Chapter 11: Dead Ticks

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The "squeak" was loud, like the sound of a rat being roasted by a fire. I couldn't help but look back, only to see that in the fire, my mother's head had been burned black, but what was amazing was that the head was actually turning in the fire, as if it was a living thing, trying to avoid the scorching flames, and Bu Jin was standing aside, constantly pulling the head with a small wooden stick to prevent the head from rolling out of the fire.

"What's going on?" I asked.

Bu Jin didn't look at me, but continued to stare at the head in the fire, and said lightly: "There is a worm in her head." ”

When I heard this, my heart chuckled. Bugs again? In the past, I only thought that insects were terrifying and disgusting, but since I met Bu Jin, I have felt more and more that in the world of Miao Wu, all kinds of strange insects are not only unheard of by me, but also have their own special functions.

I asked Bu Jin what kind of worm got into my mother's head, Bu Jin thought about it, probably didn't know how to express it in Chinese, and immediately said a word in Miao, and I didn't understand what it meant. So, I continued to stare intently at the fire.

The skull had been scorched by the flames, and there was not much skin left, and bones had been exposed in some places.

Suddenly, there was a thud from the skull, and then a large bug the size of two fists came out of my mother's skull.

I called out "Ahhhhh

It dawned on me that my heart was saying that the wound on my finger just now was caused by the bite of this thing.

At this moment, the insect kept struggling in the fire, but Bu Jin didn't give it any chance at all, so after a while, the "squeak" sound disappeared immediately, leaving only the "crackling" sound of the fire burning and the sound of a cold wind blowing from time to time around.

Bu Jin flicked the corpse of the insect with a wooden stick again, then got up and said to me, "Okay." ”

I saw that she looked like she was about to leave, so I grabbed her and asked, "You mean, it was the worm that was controlling my mother's body just now." ”

Bu Jin stood still, thought for a while, seemed to be organizing language, and then said: "Bugs are Gu that were put by others. ”

I waited for Bu Jin's next words, but she only said so much, and then said to me, "Let's go." ”

Walk?

I said, "I can't just go like this, my mother's head is still here." ”

Bu Jin looked at me suspiciously, as if he was puzzled by my words, and then said, "Then you can carry the skull home." ”

Take it home? I hesitated again, but after thinking about it, this is my mother after all, and I can't just leave a part of her body here, and although I am afraid, I still bring my mother's skull home after the fire is extinguished.

That night, Bu Jin and I returned home, and she quickly fell asleep and seemed tired, while I tossed and turned, unable to sleep anyway. As soon as I closed my eyes, I was frightened by Zhang Hefang's strange tone, the head in the toilet tank of Xiao He's security guard, and my mother's corpse, especially when I realized that my mother's skull was in my home at the moment.

After a few tosses, I got up and decided to make a phone call to Ryazan, and at that time, it was already three o'clock in the morning.

I took out my phone, looked through the call logs from the night before, found the number that Ryazan had called me, and dialed it.

After the phone rang twice, a very impatient middle-aged woman answered the phone, she spoke in a very strong dialect, and I struggled to understand her words, she said, "Hello, Tongle Hotel." ”

Hotel? I was a little surprised, but I also felt that it was reasonable, after all, Ryazan's home was not there, and if he waited for me to rush to Hubei, then he must have found a hotel to live there.

"Hey, hello, I'm sorry to bother you so late." I said politely.

"Say something soon." The voice of the middle-aged woman on the other end of the line didn't sound very friendly.

I knew that it was not very authentic to call at this time, so I forgave the proprietress (who should be the proprietress for being rude), so I said bluntly: "Hello, I want to find someone named Ryazan." ”

"Ryazan?" The proprietress repeated my name and said, "Wait, I'll check." ”

"Okay."

About two minutes later, there was a response on the other side of the phone, and I heard the proprietress say: "Ryazan has already checked out yesterday, are you Mr. Fan Peixi?" ”

When I heard the proprietress know my name, I was a little surprised, but I didn't ask her why I knew my name, but just replied, "Yes, I'm Fan Peixi." ”

"Do you have a pen and paper with you now?" The hostess asked.

"Huh?" I didn't know why, so I asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"You can say yes or no."

I found a random sticker and a regular ballpoint pen on the coffee table at home and said, "Yes." ”

"The man named Ryazan had a request before leaving, if a person named Fan Peixi came to him, he would call this number, you should remember it." After saying that, the proprietress recited a string of numbers to me.

