.
Her pink, moist lips moved slightly, like a fluttering butterfly, its beautiful wings stirring the restlessness in Li Mo's heart.
"Mo-kun, can you... stay tonight..." Sakura asked cautiously, like a puppy about to be abandoned, looking at Li Mo pitifully, as if she would shatter with a simple refusal.
After a moment of thought, Li Mo nodded, "Mmm... alright, I'd like to spend a little more time with you too."
Was the time in reality and in the dream synchronized? Li Mo didn't know. He would find out everything when he woke up.
But... Li Mo could clearly feel that his connection with reality was gradually weakening. Now, he had to concentrate to break free from the dream.
But those were all things to consider later. For now, the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. If he didn't pick and play with them, it would seem that he was not romantic enough.
After a bout of fondling, Sakura's face flushed with shame as she pleaded, "I hope Mo-kun will be gentle..."
The moonlight trembled, and the green leaves grew wildly.
The ever-obedient Sakura perfectly met Li Mo's needs in these aspects.
Whether it was morning, noon, or night, after meals, at any time, having just tasted the beauty of it, he naturally couldn't stop. For every request, Sakura would agree.
On the third day, at the faint light of dawn, a pale golden glow appeared on the horizon. The eaves of the wooden house were hung with crystal clear dew left over from the傾斜 of the Milky Way last night.
Li Mo opened his sleepy eyes, glanced at the bed, and there was no residue.
The beauty beside his pillow was gone. There was a commotion in the kitchen outside.
Li Mo sat up from the bed lightly and pushed open the kitchen door.
In the kitchen, Sakura looked very busy. Her soft and smooth hair was simply tied up, revealing a gentle and lovely face. Her slender jade hands were nimbly busy on the stove, and the firelight illuminated her beautiful face, warm and bright. The firewood crackled, and the curling cooking smoke swirled on the roof.
In the process of building the wooden house, the two had collected a lot of ingredients to assist with the flavor of the food.
Seeing this scene, a warm current immediately surged in Li Mo's heart. He tiptoed, silently walked behind Sakura, and wrapped his arms around her soft waist from behind, his eyes full of warmth.
Sakura turned her head and saw that it was Li Mo. She nodded and smiled, bowing slightly, as if the entire daytime sun had condensed in her smile.
"Mo-kun, please wait a little longer. Breakfast will be ready soon," Sakura said in a warm voice, gently placing her hand on Li Mo's and poking it. Li Mo's hand naughtily climbed up. A blush quickly occupied Sakura's neck and spread to the roots of her ears.
"Ugh! Mo-kun? I can't cook properly like this..."
"I don't want to eat. Can I eat something 'else'?"
"Something else? Ugh... alright."
Sakura's face was as red as a peach blossom, but she still quietly closed the door and covered the window. After returning to the dining table, she placed her hands on the wall, her beautiful figure turned away, waiting quietly...
Sakura's words were intermittent, and did not stop until Li Mo was exhausted.
At noon, the sun was high. At Li Mo's strong request, Sakura lay in bed for a short nap.
Li Mo, on the other hand, did the housework, washed the furniture, and removed the wood chips and sharp corners.
It would be nice if he could find some materials for polishing, but unfortunately, there were no ready-made ones in the forest, and Li Mo didn't have the skills.
After doing all this, Li Mo lightly came to the bedside and lay down steadily.
He also needed a nap.
In the dream, Li Mo could still dream.
It was just that this time, the dream was an ordinary dream. He couldn't perceive that he was dreaming, nor did he have any sensory feedback, only a茫然 of reality, and a sense of detachment after waking up.
At dusk, Li Mo woke up and found Sakura sitting beside him, smiling at him.
"Mo-kun is awake. Is there anything Sakura can do for you?"
"I'm a little thirsty."
"Sakura will get water."
"I can go myself."
Before Li Mo could finish, Sakura rushed out the door, giving Li Mo no chance to move.
"Hmph, I feel like I'm being raised into a useless person. Sakura is even better at taking care of people than Sister Beichen," Li Mo said with a helpless smile, his gaze shifting to the bending Sakura fetching water.
It was the first time Li Mo had been treated with such wholeheartedness and reservation.
Perhaps this was the difference between family and a partner. Two people who truly love each other would entrust their bodies, minds, and even souls to each other, whether ugly or beautiful, extreme or introverted.
