Chapter 123: Suspicious Shadow of the Corpse
"Corpses?"
As soon as he heard the guy's shout, Jiang Yao's face suddenly changed, and it was not only Jiang Yao who was shocked at this time, but even Chen Siyi, who had always had an indifferent expression, couldn't help frowning slightly.
"What a fuss, what a system!"
Chen Siyi's eyes widened, and the man with the pigtails and the handsome face suddenly trembled, and then noticed that there were still two unfamiliar faces in this patio courtyard, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
"Yes, I'm sorry Miss, that, that...... Backyard...... Again, again, ......"
"Hehe, it looks like something happened...... Let's go, let's see. The corners of his mouth hooked, and without waiting for Chen Siyi to open his mouth to stop him, he raised his feet and walked towards the back of the guest hall, and Jiang Yao was not ambiguous when he saw this, and immediately followed.
Behind the guest hall is a square open-air backyard, the area is only about half of the courtyard in the front yard, a stone bluestone ancient well stands alone in the center of the backyard, perhaps because of the obstruction of the surrounding high walls, or maybe the location is relatively remote, at first glance it looks particularly gloomy. But what made people's scalp tingle even more was the strange figure crawling by the well, only to see that the figure was dressed in white, with his hair scattered, squatting with his back to everyone, motionless.
This, ......!?
Gu Jing, white, long-haired figure...... The scene in front of him, which seemed to be the standard configuration of horror movies, suddenly scared Jiang Yao into a cold sweat, and his footsteps couldn't help but stop, but the gluttony on the side seemed to be completely unmoved, but swaggered towards the figure, raised a foot and kicked on the figure's ass.
"Ouch!"
A pig-like howl resounded throughout the backyard, and I saw the figure being kicked and staggered forward, "snapping" and falling a, and at this time Jiang Yao found that this guy was neither a corpse, nor a female ghost, just a short and fat man with long greasy hair and a white blouse.
"Who, who is the special sneak attack on Lao Tzu!?"
The short and fat man got up from the ground angrily, and when he turned his head, he saw a tall red-haired man looking down at him coldly, and his arrogance was half extinguished.
"You...... Who are you?"
The short and fat man covered his buttocks, grinned and stood up, and finally found that there was not only a red-haired man watching him, and there were several unfamiliar faces around him staring at him with big eyes, and the most beautiful of these people was the short-haired and long-legged iceberg beauty in the middle, but this beauty's face didn't seem to be very good-looking, and under the direct gaze of the short and fat man, it became more and more gloomy.
"Ah Xing, who is this person?"
Chen Siyi's eyes widened, and his knife-like gaze suddenly flew to the young guy with pigtails on the side, who trembled in fright, and quickly stammered and explained:
"Big, Miss...... This is a newly recruited temporary worker from our Weiyang branch, called Wu Lao Liu......"
"Temporary worker, why don't I know about this?" Chen Siyi cupped his elbows, and his tone began to be aggressive again.
"That...... He just came yesterday and has been busy in the warehouse, and you just arrived this afternoon, so you haven't had time to talk to you about it......"
The guy named "Ah Xing" said weakly, while desperately giving the short and fat man a look, signaling him to quickly introduce himself, and the short and fat man was not the kind of person who couldn't carry clearly, when he saw that the atmosphere was not right, he quickly restrained his arrogant expression, and with a fat face, he ran to Chen Siyi's face and said with a smile:
"Ouch~ It turned out to be Miss Chen, disrespectful and disrespectful!" The short and fat man wiped his dirty hands on the shirt on his body, and then lewdly stretched out to Chen Siyi's chest. "In the next free of your surname Wu, a single name is a Di character, the sixth in the family, generally others call me Wu Lao Liu, hehe......"
"'Invincible'...... what an arrogant name. Chen Siyi glanced at the short and fat man in front of him who was smiling in confusion, and dodged away in disgust to keep his distance, not reaching out to shake it back at all. "What are you doing here?"
"Ouch, look at what you said, I didn't just hear Ah Xing shouting, so hurry up and come out to see the situation~" Wu Lao Liu smiled wryly and retracted his hand awkwardly. "Actually, I'm not a native here, but I came to the mountains here before...... Forehead...... When I was doing something, I accidentally ran into some trouble, I got separated from my companions, and even lost my luggage, and I didn't have a dime on me. No, I can only come to Weiyang to work and earn some travel expenses by the way~"
Wu Lao Liu rubbed his hands with a smile, his eyes were about to squint, and his obscene gaze scanned back and forth on Chen Siyi's graceful figure, looking like he was about to drool.
"Anyway...... I have long heard that the daughter of the Chen family medicine store is a great beauty, and she really deserves her reputation! Miss Chen, you look really Peugeot~"
"So...... Are you here for the travel expenses?" Looking at Wu Lao Liu's scoundrel face, Chen Siyi couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes, and his disgust became more and more undisguised.
