Lizi let out a horrified cry and immediately covered her mouth with her palms.
But Ren Ziling did not blame her for her reaction because after hearing Lu Chaosheng's account of what happened that year, she could not hold back the horror in her heart and even felt a faint chill on her back.
People from a village got together and brought an innocent woman to the cliff. They ignored the woman's painful pleas and threw her alive under the cliff.
What's inside is not only cruelty, but also the kind of human nature that makes people more and more horrified the more they think about it.
Ren Ziling sighed and said: "Ignorance has always been an extremely scary thing."
She even smiled bitterly and said: "I understand a little bit about why you refused to tell Evian, Dr. Lu. If such a little girl knows about this kind of thing, it is indeed..."
Lu Chaosheng also sighed and said: "This matter has always been taboo in this village. Then more than ten years later, the flames of the turbulent movement to destroy the four olds outside burned here. However, that incident back then,
No one mentioned it. Everyone just stuck to the rules and treated it as if it had never happened... Who would want to think about that kind of thing? Who would be willing to take responsibility for that incident? The culprits who instigated everyone have been arrested.
Her home was also burned down by a fire. They just thought that their evil deeds were also burned away with the fire."
Ren Ziling sighed and said, "No wonder Lu Hai would move his home to such a remote place... I'm afraid everyone in this village is an enemy."
Thinking of Lu Hai's excited expression while listening to the tide on the cliff, Ren Ziling began to imagine what terrible things Lu Hai had experienced forty-five years ago when he was just a very young child.
Lu Chaosheng's clinic suddenly became silent.
At this moment, Li Zi took out Lu Chaosheng, opened it and picked up the things for them to see. These are what the people of Lujia Village looked like when they were infected with the strange disease.
It's not a photo, but something that Lu Chaosheng later drew from memory. Lizi looked at the dense growths on the hands and feet of these patients, and couldn't help but said with horror: "Is this...is this thing really a curse from the devil?"
Lu Chaosheng shook his head and said: "Part of the reason why I decided to study medicine was to find out what this disease is. Because I don't believe in the so-called curse."
"Then have you found the reason?" Ren Ziling asked curiously.
Lu Chaosheng looked uncertain and said: "I have never really come across this kind of disease for so many years. However, in recent years, the Internet has developed and a lot of information can be disseminated in a timely manner. I have seen some on the Internet.
Reports on such cases."
Lu Chaosheng turned the old computer monitor on his desk around. After it disappeared, he found the favorite web page. After opening it, he slowly said: "There are not many cases of this case in the world, only about a dozen or two."
Ten examples. There is no clear definition in medicine, and it is currently temporarily called "mop hands". This means that after the patient's hands and feet mutate, they will grow a large number of keratinocytes and become like mops mopping the floor. It should be
It’s a disease caused by cell mutation.”
"Hmm... I have seen reports on this thing before." Ren Ziling nodded.
She looked at the photo of the patient on the website and compared it with the portrait Lu Chaosheng drew from memory. She found that it was indeed very similar.
"This disease suddenly causes a person's hands and feet to mutate, looking like mops or coral rocks on the seabed. No one knows whether it will eventually cover the entire body. But for people at the time
, I'm afraid it's really too much. The old fairy in the village used evil words to confuse the people, and the villagers believed it." Lu Chaosheng shook his head, "I have hidden this matter for many years. I originally planned to wait for Evian
If she comes to ask me again sometime, I will just tell her."
Ren Ziling was silent for a while and said: "Doctor, can I accept these pictures?"
Lu Chaosheng thought for a while and said, "If you want it, just take it. It's of no use now anyway."
Ren Ziling cleaned up and said: "Thank you, doctor. Then, we won't disturb your work for now... Lizi, let's go."
Watching the two leave, Lu Chaochang let out a long sigh. He leaned on his chair, silently lit a cigarette, closed his eyes, and thought about something.
Maybe it happened a long, long time ago.
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"It's like some chemicals."
Youye shook the test tube in his hand, looked at Luo Qiu and said, "As for what ingredients are in it and what effects it will bring, we can only know after testing."
Mo Mo frowned and said, "Senior, have you ever heard of the outrageous things the Japanese did in our place before the war?"
Luo Qiu glanced at Mo Mo and said, "Are you thinking that the strange disease that happened in Lujia Village back then was caused by the contents of this box?"
Momo nodded and said: "Isn't there an empty grid here? And it's buried so deep underground. If I didn't know the art of moving five ghosts, I probably wouldn't have been able to find it. That old goddess was so
I am anxious to throw the sick people into the sea as well, probably because I am worried that this kind of thing will be contagious, but it is not easy for her to explain."
Mo Mo frowned and said: "You think, if it is really the old goddess who used the things here to make people sick. As long as she does not continue to use it and all the patients die, then Lujiacun will recover.
It's like before, isn't it? In this way, the matter of using living sacrifices and the matter of people in the village no longer getting sick can be combined to show the magic of this old goddess and make people believe it?"
Luo Qiu suddenly said: "Then if things are really like what you said, what are you going to do?"
Mo Mo said matter-of-factly: "Of course we have to announce this matter. The old goddess was taken away by the guards, so she naturally had no good end. But everyone who was involved in the village back then was equivalent to an accomplice. Such careless disregard of human life,
Just say that you were instigated and that’s it? And then you act like nothing happened? That’s unreasonable!”
Feeling the overwhelming sense of justice in Mo Mo's heart, Luo Qiu said with appreciation: "Since it is going to be announced, how do you plan to announce it?"
"This..." Mo Mo was startled, he hadn't considered this aspect yet.
Luo Qiu said calmly: "You discovered this thing... Even if you regard me as your witness, I am just an outsider to this Lujia Village after all. You just found this box here,
Having made speculations, how many people do you think believe that this is the reason why things happened that year?”
Momo's face suddenly turned ugly.
Luo Qiu sighed at this moment and said: "When the woman named Huang was arrested, her tricks were probably exposed. After so many years, how could it be possible that none of the villagers had never thought about the irrationality of what happened back then?
?But they have always been too taboo to say it, haven’t they?”
Mo looked at the found box silently, feeling extremely embarrassed.
Luo Qiu said softly: "It's not that I don't know... I just don't want to admit it."
Mo Mo said angrily: "This man! How can this man do this!"
Luo Qiu turned around and saw that the burned house was on higher ground. As long as he looked around a little, he could see most of Lujia Village. His voice slowly sounded, "Probably because... it's not just one person."