Because they didn't have to worry about being abandoned by the other party, they would reveal the weakest side of their hearts.
Never give up, never separate.
Sakura was such a girl.
Once she decided, she would give without any regrets.
He had made Sakura suffer a lot, while he had taken all the good things for himself.
"Let's stay a little longer, just a little longer..."
Li Mo whispered softly, but the soreness in his waist made the corners of his mouth twitch.
This wasn't a solution. I'll die in my dream...
"I'll go back to reality tomorrow to check my body, and buy some medicine to recuperate. Otherwise, my body will die on Sakura's belly."
After a long while, Sakura brought water. A glint of light suddenly flashed in her eyes. She drank all the water.
Her puffed-up cheeks were like a pufferfish.
"Wuwuwu!" Sakura grunted, walked to Li Mo's side, and fed him with her mouth.
"..." Li Mo covered his left kidney with one hand, but his right kidney complained of injustice, and a colic pain came.
He was still just an ordinary person. If only he could have a ghost's constitution, he wouldn't be afraid of dying from doing it. Anyway, there was still a restart.
Li Mo did not show it.
After a long time, their lips parted.
"Mo-kun... do you like Sakura doing this?" Sakura asked in a low voice with her head lowered.
Li Mo looked at the other party's expectant gaze, endured the soreness in his waist, and he didn't want to disappoint Sakura's good intentions. He said with a smile, "Of course, Sakura is the best!"
The sun had not yet set, and Sakura's eyes became more and more hazy.
Li Mo was scared and immediately took Sakura to practice the broadcast gymnastics taught in school outside the wooden house.
"One, two, three, four! Two, two, three, four! Three, two, three, four!"
"Be serious, Sakura. Even if you're not at school, you can't slack off on physical exercise!"
Sakura: "..."
Li Mo's expression was serious and solemn, which was different from the infatuated state of yesterday's bed.
In fact, at school, Li Mo was completely uninterested in broadcast gymnastics. He was always perfunctory, but fortunately, he had memorized all the movements.
It was just right to practice in the dream and take care of his body.
The body is the capital of the revolution!
Night soon fell. Li Mo went to bed early, but the pain from his body woke him up. He saw a blurry and slender black shadow sitting on his waist.
Suddenly, he heard the world around him move. Zhu Rong rose again, broke Mount Buzhou, and broke the sky pillar.
"..."
"..."
"..."
The next day, Li Mo woke up early. This time, Sakura did not get up early to cook, but was sleeping soundly by his side.
Li Mo expressed his understanding and reached out to touch Sakura's cheek. The next second, a sharp pain came, and Li Mo's facial muscles twitched uncontrollably.
Hiss...
Li Mo got up and got out of bed. The moment he got out of bed, he lost his footing and almost fell to the ground.
He bent over and supported himself with the wall, slowly walking towards the door.
Looking at the pale face in the pool, with a big "death" word floating above his head, Li Mo knew he couldn't continue.
"I'll go back to recuperate first, and see how long it has been in reality. But... I'll have to wrong Sakura."
"I'll be honest with her when she wakes up. I can't just leave without a word like last time."
"I have to take responsibility."
Li Mo made breakfast first and woke Sakura up at the right time.
At the dining table, Li Mo truthfully told Sakura his next thoughts. After hearing it, Sakura's face sank. She lowered her head, and her bangs covered her complicated and gloomy eyes.
Li Mo couldn't see her eyes, but he felt even more guilty in his heart.
Sakura put down her bowl and chopsticks and did not move for a long time.
After a long while, Sakura finally looked up and showed a forced smile.
"Mo-kun, Sakura's promise to you still stands. Sakura will always be waiting for you here, forever."
"So, please don't forget Sakura."
Sakura stepped forward and offered a light kiss.
It was not as crazy and extreme as the past few days.
Li Mo replied affirmatively, "I won't. No matter what happens, I will come back. I will never forget!"
"Sakura believes in Mo-kun."
"Mmm, take care of yourself when I'm gone. Then... I'm leaving?"
Sakura was silent for a while, then slowly said, "May you have a safe journey."
With a thought, Li Mo disappeared from the spot.
The warm and quiet small wooden house instantly became dead silent and gloomy.
Sakura walked to the door, neither leaving nor returning. She stared blankly at the place where Li Mo had disappeared, her eyes full of confusion and helplessness.
