Chapter 190: Techniques and Premonitions
After convincing the white wolf, the landlord, the main people who went to the yurt to talk to him became Cheese, Lichou and Lothar. Of course, Lothar's role is to retell what happened last night, including the process of the encounter with the corpse bear and the details of the battle. From here, it can be seen that the earl is quite skilled in this kind of thing, after the ordinary warrior goes into battle to kill the enemy, if you ask him about the strength and weakness of the enemy, he may be able to talk to you a few words, but if you don't ask him specific questions, let him tell his own plain, most of the words that are not good at eloquence can only say one or two words that are gathered from vague impressions, and good eloquence will inevitably be half-truths with memory and emotion. These words will regenerate and change after the fermentation of time and the different scenes, and it is really hard to say how credible they can be in the end.
Only a person who has been consciously trained can turn himself into a humanoid gathering device, accurately collect various details of the battle and describe them smoothly and accurately after the fact, because it is no longer a question of eloquence or carefulness, which means that the person's way of thinking and observation ability are abnormally prominent. But then again, who would have nothing to train themselves in this way? As a person who has personally experienced a battle, it is inevitable that if you focus on collecting and retelling the battle, you will inevitably slack off on the battle itself, and those who slack off on the battlefield are often unable to repeat it many times.
When Lothar had finished telling the story of the previous night, especially the gray-robed figure, there was silence in the yurt. Cheese was silent because he believed the Count's words and memories, so he didn't think the grey robe was mistaken for it, and then he had to wonder who among his fellow disciples would be here, and what they were doing here. And Rechou didn't try to ask the mage directly about the identity of that person in the first place, he left time for Cheese to think, and also gave himself time to observe Cheese. After what he had just said to Ensoul, the shaman had his first impression of the gray robe from outside the steppe, a real face-to-face impression. As for whether this impression is positive or negative, it is difficult to say at this time.
As for the people other than these three people, they are all in the clouds now, ground bears are not common in the grassland, not to mention those who are so huge and will take the initiative to steal and eat human corpses. As for the other gray robe mentioned by Lothar, most of them didn't care very much. What does the gray robe represent? For the people here, the gray robe has no special meaning.
"I need to look at the body to make an accurate judgment. There are many people who can cause this phenomenon, and they need to be carefully analyzed and examined to verify their identity. Cheese stood up, took his gloves from his robes, and walked out of the yurt. The people in the room looked at each other, and finally they couldn't resist their curiosity, and followed Batu outside.
The corpses were placed in the center of the camp, and the soldiers guarding them were some farther away, some curious and closer in a large number of details. Noticing a few people coming out of the tent, the loose guards immediately straightened up. The white wolf waved his hand, motioning for them to stand out a little bit to give the mage room to work. However, the gloved cheese was not in a hurry to start the autopsy, and he walked around the corpse twice, his eyes fixed on the corpse's wounds, which were covered with some kind of blue-green paste.
"It was the straw paste I applied before I came, to prevent the contents of the corpse from escaping from the wound. The old shaman naturally explained that he also had to deal with the corpses of the dead people in the clan, although the funeral customs of the steppe people were relatively primitive, but there would always be situations where the dead corpses could not quickly enter the natural cycle. At this time, he has to do a simple embalming treatment for it.
Cheese nodded, his face a little relieved, he had already seen something wrong with this corpse, so it would save a lot of effort to plug the wound with herbs first, "Go and get some straw mats, preferably larger, and put them in a circle around me, spread them with herbs, and then light them." In addition, having just come into close contact with this corpse, I don't just mean touching, but having seen it within ten paces, gather them together, burn the mats in the same way, and let them pass through the smoke one by one. ”
The white wolf looked at the shaman, nodded his head in agreement, and instructed the people around him to do the same. Lichou himself stepped forward and took advantage of the sunlight to re-examine the corpse, and he saw some tiny mildew-like things appear on the ground bear's hair, I wonder if they were not seen in the light last night, or if they were new, "This corpse is poisonous?"
"Mostly. It's not surprising what kind of toxins will grow in the fermented and decaying corpse, and it is better to disinfect the people who have approached the corpse on the street just now. ”
"Fermentation and decay, no, this bear was killed by your companion last night, and it was dead for only one night, and it doesn't rot immediately even in the middle of summer, and besides, it doesn't smell yet. Lichou frowned slightly. Dealing with corpses is not a day or two for him, if the cheese says that this corpse is poisonous, but he says that this corpse has become a breeding ground for viruses because it is decomposed, which is a bit exaggerated, after all, this bear is what he watched to die.
"Not for one night. This thing is long dead, and someone brought it back to life as a ghoul-eating creature. Exactly how to do it will not be known until I dissect the body. The mage explained, holding out his fingers to brush away some of the hairs and showing the old man where there were already corpse spots underneath the hairs, which would prove his claim.
"The resurrection of the dead? no, not the resurrection. But it's not a walking corpse, a walking corpse doesn't go to eat. It is impossible to know how to sneak food away. "Walking corpses rarely appear on the grassland, but there has been no shortage of legends about the resurrection of the dead in human society since ancient times, and these legends and stories will not describe the corpses that can still move after death too well.
"It could be an intercalated nucleation or a fungal parasiticism, just cut it open. As he spoke, Cheese took out his dissecting knife, and as the white wolf's men began to burn the straw mats, he finally got to work. It's just that the mage's face when he started working was not very good, and he knew a lot about the methods that could make the corpse move again. There are fewer ways to become a corpse-eating creature after reactivation. It may be possible to find clues from the outside at all, and even be able to hide shamans like Lichou, such abilities and techniques, I am afraid that it is very likely that it is the handiwork of the gray robe.
The current cheese doesn't want to have a relationship with the same door. He always had a hunch that if he had to face this fellow student, the outcome would not be good.