Chapter 33: Corpse Moth
Uncle Wang arranged like this, everyone was nervous and excited, there were only seven or eight people, and when they went to the entrance of the village together, more and more people got the letter, and they even got twenty or thirty. There has been no such strange thing in our village for a long time, and I don't sleep in the middle of the night, and I go with us to find the source of Wei'er. Only when watching the riverside social drama during the New Year and the festival can there be such a grand scene.
Before arriving at the entrance of the village, the village director Lao Lei led a group of descendants to come over. The old thunder head is clothed, and he walks like a tiger, which is really a bit of a soil emperor. When he arrived at the front of the team, he said loudly: "The ladies all go home, just do this old man, what kind of mess is the woman." ”
A middle-aged woman in the crowd shouted, "The village chief discriminates against women." ”
Old Lei Tou smiled angrily: "Something will happen when the time comes, don't say I didn't remind you." ”
Uncle Wang is the same generation as Lao Lei Tou, and he called Lao Lei Tou aside and said about the mad dog incident that happened tonight.
The old thunder looked at me with a change in his eyes, he didn't expect that I had killed the mad dog. He patted me on the shoulder, expressing his appreciation.
Many people are holding flashlights, shining in all directions, quite imposing. You have to walk at night, and in the second half of the night, so many people get together, but it is a lot more lively, and there is not much weird atmosphere.
When we arrived at the entrance of the village, I smelled a strong fishy smell. I can't describe it, it's a bit like the smell of stinky fish and rotten shrimp, but it's more evil than that taste.
When the old thunder head came, he was still leading the dog, and the dog suddenly roared, "Wangwang", and looked restless.
Old Lei Tou touched its head: "Huzi, follow this taste." ”
The dog, named Huzi, did not leave, but struggled to run towards the village. Lao Lei didn't hold it, and the dog ran into the village with a "whoosh" and disappeared.
Everyone burst into laughter, and some people laughed and said, "Director, your dog is really cowardly." ”
The old thunder head was annoyed and embarrassed: "Fart!" Damn, I'll peel it and cramp it when I go back, what's the use. ”
It's strange to say, not only the dogs of the old Lei Tou family, but there are also people in the crowd who are leading the dogs, and they all want to break free like crazy. I saw that my eyes were hot, and I thought of the mad dog in Sun Cha's house, and I always felt that something was wrong here. I shouted, "Everyone, don't lead the dog, let's all put it back." ”
The dogs in our village are all smart and familiar with their families, and as long as they are released, they can run home on their own. The crowd no longer insisted, and let the dogs go.
There is no dog, you can only rely on the human nose to smell, some say that the source of the taste is in the east, some say that the source of the taste is in the west, the old Lei Tou simply let everyone form a team freely, follow the taste to find.
My sister and I, as well as Niu Er, were in a group. Niu Er's attitude towards me has taken a 180-degree turn, a strong set is almost, just now he was really frightened, without my pickaxe to save the danger, now he is not dead and half-disabled.
Niu Er and I don't have any common language, so we are greeting each other and pretending to be polite.
My sister took my arm and listened to the two of us talking about fake polite words, and pursed our lips vigorously.
As he was talking, suddenly a woman's scream came from the northeast. In the middle of the night, this voice didn't scare everyone's urine.
Everyone hurriedly followed the sound, there was a river at the entrance of the village, and there was a deep river ditch in the northeast. When we passed, a group of people had gathered on the edge of the ditch, and Niu Er squeezed the crowd out of the way, allowing my sister and me to go to the front.
Someone looked down with a flashlight, and my sister was so frightened that she hid behind me, and my face turned pale. I saw a dead man lying at the bottom of the ditch, which was nothing, on the back of the dead man, there were thousands of gray moths lying densely.
These moths are huddled together like maggots, and I don't know how many.
On a hot day, the smell of fishy is extremely strong, and it is certain that the source of the smell at the entrance of the village comes from this corpse.
Uncle Wang covered his nose and said, "Old Lei, call the police, it's dead!" ”
Don't look at the old Lei Tou as the village director, at this time, he saw an inexplicable dead man, and he was also a little numb. Quickly took out his mobile phone and asked to call 110.
At this time, my sister suddenly shouted: "Look, on the opposite tree! ”
The crowd shone flashlights on them, and several spots of light fell on the trunks of the trees in the dark night. The bark of the tree could be seen peeled off, revealing a sleek trunk with a few crooked characters carved with a knife.
From top to bottom, there are five big characters written: Those who leave the village will be killed immediately!
Everyone looked at each other, and a chill spread through the crowd.
Lao Lei made a call with a calm face: "Hurry up and call the police and let the police deal with it." ”
The phone called, and it was quickly connected, and Lao Lei Tou reported the discovery of the body to the police, and said that the police would be dispatched immediately.
