There was no interesting place in the wooden house, so Yan Yan wandered around and came to the patio.
There is no place to pass around the pool under the patio, so they often avoid this pool when entering or leaving the wooden house.
The aunt always takes them directly back to the guest compartment. This is the first time that Yan Yan takes a closer look at the pool.
The inside of the pool was a little turbid, and there was black mud at the bottom. There was no ventilation in the wooden house, and there were no ripples on the water in the pool.
As Yan Yu got closer, the fragrance from the candle became more intense.
Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the lampstand was not a candle, but lamp oil.
The lamp oil was turbid, and there were oil stains on the lampstand that looked like black mud, just like the water in the pool.
Yan Yan looked at the pool in surprise.
It turns out that there is lamp oil all in front of here.
No wonder she had never seen anyone add a lamp, and this lamp had never been extinguished.
"So much lamp oil." Yan Yan looked at the pool strangely.
Unlike burning lamp oil, the lamp oil in the pool has a very strange smell.
I can't tell if it's a fishy smell or a burning smell.
Yan Yan leaned close to the lamp oil in the pool and smelled the smell inside carefully.
"Wouldn't the burning corpse oil smell better?"
A sudden sound frightened Yan Yan so much that he almost fell into the pool, but Bai Zhu wrapped his arms around his waist and pulled him up.
"Is this corpse oil?" Yan Yan asked.
Bai Zhu nodded: "Can't you see?"
"I've never burned a corpse." Yan Yan curled his lips.
"The lamp oil in the everlasting lamp is made from the corpse oil of human corpses. The strange aroma produced by burning can solidify the soul." Bai Zhu explained.
Yan Yan suddenly realized.
Under the daylight, Qianhu Village looks like a deserted city.
In the entire village, only Yan and Yan could be seen walking on the street.
"What did you do just now?" Yan Yan asked casually.
Bai Zhu said: "Judge Wen is looking for me."
Yan Yan raised his eyebrows: "Don't he always come to me when he has something to do?"
"It's something that happened during my lifetime," Bai Zhu said.
Yan Yu didn't ask any more questions. They were living people and they were most taboo about asking about things during their lifetimes.
When they were walking in the village, the smell of living people was most obvious.
Yan Yan and Bai Zhu followed the breath of living people to the wooden house in the village closest to the back mountain hot spring.
Listen carefully, there are sounds of people moving around in this wooden house.
Yan Yan stepped forward and knocked on the door.
The sound of movement inside suddenly stopped. The two waited for a while, but still no one came to open the door.
"Are you pretending that no one is there?" Yan Yan raised his eyebrows.
"Maybe the people in the room didn't hear it," Bai Zhu said calmly.
"Haven't you heard this? I almost broke the door." Yan Yan was speechless.
Suddenly, Bai Zhu held one of her wrists and pulled her aside.
As soon as he hid his body, the door of the wooden house opened.
Just as Yan Yan wanted to speak, Bai Zhu covered his mouth.
It was the middle-aged man who came out of the wooden house. He had a drum tied to his body and held drumsticks in both hands.
"We'll follow."
The middle-aged man didn't know where he was going. He knocked the drum head from time to time with the drumstick in his hand and walked around, as if he was looking for something.
Then we arrived at the hot spring in the back mountain. Instead of entering the cave, we walked around the cave and walked back.
Yan Yan quickly followed and saw Bai Zhu stopped.
She asked: "What's wrong?"
Bai Zhu whispered: "The dead body is over there."
Sure enough, when Yan Yan saw the middle-aged man, he found that he was looking for a dead body.
"You are finally back." The middle-aged man touched the dead body.
Only then did Yan Yu realize that this middle-aged man was blind.
"I won't force you anymore, come back with me." The middle-aged man said to the motionless corpse.
Then the drums were beaten, and amid the sound of the drums, the dead body suddenly stood up, and then followed the middle-aged man away from the place.
"It turned out to be his dead body. I was very sentimental and did not kill the exorcist."
There is a foot of space under the wooden house.
The dead body followed the middle-aged man back to the wooden house and lay down in the gap.
After the middle-aged man put the dead body in, he turned around and returned to the wooden house. Yan Yan was standing in front of him.
Not only did he not see Yan Yan, he didn't even hear her footsteps.
"Could he still be deaf?" Yan Yan's voice was neither loud nor soft.
But even standing next to the middle-aged man, he didn't hear it.
"Hey." Yan Yan pulled the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man froze in place and murmured: "So fast..."
"What's so fast?" Yan Yan asked.
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment and asked: "Who are you?"
"I've been living in your village for two days, and you still don't know?"
The middle-aged man didn't respond to Yan Yu's words, but stretched out his hand to touch Yan Yu's body.
Bai Zhu pulled Yan Yan behind him, stretched out his hand and wrote on his palm.
The middle-aged man felt the words on his hand and asked doubtfully: "There is no one in the stockade, how come you live in the stockade?"
"Yes, they dance in the open space to the east at night, and you play the drums for them."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man opened his mouth and finally said: "It turns out it was them who was talking."
"I'm afraid you two are not simple people, are you? We have noticed something strange in our village, right?"
Yan Yu was written stroke by stroke on the middle-aged man's hand.
"Why did the corpses in your village suddenly occupy the magpie's nest and kill the person who kept the corpses?"
After finishing writing, the middle-aged man looked puzzled.
