spontaneous combustion
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If the memory of a person's desperation is erased,
Then people will still be under the influence of addiction
Repeat the mistakes of the past?
People can't generalize,
There may be no answer to this question.
But I still have to remind you that the officials -
Some addictive vices,
Please don't touch it for the rest of your life...
#01
"You look hot." Yang Jian handed over a few tissues.
The middle-aged man sitting opposite was named Qin Xiaoguang, who suddenly appeared in Yang Jian's clinic just now, claiming to be coming to see a doctor.
His face was flushed, he was sweating incessantly, and he was holding a large bag of ice cubes that were about to melt.
Qin Xiaoguang wiped the sweat on his face: "I'm sick, my skin is as hot as roasting on the fire, and I feel like I'm about to burn to death." ”
"I've been to a lot of hospitals, but they can't cure me, and I've heard that you specialize in treating some weird diseases." Qin Xiaoguang stared at Yang Jian and looked forward to it, "Can you cure me?" ”
Yang Jian shook his head: "I don't know." ”
Qin Xiaoguang's gaze dimmed instantly, but he heard Yang Jian continue: "No doctor will say that he can cure a patient 100%, not to mention that your symptoms are very strange, I must find the cause of the disease in order to find a way to cure you." ”
"When did you start experiencing this symptom?"
Qin Xiaoguang was silent for a moment, then raised his head to look at Yang Jian, his eyes were full of uneasiness: "It started after my wife and children spontaneously combusted for no reason. ”
#02
Qin Xiaoguang is a sales manager who needs to travel frequently.
This time he needed to go on a business trip for half a month, but within a few days, he received a call from his wife: "Husband, I feel that something is wrong with my son, he was hot all over his body yesterday, I took him to the hospital for a comprehensive examination, and I didn't find out what the reason was." ”
"When I woke up this morning, I felt that my body was also very hot, and the fever reduction injection didn't work, so come back quickly."
The wife's voice was hoarse.
Qin Xiaoguang has a rule, you must look at the yellow calendar when traveling, the yellow calendar says that it is not suitable to travel today, but for the sake of his wife and children, he can't care so much, so he directly left all his work and booked a flight that night.
By the time he got home, it was around 6 a.m. the next day.
He saw two police cars parked downstairs, a group of people standing around, and then looked up at the sixth floor, where was his home, and he chuckled in his heart, broken.
Qin Xiaoguang broke into the crowd, and a policeman heard that he was the owner of the house on the sixth floor, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted: "Condolences." ”
Hearing this, Qin Xiaoguang's head was stunned at that time. When he came back to his senses, he rushed straight up, but he didn't see his wife and children, he shouted at the young policeman next to him like crazy, "Where is my wife and son? ”
The young policeman pointed to the ground, Qin Xiaoguang's gaze moved along the other party's fingers, and he saw two white circles drawn on the ground, and there were two pinches of ash in the circle.
"What do you mean?"
"This is your wife and son."
Qin Xiaoguang collapsed directly to the ground when he heard this, he couldn't remember how he recovered.
Hearing this, Yang Jian frowned: "Your wife and son were burned to ashes?" ”
Qin Xiaoguang nodded, and now thinking about what happened to his wife and children, he still couldn't believe it.
He wiped the sweat from his face, put the ice pack that was about to melt into water on his face, and took advantage of the coolness to continue: "How can a person be burned so thoroughly that even his teeth are burned to ashes, how is this possible? ”
"Did the police say what caused it?" Chen Wu asked.
Qin Xiaoguang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "We looked at the surveillance at home at that time, my wife and son were in the living room, and my son was still holding the dice model I just bought last month, and the next second, a flash of fire suddenly burst out of the two of them." ”
"The fire was so strong that they were burned to ashes after a few screams, and it was the neighbors who heard the screams before they reported the crime."
Speaking of this, Qin Xiaoguang felt a faint pain in his heart, he didn't even see their last face.
He paused in his tone, his eyes were solemn, and he spit out word by word: "I suspect that their spontaneous combustion for no reason is related to the sudden hot skin on their bodies that my wife said a few days ago." ”
Qin Xiaoguang stared at Yang Jian and was very worried: "I also have an inexplicable burning sensation on my body now, my skin is hot, and I am sweating nonstop, I am afraid that I will follow in their footsteps." ”
He is not afraid of death, but he doesn't want to die unclear, he wants to find the truth about the spontaneous combustion of his wife and children for no reason.
#03
Yang Jian is a doctor, but unlike the ordinary doctors in the hospital who treat diseases and save people, his patients are very special, and he treats not ordinary diseases, but very strange urban diseases.