The scorching sunlight from outside the window shone down, but it couldn't illuminate the haze in her eyes.
"So cold..." Sakura folded her hands on her chest, her fair fingers tightly grasping her shoulders until they were deeply embedded in her flesh and blood. Fresh red blood overflowed from the wound and dripped onto the ground along her shoulders.
"How long... do I have to wait?"
The sun gradually set in the west. The sunlight moved away from her, and the room gradually became dim.
An suffocating silence permeated the air. Sakura sat alone in a corner of the room. Everything around her seemed to have lost its vitality. The furniture that had once witnessed her many laughter also seemed cold and unfamiliar.
Long days, long nights.
Sakura sat at the door of the small wooden house.
At that time, tender green shoots emerged from the ground, and the swaying petals danced with the wind.
At that time, the cicadas chirped one after another, and the sun was hot and brilliant.
At that time, the cold wind rustled, the fallen leaves fluttered, and a piece of golden yellow.
At that time, it was covered in silver, white snow, and snowflakes fell from the eaves.
Everything was changing, only loneliness and nothingness were eternal.
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"Ugh... my head hurts a little. Wait, I'm... in a hospital?"
Li Mo opened his eyes with some difficulty. The sunlight quietly fell from the gap in the half-drawn curtains, covering the hard metal hospital bed like frost. His consciousness gradually peeled away from the chaotic dream, and the heaviness and restraint gradually dissipated.
His left eyelid twitched, and the scene in front of him made him widen his eyes. His body was surrounded by countless transparent test tubes. These test tubes were like cold vines, extending from his arms, wrists, and even his chest, connecting to all kinds of instruments, making a low and regular buzzing sound.
"What the hell? Wasn't I sleeping at home? How long has it been in reality?"
Li Mo tried to move his body, but the pain came like a tide. Every small movement felt like it was tearing his kidneys. Alright, this pain was not from what he had encountered in reality, but from doing it too much with Sakura in his dream.
The pungent smell of disinfectant permeated the surroundings, intertwined with the faint smell of metal and rubber in the air, which was suffocating.
Suddenly, the door of the ward was opened, and a nurse walked in with a document in her hands. After seeing the haggard but already awake Li Mo, she immediately contacted the person in her earpiece.
"Do you still remember what your name is?"
"Li Mo."
"Gender?"
"...I don't know."
"You don't know? How can you not know that you are biologically male?"
"You know and you're still asking?"
"Alright, last question. Did you encounter anything during your three-day coma? For example..."
"No, I want to leave this place. Please handle the discharge procedures."
After the conversation, Li Mo confirmed that the flow of time in the dream and in reality was the same.
He had fallen asleep and had not woken up for a long time. Rin had found his condition on the morning of the second day and had immediately sent him to the hospital.
And then it became like this...
"I said I want to be discharged."
"This, Mr. Li, your spirit seems to have not fully recovered. It's best to stay in the hospital for a period of observation and cooperate with our examination. Don't worry, this is harmless to your body."
Li Mo clicked his tongue. If it could be found, it would have been found long ago. After three days of coma, nothing had been found, which meant that this hospital's technical means were limited and could not find the reason why he had entered the dream.
Li Mo couldn't argue with the nurse. Fortunately, the men in black came quickly. After a simple conversation, the men in black took Li Mo to handle the discharge procedures.
"Thanks. Were you sent by Sister Beichen? How is she now?" Li Mo asked anxiously, eager to know the answer.
His body was not in serious trouble. He did not feel obvious hunger or weakness. Instead, he felt that his body was much stronger.
This made Li Mo even more certain that the dream and reality had an inseparable relationship. The improvement in his physical level from building a house in the dream would also be fed back to reality.
This is insane.
The men in black whispered to each other, then said to Li Mo, "This is not something you should know. No, you should know, but you don't have the ability to know."
"You are too weak, and too young. When you have the ability to handle a supernatural event alone, someone will naturally tell you all the answers."
"Is it Sister Beichen?" Li Mo asked back.
He didn't quite understand why Beichen didn't just tell him everything directly, but had to have someone else tell him. Their relationship didn't seem to need to be so formal, right?
"It doesn't matter whether it is or not. If you continue to ask, the answer you get will still not change. When you have the ability to handle a supernatural event alone, someone will naturally tell you all the answers. As for whether that person is the one you think of, you might as well let time verify it."