Chapter 164: Corpse Transformation
Early in the morning, Li Qiufan was woken up by a loud noise. The wine in the village was brewed by the villagers themselves. It had great stamina. He stood up with his arms and suddenly felt that the world was spinning. He almost fell over. He tried to steady himself.
After reciting the meditation mantra several times, my mind became somewhat clearer and my dizziness was no longer so strong.
When I opened the door, I saw a group of people gathered in a circle, some were crying and some were cursing.
"What are you arguing about so early in the morning?"
The crowd turned around and saw Li Qiufan waking up. The village chief ran over and said, "Master Li, you are finally awake!"
"What's wrong?" Li Qiufan asked, rubbing his temples.
"evil Dead!"
The circle of people made a passage, and Jingzhe, Twelve, and Fatty were squatting on the ground. In front of them were six corpses, but all of them had their heads chopped off.
"Are these...the corpses that came back with us?" Li Qiufan recognized the corpses of all the materials and asked: "Did they transform? When did it happen?"
A pale-faced woman trembled and said: "It was about six o'clock in the morning... I went to fetch water, and I saw a few vague figures at the entrance of the village. I thought they were from the same village, so I went up to see who was leaving the village so early.
result..."
"It turns out they belonged to my shopkeeper! There were also a few other people who died. I thought it was the damn guy who didn't want them to bury them in peace, so he dug them up. I was planning to call them, but they actually moved.
, rushed towards me like a wolf, I was frightened at the time, dropped the bucket and ran towards the village, but they were very fast, and I was so frightened that my legs were weak and I couldn't run away. I was about to be overtaken, and I happened to meet them.
After I fell in love with this pretty little girl, she knocked them down in a few strokes and saved me."
The woman huddled up and wanted to touch her husband, but she didn't dare. She just kept crying.
Li Qiufan frowned. He had seen the burial place yesterday. It was not a geomantic treasure, but it could be regarded as a decent cemetery. It would not be a problem to bury the dead, let alone the transformation of corpses. Moreover, even if it was a netherworld, it would not be a bad place.
It's impossible for a corpse to mutate in just one night.
"What do you think?" Li Qiufan asked Jingzhe for no reason.
Jingzhe thought for a while and said: "I feel... like it's man-made, like... a corpse chaser!"
An idea flashed through Li Qiufan's chaotic mind. Yes, the possibility of corpse transformation in a short period of time can be completely ruled out. The only thing left is that some guys with bad intentions are at work!
As for those who are best at playing with corpses, corpse chasers are definitely at the top of the list!
"The spirit of the corpse has not dissipated. Go quickly and get some glutinous rice water, then dip peach branches into it and pour it on your body. Everyone present must do it. The rest should be poured on the corpse, and then put the corpse in the sun to dry for two days.
Wait for us to come back in an hour, let’s go to the cemetery to have a look!”
Li Qiufan shook his head vigorously, took Jingzhe and others and rushed to the cemetery.
When they arrived at the cemetery, they saw that the new soil on the grave was scattered, the coffin was exposed, and a big hole was broken. Li Qiufan squatted down to look at it, and murmured: "Looking at the shape of the grave soil and the broken coffin, it's not that someone dug it out, but
The body was forcibly broken open from the inside..."
Jingzhe also said: "Everything is normal here, but I haven't seen anyone else come to the village. How did the corpse collector know that there were new corpses buried?"
Corpse chasers can only use their unique secret method to drive away corpses whose flesh has not completely decayed. They cannot drive away corpses that have long since turned into skeletons.
"Could it be that the other party cast a large-scale spell, just like playing a game? The skill is a partial damage type, and his purpose is not to drive these corpses?" the fat man said quietly.
"That makes sense!"
The fat man said casually, but Li Qiufan thought it was very possible and hurriedly asked: "What time did you all go to bed last night?"
The fat man said: "Twelve and I share a room, and we will sleep when we get home."
Jingzhe said: "I'm about the same."
At this time, a demonic wind blew up from the bottom of the mountain. It was the monkey demon. It was very reserved at first last night, but then everyone got drunk and the monkey demon slowly let go. Li Qiufan still vaguely remembered it before he died of drunkenness. Holding a big wine jar, he poured it into his mouth.
"Boss, what are you doing here?" As soon as the monkey demon spoke, his mouth was filled with the smell of alcohol, which made Li Qiufan almost vomit.
"Don't breathe at me, you're too arrogant!" Li Qiufan cursed and told it what happened in the morning.
Upon hearing this, the monkey demon said: "I know this!"
"What? What do you know?" everyone asked in unison.
The monkey demon said: "You humans have a bad capacity for drinking. I didn't enjoy it to the fullest. After you all went to bed, I made two more jars. Not to mention, the taste of this thing called wine is so charming. I have lived for hundreds of years." This is the first time I drank this stuff. I feel like my heart is on fire. My whole body is numb and numb. It’s very exciting..."
"Tell the important point!"
"Uh...yes, yes, I accidentally went astray." The monkey demon said with a smile: "I don't remember how late it was, but when I drank the first jar, I heard something in the wind. There was a weird noise, like that... the sound of a flute, mixed with a few bells. Soon after, I smelled a corpse odor. I didn't pay attention at the time. I drank up the wine and sat on the roof. Fell asleep on top."
"It's really the corpse exorcists who are up to something!" When Li Qiufan heard this, he made a guess in his mind. He had never eaten pork before and had always seen pigs running away. The corpse exorcist's bell was the most commonly used corpse exorcist weapon. It can drive the corpse to move or attack through the sound of the bell. As for the flute sound, it should be used to lift the corpse. It contains mysterious power and can cause the corpse to transform quickly.
