Unless it is a child, most people have to bow their heads and bend over to get in and out. Moreover, the terrain of the door is low inside and high outside, showing a slow slope shape inward, which makes the door appear to be surprisingly short, giving people a feeling that the proportion between the house and the door is seriously out of balance.

Since the democratic reforms, there have been large-scale demolitions, and there are not many old-fashioned low gates left. However, at present, you can still see the old-fashioned low-door houses on Barkhor Street in Lhasa. This is indeed a mystery to the uninformed.

In fact, the construction of low-door houses is actually a means of preventing the walking dead from breaking in.

"Walking corpse" is the Tibetan word for "weak lang", which means that after death, a person gets up and wanders around, endangering the living. The so-called "weak man" is neither resurrection nor corpse fraud.

The Tibetan term "weak lang" refers to the fact that after the death of some evil or hungry people, the rest of their sins have not been exhausted, and they have regrets, so they have died and raised their corpses to complete the remnants of their evil lives or seek unobtained food, but they can only be realized in a state of intact body. In this way, the burial customs themselves in Tibetan areas provide an excellent opportunity for the corpses to be removed.

In Tibetan areas, especially in urban areas, no matter who dies, they are not immediately sent to the heavenly burial platform to feed the eagles, but first placed in their homes for a few days to ask monks to chant sutras and pray, surpass the dead, send them to the dead, and a series of funeral activities, and the corpses are parked at home for at least three to seven days before being buried. If there is a corpse, it is usually during this period.

Many old men and celestial burial masters said that they had seen corpses before, and had seen them many times, but they were not sudden, but had been forewarned in advance.

Those corpses that are about to get up, their faces are swollen, their skin is purple and black, their hair is standing on end, and their bodies are blistered, and then they slowly open their eyes and sit up, and then get up and run straight forward with their hands All of them have a common characteristic: they can't speak, they can't bend over, they can't turn their eyes, they can only stare straight ahead, and their bodies run straight forward.

If a living person is encountered, the corpse will be "touched" with a stiff hand, so that the living person will die immediately and become a corpse at the same time. This bizarre and terrifying effect is confined to the body of a living person, and has no effect on other animals.

It is often said that there are five types of corpses: first, skin up;

The second type of corpse, the two types of corpse, is played by its skin or flesh.

The third type is called "blood rising", and this type of corpse is caused by its blood. These three types of corpses are easier to deal with. As long as the flesh is pierced with knives, guns, arrows and other instruments, and the blood is allowed to escape, the corpse will immediately fall to the ground and no longer harm people.

The fourth type is called "bone rising", that is, the main factor that causes this kind of corpse is in its bones, and it can only be dealt with by injuring its bones.

The fifth type is called "mole rising", that is, the cause of his corpse is a mole on his body. This is the most difficult kind of corpse to deal with, and it can only be lured and killed before it hits its mole, so it can only be lured and destroyed, but cannot be captured.

It is rumored that once upon a time, the abbot of a temple in Tibet died, and the monks of the whole temple placed his body in the temple hall, and then everyone sat in the hall day and night to chant and pray, and did not close their eyes for three consecutive days and three nights, and on the third night, those monks who were exhausted could not help but fall asleep one by one, snoring like thunder.

One of the filial monks was not sleepy because of his grief, and stared intently at the abbot's body. In the second half of the night, he suddenly found that the zombie had sat up, and the little monk was so frightened that he forgot to wake up the monks, pulled out his legs and rushed out of the door, and slammed the temple door to flee for his life.

As a result, hundreds of monks in the whole temple turned into corpses overnight, but fortunately they could not rush out of the temple gate, but just rampage in the temple, turning the world upside down.

Later, a hermit with boundless power discovered the uncontrollable scene, he was dressed in a robe, holding a magic weapon in his hand, reciting a mantra, and came to the temple alone, opened the temple door and danced the divine dance, dancing slowly forward, and the corpses also danced behind him and followed closely.

Gradually, they came to a river, and the hermit led the corpses up to the wooden bridge, and then took off their robes and threw them into the river, so that the corpses jumped into the middle of the river with the robes and never got up.

Whether it is a reality or a legend, this has undoubtedly created an invisible pressure on the Tibetan people's psyche. In order to prevent the terrible corpses from rushing in, according to the characteristics of the corpses that cannot bend over, the kind of houses with low doors are specially designed and built, which is an obstacle for the corpses.

Of course, in those ancient times, this kind of prevention of corpses was only used in those areas where houses were inhabited in southern and eastern Tibet, but in the vast areas of northern Tibet, especially the herdsmen living on the border of Hoh Xil, they could not use this precaution, and the herdsmen often lived in fear.

The herdsmen living in this area, due to the forced environment, can only wander around, live in water and grass, move once every three days, and live in a nomadic state all year round.

The people here did not have a stable place to live during their lifetimes, and there was no fixed burial platform after death. At the same time, there are no temples or monks in these areas, let alone those complicated funeral ceremonies, and people generally practice wild burials and abandoned burials.

