The 15th of March was a Friday. After the last class in the evening, the students of Mo Bei High School had their weekend holiday.
However, Lee Yuhan did not go home. He told his parents that he and a few other students were going to Wong Jia Wei's house for a party. They would be spending the night there.
Wong Jia Wei came from a wealthy family. His family lived in a bungalow. His parents who worked in business were often not home. Today was their first day of absence. This had happened many times before so Lee Yuhan's parents did not ask. Neither did Sun Haoran, Huang Yiyang, He Ziyi, Tang Yi and Zheng Mei Han's parents.
They were not lying, this was indeed the case.
"There's news online, the whole Ma Er Wan area is being evacuated!"
"Why?"
"It seems to be a prediction that there will be a huge sandstorm there."
"Is there an evacuation for a sandstorm?"
At this time, in Wang Jiawei's house, in the dining room of one of the villas in this high-end villa district, these seven high school students, four boys and three girls, were sitting at the shiny marble dining table. The crystal chandelier above shone on their youthful faces, and they were all a little nervous.
The girls were scrolling through their phones. Ma Er Wan was at the northern side of the city, it was quite a distance away so the evacuation did not affect the citizens in the city.
"That's enough." Lee Yuhan stopped them. "Let's start. Don't eat if you're afraid."
But the seven of them silently opened the seven stainless steel lids on the table. Inside were seven ceramic plates, and on each plate was a ball of brownish-yellow mud.
The sound of gulping echoed in their throats. The teenagers looked at the mud like it was some kind of seafood feast. But it was just normal mud, mud that was dug out from the backyard of this bungalow. They put down their phones and struggled silently …
"Isn't this … not normal?" Zheng Mei Han said.
"Didn't we already check? Pica." Huang Yiyang grumbled.
"If my parents find out, they might send me to Prof Yang for electroshock therapy." Wong Jia Wei grumbled.
"Pica … is actually not that strange …" Tang Yi grumbled.
Lee Yuhan did not say anything. The current situation started on Arbor Day, which was three days ago. He had secretly taken away a clump of mud from the barren land.
That night, in the dormitory, Lee Yuhan tossed and turned, unable to sleep. In the end, he couldn't resist the torturous desire in his heart and took a bite of the mud.
He had looked it up on the internet. It was called pica, which included eating mud, paper, cinders, hair … and all kinds of strange things. The cause of pica could be metabolic disorder, taste abnormalities, psychological factors, etc., but the real cause and treatment were still unknown.
Lee Yuhan didn't know why he suddenly had this urge. It seemed like it was when he first saw the locust eggs.
After eating that mouthful of mud, not only did Lee Yuhan get rid of the almost painful torment, but he also felt extremely satisfied.
He had never felt this way when it came to food, whether it was homemade, expensive ingredients, cooked by chefs or cooked by his mother.
At that time, Lee Yuhan vaguely knew that he couldn't live without eating mud.
It was also that night when his roommate Wong Jia Wei saw him eating mud. Just as Lee Yuhan was feeling awkward, Wong Jia Wei said he wanted to eat some too because he had the same torturous desire. Sun Haoran and Huang Yiyang were their best friends; He Ziyi was Wong Jia Wei's girlfriend; Tang Yi and Zheng Mei Han were He Ziyi's best friends.
In the end, in the next few days, the seven of them shared the mud. They all went to the barren land to participate in the activity on Arbor Day.
Obviously, there was a connection between them. That day had changed their appetite.
The teenagers were confused, anxious and afraid. They were afraid that something would happen, afraid that someone would find out. They wanted to ask their parents or teachers for help, or maybe they should call Phecda … but there was a voice in their mind, a voice, a resistance.
Do not tell anyone, it is not time yet, do not tell anyone.
In the blink of an eye, the seven of them had not told anyone other than each other about it.
Over the past few days, other than the need for food, there was nothing wrong with their body and mind.
However, the mud that Lee Yuhan brought back from the barren land had been eaten. Not a single bit was left. Even the newspaper that was used to wrap the mud was eaten by them. They felt like they were addicted to drugs. Once they did not eat the mud, they would feel even more uncomfortable.
"I will eat first." Lee Yuhan could not stand it anymore. Earlier he was still playing with the mud, but now he grabbed the yellow mud from the plate and stuffed it into his mouth.
However, when he took a bite, he frowned and almost spat it out. He was shocked, anxious and panicked, "This is not the taste. Something is wrong, something is wrong …"
"What?" Wang Jiawei realized something and hurriedly grabbed his share of mud to eat. However, he also had the same reaction and his face turned red.
"No way!" He Ziyi, Sun Haoran and the rest were anxious. However, after the five of them tasted the mud, they were all panicking. "Oh no, we are doomed." "What should we do? What should we do today! "" Lee Yuhan, do you have any more of that mud? "
This normal mud will not do. It does not taste right.
"You guys have eaten all of it …" Lee Yuhan muttered anxiously. However, his eyes brightened up, "Let's go to the Arbor Day barren land! There is a lot of mud there, and it is just a piece of barren land. There is no fence, and no one cares. Let's go there! "
Everyone happily agreed as if they had found a life-saving straw.
They really could not stand it anymore. It was not because of the hunger in their stomach.
It was the nightmarish thirst that made them a little mad. No, they must eat that mud, or else they will die, they will definitely die …
The seven young men and women immediately got up and walked over. There were many cars in Wong Jia Wei's garage. One of them was a silver MPV that could seat seven people. They did not have a driver's license, but Wong Jia Wei knew how to drive. He had learned it privately.
They got into the MPV and departed. Hopefully, they would not be stopped by the traffic police.
However, Mo Bei City was a sparsely populated place. They checked the GPS and took the back roads. Therefore, they did not run into any trouble along the way to the barren land at the northern edge of the city. When they reached the barren land, the night was even darker.
There were no residents, no guards. The place was so barren that even the sound of insects could not be heard.
Therefore, once the car stopped by the roadside, Lee Yuhan, Wong Jia Wei and the rest rushed out. They rushed towards the barren land that was planted with some small saplings.
"This way, this way!" Lee Yuhan knew the way. He ran towards the spot where he dug out the locust eggs that day. It was there that he took away the mud.
"Didn't Captain Luo from the Forestry Department say to spray the locust eggs? Will it affect the quality of the food? "
"If you're afraid, then don't eat it!"
"I'm not afraid of pesticides. I'm doomed if I can't eat it tonight …"
"Listen to me, I'm afraid that even the mud here is not right!"
They were quarreling anxiously, but they suddenly stopped talking and stopped in their tracks. They looked doubtfully at a sapling a dozen meters in front of them.
Under the hazy moonlight, they saw a figure kneeling on the ground with his back facing them. His hands were grabbing the mud and he was munching on it. He made a strange but feverish swallowing sound. Beside the figure, a small pit had been dug out. The soil that had disappeared should have been eaten by the person.
That figure looked a little familiar to them.
"That looks like …" He Ziyi's eyes widened. Lee Yuhan, Tang Yi, Zheng Mei Han, and the others were all at a loss.
But they were gulping as well. The man's swallowing sound triggered their desire to eat mud.
At the same time, the silhouette also heard the commotion and turned around in shock. The usually generous and amiable middle-aged face now had a very complicated expression. His slightly opened mouth was full of mud, and even his cheeks and chin were covered in mud.
Before this, the man must have eaten a crazed meal of mud.
They recognized the man, it was Headmaster Chui.
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