There are many moments in this world that can make people feel that they are still alive, and everyone's definition of alive is different.
Some people are alive, but they are dead, and some people are dead, but they are still alive.
Looking at the fan spinning constantly on the ceiling, I didn't know whether I was dead or alive.
"Wake up! Wake up! Doctor! Doctor!".
This voice full of surprise and vitality was very familiar, and the sound of the man's running footsteps gradually gave me a sense of reality, but I was still not sure whether I was alive or dead. After all, I had the same experience before. Pass.
After a while, my sight was crowded with people, including men, women, and two wearing glasses. One of them reached out and rolled my eyelids, then took out a small pocket flashlight and pierced it with a light source. Got into my right eye.
"General Zhao Fei, General Zhao Fei, can you hear me? General Zhao Fei?"
The man said and patted my face gently.
This scene is actually very familiar. By the way, I have seen it before when watching movies. It seems to be the lines and actions of doctors when asking patients.
I suddenly felt a little happy.
"General Zhao Fei, can you hear me? If you can, just blink."
"Ah, he blinked! He blinked!"
"Young general, my good grandson, you are finally awake! Wow, you went to the hospital before your grandpa woke up. You two are going to kill me!"
The joy, doubt, confusion, grievance and other emotions in my heart were condensed into a simple feeling, happiness.
For me, this is life because I feel happy.
I really want to throw myself into Grandma's arms and cry like I did when I was little, but now I just need to hear her voice, and that's enough.
"Huha~ah~"
Even the ghost girl's voice sounded much more pleasant now.
"Hey, you guy can sleep better than a pig. My aunt has been waiting for you for five days, five days! Do you know how I spent these five days?! You are still laughing? You are laughing your ass off... Hahaha... …”
This girl actually laughed at the end of the sentence. It was obvious that she laughed happier than me.
Since I had just woken up and my injuries were relatively serious, I couldn't move or speak, so I could only listen quietly to everyone talking. I heard from my grandma that when I was taken to the hospital, I was covered in blood, my shoulders were bloody and fleshy, even the bones were exposed, and there was a purple-black wound on my waist. My whole body looked like some ferocious beast. Just like fighting.
Fortunately, despite the excessive blood loss, I still had a heartbeat and breathing. After nearly an hour of rescue efforts by the doctor, my life was finally snatched from the hands of death.
After being discovered by Mrs. Liu, I notified the villagers to call the police and send me to the hospital. Brother Shuanzi kept exaggerating the terrifying atmosphere when he discovered me.
"A Fei, you are such a god. Why did you go to the branch secretary's graveyard at night? You even met a wild wolf. If I go, the branch secretary's grave has been dug up, and both hands of the corpse have been chewed off. ...hiss~"
The ghost girl and I smiled knowingly. There was no wild wolf anywhere, but this was fine, as it spared me the trouble of explaining to him about Taotie. Since I was still alive, it meant that Taotie had been eliminated for some reason. ? Thinking of this, I finally felt a lot relieved.
"Pfft, this guy is really funny. Forget it, let me tell you what happened after you passed out that night."
The ghost girl spoke in great detail, so naturally I listened very carefully.
It turns out that that night five days ago, after the gluttonous corpse broke the ghost girl's mirror spell, Tiao Tong was able to escape, but was blinded by the "moon" she artificially created. Out of resentment, he could only kill me to vent his anger.
And when it jumped on my back, I just couldn't hold it on and passed out. At that time, the ghost girl had already accepted her fate and was waiting to die with me.
Seeing that the little kid was about to kill someone and take out his heart, a round light and shadow suddenly appeared in the sky! Tie Tong's fear of the sun and moon is innate and indelible, so when he felt the "moon" appear again in the sky, it no longer dared to raise it, and ran away before it could even attack me, leaving me half-dead. , and a gluttonous corpse who is in a similar situation to me.
As for the person who rescued me, it turned out to be Mrs. Liu.
