Chapter 60: The illusion turns into reality? Sold by the traffickers...
Since Gu Jinsheng and Ji An had both woken up, it would be a waste of medical resources for them to continue staying in the hospital, so they were discharged and went home to recuperate.
Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Gu Jinsheng couldn't sleep because of a headache, so he planned to get up and take some sleeping pills with the spiritual spring water that Ji An gave him.
Strangely enough, although they were both sleeping pills, Gu Jinsheng took them with his own mineral water and there was no effect at all. He still felt so painful that he couldn't sleep. It was completely useless.
But the mineral water that Ji An gave was different. This water seemed to be able to amplify the efficacy of the medicine hundreds or thousands of times. After drinking it, you can fall asleep within a few minutes.
Gu Jinsheng was deep in thought, holding medicine in one hand and mineral water in the other. He suddenly remembered something about Ji An.
The reason why Ji An defected from the Third Base and even became enemies with Chen Chen was all because of a space necklace.
During the auction, Tang Tang once said that Ji An had a secret, a very important secret that he was hiding from him, which was about the space necklace.
Gu Jinsheng said that he didn't care, and in fact he really didn't care. No matter what kind of treasure Ji An's space necklace was, Gu Jinsheng didn't care.
All he cared about was Ji An's trust. He hoped to gain Ji An's trust so that he could help him keep the secret. But if Ji An didn't want to say it, then he shouldn't say it. It wasn't Ji An's fault. He just didn't do well enough to make Ji An completely trust him.
Of course, if this space necklace belonged to someone else, Gu Jinsheng would not covet it. Other people's things are theirs, no matter how good they are. He, Gu Jinsheng, is not so incompetent that he needs to steal other people's things to strengthen himself.
Of course, unless that person used the space necklace to do something bad, he might take action. But that had nothing to do with the space necklace. Even if that person didn't have any necklace, and he did something evil, Gu Jinsheng couldn't just ignore it.
The space storage item suddenly appeared and shifted everyone's attention to it. Even Gu Jinsheng thought that the space necklace might be just an ordinary space necklace. Such a treasure had never appeared before, so Tang Tang treated it as a treasure.
Ji An took it back, studied its principle thoroughly and then made it. From then on, the space storage prop was born. Now it seems that the space necklace does have other secrets as Tang Tang said.
As for what the secret is...
Gu Jinsheng pulled open the curtains and looked at the street outside under the starlight. In the past, he could only see pedestrians hurrying by from here, but at this hour, there were almost no pedestrians.
Now that nutritional supplements have been invented and the problem of food and clothing has been solved, it seems that the entire world has been pulled from hell to earth in an instant, and people have begun to think about romance again.
There was a lot of traffic downstairs, men and women were holding hands and hugging each other, talking about tomorrow and the future, the stars and the moon, and love.
A smile appeared on Gu Jinsheng's lips. All this beauty came from Ji An. It was he who changed this hell on earth and led it by the hand to tomorrow.
How could he not love such a Ji An, how could he bear to let go? Such an outstanding person, you can only meet one in your life, if you miss him, you will just become a compromise!
In fact, if the space necklace has any other secrets, Gu Jinsheng already knows what the other one is.
It may be related to the healing system.
As soon as the space necklace was taken away, Tang Tang's dual abilities of space and healing would be in trouble. This means that the space necklace should have both space and healing abilities at the same time.
Gu Jinsheng looked at the water in the mineral water bottle, and the remaining healing system was probably related to this water. He just didn't know how this water existed in the space, and whether it would become less and less as it was used?
At this moment, Gu Jinsheng suddenly felt very honored. He still remembered the way Ji An lowered his eyes when he took out the mineral water from the space. He finally chose to believe him and gave him the water!
Even knowing that he is likely to get the water can guess the truth!
Even though Ji An had experienced such emotional betrayal, he still chose to trust him in the end. Gu Jinsheng was really flattered and very happy at the same time.
Does this mean that Ji An has begun to let down his guard towards him and take the first step towards him?
Gu Jinsheng's eyes looked up at the night sky, the stars were shining, just like Ji An's eyes. Ji An's eyes were so beautiful, as if they were always filled with the sea of stars.
