I stood a meter away, through my mobile phone, as if I could feel the excitement of Zhang Liang and Li Jun at this time.

"Is this information reliable?" Director Qin's tone also changed, and he asked hurriedly.

"Absolutely reliable, we are now in the archives section of the local personnel bureau!"

Needless to say, employees in regular units have a lifelong portfolio, at least from junior high school onwards, and of course this file also includes family member information.

I couldn't help but wonder.

Yellow River corpse fisher?

I am very familiar with this profession, and it is considered that the Yellow River corpse collectors are somewhat similar to the work of our water conservancy station, and it is also one of the mysterious professions on the ancient Yellow River, which has been cited by many people.

Scooping corpses, as the name suggests, is to go down to the river to salvage corpses, because of the perennial dealings with the dead, also known as "yin and yang cross-border people", they have many rules for salvaging corpses, some corpses will never be salvaged, and what is "male and female prostrate", this kind of corpse is not charged, because it will be unlucky for three years to collect money.

Something like that, Lao Hong can talk about it all morning.

The so-called will cause this superstitious thought, but also the folk thousands of years to form the ghost and god theory, from the Western Zhou Dynasty funeral customs since the development, the ghost and god said has not stopped, "Rites and Rites" recorded: the deceased, its heaven and earth virtue, yin and yang friends, ghosts and gods, the five elements of the delicate spirit also.

However, there are not many records of the corpse in ancient times, and most people have a sense of awe for the Yellow River, and they will not salvage the corpse at will.

With the development of science, there is not much attention to the corpse, since the 60s of the 20th century, the floating corpses in the Lanzhou section of the Yellow River have exceeded 10,000 bodies, some of them are also based on this era as the general background, these floating corpses are unclaimed, the proportion of suicides is very high, 80% of them are young and middle-aged people who commit suicide between the ages of 16 and 45.

With the development of Taoism, the concept of the five elements is widely used, and the ancients divided all things in the world into five things, namely: wood, fire, earth, gold, and water, and later generations created the theory of mutual reciprocity and mutual restraint of the five elements according to the five elements.

Corpse scavengers are not a profession in recent years, having been born very early in ancient times.

They are all in Binzhou, the village is located on the edge of the Yellow River, and the broken temple in Fotou Village and the two-headed strange stone statue in the temple pop up in my mind, all of which are related to the Dongyi people...... Could it be that these three people ...... Or are the parents of these three people also related to those mysterious Dongyi culture?

Coincidental?

I don't believe in such a coincidence, anyway.

I think this matter can be reversed - if they live in the same area, and their parents are all Yellow River corpse collectors is the only common characteristic of the three of them, then this is the reason why they were all controlled by Western magic after death.

After deducting the phone, Director Qin's expression was solemn.

After waiting in the small courtyard for more than ten minutes, Director Qin couldn't bear it, and after whispering a few words to Captain Shen, he called me to get in the car.

In the past ten minutes, Director Qin's frowning brows have not been loosened, and he has never said a word, seeing this situation, I am embarrassed to ask.

When I got to the car, except for the driver, there were only the two of us, and I finally couldn't help but ask Director Qin: "Where are we going now?" ”

"Back in the hall, you should have heard the content of the phone call just now, I think I should go back and ask the second elder in advance!" Director Qin paused for a moment, then continued, "That's right! Brother, I heard that you worked at the Yellow River Water Conservancy Station before, so you should know a little bit about the profession of the Yellow River corpse collector, right? ”

"It's okay!" I nodded, "Actually, a few old colleagues at the water conservancy station at that time were doing the work of digging corpses when they were young, but in the late eighties and early nineties, because of the development of the times, the title was changed." ”

"I've heard about it too - I heard that there are a lot of taboos on the Yellow River? For example, what kind of corpses can be fished out, what kind of corpses can't be fished, and even the time for going into the water to fish out the corpse is clearly stipulated. ”

"Almost! If you live on the edge of the Yellow River, you should have heard rumors about the corpse collectors in the Yellow River! ”

Before I knew it, the car had arrived at the office building of the provincial department.

Still in that office, a Taoist priest and a Taoist aunt were drinking tea and chatting.

"The backgrounds of the two masters and the three corpses have been clarified......"

Director Qin repeated what he said on the phone.

"It turned out to be a descendant of a river ghost, so that makes sense!"

