From that day on, Liu Dongyun followed Gong Hanqian on the road of "chasing corpses", and the first few days were not bad, Liu Dongyun was able to endure his temperament. But five days later, Liu Dongyun couldn't bear it, he really wanted to find out what the ingredients of that medicine were, under the premise that Gong Hanqian didn't say anything, he could only try to collect the hair, dander and the like on the body of the "listening foot" to study, after all, Liu Dongyun is a pharmacist among the shippers, and the medical skills he has learned are not divided into Chinese and Western, and he has also found from his years of medical experience that most diseases cannot be treated with Chinese medicine or Western medicine alone, first use Western medicine to treat diseases and save lives, and then use Chinese medicine to regulate and stabilize, so as to achieve the best results.

Five days later, one evening, the two finally led Tingzu to the outskirts of a town less than twenty miles from Tingzu's hometown, where they found a very modest inn. After paying double the price, Gong Hanqian chose the room closest to the entrance.

Liu Dongyun was puzzled: "Shouldn't you choose the most remote room?" ”

Gong Hanqian shook his head: "Originally, my business was not visible, our dress was also a little strange, and the smell on our bodies was even more suspicious. ”

Liu Yundong said: "It makes sense. ”

"Let's rest early, at most tomorrow at noon, we can send 'Tingtou' back to our hometown, and the effect of the medicine is almost over, once the effect of the medicine is over, if we haven't gone back, something will happen." Gong Hanqian didn't take off his clothes, but put down the strange weapon, and ordered the "listening foot" to lie on the bed, and then he sat together, for many days, Gong Hanqian never lay down to sleep, and rested and sits, which made Liu Dongyun feel very strange.

Liu Dongyun went to the thatched house under the pretext of going to the thatched house, took a few medicines of his own, went to the kitchen, asked the people in the kitchen for some salt and barley, quietly came to the thatched house, quickly prepared a few medicines, crushed them into powder, put them in the cuffs, and then returned to the room.

Back in the room, Liu Dongyun deliberately looked for an opportunity to chat with Gong Hanqian, although Gong Hanqian didn't speak, he still spoke on his own, seeing that Gong Hanqian had not talked, he had to step forward and wave his hand in front of his eyes, pretending to be puzzled: "Brother Gong, can you really fall asleep while sitting?" ”

Gong Hanqian still didn't speak, and Liu Dongyun shook his head and returned to the bed, in fact, the moment he waved his hand, he had already sprinkled the powder, he was a pharmacist after all, and it was easy to configure some drugs similar to hypnosis to fall asleep.

After an hour, after Liu Dongyun heard Gong Hanqian's breathing become heavy, he quietly got up, came to another bed, touched the "Tingzu", cut off the hair of "Tingzu" with a knife, scraped some dandruff on the surface of the body, and then dipped some saliva from the corners of his mouth with cotton, put it in his bag, and then prepared to go back to sleep.

At the moment when Liu Dongyun was about to return, he lied and saw the "listening" face, and felt a little familiar, so he subconsciously looked at the face, and the moment he got closer to see it clearly, Liu Dongyun was so frightened that he almost screamed out, because that face was none other than Gong Hanqian's!

What the hell is going on!? A terrible and strange thought popped up in Liu Dongyun's mind - could it be that the so-called Gong Hanqian at the beginning was actually "listening to the feet", and "listening to the feet" was the palace Hanqian? No, maybe more responsible?

Liu Dongyun couldn't figure out what was going on, he got up again and turned to look at Gong Hanqian who was sitting on the chair, because when he came back before, there was no light in the room at all, he talked and waved in front of Gong Hanqian, and he didn't see his face clearly.

He didn't dare to light the coal lamp, so he had to open the window next to him and look at Gong Hanqian's face in sleep by the moonlight, but he didn't realize that in the process of pushing the window and turning around to see Gong Hanqian's face, the "hearing foot" on the bed suddenly opened, and then slowly sat up, turning his head to look at Liu Dongyun, who was observing Gong Hanqian!

