When I was seven years old, I was separated from my parents at the market.
A woman in floral clothes told me kindly that she could take me to find my parents.
I followed her and walked into a dilapidated house. The woman asked me to drink a glass of water first and told me that I would see my parents soon.
After I drank the water, but after a while, I felt heavy on my eyelids and soon fell asleep.
I was in a daze, feeling the bumps for a long time, having many weird dreams, and even felt a bug burrowing in my body.
I don’t know how long it took, I suddenly felt a rough hand, constantly pinching my body, and faintly heard a voice saying "This little baby is too weak, not as good as the previous ones..."
Just when I thought it was a dream, a sharp pain suddenly came from my right wrist.
I opened my eyes screaming, only to find that I was in a dark room with a person I had never seen before.
The man was dressed in sackcloth and had an extremely ugly appearance. He was thin and dry, with no flesh on his face, and his skin was yellow, like a dead tree bark. He was holding a sharp knife in his hand, and the sharp knife was covered with blood. And my right hand pours out blood, flowing into a porcelain bowl.
Soon, the porcelain bowl was filled with a small bowl of blood.
The ugly man just let go of me and walked to the shrine in the house with the porcelain bowl.
There seemed to be a spiritual position on the shrine, but it was covered with a black cloth, and it was impossible to see what it was.
When the ugly man put the blood in front of the shrine, he began to mutter, saying something I couldn't understand.
I saw the black cloth faintly moving, and then I saw the blood in the porcelain bowl began to pulsate, and the blood in the bowl was decreasing.
Is something drinking blood? Why can't I see
I couldn't believe my eyes, I hurriedly reached out and rubbed them, but I couldn't see anything.
Is it a ghost? I heard the old man say before that ghosts are invisible.
I was so scared that I was paralyzed on the ground, my head was blank, my body was shaking constantly, I forgot to cry, and I forgot to grab the door and flee.
When there was no drop of blood in the porcelain bowl, the ugly man turned his head and looked at me. His eyes were already scarlet, greedy and excited, the oil lamp in the room flickered, and he was completely a demon in the shadow of the lamp.
"You have been chosen, it drank your blood." The ugly man yelled excitedly, "Little baby, if you stay by my side obediently, there will be no worries about your life. If you run away, you will die. It's very miserable. I, Luo Dajin, don't speak big words, as long as you dare to escape, I will make you worse off than death!"
"What... What selected me?" I asked desperately.
"You'll know until tomorrow! From today, you will be renamed Luo Jiu, and you will be my worm son..." Luo Dajin said loudly, his tone could not be changed.
"No... No... I am not Luo Jiu, my name is Xiao Kang..." I was taken aback for a while, and loudly expressed dissatisfaction, "I am not your worm son either!"
In just half an hour, I have already understood that when encountering this demon, there is little chance that I will escape, and I may never be able to return home. Only the name Xiao Kang was given to me by my parents. It is the only thing I can have, and I absolutely cannot give up.
Luo Dajin's expression is hideous, he stepped forward, grabbed my sleeves, and two ear scrapers fell off: "Your name is Luo Jiu, you are my insect son!"
"No... My name is Xiao Kang." My face hurts fiercely, but I turned my head and rejected him. I don't know where the courage came from. I even stared at him viciously with wide-eyed eyes.
Luo Dajin snorted coldly: "You will accept your new name! You will beg to be my son!" As soon as the words fell, Luo Dajin carried me with one hand and walked inside.
It didn't take long for me to hear Xixi Suosuo's voice. The surrounding light was dark and I didn't even know where it was. Just hearing a "squeak", Luo Dajin opened the door and threw me in.
I knocked on the ground with a sharp pain in my shoulder, then rolled down the steps, and after a few bangs, I finally stopped on the ground.
"Son of insects, you can spend the night with them!" Luo Dajin said loudly, click, and the door closed from the outside, and there was a sound of locking.
After Luo Dajin left, I curled up in the corner, afraid to make any noises. My parents appeared in my mind, thinking of my warm bed, and the delicious food at home, but now I am hungry and thirsty, and I don’t know what to do. Where, tears began to roll in the eyes.
I gritted my teeth and didn't let the tears flow down. Abba once told Grip that I was a little man, bleeding and not crying. Can't cry, can't cry, Xiao Kang, I told myself in my heart that I must have a chance to leave here and I will go home.
I want to live, I tell myself deep down.
Darkness enveloped me, and strange noises kept coming from the pitch-black space. I didn't dare to sleep, but sleepiness came in waves.
Suddenly, my arm was numb, and a heart-wrenching pain came.
I hurriedly stretched out my hand and beat out a black bug.
It seems that there are a lot of poisonous insects in this cellar, so Xixi Suosuo's voice is from them.
I was most afraid of those dark poisonous insects, and quickly moved to the side. When I was moving, my body was bitten a few times, and the piercing pain struck me. I fell to the ground, and my body gradually became stiff and unable to move.
But for a moment, I felt all kinds of poisonous insects crawling on me from all directions. The stingers should be poisonous scorpions, many of them should be centipedes, and some of them should be snakes on the slippery ground, and the ceiling of the cellar was hanging down. , It should be some highly poisonous spiders.
The severe pain from the biting of poisonous insects hit me after another. I feel that there are poisonous insects everywhere in my body. They have to eat up the flesh and drink dry blood to let me go.
I cried out in my heart: "Dad, Mom, I miss you so much... I'm going to be bitten to death by poisonous insects. Where are you, why don't you come to me..."
No, I can’t die, I want to live... I want to live...
I told myself in my heart that if I died here, I didn't know where I was. That Luo Dajin would still harm other people, and no one would punish him.
To be alive, I want to be alive. I don't know where the strength comes from. I start to crawl against the ground. Although the speed is very slow, far less than the speed of chasing poisonous insects, I want to crawl forward.
I don't know how long it took, I touched something like a jar.
The jar was so big, I tried hard to roll in along the edge of the jar and hid in the jar. After I climbed into the jar, the chasing poisonous insects did not follow.
I slept curled up in the jar, and I don't know how long I slept.
When I woke up, I saw Luo Dajin standing in front of me with a bowl of steaming rice in his hands. The position where Luo Dajin stood was surrounded by an astonishing number of poisonous scorpions and poisonous centipedes.
The light in the cellar has been brightened a lot, and it seems that it is already dawn outside.
"My dear son, my dear son! You can save your life from the five poisonous insects and crawl into the jar by yourself!" Luo Dajin actually showed a satisfied smile, "It seems that you are qualified to be a Gu person! No wonder Gu last night! God will drink your blood!"
I tried to stand up from the jars, too late to recall the meaning of Luo Dajin's words. I scanned the surroundings and found that there were nine huge jars arranged in two rows in the cellar, and I was inside one of them.
The other eight large jars have been sealed with black cloth, faintly emitting a rancid smell.