Chapter 39: The Shadow of a Corpse in a Small Town

In the early morning, when the first rays of sunlight sprinkled the land, a miserable scream broke the quiet small city of Huangxian County, Qingzhou.

The cry came from the Huangxian office, and this cry quickly attracted the attention of the officials in the office.

The scream was made by a servant of the Huang County Bureau, named Huang Sandian. He is very clever and appreciated by the county lieutenant Huang Tao. At this moment, Huang Sanwu ran out of the morgue in a panic, shouting "Dead man, dead man" tremblingly as he ran.

When the people in the office heard Huang Sandian's shout, they didn't think so, and an old official shook his head, "This Huang Sandian, that's all good, but the courage is too small, we don't often deal with dead people as government officials."

Another official chimed in, "No, yesterday the county lieutenant asked Huang Sandian to find a jujube core to nail the corpse, but this kid didn't dare to go because he was afraid."

"Corpses!" The two officials glanced at each other, they were also present yesterday, and the two of them had also heard what the Dafang Taoist Master of Taiping Dao said, and the two of them quickly stood up and beckoned the other officials in the office to rush to the morgue together.

On the way, everyone met the pale Huang Sandian, Huang Sandian looked like crazy, the old official grabbed Huang Sandian's arm and said in a deep voice, "What's the matter with Huang Sandian?" ”

Huang Sandian was dragged before he came back to his senses, and his fingers trembled and pointed to the morgue and said, "Dead man, dead man"

One of the servants asked, "The dead man was put down in the morgue yesterday, what is there to panic about?" ”

Huang San waved his hand and said, "It's not yesterday's dead man, yesterday's one had black hair, and today's one has no black hair."

The group of people glanced at each other, pulled out their waist knives, cautiously approached the morgue, surrounded the morgue, and the old official turned back to one of the officials and said, "You go and call the county lieutenant, and inform the other servant."

"Good"

The officials looked at the morgue not far away, the old officials waved their hands, several officials nodded, and quickly came to the door of the morgue.

Soon, a servant came out and said to the old officer, "Fifth uncle, safety!" ”

The old servant, who was called the fifth uncle, put away his waist knife and walked quickly to the morgue.

This morgue has been useless for a long time, and as soon as the fifth uncle entered, he felt a strong musty smell.

This morgue is not very big, the fifth uncle looked around, and when he saw the shriveled corpse in the morgue, his eyes immediately widened, because he found that the shriveled corpse was actually wearing an official uniform, and this official uniform was none other than the county lieutenant Huang Tao!

The fifth uncle gasped, and his body involuntarily retreated backwards, and at this time, a servant came in from outside the door and said to the fifth uncle, "Fifth uncle, I have searched all over and I haven't found the county captain."

The fifth uncle pointed to the shriveled corpse with a pale face and said, "No need to look for it, it's a big trouble now, go and notify the county magistrate quickly!" ”

The official glanced at the fifth uncle in puzzlement, and the fifth uncle yelled at him with a hideous face, "Don't go quickly!" ”

This official has never seen the fifth uncle angry at anyone, what happened to the fifth uncle today? The official quickly went to the prefectural magistrate.

The fifth uncle came to the shriveled corpse, which was wearing a black military attache uniform, although the corpse was shriveled, it could be seen that the wound on the neck was a fatal injury. The fifth uncle took out a pouch around the waist of the corpse, and opened the pouch to reveal a small seal inside, which was the seal of the county lieutenant. The Han Empire decreed that all officials of the Han Empire must carry seals and ribbons with them.

The fifth uncle sat down on the ground with this seal, and the other officials dared to help him up, "Fifth uncle, are you okay?"

The fifth uncle shook his head with a wry smile, and then another official came over and said to the fifth uncle, "The fifth uncle has searched all over the place, but I haven't found the body from yesterday."

The fifth uncle was shocked, this place is really weird, the fifth uncle thought that it was the corpse yesterday that killed the county lieutenant? The fifth uncle shook his head, forget that this place is not a place to stay for a long time, the fifth uncle withdrew from the morgue with people, and at this time, the county commander Huang Qing came with a few subordinates.

