Chapter 20: Horror

I watched in horror at what was happening below, and I couldn't believe my eyes.

The theory of driving out corpses has a long history, and it is spread in Xiangxi, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, because of the frequent wars at that time, which caused many people to die in foreign lands. For thousands of years, the Chinese people have already formed the concept of returning to their roots, and how to transport the body of the deceased back to their hometown has become a difficult problem.

After death, it is difficult to preserve the corpse, and it will begin to decompose in two to three days under normal circumstances, and the place where the corpse needs to be transported is usually a desolate and remote mountain, with poor transportation and a long time, and the corpse will decompose halfway. Against this backdrop, the expulsion of corpses began to flourish.

Regarding the expulsion of corpses, I have read many popular science articles that try to reveal the truth of expelling corpses with science, saying that a famous biologist has discovered a parasite in the African jungle, which can parasitize the nervous system of animals after death, and can simulate the neural signals that control the activity of corpses. After death, the body is actually only brain dead, and the body's function stops after two to three days, that is, the body is not actually dead after death, it can still receive and execute the signals sent by the nervous system. This parasite uses this defect in the organism to control the activities of dead animals, and this parasite is named zombie worm.

Zombie bugs need a large number of special substances for reproduction and activities, and this substance is the highest content in the blood of living organisms, out of instinctive tendency to blood, zombie bugs will immediately attack living creatures after controlling the corpse of living creatures, sucking their blood to support themselves, this is the truth of zombies or vampires and other terrifying existences. The article also said that the reason why the ancient Oriental people were able to control the dead corpse was actually because they had mastered the method of controlling the zombie worm, controlled the zombie worm, and then used the zombie worm to invade the nervous system of the dead corpse, and then controlled the corpse in disguise, which is the truth of driving the corpse.

Before I met the Taoist priest, I was very convinced of this explanation, because it was a scientific explanation. However, since I met the Taoist priest and experienced a series of things after that, this kind of bullshit expert science has been thrown into the trash can by me. People, only after experiencing some things first-hand will you understand that many things that seem to be reasonable are the most unreasonable.

The Taoist priest and I mentioned chasing corpses, and my grandmother and I also mentioned the corpse chasers in Miao Jiang when we told the story of the grandfather, according to the Taoist priest, the corpses in the world are actually divided into two major factions, one is the witch Gu to control the corpse, and the other is the Taoist corpse.

Witch Gu corpse control, originated from Miao Wu white witchcraft, is indeed the use of Gu worms to control corpse activities, but it is definitely not like the so-called science mentioned above can explain, because the use of Gu worms to control corpses must be combined with specific witchcraft to be effective, many Miao tribes have their own unique corpse control techniques, each with its own merits.

As for the Taoist technique to drive out the corpse, the Taoist priest said that if he simply controlled the activities of the corpse, he could do it, but he had to use the essence blood as a medium to transfer part of his soul to the corpse, so that the corpse and the owner of the essence blood could keep moving, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the corpse. This method was taught to him by the Taoist master, and it belongs to the lowest level of corpse control methods, because the three souls and seven spirits in the body of the dead have been dispersed, and they belong to the empty body, and they are divided into a part of their souls into the corpse shell, which is easy to be infected with yin qi, which is not good for themselves, and a person's soul that can be separated is always limited, and it is good to be able to control two or three corpses at a time.

Most of the real Taoist corpse driving masters come from Maoshan, and Maoshan's corpse control technique is the second in the Daomen, and there is absolutely no sect that dares to say that it is the first. Because of the unique geographical location of Xiangxi, the craze for chasing corpses in the late Qing Dynasty developed to its peak in Xiangxi, but because of improper techniques, there were many powerful corpses in Xiangxi.

Since the Fengyang incident, I have completely accepted these mysterious things, but when they really appear in front of my eyes again and again, the shock is still indescribable. People are always afraid of things that they don't fully understand, like zombies, even though I already believe they exist, but I don't know anything about them, so when it does suddenly appear in front of my eyes, my inner horror is uncontrollable.

The legendary corpse really happened in front of my eyes, but I only felt cold all over, and all the hairs on my body exploded.

