My name is Zhao Xueming, and I was born with only nine fingers.

My family lives in a remote mountain village in Xiangxi, where a concrete road had just been built a few years ago, and the county magistrate said that the state would support poor mountain villages across the country.

Listening to my grandfather, before the reform and opening up, the ancients, lynching and severe torture laws were very common in various places.

Among them, there are several ways to die that are the most evil, and the corpses are also the most resentful, and some strange things often happen.

Like the five punishments, the punishment of the body, the sawing, the cannon branding, the pot, the human body, the cooking, the skinning, the intestines, the waist beheading, the car splitting, the five horses are divided, buried alive, disemboweled, riding a wooden horse, dipping in the pig cage... are all in the mouth of grandpa, the most common torture death method in ancient times.

The five punishments are to cut off people's hands, feet, eyes, ears, and finally beheading, and then chopping the torso into three pieces. That is, it is often referred to as the big unloading of eight pieces.

The punishment is a terrible punishment. Each time the execution was carried out by two people, the whole body was covered with a fishing net before the execution, and then the foot was cut, and a thousand pieces of meat had to be cut off before the prisoner was allowed to die. I heard my grandfather say that someone cut for a total of three days and three nights before he lost his breath.

To saw, to cut is to cut people alive with an iron saw.

These criminal laws were more tragic than the other, and I was only six or seven years old at the time, and I was so scared that I didn't dare to sleep alone for a month in a row.

Now that I think about it, I can't help but be glad that I was not born in an ancient era of lynching and torture.

Grandpa said that these people were in too much pain before they died, so that they couldn't swallow their anger after death, and the death was too miserable, and strange events often happened, and generally no one dared to approach these corpses.

So there was a corpse bearer, a profession that specializes in dealing with the dead.

It is also known as the corpse chaser in Xiangxi.

Every industry has its own rules, and there are many taboos among corpse bearers.

For example, my grandfather once told me that a person who died tragically should never bury the upper and lower sections of the body in one place. Usually, the upper and lower sections of the body are buried on both sides of rivers or rivers and mountain cliffs, and one knife is cut in two, and the three souls and seven spirits are incomplete to prevent the corpse from becoming broken.

Grandpa said that the person who cut it in half is generally to find rivers and streams at random and bury them on both banks. But the more miserable, the more painful, the more hateful, the more people who can't swallow their breath for a long time, the heavier the resentment after death, the place where this kind of corpse is buried must be cautious, and often it will be different, with the help of mountains and rivers Feng Shui to cut off the grievance.

The reason why grandpa knows so much about the taboo of corpse bearers is because grandpa and grandparents have been corpse bearers for generations.

It was only after the reform and opening up, the law was enlightened, the country banned torture, lynching in various places, and the transportation was convenient, and slowly, no one looked for a corpse bearer to carry the corpse.

In order to make a living, the corpse bearers also began to disappear.

However, when I was nine years old, my father secretly concealed from my grandfather and carried a corpse that could not be carried, and half a month later, my father was stripped of his skin and bloody, hanging from the old tree at the entrance of the village!

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Du Feifei hurriedly quit the mobile phone novel with a numb scalp, scared like a kitten with cold hair, and saw that the time was 8 o'clock in the night, and she was the only one left in the whole company.

At this time, the office was empty, extremely claustrophobic and quiet, and the night sky outside the window was dark.

This quiet girl, who has just graduated from college and is looking for a job, has not yet completed the internship period of three months, and today is the first time in her life to work the night shift, began to quickly turn her head suspiciously to look behind her, and then look at the direction of the corridor outside the office, she always felt that there was always a person hiding outside the empty office or corridor, only revealing two cold eyes peeking at her.

Du Feifei's scalp was numb, and her heartbeat seemed to be beating a drum, but she knew very well that all this was her own surprise, and she was too afraid to imagine it out of thin air. But I know it, but I can't help but think about something terrible in my head.

Du Feifei regretted it in her heart, knowing that she would not take the last moment to turn off the computer and read novels on her mobile phone.

Click, click, suddenly!

Outside the hallway, which should have been empty, there was the sound of a man's footsteps.

Du Feifei froze suddenly, his expression flashing panic and fear.

Click, click... The footsteps were accompanied by a rhythmic percussion sound, tapping on the heart one by one, getting closer and closer.

It's approaching her.

"Who, who's out there!"

"Is it the building security guard who patrols the building?"

"Are you outside the hallway?"

Du Feifei was covered in a cold sweat and felt her voice tremble.

The footsteps of the man outside the hallway suddenly stopped, and suddenly there was no sound.

Du Feifei was like a frightened bird, her body was like the cold of an ice cellar, she pricked up her ears to listen, but she couldn't hear anything, the corridor and the office seemed to separate two worlds, and fell into a short dead silence.

Only the whirring fan sound when the computer is still turned off, is still spinning at high speed.