Yan Yan was even more confused: "Can't we talk about this?"
Bai Zhu wrote the question Yan Yu asked again to the middle-aged man.
"Doves occupy the magpie's nest? Do you think it's the dead bodies that killed us?" the middle-aged man replied.
Yan Yan choked.
It turned out that the middle-aged man couldn't understand what she wrote.
"That's not the case. We want to extract the souls of the dead corpses and return them to them." The middle-aged man shook his head.
In a village not far from Qianhu Village.
At the beginning of the year, swarms of brain-eating insects suddenly appeared in that village.
Caught off guard, before the villagers in the village could react, all the dead bodies raised in the village were eaten clean by brain-eating insects.
The swarm of bugs ate not only the brains, but the entire dead body.
After that, the entire Yuanxi began to drive away those brain-eating bugs, but those bugs came inexplicably and disappeared suddenly.
Later, brain-eating insects appeared one after another in the village where Yuanxi raised corpses. They took precautions and would not let the corpses be wiped out like they did in the first village.
But only 30% of the dead bodies left in the village were the remains of limbs eaten by brain-eating insects.
The group of brain-eating insects has not yet appeared in Qianhu Village, but they don't know when those insects will appear.
So they decided that instead of letting the dead bodies be eaten by brain-eating insects, they should take care of the dead bodies themselves.
"Then why are all the villagers dead now, but the dead bodies are still alive like living people?"
"The villagers use sun fire to let the dead body experience the final life in the earth."
When raising corpses, the corpse keeper will become one with the soul of the corpse.
The Yuanxi people are able to raise corpses, perhaps because they are born with feelings for dead bodies.
Let the soul of the dead body escape from them, and the dead body will never stand up again.
After decades of raising dead bodies, how could they be willing to let them go at once? So, the villagers decided to let the dead bodies live another life in the world before leaving them completely.
"So that's it." Yan Yan lowered his eyes.
She misunderstood those dead bodies.
No wonder they sing and dance every night, even if they can't taste the food, they still cook it.
This is the last time they will stay in the earth.
"You two have great supernatural powers, but can you save me, Yuan Xi?" the middle-aged man asked with hope.
Yan Yan pursed his lips, and Bai Zhu wrote the word "no" on the middle-aged man's hand.
They are impermanent, ghosts from the underworld, and cannot meddle in the affairs of the human world.
All that can be done is to bring the departed soul of the dead body back to the underworld.
"That's it." The middle-aged man smiled, with a look of disappointment that couldn't be concealed in his eyes.
"Why do brain-eating insects appear in Yuanxi?" The researcher asked curiously, "I remember that there is a Yuanhe River, so the brain-eating insects cannot come here."
Here in Yuanxi, the eggs of brain-eating worms cannot hatch and die before they become adults.
The adults can only live elsewhere, but there is the Yuan River around Yuanxi, trapping the brain-eating insects outside Yuanxi.
The middle-aged man shook his head: "I don't know, but this is the only time in thousands of years that swarms of brain-eating worms have appeared in our Yuanxi."
"That time?" Yan Yan was confused.
The middle-aged man nodded and sighed: "It is said that there is a vision from the sky, but if it is also a vision from the sky this time, the world will be in chaos."
"Vision, what kind of vision?" Yan Yan asked Bai Zhu in a low voice.
"The yin and yang are reversed, but lightning and thunder appear in the clear sky. The day is like night, and the night is like day." Bai Zhu calculated, "It should have happened seven hundred years ago. You have no memory?"
Yan Yan frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head: "I may not even remember what happened a hundred years ago."
Bai Zhu said calmly: "To put it bluntly, in those years when all life was in ruins, I captured tens of millions of souls to become Bai Wuchang."
"Oh!" Yan Yan said in shock, "Then this time..."
"Not necessarily. This time is different from what happened seven hundred years ago. The appearance of brain-eating worms in Yuanxi may also be man-made."
The middle-aged man could not hear a word of the conversation between the two, otherwise he would not have discovered after his death that the black and white voices were very similar to the voices of the man and woman in front of him.
Yan Yan and Bai Zhu asked in detail.
The dead body needs to be immobilized with a corpse oil lamp and must sleep in a stone house to prevent the body from decaying.
After their souls returned to their bodies, their hearts could beat because their souls were stained with the Yang Fire of the Corpse Keeper. After that trace of Yang Fire burned out.
Out of the three souls and seven souls of the dead body, only one soul remains, which becomes a ghost floating in the world, and the body of the dead body will rot and turn into bones within an hour.
However, the life and death in the book of life and death in the underworld have been fixed. If they want the dead body to look like a living person, they must replace the life span and soul of the person who raised the corpse at the same time.
At the bottom of the Yuan River are the villagers of Qianhu Village. They temporarily soak their bodies in the water of the Yuan River to trap their bodies and souls.
When the dead bodies turn into bones, they can emerge from the bottom of the water.
And their life span will be cut in half.
Those villagers who are over forty or fifty years old may lose their longevity after coming out of the water.
The reason why the middle-aged man did not replace the dead body at the bottom of the Yuan River was because the dead body lost control and left Yuanxi not long ago.
It just so happened that a corpse keeper was needed to be left in the village to help the corpse control its body.
"Then Yuan Xi's dead bodies will all disappear?" Yan Yan said sadly.
She still remembered the zombie possessed by Qingmian, who was as cute as Qingmian...