[Folk Horror] Ten Days of Mourning

On the morning of the sixth day, you and your friends arrive at the village clinic.

After last night's conversation, your vibe has become a little strange.You are both sad and angry that your friend is hiding it, and you are also terrified.This makes your atmosphere less harmonious for the first time.

That multiple-choice question finally appeared in front of you, and you found that you didn't want to lose her, not at all.

Instead, your friend comforts you as if nothing happened: "It's all right, as long as the incident is resolved today, won't it be all right?"

Yep, now can only hope you guys get this sorted out fast enough.

If the Yin God's curse can be solved today, this is the best result now, your friend will not die, and neither will you.Thinking of this, you force yourself to let go of all the complicated emotions in your heart. No matter how you say these things, they are useless, and it is more practical to focus on the present moment.

Regarding the solution developed by Grandma Qian, you once again communicated.

"Actually, Grandma Qian's method is very complete." The friend said, "There are only two differences, one of which is a murder weapon related to the Yin God, and the other is a living creature related to the Yin God."

"Yes, as for the murder weapon... I don't have any clue yet, but the living thing is obvious, right?" You said, "...it must be a snake."

"That's right." My friend nodded, "It would be great if I could catch the snake."

"I'm thinking about one thing," you said, "in my cousin's account, he mentioned what happened when my grandfather's body was killed. Do you still remember?"

"Your grandpa's heart is gone and he has a dead snake in his chest," the friend said.

"That's right, but there is still a problem, that is...the coffin was nailed to death, how did the snake get in."

"The Yin God's spell?"

"There may be another explanation."

The friend understood a bit: "You mean... that snake was already inside your grandfather...?"

"That's right," you nodded, "Although I saw my grandpa's ceremony picture when I invited the spirit, did I tell you? At the end of the ceremony, there was a small red snake from his finger The wounds... crawled in. For example, the unscrupulous son mentioned in Grandma Qian’s notes and the story about the family’s troubles, he also died of vomiting snakes. Doesn’t it mean that the snakes were already in their bodies before they died? Yet?"

"So in your body..."

"I don't know." You said, "But if there is a snake in my body, it should be closely related to Yinshen."

That's why you are here again at the clinic.

Do you want to remove the snake in the body?

If there is such a snake inside you, how on earth are you going to get it out?

You have thought about this question for a long time.You haven’t found any problems in the physical examination since you were a child, and your health is not particularly good. You even vomited when you were suffering from heatstroke during military training in college. None of this forced out the snake in your body—if such a thing exists .

It seems that even if there is such a thing in your body, it cannot be solved by ordinary means.

You discussed it with your friends and planned to talk to the old doctor first.

The clinic is still the same, there is always no one, the patients are chatting, and one or two people are talking.

You walked into the consulting room all the way and sat in front of the doctor.

Today is the doctor who was born as a barefoot doctor. He is not young, a little fat, and looks very kind and lucky.

"See a doctor or prescribe medicine?" The doctor in the rural clinic asked quite casually, without raising his head at all.Most people in the village are well aware of the medical level of the rural clinics, and they maintain the practice of "don't come to see serious illnesses, and see them are not difficult to cure". A snakebite is one of the most serious situations this clinic takes.In this context, it is really difficult for the doctor to have any mood to stand ready.

"Neither, doctor, I want to ask a few things." You spoke.

You are very upset, and your friend didn't directly explain it, but you can confirm that today's victim is your friend, and you can't let her die anyway, so you have to deal with this matter within a day...even if This seems irrational as well.

The friend seemed to notice that you were in a bad mood and patted you on the shoulder.

The doctor looked up at you: "You are... oh, that college student from that family? Good girl! What's the matter?"

"It's like this...doctor, how long have you been seeing a doctor here?"

"It's been a long time. When I first saw a doctor in the village, there were no doctors or clinics here. Later, the policy was good, and a clinic was built in the village, and a decent doctor was sent. But let's have this condition, it really can't, No one stays for a long time, most of them return to the city for a few years on rotation, and there are not enough manpower, so I help with the consultation. In fact, I just work in another place. If you come to see me, just pay me the consultation fee, and a serious doctor will get paid. Yes, don't mind me."

"So... did you start seeing a doctor in 90?"

"It's been 30 years... It's started. I'm 53 this year, and I've been visiting doctors with my dad since I was fifteen."

"Well, you must have a lot of experience...it's like this," you took a deep breath, trying not to sound like a lunatic, "I...was bitten by a snake some time ago, and I went to the hospital. It wasn't poisonous, but I am always paranoid. I am afraid that the snake will lay eggs in my wound and a small snake will crawl into my skin. I know this is impossible, but I still want to ask, is there any way to catch the snake out of my body? ? Have I had this symptom before?"

The doctor laughed: "Oh, little girl, you really think, there is really a snake in your stomach, under your skin, you will die early? Can you still talk to me?"

You smiled awkwardly, and your friend said in time: "Doctor, have you seen my friend's suspicious symptoms?"

"If you want to say see you, then you have seen it." The doctor thought for a while, "Don't tell me, I remember. It was after you were born. Your grandfather died when you were ten years old. It was ten years ago. It was about 10 years ago, probably...in 10 and 01, your grandfather came to me, just like you are now, more serious than you, he insisted that he had a snake in his body, and asked me to help him get it out."

"It's been almost 20 years, and you still remember it so clearly?" the friend asked.

"Forget about the other things, mainly your grandpa's appearance at that time... Tsk tsk, it's scary, what did he say... He saw the little red snake crawling into the child's finger, and said he heard a snake spitting in his head. Xinzi also said that he felt like there were snakes crawling around in his skin... I asked him to go to a big hospital for a CT scan, and he went, but it was fine. I also asked him to go to the psychiatric department, but he didn't go. I haven't seen him since. He said those things."

"Is that so..." You said, but you felt a chill behind your back.

The little red snake crawled into the child's finger...

That kid, is that you?

The doctor paused, and then said: "To be honest, I actually have another method that I don't know if it can be used, but I didn't say it at the time. The main reason is that I am different from my father... Many of the barefoot doctors in the past were Witch doctor, I've read medical books, I don't believe in that, so I didn't say anything about it at the time..."

"What?" You were taken aback for a moment, then overjoyed!

"This is what my father said, just listen to it for fun, you educated people, don't believe it... Sometimes, when people are evil, the evil will form a evil in the human body, and the evil can change into shape , Sometimes it’s bugs, sometimes it’s something else. My dad said that when he was young, he visited a doctor once. There was a man whose legs were swollen and swollen like pillars. My dad knew he was bewitched when he saw it, so he gave him a knife. When I cut it open, the man didn't cry out in pain, when I opened it all up, dozens of sticky moths flew out..." The doctor coughed, probably because he felt that the scene was a bit disgusting, "This is what my father said, I I got off topic. My father said, to get rid of the evil spirit, you have to force it out. First, drink some talisman water, mix it with incense ash, and recite something upright in your mind. You can recite Buddhist scriptures and scriptures, Chairman. Quotations are fine, red songs are also fine, don’t think of something positive and positive, in short, you have to be upright. Then take a knife to cut a hole in your body, let the evil come out, if it doesn’t come out, you have to lure it with things, use the blood on the tip of your tongue, Take one drop at a time and lure it out, once it comes out, it will be an ordinary thing, kill it, and the evil will be eliminated.”