Chapter 313: Disappear
Ji Jian wanted to throw away the mobile phone, but his hand and the mobile phone seemed to possess a strong attraction, unable to let go, unable to shake it off, and at the same time, a demon’s whisper surged from the bottom of his heart, urging him to click on the new video.
Ji Jian didn’t want to do this, but his hand had already uncontrollably clicked on the video.
He felt utter despair in his heart, yet his eyes were full of longing. When the video opened, the sound came from the mobile phone’s speaker, and Ji Jian felt his consciousness and soul being gnawed away with the chewing sounds from the video, gradually shattering with the knocking sounds.
Comfortably soul-destroying and bone-eroding, yet terrifying enough to scatter the soul.
This time’s experience listening to the sleep aid video was more profoundly memorable than ever before, and Ji Jian was finally able to sense the anomaly of this sleep aid video in a state of conscious consciousness.
Ji Jian’s room was slowly eroded by blood color, the wall presenting features of flesh and blood inside a organism, its surface covered by a layer of translucent smooth mucous membrane, vein-like structures spreading everywhere, the swelling and contraction as blood and liquid flowed through the veins clearly visible, as if Ji Jian along with the room had been teleported into a organism’s esophagus.
Then, the ceiling bulged, presenting a humanoid outline, like a person who had been absorbed alive by the wall but not yet digested.
Looking closely, it was not human; the details of that humanoid outline were full of inhuman features, with overly long ten fingers having more joints than a human’s, and enormous soles, more resembling the hind foot structure of a feline animal than human.
The face of that humanoid outline slowly showed a sunken part, which was its blood basin mouth, with a mouth full of saw-like teeth densely growing on the gums, enough to easily tear apart the skin of any animal.
Seeing its appearance, Ji Jian was terrified, his face ferocious; the memories lost over these past nights flooded into his brain like a tide.
He remembered, those past nights when his mind was bewitched by ghostly evil charms, what crazy things he had done with such a monster that had a humanoid female body.
He couldn’t believe he had fallen so low, and even more couldn’t believe he had done such terrifying things that violated human ethics.
“No! This isn’t real.” Ji Jian felt like he was about to collapse at any moment; lying on the bed unable to move, he discovered his whole body was wrapped in flesh and blood, his entire body slowly covered by those growing flesh buds until he also turned into a human cocoon, then slowly pushed toward the human cocoon on the ceiling by the mass continuously growing upward behind him.
Ji Jian’s screams echoed all night in the apartment building where he lived, and every resident in the apartment heard his screams in their sleep.
However, when the apartment building manager burst into Ji Jian’s home, there was no discovery at all, only his mobile phone dropped on the ground, the screen not yet extinguished, paused on the “video playback has ended” interface, and Ji Jian himself had disappeared without a trace…
“Ji Jian has disappeared?!”
When Ji Jian’s colleagues learned of this message from the leader’s mouth, everyone’s face was full of shock.
Huang Zhengdao, the colleague and friend who usually had the best relationship with Ji Jian, immediately thought that Ji Jian had run into trouble; he said somewhat worriedly, “How could a perfectly fine person suddenly disappear?”
In response, the leader who broke this news suddenly had a mysterious expression, beckoning to everyone, signaling them to lean their heads closer to listen, then whispered, “This matter might involve anomaly factors; even people from the Mysterious Group have directly intervened.”
Instantly, everyone’s expression changed upon hearing this.
Anomaly factors, Mysterious Group?
These two keywords, even just one, could instantly change the nature of a thing qualitatively.
Ever since organizations like the Mysterious Group and the Anti-Anomaly Organization stepped from behind the scenes into the spotlight, after they showed everyone the chaotic and filthy side of the world, people’s cognition and definition of fear and death became different.
Broadly speaking, once ordinary people get involved with anomaly factors, they will inevitably end in unknown death and experience unknown fear.
“I’m also very regretful about Ji Jian’s matter, but this thing is not ordinary and not a joke; my suggestion is not to have any more relation with his matters, and not to investigate what happened to him.” The leader sighed, speaking earnestly to everyone.
Ji Jian was a good colleague, even an excellent colleague; everyone saw this, but the matter was of great importance, involving everyone’s safety, so everyone needed to make a choice.
Afterward, Ji Jian’s original office was in an eerie atmosphere for several days in a row; everyone tacitly avoided that name, even deliberately avoiding all things related to it.
However, there was one person in the office who couldn’t help but miss Ji Jian uncontrollably.
That was Huang Zhengdao, the colleague who had the best relationship with Ji Jian before his disappearance.
Ji Jian’s work position and Huang Zhengdao’s were mutual A and B roles; when one of the two mutual A and B roles couldn’t work normally, the other would take over the position’s work.
Now that Ji Jian had disappeared, Huang Zhengdao had to take over Ji Jian’s work; at least before a new colleague was recruited, before the new colleague could smoothly take over the position, all of Ji Jian’s work before his disappearance had to be handled by Huang Zhengdao.
This was a huge mess for Huang Zhengdao, so he worked in exceptional pain every day; whenever he was busy to the point of exhaustion, he would unconsciously miss the days when Ji Jian was still there.
When this guy was around, everything was peaceful, and everything could be calm and tranquil.
But… why did the one who ran into trouble have to be you? How I hope it wasn’t you, and how I hope you could return safe and sound.
“Ji Jian, where the hell have you gone?” Huang Zhengdao was working overtime again one day, returning late to his rental room; he collapsed on the bed, unable to help but say in a low voice with a face full of pain.
“This damn new colleague is like a retard, can’t teach him anything, don’t know how long it will take before he can stand on his own.” Huang Zhengdao’s head was under the blanket, punching the mattress left and right frantically, desperately venting his frustration, “One month already, it’s been a fucking month already, he still can’t remember a single basic regulation or rule, can’t even fucking revise the stuff according to the template, fuck! What a fucking bastard!
Other colleagues can basically get familiar with the job in a month, remember what they need to early as fuck, but this dumb dog-like thing, you know what that stupid leader said? She actually fucking praised him for picking it up fast and learning well, I’m dying of laughter!”
Huang Zhengdao punched and kicked at the air, flailing his limbs until exhausted before stopping; with a face full of worry, he looked at the ceiling and murmured, “So sad, I want to resign, but for the time being, where else can I go?”
