The Bon elder sacrificed himself in order to eliminate evil spirits. The villagers remembered his instructions and buried the ashes of the chieftain prince on the top of Daga Doma Mountain, and built a Bon temple where the ashes were buried.
, which is the current Doma Temple. At the same time, in order to prevent the remaining zombies from attacking the villagers at night, they followed the instructions of the Bon elders and began to build a specially designed earthen house with a low door. In this way, they could only
Zombies walking upright will no longer be able to enter the house.
The walking zombies obtain their strength by sucking the essence and blood of living animals, because they can no longer attack humans, and cattle, sheep and other livestock were driven dozens of miles away by local herdsmen. It didn't take long for the walking zombies to perish on their own.
Since then, nothing like this has happened in more than two hundred years. People have even forgotten this incident. However, they did not expect that the Doma Temple collapsed due to a mudslide, and the evil spirits sealed under the temple actually appeared again.
appeared.
After listening to Uncle Qiangba's story, Wen Qingshan pondered for a moment and said, "But hasn't the chieftain prince possessed by the evil spirit been burned to ashes and buried underground for more than two hundred years?
It should have turned into dust long ago, so how could it come out to harm others again?"
Uncle Qianba said: "It was not the chieftain prince who came out to harm people. When the Doma Temple collapsed, there happened to be a corpse placed in the temple. However, this body has not been found so far. It is very likely that something happened.
corpse."
"Why are corpses placed in the temple?" I asked in confusion.
Professor Dong said on the side: "This is not surprising. Behind Doma Temple is the sky burial platform. Before the deceased is buried in the sky, they usually stay in the temple for two nights, and the monks in the temple help the deceased to save his soul."
"What is a sky burial platform?" Jianjian asked curiously. This guy didn't do any homework before coming to Tibet and knew almost nothing.
Professor Dong explained: "In Tibetan areas, there are three ways of burial after death, namely: sky burial, water burial and earth burial. Sky burial is the most common burial custom, also known as bird burial. That is, after a person dies, he will be buried in the sky.
The carcasses are taken to a designated location to be eaten by birds such as eagles or vultures.
In the minds of the Tibetan people, the eagle comes from heaven and is a messenger of God. Tibetans who believe in Buddhism or Bon religion believe that sky burial can bring the soul of the deceased to heaven. The place where sky burial is carried out is
Sky burial platforms are generally built on higher ground."
Jianjian stuck out her tongue: "It's really cruel to let birds peck at the corpse."
Professor Dong turned to Uncle Qiangba and asked, "Have these three corpses attacked anyone since they were raised?"
Uncle Jianba shook his head and said: "That's not true!"
I can't help but feel a little surprised, because the walking zombie actually sucks blood to replenish spiritual power, and human blood is the best choice for replenishing spiritual power, and animal blood is much inferior. So generally speaking, the main purpose of the walking zombie is to replenish spiritual power.
The target of attack is still humans, and livestock will only be targeted as a last resort.
I asked: "Since you have never attacked anyone, how can you conclude that it is a walking corpse?"
Uncle Qianba said: “At the scene where the sheep and yaks were attacked, someone found many footprints on the ground, which looked like they were left by bare feet. And the body that was placed in the Doma Temple at that time,
That’s right, barefoot.”
After hearing what Uncle Qiangba said, Jianjian sighed at the side: "I didn't expect that I would encounter such evil things when I came to Tibet. If I had known about this, I should have brought that Tiangang Demon Mirror with me."
Wen Qingshan said with a smile: "You two are experts in dealing with this evil thing. Now that you are here, you should treat it as a good deed and get rid of the evil spirit for the people in the village."
When Uncle Jianba heard this, he immediately turned to look at me and Jianjian and asked, "Can you deal with the evil spirits?"
Jianjian said proudly: "Of course, what our Qibao Zhai is best at is dealing with evil..."
I was afraid that he would be unable to stop boasting about Haikou in the end, so I quickly interrupted him and said, "After all, I haven't figured out what it is yet, and we didn't bring any magic weapon to exorcise evil spirits this time, so I don't dare to say it."
It will definitely be possible to deal with it, but you can give it a try.”
As soon as I finished speaking, Uncle Qianba said excitedly: "If you can really deal with the evil spirits, it will be equivalent to saving our entire village, and you will become the most distinguished guests of our Daga Doma Village."
The original intention of what I just said was that we may not be able to deal with evil spirits, but Uncle Jianba obviously only heard the last sentence. Seeing that he was very excited, it seemed as if he had found a savior. I didn't want to let him down.
He had to smile helplessly and said nothing more.
That night, Uncle Qianba arranged for a group of us to stay at his house and the house of Tashi Duoji next door. Although Tashi Duoji was not at home, his house did not have a door lock and was only covered with a thick curtain.
