01 There are ghosts around

Tang Ai is a dead man now—the kind that looks like he's dead.

The big sky / Towards the barren land of the border town, Tang Ai was lying here, covered with a tattered straw mat. The cold wind will not be polite to a dead person, and the corner of the straw mat is constantly blowing, and it hits her face.

It's a pity that as a lifeless person, she can't resist at all.

It was the innkeeper's family who witnessed Tang Ai's death.

There are few outsiders in the barren land on the northeast side of the sky, and the small broken hotel has not welcomed a living person for a whole year, and the dust in the hall alone can choke people to death, and the family will not be able to open the pot.

This remained the case until yesterday, until a man suddenly knocked on the door of the inn.

This passer-by who didn't sleep in the middle of the night and had to knock on the door was Tang Ai.

She is a woman, but she dresses up as a man, and there is no girl's family in her baggage, plus there are dusty things along the way, and there may not be one in a thousand people who can see that she is actually a big girl who is like a fake.

Although he was not choked to death by ashes, Tang Ai was still dead, choked to death by a mouthful of rice, rolled on the ground with his neck when he kicked his legs, and knocked over countless tables, chairs and benches.

The innkeeper and the mother-in-law bowed their heads together, and carried Tang Ai, the unfortunate foreigner, to the corpse collection with the fastest pace.

A corpse collection is not a market, a corpse collection is a corpse collection.

There is only one thing that is bought and sold in corpses—corpses.

When the family sent Tang Ai over, her body was still hot.

Adult corpses with limbs alive and no obvious external injuries, such as Tang Ai, are the favorite of "corpse collectors".

It's too early, and the "corpse collector" hasn't come yet.

The innkeeper's own cat sheltered from the cold in the shack, while Tang Ai was left outside to blow the cold wind.

The head of the house didn't find that there were still figures hidden behind the shack, one tall and two short, one big and two small. The tall coat is in the wind, and there is nothing in the fluttering wide sleeves. The two were a little wider and the other narrower, and they were holding a live chicken in their arms.

The tall one nodded at the two small ones, and the two of them let go of the chickens in their hands.

Uncle Chicken stretched his neck and walked out, rushing towards Tang Ai impartially, stepping on the straw mat with one paw, just stepping on the corner of the mat that had been fanning Tang Ai's face.

It's over, let's work! Uncle Chicken held his head high, and calmly scattered his steps to other places.

"If you don't slap your face, you can always be more comfortable." Gao squinted and smiled, and waved his hand at the two small ones, "Let's go, I should also go and put my hands on and get ready." ”

As soon as the morning dawned, the corpse collector came.

"Hey, Mom, it's a young man, and he looks less than twenty! This body is quite complete, but I don't know if there will be internal injuries inside. You should talk about our market price, and I won't bargain with you, two or two ingots, no more! ”

The one who was talking to the innkeeper was the leading "corpse collector", and as soon as he opened his mouth, the strong smell of big stick stubble couldn't stop it.

"Collecting the body" is not digging a pit and burying you in the ordinary sense, this is the jargon here, and the meaning is similar to the buyer's inspection of the goods during the face-to-face transaction, because the objects bought and sold are dead people, so it is called "collecting the body".

A "corpse collector" is a person who specializes in reselling corpses.

There are those who sell chickens, ducks, and livestock, and occasionally there are those who are not afraid of being punished by heaven, but this trade of selling dead people is probably rarely seen.

There were all the people on the side who collected the corpse, and under the leader's order, the subordinates picked up Tang Ai's boots on his left foot and circled a number plate on her big toe.

Tang Ai was thrown into the wooden cart like a sack by these people, face down.

Fortunately, the bridge of her nose is firm enough and not broken.

But the posture is really not beautiful.

There was not only one corpse of Tang Ai on the car, but there were also about seven or eight corpses with arms on their legs and feet in their faces.

The wheels of the car rolled on the potholed road, the donkey pulling the cart snorted twice from time to time, and several people who collected the corpse scolded their mothers while rushing to the road.

The gang went north, and all the way north they would reach the border, and the small country bordering the northeastern border of Cheon/Chao was the Goryeo Kingdom.

At this time, there was a crying ghost crying on the other side of the road, and it turned out to be two young children, one fat and one thin, who were crying with snot and tears, and the crying was the dead man lying in front of him.

The two of them saw the donkey cart from afar, and cried even more vigorously, for fear that the corpse collector would not look at him.

