In the doctor's yard, there was a well, which was not dug by hand, but was naturally formed, and it was an irregular round hole. In the rainy season, the well water is four or five meters deep from the ground, but in the dry season, the water is ten meters from the wellhead.

The freak was playing happily in the yard and didn't see the well, and there was no fence around the well, so accidentally, the freak fell into the well.

By the time the doctor saw this, it was too late! The freak screamed and fell. At that time, it was the dry season, and the well was at least more than ten meters deep.

When the doctor ran to the mouth of the well and looked down, he found that he could not see anything in the black hole, only the crackling sound inside, and the struggle and screams of the freaks. In desperation, he took a stick, but when he ran back to the well, he found that the stick was too short, so he went around looking for a longer stick, and tossed and turned for seven or eight minutes, but he still could not think of a way to save the freak.

When he leaned down to the mouth of the well and looked down, the well was basically calm. The doctor knew that after such a long time, the freak must have drowned.

However, for some reason, the freak drowned like this, and the doctor felt a sense of relief.

In the afternoon of the same day, he went down the mountain and told his brother about the freak drowning. When the priest heard this, he couldn't help but feel sorry, but it had already happened, and that was the case.

The doctor also comforted his brother and said that this kind of ending might be good for the freak, because its appearance is too weird and terrible. If he survives, he may suffer even greater disasters and suffering in this world.

Since then, the brothers' lives have been peaceful again. They all thought that this pair of extremely terrible deformed fetuses had died in this different way not long after they came to the world.

But what happened next, the two of them never dreamed of.

The busy work of the day made the priest and the doctor gradually forget about the freak. Peaceful life always passes quickly, in the blink of an eye, months pass, the seasons change, and it is winter.

The doctor who lived in the mountains had a habit of drawing water from the yard and the well every winter, because the water in the well seemed to be hot spring water, with a faint smell of sulfur, and the temperature was very high, so it was very suitable for bathing in winter, but this well water was not drinkable, so the doctor went to the nearby stream to get water to drink.

But because the freak drowned in this well, the doctor did not dare to bathe in the water again, as in previous years.

But in the days after the freak fell into the well, the doctor found a long bamboo pole and tied a net to one end of the pole, and tried to catch it several times, but all of them were found.

This made doctors feel a little strange that in general, after an animal drowns, the carcass floats up. So it should be easy to catch, but for the corpse of this freak, why can't you catch it? That's weird! But this kind of thing, it is inconvenient to find others to help, so you can only secretly find a way to solve it yourself.

In the end, the doctor had no choice but to give up, he felt that this freak was not only "weird" in appearance, but also so weird in death.

Then, a few more months passed, winter turned to spring, and soon the rainy season came, and the water in the well rose sharply.

One night near the beginning of summer, the doctor felt lightning and thunder outside, and it rained heavily all night, and it was not until the early hours of the morning that the rain slowly stopped.

At dawn, the doctor was half-asleep and half-awake when he faintly heard a strange cry from outside—a cry that sounded like a laugh; It's a bit like a wild cat**, and it's a bit like a frog barking, in short, it's a very scary, very uncomfortable sound. This made the doctor feel a little tingling on his scalp, and he immediately became fully awake, as if he had a nightmare.

The doctor hurriedly sat up in his clothes and listened carefully, he always felt that this should be a hallucination in his dream, not real. But when the doctor heard the strange cry again, he realized that the voice he had just heard was not a dream, but real.

He hurriedly got dressed, picked up a knife from behind the door, slowly opened the door by the faint dawn, and tiptoed into the courtyard.

Suddenly, the strange sound sounded again, and the doctor was terrified. He quickly distinguished, and found that the strange sound came from the well, so he hurriedly walked to the mouth of the well and looked down.

After a night of heavy rain, the water level in the well was just over a meter from the well's mouth, and the doctor saw a black thing, struggling on the surface of the water, as if trying to climb up, and the strange sound was made by this thing.

The doctor hurried back into the house, took a pack of matches, and then went back to the mouth of the well and drew one, and by the light of the matches he finally saw what it was—it was a baby!

The baby screamed at the light, and the doctor was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he sat on the ground, and his mind went blank.

