Have a group meeting
It's not that we are really deaf, it's just that when we are relaxed, we will automatically filter out some information in order to get a better rest. But if we go back to basics and look at the phenomenon through its essence, we can also say that the current situation is a room full of deaf people.
Wei Qianqiu was staring at her phone in a daze. Upon closer inspection, she saw that she had set the snowman that Ji Yunding and Lin Shu had photographed in the ghost story, which looked like a fairy tale stereotype, as her screensaver.
"Sister Qianqiu, I haven't told you yet... When I came back from a mission abroad, that country actually snatched my dagger and refused to return it to me."
Wei Qianqiu thought about it, nodded, grabbed the knife beside him and walked out. Ji Yunding quickly grabbed Wei Qianqiu and dragged her back.
In fact, Ji Yunding is no longer that sad by now - after all, she is just a little uncomfortable. If she really cares, it will trigger her oath - but she just wants to talk about it everywhere, as if to satisfy a vengeful psychology.
Someone listened to me, the environment was safe, and expressing my needs was not meaningless here.
With this understanding, Ji Yunding thought about it and felt that maybe he was just... acting like a spoiled child?
Maybe it's because they realize that after the world is saved, the ending of a group is likely to be a happy ending. Although it's not a bad ending, there will probably be no chance for us to work together like this.
Just as Ji Liuxing pushed the door open, Ji Yunding looked over and tilted his head.
"Why can't I find you anywhere these past two days? I haven't told you yet that my dagger was taken away and won't be returned."
"I took a secret mission to travel on a public expense account, and stole something while I was there. I'm giving you this as a souvenir."
Ji Liuxing rubbed his hair, smiled and sighed, and handed a familiar dagger to Ji Yunding.
"I wasn't sure if I could get it back a few days ago, so I didn't tell you in advance. It would be too embarrassing to say I couldn't do it."
Ji Yunding took it with some surprise, gestured twice and put it away, turned his head and took out a box of biscuits from the bag - the not very sweet kind - and raised his hand to hand it to Ji Liuxing.
"Returning the gift. By the way, how did you find it?"
After all, this thing is not like the Sword in the Stone, which is just there and no one knows where it is hidden.
Ji Liuxing put his arms on the back of the sofa, leaned forward slightly, took the biscuits and said thank you.
"It's not difficult, after all, it's a 'public travel', there's a lot of freedom, and you can do a lot... I can't tell you the details, I've signed a confidentiality agreement, but I guarantee it's legal and compliant."
"Administrative work. I feel like I haven't taken on anything like this since I joined the group. I don't even know where in the civilized world there are any legal jobs I can take on."
Lin Shu sighed, and Ji Liuxing nodded while eating biscuits, looking at Ji Yunding intentionally or unintentionally, and then responded.
"After all, the salary is enough. If you are interested, you can go to the administrative liaison office and ask. They can help you find suitable private jobs. For public jobs, you just need to take a moral and psychological test and pass a few interviews."
"We still need to take psychological tests. Forget it." The person next to him added with a bit of regret, and then the few of them naturally began their daily patient exchange meeting.
"Did the aristocratic families cooperate with the civilized world in the past?" Ji Yunding perked up when he heard the topic of interest and asked immediately.
"Yes, yes, it was called the government in the past. But we can't take every job, otherwise we will be purged from within."
Lin Shu spread his hands, leaned back on the sofa, and stretched.
"After all, we have to train every day, so we definitely don't have time to farm on our own. We can't be completely isolated from the world."
"If there are no more weird things, will you return to your family and live in seclusion?"
Ji Yunding hesitated for a while, but still asked. However, he saw that everyone in the lounge paused and shuddered.
"Boss, we are not masochists. Of course we can stay wherever we feel comfortable."
Lin Shu covered her heart and looked a little stressed. She couldn't help but complain. But she was relatively good. The one who reacted most violently was Wei Qianqiu, who was so scared that he almost escaped from the window with an expressionless face.
Ji Yunding breathed a sigh of relief, apologized and snatched the bag of coffee from Ji Liuxing's hand.
"You drink coffee so bitterly that it makes you cough and cry, but you still want to drink it all the time. Why is that?"
