The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

Yu Wen: "Did you notice that when you turned your head just now, everyone turned to the right?"

Huang Jiang: "The patients around them all sat up cross-legged."

Wang Lingxian: "Go down and have a look."

He Xingchun dissuaded: "Maybe you will be infected—"

Cen Jin passed him and jumped out of the car: "No. If the air and body contact are contagious, they should be stopped, and school will be over soon."

He Xingchun was suddenly quiet, the county is not big, the middle school and elementary school are very close to the ghosts and Gu clan, the children will go home after school, and tomorrow and the next two days are national holidays, if the people besieged in the alley are not dealt with as soon as possible, It will indeed be detrimental to the children of the clan.

While thinking about it, all five of them jumped out of the car and approached the long alley step by step.

He Xingchun had no choice but to follow them closely.

The six people were only two meters away from the entrance of the alley, and the eyes of nearly 400 people focused on them, and the effect was comparable to a bright light.

Yu Wen: "Will they pounce on you suddenly?"

Huang Jiang: "If they have already been infected, the current manifestations should be early symptoms of the disease, and they may not suddenly burst into physical movements, let alone attack us."

Yu Wen: "Why are they staring at us?"

Wang Lingxian: "Maybe because we are all different in their eyes now."

Patients can find that the virus may have changed their body mechanism, misled their basic cognition, and made them regard normal people as aliens.

So what do the six of them look like in the eyes of the patient now?

Like humans in the eyes of a frog?

But frogs usually scare away when they see giants like humans approaching.

The meaning of this example is that Cen Jin is curious about whether normal people are strong or weak in the world of patients. If human beings are strong, patients should show fear. If not, patients have a high probability of showing strong aggressiveness towards normal people.

Creatures will make a choice of attack or escape by judging the strength of their own and aliens. This rule applies to almost any creature in the world, and it is the survival instinct of creatures.

Cen Jin made this guess because He Xingchun mentioned that a rational patient imprisoned his family members, infected and devoured his family members into the same kind. The behavior of this patient explained that they would attack the non-kind.

And this patient will not be the only one with full logical judgment and IQ.

As they approached the crowd, Wang Lingxian was the first to pass through the crowd, followed by Yu Wen and Huang Jiang. Cen Jin noticed that their eyes were moving, but their bodies and heads did not move.

When the eyes lose sight of the target, the eyeballs will turn back and automatically lock on to the next target.

Being stared at by so many people, under the physiological reaction, I felt deeply uncomfortable, and there was also a creepy feeling rising from the bottom of my heart. Among all the people present, only He Xingchun was the most difficult to adapt to.

With trembling hands and feet, he followed behind Huang Jiang, hurriedly scanning everyone's faces, not daring to make eye contact with them.

Ding Yiqing was last, and Cen Jin was second last.

Cen Jin is observing the eyes of a middle-aged man. The pupils of the man occupy more than half of the eyes, showing a glassy texture. It looks beautiful individually, but it looks weird and uncoordinated when viewed with the facial features of a human being as a whole.

Too protruding, like a frog's eye.

Cen Jin's eyes fell on the middle-aged man's neck, and Ding Yiqing said to be careful about their necks.

There is nothing unusual about the middle-aged man's neck, except that his Adam's apple is too big, like a walnut stuffed... wait, Adam's apple?

Cen Jin looked at the two women and a man next to him, and sure enough, he found that they both had Adam's apples the size of walnuts. Looking at them from a distance just now, they felt that there were some incongruities on their bodies.

Because of being stared at directly, and because the crowd is mostly men, and women also have Adam's apples, the most conspicuous weirdness has been ignored.

The Adam's apple is 0.5 cm from the vocal cords, just below the vocal cords. The swollen walnut-shaped Adam's apple is bound to compress the vocal cords, so this is one of the reasons why more than 400 people are silent?

Cen Jin squatted down, landed on one knee, and looked down at the 'patient' who was sitting cross-legged.

The head of the 'patient' hangs down and is buried in the chest, with the nose close to the heart. This is definitely not a posture that normal people can do, unless they have no neck bones.

Cen Jin did not find Adam's apple on the neck of the 'patient'. It is strange, isn't it the same infectious disease?

"Huangmao, what are you looking at?" Yu Wen, who was in the middle, turned around and asked loudly.

Cen Jin: "I have made a new discovery."

Yu Wen: "What is it?"

Cen Jin: "Let's talk after we go out."

He got up and walked through the crowd, finally arrived at the entrance of the alley under the scorching sun, and saw Wang Lingxian and others standing on the steps observing the scarecrow.

The gate of the Ghost Gu family is black, with a length of four meters. Two animal rings are placed on the door at a height of 1.8 meters. Huang Jiang said that it is a doorbell and a combination lock. The meaning of the family is to create a modern, super-smart and cool The gate, but in order to respond to the county's economic development and special tourism, it had to be made into an antique look.

The doorbell and combination lock under the animal ring are the last stubbornness of all the ghosts and Gu clan.

Cen Jin commented that your Ghost Gu clan is so modern, and Huang Jiang proudly said that their Ghost Gu clan has been trendy since ancient times.

