It was just that he had never had such an experience before.
His rut periods had always been intense, with a sky-high bloody scent that could make most of the estate filled with a thick bloody scent for a long time, like a new type of slaughterhouse. This time, it was controlled very quickly, and Shen Zhiheng was not particularly uncomfortable.
Uncle Wang and several family doctors and professional doctors observed Young Master Shen’s state from afar for a while and left after confirming that the Alpha pheromones were well controlled.
For a long time, that place was a world for the two brothers.
Finally, the last little segment of the tail detached from the old snake skin, and the little snake completely finished the molting period.
The grayish-white thin membrane on the little guy’s eyes also fell off along with the molting. A pair of clear, bright, top-tier glazed-like eyes blinked and blinked, looking at the brother who had been accompanying him.
In contrast, on Shen Zhiheng’s slightly haggard face after staying up late and sleeping lightly, a pair of gentle, watery eyes were full of bloodshot streaks.
The brothers looked at each other in silence for a few seconds.
“Brother!”
A bright, cheerful voice broke the silence first.
Shen Zhiqi lunged at him, diving into his warm embrace.
After molting, his hearing and vision recovered to human levels, even better than before molting. Shen Zhiqi finally had the chance to open his arms and hold the human beside him tightly.
He hummed like a puppy, breathing deeply buried in his brother’s embrace.
“Hoo!”
The little snake let out a long, satisfied sigh, his relaxed new snake tail limp on the ground.
The skin hunger that had been pressed to the extreme in the darkness during the blindfold period experienced a retaliatory rebound upon contact with his brother’s embrace.
His upper body, belonging to a human, maintained the slightly cool temperature of a snake, greedily drawing heat from the person, gradually becoming his brother’s temperature.
The soft, cold-blooded animal warmed himself up, only then thinking to lift his head to breathe in fresh air, swallowing a mouthful of saliva to relieve his slightly dry throat.
Then he dived into the person’s embrace again.
He finally had the strength to drag his fat tail, wrapping it around his brother circle by circle.
The little guy buried his face deep into his brother’s neck, like an enthusiastic puppy, rubbing his nose against the person’s neck, his forked little pink tongue probing out from time to time, poking the surface of the person’s skin.
The snake also did not understand why sucking on a person would make the snake feel so good; he guessed his brother must have bathed with something delicious.
Did Brother really rub a whole baby mouse on himself?
Shen Zhiqi blinked his round eyes, and his look at his brother added a few more “admirations.”
Shen Zhiheng tried to interpret something from these clear pupils.
But he only saw a clear reflection of himself in the round black pupils, and a puppy-like sincere, ardent reliance.
“What are you thinking?”
He finally asked out of curiosity.
Shen Zhiqi did not ask the question “Did Brother fight with a baby mouse?”, but hugged his brother with his arms tightened.
He turned his head to look at his brother’s hands resting lightly on his arms, and huffed in dissatisfaction.
“Brother, I want. I want Brother to be like this.”
He muttered while grabbing his brother’s hands, awkwardly placing them on his back.
He wanted a crowded, warm embrace, and it did not matter if the snake was squeezed a little out of shape. It seemed only in this way could he relieve the lack of soothing from the blindfold period, and the way his newborn body recognized its master by being familiar with his brother’s temperature.
But the little snake did not know how to open his mouth to a person; he seemed to have never been able to express what he wanted. For example, wanting food, wanting company, wanting recognition, wanting pure love.
Shen Zhiqi had seen others have it, such as fluffy, cute cat and dog Omegas who could cry and fuss to find Puppy Mother for candy.
But he was a snake, he was not a fluffy, cute Omega; he had to be very, very good so as not to be disliked. Even if he was very, very good, he would not be liked.
But Shen Zhiqi did not want much; he just needed to be a good little snake, a good child who did not ask for anything.
Shen Zhiheng’s arms circled over, resting gently on the little snake’s back. The little snake in his arms squeezed against his chest restlessly, even though they were already tightly attached because of the embrace, he was still unsatisfied.
He patted the little snake’s back gently and asked, “Xiao Qi, what are you doing?”
Shen Zhiqi lifted his head, chin resting on his chest, looking at him expectantly, his brows already furrowed, looking miserable as if he had been bullied.
Seeing the little guy not talking, Shen Zhiheng recalled what the snake had muttered earlier.
“What does Xiao Qi want?”
Shen Zhiqi awkwardly turned his head, side resting on the person’s chest, his nose sour.
How can the snake say this? What if Brother is unwilling?
Brother did not even hold the snake when the snake was molting, why would he be willing to hold the snake at this time?
