Death Progress Bar

Shi Weichong led Shi into the apartment where he lived, settled him down on the sofa in the living room, made him a cup of hot cocoa, put two digestible snacks in front of him, and casually put on a coat , walked to the door and said: "I'll go to the small kitchen to get you something to eat, you use these pads to pad your stomach first, I'll be back soon, I have my mobile phone with me, call me if you have anything to do."

Shi Jin smiled and nodded, stuffing some snacks into his mouth while waving his hands to signal him to go quickly.

Shi Weichong was amused by his anxious look, ordered to eat slowly, closed the door and left.

The room became quiet, and the smile on Shi Jin's face slowly faded away.He patted off the crumbs of snacks in his hand, stood up, turned around in this room that was both a living room and a study, glanced at a half-written note on the desk, stopped, and reached out to touch the note on it. I turned to the title page, and sure enough, I saw the familiar words "Gift to Younger Brother" on it. I tightened my fingers, gently covered the note, turned and walked towards Shi Weichong's bedroom.

He remembered that Shi Weichong usually put the more important things in the drawer on the lower level of the bedside table...

it's here.

He turned around, walked to the bedside table on the right, squatted down, touched the small lock hanging on the second drawer, didn't bother to look for the key, and directly opened it violently, pulling the drawer open.

The contents inside were exposed, a few documents, a photo frame, a gun, a few boxes of ammunition, this is all the contents of the drawer.

Shi Jin found what he wanted, reached out to pick up the gun, felt for another bullet, put them together in his jacket pocket, got up and was about to leave, when he turned around, his eyes glanced at the big photo frame that was placed face down deep in the drawer, and he moved After a pause, he squatted back and reached out to take out the photo frame.

The picture frames are a bit dated and should have been there for many years.Shi Jin turned it over, and a family photo taken on a certain New Year's day was displayed in front of his eyes.In the family portrait, Shi Xingrui's position was hollowed out, leaving only a few children sitting around the sofa.His heart trembled, his eyes swept over his brothers who were still just teenagers, and finally on Shi Weichong's lap, he found himself holding a toy with a smirk.

The old time just rushed in front of him when he was unprepared. He tightened his hands and carefully scanned the people in these photos, and found that except for him, the smiles on the faces of the five brothers of the Shi family were all stiff and forced. His eyes were either dull or gloomy or empty, completely devoid of the look of a young man.

The house in the background of the photo is decorated warmly and festively, with New Year decorations symbolizing happiness and reunion everywhere, but none of the people in the photo, except him as a child, is really happy.

Fake.Why do you have to wrong yourself to show this look, power and money are so important!

He couldn't help being angry, and wanted to remove the photo frame, and took out this photo, but after removing the back cover of the photo frame, he saw another photo hidden inside.He froze for a moment and pulled out the photo.

A happily smiling woman holding a child appeared, and he instantly recognized that this was Xu Jie, Xu Jie when she was young.His expression became tense, thinking of all the things he had encountered in the past, he just wanted to tear up this photo immediately.

But he didn't do that. He suppressed the urge to tear up the photo and looked at the child in Xu Jie's arms.

It was a very fat and fair child, probably only a few months old, smiling foolishly, and he couldn't see the shadow of Wei Chong in the future.The tip of his nose suddenly became sore, and he sat down on the ground as if all the strength had been sucked out of him.

He didn't dare to think about Shi Weichong's feelings about cherishing these two photos.If...if it hadn't been for those things later, if Xu Jie wasn't so scheming, and Shi Xingrui wasn't so twisted and ruthless, would Shi Weichong have an ordinary and happy family?Will he also be able to enjoy the kind of beauty that he enjoyed when he grew up under the knees of his adoptive parents?

He lowered his head and put the two photos together, looking at the brothers in the photos, looking at his young self and Shi Weichong in his infancy, his fingers slowly tightened.

Not for power and money...just for love, father's love, mother's love.When Shi Weichong and the others were forced by their mother to act in front of their father, the oldest Shi Weichong was only in his early ten years old, and was just a child.In order not to annoy their mother, and to get close to their father, what else could they choose besides obedience?

Children are innocent, and the bad ones are the adults who persecute and lead them to do bad things.

Slowly, expressionless, he got up and walked outside, his pace getting faster and faster.

"Jinjin, what are you going to do?" Xiao Si had a bad intuition and asked quickly.

