When he went to Pine Forest to investigate the situation at the crime scene, he encountered Sanpo and other villagers in Longdong Village, and was almost beaten by them. Fortunately, I finally managed to get them done with my three-inch tongue. The third mother also told me that Longdong Village was cursed by mountain ghosts, and the women in the village would die if they were targeted by him. However, based on the finger marks I found at the crime scene, the mountain ghost should be a middle-aged man, not a so-called monster. So I plan to go back to the police station to check the previous case records in order to get more information. However, just as I was about to return to the police station, Zi Die told me that the women who were desecrated by the mountain ghosts seemed to be mentally ill before their death.
I don't know if I don't see it, but I was shocked when I saw it. It turns out that there have been as many as 96 corpses desecrated by mountain ghosts in the past 20 years. On average, one female corpse is violated by mountain ghosts in two to three months. That is to say, one young woman dies every two to three months in Longdong Village, which is unbelievably high for a small village with a permanent population of only 800 people. No wonder the villagers frequently come to the police station to make trouble.
I carefully read through the mountain of case records and learned that in the 1980s, the permanent population of Longdong Village was only about 600 people. Later, due to the development of the rosin industry, a large number of foreigners poured in, and the population once exceeded 2,000. However, because the mountain ghost incident caused a lot of trouble in the city, the production of rosin almost stopped. In addition, the villagers believed that the mountain ghost might be caused by outsiders, and the xenophobia was so strong that a large number of foreigners left, and the mortality rate of women was extremely high. , although family planning exists in name only for them, the birth rate is still very low. Therefore, in the past 20 years, the population has only increased by less than 200 people, and most of them are migrants, and the population of the village has hardly increased.
This kind of situation is unimaginable no matter where it is. It seems that it is necessary to investigate in Longdong Village to see what the so-called curse of mountain ghosts is all about.
After eating breakfast and lunch in a hurry, I went to Longdong Village with Zidie to investigate. First, I drove a police car around the village and found that the village is quite dilapidated. There are thugs in poor mountains and bad waters. When people are poor and crazy, they can do anything. It is not uncommon to often go to the police station to make trouble. However, in this dilapidated village, there should be a decent hospital, which makes me feel very strange. There are only a few hundred people here, and they are very poor. It would be nice to have a small health station. If a hospital is built here, it will be difficult to make ends meet no matter how high the charges are! I parked my car in front of the hospital and found that there were not many people coming to see the doctor, and it was quite deserted.
"This hospital was created by the villagers." Zi Die may have guessed that I was wondering why there was a hospital here.
"It's making trouble? How did it make trouble?" It's strange enough to have a hospital in such a small place, and it's even more strange that it's still making trouble.
"Didn't I say before that the bodies that were desecrated by the mountain ghosts suffered from mental illness before they died? The villagers thought it was caused by the curse of the mountain ghosts, and we couldn't catch the mountain ghosts, so they went to the county government and demanded The county magistrate asked Taoist priests to catch the mountain ghosts. However, the county magistrate could find Taoist priests to do these superstitious things, and the mountain ghosts dug up the rotten bodies every time they committed crimes. The county magistrate came to appease them. Second, I was afraid that there would be a plague sooner or later, so I applied for funding to build this hospital." Her tone made me feel that she was resentful, but she immediately gloated and said, "This hospital has to lose money every year. One hundred thousand, I'm afraid it won't last long before it closes."
"Are there many mentally ill people here?" I asked.
"Other villages are very normal, but the number of lunatics in Longdong Village is terrifying. Most of the people who are hospitalized in this hospital are suffering from mental illness." Hearing her say that, I seem to vaguely hear hysterical screams in the hospital. out.
"Let's go in and have a look, maybe we will find something." I said and got out of the car.
She looked out of the car window and said a little displeased, "What's so good about a group of lunatics, let's take the time to investigate elsewhere!"
"Haven't you been here to investigate before?" I asked in surprise.
"What's the use of coming here, it's not just a bunch of lunatics." She seemed to think that she was very reasonable.
"So you haven't been able to catch the mountain ghost for 20 years." After I said that, I ignored her, turned and walked into the hospital. I didn't take a few steps before I heard her grunt, followed by the sound of doors opening and closing. She followed.
