$940, prescription (1/2)
In front of the dark alleyway, there is a row of trash cans.
All kinds of kitchen waste accumulated in the trash cans have rotted into dust, leaving only many plastic bags flying on the floor.
Su Wu's whole body was ignited with crimson flames, and he walked into the alleyway holding the emergency can.
There was sewage flowing out from under the wall and flowing freely through the alleyway. Waves of foul smell emitted from the sewer lingered in the entire alleyway as the sewage flowed.
On the telephone pole at the end of the alley, various wires were intertwined on it. Those wires that came and went in a criss-cross direction divided the dark sky into pieces.
A street lamp hung on a telephone pole at the end of the alley, emitting a pale light tenaciously.
Passing through the alleyway, a large road with half a cement road and half a masonry road lay across Su Wu's field of vision. Half of the road near the alleyway was a cement road. The cement road was full of potholes and was filled with wheels all year round. traces left by pressure.
The masonry paved road opposite has sunk a lot due to the rolling traffic of vehicles over the years.
Earth and dust cover the cracked and collapsed masonry, and many cracks intertwine and spread on the paved road, and then stop abruptly when approaching the other half of the cement road, as if the other half of the cement road is not in conflict with the other half of the cement road.
Next to the masonry paved road, there are rows of houses with brick, wood and stone structures.
It was in sharp contrast to the concrete building next to Su Wu's location.
In front of the houses supported by wooden pillars, there are even door panels like ancient shops. The door panels are stacked one after another, blocking the front doors of the shops.
Many houses are squeezed together in a small space. Painted signboards and cloth flags are unevenly decorated on the shop fronts. In the sudden roar of the wind, those flags are twisting in the wind, and the wooden flags are swaying in the wind. The painted signboards and door foreheads also shook and made creaking sounds.
‘Sanwu Furniture City’.
‘Dongsheng Daqu Liquor – a time-honored brand in Mingzhou, a century-old Dongsheng Liquor’.
‘Lao Lang’s Drug Store’.
‘Zhang Wu repairs shoes’.
Su Wu glanced at the signboards, which were either in the style of wooden plaques, flags or flags, or made of aluminum and plastic with sticky luminous characters, and his eyes were a little solemn.
Shops from different periods and styles are gathered in a small area across the road.
Was there really such a place in Minnesota? Su Wu was not sure.
But the current area was the final destination where Jiang Yingying and her family had converged and meandered. It was also an area that Su Wu was unable to observe through the 'Spell of Chasing Causes and Creating Effects', and a dark area appeared in his mind. .
He now opened his six-day ghost eyes between his eyebrows, and could see that many buildings across the road were "floating", like shadows in the water, like houses made of paper. When the wind blew - the shadows swayed and twisted more and more. Illusive, paper-made houses are erratic in the wind.
He used the 'King of Eight Consciousnesses' to observe the buildings across the road, but still could only 'see' darkness.
In this 'pitch black', there seemed to be shadows that seemed to be in a trance, appearing and disappearing.
The threads of cause and effect of Yingying paraded here and completely disappeared without a trace.
Su Wu looked back at the emergency can in her arms, but the big rooster showed no sign of it.
"I'm going in." Su Wu said.
The emergency can shook its red comb, neither denying nor affirming.
No longer trying to find any clues from the emergency can, Su Wu hugged it and stepped onto the big road made of cement road and brick pavement. The moment he stepped on this road, many voices sounded. Ringing in his ears intensively——
Jingle Bell!
It seemed like a bicycle was passing by in front of Su Wu.
Drop - drop -
The loud whistle of an old-fashioned car passed by Su Wu's ears. The whistle seemed to carry a warning from the owner of the car.
Moo!
The cow's lowing sounded deep and unhurriedly beside Su Wu.
…
All these sounds made Su Wu feel like he was on a road with constant traffic.
But he looked around, where could he see a human figure?
The road was empty, and the sound in Su Wu's ears suddenly disappeared, leaving only the gloomy wind and weeping.
He lowered his head and looked at the emergency can in his arms. The emergency can also raised its head and turned rapidly, looking around. It observed the surroundings for a while, and then became quiet again.
The street light on the telephone pole behind him suddenly went out.
In the blocks outside the alley, there are no more neon lights.
All light sources are dimmed.
Red lanterns rose at the right time, filling the gloomy world with crimson light. The light, which was already as red as blood, rolled through the deep alley and spread out behind Su Wu. Su Wu's whole body was burning with crimson flames. He No longer hesitating, he walked across the road and came to the area where many wood, stone and brick buildings were stacked together. He turned around and looked back -
The red light flowed on the cement road near the alley, but it did not cover the brick paved road at all.
——Yan Jue's death calamity law cannot cover the area where Su Wu is currently!
But the weird hair is still meandering around, shuttling between the dilapidated old shops and houses without any restrictions.
"Simulator!"
