Chapter 64: A Severed Hand
We turned the corpse over with a penny, and we wanted the Taoist priest to confirm whether it was someone from the third uncle's team, but when the corpse was on its back and its face was revealed, we all gasped, and Lao Gui was so frightened that the penny in his hand almost took off.
"Holy, what's this?"
Lao Gui's face was full of horror, and we were so frightened that we saw that there was no trace of good meat on the dead man's face, and I don't know what had scraped off the whole dough, leaving only a little soaked white rotten meat, and the eyes and nose were all gone.
This horrible scene made my back feel a lot of cold air, and my legs were a little weak.
In fact, my courage is not small, and my previous experiences have allowed me to see many scenes that are far more terrifying than the scene in front of me, but those scenes are all seen in a specific environment. Let's take Fengyang, because the entire Fengyang Town is shrouded in an eerie and terrifying atmosphere, and the same bloody pictures can be seen everywhere, so in that kind of environment, seeing things of the same tone, there will be no subversive impact.
But now it's different, the green mountains and clear waters, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and in such a beautiful environment, I suddenly encountered such a terrifying scene, but it is impossible for any normal person to be indifferent.
Due to the hot temperature, the faces of the dead bodies have begun to rot, and many white maggots have been burrowing in and out of the hole in the eyes that have been blurred.
The visual shock was accompanied by the impact of the rancid smell, which made my stomach churn and I almost wanted to gause, so I had to pin my head to the side and not look at it. The Taoist priest and the doctor are quite calm, especially the Taoist priest, this guy always boasts that he has been dealing with filthy yin since he was a child, and he has a lot of cows, I didn't believe it before, but at this time, I saw that he not only looked calm, but even kept using a penny to pull the corpse, I completely believed it.
Among several people, the most disadvantaged is Lao Gui, although he is much older than us, but obviously he has not experienced this kind of battle, vomiting to death, paralyzed in the boat and unable to sit down, at this time I can't help but secretly glad that I didn't let the two girls come over.
Lao Gui was paralyzed, my feet were also soft, the Taoist priest studied there for a long time, but he couldn't study anything famous, so he had to helplessly spread his hands to us and said that there was no way, it was rotten like this, even if it was the Taoist master and his own father, it was impossible to recognize it.
I was disappointed with the result, and my worries intensified.
Lao Gui's face was pale, and he was particularly resistant to the dead corpse, urging us to go quickly, the Taoist priest glared at him, and scolded Lao Gui for being inhumane.
"What, you're going to get him up?" After listening to the Taoist priest's words, Lao Gui and I shouted out almost in unison, and our faces turned green.
The doctor coughed, patted the Taoist priest, and said helplessly: "Catch it...... It's a bit too much, but what the Taoist priest said makes sense, since he saw it, it is naturally impossible to let it continue to soak in the water, after all, the water that flows down from here will eventually flow into the water gourd. ”
This is very reasonable, Lao Gui heard it, the water that the people who drank all the toast was beaten in the water bottle, and if they didn't pick up the corpse, if they all rotted, the big guy would drink all the corpse water, even if others didn't know, Lao Gui himself couldn't pass this level.
After some deliberation, we finally decided to use penny to carry the corpse to the reeds on the shore and let it out of the river, although the corpse is still a violent wilderness, but it is still much better than waiting for the corpse to rot and sink to the bottom of the water and never see the light of day.
Just do it, there are a total of three pennies on the boat, because Lao Gui and I are not in good condition, the task of picking up the corpse falls to the Taoist priest and the doctor, and Lao Gui and I are far away, responsible for stabilizing the boat and preventing the current from washing away.
The process of picking up the corpse is so beautiful that I probably can't even eat myself after describing it, so I won't go into detail here.
The process did not go very smoothly, the boat floated in the water, there was no center of gravity, but fortunately, the Taoist priest and the doctor were flexible enough, and after tossing for more than ten minutes, they finally got the body to the shore.
In the process of the Taoist priests' hands, we have a new discovery that we have to say, just after the corpse came out of the water and the whole body was exposed, we saw a severed limb inserted in the abdomen of the corpse, which was a brown arm full of folds like dead bark, only half of which penetrated the entire abdomen of the dead corpse, thinking that this was the fatal wound of this corpse.
The amputated limb looked like a human arm, but it wasn't human, which reminded me of the dark wizard Bagan's ape-like sorcery. Could it be ...... The owner of this amputated arm, like Bagan, used some kind of special demonization secret technique to fight with this corpse, and as a result, he killed his opponent at the cost of cutting off an arm, and because the severed arm was amputated under the condition of demonization, it has always maintained this form, and was washed here by the water with the corpse?
Although I have seen some similar witchcraft in the Master's Codex, the Codex is so thick that I have seen less than a tenth of the content, and I have not seen a similar description in the Codex.
The Taoist priest had more insight into this Tao than I did, and I couldn't recognize it, so I turned my eyes to him.
The Taoist priest was also very strange, saying that he knew a lot of demonizing witchcraft, turning into apes, turning into wolves, and even the demonized giant bat he saw in Luogang Village not long ago, but he really couldn't recognize the severed arm on the corpse.
We were frustrated, but we couldn't do anything about it, and according to the previous plan, we had to turn back after we got the body ashore, because it was not too early, but now that we had made this discovery, we were even more curious about what was happening upstream.
Seeing that we were still going to continue to go to the mountains, Lao Gui's face, which had finally eased up, immediately changed, hugged the penny in the hand of the Taoist priest, and told us that the place further forward was the area he had not been to, and he was not familiar with the situation, and if something happened, it would be troublesome, and it was already late now, and the water after night was very dangerous, and we had to go back before dark.
Lao Gui was resolute, no matter what we said, he didn't agree, and just when we were at a stalemate over this matter, a strange thing happened that made us all creepy and terrifying.
The Taoist priest tried hard to persuade the old turtle, and the doctor's face suddenly changed, waving his hand to make us quiet, we didn't know what was wrong, but seeing that the doctor's face was wrong, he was busy and closed his mouth temporarily.