late at night

Chapter 1 The Strange Disease
In the distant starry sky, there is a twin planet of the earth - Blue Star.

Blue Star has more advanced civilization and technology than Earth.It also has a history and past similar to Earth's...

Blue Star Rabbit Country!It's the beginning of summer now...

The night in the north was originally a bit desolate and dilapidated.

However, this year is an exception!
In a small northern city that has exploded all over the world, it's past midnight, but the streets are becoming more and more lively.

A dilapidated residential area in the suburbs that affected the appearance of the city did not have the word "demolition" painted on it like other cities to create a city.

On the attic on the top floor of a unit building in the community...

Li Qing woke up restlessly in the middle of the night again.He felt itchy all over his body, it was such a heart-piercing pain!

Even though he felt that he had fallen asleep in a trance, his hands kept scratching his skin.

Li Qing sighed, sat up weakly, felt his fingers were a little hot, and knew that his skin was bleeding from being scratched again.

Li Qing is 24 years old this year. He has graduated from university for almost a year and is still unemployed!
He feels that the employment situation this year does not seem to be good, and he belongs to the group of people who cannot keep up with the development of data.

He couldn't find a job, and he didn't dare to go home to eat and wait to die. After all, as the only child in the family, since his father disappeared a few years ago, the family's tuition fees have been maintained by the mother alone by farming and the country's subsistence allowances.

If there is no subsidy from the Big Rabbit Country, studying is a luxury for him!
Reading is not useless!
Li Qing didn't make excuses for himself.He knew the reason why he couldn't find a job was because although he graduated from a university, his school was not a key university, and the international linguistics he studied was not in line with the trend.Even a little out of place!
He thought about continuing the postgraduate entrance examination, but when he watched those seniors who had completed the postgraduate entrance examination spend their youth strenuously on the street, writing different chapters of city creation with brooms and shovels, he quit the group!

Of course, his financial ability does not support him to continue studying!

Recently, the barbecue in Li Qing's city has become popular all over the universe!

Li Qing also thought about finding two friends, setting up a small stall, and earning some money, but before he could implement this plan, he fell ill for no reason.

This matter still happened one day when a fortune teller who was setting up a street stall passed by, grabbed his hand, and told him a fortune teller: a bad omen!

Naturally, Li Qing didn't believe the nonsense of a quack warlock, he just took it as a joke, and it didn't turn out to be a prophecy!
Ever since Li Qing was forced to tell his fortune, his health has deteriorated day by day!
At the beginning, Li Qing just felt a little uncomfortable in his body, and said that it was not good, and the specific position was uncomfortable.Feeling a little weak all over the body, resulting in poor sleep at night.

After three days, the situation became more and more serious, and many small bleeding spots appeared on the arms and belly, accompanied by extremely itchy body.

Li Qing was then forced to go to a clinic that he often visited. The old Chinese doctor took a look at it, then lightly characterized it as an allergic rash, and simply prescribed some glucocorticoid ointment.

After Li Qing used it a few times, he found that the place where the medicine was applied would immediately become red and swollen, and soon it would form into small sachets.And accompanied by headache, fever, and other symptoms.

Small clinics are unreliable!
So Li Qing went to the central hospital in the city.

After examination, the doctors identified it as urticaria, and prescribed some traditional Chinese medicine ointments and some anti-allergic drugs for adjuvant treatment, but the condition became more serious with the treatment.

Li Qing's body was already extremely weak because he couldn't fall asleep.The embarrassment in his pocket made him particularly uncomfortable.The money spent on medical treatment almost emptied all the pocket money he earned during his work-study program during college.

However, the disease still needs to be treated!

In desperation, Li Qing went to the big hospital in the provincial capital.

I thought that the level of medical treatment here is higher and the medical equipment is more advanced, but in the end it was impossible to diagnose!
Those old experts looked at Li Qing, who had almost become a little blood man. After countless examinations and tests, they couldn't reach a consensus in the end, and several old experts couldn't determine whether Li Qing was sick or not.

To use the professional words of the experts: Pathology believes that Li Qing is not ill, but the reality does not support it!

Fortunately, the experts decided after research: to prescribe hemostatic drugs.

Only then did Li Qing's condition ease.

However, for Li Qing, hemostasis is really a temporary solution rather than a permanent cure.He was not feeling well, and the hardest thing about not being able to fall asleep was not solved in the slightest.

Li Qing saw that short-term treatment was hopeless, and seeing his empty wallet, Li Qing simply didn't want treatment!

He was a little helpless.A penny would kill a hero, even though Li Qing felt that he was not a hero, but he was still dying for not having money!
He returned to the small rented attic alone, and began to use hemostatic medicine to fight the unknown disease!

Unable to sleep, Li Qing turned on the light with some difficulty and glanced at it.The arm was no longer flesh-colored, and the dark blood flowed wantonly, staining the bedding.

well!Li Qing sighed.

He was in a bad mood, as if he was facing a hopeless situation.With some struggle, he took out the hemostatic medicine under the pillow, and frantically applied it on the wound as if he didn't spend any money.

Uncomfortable and sad emotions spread in Li Qing's mind!

This is a state of extreme torment, pain, itching, inability to sleep, blood loss, loss of appetite, and getting weaker and weaker!
Li Qing remembered that before leaving the provincial capital hospital, the almost 80-year-old authoritative expert said in a helpless tone: "What you can do is to maintain a good attitude, face it positively, and treat you in a better mood. The disease will be beneficial."

Li Qing: The old guy means that I should eat, drink, and prepare for the funeral?
"Am I really sick?" Li Qing said suddenly.

The old expert spoke earnestly about his life experience: "Nothing is absolute. Sometimes, seeing is not believing!"

