Chapter 22 Chapter Five Collective Poisoning

When I went to the pine forest to investigate the situation at the scene of the crime, I met San Po and other villagers of Longdong Village and was almost beaten up by them.Fortunately, I finally got them out with my three-inch tongue. The third wife also told me that Longdong Village was cursed by the mountain ghost, and that once the women in the village were targeted by him, they would die.However, based on the finger marks I found at the crime scene, the mountain ghost should be a middle-aged man, not a so-called monster.So I plan to go back to the police station to check the previous case records in order to get more information.However, just as I was about to return to the police station, Zidie told me that the women who were desecrated by mountain ghosts seemed to have suffered from mental illness during their lifetime.

I don't know if I don't look at it, but I was shocked when I saw it. It turned out that there were as many as ninety-six corpses desecrated by the mountain ghost in the past 20 years, and an average of one female corpse was violated by the mountain ghost in two to three months.In other words, a young woman dies every two to three months in Longdong Village. For a small village with a permanent population of only 800 people, the death rate is unbelievably high.No wonder the villagers frequently come to the police station to make trouble. I read through the mountain of case records carefully, and learned that in the 1980s, Longdong Village had a permanent population of just over 600 people. Later, due to the development of the rosin industry, a large number of immigrants flooded in, and the population once exceeded 2,000.However, because of the disturbance caused by the mountain ghosts, the production of rosin almost stopped. In addition, the villagers thought that the mountain ghosts might be caused by outsiders, so the xenophobic sentiment was so strong that a large number of outsiders left, and the death rate of women was extremely high. , although family planning exists in name only for them, the birth rate is still very low.Therefore, the population has only increased by less than 200 people in the past 20 years, and most of them are immigrants, and the population of the village has hardly increased.

This kind of situation is unimaginable no matter where it is. It seems that it is necessary to investigate in Longdong Village to see what the so-called mountain ghost curse is all about. After eating breakfast and lunch in a hurry, Zidie and I went to Longdong Village to investigate.First, I drove around the village in a police car and found that the village was quite dilapidated. There were thugs in the poor mountains and rivers. When people are poor and crazy, they can do anything. It is not uncommon for them to often go to the police station to make trouble.However, in this dilapidated village, there is a decent hospital, which makes me feel very strange.There are only a few hundred people here, and they are too poor. It would be nice to have a small health station. If the hospital is built here, no matter how high the fees are, it will be difficult to make ends meet!I parked the car in front of the hospital, and found that there were not many people coming to see the doctor, and it was quite deserted.

"This hospital was created by the villagers." Zidie may have guessed that I was wondering why there was a hospital here. "It's a riot? How did it happen?" It's strange enough to have a hospital in such a small place, and it's even more strange if it happens. "Didn't I say before that the corpses desecrated by the mountain ghosts suffered from mental illness? The villagers thought it was caused by the curse of the mountain ghosts, and we failed to catch the mountain ghosts, so they went to the county government and asked The county magistrate asked Taoist priests to catch the mountain ghosts. However, how could the county magistrate find Taoist priests to do these superstitious things for them, and the mountain ghosts dug out the rotten corpses every time they committed crimes. The county magistrate came to appease them. Secondly, I was afraid that there would be a plague sooner or later, so I applied for funding from the finance department to build this hospital." Her tone made me feel that she was upset, but she immediately said gloatingly: "This hospital loses money every year. One hundred thousand, I'm afraid it won't last long before closing."

"Are there a lot of mentally ill people here?" I asked. "Other villages are normal, but Longdong Village has a frighteningly large number of lunatics. Most of the hospitalized in this hospital are mentally ill." Hearing what she said, I seemed to vaguely hear hysterical screams from the hospital. out. "Let's go in and have a look, maybe we will find something." I said and got out of the car. She poked her head out of the car window and said a little displeased: "What's so interesting about a group of lunatics, let's take the time to investigate elsewhere!"

"Haven't you guys come here to investigate before?" I asked in surprise. "What's the use of coming here, isn't it just a bunch of lunatics." She seemed to think she made sense. "That's why you haven't been able to catch the mountain ghost for twenty years." After I finished speaking, I ignored her and turned to walk into the hospital.I didn't take a few steps before I heard her mutter a few words, followed by the sound of the car door opening and closing.She followed. The main body of Longdong Hospital is a six-story building, covering an area of ​​about 600 square meters. For this small village, it can be regarded as a rather magnificent building.At least except for this hospital, I haven't seen any houses with more than three floors in the village.After walking into the lobby, those hysterical cries were not heard much. The whole hall was empty, with only four rows of chairs for patients to sit in while waiting, but there was no one there.

