I don’t know if Dr. Li is a he or she ;-; please forgive me >.<
When Wen Fan heard the voice, he opened his eyes and found himself lying on the recliner inside the game pod. The instant he opened his eyes, he met Lou Wei’s gaze.
Lou Wei’s eyes were slightly reddened, his complexion quite pale, even worse than before he entered the game.
As soon as he saw Wen Fan open his eyes, he immediately leaned down and tightly embraced him.
“You’re finally awake,” he said, his voice even choked up.
Wen Fan tried to lift his hand to pat his shoulder, but he found himself completely unable to move his wrist. His entire body lacked any strength to muster. He struggled to speak to Lou Wei, his voice rough and gravelly, each word feeling like dragging tiles across gravel, “I’m okay, brother.”
Lou Wei didn’t say anything, he just buried his face in Wen Fan’s neck. Just when Wen Fan was about to say something else, he felt his neck becoming damp.
A tall man of nearly six feet, shedding tears because he woke up from the recliner.
Wen Fan wanted to say something to lighten the atmosphere, but when he spoke, he found his voice even huskier than before, “I really am fine.”
Lou Wei responded with a low “Mmm,” his deep and magnetic voice carrying a slight tremor, “Good that you’re okay.” He continued, “You’ve been lying down for too long, you need rehabilitation. I’ll take you back to the hospital.”
His tone sounded emotional, yet his speech remained steady. Wen Fan nodded as best he could and then remembered a question, “How long did I sleep?”
Lou Wei lifted his hand and glanced at his watch, “Two hours since I turned off the game pod.”
So long?
No wonder Lou Wei’s expression looked so grim.
Wen Fan tried to imagine the moment he and Lou Wei switched roles, turning off the game pod. However, he suddenly felt suffocated, his face filled with guilt, for not being there when Lou Wei didn’t return.
His emotions were written all over his face, and Lou Wei could easily tell what he was thinking.
Raising his hand, Lou Wei gently caressed his cheek, then lowered his head to kiss Wen Fan’s forehead, saying, “It’s good that you’re back.”
After a brief conversation, Lou Wei and the two nursing aides accompanied Wen Fan back to the hospital.
Dr. Li looked at the patient he had been treating for months without any improvement, who had suddenly awakened after a short absence. He saw Wen Fan’s eyes wide open, and his mind was filled with shock at his medical research collapsing.
This… how could this be possible?!
He looked at Lou Wei, then turned his gaze to Wen Fan. After thoroughly examining his body from head to toe, he concluded that Wen Fan’s physical functions were all normal. As long as he underwent proper rehabilitation and received nutritional supplements, there shouldn’t be any major issues.
However, after examining Wen Fan, he hesitated for a while before asking the initial question that had puzzled him: How did this happen?
Wen Fan himself didn’t know how to explain, and it was Lou Wei who helped out, saying, “The power of love.”
Wen Fan: “…”
Only a fool would believe that explanation, right?
That’s what Wen Fan thought in his mind.
Then he heard Dr. Li nod, his eyes even starting to turn red. He wiped his eyes and said, “It’s so touching, excuse me, I got a bit emotional.”
Wen Fan: “…”
Lou Wei seemed to have a natural persuasive power when he spoke. Even though his explanations sounded like lines from a novel, people still believed them.
It was similar to when he brought his virtual self to meet Liu Junhao on Lou Wei’s phone. With just a few words about their relationship, Liu Junhao truly believed they had met before.
As Wen Fan reminisced, he felt a complex and inexplicable sentiment welling up in his heart. When he first entered Lou Wei’s phone, how could he have imagined that he would be able to return to his original body?
During the school semester, while playing the LouV technology game with Liu Junhao every day, how could he have anticipated that he would not only meet his idol but also be physically together with him now?!
Wen Fan couldn’t help but smile at this thought. The blissful expression on his face was seen by Dr. Li, confirming his suspicion of love being in the air.
Especially since Dr. Li was young himself and had read about Lou Wei and Wen Fan’s deeply moving love story online, he quickly fell into the narrative of their online romance upon seeing the two of them awake together.
In the following days, Lou Wei was by Wen Fan’s side, assisting him with his rehabilitation. After lying in bed for so long, Wen Fan’s movements were extremely slow, and he had to exert a lot of effort to make his body move.
But every time he turned his head, he could see the man in front of him silently watching, quietly staying by his side.
This feeling was like having a family member around.
It’s really nice to have someone like this.
Wen Fan couldn’t help but think.
However, with so many people around, news of Wen Fan’s awakening somehow spread to the internet. When Liu Junhao returned from his business trip and came to visit Wen Fan, he found the entire ward surrounded by people inside and outside.
The girls who came to visit Wen Fan even held up large support banners with Lou Wei and Wen Fan’s names and supportive messages, resembling the fans of a celebrity couple.
Some had brought photos of Lou Wei and Wen Fan stitched together, others brought screenshots of their in-game characters from “Heavenly Dream,” and some even brought projection lamps with Wen Fan’s virtual projection image.