Liu Dongyun was completely unaware of all this, he approached Gong Hanqian's face and looked carefully, and was surprised to find that it was not Gong Hanqian sitting there at all, but the "listening foot" who was lying down before, at that moment, Liu Dongyun, who was so frightened that he almost screamed, suddenly realized something, he turned around suddenly, and the moment he turned around, the "listening foot" behind him pressed his shoulders and said coldly: "Sir, you are too disappointed for me!" ”

Liu Dongyun trembled, almost sat down, and said slowly: "You deliberately scare me!?" ”

"Sir now understands why the corpse maker is dressed exactly like 'Tingzu', right? This is also why, our so-called corpse business also depends on the height of the individual, fat and thin, if it is a fat person, we have to find the same fat person to do it, and we will also change identities from time to time along the way, so as not to meet a good person like you to stir up trouble. Gong Hanqian said and let go of Liu Dongyun, shook his head and said, "Sir, I forgive you this time, I hope you don't do this next time, in addition, after leaving tomorrow, we must arrive before noon, that is, when the sun is at its strongest, if it rains or cloudy tomorrow, we have to delay the departure time." ”

Liu Dongyun wanted to ask why, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, and he was already embarrassed to ask again.

The night passed, and there was nothing to do, but Liu Dongyun didn't fall asleep, he wanted to know the answer too much, and there was only half a day left, if he couldn't get some of the things on his body tomorrow morning, it would be a waste of his efforts. Because he judged from Gong Hanqian's words that the effect of the medicine would last until noon tomorrow at most, and at that time, once the effect of the medicine had passed, even if he managed to get the corpse of the "listening to the feet", it was estimated that he would not be able to find out anything more.

Because he didn't have enough tools with him, he had to rush to Changsha, the provincial capital, to find a friend for testing, and in the whole of Hunan, only Changsha still had the relevant testing conditions at that time.

The next morning, the sun was already hanging overhead, and the abundant sunlight made Gong Hanqian breathe a sigh of relief, and he immediately led "Tingzu" on the road, while Liu Dongyun followed from a distance as usual, observing, looking for an opportunity to start.

However, the morning was almost over, and it was noon, Liu Dongyun didn't find any opportunity, but at this time, the sky became dark, and the dark clouds drifted in the sky, followed by gusts of strong winds, and it was about to rain.

"Oh no, it's too late!" Gong Hanqian looked up at the sky and said to himself, "I can't go any more." ”

Saying that, Gong Hanqian took out the ropes he was carrying, threw one of them to Liu Dongyun and said, "Sir, do me a favor, tie the feet of 'Tingzu', I will tie my hands and neck, I must tie it to death!" ”

Liu Dongyun took the rope and wondered, "Why do you want to tie it?" ”

Gong Hanqian was already quickly tying the hands of "Tingzu": "Don't ask so much, do as I say!" ”

Liu Dongyun had no choice but to do so, tied his hands with Gong Hanqian, tied his feet with the other, and tied up the "listening foot".

Immediately afterwards, Gong Hanqian carried the upright "Tingzu", looked around, looked around, and finally landed on a big tree that was two people thick, ran over with the "Tingzu", put it down, and tied it again with a rope.

Liu Dongyun stood on the side and watched like that, not knowing why Gong Hanqian did that: "Brother, why did you tie him up?" Isn't it almost there? ”

"The so-called life-sustaining miracle medicine, its life-sustaining time can be adjusted, but it is only half a month at most, and it is impossible to have more, because no one's body can carry it for half a month, not to mention that these people are dying people." Gong Hanqian didn't look back, just stared at the "Tingzu" tied to the trunk and said, "Once it is half a month later, if you don't bring the 'Tingzu' to the destination when the sunshine is at its strongest, there are only two choices, one is to tie up the 'Tingzu' and let it exhaust the last bit of life on its own, and the other is to kill the 'Tingzu' directly." ”

When he said this, a thunderbolt suddenly sounded in the sky, which startled Liu Dongyun, but this thunder suddenly reminded him of something, and he subconsciously asked: "Wait, I want to ask you, if we successfully bring 'Tingzu' to the destination, that is, his home, the life of 'Tingzu' should not be exhausted before that, right?" What would you do if you didn't run out? ”

Liu Dongyun saw Gong Hanqian turn his head sideways, he stared at Gong Hanqian's iron-blue side face, and then heard him say, "I have already said it just now......"

