It was the red bag of fruit that Adan bought.
At that time when they left, Ji Huan realised that Ah Jin hadn’t brought it with him, he hesitated for a moment, and finally brought it back in his pocket.
It was a total of two bags, one was Ah Jin’s and another one that Ji Huan got.
The red bag was very cold, and if you carefully pinch it, you will find that it is hard inside. It should be made of ice, similar to a three-dimensional triangle of ice crystals. Inside, there was a round red fruit, which looked very beautiful.
The ice inside the red bag began to melt on the way, so upon returning to the room arranged by Ah Jin, Ji Huan immediately put it into the small refrigerator.
Then when he came out, he took it with himself.
From the moment he picked up the red bag, he thought in his heart that this bag belonged to Ah Jin.
The floor was full of water, and the slippers on Ji Huan’s feet were quickly soaked, his toes were cold, and Ji Huan felt a layer of goosebumps on his body.
Standing in the dark room, Ji Huan was a little at a loss.
He didn’t know what to say to Ah Jin.
However——
His toes squirmed in the wet slippers, and Ji Huan quickly took off his t-shirt. He knelt on the floor and began to wipe the floor with his t-shirt.
He was the only one breathing in the dimly lit room, and Ah Jin’s figure had already faded into the darkness, as if there was only one person in the room.
But Ji Huan knew that Ah Jin was there.
He even knew Ah Jin’s location.
Ah Jin kept watching him, no matter where he moved, Ah Jin’s gaze followed closely.
It was a sight so sharp that it would almost make most people’s scalp tingle. Ji Huan raised his head and saw two scarlet lights in the darkness.
Those were the eyes that were staring at him.
Ji Huan lowered his head and continued to wipe the water stains on the ground.
Ji Huan was quite good at cleaning, even if he doesn’t have all the tools, he can still clean the floor very well. He started from a place far away from Ah Jin, and after a while, he went to the side to wring out the water from the t-shirt, and then continued to wipe.
Ji Huan didn’t just wipe the floor blindly. While cleaning the floor, he also figured out the general layout of the room, and then found toilet paper, a pair of clean shoes, and a sheet of paper on the floor.
At first, he didn’t realise what it was, but he felt that the touch wasn’t right and quickly touched it with his hand, only to find out that it was paper.
The white paper was soaked in water and was firmly attached to the floor. Ji Huan had to grope around to find out where the edge was and then picked it up.
Not knowing if these papers are useful, Ji Huan picked them up and pasted them on the window glass.
When he was young, it was his Grandpa who washed his clothes.
Grandpa often used to throw clothes into the washing machine without emptying their pockets, and often after washing, the paper in the pockets ended up being soaked.
Once Ji Huan’s test paper was washed off like this.
That was Ji Huan’s first time to get a full score in an exam, and it was washed out by Grandpa before he could read it.
Ji Huan was a little sad, and Grandpa didn’t know what to do.
In the end, Xiao Hei figured out a solution.
After carefully flattening the soaked test paper, Xiao Hei pasted it on the glass at home.
The test paper was flattened and pasted on the glass, while the sunlight came in softly, and it didn’t take long for it to dry. Xiao Hei tiptoed to dry out the test paper. Next, it was flattened and there was nothing wrong with it, and there was also the fragrance of laundry detergent~
Ji Huan laughed together with his Grandpa.
He carefully tugged at the four corners of the white paper, and the white paper finally stuck to the glass obediently.
There happened to be a bright light flashing outside the window, and Ji Huan suddenly saw the contents on the white paper.
Surprisingly, it was a contract.
He has been reading too many contracts recently, so much so that he can tell the identity of this piece of paper at a glance.
It wasn’t the temporary contract he and Abu signed at the Saroye Fighting Arena, nor was it like the thick contract that Naji received this afternoon. This contract was very simple, more like the contract of sale signed by the little grey devil.
The contract paper was crumpled and had dark red stains on it, which looked like blood.
Ji Huan reflexively looked towards the signature, but——
There was probably a car or aircraft passing by just now from which the light was flashed by, and now the glass in front of Ji Huan was dark again in a blink of an eye.