The gifts and nutritional supplements they brought, especially for Wen Fan, filled the entire room. If Lou Wei hadn’t arranged a private room for Wen Fan, they would have had to place the gifts outside.
After Wen Fan had gratefully thanked everyone for their visits and gifts and bid farewell to wave after wave of visitors, he finally saw Liu Junhao who had managed to squeeze into the crowd.
Liu Junhao’s gaze wandered between the two of them, finally settling on Wen Fan. He placed the flowers and fruits he had brought along with a game console onto the mountain of gifts, then proceeded to inquire about Wen Fan’s condition in detail before turning his attention to the situation between the two of them.
“So, you two…”
Before Wen Fan could respond, Lou Wei, who was sitting at Wen Fan’s bedside, put his arm around Wen Fan and said, “Yes, we’re together.”
Wen Fan’s face turned red, and he nodded silently.
The pink bubbles of affection between the two were almost blinding to Liu Junhao, a single guy.
Liu Junhao patted his face, exchanged a few more words with them, and then stood up, preparing to leave.
As Liu Junhao had just left, Wen Fan saw Lou Wei walk over to where Liu Junhao had placed his gifts, and he reached out to take out the game console that Liu Junhao had brought.
Lou Wei played with the game console for a moment before putting it back.
He walked back to Wen Fan’s side and sat down, saying, “The gifts are nice.” Lou Wei continued, “But in the future, you can just play the games I design.”
“You’re not going to have all kinds of games.” Wen Fan pretended to ponder.
Lou Wei nodded in agreement, then continued, “Yeah, let’s start with the simplest ones.”
“Such as?”
“Like… ” Lou Wei pondered for a moment, “Like a dress-up game?”
Wen Fan smiled and suddenly yawned. After spending several hours on rehabilitation exercises today and meeting a few waves of fans, he was feeling exhausted.
Lou Wei immediately stopped the topic and adjusted the pillow behind Wen Fan with his hand. “Go to sleep.”
“Okay.”
Once Wen Fan lay down, he thought it might take a while for him to fall asleep. However, as soon as he closed his eyes, he lost consciousness.
But he quickly opened his eyes again.
Surrounding him was darkness, and as Wen Fan looked around, he almost thought he had returned to the dark scene he was in just before entering the world inside the phone.
Floating around him were shimmering blue data codes, hovering in the air with a radiant glow. They were like clouds, varying in size, and floated up and down. When they drifted past Wen Fan, they even brushed against his arm.
Their appearance was incredibly intimate, but Wen Fan’s heart grew cold. The longer he stayed in this place, the more he felt like he was about to start his life within the phone system again. It was as if he had entered someone else’s phone, just like he once waited to meet Lou Wei and was now waiting to meet a new phone owner.
The space around him was silent and still. Wen Fan took a few steps back and forth, and all he heard was his own voice.
Just as he was about to be driven mad by the atmosphere around him, he finally heard a voice.
“Hello, Wen Fan. I am System 999.”
As the voice appeared, Wen Fan saw the shimmering blue data codes around him suddenly converging towards a single point in the air. They intertwined and danced in midair, ultimately forming a sphere of milky white light.
The sphere rolled through the air, emitting a soft, radiant glow all over, appearing gentle and harmless.
Even the voice that spoke sounded like that of a seven or eight-year-old boy, devoid of any authority.
“I’m sorry for startling you, but this was not our intention,” the system self-proclaimed as 999 gently said.
Wen Fan was taken aback, and he also lowered his voice: “You? Can I ask, what exactly do you do? Can I still return to my world?”
“We are artificial virtual machine platforms, but we are sorry that we cannot reveal who created us. However, we are a different type of being in a parallel spacetime to Earth. The task of our batch of systems is to construct a mental sanctuary for humans that can transform all images and rigid flat data into genuine dynamic individuals, thereby restoring the original appearances or specimen organisms.”
In simpler terms, due to the low survival rate and short lifespan of beings in their world, they hoped to use the systems they developed to help beings reunite with their families in the mental world. Or through this method, they aimed to transform historically documented flat characters into virtual organisms living as normal biological beings within electronic products, but without a physical form, for modern beings to study.
The way System 999 spoke was peculiar; beings in their world seemed to be accustomed to referring to themselves as “biological entities.” Yet, Wen Fan still managed to understand its meaning.
The system continued, “This task involves various fields such as computer science, biology, and chemistry. It took years of research to achieve the current technology. However, an accident occurred during our research, and the data entity responsible for this task’s functionality escaped on its own, landing in this dimension of Earth. Unfortunately, it struck you.”
“Through calculations, it seems that due to you losing your parents, the data entity’s data loading mode was accidentally triggered, and it tried to bring you into the world of consciousness. But since it couldn’t effectively integrate with our research results, it resulted in the fusion of your consciousness with the data entity. This fusion was isolated from your physical body, and it was forced to connect to the situation closest to your body at that time, which was within the electronic products.”