Li Qing felt that what the old man said was very metaphysical.Is the end of medicine is metaphysics?The end of metaphysics is that people should eat and drink, and everyone will die!
In fact, Li Qing still respects this old man at the level of a medical master!

But people are poor and their clothes are torn, so everything they say is wrong.The daily food and clothing expenses of the large hospitals in the provincial capital can basically offset the monthly wages of many people.

Moreover, Li Qing didn't have a job, and all his sources of income basically came from work-study programs during school.Whoever thought out of the school, but couldn't survive!It's better to go back to school to pick up bottles, and there are two or three thousand yuan a month!

The most difficult thing is to sit and eat without income!

Li Qing was in a bad mood, and after returning from the provincial capital, he almost couldn't even eat, so his condition not only did not ease, but continued to worsen.

This was the third night he couldn't sleep at all.To be precise, it was another three days of sleepless nights.

hard to fall asleep.Itchy all over.Drug allergy.There are bleeding spots.Li Qing took a sip of water.Lying on the bed indifferently, he used his mobile phone to go to see a doctor in a certain degree.

After a while, he turned off the light again, put down his phone, and lay down quietly.

"Sure enough, they are all selling counterfeit medicines." Li Qing concluded helplessly.

In fact, Li Qing knows that people always have to face many things in this life, until they face death.Birth, old age, sickness and death are not uncommon.But he couldn't figure it out, with the current level of technology, how could he not be able to characterize even a pediatric disease like his?

Suddenly, a phone ring broke the fear of the night.

"Get up early tomorrow morning, and I'll take you to the temple on Toudao Mountain." It was Li Qing's father who called. "Go to bed early and stop thinking about it."

"I would like to go to bed early, but can I sleep? I won't go. If you encounter something a little this day, you will pray to God and worship Buddha. Believe in science!" Li Qing is an atheist.Hearing that my father wanted to go to the temple on Toudao Mountain to pray to the gods and worship Buddha, I felt very conflicted.

If gods and ghosts had spirits, there wouldn't be so many bad people in this world.

"I want to find someone to show you. Your aunt said yesterday: The lady of Toudaoshan is very powerful! There is nothing she can't solve! Your illness is nothing to her! You may be haunted by evil spirits." ……”

"Don't bother! I won't go! You have to go by yourself!"

Li Qing hung up the phone angrily.

When I was young, my father liked to go to the legendary "Onmyoji" when he encountered some unexpected things.Commonly known as people who can "see incense".These things, sometimes, would rather be believed than not.But more often than not.

"Looking at incense" was also popular in the north before.Even under the rigid standard of not being allowed to become a fairy in the Big Rabbit Country!

Li Qing remembered that when he was a child, if there was something he couldn't solve, his father would take out the small ancestral bowl and put three chopsticks on it.Start to fool those ghosts and gods.Which relative died of a certain disease, and I also suffered from that disease, I asked the chopsticks to stand up.Then take some paper money and go to fulfill the vow.

Assuming that Li Qing disagreed, his father would blame Li Qing: blasphemy.

Ha ha.

Later Li Qing thought about it, maybe it was because of poverty that people believed in ghosts and gods.

Poverty is the root of all suffering!

I remember that when I was a child, the only drugs that could solve the pain were Analgin and painkillers.The more advanced one is called penicillin.There is nothing but these.If you want to go to the hospital, you don't even have a bicycle.Except for the women in the village who are forced to go to the hospital after giving birth to dystocia, the rest are solved by themselves.

Times have moved on.Living standards are also improving.After the popularity of TV and mobile phones, my father's idea of ​​praying to gods and worshiping Buddha has also become entertainment.

well!Li Qing sighed.He still misses his father.Ever since my father disappeared several years ago. . .

Li Qing suddenly broke out in a cold sweat! "Isn't my dad missing? Then who called me just now?"

"Haunted!"

Li Qing's father disappeared when Li Qing was in high school.It has been seven or eight years.

Why did I suddenly receive a call from him!Li Qing sat up abruptly and turned on the phone.Looking at the call log: empty.

No call log!

Was it just a hallucination?Still dreaming?Li Qing clearly remembered that he was sober just now, but...

What the hell!

Li Qing opened the phone book and dialed the landline at home.After a while, my mother answered the phone.

Maybe it was already asleep.

"What's the matter, calling so late!" My mother was alone in the hometown, and Li Qing was the only one who called on weekdays, so I don't even need to guess, it must be my son calling back.

"I'm homesick..." Li Qing said perfunctorily.Then he said, "Mom, I dreamed about my dad!"

"I dreamed of him! How about I ask him to get up and talk to you!" The phone paused: "Father, your son misses you..."

Li Qing:. . .

Li Qing hurriedly looked at his phone, and indeed he dialed the number at home, and it was indeed his mother, but his father had been missing for many years, and his mother was asking him to answer the phone...

"Mom, are you sleepy? My dad has been missing for seven or eight years!"

"You just fell asleep! Your dad is fine! When did he disappear!" Mother said with certainty.

Li Qing rubbed his head.Feeling bad all over: "Mom, are you crazy?"

"Are you too tired recently? Have you not found a job yet? Have you no money to spend? You said that you are studying this book, and you don't give a penny to your family, and you still need money every three days! You say Let’s talk about you, a big living person went out for a year, not only did he contribute to society, but he still had to pay for it! What are you trying to do!” the mother complained.

Li Qing no longer knew what his mother was talking about.He found himself going crazy.

"You said, my dad..."

The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and said angrily: "Sleeping! It's midnight, if you don't have any money, go home! If you are with a date all day long, you will know that you want money..."

(End of this chapter)