"Your Majesty, be careful!" Ji Tong pushed Yin Shenglin away, and Li Runrin's body was buried under the rubble.

"General Li once took effect with the imperial thief and the imperial court, but now he has ended up with such an ending, how can I explain to the thief king, and how can I explain to the first emperor and ancestors?"

"Your Majesty, the top priority is to get out quickly." Ji Tong said: "If you die here, you really can't explain it."

Yin Shenglin's eyes looked directly at the collapsed ruins, and suddenly seemed to have found something: "It turns out that the ceiling of this tomb is engraved with words......" Yin Shenglin approached and read the words with Ji Tong's support.

"You guys, push that piece out of the way and move it to the side!"

"It turns out that Jia Zeng's earliest identity is a corpse chaser."

The text recounts the matter of the corpse chaser in the Xiangxi region of the Black Country.

Xiangxi corpse chaser, you must have an interview to enter the industry, you must be at least 16 years old, more than 1.7 meters tall, ugly in appearance, and bold in order to be admitted.

Xiangxi has not only Zhangjiajie, which is famous in the Central Plains Continent, but also mysterious corpses. In the early years, if you stayed in a mysterious mountain village inn in Xiangxi, you were very likely to see dead bodies walking, and before dawn, a line of corpses staggered in front of the inn, and the corpses were draped in a wide black corpse cloth. In front of these corpses, draped in black corpse cloth, there is a living person holding a gong, this living person, the locals call "corpse chaser". In fact, it is better to say that he is a "corpse chaser" than a "corpse leader", because he is leading this group of corpses forward while beating the small yin gong in his hand. He doesn't light a lantern and shakes a soul bell in his hand to keep night walkers out of the way, and informs those who have dogs to lock them up. If there were more than two corpses, the corpse chaser would string them one by one with straw ropes, one at a distance of seven or eight feet, and when he walked in the dark, he would put a high blanket on his head and a few pieces of yellow paper with a few inscriptions on his forehead and hang down his face. There is a "dead corpse inn" on the road, this mysterious "dead corpse inn", only the dead corpse and the corpse chaser, ordinary people do not live. Its doors are open all year round. Because behind the two large doors is the place where the corpse rests. The corpse chaser drove the corpse, arrived at the "corpse shop" before dawn, and quietly left at night. The corpses were all standing neatly against the wall behind the door panels. When it was difficult to walk in heavy rain, I stopped in the store for a few days and nights.

Chasing out corpses is not something that ordinary people can do, and you have to pass three levels to become an apprentice.

The folk of Xiangxi have had the industry of chasing corpses since ancient times, and those who learn this industry must have two conditions: one is bold, and the other is good health. Moreover, it is necessary to apprentice. The corpse chaser never takes apprentices indiscriminately. The apprentice is first written by the parents, and then the corpse chaser must be interviewed. Generally speaking, it is necessary to look at the age of 16, the height is more than 1.7 meters, and there is a very special condition, the appearance must be ugly.

The corpse chaser first asks the test taker to look at the sun in the sky, then spins, and then suddenly stops, asking you to immediately distinguish between east and west, north and south, if you can't tell the difference, you can't be hired. Because you don't distinguish between east, west, north and south at this time, it means that you can't distinguish the direction of driving corpses at night, and you can't drive corpses. Then, the corpse chaser asks you to find things and carry a burden. Because the corpse is not a living person after all, the corpse cannot climb up the steep slope. One by one, the corpse chasers had to carry and carry them up the high slopes. Finally, there is another interview, which is that the corpse chaser puts a paulownia leaf on the grave mountain deep in the mountains, and lets you go alone to retrieve it in the dark, only in this way can it be shown that you have the courage to be a corpse chaser. If you pass these three levels, you will have the possibility of becoming an apprentice of the corpse chaser.

The corpse chaser's home, like that of ordinary peasants, is still "made at sunrise and rests at sunset". Only when they received the business of chasing corpses did they dress up and go to chase the corpses. Although they chase out corpses, they taboo the term corpses. Therefore, when insiders ask them to drive away the corpses, they all say, "Master, please go and walk your feet" or "take a walk with your feet". If the corpse chaser agrees, he will take out a special piece of yellow paper and ask you to write the name of the deceased, the date of birth, the date of death, the gender, etc., on this yellow paper, and then draw a talisman and stick it on this yellow paper, and finally hide this yellow paper on yourself.

The corpse chaser's attire is also very special: no matter what the weather, he must wear a pair of straw sandals, a green cloth gown on his body, a black belt around his waist, a green cloth hat on his head, and a bag of charms hidden in his waist bag.

Master and disciples, the first thing is to draw a talisman, this very peculiar talisman is painted on yellow paper with a red pen and something that looks like a character and a painting, and when encountering an unexpected situation on the way, this peculiar talisman is hung on a tree or door facing west, and sometimes it is also burned and swallowed with water.

At the same time, the apprentice must learn the thirty-six kinds of skills before he can drive out the corpse. The first skill is the "standing merit" of the dead body, that is, the first thing is to make the dead body stand up. The second skill is the "walking skill", that is, the ability to stop the corpse and walk freely, and the third skill is the "turning skill", that is, the corpse can turn when walking. In addition, there are also "downhill skills", "bridge crossing skills", "dumb dog skills" and so on. The "Dumb Dog Gong" can make the dogs along the way not bark when they see the corpse. Because the dead body is afraid of the dog barking, when the dog barks, the dead body will be shocked, especially when the dog comes to bite, the dead body has no ability to resist. The corpse will be bitten to the ground. The last kind of skill is the "soul resurrection skill", the better the soul return skill, the more souls of the dead corpse will remain, and it will be very easy to catch up the corpse. This kind of "soul rejuvenation skill" is actually sprinkled on the corpse with a special herb from Xiangxi.

It is particularly worth mentioning that this peculiar industry can only work in the western part of Shonan. Because, first, only Xiangxi has a "dead body inn". Second, only the masses in Xiangxi heard the small yin gong of the corpse chaser and knew how to avoid it. 3. There are roads outside Xiangxi Village, while other provincial roads generally pass through the village, so of course they will not allow dead bodies to enter the village. Fourth, when the people of Xiangxi hear the sound of the gong, they will take the initiative to lock up the dog at home, otherwise, "as soon as the dog comes out, the dead body will be bitten to pieces." Therefore, this very peculiar corpse industry is only available in Xiangxi.

"Jia Zeng's ancestral home is in Xiangzhou, the Black Country, and his identity as a corpse chaser is not unusual." Yin Shenglin said.

"Driving out corpses and raising corpses is commonplace for Jia Zeng, so after he became a tomb keeper, he advocated protecting the tomb with ghosts." Ji Tong said: "Can the emperor understand this sentence and what is written?" It must be important to write in such a prominent position. ”

Yin Shenglin can't fully recognize all the ancient texts, but he knows all these eight words:

If you want to win over ghosts, do your way. Man is a ghost, and death is life.

"The general meaning is that if you want to defeat a demon, you must first turn yourself into a demon."

"Is that where we are now? Ghost...... Person...... Do we want to go out ......?"

"Man is ghost! Death is life! Understood, find the main burial chamber, the door of life is the door of death, and the door of death is also the door of life. Yin Shenglin said: "It shouldn't be far away, cheer up and find the main tomb!"