Chapter 9: The Corpse of the Hunan People

The three of them went out without any misconduct. When I got out of the cave, I thought I would never go to someone's tomb again, I wouldn't be able to get out, and even if I did, I wouldn't be able to bring something out.

Thinking about it, he looked at Yueming, and decided that when he arrived in Laoshan, he must first learn to open the eyes of heaven.

After all, he is the only one of the three who can't see ghosts, and even if he does, he can't hear them.

But there is one decision that he has to start acting from now on, and that is to teach Yueming to speak.

But he clearly overthought it.

If she could learn it so quickly, wouldn't her father have worked hard in the past 12 years?

Xun Nian doesn't know why, obviously he and Yueming should be people who depend on each other, but now they are far apart, and there is a scarlet spirit and a ghost in the middle.

Whether Xun Nian wants to or not, Scarlet Spirit and Ah Piao are determined to follow them.

Beyond this mountain, there is a plain.

It was already night, the stars were bright, and there was no moon in the sky.

The three of them walked on the plain and found an inn.

The shop was not big, but it was open in the middle of the night, as if it was waiting for them to come.

Xun Nian felt a little weird, and asked the scarlet spirit: "Look, let's not go in first, what if there are ghosts here?" ”

Scarlet glared at him and said, "Ghost? Isn't there one next to you? ”

Speechless.

Xiao Er in the hotel heard that the voice had come out, saw the three people standing at the door, squinted his eyes, and then was busy greeting the guests.

There is only one junior in this shop, and there is also an owner, who is over sixty years old.

When he saw that it was a person, he arranged a room for them, and told them to go back to their room early and not to go out to see any movement in the evening.

"It's for your good."

The shopkeeper said.

Although Scarlet Spirit and Xunnian were strange, they didn't say anything and went back to their rooms.

After an hour, sure enough, there was a sound outside, as if many people had come to the hotel, but the pace was uniform, as if they were well-trained.

Xun Nian was not very relieved, he was leaning in front of the window to see something, and suddenly felt a breath in his ears, and immediately the hairs on his whole body stood up, fierce bricks, a face in front of him, big black eyes, flexible and playful, smooth skin and moist little mouth.

Xun Nian was startled and pushed the scarlet spirit away.

"Why did you suddenly appear in my room!"

Scarlet Ling looked at his face, which had turned slightly pink from excitement, in a voice that was angry and devastated by Xun Nian, and said, "Of course, I came here with our Laoshan wall-piercing technique." ”

"What about the moonlight? Didn't you live in the same room? What do you do with her when you come! ”

Xun Nian really admires this person.

"Yueming sleeps obediently, the fluttering ghost will guard her, don't worry. We should be worried about this,"

She pointed out the window, where she could see the courtyard, "Aren't you curious?" There are a lot of black shops when you go out, how can you do it without a long mind. There's only one inn in the middle of nowhere, so you don't have to worry about it? ”

The two looked out carefully, but unfortunately the window was sealed and could not be opened at all.

The two sneaked out of the room and headed downstairs.

They saw a man in a Taoist robe drinking tea in the hall, who looked to be in his sixties.

Xun Nian and Scarlet Spirit looked at each other, and Scarlet Spirit shook his head at him, indicating that this Taoist priest was not from Laoshan Mountain.

Xiao Er was about to eat, and the shopkeeper sat across from him, saying something in a low voice.

Xun Nian and Scarlet Spirit craned their necks before they heard a little staccato conversation.

“…… There are three people here tonight...... It's all dolls, we have to be light, we can't alarm them......"

“…… Halfway there...... It's not easy to move the corpse, don't meet the dog, otherwise it's over......"

"When to move ......"

"Half an hour later."

Xun Nian and Scarlet Spirit winked at each other, and when the Taoist priest finished eating and went upstairs, they slipped out of the room again.

Quietly walked into the courtyard and found that the gate was still open, which was very strange in the night, as if welcoming something that ordinary people could not see.

Scarlet covered her mouth and pointed behind the door.

