Chapter 19: The Snake Man
"Old fatty, be careful, don't be bitten by those people. If you're scared, go back to the mountains by yourself. I saw that the old fat looked a little unnatural, and persuaded him.
"Joke, we haven't seen any big winds and waves, and we're afraid of a few poisoned madmen?" The old fat mouth is hard.
When I saw that he was insisting, I handed him the shotgun I had brought down from the mountain, and then picked up the fork beside me.
"Those people are just poisoned by corpses and are delirious, so don't shoot them unless you have to." I reminded the old fatty.
Lao Fei nodded, and the two didn't stay too long, chasing Yan Xiaoying out of the village.
When Lao Fei and I caught up with Yan Xiaoying, we found her squatting in a vacant lot outside the village, holding a flashlight and looking at something on the ground.
In the bright light of the flashlight, we saw a white line appear on the ground.
"These are lime mixed with sulfur powder, sprinkled all around the village." Yan Xiaoying grabbed a handful of white ash from the ground and said to us.
"What's the use of this stuff?" Old Fat asked.
"It must work, otherwise they wouldn't have spilled these things here for no reason." I said.
"Yes, those who have been poisoned by corpses are not terrible, in fact, the most terrible thing is the curse of the dead Jiao. It can be said that half of them have been poisoned by corpses, and half have been cursed by resentful spirits. To put it simply, it is the resentful spirits who are on their bodies, and it is the snakes that go on their bodies. ”
Yan Xiaoying said with a calm face: "The Jiao Snake is a spirit that has been cultivated in the mountains for hundreds of years, its body is a water snake or a yellow eel, etc., and what it is most afraid of is sulfur lime and other things. ”
Listening to Yan Xiaoying's reminder, Lao Fei and I already understood that there were masters who sprinkled sulfur mixed with lime powder around the village, and our purpose was the same, not wanting the villagers in the village who were cursed by the snake's resentful soul to go out.
"It seems that those who have been infected are still in the village."
As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly heard a strange voice from behind me.
"Smack! Smack......"
It was a strange sound, like footsteps, but more like a slap.
The three of us flashlights looked at the place where the sound was coming from, and exclaimed in surprise almost at the same time.
I saw a strange figure in the village, in the corner alley of a house.
The reason why it is weird is because he crawled out on the ground.
That's right, it's climbing!
His lower and half bodies seemed to be paralyzed, and the whole person was lying on the ground, in an extremely strange posture. Grip the ground with both hands, then drag your body forward with your arms.
It looks like a snake!
But he's obviously alone!
He crawled out of the dark alleyway, still twenty meters away from us, and stopped where the flashlight could shine.
Suddenly, he looked up at us.
The eyes turned out to be turquoise, reflecting a ghostly light in the bright light of the flashlight, and what was even more creepy was that his face was covered with a layer of black, like scales.
The strange and terrifying eyes made us tremble and withdraw from the lime circle at the same time.
"My God, I didn't believe it when you said it was tricky, but now I believe it. His grandmother's, where is this still a person, is clearly a snake. Lao Fei looked at the strange villager lying on the ground in shock.
"Third uncle."
I shouted, and although the man looked covered in black scales, I recognized him.
The other party did not respond, still looking at us with that strange and terrible look.
"Cursed by corpse poison, they have lost their minds, and they are controlled by the spirit of the snake like the walking dead, and it is impossible for them to respond to you." Yan Xiaoying explained in a deep voice beside her.
"Don't worry, they should be afraid of lime and sulfur, so they don't dare to approach, it seems that those who have been poisoned by the corpse are really still in the village." Speaking of this, Yan Xiaoying breathed a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, the third uncle looked at us for a while, turned around and climbed into the dark alleyway, and left.
"These people, can they still be saved?"
I asked Yan Xiaoying that it was a villager from my village who was killed, and I felt a little uncomfortable, hoping that I could do something to help them.
"They are not dead, as long as the curse and the corpse poison are resolved, they can be brought back to life. However, we have no choice but to temporarily trap them in the village. ”
"I don't know who sprinkled the lime and brimstone. Could it be Granny Yan? ”
"It shouldn't be, there isn't so much sulfur lime in Grandma's shop, there should be someone else."
"Maybe it's the villagers who used to live in the village, or maybe it's someone else, but he did it for safety reasons anyway, and he didn't have any hostile intentions."
The lime and sulfur may not be able to trap them for long, so the three of us discussed and decided to guard the two roads out of the village at the head and end of the village first, and wait until dawn to make plans.
After the discussion, I was just about to separate the garrison, when suddenly there was a cry for help from the silent village.
It was a girl's cry for help, not very far away from us, I listened with bated breath, my face suddenly changed, and I said to Yan Xiaoying and Lao Fei: "There are still people in the village who haven't left, this voice ...... It sounds like the third uncle's little granddaughter, and I'm going to go in and save her. ”
"Wait......"
Yan Xiaoying wanted to say something, but I was so anxious at this time, and if I waited for a moment, the little girl who asked for help would be more dangerous.
I quickly ran in the direction where the cries for help were heard.
