Ji Cha couldn't be sure whether he had received this heart-warming text message ten years ago after he lost his phone while rushing to the train station. All he knew was that after he hung up Wang Qinxue's phone this time, two completely different paths diverged from his last choice.
Although the world he faced after rebirth was not bright, for Ji Cha, who had survived the last ten years, he had another choice, which was enough to make him feel grateful.
Ji Cha let out a long sigh of relief, casually stuffed the phone into his trouser pocket, found the dusty suitcase he put under the bed and began to pack his things.
If the apocalypse still comes as scheduled this time, then there are only two months left, and every minute and every second is a countdown. Leaving aside the many tedious preparations in the middle, Ji Cha knew that the first step he should take was to leave the G city where he was now, and return to his hometown S city, so as not to continue living in this dead city after the end of the virus outbreak. I wasted four or five years here.
In addition, there is a key point that prompted his decision. In the early days of the establishment of the S city base, there were a lot of modern and humanized arrangements. For example, the original residents who stayed in place after the outbreak of the end of the world were able to keep and own their own properties. The estates, under the order of the army, were not dispossessed too much.
After Ji Cha and Wang Qinxue returned to the base in City S, it was also because of Ji Cha's chance that they met an old neighbor who rented their basement to Ji Cha at a price much lower than the rent of the base, and served in the army. Zhong Zhong guarantees him that he and Wang Qinxue can stay smoothly, have a place to settle down and fill their bellies.
Ji Cha's family is in S City, and he lived in his grandmother's house in the suburbs of S City as a child. Although his father is married, he has a good relationship with his mother, and the two have worked hard together to accumulate some assets. It's a pity that the husband and wife died very early, when Ji Cha was fifteen and eighteen years old. The two left Ji Cha a property of more than 100 square meters, a deposit of more than 500,000 yuan, and a small factory in the suburbs in S City. The factory is a small factory building, which has been built for more than ten years. It makes textile products and employs some migrant workers from local towns and villages. The area is not big, and the factory building is not as big as the open space in the yard. The factory building is a two-story building with an area of barely 1,000 square meters, and the open space surrounded by walls is about 1,500 square meters.
Jicha didn't know what this factory building was used for later, but that whole area was within the sphere of influence of the city S base, which was considered to be the center, that was for sure. If he can seize the right time to return home and make good use of that factory area, maybe he can have a place to live and a source of food.
In addition, Ji Cha's only remaining grandmother is 67 years old this year, and she is still in good health. She has been living in her hometown in the countryside, about ten kilometers away from the factory. After the outbreak of the last apocalypse, Ji Cha couldn't get home from City A in time, and missed the reunion with his grandmother. I heard from the old neighbor who took him in that his grandmother was not infected after the outbreak of the virus, and died of an accident after living for two years, and had been waiting for Ji Cha to come home until she died.
Thinking of grandma, Ji Cha suddenly came to his senses, took out his mobile phone and dialed a series of numbers that were already blurred in memory.
After waiting for a while, there was a click from the opposite side, and the microphone of the landline was picked up.
"Hello?" A gentle female voice came, "Who is it?"
Grandma's eyes were dazzled and she couldn't understand the numbers displayed on the old landline.
Ji Cha squeezed the phone tightly, resisting the sore nose and emotional turmoil in his heart, and called out, "Grandma, it's me."
"Chacha," grandma replied cheerfully, feeling a little strange, "Didn't you just call back yesterday to say you were going to do an internship? Why did you call back now? Did something happen over there?"
In addition to Ji Cha's grandma's voice on the other end of the phone, there were other people's noises vaguely, occupying the background sound of the phone.
Ji Cha sniffed, and vaguely heard scolding, so he asked, "Grandma, what's wrong with you?"
Grandma laughed, feeling that what was happening right now was interesting, and said in Mandarin with a touch of dialect, "It's nothing, two chickens died at your Aunt Fengxian's house yesterday, so I can just throw them away if I say so, who knows how?" Is it true, she just refused, but just now the water was boiled to pluck the chickens, and the two chickens suddenly jumped up and pecked at her, almost pecking her eyes, and she got angry and chopped off the chicken's head Yes, the chicken head can still move! I can even watch this on TV.”
In the eyes of the old man and the villagers, this was just an interesting and dangerous topic of conversation, but Ji Cha's heart skipped a beat.
This is a bad omen.
"Grandma, don't bother with these things, watch TV at home, I'm going home tomorrow night." Ji Cha tried to use an ordinary tone as much as possible.
The grandma on the other end of the phone was taken aback, "Aren't you going for an internship?"
"Well, I won't go."
Ji Cha didn't explain the reason, and grandma didn't ask. She wasn't troubled by it at all, but was happy that her grandson was going home, "That's the best, what time will you be back tomorrow night, train or plane?"
"I don't know yet, don't wait, the doors and windows are closed at night, and I will open the door if I have the key."
"Then I know, be careful on the road."
Ji Cha hung up the phone, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the bedroom door was knocked without warning, breaking the tranquility of the room.