Wild burial is when a person dies, strips his body naked and throws it in the wild, where he dies, where he is lost. Abandonment of burial means that after a person dies, the living family members pull out the tent and move away, and abandon the deceased on the old site.

Whoever uses this method of burial generally undresses, and the clothes he covered before his death are untouched on the deceased's body, as if he were a living person sleeping.

The cold wind in Hoh Xil is biting, especially in the middle of the night, not far away under the frozen snow fields of South Kunlun, and the temperature drops below zero degrees Celsius in December.

The temperature difference between day and night is quite large, and there is an air conditioner in the car without noticing, which, suddenly, the hot air meets the cold air, and several people who got out of the car shook their bodies and raised their collars along the way.

Or perhaps the herdsmen's mouths of the corpses have left them with a lingering haze on the Long March to explore Taoyuan.

Tibetans believe in Buddhism, superstitious mythology, have strict requirements for travel, of course, not to say any travel, but to the uncertain journey, they will ask the monk to be auspicious, choose the auspicious day of the zodiac, the journey is not smooth, they will return immediately, choose another auspicious day to go.

But Zhuo Lei will not, as a master's and doctoral student at the University of Luxembourg, although he has a deep awe of high science and nature, he also has too much conceit about himself.

It is no accident that he was selected by the organization, secretly trained him, and was selected as a leader in Tibetan areas, and the spy is not something that anyone can be quite able to be, let alone a new generation of spies, who do not have any ability and courage, even if the meat sent to the door, others disdain to look at it.

In addition, the stakes are big, the organization is under a lot of pressure, he has to complete it as soon as possible, he understands the organization, and the organization does not need waste.

Not far away.

The time to come finally came, shrouded in the hazy fluorescence of the stars and moon, and at this time, there were as many as five or six people infected by the corpses.

They look like ancient zombies, but instead of jumping and jumping, they walk upright, as if they have no joints, and even in the cold wind, they still stand proudly, without the slightest idea of a rickety body.

The pace is not slow, although it is not running, but it is the same as walking upright in a sport, the steps are light and brisk.

From the disturbance of a corpse, in the dead of night, I don't know which pastoral area to start, I am afraid that it will also alarm the nearby miles away, otherwise it would not have been possible for so many herdsmen.

At this time, with the starlight eyeing the corpses in pursuit, the herdsmen were immediately divided into two groups, and a few of them remained in place, choosing to believe in Zhuo Lei and them.

"Wooden lattice, crossbow". Zhuo Lei frowned deeply and gave an order.

In the natural area of Hoh Xil, the crossbow bow is much better than the gun, due to the flood of poachers in recent years, than the herd is not the tomb, but the theft of Tibetan antelopes and other wild protected animals, from a "Hoh Xili" TV series, you can see how cruel their methods are.

In order to protect Hoh Xil, the state stationed many sentinels here, on the plateau at an altitude of four or five thousand meters, there is no entertainment, no heating, even if it is cold, still stand guard, it is conceivable, in the snow day of minus thirty or forty degrees, standing on the open-air sentry, for a long time, it is an ice sculpture, compared to them, many children are really much happier, why complain every day?

Nowadays, under strict protection, fewer and fewer people bring guns into the mountains, narcotic drugs, and even bows and crossbows are gradually increasing, after all, the sound of gunfire always causes alarm.

When Mu Ge and the others heard the order, they withdrew their submachine guns, returned to the car and took out their crossbows, and made a crossbow sound mixed with the sound of the wind towards the corpse.

A strong wind rose.

Everyone turned their heads to avoid the wind, turned their heads to look back, and the scene was unfolded in front of them.

The corpses not far away didn't even pause, getting closer and closer to them.

It's definitely a bunch of mole corpses, and unless it breaks one of the moles on their body that causes a corpse to transform, even if it penetrates the whole body, it won't be of any use.

However, this is not the case, as long as they have absolute strength, the corpses that have just risen are just a group of minions for them.

"Withdraw"! Zhuo Lei made a decision immediately, what does it matter to him whether others live or die?

"No need", this is the mouth of Master Ulla, who has been silent, I don't know when he got off the car, everyone didn't notice, Yushan stood behind him, cold and arrogant.

Between the electric light and flint, I saw that the jade sandalwood Buddha beads in his hand had been emitted, with a faint layer of light, but it could be unique under the light of the stars and moon.

When he got to the corpse, the light flared up.

A figure rises, like a colorful butterfly dancing, when there is a soft sword in the hand, there is a red grandson Erniang dancing sword in ancient times, a sword is shocking to move the Quartet, now there is a jade good dancing sword, Luoxia and the lonely bird fly together.

Deep moonlight, clear as water.

The night is hazy, his long hair is fluttering, the hem of his clothes moves with the wind, and his swordsmanship is unparalleled.

After a few moments, she stepped back in front of Ulla, her face calm, without the slightest hint of arrogance, or rather as she had always been.