"In this day and age, is there still a serious patriarchal mentality? Isn't this the rhythm of harming others and oneself?"

A week later, in a prison cell, Zhang sat down in front of me and had a long talk with me.

The so-called fairness will always disappear suddenly and for no reason in this kind of society, so that innocent people will be imprisoned for no reason, and there is nowhere to appeal!

Of course, I'm not the kind of person who gets hurt fairly.

The reason why I became a prisoner was because I accidentally killed Zhang Mingxin, and I was handcuffed the first time I was rescued.

Zhang Yu was very shocked and diverted the topic: "Brother, what about you, why did you squat in prison?"

I sighed and smiled wryly: "I killed someone!"

"You killed someone, who did you kill?" What is going on?" Zhang asked in surprise, sitting up in surprise.

I took a deep breath: "Zhang Mingxin." ”

"Zhang Mingxin, what are you kidding? How could you kill him? What is this, this is something that can't be hit with eight strokes, didn't he die a long time ago?"

Zhang Please was very excited, because he didn't believe that I would kill someone, and even if he did, he couldn't kill a person who was already dead!

Maybe in Zhang Yue's eyes, I am a good-tempered person, how can such a person kill someone?

If I were a person with a hidden danger of violence, Zhang Please wouldn't dare to hand over so many cases to me, how could I look at the right person?

But before Zhang Yue's doubts were finished, I said seriously: "Yes, I didn't tell a lie, Zhang Mingxin was not only killed by me, but also by very cruel means." ”

"By what means?"

"I knocked out all his brains!"

Hearing that I said this calmly, Zhang Yu was stunned for a while, and he didn't know what to say, because I didn't look like a lie.

And I don't need to lie!

Since it's true, "Then why did you kill him? Did he offend you? You killed him on impulse?"

I spread my hands: "You may not believe it when I say it, I accidentally killed him by mistake when I was shooting a pig." ”

"What?"

Zhang asked the big teeth to fall off, and he killed a pig by mistake, this excuse is too funny!

But Zhang Yu couldn't laugh, because when he looked at my expression, he wasn't lying at all, since it was murder, even if it was manslaughter, he would have to bear the charge of murder.

In this world, there are too many people who have been wronged, such as themselves, didn't they just fall into the trap of others and inexplicably destroy many layouts?

I continued: "Although the process of him being killed by me is very strange, after all, I killed him with my own hands, and I must bear the mistakes I made. ”

"Weird?"

When Zhang heard the word weird, his heart was also touched, and his curiosity was also raised by me: "What's weird?"

"There are too many weird things, why did Zhang Mingxin, who died first, appear at the bottom, second, Zhang Mingxin's appearance was really terrifying at that time, not like a living person, and third, where did he go after I killed him......"

I recalled the scene and even said with trepidation that this question has been haunting my mind since we were rescued from the valley, teaching me how to figure it out.

Zhang Please suddenly said: "Could it be that you killed a ghost?"

"I killed the ghost?"

"Or to put it this way, before you beat Zhang Mingxin* out, he had become a corpse?" Zhang Yu said suddenly and mysteriously.

Looking at his expression, I really wanted to laugh: "Boss, you are a people's policeman, why are you full of ghosts and gods, this is not what a people's policeman can say!"

"I didn't say it was a ghost, I just said it was a walking corpse. ”

Zhang Please sneered, lay down on the bed again, and looked at his confident expression, I was a little surprised: "Walking corpse, how can a corpse walk?

Zhang nodded and said, "Haven't you heard of Xiangxi's corpse?"

"Of course I've heard of it. I replied.

Xiangxi corpse chaser belongs to white witchcraft, that is, let a series of corpses of tourists who died in other places, follow behind the corpse chaser, and return to their hometown through the state and province, but the corpse is not to drive the corpse back to the hometown, but only to lead the corpse through the desolate and rugged mountainous area, back to the plain, and hand it over to the relatives in the township who come to pick it up, so that they can put the corpse into the coffin, and use other means of transportation to transport the coffin back to the countryside for burial.

The time to drive the corpse is both day and night, but in order to avoid frightening passers-by, the corpse is mostly carried out at night, which also casts a veil of mystery on the corpse. Imagining a group of dead people wandering under the white moonlight in the middle of a dense forest mountain road is really terrifying.

The corpses were driven by two mages in Taoist robes, and no matter how many corpses there were, they were driven by the master and the apprentice. The master and the apprentice, without lighting the lantern, shook a dementor bell in their hands, and struck the gong as they walked, so that night walkers could avoid it, and those who had dogs locked up the dogs. When there is more than one corpse, they are connected with straw ropes, one every six or seven feet. When walking at night, the corpses wore tall felt hats, and several pieces of yellow paper with talismans were pressed on their foreheads, which hung down on their faces.

On the way back to Hunan in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, someone accidentally caused a woman to faint and fall off a cliff on the spot and was seriously disabled, which caused a sensation in the local area.

