Volume Two, Dusty Memories, Chapter 40, The Undead City
Just a second before Grandpa Grandpa's consciousness was about to collapse, the gold-encrusted black knife on his waist began to shine faintly. Although the light was dim, if you look carefully, you can definitely find the rune. The place where the rune appears is not just
It was on the black knife inlaid with gold, and even the great-grandfather's shoulder slowly showed that pattern. This
The pattern is the one on Jiuye's carriage. It is square. The pattern in it is weird and unpredictable. It is only at this moment that I can see it clearly. The pattern is composed of straight short lines, which actually form a picture. In the picture, one line
The flying dragon goes upstream, and below is the rolling river. On both sides of the river are flowers and leaves.
It was a close call between life and death, but in the end, my life was saved. Although my great-grandfather saved his life, he felt as if a piece of flesh had been cut out from the back of his neck.
"Foolish people have good luck." The girl didn't say much, took out another bag of stuff and sprinkled a lot of it on the back of my great-grandfather's neck.
Grandpa Grandpa had just endured the pain. The cloth in his mouth was almost chewed to pieces, and red blood oozed from his teeth. After the girl sprinkled the bag of stuff, she took out the rag from Grandpa Grandpa's mouth.
"What are you doing?" Grandpa asked as soon as he opened his mouth, but his mouth was too hard and it was a bit stiff.
"What are you doing? Do you know this?" The girl smiled softly and held the sharp knife in front of Grandpa Grandpa's eyes. The Grandpa was so frightened that he shrank back, fearing that the sharp knife would hurt him.
After the great-grandfather calmed down, he realized that the sharp knife in the girl's hand actually had a small human face on it. It was only half the size of a palm, but it had a mouth and a nose and was screaming incessantly. The hair was disheveled and dripping with blood.
Even more terrifying.
"What on earth is this?" Grandpa looked at it with panic in his heart, but he also wanted to know what this thing in front of him was.
"Look carefully, don't you recognize this face?" The girl deliberately teased the great-grandpa and put the little face in front of the great-grandpa.
"I don't know." Great-grandpa already felt sick to his stomach. Anyone who looked at this thing would be disgusted.
"Don't look? If you don't look, I'll let you eat it." The girl pinched my great-grandpa's cheek and opened his mouth.
"Let me see, let me see." Grandpa knew that this girl could not do what she said, so he could only compromise quickly.
This time the great-grandpa could only take a closer look. It didn’t matter if he didn’t look. This sight almost scared the great-grandpa to death. The pain just now had scared the great-grandpa to death, but this time it even drained the great-grandpa’s face.
With blood on his face, he pointed at the face and said tremblingly: "This...this is my second mother, how could she become like this?"
"I have to ask you that."
"What are you asking me for?" Great-Grandpa asked timidly, thinking that he was not here to take revenge on me, right?
"Did you kill her?"
"No." He couldn't admit this kind of thing even if he lived or died, and Grandpa Grandpa had already made up his mind.
"Lie, let me eat her!"
"Yes, yes, yes. She was stabbed to death by me."
"What else did you do to her?"
"At that time, there was a fire, and she was inexplicably left with only a skin. I used her to cover my body to escape the disaster."
"That's all?"
"Yes, that's all." As soon as my great-grandfather finished speaking, he remembered a small detail from before.
"You should be remembering something again."
"Her skin has been splattered with zombie blood, does that count?"
"That's it, this thing is called a corpse-faced doll." After the girl said this, she threw the human face on the ground and stepped on it hard.
"Ah..." The shrill female voice didn't shout for long before it stopped abruptly, leaving only a fishy smell that made people sick. The girl slowly moved her feet away, and saw only a pool of black blood and messy...
hair.
"What is a corpse-faced doll?" My great-grandfather moved his neck and saw something falling from his neck. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be scaly black jade.
"The corpse-faced doll can still retain blood after the zombie is alienated. It is not so much the blood as the resentment of the zombie. The resentment is so strong that it turns into black blood, and the black blood contaminates the female corpse. Add yin to yin, and this thing will be born.
, it’s fine if no one touches it, but once someone touches it at all, the corpse-faced doll will gluttonously eat the yang energy and burrow into the human body. If you put on that human skin, the corpse-faced doll will naturally burrow into your neck.
It’s rooted.”
"Did you pick this thing from the back of my neck?" Although my great-grandfather had already guessed it, hearing it from other people's mouths still made me feel uncomfortable.
"Otherwise? You should have felt it. From that day on, you always felt hair on the back of your neck, but there was nothing there when you touched it with your hands."
"Yes." My great-grandfather remembered that he used to feel an itch on the back of his neck, but nothing would happen when he scratched it.
"That's it. The corpse-faced doll has already grown hair, and it's inside your body. It's weird if it doesn't itch."
"This thing will grow up by eating human blood?" Grandpa swallowed hard. No matter who had this kind of thing growing in his body, he would feel uncomfortable.
"It will be eaten, but it's not her mouth that eats it, but her hair. A corpse-faced doll is born with one hair, but once it's born, it will be two, two, four, four, eight, and then it will be endless. And the longer the hair, the more
As it grows, people will eat more and more, and in the end they will be sucked dry by this hair.
Essence and blood. A person only has a skin, and his hair is all over his body. At that time, people are just the skin of a corpse-faced doll, and the corpse-faced doll will use the skin to look for the next host." The girl said lightly.
He said, as if this kind of thing has been taken for granted.
"Sister, please look at my neck for me. Why do I still feel itchy?"
"If you have obsessions in your heart, you will naturally have feelings in your body." The girl wiped the sharp knife on her great-grandfather's body, and then put it away.
"Oh, don't rub it on me. This thing is so disgusting."
"Disgusting? This thing was dug out from your neck. Now you find it disgusting." The girl rolled her eyes, seeming to be dissatisfied with her grandpa's accusation.
"Then you'd better take a look at it for me and see if it's all clean?"
"If you talk any more, I'll cut out your tongue." The girl's eyes narrowed, and her grandfather was so frightened that he quickly covered his mouth.
"Can I ask a few more questions?"
"Say." This girl is really decisive and decisive in her words and actions.
"Why is there this black jade on the back of my neck?"
"Idiot, this thing is made of black jade. If there are unclean things on your body, evil things will be trapped by the black jade if you sleep on it."
"Oh, then this is Granny Li Yan's arrangement?"
"I don't know." The girl didn't even think about it, but she was clearly lying.
"Why did you come to help me?"
"No answer."
"If you dig this thing out from the back of my neck, won't I bleed to death?"
"I gave you medicine."
"What kind of medicine?"
"Incense ash."
"..." Grandpa rolled his eyes and almost lost his breath.
"Not happy?"
"Can this thing stop bleeding? You could die." My great-grandfather really didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had never seen anyone using incense ash to stop bleeding.
"Are you dead?"
"No."
"That's it, okay, I have to go now that the matter is done." The girl clapped her hands, turned around and left.
"Thanks."
"I would like to ask what the name of this village is?"
"How do you know?" Grandpa Grandpa was shocked. How could this girl know everything with the same virtue as Li Yan?
"Remember, this is called the Immortal City, and don't run around."
"Why are you telling me this?" Grandpa shouted as he watched the girl walk further and further away.
"Because no one can take this secret out." The girl's figure had disappeared into the darkness, and behind the cold back, Grandpa felt an unspeakable sadness. (To be continued)