The Great Khing'an Mountains are vast and rich, rich in resources, have a huge primeval forest, there is a saying here in the Great Khing'an Mountains, called "brocade scales in the water, fragrant fungi in the forest, rare birds in the sky, strange beasts in the mountains" is used to describe the abundance of animals and plants in the Great Khing'an Mountains, the Great Khing'an Mountains are many feng shui treasures, and the people who have been here will call it "Xanadu!"

Although the material of the Great Khing'an Mountains is abundant, but the climate here is relatively cold, especially in the winter the average temperature is minus twenty or thirty degrees, the weather is cold and directly kills, if someone goes out at night, some sweat on the body, and when they return home, they find that the back of the cotton clothes has frozen, hard into a piece, just like carrying a layer of hard shell, it can be seen how low the temperature in the winter of the Great Khing'an Mountains.

It is precisely for this reason that there are fewer people living in the Great Khing'an Mountains, and there are fewer people and there are many animals in the forest, there is a saying among the local hunters, called, the rod beats the roe deer and scoops the fish, and the pheasant flies to the rice pot, which means that even if you don't have to deliberately look for prey in the forest, there will be food to be sent to the front, which shows how many animals in the forest.

After five hours of traveling, Chen Zhan and Li Ruxue finally arrived at Tahe and County, and the two drove half an hour from Tahe and County to Situn Township, which is at the foot of a mountain range in the Great Xing'an Mountains.

Although it was already May, the weather here was still very cold, Chen Zhan and Li Ruxue were wearing thick coats in autumn, walking in the mountains and forests step by step, "Chen Zhan, you have been here before, have you encountered ghosts or anything here?" Li Ruxue was a little bored and asked.

"Of course, I have encountered a lot of evil things here in Daxinganling." Chen Zhan shook the fallen leaves on his feet, "It's like the Black Dragon Pond, the burial ground, the Hell Valley, it's very famous here." ”

"Then you're going to tell me about something you encountered here!" Li Ruxue suddenly became interested and said happily.

"Okay, then I'll tell you about the human skin corpse I encountered here with my master back then!" Chen Zhan thought about it for a moment and said, "It was 2003, and my master and I came here to find a thousand-year-old ginseng plant, and we lived in a place called Gaojia Village at that time!"

That day, Chen Zhan and his master Zhong Shan went to the mountain to look for ginseng, and when they came back in the afternoon, they found that the people in the village were rushing to the north of the village in a panic, this strange behavior immediately attracted the attention of Chen Zhan and Zhong Shan, Zhong Shan grabbed a villager and asked: "Fellow villager, what happened, why are you panicking?"

"Old man, a few bear cubs in our village went to the mass grave in the afternoon to play, and only one cub came back, telling us that the rest of the people were gone!" The villager said anxiously.

As soon as Zhong Shan heard this, he immediately took Chen Zhan and the villager to the mass grave there, which is not far from the north of Gaojia Village, and it is said that the officers and soldiers and bandits who died here during the war in the Qing Dynasty were buried in the past.

When Chen Zhan and Master Zhong Shan came here, they saw that the mass grave was shrouded in a thick fog, and there was no trace of spread outside the mass grave, and a series of figures flashed in the dense fog from time to time.

"These bear cubs know about trouble all day long, this time it's a big deal, this is a ghost miasma, don't let the living in!" Obviously, some of the old people in the village knew something, but they didn't know how to save the children, so they were red-faced and red-faced because of the quarrel, but no one could come up with an idea, and they stomped their feet one by one.

"Fellows, don't worry, old man, I have learned some Maoshan Taoism, although the ghost miasma is powerful, I have a way to bring the children out!" At this time, Zhong Shan stood up and said, smiling slightly and waving his hand, signaling everyone to be calm.

As soon as they heard Zhong Shan say this, the villagers suddenly quieted down, but looking at Zhong Shan's appearance, there was no trace of the Taoist monk's immortal wind bones, and they didn't want to agree, but the mothers of the children at that time were already panicking, and when they heard Zhong Shan's words, they seemed to have seized a trace of vitality, and immediately rushed to Zhong Shan, willing to beg Zhong Shan to save the children, and the villagers had nothing to do at this time, so they had to hold the mentality of giving it a try, maybe it could really be done.