Su Wu tried to call the simulator in his heart.
That strange fluctuation gradually rippled in his heart again, ready to come out——
Suddenly, the jet-black hair that was wandering between the front halls and back halls of shops and the eaves and corners of houses and alleys suddenly turned back and coiled around Su Wu!
The waves that were rising in Su Wu's heart suddenly fell silent!
Clumps of black hair were densely intertwined in a shop called "Laolang Pharmacy". In the dim shop, there was a rattan recliner on one side of the high counter.
On the rattan chair, there was an old man with long braids wearing a black robe and a melon-shaped hat.
The old man stroked a black cat lying on his belly.
The recliner swayed gently.
Behind the old man lying on the chair, the long braid swayed along.
‘He’ had a white face, thick black eyebrows, and very long eyelashes. The dense eyelashes were arranged under the eyelids, like two black eyeliners.
‘He’ had red lips, a high nose bridge, and two purple blushes on each cheek.
‘He’ stretched out his palm from his sleeve, which was also snow-white, and each finger was square, with clear creases on each finger - exactly the same as every crease on his clothes.
‘He’ was a paper man!
Thick black hair was tangled around the black cat lying on the belly of the ‘paper man’. The palm of the paper man kept stroking the black cat’s back, straightening out the messy black hair on its back that was flying everywhere - all the black hair that was flocking to Su Wu turned and swam elsewhere, no longer entangled Su Wu!
Su Wu dragged the ‘Black Ksitigarbha’ out of the darkness with one hand, stared at the paper man and the black cat on the recliner, and walked over.
As he watched, the paper man on the recliner suddenly disappeared.
Only the black cat suddenly raised its face at this time - a pale, wrinkled old woman's face looked at Su Wu with a smile, and opened its mouth, revealing a mouthful of shaky yellow teeth: "You are so brave -"
"Meow!"
The black cat's low roar of protest suddenly sounded!
Su Wu chased into the 'Lao Lang's Pharmacy', and the black cat on the recliner had already jumped out and flashed into an alley connected to the pharmacy, disappearing in the blink of an eye!
The recliner was shaking, proving that what Su Wu saw was not an illusion.
Now that Su Wu has cultivated the 'Eight Consciousnesses Heart King', most of the evil spirits can no longer create any illusions in his mind. If combined with the 'Six Heavens Ghost Eyes', even the disaster-level evil spirits can't make him have illusions.
But this area is very strange at the moment, and it is an area that the 'Eye Ghost' can't see.
In Su Wu's speculation, the 'Hair Ghost', which is much weaker than the 'Eye Ghost', can travel through this place unscrupulously with its death law. It can be seen that the Eye Ghost and Hair Ghost can no longer be the basis for judging the degree of danger here.
Su Wu's simulator still cannot be successfully summoned here, which further shows that the horror hidden here is actually not weaker than the 'outside world'. He also needs to act carefully here and take every step carefully.
The recliner gradually stopped shaking.
A black cloth blanket was spread on the recliner. The fine rattan strips became smooth and oily due to long-term contact with human skin. Su Wu picked up the black cloth blanket on the recliner and did not notice anything wrong.
He put the blanket down and looked at the display on the counter.
A row of large jars were placed on the counter. Two mortars and pestles were placed near the middle. Abacus, scales, pens, ink and paper were placed in the middle of the counter in different categories.
Su Wu opened several large porcelain jars. The various medicinal materials stored in them quickly carbonized and turned black when they came into contact with the air, turning into ashes. Only the strong medicinal gas overflowed from the jars and deposited in the medicine shop with a strong musty smell.
Going around the back of the counter, Su Wu searched everywhere, but did not find many valuable clues.
Only a "prescription" on the counter was Su Wu's only gain in the medicine shop.
Many papers and books piled on the counter were carbonized rapidly and turned into ashes. Only the prescription placed in the middle of the counter and pressed by the paperweight was slightly yellowed and did not turn into ashes.
Su Wu carefully picked up the paperweight and held the prescription in his hand to check:
‘Patient: …, age …, said that he often saw a woman in red hanging by her neck on the beam above his bed when he was half asleep and half awake. He thought that such a scene was just a nightmare until he was awakened by the sound of a rooster crowing in the middle of the night. He saw the woman in red with a pale face, looking at him face to face.
He was terrified and got out of bed and ran away in a hurry.
After returning home at dawn, he went to the medicine shop and asked for help.
The prescription is as follows:
Take a bowl of blood from the neck of the hen that crowed in the middle of the night at home and soak it in your underwear.
After drying his underwear, he hung the blood-stained clothes on the beam, and pasted his birth date on the back of the clothes. At noon every day, he stood on the bed, beat the blood-stained clothes with a willow branch, and shouted at the person to leave.
Then he placed a bowl of raw rice at the head of the bed.
Repeated this for three days, and the disease disappeared. ’
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