I don't know how long it took for the doctor to regain his normal thoughts, and his first thought was—could this be the freak? But it doesn't seem to be, because the doctor is very familiar with the terrifying appearance of the freak, but now the baby in the well looks normal at first glance.

But if it weren't for that freak, how could a baby run into a well? And the average baby will drown in the well, how can it still be alive and make such a strange sound?

The doctor gritted his teeth, stood up, and took a net from the house, and with fear he fished out the mysterious baby. By this time, it was already dawn, and the doctor carefully observed the baby.

He found that the baby, both in body and appearance, was similar to that of an ordinary baby, but only the peculiar eye that protruded from the strange eye allowed the doctor to conclude that this was the freak, but to his shock, the freak had been in the well water for several months, and had not died; Not only is it not dead, but its appearance has changed dramatically, and if it weren't for its eyes and strange screams, it would look almost like an ordinary baby, which is really weird!

Although the baby, who had grown up from a freak, hissed and bit in the net pocket, as if trying to break free, the doctor tightened the net and locked it in the house before hurried down the mountain to find his brother.

When the priest first heard his brother say this, he thought he was joking. Later, after confirming that it was true, he was also shocked, so he hurriedly followed his younger brother to the mountain, and the two brothers repeatedly observed the baby for a long time before they unanimously concluded that this baby must be the freak!

Because although it already looks like a normal baby, if you look closely, you can still see that it still has some traces of the past.

For example, the most obvious are the eyes that are protruding and round, very much like a frog; And the feet - its feet still look like frog's feet, and there is some thin flesh between the toes, which should be considered flippers.

It was the second half of the nineteenth century, when the theory of evolution was quite popular, and doctors certainly knew something about it. He knew that the earliest ancestors of man lived in the ocean, and after millions of years of evolution, they became the people they are today.

And this extremely strange experience of the freak made the doctor suddenly realize that the qiē that happened to this freak was the phenomenon of "atavism"? In the medical cases he knows, there are many atavistic phenomena, for example, some babies will have tails, some will be covered with hair, and some babies will even have "fangs" like animals, which are atavistic phenomena.

Could it be that the qiē that happened to a freak is also some kind of atavism? But for a while, he couldn't think clearly.

Since the freak is not dead, it has to be raised.

However, because the appearance of the freak is relatively close to that of a normal baby, the doctor raised it, and felt much more comfortable, and in the process of this freak slowly growing up, the doctor found that the abnormal parts of its appearance have slowly become normal, including the eyes that are becoming more and more like human eyes, and the webbing on the feet has slowly faded. Outwardly, freaks are becoming more and more normal.

By the time he was just over two years old, the freak had become a completely normal child - at least physically.

The doctor dared to take it to the streets, and announced that it was his adopted child. However, the doctor still found that the child who grew into this freak still has a lot of weirdness in many ways.

For example, almost every day, it has to bury its head in a basin of water for dozens of minutes, or even an hour, during which time it seems as if it is not breathing.

In addition, the doctor also found that the freak developed into a child who was very sensitive to moving objects.

For example, in the summer, doctors can often see a bunch of flies in front of the child, which are caught by the child. Because as long as there is a fly flying in front of the child, it can't help but reach out and grab it. And it was sure to catch it every time, and the speed was so fast that it would quickly counterattack not only the flies, but also the objects that approached it, which surprised the doctor very much.

Also, this weird child has a very good body, and can move all the time, or do one thing, as if he doesn't know what it means to be tired.

All of this qiē is far beyond the doctor's comprehension.

The cold and summer came and went, the years passed, and soon more than ten years passed, and the child grew to eleven or twelve years old, except for his strange personality and behavior, he looked no different from ordinary children.

But it is very withdrawn, never interacts with others, and will often be attacked by others because of their proximity, and even seriously injured people. Even the doctor himself did not dare to get too close to it. This was a huge headache for the doctor, and he had to keep the child at home as much as possible and keep it out of contact with others.

But the doctor knew that he could not control the child at all, because he found that although he was an adult, and he was strong and in his thirties, he was no match for the child at all, and he found that he was too far behind this child in terms of strength and speed. Therefore, he was often attacked by this child, and he was so big that he was bruised and purple. This made him very distressed, but it happened that by chance, the doctor finally discovered the child's Achilles' heel.