Cen Jin felt that just because she used the word 'chaoer', the real situation is still open to question.

There was no stone lion next to the door, the county government wanted it, but the Guigu tribe angrily opposed it, so it was a pity to give up.There are five steps below the door, and there are ancient characters engraved in the center of the door. Huang Jiang explained that it means "ancient Shu ghosts".

The most glorious history of their branch was in the most splendid period of ancient Shu civilization.

There is a grand chair in the middle of the gate porch, and a scarecrow sits on the chair.The scarecrow holds the straw in the left hand and the bamboo yard in the right. He wears a phoenix crown on his head, a scarf on his body, and blush on his cheeks.

Yu Wen stroked his chin and said, "What does it look like? Do you think it looks like a god statue in a temple? Solemn and grand, full of divinity, this kind of posture of phoenix crown and xiapei and sitting upright is only used by god statues in temples. But what kind of magic hand?" Grass stalks and bamboo yards? Shennong?"

"This looks like a goddess." Huang Jiang pondered: "It's not the belief of our Ghost Gu clan."

She suddenly thought of something and was about to lift the phoenix crown on the scarecrow's head, but Wang Lingxian stopped him suddenly: "Look back."

Everyone looked back and saw that the people in the alley turned their heads and stared at them coldly. This time, there was obviously more targeted hostility.

"Is this the god they believe in?" Huang Jiang frowned: "Brother Chun, is this scarecrow here this morning?"

He Xingchun: "No."

Huang Jiang: "They are here to kick the gym?" She took two steps forward, glanced at the bamboo yards and stalks in the crowd, and snorted coldly: "This posture is indeed like kicking the pavilion. Now I suspect that the 'red frog' is an infection. Disease is a method similar to bewitching the people and controlling them to become believers."

Yu Wen: "What do you mean?"

Wang Lingxian: "A cult."

Cen Jin's heart skipped a beat, isn't mass hysteria a distinctive feature of cult believers gathering?Isn't their behavior 'blind follow'?

Huang Jiang: "Huang Mao, what is your new discovery?"

The yellow hair was named, touched his nose, stood up and said: "Their necks are weird, and the Adam's apple is abnormally swollen, but the sitting patient has no Adam's apple. I suspect that the route of infection and the pathological mechanism are related to the neck. I want to catch one and have it dissected." Look, but without protection, it could be self-defeating."

As soon as the others heard it, they observed it in the nearest row and found that it was indeed unusually obvious, so they all agreed with Cen Jin's proposal.

Huang Jiang pointed to the ghosts behind him with a thumbs up and said, "I have a complete set of protective measures in the basement of my house. Just grab two of them and lock them in. Don't worry, there is anesthesia inside, and my suturing skills are pretty good."

Yu Wen was a little terrified: "What are you doing in private? Huang Jiang, you must not go astray."

Huang Jiang was angry: "We raise Gu. If you don't learn some medical skills, you can perform bloodletting or surgery on yourself at any time. How can you save yourself if you are parasitized by Gu insects? Be more scientific."

Everyone was a little speechless, and suddenly felt that the secret arts of the ghost and Gu clan were not so mysterious anymore.

After the decision was made, He Xingchun's objection was in vain, Wang Lingxian and Yu Wen respectively caught two patients and entered the ghost and Gu clan. The strange thing is that no one resisted.

But everyone is going to study, who will control the people in the alley?

Huang Jiang pondered for a moment: "There is a dungeon in the back mountain, lock them in first."

Yu Wen was startled again: "Why is there a dungeon?" If this continues, he will report the Ghost Gu clan!

Huang Jiang glanced at him coldly: "Gu worms are easy to go crazy when they are parasitic, so we should lock them in to avoid the loss of property in the clan."

What a tough family.

Yu Wen: "More than 400 people, all carried in?"

Wang Lingxian: "It's too troublesome, just drive there."

After speaking, they looked at He Xingchun tacitly.

He Xingchun wiped away tears, his baby bus is destined to be dirty to the end today, but luckily 50 in his pocket can give his son a new skin.

Just do what you say, a group of people move the people in the alley into the big bus back and forth. Because the distance is not far, it doesn't matter if it is overloaded, so eight or 90 people are carried in each trip.After moving five times, all the people were finally moved into the dungeon, and every ten people were locked in a room, mainly to isolate the 'patients'.

They also bound each patient's hands and feet, so that there were piles of binding belts in the dungeon, which made Yu Wen wonder if the ghosts and Gu clan were engaged in some strange business in private.

Cen Jin said: "The ones with unwrapped necks should be terminally ill. It would be better to isolate them separately, with twice as many restraint belts. I always feel that they are like time bombs, unstable."

Huang Jiang agreed with him and deliberately added an extra layer of restraint belt.

At this time, He Xingchun and Yu Wen moved the last patient to the iron bed and bound his legs with restraint belts. From the corner of his eyes, Cen Jin caught a glimpse of the patient's neck twitching, and stared at it suddenly. Wang Lingxian noticed it and asked him what he saw up.

Cen Jin shook his head and walked forward, wanting to take a closer look.

