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Chapter 161 The people in memory
"Xie Jin, wake up."
Someone patted his cheek lightly, Xie Jin suddenly opened his eyes, he raised his head in shock, his eyes that were still absent-minded just now immediately went to inspect the surroundings.
Is this in... a car?
The memory was like unsaved game progress, which was forcibly cleared from his mind. Xie Jin frowned and sat upright. He didn't remember anything about what he saw in the dream just now.
"What did you dream about? Call my name so loudly." A hand stretched out from his side and stuck it on his forehead, Xie Jin looked to the side from the gap under that hand, Ji Xiangye was looking at himself with a smile .
"I..." Xie Jin didn't know how to answer, but a voice just above the seat interrupted him.
"Yes, captain, all of us in the car heard it. You yelled so loudly just now." The girl with double ponytails sat on the car seat playfully, with a smile in her beautiful eyes , although teasing, but not mocking Xie Jin.
"The captain must have dreamed of an earth-shattering life and death, so he called out the name of our deputy team in such an affectionate, oh no, anxious tone."
This time it was a fair-skinned chubby man who was not tall, with a pair of black round-rimmed glasses on his short snub nose. If he was paired with a long gown and a melon cap, he would look like a storyteller on the street in ancient times. .
"Well... not sick, it must be a nightmare." Ji Xiangye withdrew his hand that was stuck to Xie Jin's forehead, and raised his hand to reward the duo lying on the seat with two brains, "Aren't you sleepy? If you donβt sleep for a while, you will reach your destination.β
"Oh, but I'm so excited that I can't sleep." The girl with ponytails pouted and covered her forehead, complaining to Xie Jin, "Look, captain, he beat me."
Xie Jin didn't answer immediately, he turned his head and looked out of the window. Outside was a road that looked deserted. Warm orange lights kept flashing across the road. Apart from the minibus they were riding in, there seemed to be no other people. car signs.
"Xiaoyun, what Ah Ye said is right, if you don't hurry up and sleep for a while, you won't have a chance. Don't get too excited, go to sleep for a while."
Xie Jin pressed the center of his eyebrows, and he saw that although Lu Yun was reluctant after he finished speaking, he still pouted and retracted his head, nestled in the back seat and obediently closed his eyes.
The car fell into silence again, so quiet that even the sound of tires kicking up roadside stones could be clearly heard. But Xie Jin didn't sleep again this time, he supported his seat and stood up in the moving car.
What caught his eyes was familiar faces one after another. don't know if it was because of the lights, Xie Jin felt that their faces were a little pale, which didn't look like the skin color that a living person should have.
"What's the matter." Ji Xiangye raised his hand and pressed Xie Jin's waist naturally, which greatly reduced the possibility of Xie Jin falling in the speeding bus.
He watched Xie Jin sit back in his seat in despair, the expression that flashed across his face was not like the expression that Xie Jin would make on weekdays.
Without any hesitation, Ji Xiangye raised his hand to pinch Xie Jin's fleshy cheek, lowered his voice, and asked again without disturbing others, "So I said, what's wrong with you?"
"...It hurts, let go first." Xie Jin slapped off the claw that was attacking his face, he grinned his teeth and danced his fist at Ji Xiangye, "It's the captain anyway, how decent it is to be seen by others."
"Yes yes yes, the captain is the big one, you are right." Ji Xiangye let go of his hand obediently, shrugged his shoulders, judging from his perfunctory attitude and tone, he didn't take Xie Jin's "majesty" too seriously .
The little episode dispelled the strangeness in Xie Jin's mind, and he sighed deeply, "I seem to be dreaming about our childhood, but I don't seem to remember clearly."
"When I was young? Then I remember." Ji Xiangye smiled sinisterly, completely in contrast to his very reliable face, "Shall I help you recall the number of times you failed math?"
Xie Jin ignored him, just raised his hand and patted his thigh lightly, "...where are we going now?"
"No way, I actually lost my memory after sleeping, thanks to you still remember who I am." Ji Xiangye's expression didn't tense all of a sudden, and he almost collapsed in front of the team members the high-cold vice-team setup he worked so hard to maintain.
Raising his hand to rub Xie Jin's sleepy hairy head, Ji Xiangye yawned next to him, "Go there, the resort villa at the junction of Tan Jiang and Jincheng, don't let the people behind hear you The "competent" captain made a speech, and even the destination was lost in sleep and forgot."
The brain reacted instantly after hearing the resort villa. Xie Jin hummed, turned his head and looked at the dark sky outside the window, and fell into deep thought.
The people in this car came together because of him, but the composition of the pioneers was inseparable from Ji Xiangye. Through the blurred reflection of the car window, Xie Jin found that Ji Xiangye was facing him, as if he was looking at him.
"Do you still have nightmares recently?" Xie Jin grabbed his wrist with warm palms, Xie Jin didn't look back, he knew what the other party was worried about.
