Plague Doctor

Bang bang!

The entire pentagonal dining table was overturned by Gu Jun, and all the dishes and food on the table fell to the ground.

The secret room was silent for a few moments, and then everyone let out another cry of surprise. Zu Ge hurriedly jumped on Gu Jun's head, and Jin Zhu picked up Feng Wei on the ground. Gu Jun and Lou Xiaoning both held pistols and pointed them at the surroundings. .

As soon as the food that was still fresh and fragrant just fell to the ground, it was like the illusion was shattered, and it quickly changed into something else.

The plump and tender chicken leg turned into a puddle of yellow pus, the other apple-like fruit turned into bloody white pus, and other brown, black... sticky, like just... It looked like it was squeezed out from a suppurating wound and flowed all over the floor.

The unspeakable stench filled the secret room first, polluting every bit of the air.

"Oh my God, it stinks so much." Catherine cried out almost instantly. If Peacock hadn't held back, she would have vomited everywhere.

Not to mention Catherine, even Gu Jun, who was no stranger to the smell of formalin and corpse odor, and had the highest mental power here, almost vomited at once, purely due to physiological reactions and general... A feeling of disgust in my heart.

Everyone around them was having a hard time enduring it. There was no fresh air coming in here, and it suddenly became more and more smelly. It wouldn't take long before they would definitely vomit.

"Stinks worse than cat poop!" Zu Ge said bitterly, slapping Gu Jun on the head. He really couldn't imagine if he had just eaten these pus foods, whether he would still be alive now.

"What the hell is going on..." Lou Xiaoning gritted her teeth and said angrily. She was originally impatient, but she was about to explode with anger. "You bastard from Laisheng Company, come out!" Suddenly, the rationality on her wrist appeared. The monitoring stone reacted, and her spirit was being eroded.

"Calm down!" Gu Jun immediately drew an old mental seal and punched it, letting Lou Xiaoning clear his mind.

"Fuck..." Lou Xiaoning was beaten back a few steps before she regained her composure. The light of the rational monitoring stone went out, and she came back to her senses, "These odors can also affect the spirit..."

"I think it's not the smell, it's the environment." Gu Jun said solemnly, his spirit swaying slightly as he was seriously exhausted.

This room was full of malice, and the ichor that gradually turned the floor into a stinky swamp was just one of the things they could see.

And those purple wall coverings and carpets... Gu Jun suddenly remembered a little knowledge about color. He had looked up relevant information just a few days ago because he was monitoring the color of stones. Purple has a noble meaning in Eastern and Western civilizations, representing emperors, sages, gods...

He glanced around and realized that the people setting up this place might be those evil believers from the earth world.

However, Zu Ge said that those people were spiritually dreaming, so everything here is both real and illusory.

This hall is not the same as the House of Worms. He had this feeling that this was just one of the rooms in the House of Worms, the room where the evil believers carried out their activities.

"We have to find an exit quickly." Zu Ge slapped Gu Jun on the forehead in distress, "otherwise we will die of suffocation here."

"So please hurry up and find it." Peacock said, "You ancestors are better at finding those cracks and gaps than us." Lou Xiaoning also shouted: "There are passages above the five fireplaces, you can climb up one by one to see Let’s see what happens.”

"This..." Zu Ge couldn't say anything. He stared at the dark fireplace mouth with his sneaky little eyes, trembling all over, as if he was looking at the gate of hell.

But a sudden change made it impossible for anyone to blame Zu Ge for being timid. Maybe it had sensed something before.

After all the food on the ground turned into pus, a human corpse hung upside down from each of the five fireplaces, tied with thick hemp ropes.

When they checked just now, there were no such bodies.

For a moment, Gu Jun's heart ached. He was angry at this scene, but also afraid that it would be Uncle Dan and the others.

Catherine, Tom and others exclaimed, but it was not Uncle Egg and the others, it could not be, because the five corpses were all children, all of them had the same body shape of six or seven years old as the little girl with braids in the mist before. As for them face...

"Ah." Catherine was about to vomit, and Peacock covered her mouth tightly, "Think of something else, think of something else!"

"It's so fucking pitiful." Lou Xiaoning muttered through gritted teeth, and the rational monitoring stone flashed slightly again, "It's so damn miserable..."

"Are they looking like that because of some kind of disease?" Mo Qing asked coldly.

"It should be..." Gu Jun looked at the corpse of a child in one of the fireplaces, "The deceased seems to be a leper."

He had never seen a leper in person. After entering modern times, leprosy has been gradually and basically eliminated, and is now in a low epidemic state, with very few new cases every year. But leprosy has plagued mankind for thousands of years. Even now, there are still some leprosy villages in China that were established decades ago to isolate patients.

Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and causes lesions on the patient's skin and peripheral nerves, resulting in deformities and limb disabilities.

The corpse in the fireplace was like this, with its face hanging upside down and twisted into a ball, and there were lumps of pustules on the neck and hands...

Gu Jun suddenly thought of something and turned to look at the corpse in the other fireplace. Smallpox... that one was a smallpox patient.

The facial skin of the corpse was covered with densely packed small blisters, some of which were still white film-like, and some of which had turned black. The exposed skin that can be seen is full of fine spots and blisters, which look like they have been scalded by boiling water, a typical symptom of smallpox.

He looked at the other fireplace again. The corpse's eyes were purulent, and there were also herpes and pustules on the skin. The difference was that there were also pustules underneath.

There are patches of black scabs.

Is that a plague patient? Plague is the so-called Black Death.

His heart was turbulent, and he looked to the other side. The body was as skinny as a stick, with traces of feces on it. It was cholera, a cholera patient.

Leprosy, smallpox, bubonic plague, cholera

These are all...plagues that have had a huge impact on mankind, and cholera still attacks some countries with backward sanitary conditions every year.

There is also a fireplace and a corpse. Gu Jun looked over and felt a sense of familiarity, the familiarity he got from the patients at Jiangxing Town Hospital... The skin was cyanotic, the lips were dehydrated, the face and body were covered with blood and phlegm... It was Legionnaires' disease, but... Know if it's old or new.

"This is an altar." Gu Jun understood something, and his heart trembled with rage, "Those corpses are the decoration of the ceremony."

Five different diseases, five plagues.

What is the purpose of this ceremony? Are those sick bodies a tribute to the House of Worms...

"Ritual? So those foods are not for us to eat," Zu Ge said anxiously, "They are also sacrifices for the ceremony."

It's one thing what the believers who performed the ritual think when the ritual sacrifices were smashed like this, and another thing what the unknown beings who accepted the sacrifices thought.

Everyone looked around, back to back in the middle of the pentagonal hall, feeling an increasingly thick stench and danger coming.

It was as if there were countless eyes watching them.

Love the Plague Doctor.