The fifth uncle hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "I've seen the county commander."

Huang Qing nodded and said, "What's wrong with Fifth Uncle?" What about Huang Tao? ”

Most of the people in Huang County are surnamed Huang, and the county orders Huang Qing and Huang Tao and these five uncles are all members of the Huang family in Huang County.

Hearing Huang Qing's question, the fifth uncle pointed to the morgue and told him what he knew, and also told his guess.

When Huang Qing heard this, this is worth it, this Huang Tao is a county lieutenant of the Han Empire, why did he die in vain?

Huang Qing gave a death order to investigate to the end. Soon, Huang Tao's itinerary was found out, after Huang Tao came back yesterday, he went to drink after arranging things, and the second child in the tavern said that Huang Tao drank very late, and then left with half a jar of wine. Later, Huang Tao should have entered the bureau. Some blood stains and fragments of the wine jar were found on the grass not far from the morgue, which should have belonged to Huang Tao, and the body in the morgue was missing yesterday.

In the end, the county government came to the conclusion that someone stole the corpse last night and was discovered by Huang Tao, and the person who stole the corpse killed Huang Tao and used evil methods to suck Huang Tao's blood dry, and after killing Huang Tao, the corpse thief took the corpse away.

Although the deduction has been made, how to find the murderer has become the biggest problem.

Huang Qing sent someone to bury Huang Tao's body in the ancestral tomb of the Huang family.

For a time, rumors spread in Huang County, and the people were panicked.

Huang Qing had a headache this day, because since Huang Tao's death, there have been many missing people in Huang County, this matter has made him a little anxious, the new county lieutenant has not yet arrived, and all things are taken care of by the fifth uncle, at this time the fifth uncle pushed the door and walked in, Huang Qing looked at the fifth uncle who has become more and more thin these days, Huang Qing said with concern, "Fifth uncle, rest, you are too tired these days." ”

The fifth uncle smiled and said, "I'm fine."

Huang Qing sighed and said, "Haven't you made progress yet?" ”

The fifth uncle nodded and said with a bitter face, "Yes, it's not a way to go on like this," the fifth uncle suddenly said to Huang Qing mysteriously, "I suspect that all this may not have been done by people."

Huang Qing's face changed, and he said, "Fifth Uncle, what do you mean by this?" ”。

The fifth uncle said in a deep voice, "Huang Tao had found a corpse before he died, shriveled and covered with black hair, and he happened to pass by a Taiping Dao Dafang Taoist who said that this was a black zombie, and left the way to deal with it, and Huang Tao died that night, and the death was so ugly, plus many people have disappeared recently, I feel that there must be a connection between this."

Huang Qing touched his beard and fell into deep thought, and the fifth uncle continued, "I'm going to go find that generous Taoist master, I remember hearing Huang Tao say that that person's name is Tang Zhou."

Huang Qing nodded, "For today's plan, this is the only way, then Fifth Uncle, be careful"

The fifth uncle nodded, turned around and walked out of the room, packed his things and prepared to go to Jinan County to find Tang Zhou.

A house in Jinan County, Qingzhou, this house is the residence of Tang Zhou, a generous Taoist master of Taiping Road, at this time Tang Zhou is cleaning up the house with Chen Ergou, because Tang Zhou is running around, this house has not been inhabited for a long time, and the faces of the two people are dirty in the dust.

At this time, there was a knock on the door from outside the hospital, Chen Ergou ran out and opened a crack in the door, and asked "Who are you looking for?"

There was a man about fifty years old standing outside the door, with a tired face, it was the fifth uncle of the official of Huang County. The fifth uncle saw that the door was opened, and a small head was exposed in the crack of the door, and the fifth uncle paused for a moment and asked, "May I ask if this is the mansion of the generous Taoist master Tang Zhou?" ”

Chen Ergou nodded and said, "Yes, what's wrong?" ”

The fifth uncle said, "There is some urgency to find a Dafang Taoist master, please report it." ”

"Ergou, who is it?"

Tang Zhou's voice came from the courtyard, and Chen Ergou turned around and said, "I said that I was looking for you in a hurry."