Gu Jinsheng gazed at the stars, took a big sip of mineral water and swallowed the sleeping pills. His head hurt so much that he couldn't concentrate and think.
When he turned around and put the bottle back on the table, Gu Jinsheng's eyes fell on the teeth marks on his arm. He really didn't know what was going on with this tooth mark. He had no impression of it at all and couldn't remember it at all?
But this is not private, not intimate but also somewhat intimate. He said he didn't know how the teeth marks were left there. Not only did Ji An not believe it, even Gu Jinsheng himself didn't believe it.
If this incident did not happen to herself but to someone else, Gu Jinsheng would most likely tell that man that being a man means being brave and taking responsibility.
This responsibility was too great for Gu Jinsheng to bear. If he did, the distance between him and Ji An, which had been so hard to get close to, would return to what it was before, or even further than before. So Gu Jinsheng lied to Ji An and said that it was Little Rose who bit him.
Actually, no, but how did this tooth mark come about?
Gu Jinsheng endured the headache and traced back, and could only remember that the tooth mark must not have been there before the accident.
He fainted after the accident. Could it be that someone took advantage of his unconsciousness and bit him? Although this idea is a bit too absurd, after excluding all impossibilities, there is only one truth.
Suddenly, a scene flashed through Gu Jinsheng's mind. It was when he thought Ji An was dead that he became mentally disturbed and his superpowers became violent. He fell into double mental torture and had delusions that could not distinguish reality.
I guess he might have had some signs of schizophrenia at that time, and hallucinations appeared in his brain. He seemed to see Ji An. Now I think he didn't want Ji An to die so much that he had hallucinations.
In the hallucination, Ji An seemed to bite him, and exactly in this part.
Thinking of this, Gu Jinsheng suddenly felt that it might be true that his supernatural powers had been destroyed and his brain was damaged.
Even if those fantasies were true, they were only things that happened in his brain. If Ji An wanted to bite, he would only bite his soul. It was impossible for him to penetrate the soul and imprint it on the flesh.
Gu Jinsheng rubbed his solar plexus helplessly. The more he thought about it, the more ridiculous it became. It was true that when one had a splitting headache, one should not think about anything. Not only would he not be able to figure anything out, but the more he thought about it, the more ridiculous it would become.
Gu Jinsheng lay on the bed, cleared his mind, and fell asleep soon. Next to him, Ji An was also asleep.
Ji An was awakened by a burst of fragrance in the morning. When he came to the kitchen, he saw Gu Jinsheng busy at the noodle table. Ji An's heart was gripped. It was hard to describe the feeling, both sour and painful.
Gu Jinsheng did not allow Ji An to take nutritional supplements at home. Even though nutritional supplements could provide Ji An with the necessary daily nutrition, Gu Jinsheng still insisted on giving it to him.
It’s not that Ji An doesn’t like delicious food. How could anyone not love delicious food? Ji An just feels sorry for Gu Jinsheng’s health. He and Gu Jinsheng are in the same situation. He has such a headache every day that he doesn’t want to do anything. He wishes he could just take a whole bottle of sleeping pills with spiritual spring water and sleep for a year.
But Gu Jinsheng had to endure such a splitting headache every day to cook for him, which made Ji An feel distressed.
"Jinsheng, you don't have to do this." Ji An said, "Our powers have just been destroyed, and we need to stay healthy. Don't cook for me anymore. I'll just take the nutritional supplement. It can provide me with the basic nutrition I need every day. The nutritional supplement was developed by me, and I know its effects. It is balanced and comprehensive. In fact, it is healthier to eat it than to eat food directly."
Gu Jinsheng rolled the dough without even looking up. "I'm relieved because it's made by you. It's okay to eat it once in a while to satisfy your craving. When I go to work, you'll have plenty of time to take nutritional supplements. I don't have time to make it for you."
How could there be people who don’t like delicious food? If there is not enough food, even if nutritional supplements are cheap and nutritious, Ji An believes that everyone will still choose delicious food, even if delicious food may bring some diseases to humans.
Ji An was no exception, of course. Because he was born in an orphanage, he actually had a stronger desire for food than others, but his childhood experiences had taught him to suppress and control himself. He suppressed his nature and restrained his desires, so that people would not discover his true preferences and thus fail to catch his weaknesses.