"Fortunately, I don't do it as often as before." Xie Jin didn't break free either, he let his body temperature and Ji Xiangye tend to be the same, just like they often held hands when they were young.
Ji Xiangye fell into a brief silence, and no one else in the carriage spoke for a while, just when Xie Jin thought he was just falling asleep with his hands in his arms, Ji Xiangye opened his mouth again.
"Auntie is gone, I will be with you and them."
A very coy promise, but it is indeed Ah Ye's style. Xie Jin closed his eyes, he heard himself humming in a nasal voice in response, when the carriage shook violently, it seemed that he had left the road he was driving on.
Xie Jin heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, he could see the whole night outside the window, his dark pupils couldn't make any waves.
It is said that one stands at thirty, but Xie Jin has experienced so much trouble during the year he was thirty, that he even wondered if he was possessed by a ghost.
First, his mother was diagnosed with the disease at the beginning of last year, and the malignant tumor in the advanced stage of stomach cancer had spread. Xie Jin had to quit his job, which had just improved slightly, and went around to collect money for his mother's treatment.
But it was not a minor illness. Even if Da Luo God came to the advanced stage of gastric cancer, he would be powerless to recover. Xie Jin could only see his mother lying on the hospital bed, unable to even eat on his own. It doesn't take long to spit it out.
It was really an unforgettable New Year's Eve. When other people's families were preparing the New Year's Eve dinner, Xie Jin could only watch his mother suffer from the pain in the hospital bed, but he knew that he was her only one. Son can't fall down.
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he can't let go of his mother.
Xie Jin originally hid this from Ji Xiangye and didn't want the other party to know about it, but Ji Xiangye didn't know where he heard the news. When Xie Jin and his mother were alone in the ward on New Year's Eve, they appeared in the hospital with dumplings. in the ward.
He also brought 70,000 yuan, stuffed the paper bag into Xie Jin's hand under Xie Jin's trembling eyes, then patted Xie Jin on the shoulder and said nothing.
"Auntie, Happy New Year." Ji Xiangye pulled Xie Jin to sit down in front of the hospital bed. He smiled as silly as when he came to Xie Jin's house and rushed out of the door. Even if they didn't say something, they knew each other well.
In just three months, things have changed. Standing in front of the empty hospital bed, Xie Jin felt that his tears were about to flow dry. He was in a trance for a moment, wondering what would be the point of living alone in this world.
If it wasn't for the hand behind him pinching his shoulder, Xie Jin wouldn't even be able to break free from this stubborn thought.
Most of the funeral affairs were handled by Ji Xiangye for Xie Jin. Sometimes Xie Jin really felt that Ji Xiangye was more like a reliable son in the family than himself. After all, he would only wash his face with tears after waking up from nightmares night after night. Nothing can be done.
After this incident, Ji Xiangye saw that Xie Jin couldn't cheer up anything, so he simply imitated Xie Jin's naked words and pestered him to form a spirit detection team.
Xie Jin was able to see ghost Ji Xiangye very clearly since he was a child. He persuaded Xie Jin to agree to this seemingly nonsense idea entirely by saying "Maybe Auntie is somewhere in this world, waiting for you to find her".
With Ji Xiangye's childish self-proclaimed title, the two of them formed the only two-man combination of polished commanders in such a ridiculous way.
From telling ghost stories in abandoned buildings at first, and then absorbing a lot of new forces later, Pioneer has miraculously become a real team of spirit hunters.
The two of them are considered to be the oldest in Pioneer. Most of the team members are college students and salarymen who have just started working. There is also a Taoist priest who has received teachings in a serious way.
But no matter how many or how few people are around him, Ji Xiangye is always by Xie Jin's side, like inseparable shadows.
His forehead slammed against the window, and Xie Jin gradually woke up. He found that the bus had stopped, and the driver unbuckled his safety belt and entered the compartment, calling his name.
"Captain Xie, we're here." The driver, Old Meng, is also a member of the Pioneer. He used to drive a night bus, but he finally chose to resign because of repeated collisions with evil. As a result, he came to Pioneer and became a driver by accident..
Together with this somewhat worn-out but not scrapped bus, he provided the transportation for the team to go out to explore the spirit.
"Thanks for your hard work." Xie Jin was about to get up, but he found that his wrist was still tightly held by Ji Xiangye. The boy didn't seem to realize it, and he pulled Xie Jin up together.
Xie Jin pulled his wrist back without a trace, took the backpack off the shelf above the seat, and walked to the car door first.
"Uncle Meng, please wait outside." Xie Jin looked at his watch and confirmed the time with everyone including Old Meng again.
"It's ten o'clock in the evening, and the expedition will last no more than six hours. We'll be back before three o'clock. The villas in the resort are quite large, and everyone should keep in touch."
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