On the way back to Gujing Town, in addition to refining the plan to reshape the gatekeeper corpse puppet, I also did another thing. Finding the right materials, I made a few trap accessories. It's the pieces that the old lady took out in the Huangxia City Orphanage before, and the original version has been destroyed in the secret realm of the sand sea, but fortunately, the memory of Huangquan allows me to copy it.

As for the reasons.

I always thought it would be useful. After all, Silent Night comes from there.

When I came back this time, in addition to my intuition, maybe the dry corpse would also come to this place, just to see the hiding place of the father and daughter in the quiet night. I always had a strange feeling that I hadn't explored that crypt 100 percent. Or rather, it's more than just feeling.

There is always some kind of strange connection between insect venom, insects, king worms and infected people.

It was something contained in the blood and soul, and I couldn't say it clearly, but it pushed me all the way to the place in front of me.

And I'm not wrong with that.

Gujing Town is really even weirder. Although there are many antique buildings here, it is a small ancient city, but there are not many people. Whether it's a local, or just visiting here. Only this time I came back, it was like entering a ghost town. In broad daylight, just in time for noon, there is not a single figure in the most lively streets. Most of the shops are closed.

In front of the town's only hospital, several police cars are parked. But that's not the Gujing car.

"Uncle, what's wrong with this place? It's weird, it's so lonely, I didn't feel this way before. Even Yao Qianwen felt very strange.

"I don't know, but I should have an answer soon. Go to the second uncle's. ”

But the tea shop is also closed.

I knocked on the door and heard movement inside, but no one opened it.

"It's me, second uncle."

After reporting my identity, the movement inside gradually approached the door, and the gate was opened a crack, and the caution on the second uncle's face gradually dissipated after seeing my face clearly, and he said with some surprise: "Are you back?" ”

"Hmm...... But I think it's a little strange, what's wrong with the town? I asked.

The second uncle probed outside to take a look, and then pulled me in, "Come in and say." ”

Or the mountain near Gujing Town, that is, the hiding place of the father and daughter in the quiet night, something strange happened again. It all started a month ago, when a young man in the town went hunting in the mountains and disappeared for a week. Later, he returned, but his mental condition was very poor, he was insane, and his body was full of pustules and blood bubbles.

He claimed that he had slipped into a crypt in the mountains, which later turned out to be the hiding place of the father and daughter in the Silent Night.

There was a mechanism in the crypt, and when he touched it, he fell into a deep pit, and there was a tunnel in it, and he turned around a few times, and got lost in it. Later, in the labyrinth, a secret room was found, where there was a very heavy chest, but it was not large, about 30 centimeters long and wide, and about 15 centimeters high. It seems to contain something, but it can't be opened.

The young man found some plant rhizomes in the crypt, and lasted for several days, and when his spirit was about to collapse, he saw a vision, a vision of a young girl, and under the guidance of the vision, he actually walked out of the crypt labyrinth and saw the light of day again.

"Vision?" When I heard this, I thought of the silent night.

"Hmm...... It's quite mysterious, we don't know exactly what we saw and how we got out. It's just that I picked up a life and came back, but I really shouldn't come back. ”

"Sure enough, I said that the claim of seeing a hallucination in the crypt didn't seem to make the whole town a dead city. What happened again? ”

"Remember what I said about poisonous sores?" The second uncle deliberately asked, and then continued: "The poisonous sores can't be cured, and the hospitals in the town and the city can't be cured. It didn't take long for the child to die. However, three days after his death, the child's body was gone. And on the seventh day, someone saw him by the old bridge at the gate of the town! Then more and more people saw him...... But what is even more terrifying is that those who have seen him, not long after, also contracted that poisonous sore, and more and more people are infected. They die quickly, but just like that child, it won't be long before someone sees them dead! ”

I frowned.

Resurrection from the dead, though not a strange thing to me, I also thought that perhaps it was the insect poison that remained in the cave that infected the young and made it less susceptible to death. But I don't understand, why does he keep infecting new people?

In fact, until now, I have not been particularly thorough about the infection of insect poison. But I always felt that it was not a very easy thing to do. For example, if I want to infect anyone, I have to add my personal and spiritual will. In other words, while staining my blood, I also need to really want this person to be a worm before he can be infected.

But listening to the words of the second uncle, there seem to be a lot of infected people.

So, I asked, "Where did you see them?" ”

"There is everything, this time it is not only the old bridge at the entrance of the town."

"So, that's the reason for the empty city."

The second uncle nodded, "They all said that it was still the curse of that incident, and this place couldn't be clean." Those who can move are moved, and those who can't go, just like me, hide. ”

The incident he said was what happened when he adopted his parents in the quiet night.

"Got it."

……

The problem of ghost towns, I already know a rough idea, and I can put it aside for the time being.