The reason why Ji An said that was simply because he didn't want Gu Jinsheng to worry about anything and just wanted him to recover from his illness.
Seeing that this didn't make sense, Ji An changed his tone and said, "Jin Sheng, we should actually save more food. Now is a special period and food resources are in short supply. This meal is enough for many people to eat for several days. Just think about it, if we eat one less meal, we can save many lives."
Gu Jinsheng paused for a moment, and just when Ji An thought he had convinced him, Gu Jinsheng said, "The nutrient you developed has saved tens of thousands of people. I'm afraid even if we assign several people to count the number of people you have saved in your lifetime, they still can't count them all. So in the end, you who have saved tens of thousands of people can't even have a bite of delicious food?
Even if no one else in the world can do it, only you are qualified, because of you, they will not starve to death.
I think this is a common understanding among all people who know how to be grateful.”
Ji An was speechless for a moment, and finally he could only tell the truth, "I feel sorry for you and don't want you to be so tired. I just want you to take good care of yourself and not have any sequelae."
Gu Jinsheng had already started cutting the dough into square diamond shapes with a knife. He then used a small spoon that was slightly larger than his thumb nail to scoop a tablespoon of meat filling into the dough, and with a pinch, he had made a beautiful little wonton.
"No, I know my own body." Gu Jinsheng didn't even raise his head. While he was talking, he had already made several wontons with very skillful movements.
"Even if you want to recuperate, you can't sleep all day long. That won't nourish your spirit, but will make you stupid. I don't work now, so I just cook. It doesn't take much energy, and it can be considered as exercise. It's better than doing nothing and sitting there comfortably. Doing something to distract yourself seems to make my head hurt less."
Ji An couldn't persuade Gu Jinsheng, so he simply sat down and wrapped them with him.
The food made by Ji An didn’t taste that good, but the wontons were okay, at least not a single one was bad when he cooked them.
Gu Jinsheng made the bone soup this morning. It has been simmering for two hours now and has turned milky white. The wontons were cooked in the soup and they rose and fell on the water surface and were cooked in three to five minutes.
Take it out and put it in a large transparent glass bowl, add chopped green onion, coriander, minced garlic, dried shrimp, and seaweed, and finally drizzle a spoonful of red chili oil. It will whet your appetite just by looking at it.
Not to mention the taste. The mutant beast meat inside is minced into small pieces and stirred into meatballs in one direction. The meat is chewy, refreshing and full of freshness and fragrance.
tasty!
Even though he had a headache, Ji An endured the discomfort and ate two large bowls of the food. The wontons made by Gu Jinsheng were so delicious, a delicacy that you could never eat outside.
The two of them ate all the wontons they had made. When they were lying on the sofa to sunbathe their bellies, Ji An received a call from Wan Xueying.
"Boss Ji, how is your recovery?" Wan Xueying asked.
"Not bad. I eat well and sleep well. I'm almost like raising pigs, just waiting to slaughter them and eat meat during the New Year." Ji An joked.
Wan Xueying said with a smile: "We can't bear to give it up. Boss Ji, you have too many treasures in your head. We won't do anything like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. What's more, with the boss here, we wouldn't dare to do it even if we were very brave."
Gu Jinsheng could naturally hear Ji Anfang's loudspeaker and he casually hummed to express his attitude.
Wan Xueying was speechless. Is it that serious?
"Forget it, let's get down to business, Boss Ji. I'm afraid if I continue chatting with you, I'll be assassinated by some jealous person tonight." Wan Xueying said seriously, "The headquarters is planning to hold a commendation meeting for you. Can you decide which day is suitable? Can we hold it at the headquarters?"
"A commendation meeting?" Ji An had not heard any news about it before. He looked at Gu Jinsheng and saw that there was no surprise on his face. He knew that Wan Xueying should have talked to Gu Jinsheng in advance about this matter.
"Yes, such good deeds deserve praise, especially in the end times, everyone takes care of their own business, and doesn't care about anything outside except the small piece of land inside the gate." Wan Xueying said: "If it were in the past, our command center wouldn't say anything. After all, it's hard to survive in the end times, and everyone can't even eat enough, so how can they have extra sympathy for others?
