I wish you a long life.
The pain caused by negative energy is objective and does not change with subjectivity. To some extent, it may be the only feeling that two different individuals can fully communicate with each other.
Ji Yunding held Ji Liuxing's wrist and tried to guide the negative energy to flow out. If the negative energy used to cause the explosion was a drop of water, then at this moment Ji Yunding felt like he was draining water from the ocean.
“Hiss… it hurts.”
Ji Yunding withdrew his hand, paused for a while, and then held his wrist again.
She could feel that the energy flow in Ji Liuxing's body was extremely unstable, with the two poles colliding with each other. Listening carefully, she could hear small explosions coming from inside and outside his body. But when Ji Yunding investigated, she found that it had healed naturally.
Before, Ji Yunding felt that Ji Liuxing's innate monstrous spiritual energy was like a foul, and the battle could not be ended unless fatal injuries were caused. But now it seems that it is simply a curse.
After a few minutes, Ji Yunding managed to help Ji Liuxing sort out his energy flow, and then he saw him slowly waking up.
Ji Liuxing looked a little dazed. He blinked gently one by one, his light eyelashes trembling slightly, like a quiet doll.
After a long while, he finally seemed to come back to his senses and turned his head to look at Ji Yunding: "Student Ji Yunding, what happened?"
Ji Yunding didn't expect that the first question Ji Liuxing asked after waking up was to ask her, as if he was half asleep.
If Ji Yunding had not felt the same needle-like pain in his hand as Ji Liuxing, she would really have thought that Ji Liuxing had just fainted and woken up.
Even when he was not fully awake, Ji Liuxing still instinctively maintained an appearance that did not allow others to notice anything unusual.
"I'm going to ask you, what happened?"
"Oh...right." Ji Liuxing tried to stand up but failed. Finally he sat back down. "Did you save me? Thank you."
"Don't change the subject." Ji Yunding took out his cell phone and showed Ji Liuxing the shift schedule, "Why don't you go to Dongji with me."
"because……"
"We need someone to stay here, it's too cold over there, we can't adapt, we're carsick and can't go to remote areas, we're allergic to snow... I've thought of all the reasons to refute the above. In order to improve communication efficiency, we'll skip this part."
Ji Liuxing showed a slightly surprised expression, and then laughed as if something had been done to please his funny bone.
"Has my credibility become so bad? There is nothing I can do about it."
Ji Liuxing wiped away the tears from laughing, and then said in a joking tone,
"As you can see, no matter how many times I try, this is irreversible. I wanted to hold on until you go to Dongji in two months. If you don't have to face my death, you... and the others won't be so sad."
"Team leader, don't make it sound like you're some canine animal that ran away from home when you felt like you were about to die."
Ji Yunding frowned, feeling a little anxious about Ji Liuxing's words.
"If you die, you can't do anything. Why do you accept it so easily? Can you care a little about the fact that you are dying?"
Ji Liuxing had no objection to Ji Yunding's somewhat straightforward evaluation. He just looked at his wrist that was being held and smiled naturally without him even noticing.
"Ji Yunding, I never thought I could live past the age of 25. Your life is indeed too long for me, so long that it's a bit scary. I can't bear these 24 years alone.
I am a monster, of alien blood, the closest thing to a weird human being. When I truly realized that I was being treated as a savior, I had only one thought.
"Ah, the world is really going to end, and I am actually left standing in this position."
So, when I found out that you, like me, could use negative energy, my first reaction was indeed joy, but for reasons that had nothing to do with this world.
Because I know that we are the same kind to some extent. Just like you said, I won't hate you. And as a result, I don't seem to hate myself anymore. This makes me feel more relaxed than ever before, and I can even say that I am a little too proud of myself.
Just looking at you, I can't help but wonder, am I actually qualified to have my own life like you? Is it true that my life was not supposed to be like this?
Or even, is it possible that I was not born with original sin?