The little snake’s worries were incredibly simple, yet he felt it was a matter of great importance, and the more he thought about it, the sadder he became, his bright eyes covered with a layer of tears.
Shen Zhiheng felt the little guy’s emotions and gently turned his twisted face toward himself.
“Is it something very precious?”
The little snake thought about it and nodded seriously.
“Tell Brother, okay?”
The little snake opened his mouth, but in the end, only stuck out his pink little tongue.
Shen Zhiheng softened his tone and coaxed gently:
“If Baby does not say it, how would Brother know?”
He gently stroked the little snake’s cheeks, wiping away the moist tear streaks.
“Whatever Baby wants, whatever you want to get, whatever you want Brother to do, tell Brother everything.”
The gentle soothing from his elder smoothed out the invisible anxiety and knot in the little snake’s heart.
“Brother will work very hard to get everything Baby wants, no matter how precious, no matter how difficult.”
Shen Zhiheng’s gaze paused, his bloodshot eyes full of firm expression. This was said to Shen Zhiqi, and even more so to himself.
“So, no matter what you want, you must tell Brother, understand?”
The thought that Shen Zhiqi had carved into his mind since he could remember was shaken by his brother.
He nodded, and then said cautiously:
“I want Brother to hug me.”
“……?”
After completing a vow, Shen Zhiheng, determined to pick the stars and the moon for the little snake, had his brain temporarily crash.
“Only… this? Anything else?”
“Hmm! I want Brother to hug the snake very, very hard!”
The little guy heard his brother’s affirmation and finally had the courage, his voice even a bit brighter.
“Brother, can you do this?”
He fell into a crowded embrace.
“Of course you can, good child, just tell Brother what you want like this.”
The snake wants to be a good child. These three words were once the highest reward for him.
He had to be very, very good, more obedient than other fluffy children who cried and fussed for candy, to get praise from Puppy Mother who loved all children universally. The nature of a child is not like this, he was clearly only eight years old.
Shen Zhiqi’s young heart was filled by his brother’s praise, and his eye sockets became hot.
He easily got his brother’s praise, even just by saying to his brother that he wanted a very hard hug, this extremely greedy behavior. Even so, in his brother’s eyes, was the snake still a good child?
“Brother, am I really a good child?”
A muffled voice came from the person’s embrace, asking cautiously. His voice was sticky, with a thick nasal tone, carrying a little bit of a sobbing tone.
“Xiao Qi is the best, most obedient good child in the whole world.”
One of Shen Zhiheng’s hands held him tightly, giving him the “tight hug” he wanted, while the other hand patted his back gently, smoothing his breath.
“Xiao Qi is only eight years old, and you were able to molt the old skin off your big, long tail.”
Shen Zhiqi, buried in his brother’s embrace, turned his head and looked at the light yellow snake skin piled together, and the brand-new big green tail.
After molting, the scars left on the snake tail before had almost disappeared.
The dark green snake tail displayed a beautiful luster, like high-quality ink jade. The scales were neatly arranged, shining with a moist, beautiful luster in the sun.
Shen Zhiqi had been fed good things by his brother one meal after another, raised well with a balanced combination of nutrition, and his tail displayed unprecedented brightness. He himself had never seen his own tail look so beautiful.
Raising the little snake well has been visualized on the snake tail.
Shen Zhiqi curled his tail into a smaller ball and reached out to touch the shiny snake tail.
“Brother, look at the new tail.”
“Yes, especially beautiful.”
Shen Zhiqi stroked along the newly grown delicate scales, and his underlying code as a human made his hands very fond of this texture as smooth as jade. He coiled his tail for a while and then turned to grab his brother’s hand.
“The new tail feels very comfortable to touch, let Brother touch it.”
The newly grown scales possessed more sensitive perception; as soon as the human’s warm palm touched them, it stimulated the snake tail to wag into a beautiful, full wave line.
The person’s body temperature made the snake feel like an electric shock, and he shook his tail a few more times.
“Hot, the person is too hot.”
Shen Zhiqi silently moved the person’s hand away.
Shen Zhiheng laughed and moved his hand away, gently patting the little guy’s thin back.
“Wasn’t it you who let Brother touch the new beautiful big snake tail?”
“But it just finished growing.”
Shen Zhiqi grabbed his brother’s hand with both hands and shook it, attempting to muddle through. His snake tail had just grown well, and everything on the surface of the molted tail was new.
“All right.”
Shen Zhiheng pretended to be regretful and sighed lightly.
The kind, silly little snake believed it was true, fully thinking his brother was unhappy, and looked around to find a way to coax people.