Looking around, I saw a row of three or four people leaning against the wall on the wall behind the door, motionless.

Xun Nian stepped forward cautiously and found that these were corpses.

"No wonder that old man was the only one who ate just now. It turned out that these people were all killed by him,"

Scarlet Spirit reconnected with the conversation she had heard earlier, "Will they do something to us in half an hour?" ”

Xun Nian frowned, what he was most worried about was the moonlight.

The scarlet spirit is still trying to figure out a way: "They seem to be afraid of dogs, hmph, it must be some kind of demon and monster, then I will find a black dog to scare them to death!" ”

Xun Nian looked at her like an idiot, and said, "In the wilderness, where can I find a black dog?" ”

"There is no black dog, it can be a wild dog."

Scarlet Spirit smiled and blinked, knowing that she had a ghost idea.

Xun Nian didn't bother to care about her, so he went upstairs to find Yueming first.

He woke her up, helped her get dressed, and then gave her some advice, and was about to leave the room together when he heard the barking of dogs near and far.

Xun Nian thought to himself, this time this strange girl is reliable, and I don't know where to attract these dogs in such a short time.

At this time, he heard the angry voice of the old man, and Xun Nian hurriedly took Yueming downstairs, and Ah Piao followed them closely.

When he arrived at the courtyard, he was stunned, not only him, but Scarlet Ling was also dumbfounded.

The dogs were here to drag the corpses to eat, and the old man protected the corpses like a baby, regardless of the fact that he was bitten.

Xiao Er and the shopkeeper both took torches out to drive away the dogs.

After tossing for a long time, the courtyard was calm again.

The three of them stood at the table like children who had done something wrong, and the old man sat in his seat, blowing his beard and staring at him.

Xiao Er brought the wound medicine, and the shopkeeper sat next to him to apply medicine to the Taoist priest's wound.

"Alas, I kindly reminded you at that time not to come out, because I was afraid that the corpse would scare you to death, who knows what you ...... Alas! ”

The shopkeeper sighed helplessly.

These two people are people from Yuanling, Xiangxi, and the Taoist priest is a corpse chaser, because in addition to Xiangxi, people in other places are afraid of the corpse, and they do not understand the taboo of this custom, so they are never willing to keep the corpse chaser, but the corpse is not necessarily only in Xiangxi, the owner of the shop in order to give a convenience, specially opened a hotel here for the corpse chaser to rest.

These shops are common in Xiangxi, and everyone knows about them, but they are different here.

In order to make it easier for the corpses to enter and exit, this kind of inn will not close the door, and the corpses will rush to the store and put it behind the door, and tear the yellow talisman on their foreheads, so that they will not jump up obediently.

The Taoist priest wanted to drive this batch of corpses back to Xiangxi, walking at night and day and night, and he was most afraid that there would be dogs that were not leashed and would come and eat human corpses.

These corpses are new, and they smell good to the dogs.

Thinking to myself, it is really not enough to achieve things, and there are more than failures.

Fortunately, the dog was chased away.

The two of them apologized and paid for a treat, and finally coaxed the old way on the road.

Lao Dao tied the corpse with a straw rope, pasted a yellow paper drawing on each forehead, and shouted: "Erluer soul, don't hesitate, hurry like a law, get up!" ”

Then he led it in front of the corpse, striking the gong as he went, and went away.

The shopkeeper saw that the Taoist priest was gone, and smiled at them, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

Xunnian's back tightened, and he thought it would be better for them to go faster, and at this time everyone couldn't sleep anymore, so they left despite the owner's retention.

"Are the souls of those corpses still in their bodies?"

Xun Nian remembered the words shouted by the Taoist priest before leaving, and felt that those should not be zombies.

"How do I know!"

Scarlet Spirit was obviously in a bad mood at this time, but she paused, "However, it seems that a corpse smiled at me just now, as if it was laughing at me!" I'm! ”

Xun Nian shook his head, feeling that Scarlet Spirit's self-esteem had really been frustrated this time.