Heavy objects hit the ground one after another, and the quilt arched behind the railing shivered. Under the quilt, Sun Zhengde huddled up, his teeth chattering up and down.
He stretched out his hand to open a gap, and what he saw in his narrow field of vision was a pair of feet wearing black longevity shoes, jumping up stiffly, and then falling heavily with a stiff body, making a muffled sound.
"It's... it's a corpse..."
Sun Zhengde's lips were trembling, and the obscene clothes he wore under his Taoist robe were soaked with cold sweat. His hands and feet were pressed against his belly, and he did not dare to move. He kept reciting the Demon Exorcism Sutra of the Tianshi Sect.
I was hoping that my boss would wake up and rescue him.
"Not...not..."
It was as if a voice from the underworld was lingering outside the quilt. The fat Taoist was so frightened that he closed his eyes, covered his ears tightly, and held back his breath. The stuffy quilt felt cold at the moment.
Boom~boom~
The sound of heavy objects hitting the ground seemed to ring in a circle around the quilt. For a moment, the hall became quiet. The fat Taoist slowly opened his eyes, let go of his hands and listened to the noise outside.
It was so quiet that only breathing could be heard.
'Lie back in the coffin?'
He swallowed his saliva, opened a slit, and looked outside with his eyes close to the ground. There was no jumping figure anymore. However, he did not dare to be careless. Sun Zhengde wiped the cold sweat on his fat face and turned under the quilt.
He stood up and stretched out his hand to lift up the quilt on this side.
A gap opened very slowly at the corner.
What caught his eye was a head wearing a longevity hat lying on the ground with a gloomy expression.
A pair of gray eyes looked straight at him, and a Ruoyouruowu voice called out in a sinister tone.
"Got you."
“Ahhhhh——”
The fear reached the extreme, it was hysterical madness. Suddenly frightened, every pore in Sun Zhengde's body instantly expanded, and every hair on his body stood upside down.
He immediately lifted up the quilt, jumped out from it, and ran towards where his employer lived.
"My boss! My boss!"
I threw myself into the darkness, only to find an empty floor with no one there at all.
‘Did you sense the danger and run away first?’ The fat Taoist touched the crazy old man’s side again, but there was still no one there. At this time, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground behind him had already jumped from that side.
Getting closer.
Sun Zhengde casually grabbed the wooden pillow and threw it over. He ran towards the coffin from the other side of the railing. In the dim candlelight, the stiff figure jumped up and followed him. He jumped ten feet and closed the distance instantly.
"There are a lot of people in the inn, why are you chasing me alone?"
The fat Taoist was almost about to cry. Seeing the corpse catching up with him again, he hurriedly circled the coffin. If it was left, the Taoist would go to the right. If it was to the right, the Taoist would go to the left.
After tossing back and forth several times, his legs were shaking. The corpse seemed angry and jumped over the coffin with a sudden jump. The moment his stiff arms poked him, the fat Taoist dragged his fat body and nimbly rushed to the door, knocking
He fell out against the threshold.
He rolled up and climbed up, using all his strength, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Get up, people from the inn, your master has faked the corpse——"
Then he looked back, screamed "Ah!", and ran forward with two thick legs.
The chasing corpse jumped, but its toes hit the high threshold and fell to the ground with a loud thud.
At this time, candles were lit in the room near the backyard of the inn. The store clerk held up an oil lamp and looked outside to take a look. He saw a corpse in a shroud standing straight up from the ground. He was so frightened that his face turned pale. He reacted and decisively killed
The lights were blown out and the window lattice was banged against.
"you……"
When the fat Taoist heard the sound of closing the window, his heart twitched. He turned around and saw the corpse jumping up and down in pursuit. He dared not talk too much. Sun Zhengde turned around and ran away. When he saw two horses and an ox in the shed in front,
His eyes fell on the big green bull with its back to him.
"Awesome... so awesome... help me block it for a while!"
The fat Taoist ran very fast with his feet, and with a clean sliding shovel, he slid directly between the old cow's hind legs and under its belly.
Moo~
The old cow turned back with drooped eyelids and glanced at the fat Taoist huddled under its belly. Then he looked at the jumping figure. His half-closed eyes suddenly widened. He stepped on the cow's hoof restlessly and let out a cry.
'Kill the old cow!'
In an instant, the leaping corpse landed directly outside the hay shed. Under his gray eyes, his nostrils cleared the nasal congestion, he straightened his body and leaned down, looking for the kneeling figure under Qing Niu, sniffing the fat buttocks raised.
Open your mouth slightly to reveal a pair of sharp long teeth.
The old cow was horrified, thinking that the corpse was chewing on it, so it raised its legs suddenly, and the cow's hooves kicked it out, and its huge hoofs covered the corpse's face heavily.
Bah——
The hoof prints covered the dull face, and the corpse flew out like a cannonball, hitting a wall of the main room with a bang, shaking the window lattice and the door frame.
Moo!
The green bull turned around, stamped its hooves twice, lowered its head, and rushed over. The next moment the corpse stood upright, its sharp horns pierced the corpse, and with a flick, the corpse was thrown high into the air.
The intestines flew to the ground, and the stench of blood immediately filled the courtyard.
"Great!" Sun Zhengde raised his thumb in surprise.