Liu Dongyun suddenly understood at this time, understood the process of driving out the corpse, to put it bluntly, it is to let the dying person take the "next life", and follow the action mechanically according to a simple order, but at this time the person is not dead, just like a puppet who will only obey orders, but on the surface, in the heart of the family of "Tingshan", this person is dead, when the corpse craftsman brings "Tingzu" home, if the vitality of "Tingzu" is not exhausted, the corpse craftsman will play a new role, That's the one who sent this man on his way.

Of course, that's a nice way to put it, but to put it bluntly, it's the executioner.

Liu Dongyun frowned, raised his hand and pointed at Gong Hanqian in front of him: "You guys...... You kill? ”

Gong Hanqian said coldly: "No, we just turned the living dead into dead people, that's all, and when 'Tingzu found us', he knew what would happen later, and we would sign a contract." ”

Liu Dongyun shook his head vigorously: "A few days ago, didn't you say that when the medicine is over, this person will die naturally?" We can wait for the medicine to take effect! ”

"You are a doctor, I am a corpse maker, you are in charge of the living, I am staring at the dead, we should have been opposed." Gong Hanqian smiled, "But you're right, you can wait for him to take effect, I'm waiting now!" ”

The dark clouds in the sky rolled, and the rolling dark clouds were mixed with lightning, and the raindrops slowly fell down, at first just splashing on the ground, but after a while, the downpour was blown by the strong wind, and the sky fell overwhelmingly. Even so, Gong Hanqian still stood motionless, his gaze slowly moving from the body of the "Tingzu" tied to the trunk of the tree to the strange weapon on the side, and then quickly moved back.

Liu Dongyun saw Gong Hanqian's hands clenched into fists, and then raised his eyes, and found that the "listening feet" tied to the trunk of the tree also seemed to twitch, he thought that the rain had blinded his eyes, and subconsciously wiped his hands on his face, looked at it, and found that the "listening feet" really began to struggle slowly.

"How...... How could it be ......" Liu Dongyun opened his mouth, raised his hand and pointed to the "listening foot" on the trunk, "this...... ...... the end?"

Gong Han Qian was silent, but slowly moved a step towards the position of the weapon.

At this moment, a lightning bolt struck a big tree in the distance, Liu Dongyun was startled, and almost fell to the ground, and then saw that the frequency of the "hearing foot" struggle became faster, and his head began to swing quickly from side to side.

Gong Hanqian turned his head sharply at this time: "Last night, when you mistakenly thought he was me, you drugged him, what kind of medicine did you give!?" ”

Liu Dongyun was already stupid, plus the sound of thunder, rain, and wind, he didn't realize that Gong Hanqian was talking to him at all, he just raised his hand and pointed at the "listening foot", maintaining that stunned appearance.

Seeing that Liu Dongyun didn't answer, Gong Han Qian turned around and pounced on the weapon placed on the ground, separated the weapon from the middle, stuck the end of the snake spear on the ground, lifted the other end of the Pu knife, and rushed towards "Tingzu", and when he rushed to it, he shouted: "The deceased listens to the foot, your original name is Liu Cheng, you were originally a hunter, born at noon on the ugly day of the first month of the year of Gengxu, and died in ......."

Before Gong Hanqian finished speaking, the "listening foot" had already broken free of the rope on his right arm, Liu Dongyun was so frightened that his eyes were round at this time, and his eyes were about to fall out, and then he saw that the listening foot broke free from the rope on his feet, no, it was not to break free, it was broken alive - the rope was tied by his own hands, and when he touched his hand, he knew that even if the rope was cut with a sharp knife, it would take a little time, and it was impossible to break free with human strength alone!

Perhaps, the "listening to enough" in front of him is not a person at all? Are there really zombies!? As a doctor, Liu Dongyun doesn't believe in the existence of zombies at all, but how to explain the current situation?

