Part 5 Pirate Legend 81, Corpse Chase Society
These envoys were indeed secretly sent by Oletto, Zhang Gou'er, Yi Sezhen and others did not know that before the establishment of the "Hongmen", Oletto announced that he would remove all positions of Zhu Hui, fearing that he would rebel, and did not issue an edict, so he quietly sent a few envoys to escort him back to ask for guilt.
Since the envoys could not produce the king's edict, the Praetorian Guard did not approve of their actions, and wanted to send them away; However, the aboriginal leader Abbasi did not give up and insisted on putting them all to death, and the two sides clashed again, and Zhu Hui had to intervene to mediate.
Abbasi believes that although Zhu Hui was sent by the king of Oseia, this is not the territory of Oseia, and the Praetorian Guard has no right to intervene, so they can only follow the rules of the island, and these guys who come to arrest people must be punished as they deserve.
The Praetorian Guards were speechless when they were refuted, they all turned their eyes to Zhu Hui, he was very helpless at this time, if he wanted to return to Osea in the future, he couldn't let Oreto find fault with himself, let alone let the two sides fight in the current situation, so he asked Abbasi, what are the rules on the island?
Abbasi introduced that these people are criminals, and they must all be executed under the supervision of a wizard, and then buried in a coffin, and then they will be taken out three days later, and let them go to the bottom of the sea to catch scallops.
Listening to this introduction, Zhu Hui couldn't help but gasp, three days after the death of the people, it seems a little unlikely that they will go to the sea to fish for scallops, according to Abbasi's tough attitude, if he doesn't agree, it will not only be a matter of ignorance, now Zhang Gou'er and the soldiers of the Ming army are not around, Han Xiaoyu After some tossing, he returned to the galleon to rest, and there was no one who could discuss.
After a long silence, Zhu Hui asked the opinion of the leader of the Praetorian Guard, and for the past eight or nine months, they had been with Zhu Hui day and night, and they had respected the "governor" very much, and at the same time, they were generally dissatisfied with King Aureto's approach, and now that they knew his difficulties, they agreed to carry out the death sentence of these "uninformed" envoys according to the rules of the island.
In order to keep Zhu Hui and his wife, Abbasi personally presided over the execution ceremony, sent someone to invite a sorcerer from the distant mountain, set up an altar on the beach, and that night, they held a bonfire party on the beach, men, women and children sang and danced until late at night, waiting for the arrival of the gods......
Before dawn the next day, Abbasi and a group of men came, and they tied up the prisoners on death row and threw them on the altar, where the wizard sat on the altar and recited the words......
The wizard's prayer ceremony lasted all day, and Zhu Hui, Han Xiaoyu and those Praetorian Guards were all watching below, until the sunset on the sea, and the ten thousand rays of light reflected the red altar, before someone sent a wooden barrel, and after some inquiry, they found out that it was the venom taken from the giant frog.
As the days grew dark, the natives lit bonfires again and danced under the leadership of Abbasi, when all the prisoners on the altar let out a howl of ghosts and wolves......
The bonfire reflected the red altar, and I saw the wizard holding a wooden spoon in his hand, scooping out the venom from the barrel, and smearing it on the backs of those prisoners, until they stopped howling one by one, which stunned Zhu Hui, Han Xiaoyu and others......
Then, Abbasi and others appeared on the scene, according to the instructions of the sorcerer, stripped the clothes of the deceased, painted their faces and bodies with various oil paints, and finally carried them off the altar, put them in a small coffin, and then let another group of aboriginal men carry them away and bury them......
The sorcerer stood on the altar and made a speech to the effect that he had come by heaven, and that it was none of his business whether the tortured person was dead or alive, and that he would continue to pray for the tortured until their souls met the "ghost king", who would decide whether they should go to heaven or hell, or even return to earth to continue their lives......
Three days after the ceremony, Abbasi summoned the group to the beach again, and the shaman once again ascended to the altar to continue the "resurrection" ceremony of the tortured......
After a while, the aboriginal men brought more than a dozen coffins, lined up and placed under the altar, and the wizard shook the bell in one hand and held the barrel in the other, and slowly walked down the altar......
The coffins were still stained with fresh soil, which the shaman wiped away with clean water from a bucket and had the coffins carried up to the altar before they could open the lids......
The aboriginal men have great respect for the undead, and before opening the coffin, they first lie down and kowtow, then get up to open the coffin, and then run away; At this time, the sorcerer took a clay pot, soaked the leafy branches in it, immersed it for a while, dipped it in the water in the clay pot, and sprinkled it into the coffin several times in a row, and sat cross-legged in front of the coffin and recited the incantation loudly......
About a quarter of an hour or so, a terrifying miracle suddenly appeared......
Although everyone was sitting on the beach under the altar, and the creaking sound could be heard from the coffin from a long distance, Han Xiaoyu snuggled tightly into Zhu Hui's arms, his face pale with fright, and he said in his mouth: Zi Bu is strange and confused......
A hand appeared on the coffin, which frightened Han Xiaoyu and quickly closed his eyes, Zhu Hui was a bold man, he couldn't help but get up and take a look, and found that in the mouth of the coffin, there were dangling heads poking out......
Zombies crawled out of the coffin, their faces painted with no expression, their eyes seemed to glow green, and they began to stretch their waists and do the same thing......
An even more shocking scene appeared, a zombie jumped off the altar and walked slowly towards the sea, Abbasi hurriedly beckoned the aboriginal man, rushed over to stop the zombies, tied the pre-prepared stones to them, and used thick ropes to wrap their waists, arms and thighs, the whole process, the zombies walked unhurriedly, without stopping for a moment, until they went straight into the depths of the sea......