However, Ji Huan has already seen the name at the signature place.
“Jin”
The font was a bit clumsy, as if a child had just learned how to write, but Ji Huan still recognized this simple character.
Standing in front of the window, Ji Huan froze.
Then he chose to continue wiping the floor. The surrounding area had been wiped dry, and he was getting closer and closer to Ah Jin.
Finally, Ji Huan touched Ah Jin’s feet.
Kneeling on the floor, Ji Huan lowered his head and touched Ah Jin’s feet.
Ah Jin wasn’t wearing any shoes and his bare feet were soaked in the water. Ji Huan ended up touching a piece of cold skin.
No……
It can’t even be called skin, it was slippery…flowing…a drop of cold liquid dripped onto the back of Ji Huan’s hand.
The skin on the back of Ji Huan’s hand trembled almost imperceptibly.
He raised his head.
He met a pair of blood red eyes.
Ji Huan had seen them from a distance before, but when he collided with them at such a close distance, the feeling was completely different from before.
There were no whites in the two eyes, and the entire eye sockets were occupied by blood red, which was a reddish-black colour.
A drop of blood dripped from the face of the man above to Ji Huan’s face, and the place where the liquid dripped seemed to be burning with pain, but Ji Huan didn’t blink.
His eyes were filled with the appearance of the demon in front of him at the moment.
With the faint light coming from the window, a terrifying face appeared in Ji Huan’s eyes.
Not a single piece of flesh was intact. The blood vessels were exposed, constantly healing, and then bursting again. Every time the thin tube cracked, countless tiny liquids exploded and splashed onto the man, landing on Ji Huan’s face.
The flesh around the man’s eyes was also split open, and without his eyelids, his eyes looked extraordinarily large and trembling, as if they would roll off at any moment.
The thin lips were also missing, Ji Huan saw the white teeth inside, not human teeth. Those teeth had very sharp tips, densely packed and neatly arranged, and Ji Huan could even see the tongue inside.
Without the wrapping of the lips, saliva and blood flowed greasily down the man’s teeth, falling onto his neck along the chin, and a drop fell onto Ji Huan’s face.
With the smell of Ah Jin and a burning feeling.
Just at this time, Ji Huan saw the fine teeth suddenly open, and at the same time, more saliva fell. He heard the other party talking to him:
“Ji Huan.”
It was Ah Jin’s voice.
This person was Ah Jin.
This out-of-shape demon was indeed Ah Jin!
Looking at the terrifying man above, Ji Huan blinked slowly.
Then, lowering his eyes, he lightly touched Ah Jin’s feet again.
“I… finished wiping other places, and only the floor under your feet is left.”
Ji Huan didn’t look up, but he knew that Ah Jin’s eyes were focused on top of his head.
Ah Jin probably didn’t know that he could see so many things at night, Ah Jin…should have thought that he couldn’t see anything.
In this case, Ji Huan pretended that he hadn’t seen anything.
As expected, Ah Jin moved his feet away.
Just like at the time in Bade Town, just like at the house in Yefar, whenever Ji Huan brushes against Ah Jin and needs to cooperate with him to move, whenever Ji Huan says, Ah Jin will basically cooperate with his movements.
No matter how terrifying and difficult it felt to approach Ah Jin, as Abu and Naji say. But for Ji Huan, Ah Jin will always be the one who saved him, saved his grandfather, and took their family to a place where they can live together without hiding.
Ji Huan lowered his head and wiped off the water on the ground with the T-shirt in his hand, as well as the mucus and blood on the floor.
Immediately afterwards, he took the box containing the tissues he had found earlier, grabbed Ah Jin’s feet in his hands, and wiped them dry with a tissue.
The cold skin with exposed blood vessels felt strange to the touch, and it was still trembling in the palm of his hand.
It took Ji Huan a long time to wipe Ah Jin’s feet clean, and then he pulled off the shoes he found before and put them on Ah Jin’s feet.
