C71 (2/2)

”No, no.” I looked at the thick, pointy line in the middle and felt my scalp tingle. ”Those are leeches.”

The leech had obviously sucked up enough blood, and its entire body was covered in a layer of red.

Elder Li said, ”Yes, these are leeches. ”Sucking blood for a living.” He didn't look disgusted.

”This professor?” I was curious. From the looks of it, the leech did not live in his sleeve, but in his body. The leeches drink blood, so why punish themselves like this?

”You have to call him Uncle Ma.” Elder Li sighed, ”He is actually around the same age as your father. When he was young, he suffered from a serious illness. It was so strange that his limbs became stiff and unable to move.

His mother believed in ghosts. It was said that he had offended this little imp, so he stuffed mud into the gaps in the bones and blood vessels of the imp, turning the place into a clot of blood. Use leeches to suck out the blood. His mother had found twenty or thirty leeches and stuffed them into his nostrils.

As a result, the bruised blood did not dissipate and the leeches were fed. Only then did his mother realize that something was wrong. He immediately sent it to a hospital in the village, but couldn't get it out no matter how hard he tried. Then came an old man who played with bugs, and pulled everything else out, leaving only one. That old man seems to have said that the remaining one is fated to be his. Their lives are tied together, and even if one died, the other would not be able to survive. ”

My hair stood on end when I heard this. ”So godly? And then, Uncle Ma allowed it to absorb the blood all the way until now? ”

”Once a month.” Elder Li said, ”The leech usually stays in a small bottle hanging around his neck. It contains his blood. It is strange to say that the leech is not as wide as it is long, and does not drink much of his blood every month. ” Elder Li also trembled. ”Your Uncle Ma's name is Ma Huang.”

I shook as I listened. Uncle Ma put the leech on his head and was the first to crawl in.

Elder Li said, ”Between him and that leech, there seems to be some sort of communication between them. In short, there were quite a few capable people in this industry. You'd think that people like us, who come from a major background, would eat worse than them. Even that Old Song you mentioned is the same. ”

I nodded. My father suddenly looked over here and strode over. He looked at me and asked in a low voice, ”Old Song?”

”It's an old Corpsemancer.” I said quickly.

My father nodded absent-mindedly. ”It's good that you've met her.” He turned and walked back.

I am unable to make heads or tails of the situation, what do you mean by 'meet'?

I thought of Eccentric Song's line about how 'you are not far from death' and immediately felt a chill down my neck. I also thought about the corpse ejector that helped me suck in the blood of poison for so many years and my heart warmed. At the end, there were all sorts of feelings mixed within.

The people in front had almost all left. Only Elder Li and I were still standing outside. The order is Elder Li, me, what is it?

The hole wasn't big, but it was smaller inside. The people in front rustled forward. Both sides of the wall were illuminated by the flashlight.

The front suddenly called for them to stop. I looked and saw nothing else on either side. In front of me, we were obviously talking again. I vaguely heard the words ”don't seem to have” or ”leech” or ”intuition”, but Grandpa Li heard a general idea. He turned around and said to me, ”There's nothing abnormal in front.” But the leeches of the yellow horse would not leave. There may be hidden problems. ”

”Are they considering the authenticity of Uncle Ma's words?”

”There's no need to doubt it, we're already old friends.” Elder Li shook his head. ”They're trying to find out what the problem is.”