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Chapter 152 Yes Man

The weak light from the mobile phone could not penetrate the darkness of the morgue.

The gentle and rigid voice of the police officer who responded was mixed with the intermittent buzzing sound due to poor signal:
  "Hello, can you hear me?"

I trembled my lips a few times and my throat twitched:
  "Hello, can you hear me?"

The other end of the phone finally heard my words clearly this time, and there was a little displeasure in his voice:

"Little girl, are you having some big adventure? Please don't waste public resources. If you occupy the line for one more minute, there might be someone there."

I hung up the phone before the same words rolled up in my throat again.

The screen-on time I set was very short, so the screen went dark for an instant, only reflecting my slightly pale face.

I opened my mouth, trying to say something casually, but failed -

I can't even say a word now.

what happened! ?
  Where is my voice?
  That driver who always fell out with me, didn't kill me but took away my voice, so that I can only imitate human speech?

What is this?
  If you don’t kill me, I will definitely run away or fight back!

The voice can be considered an important thing. At worst, I will stop talking in the future!
  Could it be that the driver thinks that imitating other people’s words is a ‘punishment method’?
  Or is he using this to tell me something?
  Several thoughts flashed through my mind. After a while, I finally remembered a name related to insects and the tongue of scholars——

'echo'

The so-called yes-men are a subcategory that is not too conspicuous among the Miaojiang Gu insects.

According to legend, this kind of insect is extremely lazy and does not like fighting. After leaving its mother's body, it can live for decades if it is hidden in a wax pill by the Gu Master.

But once the outer wax seal is crushed by the Gu Master and put into the carrier, it will bite the back of the person's throat and replace the carrier's right to speak.

As a Gu bug, the Yes-Man certainly does not have a brain as smart as a human being and cannot organize language, but it also has a strong sense of autonomy. After being born, it especially likes talking, or the frequency of the vibration of the vocal tract.

So it can only live in the throat of people. When others say something, it also controls the carrier to say something.

Normally, something like a yes bug is absolutely harmless and only replaces the sound, so it is classified as an inconspicuous Gu bug.

It's even easy to get rid of yes-men.

Because of the voodoo's instinct to seek good luck and avoid disaster, coupled with extreme fatigue and fear of death, the yes-man will be afraid of all medicinal materials that can make the voodoo ineffective.

This leads to a very interesting phenomenon——

Yes-men can talk and feel, so as long as you open a large catalog of traditional Chinese medicine and read it down, let the carriers with the yes-men learn the sounds one by one, and learn the medicinal materials that the yes-men are unwilling to read, that is, you have found a powerful weapon to kill the poisonous insects. .

But, it was also said before——

is usually harmless.

That doesn't mean someone won't figure out another way to exploit the bug.

Although the yes-man is clumsy, he can identify medicinal materials, especially medicine that can render the poison ineffective! Anyway, the echo bugs are not considered high-level voodoo bugs. This is much better than trying out the poison one by one and killing those voodoo bugs that have been painstakingly refined!

Even if you come across a medicine without a name, just feed it to the yes-men and give it a try. Anyway, there are so many of them like a sea of ​​sand, what a big deal!
  So on the other hand, with such a convenient and quick method, whether it is a Gu master in the Miao border village who wants to know whether a certain medicinal material is available, or a person outside the Miao border wants to know what the medicinal material is that can cure poison.
  Everyone will want to get a few yes-men to play with!

This insect is not unusual, but since we need to test the medicine.
  There must be a carrier, that is, a ‘medicine man’.

Many people, many yes-men, have died from testing drugs.

And the reason why I know so much is about a horrifying story that my second uncle once recorded in his notes————

That was about thirty years ago.

The second uncle happened to pass by the Miao territory. At that time, he was young and thin-skinned, so he was dragged into his village by a group of beautiful Miao girls to dance.

After a few dances and a few glasses of water and wine, the sisters asked him whether he wanted to stay in the village. If he was willing to stay, he would be given money and a job assignment. If he stayed, he would be able to take root and the next generation would be a seedling. People can also learn spells from the elders
  The second uncle was mostly sober at that time, and an uncontrollable thought came to his mind. It was said that it was a custom in Miao territory to snatch men when the yin was strong and the yang was weak, but he didn't expect that he would actually happen to it today!

Is this a promise or a promise?
  The second uncle was very excited. After listening for a long time, he realized that it was not what he thought at all, because these Miao girls mainly talked about 'work'.

Some of them have been repeatedly consoling me, saying, "Working outside is exhausting, so you have to trade your life for money." Why not just stay in the village and work, exchanging your voice for money? The treatment is much better than outside, and many people stay here to get married and have children! ’

Exchange your voice for money?
  The second uncle felt strange after hearing this, so he asked, how can I exchange my voice for money?
  Seeing his interest, the sisters thought that the second uncle agreed to their request, and then took him to another house. An older Gu master told the second uncle that eating a harmless poison Gu insect, sells his own voice so that he cannot speak freely in the future so that he can assist others in their work.

He only lost his voice, but there were many benefits. If the second uncle agrees, he can decide to give the second uncle 50,000 yuan on the spot.

You know, more than thirty years ago, 50,000 yuan was not a small amount of money. In non-first-tier cities, you could even buy two good houses.

It must be a lie to say that he is not moved, but the second uncle thought about it carefully, isn’t this just being a ‘medicine man’? !
  After eating the poisonous insects, they will stay in the village. After marriage, the next generation will change from Han Chinese to Miao people.
  To put it nicely, this is called work, but to put it harshly, this is not only selling one’s own voice, but also selling one’s reproductive rights!

After the second uncle came to his senses, he immediately said he wanted to leave. The old Gu master didn't know whether he saw the second uncle's identity and ability, or he didn't care about the second uncle as a medicine man, so he immediately asked his disciples to escort the second uncle out of the stronghold.

The second uncle wanted to leave right away, but soon realized something was not right.

He followed the Gu Master disciple who led the way, walking in twists and turns, not walking the way he came.

Just when the second uncle thought that he had rejected the old Gu Master, so the Gu Master disciples were going to attack him, the Gu Master disciples in front stopped and stopped in front of a pothole.

To be precise, it was a pit made up of hundreds of dead or dying medicine people.

The medicine people were crowded and standing in the pothole. Everyone was facing upward, with their mouths wide open, and their expressions were painful.

There is a bulge in the mouth, and what is it that is moving?

of course--

Bug, yes-man.

　So sleepy (‘-ω) I took a nap and got up to continue

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)