Shi Jin was so panicked that he was pacing around the room.
Xiao Si was so anxious that he was biting his nails on his head.
"Why don't you take over the inheritance?" Xiao Si suggested. Shi Jin
was very upset: "In the original plot, the Shi family brothers were completely heartbroken and killed Shi Jin after they learned that the inheritance was given to his younger brother by Shi Xingrui! If the inheritance is taken over, the progress bar will not be 998.5, but 999!"
Knock knock knock.
The two stopped moving and looked at the knocked door.
"Young Master, the eldest master is calling."
The butler's voice came from outside the door. Shi Jin's eyebrows jumped and he whispered: "Murderer No. 1 is calling, do you want to answer it?"
Xiao Si trembled: "If I answer it, he will hang up soon." The 0.5 death delay space is not enough to torment.
Shi Jin hesitated and asked: "Will I die immediately after the progress bar is full?"
"No." Shi Jin's
eyes lit up.
Xiao Si felt like crying and added: "But you will lose control of your body and watch yourself die as the plot develops."
This is more terrifying than dying directly!
Shi Jin went crazy, his eyes turned around the room, and suddenly walked to the desk and pulled out the utility knife inserted in the pen holder. The blade popped out and hit his wrist.
Blood gushed out.
Xiao Si went crazy: "Ahhh, what are you doing!"
"Of course I'm saving myself. I can't answer the phone. If I answer it, what if I reveal my true intentions and say something wrong, which will cause the eldest brother of the Shi family to become more murderous, then we'll all be finished." In the face of crisis, Shi Jin calmed down instead. After slashing his wrist, he quickly found all the original owner's documents and cash, picked up the cucumber pillow on the bed, and went to the bathroom to fill the bathtub.
Xiao Si was already scared by his actions and asked, "Why are you filling the bathtub?" Cutting wrists and taking a bathtub, isn't this a standard suicide plan!
Shi Jin had already laid in the bathtub. Enduring the dizziness caused by blood loss, he carefully unwrapped a little edge of the cucumber pillow, stuffed all the documents and cash into it and hid them. He hugged the pillow and leaned against the bathtub, closing his eyes: "Retreat to advance, delay time... We can't stay in the dragon's den and the tiger's den, we have to find a chance to escape."
The youngest of the five brothers in the Shi family is nine years older than the original owner. They are all full-fledged, and they have their mother to support them. On weekdays, they use the illusion of doting on the original owner to paralyze Shi Xingrui and plant a lot of nails around Shi Xingrui's company and Shi Jin. In his current state of no strength and no connections, it is impossible for him to win. The most urgent thing is to save his life.
The water in the bathtub was soon stained red with blood. If Xiao Si were a human, he would have turned pale by now, and trembled and called out, "Jin, Jin, Jin..." "
Don't worry, I know my limits." Shi Jin comforted him. He vaguely heard the door open, and felt relieved. He told Xiao Si to make sure his body held the cucumber pillow tightly, and then fainted.
...
The smell of disinfectant filled his nose, and Shi Jin opened his eyes in a daze, vaguely seeing a tall figure sitting by the bed.
"The pillow is in your arms. After the news of your suicide spread, the progress bar regressed to 997. Sitting by the bed is Shi Weichong, the eldest brother of the Shi family." Xiao Si reminded him in time.
Shi Jin was relieved, tightened the pillow in his arms, looked at the man beside the bed, and weakly called, "Big Brother."
The man looked sideways, and his narrow eyes, which looked very much like Shi Xingrui, were full of disapproval and worry, but his tone was gentle, and he asked, "Xiao Jin, why?"
Shi Xingrui has good genes, and his children are more handsome than each other. The fat boy Shi Jin is an outlier among them. This Shi Weichong is Shi Xingrui's eldest son. He looks very much like his father, with handsome eyebrows, bright eyes, thin lips and a straight nose. His face is relatively square and his temperament is calm. He is a mature handsome man who conforms to traditional aesthetics. He is the only child in the Shi family besides Shi Jin who is allowed to take the surname of his stud father Shi Xingrui, and he is also the brother who dotes on Shi Jin the most.
Shi Jin lowered his eyes to avoid his gaze, secretly pinched himself in the quilt, his nose felt sore, his eyes turned red, and he whispered, "I know my brothers don't like me." As
soon as these words came out, the air stagnated.
Shi Weichong didn't say anything, but his eyes looked at Shi Jin with a little less gentleness, implying exploration, as if he was judging whether he was really speaking from his heart or just testing him.
"998! Jinjin, ah ah ah!" Xiaosi screamed in panic.
Shi Jin's eyelashes trembled, and the tears gathered in his eyes were shaken off by the noise. He pursed his lips, met Shi Weichong's gaze again, tentatively held his hand, and said, "Brother... if there is a next life, I will be your brothers' turn... I will return to you all that I owe you..."
"Xiao Jin." Shi Weichong pulled out his hand and stuffed his hand back into the quilt, "Don't talk nonsense, brother will always be your brother." "
998.5! It's dead again! Jinjin, wuwuwu, Jinjin, don't die!"
Surprisingly, there was no leakage. This time, the eldest brother of the Shi family was more difficult to deal with than expected.
Shi Jin knew something was wrong, so he decisively gave up the idea of using words to soften Shi Weichong. He pretended to be tired, closed his eyes, and whispered, "Brother, I'm tired..."
Fortunately, the progress bar did not rise again this time. Shi Weichong helped him pull the quilt and left the ward.
In the next two days, Shi's eldest brother came several times again, and several other brothers who were not here also called here many times. Shi Jin remained silent all the time, neither speaking nor answering the phone. He stayed in the ward all day, staring out the window stupidly, like a puppet who had lost his soul.
