[Chapter 1: Origin (I)]

July 15, Shangyuan Ghost Day.

It was night, the drizzle was slightly hazy, the wind was shining, and on the inky sky, a scarlet waning moon hung high, sprinkling a strange dark red glow, and the dim earth was reflected more and more cold and depressing.

I didn't notice that the moonlight tonight was too different from the previous ones, at this time, I was busy packing up my belongings and preparing to leave work at the Huimin Clinic, but suddenly my eyelids began to jump.

Left auspicious and right, I jumped on the right eyelid.

Speaking of which, as a doctor with a serious Marxist education in the 21st century, my heart should be completely firm in materialism, and it stands to reason that I should not have such superstitious worries...... But the right eyelid jumped so hard that the ominous premonition intensified, so much so that the snort stalled several times in the process of cleaning up the things!

Sure enough, at the next moment, only to hear a bang, the door of the diagnosis room was violently slammed open by an unknown force, and then a strange laughter rang out from far and near, which made people feel terrible.

Who is it?

Immediately afterward, I saw the figure of an old man slowly emerging from the deep darkness of the wind and rain.

Is it a patient? I thought to myself, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and began to shout with three points of impatience and seven points of weakness: "I'm off work!" Come back tomorrow, go back quickly! ”

-He slowly approached me with strange steps, step by step, the figure of the wind and candle walked tremblingly but with a firm and unstoppable goal, and finally, he stood still in front of me, and said in a hoarse voice like metal friction: "Little Ding baby cub, long time no see......"

Little Ding Baby?

Why is such a rustic and unfamiliar name so inexplicably familiar? I looked suspiciously at the uninvited guest in front of me, the old man's withered face, the layers of folds piled up into an extremely ugly smirk, so that people goosebumps constantly, Rao is used to seeing all kinds of terrible wounds, every time this person looks, it still makes my hair stand on end, and I am frightened.

How could there be someone who looked so terrible!

"Hey, it seems that I really forgot ......" Seeing my blank expression, the old man sighed: "Yes, it's been fifteen years, everyone is dead, you were still young at that time, and you shouldn't remember clearly......"

"Fifteen years? All dead? I actually muttered, began to repeat the old man's words, as if I had some kind of nightmare, faintly in my mind, as if something was about to come out, and when I thought about it, it was scattered in all directions, and it was very vague.

And fifteen years ago, in the depths of my mind, there was indeed a memory that I didn't want to touch and tried to forget, did this old man know something? But how is this possible? It's been so long, and I've never mentioned it to anyone, and everyone involved in it is dead except me. Are there still survivors?

I stared at the old man for a long time, and my heart was full of thoughts.

And those terrible memories that have long passed, I really don't want to think about them!

"I forgot everything, but I won't forget this!" As he spoke, the old man took out a yellowed old photo from his pocket, and at that moment my heart was greatly shaken - the photo was my family photo! It also features seven-year-old me and my long-dead parents!

"You, who are you?! How did you find me?! I grabbed the photo and asked urgently.

The old man smiled but did not answer, and let my heart surge, so that the memories that were so long ago that I didn't know if they really existed gradually became clear......

Fifteen years ago, I was seven years old.

At that time, my family and I did not live in the local county seat, and our family originally lived in an extremely remote mountain village from here: Rujia Village.

Our family, like the rest of the village, is farming for a living, sunrise and daily income, in addition, my parents are also the village witch doctor, usually a lot of country people chatter, just in the first grade in the field, I am very unconcerned about this, the village people are very respectful.

The days passed so ordinarily until the seventh day of the seventh month of that year.

It was also such a rainy night, my parents woke me up in a hurry, braved the pouring rain, and took me to the ancestral hall in the village in a panic, and then lit the seven white candles that had been prepared in the ancestral hall with a solemn expression, and when the candlelight flickered, they let me lie down in the coffin of the ancestral hall!

