Mantra

Chapter 59 Red Chopsticks

Little Pepper's mouth was getting bigger and bigger, and it didn't take long for his mouth to expand to the limit of the human body.

But even so, Little Pepper's mouth was still creaking, the sound was like the sound of ligaments and frontal bones being pulled desperately.It looked like something was crawling out of his throat.

Under that harsh and mechanical sound, my fear has reached a critical point.And as his mouth got bigger and bigger, I inappropriately recalled the incident of eating mermaid and spitting out my hair, and subconsciously felt that my throat was itchy, as if something was stuck in it.

I know it's an illusion created by fear.

Earlier, the vaccinations given by the old squad leader and I had a little effect. Looking at this tingling scene, I recited "fear arises from the heart" over and over again in my heart, so as to let my scrambling left and right My heart felt a little relieved, it felt a little better.

Because of this, I didn't spit it out at the time, and I felt it was a small miracle afterwards.

After a while, Little Pepper's mouth finally stopped moving, and the "thing" inside him finally crawled out.

At first, what I saw was a group of silver-gray shadows. As the candle flames flickered, the shadows grew bigger and bigger, just like a white lotus blooming in the mouth of Xiaojiao.

But as time went by and the white lotus continued to "open", I suddenly saw that that thing was actually a hand stretched out from a person's mouth!
A pale, slender human hand just extended out of Pepper's mouth.

Five slender fingers, like a baby's tender willow, and like a woman's scallion, just followed the traces of the egg white, slowly stretched out, and slowly grabbed the egg on the forehead of Xiaojiao.

As the process progressed, I quickly discovered that the "hand" that stretched out from the mouth could only see the fingers, but could not see the palm and arms. The most jaw-dropping thing was that the length of the fingers soon became Exceeding the limit of human fingers, it is like five slender and pale chopsticks, extending almost "infinitely" towards the egg on the forehead of Little Pepper.

In the flickering of the candlelight, the old squad leader's face was illuminated from time to time.He held the cigarette in one hand and the chopsticks in the other, holding his breath and concentrating, ready to go.

Soon, the five fingers gently "hold" the egg, and with a few sounds of "Pu Chi Pu Chi", the five fingers poked through the egg crisply, and plunged into the egg... and remained motionless. .

The old squad leader still didn't move, he didn't even stare at the "finger" that poked the egg, but lowered his head, looking indifferently at the slowly burning cigarette in his hand, if it wasn't because his eyes were still open, I really thought He fell asleep.

In this way, all of us spent a cigarette's time in dead silence.

When the cigarette in the hands of the old squad leader was about to burn out, he suddenly threw away the cigarette butt, and at the same time quickly raised the red chopsticks, nimbly and accurately grasped the "finger" protruding from the mouth of the little pepper, and then gave it a hard blow. pull!
Only a "crash" was heard, and the "finger" was easily pulled out of the little pepper's mouth by the old squad leader's red chopsticks.

Followed by the second, and the third... But when the old squad leader caught the fifth "finger", the fifth finger was not "sitting to die"!
Just when the old squad leader was about to put down his chopsticks, the last finger suddenly sensed the crisis.

Immediately afterwards, the ghost finger jumped out of the eggshell on Xiaojiali's forehead, and quickly retracted into his throat. The whole process was so fast that there was no time to react.

Seeing this situation, the old squad leader's face turned black and white!He muttered "no", then quickly retracted the chopsticks in his hand and picked up the half of white wax.

After the old squad leader glanced at me and Zhao Hong, he ordered extremely seriously: "Press his limbs to death!"

After giving the order, the squad leader quickly lit the tip of the chopsticks close to the candle, then forcefully opened the mouth of the little pepper, and then lightly tapped the tip of the carbonized chopsticks on the vomit area of ​​the little pepper's tongue.

Just lightly!Little Pepper's whole body trembled like an electric shock.

The strength of his shaking was sudden and huge, accompanied by constant coughing and moaning. Although we tried our best to restrain his limbs, he still broke free several times during the irregular swing. Also almost out of control.

After struggling for an unknown amount of time, Little Pepper suddenly coughed out a mouthful of turbid blood. After the blood spurted out from his throat, there was a slender shadow in the haze.

The old squad leader took aim at the arc of the shadow, stretched out his hand and grabbed it suddenly!
Then he put what he had caught on the table and ordered me to turn on the light.

Drenched in sweat, I immediately groped my way to my bed, turned on the flashlight, and shone a light on the table.

At this time, we really saw the appearance of that thing clearly, and we were shocked to find that this thing is not a finger, but a kind of fleshy insect that is quite similar to a human finger!
From my point of view, those bugs are like the thickness and color of human fingers, but this thing is much longer than human fingers. double length.

After the old squad leader picked them out, those things were still alive, but they seemed to be out of Xiaojiali's body, and they couldn't make trouble anymore. At most, they just squirmed a few times on the table, which made people's scalp numb and disgusting. .

The old squad leader picked up the red chopsticks again, put the worms into the white porcelain plate one by one, and then took the worms into the kitchen...and fried them.