The ghost girl said that after the little boy escaped, a figure staggered out of thin air. She saw clearly that it was Zhang Tuo. And he looked as if he had been injured by someone. He gave me and the Taoist a complicated look, and then ran away in a hurry.
Then Mrs. Liu slowly emerged from the darkness and stayed next to the Taoist Corpse for a long time before sighing and destroying the Taoist Corpse.
I asked her how the gluttonous corpse was eliminated, and she said that Mrs. Liu obviously came prepared. She brought a small bottle of chicken blood and a palm-long peach wood sword, and sealed the mouth, eyes, and three orifices of the gluttonous corpse with the chicken blood. The sword penetrated the heart and sent away the gluttonous corpse.
I was a little confused. Mrs. Liu, who I originally thought was an enemy, would actually be the one to deal with the gluttonous corpse, while Brother Tuozi, who had always been honest and reliable, would stab me in the back with the intention of killing me...
The rarest thing in this world is the human heart, because it is mysterious and fickle, giving people hope and despair.
The corpse poison of the gluttonous corpse is relatively unique, so the solution is different from the ordinary corpse poison. Mrs. Liu removed the corpse poison from my body that night, and the corpse poison of my grandpa and Uncle Lao Gen was naturally hers. Helped solve it.
"After she tore off a small piece of meat from the heart of the gluttonous corpse, she wrapped it in a yellow talisman and fed it to you to swallow. After a while, the corpse poison on your body dissipated, but you were too seriously injured and you were in a coma until you woke up today. come over."
Holy shit! This is a bit hard for me to accept. I actually let my buddy swallow... human flesh...
Although I was speechless, the ghost girl seemed to understand my thoughts and continued unhurriedly:
"Don't worry. Because your grandpa and the others are old, even though they have been detoxified, they are still in the recovery period, but they are finally in a much better situation than you are now. In addition, the gluttonous corpses have been eliminated, and those corpse parts have long been there. It turned into powder under the sun, so you don’t have to worry about leaving any disaster behind. It’s just that the escaped Tie Tong is a bit troublesome. Although it was not the gluttonous corpse you personally made, the little boy only saw you and seriously injured you. As long as you don’t leave for a day, Get rid of it and it will haunt you like maggots attached to your bones.”
I feel heavy in my heart, not only because of the little kid, but also because I am worried about Zhang Tuo who escaped that night and so many mysteries involving Dengxing Village... When I think of these, my chest feels tight, but now I can only Can lie in bed.
As the old saying goes, it takes a hundred days to break the bones. The most serious injury this time was to the bones. The left shoulder was penetrated and two ribs were broken on the left side. Other parts, such as those bitten and scratched by the gluttonous corpse, were fine. Be quick. However, my brother was nourished by the ghost girl's spiritual energy, and his injuries recovered much faster than ordinary people. Even so, it still took nearly ten days until I could go to the ground and move freely.
During this period, I was naturally taken care of by Grandma and Brother Shuanzi. While I was in the hospital, Grandpa and Uncle Lao Gen also recovered one after another, and even sneaked into my ward from time to time to brag with me. some type of.
It really makes me happy to see them back to health.
Of course, the situation of Hu Daxian, Mrs. Liu, and Zhang Tuo that everyone is concerned about are gradually becoming clearer.
After various investigations and verifications by the yamen, it has been confirmed that Hu Sanyi and Hu Feng are indeed the same person, and they have been found guilty of abducting children, raping women, poisoning people, intentional homicide, and inciting the masses to spread evil thoughts. Although he is dead, an illegal organization called "Three Talents Association of Heaven, Earth, People, and People" was found out behind him. It has about ten people and two leaders. One of them is him and the other is named Zhang Ren. Stone guy.
All the arrested members of the Sancai Association confessed to the many anti-social, anti-scientific, feudal and superstitious activities they secretly organized. The Yamen also seized a large number of manuscripts recording evil spells and the practices of their organization in recent years at their stronghold. records of a series of illegal activities.
