Death Progress Bar

Shi Jin was sent to the school by Chairman Wang, and under the considerate care of the other party, he was fortunate enough to have the principal handle the reporting procedures for him in person.He felt a little empty in his heart. He listened to the official voice of Chairman Wang and the principal, and unconsciously rubbed the traces of soybean milk on the down jacket with his fingers.

Where will Lian Jun be now?Have you successfully left City B?After leaving city B, which route will he take to go abroad?As long as he leaves City B, he should be basically safe. The officials don't know that his legs are healed. As long as he moves outside like a normal person, he should be able to easily fool the authorities' search.As long as you act like a normal person...

"Shi Jin." Chairman Wang suddenly turned his head to call him, with a smile on his face.

Shi Jin came back to his senses and looked at him suspiciously.

"It's getting late, you go to the dormitory to tidy up your things, and go to school well, uncle, I'll come to see you next time." Chairman Wang said kindly, looking very close to Shi Jin.

Shi Jin frowned slightly, took a look at the principal who came over, and didn't bother to guess the reason why Chairman Wang treated him so intimately in front of the principal.

"This child is very capable, but he is a little shy."

"Since I entered the school, my grades have been excellent. I guess it's because your uncle taught well."

"Where where..."

With a click, the office door closed, shutting out a room of hypocritical conversations.Shi Jin twitched the corners of his mouth mockingly, and muttered: "Uncle?" He shook his head, and walked away from the administration building.

Finally able to be alone, Shi Jin suddenly doesn't know what to do.It's only in the morning now, and Liu Yong and Luo Donghao usually return to school in the afternoon.His mobile phone and tablet were all smashed, and he couldn't contact others, let alone play mahjong to pass the time.

go to eat?

But not hungry at all.

To buy a mobile phone?

Too lazy to go out of school.

Shi Jin stopped, took a look at the progress bar where Lian Jun was stuck at 400, raised his hand and pulled the backpack strap, turned his feet and walked towards the dormitory floor - I got up too early today, let's go back to the dormitory and take a nap.

The dormitory was empty, and none of the roommates came.He shook his backpack, opened all the windows in the dormitory, and dissipated the stale air accumulated in the room after being closed for a winter vacation. Then he went to bring a bucket of water, wiped the table, bed, and cabinet, and mopped the floor twice.

When the dormitory was cleaned, the lunch time had already passed for a while, Xiao Shi whispered, "Come in, let's eat."

"I'm not hungry." Shi Jin wiped off the sweat from his forehead, took out the quilt from the closet and put it on the balcony to dry, then took out a set of pajamas, not feeling that the pajamas were a bit damp after a winter vacation, so he went straight to the public bathroom.

He casually took a shower, put on his pajamas, returned to the dormitory, closed most of the windows, took back the quilt that had only been drying for a while and spread it on the bed, then threw himself on the bed, wrapped himself in his life, and closed his eyes.

"Enter..." Xiaosheng called out worriedly.

"I'll sleep for a while." Shi Jin buried his head in the pillow, forcing himself to relax his consciousness, "When he wakes up, Mr. Lian should be almost safe."

Xiao Shi then quieted down, wanted to cry a little bit, but held back.

……

Shi Jin didn't know if he fell asleep or not. He seemed to be very awake. He could hear his roommates talking and sorting things in the dormitory after returning to school one after another. He also knew that Liu Yong and Luo Donghao had come to him.He seemed to be in a deep sleep again, so deep that the dream became viscous, and all the images of monsters stretched, shrunk, and distorted bodies floated in front of him, hideous and terrifying.

"Go in, wake up, baby's progress bar has dropped, go and have a meal."

"Xiao Jin."

"Xiao Jin? Xiao Jin!"

"Why is his face covered with sweat, is he sick?"

"Let me see."

A pair of slightly cool palms pressed against him, the distorted dream disappeared in an instant, his consciousness returned, and Shi Jin opened his eyes with a swish.

The light in the room was a little dark, the lights were not turned on, and the surroundings were very noisy. It seemed that there were many people around the bed. In the gradually clear vision, the first thing I saw was Li Jiuzheng's worried face.Shi Jin blinked slowly, a little confused.

How did he see Li Jiuzheng? Is he still dreaming?

