Chapter 4: The Vanishing Corpse (I)

At six o'clock, the sun in the west seemed to be dragged by a big hand, disappeared under the mountains, Mr. Min carefully checked the stone wall and the stone on the scattered Lu Wen, these Lu Wen has experienced thousands of years of wind, frost, snow and rain, many have been blurred, Mr. Min can only know a very small part, at this time he stood in front of a string of words stunned, he recognized this string of characters, it represents the word "Loulan".

The crows didn't leave, they were still hovering in the sky, but strangely they didn't make any sound anymore, just hovered silently over the ghost gate. Mr. Min looked at the corpse, and at this time he could only see a white object vaguely.

"What's the matter with these crows?" Mr. Min always felt a little uneasy and asked.

Wang Xingguo glanced up at the hovering crow and said, "The crow is one of the scavenging birds, it should be the corpse that attracts them." ”

"Maybe they represent something else...... Mr. Min said.

"Myths and legends?" Wang Xingguo shrugged, "We have to believe in science." ”

"Science ......" Mr. Min smiled slightly, science can explain many things, but Loulan's secret seems to be unexplained by science now.

Why did a civilization with such an important written language disappear into the long river of history, and where did their descendants migrate? Thousands of miles away from Loulan, how can there be the existence of Lu Wen?

Wang Xingguo's calmness made Mr. Min interested, and although Chen Badai didn't look scared from the outside, Mr. Min could see that he was trying his best to hide the occasional panic in his heart, but Wang Xingguo was really calm, and now that he had arrived at his destination, he could have a good exchange and enhance understanding.

Chen Badai was looking blankly at the corpse wrapped in white cloth, Wang Xingguo opened his backpack, spread the tarp under a stone, half leaned against the stone, and took out the food from the bag and distributed it to everyone, Mr. Min took a piece of beef jerky, pretending to ask casually: "Wang Xingguo, do you think it was the crow that took the corpse away?" ”

"No, it won't." Wang Xingguo said with certainty: "If it is taken away by a crow, there will definitely be scattered bones, but this neighborhood is clean, I have seen it in the passage just now, the ground is very smooth, it should be worn out by people who often walk around." ”

"So, they really walk?" Mr. Min was surprised.

"Then I don't know, because there are actually not many legends that dead people can walk, and the most famous is the corpse chaser in Xiangxi."

This aroused Mr. Min's interest even more, Xiangxi corpse chasers do have a thing, according to legend, it is still related to Chi You, Chi You led the troops to fight, and the soldiers who died in battle were brought back to their hometowns in this way, and then passed on from generation to generation, with the development of transportation, there are no corpse chasers now, how to make the corpses walk is also a matter of opinion, but at least there is a corpse chaser in the family, like a captain who commands the corpse action, but who is here to command the corpse?

Mr. Min never knew that the Loulan people also had the legend of driving out the corpses, and judging from the Loulan relics that had been excavated, the Loulan people also seemed to pay attention to "entering the earth for peace", and why they were so "rough" to deal with the dead here was the secret that Mr. Min wanted to explore.

"What do you think?" Mr. Min asked.

"In nature, there are generally several ways for corpses to disappear, such as decay, scavengers, burial, and transport, but none of them seem to be right here." Wang Xingguo shook his head, "I think it is more likely to be moved, but it doesn't make sense." ”

"Why?"

"There are not many creatures in nature that can carry such a heavy human corpse, carnivores and scavengers do not carry corpses, and insects with carrying habits are too weak." Wang Xingguo said.

"Could it be that corpses really get up and walk on their own?" Mr. Min couldn't help but look at the white cloth dozens of meters away, it was still lying there quietly, but in his mind he imagined that it suddenly stood up and took steps, and whether it was night, even if it was daytime, it was already creepy to think about.

"Could there be another reason? Supernatural or something, witchcraft? Mr. Min came up with another idea.

"Why don't we go and ask him?" Chen Badai felt that this topic was a bit heavy, which made him feel very uncomfortable, and he had two forks.

Mr. Min subconsciously shrugged his shoulders, feeling that Chen Badai's proposal was not very good.

Wang Xingguo replied casually: "You can go bare." ”

"I'm not going, I'm not scared enough." Chen Badai muttered.

"Why do you two have an egg in your nickname?" Mr. Min took this opportunity to divert the topic.

"The two of us? That's a long story. Every time someone asks about the relationship between Chen Badai and Wang Xingguo, this can make Chen Badai say a lot.

This Chen Badai and Wang Xingguo can also be regarded as a legendary combination, Chen Badai spit and talked about it since he was a child, and Mr. Min has already heard it in a fog.

"To put it simply, we were both born on the same day, his family lives in the village, my family lives at the end of the village, I almost didn't run to death that day, there are eight mountains around our hometown, his father has no culture, so he named him Chen Bafeng, when he was in junior high school, the teacher changed it to Badai, saying that this name is atmospheric, nickname...... The hometown is poor, and they all say that it is easy to support by a cheap name, and his three sisters are poor enough, and he is even poorer when he eats with this mouth, so he is called barehead......" As soon as Wang Xingguo spoke, he said it more simply and clearly.

"You grew up together, you were admitted to the city together, you went to the military academy and joined the special forces, why did you suddenly change jobs?" Mr. Min was curious about this.

"My brain is in water......" Chen Badai was indignant when he heard Mr. Min mention this stubble.

"Hey! Never mind! Wang Xingguo interrupted Chen Badai's words.

"Do you regret it? Ran back, the people are gone, the money is gone, I said you are doing this! Chen Badai still wanted to continue, but when he thought that Mr. Min was an outsider after all, he swallowed the second half of his words.

"Okay, from now on, take turns to rest and change shifts every three hours." During the conversation, everyone ate, and Wang Xingguo checked the kettle, which was enough.

"On duty?" Mr. Min asked, all the outdoor activities that Mr. Min has participated in, no one has the habit of watching at night.

"yes, that's the custom of the special forces." Wang Xingguo said.

"But is it necessary that we don't fight?"

"Don't you want to see how the corpse walks? What do you think if he's gone when he's asleep? Wang Xingguo said half-jokingly, "I'm in the first shift, the second class is in the light egg, and you are in the third class, if there is any problem, wake up the sleeping person immediately." ”

Wang Xingguo was indeed right, although Mr. Min came to walk towards the dead, but when he thought of the dead standing up and walking around, he still felt a little hairy in his heart.