At this moment, he frowned, and he didn't understand what the reason could make a person spontaneously combust and die in an instant for no reason. It stands to reason that even if a person is completely burned to death, they will be left with the strongest teeth.
The only reason that can cause spontaneous combustion is to apply flammable chemicals on the body and contact with flammable gases, but these things do not make people feel burning skin first, and it will take a few days to attack, and the police will not find any traces.
He looked up at Qin Xiaoguang: "Before these symptoms appeared, had you ever been exposed to any strange things or traveled somewhere?" ”
"Before I went on a business trip, I took my wife and son to a hot spring that I often bathed in. But we go to this place a lot, and I haven't had this symptom before. Qin Xiaoguang said.
"The police also went there to investigate, and found nothing unusual." He added.
After saying this, the ice pack in his hand completely melted and was a little warm, and he threw it into the trash.
"Your condition can't be delayed any longer, and the cause must be found as soon as possible." Yang Jian got up, took off his white coat, took out a small rectangular medicine box from under the table, and put it on his back, "Let's go to your house to have a look first." ”
Half an hour later, Yang Jian came to Qin Xiaoguang's house.
After more than half a month, his wife and children have been buried, and there are still two white circles left in the house.
The interior of the house was rudimentary, with only a white sofa and a few large pieces of furniture left. Yang Jian looked at Qin Xiaoguang, and the other party explained: "Since I also had symptoms that day, I went to rent a house outside to live, and I moved most of the furniture here to the rental house. ”
Qin Xiaoguang looked out the window, shook his head, and sighed: "When I first bought a house, I deliberately chose this place with the best feng shui, and it has really mixed well over the years, who knew that such a strange thing would happen." ”
The moment Yang Jian turned his head, he suddenly frowned, pointed to a humanoid black stone more than one person tall in the corner, and asked, "What is that?" ”
Qin Xiaoguang explained: "This is the Fortune Stone I bought at the hot spring last month, it is too big, so I can only leave it here temporarily. ”
Yang Jian squinted, walked over, stretched out his hand and stuck to it, and a faint energy came.
And so it was.
He already had some vague speculations in his heart, and turned to look at Qin Xiaoguang with a solemn look in his eyes: "The strange illness of your family of three may be related to this fast stone." ”
"What?" Qin Xiaoguang was taken aback and couldn't believe it, "This can't be, isn't this stone a fortune stone?" I asked the master to see it, and said that this stone would ensure my financial fortune, and soon after I bought it, I was promoted to a higher level in the company. ”
"This is indeed a fortune stone." Yang Jian also had some research on this aspect, and he raised his eyebrows, "But there is a strange energy left in this stone, and ordinary people can't detect it at all." ”
Although he is also a doctor, he is different from the doctors in the hospital who treat diseases and save people, the doctors in the hospital save ordinary patients who have experienced birth, old age, sickness and death, but he saves people like Qin Xiaoguang who have strange diseases.
Yang Jian added: "This residual energy is a little hot, and it is very likely to be related to your inexplicable hot skin." ”
Qin Xiaoguang suddenly slapped his thigh, and his eyes were indignant: "Damn, that kid Lin Shou must know that this stone is weird, no wonder it was cheaper than 10,000 yuan for me at the beginning." ”
#04
Yubu Hot Spring Museum.
When I saw Lin Shoushi, he had just finished soaking in the hot springs, got dressed and was about to leave.
As soon as Qin Xiaoguang met, he grabbed Lin Shou's collar and asked angrily, "Lin Shou, is there a problem with the Fortune Stone you sold me last time?" ”
Lin Shou was stunned when he saw him, the line of his chin tightened imperceptibly, and he immediately recovered, and explained with a wry smile: "Brother Qin, do you have any misunderstanding?" How could I possibly sell you something in question? ”
This scene did not escape Yang Jian's eyes, Yang Jian squinted, and snorted: "Less than two months after you sold him that piece of fortune stone, his wife and son died of spontaneous combustion inexplicably, and now he also has similar symptoms." ”
"Brother Qin, I ......" Lin Shou hesitated, didn't dare to look directly at Qin Xiaoguang, and sighed heavily, "I really didn't know that there was a problem with that batch of stones when I sold it to you, all of this was arranged by our boss." ”
Qin Xiaoguang's eyes widened: "If there is really a problem, then you didn't explain it clearly last time the police came?" ”
Lin Shou smiled bitterly: "You also know the situation in my family, my mother is still waiting for me to make money to treat her illness, a lot of stones are resold by my hands, I'm not afraid of taking responsibility." If I say it all, the boss will fire me. ”
"Then you dare to say it now?" Qin Xiaoguang was furious.