The main body of Longdong Hospital is a six-storey building, covering an area of about 600 square meters, which can be regarded as a rather magnificent building for such a small village. At least apart from this hospital, I haven't seen any houses with more than three stories in the village. After entering the lobby, the hysterical screams were not heard much. The entire hall was empty, with only four rows of chairs for patients to sit in while waiting, but no one was seen.
"Are you going to see a doctor?" A middle-aged man in a white coat suddenly appeared out of nowhere, making me think I'd be in hell during the day. When he walked in front of us, he stared at Zi Die and looked up and down. After a while, he said to me, "She seems normal, but she'd better check it out and bring her here!" We go to the psychiatric clinic. It is very rare for a psychiatry department to set up a hospital in the lobby. It seems that mental illness is a common disease here.
Zidie is inexplicably mentally ill, and I think she will be unhappy. Sure enough, as soon as the white coat turned around, she started scolding: "You only need to be checked, you are regarded as mentally ill, and you are a quack doctor to such an extent that you are not as good as a veterinarian, even a beast!"
Her ability to associate is quite powerful, a quack doctor becomes a veterinarian, and a veterinarian becomes a beast. Not to mention that veterinarians and animals are just a doctor-patient relationship, even veterinarians are not necessarily inferior to quack doctors, and veterinarians are quite professional. I thought the white coat would scold her, but he actually took two steps back and asked me calmly: "Does she hit people when she has a seizure? Will she bite?" Dare he thinks Zidie of mental illness.
Zi Die was so angry that he wanted to step forward to beat him, but he actually shouted: "Come and help, a patient has a seizure!"
In order to prevent Zi Die from being regarded as a lunatic and tied up by them, I immediately rushed forward and hugged her, lest she really beat up the white coat. But I don't know if it's because of habit or because of primitive desire, my hands fell in places that shouldn't be touched, and my brain lacked oxygen for a while, so I grabbed a hand - her breasts are very soft!
After giving me the "chest attack", Zi Die was immediately stunned, and the white coat stared at us blankly, and I didn't know what to do next. However, although there was a short circuit in my head for a moment, my body reacted naturally - the little Mu in my pants grew up, clinging to the very elastic Qiaodian!
"Ah!!!" A scream echoed in the empty lobby. I first felt a sharp pain in my ribs, then I saw the floor, then the ceiling... After Zidie gave me an elbow, she used her back. The fall knocked me down. Her kung fu is really good, she almost broke me eight pieces.
At this time, three men in white coats rushed out from the dentist, the emergency room, and the injection room, and the scene was a bit chaotic. Fortunately, I didn't kill Zidie, I just lay on the ground and took out my police card to show my identity. However, doing so seems to have the opposite effect. The four white coats actually thought that Zi Die was a mental patient who had committed a crime. This time, Zidie is really going crazy. I'm sorry my right hand is still caught by her...
After the riot, I finally explained to the white coats that Zi Die is not mentally ill. We are the police who came to investigate the case. Alas, no wonder we didn't wear police uniforms to make such a big joke. Pity my right hand was broken by Zidie angrily. Fortunately, although there are fewer medical staff in this hospital, the equipment is relatively complete. I took a picture and found that there was no fracture, but the joint was displaced and had to be hung around the neck. Fastened with a bandage.
Maybe I think I'm too ruthless, Zidie didn't say anything about my chest attack, just followed me with blushing head down. After dealing with the situation, we went to the white coat of the psychiatrist to find out the situation.
"I'm really sorry about what happened just now." The white coat looked at the arm I wrapped around my neck with a bandage, and then glanced at Zi Die behind me. I didn't know if I was apologizing for misunderstanding that Zi Die was mentally ill, or if I did harm I apologize for wringing my arm off.
"It doesn't matter, it didn't hurt my bones anyway." I looked at a small sign with his photo and name on the table and learned that his name was Huang Yifei, so I asked, "Doctor Huang, are you from this village?"
"Yes, there are several doctors in the hospital who are from the village. Unless they come here for an internship, no one would want to stay in this ghost place." He showed an indescribable helplessness in his words.
"Is it because of the mountain ghost?" I asked.
"Well, this village has been destroyed by mountain ghosts, alas..." He sighed and told me about the situation of Longdong Village—
In the 1980s, the old village chief helped the whole village to be changed to the Yao ethnic group. Because of the preferential policies for ethnic minorities, there were a few college students in our small place. At that time, our village didn’t even have a health station, so I had to walk more than ten miles to see a doctor, which was very inconvenient, so I enrolled in medical school at that time.