Because I came to find the second uncle, in addition to inquiring about this matter, I actually have another purpose. It's something I should have done a long time ago, but it was repeatedly postponed because of the vague expectation left in my heart. Now, I don't have to look forward to it.

"By the way, you haven't been back for a long time this time, what happened?" The second uncle also happened to inquire about me.

That's how he used to be.

It's just that I don't know when it started, it's not his own idea anymore.

"Second uncle, in fact, when I come back this time, I also have something to do. As for what to do, I won't talk to you for the time being. You just asked me what happened in the time since you last left, you should know it, right? ”

My words made the second uncle's face stiffen for a while, "Child, what are you talking about?" ”

"Second uncle, are you in pain?"

"Huh?"

I slowly raised my hand, and between them grew slender silk threads, which were the tentacles that I had pulled to a longer length, and they passed through my body, quietly crawling up the second uncle's body, and then breaking through his flesh and burrowing inside.

Although it is very thin, it can also make ordinary people feel uncomfortable.

It just hurts.

But the second uncle's face did not change.

"You ......" he froze there.

"Well, got it. I wasn't going to ask before, and I don't need to ask now. In short, it was all arranged by her, and I already know what my background is. However, were you a mechanism in the first place? If it's a mechanism, there's a controller behind it, right, Mina? Probably not, even if it's a control mechanism, personal style will be brought in. You should be someone else, at least in the past thirty years, it hasn't changed. ”

The second uncle sat down with a heavy body and sat down in the door of the store, next to the tea table, the position he usually liked.

"Well, thirty years. I've been in control of this body, and sometimes I forget if I'm a human being or a mechanism. ”

"Where's the body, see you."

"You're trying to kill me?" He asked.

I shook my head, "No, the control distance of the mechanism, I know." You can't get too far from here. Since I dare to come back, I am sure that Mina will not think that I dare to come back. So since she's not there, why should I rush to kill you? I'm just curious, what does the second uncle I have called for decades look like. ”

"Actually...... I'd like to see it too. ”

The second uncle said this very strangely, and I was a little puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

"Remember that question you liked to ask me when you were a kid?"

"I've asked a lot of questions, which one do you say?"

He raised his hand, clasped his fingers as if holding a wine glass, and then made a gesture of taking it down.

Memories, flashbacks in an instant.

There is a table in the backyard.

stone, with a crack in the middle of the table. My second uncle likes to drink, and I was still young, so I had no one to drink with him, and he had no friends. So every time he drank, he liked to pour it in the cracks of the table. When I asked him, he said he was drinking with him at the table.

The table was as if it were really his friend.

On rainy days, the second uncle will make an umbrella for it.

Late at night, I would be alone and go to the table for supper. The second uncle likes to drink porridge and has to drink porridge every night for supper. And every time there will be residual soup, on the gap between the tables. I joked at the time, saying that the second uncle even shared what he ate with his "best friend"?

"You ......"

So I walked to the backyard.

He got up and came to me. Yao Qianwen also followed.

I looked at the stone table, and then at the second uncle.

Then, the arm is alienated and the stone table is lifted! There was a very thin pipe hidden there, like a straw, that went all the way down, and I pulled out the straw, and there was blood at the end. I continued to dig down, and a stone coffin appeared in front of me, and the coffin lid was closed, and there was a gap for inserting a straw.

When the coffin was opened, a mutilated human body with no limbs, eyes gouged out, and a twisted and hideous face appeared before me.

I wanted to lift it, but the second uncle held my hand, "It's connected to the back of my head, and if I move, I can't move." ”

So, I put my hand down, "So, that's why you haven't left Gujing Town for thirty years." ”

"Master said, be real...... How can you make a mechanism really look like a person? That is, every day, every night, forever in control of the mechanism...... I said no, Master, people can't do this, sooner or later there will be flaws, what mechanism in this world is more comfortable than your own body? Then Master said to me, then lose your body. So she cut off my hands and feet, destroyed my eyes, and cut out my tongue...... I'm left with the brain that can manipulate the mechanism. But now it seems that this body will not take long. ”

Looking at the thing I didn't know what to call it, there was only one question in my mind.

"You just didn't know it hurt, did you?"

The second uncle nodded.

Yes, I don't know if it hurts, but it's actually a lot of questions. From what I know about the mechanism now, I understand that not only does he not know pain, but he also can't taste, and he doesn't have a sense of touch. Being able to receive pictures and hear sounds is the ultimate in mechanism. But it is completely different from the sound that the human ear hears, and the picture that you see, which can only be called a signal.

So even though he controlled this body, he still had no one to understand.

His world was in total darkness.

"Second Uncle......"

"Huh?"

"Although we are enemies. However, thank you for taking care of me, these thirty years have been hard. Good bye. ”

I clenched my fists, and the tentacles that had already been buried in the ground neatly severed the neck of the human body.

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