In mid-July 2006, it happened to be my 23rd birthday. My mother specially prepared a table of delicious food and asked me to ride on a small electric donkey to invite my second uncle.
But when I arrived at the old house, I found that the door was ajar and my second uncle was not there. The wine gourd placed in the corner was missing. He must have gone out to get some wine.
I had no choice but to walk into my second uncle's bedroom and wait patiently for him to come back.
While waiting, I found a box hidden under the corner of the bed by my second uncle.
Out of curiosity, I secretly pulled the box out, put it on the table and turned it over to study.
The suitcase was not locked, and only a few red covers were affixed to the mouth of the box. I pinched it with my fingers and felt that the cover was quite flexible, so I carefully tore it open along the corners.
When I opened the box, I was disappointed.
The space inside the box was very small and almost empty, except for a few pieces of moldy yellow paper and a piece of bone made of unknown material, about the size of half a fist.
The surface of the bone is gray-white, a bit like an animal bone, but much wider than ordinary animal bones. It is not clear where it was cut from.
Secondly, there are many weird lines on the surface of the bones.
These lines are complex and crowded, densely covering the surface of the bones, as if they were painted with red ink. The patterns are so dense that if you look at them for a long time, they look like squirming earthworms.
I looked at it for a long time and felt a little dizzy. I didn't find anything special, so I had to put the bones into the box again, put the cover on again, and stuffed it back under my second uncle's bed.
Looking at the time, I felt that my second uncle should be back soon, so I hurriedly exited the bedroom.
But when I walked to the door, something strange happened.
The suitcase I had just stuffed under my second uncle's bed made a "clanging" sound for some reason, and then jumped a little, as if something was pressing against the lid of the suitcase.
"Strange..." I didn't feel scared at the time, but I just felt a little weird, so I walked back to my second uncle's bed, squatted down, and pulled out the suitcase again to check.
When I looked at it, I realized that the cover originally attached to the mouth of the box seemed to be torn, and a corner of the box was open, while the bones that were originally placed in the box were missing.
"Where have you gone?"
I stared at the empty bottom of the box for a long time, and the more I looked at it, the more awkward I felt. I thought to myself that it was just a piece of bone, how could I climb out of the box?
I couldn’t help but think about some things. I walked around my second uncle’s bedside for a long time, but I still couldn’t find the animal bone. I felt quite strange in my heart. I recalled that night, when my second uncle held the suitcase and stared at me, I couldn’t help but feel...
When I got scared, my first reaction was to turn around and run away.
Fortunately, no other accidents happened on the way. I hurried out of my second uncle's bedroom and was about to run out through the door. But as I walked, I felt a bulge in my pocket, as if there was something extra in my pocket.
My thighs feel very uncomfortable.
I reached into my pocket, touched it subconsciously, and felt a thump in my heart.
That piece of animal bone slipped into my pocket at some point.
"Fuck!" I was startled, and instinctively put my hand into my pocket, quickly pulled out the animal bones, and then threw them on the ground.
This was a completely subconscious move of mine. I don’t know how much strength I used, but I threw the animal bone far away and rolled several times in the yard, making a soft "click" sound.
I was feeling nervous, and I was afraid that my second uncle would scold me when he saw this scene, so I walked over and tried to pick up the animal bone and return it to its original position.
But before I could walk in, the animal bone jumped up on its own, as if being lifted by an invisible thread, and jumped towards me.
My scalp was numb, I let out a frightened "Ah", and instinctively retreated to the corner. Then, the bone actually jumped two meters high, making a more intensive "clicking" sound.
A network of cracks appeared on the surface of the animal bone, and unknown black mucus oozed out. A purulent smell suddenly poured into my nasal cavity.
At first I was able to climb the wall and run out, but the smell from the animal bones was so stinky that my nose was flushed and I suddenly felt dizzy and my feet slipped.
Then I saw an even scarier scene!
The animal bones completely floated in the sky, and spurted out a large stream of dark red blood, squirming in the air, and then turned into a red line. Just when I was about to exclaim, the thing had already jumped into my mouth.
I felt a cold feeling in my throat, and something slid down my esophagus into my stomach. Then a fishy smell swirled in my esophagus, and it became extremely difficult to breathe.
An overwhelming sense of nausea occupied my consciousness. I looked uncomfortable, pinched my throat, and burped twice in a row. A hot breath rushed straight to Tianling Gai, and I fainted after looking at my eyes.
past.
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When I woke up, I first heard my mother's sobbing and my father's sigh guarding the bedside.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying on my second uncle's bed. My coat was gone. I was naked except for a pair of underwear. Someone had a Taoist charm on my belly button, and my hands and feet were tied with red thread.
The other end of the red line is connected to four oil lamps that flicker on and off.
The second uncle sat under the oil lamp and smoked. The flickering oil lamp illuminated his face, which turned ashen, and his two cheeks were hunched over, harder than stone.
The room was very quiet, except for my mother's occasional sobs and the sound of candlelight swinging in the wind.
I realized that I might have gotten into trouble, and I shivered suddenly. I was about to get up, but I felt weak in my limbs and the dizziness in my head continued, so I fell back onto the bed again.
"Mom, Dad, uncle..." After waking up, I felt extremely tired, my throat became dry and hoarse, and I groaned with difficulty.
"Are you awake?" The second uncle heard the sound and stood up immediately, still looking at me with a livid face, glaring at me fiercely.
My mind was confused and I struggled to say, "What's wrong with me?"
"You little bastard who wants to die, do you know that you are about to die? I went out to drink, and you could get into this kind of trouble!"
The second uncle came up and scolded me. Then he took out a mirror, handed it to me and said, "Look at it for yourself!"
I reluctantly raised my head a little, and as soon as I saw myself in the mirror, I suddenly broke into a cold sweat!
At this moment, I have dark bags under my eyes, my eyes are sunken, my whole face seems to have lost a lot of weight, and my forehead is purple and blue. At first glance, I look like a person who is about to die.
"Ah..." I was startled by the ghostly appearance of myself. Just as I was about to scream, I was slapped on the face. I felt dizzy and my face was burning with pain.
The second uncle stood by the bed with gritted teeth, his expression wanting to swallow me up, "Little bastard, who told you to touch my box?"
"I..." My Adam's apple moved, and I felt that my throat was inexplicably uncomfortable and I couldn't make a sound.
At this time, my mother came up to protect me and said to my second uncle in tears, "Stop scolding me now. Why did the child become like this? You should quickly think of a solution. What happened to Lin Feng?"
The second uncle remained silent for a long time, then squeezed out a sentence through his teeth, "Sister-in-law, you and the boss should go out. I want to talk to Lin Feng alone about some things."
My mother shook her head vigorously and said, "No, Lin Feng is like this, I have to guard him..."
"If you want him to live, just get out!" The second uncle's face was so ugly at that time, there was no room for negotiation at all. My dad felt something was wrong, so he hurriedly walked up, forced me, and dragged my mother out of the room.
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"Leave it to the second child, he won't harm our son!"
It wasn't until the door was closed that my second uncle turned around and glared at me coldly.
My expression at that time was like a frightened chicken. I almost wet the bed and cried hoarsely, "Second uncle, have I gotten into trouble?"
"How the hell do you know that!"
The second uncle seemed to be happy and raised his arm as if he wanted to slap me again.
But when his arms were halfway up, he still didn't want to put them down. He sat on the edge of the bed, lit another cigarette for himself, took two puffs, and said after a long time,
"You kid has brought trouble to the sky this time. That thing is called the God-Eating Gu."