Plague Doctor

There was a roar of nighttime crows, deep mountain forests and heavy shadows.

Dark night skies, speckled rocks, dead leaves, a pool of dead water in the woods with some green algae. Right next to it, there is a rotten tree trunk lying on its back, which, as can be seen from its thick contours, was once also a large tree with lush branches.

It's like an oak tree.

“Me, why am I here...”

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

He's really here, he can feel it.

“What's going on? Me and Salt Rain went back to Dongzhou base, went to the psycho-psychological building, went to see the child named Zhong Yuli, then... Xiao Yuli had a suction attack, made a curse at me, I had a headache all over my body, it was a stress reaction... then..."

Gu Jun flashed some intermittent and confused memory images in front of his eyes, muttered himself, shouted himself, pushed away the blocking crowd... himself screamed impatiently Wu Shiyu do not follow, told Cai Zixuan they do not follow, do not follow...

“Am I out of my mind... overwhelming? Manic?”

It is very likely that he is in a different physical and mental state than he was before.

There is a biological change in his brain, and his recent mood has always been in a sudden state, like a PTSD attack at any time...

And this time, there may be the spiritual effect of that curse.

“Where am I? ”

Gu Jun looked around in obscurity, full of dead branches of decaying wood.

In a place like this, he has no doubt that it is where the forces of darkness and their followers are. Perhaps it is here, surrounded by dead water that smells of corruption, that the evil believers perform some sort of unknown ritual in the night, reaching out their sinful hands to the innocent children.

He searched for himself, no cell phones, walkie-talkies, etc., but he was carrying that carry-on backpack, not much inside, the five Callup anatomical devices, the watercolor painting of the salt rain... nothing to contact the outside world, or let him figure out where this is.

Through the gap between the leaves of the forest branch, only the night sky was dark and starless. When the leaves were shaken by the cold wind, the clouds were still cloudy.

Gu Jun stood halfway there. Still he didn't lift his legs and walk. He listened around. There was a strange low forest noise, but there was no half-call...

“I think I ran out of the medical base and ran into the surrounding mountains. But in that case, I can't be found yet. Surveillance, guards, patrols are everywhere around the base, and how fast can I run? Get a police dog and catch up with him..."

Gu Jun doesn't think that anyone else really listened to him and didn't come after him, and the environment here doesn't look like it was around the base.

“Ah...” His head cracked and some memory fragments flashed.

I think I hear people screaming, "Watch out, watch out!” Wu Shiyu came up and pulled him, but he pushed him away. He seems to be... using a spell to summon something, is it the Seven Secrets of the Earth, the entity of the Fifth Secret Night Night Night Night... Bayaki?

This is his guess, because he has read the transcript of the fifth secretary, but he has not seen the secrets, and he has not practiced to that extent.

There was no memory to confirm his speculation, just like summoning up some alien creature and flying off the base.

Is that some kind of alien spell? Gu Junlan was confused, not sure that this was near the base, not even in Eastern State.

“How can I still use spells? My mental powers are now obviously messed up... but when one goes crazy, it's another. ”

Gu Jun was thinking, suddenly a big wind blew through, and the trees and grass sand rang around him. He turned his head and looked at it like he saw a shadow passing through the woods over there. He frowned, looked around, and looked into the pool. Apart from the reflection, he seemed to have some muddy rotten meat...

Standing here alone was not the way to go, and he searched the dirt under his feet for footprints to see if he could find his way.

But it seems... that the alien creature landed here, and the rotten meat was what it blew up.

In a cold night breeze, inconsistent, dingy, dingy... is the sound of the piano.

“Piano, how can there be a piano in this wild mountain countryside... am I here where the enemy wants me to be...”

Is this an invitation?

“Who are you?” Gu Jun asked softly and took out the Callup anatomical knife and held it in his hand.

The piano became clearer and clearer, and the tune was very beautiful and pleasant, as if it were a clear phrase spoken in this mountain forest.

But Gu Jun stared at God and prevented himself from hearing into it, walking in the opposite direction to the sound of the violin, into the shady mountain forest. However, he walked a dozen meters on rotten black soil, but felt closer to the sound of the violin...

He immediately turned and walked in the other direction, but after a short walk, the music was still getting closer and closer.

When he tried every direction with that pool as the middle point, he made sure that the piano sounded like a ghost, like a shadow.

Gu Jun knows that this is people's territory. No matter which way he goes or what he does, he will not affect the approaching sound of the piano.

He walked along sensibly, ten, twenty, fifty steps… The piano sounded all over the forest, and he walked out of the dense forest, into an empty forest, full of ancient giant oak trees in front of him, distorting the branching trunks on the ground to form a strange view, which was an oak forest.

Just next to an oak tree over there, there's an old black piano covered in moss with a figure sitting in front of it.

Gu Jun's eyes stifled. What is it? Is it human?

The figure only wore a little rag, swollen like a giant looking at a corpse. Only one hand withered like a white bone, and the elongated ten fingers were constantly bouncing on the piano key. In terms of contour structure, it's really like human beings, an old man.

At this time, the shadow slowly cast a glance over here, and his face was also swollen as a corpse, and his eyes were filled with pain.

The colder Gu Jun's hair gets, the more he listens to this song, the more he feels like some Mozart songs he has heard in the past few days...

His head hurts again and he hears a woman laughing lightly in the woods.

“Dear brother, you're here...”

The shadows were heavy in the oak groves, while the swollen old man under the tree in front continued to play the piano.