Lin Shou sighed: "I said that this thing can't be sold, but the boss didn't listen, and I only learned later that someone had strange symptoms like your wife and son, and finally spontaneously combusted for no reason and died." It's just that those people were paid by the boss and didn't call the police. ”
Lin Shou paused and continued: "The boss hasn't stopped yet, I'm worried that sooner or later it will be revealed, in fact, I've been hesitating to call the police in the past few days." ”
"Where's that guy?" Qin Xiaoguang was angry.
"It's in the stone yard behind the hot spring house."
Qin Xiaoguang picked up a wooden stick on the ground and ran in the direction of the stone yard, leaving Lin Shou alone.
Yang Jian also followed, as long as he found out why this kind of stone made people have strange diseases, he would have a way to cure Qin Xiaoguang.
The stone yard is not big, a middle-aged man with a big belly is lying on a recliner, and after he saw Qin Xiaoguang and the others, he smiled and said, "You are here again?" ”
It was Qin Xiaoguang's stick that answered him, which made him wail constantly.
Yang Jian walked to a pile of rubble, which were all blackened, as if they had been smoked, and he reached out to stick to it, and suddenly his head lit up.
Some of the ore mined from the bottom of the hot springs contains volcanic bacteria, which produce a special pheromone that can be emitted in the air and raise the body temperature of the organism, which means that it will make you feverish.
He frowned suddenly, this kind of thing would produce more heat in the human body, but not to the point of spontaneous combustion.
It stands to reason that this boss and Lin Shou have been in contact with this stone for longer than Qin Xiaoguang's family, but why would they be fine?
At this moment, Qin Xiaoguang, who was beating the boss next to him, suddenly wailed, and the skin on his face and limbs suddenly turned red, it was a strange and serious disease.
"Doctor Yang, I feel like a fire is about to come out of my body, am I about to spontaneously combust?"
Yang Jian's face changed, and he glanced at the black stone pile beside him, it was this thing that was doing something strange. Yang Jian hurriedly opened the medicine box and took out a few silver needles and stabbed them into Qin Xiaoguang's head and limbs, only to slowly contain his symptoms, but they could only delay it, not completely cure it.
Qin Xiaoguang sat paralyzed on the ground, this moment made him collapse, and he could only shave a hard glance at the boss who was seriously injured.
The boss coughed up a mouthful of blood from his mouth, trembling and said slightly: "Lin Shou, what are you crazy about?" You don't come to work for more than a month, and you do it as soon as you come. ”
Yang Jian's face was stunned, suspecting that he was wrong, so he turned his head and asked, "What do you call him?" ”
"Lin Shou." Boss hemoptysis.
Qin Xiaoguang glared at him: "Lao Tzu's name is Qin Xiaoguang, have you been beaten stupid." ”
The boss didn't refute, his blood-stained right hand reached into his pocket, opened his mobile phone, and pulled out an ID photo from the photo album, which was Qin Xiaoguang's face, and the name under the ID photo was "Lin Shou".
The boss continued: "I saw Qin Xiaoguang soaking in the hot spring there half an hour ago, you are Lin Shou." The boss flipped through his phone, found a photo of the employee handbook, and pointed to the familiar figure on it, "This guy's name is Qin Xiaoguang." ”
The person in the photo is the Lin Shou I saw just now.
Yang Jian was stunned, the boss didn't seem to be telling a lie like this, unless the boss could predict the prophet, otherwise he would not put Lin Shou's name on this photo P in advance.
Qin Xiaoguang was also stunned, and looked incredulous: "My name is Lin Shou, that guy is called Qin Xiaoguang just now?" ”
Yang Jian took a deep look at him and said, "If you find that guy, the truth will be revealed, I can suppress your strange illness for the time being, but it won't be too long." ”
#05
When I went to look for Lin Shou again, I found that he was still in place and did not leave.
After he saw Qin Xiaoguang and the others, his complexion changed drastically, and he turned around and was about to run, but Yang Jian took the lead in blocking his retreat: "Sure enough, it's greasy!" ”
He didn't care about Yang Jian, but looked at Qin Xiaoguang, and said in surprise: "Why didn't you die?" Inhaled a lot of pheromones from volcanic bacteria, how could you be okay? ”
When he noticed the long needle on Qin Xiaoguang's body, he suddenly realized, turned his head to look at Yang Jian, and looked resentful: "You helped him!" ”
"Obviously I am Qin Xiaoguang, why is it Lin Shou on the ID photo, what is going on?" Qin Xiaoguang took the boss's mobile phone and pointed to Lin Shou's ID photo on it, which was very crazy and a little messy.
