March 15 is Friday, and after the last class in the evening, the first and second high school students of Mobei Senior High School will have a weekend vacation.

However, Li Yuhao did not go home, he told his parents that he and several other classmates went to Wang Jiawei's house to have a party and spent the night there tonight.

Wang Jiawei's family is wealthy, the family lives in a villa, and the parents who do business are often not at home, and today is the day when they are not at home. They have had such gatherings many times before, so Li Yuhao's parents didn't ask much, and neither did Sun Haoran, Huang Yiyang, He Ziyi, Tang Yi, and Zheng Meihan's parents.

They weren't lying, and they did.

"There is news on the Internet that the Ma'erwan District is evacuating the whole district!"

"Why?"

"It seems to have predicted a huge sandstorm over there."

"Is the sandstorm going to be evacuated?"

At this time, in the dining room of one of the villas in this high-end villa community, the four men, three women and seven high school students sat at the bright marble dining table, and the crystal chandelier above illuminated their young faces, all a little restrained and nervous.

A few girls were swiping their mobile phones, but the Maerwan District is in the north of the city, which is a long distance from here, and the evacuation has not affected the people in the city.

"Don't talk about it." Li Yuhao stopped everyone, "Let's start, don't eat if you're afraid." ”

But all seven silently lifted the seven stainless steel lids on the table, and inside were seven ceramic plates, each with a brownish yellow mud on it.

The gurgling sound of throat movement sounded one after another, and these young men looked at the mud on the plate, as if they were looking at some delicious seafood meal. But it was just the most ordinary mud, the mud that had just been dug up from the back garden of this villa. They all put down their phones, silent, struggling......

"We ...... Isn't it normal? Zheng Meihan said.

"It's not that I've checked it, pica." Huang Yiyang muttered.

"My parents know that they may have to send me to Professor Yang for electroshock therapy." Wang Jiawei muttered.

"Pica...... Actually, it's not a particularly strange thing......" Tang Yi muttered.

Li Yuhao didn't speak, and now it all started on Arbor Day, three days ago, when he quietly took away a lump of mud from the wasteland.

That night in the school dormitory, Li Yuhao tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and finally couldn't help the desire in his heart that made him extremely tormented, and gnawed on the mud.

He himself checked on the Internet, this is called pica, which includes eating mud, paper, cinders, hair...... And all sorts of weird stuff. The cause of pica may be metabolic disorders, abnormal taste, psychological factors, etc., but the true cause and treatment are not yet clear.

Li Yuhao didn't know why he suddenly had such an impulse, it seemed that he first had such a thought when he saw those Huang insect eggs.

And after eating that mouthful of mud, Li Yuhao not only relieved the torment that was almost painful, but also got a great satisfaction.

He had never felt this way about food, whether it was home-cooked or expensive ingredients, cooked by the chef or cooked by his mother.

At that time, Li Yuhao vaguely knew that he couldn't do without eating mud.

It was also that night that Wang Jiawei, who was in the same room, bumped into him eating mud, just when Li Yuhao was embarrassed and uneasy, Wang Jiawei said that he also wanted to eat a little, because he also had the desire to suffer like that. Sun Haoran and Huang Yiyang are their friends; He Ziyi is Wang Jiawei's girlfriend, and Tang Yi and Zheng Meihan are He Ziyi's best friends.

In the end, in the past few days, the seven of them shared the mud, and they all went to the wasteland to participate in activities on Arbor Day.

Obviously, there was something involved, and that day changed their appetite needs.

These young people feel strange, anxious and frightened, afraid that something will happen, afraid of being known, but they want to ask their parents or teachers for help, or do they want to call the Tianji Bureau to ask...... It's just that there is such an idea, such a voice, and a resistance in my head.

Don't tell someone, it's not time yet, can't tell someone.

In a flash, the seven of them had not told anyone else except for knowing each other.

After a few days, apart from this need for different foods, there was nothing wrong with their bodies and spirits.

But the mud that Li Yuhao had returned from the wasteland had all been eaten, and there was not even a single thing left, and even the newspaper used to wrap the mud was eaten by them. They feel like they're addicted to drugs, and when they don't eat mud, they get even more uncomfortable.

"I'll eat first." Li Yuhao really couldn't help it, he still had the mind to fiddle with it just now, and now he directly grabbed the yellow mud on the plate with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

However, he took a bite, his brows were furrowed, and he almost spit it out, startled, anxious and panicked, "It's not this smell, it's wrong, it's wrong......"

"What?" Wang Jiawei realized something, and hurriedly grabbed his share of mud and took a bite, but he reacted in the same way, and his face turned red.

"Isn't it!" He Ziyi and Sun Haoran were in a hurry, but after these five people tasted the mud on the plate, they were all in a hurry, "It's over, we're done." "What to do? What to do today! "Li Yuhao, do you still have that kind of mud?"

This ordinary mud doesn't work, it doesn't taste right at all.

"It's all eaten up by you......" Li Yuhao muttered anxiously, but his eyes turned bright, "Let's go to the Arbor Day wasteland, isn't it!" There's a lot of mud there, and it's just a wasteland, no fences, no one cares, let's go there! ”

Everyone agreed in surprise, as if they had grasped a life-saving straw.

They really couldn't take it anymore, not how hungry they were.

It was that nightmarish hunger and thirst that made them a little manic, no, they must eat that mud, or they will die, they will definitely die......

The seven young men and women immediately got up and walked, and there were many cars in the garage of Wang Jiawei's house, including a silver MPV car that could seat seven people. None of them have a driver's license, and they haven't reached the age to get it, but Wang Jiawei can drive and has learned it privately.

At that moment, they all got into this MPV car and set off immediately, hoping that they would not be intercepted by the traffic police.

However, Mobei City is a vast and sparsely populated place after all, and they checked the remote path taken by the navigation, so on the way to the remote wasteland located in the north of the city, there was no obstruction, and when they reached the wasteland, the night was even darker.

There are no dwellings, no guards, and the place is so barren that you can't even hear some insects.

So as soon as the car stopped on the side of the road, Li Yuhao, Wang Jiawei and others opened the door and rushed out of the car and threw themselves into the wasteland where some small saplings were planted.

"This way, this way!" Li Yuhao recognized the way and ran to the location where the eggs were dug up that day, and it was there that he took the mud.

"Didn't Captain Luo of the Forestry Bureau say that day that he wanted to inject medicine to control locust eggs? Will it have an impact? ”

"Don't eat if you're afraid!"

"I'm not afraid of pesticides, and if I can't eat it tonight, it's over......"

"Listen to me, I'm afraid that even the mud here is wrong!"

They were arguing anxiously, but suddenly they all stopped talking, stopped, and looked suspiciously at the distance of more than ten meters ahead, next to a sapling.

In the dim moonlight, there was a figure there, with his back to them, kneeling on the ground, clutching the mud with both hands and eating, handful after handful, making strange and fanatical swallowing sounds. Next to the figure, a small dirt pit had been dug out, and the dirt that had disappeared should have been eaten.

That figure, they looked a little familiar.

"That seems to be ......" He Ziyi stared slightly, Li Yuhao, Tang Yi, Zheng Meihan and others were all a little dazed.

But they were also swallowing their throats, and the sound of the man's swallowing made them want to eat the mud even more.

At the same time, the figure also heard the movement here, and turned around in surprise to look, the usually generous and amiable middle-aged face had a very complicated expression at this time, and the slightly open mouth was full of mud, and even the cheeks, chin and other places were covered with mud.

Before that, this man must have eaten a meal of mud like crazy.

They all recognized this person, Principal Cui, it was Principal Cui.