Chapter 37: The Palace's External Fetus X Double-Faced Freak Baby

  In 1997, the mainland Chinese medicinal materials market was booming, and many people became rich overnight by selling Chinese medicinal materials, attracting countless people to flock to it.

  The goat beard is one of these gold diggers.

  He inquired from many sources and learned that the Leigong Mountains had a large number of precious wild medicinal materials, so he decided to come over here for on-the-spot investigation.

  It was a joyful day when Hong Kong returned to the motherland, the whole nation celebrated, and laughter filled every corner.

  The goat-bearded man arrived at the Leigong Mountains, and when he was approaching Xiayuan Village, he suddenly heard a woman's painful moan in a thicket.

  It was afternoon, but the sky was overcast with a dizzying pale yellow hue.

  The goat horns passed through a shrub as tall as a person, and saw that under a slope below, there was a woman with her clothes covered in fresh red blood all over her body. She sat with her hands propped up behind her on the mud, which was entirely stained with blood. Between her legs was a lump of red flesh.

  The goat looked carefully and found that it was a newborn baby, with the umbilical cord still hanging down to the ground.

  The baby seems to be moving but there is no crying sound.

  The woman stared at the baby, her face twisted in a strange expression, one moment crying and the next laughing, one moment trembling with fear, and the next wanting to rush over and hug the child.

  Then, the woman seemed to have made up her mind and suddenly stood up and ran away wildly without looking back.

  The scene frightened the goat whiskers, because he knew that a woman who had just given birth was extremely weak, but the woman in front of him still had such great strength to run so fast, and she was so ruthless as to abandon her ten-month-old child.

  The goat rushed down the slope in a hurry, wanting to save this innocent baby.

  But when he approached the baby, he knew why the mother had abandoned the baby and run away like a madman.

  This baby is a freak, he has two skulls.

  For conjoined twins, the goat that has traveled south and north has indeed seen pictures of conjoined twins, but in the past, the conjoined twins he saw had two separate heads, with two independent necks that were not stuck together.

  The conjoined baby in front of me has one main head and another relatively small head that is directly stuck to the main head. The smaller head only has an eye in the middle, a nose turned up, and lips curled up - it looks unspeakably terrifying and hideous.

  The goat hesitated, for he himself felt that this infant was emitting a strange aura all over his body.

  Moreover, he understood that even if the baby was rescued, the exposure to society in the future would make him worse off than dead.

  So, the goat mustered up its courage and ignored the strange baby, running away instead.

  But when he ran to the riverbank, he suddenly felt a pang of conscience and thought it was not right to deprive an infant of its right to live, so he ran back.

  But when he returned to that slope again, the baby was nowhere to be found. It's very likely that it was taken away and eaten by a wolf or some other wild beast.

  The goat beard infinitely sighed and said, "I still feel guilty in my heart now. So every year when I come here, I will go to that place to worship."

  "Don't try to fool me, I don't believe this story. Everyone knows that the slope you're talking about is called Luoshui Slope, and it's part of Xiayuan Village. You said that woman gave birth to a strange baby, but we all know that Xiayuan Village was cursed by the Thunder God, and any babies born there are stillborn. Yet you claim to have seen the baby moving - what a lie!"

  The speaker was an old man with a head of white hair, who was the chef at the Leigong Inn and was named Luo Jianjun.

  It seems there was a dispute in the crowd, and everyone was discussing it.

  Sitting next to us also heard the story, I said: "Before I came here, I searched for information about Yuancun Village on Baidu, and found that many people online are saying that children born in Yuancun Village are all stillbirths."

  Ruan De-feng, eating mutton on the side, said: "The curse rumors circulating online are 90% exaggerated. Three people can make a tiger, and stories that have been passed down for a long time will inevitably be embellished, becoming more and more absurd. In fact, our medical team has conducted free clinics in Xiayuan Village and found that there were indeed cases of infant deaths at birth, but this is a matter of probability."

  Chen Qiuyang grasped a piece of mutton chop bigger than his round face, eating with gusto, his face covered in grease and oil. He said indistinctly: "Yes, and I believe this curse thing must be related to the people of Shangyuan Village, they deliberately framed Xiayuan Village."

  "We investigated Xianyuan Village and found that there were multiple cases of ectopic pregnancy in the village."

  "Ectopic pregnancy? Don't understand..."

  "Ectopic pregnancy is an abnormal pregnancy process in which the fertilized egg implants and develops outside the uterine cavity, also known as "ectopic pregnancy". The most common type is tubal pregnancy. The cause of the disease is often due to inflammation of the fallopian tube or surrounding tissues, resulting in poor patency of the tube, obstructing the normal movement of the fertilized egg, causing it to remain in the fallopian tube, implant and develop, leading to tubal abortion or rupture..."

