"Xiu'er, can you tell me, what is that monster?" Perhaps, the monster is the only clue to solve this mystery, and the current predicament may be solved.
"Third brother, why are you asking about monsters again?" Xiu'er's eyes showed uneasiness, but it quickly flashed away. She asked in confusion: "I told you just now, it was too dark last night, I
Didn’t see anything clearly”
An Yueze felt uncomfortable, "Xiu'er, I am your third brother. There are no outsiders now. Is there anything you can't tell me?"
When the third brother knew about Xiu'er, he felt uneasy and even his palms were sweating. The third brother's eyes were as sharp as knives. Nothing could escape his eyes. If it had been in the past, Xiu'er would have been very happy. After all, the third brother was in
Only when you care about her will you find out that she has something on her mind. But now, if she tells her, it will hurt Xiao Zongzi. She doesn't want blood to be poured out on him, and the peach wood sword to be inserted into his heart.
"Third brother, can you not tell others?" It was a matter of life and death, and she was afraid that she would no longer be able to hide the little zongzi.
Her nervous expression, worry, uneasiness, and guilt flashed in her eyes, all falling in An Yueze's eyes. In her heart, she was afraid, afraid that he would hurt the monster?
With mixed feelings in his heart, An Yueze felt bitter. Xiu'er had been the one he needed to keep since he was a child. When she was just born, she was so weak that she cried in his arms with tears streaming down her face, like a fragile baby.
It hurt so much that it hurt her heart. Later, Tie Banxian's words were like a curse, accompanying her as she grew up. Apart from the cold eyes and ridicule of the villagers, she had no friends. When she was wronged, she would only hide in his arms and quietly wipe the corners of her eyes.
And now, she also has someone to protect
Does she no longer need him? Has she learned to shield others from the wind and rain...
An Yueze sighed quietly, smiled at Xiu'er and said, "As long as Xiu'er believes in me, I promise not to tell the third person."
"Actually...actually, there is a zombie in our village." Xiu'er pinched the corner of her clothes nervously, fearing that her words would be too harsh, so she hurriedly explained: "It's a zombie child, it won't hurt people."
"Zombies?" An Yueze was stunned. How many zombies were there in the village?
Xiu'er nodded
"Are you crazy?" An Yueze was anxious and couldn't help but said angrily: "Zombies have lost their humanity and bite you when they see people. Now even the father who gave birth to us and raised us has turned into a bloodthirsty monster.
, why are you still so confused?"
An Yueze was simply mad. Is Xiu'er crazy or too innocent to make a joke? He pulled her over and looked at her carefully: "Did he hurt you?" Dad had been bitten.
, if Xiuer is bitten again, this family will be destroyed.
"No." An Yueze's temperament has always been calm and calm. Xiu'er has never seen him so excited, and immediately said nervously: "Third brother, believe me. Not only did Xiao Zongzi never hurt me, but he did it several times."
Uncle Bing tried to bite me that night after he saved me, but he came to save me."
Worried that An Yueze wouldn't believe it, Xiu'er nodded desperately, "Third brother, believe me. It was really him who saved me. I was almost bitten to death by Uncle Bing. If it weren't for him, I would never see Third Brother again."
Little Zongzi? An Yueze frowned, "Where did the little zombie come from?"
Xiu'er lowered her head, "I...I brought it back from the ancient tomb."
An Yueze thought he heard wrongly, "Ancient tomb?"
"That time when I went to collect herbs with my father, the rope broke and I fell off the cliff. Fortunately, I fell into the lake and did not fall to death. When I came out of the lake, I climbed along the mountain and took shelter in a ruined temple deep in the mountain.
Rain, thunder and lightning smashed the Buddha statue to pieces. Under the Buddha statue was actually the entrance of an ancient tomb. I walked in along the tomb passage and found a sound in the coffin. There was an incorruptible female corpse and a living baby inside. At that time, I thought it was a dead corpse giving birth to a child.
I didn’t know he was a zombie, so I took him out and found out the next day that he was a zombie. I was so scared that I threw him away, but he followed me like a shadow and couldn’t get rid of me. That night I was there
When I encountered wolves in the forest, he saved me and killed them."
"So you took him home?" An Yueze felt it was unreasonable.
"I didn't want to, but he kept following me. I was afraid that he would scare people if he stayed at home, so I sent him to Lanruo Temple within a few days. Since then, he has been staying at Lanruo Temple and rarely comes to our house.
of"
An Yueze couldn't laugh or cry, "Did he give those food as a gift?" There are really many wonders in this world.
"Yeah," Xiu'er said unnaturally, "He gave it to me."
"He really didn't bite?"