When Director Qin heard the drama, his spirit was lifted: "Master, you ...... You say more detailed? The man...... Why did the people choose them? ”

Dao Ji shook off the dust of the Buddha: "Amitayus Buddha! Presumably you already know what kind of person I mean by river ghosts, the corpses in the water are the most humid, and often the grievances are also heavy, dealing with this kind of corpse all year round, it will naturally be contaminated with a special breath, which we call 'dead popularity' in our circle! ”

I couldn't help but interject and ask, "But...... But they weren't the ones who fished out the corpses! ”

Dao Ji smiled at me: "This kind of breath is contagious, once it is infected to others, it will be transformed into mildew - of course, this mildew is not the meaning of bad luck in the general sense, but short life - after the death of this kind of person, their corpse is different from the corpse of ordinary dead people, and it is most suitable for making a living corpse!"

"Are corpses still so exquisite?"

Dao Ji smiled again and nodded: "Of course!" To put it bluntly, you don't understand, let me give you an example! You've always seen zombie movies, right? ”

"I've seen it, I've seen all of the 'Mr. Zombie series'!"

"You think a random corpse can turn into a zombie?"

"This ......"

"The ones that can turn into zombies are actually not ordinary corpses, they all have a breath of qi on their bodies, and as for the reason for the formation of this qi, it may be in them or in their father."

"What's so good about such a corpse?"

This time, without waiting for Daoji to speak, Miaozhen replied first: "Of course it's amazing!" The most powerful living corpse is worth dozens of young strong men! ”

Dao Ji took over the conversation again: "This thing doesn't just appear on TV......"

In the sixties and seventies of the last century, zombies were found in a place called Nanchong in Sichuan, and the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau rushed to the scene, but the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau burned the corpses "without hesitation".

The reason can be made up by yourself.

Also found at the same time as the corpse were glutinous rice and rune paper related to zombie legends (both in coffins......

After an on-site investigation, it was found that this did not look like a tomb robbery, and there was no trace of displacement of the burial goods in the tomb, but the coffin was completely exposed. The local signal of the mobile phone is normal, but the audio and band are abnormal. Officer Liao of the Nanchong City Criminal Police Brigade couldn't even make a few phone calls, and there was a screeching sound in his mobile phone.

According to local farmers, since the tomb was excavated, local radios and tape recorders occasionally make strange noises at night.

Farmer Liu Futian recorded the strange sound and provided it to Officer Liao. According to the judgment of Deputy Section Chief Li of the Forensic Medicine Department of the Technical Department, the voice is similar to a human voice (asthma or muffled vomiting when the chest and lung pressure is insufficient). Dumbo eBook

Officer Liao contacted the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, and the Cultural Relics Bureau notified the Provincial Cultural Relics Unit to come forward.

The cultural relics inspection team organized by Deputy Director Chen went to the "century-old mass grave" at 20:05 on September 21. Excerpts from the records of the staff of cultural relics:

The excavated tomb has two coffins, the one on the right has been pried open and the body has been stolen; It has been confirmed that the exhumation took place five days earlier. This is puzzling to antiquities experts: tomb robbers do not steal antiques, but only dig up corpses and expose them to the sun.

Both coffins are sarcophagi, which is obviously not in line with the local custom of using wooden coffins for burials, and it is the first time in thousands of years that people have been found in the local sarcophagus. If the wooden coffin is expensive, there is a logical inconsistency, because the local mountains and forests are inexhaustible.

, inside the coffin, a dried corpse has a strange shape, and it has not rotted for a hundred years. The internal organs of the dried corpse were not removed (the internal organs of the corpse had to be removed first, the abdominal and thoracic cavity of the body was filled with medicinal spices to prevent the corpse from decomposing, and then the corpse was wrapped from head to toe with a drug-soaked cloth.

The ancient corpse found in Nanchong did not take any embalming measures, and the local geography and climate are not a dry place in the desert, and the ancient corpse is very well preserved), the internal organs are complete, the skin is still elastic, the hair is healthy, the eyelids are dry and curly, and the eyeballs and cornea are well preserved.

What made the cultural relics workers feel "incomprehensible" and "unprecedented" was that the whole body of the ancient corpse was tied with nine sturdy canvas ropes, which was not the method of making mummies to isolate the air and embalm the body.

The corpse was not fully enclosed, and the head was exposed, which was obviously not for embalming, but more like a deliberate binding of the corpse so that it could not move.