"Student Ji Cha?" The knock on the door and the inquiry were very patient and polite.
The whole floor was almost empty, who would come to him all of a sudden
Ji Cha walked to the door carefully, and asked cautiously, "Who is it?"
"Below the music building just now, you left in a hurry and forgot your snacks." The outsider spoke in a calm tone, which almost made even Ji Cha feel ashamed when he recalled it, but it seemed extremely normal in his mouth It seems.
Ji Cha opened the door a little from the inside, and the light in the corridor was dim. The natural light from the crack of the door fell on half of Liang Jincheng's forehead and eyes, reflecting the indifference with a sense of distance inside, and the tightness The corners of the lips are also showing that the visitor is not relaxed.
From Liang Jincheng's point of view, Ji Cha's eyes exposed through the crack of the door looked him up and down, and when they landed on his shoulders, Liang Jincheng couldn't help wondering whether he was standing straight. When it landed on his eyes, he worried whether he had covered up the hot emotions inside.
After all, more than one friend has told him: The way you peek at Ji Cha is so perverted and outrageous!
In the end, when Ji Cha's eyes glanced over his neck inadvertently, Liang Jincheng only prayed in his heart that he didn't notice that he couldn't suppress his dry mouth and swallowed his saliva.
Ji Cha's mood is now much calmer than when he was downstairs in the music building, and after he thinks it through, he is free from the confusion and anxiety at the beginning. He turned sideways to make way, and thanked Liang Jincheng very politely, "Thank you," he originally wanted to call him a classmate, but judging by Liang Jincheng's attire, it was impossible for him to be a student who was still studying in school.
As for how Liang Jincheng knew his name and dormitory, Ji Cha never thought about it. Maybe even if he thought about it, he would only think that it had something to do with the not-so-hard-hearted housekeeper downstairs, and he definitely wouldn't think that it was the result of Liang Jincheng spying on him for a long time.
With Ji Cha's permission, Liang Jincheng happily stepped into the dormitory, his eyes quickly swept across the four beds in the dormitory. Three of the four beds had their quilts rolled up, and only the top bunk in the corner was still covered with quilts, obviously someone had slept on it just now.
The bed where Ji Cha slept... With this realization, Liang Jincheng clenched his hands tightly into fists to barely suppress his trembling, so as not to let his suppressed nature show, he threw down the things in his hands and jumped on the bed to roll around. Hold Ji Cha's quilt to feel his breath, or simply follow the fantasy that I have done countless times: I slept with Ji Cha on Ji Cha's bed.
Ji Cha didn't know what was going on in Liang Jincheng's mind. Looking back, he saw him frowning and looking at his bed, thinking that the other party had a cleanliness obsession and couldn't stand his kennel. After all, it is true that Liang Jincheng's whole body reveals an abstinence atmosphere of excessive cleanliness and self-discipline.
But at this time, Ji Cha is too lazy to make a bed for the sake of impression from outsiders. Compared with Liang Jincheng, what he valued more was the four bags of snacks that Liang Jincheng was carrying.
"I'm sorry to trouble you." Seeing that Liang Jincheng had no intention of handing over the item, Ji Cha took the initiative to reach out to take it, and it was inevitable that he would touch Liang Jincheng's hand.
Liang Jincheng's hand shrank suddenly, and he looked back at Ji Cha almost in shock.
Ji Cha, "????"
Realizing that his reaction was too strange, Liang Jincheng immediately restrained his expression, and naturally changed the topic, "My name is Liang Jincheng, and I also graduated from the Chinese Department."
Ji Cha was taken aback, as if he was taken aback, but subconsciously grabbed his arm, and confirmed with him in disbelief, "Liang Jincheng, Liang Jincheng from the 2009 class?"
His reaction was beyond Liang Jincheng's expectation, as if a large pot of honey had been poured into his heart, it was so sweet that he almost lost his hands and feet.
"I am." Liang Jincheng didn't change his face, and the depths of his eyes were turbulent.
Ji Cha's surprise did not come from Liang Jincheng's enviable experiences in school or after graduation. To be honest, with ten years in between, he has long forgotten how many famous people there were in the campus life back then.
The reason why he still remembers Liang Jincheng at this moment is because of Liang Jincheng's fame after the apocalypse, the S city base has almost half of his reputation.
After so many years at the base in City S, the only thing he knew was that Liang Jincheng also lived in City G, and the two even studied the same major in different grades of the same university. I don't know why Liang Jincheng came to S City half a year after the end of the world, and he never left after that. Ji Cha couldn't meet people of Liang Jincheng's level, let alone know the detailed inside story.
Wang Qinxue also felt the vicissitudes of life with him. Their former seniors might have passed by in school like ordinary people, but their final fate was very different.
Ji Cha didn't expect that he would be here at this time and meet Liang Jincheng first by such a seemingly nonsensical opportunity.
As for Liang Jincheng, he felt Ji Cha's palm sticking to his arm through a thin shirt, his whole body was like being electrified, and he almost fainted from excitement on the spot, leaving only one thought:
God, I really want to sleep with him.