Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Corpse Reappeared
"Wang Daochang, no, that monster has reappeared. It's right by the creek. At dusk, a villager stumbled into the temple covered in blood and shouted loudly.
"It appeared again? Good! I'll come right over. The master picked up the bronze sword of Songwen ancient ingots offered on the altar and said to the man. I picked up a crossbow and looked at Master, "Master, I also want to see what that corpse is like." ”
Master nodded: "It's okay, it's not bad to go for a long time." Let's go! After saying that, he picked up a bamboo basket and walked outside. I quickly followed Master's footsteps and walked to the small river at the head of the village.
When we arrived at the river, there were already several villagers with hoes and machetes. On the ground was a smashed and torn motorcycle, and next to it was a bloody corpse on the ground, and a man covered in blood was crouching next to him shivering.
Master walked over and asked, "What's your situation?" Tell me about it. The man looked at the cyan robe on the master's body, and hurriedly hugged the master and cried: "Master... Master, save... Save... Help me. Yes... Monster. The master gently patted him on the shoulder and comforted, "Okay, okay, don't be afraid." We have so many people here who will protect you, and I am a member of the mountain faction, so naturally I will not sit idly by. Tell me how you met him! ”
The man wiped the blood on his face and said with palpitations: "My surname is Chen, and I am from the next village." I work as a cook in a hotel in town, and the one on the ground is my cousin. Today we made an appointment to go back together for the Mid-Autumn Festival and accompany the elderly and children. It was getting dark when the two of us got here on motorcycles, and then I picked up my pace. Unexpectedly, there was a black shadow that kept chasing our motorcycle, because I was very scared at the time, and then the motorcycle broke and I fainted. When I woke up, I saw the black shadow eating my cousin's flesh. Then I was so scared that I fainted, and when I woke up, the black shadow was gone, and I desperately called for help, and then you guys came. ”
The master clenched his fists: "This damn brute, I will definitely not let him go." Then he said to the man, "Are you going home at this late hour?" Why don't you sleep in my Taoist temple for the night? Come home tomorrow morning! Anyway, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. The man nodded, "Okay! Even if it's the Mid-Autumn Festival, I don't dare to keep going, this monster is too scary, but what should I do with my cousin's corpse? ”
Master nodded and looked at the villagers next to him: "That's it!" Let's help move this corpse to my Taoist temple first! After all, they are all from the upper and lower villages. A few people next to him nodded: "Wang Dao Chief, don't worry!" We'll help. After speaking, he lifted the bloody corpse and walked towards the Taoist temple.
I looked at Master, "Master, are we going to continue to look for that corpse?" Master shook his head: "It's evening, and tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival again." That corpse will definitely come out tomorrow night to absorb the moon essence, so don't act rashly tonight. Besides, if this corpse is not disposed of, it will soon be deformed. ”
"Zombies? Could it be that the corpse is ... Before I finished speaking, the master nodded: "You guessed it, that corpse is covered in corpse poison." Anyone bitten or killed by it will turn into a zombie, and even if they are caught, they will become corpses. Let's go back quickly! Dispose of the corpse first. After speaking, he walked to the Taoist temple without looking back.
Back at the temple, Master instructed me to hurry up and prepare cinnabar and glutinous rice flour. I looked at Master in confusion: "Master, just use glutinous rice to cure corpse poison, why do you need cinnabar?" ”
The master looked at the corpse on the ground in the main hall and sighed: "Glutinous rice can only cure ordinary corpse poison, and the corpse poison on the corpse is very cold, so you must use cinnabar." And if this corpse is buried at that time, it won't be long before the corpse will be transformed, and I will use the corpse charm to suppress this corpse. Hurry up and get cinnabar and glutinous rice flour! ”
After speaking, he turned his head and asked Chef Chen next to him: "If you don't deal with your cousin's corpse tonight, it will be very troublesome for the corpse to change at that time." I'll help you deal with it now, and you can call his family to come to me tomorrow to pick him up and take him back for burial!" If it's a burial, I'll put a corpse charm on him later, and I'll be fine. If you are cremated, it is best to add a few peach pits to it at the time of cremation. Chef Chen nodded: "Well, don't worry, Dao Chief, I will definitely do what you say." ”
I held the cinnabar and glutinous rice flour and handed it to Master, "Master, I have brought something." Do you want me to help? The master nodded: "I'll go and ask for the corpse talisman now, you mix the glutinous rice flour with cinnabar and stir it well, and then sprinkle a layer on his whole body." I nodded, and then started mixing cinnabar glutinous rice flour. The master lit a few sticks of incense and knelt in front of the altar, preparing to ask for a charm.
The procedure for asking for a talisman is not as simple as the Taoist priest in the Hong Kong movie casually draws, first of all, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, collect the dew on the peach willow tree, and then find a time to draw a talisman with the right time, place and people, and before drawing the talisman, you must bathe in clean water first, and then burn incense and burn paper, and finally you can draw the talisman. And the drawn talisman must be offered on the altar, three pillars of incense in the morning and evening. Such a charm will have an effect.
After the master kowtowed a few times, he picked up a corpse suppression talisman from the altar with both hands and came to the corpse, first reciting the corpse suppression charm, and then pasting the talisman on the corpse's eyebrows.
Strange to say, the charm was only drawn with yellow paper and cinnabar, but it could be firmly attached to the center of the corpse's eyebrows. I asked Master, "Master, can you just put this charm on like this?" Don't you need glue or anything? Master gave me a brain meltdown: "Fart, how can you use glue to paste charms?" Did you see it on TV? Let me tell you, this corpse charm can suppress all corpse qi, so as long as it touches something with corpse qi, it will stick firmly, and the heavier the corpse qi, the stronger it sticks. ”
I touched my head, which was hurt by Master's brain meltdown: "Master, if this talisman accidentally falls, can you still pick it up and stick it back?" Master gave me a blank look: "What are you sticking when it's all gone?" It's useless if it's dropped, although it's just a charm, but it mainly depends on the energy contained in the charm. And as soon as the spell is gone, the energy is gone. So it becomes a piece of waste paper. Usually tell you to study hard, you rabbit cub just don't listen, our ancestor Xu Fu is a master of spells. And charms are also something that we must learn for those of the mountain sect, because many times they can come in handy, and sometimes, charms can also save lives. ”
I smiled and nodded: Master, don't worry, I can learn all the other skills of the Mountain Walking Sect, but this spell is really difficult to learn. There are thousands of types of talismans, and each of them has a specific spell. And the runes are different, and the levels are not the same. It takes some time to learn this! Master, you said yes, right? After saying that, he hurriedly dodged to the side, dodging the feet kicked by the master. The master scolded: "Okay, okay, if you don't sleepy, I'm sleepy, you hurry back to the room and sleep!" I'm going to sleep too. With that, he yawned and walked to the room.