"Fetch two paper lanterns!" Zhong Shan said to the villagers, immediately a young man ran back to the village, took two big red paper lanterns over, Zhong Shan walked to the mass grave, put the two paper lanterns in front, suddenly stepped on the green dragon and white tiger, his lips quickly rose and closed, as if he was reading words, Zhong Shan read very fast, and his voice was low, so no one heard what he was reading, but Chen Zhan knew that the master was reciting Maoshan's soul-seeking spell, as soon as the spell ended, Zhong Shan's expression was solemn, his arms suddenly punched out, and in a trance, a green dragon phantom flew out of his left arm, A white tiger phantom leaped out of his right arm, as magical as a juggle.

The villagers were attracted by Zhong Shan's hand at that time, they saw that the two big red paper lanterns in front of them appeared on the green dragon and the white tiger respectively, the green dragon entrenched, the white tiger descended the mountain, extremely expressive, "whoosh", the fire in the paper lantern lit up, the pattern on it seemed to come alive, the god was mighty, as if the next moment would come out of it.

"Up!" Zhong Shan drank in vain, and the two paper lanterns flew up in response, rose to his shoulder, and stood still in mid-air, Zhong Shan said to Chen Zhan, "Let's go in, seal the seven orifices, and open the eyes of heaven!"

Chen Zhan immediately ignored it, closed his eyes, and made a seal with his hands with his master, swiped it at the center of his eyebrows, and recited an obscure incantation, "Seven tricks are sealed, and ghosts are not invaded." At the end of the spell, Zhong Shan and Chen Zhan suddenly let out a low snort.

Then, Chen Zhan and Master Zhong Shan walked into the mass grave shrouded in ghosts, their eyes were always closed, their expressions were stiff, like clay sculptures in the temple, their nostrils did not move, and their breathing became minimal.

Two big red paper lanterns floated slowly in front of them, as if they were being held by two invisible big hands, which looked extremely strange in this mass grave, and the fire of the paper lanterns illuminated the surrounding three feet of land, dispelling the heavy ghost miasma around them, revealing the mottled ground, covered with cold frost, and seemed to be sprinkled with ashes.

No matter how Chen Zhan and Master Zhong Shan change their direction, the two paper lanterns floating in front of them will also change immediately, always stopping in front of Zhong Shan without obliqueness, and will not drift away alone.

The mass grave was cold, and after looking in the direction of the floating paper lantern for a while, he finally found a child in the artemisia grass behind a grave bag, and Chen Zhan saw in his mind that the child was standing waist-deep in the artemisia grass with his head down, and his hands hung straight down in a strange posture, swinging slightly, as if waving his arms. It's like paddling again.

Chen Zhan walked in and saw the child's face clearly, only to see that his cheeks were black, his lips were purple, his eyes were all whites, and the whole person was confused, like a dead corpse, Chen Zhan's master Zhong Shan, took out a yellow piece of paper folded into a square from the bag he was carrying, and opened the paper into a talisman with a Maoshan talisman, this talisman is called the soul talisman, and walked over and said that the soul talisman was pasted on the child's forehead, and the talisman covered his face, and Zhong Shan also pulled a hair from the child's head.

After doing this, Chen Zhan and Zhong Shan continued to search, and found one child after another next to the other graves, they were just like the previous child, their faces were strangely dark, their eyes were white, and their lips were purple, Chen Zhan put a soul talisman on their foreheads, and took a hair from each of them, Chen Zhan and Zhong Shan searched the mass grave in a carpet manner, searched all the corners, and finally found all the children, and then walked out of the mass grave.

After coming out of the ghost miasma, Chen Zhan and Zhong Shan took a deep breath, a strange flush appeared on their faces, and the two paper lanterns floating in front of Zhong Shan also automatically fell to the ground, and the villagers saw Zhong Shan and Chen Zhan coming, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Mr. Zhong, how is the situation inside, why didn't the children come out?"

