Chapter 78: Death's Smile

As the sun sets, the heat gradually recedes, Da Zhu, Xiao Jie, Xiao Yingniang and Xiao Lin are busy digging pits on the side of the road, this time is the most suitable for work, not hot, but also visible.

It's cool later, but it's not convenient to work when it's dark.

Several corpses were stacked aside, which were placed on the big pillar before Zhiwen looked for wild vegetables.

Dazhu and Xiaojie don't need to take water now, they all walk along the river, and it is very convenient to use water.

Seeing that the pit had been dug and Zhiwen had not come back from digging wild vegetables with the girls, Da Zhu and Xiao Jie looked at each other, walked to the two ends of a corpse together, and prepared to move the corpse into the pit.

Now, in addition to Zhiwen and Dazhu can carry the corpse, and when Zhiwen is not present and really needs to carry the corpse, Xiao Jie can occasionally help, and everyone else is strictly ordered by Zhiwen not to touch the corpse.

"Xiao Jie! Wait a minute. Just as Xiao Jie was about to bend down, Zhiwen's shouts and a group of messy trotting sounds were heard from afar.

Xiao Jie looked at Dazhu helplessly and smiled and apologized, he actually didn't understand why Zhiwen was so stubborn and insisted on not letting others touch the corpse, even him, Zhiwen tried to let him touch it less.

Dazhu didn't care, he had already seen Zhiwen, so he would wait a little longer, anyway, there were only three corpses.

Zhiwen handed Xiao Yingniang the wild vegetables he was carrying and carried in his hand, and carefully covered his mouth and nose with the strip of cloth around his neck, he didn't want to get sick because of a little negligence, so he threw the corpses into the pit one by one with Dazhu.

Taking a small bag of lime from Xiao Jie's hand, Zhiwen jumped into the pit again to sprinkle lime on the corpse.

This task is now done by himself alone, and even Dazhu and Zhiwen do not allow him to do it.

One is that the pit is dug deep, and it is inconvenient for others to do this to get out of the pit, but Zhiwen has light skills, and it is easy to jump out.

In addition, he had to take advantage of this opportunity to observe the cause of death of these people up close, and those who died of starvation, or died of common diseases, could sprinkle less lime.

If it was infected with the plague and died, the lime would have been used more, but so far, Zhiwen has not found anyone infected with the plague.

Zhiwen felt that since he had achieved internal success and his resistance was stronger than others, he should leave this opportunity to face to face with the corpse.

If it weren't for the fact that it was inconvenient to carry the corpse alone, even Dazhu Zhiwen was reluctant to let him touch the corpse.

It's not impossible to carry the corpse alone, but you can't kick it with your feet, not to mention whether the corpse can withstand the ravages of Zhiwen, if it is seen, it is a great disrespect to the deceased, and a good thing becomes a bad thing.

Otherwise, Zhiwen is a princess holding the dead corpse? This is sour, Zhiwen thinks about it, forget it.

After all, although Dazhu can't practice internal skills like everyone else, he is tall and big, and his height is no shorter than that of an adult strong man.

The pimple meat on his body is even more piece after piece, extremely strong, and his resistance should be much better than others, so he can barely do Zhiwen a favor.

The first corpse, skinny and bone-like, pale, well, starved, sprinkled with lime.

The second corpse, skinny and bone-covered, pale and starved to death, was sprinkled with lime.

The third corpse was still skinny and bone-like, pale, and ......, no, it was a little different from the first two.

Zhiwen forcibly withdrew the lime that was about to be sprinkled, and squatted down to observe it carefully.

The corpse spots seem to be more numerous and darker than the first two.

Zhiwen didn't care about the filth, he opened his eyelids with his hands, and there were purple-red bruises on the conjunctiva and eyelids, which was not starvation, it should have been sick to death, but it was impossible to judge what disease was born for a while.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhiwen pinched the deceased's chin and wanted to open his mouth to see the situation inside, but he didn't break it after a few clicks.

"Xiao Jie, find a branch and throw it down!" Zhiwen commanded, he didn't want to pry the other party's mouth with his fingers.

"Okay!" Xiao Jie agreed, and after a while, he threw down a branch.

It took a little effort for Zhiwen to pry the deceased's mouth open, but there was nothing abnormal.

Zhiwen casually threw down the branch, but inadvertently saw the deceased's nostrils exposed because of the tilted back of his head, and there was a layer of black-red dried blood scabs inside.

This is blood from the nose before death.

Have you had blood on your eyelids, conjunctiva and nose? Zhiwen pondered for a moment and pressed a few corpse spots.

Sure enough, there are some that can fade a little bit when pressed, which are corpse spots, and some that will not fade, indicating that there was blood under the skin before death.

What could it be? Zhiwen tried to recall in his mind, the memory of his previous life seemed to be a little long, especially when it came to medicine, and it was even more vague if it had not been used for a long time.

At this time, Zhiwen's hand inadvertently pressed the neck of the deceased, and the spot under his finger was a corpse spot formed after death, but how could it be erect under this skin?

Zhiwen's fingers touched up along his neck, and finally made a major discovery - from the neck to the jaw, this piece is erect, and if you look closely, there is a relatively obvious swelling, in the words of modern medicine in later generations, this is swollen lymph nodes.

There was a flash of lightning in his mind, and the dusty memory suddenly brightened, no, could it be this demon-like infectious disease?

Thinking of the terrible part of this disease, a cool air rose from the soles of Zhiwen's feet, and in the evening of dog days, the heat was still unbearable, and Zhiwen still couldn't help but shiver.

At that moment, he didn't care about the eyes of other people on the edge of the pit, and reached out and pressed the deceased's armpits and groin a few times, but he didn't give up, and touched his neck and chin again, all of which were erect.

Zhiwen's face instantly turned pale, cold sweat poured out, and his back was soaked in just a few moments.

"Xiao Zhi! Xiaozhi! Xiao Yingniang's concerned call woke Zhiwen up from his imagination, "What's wrong?" Is it unwell? Look at the way you look sweaty. ”

"Huh?!" Only then did Zhiwen find that the sweat on his face had soaked through the strip of cloth that covered his mouth and nose, and dripped down his chin and on the neck of the deceased under him, and under the sweat-soaked skin, the purple-red spots were even clearer, like a red skull, opening its hideous mouth and smiling at him.

"It's okay, Aunt Song!" The corners of Zhiwen's mouth went up, and he squeezed out a smile, no matter what, he couldn't lose his temper in front of them.

"I'm just tired, it's so hot!" After Zhiwen finished speaking, he didn't dare to wipe the sweat on his face with his sleeves, let alone his hands, and just shook the remaining lime in the paper bag in his hand from head to toe on the last person's body.

And the amount of lime was originally enough for three people.

"Huh!" Zhiwen jumped up gently, but instead of jumping high from the bottom of the pit and falling to everyone's side as usual, he fell down before jumping out of the edge of the pit.

Alas! Everyone on the side sighed softly, thinking that Zhiwen was really tired today, and he couldn't even jump up this pit.

But I saw Zhiwen with one foot on a small bulge on the pit wall, and suddenly, it went over everyone's heads, fell behind everyone, and then flew towards the river.

"It's time to fill in!" Zhiwen's voice came from afar, "I'll go to the river to take a bath, I'm sweating!" ”

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