Five minutes later, the old squad leader brought me and Zhao Hong the five fried golden worms. While sprinkling salt and pepper, he said to us very lightly: "You two have worked hard, I have one, you two! Eat it Make up for it."

"Ah?" Zhao Hong and I were dumbfounded.

No one wants to take a second look at this kind of meat worm that can make a little pepper go crazy and buy it stupidly...how can it still be eaten?
Facing the embarrassment on our faces, the old squad leader did not blame or blame anything, but first slowly told me the origin of the bug.

The old squad leader said that there are a lot of dead people buried in our back mountain shooting range, which may be because of this. It is easy for people to stagnate all kinds of resentment after death. This resentment is similar to the concept of "yin qi" in Chinese medicine. It can be felt indirectly.

And this kind of insect that resembles a human finger is a kind of harmful thing formed by a death row prisoner who was executed under a special environment.

The correct name of the worm should be "egg-eating finger" or "egg-eating worm". It is said that this thing was transformed into a maggot that absorbed the resentment of the condemned prisoner.

When the old squad leader said this, I was completely speechless. He actually... fried a plate of big maggots for us to eat!

In desperation, in order to divert my bad stomach feeling, I had no choice but to change the topic first: "That... old squad leader, let's let the matter of eating maggots go first? Tell me first what is a pharynx sentence! Allow us to take it easy..."

The squad leader smiled and continued to tell us that this criminal law is an extremely cruel method of punishment that has been circulated among the chieftains in ancient Southwest my country.This criminal law not only satisfies the cruel desire of the rulers to abuse, but also cultivates a usable "Gu poison" for them, and it can barely be regarded as one of the "Life Gu" among the Yunnan Five Poisons and Thirteen Gu.

Before carrying out this kind of torture, people must starve for about seven days. When the hunger reaches the limit of endurance, the executioner will throw a boiled goose egg to the condemned prisoner.

The old squad leader reminded us that when people are at the limit of hunger and thirst, the most taboo thing is to eat eggs, because the appetite will overwhelm people's minds, and people will not care about chewing, so just swallow the whole egg with the skin and meat, it is very painful. It is easy to injure the esophagus and even the trachea.

Goose eggs, on the other hand, are absolutely inedible under such circumstances.

Because goose eggs are big, if they are not chewed, they will definitely get stuck in the throat of the person and "choke to death" the person alive.Moreover, this kind of death process is cruel and slow. In the hunger, thirst and suffocation, the condemned prisoners will instinctively scratch their necks desperately, trying to swallow the goose eggs.

However, this is impossible.

On the contrary, the scratching of the condemned prisoner will only make his neck congest and fester more quickly, which will only increase the pain of his own death.

In this way, death row prisoners lost their lives in hunger, pain, suffocation and despair.And the last, most poisonous breath of resentment in his body, according to superstition, will gather in the swallow after death. Generally speaking... it is the place where the goose egg is stuck.

In the future, if Master Tusi wants to use this person's corpse as "Gu", he will take out the goose egg from the dead man's throat and use it as "Mother Gu".It is using secret poison to make that thing rotten with maggots.

The maggots born in the eggs will become "egg-eating fingers" who are greedy for eggs. In Guizhou dialect, this kind of worms is called "plum".

If this "plum" enters a person's body, it will soon reside in the person's mind, gradually integrating the despair and memory of the person's death with reality, gradually making people lost in dreams, and eventually inducing people to "suicide".

From this, the old squad leader also estimated that when Xiaojiao was reporting to the shooting pit to enjoy the cool, he probably accidentally bumped into the "choking corpse" abandoned in the shooting field by the old society. This thing has an opportunity to take advantage of, and it is confusing and lost.

... After the squad leader finished speaking, he stretched out his red chopsticks, picked up a fat worm, put it in his mouth and ate it without looking at it.

Seeing his calm chewing and expression, I felt like retching, and Zhao Hong's face was even more pale.

While chewing, the old squad leader continued to look at his red chopsticks and said, the most greedy thing for this kind of egg eater is raw eggs, and the most feared thing is rooster blood, it must be just a maggot... These chopsticks have been stained with the blood of chickens, and they are just like maggots. It's the same existence as chicken beaks, they can't resist.

The old squad leader gave so many answers, but the questions in my heart did not decrease at all, because I was very surprised, how could the old squad leader, a Han Chinese cook from Shandong, know so many things about Miao Gu, voodoo, and the ability to detoxify and expel Gu , is also so familiar.Also, what does Little Pepper's semi-corporeal dream mean?
But before I could ask a question, the old squad leader presciently made a gesture of prohibition, and at the same time pushed the remaining "big maggots" to the two of us.

"Eat!" The old squad leader ordered.

"Squad leader!" Zhao Hong and I twisted our expressions, tears were about to flow out.

It's purely the rhythm of prostitution!

The old squad leader held the chopsticks stained with chicken blood, pointed at the plate and said, "Do you think I'm embarrassing you? What I let you eat is not maggots at all! It's your own 'fear'!"

(End of this chapter)