"He doesn't suck blood," Xiu'er said with certainty, "He doesn't eat air, I mean, he absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon, and he's not interested in blood. Third brother, believe me, he is so kind. He usually wouldn't even let go of an ant."
He burned the bodies of Uncle Bing, Uncle Cai, and Grandpa Xu because he was afraid that they would turn into zombies and hurt me."
An Yueze was thoughtful, and then said after a while: "Since he is a zombie, he must be able to sense the existence of the same kind. The troublesome thing for us now is that besides dad, I don't know how many zombies there are in the village. Although there are mom and second brother,
I'm checking, but time is too tight. Maybe at this time, the zombie blood-sucking thing has already happened. Since he can find Yizhuang and burn the body, he can definitely help us find the zombie Xiu'er lurking in the village. Please ask him to do a favor.
?”
Xiu'er shook her head, "Third brother, it's not that I disagree with Xiao Zongzi. Although he won't hurt me, he is an evil thing after all. I was afraid that he would encounter a zombie, so I rushed up and burned him. In fact, last night, he discovered that his father was a zombie.
,If I hadn’t stopped him several times, I would have almost attacked Dad."
"Can you bring him to see me?" The little zombie seemed to listen to Xiu'er's words. Even if he wanted to do something to his father, for Xiu'er's sake, he didn't do it. If the method is right, he should be able to take advantage of the zombie.
advantage, using zombies to defeat zombies
"He is afraid of light and only dares to come out at night." Xiu'er hesitated and said with some worry: "What if he hurts the villagers who were bitten by the zombies?"
"Let's just think of a way to prevent him from hurting anyone." An Yueze left Yizhuang with Xiu'er. "The official business of the Yamen is coming soon. If the body is found missing and we are at the scene again, we will probably jump to the Yellow River."
I can’t even clean it”
As soon as the front foot arrived home, Su Huiru and An Qixian also came back. They looked solemn and said, "I don't know if it's good news or bad news. We went door to door and found nothing unusual for the time being."
Seeing everyone's serious expressions and worried faces, An Yueze couldn't help but comfort him: "Maybe we thought too much. Uncle Bing only bit Uncle Cai and Master Xu."
Su Huiru looked gloomy, "I had a few chats with Lao Bing's wife and children, but I didn't find any scars on her neck. I guess Lao Bing was still conscious at the time and was unwilling to hurt his family, so he ran out to bite others, right?"
Lao Bing stayed out all night last night. She was worried and angry, scolding him for wandering off somewhere. If she knew that Lao Bing was dead, she would be very sad."
Her hands couldn't help shaking, and the water in the cup rippled
An Yueze knew that she was worried about her father, so he did not dare to talk about it any more. He just pretended to be confident and said: "There are so many capable people and strange people in the world. We will find a way to restore my father to his original state."
Su Huiru thought for a while, "I once knew a Taoist priest when I was young. It is said that he was very famous for catching zombies. The people called him Zombie Taoist Priest. But at that time, I didn't believe that there were zombies in the world at all, and my family was safe, so I kept letting them go.
In my mind, the zombie Taoist priest lives in Qishan. It’s very far away from here. It’s estimated to take about ten days to go back and forth. Lao San, I want you to take your dad there. Your dad just turned into a zombie. If you have time, maybe you can still
There is a glimmer of hope”
"Mom, why don't you let the second brother take dad over? I'll stay and check if there are any zombies in the village." There is a little zombie in the village, so Xiuer is left alone. He is not worried at all. If there are other lurking zombies in the village, Xiuer will not be there either.
Ways to deal with it
Su Huiru thought that the third child had always been calm in doing things. If something happened to the village, he would be able to deal with it.
After discussion, it was unanimously decided that Su Huiru and An Qixian would take An Dalang to Fishan Mountain to find the zombie Taoist Priest, while An Yueze and Xiu'er would stay in the village to resolve potential dangers.
As the sun set and dusk fell, Su Huiru took An Dalang on the road. Afraid of being discovered, she specially made him a cloak to cover the ropes tied to his body and the fangs that were exposed from time to time.
After An Dalang left, Xiu'er and An Yueze had been waiting at home, but little zongzi never showed up.
Time can't stand to pass by, and the whole village is filled with panic. The biting and blood-sucking monster has made the villagers talk about it strangely, and the two corpses placed in the village have disappeared. After an investigation, the yamen official announced that the village
When a man-eating monster appeared, he said that he would report it and apply to send officers and soldiers to search the mountain. The government would capture the monster alive and do the work, which was slower than a tortoise crawling. He didn't know how long it would take to send troops to search the mountain. So as soon as these words were released, the villagers became more and more panicked, and at dusk
Shen Bian's door was locked, and he didn't even dare to let the smoke rise. He hid a kitchen knife under his pillow, which he used to deal with monsters in dangerous situations.