I said: "The scope of the activity of driving corpses is actually very small, only in the mountainous areas of Xiangxi, and there are no other terrible activities of transporting corpses in other parts of the country. Xiangxi, refers to the western part of Hunan Province, mainly in the Yuanjiang River Basin, it is said that the four places of Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi and Lipu are the most popular. The Yuanjiang River basin in western Xiangxi is mostly steep mountains, and the roads are rugged, and it is very inconvenient for people to walk, and it is even more troublesome to carry the coffin back to their hometown. Many people who work here to earn a living often entrust their relatives and friends with the hope of transporting their bodies back to their hometowns for burial before they die, so that they will not be buried in this desolate mountain wilderness. In order to avoid carrying the coffin on a bumpy road between the mountains and wilderness, this unique method of transporting corpses came into being. ”

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "For many people, it is doubtful that the corpse will move, because the corpse will beat, which is too incredible and unbelievable. However, from the standpoint of the number of arts, it is not impossible to drive out corpses, because this is within the scope of the five arts, and the mountain art focuses on drawing talismans and chanting mantras, and studying supernatural powers.

However, spells aside, in terms of whether the dead body can move, this is really possible, in the Chinese historical materials, there are often records of corpse transformation, the so-called corpse refers to the corpse by some external factors and suddenly resurrected, but the resurrected corpse has lost its humanity, just an unconscious walking corpse. The corpse usually occurs when lightning and lightning are combined, which may be caused by the lightning stimulating the static electricity in the dead body that has not completely dissipated, so the dead body moves unconsciously as if it is electrified. And do the mages have the trick to control this ephemeral resurrection? With the decline of the corpse industry, this will be a mystery that will never be solved. ”

I sighed and said in a long voice: "The Chinese are especially attached to their homeland. Either way, the leaves must return to the roots. Wanderers who die in other places must be buried in their ancestors according to their own wishes; filial sons and virtuous grandchildren must move back to their hometowns, and relatives and friends who know each other also have the obligation to fund this matter. In the upper reaches of the Yuanjiang River in western Hunan Province, the places are barren, and the poor mostly go to the eastern Sichuan or Qiandong areas to make a living as hawkers, collect medicines, or hunt, and those places are mostly lofty mountains and mountains, and the miasma in the mountains is very heavy, falciparum malaria is often prevalent, and the living environment is extremely bad. None of the Han people who died in those places were rich, and the Han people traditionally had a deep concept of transporting corpses back to their hometowns for burial, but even if they had money on the rugged mountain roads of thousands or hundreds of miles, it was difficult to carry them by vehicles or stretchers, so some people created this strange economic method to transport corpses back to their hometowns. ”

"Well, have you ever thought that Zhang Mingxin's appearance is also a means similar to Xiangxi's way of chasing corpses?" Zhang Yu suddenly said with a strange light in his eyes.

I asked rhetorically, "Do you think Zhang Mingxin was manipulated?"

Artificial control of corpses? This argument is a bit crazy, corpses are inanimate things, how can you control them?

I asked according to Zhang Yue's meaning, Zhang Yu listened, but he was not surprised at all, and nodded and replied: "It's really possible, since the last time you encountered a corpse in the wild, and the resurrection of a rotting corpse in your house, I have carefully studied the case of corpse walking...... This really allowed me to find a few cases, and the most suspicious one was the case of Xiangxi chasing corpses. ”

"Why do you say that?" I pressed step by step, and Zhang said, "You may not know, Qiu Xinxin's ancestors are from Xiangxi?"

"What does it matter?" Hearing Zhang please also talk about Qiu Xinxin, I felt why they always talked about Qiu Xinxin, and I didn't feel very comfortable, so I asked.

said slowly: "And Qiu Xinxin's grandfather was a corpse chaser back then, and he can be regarded as a Taoist leader." ”

"How do you know these things?"

I was even more puzzled, Shi Peng was a girl who had been hurt, Zhang said that Vanilla was the descendant of the corpse chaser, and Qiu Xinxin I saw was the backbone of the pyramid marketing organization.

It seems that all strange things can be pulled at Qiu Xinxin's body, but in my eyes, Qiu Xinxin is an ordinary girl, how can there be so many gossip?

It seems that the bell must be tied to the bell, and if Qiu Xinxin can be completely solved, he has to go to her to ask the ins and outs of the matter.

I raised my eyebrows and asked, "Since the corpse chasers in Xiangxi are so powerful, do they chase any kind of corpse?"

Zhang Please shook his head and replied, "There are conditions for them to drive out corpses. ”

"What are the conditions?" I asked, and Zhang replied, "Those who are beheaded, those who are hanged, and those who stand in a cage and die can be expelled." The reason is that they are all forced to die, they are not convinced, they miss their hometown and their relatives, they can use spells to hook their souls, use charms to calm their corpses, and then use spells to drive them to climb mountains and mountains, and even get on a boat and cross the water to return to their hometown.

Those who die of illness, those who die voluntarily by hanging their necks by throwing themselves into the river, and those whose limbs are incomplete by thunder and fire cannot be rushed.

The souls of those who died of illness had been removed by the king of Hades, and spells could not summon their souls back from the ghost gate, and the souls of those who threw themselves into the river and hung their necks were entangled in substitution, and they may be in the process of handing over, and if new souls were summoned, the old souls could not be replaced, wouldn't it affect the rebirth of the old souls? ”

"That Zhang Mingxin was killed by thunder, no matter how powerful the corpse chaser is, how can he drive him?" I listened to Zhang Yue's words and said in a lost voice.