The road is long.
The world is long.
On the official road with no end in front and no path behind, facing the long shadow drawn by the setting sun, there was a strange combination of an old man, a young man and a sheep walking.
One old man and one young man were lightly dressed, while a sheep that looked like a calf carried heavy loads and luggage.
At this time, it was two days after Jin'an went to the Horn and Urn Coffin Temple to exhume the bones of the Wang family and his son and send them home to reunite with their families, and after burying the other victims.
Things have happened in Chang County. Jin'an's next trip is to go to the state capital to fulfill the Wu Zang Taoist's obsessive last wish. However, only by going to the neighboring counties of Chang County can there be a ferry to board a big boat to the state capital.
Jin'an was walking on the way to the ferry in a neighboring county.
When he was in the yin world, he once heard the last wish of Taoist Wu Zang, which may be the obsession that Taoist Wu Zang has always lingered on and refused to let go.
Jin An plans to go to the state capital to find the old friend of Taoist Wu Zang.
"Old Taoist, your soul has recovered from the injury, and Chang County is also in trouble. Why don't you continue to travel around the world? Why are you still following me?"
Jin An was quite speechless as he looked at the old Taoist priest who had relied on him all his life.
The old Taoist priest gently twirled his long beard and said shamelessly and shamelessly: "Little brother, you have a kind heart. Old Taoist, I think that little brother, you will be able to build a golden body of merit one day. Isn't there a saying that a person who has attained the Tao can ascend to heaven?"
I also want to see how miserable it is in Guanghan Palace."
Guanghan Palace?
"Old Taoist, are you a chicken or a dog?"
Jin An was amused by the old Taoist priest's words. Isn't it a derogatory term for a person to attain the Taoism? How can anyone use derogatory terms to describe himself?
The old Taoist priest had a dark face and stopped saying anything. He said that Jin An was calling him an old dog and that he was using metaphors to describe it.
The sunset is accompanying.
An old man and a young man were walking on the official road to a neighboring county, bickering all the way, and leading a calf and a goat behind them.
Baa baa baa.
During the quarrel along the way, Shayang occasionally found a sense of presence.
It is about a hundred miles from Chang County to the neighboring county, and it cannot be reached in a day or two. Seeing that it is getting late, before dark, an old man, a young man and a sheep plan to find a village to stay for one night.
Finally, before it was completely dark, they finally found a place to stay.
It was a small mountain village built next to a river, which is a branch of the Yinyi River. The water in the river is somewhat fast.
The diversion passes right in front of the village.
This is a very typical village built along the river.
The two people and the sheep had not yet entered the village. Suddenly, there was a splash, and a wave suddenly appeared in the river passing by. You could faintly see someone floating in the river?
At this time, because it was getting dark, it was unclear whether there was a person floating in the river. Jin An and the old Taoist priest hurried to the river, and they saw two people floating in the river.
It would be more accurate to say that there is a person floating.
Because the other person was a floating corpse with his face facing down, one person grabbed the floating corpse's ankle and floated it all the way down the river. He just happened to float to the river bank and was rescued by Jin An and the old Taoist priest.
It is strange to say that after the person was rescued, there was a splash and a wave hit the river. The floating corpse in the river was swept under the river by the waves and disappeared. It was so late at night that I couldn't even see clearly whether it was a boy or a girl.
The old Taoist priest exclaimed in surprise: "Old Taoist, why do I think this floating corpse is to save people, and deliberately sent the person in front of us to let us save him?"
After hearing this, Jin An thought about it and realized that it really seemed like what the old Taoist priest said.
After all, it's all such a coincidence.
But there was no time to think too much at this time. Saving people was the most important thing. Jin An found that the man they rescued still had a pulse, but his body was cold. It was probably because he had been soaked in the water for too long and lost too much body temperature.
He had a high fever and was in coma, looking like he was dying.
Even though this man was unconscious, he still held a broken sword tightly in his hand. He must be a swordsman. He was seriously injured. The wound was on his back. A large piece of clothes and human skin were missing from his back. His back was actually
The skin was skinned alive, and the exposed back muscles were soaked in water until they turned white, rotted, and were infested with many strange insects.
Such serious and strange injuries seem to indicate that the origin of the swordsman in front of him is not simple?
"Oops, the flesh on his back is all necrotic. We need to find a place to treat him quickly and scrape off the necrotic flesh on his back."
The old Taoist priest who is still a wandering Taoist priest has experience and said seriously.
So, Jin An carefully picked up the man and let the goat carry him to the village ahead to find a doctor to save him.
But when he was carrying people and putting them on the back of the sheep, Jin An suddenly said in surprise: "Huh? This man has so much corpse energy and yin energy... Is this a dead person who has transformed into a corpse?"