Shi Jin didn't answer, he walked forward with a dull head, and soon left the building where Shi Weichong lived, looked around, found a building in the deepest part of the nursing home, and walked quickly - the person he was really looking for should be locked up there.

"Come in!" Xiaosheng saw through his intentions, and unconsciously raised his voice, "Don't be impulsive."

Shi Jin ignored it, rushed into the deepest building, avoided all the nurses with his agility, came to the floor where the patient was, and quickly looked over from room to room.

"Jinjin, please stop, please." Xiao Shi was about to cry in fright.

Shi Jin still didn't answer, he quickly searched for the wards on this floor, and walked towards the next floor.

"Come in, don't be like this..." Xiaosheng's voice turned into a cry.

Shi Jin found that his body suddenly became heavy, he finally stopped, and said in a deep voice: "Remove the buff."

"Come in, let's go back, baby is still waiting to meet you again." Xiaosheng begged.

"Remove." Shi Jin repeated, "Don't force me to lock you up."

This is a threat, even if Xiao Shi never said it, Shi Jin can deduce from the inability to pay attention to details such as the increase of the progress bar every time Xiao Shi is locked in the dark room, as long as Xiao Shi's consciousness is turned off, his body will be blocked. Brushing the buff will passively break this kind of thing.

Xiao Si had no choice but to remove the buff on him and continue to persuade him.

Shi Jin was completely indifferent, and continued to move forward. Finally, he found what he wanted in a certain ward in the deepest part of the inpatient department.The light was on in the ward, and looking in through the observation window, one could see a woman in a hospital gown, sitting at the table with her head down, reading a book.

reading?It's really relaxing.

Shi Jin sneered, pushed open the door rudely, strode closer to the woman's astonished gaze, took out the gun in his pocket, put it between her eyebrows, and opened the safety catch.

"Long time no see, Xu Jie." He smiled, full of malice.

Xu Jie slowly opened her eyes wide, looking at him in disbelief.

"I heard you are really crazy?" Shi Jin tapped her forehead with the muzzle of a gun, looked her up and down, "It seems that your old friend took good care of you, you look really old now And ugly."

After being imprisoned for so long and mentally tormented by the nurses back then, Xu Jie has long since lost her original elegance. His facial features were slightly distorted, his eyes were cloudy and lifeless, his hair was frizzy and gray, and he already looked like an old lady.

"Shi Jin." Xu Jie gritted her teeth, her eyes turned ferocious and hateful, "It's you."

"It's me, I'm here to kill you." Shi Jin touched the trigger with his finger, and his eyes became hateful, "Everyone can be forgiven, whether it's brothers or their mothers, everyone Everyone has their own difficulties, each has their own reasons, and some are even complete victims... They just don't deserve to be mothers, and you, you are the greatest evil!"

Xu Jie leaned her neck back, not afraid of his threats at all, and cursed: "You damn bastard. If you dare not do anything, Wei Chong will not allow it."

"Wild species? You're right, it's not just me, the children of the Shi family are all wild species." Shi Jin slowly pressed his finger on the trigger, his eyes almost bleeding with hatred, "We would rather not have parents and be a child." A wild species raised by nature would not want to have a father like Shi Xingrui and a mother like you."

There was the sound of running in the corridor outside, Xu Jie smiled and said, "You are wrong, my son needs me, and he has come to protect me."

"Really." Shi Jin also laughed, and pressed the trigger forcefully, "Unfortunately, the eldest brother will no longer be your son, he is just my elder brother."

Seeing that he really wanted to make a move, Xu Jie finally panicked, and quickly raised her hand to push his arm, saying, "No, you can't—"

boom.

Those years of being tortured by the darkness, so many painful days waiting to die, the hatred and unwillingness accumulated in my heart day by day, seemed to have been shot out with this shot.

puff.

It was as if a hole had leaked in my heart, and the inflated malice hidden inside poured out, as if trying to empty out my soul.

"No—!" Xiao Si screamed.

Shi Weichong rushed into the ward with sweat on his head, watched Shi Jin withdraw his gun, and then Xu Jie's body fell back.He was confused, almost fell to the ground, and said, "Xiao Jin, what did you do..."

"She's dead..." Shi Jin turned to look at him, and threw the gun aside, "...in my heart. Brother, I've taken revenge."

bang.

Xu Jie overturned her chair and fell to the ground, covering her forehead and gasping for breath, shaking uncontrollably, obviously frightened.