As I expected, the cry for help came from the house where the third uncle lived.
When he rushed into the house and kicked the door open, he saw a little girl of seven or eight years old trembling on the top of her curled wardrobe. And under the wardrobe, the third uncle, who had been poisoned by the corpse, was pushing the cabinet and wanted to throw the girl on the cabinet down.
Seeing this, I hurriedly picked up the stool on the side, stuck the third uncle on the ground, and then pressed the whole person up.
It stands to reason that the third uncle is old, and it is impossible for me to break free from holding him down like this. But in fact, he was much stronger than I thought.
At this time, Lao Fei hurriedly rushed in from outside with a shotgun, and when he saw that I was about to be unable to suppress the third uncle, he clicked the shotgun and loaded the shotgun, and was about to shoot.
"Don't shoot, get the little girl on the cupboard." I said to Lao Fei urgently.
Lao Fei glanced at the little girl on the cabinet, his face changed slightly, he put away the shotgun at the moment, and walked over to hug the little girl on the top of the cabinet.
But the cabinet was more than two meters high, and the little girl shrunk back in the innermost, and even if he stood on tiptoe, he still couldn't reach it.
"Little beauty, don't be afraid, hurry up and jump down, my brother is holding you." Old Fat made a hug under the wardrobe and asked the little girl on the closet to jump down.
To show that he was a good person, he pulled a smile on his face.
However, when he laughed, the girl on the cabinet screamed in fright, and leaned in again, it is estimated that in the little girl's heart, the old fat laughed like a demon.
Lao Fei looked helpless, and shouted with a straight face: "Little girl, you hurry up and give Lao Tzu down, otherwise Lao Tzu will eat you." ”
The threatening words did not work, and the little girl cried even more, and even smashed down the abacus that had been stored on the top of the cabinet for an unknown amount of time.
Lao Fat didn't pay attention to it, and was hit in the head, and he screamed in pain.
At this time, the third uncle, who was pressed by me and under the chair, suddenly turned over suddenly, and suddenly I was thrown aside by him with the chair.
Originally, my internal injuries had not healed, but I was over-straining the wounds, and the pain in my internal organs was unbearable.
Seeing that the third uncle broke free from his control and wanted to attack Lao Fei, regardless of the pain, the whole person flew over, strangled his neck with one hand, and pressed his shoulder with the other.
"Hurry up and take the person down, I can't hold it anymore." I urged the old fat.
The old fat was also anxious, and with a kick of his legs, the whole person was about to climb to the top of the cabinet. But he underestimated his weight, and before he could climb up, the cabinet leaned and fell first.
When I saw the cabinet falling, I hurriedly twisted my body and rolled to the side with all my strength holding the third uncle.
Bang!
The loud sound of falling to the ground exploded in my ears, and my scalp tingled.
Before I could come back to my senses, I suddenly felt a tightness in my neck, and I was pinched by a pair of cold hands, and then a mouth that had lost half of my teeth bit down on my neck.
It turned out that when I was tumbling just now, although I avoided the cabinet, I let the third uncle press on me.
When I was in a hurry, I didn't think about it, I reached out and grabbed the third uncle's head, and stuck his chin with my shoulder.
Although his teeth are about to fall out, he has been cursed by corpse poison, and it is no joke that he was bitten.
Lao Fei had already caught the little girl at this time, and when he saw that I was in danger, he put the struggling girl aside, took a shotgun and pierced it under the neck of the third uncle, and then pried it open with force.
The hand holding my neck was released, I coughed a few times, and the two of us pushed the third uncle aside, and then rushed out of the door.
When I went out, I happened to see the little girl crying and running away, but when she ran outside the house, she was picked up by someone.
This person is Yan Xiaoying.
She hurriedly walked in with the little girl in her arms, and said with an anxious face: "There are a lot of people outside the house. ”
"Who?" I didn't react for a while, and blurted out.
"If we are cursed by corpse poison, we have to hurry out of the village."
As soon as she finished speaking, I saw two people crawling in from outside, one of whom was the lame seventh.
He looked even more terrifying than the third uncle, his hair was gone, his face was densely covered with black scales, and a pair of blue eyes stared at us, full of resentment.
"Hiss ......"
His mouth was open, and his long tongue and head were stretched and swallowed, like a poisonous snake spitting out letters.
Except for the gray clothes that had been rubbed to pieces, he looked like a snake now! Perhaps now we can call him the snake man.
"Old Fatty, shoot him!" I frowned and spoke.
Other villagers who were cursed by corpse poison may still be saved, but the appearance of this lame old seven in front of me, I know that he must be helpless, so let Lao Fei shoot.
"Shoot a fart gun, Lao Tzu is entangled."
Lao Fei didn't shoot, because he was entangled by the third uncle who crawled out of the room, and the two rolled on the ground to fight at this time, and the shotgun fell to the side.
At this time, the lame old seven, who had turned into a snake man, had already crawled into the courtyard, followed by seven or eight villagers who had been cursed by corpse poison, and every face was familiar.
Seeing this, I quickly picked up the shotgun on the ground, and without any hesitation, I pulled the trigger and the machine on the lame old seven.