Chapter 310: Memory
Da da da——
Ji Jian shuddered all over, suddenly startled awake by the mobile phone ringtone, opened a pair of bewildered and foolish eyes, slowly crawled up from the bed, slightly dazedly looked around the surroundings, the confused expression on his face becoming more profound.
“Wait, when did I fall asleep last night?” Ji Jian felt like he had lost his memory, he dug in his ears and found the headphones were gone too, searched around on the bed, and only found his Bluetooth earphone case under the pillow, opened the earphone case and discovered the headphones were all intact inside.
“Did I put them back myself?” Ji Jian scratched his head, he didn’t remember when he fell asleep, naturally even less remembered when he had put away the headphones.
The only thing Ji Jian remembered was that before sleeping he listened to a underworld sleep aid video for a while, those few segments of gnawing raw bone sounds were still fresh in his memory.
It was a bit underworld, but those few segments of oral sound really struck the eardrums directly, hitting the intracranial tidal points.
“Excellent works deserve collection and attention.” Ji Jian dug in his ears, opened his mobile phone to find the video site’s APP, found that sleep aid video in the account’s history records, followed the video blogger, and one-click tripled the sleep aid video, wanted to post a good review, but the moment he wrote it and sent it, he suddenly remembered this video had closed the comment section.
Sure enough, the moment the comment was sent, the APP immediately popped up a reminder: “This blogger has closed the comment section.”
Thinking about it, Ji Jian decided to copy the previous comment and send a private message to the blogger encouraging likes.
This time the message was sent successfully; this blogger had not closed the private message function.
Walking into the restroom to wash up, Ji Jian looked at himself in the mirror, somewhat suspiciously leaned in closer, muttered: “Were my eyes this dark before?”
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Six thirty in the afternoon.
“Another Wednesday gone.” Ji Jian returned home, let out a pleasant sigh while looking for food in the refrigerator.
The refrigerator still had a plate of chopped ribs, one lettuce, two potatoes and tomatoes, several eggs and lemons, and a few bottles of soda water on the freezer side rack.
Ji Jian’s gaze was involuntarily attracted by the ribs, his mind inexplicably replaying those sounds he heard last night, momentarily lost in thought.
Until the refrigerator emitted an alert for the door not being properly closed, which woke Ji Jian, he touched his stomach that was emitting a “primeval roar,” suddenly feeling a bit hungry.
For dinner he made a plate of potato-braised ribs, a plate of garlic stir-fried greens, Ji Jian ate it all clean, feeling he had never been this hungry before, ate very satisfyingly, after the meal he contentedly leaned on the beanbag chair, watching television while wiping the oil from his mouth.
“Ribs with a bit of blood are pretty tasty too.” Ji Jian licked his lips, recalling the plate of potato-braised ribs from dinner earlier, he was so hungry he couldn’t wait and didn’t braise them long enough, but in the end the taste was still satisfying.
While washing dishes, Ji Jian looked down at the kitchen waste bin, just some vegetable leaves from trimming and potato peels, and the packaging tray that held the ribs.
“Where are the bones? Oh right, they were so good I ate them myself.” Ji Jian grinned, secretly mocking himself for being a bit forgetful.
Nine twenty-three at night, after showering and coming out of the bathroom, Ji Jian saw his mobile phone screen lit up, thought someone had messaged him, picked up the phone and couldn’t help but grin, “Heh, turns out this blogger updated, let me see what underworld video you posted this time?”
Another episode of pure sound effect sleep aid video, no image at all, the length was impressively two hours, this duration would be explosive no matter which video section it was in.
Moreover, just like the previous episode, the video comment section prohibited comments.
He put on the headphones, tapped the video open on his mobile phone, did housework while listening to the sounds coming from the headphones, the expensive headphones once again played their due value, the sounds in the video made one feel immersed.
This video started not with oral tongue-clicking sounds, but breathing sounds and heartbeat, the breathing short and rapid yet rhythmic, the heartbeat fast and heavy, like struck muffled drums.
“The timbre of this voice sounds like a woman’s, could it be the blogger’s own voice?” Ji Jian suddenly thought amusingly, “What if she’s a pretty girl?”
From the hundreds of sleep aid videos Ji Jian had seen, in the sleep aid video world, there really weren’t any ugly female bloggers, each with an extremely good figure, some even because they wore something too seductive plus recording oral sounds, the image became indescribably bone-eroding and soul-melting, so the video couldn’t pass review.
Therefore, Ji Jian naturally imagined this sleep aid blogger as stunningly beautiful, imagining the day she might appear in person on camera.
Thinking about it, Ji Jian thought of the gnawing raw bone sounds from last night’s video, associating it with a beauty with an extremely good figure, suddenly fantasized about a primitive tribal beauty wearing a grass skirt and animal skin, in a cute manner not quite knowing how to make fire and thus choosing to gnaw raw prey.
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Da da da——
The world is a reincarnation, Ji Jian was once again startled awake by the mobile phone alarm clock, he had just gotten up when he felt a wave of soreness all over, an indescribable sense of fatigue, he scratched his head, looked around at the messy bed quilt, full face of confusion and bewilderment.
Just like when he got up yesterday, he didn’t remember when he fell asleep, or what he did before falling asleep.
As the bodily senses slowly reset and regained perception after getting up, Ji Jian had a vague feeling, his facial expression became a bit strange, he opened the quilt and looked, immediately covered it back, his expression somewhat embarrassed, somewhat amused, then got out of bed to remove the duvet cover and bed sheet while sighing: “Sure enough, I still need to find a girlfriend, I’m such a vigorous young man…”
Hung the just-washed duvet cover and bed sheet on the balcony to dry, Ji Jian packed up and went out the door, the sunlight like a villain lying in wait pounced on him fully, the high temperature and strong light stung him uncomfortable all over, unable to open his eyes.
At this moment stimulated by the intense sunlight, Ji Jian suddenly felt fragmented images flash in his mind, he heard some wild beast’s savage roar, the image was a swath of blood red, and the sensation of flesh and blood entwining flashed and passed.
Inexplicably feeling a chill in the hot summer, Ji Jian touched the shivering skin on the back of his neck, full of confusion and distress, when he tried to recall the memory scene and feeling that suddenly appeared earlier, he couldn’t remember anymore, only left with his own furrowed brows.
“Should I buy something to nourish my brain, this memory can’t get worse, I’m just two years out of graduation, 25 years old.” Ji Jian rubbed his furrowed brows, rallied his spirit to go to work, secretly reminding himself.