Shi Weichong was taken aback for a moment, then quickly passed Shi Jin and rushed towards Xu Jie, helped her up from the ground, looked at Shi Jin, and said, "Xiao Jin, you...do you still hate me?"

"I don't hate you." Shi Jin put his hands in his pockets, looked at him sideways, held him tightly with a glance, hated Xu Jie who looked at him, twitched the corners of his mouth, and said, "Brother, Xu Jie is not crazy at all, she I'm lying to you, she was calling me a bastard just now."

Xu Jie's expression changed, and she hurriedly lowered her head.

Shi Weichong was stunned again, then suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Jie.

Xu Jie hurriedly pretended to be crazy, trembling and talking nonsense.

Shi Weichong frowned, his expression gradually turned cold - the look in Xu Jie's eyes just now really didn't look like he was crazy...

"I know, part of the reason why you want to stay here is to take care of Xu Jie, she is so pitiful, crazy and miserable..." Shi Jin retracted his gaze, clenched his hands in his pockets tightly, "But brother, she is Ruin the rest of your life, no, she may be trying to win you back and let you deal with me... I'm too tired, I don't want to be so tired anymore, I just took revenge, so I don't hate you anymore, I Forgive you, brother, you are free." After speaking, he walked out.

Shi Weichong's heart tightened, he hurriedly let go of Xu Jie, got up and wanted to pull him, and said anxiously: "Xiao Jin, where are you going? I, I made noodles for you..."

Shi Jin dodged his hand, and said without turning his head: "Brother, take a good look at your mother, don't delay your own life because of her, if you see clearly, then this year's reunion dinner... Waiting for you." After saying that, he walked away quickly.

Shi Weichong took a step and wanted to chase after him, calling out, "Small Jin, Xiao Jin!"

"Don't go, don't chase that bastard!" Xu Jie suddenly grabbed Shi Weichong's leg and said fiercely, "He wants to kill me! Did you see that, he wants to kill me, Weichong, he wants to kill me your mother!"

Shi Weichong stopped passively, looked down at her, and met her eyes full of hostility and murderous intent. After he couldn't believe it, his eyes became a little bit desperate, and said: "Mom, so you are really lying to me... ..."

Xu Jie's heart tightened, thinking that she had been seen through, she simply continued to sell miserably and said: "I just want to get close to you, and you didn't want to come to see me at first... Wei Chong, I also want to survive, Shi Jin is so bad, He locked us up, ruined my face, sent people to torture me, forced you to hand over Ruixing, and now he wants to kill me! Wei Chong, he wants to kill me! Did you see what he looked like just now? You are me Son, you have to avenge me and kill that bastard for me!"

One mouthful and one bastard, all of them were accusations, and they were not aware of their own problems at all.

Shi Weichong shook his head, looking at the unreasonable, twisted and strange woman in front of him, the last hope in his eyes was finally extinguished, he bent down and pulled her hand away, and said, "No more."

"What?" Xu Jie looked up at him.

"Before you repent, I'm no longer your son. You...you should be fine." Shi Weichong suppressed his emotions, turned his head and stopped looking at her, walked to the side, picked up the gun on the ground, and walked out go.

Xu Jie was stunned, and then went crazy, screaming: "No! You are not allowed to go! Wei Chong, you are my son, you have to listen—"

boom!

The door to the ward was closed and locked.Xu Jie stopped calling, collapsed on the ground, reminiscing about what happened just now, couldn't help screaming and pulled her hair, and said frantically: "No! That's not the case! Wei Chong, you have obviously turned towards me again... Come on, you ruined everything! You demon! I'm going to kill you!"

……

Shi Jin came to the place near the sea behind the sanatorium, stood on the edge of the cliff surrounded by a fence, took out his clenched hand from his pocket, and slowly spread his palm.

A bullet lay quietly in his palm. It was the bullet he was going to shoot into Xu Jie's head.

"Go in." Xiaoshi called him in a whisper, "The progress bar has started to drop..."

"I know." Shi Jin replied, looked at the bullet for a few seconds, then suddenly took two steps back, raised his hand, and threw the bullet towards the sea forcefully.

The cliff was a bit high, and Shi Jin couldn't hear the sound of bullets falling into the sea. He looked at the gentle and surging sea and said, "Xiao Si, I won."

Xiaosheng: "Enter..."

"I won." He looked down at the ring on his finger, his eyes calmed down a little bit, "This is what my adoptive parents and Mr. Lian like... I won, and everything is over."