The little rice dumpling seemed to have disappeared. Xiu'er decided to go to Lanruo Temple. The mountain was high and the road was far away. There were many dangers on the road. An Yueze was worried that she would go alone and decided to go with her.
So, the two of them went to Lanruo Temple in the dark and climbed many mountains. They stood in front of the dilapidated temple and Xiu'er stopped and discussed with An Yueze: "Third brother, you wait here, I will go in and call him."
She told the third brother about the little zongzi without permission, and now she brought the third brother to see him without his consent. She didn't know if he would become violent, so it would be safer to discuss it with him first.
An Yueze knew what she was thinking and nodded in agreement. However, the temple was too shabby and dangerous, and it was not dark in the middle of winter. He was worried and said: "I'll wait outside, be careful yourself, and call me if anything happens."
Xiu'er carried a lantern and entered Lanruo Temple. Unexpectedly, the temple was empty. Not to mention the rice dumplings, not even a single rice dumpling hair could be found. Unwilling to give up, she searched twice more, but still couldn't find it. She called him several times, but there was no one.
In response, Xiu'er was a little panicked. In the past, as soon as she came, he would immediately jump out and hug her thigh. Sometimes when he sensed her coming, he would go to the foot of the mountain to pick her up. Now she almost screamed, and he couldn't help but scream.
Not even a ghost appeared, could something have happened?
An Yueze heard her voice outside the temple and guessed that things were not going well, so he walked in immediately and said, "Xiu'er, the little zombie isn't here?"
"Well, I wonder where he went." Xiu'er kept touching the mural wall, wanting to see if the little rice dumpling was in the alien space on the other side of the wall. She was so happy that she forgot to come back, but the wall was hard.
, she can’t even touch a fingernail, let alone come and go freely like a little zongzi.
Xiu'er's weird behavior made An Yueze feel strange, "What are you doing?"
"Little Zongzi said that there is another world on the other side of the wall. He would often run there and bring me fruit several times." Where did he go, little Zongzi? Did he know that the third brother was coming, and then hid?
Didn't see him when he got up? Or maybe he killed three of his own kind, causing public outrage in the corpse world, and was being hunted by his zombie kind, so he rushed to escape for his life?
"Another world?" Isn't Xiuer in Arabian Nights? Is there another world in this world? Is it heaven or hell?
He reached out and touched the wall. The wall was still the wall, nothing changed.
Returning empty-handed from Lanruo Temple, Xiu'er felt unspeakable disappointment and worry in her heart. Seeing that she had been silent and not speaking, An Yueze also felt an inexplicable loss in his heart. He put his arm around her shoulders and walked forward together, "Don't worry.
I don’t know how powerful he is, nothing will happen to him."
Xiu'er forced a smile and took the third brother's kind hand.
After returning home, Xiu'er went to the room to see Zongzi. An Yueze cut a mahogany sword for self-defense, and made a mahogany dagger for Xiu'er to take with her. It was zombie activity time in the evening, and An Yueze planned to go out for a walk.
Go shopping. If there are zombies in the village, they will definitely come out and move around.
Xiu'er was worried that the third brother would go out alone, so she hurried to the kitchen to get some garlic and insisted on staying with him for free, saying that she would be afraid if a zombie broke into the house!
An Yueze was worried whether to take him or not. After some consideration, An Yueze decided to take Xiu'er out together. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened the door, two stumbling figures rushed in and bumped into An Yueze. An Yueze was knocked back a few steps.
Busily reaching out to hold the stumbling figure
Under the bright moonlight, when he saw the face of the uninvited guest clearly, he said in surprise: "Mom, second brother, why are you back?"
Xiu'er looked at the gate and saw it was empty. She couldn't help but wonder: "Where is dad?"
An Yueze and Xiu'er helped them into the house. Su Huiru and Qi Xian sat down at the table. They were panting and covered in sweat. She went to the kitchen and brought two bowls of water. They lit a kerosene lamp in the hall and felt dizzy.
The shadow of the flame swayed on Su Huiru's neck. Xiu'er glanced at it unintentionally, and immediately shook her hand, and the two bowls of water fell to the ground and shattered.
"What's wrong with Xiu'er?" The water was a little hot. An Yueze quickly pulled her and looked at her burned hand, "Why are you so careless? Does it hurt?"
"Blood..." Xiu'er's face turned pale, and she pointed at Su Huiru's neck with trembling fingers, "There is blood..."