At that time, I was still young, so I naturally didn't realize the horror of a living person lying in a coffin, but I was angry that my parents let me sleep on the hard coffin board from the soft bed to the hard coffin board a little uncomfortable, and I was about to lose a little temper, but my mother cried before me: "Ding Wa, you will have to rely on yourself in the future!" Woowoo...... My son is really miserable......"

I immediately panicked when I saw my mother crying, and soon forgot to be angry and wiped my mother's tears with my little hands, and comforted my crying mother with immature language while wiping, but who expected that the more I wiped my mother, the more I cried, and soon my body was covered with my mother's tears, and I was infected by my mother and cried.

"Cry what cry! Where is there time to cry! The short-sightedness of the woman's house! My father said impatiently, and then he carried me into the dark red coffin, urging my mother to close the lid together.

I vaguely heard their incomprehensible explanation: "Rujia Village has been damned, as soon as the time comes, there will be a flash flood here, and Rujia Village will be submerged at that time, and none of the eighty-one people and forty-nine livestock will be spared, and after death, you will not be able to live beyond life, my son, this is your only chance, you must live!" ”

"What?" As a child, I didn't know the exact meaning of my parents' words, but I also felt the urgency of the matter, so I subconsciously asked: "Abba and Mommy, will you come with me?" ”

"I said eighty-one! It's eighty-one, not one! Do you think we don't want to go? Heaven and earth are reincarnated, there are many yin and yang, and what is owed must be repaid, this is life! "My father roared at me, and the flesh gangs on both sides agitated, like crazy demons, I had never seen my father so fierce, I was so frightened that I immediately shrank into the coffin, and then I heard a bang, and my parents sealed the coffin, and there was only darkness left in my vision.

At the end of his life, he heard his mother's babbling, almost desperate explanation: "The cause of Rujia Village, in time, my son will definitely understand, but we can't accompany you...... All of us have been calculated, eighty-one mouths of old and young, have been counted, and we can't escape, and now, we have no power to return to heaven, and we just happened to be unable to "heal" this old man Wang who died of his life, and counted his life as yours, so that we can save you with the coffin that should have contained him......"

"kid, stop talking! Hurry up and prepare for the follow-up, it's too late! The father interrupted the mother's attempt to explain in more detail.

After that, they were no longer heard.

Only the young me was left, shrunk alone in the corner of the dark and wide coffin and wept aggrievedly, at that time, I didn't realize that there were actually too many mysteries in this coffin:

For example, the coffin was obviously sealed, but strangely there was plenty of air inside, and I didn't feel the slightest sense of suffocation, and not only that, but in the endless darkness around me, I could see the seven fires very clearly—the light of the seven white candles that my parents had lit in the ancestral hall beforehand!

I just thought about it more and more aggrieved, kept wailing, kept crying, until I found out that I was not the only one in this coffin......

[Chapter 2: Origin (II)]

I came across a cold body.

So, what is that? My body trembled uncontrollably, for I could see nothing but the flickering light of the white candles.

"You, who are you......" I said tentatively to the other "person" who was present in the coffin.

No one answered me.

"Abba, Grandma...... Are you there? ”

There was still no sound.

In the eternal silence, I finally cried tired, shouted hoarsely, gradually, an indescribable fear gradually spread, that fear is like thousands of ants, dense, crawling to my heart little by little, all over my body, they mercilessly gnaw my nerves, make my scalp tingle, make my body tremble, make me almost collapse.

How long will I stay here?

I'm only seven years old, how would I know?

Struggling to shrink my body smaller in the coffin, I tried to get a little farther away from the cold body, a little farther away, a little farther away......

My little head is slowly replaying the scene from a moment ago over and over again, thinking about how such a thing could happen, and my mind begins to reflect the daily life since I can remember, my Abba and Aunt are a pair of witch doctors, who know a little bit of witchcraft that the teacher despises, and often see strange people come to their homes, come in with a solemn face, and go out with a sense of relief, and they are not strange many times, and they also remember some strange things they said to me......

When I was immersed in these memories, I gradually forgot my own situation, and the temperature in the coffin was suitable, and even the smell of the peach coffin was very good, and the body next to me was not in the way, and the nervous and young self actually slowly relaxed the nerves, and had sleepiness.