But things are different now. With the advent of nutritional supplements, basically everyone can eat their fill. When the stomach problem is solved, it is time to pick up propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame, and everyone should learn to sympathize with others.
Otherwise, this society will only become more and more indifferent.”
Wan Xueying continued, "In fact, the base should have made some statement last time you shot Cruz, but they couldn't make it public to protect you, fearing that you would face retaliation from Country M. Now that you have lost your superpowers, you can't make it public. But you will still get the reward you deserve, and I'll give it to you together with this incident."
"Okay." Ji An agreed. Whether it was a reward or not, he didn't need it right now. He himself was not a person who cared much about the limelight.
Ji An wanted to convey a kind of positive energy to those who are struggling in the end times through this incident, so that they can fantasize about the love in their hearts and not wait until it is completely abandoned before thinking about looking for it, otherwise they may never find it back.
"Thank you, Boss Ji." Wan Xueying had known for a long time that Ji An would agree. Through just a few months of contact, Wan Xueying had already figured out what kind of person Ji An was.
Brave, responsible, accountable, and with a strong sense of social responsibility.
Wan Xueying asked, "Boss Ji, what do you think about the location and time? We may broadcast it live at that time."
"Let's set it at the Salesian Home, at nine o'clock the day after tomorrow." Ji An said, "I want more people to pay attention to these children, and I also want to spread love to more people through the Salesian Home, and awaken more people's compassion."
"Okay." Ji An's idea was the same as Wan Xueying's, and Wan Xueying had no objection. "By the way, Mr. Ji, those traffickers haven't been interrogated yet. The boss said before that he would wait until you wake up before interrogating you. When do you think they will be interrogated?"
Ji An thought the review had been completed long ago, but he didn’t expect that it hadn’t.
Gu Jinsheng said: "Your special abilities have been destroyed by these human traffickers. You should be the one to conduct the interrogation. This is what you deserve."
"Okay, let's go there now."
This building is full of people with special abilities, and they all work in the command center. Gu Jinsheng may not know them, but they all know Gu Jinsheng. With just a word from Gu Jinsheng, someone will send them there.
"Boss, Boss Ji, you are here, this way." Wan Xueying took Ji An and Gu Jinsheng to the dungeon where the death row prisoners were held.
This is no ordinary prison. These are cages for holding serious criminals and people with special powers. All the iron bars are specially made and are electrified 24 hours a day. The blue electric current flashes a cold light and can knock a person with special powers unconscious if they are accidentally touched.
Mutant rats as big as babies were roaming on the ground. These mutant rats scurried in and out of the iron bars. No one knew what they ate to grow up, and they were all fat and strong.
Ji An followed Wan Xueying deeper into the dungeon and heard bursts of shrill screams, as well as people who desperately begged for mercy when they saw them coming.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong. I shouldn't have killed anyone. Please let me go!"
"It's too scary here. I don't want to stay here. Just kill me!"
"Save me, I am innocent, I didn't do such a thing, and please give me something to eat!" The last person who spoke to Ji An was a one-eyed old lady who was blind in one eye. She looked like an ordinary person. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Ji An.
Wan Xueying sneered when she saw this, "This old lady looks very pitiful, but in fact, her heart is darker than anyone else. She was identified by the traffickers themselves.
In order to save her own life, the old lady sold her granddaughter to the human traffickers. She knew what would happen to her granddaughter if she fell into those people's hands, but she still did it.
The traffickers only gave her three nutritional supplements that ordinary people could take."
Ji An looked at the old lady again and felt sick to his stomach.
"What can I do? If I don't sell her, neither of us can survive, and I don't want to do that. If I sell her, even if her limbs are broken, at least she can still live. If the traffickers want her to beg, they will always give her something to eat. But I am a blind old woman who can't do anything and can't afford to support her. I am doing this for her own good, to save her life."
People like the blind old lady are the most disgusting. They are clearly doing the most disgusting things in the world, but they still try to find a great reason to shield themselves, as if this can cover up their despicable character.
Ji An didn't want to look at him again.
The group walked to the innermost dungeon, which was also the worst in terms of environment. This dungeon was lower than the other dungeons, and it should have been designed like this on purpose. The dungeon was filled with water, and the water, which had not been changed for a long time, emitted a foul odor. At the same time, there was electricity all around the dungeon, and water could conduct electricity, which caused the human traffickers tied with iron chains to suffer electric shock all the time.