"No, there is a pulse, and when you scrape open a bit of soaked rotten flesh on your back, you can see fresh flesh and blood, and there are still thin threads of fresh blood coming out. Why does this mysterious swordsman look so full of deathly aura?
But it has the characteristics of a living person?"
"Are you intersex?"
Jin An stopped the sheep for the time being, and then told the old Taoist priest what he had discovered so that the old Taoist priest could see what was going on. Jin An had always admired the old Taoist priest for being well-informed.
Professional matters are naturally left to professionals, and Jin An is very self-aware.
And if the swordsman in front of him is really a dead person or a monster corpse, and he sends this swordsman of unknown origin into a village of ordinary people, then this is not saving people, but killing more ordinary people.
After hearing what Jin An said, the old Taoist priest hurriedly checked the swordsman on the back of the sheep again. This time he checked it carefully several times. The old Taoist priest touched, looked and smelled. After thinking for a while, he finally confirmed: "This
The young swordsman is indeed a living person, but he is a little different from a normal living person. It should be a life-and-death look that is rarely seen in the world."
"What are the signs of living and dead?" Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest.
"The appearance of a living person dying means that he is obviously a living person, but he has a face like a dead person and a body full of death. Such people are rarely seen because they are usually cultivated, and only two industries will spend a lot of manpower and material resources.
Financial resources, cultivate such people from an early age."
"One is a corpse hunter."
"The other one is a tomb robber."
"As for the veteran, I just looked at this man's index finger and palm one by one. His fingers are slender, soft and boneless. His fingers and palm are not as rough and covered with thick calluses as those of a boatman who is exposed to wind and sun all year round.
I reasoned that this person is not a body hunter who lives by water and recovers corpses for others, but a tomb robber."
According to what the old Taoist said, whether it's a corpse hunter or a tomb robber, they deal with the dead every day, and deal with all kinds of strange places and caves where corpses are hidden. The more evil the person's death is, the more evil the place will be, and the more trouble there will be.
The more fierce it becomes.
It is no exaggeration to say that people must have drowned in any river, and dead people must have been buried in any place with mountains. If you encounter those special places, there are strange waterways that ordinary people can't go to, and ordinary tomb robbers can't go there.
The Tomb of the Tomb King requires a specific expert to take action.
So later on, among the corpse collectors and tomb robbers, a special kind of person appeared, the one who showed signs of living and dying.
They adopt little beggars from childhood, or kidnap and sell children, and force them to grow up eating corpses, corpses in seven days, corpses in ten days, corpses in half a month...
One year, ten years, twenty years...a hundred years...
Gradually increase the difficulty, endure the pain that ordinary people cannot endure, and continue to eat until they grow up and are full of death energy. They can go to places that living people cannot go, and can approach the tomb treasures that living people cannot approach.
Even ordinary sinister people cannot see this kind of people.
Because in the dark eyes, he only sees the walking corpses of his kind, they are dead people, not living people.
However, it is difficult to train this kind of people, and the mortality rate is extremely high. Even if you train a thousand children from an early age, you may not be able to succeed.
After listening to the old Taoist priest's introduction to the signs of living and death, Jin An was startled.
The man in front of me is not a swordsman, but a thief who is more ruthless than a ruthless man!
"Shouldn't tomb robbers be the enemies of all tomb owners in the world? The floating corpse just now probably came from the ancient tomb, so why did the floating corpse just save him instead?"
The old Taoist priest said, "How do I know this? I should be able to tell by resuscitating people. Maybe they have other abilities, such as being able to control corpses or something?"
Jin An thought for a while, although tomb robbers are quite hateful, but after listening to the words of the old Taoist priest, he felt that these people who were trained to look like living and dead were quite pitiable.
He finally decided to save people first.
Fortunately, with money, Jin'an found accommodation at a doctor's house in the village and asked the doctor to rescue him.
However, one can imagine how good the village doctor's medical skills can be. In the end, Jin'an asked the village doctor to try his best to save the patient, and it was not his fault if he could not be saved. Only then did the village doctor agree to scrape the flesh to save the patient.
Scraping the flesh to heal wounds is not something that can be done in a short time. With the help of Jin An and the old Taoist priests, they constantly changed the hot water and washed the linen. It took nearly an hour to complete this huge process.
This did not tire the old Taoist priest who was old and frail.
But until the carrion on his back was scraped, hemostatic medicine was applied, and his upper body was wrapped with linen to isolate the wound from infection, the thief who was rescued by Jin'an was still unconscious throughout the entire process.
After the village doctor gave him a few more bowls of medicine, he told Jin An that whether a person could be brought back from hell depended entirely on personal luck. The injury was too serious and he had tried his best.
Jin'an thanked the village doctor and fell asleep that night amidst the exhaustion of others.
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To be continued...