"Since you're not dead, I'll help you. Pull out these silver needles from you, and you'll spontaneously combust. Lin Shou smiled and rushed towards the weak Qin Xiaoguang.
Just when he was about to rush over, his legs suddenly stiffened, and when he looked down, there were four silver needles inserted in them, which were thrown by Yang Jian behind him, which just stabbed his leg acupoints, making his body stagnate.
At the same time, the two thighs were like balloons that had been deflated, making a sound of air leaking, and both legs and even the whole body were drying up.
Noticing this scene, Yang Jian and Qin Xiaoguang were both stunned and very surprised, what is the situation?
Lin Shou's eyes were terrified, and he wanted to escape, but his legs were about to dry up, so he couldn't move at all. He looked up at Yang Jian and Qin Xiaoguang, his eyes showed resentment, and his voice suddenly became very sharp: "Don't be complacent, I can't die." ”
In a few moments, his body completely dried up, and fell to the ground like a human skin that had been completely peeled off.
A diary fell from Lin Shou and was snatched by Yang Jian, and the last few pages recorded:
On April 1st, Lin Shou gambled and lost his skin, and I exchanged the old skin on my body for him.
On May 6th, Lin Shou's skin will be gone, and it will be time to find new prey.
On May 10, the new prey took the bait.
On May 20th, Qin Xiaoguang lost the skin of his wife and son, but I don't like women and children, so I can only give up.
On June 1st, Qin Xiaoguang lost his memory and his skin, and I finally have a new skin.
Seeing this, Yang Jian suddenly raised his head to look at Qin Xiaoguang, and the other party stayed in place.
At this time, the qi in Lin Shou's body had been completely eliminated, and only a body of skin remained.
It turned out that the human skin on this guy's body was Qin Xiaoguang's, and the human skin on Qin Xiaoguang's body was Lin Shou's, and now that I think about it, the real Lin Shou may have died of spontaneous combustion in another old skin.
If Qin Xiaoguang hadn't met him, I am afraid that he would eventually spontaneously combust and die mysteriously like his wife and children and Lin Shou. Then the human skin on his body will be completely occupied by the strange guy, and he will continue to look for the next target through this human skin.
Qin Xiaoguang's eyes were glazed, he couldn't believe it, and muttered, "It turns out that all this is my fault. ”
Yang Jian changed this skin back to Qin Xiaoguang, and his memories also came back.
It turned out that the reason why the skin on Qin Xiaoguang's body felt hot before was because it was not his skin, but the human skin of Lin Shou used by this monster.
He guessed that the reason why this monster lured Qin Xiaoguang to the boss was to let him come into contact with the volcanic fungus pheromones on a large number of stones and accelerate his spontaneous combustion. Only when he dies completely can this monster fully use this skin, otherwise there is a chance to be replaced.
Qin Xiaoguang, who changed back into his skin, burst into tears, it turned out that he was a gambler and gambled on his memories and the lives of his wife and children.
He didn't move to a rental house to get away from his old house, he moved out because the house was mortgaged by him.
It was he who killed his wife and son.
All this is because of his own reasons, he first gambled on his wife's life, his son's life, then his own property, memory, when he has nothing, the final gamble will be his own life, this is the price of gambling addiction.
#06
After curing Qin Xiaoguang, Yang Jian returned to the clinic.
A month later, some people spontaneously combusted for no reason appeared in the city.
Yang Jian saw this news and suddenly had an idea: "This kind of spontaneous combustion incident is actually a supernatural urban disease in essence, can we develop some vaccines?" ”
Subsequently, he searched through ancient books and found a clue in an ancient book.
Qin Xiaoguang has suffered from this urban disease, will there be antibodies in his body, and can he use this to develop a vaccine?
Thinking of this, he didn't hesitate and left the clinic to find Qin Xiaoguang.
He was stunned on the way. He saw Qin Xiaoguang and saw him walk into a gambling house again.
Yang Jian smiled bitterly, human nature is difficult to change, this strange spontaneous combustion phenomenon will not stop, even if the development of a prevention and control vaccine, what is the use?
He cured Qin Xiaoguang and helped him regain the lost skin and memory, but he couldn't change his gambling nature, this kind of urban disease can't be completely cured with his ability, because people's hearts are the most complicated.
It's a pity, if the gambling is not eliminated, that guy will come back, next time he can't save Qin Xiaoguang, and Qin Xiaoguang is not worth saving him again.
Yang Jian shook his head, really in response to the old saying: "The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change." ”
Gambling addiction, just like drugs, once started, it is difficult to quit, and it will eventually harm others and oneself.
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