Mass graves often appear in times of war or years of great famine.
During the eleven years of war, countless people died. Those who died were homeless, froze to death, starved to death, died of diseases, and died on the battlefield. Thousands of people died.
There are so many dead people that no one cares about, but they can't leave their bodies in the wilderness, so they basically gather all the dead people together and find a place to bury them. There may not even be a grave, and there may not be many people buried in one pit.
Well, dozens of them are not accurate.
During the three years of the Great Famine, many people died. At that time, every family was very poor, and the living people could not even eat enough to eat. The dead people could not afford coffin boards, so the dead people at that time used straw mats or
You might as well just bury it without anything else. At best, it would just have a grave.
There is a word called corpse transformation, which refers to two situations.
First, corpses buried mostly occurred in ancient times, especially in the Qing Dynasty. Most of the zombies seen by ordinary people were produced at that time, because at that time there were many Feng Shui Onmyoji masters and many techniques, and there were many ways to deal with people after death.
There are many ways to prevent corpses from decaying, and corpses that have not decayed will absorb Yin Qi, so the chances of zombies appearing in ancient times were very high.
Another type of death occurred in mass graves. There were many people who died at that time, and some of them might still be alive, but those who had no hope of recovery were all mixed together and buried.
If a person who is not completely dead when buried is left holding his breath before dying, there is a chance that he will undergo corpse transformation. In addition, there are many dead bodies nearby that will absorb Yin Qi and corpse energy, so the possibility of corpse transformation is greatly increased.
Xiang Que estimated that there used to be mass graves underneath these households, and some of the corpses buried underneath had mutated corpses. They had been dug out during the recent demolition after being buried underground for many years, and then the corpse gas eroded the corpses when they came out.
They are unwilling to move out, which is why they are completely conscious and only know how to bite people without any ability to act.
To be honest, this matter is a bit tricky, much more difficult than dealing with ghosts. Moreover, dealing with zombies that have transformed into corpses is not Gujingguan's special skill. It can be said that Xiang Que basically has no experience in this aspect.
Even though he has no experience, he has to bravely rush forward. He can't watch our brother Haonan get into trouble with this matter, so he must seize the time to deal with it.
Although he didn't have much experience in dealing with transformed zombies, Xiang Que also knew what methods worked. During the day, he asked Du Jinshi to take him to buy a bunch of things, including glutinous rice, black donkey hooves, seven date stones and
A piece of Bagua mirror.
Looking at the pile of things behind the car, Du Jinshi suddenly said: "Que, tell Brother Haonan that you bought these things just for fun, not for real use, right?"
"Why am I so free to buy this thing for fun?" Xiang Que said with a smile: "You understand what I mean. Do you know what the things I bought are used for?"
"Online novels all talk about this. To deal with zombies and black donkey hooves, glutinous rice and date cores are the most effective. Besides, I haven't read many books and I've seen a lot of movies. When I was a child, Lin Zhengying was the most popular in the village.
I have watched all of his movies when I was a kid. Do you think I would know what these things you bought are for?"
"It's good to know. You can come with me tonight and give me a try."
Du Jinshi became anxious and asked: "Brother, are you really sure that there are zombies in those nail households? This is too mysterious. How could there be such a thing in this bright new society?
If you say this, you will be criticized.”
"You don't know what I do. Can what I say be accurate?"
"You are not a Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain or Maoshan. Why are you pretending to be so mysterious? Brother, please tell me quickly that you are kidding me."
Xiang Que said seriously: "Whether you go or not, I will definitely go in the evening...Don't you say you are righteous? If you want to be embarrassed, just keep your eyes open for me at home, Brother Haonan?"
"I'm speechless. I'm really not a kind person. How did I end up with such a thing like you?" Du Jinshi looked up to the sky and sighed: "I am a general, not a pawn."
······At around nine o'clock in the evening, Toyota parked on the road outside the shanty town. Xiang Que took the frightened Du Jin to pick up the car and walked around the ruins behind the demolition households.
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When he came here at night, he immediately realized that the gloomy atmosphere of this place was obviously different from that during the day.
He didn't even see the residents, but he could feel the corpse air permeating the area.
"Which family has the smallest number of people? Can you find out for me?"
"The second household to the west is an old couple. Their children are out of town. They are in their late 70s and 80s." Du Jin said with a sigh, "Are you trying to pick the weakest person?"
"Let's go to their house." Xiang Que led Du Jinshi to the second house in the west. The doors and windows of this house were still closed, there was no light, and it looked like there was no one in the house.
Xiang Que asked Du Jinshi to pry open a gap in the window at the back of the room, then opened the window, turned over and jumped in: "You can stay guard outside, there is no need to follow you in."
Du Jinshi looked at the dark ruins behind him, and his calves were spinning. He also rolled into the house, feeling that it would be safer for him to follow Xiang Que.
After entering the house, the corpse smell became even stronger, and the smell was nauseating. Du Jinshi retched and almost vomited out all the food he had eaten at night.
The house is not big, with only three rooms. The place where the two of them entered is the kitchen, and further inside there are two bedrooms.
At this time, there was a "crack, bang, bang, bang" movement in the bedroom, accompanied by bursts of sucking sounds.
Du Jinshi asked confusedly: "Is it dinner or midnight snack at this time?"
"Shh, please be gentle." Xiang Que pulled him and gently pushed open the door in front. Through the crack in the door, the two of them saw two black figures squatting on the floor of the bedroom with their backs to them. The room was very dark.
Only the moonlight outside the window filtered in through the curtains, and the scene inside the house could barely be seen. The two black figures squatting on the ground seemed to be holding something in their hands and stuffing it into their mouths. It smelled faintly of blood.
Du Jinshi swallowed his saliva, pulled down Xiang Que's sleeve and pointed at the ground.
There were piles of variegated chicken feathers scattered on the ground. The feathers were bloody and still had meat on them, as if they had been plucked from the chicken when it was still alive.
As if they felt someone coming from behind, the two people squatting on the ground turned their heads at the same time.
The bloodshot eyes were still very thick in the deeply sunken eye sockets. There was a large amount of blood on the mouths of the two old men, and one of them was holding a chicken that had been chewed beyond recognition.
One of the chickens had a broken neck, and chicken blood was dripping from its neck. The old man looked at them and put the chicken with the broken neck to his mouth, and began to suck the blood from the chicken's neck as if no one was watching.
The old lady pulled a chicken thigh and brought it to her mouth, then chewed it. She ate very slowly and laboriously, and you could even see the chicken pieces falling from her mouth as she ate.