Everyone left the beach and ran into the shallow sea to take a look, and about half an hour later, the sea water not far away suddenly bubbled up layer by layer, and many people were scared back to the beach......
Zombies emerge from the sea, and the aboriginal men begin to pull ropes out, and everyone is surprised to find that the stones tied to them are gone, and instead they are covered in colorful seashells that glisten in the scorching sun......
The aboriginal man dragged the zombie out and slowly returned to the beach, and suddenly, they all straightened up and fell to the ground......
The wizard ran up to them, flipped the zombies, touched their nostrils one by one, and repeated them several times, until finally he picked up one of them and announced to everyone that only this person would come back to life!
The resurrected messenger was led away by Zhu Hui, and the rest of the zombies were handed over to Abbasi, who first picked the colorful seashells from his body, and then put them in a coffin and buried them again, and the whole corpse rush ceremony was over.
Pick up the resurrected messenger to the galleon, and although he survived and was almost crippled, he was still clear-headed, and told everyone about the "descent to hell......
It turned out that after they were executed, the "ghost king" judged them one by one according to the book of life and death, and finally came to the conclusion that although they were carrying out the king's orders, only if they did not have the intention of harming others, could they be forgiven by the "ghost king".
In the eyes of the Praetorian Guard, whether in Oseia or the Solomon Islands, all the indigenous populations are still uncivilized, and they need patient help like Zhu Hui and Han Xiaoyu to make the peanut root of civilization sprout.
But Zhu Hui doesn't think so, anyway, Oletto is Bai Haishan's own son, raised by the kind Maria, since he was a child, he has been trained by Bai Haishan and Hong Zhenren, if it were not for the temptation of Zhizi and Isezhen, he would not have been so mediocre, because Zhang Gou'er and Jack are now in Oseya, I don't know what their current situation is, therefore, he decided to lead the Praetorian Guard to leave here and go back to give an explanation to the king.
When Abbasid heard the news that they were leaving, he almost collapsed, and he strung all the fairy shells collected by the "dead corpses to the sea" into a chain and gave them to Zhu Hui and his wife, hoping that they would come back.
Thousands of aborigines on the entire "Dayan Island", regardless of men, women and children, spontaneously rushed to the wharf to see off Zhu Hui and his wife, the scene was earth-shattering and tearful, Zhu Hui was also very moved, and told Abbasi that if the pond dries up again in the future, do not let people approach the mouth of the cave, there will be unexpected dangers below.
Zhu Hui led all the Oseias to evacuate, and on the way home, they were full of emotion, although these Janissaries expressed their stance that if the king wanted to blame, they were willing to take full responsibility, but Zhu Hui knew very well that the king was to blame, not only for the "treasure hunt", but also for the core issue, whether the Oseia would be loyal to the Ming Dynasty or a vassal to the Japanese emperor in the future......
Although the Praetorian Guards didn't know how the Ming Dynasty and Japan were different, they had a very bad impression of Isezhen, and naturally they didn't want the king to fall to Japan, however, these warriors who were trained by Hong Zhenren with Confucianism, loyalty to the king has always come first, if Oreto is completely controlled by the child, it is very likely that Zhu Hui, who insists on taking the Ming Dynasty as the right one, will be questioned, so they are studying all the way how to make the king abolish the childish queen......
Three days later, they all returned to the east coast of Oseia, and a patrol boat had already reported to King Aureto, which immediately surprised him, Zhang Gou'er proposed to set up a "Hongmen" and let Zhu Hui be the head of the meeting, and it was only two days after the official edict was issued, indicating that he had killed the messenger secretly sent before, and suspected that Zhu Hui and others must have rebelled.
So, Oreto urgently summoned Isezhen to discuss countermeasures, and Isezhen knew that he secretly sent someone to arrest Zhu Hui and his wife, and complained to Oreto, if Zhu Hui and others really want to rebel, the child will inevitably become the target of public criticism, therefore, it is recommended that the king take the blame to show that he knows his mistakes and can change them, magnanimity......
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About the Solomon Islands' "dead bodies rushing to the sea"
This custom has been in place until now, and recently several Americans, who witnessed it in the Solomon Islands, collected some venom, oil paint applied to the dead body, blood samples of the deceased and other locals, and took them back to experiment on the pig first, and the pig died quickly, indicating that the venom was fine, and then, they began to test blood samples, and through comparison, it was found that there was a substance called alkali oxide in the blood of the indigenous people, which was obviously much more than that of people in other places, and the venom was an acidic substance, indicating that the local people were very resistant to toxicity; At the same time, on many islands in the South Pacific, indigenous people like to eat a kind of frog in the jungle, as long as they don't eat too much, they will not be poisoned, and over time, they will produce an antibody.
Laboratory analysis of oil paint pigments, which is formulated with a plant called "sunflower", contains a substance called "alkali oxide", which can protect the activity of brain tissue through the skin, and even strongly stimulate nerve tissue, so as to protect the nerves of the whole body from injury, when the wizard used this frog poison to "execute" death row prisoners, although they no longer have a heartbeat, but they are not really dead, but in a state of suspended animation, three days later, their brain cells because of the protection of that oil paint, there is still a certain vitality, It is equivalent to deep sleep, under the protection of "alkali oxide", although their behavior looks stiff, but the nerves are not dead, they can still command muscle activity, until under the weight of the deep sea, their lung cells are completely crushed, and as soon as they come ashore, they will immediately breathe and die, but if there are more antibodies and less venom, then there is also the possibility of resurrection.
(End of chapter)