Chapter 9: The Corpse Puppet (1)

After going upstairs, I put on the new sheets, and suddenly felt a little dizzy, but I didn't pay much attention to it, and I said that I didn't get up too early and tossed it, so I lay on the bed and wanted to sleep a little longer, but I couldn't sleep, and I kept thinking about the strange man, why did the strange man lie on my bed? Why did he suddenly die? Why did his body suddenly disappear again?

I tossed and turned, feeling more and more uncomfortable, sore, and dizzy, I sat up, touched my forehead, felt a little hot, and said if I had a fever, so I took out the thermometer from my bag and took the temperature under my armpit. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

While measuring the temperature, he lifted the sheets and looked under the bed, thinking that the unlucky corpse would not appear again, fortunately, the bed was empty, nothing, I was relieved, no matter where the corpse went, anyway, it had nothing to do with me, but when there was a chance to do this, I still had to ask Zhao Daya, after all, this strange man lived in his house, I don't know what it had to do with him, he found that this strange person suddenly disappeared, it is estimated that he will call the police, if the police come to investigate, you have to think about what to say.

I squatted on the edge of the bed and looked and thought, just about to stand up, suddenly found something at the foot of the bed, it seemed to be some crystals, I put those crystals together with my hand, pinched them into the palm of my hand to check, it was some black crystals, maybe the crumbs of something, "What is this? Could it have something to do with that strange man?", I said to myself, collected all those crystals, and found a blank piece of paper to wrap it.

I took my temperature, took out the thermometer and looked at it, thirty-eight degrees four, sure enough, I had a fever, maybe I caught a cold in the grove at night, I put away the thermometer, and suddenly felt that my shoulder began to hurt, and it hurt more and more, and then I remembered that when I ran out of the grove, my shoulder seemed to be burned by a soldering iron, and I didn't have time to look at it because I was afraid, and the location of the pain seemed to be that place.

I came to the bathroom, took off my shirt, and looked in the mirror, this look, I was shocked into a cold sweat, only to see a red blister on the left shoulder, the shape and size of the blister is like a baby's small handprint, the color is bright red, protruding from the surface of the skin, looking very terrible.

"Damn, what is this?" I felt furious in my heart, "Is it the legendary ghost handprint? Is there really a ghost in the forest?", at this time, I felt more and more dizzy, cold sweat broke out on my body, my limbs were sore, I couldn't support it anymore, and I fainted.

I don't know how long it took for me to wake up and slowly open my eyes.

"Wake up, finally wake up", I heard someone next to me cry in surprise, I slowly turned my head to look, it turned out to be Da Mao, sitting on the edge of my bed, and there was Ermao standing next to him smiling.

"What's wrong with me?"

"Owner, you fainted with a fever in the morning, it's been half a day, Cheng Jiao asked a doctor, saying that he was stung by some spotted wolf wasp, it's okay, I took medicine and took medicine, the doctor said that you can wake up in the evening, and sure enough, it's okay", Da Mao said.

"I thought it was a ghost handprint, but why is the blister so strange?" I wondered.

"By the way, what about Cheng Jiao?" I asked.

Da Mao whispered: "Cheng Jiao, they asked the doctor to see you and let me and Ermao take care of you, they pretended to be tourists and went out, most of them went to visit the tomb."

"I don't know what the situation is like over there," I thought to myself.

Ermao poured me a glass of water, and took the medicine, I finished taking the medicine, Da Mao took a thermometer to measure me, the body temperature has dropped to about 37 degrees, although there is still a little fever, but the situation is much better, it seems that the doctor is the right medicine, sure enough, it is called what is called the wolf wasp sting, but the appearance of the blister has always made me palpitate.

After taking the medicine, I slept again, and didn't wake up until the night, after waking up, I felt much more relaxed, and I felt hungry in my stomach, Da Mao instructed Zhao Daya's nephew to get me a bowl of hot soup with tomatoes, beat two poached eggs, put more sesame oil, serve it and smell it, spray incense, after eating noodles, I sweated all over, and measured my body temperature, the fever has subsided, and my heart said that this doctor's medicine is really good enough, it is really immediate.

When it was dark, Cheng Jiao and the others came back, they all came to my house to see me, and saw that my fever had subsided, everyone was relieved, because Zhao Daya's nephew was next to him, it was difficult to say about the situation of visiting the tomb, so he casually said some other words, let me rest and rest, and then everyone went back to their rooms.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, I was lying in bed looking at my phone, and someone knocked on the door. I got up and opened the door, and when I saw that it was Hu Qi, I said that I didn't know what Hu Qi was looking for me.

After letting Hu Qi into the room and sitting down, Hu Qi first asked me about my physical condition, and I said that the doctor's medicine is really good, and I have a fever now, and I feel much better, but the blisters on my shoulders are still burning for a while.

After hearing this, Hu Qi smiled and said, "That doctor's medicine is a palliative rather than a cure." I was puzzled and said, "Master Hu, what do you mean by that?"

Hu Qi listened to my question, and did not answer directly, but said: "Little brother, I came here to bid you farewell."

I was taken aback: "What? are you leaving?"

"Yes", Hu Qi said: "I'm leaving, this time Cheng Jiao's boss invited me over, and said that I was just visiting the tomb, but I won't go to the tomb." ”

"Oh, you must think that the tombs of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng don't have any oil and water," I joked.

After hearing this, Hu Qi laughed and said: "Little brother is really good at laughing, can we still be poor and love rich for a living like us?"

"Oh, can Master Hu talk to me?"

"Actually, it's nothing, on the one hand, I was originally a subordinate of Laoshan Mountain, how to say that there is also some Taoism, this Yuan and Li are the elders of Taoism, I am inconvenient to violate, and it is really embarrassing to help Cheng Jiao and their boss visit the tomb, and more importantly, ......", Hu Qi stopped here when he said it, as if it was a little hindering.