During this period, Shi Jin tried to commit suicide with a fruit knife again. The nurse who was checking the room found it and told Shi Weichong about it. Shi Weichong, like a normal brother, was anxious and angry, and scolded Shi Jin severely.
Shi Jin squeezed his thighs, and faced Shi Weichong's anger, he silently shed tears.
"Xiao Jin." Shi Weichong was helpless, he bent down and approached him, holding his shoulders, and asked softly: "What's wrong with you? You look thinner." Shi Jin
forced a smile at him - he liked to hear this, it was worth it for him to skip several meals.
Shi Weichong looked at his smile, and the emotions on his face suddenly faded slowly, turning into an unpredictable expressionless face.
This was the first time that Shi Weichong showed this expression in front of Shi Jin. Shi Jin couldn't laugh anymore, he lowered his head and hugged the pillow tightly, his heart hanging - here it comes, Shi Weichong is going to tear off the mask of friendliness.
"Xiao Jin, my father's lawyer called me today and said that the inheritance has been divided up. It was divided into five parts according to your wishes, and there is no share for you." Shi Wei Chong spoke, his tone was indifferent, not as gentle as before when facing Shi Jin.
Shi Jin looked up at him, and there was no smile on his face - he really couldn't force one out, and said: "I said that I would pay you back what I owe to my brothers."
Shi Weichong looked at him deeply and said, "The change in the distribution of inheritance requires your signature." Shi Jin
nodded, "I'll sign it."
The room was silent again. Shi Weichong said nothing more and turned to leave.
After dinner that day, Shi Weichong brought a few documents to him. Shi Jin didn't even look at them. He signed them directly and then curled himself up in the quilt.
Shi Weichong stood by the bed for a long time with the documents in his hand and asked, "Why?"
"I just want to make my brothers happy." Shi Jin replied, still holding tightly in his hand his last trump card, the cucumber pillow.
Shi Weichong's eyes moved over, sweeping the dried blood on the pillow, and asked again: "Why do you keep holding it?"
Shi Jin's heart tightened, and he pinched his thigh again. With red eyes, he met Shi Weichong's eyes, and his voice was almost inaudible: "This is the last gift my brother gave me... I can't lose it, if I lose it... it's gone."
Xiaosi applauded hard in Shi Jin's mind, praising his wit and acting skills.
Shi Weichong obviously didn't expect to hear such an answer. He stared at him for a few seconds, frowned, and suddenly felt that he couldn't look directly into his eyes full of trust and dependence. He tilted his head slightly and said: "You should rest. The second brother and the others have already boarded the plane and will arrive tomorrow."
This is really bad news. Shi Jin
lowered his head sadly, buried his face in the quilt, and responded softly.
Shi Weichong turned around, took a step and stopped, turned back and gently touched Shi Jin's hair exposed outside the quilt. After a brief change in his eyes, his face inexplicably turned cold, and he turned around and left cleanly.
Xiao Si said weakly: "Just now the progress bar went on a roller coaster ride, suddenly dropped to 900, and then suddenly rose to 950, I was scared to death."
"Dropping to 950?" Shi Jin was surprised, he threw back the quilt and climbed out of bed, took out the progress bar and took a look, happy, "The inheritance is done, it's time to slip away."
Xiao Si was puzzled: "Slip away? If you don't do it again, the other brothers of the Shi family will be here." Shi Jin
said in a faint tone: "Do you think there are 49 points left in the progress bar, enough for me to say a few wrong words to those fierce brothers."
"..." Xiao Si was speechless, full of worry, "What if the brothers of the Shi family find out that you have slipped away and their murderous anger explodes?"
"Don't be afraid." Shi Jin said confidently, threw off the quilt and got out of bed, checked the documents and cash in the pillow, and replied: "The progress bar will go down as the lethal factors decrease. The distance from the five brothers of the Shi family should also be considered a lethal factor. If I run to a place where the five brothers of the Shi family can't find me and hide, do you think the progress bar can still be full?"
Of course it can't be full, because no one can be found. Even if the five brothers of the Shi family want to kill their younger brother, they can't make a plan or really take action if they can't find him. It can be said that the most critical part of the lethal condition is missing. As long as the progress bar is not full, they can slowly figure out the follow-up actions in a place where the five brothers can't find them, so as not to be like now, they can only react randomly with the knife that may fall on their heads at any time, and they still have no freedom.
Xiao Si raised his thumb and said with a pinched throat: "Jin Jin is really smart, the Lun family loves you so much."
"... Shut up."
...
After imitating the original owner's handwriting and leaving a cheesy note with the content "Without me, the brothers will be happier, Xiao Jin hopes that the brothers will be happy." Shi Jin hugged the cucumber pillow and asked Xiao Si to help him hide from the people in the hospital, and left the hospital quietly in the night. More than
ten hours later, Shi Jin stood on the land of City B in China, still wearing a hospital gown, still holding the cucumber pillow in his arms, and the only belongings on his body were the little cash left after buying the plane ticket.
"I hate the habit of rich people not to carry cash." Shi Jin burst into tears.
Xiao Sixin was terrified: "It's over, it's over, the progress bar has started to go on a roller coaster again. The five brothers of the Shi family must have discovered that you are missing. I am so scared." Shi Jin
's chrysanthemums tightened, and he also looked at the progress bar that was rising and falling wildly, his eyes wide open.
980...990...930...990...After a round of crazy changes, the progress bar stopped at 910 and did not change anymore.
Shi Jin breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the ground outside the airport.
"It seems that the distance is indeed one of the factors of death." Xiaosi's tone relaxed and asked: "Jinjin, your life is saved for the time being, what should we do next?"
Shijin looked at all his belongings, his face full of sorrow: "First find a job to support yourself..."
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