However, the corpse rolled around, stood upright again, turned to the direction of the cheers, and lunged towards the fat Taoist in the rolled-up thatched shed. The Taoist quickly shut up, ducked away from the shed pillar, and thrust his arms out, his fingertips deep.
He sunk deep into the wooden pillar and pressed his other hand directly on the Taoist's shoulder.
"Master, save me!"
The moment the sound fell, there was a series of soft sounds on the roof of the hall, and a figure stepped on the tiles through the darkness and rushed down the eaves. It fell in mid-air, and the rope in its hand was thrown out and wrapped around the neck of the corpse.
Under the eaves, Chen Yuan pressed the rope with two fingers and quickly wrote the talisman. Then he suddenly pulled his hand and shouted: "Come here!"
The rope was taut and glowed with a faint green light.
The neck of the corpse inserted into the wooden pillar was tightened and sunk into the flesh. In an instant, it was pulled back and flew two feet. It fell down and stood upright again. It faced the eaves and jumped towards Chen Yuan. Its lips opened wide and its fangs were exposed for a moment.
Chen Yuan pulled out three feet of dark wood from behind his waist and swiped it on the corpse's cheek. A fang flew out trailing a line of blood.
Above mid-air.
The old man in ragged clothes jumped down, covered the top of the corpse with his palm, and twisted it hard with his hand.
The soft click echoed in the courtyard.
In the light and shadow cast by the candlelight, the head was directly removed from the shadow cast on the ground. After a moment, the headless body fell to the ground with a bang.
The crazy old man tossed his head and played in his hands, then ran to the hay shed to show the fat Taoist, who quickly avoided it and went around to Chen Yuan's side.
"Boss, what are you doing here? Ben...I almost died..."
"Just watching from the rooftop."
Chen Yuan glanced around. In the squatting shed, the old cow was chewing hay lightly with half-closed eyes. It seemed that he had not moved his hands. When the owner glanced at it, he just let out a 'moo' sound.
"Go back to sleep."
Chen Yuan cast his eyes towards the inn over there and whispered to Sun Zhengde. Before, he looked through "Miscellaneous Mysteries of Huangchuan" to find the next place to go, but he saw a story in the "Anecdote" chapter.
'Something strange happened in Guangxian County. Suddenly one day, someone met a convoy carrying a coffin. He heard that an ancestor had died. No doubt about it. The next day, he heard that several people died suddenly at an inn in the county. The Yamen checked it and found that there was a coffin staying there.
, put it in the backyard. The Yamen people pursued it to the riverside, searched several large boats, and found a black coffin. They pried off the lid and found a woman with a face that looked like a living person, with a canine in her lips. They set her on fire, and the skin and flesh were destroyed.
The bones are bleeding, and everyone is horrified.'
After seeing this story, Chen Yuan thought of the convoy delivering the coffin, and immediately decided to hide in the room to see if it was consistent with the story. Sure enough, at midnight, she noticed a strong yin energy.
Through the cracks in the tiles, I saw the coffin lid open and the body jumping out.
'The two people watching the night should know that, so they left in the middle of the night.' He looked at the inn over there, and a suspicion gradually formed in his mind, 'These people may be raising corpses in this way...'
Unfortunately, there is no such method in the book, and it is probably necessary to find the root cause to make up for it.
Turn around.
Chen Yuan took the gray human head from his master and put it on the ground. He also took the remaining white wax, sealed the eyes of the corpse with wax water, and muttered something.
'If you hit my hand, there is no reason for you to leave alive.'
Thinking about this, Chen Yuan raised her head and suddenly threw it into the night sky, clapped her hands to greet the master who was still looking at the night, and went to sleep. There was still a long way to go tomorrow morning.
…
The night gradually passed.
In the town, the roosters cocked their necks toward the sun and crowed loudly. In the inn, the shopkeeper opened the door comfortably, but there was no waiter who had gotten up early to open the door. He went over and knocked on the door a few times, and it took a long time before he heard footsteps.
When the door opened, the waiter's face turned pale and his eyes were dark. When he saw the shopkeeper, he burst into tears and told him what happened last night.
The corpse got up?
That’s okay!
Over there, the shopkeeper's face turned frighteningly pale after hearing this. He quickly went to knock on the doors of the men who were stationed in the shop yesterday with his waiters, but no one opened the door for a long time. So the two of them worked together to open the door, and saw the three people inside with distorted faces.
, bleeding from his seven orifices and died on the bed.
The same thing happened in the other room. The two men in green who had been keeping vigil yesterday were sitting on the ground against the wall. Their eyes were bleeding and their faces were covered with tooth marks...
Hiss~~
The shopkeeper stumbled out, gasping for air, and let the waiter support him. He walked softly downstairs and walked to the backyard together. Far away, a headless body was lying in the main room. A head was placed next to the body, and his eyes were covered.
The wax water was poured, and even though the morning sun was shining brightly, this scene still looked strange and eerie.
"Where is the person who lives in this house?"
Afraid of another death, the shopkeeper mustered up the courage and took the waiter in to check. Except for the coffin lid, which was slanted on the ground, the floors on both sides were neatly stacked, there was no one there, and the bullock cart in the shed was long gone.
"Notify Li Zheng... report... report to the official..."
The shopkeeper sat down on the ground, shivering and muttering.
On the official road outside the town in the distance, the oxcarts were bathed in the golden morning sun, slowly creaking and raising dust.