Chapter 396: The Disappearing Corpse
Night, unstoppable.
The orange cat and Maruko began to pick up dry wood to relight the bonfire, and the enthusiastic eldest sister also began to have dinner.
The fat man, Zhou Tianming, and a Yanbian guy and I, the four of us, carried the two corpses, ready to place them next to the corpse of the goddess.
The mermaid and the big bear and the flower have not returned, and the suicidal man is still lying on the beach, smoking a cigarette and ignoring us.
I asked Zhou Tianming why he said that these two people came from the sea. Zhou Tianming said that he was only speculating, after all, most of the scaly creatures were marine creatures.
The fat man said that you are talking about the East China Sea mermaid? Zhou Tianming was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously frowned, as if he didn't expect us to ask such a question, and then fell silent, noncommittal.
Although I have caught a water monkey in my hometown, neither I nor the fat man have ever seen the East China Sea mermaid, and judging from Zhou Tianming's reaction, he not only knows, but also probably has seen it with his own eyes.
The origin of this guy is indeed thought-provoking, and it should be as simple as a cultivator.
The Yanbian guy who carried the corpse with Zhou Tianming suddenly changed his expression, he suddenly let go of his hand, and the two legs of the dead corpse fell to the beach.
He pointed to the beach in front of him, and his mouth was whimpering, and the muscles on his face twitched, obviously surprised. But he spoke Korean, which I didn't understand.
I gasped as I looked at his point.
I saw that the simple pergola made of four branches and plastic sheeting that had been set up on the beach was still there, but the body of the goddess under the pergola had disappeared, leaving only a lonely sleeping bag.
This discovery startled all four of us. How could the corpse disappear? There's only one way to do that but to be moved: corpses!
The cold sweat on my back leaked out at once, and I felt that the situation was completely out of control, and it was filled with a smell of horror.
When the incident happened suddenly, we hurriedly threw the two bodies on the ground and went to ask the suicidal man not far away.
Hearing that the body of the goddess disappeared, the suicidal man was also obviously taken aback. He said he had been sleeping all afternoon and had just woken up and had not seen anyone on the beach.
When he said this, although there was still a faint indifference on his face, there was a hint of horror in his eyes. This kind of emotion is more like what an ordinary person should be, making him come alive.
Seeing that there was no clue about the suicidal man, I sincerely said to him, things are getting weirder and weirder now, you don't want to stay alone on the beach, there will really be danger. Let's go back to the camp with everyone, the more people there are, the safer it is.
After listening to my words, the suicidal man was obviously engaged in a struggle of thoughts, he hesitated for a long time, but still shook his head, saying that he didn't care anymore, it was all death anyway, and there was no difference between being killed, committing suicide, and being killed by monsters.
The four of us returned to the camp worried, and told us about the disappearance of the goddess's body on the beach, and the camp exploded.
The campfire burned and the stars lit up, and fear began to spread, reflecting pale, restless faces in the interweaving of fire and starlight......
All day, our whole army was dispatched, and there was no one else in the camp except for the flower messenger and the suicide man.
The flower messenger was tied up, and it was impossible to move the body, and the suicidal man had no motive. What's the use of corpses besides? Why would anyone want to steal a corpse?
Thinking about it this way, the disappearance of the goddess's corpse is likely to be an act of its own, and a corpse mutation has occurred!
As I said earlier, if a corpse wants to become a zombie, in addition to the environment, the cause of death and many reasons for inconsistencies, there are also time requirements, and it is impossible to complete this transformation in just one day.
In a limited time, catalyzing the corpse transformation, either there are evil things such as corpse spirits approaching the corpse, or there is some evil magic blessing.
Mortuary Beach is located in an open area, and there are no graves on this deserted island, so the appearance of corpse spirits is unlikely. In other words, someone secretly used evil magic to catalyze the goddess into a zombie and hide it.
Who is this person? Is he a mysterious man lurking on a desert island, or is he our companion?
The fat man pulled my arm and asked me to accompany him to the bathroom, obviously having something to talk to me alone.
We walked to the beach, and the fat man whispered to me.
"Xiaobai, after discovering the goddess's corpse at that time, did you notice that her three souls and seven spirits were all scattered, is this normal?"
I carefully recalled the scene at that time, and sure enough, it was the same as the fat man said.
It is very common for the three souls and seven spirits to dissipate with the death of a person, but according to the time when we found the body, the goddess died in about three hours at most. In such a short period of time, the three souls and seven spirits were dispersed, which was obviously a bit unreasonable.
This is a desert island, the wind is strong, and the three souls and seven spirits are invisible consciousness, and they can't come and go according to their own will, and it is the most normal situation to drift away with the wind, so I didn't think much about it at the time.
But in any case, a corpse that has lost its soul completely becomes a shell, like a container, giving the sorcerer full room to play.
In our group, there are five monastics. In addition to me and the fat man, there are also orange cats, small pills and Zhou Tianming.
Orange Cat and Xiao Maruko were discovered by us very early, which shows that their strength should be below me, and although the aura of the two of them is there, they are relatively pure, not contaminated with yin qi, and they don't look like cultivating evil laws.
Zhou Tianming was not discovered by us, but he exposed his identity.
He can hide his anger, his strength is unfathomable, and his true identity is also doubtful. But if all this is controlled by him in secret, there is no need to expose it at all, and it is better to maintain the identity of an ordinary person.
It can be seen from this that although this person has a high level of cultivation, he is a straight temper and is unwilling to hide it, so he should not be the real murderer.
Zhou Tianming can hide his anger, but others may not. It is very likely that there is a terrifying master in the expedition team, who has been lurking, seemingly harmless to humans and animals, but in fact secretly stirring up the situation.
Returning to the campfire and sitting down, I thought again, why did those two mysterious people kill themselves? The scales that grow from their bodies, and the joy of dying if they don't succeed, seem to be filled with a smell of oblique tissue.
But they could clearly kill the Flower Protector, but they only stunned him with an anesthetic needle, apparently trying to catch him alive.
What do they want to do with the living?
If the disappearance of the photographer and the Yanbian guy was their doing, it obviously does not match the act of killing the goddess.
Besides, when the goddess was killed, the flower messengers around her were already unconscious, why didn't they just take him away, but instead came to the camp to sneak attack? It doesn't make sense.
Of course, the Flower Protector has been controlled, and it cannot be ruled out that he is the real murderer and there is a possibility of lying. But in any case, in the current situation, the disappearance does not seem to be related to the murder, but more like the different actions of the two groups.