Xiao Shi resisted the desire to cry, and said: "Well, you won, you are the most advanced."

Shi Jin laughed meaninglessly, then slowly lost his expression, lowered his head, sat on the grass, raised his arms and hugged his head.

"I really want to kill Xu Jie." He said suddenly, "Also Fei Lin, Rong Xili, Xiang Qing... They are not worthy of being mothers, how can money and resources be more important than children, everyone can obviously not work so hard ...It's all their fault, it's all them. I'm so unwilling, why am I the only one who remembers all that, why." He slowly grasped his hair, and then slowly let it go, "But it can't... If you kill them , everyone who is finally happy will fall into pain again... I don't want that."

Xiaoshi said: "Jinjin, I am proud of you."

Shi Jin's eyes became a little hollow, and after a long time, he whispered, "But... I'm so tired."

The night wind was blowing gently, Shi Weichong did not know when he appeared behind Shi Jin.He stood for a while, then came to Shi Jin's side and sat down with him.

"Xiaojin, thank you."

Shi Jin didn't move.

"sorry."

Shi Jin finally moved. He put down his hands, looked down at the grass under his feet, and said, "I'm sorry for prying into your cabinet."

"It's okay." Shi Weichong replied, raising his hand to touch his head, "You just worked too hard."

Shi Jin didn't dodge his hand, put his arm on his knee, bent down and put his head on it, looked at the dark sea, and said, "Brother, watch the sunrise with me."

"Okay." Shi Weichong responded, took off his coat and put it on him.

Shi Jin returned it to him in disgust, and moved a little to the side.

Shi Weichong was stunned, then lowered his brows and eyes, put on his coat again, and moved to his side.

Shi Jin didn't hide, and continued to look at the sea.

……

The progress bar dropped little by little, at a slow and painful speed.

Shi Jin looked at the sea, sorting out his memories bit by bit, from childhood, to youth, to dying, to another warm life, and then back here, where he met Xiao Death, met Lianjun...

When the night was deepest, he suddenly asked in his heart: "Little Death, when did you board me?"

After a while, Xiao Shi replied: "After you were disfigured...I'm sorry, I watched you go to the most tragic end, and I didn't lend a helping hand. At that time, I wanted to know more about your background before sending you away. By dragging it to the end, not only will there be no new discoveries at all, but it will also cause you to suffer for so long.”

"It's so early..." Shi Jin smiled, buried the lower half of his face in his arms, and bent his eyes, "I can understand your thoughts, so I don't need to say I'm sorry... It's so good, that most painful time , I didn’t spend it alone, you are still with me. Xiaosi, thank you.”

There was a sudden drop in the progress bar. Xiao Shi realized something. He was silent for a while, desperately suppressing the desire to cry, and said, "No...Jinjin, I am very happy to be with you for so long."

"Me too." Shi Jin closed his eyes.

Shi Jin thought of the original Lian Jun, his eyes were dead silent, his body was so poor that it would take a long time to eat a few more mouthfuls, and his temper didn't look too good... Then he remembered the annoying second hexagram, and it's not good to talk too little The provocative hexagram one, the seemingly stable hexagram three, the calm and reliable hexagram five, the sleepy and good-tempered hexagram nine, the vicious-mouthed and soft-hearted hexagram... Finally, he thought of the smiles that gradually increased Li Jiuzheng, Rong Zhouzhong, who gradually wiped away the thorns all over his body, Xiang Aoting, who was getting warmer and warmer, Fei Yujing, who was trying to learn to open his heart... Finally, he thought of his adoptive parents.

He even thought of Shi Xingrui who was actually very kind to him.

After all, there are more good things than bad things.There is nothing to be reconciled to, as long as everyone is happy.

Shi Jin opened his eyes, looked at the white belly that appeared in the sky at an unknown time, and called out: "Brother."

"Huh?" Shi Weichong looked sideways at him.

"I really have forgiven you." He looked sideways at Shi Weichong, meeting his gaze, "So forgive yourself too, the ancestors said, if you know your mistakes, you are a good boy, and we all correct them." Where you made a mistake, let yourself go, okay?"

Shi Weichong's eyes were a little red, his Adam's apple moved, he tried to smile at him, and said in a hoarse voice, "Okay...Okay. Thank you, Xiaojin."

Shi Jin then laughed too, and leaned forward to give him a hug.

