The Rural Doctor of the Mountain Village

  The village was already very, very far away and almost completely out of sight. The lights in the village lit up, and due to the great distance, the lights from each household were all blended together into a single blur.

  At this time, I should have lit the kerosene lamp and stayed in one of the rooms. However, I had to leave.

  I took one last look at the village and turned around to leave.

  The mountains are very dark and it's very dangerous at night. However, I don't care anymore, since I've chosen to walk this path, I shouldn't be afraid.

  Gradually, I walked further and further away. Turning my head to look back, there were no longer any villages behind me, only a desolate mountain forest remained. And at this time, all around was eerily quiet, with only myself left.

  I'm a bit scared, but this is the first decision I've made in my life, and I absolutely won't choose to turn back.

  Gritting my teeth, I continued to move forward. After a long, long time, the surrounding mountains and forests kept changing, and the bright moon in the sky also changed its position without realizing it.

  I was hungry, so I stopped to eat a few mouthfuls of dry rations and drank a few mouthfuls of water. But the steep mountain road plus a night without sleep made me feel my body getting more and more tired.

  I don't know how many mountains I've crossed, but finally, I used up the last bit of my strength and fell softly to the ground, closing my eyes and falling asleep.

  However, when I woke up, I found that the environment around me had changed. I was no longer on the mountain, but lying in a bed. In front of me, there was a little kid staring at me with a smile.

  This kid is wearing tattered clothes and has a face smeared with saliva and snot. This is a typical rural child, in the countryside, children are often dirty, and adults don't care about it.

  After feeling a wave of confusion, I got up from the bed, and that little kid ran out to call his family. The one who came in was his mother, tall and big in stature, with very dark skin, a typical rural woman.

  Her face wore a silly smile, and her voice was bright: "Wow, you woke up so quickly."

  I shouted at Auntie: "How did I end up here?"

  She walked over and patted my head, which made me subconsciously guard against her. My body also shrunk back: "You little kid, you look like you still have a bit of stubbornness in you. Are you a runaway? I'll take you home."

  I shook my head: "I have no home."

  She said, "You child is still telling lies, listen to me, hurry back home. You don't know how dangerous it was for you this morning. Fortunately, I went up the mountain early and discovered you in time. You were lying on that mountain like a dead person, no matter how loudly you shouted, there was no response."

  I said thank you and then put on my shoes and walked out of the house.

  "Hey kid, where are you going?"

  "I said: 'Thank you for bringing me back, I'm leaving.'"

  After finishing speaking, I really left and walked out of the house. Behind me, there was a sigh from the mountain village woman. I didn't pay attention to it and continued walking.

  But as I walked, I was attracted by a burst of crying. Stopped, turned my head to look, the cry was coming from the village. However, this has nothing to do with me, after a slight hesitation, I continued walking forward.

  Just then, a chaotic and rapid footsteps came towards me, I suddenly turned my head, only to see four or five villagers carrying a stretcher rushing over. On the stretcher lay a child, about the same age as me.

  And when I saw this kid for a moment, my scalp was numb. The look of that kid was really too scary.

  He lay on the stretcher, his hands were clenched into fists and stretched forward, his waist was bent, his neck was arched back, his eyelids were rolled up, and his mouth was wide open. I clearly saw that this child had already stiffened all over and died completely.

  But his death was really too strange, very abnormal.

  As I watched the stretcher being carried past me, I got goosebumps all over my body. It wasn't until they were very far away that I finally came back to my senses.

  After trembling for a while, I finally woke up with a start. But in that instant, I made a decision in my heart.

  The boy's death is absolutely not simple, I can see that there are actually mysterious door techniques in it. Since the day Wu Xianyi left, I hastily flipped through that book "Ghost Doctor's Art". I compared the content of the book with the child's recent death, and I was even more shocked.

  The child's foot was curled backwards, and I saw clear rope marks on it. The rope marks were not light, indicating that he had hung heavy objects from his hands. If my guess is correct, he probably hung a steelyard or a large iron pot from his hands. This is called a soul-locking device, which can prevent the child's soul from dispersing after death.

  Secondly, I saw the child's hands stretched out in front of him, with similar marks on his hands. From the child's entire body posture, it is not difficult to see that the child was hung from something. Not hanging by his neck, but hanging by his hands.

  This is also a saying, hanging hands and hanging necks are different. Hanging hands can make a person die very slowly, until he is better off dead. Hanging hands is to achieve this effect, making him worse than death, and then forcing his soul out.

  Apart from this, I also saw a child wearing a bright red skirt, and vaguely saw a red swimsuit inside the skirt, which was the most frightening. When I saw the bright red skirt for a moment, all my hairs stood up.

  Regarding this red color, there is also a saying that red skirts and swimsuits are women's clothing, which belongs to yin things. Moreover, this red color can make its yin properties more pure. This dress can make the child's soul more yin.

  On this child's body, there were actually so many mysterious techniques hidden. I was stunned at that moment. In fact, there were still many mysterious techniques on the child's body, among which I saw a hole in the center of the child's eyebrows, and this hole was used to summon souls.

  I don't know why, but after a brief moment of fear, I suddenly felt excited. I had made up my mind, I was going to stay. I had promised Wu Xian, I would definitely get stronger. And now in front of me, such a great opportunity, how could I possibly let it go.

  I turned around with a thick face and walked towards the mountain village woman, asking: "Auntie, tell me, what's wrong with that child just now?"

  When you need something from someone, your way of addressing them naturally changes. After all, "aunt" is a more intimate term.

  The mountain village woman looked at me, with a strange expression on her face: "What are you, a kid, listening to nonsense for? I'll tell you, that child died under very suspicious circumstances, don't go stirring up trouble."

  I shook my head: "No, I just want to know what that kid's name is. Auntie, just tell me."

  I have to say, after being with Wu Xianyi for so long, I haven't learned any other skills, but my skin has thickened a lot. The mountain village woman was asked by me and had no choice but to say: "That child died just a few days ago, and when he died, his hands were tied up and hung from the beam of the house. We saw it at the time and were scared to death."

  Women are like this, as long as their mouths are opened, they have a lot to say: "And I'm telling you, when he died, his posture was even stranger. When his family found him, his body had already stiffened, and it took them a lot of effort to straighten his body a bit."

  As he said that, the image of the child's dead body flashed through my mind, and my heart skipped a beat again. At this moment, I was even more convinced of my previous speculation, that the child's death was not normal.

  The corpse was hung from a beam in the house, which is another suspicious point. Generally speaking, beams are made of wood, and wood can summon spirits, serving to collect souls.

  If we put these guesses together, the beam is wood, the steelyard weight is gold, red is fire, swimsuit is water, and earth is soil. Added up, all five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are present.

  At this moment, I felt a huge pressure. Because the person who killed this child is obviously not an ordinary person. His method is not only extremely cruel, but also exceptionally brilliant, simply perfect.

  And I just flipped through Wu Xianyi's book, although I knew these techniques, but had no way to deal with them.

  I started getting scared because the other party was someone I couldn't afford to mess with.

  But I gritted my teeth and clenched my fists. I won't back down, I want to get stronger, so I must abandon fear.

  I touched the human skin drum at my waist and felt a little more at ease, this is my only grip.