Chapter 1: The Worm Son
When I was seven years old, I got separated from my parents at the market.
A woman in a floral cloth dress kindly told me that she could take me to my parents.
I followed her into a dilapidated house, where the woman asked me to drink a glass of water and told me that I would soon be able to see my parents.
After I drank the water, after a while, I felt heavy on my eyelids and quickly fell asleep.
I was in a daze, I felt like I was jolting for a long time, I had a lot of strange dreams, and I even felt like a bug was drilling inside me.
I don't know how long it took, I suddenly felt a rough hand, constantly pinching my body, and vaguely heard a voice coming "This little doll's body is too weak, not as good as the previous few ......"
Just when I thought it was a dream, there was a sharp pain in my right wrist.
I opened my eyes screaming, only to find myself in a dark room with someone I had never seen before.
The man was dressed in sackcloth, extremely ugly in appearance, with a thin body, no flesh on his face, his skin was yellow, like a dead tree bark attached to his body, and he was holding a sharp knife in his hand, which was stained with blood. And my right hand was dripping with blood, and it was flowing into a porcelain bowl.
"Who are you, what are you going to do, I want to go home!" I trembled all over, ignored the pain in my arm, and screamed loudly.
The man sneered: "You were bought by me with money, and you want to go home and wait for the next life." "He was very strong and grabbed my arm so hard.
Only then did I realize that the woman in the cloth I met was a human trafficker, and the thin ugly man in front of me had bought me, and this place may be thousands of miles away from home, and I may never be able to go back.
"Let me go back, my mom and dad can give you lots and lots of money...... I have a piggy bank myself, and I can give it to you. Uncle, I beg you...... "No matter how much I pleaded, the ugly man was indifferent.
Soon, the porcelain bowl filled a small half bowl of blood.
The ugly man let go of me and walked to the shrine with the porcelain bowl in his hand.
There seems to be a spiritual seat on the shrine, but it is covered with a black cloth, and it is impossible to see what it is.
When the ugly man put the blood in front of the shrine, his mouth began to babble, and he said something I did not understand.
I saw the black cloth move faintly, and immediately, I saw that the blood in the porcelain bowl began to agitate, and the blood in the bowl was decreasing.
Is there something drinking blood? Why can't I see?
I couldn't believe my eyes, so I reached out and rubbed them, but I couldn't see anything.
Is it a ghost? I've heard the old man say before that ghosts are invisible.
I sat down on the ground in fright, my head blank, my body shaking, forgetting to cry and flee the door.
When there was not a drop of blood left in the porcelain bowl, the ugly man turned to look at me, his eyes were already scarlet, greedy and excited, the oil lamp in the room flickered, and he was a demon in the shadow.
"You've been chosen, and it drank your blood." The ugly man shouted excitedly, "Little doll, if you stay with me obediently, you will not have to worry about your life, and if you escape, you will die a miserable death." I, Luo Dajin, don't say big things, as long as you dare to escape, I will make your life worse than death! ”
"What is it...... What picked me? I asked desperately.
"You'll find out tomorrow! From today on, you will change your name to Luo Jiu, and you will be my worm son......" Luo Dajin said loudly, his tone could not be changed.
"No...... No...... I'm not called Luo Jiu, my name is Xiao Kang......" I was stunned for a moment and loudly expressed my dissatisfaction, "I'm not your worm son either!" ”
In just half an hour, I already knew that when I encountered this demon, the chances of me escaping were slim, and I might never be able to return home. Only the name Xiao Kang was given to me by my parents, and it is the only thing I can have, and I must not give it up.
Luo Dajin's expression was hideous, he stepped forward, grabbed my sleeve, and the two ear scrapers fell: "Your name is Luo Jiu, you are my insect son!" ”
"No...... My name is Xiao Kang. My face hurt hotly, but I still turned my head and rejected him, and I don't know where the courage came from, I even stared at him viciously with wide eyes.
Luo Dajin snorted coldly: "You will accept your new name!" You're going to beg to be my son! As soon as the words fell, Luo Dajin carried me with one hand and walked inside.
It didn't take long for me to hear the sound of Si Si Suo, and the light was dark, and I didn't know where it was. Hearing only a "squeak", Luo Dajin opened the door, threw me in, and threw me in.
I stumbled on the ground, my shoulder aching, and rolled down the steps, thumpping and thumping before finally coming to a halt.
"Worm son, you just spend the night with them!" Luo Dajin said loudly, click, the door closed from the outside, and there was a sound of locking.
After Luo Dajin left, I curled up in the corner, not daring to make any sound, the figure of my parents appeared in my mind, thinking of my warm bed, thinking of the delicious meals at home, and now I am hungry and thirsty, I don't know where I am, tears began to roll in my eyes.
I gritted my teeth so that the tears did not flow, and Abba had told me that I was a little man, and I would not shed tears when I bleed. Can't cry, can't cry, Xiao Kang, I told myself in my heart that I must have a chance to leave here, and I will definitely go home.
I'm going to live, I told myself in my heart.
Darkness enveloped me, and strange noises kept coming from the dark space, and I didn't dare to sleep, but sleepiness came one after another.
Suddenly, my arm went numb, and a heart-piercing pain came.
I hurriedly reached out and hit it, and a black bug hit it.
It seems that there are a lot of poisonous insects in this cellar, so I guess they made the sound of Suosuo.
I was most afraid of those black poisonous insects, so I hurriedly moved to the side, and when I moved, my body was bitten a few times, and the sharp pain in my heart hit, and I fell to the ground, and my body gradually became stiff and unable to move.
In a moment, I felt all kinds of poisonous insects crawling on my body from all directions, stinging people should be poisonous scorpions, many thin feet should be centipedes, some slippery should be poisonous snakes, and the ceiling of the cellar should be some highly poisonous spiders.
The sharp pain of the poisonous insect bite hit me one after another, and my whole body was awake and confused for a while, and blood began to flow out of my mouth. I felt that everywhere in my body, poisonous insects were biting, and they had to eat all the flesh and drink the blood before they let me go.
I cried out in my heart, "Dad, Mommy, I miss you so much...... I'm going to be bitten to death by a poisonous bug. Where are you, why don't you come to me......"
No, I can't die, I want to live...... I want to live......
I told myself in my heart that if I died here, I wouldn't know where I was, that Luo Dajin would still harm others, and no one would punish this Luo Dajin.
Alive, I want to live, I don't know where the strength comes from, I began to crawl against the ground, although the speed is very slow, far less than the speed of the poisonous insect pursuit, but I have to crawl forward.
I don't know how long it took for me to touch something like a jar.
The jar was so big that I climbed into it with all my might, and hid in it, and when I climbed into it, the pursuing insects did not follow.
I curled up in the jar and fell asleep, I don't know how long.
When I woke up, I saw Luo Dajin standing in front of me, holding a bowl of steaming rice in his hand. The place where Luo Dajin was standing was surrounded by an astonishing number of poisonous scorpions and poisonous centipedes.
The light in the cellar had brightened a lot, and it seemed that it was already dawn outside.
"Good son, baby son! You can save your life from the mouths of the five poisonous insects, and climb into the jar by yourself, it's amazing! Luo Dajin actually showed a satisfied smile, "It seems that you are qualified to become a Gu person!" No wonder the Gu God drank your blood last night! ”
I struggled to get up from the jar, and I didn't have time to remember the meaning of Luo Dajin's words, so I looked around and found that there were nine huge jars in the cellar, arranged in two rows, and I was in one of them.
The other eight large jars had been sealed with black cloth, faintly emitting a rancid smell.