Time passed slowly, and it was as tormenting as a year, and just when Du Feifei was about to lose the psychological pressure, there was a snap, a snap, and footsteps sounded again outside the corridor.

But this time, the footsteps seemed to repeat the previous cycle, not ringing near the office, but from far to near like the first time, stepping on a fixed footstep rhythm, not slowing down, still approaching the direction of the only office on this floor that was still lit.

Du Feifei's hairs stood on end, his face turned pale with fright, and his eyes were frightened.

Click!

The man's footsteps grew closer, and as they approached the office, they suddenly disappeared again.

Soon after, the footsteps repeated the cycle for the third time, from the starting point again from far to near, and the footsteps approached the office with a fixed rhythm, which was particularly harsh in the empty environment in the middle of the night.

Like a tape that is played repeatedly.

Du Feifei was about to collapse psychologically, and said in a frightened voice: "Who are you? No matter who you are, this kind of joke is not funny at all! Are the people outside patrolling the building security guards?"

"If you're so scary, I'm really going to get angry and call the police. ”

Click, click... The footsteps outside the hallway cycled for the fourth time, and it seemed that her voice was not heard at all.

The blood on Du Feifei's face became more and more pale, she felt that her body was cold, the air behind her neck was cold and swishing, and the wind was gusting, she turned around in horror, but there was nothing behind her, only a black glass window.

Click, click... The footsteps were still repeating and ringing.

Du Feifei's body trembled, and she was so scared that she was about to cry, and when the footsteps repeated a new cycle again, and halfway through, Du Feifei could no longer bear the psychological pressure, and rushed out of the office angrily, trying to catch the prankster halfway.

The footsteps stopped abruptly.

The hallway was empty, calm and quiet, like a claustrophobic space, and there was no one at all, except for a few fluorescent lamps above the hallway.

It was as if the previous footsteps were just auditory hallucinations.

The temperature in the hallway was very low.

Except for the occasional cold wind pouring in from the end of the hallway, the hallway was silent, and there was no other sound.

Du Feifei's face suddenly lost blood.

Tonight's experience has long exceeded the psychological capacity of normal people, not to mention that it is still a girl who works overtime alone late at night, Du Feifei's body trembles, and her highly tense spirit is already on the verge of collapse.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the business building was empty and cold, as if the entire building was excluded from the world, and only Du Feifei's office was still lit on the entire floor.

Du Feifei was terrified, her hands and feet were all cold, and she didn't dare to stay here for a second again.

Turn around and rush back to the office, ready to pick up your personal belongings and get out of here immediately.

But just as Du Feifei turned around! The footsteps came again, still in the same rhythm, from the corridor behind Du Feifei, as if they were close at hand, standing behind her.

"Ahh

Du Feifei's frightened screams came from the corridor, her spirit finally collapsed completely, and she ran away in horror towards the end of another corridor, no longer caring about any mobile phones and personal belongings in the office, whether she would be punished by the supervisor and deduct her salary the next day after work if the lights were not turned off, and she didn't dare to look back at who the footsteps behind her were.

Maybe it was Du Feifei's scream, which was very harsh in the cold night, and soon two security guards patrolling the building came to find Du Feifei, who was already frightened.

When she finally saw someone, Du Feifei was so excited that she instantly cried loudly.

When Du Feifei calmed down, she remembered the footsteps in the corridor behind her, but there was no footsteps in the corridor at this time, and she didn't know when it was gone.

Subsequently, the two security guards took Du Feifei, who looked nervous behind him, and began to walk towards the office, looking for the prankster in Du Feifei's mouth, but the so-called prankster was not found.

The two security guards began to think that Du Feifei was a cowardly girl, and she was a little suspicious when she worked overtime alone at night, so she no longer took it seriously. After packing up her personal belongings with Du Feifei and turning off the lights in the office, she helplessly escorted Du Feifei, who was already frightened, to take the elevator down to the lobby on the first floor and took the initiative to call a taxi for her.

With eyelashes blinking slightly, and undried tears still lingering in the corners of her eyes, Du Feifei turned her head to look at the night view of the city outside the car, trying to wrap her body into the seat of the taxi, trying to find a sense of security wrapped in it.

Tonight's unbelievable experience made her shiver all the time.

Du Feifei's residence is a bit remote, an old apartment building rented by one person, and she stayed in the coastal city of Sushi directly after graduating from university to work hard for her career.

As soon as Du Feifei returned to the apartment, he turned on all the lights in the house as soon as possible. Until this time, the warmth of returning home gave her a sense of safety and steadfastness, and Du Feifei poured herself a cup of hot water.

Click, click... Suddenly!

From the bedroom, a man's footsteps came out, and he was approaching the bedroom door step by step!

The water glass in her hand fell to the ground, Du Feifei looked desperately in the direction of the bedroom, she wanted to scream, but her heart seemed to be crushed by a big stone, and she couldn't scream anything.

He's at home!

Why!

Why!

The cold swallowed Du Feifei's whole body like a tide, and his eyes widened in horror.