Chapter 311: 307 Memory

Ring-ring-ring—

Ji Jian shuddered violently, abruptly jolted awake by his phone's ringtone. He opened a pair of dazed and foolish eyes, slowly crawled out of bed, and looked around with a slightly sluggish air, the confusion on his face deepening.

"Wait, when did I fall asleep last night?" Ji Jian felt as if he had lost his memory. He dug at his ear and discovered his earphones were gone. After searching the bed, he finally found his Bluetooth earphone case under the pillow. He opened the case and found the earphones sitting inside, completely intact.

"Did I put them back myself?" Ji Jian scratched his head. He didn't remember when he fell asleep, so naturally, he remembered even less about when he had put the earphones away.

The only thing Ji Jian remembered was that before sleeping, he had listened to a while of "underworld" Sleep Aid Video; the sounds of raw meat and bones being gnawed on were still fresh in his mind.

It was a bit "underworld," but those mouth sounds had truly struck his eardrums directly, hitting his intracranial pleasure points.

"Excellent works are worth collecting and following." Ji Jian dug at his ear, opened the video website app on his phone, found that Sleep Aid Video in his account's history, followed the video blogger, and gave the Sleep Aid Video a "triple-tap" (like, coin, and favorite). He had the intention to leave a positive comment, but the moment he wrote it and went to send it, he suddenly remembered that this video had disabled the comment section.

Sure enough, the moment the comment was sent, the app immediately gave a pop-up notification: "This blogger has disabled the comment section."

After thinking about it, Ji Jian decided to copy the comment he had just written and send it to the blogger as a private message to encourage them with a "like."

This time the message was sent successfully; this blogger had not disabled the private message function.

Walking into the bathroom to wash up, Ji Jian looked at himself in the mirror. He leaned in with some suspicion and muttered, "Were my eyes this dark before?"

……

6:30 PM.

"Another Wednesday gone." Ji Jian returned home, sighing with pleasure while looking for something in the refrigerator.

Inside the fridge remained a plate of chopped pork ribs, a head of lettuce, two potatoes and a tomato, several eggs and lemons, and a few bottles of soda on the side rack of the freezer.

Ji Jian's gaze was involuntarily drawn to the ribs. The sounds he had heard the previous night began to replay in his mind for no reason, and he was momentarily lost in thought.

It wasn't until the refrigerator emitted an alarm for the door not being closed properly that Ji Jian was jolted back to reality. Ji Jian rubbed his stomach, which was letting out an "ancient roar," and suddenly felt a bit hungry.

For dinner, he made a plate of braised potatoes with pork ribs and a plate of stir-fried greens with minced garlic. Ji Jian ate every last bit, feeling as though he had never been this hungry before. He ate with great satisfaction, and after the meal, he leaned back on the lazy sofa, watching TV while wiping the grease from his mouth.

"Pork ribs are pretty tasty even with a bit of blood." Ji Jian licked his lips, recalling the plate of braised potatoes with pork ribs from dinner. He had been so hungry he couldn't wait, so he hadn't braised them long enough, but when he finally ate them, the taste was still satisfying.

While washing the dishes, Ji Jian looked down at the kitchen waste bin, which contained only some vegetable leaves, potato peels, and the packaging tray from the ribs.

"Where are the bones? Oh right, they were so delicious I ate them myself." Ji Jian grinned, secretly mocking himself for being a bit forgetful.

At 9:23 PM, after coming out of the bathroom from a shower, Ji Jian saw his phone screen lit up. He thought someone had sent him a message, but when he picked it up, he couldn't help but show a playful smile. "Heh, so this blogger updated. Let me see what kind of 'underworld' video you've updated this time?"

It was another pure sound-effect Sleep Aid Video with no visuals. The duration was a touching two hours; such a length was quite explosive in any video category.

Moreover, just like the previous video, the comment section was disabled.

He put on his earphones and tapped the video on his phone. While doing chores, he listened to the sounds coming from the earphones. The expensive earphones once again fulfilled their value; the sounds in the video made one feel as if they were there in person.

This time, the video didn't start with tongue-clicking mouth sounds, but with breathing and heartbeat sounds. The breathing was short but rhythmic, and the heartbeat was fast and heavy, like a muffled drum being struck.

"The timbre of this voice sounds like a woman's. Could it be the blogger's own voice?" Ji Jian suddenly thought with some amusement, "What if she's a pretty girl?"

As far as the hundreds of Sleep Aid Videos Ji Jian had watched, in the world of sleep aid videos, there really weren't any ugly female bloggers. Furthermore, every single one of them had an excellent figure. Some even wore such seductive clothing while recording mouth sounds that the visuals became indescribably soul-stirring and bone-melting, causing the videos to fail censorship.

Therefore, Ji Jian naturally imagined this sleep aid blogger to be stunningly beautiful, wondering if there would ever be a day she appeared on camera in person.

As he thought, Ji Jian recalled the sound of raw meat and bones being gnawed on from the previous night's video. Associating that with a beautiful woman with a great figure, he suddenly fantasized about a primitive tribal beauty wearing a grass skirt and animal hide, looking cute and clueless about how to start a fire, thus choosing to gnaw on her prey raw.

……

Ring-ring-ring—

The world is a cycle. Ji Jian was jolted awake again by his phone alarm. He had just gotten up when he felt a soreness all over his body and an indescribable sense of fatigue. He scratched his head, looked around at the messy bed, his face full of confusion and bewilderment.

Just like when he woke up yesterday, he didn't remember when he had fallen asleep or what he had done before drifting off.

As his senses slowly returned after waking up, Ji Jian had a vague feeling, and his expression turned somewhat strange. He opened the quilt to take a look, then immediately covered it back up. His expression was a mix of embarrassment and wry laughter. Then, he got out of bed to strip the duvet cover and sheets, sighing, "I really do need to find a girlfriend. A hot-blooded young lad like me..."

After hanging the freshly washed duvet cover and sheets on the balcony, Ji Jian packed his things and headed out. The sunlight was like a villain waiting for a rabbit to hit a tree, hitting him full-on. He felt miserable from the high temperature and intense light, unable to open his eyes.

At this moment, stimulated by the strong sunlight, Ji Jian suddenly felt several fragmented images flash through his mind. He heard the wild screeching of some beast, the scene was blood-red, and the sensation of flesh and blood entwining flashed by and vanished.

Feeling a chill for no reason in the hot summer, Ji Jian touched the shivering skin on the back of his neck, his face full of confusion and distress. When he tried to recall the memory fragments and sensations that had just appeared, he couldn't remember them anymore, leaving only a frowning version of himself.

"Should I buy something to nourish my brain? This memory can't keep getting worse. I only graduated two years ago, I'm 25," Ji Jian rubbed away his furrowed brows, braced himself, and headed out to work, secretly reminding himself.