Plague Doctor

Shouldn't childhood memories bring a sweet taste?

Running carefree, crying to buy things, looking forward to measuring your height against the wall.

If... childhood memories bring only horror, fear, sorrow and anger.

Then it may be a very lucky thing to leave it in a corner of the subconscious.

At this moment, Gu Jun looked at the mysterious scene of the phantom, and some scattered memory fragments poured out from the dusty corner, like a long-lost nightmare once again invaded the dream, disturbing the illusory peace of the dreamer .

He saw himself when he was very young, when he was still babbling and toddling.

At that time, he was already receiving some weird and inexplicable training. Around him, there are some other children. He and everyone are looking at the pictures, which are all kinds of big trees with strange shapes, dense vines, twisted branches, and luxuriant dead leaves...

These pictures planted seeds of ignorance in their young and blank hearts.

That kind of seed finally grows... the fruit of darkness?

When they get older, they can walk, run, talk and think...

Gu Jun suddenly found that the surroundings became nothingness, only he was still standing there, among all kinds of strange trees. He had already forgotten the faces of the other children, and he couldn't remember them. It seemed that they had never seen each other after they were separated.

He is special.

The eyes of many people told him this, joy, expectation, and curiosity.

There is always a kind of fanaticism in all forms of eyes, just like looking at an amazing treasure, just like his mother's fanaticism.

Was that woman really his mother? It was the first time that Gu Jun had such doubts, but it was only doubts. Because the tenderness of a woman telling stories to coax him to sleep, the smile when feeding him, the fear when seeing him fall...all are true, they are the feelings of a mother. He is sure.

But how can a mother treat her child like this?

It was the same woman who asked him to scribble the names of the patterns on the drawing paper and write all the variants.

It was also this woman who put on the crown made of intertwined banyan branches, leaves and fibrous roots for him, "Xiaojun, just sit there and don't move." She said, her voice was tense and complicated, she was hesitating Are you still sad?

But obviously, the fanaticism prevailed in the end, like a great experiment is about to usher in a great result...

She couldn't give up on this result.

The experiment started when the mother was pregnant. Gu Jun felt that those hazy antenatal music and whispers were also looming in the depths of the implicit memory.

He is an experimental product of the afterlife, and he has been like this since before he came to this world.

But the question is, what kind of creature is he?

The image of the phantom was shaking, like some blurry cracks were spreading, but Gu Jun could still see that scene.

That icy voice made the dark sky seem to be collapsing. Those men in black and red still knelt on the ground facing the banyan tree, and did not raise their gradually changing faces to look at the banyan tree hole in front of them. It seemed that even a single glance would cause the mind to lose its mind completely and sink into an endless delirium.

Just like Orpheus went down the Styx to save his beloved wife Eurydice, Pluto told them not to look back when they left, but before returning to the gate of the world, Orpheus couldn't help but look back at his wife One glance, but let his wife stay in hell forever.

It is also like when Abraham and his wife fled Sodom, which was destroyed by the gods, Abraham's wife looked back and instantly turned into a pillar of salt.

You must not see what God has not allowed you to see.

Mortals, do not tempt God.

"Son of Doom, as you said." The man in red kneeling at the front said in an extremely humble voice. The muddy and rotten land gave off a stench, but the ugly face did not move at all.

"We are a group of filthy, ignorant, and vile worms, the abandoned believers of the so-called 'Goddess of Life'..."

Every person kneeling down did not make the slightest sound, there was only a dead silence, but above the dead silence, there was clearly a sense of danger.

Goddess of life? Gu Jun once learned from Rabdi Peyani's diary that this is a god revered by that foreign civilization.

Abandoned believers... Are these members of the Afterlife Society speaking as aliens?

Why? Where do they come from? What kind of cognition do you have?

"The old world has been destroyed. When we entered this world, we lost our knowledge and power. We still can't recognize the characters of the old world." The man in red whispered, "But we still remember that the true God Give us the promise..."

Gu Jun's heart skipped a beat, the Afterlife Society didn't grasp those blueprints written by him, did they?

Did Mom and Dad hide it? Perhaps, they have plans that are different from those in the next life...

"Inferior life." The child in the banyan tree cave uttered a strange and emotionless voice: "Inferior wishes."

This response was only contempt, but the staff of the Afterlife Society did not take any action. It's just that the voice of the man in red is a little deeper: "Is it because this body doesn't satisfy you? So he can't accept the power that belongs to the old world? Is it necessary to use him for blood sacrifice?"

The child did not speak, but the silence may also be a response.

"Is this body a sacrifice?" The man in red murmured, "It's bad luck."

the beginning? "

The other kneeling people were still dead silent.

But among the dark clouds in the sky, there was lightning tearing the silence, and gradually there was a rumble of thunder.

At this moment, Gu Jun felt that he had a splitting headache and everything was in a distorted state, but he also felt a flame burning in his heart...

All the complicated emotions gathered together and rushed out.

Suddenly, he spoke aloud...

Is the past real?

Why does the double slit experiment in quantum mechanics show that the future can change the past?

The dark sky finally collapsed, and the torrential rain rushed down to the ground. The voice of the child in the banyan tree cave became hoarse and distorted, as if two voices were twisted together, tearing apart light and darkness, making people crazy and trembling.

"This child has a mission." The child's strange voice resounded in the void, "I will not allow you and other lowly animals to do anything to him."

Those men in black and red still didn't move, still didn't look up.

They also didn't see that the child's eyes became brighter, like a flame burning in the dark abyss.

"This kid will thrive and become a real man. Don't bother him, don't offend him, let him forget about it. But one day in the future, this kid will stand in front of you again."

The children in the banyan tree cave spoke in a distorted and natural way. This conversation has been the same in the past, present and future, with no more words and no less words.

"At that time, all debts will be liquidated. This is my oath to you."

As Gu Jun was talking, he paused every word, and the last sentence was said in his heart: When the time comes, it will be your end.

The whole gigantic banyan tree swayed in the storm, making a rustling and hoarse sound.

And those believers kneeling in the mud finally uttered indescribable whispers, promising the oath bestowed by the gods.

I like Plague Doctor.