"I used to drink too much coffee, which caused me to have very uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms. I always feel tired without drinking it, and I can't sleep. I can't get better no matter what I do. The brain is a part that can't be updated quickly, so I can only wait for it to heal slowly."
Ji Liuxing glanced at the people in the room, then he staggered to a place to sit down, squinted his eyes listlessly and yawned.
"Boss, now that everyone is here, what will the group meeting be this month?"
Generally speaking, a group does not hold a group meeting - one reason is that no one is interested and will just talk about anything on the chat software; the other reason is that no one has the time. When it was still possible to go to the alternate dimension, everyone was very busy.
Third, in Ji Liuxing's words, if we hold a group meeting once a month as other groups do, we will face the situation of "because there is not so much to do, everyone looks at me and expects me to say something, but I can only bite the bullet and talk nonsense", so we should just hold it once every six months.
Now everyone has nothing to do, and Ji Yunding has just handed over his shift. Everyone wants to know what Ji Yunding is going to do and what changes will happen to the next group, so they gathered in the lounge for the meeting after a long absence.
By the way, one group didn’t like using the conference room because many people couldn’t sit still.
Ji Yunding stood up, inheriting a set of daily affairs styles that always seemed unreliable, and took out his mobile phone to look at the memo.
"The first thing is that everyone should just do what they are supposed to do. I don't plan to make any special changes, but I will be responsible for the scheduling from now on. If you have any questions, please let me know directly.
If you want to play with me again, the process will be the same as the previous challenge to Jiliuxing. After submitting the application to the administrative liaison office and me, I will try to set aside this time within a week.
Then, I will probably still call everyone "seniors" because I am used to it and I don't like to change the habit. And in essence, everyone is indeed my seniors. I call you seniors, you call me boss, and we each have our own way of talking."
"What about me?" Ji Liuxing raised his hand and pointed at himself. Ji Yunding had never called him senior, and it would be a mess if he continued to call him team leader.
"I will try to get used to being called by your name. If I accidentally call you team leader, just pretend you didn't hear it."
"Yes, sir."
"Also, I want to know what people would want to do or what wishes they would have if ghost stories disappeared."
Ji Yunding looked around and saw, as expected, a bewildered look on everyone's face. Apparently, no one here had thought about this question.
"I'm just asking in advance. Please don't be nervous. Nono said that the international negotiations will take some time, and even if the negotiations are completed, we can't just send a team to investigate. We have to accumulate experience step by step."
But if it is solved, it will definitely be solved within the lifetime of this generation. Because if it is not solved, everyone will be doomed in the 57th year of the new calendar.
The thinking of these people is different from that of normal people. Most of them have lived in an isolated environment in aristocratic families since childhood. What they hear, see, and learn and train every day are all things related to ghost stories.
What if the ghost stories disappeared but they are still alive?
Wei Qianqiu thought for a moment and lowered his head: "Find a mountain to stay on and never come down again."
Lin Shu sat over, leaned on Wei Qianqiu's shoulder and sighed: "Then I'll go and bring food to Sister Qianqiu... After all, I still owe her a life, so I'll go wherever she goes."
If people want to be happy, they need both material and spiritual support. However, the damage these people have suffered since childhood cannot be solved by money. What they need is spiritual support.
They simply don't know how to live independently and healthily. If they really knew, according to the standards of the civilized world, there would be no need for them to continue working so hard here - they have a huge sum of money, good health, and no unmet hard needs.
Moreover, many people in Group 1 have no industry-related pursuits at all. For example, except for Ji Yunding and Zheng Nuo, the few people in the civilized world scratched their heads when asked about their goals: "I don't know, it's the volunteer application of the parents."
No matter how righteous they are, they are just ordinary people who have been selected, and they are deliberately bred as "square watermelons". They just stay here because they can find a sense of belonging here.
There was actually nothing wrong with the way the group set up by Ji Liuxing operated. It was comfortable and efficient enough, but Ji Liuxing himself had actually been in a very pessimistic state. He neither thought that he could solve the ghost story nor that he could live to see the solution of it.
It is difficult for people to understand things beyond their concepts. In the past, Ji Liuxing's concept of a lifetime was 25 years, and forever was two or three years from now until his death. In this case, from the perspective of a short-lived person like him, he could not consider what would happen "after everything is over".