Just when I was afraid in my heart, I couldn't even move my body, and the talisman on the forehead on a corpse directly under the window suddenly fell off, I heard the Taoist priest say that chasing the corpse is actually making the dead into a zombie, because only zombies have a way to move, and the yellow talisman in front of the corpse's forehead is a corpse suppression talisman, which can suppress the corpse qi to prevent zombies from hurting people, and once it falls off, it will immediately attack the living creatures around it.

Now the yellow talisman on the corpse's forehead has fallen off, and the ...... My scalp was numb, and I suddenly had a bad feeling, it turned out that my guess was not wrong, the yellow charm fell off, and the stiff body of the corpse suddenly trembled, and then turned to look at me, a trace of strange light flashed in the gray pupils without the slightest emotion, and then the soles of my feet jumped up more than three meters high as if they were equipped with a strong spring, and instantly pounced into the air in front of me.

I was taken aback by the sudden change, but I was not slow to react at all, seeing the corpse jump into the air, the blue and black nails pinched at my neck, I shrank my body, and at the same time slammed the window shut, only to hear a click, the wooden door and window were actually pierced by the nails.

I was dumbfounded, my body retreated, and the strength of the corpse's jump had been exhausted, and it fell, I immediately stepped forward, wanting to see the situation below, but I didn't expect the speed of the zombie to be extremely fast, and after falling down, it jumped up again without a moment's breath, and I happened to meet it, and suddenly crashed into the two claws of the zombie with strange long nails. I'm done, and I'm probably going to be poked through my fingernails right now.

However, just as the zombie's nails touched the hairs on my neck, a hand suddenly reached out from behind me, stretched out of the window, and pushed it right on the zombie's chest.

By this time I was already sweating with fright, and I immediately sat down on the ground, turned my head, and saw that the doctor was standing behind me.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to tell the doctor to stay away from the window, but he had already walked up and stuck his head out, obviously curious about what was going on outside.

The doctor's actions surprised me, and I said badly, and I hurriedly stood up on the ground, and reached out to pull the doctor, but he grabbed me, and he turned his head and made a silent gesture to me, and then asked me to look down.

I was stunned in my heart, and said that you are really not afraid of death, but there is nothing wrong with seeing a doctor, and the zombie did not jump again, I suddenly had some doubts, and stretched out my head to look down. At first glance, I froze, only to see that the street below was empty, and there was still the shadow of half a zombie.

Damn, am I hallucinating? Hurriedly rubbed his eyes vigorously, and found that there was still nothing underneath, and the bluestone ground reflected the glowing moonlight, and there was a cold feeling. I stared at the street below for a long time, and suddenly a feeling of unreality arose in my heart, and if it weren't for the freezing cold wind blowing in from the window, I even wondered if I was dreaming.

The doctor patted me, pulled me back into the house, closed the window with ten holes in it, and whispered to me what was the matter?

I hadn't recovered from the confusion just now, and when the doctor asked, I hurriedly grabbed him and asked him if he had just seen a man jump to the window and try to pinch me.

The doctor looked at me with a frown, nodded, and I suddenly came back to my senses from the delusion of confusion and told the doctor everything I had just seen. The doctor listened to me quietly, and did not interject during the whole process, until I finished speaking, and he only showed a trace of doubt.

I thought he didn't believe it, so I hurriedly said: "You don't think I'm talking nonsense, damn it, that's true, the person you pushed out, he's not a human, he's a zombie......"

As soon as I said this, the doctor suddenly showed a stunned look, looked at me and said something that made my hair stand on end: "I didn't push anyone!" ”

Silence, deathly silence, I looked at the doctor, trying to see even a hint of banter in his expression. However, no, his expression was serious, although the light in the room was not strong. It's not a doctor, whose hand was it that saved my life just now, could it be that there are other people in the room?

I suddenly had a feeling that I was going crazy, accompanied by the doctor, we searched the whole room, there was nothing, I went to your mother's leg, what the hell is going on?

The doctor patted me on the shoulder, comforting me and saying that maybe I was wrong, he just heard the movement and woke up, saw me standing stupidly by the window, my heart was strange, I walked up and was about to ask me what I was doing, I saw a figure flying down outside the window, he didn't see any hands, maybe the zombie ran out of strength in the air, and fell down, and I was too nervous, plus the relationship of the moonlight, so I was dazzled.

I took a deep breath, and although the probability of knowing this statement was basically zero, I could only force myself to believe it for now, otherwise I would be driven crazy by this incident for the rest of the time.