Subordinate Doting - Chap 158
”Think it over.” He Zhuo swept his hand away.
Sanka sucked on his cigarette and said in a businesslike tone: “Which mountain are we going to?”
“The tallest one.”
”Hiss, that one is a bit difficult to climb.”
”How much more money do you want to add? Tell us all at once.”
He Zhuo became a little impatient.
Sangka waved his hands repeatedly: “You are wronged, that’s not what I meant. We have our own rules in this line of work. What I just added was money to bet on your life. Your life is too strong, it can’t be easily bet on.”
”Then stop talking nonsense.”
”Well, I’m just curious why you have to go to that mountain?”
He Zhuo paused with his pen, and after two seconds of silence, he signed.
”My love was buried there.”
”Ah… I want to be buried together.”
Sankar nodded thoughtfully.
”Okay, I’ll give you half an hour. Eat something good, change your clothes, and then we’ll be on the road.” After saying that, she jumped into the car, swinging her legs while waiting for him.
Half an hour is neither long nor short.
He Zhuo, however, was like a moth flying aimlessly, not knowing where he could be temporarily sheltered until the last moment of his life.
He took his hands off the table, sat there staring at the snow-capped mountains in the distance. Many past events flashed through his mind one by one. Suddenly, he remembered that he had bought a can of candy at the ferry on the morning he got off the boat.
When I reached into my pocket, the candy was still there.
He took out the candy, which had already stuck together into a large lump that couldn’t be shaken off. When he opened the bottle cap, a scent of strawberry essence wafted to his face.
The gummy candies are made into the shape of cats, each one is pink and plump, and are stacked one on top of the other, like a jar of kittens.
When He Zhuo saw it, he curled up the corners of his mouth unconsciously. He picked the can with the most, thinking about coming back to tease Ji Tingyu after he finished his work.
But before the candy was delivered, something went wrong.
Ji Tingyu didn’t want any more, so he opened it and ate it himself.
He poured out a large lump of it and stuffed it all into his mouth. While chewing, he took out a brocade box from his pocket. The box contained his bell.
It was originally broken into pieces by Ji Tingyu on the boat, and the pieces were scattered all over the ground. He Zhuo gathered them up with his tail before he fell into a coma. When he was recuperating in the hospital, he took them out and pieced them together bit by bit with glue.
Not all the fragments were found, a large piece in the middle was missing.
He Zhuo didn’t care. He re-strung the belt, with the intact side facing outwards, and put it carefully around his neck. He looked at himself in the mirror, pretending that it had never been broken and that Ji Tingyu still wanted him.
”This is my fate for both of my lives…”
He smiled bitterly and signaled Sanka: “You can go now.”
Ten o’clock in the morning, Newell time.
The pickup truck set off on time for the highest snow-capped mountain. In the back cargo box, which was missing a door, a set of camphor coffins was placed shakily.
After crossing a dirt slope, the pickup truck was bumped up and down. The candy jar in He Zhuo’s hand fell, and he bent down to pick it up.
A red Wrangler passed by his window, heading in the exact opposite direction.
There were tracks on the snow, with two wheels going in opposite directions.
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Ji Tingyu set out on the journey alone, carrying only a camera and a small bag.
He left without telling anyone, and only went to the garage to pick out a car while his team members were out inspecting the windbreak.
After looking for a long time, he finally chose the Wrangler that He Zhuo often drove. When he walked around to the car door, he raised his hand and gently knocked on the front cover, as if saying goodbye to someone: “I’m leaving, take care of yourself too.”
The first stop was Helena, a romantic garden town on the lakeside. He wanted to pick some white mulberry camellia flowers that grew uniquely in the water there, make them into dried flower specimens, and bring them to worship his mother.
As soon as we drove out of the snow-capped mountains, Mo Moqing called us.
He pressed the headset and his fingers accidentally touched the stone on his neck, which still hurt like a needle.
Whether it was a coincidence or fate, he threw the stone into the sea that day and it happened to fall into the suction cup of the octopus’s limb and was salvaged.
Ji Tingyu didn’t throw it away again, but he didn’t return it to He Zhuo either.
He put his fingertips in his mouth and sucked them for a while, then asked Sha Moqing, “What’s wrong?”
”Brother, why aren’t you at the base?”
”I’m leaving. What’s up?”
”The station called us just now and said that they found that He Zhuo was not on the train ten minutes after departure!”
”What did you say?!”
Ji Tingyu’s pupils suddenly shrank, he sat up abruptly, and stepped on the accelerator, but there was a very steep slope in front of him, and if he rushed up like this, he would definitely fly out in the air.
In desperation, he could only turn the steering wheel sharply to the left, but unexpectedly the snow layer on the left side was empty!
”Ugh–” accompanied by a scream and a sharp scrape, the Wrangler drove into an empty space, the front of the car dropped rapidly, the rear of the car suddenly tilted up ninety degrees, the airbag popped out quickly, and hit Ji Tingyu together with the shattered windshield.
Blood immediately gushed out from his forehead and flowed down his temple. The cat struggled to raise its head a few times, but finally lowered its head unwillingly, and the stone around its neck emitted a faint red light.
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The first thing I felt when I opened my eyes was cold.
It felt as if my whole body was frozen, my hands and feet were stiff and unable to move, and my joints and back were aching as if being pricked by needles.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and vultures and crows were circling in revelry. The sound of fire crackling could be heard faintly in my ears, and the familiar smell of gunpowder mixed with the smell of something burning drifted into my nose.
”hiss……”
Ji Tingyu tried to move his fingers and turned his neck. He had never felt his body so light before. It was like a weightless piece of paper. He just propped up his body and it floated up on the spot.
Then he found that he was really floating.
His feet were suspended in the air, and he stretched out his hands to fly through the low-flying crows.
Dead…?
The kitten had red eyes and a confused look on his face.
After being stunned for a moment, he raised his hand and touched his forehead, which was covered with sticky blood.
Then I looked down at my lower abdomen and legs, and they were all transparent.
Then he should be dead…