"Which direction did the sound come from?"
The monkey demon jumped to the crown of a big tree, looked around and said: "There!"
"In the southeast, you can hear the sound of the corpse-clearing bell, and it is enough to cause the corpses here to be picked up, which means the distance is very close..."
"Go back and ask the villagers if they have any clues."
The fat man said: "Brother Fan, I think we should leave it alone. Our purpose is to catch monsters and make money here. Why should we care about other people's corpse exorcism? Be careful of causing unnecessary complications."
Li Qiufan said solemnly: "If they were chasing normal corpses, I wouldn't care, but they disturbed a few ordinary people who were newly buried under my nose, so I have to get involved no matter what! You give me Remember, when you enter the gate of my Kunlun Palace of Gods, you must have a heart to exorcise evil and straighten things out. As long as it involves supernatural matters, whether in the world or in the underworld, we can take care of it! And we must take care of it!"
The fat man said seriously: "I know, then let's fuck him!"
When the village chief saw them coming back, he walked up and asked if he had found anything.
Li Qiufan said that he had found some clues, but he was not completely sure yet and needed to ask him something.
The village chief said there was no problem.
He walked to the six corpses and looked at them. Most of the corpse energy on their bodies had been driven away by the sunlight and glutinous rice water. The villagers were all wet. After checking around, they found nothing was wrong. Li Qiufan then talked to the villagers.
Grow back home.
After arriving home, the village chief's daughter-in-law had already prepared breakfast, including millet porridge with pickles, and a drawer of large meat buns, which was full of aroma.
Li Qiufan had no appetite and only drank some porridge, but Fatty and Twelve devoured several steamed buns.
"Village chief, is there anything unusual in the southeast of your village?" Li Qiufan asked carefully.
The village chief frowned and said: "The southeast... unusual place? No."
"No? That's strange. Could it be that the corpse chasers really came here for the six corpses, but why they had picked up the corpses but didn't take them away? Could it be just for fun? How is that possible?"
"If you think about it again, when I say unusual, I mean a place that is relatively evil and has many weird rumors. Ordinary people are not willing to go to places." Li Qiufan was unwilling to give in and asked.
"Hiss... Just let me think about it." The village chief rubbed his pipe and tilted his head to think about it, but he didn't move for a long time.
At this moment, the village chief's daughter-in-law, who was clearing away the dishes, whispered: "Dad, have you forgotten the 'Pond of the Dead' at the end of the village?"
"Yeah, how could I, an old man like me, have forgotten that damn place!" The village chief suddenly realized and slapped his thigh suddenly.
"Dead Man's Pond?! Give me more details!" Li Qiufan suddenly felt that the matter must have something to do with this place.
The village chief lit the pot and smoke rose.
Li Qiufan twitched his nose and said that the smoke smelled quite good. The village chief smiled and said that he grew it himself, then tore off a few pieces of paper and rolled one for each of Li Qiufan and others.
I took a sip and found that it tasted pretty good.
Several people were smoking cigarettes, and the village chief slowly said: "The Dead Man's Pool is not a very good place. It is not a convergence of rivers, but a pool of stagnant water formed by rain. It is bottomless, not only black, but also smelly.
There were countless animals drowned inside that went to drink water because of the drought.
Not only animals but also people have died. Over the years, there must be at least a hundred or so people who have committed suicide and jumped in. The family often invites corpse collectors to salvage them, but it is strange to say that not one of them has died.
If you can't fish it out, the pond is not that big. People who fish for corpses are searching in raging rivers.
As a foodie, I have never seen such strong winds and waves, but I ate and deflated in this small pond, and all failed. A few days ago, a girl with a big belly in the city died. Her family had money, so they hired a professional fisherman.
The corpse team used several water pumps for two days and two nights, but the water level did not drop at all.
A group of people wore slippery clothes and carried bottles on their backs. They said they were diving suits, but they still couldn't find them. They could only ask someone to perform a ritual ceremony at the edge of the Tan. They put some pool water in the urn and left it alone.
, the name of Dead Man's Pool is also because so many people died here, everyone called it it."
The village chief pressed the smoke pot with his thumb and continued: "According to the old man, that place used to be very feng shui, and a great general of the Ming Dynasty was once buried there. Unfortunately, the general's tomb was broken into by tomb robbers, who dug a hole to get in."
As water accumulates over time, the general's tomb sinks, and the feng shui naturally breaks down.
It has formed the current Dead Man's Pool. People in our neighborhood have warned children not to play there. Even adults would stay away if nothing happened. Normally, they would find it unlucky and would not want to talk about this ghost place. If it weren't for Su
Hong reminds me, I really can’t remember it for a while.”
Suhong is the name of the village chief's daughter-in-law.
"Regarding the rumors about Dead Man's Pool, if I were to tell them in detail, I might not be able to tell them all in one day or one night, because I have been there several times. Every time I go there, I feel chills running down my spine, and it feels like there is something under the water.
It's like the thing is staring at me, and a voice will appear in my heart for no reason, as if urging me to jump."
The village chief blew his cigarette ashes and concluded: "That place... is very evil."
"You just said...that a pregnant woman drowned in the Pond of the Dead a few days ago?" Li Qiufan's expression suddenly changed.
"She was a pregnant woman. I heard that she was more than eight months old and was about to give birth. The girl didn't know what the reason was. She couldn't think of it and committed suicide. The family was crying to death. Alas... so rich,
I'm still pregnant, what's the problem?" the village chief sighed.
Chapter completed!