The organization was defined as a cult by the government, and those arrested were punished in accordance with the law, and wanted orders were issued for other members of the organization who were at large.
And that guy named Zhang Renshi, his wanted photo clearly looks like Zhang Tuo!
None of us could have imagined, nor would we admit it, that the kind and gentle man whom the adults were proud of and the children were proud of would now turn into a wanted criminal carrying human lives.
Things in the world are impermanent, things change and people change.
I don’t know why, but since I came into contact with the Mysterious Scroll, the people and things around me are no longer as familiar to me as they used to be. This feeling makes me disgusted and scared.
While I was in the hospital, Mrs. Liu came to see me unexpectedly. Under the ghost girl's nonsense, for the first time, my brother refreshed his understanding of this old man who had not left a good impression on me since he was a child and changed his mind. Although her His face is still so unpleasant.
This octogenarian who lost his son and daughter-in-law one after another, even though he possesses special skills, still has to pretend to be an ordinary person in Dengxing Village, even an ordinary old man who is old-fashioned and unpleasant.
I don’t know what her difficulties were, but I think she must have suffered unimaginable and unbearable pain when she saw her former son and grandson appear in front of her in another appearance.
But if it were me, if my close relatives were raised and turned into zombies that harm people, I would make the same choice as her. At least, human dignity must be preserved for them...
Of course, she couldn't tell me more about the Taotie Curse in the hospital. After all, there are many people with mixed eyesight, and this is not something that can be said casually, so I can only put aside all suspicions for the time being and be patient. Recuperating in the hospital.
I don’t know why that day, but I suddenly received a call from my mother. She seemed to know that I was expelled from school, and she also knew about the case in Dengxing Village through some way. Under her cross-examination, I had no choice but to Tell everything you know.
"It turns out that Tie Tong has escaped... Aunt Liu still hasn't been able to calm down. Alas, I don't know how many troubles this will cause in the future."
Maybe it was my misunderstanding or my mother's intention. She didn't seem surprised that I would meet the born Taotie, but she was confused that the Taotie would escape. But her concern and worry for me remained undiminished. Although I repeatedly concealed my hospitalization, she still found clues from my words.
"It's impossible. I got a good fortune when you returned to the village, and there are Zhang Tuo and Aunt Liu in the village, so nothing should happen to you!"
I smiled bitterly for a while and told her about Zhang Tuo's betrayal. Even for a person as capable as my mother, she hated this matter. Moreover, she originally trusted Zhang Tuo even more than Mrs. Liu. How could he have imagined that that guy was actually one of the top executives of the Sancai Association.
"By the way, what about the ghost bone rock and the living talisman on the doll's grave?"
There are too many secrets in Dengxing Village, and they involve sorcery and cults such as the Taotie Curse and the Sancai Association. Now that I can’t ask Mrs. Liu, I have no choice but to ask my mother.
She seemed to have expected that I would ask these questions. She sighed bitterly on the other end of the phone and said that she couldn't tell me the whole story yet. She only said that even when my grandfather was alive, there was nothing he could do with the ghost bone rock and the living talisman. He even issued a ban on all his disciples, not to be involved in anything related to Dengxing Village.
As for the reason why my grandfather did this, my mother said that it was partly because of my father. The two of them made a private life decision without telling my grandfather at the time, which made his old man very dissatisfied with his father. Although he did not express his anger at him and his family, he never After that, he no longer cared about Dengxing Village.
At that time, my mother must not have inherited the mantle of my grandfather, and she was helpless about these mysterious and weird things. This created a situation in Dengxing Village that was dominated by people like Hu Daxian earlier.
The reason why people don’t want to mention old things is probably because they are mixed with too many bad memories.
"Hey, I thought I could hear some interesting stories, but it's boring." It turned out that the ghost girl was also listening to the call between me and my mother.
Frowning slightly, I asked my mother: Is my father also involved in these things? But I didn't get a definite answer from her, but based on my understanding of her since childhood, the more she behaves like this, the closer my guesses and ideas are to the answer.