I jotted down the number, and before I could say thank you, the phone hung up.

I wrote down the number and dialed another number, and the phone rang twice, this time an old man answered, "Hey, Shanming Hotel." ”

It's a hotel again. However, I was no longer surprised and asked point-blank if there was anyone named Ryazan.

The old man made me wait for a moment, and then said to me almost exactly the same thing as the previous proprietress and said, "Ryazan has already checked out this evening, but he has instructed that if anyone is looking for him, call this number, and I will tell you." ”

I hurriedly wrote another number on the random sticker.

This time, after I finished writing, I didn't immediately dial the phone number, but fell into a deep thought.

What the hell is this Ryazan doing, originally, the fact that he is not dead but in Hubei is enough to surprise me, and now he is playing missing again, and through the two phone calls just now, I can already clearly know that this guy seems to change places to live every day, and change places with one shot, what is this for?

Could it be that Ryazan guy is traveling in Hubei? I thought about Ryazan's grinning face, and I thought that maybe it was really like this, although this guy seemed to be very powerful, but, judging from his character, this guy must be a person who can enjoy life quite a lot, and live a very happy life.

However, instead of thinking about it, it is better to make a phone call and ask him about the situation. The main reason why I wanted to call him was that I had indeed seen a lot of strange things in the past few days, and Ryazan seemed to have expected all of this, so he would probably know the reason.

I dialed the third number, and this time, the phone rang for a long, long time, and I almost gave up, but at this time, the phone was answered, and this time it was not the innkeeper, but Ryazan himself.

"Who?" Listening to his voice, it seemed that I was disturbing his sweet dreams.

"It's me, Fan Peixi." I said.

As I expected, this guy immediately became energetic as soon as he heard my name, and said into the microphone: "Hey, my Lord Peixi, you're still thinking about me, why did you call me?" Missed me? ”

"Fuck off." I scolded, "You should know why I called you." ”

Ryazan sighed twice on the phone and said, "My Lord Peixi, I'm a good young man, don't treat me as a god, okay, where do I know so many things?" ”

Although Ryazan couldn't see it at all, I still unconsciously glanced at it and said, "Unfortunately, you have said it. ”

"What's wrong? Broken out of love? "Ryazan, as always, teased me.

"Lost your sister, what I'm talking about was hit by your crow's mouth, and in the past few days, I have indeed seen a lot of strange things." I don't know why, but when I say this, I have a deflated balloon-like feeling.

Ryazan pretended to be relaxed and said: "Strange things are strange things, don't pay attention to them, anyway, didn't you say that you don't want to wade into any more troubled waters, you have to get by, why bother so much?" ”

"Fart!" I cursed, "If this is a normal weird thing, you think I'm going to come to you?" When it comes to my mother's body, how can I not care about it? ”

"Oh?" Ryazan seemed a little surprised, he did not know the news that my mother was dead, and asked, "Tell me about it." ”

So, I concisely relayed to Ryazan what had happened in the past two days, but since it was concise, it was bound to leave out some details. However, Ryazan seemed to have a very clear idea of the whole thing, and always asked me questions in the appropriate places and asked me to tell him the details.

After listening to this, he was silent on the other side of the phone for a long time, and then said to me: "I guess that Zhang Hefang is probably also a Miao Wu." And the kind of bug in your mother's head is supposed to be a corpse tick. ”

"Corpse ticks? What's that? I asked.

Liang Zan sighed and said, "Lord Peixi, why do you have to ask everything, you just need to know that the thing is cultivated by the Gu Master, isn't it a kind of Gu worm that can enter people's heads and manipulate people's nerves." ”

"Then you mean that Zhang Hefang is from the Miao ethnic group?" I was surprised.

"That's not it, after all, no one has a rule that only Miao people can be Gu masters, right?" Ryazan said: "All in all, you have to be careful of that Zhang Hefang, I estimate that he is the one who gave Gu to your mother's corpse, as for the reason, I don't dare to say yet." However, I think that Zhang Hefang will never let you go for a while. By the way, didn't he give you an address and tell you to find someone, where is that address? ”

If Ryazan hadn't mentioned it to me, I would have almost forgotten it completely, so I immediately went to get the note that He Fang had handed me, and told Ryazan the address, along with the name of the person mentioned in the address.

I was absentmindedly saying the person's name, but when Ryazan heard the person's name, he was suddenly startled and shouted into the phone: "What do you say that person's name is?" ”

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