Chapter 27: Being Eaten by X Sickle and Cylinder

  Because I felt the great black giant's huge appetite, he looked at me, his appetite kept growing. I'm worried that if this appetite continues to grow, it will break through his rationality, and I'll be eaten by him alone. Especially when I look at those big black teeth of his, I'm even more worried.

  As expected, he started to get restless, rubbing his hands together and getting up to take a few slow steps before sitting back down. He stared at me intently with a strange smile and said: "You're quite pale and refined, like a scholar."

  I quickly said: "No, no, I've been here for several days without taking a bath, and my body is full of sour sweat smell."

  "Heh heh, don't worry about this one, I'll help you get it squeaky clean in no time."

  My whole body twitched again with conditioned reflex, because I sensed that his appetite had already approached the critical point of explosion. The temptation of delicious food is extremely difficult to control. This feeling I understand very well, when I was in college, I once got a gastrointestinal inflammation, and the doctor warned me that I must eat light food, cannot eat greasy meat. After eating porridge with vegetables for a week, when I passed by the cafeteria and saw that plate of oily braised pork, I almost lost my sanity and pounced on it.

  Now, Da Hei Ya's situation is like this. I must immediately shift his attention.

  "I said: 'Old man, didn't something happen here? Actually, I saw you all and felt a strong sense of closeness. I knew that you are very kind and benevolent people...'"

  "Of course, I am a kind person. People from our village of Liu Long are all so kind and simple," he said, suddenly changing his tone, "But this has nothing to do with our preferences."

  "Yes, yes, but this is still not quite right, isn't it? Old man, we are all human beings, of the same kind, and should be friendly and caring towards each other—"

  My words had not finished, the big black tooth suddenly picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at me. Fortunately, he didn't throw accurately, and the stone just brushed past my ear.

  Da Hei Ya interrupted me, saying: "Stop lecturing me, you outsiders. How do you know our business? That pain, that unbearable pain, how can you understand?"

  He mentioned his pain, the pain that he couldn't quit. I suddenly understood that Da Hei Ya actually knew in his heart that he was psychologically abnormal, but he couldn't stop his endless appetite, so he was extremely painful. This contradiction had been tormenting him and torturing him all along.

  It seems I saw a glimmer of hope, and I continued: "Old man, I understand your pain. From the moment I was born, my parents abandoned me, and I grew up in an orphanage from a young age. The orphanage, those days were not as warm and hopeful as outsiders see, but dark. At that time, I was bullied by older kids every day, they didn't like me, and secretly beat me, I grew up in such an environment of being bullied. Old man, don't you think I would understand your pain? I definitely will, because I've experienced all kinds of pain."

  Da Hei Ya's eyes seemed to have softened, filled with pity.

  He looked at me, his voice softened, and said: "I didn't expect your life to be so miserable, pitiful."

  I said with delight: "Yes, at that time I hated those who bullied me every day and every moment because they were older than me. I thought that when I grew up, I would definitely make a name for myself and come back to take revenge on them one by one. But when I really got into college through my own efforts, my hatred suddenly disappeared completely. I think it's precisely because of them that I became diligent and was able to struggle so unyieldingly. What do you say, old man?"

  "Ah, yes. I know you're still in a lot of pain," Da Hei Ya muttered to himself, his calm expression quickly giving way to a chilling and terrifying one that distorted his face.

  "Let me take away your pain."

  He slowly got up from his chair and walked to the corner of the stone wall, picking up two instruments.

  One was a sickle, the kind commonly used in the south during harvest season to reap rice. This sickle was very sharp and shiny.

  One was a cylindrical object, cut out from a giant bamboo stick - seeing this tool, I suddenly remembered the first time I saw Huang Duoduo, the round blood hole in his belly. The formation of that blood hole was to insert this cylinder into the abdominal skin, then insert scissors into the cylinder and cut a circle around the inside, and then scoop it out...

  I thought of the next few minutes, this cylinder would be inserted into my belly, and a cold scissor would come in to make a circle... My whole body trembled again. I don't know why my physical reaction was so intense, actually I always thought I was a very brave person, the dark experience in the orphanage when I was a child had made me have a brave heart.

  Big black teeth appeared in front of me.

  "Are you ready?"