This is only possible for people with special abilities. Ordinary people would have been unable to bear it long ago.
At the same time, Ji An also learned how those mutant mice grew fat and big-eared in this food-free environment.
There were several mutant rats gnawing on the human traffickers who were tied to the wall. These human traffickers were tied up and the psychics were shackled, so they had no way to escape and could only endure being eaten by these mutant rats.
The electric current in this water dungeon is not strong, and its main purpose is to torture people. As long as the mutant rats are willing to endure it, they can still eat their fill.
No one had paid attention to those traffickers these days. They were just watched through surveillance cameras to make sure they didn’t die. Now that they suddenly saw someone, they acted like they saw their savior. They all rushed to say, “We confess. We confess everything.”
Ji An said coldly: "Then tell me."
"We were human traffickers before the end of the world. We got those children before the end of the world." The human trafficker confessed voluntarily.
"How did you get it?" Ji An asked.
"Some of them were separated from their families and were deceived by us. Some were kidnapped, and some were bought from other human traffickers. Two were sold to us by their families." The trafficker seemed to be asking for a way out. He told me everything, and he spoke very quickly. "One of them was sold to me by the blind old lady after the end of the world, and the other child was sold to me by his grandmother before the end of the world.
It seems that after her daughter-in-law gave birth to a granddaughter, she was worried that her family favored boys over girls and didn't want to have another child. So the old lady took the initiative to sell the child to me so that her daughter-in-law could give them another grandson.
He asked me for a thousand dollars.”
The reason why the trafficker was so memorable was because even a heartless person like him would find it bizarre.
Before the apocalypse, children were not like weeds after the apocalypse. They were the treasures and lifeblood of every family.
If a child is lost, it's as if one has lost his or her life. But the old lady actually took the initiative to sell her granddaughter just to let her daughter-in-law give her another grandson. It's quite weird.
Ji An and Gu Jinsheng looked at each other and both felt that this matter sounded familiar.
Ji An immediately asked, "How old was the girl who was sold by the old lady?"
"About three years old." Although the incident happened a long time ago, the human traffickers still remember it very clearly, mainly because they have only met a few people like him in their lifetime.
"What clothes was the little girl wearing at that time? What characteristics did she have?" After hearing her age, Ji An almost felt certain.
The trafficker frowned and recalled, "I don't remember what she was wearing at the time, but I remember that there was a big birthmark on her leg that I broke, right on the outer ankle.
I chose to cut off that leg because I was afraid that the child’s mother would find it and recognize it.”
Hearing the human traffickers casually chopping off a child's leg, Ji An sincerely felt that no punishment would be excessive for these people.
Ji An asked Wan Xueying, "Where are the children in the hands of the traffickers? Have they been rescued?"
"They've been rescued, a total of 26, all at the Salesian Home." Wan Xueying asked in confusion, "Is there something wrong with the little girl who was sold by her grandmother?"
"She might be the daughter of Yuan Ming'an, the director of the Salesian Home. Her daughter was secretly sold because her mother-in-law wanted a grandson." Ji An explained: "Sister Yuan has been looking for her for seven years."
Not long after Yuan Mingan's daughter was sold, the end of the world came, which made it more difficult for Yuan Mingan to find her daughter.
"Her daughter?" Wan Xueying asked, "Are you sure it's her daughter, not her grandson? Dean Yuan seems to be quite old, so she should be old enough to be a grandmother.
Besides, as for the superpowers themselves, after awakening their powers, their appearance will become younger, so she looks like a grandmother. I thought she was actually older. "
"No, Sister Yuan is only 42 years old this year."
Wan Xueying was shocked, "Forty-two? I thought she was seventy-two."
Then Wan Xueying thought of something and cursed, "Damn human traffickers, Dean Yuan must be anxious because he couldn't find his daughter for so many years. That old woman deserves to die too, how can someone be so patriarchal! What happened to the old woman's family in the end?"
"They are all dead." Ji An said, "At the end of the world, they were met by Sister Yuan, who killed the whole family with her own hands."
"Well done, President Yuan, great job!" Wan Xueying, who hated evil, cheered.
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