Just as he was calling, a mischievous half-grown boy in the crowd picked up a long branch, went down the ditch, and stabbed the corpse.
Lao Lei Tou hung up the phone and was furious: "Whose child? The police are coming in a moment, don't spoil the scene. If there are adults in the family, take care of it. ”
The branches poked at the corpse, as if poking a hornet's nest, and all the gray moths suddenly "buzzed" and flew up.
When they don't fly, they don't think it's much, and this flight can be called a covering.
The crowd was frightened, and hurriedly covered their faces and heads, this is a moth flying on the corpse, no matter what it is, it is always unclean.
The moth flew into the air, levitated for a moment, and then flew towards the village.
Someone had the courage to shine with a flashlight, only to see that the sky was almost covered with gray fragments, like pieces of gray petals, extremely bewitching, and everyone was stunned.
In the spot of light, as the moths flapped their wings, a cloud of smoke and dust was stirred up. There was a stain in the air.
Before we could react, the moths flew into the village and scattered without a trace.
Everyone looked at each other. Old Lei Tou ordered a few people to stay and guard the body and wait for the police car. He told the others to hurry home and sleep, and talk about it tomorrow, so as not to make any extraneous trouble.
Everyone went all the way back and talked about what was going on with those moths and whether they were poisonous or not. My sister saw that I didn't speak and asked what was wrong. I rubbed my forehead and told her that I had seen a record of these moths somewhere.
My sister was interested and asked me if I was searching for it in Baidu. When I got home, I asked her to plug in the doors and windows tightly, and she was not allowed to open them no matter how hot it was, and she would wait until tomorrow to talk about anything.
I went back to the house, opened the fragment manuscript that my grandfather had left behind from under my pillow, and turned to one of the pages. On the remaining page, Grandpa wrote two words in regular small letters, "Corpse Moth".
I have read this fragment of the book back and forth countless times, and I can almost memorize many chapters. But it's all general, as some kind of curious information, without a point. Now that there is a strange moth in the village, it is my grandfather who recorded it, and I have a different interest in this fragment left by my grandfather.
Grandpa said that the title of "corpse moth" is a very widespread saying, some corpse moths grow in tombs or deep mountains, and the corpse moth recorded in the manuscript refers to the insect Gu magic in Southeast Asia.
The process of cultivating this corpse moth is extremely secret, and it belongs to a hidden school of black witchcraft in Southeast Asia. Grandpa probably knows the process, and the details of it are unknown. To make this kind of moth, you first need a living corpse. As for what a living corpse is, he doesn't know very well, and it is not written in the manuscript.
When the mother worm is placed in the living corpse, the female worm will ovulate and develop, giving birth to many larvae. The corpse moth cultivated in this way will have special tentacles on its head, which can be located by using the fluff on the antennae, obeying the command of the Gu person, and it is very awesome.
The corpse moth itself is not terrible, what is terrible is that it will host a large number of viruses or Gu seedlings, which can infect humans or livestock, it has been recorded that a head descending master once used the corpse moth to slaughter a village, and there were no chickens and dogs left overnight!
I continued to look back, and at the back of the fragment, my grandfather described how to contain the moth. Moths are most afraid of three things, mugwort, glutinous rice and cinnabar. Artemisia can drive away, glutinous rice can detoxify, and cinnabar can completely restrain this moth, just like an insecticide.
Seeing this, I hurried to the backyard warehouse to find mugwort, regardless of whether the moth just now was the kind of corpse moth described by my grandfather, it was always right to be careful, there were dates or no dates to hit a pole.
I remember that there were some mugwort in the barn, which were kept to repel mosquitoes in the summer, and I found them all and lit them in the backyard. A large handful of mugwort burned, and gradually smoke came out. I took the burning artemisia grass and walked back and forth in the house a few times, and the smoke and the peculiar smell of mugwort were all over the house.
After all the smoke, I was barely relieved, I hope I thought too much.
After tossing and turning for most of the night, I dragged my tired feet back to the house to sleep.
I got up at noon the next day, stretched out, and slept well last night. I opened the curtain and glanced out inadvertently, and I was a little frightened.
There was no one on the village road, but it was full of wild dogs, and there could be dozens of them, all of them were Laipi dogs, barking twice from time to time, and running all over the street.
The loudspeaker in the village sounded: "Attention villagers, attention to the villagers, the dogs in the village are infected with rabies, and all of them have become mad dogs. The village is taking a break from school and work, and again, don't go out easily! ”
Listening to the voice was the village director's old thunder head, and his tone was very serious.
I realized that my village was about to face a big crisis.