Plague Doctor

There was a hoarse call of a night crow, and heavy shadows swayed in the deep forest.

The dark night sky, mottled rocks, withered leaves, and a pool of stagnant water in the forest with some green algae floating on it. Right next to it, there is a rotten tree trunk lying upside down. From its thick outline, it can be seen that this rotten tree was once a large tree with lush branches.

It looked like an oak tree.

"I, why am I here..."

Next to the small water pool, Gu Jun looked around in confusion and covered his painful head. Is this an illusion? dream? No, it doesn't look like...

He is actually here, he can feel it.

"What's going on? Xianyu and I returned to the Dongzhou base and went to the psychiatric building to see the child named Zhong Huili. Then... Xiao Huili had a convulsive attack and cursed at me. I had a headache and my whole body twitched. It’s a stress reaction, maybe…and then…”

Some intermittent and chaotic memory scenes flashed before Gu Jun's eyes. He murmured to himself, shouted to himself, and pushed away the people who were blocking him... He told the anxious Wu Shiyu not to follow, and told Cai Zixuan and the others not to follow. Don't even follow me...

"Am I acutely insane... agitated? Manic?"

His heart sank. It was very possible that his current physical and mental conditions were different from before.

There are biological changes in his brain, and his mood has always been in a state of ups and downs recently, as if PTSD could occur at any time...

And this time, perhaps there was also the spiritual influence of that strange curse.

"This is where?"

Gu Jun looked at the hazy surroundings, which were filled with dead trees and dead branches.

He had no doubt that such a place was haunted by dark forces and their followers. Perhaps it is here, around this pool of stagnant water that exudes the stench of corruption, that those evil believers are performing some unknown ritual in the dark, extending their sinful hands to those innocent children.

He searched for himself and found that there was no cell phone, walkie-talkie, etc., but he was still carrying the backpack. There were not many things in it, including the five Carlop anatomy instruments, Xianyu's watercolor painting... there was nothing to give up. Contact him with the outside world, or let him figure out where this is.

Through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the forest, I could see the dark night sky without stars. When the branches and leaves were swayed by the cold wind, the dark clouds remained heavy and motionless.

Gu Jun stood there for a long time, still not moving, listening attentively to the surroundings. There were strange and chaotic sounds in the mountains and forests, but there was no call...

"I should have run away from the Medical Department base and fled into the surrounding mountains and fields. But in that case, there is no way I haven't been found by anyone yet. There are surveillance, sentry, and patrol teams all around the base, and I can How fast are you running? Find a police dog and catch up in no time..."

Gu Jun didn't think that the others really listened to him and didn't chase after him, and the environment here wasn't like that of the base.

"Ah..." His head suddenly cracked with pain, and some memory fragments flashed through him.

In his mind, he seemed to hear everyone exclaiming, "Be careful, be careful!" Wu Shiyu rushed to pull him, but he pushed him away. He seems to have... used a spell to summon something. Is it the "Seven Secrets of the Earth", the entity of the fifth secret, the Great Night Dire... Byaki?

This was his guess, because he had seen the text copy of the fifth secret, but he had not read the secret code, and he had not practiced to that level.

There was no memory picture to confirm his guess. He just seemed to summon some strange creature and then flew away from the base.

Could that be some kind of foreign spell? Gu Jun was at a loss, not sure this was near the base, or even actually in Dongzhou.

"How can I still use spells? My mental strength is obviously in shambles now... But when a person falls into madness, it is another state."

Gu Jun was just thinking, when suddenly a strong wind blew by, and the trees and weeds everywhere rustled. He turned around and saw a figure running through the forest over there. He frowned, looked around, and then looked into the pool. Apart from the reflection, there seemed to be some rotten flesh like rotting mud...

Just standing here was no solution. He looked for footprints in the soil under his feet to see if he could find the direction he came from.

But it seems... that alien creature landed here, and the rotten flesh was what it exploded.

In the cold night wind, there was a faint sound of tinkling, tinkling...the sound of a piano.

"Piano, how can there be a piano in this barren mountain and countryside...Am I going to the place where the enemy wants me to come..."

Is this an invitation?

"Who are you?" Gu Jun asked softly, taking out the Carlop scalpel and holding it in his hand.

The sound of the piano is getting clearer and clearer, and the melody is very beautiful and sweet, as if it is the quiet words spoken by this mountain forest.

But Gu Jun concentrated his attention to prevent himself from being immersed in the music. He walked in the opposite direction to the sound of the piano and walked into the gloomy mountain forest. However, after walking about ten meters on the rotten black soil, he felt that he was getting closer to the sound of the piano...

He immediately turned around and walked in the other direction, but after walking for a short distance, the sound of the piano was still getting closer and closer.

When he tried all directions with the water pool as the midpoint, he was sure that the sound of the piano was like a ghost, following him like a shadow.

Gu Jun knew that this was his territory, and no matter which way he went or what he did, it would not affect the approaching sound of the piano.

He walked as he felt, ten steps, twenty steps, fifty steps... The sound of the piano resounded through the forest. He walked out of the dense forest and arrived at an open forest land. There were some ancient and huge oak trees in front of him.

The twisted branches falling to the ground formed a grotesque scene. It was an oak forest.

Just over there, next to an oak tree, there is an old black piano covered with moss, and a figure is sitting in front of the piano.

Gu Jun's eyes suddenly condensed. What is that thing? Is it a human being...

The figure was only covered in ragged rags, and his whole body was swollen like a giant's corpse. Only his hands were as withered as bones, and his long fingers were constantly playing on the piano keys. Judging from the outline structure, it does look like a human being, an old male.

At this time, the figure slowly glanced this way. His face was as old and swollen as a corpse, and his eyes were full of pain.

Gu Jun felt a chill in his heart. The more he listened to this piece of music, the more he felt that the style was very similar to some of the Mozart pieces he had listened to in the past few days...

His head felt a sharp pain again, and he heard a female voice laughing softly in the forest.

"Dear brother, you are here..."

There are many shadows in the oak forest, but the swollen old man under the tree in front continues to play the piano.

Love the Plague Doctor.