Gu Jun frowned, his heart skipped a beat, and he heard some hissing and rustling sounds with his ear against the phone, which seemed to be due to poor signal. He paid attention to the area around the alley, and didn't make a sound first. In fact, he didn't intend to make a sound.
He just wanted to know if there was anyone else in Gurong Village...
There was still no one talking on the other end of the phone, and the low and hoarse voice was getting louder and louder.
Listening to this voice, the restlessness that Gu Jun had often felt recently surged out of his heart again.
Who is it, who is it! Who is on the other end of the phone...
He wanted to ask loudly like this, but he tried his best to hold back, even lowering his breathing to prevent his voice from being exposed.
It seems that once the voice is exposed, an ominous disaster will come.
"..." Gu Jun did not take the initiative to hang up the phone. Although the pressure in his heart was increasing, he was still listening to the hoarse whisper. Is this a language? He only knew that it was not what he said in Longkan's video.
The language of reading…
No, that's not right, it sounds like the throat is constantly rubbing and squeezing.
There's a creature on the other end of the phone, and it's trying to talk.
Gu Jun tried hard to hear clearly, but the surrounding environment was very noisy. Motorcycles passed by, residents were talking, and songs were playing in the shops. These sounds were mixed together, covering up the strange sound. He continued as he continued
Listening to the phone, I walked deeper into the alley.
Hiss, hiss...
The noise around me became smaller and smaller, and the strange noise on the other end of the phone became louder and louder.
When Gu Jun walked to a quiet place near the garbage dump at the end of the alley, he suddenly heard something, very quietly but clearly...
"help me……"
In the hoarse whisper on the other end of the phone, these two Chinese characters came out, "Save me."
It was a human voice. Although it was so low and trembling, he could recognize the human tone and emotion, or in other words, fear.
It seemed that his throat was open, and the other end of the phone kept saying: "I'm not... dead... I'm not... them... I don't have... things in the banyan tree... let me out, ah... I
I don’t want to die...save, save me..."
The great pain revealed in this voice made Gu Jun's heart feel very uncomfortable.
He could vaguely hear that the other party was a villager from Gurong Village. He was not dead yet, but he could not evacuate because he had been infected and his body had become deformed, so he was controlled within the village.
A few days ago, Gu Jun was still shrouded in the shadow of terminal illness. He knew what it was like to live well but be unable to resist death.
"Help me, please, help me..." The voice on the other end of the phone was still wailing.
Gu Jun's hand holding the phone tightened slightly. To his own surprise, he remembered that at the beginning of his freshman year, during the first class, he and his classmates were in class together as usual.
Standing to take the Hippocratic Oath.
At that time, he took the oath nonchalantly and it was just a formality.
"As a medical worker, I officially swear to dedicate my life to mankind..."
"I will practice my medical skills with purity and sanctity throughout my life."
Gu Jun was silent. It was the destiny of a medical dog to treat illnesses and save people. But now, he was powerless.
He couldn't save the director of Gurong Village, he couldn't save the child climbing the tree, and he couldn't save the person on the other end of the phone now.
"The one in the banyan tree..." The strange sound coming from the phone became more and more painful, "The thing... is not... not..."
Suddenly, the phone clicked off, beep beep beep...
Gu Jun looked down at the mobile phone in his hand, took a deep breath, and said softly: "I'm sorry, if I can, I want to save you. I don't have the ability, not yet..." He looked up at the evening sky, and put the
He exhaled a long breath, but a part of his heart became more determined.
That's what he wants to do, be a real doctor and save people.
There are not so many noble reasons... He felt that he just couldn't bear it.
After standing there for a while, Gu Jun sorted out his messy mood and silently pulled out the new mobile phone sim card.
"What's in the banyan tree?" He began to think about what the dying villager said just now. What is it? Is the source of the disease the big banyan tree?
These images gradually overlapped in Gu Jun's mind, and an idea naturally emerged: the deformed limbs of the remains were very similar to the branches and roots of the banyan tree.
How does a banyan tree become the source of disease?
Gu Jun turned around and walked back while thinking.
The sky was getting a little dark, a cool breeze blew by, and Gu Jun suddenly felt strange. He looked around. This area was called "Jufu Lane". There were no high-rise buildings, but old buildings and narrow streets.
Broken and messy shop signs, a gradually lost tradition.
He used to come here often because there are many authentic Dongzhou local food stalls in Jufu Lane, and Dongzhou students all like to come here to enjoy the food.
Although everything here is extremely messy, he is familiar with every wire and signboard in this area.
However, now walking on the rotten cement road at the end of the alley, he felt an unfamiliar coldness gradually surrounding him.
Tick-tap, drip-tap, like the sound of rain falling to the ground.
Although the sky was gray, it didn't rain.
Tick... Gu Jun suddenly looked back and saw that there was nothing in the cramped and dilapidated empty alley.
Only the old signboards were shaking slightly, "Tide Hair House, Professional Barbering", "Winglong Hotel" and "Copying, Typing and Faxing"
"It's the man who is following me..." But Gu Jun was sure that that guy was following me in the dark! He was thinking about what to do, looked back from behind, turned around, and saw a middle-aged man with a crew cut standing there.
Less than five steps ahead.
This man was wearing ordinary civilian clothes, his face was a bit haggard, his cheeks were so thin that they were sunken, and his eyes were bloodshot.
It was the man who had been following him for many days.
What should I do? Should Gu Jun keep calm and run away? Or should he just walk over pretending not to know anything?
But he noticed that the crew-cut man looked at him without any scruples, and the gloomy and strange look in his eyes was not concealed at all.
Gu Jun understood immediately, "He knew that I found out that he was following me..." It was precisely because of this that the crew-cut man showed up like this.
In an instant, Gu Jun decided to take a preemptive strike. He pretended that it was just an ordinary person and had no other involvement. He pretended to be frivolous and asked loudly: "Old man, who are you? I seem to have seen you a few times in recent times, always in
Staring at me, who are you? What are you looking at?"
"Mr. Gu." The flat-headed man smiled, and the corners of his mouth were pulled open like a puppet, "Hand over the things, and everything will be fine."
Gu Jun's expression didn't change, thinking about how to deal with it. Li Lerui's cell phone was in the inner pocket of his jacket. Did he really come here for it...