This is even more true for people from aristocratic families. Their ancestors have been doing this for generations. They have been told since childhood that this is their life, their purpose, and that they should continue on this path.
Ji Yunding's thinking is based on the premise that "ghost stories will definitely be ended by themselves". After realizing that everything will not end naturally like a fairy tale, she immediately took action to prevent everyone from falling from the top of the mountain in the future.
In Ji Yunding's concept of happiness, the happiness of those who are good to her is also a necessary element.
Everyone discussed a lot for a while, mostly about nonsense or empty things - sleeping for three days in a row, doing nothing for a whole month, going for a walk around and looking around...
Finding what you want to do is something that others cannot interfere with. Ji Yunding just provided them with an opportunity to think and communicate, and then just sat there quietly.
However, seeing that Ji Liuxing had not spoken and looked a little worried, Ji Yunding walked closer and asked him, "Do you still want to be a doctor?"
"...It's not important anymore." Ji Liuxing muttered quietly, and before Ji Yunding could continue asking, he immediately raised his hand, "Boss, can you blow up the administrative building next door? I can be responsible for that."
Ji Yunding could understand that the nature of this crazy proposal was similar to tearing up books after the college entrance examination, but the team members next to him were probably thrown a big problem that they had never thought about at the moment, and they were having a headache, so when they heard the discussion here, they voted in favor without thinking twice.
The next day, this outrageous proposal was thrown into Zheng Nuo's hands. Zheng Nuo read it for about five minutes and then calmly conveyed it to his superiors.
Whatever, let them go crazy, the research team goes crazy every day anyway. The first principle of the administrative liaison office is that as long as the crazy situation does not violate the law, everything should be reported.
A few days later, Ji Yunding looked at the reply sent by Zheng Nuo, sighed, and turned to look at Ji Liuxing.
"You're not allowed to talk too much to change the subject... The proposal is passed."
"It really passed? The administration has finally gone crazy." Ji Liuxing moved closer curiously, his tone a little incredulous, "How do we write the official document to approve such a ridiculous proposal?"
"They didn't explicitly agree, they just said that after the ghost story disappears, the ownership of the building will be transferred to all members of the group. Nono said their meaning is 'Do whatever you want, just remember to let me know when the time comes'."
Ji Yunding put away his phone and tapped Ji Liuxing on the head.
"It's all your fault for talking nonsense."
"I was wrong. I couldn't help my reflex and I didn't expect that they would agree." Ji Liuxing rubbed his forehead which was slightly red from being hit and smiled helplessly, "But after everything is over...what do you want to do?"
"To be alive, to have a dog, to adopt a sister, to collect my pension, to go to the park to practice Tai Chi, to have regular medical checkups, and to hang out with other friends who are still alive."
Ji Yunding gave a very specific answer as always. Unlike the people from the aristocratic families, she knew best what she needed, and what she was doing now was just to remove the obstacles.
"Seriously, what do you want to do? I'm worried that you'll leave an excuse to travel around the world and die quietly, and then ask someone to send me photos every month."
"Why is the part about my possible bad behavior so specific... Never mind, I won't do that. I still owe you an answer before I die - about whether there is unchanging love in the world."
Ji Liuxing no longer had any intention of saving his reputation with Ji Yunding, so he just smiled and seriously denied it.
"I really don't have anything I want to do. Maybe I'll just stay by your side like I am now, until I give you the answer to that question, or until you no longer need my answer."
"That's good. I hate things that change. I hope everyone will be like the stars and never change."
Ji Yunding nodded, and replied while having a headache looking at the shift schedule,
"That's not right. The last time I talked about this with Nono, Nono said that stars will change. In fact, many stars have already disappeared, and the light I see is the residual light emitted a long time ago, so it will also change."
Ji Liuxing was stunned for a moment and remained silent. After a while, he continued to discuss the scheduling issue with Ji Yunding.
Ji Yunding wants something that is immutable, reliable, and cannot be taken away. Whether it is her obsession with the five social insurances and one housing fund or her pessimism about interpersonal relationships, the essence is still the morbid desire for stability caused by the obsession with "possession" and the self-protection mechanism to avoid loss.
If you can't have it completely, you must always be prepared to lose it. With this mentality, Ji Yunding is about to usher in the 22nd year of his life.
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