"Are you awake? Xiao Jin, can you talk?" Seeing that he was awake, Li Jiuzheng rushed to him and rubbed his forehead gently.

"Go in, baby's progress bar has dropped." Xiaosheng reminded.

Dropped?What dropped?My head is so heavy... Wait, progress bar!

Shi Jin quickly sat up and looked at the progress bar in his mind.

20... No, no, this is his own progress bar.And the other... 20?Also 20?No, no, he must be dazzled, let's make sure...

"It's 20, baby's progress bar has dropped to 20, he's safe." Xiaosi's tone was affirmative, and he coaxed in a low voice, "When baby has used the last few injections and completely cleared the toxin, his progress bar should be cleared." It fell. Come in, you succeeded, you saved the baby, don't worry, the baby is fine."

20... It's really 20, Shi Jin stared blankly at the number, wondering again if he was still dreaming.

Li Jiuzheng was taken aback by Shi Jin's sudden sitting up. When he came back to his senses, he saw Shi Jin sitting stupidly, his eyes were completely out of focus, his heart tightened, and he hurried over again.Rong Zhouzhong, who was standing behind him, couldn't bear it any longer, he squeezed forward and took a look at Shi Jin's appearance, raised his hand and waved in front of him, seeing that he didn't respond at all, he got anxious and called Li Jiuzheng: " How come Xiao Jin didn't react at all, he was clearly awake, did he lose his soul?"

"Third brother, don't talk nonsense." Fei Yujing who was standing behind the two warned.

Xiang Aoting, who was squeezed to the outermost edge by them, looked at Shi Jin sitting on the bed lost in thought, frowned deeply, stepped forward to tear away Rong Zhouzhong and Li Jiuzheng, stood in front of Shi Jin, stretched out his hand to press the top of his head, Bending down to look into his eyes, he said in a deep voice: "A document has been issued above, and Lianjun's death has been stamped. We have also paid attention to what you asked my second child and me to pay attention to. If we didn't catch it, it's okay. In case Pu is fine. Xiao Jin, everything is fine."

Everything is fine... The palm on his head was very warm, Shi Jin finally had a sense of reality, he raised his eyes to look at Xiang Ao Ting, then moved his gaze back, and glanced at Rong Zhouzhong, who was trying to squeeze in again, with a worried expression Li Jiuzheng, and Fei Yujing, who was frowning at the end, warmed up in their hearts, and their nerves that had been tense for too long instantly relaxed, and finally glanced at the progress bar belonging to Lianjun in their minds. fell down.

Lian Jun is safe, finally... finally.

"Fourth, what did you do, why did you make Xiao Jin cry!" Rong Zhouzhong exploded, grabbed Xiang Ao Ting's clothes and pulled him back, trying to tear him apart.

But Shi Jin stretched out his arms to hug Xiang Ao Ting, buried his face in his waist, shrugged his shoulders, and cried out silently.

Rong Zhou stopped pulling towards Ao Ting.

Li Jiuzheng took a step forward, reaching out his hand to touch Shi Jin, but he hesitated to put it down halfway.

Fei Yujing exhaled lightly, relieved - it's good to be able to cry, venting out emotions is better than holding them in all the time.

"It's okay." Xiang Aoting hugged Shi Jin back, patted his shoulder lightly, and comforted him awkwardly, "It's all over, it's okay, don't cry."

Shi Jin tightened his arms, feeling that it was great to reconcile with these brothers again.After the people around him dispersed, it was his great fortune to have such a group of family members by his side.

The roommates who were squeezed out of the circle looked at Shi Jin in a daze, their eyes swept over Fei Yujing and others one by one, and the focus stopped on Xiang Aoting and Rong Zhouzhong who had not covered his face before. , the turbulent waves swept through my heart, and I swallowed dryly.

This group of people who suddenly came to the door are Shi Jin's brothers... Is this Rong Zhouzhong real?Could it be that they just look alike... God, are they dreaming?

……

After crying, Shi Jin casually wiped his face with the quilt, got up, washed and changed his clothes.

Rong Zhouzhong was very dissatisfied with Shi Jin's down jacket that was stained with soybean milk. He opened his closet and wanted to change him, but found that there were no other thick clothes in his closet except uniforms. He frowned and opened his mouth. I wanted to complain about how Mr. Lian took care of others, words came to my throat, thinking of the current situation, I hurriedly shut up again.