After a moment of silence, she asked me about the current situation of my grandparents, whether they were in good health, etc. I simply stated that my grandpa had recovered after being poisoned and was hospitalized. The rest was that the elderly people were still there. Everything is fine here. I want her to come back and visit when she has time.
My mother also agreed, saying that she would take time to come back next month to see the two old people, and asked me to wait for her. It would be better to tell me some things in person.
At this time, I also felt that my body was still recovering, and there was no need to rush out. It would be better to spend more time with my grandpa and grandma in the village. After thinking about it, I agreed.
After not contacting each other for a long time, we actually talked on the phone for an hour. After putting down the phone, amidst the snoring of the ghost girl and the breeze blowing in from the window, my brother's eyelids sank and he fell asleep peacefully.
In the blink of an eye, I have been in the hospital for almost half a month. If it weren't for the persistence of the doctor and grandma, I might have been discharged four or five days ago.
I had no choice but to adapt to the atmosphere and environment in the hospital. Moreover, the speed of my recovery from my injuries even amazed the doctors, saying that I had a superhuman physique. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, they would not have believed it at that time. A person who was sent to the hospital with only half a life left could actually be alive and well in such a short period of time.
Hey, I'm not Superman, I just have a "Superman" inside me.
Of course, being in a hurry to be discharged was not entirely because I didn’t like the hospital, but because I was still thinking about asking Mrs. Liu to answer my questions. After all, who likes the feeling of having a stone hanging in their heart?
But when I went to Mrs. Liu’s home on the third day after being discharged from the hospital, I found that her home no longer had any atmosphere of human life. Fallen leaves were scattered in the courtyard, spider webs were scattered among the beams and pillars, and the tables in the hall were empty. The two tablets that were supposed to be enshrined on it had been taken away, and the empty chopping board was covered with a layer of old dust, making it look very dilapidated and desolate.
"Grandma Liu! Grandma Liu", I shouted several times unwillingly, but no one answered me except the echo of my own voice.
"It seems that this person has run away. She also hides a lot of secrets. She is probably afraid of causing trouble if her identity is exposed."
"But where can she go?" I was communicating with the ghost girl. I looked back and suddenly saw that the heaven and earth tablet in their home was a little skewed. I shook my head and turned back, and there was a fat spider hanging suddenly in front of my eyes. !
It gave me goosebumps all over my body at that time. My friend has been defenseless against spiders since he was a child. It was the fear and fear that came from the bottom of his bones!
So when I was frightened, I instinctively dodged my body, but I bumped into a pillar in the main room. The wound on my shoulder was affected, and the attack made me break out in a cold sweat.
"Why are you even afraid of spiders? The blood demon and the gluttonous corpse couldn't kill you, but you were almost scared to death by this little thing. You really refreshed my understanding of you.", Regarding the ghost girl's ridicule, I think I'm not so embarrassed now, but it's still inevitable that my face will get hot and sweaty!
I covered my shoulders and wiped the sweat from my forehead. After seeing the spider slowly climbing on its own silk and disappearing on the beam, I breathed a sigh of relief. I was about to go out cursing, but I remembered the heaven and earth memorial tablet just now. So look back.
The rectangular memorial tablet framed with red background paper was now tilted to the point where one corner rested on the Eight Immortals table below, and there was a white thing faintly exposed at the corner. Out of curiosity, I groped for it. Pulling out the white thing, it turned out to be a piece of white paper with a message on it:
Huangfeng Village.
The ghost girl asked in disbelief but as if seeking confirmation: "She went to Huangfeng Village? Is that Qin Cuicui's hometown?"
I nodded doubtfully, "It's possible that this piece of paper was left for me, but why did she go to Huangfeng Village?"
Mrs. Liu left a note for her friend, intending to guide me to Qin Cuicui's hometown to find her. What is she planning? Is there any fraud behind this?