Time passed little by little, probably when it was the time when the parents said before, the silence was shattered!

I heard the howling storm raging wildly towards the small Rujia Village, the sonorous thunder rumbled and rolled over my ears, like the bloodthirsty roar of countless demon beasts, I was obviously hiding in the coffin, but it seemed to be in the center of the whirlpool of the storm, so frightened that I shrunk my body into small and small, clinging to the cold coffin wood, but I couldn't stop the rough and tyrannical sound of nature from the outside world, how could it have rained so heavily in Rujia Village?!

"Ahhh Help me!! ”

"Like water bursting the embankment! Help me! ”

"There's a water ghost!!"

"It's damned, it's damned, that thing is coming for us!"

"The curse has been fulfilled!! Ahhh ”

……

In the midst of the wind and rain, there were chaotic and desperate cries of the villagers, and every sentence went straight to the heart! Outside, what's going on outside, is Abba and Grandma okay? Why, why is this happening?! What the hell is going on?!! I was anxious and afraid, but I couldn't do anything, scratching my ears and cheeks, the coffin I was in actually moved!

It's floating!

Like a flood of water, did you finally rush into the ancestral hall?

At present, this coffin is like a flat boat in the sea, weak and small in the turbulent waves swaying and floating and sinking, with the torrent, I don't know where to float, and the deeper the night, the bigger the torrent, the small coffin is like a stormy leaf, rootless duckweed, being rushed to whirl, the strong dizziness is still secondary, the key is to shake down several times, the other body in the coffin rushed straight into himself with inertia! My whole body was covered by the corpse.

The body was cold and stiff, with the rancid smell of new death!

"Gross!" I finally couldn't help but start vomiting, and the smell in the closed coffin became even more indescribable.

The desperate cries for help from the villagers in my ears didn't stop, and I couldn't help but faint.

Rather than waking up to endure this, being unconscious is really the best option.

However, I seemed to faint for a long time and had an extremely long dream.

In the dream, as if nothing had happened, Abba and Grandma were working in the endless fields as usual, I was playing on the side, and Abba was weeding while not forgetting to test me with some mysterious questions: "Jiamu Yinmu towering tree, what is the next sentence of Jiamu Yin's divine throne?" ”

"Otogi and Umu flowers and bamboos, and Mao is the bed and the bridge," I replied casually, and my attention was still focused on the cricket in my hand.

"Then dry for the sky, the wind of the sky, the mountains of the sky, the heaven and the earth, what about the next sentence?"

"The view of the wind and the earth, the mountain peeling, the fire and the earth, and the fire and the people have." I replied, and at the end I said, "You read these things every day, I have a morning meeting, can you tell something else, I want to hear the story of Journey to the West!" ”

"Seventy-two divination canons, I'll tell you when the plenary session is over!"

"But I don't want to remember, the kindergarten teacher in the county said that these are deceitful old antiques, feudal superstitions......"

"Ouch......" Father let out a long sigh.

This sigh was very long, so long that I began to wonder if the scene in front of me was a dream, until it was so long that the surrounding scenery began to deform and distort, and the cloudless and clear sky was immediately dyed red like blood, and the red was so rich that it seemed to be able to drip out, and the situation of Abba and Aunt and the pastoral joy disappeared in an instant, replaced by the miserable white and puffy faces of countless villagers!

With a sharp and terrifying scream, those faces gradually appeared and magnified in front of my eyes one by one, and even the folds of skin that seemed to have been soaked by the flood were extremely clear, not to mention some of the eyes that were washed away by the flood!

"Why didn't Master Ding save us...... one of the hideous faces giggled and spoke, with a pair of lips that could not be called mouths.

"Little Dingwa! I also gave you a sugar pinch, why did you escape the pinch first if you were ungrateful? ”

"Come out, come and accompany us hahaha!"

……

The words of anger and seduction kept ringing in my ears, and I was terrified