Plague Doctor

Under the dark night sky, the biting cold wind blew the weeds in this ancient cemetery.

In the most remote graveyard far away from the graves of the ancestors of the village, the scene was full of chaos after being stolen and dug up. The dilapidated stone tablet fell down, the coffin that was originally buried deep in the ground was dug out and thrown aside, the cover was broken, and the bones inside had been stolen, and not even many traces were left.

"Perhaps because they have different customs in other places, Uncle Gou's family is very strange in our village."

Chen Shuhuai was sitting on a military folding stool that was moved by someone else, with a complicated expression on his face and slowly talking about what happened that year.

Whether it was the young Gu Jun, the mature Xue Ba, or the old Yao Shinian, everyone begged the old man to tell him everything he knew about Old Uncle Gou's family, no matter how absurd it sounded.

Some old people like to talk about the past with their younger generations. Chen Shuhuai is such an old man.

"There are about ten people in their family. The adults all look very strange, but the younger ones look just like us. I was still a child at that time, and I followed everyone's pointers and made fun of Uncle Gou for being ugly. He's a foreigner. But Uncle Dog never gets angry with us, and I've never seen him angry."

"Originally, everyone drove them away, but grandpa asked them to stay. But after all, they are from outside, and they don't marry girls or wives. People don't go to their house very often. Their family lives at the end of the village, and almost everyone I went into the mountains, cut some wood and mixed some houses with mud, and formed a circle around them..."

Hearing this, Gu Jun couldn't help but ask: "Is Uncle Gou's old house still there?"

Village Chief Chen continued to act as a translator. Chen Shuhuai sighed after hearing this: "He's gone. It's all collapsed and rotten... No one has lived there for fifty or sixty years. You descendants still don't know why." Village Chief Chen When translating, San San added something more: "I really don't know, it means that there is a lot of yin energy there and the feng shui is not good."

"When I was little, I loved running around, but I was also afraid of going there."

Chen Shuhuai talked about what happened more than 80 years ago, as if it was a lifetime ago, "Uncle Gou and his family don't raise pigs, chickens or ducks, and they don't even have a dog, but there is always a strange smell coming out of their yard... …”

Gu Jun thought, others also heard the situation, strange smell?

But at this time, the 90-year-old village elder in a wheelchair said disdainfully: "Shu Huai, isn't that just the smell of fox? They always say it smells weird."

They refer to body odor. Most Chinese people do not have body odor, but there are some groups that do.

"It's not the smell of fox, you don't remember it clearly as I do..." Chen Shuhuai sighed, and it was hard to argue with his old friend, "I don't know what that strange smell is, it's very smelly, a bit like the smell of a corpse... We were in the river at that time Sometimes dead bodies float in, and the smell is very similar to..."

A thought flashed through Gu Jun's mind. With Uncle Gou's strange appearance and the smell of corpses, could it be that Uncle Gou and even their whole family were really ghouls...

"We used bamboo poles to poke those floating corpses and let them float downstream, otherwise they might be left somewhere, but everyone thought it was unlucky to do such a thing. Later, Uncle Gou and his family did this job, and there was no one in the village. People are chasing them away again, but they are also avoiding them even more.”

Chen Shuhuai sighed continuously, his old spotty face gradually turning pale, "The strange things I mentioned started around that time..."

"I had to go up the mountain to collect firewood every day, so I would pass by their house every day. Every time I walked by, I felt uncomfortable. There was always someone there, in the yard or at the door. They didn't do anything, they just looked at you. Go and don’t say anything.”

"I don't remember the day. One time when I was walking by, I heard a banging sound inside, as if something hit the wooden door, and there was a low cry like some kind of wild beast... I said Is there any roe deer hidden in Uncle Gou’s house?”

Now, more than eighty years later, Chen Shuhuai still can't understand when talking about this.

"At that time, there was a war. It was not easy to have a full meal. If you wanted to eat some meat, you had to wait until the holidays. I wondered if Uncle Gou and the others had caught some wild beast from the mountains and hid it at home as food. …I went back and told my father and uncle, and they asked my grandpa to take out the roe deer meat and share it with everyone.”

Gu Jun frowned. Xue Ba and Uncle Dan also felt a sense of imminent danger...

"Damn." Lou Xiaoning muttered, sounding like he was about to look at the red door again.

But Chen Shuhuai still lived to be 95 years old. "My grandpa actually went to ask Uncle Gou. After that, Uncle Gou actually took out a whole roe deer and divided it up. Later, he divided it several times and everyone ate the roe deer meat. Only then can we slowly and truly accept them, so that when Old Uncle Dog dies, he can be buried here."

"But I heard the cry of the roe deer when it was being slaughtered, and I didn't think it was the same. The strange sound disappeared for a while...and then it started again."

"I was young and bold at that time, so I wanted to have a clear look, so I climbed up a nearby tree early one day and stared at their yard..."

Speaking of this, Chen Shuhuai stopped and opened his mouth several times before he could continue to say the horrifying words:

"I hid until midnight. I was hungry and cold. I was about to leave the tree. Suddenly I saw... Uncle Dog and his family walking out of the house to the yard. They were walking with strange footsteps and chanting something strangely. Walking around and around... seems to be their custom?"

"But I really saw it! In the middle of the yard, there was a strange black shadow coming out of the mud..."

"I was so scared that I almost fell out of the tree...I felt like they noticed me. I didn't dare to say anything or look anymore..."

"I don't know what happened next. Wait.

There was no movement in their yard, so I immediately went down and ran back home. Along the way, I noticed that the dogs, chickens, ducks and other animals in the whole village stopped barking. They were all motionless as if they had lost their souls. They all died the next day. "

"At that time, the whole village didn't know what was going on. They thought someone from the neighboring village had come to poison me. I told my grandpa about it, but after I went to negotiate with Uncle Gou, he said that it was just a dream. Mention this again."

"How could it be a dream? I can see it clearly... But this incident has never happened again. The strange noises in Uncle Gou's house have disappeared. They are very peaceful."

"I don't know if it was a dream."

Chen Shuhuai lamented the past, the fear still in his eyes, "What is that black shadow, I really don't know..."

Village Chief Chen was a little embarrassed that the old man was talking nonsense in front of so many leaders, but he had to translate it truthfully. After all, he was not the only one here who understood Dongzhou dialect.

But the members of the demon hunter team, Yao Shinian and Gu Jun all had calm faces, so they thought of a lot... the summoning ritual?

Uncle Gou's family, whether it's a ghoul or summoning a ghoul, is inseparable from relationships.

What kind of involvement is there? Yao Shinian showed several pictures to Chen Shuhuai on his mobile phone, including the withered face of the leader of the Afterlife Society in red and the appearance of some dead-skinned people, but Chen Shuhuai shook his head and said he had never seen them before.

"Mr. Chen, look at this portrait again." Yao Shinian changed another picture, and before showing it, he specifically told Gu Jun and the others not to look at it because it involved the nightmare.

"Huh?" Chen Shuhuai was startled when he saw it this time, "Yes, he's a bit old, but that's what Uncle Dog looks like!"

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