"How much does it cost? I'll get out, get out of the money and get out of there. Chen Siyiyu waved his hand, and immediately planned to drive people away, so anxious that Ah Xing hurriedly ran out to dissuade him:
"Alas, Miss, don't be angry yet...... Miss, it's rare for you to come to the Weiyang Branch, you may not know the situation very well, since 'that incident', more than half of the guys in our Weiyang Branch have been scared away, and now there is a serious shortage of manpower! Now the guys who stay here are only Ah Hu, Zhang Qiuyue and Zhao Minmin, and there is too much work to do, if even the temporary workers are gone, what can I do......
Ah Xing put on a bitter gourd face, and cautiously stretched out his hand and pointed to a man and two women rushing in front of him, as if these three people were the few guys left in his mouth.
"Miss, what's wrong?" Among the three, a guy wearing a sweatshirt with five big and three thick was the first to speak, and this person seemed to be the "Ah Hu" that Ah Xing said.
"I just heard Ah Xing shouting 'the corpse has appeared', should it be ...... 'That' again, right? Oh, there's still ...... end."
Another tall and thin woman with freckles and a long ponytail pursed her lips, subconsciously wrapped the shawl on her body, and rubbed her elbow against the big-eyed young woman on the side, and said. "Hey, Zhao Minmin, isn't your room near here?
"Oh, no, no...... I had been inside the house just now, not paying attention outside. The woman named "Zhao Minmin" waved her hand timidly, and under the nervousness, her fair face immediately covered with a touch of feixia.
"Qiuyue, Min Min is timid, don't scare her. Seeing Zhao Minmin's embarrassed appearance, Ah Hu on the side seemed to be a little unbearable, but just after a few words of relief, he saw that the tall and thin woman who was called "Qiu Yue" stared, and seemed to be very jealous of his behavior of defending Zhao Minmin, and Ah Hu could only smile awkwardly when he saw this, and did not speak again.
"Hmph, I said Zhao Minmin, don't pretend to be a lady in front of people, let's do pharmacists, what corpses haven't you seen, have you studied in medical universities for so many years?"
"Huh...... Miss, it's already so late, it's not appropriate to drive people away now, why don't you take it slow and listen to them tell me what happened just now?"
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little tense, the old man next to Chen Siyi smiled and played a round game, and Chen Siyi saw that the old man had opened his mouth, so he didn't insist anymore, sighed, and then turned his head to look at Ah Xing, and said:
"Okay, we'll deal with the temporary workers tomorrow. Say, what happened just now?"
"Yes, yes...... Ah Xing nodded, and after sorting out his emotions, he finally spoke.
"Just now, I was going to the kitchen to get some water, and I happened to pass by the backyard and saw ...... I saw a strange figure with a pestle at the mouth of the well......"
"The figure by the well?" Chen Siyi glanced at Wu Lao Liu and said coldly. "You can't see this guy, right?"
"No, no, Wu Lao Liu came out when he heard my shout later. ”
Ah Xing waved his hand again and again, as if he remembered something terrifying, and his face became a little pale.
"Although the shadow was gone in a flash, and I only saw a rough idea, the appearance of that figure was too strange...... It's like 'he' is dead and ...... back."
Halfway through his words, Ah Xing suddenly seemed to realize something, and hurriedly stopped his mouth. While peeking at Chen Siyi's face, he blinked at the strange Jiang Yao and Tao Tao, looking like he didn't know whether to continue talking.
"'He'?" Jiang Yao keenly noticed the strangeness in Ah Xing's words, and opened his mouth to ask. "I remember that your commission said that the 'corpse' was the 'ancient dried corpse' that you received, but now that it sounds like that's not the case......"
Jiang Yao stroked his chin lightly, his searching gaze approached Ah Xing's eyes, and the latter looked away unnaturally, looking weak, while Tao Tao didn't pay attention to Ah Xing's entanglement at all, just stepped forward to a certain position by the well, squatted down, and looked at something on the ground.
"Heh...... 'corpse'? Even if it really is, it can't be the 'ancient corpse' they commissioned to say. Gluttony chuckled, pointed to a few footprints by the well, and said. "Look, what is this?"
"It's ...... Footprints?wait......" Jiang Yao followed and stepped forward, followed the glutton's instructions, and sure enough, he found two obvious footprints, but what was unusual was that there was a translucent soapy substance floating on these two footprints, judging from the peculiar smell emitted, this was obviously not an ordinary substance......
"Is this ...... Corpse wax!?" Jiang Yao was shocked, and when he looked up, he found that Chen Siyi had also walked over, staring at the footprints with a frown, and did not deny it.
"Alas, yes, yes, it's corpse wax! I was lying here just now, just because I found this footprint is very strange, so I'm checking it!" Wu Laoliu on the side also roared up, looking like "I have already found out", as if he was deliberately asking for credit in front of Chen Siyi.
"Dead wax is a soft waxy substance produced by the decomposition of human or animal carcasses in wet places...... If it was an "ancient dried corpse", it would be impossible to leave corpse wax here. ”
Jiang Yao stood up as he spoke, turning his head to look at Chen Siyi with a complicated face.
"First it's 'dead air', then it's 'corpse wax'...... It seems that things are getting more and more complicated. You guys...... What are you hiding?"