"Don't worry, I'll take them out!" Zhong Shan waved his hand, signaling everyone not to worry, Zhong Shan took out a red slender incense, Chen Zhan recognized it as a soul-attracting incense, Zhong Shan took out the hairs of the children before, poked them into a strip, and wrapped them around the soul-attracting incense.

Chen Zhan took the soul-attracting incense in his master's hand and took a step back, stood up straight, sealed his hands, pinched the soul-attracting incense in his fingers, Zhong Shan took out a lighter, and lit the soul-attracting incense, only to see a red smoke belt floating out of the soul-attracting incense, and this smoke belt drifted towards the mass grave, Zhong Shan saw this, and immediately chanted a mantra and drank: "The soul returns, the soul returns......"

After a while, everyone heard the sound of neat footsteps coming out of the miasma, and saw the children who had been inside before, one by one, walking out with neat steps, their expressions blank, lifeless, as if they were sleepwalking, and the situation was strange and unpredictable.

The villagers were relieved when they saw the children come out, but soon they noticed the strange appearance of these children, and their mood suddenly became nervous again, "Mr. Zhong, what's wrong with these bear cubs?"

Zhong Shan smiled and said: "Don't worry, they are just ghost miasma into the body, we will bring them back to the village first, and then we have our own way to solve it, you don't go near them first, so as not to be infected by the ghost miasma on their bodies."

Chen Zhan walked in front of him and walked towards the village with soul-attracting incense, these children followed Chen Zhan, and after coming to the village, Zhongshan asked the village for three things: the first rooster that crows every day and the black dog that roars late at night, and a living "flying dragon", the flying dragon is also known as the flower-tailed hazel chicken, just because the meat is snow-white and delicate, the nutrition is very rich, the taste is delicious, it is a rare delicacy in the world, there is a saying that "dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground", referring to the flower-tailed hazel chicken, so it is commonly known as the flying dragon in the Daxinganling here.

Roosters and black dogs are naturally not lacking in the village, yesterday the village hunting people just caught a few live flower-tailed hazel chickens, the people in the village hurriedly brought three things, Zhong Shan killed them and bleed, Zhong Shan used a white porcelain bowl to catch their blood, and put some copper coins from the body into the blood bowl to soak.

After soaking for about half an hour, Chen Zhan fished out the bloody copper coins from the bowl, took off the soul fixing talisman on the foreheads of the children lying on the ground, and pressed the blood-stained copper coins on their seal hall.

As the black smoke came out, the dark faces of these children gradually became ruddy, black pupils appeared in their eyes, no longer all the whites of their eyes, and the blue and purple on their lips quickly faded, and when the black smoke was not coming out, they woke up one after another, their eyes were hazy, as if they had just had a big dream, and they didn't remember what happened, and the blood stained on the copper coins was also evaporated with the black smoke, and the children's seals left red copper coin marks, like burns.

"Dog, wake up, Mr. Zhong, help, my dog didn't wake up!" Just when Chen Zhan thought it was over, the mother of the dog suddenly cried, it turned out that all the children had woken up, but the eldest dog had not woken up.

Chen Zhan walked forward quickly and looked at the dog's face, his brows furrowed unnaturally and whispered, "It shouldn't be, the ghost miasma has been burned clean by yang blood." The dog's mother, who was standing next to Chen Zhan, let out an exclamation, pointed to the left side of the dog's face and said with some confusion, "My son has a black mole on the left side of his face, why is it missing?"

Hearing this, Zhong Shan immediately stepped forward and reached out and carefully touched the dog's cheek, and his face instantly became solemn, then he ripped off the dog's shirt, touched the dog's body with his hand, and said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect that there would be a corpse here!"

"Human skin corpse!" When Chen Zhan heard his master's words, his face changed, and he let out an exclamation, seeing Chen Zhan like this, the hearts of the people in the village sank, and they silently gathered around to watch, and they didn't dare to take a breath.