Gong Hanqian jumped high at this time, and stabbed the head of "Tingzu" with his knife, and he used stabs, not chops. Because the reason why "Tingzu" wants to ask the corpse craftsman to "drive" him home, in addition to wanting the leaves to return to his roots, he also wants to leave a whole corpse for himself!

When this knife stabbed down, "Tingzu" raised his right arm to block it directly, and while the Pu knife was inserted into his right wrist, "Tingzu" waved with one hand, and with the Pu knife and Gong Hanqian holding the Pu knife, he threw it out directly, and then quickly broke free of the rope of the whole body, and when he looked up, he saw Liu Dongyun standing there in the distance.

Liu Dongyun and "Tingzu" looked at each other, and saw clearly that the other party's eyes were completely blood-red, and it seemed to glow red, and then, the "Tingzu" stepped on the muddy ground and rushed towards him.

"Run, sir!" Gong Hanqian, who was covered in mud, got up at the same time, and rushed to the "listening foot" while shouting, this time he didn't care about anything, he directly slashed the knife horizontally, and split the listening foot's head directly to the ground - at the same time that the head hit the ground, the "listening foot" had already arrived in front of Liu Dongyun, and his hands choked Liu Dongyun's throat.

Liu Dongyun couldn't breathe at all, raised his hand and grabbed the wrist of "Tingzu", looking at his neck, although he was still spurting blood, he was still struggling to pinch his hands, at that moment, Liu Dongyun felt that he was dead.

Gong Hanqian raised his hand and stabbed it again, cut off the wrist of the "listening foot", stepped forward and broke his fingers hard, saving Liu Dongyun, and then lying on the muddy ground panting, letting the torrential rain slap on his face and body.

Liu Dongyun knelt on the ground and watched like that, and Gong Hanqian just lay like that, maintaining it like this until the rainstorm stopped and the rain cleared.

When the dark clouds completely dispersed and the sun shone on the earth again, Liu Dongyun trembled, swallowed his saliva to moisten his throat that seemed to be stuck together, and turned his head to look at Gong Hanqian on the side.

Gong Hanqian got up slowly, without saying a word, packed the wrist and head of "Tingzu" with a cloth bag, and then picked up the body of "Tingzu", grabbed the weapon and luggage and walked towards the depths of the woods.

Liu Dongyun still stayed there, and after a long time, he realized that everything he had experienced before was not a dream, he stumbled towards the direction that Gong Hanqian had taken before, and walked a full bag of cigarettes, and only then did he find Gong Hanqian who was sewing the body of "Tingzu" with a needle and thread behind a bush.

"I can't be a corpsesmith anymore." Gong Han didn't raise his head and said, "I'm jealous." ”

Liu Dongyun stood there for a long time before asking: "Because, because ......"

Liu Dongyun didn't know what he was going to say next.

Gong Hanqian stopped and said lightly: "If you are not my benefactor, I can put all the responsibility on you, after all, it was because of you, but you are my savior, I can't do that." ”

Liu Dongyun stood there, he quickly grabbed the mint leaf and put it in his mouth, sobered himself up for a moment, and then squatted down and said: "Brother, I think you are wrong, you believe me, even if I didn't give the drug to 'Tingzu' last night, such a thing would have happened today." ”

Gong Hanqian frowned and looked at him, as if to say: Why are you so brazen?

Liu Dongyun explained: "I can be absolutely sure that in the past, whether it was you or your other colleagues, before the effect of the medicine was almost over, even if you didn't reach the destination, you all started in advance and killed 'Tingzu', right?" I think there are two key reasons why you want to kill 'Tingzu', one is that you want to really make outsiders think that you are driving corpses and zombies, and second, if you don't kill 'Tingzu', once the effect of the medicine passes, no, strictly speaking, after the real effect of the medicine starts to work, 'Tingzu' will become the same as before! ”

Gong Hanqian just looked at Liu Dongyun like that, kept watching, looked at it for a long time, and then lowered his head and said, "Sir, you can go." ”

Liu Dongyun, who had just squatted down, slowly got up, he knew that from this moment on, Gong Hanqian would never say anything to him again, and he would also treat him as a stranger. He had no choice but to turn away, wandering aimlessly through the woods.

