The officer drew his dagger and saw a black liquid gurgling out of the wound, which looked like blood, but with a strange stench.

The officer didn't care so much, he took a dagger dripping with black blood and slashed the soldier's neck, but the soldier did not have anything unusual except that black blood was still coming out of the wound.

The officer was a little annoyed, and he stabbed the soldier back and forth with his dagger, and when he looked back, the soldier was still moving freely.

At this moment, the officer suddenly heard a roar outside, which lasted for a long time, and shook the ground so much that everyone present did not dare to take a breath.

By this time the sky was already dark, and the rain had lightened, and when the noise had subsided, the officer ordered a few men to stay and watch over the mutant soldiers, while he himself took the rest of the men to the place where the noise had been made.

When I arrived at the place, the officer almost even had a crooked jaw, half of the hillside where the soldiers of the national army were buried was gone, and the remnants of stones and branches could be seen all the way down, daring to be a landslide!

Thinking of the body, they searched down the hillside, but when they went down the hill to look, they found the dead brothers wriggling in the mire, just like the soldier who was tied to the pillar.

Everyone present had never seen such a strange scene, and they were immediately frightened, and they all said that it was the wrath of the gods, and they wanted these brothers to die a bad death.

While everyone was disagreeing, some of the dead had already climbed ashore and dragged some of the living people who had no time to react into the quagmire, and by the time the rest of the people reacted, these people who had been dragged down had already drowned in the quagmire.

Seeing this, the officer immediately gave an order, and he asked the rest of the men to find sticks and bamboo poles to push the dead people who had climbed ashore back into the mire.

The corpses of the soldiers and bandits were mixed together, climbed up and down at the edge of the quagmire, and after a long time, they pulled a bump out of the quagmire, and the suction force of the quagmire itself was so that these corpses could never climb ashore again.

By this time, the officer had some understanding, although he still couldn't figure out how these corpses had become like this, but he knew that these corpses had mutated, and the reason for the mutation was probably related to the place they were in, that is, there was something strange in this mountain!

However, it was not only the officer who wanted to understand, but also many of the remaining soldiers thought of this, so after returning to the stockade, the remaining dozen or so people left more than half of them, and in the end, in addition to the officers, there were only a few wounded left.

The officer had no choice but to lead the soldier tied to the pillar to the edge of the quagmire, pushed him down, and then he simply took the man into a cave not far from the quagmire.

For more than ten years, the officer spent the rest of his time on the edge of the quagmire, except for touching and eating, and he was afraid that these corpses would run out.

Li Yishui asked the officer why he didn't go down the mountain, and the officer smiled bitterly and said:

"Allah came to this mountain with his brothers, and said that he would take them to share the glory and wealth, but now that he has not enjoyed the glory and wealth, he can't even let no one care about them becoming like this!"

Li Yishui really wanted to tell the officer that society had changed a lot, and with his current appearance, even if he went down the mountain to ask for food, it was better than accompanying the dead on the mountain.

But Li Yishui didn't say anything, he felt that it was better to let the officer stay in the mountain, the officer had survived for more than ten years, he was used to this kind of life, at least on this mountain, he couldn't be hungry or frozen.

After listening to the officer's story, Li Yishui did not hide it, and told the identity of his father and son, and he also told the officer that among the pile of dead bodies, one was his main customer.

The two sides identified themselves, and the words were torn apart, and the officer told Li Yishui everything except his own surname.

At this time, it was also dark, and Li Yishui asked Li Shoude to carry the luggage left in the stockade, and then made a bunch of food on the bonfire.

The officer may not have eaten serious food for a long time, and he ate with relish, Li Yishui looked at the officer pitiful, and the others saved him, so he said that he would leave the remaining dry food and clothes to the officer.

The officer was not polite, Li Yishui asked for anything, and in the middle of the night, the officer gave each of the two a bundle of hay, and the three of them fell asleep around the campfire.

When he woke up the next day, Li Yishui found that he had forgotten the business after chatting all night yesterday: his patron was still in the quagmire, and what should he do with the corpses in the quagmire? You can't leave it alone!

Li Yishui called Li Shoude and the officer to discuss what to do, the officer shook his head and said that there was no way, he said that he had tried many methods over the years, throwing stones and stabbing with bamboo poles, but these corpses were like no one, and they had no effect at all.

Although Li Yishui knows more than Li Shoude, but this is the first time he has encountered this situation, in the past, all corpses and sealing the acupoints again can be solved, and sealing the acupoints like yesterday does not work, he has never encountered it.

Seeing that neither of them could do anything, Li Yishui began to try to recall the contents of the codex.

In addition, related to corpses, there are also exorcism charms, soul scattering charms, corpse awakening charms, zombie charms, and so on.