Xiang Aoting took advantage of the time when he went in to wash up, helped him make the bed, counted his daily necessities, and wrote down the missing ones one by one, and prepared to get them together later.Li Jiuzheng and Fei Yujing helped Shijin fold the changed pajamas, and the other took out their mobile phones to book a restaurant, planning to take Shijin in and out for dinner later.

When Shi Jin came back after washing, everything in the dormitory had been tidied up.The four older brothers squeezed into his not-so-spacious dormitory. You thought I was in the way, and I thought you were in the way. They pushed each other back and forth. The scene was a bit funny, but it was very heart-warming.

He took a deep breath and exhaled the last breath of stale air accumulated in his chest, and showed a really relaxed smile to his brothers, and said, "I've packed up, let's go to eat."

This should be a new beginning.

……

The storm outside is still going on, but it has nothing to do with Shi Jin.He bought a new mobile phone, changed a new number, and went to and from class on time every day. From time to time, he dealt with Liu Yong and Luo Donghao's gossip about whether his third brother was Rong Zhouzhong, and listened to Liu Yong muttering about what was rumored outside or was close to the truth. , or completely outrageous rumors, pay attention to major domestic and foreign news every day, life is monotonous and boring.

A week passed without knowing it, and the weekend came. Shi Jin habitually picked up his backpack and was the first to leave the classroom. He reflexively walked towards the school gate. When he reached the school gate, he realized in a daze that he had nowhere to go. Now, those who come to pick him up every week, will not come again.They scattered to various parts of the world, and I don't know if they will have a chance to see them again in this life.

The hand holding the backpack was slowly released. He watched the school gate with parents driving close to him, and suddenly felt that the world was vast and nowhere was home.

Since he came to this world, he has been taken care of by Lian Jun. Now that Lian Jun is gone, where can he go.Clubhouse?It lost its owner there and should be under official control by now.Resort?But there was only a temporary foothold, and it must be controlled by the authorities.Foreign island? A villa near the island in G province?Or even the orchard in Province Y where he lived originally?

No, no place is home.

No, there is another place, a place that he has only been to once and has not yet been built——

"Xiao Jin." A shadow suddenly shrouded in front of him.

He recovered and looked up.

Fei Yujing stood in front of him, raised his hand to look at his watch, and said: "It should be just in time, let's go, go home, I asked the nanny to make soup, and I should be able to drink it just in time when I go back."

Shi Jin stared at him blankly, and asked, "Second Brother, why are you here?"

Fei Yujing put down his hands and replied, "Of course I came here specially to pick you up for the weekend. You haven't been to my residence in City B yet, so I'll take you to check the door today." He took his arm, led him through the crowd and traffic at the school gate, walked to the car he was driving, opened the door, and stuffed him in.

When the car door was closed, Shi Jin watched Fei Yujing go around the front of the car, opened the door and sat in the driver's seat beside him. When Fei Yujing reached out to help him fasten his seat belt, he finally recovered his complete thoughts and said, "Second brother , I want to go to a place first."

Fei Yujing helped him buckle up his seat belt and asked, "Where?"

"Wanpu Garden." Shi Jin replied, as if just saying this name, his heart slowly became at ease.

Fei Yujing glanced at him, sat back and fastened his seat belt, and started the car.

An hour later, the car parked outside the Wanpu Garden Villa area.The gate of the villa area is locked from the outside. Looking in through the crack of the door, one can see that the inside is still unfinished, and it is very deserted, with no one there.

"It seems that work has stopped, and the gates are locked." Fei Yujing said, looking sideways at Shi Jin, and asked, "Do you want to go in and have a look?"

Shi Jin retracted his gaze and shook his head: "No need, let's go."

Fei Yujing called him: "Xiao Jin."

"I'm fine." Shi Jin smiled at him, his brows and eyes relaxed, and he really didn't look very sad, "This is the message left by Mr. Lian. When the construction starts here again, he will probably come back soon. , I'll wait, it's okay."

Fei Yujing frowned, and started the car without saying anything.

……

Fei Yujing is very busy and can't stay in City B. Shi Jin is very aware of this, so he doesn't expect Fei Yujing to pick him up next weekend, and when Fei Yujing sent him back to school, he didn't. Said that he would come to pick him up next week.