, in fact, the doors in this area are basically like this. Among Tibetans, people in the same village are as close as brothers, and there are generally very few foreigners coming, so everyone is not worried about theft, and they really keep their doors open at night.
To sum it up, this is the first time we have slept in a house since we entered Tibet. Although there is no bed in the house, it is just a bunk on the floor, and because there are not enough quilts, we still use our own sleeping bags, but it still feels like
It is much better than sleeping in a car or in a tent. The key is to feel at ease.
That night, I quickly fell asleep, sleeping deeply, and I also had a strange dream. I dreamed that after we crossed a snowy plateau covered with ice and snow, we actually found a mountain in a valley.
The jungle is covered with dense green plants. It seems to be completely unaffected by the plateau climate. The vegetation in the forest is extremely lush, there are flocks of birds and animals, and there are even many strange creatures that I have never seen before.
I don't know why I had such a strange dream, but after all, it was just a dream, so I didn't think much about it.
Early the next morning, while we were still asleep, we were woken up by the sound of dogs barking and people talking. Not long after we got up, Uncle Qianba came over and told us that there were villagers again last night.
The livestock were attacked by walking corpses. This time, it was two yaks and a Tibetan mastiff. As in the previous situation, all the blood was sucked out of their bodies.
When we heard this, we immediately became energetic and immediately expressed our intention to go and see the scene.
Without saying a word, Uncle Jamba immediately dropped his sword, put on his shotgun, and led us to the location where the livestock attack occurred.
The place was not far from our place. Under the leadership of Uncle Qianba, we came to an open space on the mountainside. In this open space, there was a large area covered with a wall about one meter high and made of stones.
A complete fence was built inside the fence, and there were a herd of yaks, twenty or thirty in number. Perhaps because they were frightened, the herds of yaks were huddled together.
Professor Dong told us that this is the most common type of cattle pen in Tibetan pastoral areas. In Tibetan areas, yaks are generally raised in the wild, and the cattle are not required to return to the cattle pen every night. However, due to the recent livestock attacks,
Incident, as a precaution, the herdsmen drove the cattle back to the cattle pen at night, but they did not expect that this kind of thing would still happen.
On the grass outside the cattle pen, two yaks and a huge Tibetan mastiff were lying. Two herders with shotguns on their backs were standing next to them and discussing something. Their expressions looked angry and a little frightened.
Uncle Qianba led us to the carcasses of the two yaks. I took a look and saw that the yaks were not very big. They were much larger than the adult buffaloes in the inland areas, probably weighing four to five hundred kilograms.
Heavy. And the Tibetan Mastiff is not small either. Although it is slightly smaller than the Tibetan Mastiff in Uncle Qiangba’s house, it is still much larger than ordinary dogs.
The necks of the yak and Tibetan mastiff carcasses were covered with blood stains, and two blood holes were clearly visible, but there was no blood flowing out of the blood holes.
The diameter of the two blood holes is not small, almost three fingers wide, and there is a distance of about twelve or three centimeters between the two blood holes.
Wen Qingshan put on a pair of rubber gloves, carefully inserted his fingers into one of the blood holes and tried it. He raised his head and said: "This should be the tooth mark left by the monster that attacked the yak. It is ten centimeters deep, and
The diameter must also be three centimeters, Shi Yu, can the bloody teeth of a walking corpse grow so thick?"
I shook my head and said: "The blood teeth of the walking zombie are pointed and slender. They can never be so thick. And you see, the distance between these two holes must be as wide as a palm. Before the walking zombie undergoes the transformation,
After all, we are still human beings. Who can have such a wide mouth?"
Wen Qingshan nodded and said: "That's right, so the ones who attacked the herd should not be zombies, but some other beasts."
Professor Dong took over Wen Qingshan's words and said: "In Tibet, the only thing that can pose a threat to yaks is the snow leopard..."
Before he finished speaking, Uncle Qiangba immediately waved his hand and said: "It can't be a snow leopard!"
"Why are you so sure it's not a snow leopard?" Professor Dong asked rhetorically.
Uncle Qiangba did not answer Professor Dong, but turned around and talked a few words in Tibetan with one of the herdsmen standing aside. I don’t know what they said, but the herdsman immediately led everyone aside.
Go.
Seabeard asked Basang curiously: "Brother, where is he taking us?"
Basang said: "Uncle Qianba asked him to take everyone to see the footprints left by the monster."
The herdsman led us to a large puddle of cow dung not far from the cattle pen. He pointed to the puddle of cow dung and said something in Tibetan.
I lowered my head and took a look, and I couldn't help but be surprised to see a huge footprint printed on the pool of cow dung that had not yet been dried.