  If I weren't tied up with such thick ropes, I would definitely jump up and give that big black tooth a good beating. But now, I am powerless. This is the first time I have desperately smelled the stench of death.

  The big black tooth held a cylinder in his left hand and a sickle in his right, like a god of death exuding an aura of death, standing gloomily in front of me.

  I think I'm going to die a wrongful death, not just die, but also become someone else's meat after death. For the sake of Du Jie, this billionaire's reward, I entered this village to investigate, and ended up dying unjustly...

  Da Hei Ya's hand tore open the clothes between the gaps of the rope on my belly, exposing my belly. Then, the cylinder in his hand was aimed at my belly. At this moment, I was really very scared, and I was so scared that I couldn't speak, because my whole mouth was trembling.

  Just as the crisis was happening between life and death, Da Hei Ya suddenly had a strange expression because he stopped hurting me. He turned around and then suddenly collapsed to the ground with a thud, motionless.

  In front of me stood a man in black clothes.

  That black-clad man who had been following me at the Chinese hospital, that black-clad man who drove into us to snatch our video card, that black monkey who stood on the side of the road and gave me a twisted thumbs up like a zombie - I never dreamed that he would appear here.

  For a moment, I even suspected that I was actually dreaming or had been knocked unconscious by the Grim Reaper's scythe.

  His movements were still twisted and stiff, like a zombie, but he was still wrapped in thick black cloth from head to toe, and the black hat covered his face, shrouding it in darkness, I still couldn't see his face.

  "You, black monkey, who are you? Why have you appeared here?"

  The black monkey still didn't say a word, holding a dagger in his hand. I thought he would attack me, but strangely, he didn't. Instead, he moved suspiciously to my back and placed the dagger on my hands which were tied behind my back.

  Then he stiffly walked away from the cave step by step.

  Why did he appear here, why did he save me and then leave without a word... all sorts of questions flooded my mind, but this was not the time to think about them. I gripped the dagger tightly and frantically cut at the rope. After more than ten minutes of cutting, the rope finally broke, and I immediately stood up, almost losing my balance because my legs and hands had gone numb.

  I took a look at the big black teeth on the ground, still motionless lying on the ground. I reached out to probe it and found that it was still breathing. It seemed that it had only been knocked unconscious by that mysterious black monkey with some unknown method.

  I immediately took out my mobile phone, because I had to inform Kui Ruo Lan and Chen Qiu Yang. I dialed their phones one after another, but no one answered. I secretly cursed: "It's bad, they must have been done in by Du Jie and his father too." I quickly dialed Ruan De Feng's phone, fortunately it was about to connect, Ruan De Feng said: "What's wrong?"

  "What about Ruo Lan and Qiu Yang?"

  "Du Yizhi, the village chief, just came over and took them away. What's going on? Where did you go?"

  "Damn, I knew it! Dr. Ruan, listen to me, the people in this village are all bad, they're cannibals, psychopaths, you mustn't believe anyone in this village from now on! My phone is almost out of battery, hurry up and call the police——”

  "Dong dong", the mobile phone suddenly shut down automatically due to insufficient power.

  Although anxious, it's good that I've roughly told Ruan DeFeng the truth. Now, I must hurry back to the village, but as soon as I ran out of the cave, I was stunned.

  Because I'm a directionally challenged person, I always get lost around the Musha Shrine. Now that I'm in this area surrounded by dense trees and thorns, I couldn't find my way back at all. I carefully recalled the direction I came from, saw a place that looked somewhat like the road I took when I came, so I had no choice but to give it a try.

  I was running around in the damp forest, and after a few minutes of running, I found that the impact had been completely swallowed up by this forest, and I was completely lost. I couldn't even find my way back to the cave. I was like a headless fly wandering aimlessly in the forest, with all sorts of dirt stuck to my body. At one point, I felt itchy on my head, so I reached out to scratch it, only to discover that my entire palm was covered in sticky, slimy leeches. Scared, I quickly shook them off.

  I ran for about 20 minutes, exhausted and panting, and had to stop. I was really worried because during this time, in Liulong Village, I didn't know what had happened, whether Huierlan and Chen Qiuyang had encountered danger or not. Although Huierlan and Chen Qiuyang were skilled in martial arts and agile, they didn't know that Du Jie's father and his men were a group of cannibals, so if they weren't careful, they would easily fall into their trap.