Naturally, his parents cried half to death. But what everyone found strange was why the body had not been washed away for so many days, and there was black mud flowing out of the eyes, ears, mouth and nose of the body.

My grandma was also there when we were trying to solve the problem. Grandma asked the child’s birth date and her face became more solemn, but she didn’t say anything.

The child's uncle was from the police station in the town. Hearing that mud was leaking from the body's facial features, he became suspicious. So he asked the forensic doctor to do an autopsy.

Unexpectedly, when the skull was opened, there was no trauma on the head of the corpse, but the brain was missing. There was only some black soil in the skull cavity.

There is not a drop of blood in the child's body.

After that, a child would die mysteriously every few months in the town. Most of the time, he would commit suicide by diving in front of everyone.

For a long time, no one in the town went to the river to catch fish for food.

I don’t know why, but I always feel that the sugar granny who leans against the window every day is a bit weird. For example, I have never seen her buy sugar into the house, and I have never seen her buy fruit. How come she makes so many fruity lollipops? So I

Never bought it once.

Once when I accompanied Xiaobao to buy candy bars, I saw her legs covered with a quilt. Only a pair of small feet were exposed outside the quilt. I don’t know how many years she had been paralyzed. I watched her give change to Xiaobao.

Bao's movements made me feel indescribably awkward. It wasn't until I got home and went to bed that I figured out why the angle of her body twisting didn't look like someone who had lost the strength in both legs.

After that, I even stayed away from her shop.

Until one day, there was a man named Zhong Kai in the class who got a small amount of pocket money from a relative, so he bought a lot of 's candy bars and got points from the class. Each classmate got one. I took

I got a strawberry-flavored one, red, wrapped in glutinous rice paper, very tempting.

I took it and looked at it again and again, and smelled it again and again. Still not willing to eat it. I decided to take it home and let my grandma try it.

"Bah...! What is this?!" Grandma threw it to the ground before she could finish her sentence. It was smashed into pieces.

I didn't expect grandma to have such a big reaction just by sniffing it.

Grandma grabbed my hand and stared at me with her gray eyes: "Is this what that crippled old woman on West Street is selling?"

"Yeah. How..."

Grandma put more force on her hand: "Remember, don't eat her candy. It's not clean! Also, don't deal with her."

Although I don't know why, I still somewhat listen to what grandma said.

On this day, the commune sent people to show an outdoor movie. Basically everyone in the town went. Even grandma, who couldn't see clearly, ran to join in the fun for the first time.

However, I just couldn't sit still that night, so I told my grandma that I wanted to go home before the movie was halfway through.

Since everyone had gone to watch a movie, the streets in the town were deserted, and only the moonlight filled the lanes. When I walked to Zhong Kai's house, I saw a dark figure standing at his door, shaking something. Take a closer look.

Listen, it turned out to be the sound of a bell.

My intuition told me that something was strange, so I hid aside and watched quietly.

After a while, Zhong Kai came out and followed the black figure ringing the bell, walking on the street step by step.

When they walked out into the light, I realized that the person ringing the bell was—Mother Xu.

My curiosity became more and more intense. I followed them from a distance, and even took off my shoes and walked barefoot.

As I expected, Zhong Kai followed Mother Xu into Granny Sugar's house.

I secretly peeked in through the crack in the window. I felt that Zhong Kai seemed to have left his soul, and he was obeying orders in a daze. He was told to stand still, and he was told to do whatever he wanted.

Could it be the bell, but why am I not affected?

What happened next, if I hadn't bit my hand tightly, I would have screamed.

I saw the sugar granny lift up the quilt, then remove her prosthetic legs—yes, the prosthetic legs under the quilt. Then she pulled out her lower body from under the bed board, the lower body of a python.
Chapter completed!