I originally studied surgery, but before I finished my sophomore year, mountain ghosts appeared, and suddenly many women in the village suffered from mental illness. Because I borrowed money from my relatives to go to college, and several of my relatives had mental problems, my parents let me transfer to psychiatry.
When I came back from my internship, there were nearly ten women in the village who were mentally ill, and more than ten died. Every year after that, five or six women went crazy for no reason. I don't know if it's because I'm not good at learning, I haven't been able to figure out their cause for more than ten years. Except for the curse of the mountain ghost, I really can't think of any reasonable explanation.
At first, I suspected mass hysteria, and tried to treat them with hypnosis and other methods, but to no avail. Moreover, most patients die within six months to a year after symptoms appear. Generally speaking, psychiatric diseases do not cause patients to die in the short term, but the symptoms they show are obviously symptoms of psychosis.
Because the cause has never been diagnosed, most of the women in the village fled outside, and those who stayed were basically crazy. The ones who escaped aren't much better. As far as I know, there have been several who escaped and were still insane...
"It's all women who are crazy?" I asked immediately after listening to his narration.
He replied: "Well, they are all women, there are girls in their teens, and there are sisters-in-law in their thirties. Anyway, they are all women, not a single man, not a little girl or an old woman. Because all the crazy ones are. They are women in their teens to forties, and the more beautiful they are, the easier they are to go crazy, so everyone believes in the curse of the mountain ghost."
"Could it be the reason for consanguineous marriages?" The curse is unconvincing. All the villagers in Longdong Village are surnamed Huang, and there is a high possibility that close relatives have given birth to children, resulting in genetic defects.
However, my guess was immediately denied by him: "It is reasonable for you to think, after all, our whole village is surnamed Huang. However, you should not know that in fact, our village was not originally surnamed Huang, just because of the early 1980s. , in order to be able to change to the Yao people, so everyone changed their surnames. I also thought about this aspect, although the people in our village are somewhat related to each other, but most of the patients are not close relatives for the last three generations, so they do not exist. It's possible."
Only women can get the disease, but it is not caused by consanguineous marriage. What is the cause? He couldn't think of this problem for more than ten years, how could I solve it in a short time! Maybe fleeting years can help, but I have to be able to ask the patient's symptoms.
Dr. Huang showed me the medical records of several recent patients, but unfortunately they were all written in "Mars text", like ghosts and talismans. I couldn't understand it after reading for a long time, so he told me directly.
After thinking for a while, he said: "The main symptoms of patients in the early stage are headache, insomnia, forgetfulness, anxiety and dreaminess. Most patients claim to be raped by mountain ghosts in their dreams. In the middle stage, numbness of hands and feet, weakness of limbs, and even hallucinations will appear. At this time, almost all the patients claimed to have seen the mountain ghosts coming to take them away. In the later stage, severe renal insufficiency will occur, and eventually, complications of renal insufficiency will lead to death.”
When I was with Xiaona, I also heard some things about mental illness. The symptoms he said in the early and middle stages were typical symptoms of mental illness, but in the later stage, the kidney function decreased. I don’t seem to have heard Xiaona say anything. It seems that I have to trouble the ex-girlfriend again.
After leaving the hospital, I called Xiaona to tell her about the situation in Longdong Village and asked her if the villagers were suffering from mental illness? Her answer came from the other side of the phone: "This situation is very rare, and I can't give you a definite answer. Generally speaking, the decline of renal function caused by the spirit is rare. The same symptoms as you said, I I’ve never heard of it. After all, renal insufficiency is different from general vomiting and sneezing. Patients can understand it through observation and cause the same reaction. Renal insufficiency is a relatively professional medical term, and it is impossible for ordinary patients to know just by hearing the name. What's going on? Even after seeing the superficial symptoms of other patients, the same superficial symptoms appear, the results obtained after detailed examination are not the same. So the situation you mentioned, I don't think it can be a collective hysteria. "
What would it be if it wasn't mass hysteria? In order to find out what's going on as soon as possible, after hanging up Xiaona's call, I immediately called the number of fleeting years and informed the details. After thinking for a while, he gave me an inexplicable answer: "If I guessed correctly, they should be poisoned!"