"Do you want to see a doctor?" A middle-aged man in a white coat suddenly appeared from nowhere, making me think I was going to see a ghost during the day.When he walked up to us, he stared at Zidie, looked up and down, and said to me after a while: "She looks normal, but it's better to have a check, and bring her here!" He turned around as if he was going to take her We go to the psychiatric office.It is rare to have a psychiatric hospital in the lobby. It seems that mental illness is a common disease here. Zi Die is inexplicably treated as mentally ill, and I think she will definitely be unhappy.Sure enough, as soon as she turned around in the white coat, she began to scold: "You are the only one who needs to be checked, and you treat everyone as a mental patient. You are a quack doctor to your level. You are worse than a veterinarian, even a beast!"

Her association ability is quite powerful, a quack doctor becomes a veterinarian, and a veterinarian becomes a beast.Not to mention that veterinarians and animals are just doctor-patient relationships, even veterinarians are not necessarily inferior to quack doctors, and veterinarians are quite professional.I thought that the white coat would yell at her, but he took two steps back and asked me pretending to be calm: "Will she hit people when she gets angry? Will she bite?" mentally ill. Zi Die was so angry that she wanted to beat him up, but he yelled, "Come help, someone has a seizure!"

In order to prevent Zidie from being regarded as a lunatic and being tied up by them, I immediately rushed forward and hugged her from behind, lest she really beat up the white coat.But I don’t know whether it’s due to habit or dominated by primitive desires, my hands actually fell where they shouldn’t be touched, and my brain was short of oxygen for a while, so I grabbed it by the way—her breasts are so soft! After giving me the "chest attack", Zidie was stunned immediately, and the white coat also looked at us blankly, and I didn't know what to do next.However, although there was a short-circuit in the head for a moment, the body reacted naturally-the little Mu in my pants grew up by clinging to the elastic buttocks!

"Ah!!!" A scream echoed in the empty lobby, I first felt a sharp pain in my ribs, then I saw the floor, then the ceiling... After Zidie gave me an elbow, I used it again. A back fall knocked me down.She's really good at kung fu, and she almost broke me into pieces. At this time, three men in white coats rushed out from the dentistry room, the emergency room, and the injection room respectively, and the scene was a bit chaotic.Fortunately, I was not killed by Zidie, and I lay on the ground and took out my police card to identify myself.However, doing so seems to have the opposite effect, and the four white coats even think that Zidie is a mentally ill patient who committed a crime.This time Zidie is really going to go crazy, it's a pity that my right hand is still caught by her...