The watery eyes blinked and looked up at the sky, seeing the dazzling sun through the gaps in the treetops.
He pointed at the sky and turned to lift a sweet smile at his brother.
“Brother is like that, hmm, the sun, hot.”
Shen Zhiheng looked in the direction pointed by the small finger.
The little bits of sun between the treetops, if you look at them for a long time, will feel dazzling, and then leave phantoms before the eyes, which will not fade away for a long, long time.
“Xiao Qi is also like that, bright.”
In Shen Zhiheng’s gray and lusterless world, the only light that could find a gap to shine in.
The little snake tilted his head and leaned in his brother’s embrace, the comfortable and safe environment making him rhythmically flick his pink little tongue one by one.
He was thinking about his brother’s words, thinking for a long time but did not get a result.
“But, I am not hot.”
The Shen Zhiqi who could not figure it out muttered in confusion.
Shen Zhiheng chuckled and tapped the little guy’s forehead.
“Xiao Qi is the sun, the only cool sun in this world.”
The brothers walked to the villa building hand in hand.
Shen Zhiqi was adapting to his new tail, always feeling it was a bit longer and harder to control. He had to swing a larger range of left and right, relying on the long, big tail to drag himself toward the villa building.
Inside the villa building, lunch for two was already set on the dining table.
Shen Zhiqi was able to eat a good meal and fill his belly until it was round and rolling.
Snakes will always swallow food in one gulp, and then lie limply on a branch to digest it.
Shen Zhiqi would also do this.
Although he did not have the soft and variable throat of a snake, which could be stretched out of shape by a whole baby mouse, he could eat his thin and flat belly until it bulged. Then slowly wait for his stomach to digest it.
A whole snake lay messily on the sofa, the dark green snake tail overlapping several times, covering the seat completely.
Shen Zhiheng found a spot, plucked away the big tail on the sofa, and sat down beside him.
“Xiao Qi, Brother has a gift for you.”
Shen Zhiqi, who was closing his eyes to digest his food, opened his eyes, slowly wiggling his body, and moved to his brother’s side.
“Do I have a gift too!”
“Yes, as a reward for Xiao Qi successfully completing the molting and being one step closer to growing up.”
Shen Zhiheng opened a new box and took out the electronic watch inside.
“Give your hand to Brother, Baby.”
The snake obediently handed over his clean little hand, curiously observing the little black block in his brother’s hand.
Shen Zhiheng lowered his head, his slender fingers pinching the specially made watch strap, extremely seriously winding it around the little snake’s slender wrist.
This electronic watch looked no different from ordinary smart watches on the market, metal casing, plus a soft, skin-friendly liquid silicone strap.
But in fact, this watch was specially modified by Shen Zhiheng entrusting someone.
A micro GPS positioning chip of the highest level was implanted inside, which could be accurate to two decimal places of latitude and longitude.
An all-weather biological sign monitoring module was also installed, which could monitor the little snake’s heart rate, body temperature, and emotional fluctuations at any time.
The only useless thing was the step monitoring, after all, the little snake moved with his big fat snake tail and could not accurately measure the steps.
All real-time data would be sent directly to the exclusive software on Shen Zhiheng’s mobile phone through a digitally encrypted channel.
No matter where the little snake ran, in any corner inside or outside the estate, or even to the ends of the earth outside the estate, he could be found by Shen Zhiheng.
Having experienced the fear of almost losing the little snake, even if it was just a misunderstanding of the blindfold period, Shen Zhiheng did not dare and did not want to take any risks.
He wanted to have this fragile little thing completely, without any blind spots, in his palm.
The announcements that “hospital” and the Omega Protection Association had not yet issued had always been pulling at his heartstrings, and he did not allow the little snake to have any accidents.
There would be no one in the world who could take his little snake away, and not even the little snake himself could leave.
With a “click” sound, the metal buckle of the watch made a crisp sound, fitting tightly on the little snake’s wrist.
Shen Zhiheng’s fingertips rubbed gently on the dial, possessiveness that could not be melted churned in the bottom of his eyes, but the voice that came out was sickeningly gentle.
“Baby, you must wear the watch well, and you are not allowed to take it off at any time in the future, understand?”
He rubbed the little snake’s head gently and continued to instruct: “Brother will remind you to charge the watch, at any time, do not be separated from the watch. Only in this way can Brother protect you well.”
Shen Zhiqi could not understand the suffocating desire for control behind these instructions at all.
He just felt this black “little block” was cool when worn on his hand, especially comfortable.
“Yes! I will do it well!”
The little guy’s happy voice replied.