Chapter 38 Glutinous Rice
Evil thing?
I was stunned. Isn't this damn place, Building D, evil every day?
And I don’t know if there are any evil spirits coming at night, but Cheng Xiaoyan’s grandmother is coming back tonight.
I picked up the yellow paper in my hand and took a look. There were three lines of scribbled words on it. I could only vaguely make out the words "Thunder Ancestor", "Demon", and "Hurry up and obey the order".
Next to the characters, there were various strange patterns drawn, including circles, five-pointed stars, and some coin runes.
I asked Lao He, what is this painting about? Why can’t I understand it at all?
Lao He rolled his eyes and said, "How can an ordinary person like you understand the meaning of these talismans? Let me tell you this, the meanings expressed by the Taoist talismans and the pictures on the talismans are just like students vomiting blood when they see the Mathematical Olympiad. You can buy a book on talismans to learn about the content. Of course, it is limited to understanding. Unless you can worship a proper master, you will not know what is wrong with those books..."
"Oh my god, Lao He, can't you see how awesome you are?" I was a little surprised. "Did you buy these talismans?"
"How is that possible? I drew it myself."
“Can you draw this?”
"Well, I just watched an episode of 'Mr. Vampire'. I specially used my mobile phone to record the process of Lin Zhengying drawing talismans, and then I drew it myself by copying him." Lao He said seriously.
I feel dizzy!
After all this time, did you learn this from movies?
Then these talismans will probably have no effect.
"Don't just stand there, paste them for me quickly - oh, by the way, your lounge is facing southwest and shaded, and the window in the room corresponds to the morgue on the east. It is surrounded by big trees providing shade, and it never sees light all year round. I don't know how much negative energy has accumulated. Some dirty things like to run into your lounge. Stick these talismans on the door of the room, and then a few on the windows. Remember, you must be sincere when sticking the talismans, and never have a playful attitude." said Lao He.
Seeing how seriously Lao He spoke, I would have almost believed it if I hadn’t learned it from a movie.
Not wanting to let him down, I took a bunch of yellow talismans and went to the lounge to stick them on everyone.
It's hard to say whether I was sincere or not, but at least I didn't have any blasphemous attitude.
For some things, it is better to believe they exist than to believe they do not exist.
When I came out, I saw Cheng Xiaoyan standing at the door, in a daze.
When she saw me holding a pile of yellow paper, she was also curious and asked, "Zhiyong, what are you doing?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "There was a certain old Taoist priest who asked me to help him with the matter. He said that there was a monster invading Building D tonight."
Cheng Xiaoyan's face changed slightly, but she quickly recovered and said, "These talismans won't work very well. We need to use glutinous rice."
"Sticky rice?"
"Oh right! How could I forget about glutinous rice!"
I don't know when Lao He came in, with a look of sudden enlightenment on his face, patted my shoulder and said, "Zhiyong, please help me run to the rice store and buy five kilograms of glutinous rice."
I was speechless and said, "Lao He, stop making trouble. Why did you buy glutinous rice? Did you learn this from a movie?"
"Just listen to me and go buy it," said Lao He.
I shook my head and said no, there was no point in doing these things.
"If you don't go, I will."
Lao He patted his butt and prepared to leave. I hurried him and said, "Okay, okay, I'll go buy it. How can you go out in a hospital gown?"
Old He grinned and said that this is right. Taking more precautions will definitely be useful.
I am completely speechless.
This is the first time I see someone applying something from a horror movie to real life.
"Remember, it must be pure glutinous rice and cannot be mixed with anything else." Lao He did not forget to remind.
I waved my hand.
I went to the rice and oil shop and bought five kilograms of glutinous rice. When I came back, I happened to meet Sister Sun.
"Zhiyong, why did you buy so much glutinous rice?" Sister Sun asked me with a smile.
I joked and said I would go home and make some rice dumplings.
Sister Sun looked suspicious and said, "Making zongzi? The Dragon Boat Festival is still a long way off... Zhiyong, are you hiding something from me?"
I smiled bitterly and said that there was actually a patient who had watched a horror movie and on a whim asked me to buy glutinous rice. He also posted some yellow talismans at the door of Building D, saying that a disaster would befall Building D tonight.
I thought Sister Sun would find it funny, but unexpectedly she was stunned for a moment, and then fell into silence, as if she was thinking about something.
"Sister Sun?"
I saw that she was in a daze, so I stretched out my hand and waved it in front of her.
Sister Sun came back to her senses, laughed dryly and said, "Do as he says. Even if it doesn't work, at least it will comfort you mentally. By the way, why aren't you wearing the red vest I gave you last time?"
I scratched my head and said that thing was too ugly and too thick, not suitable to wear in this season.
"You must wear it, and you must wear it all the time." Sister Sun stamped her feet anxiously.
"Okay, okay, I'll wear it when I get back."
After a few words, I said goodbye to Sister Sun.
I murmured in my heart, forget about Lao He, he is old after all, but how come Sister Sun is such a young and beautiful woman with such backward ideas that she always asks me to wear a red vest or something?
Yes, I admit that there must be some dirty stuff hidden in Building D.
But what good can a red vest do?
Although I thought so, I still put it on obediently after I got back - after all, it is better to believe it than not to believe it.
Night fell quickly, and Building D, which was already dim, became even more eerie.
After handing over the shift to Liu Fuqiang, he whistled and walked away with a satisfied look on his face.
Looking at his departing back, I would be lying if I said I wasn't envious. Although his salary is a little less than mine, he works the day shift... All the strange things happening in Building D almost never happen during the day.
Of course, everything has its pros and cons... What Building D really needs is a night watchman . For daytime security jobs like Liu Fuqiang's, you can just post a recruitment notice and a bunch of people will rush to come. If he makes a mistake one day, the hospital won't even frown when it wants to fire him.
I had nothing to do, so I thought about chatting with Lao He, but I found that he was still busy.
Lao He started to scatter the glutinous rice he had just bought along the entrance hall.
He went from the first floor to the fourth floor, patiently, and finally his waist ached from exhaustion. I was afraid that something might happen to him, so I had to join him in the fun. Patients passing by looked at me curiously, and some couldn't help but ask me what I was doing. I lied and said that the building was too humid and I put some glutinous rice to remove the moisture.
After finishing the work, we were both exhausted and out of breath.
When I returned to the first floor, I saw Cheng Xiaoyan with her back to me, staring blankly at the half bag of glutinous rice left on the table.
I was about to say hello, but I saw her suddenly stretch out her hands and plunge them into the bag of glutinous rice.
“Sizzle——”
As soon as I reached in, something strange happened!
I saw thick smoke coming out from her hand, like a red-hot iron plate that was suddenly poured with a basin of ice water. I could faintly smell a burnt smell.
"ah!!"
Cheng Xiaoyan screamed, pulled her hand back as if she had been electrocuted, and fell to the ground in agony.
“Xiaoyan!!”
I was horrified and rushed over to help her up. I glanced at her hands and was stunned.
The originally soft, white little hand was now covered in blood, and all kinds of blisters appeared on it, as if it had just been soaked in hot water...