Half a month later, when Liu Dongyun, who was recuperating in a nearby town, decided to enter the mountain again, he witnessed the execution of the local police under the town's tower, and among the three people shot by the police, there was Gong Hanqian, whom he knew, on the charge of murdering Orion Liu Cheng.

When he saw Gong Hanqian kneeling on the ground with an expressionless face, Liu Dongyun couldn't help but push away the crowd and rushed up directly, and pushed away the surrounding police, Gong Hanqian also looked at him at this time, looked at him who was pointed at gunpoint by the police, and shook his head slightly.

Liu Dongyun suddenly understood, this was Gong Hanqian's willingness, he had to excuse himself to say that he had recognized the wrong person, and the police saw that he was a Langzhong appearance, and he didn't have any weapons, and he was not a person who robbed the law field, and after a few reprimands, he told him to get out.

Liu Dongyun retreated into the crowd and watched the first two people being shot dead by the police, and when the policeman's gun was aimed at Gong Hanqian's back, he subconsciously closed his eyes, and then heard a crisp gunshot.

After the first two corpses were taken away, Gong Hanqian's body was still there, Liu Dongyun stood in the distance, wanting to collect the body, but his previous impulsiveness, coupled with lies, no longer allowed him to do so.

The police couldn't wait for someone to come to collect the body, so they had to ask someone to get a car, preparing to take Gong Hanqian's body outside the town and bury it somewhere at random.

Liu Dongyun just kept following, quietly following, waiting for the police to dig a shallow pit, and after hastily burying Gong Hanqian, he was about to step forward to dig up his body and rebury it, but he didn't expect that as soon as the police walked in front of him, four men who were dressed exactly the same as Gong Hanqian appeared from the woods, came from four different directions, and did not speak, but just picked up the tools in his hand, quickly dug out Gong Hanqian's body, carried by a person, and quickly disappeared into the mountains and forests.

……

The story of Yuan Zhenba is here, the bonfire outside the watchtower has come to the smell of barbecue, Xu You has already roasted those squirrels and mountain rats, hung them on one side with a bamboo pole, and looked sideways at the people in the house, as if to say: You don't eat? And I ate it myself?

Xu You's blood was dry, the fire shone on him, and it was reflected, coupled with the story of Yuan Zhenba, which made the people in the room feel even more uncomfortable, but He Chenxue, who smelled the aroma of barbecue, couldn't help but rush out, find a corner and vomit.

Tan Tong stood up, sat down again, and whispered by relying on the torture technique: "Congratulations! ”

As soon as Tan Tong finished speaking, he was kicked by Yan Gang: "Can you be serious?" That's nausea, not morning sickness! ”

The torture didn't pay attention to Tan Tong, but just asked Yuan Zhenba: "Do you mean to say that it was because of this incident that your master learned about the miraculous medicine called 'Alternate World', and decided to study what it was, and finally found out that it was the 'wrath of the witch god' that the Miao people feared, which was later called the 'poisonous golden mushroom'?" Later, your ancestor has been staying in the Miao Village, but still didn't study it, but it killed many people in this Miao Village, I don't know why, but in the end he still went to find the Jiacuo Hall with a cave puppet, plus the dragon boat, who knew that there was an accident, and only your ancestor survived in the end, right? ”

Yuan Zhenba clapped his hands: "* Not far from ten, but don't forget, the details determine the truth of the matter, my ancestor is not a bad person, he actually studied that thing, just to change that medicine from 'bad' to 'good', so as to achieve the purpose of benefiting the world, and his ideals are very ambitious, he even tried to think about it, maybe the role of that thing is not just to continue life." ”

Bai Zhongzheng's sneer came from the corner on one side, and he said, "It's not just about continuing your life, that is, if you want to live forever?" ”

Yuan Zhenba pointed at Bai Zhongzheng and smiled: "Smart." ”