Another tedious week passed, and after school on Friday, Shi Jin went straight back to the dormitory with his books in his arms.

Ten minutes later, Rong Zhouzhong called.

"Why haven't you come out yet? Has the teacher delayed the class?"

Shi Jin was a little confused: "...Huh?"

"Ah what, didn't the second brother tell you that I'm coming to pick you up this week for the weekend? If you can answer the phone, then class is over. Come to the school gate, I'll be waiting for you." Rong Zhouzhong spoke very fast Hurry up, as if being chased and bitten by someone, suddenly lowered his voice again, "Hurry up, I missed work, and the manager is coming to arrest me."

Shi Jin: "..."

He slowly put down the phone, the corners of his mouth curled up, he happily threw the book on the bed, turned around and ran towards the school gate.

……

Another week passed, and after school on Friday, Shi Jin had already realized something, bid farewell to Liu Yong and Luo Donghao in a good mood, and came to the school gate with his backpack in his hands amidst the jokes about whether they were in a hurry to see their boyfriend. Seeing Li Jiuzheng waiting at the door, the smile on his face widened, and he yelled over there: "Fifth Brother!"

Li Jiuzheng looked sideways when he heard the voice, smiled before saying anything, and said, "Xiao Jin, I'm here to pick you up."

……

It was another weekend, and the person who appeared at the school gate became Xiang Aoting.

Shi Jin raised his eyebrows and asked, "Fourth brother, you actually have a fake? Aren't the troops all over the country busy with those things now?"

"There will always be a squeeze during the holidays." Xiang Aoting replied, stepped forward and squeezed his shoulder, boasting in satisfaction, "That's right, it's a little stronger."

Shi Jin thumped him with a smile, and said, "I'm not only getting stronger, let's find a place to practice?"

"Yes." Xiang Aoting accepted the challenge.

……

Life has gradually stabilized. Although Lian Jun is not around, Shi Jin has four homes that he can return to anytime, and he can be free, and he can hang out with his friends wherever he wants.

Once you are no longer in it, and pay special attention to it, the Wumen, Snake Tooth, Chiba, and Tarantula all of a sudden become extremely distant things, so far away that it seems that you will never touch them again in this life.

Life has become ordinary class and get out of class, eating and drinking water, the biggest worry every day is why the teacher assigns so many homework, and when will the wrist not shake when scooping up vegetables with the aunt in the cafeteria.

Occasionally, Shijin would hear a little news about violent organizations from some very accidental channels, such as Liu Yong’s casual gossip, the teacher’s textbook explanation using violent organizations as an example, and the international and domestic news that he read every day. The organization's reports are always very vague, so he only vaguely knows that among the five leaders of the big organizations who are at large, three have died, one has been captured alive, and one is missing.

The impact of the firepower battles between large organizations was too bad. After the officials cleaned them up, they started a new round of investigations against all legal violent organizations. Then countless organizations were dismissed, and another round of storms was set off.

While Liu Yong was excitedly gossiping about the country's sudden and vigorous crackdown on violent organizations, Shi Jin immersed himself in his textbooks and prepared ahead of time for the upcoming midterm exam.He is just an ordinary police student now, and the most important thing to care about is obviously his studies.

Lianjun's birthday is inevitable, and that day happened to be a weekend, so Shi Jin greeted his brothers in advance and asked them not to pick him up, saying that he would go out with his friends on the weekend.He did hang out with his friends, but only for half a day.In the evening, he came to Wanpu Garden by car alone, stood outside the still closed gate to admire the moon that would not be so obvious, said happy birthday to the air, then turned and left.

The next day, Shi Jin noticed that Lian Jun's progress bar had dropped by a few points, so he knew that Lian Jun must have injected this month's medicine yesterday, and his body became healthier again.

Spring is so short that it makes people flustered. It seems that in the blink of an eye, summer is here.

On the day when the final exam ended, Shi Jin went to Wanpu Garden again.It was still closed there, he smiled and took a ride to the Yese club.

Sure enough, the clubhouse was also sealed, and weeds had even grown in front of the door, and I don't know how long it had been deserted.

