Chapter 213 Rigidity
"Yeah." Ayun agreed softly, as if she was afraid of disturbing her parents.
Gu Yaopan walked around the fire pit and approached the two people lying. Their faces could not be seen clearly in the dim light. She turned around and looked at the door. After the three of them came in, Ayun had closed the door again, and the window covered with window paper was only opened.
"Why not open the door? Or turn on the light?" Gu Yaopan said.
Ayun's head was slightly lowered, and her clenched lips showed her avoidance and nervousness. It was Aruan who looked at her and replied: "The patient cannot see the light."
"Can't you see the light?" Tao Mengchu asked in confusion.
"Well, what the old witch said." Ah Ruan nodded affirmatively and added: "If the light is turned on, the patient will keep standing under the light, looking at it, or circling in circles."
"What if the door is opened?" Gu Yaopan turned his head and asked.
"Then they will run out and can't be found." A Yun's voice suddenly rang, and the crisp childish voice was numb and cold, as if the person she said was not her relative.
Tao Mengchu and Gu Yaopan looked at each other, and their eyes were a little strange. For some reason, this description made them think of a word: phototropism. But people are not insects, so how could they do such strange behavior?
Besides, there are also fires in the fire pit, so why don’t they stare at the fire pit?
"Can you try it?"
Gu Yaopan solicited opinions from Ayun. She needed to see this situation that she had never seen before before to make her own judgment. What's more, the two people lying on the bed are now thin and dry, and it really doesn't seem like they can walk out of this home by themselves or can afford to stand under the lamp for a long time.
"How do you want to try?"
I don’t know what kind of blow Ayun had suffered before. The expression on this teenage girl’s face was numb at this time, and only her big eyes still had a little hope.
"On the light." Gu Yaopan said.
Ayun paused slightly and walked to the wall.
"Bang!"
The lights in the room were on, and the originally dim room suddenly became bright. The incandescent lamp emitted a bright light above his head. The three of them immediately turned to the two people who were lying motionless on the bed. Ayun, who was standing in front of the switch, lowered his head instead.
The two thin figures lying on the double bed blinked at the same time as the lights were on, as if they were not very adapted to the strong light. Then, a sour creaking sound gradually became clear in the room, and the two thin people were standing in front of the three of them, like insects, supporting them one by one.
First, the neck was raised, and then accompanied by the stiff friction of joints, the four firewood-like arms twisted strangely, supporting the upper body of the two, and the thin quilt slid down from the two, revealing the upper body of the two wearing coats, and then the knees were also arched.
During the whole process, the two people seemed to have not seen the people in the room at all. The two pairs of black eyes were staring at the light on the roof. Their eyes were straight and there was no emotion. Coupled with the stiff movements like a corpse, people felt cold in their hearts.
Just as the two of them turned stiffly and were about to stand on the ground, Gu Yaopan suddenly said, "Turn off the lights."
Ayun, who had been standing in front of the switch, brows moved slightly and raised his hand silently.
"Bang!" The light went out. The room was dark again.
As if someone suddenly removed the battery toy, the two thin men and women who were planning to step out of bed all their movements stopped abruptly at this moment, and stopped in a daze, without any movement.
Tao Mengchu frowned and looked at the couple who were on the ground and on the bed. He stretched out his hand and shook it in front of them. However, their eyes were completely focal, and they couldn't help but shake their heads.
"You saw it." A Yun suddenly said, "That's how they are. They only know the lamp. They don't know who they are. Even if I call them parents, they don't know."
But Gu Yaopan turned to Ayun and said, "Have you tried to stop them?"
Ayun was silent. After a while, she stretched out her arm and slowly lifted her sleeves. The three of them saw that the little girl who had been wearing a long-sleeved gown had scars of all sizes under her sleeves. Some seemed to be bitten out of her teeth, some were scratched out of her fingernails, and all had scabs, like one after another of her terrifying tattoos, covering her entire arm.
Tao Mengchu and Gu Yaopan sighed slightly, but A Ruan's eyes were already red. She took two steps forward and pulled A Yun's hand and said:
"Ayun, why don't you tell me that I can ask my dad to help you!"
But Ayun shook his head and looked at Aruan and said, "It's useless, the old witch said, this is the ancestors calling, as long as they can survive, it will be fine."
"What if I can't stand it?" A Ruan was a little anxious.
"I can't stand it... I can't stand it like Aji's wife."
Ayun turned around and looked towards the direction of the mountain outside the house. The old witch sang a desolate tone of the guide lyrics coming through the mountain wind.
"Ayun, can I see your worm?" Gu Yaopan looked at Ayun. In her pocket, the small bottle containing Aji's worm had just shaken.
"Gu insect?" Ayun looked at the young elder sister in front of her with some vigilance. She was very beautiful! Ayun felt that she had never seen such a beautiful person before, but she would scare her.
"Or, look at your parents' insects," Tao Mengchu added.
He looked at the couple who were still immobile, but finally couldn't stand it. He reached out and carefully supported them, slowly letting them lie down again and covered them with bedding. After finishing the two people who were completely passive, Tao Mengchu felt that there was a layer of sweat on his back.
Perhaps Tao Mengchu's gentle movements towards her parents won Ayun's trust. The little girl thought for a moment and stretched out her right hand. A small iron-backed centipede slowly crawled out of her cuff. When she crawled to her palm, she stopped and lay quietly there, her blue-black armor was dull.
"It doesn't look very energetic." Tao Mengchu looked at Ayun's Gu and said.
"Yes, it's been a while." Ah Yun nodded, stretched out his index finger with his left hand and carefully touched his treasure.
"Is it the same day as your parents' illness?" Gu Yaopan asked.
Ayun seemed to be stunned, with a look of thought in his eyes. After a while, he nodded hesitantly, and thought for a while and said, "I can't remember it very clearly. Is the Guworm related to my parents' illness?"
"I don't know yet, we're looking for the reason."
Tao Mengchu was a little disappointed. Is their guess wrong? The Guworm is just like all poultry and livestock, and there is nothing special about it? What happened to the Guworm wrapped in white fog of Aji's wife?
Chapter completed!