Chapter 309: Oral Sound
After opening the video, Ji Jian saw a pitch-black screen. This video blogger had clearly only uploaded an audio file, without any image.
This isn’t anything unusual in the sleep aid video scene, because most are auditory sleep aid videos, and visual sleep aid videos are not very common.
Tsk~ Tsk~
Ji Jian heard two tongue click sounds, and suddenly felt his heart clench. He stroked the goosebumps rising on his arms, “Hiss, opening with a kneel? Interesting, sounds pretty stimulating.”
Interested in this so-called underworld sleep aid video, Ji Jian also clicked on the comment section below the video to check other netizens’ comments and feelings, but the moment the mouse clicked on the comment section, the client prompted “This video blogger has closed the comment section,” showing a state where commenting was not possible.
Ji Jian’s interest in this video grew even stronger. He proactively closed the video comment section—either this sleep aid video was truly underworld, and the video blogger feared being cursed by netizens, or the sleep aid video quality was poor, fearing group mockery from netizens.
He looked down at the video blogger’s account information, but was surprised to discover that this blogger’s online name was actually the original ID, named “ID7277869”. This indicated the blogger hadn’t changed account information since registering the account, the account level was not high, and it should have been registered not long ago. The other party’s number of followers was barely in the single digits at 7. Clicking on the other’s avatar to check their uploaded videos, there was currently only one work uploaded and updated today.
“Let’s see how your skills are. Hopefully you’re a treasure blogger. If the experience is decent, I’ll follow you.” Ji Jian thought to himself. He was currently following 86 bloggers he was interested in, including quite a few sleep aid bloggers.
Although Ji Jian followed these sleep aid videos not always purely for “sleep aid,” there were indeed a few bloggers whose sleep aid video quality really won his heart. Listening before bed truly relaxed his brain and helped him through several sleepless nights.
Like most contemporary youth, he also had some difficulty falling asleep symptoms.
Don’t be fooled by his usual carefree, heartless appearance. In reality, he too had his own anxieties, just accustomed to avoidance. But once it was late at night, lying alone on the bed, those anxieties he had to face would catch up to his paused spirit, swarming in and disturbing his mind.
House, car, savings, spouse… these elements that people around him expected Ji Jian to have, he had none of. Normally, he also tried his best to avoid these topics, not wanting to bear the heaviness these topics brought to his shoulders.
However, Ji Jian also knew that one day, he would have to possess them and could not avoid facing these difficulties.
Just thinking about these unknowns that he temporarily couldn’t and didn’t dare imagine smashing down on his head at some unknown time, fear, worry, and anxiety rose like the tide, gradually about to submerge his rational small island.
Therefore, Ji Jian needed to fall asleep quickly, wanted peaceful sleep. He didn’t want to let his mind wander aimlessly while waiting to fall asleep, nor did he want those messy nightmares to destroy his sleep quality after falling asleep.
Before his insomnia problem escalated to the level where he had to take medication, Ji Jian pinned his hopes on folk remedies that wouldn’t affect his body, like this sleep aid video he was listening to at the moment, which was one such remedy.
While Ji Jian was following the video blogger’s updates, the voice in the sleep aid video was also changing along with the progress bar.
It was a series of rapid and mumbling tongue click sounds mixed with saliva sounds, accompanied by some mouth collision sounds, inevitably making one imagine just how flexible the tongue and mouth of the master producing this oral sound must be.
These oral sounds were not quite like any Ji Jian had heard before. Good recording equipment was one reason, and the stinging sensation of the sound wasn’t too strong either—it was just right to stimulate the brain’s audiovisual area, quickly giving Ji Jian a feeling of drowsiness.
“Not bad, not bad.” Ji Jian was very satisfied. He turned off the display screen, turned off the lights, switched to background playback, lay on the bed, then put on headphones to listen to the sleep aid video.
Closing his gradually heavy eyelids, Ji Jian shut his eyes. His vision was a blur of darkness, as if all perception was concentrated on hearing, making him even more sensitive to the sleep aid video’s voice.
It was also at this time that Ji Jian gradually understood the reason why this video was named “underworld.”
With eyes closed, hearing became acute, and the brain’s imagination began to activate, involuntarily picturing the appearance of the voice maker, illusion the organs producing the sounds.
Eerily, Ji Jian surprisingly couldn’t imagine this as a sound a person could make.
Thinking carefully, this wasn’t something a normal person could do—who could make sounds of stirring the tongue in the mouth while also making sounds of teeth gnawing.
Could it be the result of audio synthesis?
Or perhaps multiple people making sounds together?
Ji Jian couldn’t determine, but he felt this sleep aid video’s voice didn’t seem like the product of audio synthesis, nor like it came from two people. The voice was too harmonious, just like it completely came from “one mouth.”
Could the video blogger be a editing master, taking different sounds produced by one person using the mouth, perfectly performing each different sound segment, while using superb editing techniques to perfectly piece together every recorded audio segment?
Ji Jian could only think this way; otherwise… he couldn’t help but imagine a deformed mouth completely unusual for a normal person.
After an unknown amount of time, the sleep aid video’s voice changed once again. This time it was no longer oral sounds, but other sounds, similar to the sounds made by kneading some flexible object, and one could hear the elastic rebound sounds from the kneaded object.
But perhaps the toughness of the kneaded object wasn’t great, as Ji Jian soon heard the sound of the item being crushed, accompanied by a series of squishing sounds, and the sound of some sticky unknown substance peeling off the skin—it should be watery and sticky.
With eyes closed, Ji Jian couldn’t help imagining his mom taking meat minced into filling, scooping out a lump, then playing with and rolling it in her hands—the closest sound he had ever heard.
What followed was a frown-inducing sound of a mouth opening. It was as if the kneaded object was eaten, and the mouth that had just been producing oral sounds now made chewing sounds of flesh.
Just thinking that it might be raw meat made Ji Jian shudder all over, thinking: What on earth is this food?
Continuing to listen, an even more uncomfortable sound came from the headphones—that was the sound that could only be made by raw tearing of bone joints and flesh and bone. Yet the hands taking the flesh and bone seemed to have infinite power, with almost no sound of exertion. The flesh and bone tore off very smoothly, followed by another tooth-aching gnawing sound.
Ji Jian let his imagination run wild: What on earth was this person eating, and how great must their strength be?
