Chapter 356: Take a photo for yourself as a souvenir
His brother Ji took out the photos and mobile phone on his own initiative without asking the reason.
He Rui noticed that when the other party handed the photo to him, his eyes paused briefly on the family portrait.
Although there was no expression on Brother Ji's face, he inexplicably seemed to catch a hint of imperceptible sadness in the other's eyes.
For a moment, He Rui's heart trembled, as if he empathized with the other person's pain.
He suddenly had an urge to reach out and hug the person.
However, he raised his hand slightly and then retracted it.
He Rui didn't dare.
After all, there is still some covetousness and admiration for this person.
To Ji Changqing, his proactive approach was an unspoken and hidden blasphemy.
He didn't want to disrespect the other person.
He Rui silently took the phone.
Looking at the two familiar mobile phones, I found that they were the two originally owned by the rich second generation.
A few months ago, he asked Brother Ji to come over to play.
At that time, I was hoping for a lucky break and wanted to see if the signal could be restored and whether China had dealt with the communication paralysis problem.
But if you think about it, you will know that it is impossible to recover easily, after all, the satellite has already burned up in the atmosphere.
And according to his brother, there was a lack of information in the five years after the disaster.
According to his brother Ji, those shelters were like the entire country divided into countless isolated small city-states, a broken whole.
There seemed to be some connection between the refuges where the regular government set up scattered military bases, and they were not in a state of hostility towards each other.
They will also obey the command and leadership of the top-level state agency whose location is unknown.
But Brother Ji said that when one shelter is destroyed, there will often be no other shelters to come to the rescue.
He Rui guessed, maybe it was too late to rescue him, or maybe there was no need to rescue him?
After all, during the five years that his brother Ji had experienced, no one had taken action like Ji Changqing to clear out the various garbage and debris blocking the road and the countless cars with water-soaked corpses tied to their seat belts.
If the road is not open, who can take care of whom?
Probably adhering to the principle of self-preservation first, and thinking that every bit they can keep is a bit, they fight alone and operate independently.
That's why He Rui deeply felt that many of the things his brother Ji did, whether it was building roads or eliminating mutant animals, had indelible significance for the cities, provinces, and even the country he passed through.
It gave a strong impetus to the speed at which China restored order, and solved a problem that would have been difficult to solve easily by relying solely on individual shelters, which would have taken a long time and a lot of manpower and material resources.
He Rui felt that it would not be excessive even if each of the shelters that benefited from it erected a statue of his brother Ji in the square.
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He Rui turned on one of the phones and found that it still had about 60 percent of battery left.
He recharged it when he ran out of power last time, and the battery was barely full.
It was obvious that these two mobile phones did not have the serious power loss problem like a car battery. He Rui guessed that it was all thanks to his brother Ji's domain where the mobile phones were stored. The speed of time flow inside and outside the domain was indeed different.
He Rui unlocked the door with his fingerprint.
When the screen came back on, the phone looked the same as it had the last time I took it out.
It works, but it's a mess.
The time and date are not correct, it is still December of last year.
And there was still no internet or signal, so I couldn't make an emergency call to the police.
The built-in compass on the phone was still shaking.
Just like the last time I looked at the compass, although it was roughly pointing in one direction, it was still shaking violently.
He Rui licked his teeth and asked Ji Changqing for a compass for comparison. He confirmed that it was not the problem with the phone. It was indeed that the magnetic field was still unstable and trembling like a Parkinson's disease.
As for whether the north-south direction had been reversed, he didn't know and had no way of judging.
He had lost his sense of direction for a long, long time.
He couldn't even tell which was south and which was north.
But he didn't take out his phone to look at these depressing things.
There is no mobile phone signal, but the camera function can still be used.
He Rui turned on the camera on his phone, adjusted it to the front camera, squeezed closer to Ji Changqing next to him, made a scissors hand gesture, and prepared to take a photo with his brother Ji.
He looked at the two people on the phone with curiosity.
After all, he couldn't see his own face normally, and this was the first time he saw himself and Ji Changqing in the same frame.
They are strangely harmonious, and at first glance they are two sincere and kind handsome guys.
He Rui was still gesturing. With the hand holding the phone, he was clumsily trying to press the shutter button for taking a photo, but his gesture was not right. With one hand, his fingers could not reach the button and he looked very unskilled.
This was his first time using the front camera besides facial recognition authentication.
He didn't have a single selfie on his phone, and there was only one group photo that showed his face. It was his sister taking a selfie, and he was curious about what she was doing, so he dodged over and peeked in, and she just happened to click the shutter and snap him, making him look like something out of Paranormal Activity.
He thought the photo was funny, so he asked his sister to send it to his phone.
Apart from that, there are no more photos of him in the phone.
But he does have experience in taking photos of others.
I grew up holding a camera.
When he was little, whenever his family of three went on a trip, he would be the special photography expert for his mother and sister.
Back then, it was still film cameras.
His skills are average, but he is very valued.
When I was a child, I felt that it was very annoying and tiring to go out with the two women, walking all day long, stopping and starting, and I didn’t want to accompany them at all.
Later, his mother got older and traveled frequently, so she was basically not willing to travel in her free time; as for his sister, compared to him, she would rather find her best friend or boyfriend to travel with her, as she didn't need him because she had someone to accompany her; and he himself was busy with work and didn't have many holidays, so he had even less time to spend with his family.
He Rui later had a premonition of loss that perhaps the rest of his life would never be like when he was a child, when the family would get together to play, and his sister would not need him to be a photographer to take a bunch of photos and choose the best ones.
It feels quite regretful.
Of course, the current situation is indeed like that. Let alone traveling together, I guess we will never have the chance to meet again in this life.
He Rui pressed the button several times clumsily but failed to take the picture. The phone was taken by his brother Ji, who naturally put his arm around his shoulders and started taking pictures.
He Rui didn't hesitate this time. He also put his arms around his brother Ji's waist. The two looked at the camera in a brotherly manner and made a scissors hand gesture.
Ji Changqing pressed the shutter button, freezing the picture of the two smiling and acting intimately on the screen of his mobile phone.
Looking at his face in the photo, He Rui praised without hesitation, "Hey, you're so handsome! So handsome!"
Ji Changqing chuckled when he heard this, his eyes softening, "Thank you for the compliment."
He Rui's face turned red and he was about to feel embarrassed, but he was reminded by the other party and his attention was drawn to Ji Changqing's face in the phone.
It feels too small and I can't see clearly.
I couldn't help but turn my head and look directly at Brother Ji beside me.
The other person noticed his gaze, turned his head towards him, curled his lips, and revealed a faint smile.
He Rui's heart skipped a beat and he held his breath.
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