Plague Doctor

Tick, the call is connected.

Gu Jun frowned, his heart skipped a beat, and he heard some hissing and rustling sounds against his ear, which seemed to be due to a bad signal. He paid attention to the surroundings of the alley, didn't make a sound first, in fact he didn't intend to make a sound, he just wanted to know if there was anyone in Gurong Village...

No one spoke on the other end of the phone, and the low and hoarse voice became louder and louder.

Hearing this voice, the restlessness that Gu Jun often had recently rose again from the bottom of his heart.

Who is it, who is it! Who is on the other end of the phone...

He really wanted to just ask so loudly, but tried his best to hold back, and even lowered his own breathing to prevent his voice from being exposed.

It seems that once the sound is exposed, an ominous disaster will come.

"..." Gu Jun didn't take the initiative to hang up the phone. Although the pressure in his heart was getting bigger and bigger, he was still listening to the hoarse whisper. Is this a language? He only knew that it wasn't himself in the Longkan video. The language of reading...

No, no, it seems to be the sound of the throat constantly rubbing and squeezing.

There's a creature on the other end of the phone, and it's trying to speak.

Gu Jun tried his best to hear clearly, but the surrounding environment was very noisy. Motorbikes passed by, neighbors were talking, and songs were playing in the store. These sounds mixed together to cover up the strange sound. He continued to listen to his mobile phone while walking into the depths of the alley.

Sizzling, sizzling...

The surrounding noises are getting smaller and smaller, and the strange voice on the other end of the phone is getting louder.

When Gu Jun walked to a secluded place near the garbage dump at the end of the alley, he could suddenly hear it, very softly but clearly...

"help me……"

In the hoarse whispers on the other end of the phone, these two Chinese characters came out, save me.

It was a human voice, although it was so hoarse and trembling, he could recognize the tone and emotion of a human, or rather, fear.

It seems that the throat was opened, and the other end of the phone said one after another: "I'm not... dead... I'm not...they... I don't have... the things in the banyan tree... let me go out, ah... I I don't want to die...help, save me..."

The great pain revealed in this voice made Gu Jun's heart ache.

He could vaguely hear that the other party should be a villager from Gurong Village. He hadn't died yet, but he couldn't evacuate, because he was already infected and his body was deformed, so he was controlled within the village.

A few days ago, Gu Jun was shrouded in the shadow of terminal illness. He knew what it felt like to live a good life but unable to fight death.

"Help me, please, save me..." The voice on the other end of the phone was still howling.

Gu Jun's hand holding the mobile phone was slightly tighter. To his own surprise, at this moment, he remembered that at the beginning of the freshman year, when he was in the first class, he and the whole class were in class together as usual. Standing up to take the Hippocratic Oath.

At that time, he took the oath indifferently, it was just a formality.

"As a medical worker, I formally take an oath to dedicate my life to the service of humanity..."

"I will practice my art with purity and sanctity all my life."

Gu Jun is silent, it is the destiny of a medical dog to cure diseases and save lives. But now, there was nothing he could do.

He couldn't save the director of Gurong Village, he couldn't save the kid who climbed the tree, and he couldn't save the person on the other end of the phone.

"In the banyan tree..." The strange voice from the phone became more and more painful, "The thing...isn't...don't..."

Suddenly, the phone disconnected with a click, beep beep...

Gu Jun looked down at the phone in his hand, took a deep breath, and said softly, "I'm sorry, if I can, I want to save you. I don't have that ability, I haven't..." He looked up at the evening sky, and looked at the He exhaled with a long breath, but a part of his heart became more determined.

That's what he wants to do, to be a real doctor and save people.

There are not so many reasons for being tall... He felt that he just couldn't bear it.

After standing still for a while, Gu Jun tidied up his messy mood, and silently pulled out the new SIM card.

"Things in the banyan tree?" He began to think about what the dying villager said just now, what is it? Is the source of the disease the big banyan tree?

Huge twisted branches, jagged tendons, tangled fibrous roots... Deformed limbs...

These images gradually overlapped in Gu Jun's mind, and an idea naturally emerged: the deformed limbs of those remains are very similar to the branches and roots of banyan trees.

How can a banyan tree become a source of disease?

While Gu Jun was thinking, he turned his head and walked back.

The sky was getting dark, and a gust of cool wind blew by, Gu Jun suddenly felt strange, and he looked around. This area is called "Jufu Lane". There are no high-rise buildings, but some old buildings, cramped streets, dilapidated shop signs, and gradually lost traditions.

He used to come here often, because there are many authentic Dongzhou local food stalls in Jufu Lane, and Dongzhou university students like to come here to taste.

Although the place is very messy everywhere, he is very familiar with every wire and every signboard in this area.

But now walking on the rotten concrete road at the end of the alley, he felt a strange coldness gradually surrounding him.

Tick, tick, it sounded like the sound of rain falling to the ground.

Although the sky was gray, there was no rain.

Dida... Gu Jun suddenly looked back, and there was nothing in the cramped and dilapidated empty alley.

Only those old signboards are shaking slightly, "Tide Hair House, exclusively

Professional hairdressing", "Wing Long Hotel", "copying, typing and faxing"

"It's the man who followed me..." Gu Jun was sure, that guy was following in the dark! He was thinking about what to do, looked away from behind, and turned around, only to see a middle-aged man with a flat head standing less than five steps away.

This man was wearing ordinary plain clothes, his face was a bit haggard, his cheeks were sunken so thin, and his eyes were bloodshot.

It was the man who had been following him for days.

what to do? Gu Jun kept himself calm and ran away? Or are you going to pretend you don't know anything?

But he noticed that the man with the crew cut was looking at him without any scruples, and the gloomy and strange eyes in his eyes were not concealed at all.

Gu Jun suddenly understood, "He knew that I found out that he was following me..." It was precisely because of this that the crew cut man appeared like this.

In an instant, Gu Jun decided to preemptively strike, pretending that it was just ordinary people and ordinary things, without any other involvement, and asked loudly pretending to be frivolous: "Old iron, who are you? I seem to have seen you a few times these days. Staring at me, who are you? What are you staring at?"

"Mr. Gu." The short-haired man smiled, the corners of his puppet-like mouth were torn apart, "Hand over your things, and you'll be fine after you hand them over."

Gu Jun didn't change his face, thinking about how to deal with it, Li Lerui's cell phone was in the inner pocket of his jacket, did he really come here for it...

I like Plague Doctor.