The progress bar finally dropped back to 20, and after a few flashes, it didn't get stuck and continued to drop.

Xiaosi couldn't hold back his tears, and called out, "Enter..."

"I'm here." Shi Jin responded, let go of Shi Weichong, looked again at the slowly fading sunlight at the end of the sea level, smiled, but his eyes were still red, "You are so powerful, you can turn back time, and Saved the world, so you can definitely come back to me, right?"

"I don't know, Jinjin...I love you."

Shi Jin pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled: "I love you too...I'm sorry, I promised to introduce you to Lian Jun, but I haven't been able to do it."

"No, it's okay...it's okay..."

The value of the progress bar is getting less and less, and soon reaches single digits.As the progress bar went down, Shi Jin only felt that the cry belonging to Xiaoshi in his head became more and more blurred. He felt tense in his heart, raised his arms to wrap around himself, buried his head and pressed his face on his arms, and whispered Said: "Don't cry, Xiaosi, I can't hear you clearly."

Shi Weichong noticed something was wrong with him, frowned and put his shoulder on his shoulder, and asked worriedly: "Xiao Jin, what's wrong with you?"

Shi Jin didn't speak, and concentrated on catching Xiao Shi's voice.

8、7、6……3、2、1……

Xiaoshi's crying became sporadic, and the progress bar began to flash wildly. Finally, the progress bar returned to zero, and Xiaoshi's crying suddenly weakened.

Do not……

Shi Jin silently refused, holding his hand so hard that it turned white.

"...into..."

Xiao Shi's voice suddenly reappeared, Shi Jin was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head abruptly, covered his ears hard to isolate the noise from the outside world, trying to hear what it said clearly.

"I... leave... a special... gift... don't... goodbye."

After a vague and intermittent sentence, Xiao Shi's voice completely disappeared, and the progress bar stopped blinking. After a pause of two seconds, it dissipated like smoke.

Shi Jin's body and expression froze together. After repeated testing, he found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see the progress bar in his head like before. After hearing Xiao Shi's voice, his lips tightened little by little, and tears slowly overflowed With eyes full, he lowered his head and pressed his face on his arms.

Goodbye.

He said silently, wishing that he was just dreaming now.

Goodbye...bye bye.

"Xiao Jin, what's wrong with you? Xiao Jin?" Shi Weichong was frightened by his series of inexplicable behaviors, and hurriedly put his arms around his shoulders, and anxiously touched his head, trying to help him up.

Shi Jin hugged himself tightly, unwilling to raise his head.

Both of them were focused on what was in front of them, and did not hear the sound of footsteps slowly approaching.

Finally, the sound of footsteps stopped behind the two of them, and a hand reached out to Shi Weichong's eyes, then lightly landed on Shi Jin's head, and rubbed it gently.

"Shijin." A familiar voice sounded in his bones.

Shi Jin's muffled crying stopped suddenly, and he froze for a while without moving.

Shi Weichong was stunned, followed the hand to look at his master, then frowned, then looked down at Shi Jin who was unwilling to raise his head, slowly retracted the hand on Shi Jin's head, stood up and backed away.

"Shi Jin." The voice of the visitor sounded again, with caution and gentleness, "Look at me."

The temperature above the head, the voice next to the ear, all of these are so clear that they cannot be hallucinations.

With his heart beating faster, Shi Jin finally raised his head and looked towards where the sound came from with his red eyes.

Lian Jun stood behind him, his body was full of exhaustion after a long journey.He bent down to help Shi Jin wipe away his tears, and asked, "Why are you crying? I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for so long. I'm here to pick you up."

"Lian..." Shi Jin opened his mouth, tears leaked again, suddenly got up and hugged him, wrapped his arms around his shoulders tightly, wishing to bite him, and said bitterly, "It's gone, it's gone I am... why are you so slow, why didn't you come earlier. "

Lian Jun hugged him back contentedly, leaned his head against his face, sighed and said, "I'm sorry...I'm sorry."

"Why are you still so thin..." Shi Jin didn't know what he was talking about, he just felt that his empty heart finally fell to the ground again, tightened his strength even more, his nose was sore, in this warm embrace, indulge I let go of all my emotions.

At the end of the sea level, the sun finally jumped out of the sea, Shi Weichong bathed in the morning sun, looked at Lian Jun and Shi Jin who were embracing each other, he let out a shallow breath, and suddenly felt relieved.

That's it... a new day has finally arrived.