"It really worked! Knocked them all down... But, how did you do it? Did you rely on the dry powder from the fire extinguisher, or is there some mystery behind the ringtone?"
"Actually, we don't necessarily need dry powder fire extinguishers and fire alarm bells. It's just that we happen to have these two things here that can be used." Zhang Ke took a long breath and began to explain:
"I have discovered before that these walking zombies do not act spontaneously and attack us, but are controlled by someone hiding in the dark using a mysterious method to complete the most extreme tasks that can be done even with the lowest level of brain functioning.
Simple job.”
"Is that... the person who plays the flute?" Yuan Mengmeng suddenly realized that ever since these dying bodies started to move again, the sound of the flute that came from nowhere had never been interrupted. It was strange but strange.
Extraordinarily ethereal and melodious.
Naturally, everyone would directly associate the appearance of the zombies with the sound of the flute and the operator hiding in the dark.
"From my previous confrontations with them, I discovered that the sound of the flute can not only activate these dying corpses, but also command them to complete different actions and instructions according to different tunes and movements - although most of them are very primitive and simple.
We can't accomplish particularly delicate work, but when our numbers far outnumber us, we are almost invincible."
"I understand - that's why you want to find the alarm bell now, and use this piercing sound to cover up the weird flute sound, so that the zombies cannot continue to be finely controlled due to hearing impairment, right!" Yuan Mengmeng suddenly realized
.
"However, since the other party can control the walking corpse, it can also prevent us from going to the fire escape and pressing the alarm bell, so I threw you directly at the door there because you did not ring the alarm bell, but were just looking for weapons, and finally took them
A fire extinguisher came back, so the person hiding in secret did not stop it." Zhang Ke said:
"But have you ever thought about a question? Although that person can control the walking zombies with his voice, how does he determine my movement method and direction? After all, these walking zombies cannot observe and judge, and all move through his music.
.”
"Well... the most intuitive way is to watch, right? Hidden in a corner of the corridor that neither of us pays attention to, and watch our actions through something like a monitor? Then control it while playing the flute." Yuan Mengmeng
replied.
"I think this may be the best possibility. That's why I sprayed out a large amount of dry powder fire extinguishers to block everything he could see. He couldn't see our position and route of action, so he couldn't control the walking corpses to stop us.
I don’t know that we are taking advantage of the white fog to prepare to enter the fire escape again.” At this point, Zhang Ke stood up again:
"Because you have said before that the door from the fire escape to the downstairs is locked. Under normal circumstances, we should try other ways to escape, such as taking the normal stairs or taking the elevator, so after the white fog fills the air, he should
They controlled the zombies to move in batches and rush to these places to block the roads."
"But it was this mindset that gave us a chance to breathe, rushed into the fire escape again, and immediately pressed the alarm bell - but at this time, it was too late for him to send zombies to stop him!"
After saying this, Zhang Ke turned around, pointed at the figure walking in from the end of the fire escape through the layers of white fog, and said: "Your army of zombies has been destroyed, and now you are finally willing to come out.
——What is your purpose?"
"What a wonderful reasoning. You can actually resolve the dilemma so cleverly when both intelligence and force are against you. Zhang Ke, you are indeed the person I like."
The speaker clapped his hands gently, but there was no doubt that he had just seen his appearance before.
"Troy!" Zhang Ke blurted out, "What is going on? Why did you control those corpses to attack me? Were you the one who ordered Tan Xin to kill before? And - why did I return to this era?"
As for the last question, Zhang Ke himself didn't know whether "this" Troy in front of him could answer it, because if he guessed correctly, he seemed to have returned to his student days eight years ago, and the opportunity that triggered all this seemed to be
After a private conversation with Troy.
But if the person in front of him was Troy eight years ago, he probably wouldn't know about his time travel, so Zhang Ke just said this sentence casually.
"Zhang Ke, do you know about the Voodoo sect in Haiti?"
However, Troy did not directly answer Zhang Ke's question, but instead threw back a seemingly unrelated question.
"Voodoo? I have heard of it. It seems to be an indigenous religion in Haiti. Because the atmosphere is weird and evil, it is often regarded as evil witchcraft. And in fact, most of the things they do are like this, such as using it for curses.
Human voodoo dolls, and...making living people into controllable voodoo zombies." Zhang Ke said coldly.
"But isn't that just a legend after dinner?" Yuan Mengmeng asked puzzledly.
"Not entirely, although it is indeed exaggerated, but it does happen." Troy said with a smile, "There were also news reports before, saying that relatives who had been dead for many years wandered home again, and found that they had
My memory is very vague. I only remember that after being dug out of the coffin, I was manipulated by people who looked like priests to work on the plantation. I was not released until more than ten years later."
"These manipulated people are the so-called voodoo corpses. They are actually fed powder with complex neurotoxins. This poison can reduce their vital signs to a minimum, or even temporarily stop them and be sentenced to death.
." Troy introduced:
"Those priests who want to make voodoo corpses will select suitable subjects and secretly drug them in their meals. After their families think they are dead and buried, they will secretly pry open the coffin boards and let the subjects take a corresponding dose of antidote.
He can gradually recover after taking the medicine, and can regain a certain degree of mobility under special operations, but he has almost no consciousness of self-thinking and cannot make very fine movements."
"This is the so-called... walking dead." Gu Linlin thought of those enemies just now and muttered to herself.
"Although such a voodoo corpse has no intelligence and cannot do advanced labor, it is very useful if it is just used as a heavy agricultural laborer who is absolutely obedient and will never resist. So these ancient voodoo corpses have
Most of the technical priests live a very comfortable life and rely on planting manors to obtain property." Troy explained:
"It can be seen that in the entire process of making the voodoo corpse, there are no special supernatural fantasy magic elements. The most critical part is just the preparation of the powder that can produce complex neurotoxins. And after awakening the voodoo corpse
The manipulation methods may be obtained from long-term exploration, some simple psychological hints that are effective on voodoo corpses. With them, anyone can create voodoo corpses, regardless of whether they believe in the so-called voodoo cult or not."
"So, you invited a local priest in Haiti to help you?"
Zhang Ke looked at the slumped corpses on the ground and finally understood why they were so seriously injured but did not die immediately. It must be the kind of medicine that can reduce metabolism, which lowered the heart blood pressure of these people to
The lowest point, so the blood loss rate becomes extremely slow, thus lengthening the time between life and death.
However, even though they had taken the powder to simulate death, despite their serious injuries, not only were they not rescued, but they were also forcibly manipulated into using their bodies that were on the verge of being broken, and were knocked away many times by themselves and Yuan Mengmeng.
It has been seriously damaged. Once the effect of the fake death drug wears off, it will probably die immediately.