The corpse collector is a coke.

"Yo, what's wrong today, I'm dying at a young age!" The leader checked the current status of the corpse as usual, and took out eight coins of broken silver and threw it to the little fat man.

The appearance of this corpse looks comparable to Tang Ai on the surface, but the person who collected the corpse was only willing to bid eight yuan, and it was hard to ensure that he was not bullying two stinky children.

The little fat man was crying profusely, and he didn't look at what the corpse collector was doing, but the little thin man was quick to catch the silver that was smashed.

He looked at the broken silver in his hand, and raised his swollen eyes like blisters: "My eldest brother is worth so much money?" ”

The two men threw the corpse into the car, turned around and said viciously: "This is the uncle, pity you!" ”

"Big brother, let's go, let's be brothers again in the next life!" The little thin man sat slumped in place, looking grief-stricken, and watched the donkey cart go all the way.

It wasn't until the corpse collectors were gone that the little thin man wiped his tears, stood up straight, and poked the little fat man with his elbow: "It's not big, okay, don't scream, everyone is far away!" ”

The little fat man sucked his snot bubbles and crawled straight up, and he couldn't even get his breath out after wasting his strength for a long time: "It's not small, the son said that he must kiss...... Meet Tang Ai in person. What the hell is that Tang Ai...... What's the matter? ”

The little thin man didn't say much: "Didn't Childe say it, Tang Ai is a person with six doors, and the six doors of this case are also being investigated." I don't know the rest more than you do! ”

"I know Tang Ai is...... It's the people of the Six Doors, I mean, we've never seen Childe before...... Who cares so much...... "The little fat man didn't say anything until he was half-speechless, and after a while he asked again, "Then what should we do now...... What's the time to do? ”

Not a little blink of an eye: "Listen to the instructions of the son, first go to the Goryeo Kingdom on the other side of the mountain to prepare all the things that should be prepared, and then ......"

Scratching his head innocently: "Go to Goryeo Kingdom first, and then go back to ...... Back to the capital? ”

Not small: "No, we can still help Gongzi do something again, we can't go back to the capital first!" Okay, don't be stunned, go quickly, you must not delay the childe! ”

It was freezing cold, and the donkey cart didn't know how long it had been going, and the wind howled more and more evilly, and then the goose feathers and heavy snow fell on the hula.

In order to hurry forward, the leader whipped a whip on the stubborn donkey's buttocks, and seeing that the snow was about to fall uncontrollably, he made his subordinates jump down and pull out a canopy covering the car from the side of the board.

But it was clear that the four-cornered rag canopy was of very limited use to shield the corpses from the wind and snow.

The leader then made another decree, to put the goods in order, and put them on the head with good skin.

If you want to find a good skin, you naturally have to look at your face, and Tang Ai was finally turned over.

"Look, this kid is really rare white! What do you mean? That's right, died young! A person snorted at Tang Ai.

"Not to mention, the one I just received is quite good! Come, I'll look up and lift your feet. The other replied.

"Anyway, we've been in the industry for a long time, these two must be the most handsome we've ever seen!" The two of you said a word, and their hands and feet were also sharp, and after a while, the body was divided into two layers.

Tang Ai was lucky to be a member of the "good skin" and was placed on the upper floor, lying on top of the remaining corpses, side by side with another body.

The one lying next to her now was the corpse that the people who collected the corpse had just bought on the road.

After finishing the work, the two of them did not want to stay with the dead man for longer, so they ran back to the car with the tent.

It's a pity that they didn't see each other, and at the moment when the tent was sealed, Tang Ai, who had always been in the shape of a corpse, suddenly became different—her eyes moved under her closed eyelids, and then her chest began to rise and fall slightly.

This scene is commonly known as corpse fraud.

The new detectives of the six doors will naturally not really choke to death by a mouthful of food.

Tang Ai is here to handle the case.

Her "death" was also planned by herself.

The soldiers on the border died, but the corpses were missing, and no matter how much they ordered someone to look for them, they could not find them. At the same time, rumors of corpse trafficking appeared in the northeastern border of the country.

No one knows where the corpses of the soldiers went, or what the purpose of the traffickers was, or where they were sold. But both of these events are related to dead people, which is too much of a coincidence, and it is not difficult to think that there may be a connection.