But there seemed to be something swimming under the patient's neck, pushed away the skin, and soon fell silent.But in the next second, like water falling into a boiling oil pan, countless oil droplets suddenly splashed, and the skin on the patient's neck heaved violently, as if the things inside were fighting fiercely.

Cen Jin's face changed drastically, and he reminded Yu Wen and He Xingchun: "Run!"

Yu Wen and He Xingchun paused when they heard the words, the former reacted quickly enough, grabbed He Xingchun's arm and fell to the side. The restraint belt binds and restricts movement.

But with great strength, he overturned the entire iron bed, and the crisp sound of the spine being crushed was very clear, but the patient seemed to feel no pain, squirming frantically, struggling towards the wall, his eyeballs were bloodshot, and his mouth was wide open. Almost to the point of tearing the corners of the lips.

He Xingchun was still in shock: "He seems to be looking for something."

what to look for?

Cen Jin looked at the wall, the patient was imprisoned next door.

The ill patient is like a traveler in the desert, and the patient on the other side of the wall is his water of life, which must be eaten to survive.

But it was impossible for everyone present to let him go and devour another patient, so this patient finally stopped moving slowly because he hadn't devoured the same kind of flesh and blood for a long time, and everyone saw the violent neck heaving.

Wang Lingxian and Huang Jiang took out their mobile phones to record and make asides.

Ding Yiqing said softly, "It's about to splash out."

The rest looked at him incredulously.

Ding Yiqing: "The thing in the neck."

Everyone was terrified at the same time, and subconsciously stayed away from the patient.

The next second, the patient's neck really exploded, but instead of splashing out blood and flesh, various strange mung bean-sized particles exploded out, and a large piece fell at Cen Jin's feet, allowing him to clearly see the piece. The shape is made of countless mung bean-sized particles glued together.

The particles are covered by a transparent membrane, and inside are black cores, the size of mung beans, a bit like passion fruit eggs, but Cen Jin thinks they are more like frog eggs.Dozens or hundreds of eggs are stacked together. It is not difficult to imagine that if they were not blown out, they would be stuffed in the patient's neck.

And look carefully, these particles actually have tentacles, they are not eggs, but a creature shaped like eggs.

These organisms parasitize near the patient's vocal cords and devour the flesh and bones in the neck bit by bit, causing the neck of the critically ill patient to be just a soft layer of skin.But there is no food near the neck, which is when they drive patients to devour their own species.

Without food to satisfy their hunger, they became restless, fighting each other, and finally exploded.

As soon as it comes into contact with the air, the frog-egg-like creatures all die, and soon volatilize in the air.

Yu Wen rubbed the goosebumps on his arms fiercely: "What the hell! Did you see it clearly?"

Biological volatilization is too fast for people to see clearly.

Huang Jiang's face turned pale: "I recorded it. I still have to notify the head office and let them send someone to take over as soon as possible. Other patients with mild symptoms may be able to be rescued."

Cen Jin suddenly thought of the two patients in Huang Jiang's basement. One was mild and the other was severe. Judging from this situation, the critically ill patient should be ill. Before they came, they did not isolate them, nor did they take any protective measures.

Obviously Wang Lingxian also wanted to go to the same place.

Without saying a word, the two turned and ran away.

Others followed.

Ding Yiqing followed behind unhurriedly. When he passed the scarecrow at the gate, he stopped and looked at it coldly. The smile on his lips was full of sarcasm. The next second, the whole scarecrow was shattered into powder.

***

Totem, who took the high-speed rail for spiritual practice but accidentally bought the wrong ticket, is now in a bumpy and overloaded rural minibus, swaying with the minibus expressionlessly, recalling the hardships along the way.

Firstly, I bought the wrong ticket, secondly got off at the wrong station, and finally got in a car with a driver who could only speak dialect, was put at an unfamiliar intersection, and then took a rural minibus. The totem of an unknown village on the border between the two provinces: "..."

He wanted to get off the bus in delusion, but the minibus driver and the ticket sales lady couldn't understand them. After talking with the ducks, they finally put him at an intersection where nothing shit happened.

Totem took out the beads and said in his heart: Practice.

Then walk slowly under the scorching sun.

There is no village or shop behind the long road, and there are endless wilderness on both sides. It is estimated that you may not meet people when it gets dark.

But if a person is unlucky to the extreme, will he be extremely lucky? Behind Totem, two cars transformed from pickup trucks drove past and stopped in front of him.

When the totem approached, a young man in the passenger seat opened the window and asked, "Who are you? Where are you going?"

Totem replied truthfully: "Practitioner, I made a wrong station." Then he said where he was going.

The young man froze for a moment: "You didn't make a mistake."

Totem: "Is it far away?"

Youth: "That's the opposite."

The totem was silent.

The young man patted on the car door and said, "This road is hundreds of kilometers long, and I don't know how long it will take. In this way, you get on the car, and we will take you to the next village, and then let them take you to the market for a ride."

Totem thought for a while, thanked him, and claimed to be a practitioner of Tantric Buddhism.

The young man looked at him with a smile and said, "My name is Zhou Man. I am a lost person in the world, and I am going to hunt for treasure and realize my self-worth."