Plague Doctor

On Friday, March 15, after the last lesson in the evening, freshman and sophomore students at APHL are off on weekends.

However, Li Yuhao did not go home. He told his parents that he and several other students had gone to Wang Jiawei's house to party and spend the night there.

Wang Jiawei is a wealthy family, lives in a villa, and the parents who do business are often not home, today is the day they are not home. Many times before such a party, so Li Yuhao's parents did not ask much, neither did Sun Hao Run, Huang Yiyang, He Ziyi, Tang Yi, Zheng Meihan's parents.

They're not lying, that's all.

“There's a message on the internet that the whole area is evacuated! ”

“Why?”

“Looks like we're predicting an oversized sandstorm over there. ”

“Is the dust storm evacuating? ”

At this time, at Wang Jiawei's house, in the dining room of one of the villas in this high-end villa neighborhood, the four male and three female high school students sat at a bright marble dining table with crystal chandeliers illuminating their younger faces, all a little nervous.

Several girls were brushing their phones, but the Bay Area was in the northern part of the city, a long way from here, and the evacuation did not affect the people on this side of the city.

“Stop it.” Li Yuhao told everyone to stop, “Let's go, don't eat if you're afraid. ”

But all seven silently unveiled seven stainless steel lids on the table, seven ceramic plates, each with a patch of brown and yellow mud.

The throat-soaking grunts sounded, and the teenagers looked at the mud on the plate as if they were looking at some delicious seafood meal. But that's just the most ordinary mud, just dug from the back garden of this villa. They all put their phones down, silenced, struggled...

“This is not normal for us, is it?” Zheng Meihan said.

“Not checked, anorexia.” Huang Yiyang muttered.

“My parents knew I might have to be sent to Professor Yang for electroshock treatment.” Wang Jiaweiran.

“The anorexia... is not really anything particularly strange...” Tang Yidu.

Li Yuhao did not speak, and now this situation all started on the day of the tree planting festival, that is, three days ago, he quietly took a bunch of mud from the wasteland.

At the school dormitory that night, Li Yuhao turned and couldn't sleep on the other side. In the end, he couldn't help but bite the mud.

He checked it out on the internet himself, it's called an anorexic habit, including eating mud, paper, coal slag, hair… and all sorts of weird things. The etiology of anorexia may be metabolic dysfunction, taste disorders, psychological factors, etc., but the true etiology and treatment methods are not yet clear.

Li Yuhao didn't know how he suddenly had such an impulse. It seemed that the first time he saw the locust eggs, he had this kind of thought.

After eating that mud, Li Yuhao not only relieved the nearly painful pain, but also received a great satisfaction.

He has never felt this way about food, whether it's home-cooked, expensive ingredients, cooked by a chef or cooked by a mother.

At that time, Li Yuhao knew implicitly that he couldn't help but eat mud.

Also that night, Wang Jiawei, who was in the same room, bumped into him about eating mud. When Li Yuhao was embarrassed and restless, Wang Jiawei said he wanted to eat some too, because he was also willing to suffer like that. Sun Haoran and Huang Yiyang are their friends; He Ziyi is Wang Jiawei's girlfriend, Tang Yi and Zheng Meihan are He Ziyi's girlfriends.

Finally, during these days, seven people ate the mud and all went to the wasteland on the day of the tree planting festival.

Obviously, there was a relationship, and that day changed their appetite needs.

These teenagers feel strange, anxious and scared, afraid of what's going on, afraid of being known, but they want to ask their parents or teachers for help, or do they want to call the NASA... just another thought in their head, a voice, a resistance.

Don't tell anyone, not yet. Don't tell anyone.

So far, seven people have not told anyone but each other.

A few days down, in addition to this dietary need, they had no physical or mental problems.

But that group of mud brought back from the wasteland had all been eaten, not even a single bit left. Even the newspaper that wrapped the mud had been grabbed by them. They feel like they're addicted to drugs, and when they get there and they don't eat mud, it gets worse.

“I'll eat first.” Li Yuhao couldn't help it, he had a mind to swing, now he grabbed the yellow mud on the plate and stuffed it in his mouth.

However, when he chewed his mouth, his eyebrows were wrinkled and almost spit out. He was shocked and panicked. "It's not this smell, it's not right, it's not right...”

“What?” Wang Jiawei realized, hurriedly grabbed his share of the mud and took a bite, but also reacted, his face rose red.

“No way!” He Ziyi and Sun Haoran were all in a hurry. However, after these five people had tasted the mud in the plate, they were all in a hurry. “That's it, we're done. What about” “? What should we do today?” “Li Yu Hao, do you still have that mud? ”

This ordinary mud doesn't work, it doesn't taste right.

“You've eaten it all...” Li Yuhao muttered anxiously, but his eyes turned bright, "Let's go to the tree planting festival wasteland, then it's done! There's a lot of mud in there, and it's just a wasteland, no fence, no one cares. Let's go there! ”

People were surprised to agree, as if they had caught a life-saving straw.

They're really getting unbearable. It's not how hungry they are.

It's that nightmarish thirst that makes them a little manic. No, you have to eat that mud, or you will die, you will die...

Seven young men and women got up and walked immediately, and Wang Jiawei's garage had several cars, one of which was a silver MPV enough for seven people. None of them have a driver's license, but Wang Jiawei can drive and has studied privately.

Now that they are all in this MPV, they leave immediately, hoping that they will not be intercepted by the traffic police.

However, after all, the desert north city is a sparsely populated place, and they checked the remote roads of the navigation, so the route to the remote wasteland located north of the city did not stop, and when they reached the wasteland, the night became darker.

No homes, no guards, it's too deserted to even hear some insects screaming.

So as soon as the car stopped on the side of the road, Li Yuhao, Wang Jiawei and others opened the door and rushed down the car, jumping towards the wasteland where some seedlings were planted.

“This way, this way!” Li Yuhao recognized the road and rushed to the spot where the bug eggs were dug out on the same day, where he took the mud.

“Didn't Captain Luo of the Forest Service say he was going to take drugs to fight locust eggs that day? Does it have an impact? ”

“Don't eat if you're afraid! ”

“I'm not afraid of pesticides. If I can't eat them tonight, it's over...”

“Listen to me, I'm afraid even the mud here is wrong! ”

They were arguing anxiously, but all of a sudden, they stopped, stopped, and looked a dozen meters ahead, beside a seedling tree.

In the blurred moonlight, there was only a shadow of a man there, with his back to his back, sitting on his knees on the earth, holding the mud in his hands and eating, one hand after another, making a strange and seemingly fanatical swallow. Next to the shadow of the man, a small pit had been dug out, and all the mud that had disappeared should have been eaten.

That figure, they seem a little familiar.

“That seems to be...” He Ziyi glared slightly, Li Yuhao, Tang Yi, Zheng Meihan and others, all a little confused.

But they were also swallowing their throats, and that man's swallowing more moved their desire to eat mud.

At the same time, the shadow heard this side of the movement, and turned to look in shock. The generous and cheerful middle-aged face was very complex at this time. The slightly open mouth was full of mud, and even the cheeks, chin and other positions were stained with mud.

Before that, the man must have eaten a piece of mud madly.

They all recognize this man, Principal Choi. It's Principal Choi.