It has been a long time since Liumen received this tip, but the people on the northeast border are fierce, and it has not been very peaceful recently, and the Goryeo Kingdom and the Jurchen Ministry are fighting lively, and there is a little bit of intention to invade the Heavens/Dynasty. No one wanted to go to a thankless errand, and it wasn't until recently that Six Doors sent people to investigate the matter.

There is no second place in the manpower except for Tang Ai.

As the saying goes, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger. With a family heirloom absolute qi pill and slightly exaggerated acting skills, Tang Ai successfully "lost her breath", and her body temperature had dropped incredibly in less than two hours, and it was even more difficult for others to detect her pulse and heartbeat.

Therefore, the family of the innkeeper, who was so poor that jingling, would sell her in a hurry.

It will take time for the medicinal strength of the Absolute Qi Pill to dissipate, Tang Ai's eyes can't be opened for the time being, and his limbs can't move, so he can only endure the cold to the bone. Aside from the whistling wind, she still needs to try to find clues from the conversations of the people in front of the car.

How could it be that the topics that these people said were all vulgar and ugly, and the wine and meat woman was still a wine and meat woman, which was of no help to Tang Ai to analyze the clues in his mind.

The wind outside roared like crazy, and the scolding of the corpse collectors could no longer be heard clearly, but another voice suddenly sounded in the car.

It's not the sound of the cold wind, it's not the sound of ruts, it's not the scolding of a few people in front of the car.

"Lord Xiao Tang, it's a good luck." The voice said.

The volume is very light, but it is clear and free, and it is a little playful.

If Tang Ai could, she must have jumped up with a spirit!

If she really heard Fang Cai's words, then she must have seen a ghost alive!

Cold sweat ran down her forehead and stuck to the ends of her hair, forming crystal clear ice in a few moments.

At the same time, the sound of the wind outside the car suddenly changed, before it was blowing unscrupulously and out of order, but now it gathered into a huge beam of wind, as if it was coming straight out of some abyss.

And Tang Ai's body was leaning towards the front of the car, and the corpse lying next to her was also attached to her shoulder.

The car was descending, and the corpse collectors were walking towards the col.

The mountains on the northeastern border stretch for thousands of miles, and the other side of the mountains is no longer the territory of the motherland.

But in a moment, Tang Ai felt his body shake suddenly.

This is a terrible moment, if you really want to say, it can only be described as "turning the world upside down".

I only heard a deafening rumble falling from the sky, and at the same moment, the gang of people outside the car let out several screams like "wah-la-la" and "ah-huh" like killing pigs.

"Boss, you're being cheated again-......" shouted the last sentence, and those people were gone.

The wooden cart fell apart under the violent tremor, the wooden strips snapped and broke, and the cart of corpses fell into the deep ravine of the snow one by one.

Tang Ai was no exception, the last one fell, and his body smashed uncontrollably on the corpse next to him, his face still facing down.

Fortunately, there was a human cushion under her body this time, which gave her a small cushion, and she would not break her arm and fall lame.

Who knew that the earth-shattering roar not only did not end, but intensified, and the whole mountain seemed to collapse in an instant.

Tang Ai didn't know if the mountain really collapsed, but she immediately sensed that this sudden change was not without any benefits.

The medicinal effect of the Absolute Qi Pill quickly failed under the earth-shattering vibration.

She could move.

She struggled to prop up her head, and the moment she opened her eyes, she saw the sky and the earth white.

Not exactly.

A few pools of red light were particularly dazzling among the white rays.

It's an avalanche, and it's a godsend.

At the beginning, the corpse collectors seemed to want to grasp the stubborn donkey brother as a life-saving straw and engaged in a fierce struggle with him.

In the end, the stubborn donkey wins.

was kicked by the donkey brother countless times, and the leader's life whimpered. The rest of the mess is mixed together, you have me, I have yours, and if you can't run, it's those two obedient ones.

The three of them fought with a stubborn donkey at an inopportune time, and the consequence was that they had no survivors. The donkey brother ran out of the col at the last moment and escaped.

However, none of this is the point.

The point is that the mountain avalanche rolled, the road into the mountain was buried in an instant, and Tang Ai was trapped in the snowy mountain.

The corpse collector dug her own grave, and all her clues were cut off, and even whether she could get out alive became a question.

Actually, that's not the most frightening part.

The most terrifying thing was that Tang Ai heard that voice again.

"Lord Xiao Tang, if I were you, I wouldn't be lying here." The hollow valley echoed.