I rarely see Hu Qi in the way, Hu Qi is usually a very cheerful and cheerful person, I don't know why when he talks about it, he suddenly becomes distracted.

I saw that Hu Qi was a little embarrassed, and it was inconvenient to ask more, so I said: "Since Master Hu is inconvenient to say, forget it."

But Hu Qi seemed to just ponder for a while, and said: "Actually, not only me, but also anyone who touches gold, moves mountains, sends mounds, and unloads the mountain gate can't move this dragon vein, which is why Wu Zetian's tomb, which is also on this Liangshan dragon vein, has never been stolen for thousands of years.

"Why can't this dragon vein be touched? Many emperors' tombs are on the dragon vein, haven't they also been stolen? Even the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is said to have been patronized a long time ago," I asked curiously.

"Because there is an ancestral motto for touching gold, moving mountains, hair hills, and unloading mountains, the tombs in the world can be stolen, only two tombs can not be touched, one is Cao Cao's tomb, because the four doors started from Cao Cao, during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao in order to prepare for military salaries, established the digging army, in fact, it was secretly digging graves and digging graves, and then some people in the digging army broke away, and formed two doors of touching gold and unloading mountains, and later derived from moving mountains and sending hills, so the four doors of the inverted bucket all recognized Cao Cao as the originator, and robbing his tomb was not a deception to destroy the ancestors”

"Oh, so that's the case, then why can't this dragon vein in Liangshan be stolen?" I asked.

"Even I don't know the specific reason, but Zu Xun is that if the people of the four gates of touching gold, moving mountains, sending hills, and unloading mountains move this Liangshan dragon vein, they will be punished by heaven", Hu Qi replied casually, and then changed his words: "Little brother, do you really think that thing on your shoulder was stung by a wolf wasp?"

I was shocked, and I said that I didn't know why Hu Qi asked this, Hu Qi looked at me stunned for a moment, and then said: "There is indeed a kind of wasp in the northwest called the spotted wolf wasp, and the symptoms after sting are also red and swollen blisters, high fever and coma, but little brother, don't you think the shape of the blisters on your shoulders is very strange?"

"I also think the blisters look weird, wasn't they stinged by a wolf wasp, but why is the doctor's medicine so good?" I asked.

"Of course, the doctor's medication is right, I said just now, that medicine can treat the symptoms, antipyretic and fever does need the help of medicine, but it can only play an auxiliary role, it can't cure the root, you are very troublesome to be entangled in that thing, I swallowed a Heavenly Master Town Ghost Talisman for you in the morning, only to temporarily suppress that thing, but it can only be temporary"

"Damn, why did this blind man take advantage of my coma to give me food," I said to myself.

"What the hell do you say I'm entangled in that thing?" I asked.

"Swallowing talismans is a Taoist method of exorcism and dispersing evil spirits, that is, the rune paper written with cinnabar is burned, and swallowed with rice wine, which can play a role in driving away the sneaky and dissipating the evil spirit, but swallowing talismans can only play a temporary role, there must be cause and effect, if you want to cure the root cause, you can only find the root cause and solve it yourself, if you don't mind, can you tell me what special things have happened to you recently?"

I listened to Hu Qi ask this, thinking about the strange man, remembering that when I followed the strange man, I felt that there was something wrong with him walking in front of him, and now I realized that in addition to the fact that the dogs in the village were no longer barking, the most strange thing was that the shadow of the strange man seemed to be separated from his body!

After thinking about it, I told Hu Qi about the stalking of the weirdo last night.

Hu Qi frowned when he heard this, pondering, I rarely see Hu Qi have such an expression, he must have felt that the matter is more serious, so it is inconvenient to disturb, after about half a cup of tea, Hu Qi said: "Listen to your description, little brother, I am afraid that what you encounter is not an ordinary ghost, it is likely to be a kind of corpse puppet."

"What is a corpse golem?" I asked.

"Actually, you are no stranger to corpse puppets, they are a kind of zombies, commonly known as witch dumplings"

"Wu Zong? It sounds familiar, by the way, it seems that this kind of Wu Zong" is mentioned in the "Tomb Robbery Manual" written by Xiao Fat's uncle, and the mud corpse I encountered in Yuquan Mountain before seems to be a kind of Wu Zong."

"That's right, the mud corpse is indeed a kind of witch dumpling, the witch dumpling is actually a man-made zombie, it is a kind of witchcraft, in the mouth of the warlock is called a corpse puppet, the natural zombie is under certain natural conditions through certain inducements, according to modern terms, it may be the process of non-decay and ossification of the corpse induced by some fungus or bacteria, and this corpse puppet is artificially through witchcraft." 'Manufactured' is mainly used to protect the mausoleum or to achieve the purpose of keeping the corpse from rotting, but the corpse puppet you encountered this time is much more dangerous than the mud corpse, and according to your description, it is likely to be a ghost corpse."

"Ghost corpse?" I exclaimed, because I vaguely remembered that there was a ranking list of zongzi in Xiao Fat's uncle's "Tomb Robbery Manual", and I was curious to look at it, among which the first place was "ghost corpse", followed by "blood corpse", and "hidden corpse" and "giant corpse" tied for third, regardless of whether Wang Fatzi's ranking was unreliable, but "ghost corpse" must have his reason for being ranked first.

"This ghost corpse is indeed quite evil", Hu Qi said: "Other zongzi can be restrained by some methods, but the ghost corpse is not, it is a zombie, but it also has the characteristics of a 'ghost', and if you are entangled by it, you can only consider yourself unlucky, and the only way is to find the reason that entangles you, and you can solve it yourself."