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Fang Teng I thought it was just a dream until the couple pushed him into the room and locked it for three days, boarding up the windows and bringing hot meals every day. Fang Teng realized that the couple wanted to adopt him as their son.
Fang Teng squatted in the dark room, tapping the lump on the back of his head. He knew it must be caused by this thing. Could it really infect and possess people like some kind of evil entity? Almost everyone around him had become completely like a cold-blooded demon.
Thinking of this, Fang Teng felt as if his heart had turned to ashes. After being imprisoned for a week, the man suddenly sawed open a hole under the door and installed a small door.
Then Fang Teng heard a man outside saying, "Mom, I'm going to the city with Juan for about a week. Keep an eye on the kid, don't open the door. Just open this small door and put the food in through this small opening. Remember, don't open the main door, the kid will definitely try to run away now."
Fang Teng felt a glimmer of excitement in her heart. It had been a whole half month, like a dog locked in the darkness. The only time she could see the light each day was when the man opened the door to come in and feed her.
Of course, the main reason Fang Teng wanted to escape from here was to climb to the mountaintop, find the village chief, and cure the tumor on the back of her head.
After the couple left, it was elderly woman who opened the small door to bring in food, but this time Fang Teng didn't touch the food, despite being famished and instead just crouched tightly behind the door.
On the first day, the elderly woman noticed that the food had not been touched and called out to Fang Teng, but there was no response.
On the second day, the elderly woman still placed new food inside, but there was still no movement inside.
Until the third day, the elderly woman finally couldn't hold back anymore. She shouted a few times, puzzled, and opened a crack in the door. In that instant, Fang Teng forcefully pushed the door open, causing the elderly woman, who had no strength at all, to fall to the ground. Fang Teng quickly jumped over the elderly woman's body and rushed out to the front door, where he saw the bright sky outside and excitedly started running.
15
On the mountaintop, there are a dozen or so thatched cottages scattered about. Some elderly people are playing chess, while two children are playing with stones at the feet of the elderly.
Fang Teng spent a day and a night crawling to the Tuya village. He was so hungry that he picked some wild fruits to fill his stomach and give him strength to make it this far.
"Hello, may I ask where the village chief lives?" Fang Teng asked a few elderly men playing chess.
One of the elderly people wearing round-framed reading glasses paused while playing chess, turned to look at Fang Teng, and said, "You, also have an extra face on the back of your head."
Fang Teng eagerly replied, "Yes, yes, you are the village chief, right?"
The old man nodded and said, "Follow me."
Fang Teng followed the village chief to a thatched house, where there was a bed. The village chief said, "The face behind you is actually the evil spirit that has invaded your body. If you want to be cured, you need to stay inside for three months to train your mind."
"What? I just came out of solitary confinement, and now I have to go back in?"
The old man said, "You can also refuse. All patients who come to me do so willingly."
Fang Teng slapped the back of her head hard and took a deep breath. "I'm willing to do anything, as long as I can become a normal person again and live like an ordinary person. I'll do anything."
"By the way, will my face behind me be contagious?" Fang Teng continued to ask.
"No," the village chief shook his head. "In fact, everyone has it. Some people just haven't grown it out, or have hidden it away."
During the days when she was locked in the grass hut, the village chief arranged for someone to come and deliver food, but only a small half-bowl of rice was sent each day. Fang Teng's body was in a state of complete weakness, yet she was not starving.
The village chief said this stage is called "Cut the Seven Desires". During these three months, Fang Teng's mind is almost in a state of dementia, just lying in bed every day to conserve energy.
What Fang Teng didn't expect is that the three months of "duàn qī yù" is the easiest stage of the entire treatment process.
Three months later, Fang Teng had her hair shaved off and was tied to a wooden stake. Next to her was a large brazier with glowing charcoal inside. The village chief picked up a red-hot branding iron and pressed it against the tumor on Fang Teng's head. With a sizzle, smoke rose from her face as she convulsed wildly, as if a demon were screaming.
After being repeatedly scalded three times, that face remained motionless, and Fang Teng also fainted.
The village chief called this a "fire bath," and said that enduring it would dispel the evil energy from the body.
In the next month, Fang Teng's facial tumor behind her head suffered from scorching pain every day, until her facial features were blurred and left no trace, becoming a huge lump of flesh.
The village chief began to use a sharp knife to cut off the lump of flesh bit by bit, and used herbal compresses. In this process, Fang Teng had lost count of how many times she had fainted from the pain.
The facial tumor at the back of the head had completely disappeared, and the facial features were also gone.
16
Ten years later.
Fang Teng I touched the back of my head, which was full of scars, but much better than the huge tumor on my face before.
He bid farewell to the village chief of Tuya village, descended the mountain, boarded the train, and returned to Mishui Town again.
In the past decade, he has endured too much pain and has missed his home deeply. So when he saw the familiar town, he couldn't help but kneel on the ground and cry uncontrollably.
After crying for a while, he got up and walked towards the center of the town. He didn't know what his home had become, but he was eager to see his mother.
Just as Fang Teng entered the town, not far away, she saw a sky filled with black smoke above a cluster of houses, with several large chimneys piercing through the dark clouds. She hadn't expected that there were already four or five chemical plants built in the town.
Fang Teng frowned and continued walking forward. She saw a group of children with two heads standing by the side of the street. Fang Teng was taken aback, and upon closer inspection, she discovered that these children all had a huge face growing on the back of their heads, with swollen features, as if they were carrying a giant head.
"What's going on here?" Fang Teng looked at them in astonishment.
The group of double-faced children also turned to stare at him, and one of the children said, "This person is so strange, why does he only have one face."
"Yeah, what kind of monster is this?" Another child took a few steps back.
Fang Teng hurriedly ran towards his own home, and along the way, he was astonished to find that the town was full of people with two faces, all turning their heads to look at him coldly.
At this moment, Fang Teng passed through an alley and heard the howling of a dog. He stopped to catch his breath and saw his former homeroom teacher, Ye Qianyun. Her face was distorted, and she was holding scissors, repeatedly stabbing the eyes of a stray dog. The dog was tied to the ground, one eye already gouged out, leaving only a bloody hole.
Fang Teng exclaimed in shock, unable to understand how his former homeroom teacher, who used to feed stray dogs, had become such a vicious person.
"Tea...teacher, you..." Fang Teng muttered under her breath as she stepped back.
When she turned around, she found people with two faces all around her, including her parents and younger brother, with empty eyes. Leading them was the former mayor, whose face was full of lumps and his eyes wide open, looking extremely terrifying.
Everyone shouted, "Kill this freak!"
Fang Teng hadn't even reacted before being grabbed by those Two-faced people and tied to a wooden stake in the square.
A two-faced man poured gasoline on Fang Teng, and the mayor raised a torch, igniting Fang Teng in an instant. Amid a heart-wrenching scream, Fang Teng disappeared into the flames, turning into black smoke.
That wisp of black smoke rose with the wind and merged with the black smoke in the sky above the town...
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