The driver is a kind and talkative person. Seeing Shi Jin kept looking there, he said in a loud voice: "I heard that the government has re-planned this place, so all the shops here have been closed. If they want to be demolished, this land is the only one. It seems to be building a children's playground, and the parents in the nearby community are very happy, and the children will have a place to play in the holidays."

"That's pretty good." Shi Jin looked at this building that once contained the darkness and the underground world, imagining that a children's playground representing the future and hope might be built here in the future, and laughed sincerely, "Wait The Children’s Paradise has been built, and I must come and see it.”

"Then remember to call me, and I'll come see you off." The driver didn't forget to take the opportunity to attract customers.

Finally, Shi Jin went back to the university town, came to the community where Li Jiuzheng lived, took the elevator up, opened the door with the spare key, walked lightly to the door of the kitchen, and looked at Li Jiuzheng, who was frowning and wrestling with a pot of soup inside , smiled and said, "Fifth brother, I'm back."

Li Jiuzheng was so startled that he almost turned the pot over.

Shi Jin laughed even more happily.

The summer vacation officially started, Shi Jin followed Li Jiuzheng to Rongcheng, and was admitted to Li Jiuzheng's private hospital.I do not know when the hospital changed its decoration, the inside is all warm tones, and there is an extra garden outside.It can be said that apart from the structural layout, this place no longer looks like a nightmare.

Everything was different, Shi Jin turned around in the garden in satisfaction, looked up in the direction of Li Jiuzheng's office, just met the sight of Li Jiuzheng standing by the window looking over, smiled and waved at him.

Li Jiuzheng didn't expect to be caught for peeping. After being startled, he quickly waved his hand at Shi Jin, pursed his lips and smiled.

After settling in the small suite behind the dean's office, Shi Jin rested for two days without doing anything else, and then enrolled in a nearby driving school to learn to drive.Li Jiuzheng saw him, and silently flipped through the car magazine again.Shi Jin saw the black lines extremely, and hurriedly hid all those magazines secretly.

At the end of the summer vacation, when Shi Jin successfully obtained his driver's license, Li Jiuzheng became depressed and didn't want to let Shi Jin go.

"I'll come to see you when I'm on vacation." Shi Jin coaxed him with a smile.

Li Jiuzheng frowned, glanced at him, and suddenly said, "I'd rather you visit Big Brother than me."

The smile on Shi Jin's face faded away, he glanced at the progress bar in his mind that only had 20 points left, and Lian Jun only had 5 points left, he tightened his fingers, and responded in a low voice.

It's been so long, and it's really time for him to see Shi Weichong. Shi Weichong has suffered too much, and he shouldn't continue to let the other party bear the price because of his own reasons.

……

When school started again, Shi Jin was promoted to junior year, and finally bid farewell to his former roommates, and moved to a four-person dormitory with its own bathroom, and lived with his classmates.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or someone deliberately arranged it, but Liu Yong and Luo Donghao, whose student IDs are not close to Shi Jin, unexpectedly all became roommates with Shi Jin.Liu Yong shouted luck, while Shi Jin turned in his mind the faces of Xiang Ao Ting, Liu Zhenjun, and even Chairman Wang, and echoed Liu Yong's words with a smile.

"Yeah, lucky."

……

On an extremely ordinary afternoon, Shi Jin noticed that Lian Jun's progress bar began to flicker, and the remaining 5 points on it began to decrease gradually—obviously, Lian Jun should be using his last medicine.

He sat up straight all of a sudden, and called out, "Little Death."

"What?" Liu Yong, who was next to him at the desk, heard his voice and looked sideways, asking in doubt.

Shi Jin came back to his senses, hurriedly said it was nothing, got up and left the dormitory, found a quiet corner outside and sat down.

At this time, the value of Lian Jun's progress bar has dropped to 3, and then soon, the number changed to 2, jumped to 1, and finally returned to zero. The progress bar flickered violently for a few times, and suddenly disappeared like smoke.

It really disappeared, no matter how Shi Jin looked at it, there was only one progress bar left in his mind.

"Come in." Xiaoshi called him suddenly.

He didn't speak, and he was a little unresponsive.

"Baby is free." Xiaoshi's voice sounded a bit strange, as if he wanted to laugh, but also as if he was crying, "Thank you, come in."