Tick, the phone went through.

Gu Jun's brows furrowed, his heart lifted, and he heard some hissing sounds in his ears close to the phone, as if the signal was not good. He paid attention to the surroundings of the alley, he didn't make a sound first, in fact, he didn't plan to make a sound, he just wanted to know if there was anyone in the area of Gurong Village......

There was still no one on the other end of the line, and the low, hoarse voice was getting louder and louder.

Listening to this voice, the restlessness that Gu Jun often had recently rose from the bottom of his heart again.

Who is it, who is it! Who's on the other end of the phone......

He wanted to ask so loudly, but he tried his best to hold back, even his breathing was kept low, so that his voice would not be exposed.

It was as if once the voice was exposed, an ominous catastrophe would befall him.

"......" Gu Jun didn't take the initiative to hang up the phone, although the pressure in his heart was getting bigger and bigger, he was still listening to the hoarse whisper, is this a language, he only knows that it is not the language he muttered in the Longkan video......

No, no, it's like the sound of a constant rubbing and squeezing in the throat.

There's a creature on the other end of the line, and it's trying to speak.

Gu Jun tried to hear clearly, but the surroundings were noisy, with passing motorcycles passing by, neighbors talking, and songs playing in the shops, all of which mingled together to obscure the strange sound. He continued to listen to his phone as he walked deeper into the alley.

Sizzle, hiss......

The noise around me was getting quieter, and the strange noise on the other end of the phone was getting louder and louder.

When Gu Jun walked to a secluded place at the end of the alley near the garbage dump, he could suddenly hear it, but it was a small but clear sound......

"Save Me ......"

In the hoarse whisper on the other end of the phone, these two Chinese characters came out, help me.

It was a human voice, and though it was so low and trembling, he recognized the tone and emotion, or rather, fear.

It seemed that the throat was open, and the other end of the phone said one after another: "I didn't ...... Die...... I'm not...... They...... I didn't...... Something in the banyan tree...... Let me out, ah...... I don't want to die...... Help, save me......"

The great pain revealed in this voice made Gu Jun's heart very uncomfortable.

He vaguely heard that the other party should be a villager from Gurong Village, who had not died for the time being, but he could not evacuate, because he had been infected and his body had been distorted, so he was controlled within the village.

A few days ago, Gu Jun was still shrouded in the shadow of a terminal illness, and he knew that a person wanted to live well but was powerless to fight the taste of death.

"Help me, please, save me......" The voice on the other end of the phone was still wailing.

Gu Jun's hand holding the phone clenched slightly tighter, and to his own surprise, he remembered the scene when he and the whole class stood up together in class to make the Hippocratic oath at the beginning of his freshman year.

At that time, he swore that he didn't care, it was just a formality.

"As a medical worker, I formally pledge to dedicate my life to human ......"

"I will spend my life performing my healing with purity and holiness."

Gu Jun was silent, it was the destiny of a medical dog to treat diseases and save people. But now, there is nothing he can do.

He couldn't save the director of Gurong Village, the child who climbed the tree, and the person on the other end of the phone.

The strange voice from the phone call of "...... in the banyan tree" became more and more painful, "thing...... No...... Don't ......"

Suddenly, the phone clicked off, and the phone was ......

Gu Jun looked down at the mobile phone in his hand, took a deep breath, and said softly, "I'm sorry, if I can, I want to save you." I don't have that ability, I don't have ......" He looked up at the evening sky and exhaled that breath, but a part of his heart became more determined.

That's what he wants to do, to be a real healer, to save people.

There are not so many reasons for being high...... He felt that he just couldn't bear it.

Standing for a while, Gu Jun sorted out his messy mood and silently pulled out the new mobile phone card.

"Something in the banyan tree?" He began to think about the words of the dying villager just now, what was it? Is the source of the disease the big banyan tree?

Twisted giant branches, jagged tendons, tangled fibrous roots...... Deformed limb ......

These images gradually overlapped in Gu Jun's mind, and an idea naturally arose: the deformities of those corpses were similar to the branches and roots of the banyan tree.

How does a banyan tree become the source of disease?

Gu Jun thought about it as he turned his head and walked back.

The sky was a little dark, a cool breeze blew, Gu Jun suddenly flashed a strange feeling, and he looked around. This area is called "Jufu Lane", there are no high-rise buildings, some are old buildings, cramped streets, dilapidated and chaotic shop signs, and gradually lost traditions.

He used to come here often, because there are many authentic local food stalls in Jufu Lane, and students from Dongzhou love to come here to find taste.

Although there is a lot of clutter here, he is familiar with every wire and signboard in this area.

However, now walking on the rotten cement road at the end of the alley, he felt a strange coldness, which gradually surrounded him.

Drip, drip, like the sound of rain falling to the ground.

Although the sky was gray, there was no rain.

Tick ...... Gu Jun suddenly looked back, and there was nothing in the dilapidated empty alley.

Only those old signboards are swaying slightly, "Tide Hair House, Professional Haircut", "Wing Lung Hotel", "Copying, Typing and Faxing"

"It's the man who is following me......" Gu Jun was sure that that guy was following in the dark! He pondered what to do, withdrew his gaze from behind, turned around, and saw a middle-aged man with a flat head standing less than five steps in front of him.

The man was dressed in ordinary civilian clothes, his face was a little withered, his cheeks were sunken and thin, and his eyes were bloodshot.

It was the man who had been following him for days.

What to do? Gu Jun kept himself calm, turned his head and ran? Or walk over as if you don't know anything?

But he noticed that the flat-headed man's gaze looked at him without scruples, and the gloom and strangeness in his eyes were not concealed at all.

Gu Jun suddenly understood, "He knew that I found out that he was following me...... "Because of this, the flat-headed man would appear like this."

In an instant, Gu Jun decided to strike first, pretending that it was just an ordinary person's ordinary matter, and there was no other involvement, so he asked loudly and frivolously: "Lao Tie, who are you?" I seem to have seen you a few times these days, and you are all staring at me, who are you? What do you see? ”

"Mr. Gu." The flat-headed man smiled, the corners of his mouth ripped open like a puppet, "Hand over the things, hand them over and you'll be fine." ”

Gu Jun's face did not change, thinking about how to deal with it, Li Lerui's mobile phone was in the inner pocket of his shirt, was it really for it......