“The room…is too dark, I can only wipe it like this, if you want it to be cleaner… I will have to turn on the light.” Squatting on the floor opposite Ah Jin, Ji Huan looked into Ah Jin’s eyes and said calmly.
Ah Jin remained silent with his face still squirming in the darkness.
Ji Huan thought, maybe, his tongue was also split.
After a long time, Ji Huan heard Ah Jin’s voice again:
“There’s no need to turn on the light, that’s it, you’ve done a good job, and the rest will be cleaned up tomorrow.”
Ah Jin kept looking at him.
Their distance was quite close, unprecedentedly close, and the fragrance on Ah Jin’s body kept floating over, with a fishy smell of blood.
Ji Huan looked at Ah Jin, then lowered his head.
He was a bit uncomfortable being stared at by Ah Jin, but he couldn’t say it. If he said it, Ah Jin would know that he was seen by himself in such a mess.
Ji Huan struggled like this until a cold hand suddenly lifted his chin.
Looking up at Ah Jin’s face again, he was surprised to find that half of Ah Jin’s face had already grown in a short period of time. Before he could be surprised, he felt Ah Jin’s hand suddenly move and his cold fingers pressed against his cheek under his right eye.
“What’s wrong?” Ji Huan heard himself ask.
He was a little surprised at how smooth his voice was.
Then, he heard Ah Jin continue:
“It’s dirty here, don’t move, I’ll help you clean it.”
As Ah Jin spoke, his cold fingers gently brushed across Ji Huan’s cheeks.
Ji Huan was startled.
He suddenly remembered that it was probably the liquid that dripped from Ah Jin’s body just now.
Ji Huan only felt a bit burned, so he didn’t think much about it.
Ah Jin’s fingers were cool and comfortable, just enough to soothe the burning sensation on Ji Huan’s cheek.
Ji Huan closed his eyes.
Ah Jin’s fingers lingered on his face for a long time, and finally landed on Ji Huan’s left ear.
It was a very sensitive position, and Ji Huan shook his head a little uneasily.
“Is there anything there too?” Ji Huan asked with lowered eyes.
“Hmm, no, but you have a mole here, I just thought it was…” A drop of blood.
“I’ve had it since I was very young.” Ji Huan felt a bit uncomfortable, and turned his gaze to another direction until Ah Jin let go of his ear.
Next, Ah Jin looked at Ji Huan carefully for the first time. He discovered many details in Ji Huan that he had not seen before.
For example, the mole on Ji Huan’s ear, a small pit on Ji Huan’s chin, and a small scar at the corner of Ji Huan’s eye.
Many traces are almost invisible if you don’t look carefully, but Ah Jin saw them all.
He also asked about the cause of the scars.
For example, the pit on the chin was caused by chickenpox when he was a child, the scar at the corner of the eye was caused by a fight in junior high school…
If Ah Jin hadn’t asked, Ji Huan would have almost forgotten that there are so many… traces on his body?
Grandpa called them markers.
“The little kids all look the same, so if there are more marks on Xiao Hua’s body, grandpa will be able to recognise his grandson easily!” Grandpa said such a sentence when he was a child.
At that time, Ji Huan thought it was strange, but later on, thinking about it, for a demon, distinguishing itself from among many humans might have been a difficult task at first?
Ji Huan remembered something from a long time ago.
“Sit with me for a while.” After looking at the “markers”, Ah Jin didn’t let Ji Huan leave. On the contrary, he let Ji Huan sit opposite him.
Then Ji Huan sat quietly opposite Ah Jin, and fell asleep under the scorching gaze of the other party.
What he didn’t know was that after he fell asleep, the body of the black-haired demon was still tossing and turning repeatedly. In great pain, the black-haired demon picked up the small red bag next to him.
Unzipping the bag, he drank the liquid inside, followed by the small red fruit.
Eating that little fruit is like eating candy.
The black-haired demon just sat there until the sun rose again.
“It’s really unpalatable.” He said softly.
It’s dawn…
The empty bag was thrown in front of the man, and beside it was a ring missing a gem.
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