"Let him in," Tang Zhou said in the courtyard

"Oh" Chen Ergou opened the door and let the fifth uncle in, Tang Zhou was washing his face in the courtyard, and the fifth uncle stepped forward and said, "Meet the Dafang Taoist Master in Xia Huang County."

"Huh?" Tang Zhou was stunned, raised his head, looked at the fifth uncle, and said, "Are you from Huang County?" ”

"Yes," the fifth uncle nodded and said, "I was ordered by the county order to inquire about some things with the Dafang Daoist."

Tang Zhou took the towel handed over by Chen Ergou and wiped his face clean, "Say, what's the matter?" ”

The fifth uncle said what Huang County had said, Tang Zhou's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and when the fifth uncle finished speaking, Tang Zhou opened his mouth and said, "This is difficult."

Tang Zhou walked in the courtyard and said, "At that time, I was thinking about how the black zombie appeared there, and now it seems that someone is raising corpses."

"Raising corpses?" The fifth uncle asked suspiciously

"The black zombie should have escaped the control of the corpse keeper and ran to the side of the mound, just when it was dawn, the black zombie lost his ability to move, and then was found and reported to the official, Huang Tao's death should not be done by the black zombie, with the slow action of the black zombie, it is impossible to kill Huang Tao as a military attachΓ©. Then there is only one possibility, it is that when the corpse keeper was looking for this black zombie, he was discovered by Huang Tao, so the corpse keeper killed him. And the missing people should all be dead, and they have been used to make zombies. ”

The fifth uncle heard Tang Zhou say so much, and his face was a little ugly, and the fifth uncle said, "Then what should I do?" ”

Tang Zhou sighed and said, "I'll go and have a look with you, people like this kind of demon outsiders are generally not simple people."

Tang Zhou had a faint bad premonition in his heart, the technique of raising corpses had not appeared for a long time.

With this uneasiness, Tang Zhou took Chen Ergou and immediately set off to Huang County under the leadership of the fifth uncle.

The three of them came to Huang County all the way, and the first thing Tang Zhou did was to take a look at Huang Tao's body.

After Huang Qing came forward to adjust, a group of officials came to Huang Tao's grave with tools.

Soon the earth was cut open, revealing the coffin inside,

"Open the coffin"

The fifth uncle instructed the official to pry the coffin board open,

"Ahh

The officials who opened the coffin screamed, and the fifth uncle scolded, "What is it called?"

Several officials had already run up, several of them were so frightened that their faces were bloodless, and one of them pointed to the coffin and said, "Long hair?" ”

"What?" Tang Zhou quickly jumped down and looked into the coffin when he heard this, only to see that Huang Tao's shriveled body in the coffin had been covered with a layer of white hair, Tang Zhou came up and immediately said to the fifth uncle, "Find someone to burn him immediately, he has become a white zombie!" ”

The fifth uncle looked at Tang Zhou with some embarrassment, this Huang Tao's family is also here, hearing Tang Zhou's words, Huang Tao's wife scolded, "Fart, you demon way!" ”

Huang Tao's relatives rushed forward with emotion, and the fifth uncle saw that things were not good, and hurriedly ordered the officials to "hold them down"

Huang Tao's family was stopped, they struggled and scolded at the same time, Tang Zhou ignored these at all, and just said to the fifth uncle, "It seems that the previous inference was wrong, he was killed by zombies, and he is a high-level zombie, only high-level zombies can directly turn the person who bites him to death into a zombie!" ”

The fifth uncle asked with an ugly face, "There is no other way?" ”

Tang Zhou said leisurely, "If you don't want to die more people, just listen to me!" ”

The fifth uncle gritted his teeth and said to his subordinates: "Come and burn it for me!" ”

The sun was just right, the fire was raging, and Huang Tao's body shook at the moment it was burned, and there was a squeaky cry from the fire.

Although the sun was blazing, everyone present felt a chill, and the scene was silent, only the sound of burning wood cracking.

Suddenly, Tang Zhou seemed to feel something, turned around in an instant, and in the afterglow, Tang Zhou saw a black shadow disappear from his vision.