The usage of these runes can be directly analyzed from the name, such as the exorcism charm, which is used to deal with blood-stained corpses, which can make their hideous faces peaceful; The corpse waking charm is used to wake up the corpse and make them do some fixed actions, such as opening their eyes and opening their mouths; The stiff charm, as the name suggests, is to soften a stiff corpse.

After thinking about it, Li Yishui couldn't think of the most direct way, so he gritted his teeth and decided to go to the quagmire to do an "experiment" first.

So, the three of them took bamboo poles, tree vines and other improvised tools, came to the quagmire, and "fished" a corpse from it.

The three of them first managed to tie the corpse to the big tree, and then Li Yishui used the methods he thought of on the corpse one by one.

Who knew that the first time Li Yishui used the soul fixing talisman to seal the corpse, the corpse immediately did not move.

Li Yishui was puzzled, so he fished another one, and after a set of soul fixing talismans was cast, the corpse immediately collapsed.

After that, Li Yishui succeeded again and again, until he fished out his "patron", the corpse that killed the mule, and his soul talisman became invalid.

Li Yishui thought that the only difference between this "patron" and other corpses was that he was stained with blood, but the runes in the codex did not deal with blood-stained corpses at all, so would it be necessary to combine runes and use them?

Thinking of this, a rune immediately popped up in Li Yishui's mind: Scattered Spirit Talisman.

For the scattered spirit talisman, the codex is annotated as follows: the first seal hall, the perineal bell, the scattered spirit, the death of the evil spirit, the decay of the body, and the birth of the broken.

The reason why Li Yishui remembered the spirit scattering talisman was because of the words "filthy spirit" and "murderous soul" in the annotation, as for the last two sentences "his body is rotten, and his life is broken", Li Yishui roughly understands that after the murderous soul is dispersed, his body will rot, and all his actions that seem to come to life will be interrupted.

After thinking for a while, Li Yishui dipped a little cinnabar with a tree branch, and then lit the spirit scattering talisman on the corpse.

Who knew that after a set of runes, the corpse not only did not go limp, but struggled desperately as if it were going crazy, his movements seemed to be unconstrained by the muscles, and his joints were twisted into a terrifying look, and his mouth was wide open, and his tongue was desperately drilling out, as if he was in great pain.

Not only the officers and Li Shoude at the scene, but even Li Yishui was stunned by the sudden madness of the corpse.

Li Yishui was at a loss, he wanted to try another rune, but when he saw the corpse like this, he didn't dare to mess around, he was worried that if he used it wrong again, the corpse didn't know what would be more terrifying.

Just when Li Yishui was stunned, the corpse suddenly quieted down, Li Yishui saw that the corpse seemed to be out of strength, and the range of struggle became smaller little by little, and finally, the corpse shrank into a ball and did not move.

The three of them watched this scene with bated breath, no one dared to react first, and finally Li Yishui picked up a bamboo pole and stabbed the corpse, and when they saw that the corpse did not react, they dared to lean over.

Li Yishui picked the corpse's arm with a bamboo pole, but found that the arm was dangling in mid-air like a rope, as if the bones inside had disappeared.

Li Yishui tried the other arm again, and found that it was the same, so he quickly threw away the bamboo pole and ran forward to check.

After some inspection, Li Yishui was stunned, the bones of the corpse seemed to have been crushed by a boulder, and they were broken into pieces, and even his skull was like a crushed egg, which was dented with a light press, and some brown and foul-smelling liquid flowed from his mouth, nose, and ears.

This kind of smell is very familiar to Li Yishui, it is the smell of the corpse after it has decomposed, and it seems that the sentence "its body is rotten" in the annotation is not a mouthful.

Li Yishui was first complacent about subduing the murderous corpse and learning a set of runes that he had never used before, and then, his brows furrowed: he promised the master that he would bring back an intact body, but looking at this situation, this corpse is afraid that it will rot into a pile of stinky water if he can't survive to get out of this kind of mountain, and when the time comes, how should he explain to the master's family?

Li Shoude probably also thought of this, he approached Li Yishui and asked softly:

"Dad, what should I do now?"

Li Yishui looked back at the remaining corpses in the quagmire, wondering if he could just fish one out of it and do something perfunctory, but he himself denied this idea: it was not in accordance with the rules to do so, and he couldn't live with the craftsmanship that his ancestor had worked so hard to pass on.

So, Li Yishui gritted his teeth and decided to simply tell the truth, it doesn't matter if the lord believes it or not, the most important thing is that he has a clear conscience!

After that, Li Yishui asked Li Shoude to go to the village to find a few wooden planks, and then made a wooden box, and he put the "pile" of corpses into the box, intending to send the corpses back like this.

Before leaving, Li Yishui and his son helped the officer dispose of all the corpses in the quagmire, and they piled them into piles, and the officer said that when they were dry, they would burn them with a fire.