After making a big fuss, he finally explained clearly to the white coats that Zidie is not mentally ill, and we are the police to investigate the case.Alas, it's no wonder that we didn't wear police uniforms to make such a big joke.Pity my right hand was twisted off by Zidie angrily. Fortunately, although there are fewer medical staff in this hospital, the equipment is relatively complete. I took a photo and found that there is no fracture, but the joint has shifted, so I have to hang it on my neck. A bandage secures it. Maybe he felt that his attack was too ruthless, but Zidie didn't say anything about my chest attack, she just kept following me with her face down and her face blushing.After we dealt with it, we went to the psychiatric white coat to find out the situation. "I'm really sorry about what happened just now." The white coat looked at my arm wrapped around my neck with a bandage, and then glanced at Zidie behind me. I apologize for having my arm broken. "It doesn't matter, it didn't hurt the bones anyway." I looked at a small sign with his photo and name on the table, and learned that his name was Huang Yifei, so I asked, "Doctor Huang, are you from the village?" "That's right, there are several doctors in the hospital who are from the village. Unless foreigners come here for internship, no one would want to stay in this ghost place." He revealed an indescribable helplessness in his words. "Is it because of the mountain ghost?" I asked. "Well, this village was destroyed by the mountain ghost, alas..." He sighed and told me about the situation of Longdong Village—— In the 1980s, the old village head helped the whole village to change to the Yao nationality. Because of the preferential policies for ethnic minorities, there were a few college students in our small place.At that time, our village didn't even have a health station, and it was inconvenient to walk more than ten miles to see a doctor, so I applied for a medical degree at that time. I originally studied surgery, but before I finished my sophomore year, the mountain ghost appeared, and suddenly many women in the village suffered from mental illness.Because I got the money for college by borrowing from relatives, and several relatives had some mental problems, so my parents asked me to transfer to the psychiatric department. When I came back from the internship, there were nearly ten mentally ill women in the village who were alive, and more than a dozen died. After that, five or six women went crazy every year for no reason.I don't know if it's because I'm not good at learning, but I haven't been able to figure out their cause for more than ten years. Apart from the curse of the mountain ghost, I really can't think of any reasonable explanation. At the beginning, I suspected mass hysteria, and tried to treat them with hypnosis and other methods, but to no avail.Moreover, most patients die within six months to one year after symptoms appear.Generally speaking, mental illnesses do not cause patients to die in a short period of time, but the symptoms they exhibit are obviously symptoms of mental illness. Because the cause of the disease has not been diagnosed, most of the women in the village fled outside, and those who stayed basically went crazy.Those who escaped were not much better. As far as I know, several of them were still crazy after escaping... "Are all the crazy ones women?" I asked immediately after listening to his narration. He replied: "Well, they are all women. There are ten-year-old girls and thirty-four-year-old sister-in-laws. Anyway, they are all women. There are no boys, no little girls and old women. Because all the crazy ones These are women in their teens to forties, and the more beautiful they are, the easier it is to go crazy, so everyone believes in the curse of the mountain ghost." "Could it be the reason for the marriage of close relatives?" The curse is unconvincing. All the villagers in Longdong Village have the surname Huang, and the possibility of genetic defects due to close relatives giving birth is not low. However, my guess was immediately denied by him: "It's reasonable for you to think, after all, the whole village has the surname Huang. However, you probably don't know that in fact, not everyone in our village has the surname Huang, but because of the early eighties. , in order to be able to change to the Yao nationality, so everyone changed their surname. I also thought about this, although people in our village are somewhat related to each other, but most of the patients are not close relatives in the last three generations, so there is no such thing as This is possible." Only women will get the disease, but it is not caused by the marriage of close relatives. So what is the cause?He has been thinking about this problem for more than ten years, but he can't think of it. How can I solve it in a short time!Maybe fleeting time can help, but I have to be able to ask the patient's symptoms clearly. Dr. Huang showed me the medical records of several recent patients, but it was a pity that they were all written in "Martian script", like ghostly drawn symbols. I couldn't understand after reading it for a long time, so I asked him to tell me directly. After thinking for a while, he said: "The main symptoms of patients at the beginning are headache, insomnia, forgetfulness, anxiety and dreaminess. Most patients claim to dream of being raped by mountain ghosts. In the middle stage, numbness of limbs, weakness of limbs, and even hallucinations will appear. At this time, almost all the patients claimed that they saw the mountain ghost coming to take them away. In the later stage, severe renal failure will occur, and eventually they will suffer from complications and die due to the low renal function.” When I was with Xiaona, I also heard some things about mental illness. The early and middle stages of the illness he said were typical symptoms of mental illness, but I didn’t seem to have heard Xiaona talk about the decline in renal function in the later stage.It seems that I have to trouble this ex-girlfriend again. After leaving the hospital, I called Xiaona, told her about the situation in Longdong Village, and asked her if the villagers were suffering from mental illness?Her answer came from the other end of the phone: "This kind of situation is very rare, and I can't give you a definite answer. Generally speaking, renal dysfunction caused by mental illness is rare. As you said, the same symptoms appear collectively. I have never heard of it. After all, renal dysfunction is different from general vomiting and sneezing. Patients can understand it through observation and cause the same reaction. Renal dysfunction is a relatively professional medical term, and it is impossible for ordinary patients to know it just by hearing the name. What's going on, even if the same superficial symptoms appear after seeing the superficial symptoms of other patients, the results after detailed examination are different. So the situation you mentioned, I don't think it can be mass hysteria." If it wasn't mass hysteria, what would it be?In order to find out what was going on as soon as possible, after hanging up Xiaona's phone, I immediately called Liunian and informed me of the details.After thinking for a while, he gave me an inexplicable answer: "If I'm not wrong, they should be poisoned!"