I don’t know. I just feel that every time I think about this, I feel a kind of emotion that I don’t know whether it is joy or pain, as if it is going to crush my heart, but this feeling is not bad.
I know that words don't help, but maybe you can stop looking so sad. I'm fine, really, I'm better now than I've ever been.
Dying at this point in time is not such a bad ending for me."
Ji Yunding didn't know how to react to Ji Liuxing's words. He just felt a sharp pain in his hand - a pain that he shared with Ji Liuxing.
Because she knew that there was actually something even sadder for Ji Liuxing. She was not exactly the "kind" he thought she was, but an existence that he probably could not accept.
"Team Leader, if I lied to you about something very important..."
"Then I forgive you. If you don't want to tell me, you don't have to. Whatever it is, I forgive you."
Ji Liuxing answered without hesitation and stood up unsteadily.
"Anyway, if you really want to talk about it, I have fooled you quite a few times."
Ji Yunding reached out to support Ji Liuxing who was about to fall again, and sighed: "Yes, I just realized that you fooled me again."
"Which time?"
"Exhibition match. You said at the time that you would play me seriously again later."
Ji Yunding felt a little irritated, but it didn't seem to be directed at Ji Liuxing. So, Ji Yunding found a reason for this emotion.
"I see. Well, I'm sorry for not giving you more time to prepare, but do you want to have one last fight?"
Ji Liuxing said with a smile, his tone was not like inviting someone to a fight, but more like inviting someone to a ceremony or a party.
"Give me about two weeks to rest. I should be able to hold on in this amount of time."
"You can't use negative energy like this."
Ji Yunding pointed at Ji Liuxing's wrist. Even without using negative energy, Ji Liuxing was changing in an irreversible trend.
"Ah, yes, I have to open the alternate dimension channel again and bring back all the people who are still in the alternate dimension."
Ji Liuxing was really not in a clear mind now. He rubbed his temples.
"There is still this matter to be done...what should I do..."
"Do you remember that you sent me a commission?"
Ji Yunding helped Ji Liuxing sit down, looked at him and said,
"About, after you became a freak..."
"Yeah, this actually counts as you defeating me."
When Ji Liuxing heard this, he seemed relieved and even a little happy.
"Then it's settled. Classmate Ji Yunding, you should go back first. Aren't you going to the other dimension tomorrow?"
If there are only a few people, the research team actually has some means to reach the alternate dimension, but the number of people who can pass through at a time is extremely small, not enough to establish a base in the alternate dimension.
Ji Yunding didn't know what else to say if she stayed here, so she nodded and walked to the office door, but heard Ji Liuxing calling her again.
"Student Ji Yunding."
"What's wrong?"
Ji Yunding turned around and tilted his head in confusion. He looked at Ji Liuxing and seemed to hesitate for a moment, but immediately smiled as if he had given up something.
"Nothing, I wish you a long life."
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According to the report of the strange story public opinion monitoring department, the online public opinion about Ji Yunding showed no signs of stopping. Instead, it became more and more intense in an extremely abnormal way, and even triggered a number of vicious incidents across the country.
After investigation, it was confirmed that they were all unrelated random incidents, but the frequency was far beyond the normal value.
The restored monitoring data of the drone wreckage brought out by the investigators showed that some unidentified giant tentacles would appear from time to time around the fixed strange stories, usually only lasting one to two seconds, and the time of appearance was highly consistent with the time when the fixed strange stories expanded rapidly.
Based on the comparative analysis of the pictures, it was confirmed that the giant pedipalps belonged to the newly discovered unknown giant strange Leviathan. The feeding behavior of Leviathan is still under further investigation.
The information about "Dongji" and "Abyss" submitted by Ji Yunding has been entered into the global ghost story information database and has become a hot topic in the current research of ghost stories.
The sovereign state of the land through which the 180° meridian passes said that it had sent its professionals to survey the land, but this year it happened to be a once-in-a-century snowstorm, which restricted the survey work, and four surveyors have died so far.
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