What makes the villagers even more creepy is that the whole body of the ancient corpse is coated with a layer of glutinous rice, a yellow rune paper is pasted on the forehead, and the coffin seal is also glutinous rice mixed with lime.

The villagers immediately began to panic and commotion, causing panic in the hearts of the people. The superstitious style here is quite serious, which has affected the normal investigation of cultural relics workers.

The discovery of dried corpses is of great archaeological and scientific value. However, after the relevant experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau arrived, they immediately organized people to burn the dried corpses.

The man who wanted to burn the corpse was so clever, this kind of corpse was not a 'zombie' but a 'yin corpse'.

The so-called 'yin corpse' is a person who dies haunted by ghosts, and because he died because he was haunted by ghosts, he actually became a powerful ghost when he died. However, because the person has just died, the flesh still has a certain strength to seal the ghost, so the family should wrap the corpse with a corpse wrapping belt, and cover the whole body with glutinous rice mixed with dog blood, and the yellow charm painted with the Great Compassion Mantra or other spells is pasted on the forehead, and put it into a coffin made of stainless steel, in which there are no burial goods.

In some cases, sarcophagi, iron coffins, etc. can also be used instead of steel coffins, and wooden coffins must not be used, let alone without coffins.

After entering the earth, the tomb is sprinkled with three bowls of fragrant ash water, and the museum will never be opened. If the coffin is opened, it needs to be incinerated within 3 days, otherwise it will be angry as soon as it comes into contact, and the corpse will immediately change and become a 'living corpse', endangering one party!

This reminds me of the case of a dead man murder in a Western country that Dao Ji told me before.

Director Qin's face became even more ugly.

"I'm afraid that the tragedy of the year will be repeated today!" Director Qin let out a long sigh.

Before we knew it, it was past noon, and we followed Director Qin to have a casual meal in their restaurant.

After lunch, a few of them were still talking about the case, and I thought about Wu Jinghan a little, so I went outside the door and called her.

"Dinner?"

"Nope!"

"It's one o'clock in the afternoon, why haven't you eaten yet?"

"In the morning, the tutor went to the hospital to see the principal...... It seems that the principal was injured in the leg last night, and he was even more frightened enough to be admitted to Qilu Hospital. ”

"Is this a robbery when you went out at night?"

"Where...... His house was burglarized last night, and I heard from the tutor that he was still a strange thief, with infinite strength, wearing strange clothes, his face was expressionless, and he had a foul smell on his body, he didn't rob anything, and after forcibly opening the security door, he shot at the principal......"

"Ahh It can't be revenge, right? I replied casually.

"No, it won't!" Wu Jinghan was obviously stunned for a moment, our principal is a person who has no quarrel with the world, you must know that he is a deputy department level! If you want to change to other positions, you can also be regarded as a big-name person. ”

This is true, the principals and teachers of schools are cadres in nature, generally at the level of local high school principals and education bureau chiefs, and the principals of national 985 schools are at least at the deputy department level......

"Did you catch the man?"

"Nope! Fortunately, several security guards were there at that time, and they were still holding rubber rods and other things, otherwise it is estimated that our principal would have been lying in the funeral home at this time! ”

The three words "funeral home" made me suddenly feel empowered, and I hurriedly asked Wu Jinghan: "Why are there several security guards who still hold things and don't stop that person?" ”

"No! It is said that the man was so angry that he hit him with rubber rods and other things, but he didn't react at all, and the last three security guards were injured......"

My heart fluttered again, is it a living corpse again?

That's right! There are three bodies missing from the funeral home, even if there are two in the courtyard of the deputy director, there is still one, is it ......

After hanging up the phone, I immediately returned to the house, where Director Qin and the two masters were still communicating something.

"It wasn't the other who was attacked last night!"

As I entered, I shouted at them.

They looked at me and seemed a little confused.

"What do you mean? Brothers! ”

"I mean, there was someone who was almost killed by a living corpse yesterday!" I explain further.

"Oh? Who! ”

I hurriedly retold what Wu Jinghan said on the phone.

"And this? I'll call and ask first! ”

Director Qin took out his mobile phone and dialed it out.

"Was Principal Zhang of Shandong University attacked last night?"

Then I only heard him "um" a few times, and then withheld the phone.

"We have to go to the University Street Police Station, I'm afraid things are the same as what Brother Lu Dong said!"

In the University Street police station, last night's case is being tried.

"That man's appearance is really weird!" I followed Director Qin directly into the interrogation room, just in time to hear a young man in a security uniform shouting.