An extremely strong rattan that lives on wild camellia trees.
Almost taking away the living space of camellia trees.
On hanging rattans, mummies were hung one after another.
At first glance, there are dozens of them.
The mummy is dark black, the skin has lost moisture, and the muscles have completely atrophied, like dried bacon.
It's really scary.
"It's so evil, how come there are so many of them!"
My breathing was rapid, a chill grew in my heart, and beads of sweat formed on my forehead.
"The climate in western Hunan is humid. Without special treatment, it is impossible for the corpses to dry and become mummies. The corpses will rot in about a month. I think someone must have put effort into making these mummies."
Gu Xia's face turned pale, but she still analyzed it seriously.
I nodded.
People who die in the wild can turn into mummies, mostly in dry climates, where the body loses moisture quickly in a short period of time.
But for Miao and Xiangxi, which has a humid climate and rainy season.
Without human intervention, the corpse will simply rot, leaving only bones in the end.
With so many mummies, they wouldn't just come here and hang themselves.
"That's right. Someone must have collected the corpses. I just don't know why they did it."
I said.
I looked around and found a scratch on the stone, which I judged to be the mark left by the tea girl.
"Tea Lady, you should have already gone in."
I looked at the forest and said.
Gu Xia plucked up the courage and said, "Then let's go in too. To be honest, I've heard my uncle talk about zombies before. This is the first time I've seen so many corpses. I'm both scared and curious."
After walking only a few meters, I saw the first mummy.
The clothes on the mummy have long since rotted.
The skin color took on a familiar dark black color.
There was also a faint smell of corpse smell.
I suddenly shuddered, my expression changed immediately, and I said, "These mummies have a lot of corpse worms in their bodies. It's the corpse worms that have affected their condition."
Corpse bugs are evil bugs that can breed on dead people.
After the corpse worm lands inside the dried corpse.
To ensure your own reproduction.
It will not let the host rot, but turn the host into a mummy.
This is also the reason why mummies turn black when dried.
This is a mummy hanging in a camellia tree.
In fact, it is a "humanoid vessel" for raising corpse insects.
To put it bluntly, in the eyes of insect keepers, mummies are just bottles and jars.
"Gu girl, take the pill, which is mixed with dried cow dung. It may be a bit offensive. But here, the corpse energy is already very strong and will conflict with the yang energy in the living body. Don't let the corpse bugs get into you, and also
Beware of the mother corpse worm.”
I took a pill and handed it to Gu Xia.
The main ingredient of this pill is dried cow dung, with two kinds of herbs and honeysuckle added, so the taste is not that strong.
Gu Xia took it and held it in his mouth.
She walked a few steps forward, carefully moved the hanging mummies with her mahogany sword, and after observing them carefully, she said: "Young doctor, these corpses are of different years, some are less than twenty years old, and some are older than
More than twenty years, and some may be more than thirty years."
"Tell me, where do these corpses that keep appearing come from? There is no stockade nearby!"
After Gu Xia asked, she looked at me expectantly.
I don't have an answer either. I can't answer him right away.
I walked forward and found some mummies at their feet, and some broken clay pots, bamboo tubes and the like scattered around.
It's a container for poisonous insects.
It can be seen that most of these mummies are Gu masters.
I made a bold guess in my mind and said: "These people may be the group of people who went to Poison Mountain to look for the strange god Gu and died in the end. Their bodies have never been seen. They seem to be hanging here."
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Luo Qijiao's younger brother Luo Babao, and Wu Zuo's father Wu Changgui.
Their bodies are probably in this forest.
For so many years, Poison Mountain has been a dangerous and forbidden place.
However, many Gu masters came here one after another and lost their lives in Yunzhong Village.
Once they die, they provide corpses for this forest of mummies.
At this time, the moon emerged from behind the clouds.
Under the quiet moonlight, it looked particularly scary and evil.
Suddenly there was a gust of wind.
The cane swings.
The mummies also swayed together.
Adding a bit of a scary atmosphere.
My heart was in my throat.
I always feel like these hanging mummies will suddenly open their eyes and break the vines...
"hey-hey!"
Children's voices sounded from all directions.
The laughter sounded extremely evil.
This kind of laughter scared me terribly.
Corpses and yin and yang matters are not my specialty.
The black dog barked immediately.
The black raccoon cat also made a sound.
"Are people laughing, or are the undead laughing? Or corpses?" I asked Gu Xia quickly.
"I have no idea."
Gu Xia shook his head.
"Tea Lady, Tea Lady, where are you?" I shouted loudly.
"I'm over here."
The tea lady responded.
I followed the sound and walked over.
The tea girl stopped in front of a cave, her whole body wrapped very tightly, and the black scales on her face glowed with a strange light.
"Tea Girl, have you caught that little zombie?"
I asked with concern.
The tea lady laughed, pointed to the cave, and said, "The little zombie is inside the cave."
"Did he make the mummy hanging from the camellia tree?" I asked.
The tea girl nodded and said, "Yes. They should be the people who died in the Poison Mountain. I heard that there is a Corpse King in the Poison Mountain. Why didn't he stop the little zombie? Have you seen the Corpse King?"
I thought about it carefully.
The son and daughter of Corpse King Yun Kunlun all died in the disaster.
Therefore, he dotes on his children very much.
The little zombie ran into the poisonous mountain and picked up some corpses.
Yun Kunlun is allowed.
Didn't interfere with him.
"The Corpse King likes children, so he lets the little zombies pick up some corpses. Once a person dies in the wild, there is no difference between the corpse and a stone."
I said.
Gu Xia looked at the tea girl with a strange look and asked: "Tea Girl, when did you get here? I remember you were not facing this direction. Why did you suddenly ask about the Corpse King?"
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"I'm worried that the Corpse King will support this little zombie."
The tea lady laughed and responded.
Then, the tea girl said to me: "How about you go in and take a look and find out the details about the little zombie."
I looked toward the entrance of the cave, and it was pitch black inside.
Suddenly, a pair of green eyes opened, and a frightening light emitted from the darkness.
My heart was beating fast and my palms were sweaty.
I kept taking a few steps back, feeling that it was particularly vicious, as if it wasn't eyes that a corpse should have.
"Who are you? I am Camellia Cave Dongsheng, and I am also somewhat related to Yunzhong Village. Why do you want to take people here to raise corpse insects?"
I mustered up the courage to shout.
Just then, I heard another "hehe" laughter.
This laughter did not come from inside the cave.
But it sounded outside the cave.
Gu Xia then shouted: "Young man, this tea girl is fake."