  Mr. Feng gave us a very detailed explanation of pregnancy knowledge, and he was afraid that I, as a liberal arts student, wouldn't understand it, so he added: "Under normal circumstances, the fertilized egg will move from the fallopian tube to the uterine cavity, settle down, and slowly develop into a fetus. However, due to various reasons, the fertilized egg went astray during the migration process and didn't reach the uterus, but instead stayed in another place, resulting in an ectopic pregnancy. I remember that it's about 3-5% of pregnant women."

  "He sighed and said: 'In fact, it's extremely difficult for each of our lives to safely arrive in this world.'"

  The night wind picked up, and the bonfire burned more fiercely. I had drunk a lot of drinks and suddenly needed to urinate.

  Chen Qiuyang, who was beside him, said: "Director, since we're in a natural place like this, you don't need to go back to the hotel to use the restroom. You can just go behind that pile of grass over there. I just went and it's a natural, green, non-polluting toilet."

  I saw many men running over there to take care of it, so I didn't say much and just walked over.

  Behind this empty space are many stacks of rice straw, one after another rising high.

  After passing through these grass piles, there is a very small stream in front of you.

  The creek has long been dry due to the lack of rain, leaving only a ditch. Many men stand here urinating into the ditch, emitting a strong smell of urine.

  I finished urinating comfortably and turned around to head back.

  Who would have thought that with this one turn, I saw a very frightening scene: on top of a pile of grass, there was something like a giant toad, about the size of a three-year-old child, without clothes, all over its body was deep red, and on its back were some bulging tumors.

  I was startled and my first reaction was that there was an alien lying on the grass pile observing a bonfire party in the empty lot.

  I didn't see it when I was walking over here, but now that I'm turning back, I saw it.

  I can't say that this thing is human, it can only be said to be an alien, because its appearance is indeed very similar to those alien creatures in American science fiction movies.

  I stared blankly at it, and it suddenly sensed that I was behind it. It turned around abruptly, which still startled me. On its head were two terrifying faces, these two faces were too terrifying, causing me to have nightmares for several consecutive nights afterwards.

  Its big face has normal facial features, similar to a human baby, except that its two pairs of eyes protrude much more than ordinary people, similar to the bulging eyes of a frog. Next to it is a small face with an extremely ferocious and terrifying expression. The two protruding eyes are like they don't have eyelids wrapping around them, completely exposed as two blood-red spherical bulges. Its mouth doesn't have lips, but rather two rows of dense, sharp teeth directly on the gums.

  It crouched low with its body, like a tightly drawn bow and arrow about to shoot towards me.

  I have encountered similar situations many times, when walking at night in Longcheng, I often come across some stray cats. Some of the stray cats will immediately run away when they see me, while others will press their bodies tightly to the ground and gaze at me with extreme vigilance.

  I seemed to have been enchanted by some sort of magic spell, and I was motionless. The strange creature on the pile of grass was also motionless.

  We stood there like that. The night wind was strong, blowing some debris on the grass heap into the air and flying around it. The scene was very eerie.

  I didn't move because I was worried that if I did, it would pounce on me like a fierce beast. Because I had already observed that although this monster was short and small in stature, its muscles were extremely well-developed, and it was probably incredibly powerful.

  "At this critical moment, 'Detective Agency Director, how can you take so long to pee? Do you want to go to the hospital and have a check-up when you're free?' Ruan Defeng's stout body emerged from the middle of the haystack."

  The monster suddenly jumped to another haystack with an incredible speed, and then jumped to another one, disappearing into the vast night in an instant.

  "What are you standing there for?" Ruan Defeng saw me standing still like a wooden stake.

  I said: "Me, I just saw something on the haystack, don't know how to say it, seems like an alien, has two faces..."

  "Two faces? Sounds like that freak with a goat beard just mentioned."

  Ruan Feng's words suddenly reminded me, yes, the strange creature I just saw was very likely to be the abandoned monster that Yangyang encountered 7 years ago.

  He didn't die, he has been surviving around here all along.

  Back to the bonfire, many people who had eaten and drunk enough had returned to the Leigong Hotel one after another. We also went back, and when we parted ways, I said to Kui Rulan and Chen Qiuyang: "This is in the mountains and fields, at night when sleeping, be sure to close the doors and windows tightly."

  Because I thought of that freak's bounce was so amazing, jumping in from the window would be a piece of cake.