"Ah! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"
"Dad! It's me, what's wrong with you? Dad!"
In Bajiao Village on the outskirts of the capital city, in a farmer's house, a man with a frightened face was circling the yard non-stop. And behind him, there is an old man holding a kitchen knife, his eyes are red, and he is chasing ferociously.
"Wow... wow..."
The daughter-in-law and children locked in the back room couldn't stop crying.
There was a commotion here for a while, and the neighbors rushed over when they heard the sound, and they were all shocked when they saw it. A few young men surrounded the old man first, and hugged the old man tightly, and a bold slapped his hand, bang! The kitchen knife fell to the ground.
"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"
The old man couldn't move, and screamed more and more crazily, as if that was not his own son, but some sworn enemy.
Someone outside had already called the police, and a group of neighbors were unaware of the situation, and there was a lot of discussion.
The man was out of breath, and said, "I don't know either, I went to the grave on Ghost Festival yesterday, and I was fine when I came back, but it's like this early in the morning."
"Oh, the old man is fine, didn't he bump into something dirty?" One person said.
"Yeah, I've been watching the news recently, and there are so many things like this." Another person said.
"Anyway, everyone, be careful, it's been too evil recently."
Everyone was talking, and not long after, a police car drove into the village and stopped at the gate. As soon as the car door opened, four police officers came down.
They didn't ask, because the old man was still shouting, and he could see it at a glance.
"Take it away!" The leader waved his hand.
The other three went over, directly handcuffed the old man, pressed left and right, and Ma Liu was sent to the car.
The man quit and shouted: "Hey, comrade policeman! Even if my father has some problems, there is no need to do this? Why is this, is he killing people or setting them on fire?"
"..."
The leader looked at him and said: "The matter is very complicated, we have unified instructions, sorry!"
After all, the four of them came and went like the wind, and immediately disappeared, leaving only the villagers with bewildered faces.
…
Tangshan, the hospital.
It is 20 kilometers away from the urban area of Beijing. If you say it is not central, it is not remote. In the capital city, those who can buy a house near the Sixth Ring Road are local tyrants!
"Leave a way, let a way!"
"Um... um..."
"Rang Rang, there is a new patient!"
Following a burst of noise, four police officers escorted the old man into the hospital and headed straight for the newly planned "Abnormal Disease Research Center".
The old man's hands were handcuffed, a cork was stuffed in his mouth, and he struggled to twist it. There is no way, one is to prevent yelling, and the other is to prevent myself from biting my tongue. There have been examples before.
A few people went up to the third floor, and two strong doctors came over immediately and gave them a strong anesthetic. In just a few seconds, the old man lost his eyesight and became weak, and was carried to an isolation ward again.
"Huh... Fortunately, nothing happened on the way. Yesterday, when my brother was besieging the eldest sister, his chin was bitten and a piece of meat was torn off. Good guy, this is so strange!"
The police leader breathed a sigh of relief, and asked casually, "Hey, is this the twentieth one?"
"Well, exactly twenty, you have worked hard!" said the doctor.
"Hey, it's all hard work!"
After the police left, the director of the center quickly organized a consultation. According to the old way, blood tests were taken, and the whole body was checked... The result was the same as before, and there was no medical problem.
For a while, several doctors were very depressed, this feeling of powerlessness was too much of a failure.
When did it start? Oh, it seems to be within half a month... Similar patients keep appearing. They were fine before, but suddenly they became crazy. It was originally treated as a mental illness, but a few days ago, news came from above:
1. Place the patients in a unified manner in Tangshan Hospital.
2. This is not a mental illness, this is called ghosting.
All the doctors have all kinds of black question marks! They are doctors, and they believe in science the most, but now the dignified government just said in such a serious way, um, this is a ghost.
…
Capital City, General Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs.
Mu Kun was sitting in the office, listening to his assistant's report.
"As of today, major hospitals in thirty-six provinces have received 1,027 patients, among whom 269 died unexpectedly. The so-called accidental death is a sudden sudden death without warning and no cause can be found. We consulted Maoshan Daoist Jing Yi of the faction, he said that people who are possessed by ghosts will consume their body energy very quickly. Some people's physique is too weak to withstand the erosion of ghost energy, and they will die of exhaustion... "
"Heh, heh heh... cough cough!"
Listening to the report, Mu Kun laughed at first, laughed and coughed violently, several emotions mixed together, and finally mixed into a big helplessness.
After the assistant finished reading, he tentatively asked, "Ju Mu, what does the higher-ups mean?"
"What else do you mean, think of countermeasures, report, and wait for instructions!"
Mu Kun leaned on the back of the chair and rubbed his temples, feeling tired.
As early as a few days ago, Wu Songbai of the Maoshan faction warned in advance that there were ghosts in the world. As a result, before the countermeasures came out, it broke out all of a sudden.
This damn ghost festival!
He cursed secretly in his heart, because according to Wu Songbai, if a ghost wants to appear in the human world, he must either go through a ceremony or bump into some object of resentment. On the Hungry Ghost Festival, the yin energy is the most abundant, and the probability of occurrence is much higher.
Don't forget, Xia Guo has a population of nearly two billion, and people die every day, and those who just happened to die in these few days are not in the minority.
There is no space in big cities, but in the vast countryside, almost every family has traditions. So the criminals came, if the first seven were done and they hadn't been strictly followed, just like Zheng Kaixin's kind, they would basically hit one for sure!
What can the government do? It can only treat them as mentally ill, put them in a hospital, and call Wu Songbai urgently.
Old man Wu gave me a special face, and my Maoshan faction will help you with all your strength, and we will not hesitate to go through fire or water. As a result, the government took a look and said, don't be ridiculous, you are not enough to hold a banquet.
Those who have the ability to exorcise ghosts, there are only four people in the whole group!
And these four people have also been sent to the four worst cities for temporary relief.
Mu Kun didn't know if the government regretted it, or at least he did, because when he first started working, he was on a mission to clear up Maoshan Taoist priests pretending to be gods and ghosts.
The so-called way of heaven is reincarnation, now it is used by others, and there is no one else.
"well… "
Mu Kun sighed again, looking gloomy. Seeing this, the assistant carefully said: "Ju Mu, to be honest, the difficulty now is not how to catch ghosts, but how to explain them."
"how to say?"
"In fact, we are all psychologically prepared. With the emergence of spiritual energy and Taoism, ghosts will appear sooner or later. The problem is that although we have carried out ideological preparations for a year, we don't know how well the people will accept it."
"Yeah, the difficulty is how to explain it to the people; the difficulty is that life has to go on, there will still be ghosts and ghosts, how to popularize and prevent..."
Mu Kun responded, seeming to agree with the other party's point of view, but both of them knew very well: these are superficial things, the real crux, and they dare not discuss them in private.
"Boom boom boom!"
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and a person said, "Director Mu, the director told you to go to a meeting, and the superior has ordered you down!"
"Oh, I'll be right there."
Mu Kun was startled, then stood up and strode out the door.
There were constant footsteps in the corridor, and all the cadres came out of the office and gathered in the innermost room. Seeing this scene, Mu Kun couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Xiao Li, what's the situation? Has the superior agreed?"
"The superior not only agreed, but also..."
The man hesitated for a moment, and said: "And the courage is unexpected, we should use this matter as an entry point."