Chen Zhan leaned down, looked carefully between the root of the dog's ear and the lower jaw, took out a brush from the bag, dipped a little yang blood from the bowl, and gently and coherently wiped it down along the root behind the dog's ear, until it reached the shoulder of the dog, leaving a red line.

After a while, Chen Zhan saw that this line had undergone an incredible change, this red line was about one centimeter thick, and he saw that the five millimeters of yang blood on it gradually seeped into his skin, like rain seeping into the ground, and disappeared in a moment, while the five millimeters below did not change in the slightest.

In this way, there was a particularly eye-catching dividing line in the middle, with the help of this dividing line, Chen Zhan's pupils suddenly condensed, Chen Zhan saw that there were two layers of skin on the dog's body, and the outer layer of skin was very thin, thinner than paper, so thin that it was unimaginably thin, if there was no line drawn, Chen Zhan would not have seen that the dog's body was still covered with a layer of skin.

This layer of skin is not a mask or some kind of leather, the pores on the skin are clearly visible, fresh and soft, and clearly the same as human skin. Chen Zhan had heard Master say that human skin corpses were extremely evil, and this was the first time he had really encountered them.

Obviously, the yang blood just now did not seep into the skin, but was devoured by the human skin corpse on the dog's body, and suddenly Chen Zhan's ears sounded a strange sound, as if the world was full of silkworms eating mulberry leaves, which was creepy, "Master, I heard a voice on the dog's body, is it possible?!" Chen Zhan suddenly said with a shocked face.

"That's right, that's what you think!" Zhong Shan nodded to Chen Zhan with a solemn face and said.

Hearing the conversation between Chen Zhan and Zhong Shan, and then seeing the expressions on Chen Zhan and Zhong Shan's faces, the surrounding villagers thought that the human skin corpse on this dog must be an evil thing, and they broke out in a cold sweat in horror as if they were facing a great enemy, and consciously retreated backwards.

An old man in the village was well-informed, smacking his dry tobacco pouch and saying, "Mr. Zhong, could it be that this thing is the legendary skin ghoul." Zhong Shan looked at the old man who spoke, nodded lightly and said in a deep voice, "This human skin mask is indeed a skin ghoul. ”

Zhong Shan pointed to the mass grave, "The Book of Burial clouds: Burial by yin and yang. This mass grave must have been located in a place of gathering yin before, and it is easy to retain the soul of the gathering place, but ordinary people do not provoke the ghosts here, and it will be fine, but with the change of time, the terrain here has slowly changed, and the ground of the burial pit is impassable, and the yin qi is condensed, and finally this gathering yin place has turned into a fierce corpse raising place. ”

Hearing Zhong Shan's words, the breath of the people in the village suddenly stagnated, and Zhong Shan continued, "The corpses in the burial ground will not rot, and they will become zombies over time. It's just that the mass grave has been around for a long time, although it is a gathering place, the corpse is also slowly decomposing, and in the end only one human skin remains, and after it becomes a corpse breeding ground here, this human skin becomes a skin ghoul. ”

Zhong Shan pointed to the dog on the ground and said, "These babies are too bold, they ran into the mass grave to offend the dead, and the anger on their bodies not only aroused the corpse qi and resentment of the corpse to become a miasma, but also woke up the skin corpse, this skin corpse is extremely evil, once it is covered on the body of the living, it will continue to devour the face of the living, and when it is devoured, it can completely replace it and resurrect the soul." ”

It wasn't until this moment that the village was sure how big the matter was at the dog's egg stall, and there was a sound of cold air around it, and the dog's mother was so frightened that she panicked, and wanted to step forward and reach out to tear off the human skin corpse on the dog's body, but Zhong Shan stopped her and shouted: "Can't tear it, this human skin corpse bites together with your baby's skin, tearing it off, it will also tear off the skin on your baby's body, a careless, corpse poison invades the body, and the gods are difficult to save." ”

The dog's family members were so frightened that their faces were bloodless, they cried bitterly, and they all knelt down in front of Zhong Shan with a plop, begging Zhong Shan for help, Zhong Shan pulled them up and said, "Don't worry, wait until tomorrow, I have my own way to take off the human skin corpse on this child!"