At about ** o'clock in the evening, Qi Tianyang simply cleaned up, and called out to me who was still lying on the bed: "Yoyo, go, take you to see the customs of Xiangxi!" ”

"Really go, then wait for me." I sat up from the bed with a flutter and changed into a pair of long-sleeved trousers. Mosquitoes are infested here at night, so let's be armed.

"Qi Tianyang, come, put on!" I found a plain gown from a large pile of luggage and handed it to him.

Qi Tianyang glanced at it and said, "You know, I don't need it!" ”

Oh, it occurred to me that the half-corpse man had no hot blood from a living person, and of course he didn't have to worry about mosquitoes. But people are obviously kind, but this bastard doesn't appreciate it at all!

"I know, I'm worried about those mosquitoes, and I finally found a big wrong, I can't suck blood, you say it's wronged!" I'm strong at the point.

"Hahahaha, my wife is really good at laughing, okay, I'll change it." Qi Tianyang seemed to be amused by my words and couldn't stop laughing.

The night is as deep as ink like inkstone, the stars are bright, the twilight sky is like a deep undercurrent against the current, the moon shadow hangs in the sky, hanging low in the deepest part of the night, Weiyang, the turbid moonlight is like a stream shadow precipitation. A few strands of stratus clouds drifted by, obscuring the leaden moon, leaving only a faint trace of moonlight pouring down.

Under such a lingering night, Qi Tianyang and I took advantage of the faint moonlight to come to a relatively remote woodland.

"It's a big night, what are you doing here, it's scary?" Even though I was wearing a long shirt, I couldn't help but chill and had to hug my arms. Especially when the evening breeze blew behind me, it always felt eerie.

Although I have seen so many things that have a great impact on people, I still haven't adapted to them.

"Do you know that in the realm of Xiangxi, apart from the Miao Gu culture that you have heard of, what else is the most famous?" Qi Tianyang asked matter-of-factly.

I have heard a lot of legends here, but most of them are just mythical legends, and after liberation, they are untenable in the fight against superstition and illegal activities.

"What?" I asked disappreciatively.

"Chase out the corpses." With Qi Tianyang's sentence of "driving away corpses", I felt that the temperature around me had dropped a lot.

"Ahh I was frightened, "Is there really a corpse chaser?" ”

Qi Tianyang looked at me like an idiot.

"You're not going to take me to see the corpses, are you?" I'll go, this is not a small impact on me, think about it, I don't sleep in the middle of the night, watching a row of corpses pass in front of you, hey, goosebumps.

"You're right."

I slapped him hard, and said angrily: "Why didn't you tell me earlier, and didn't let me make some anxious preparations, you want to scare me to death!"

"Who knew you were so stupid, besides, tell you, you won't come out." Qi Tianyang's chin was raised, as if he was laughing at me.

Seeing that I was angry for a while, I said unconvinced: "Who said that I am not even afraid of your corpse, am I afraid of those dead people?" Seriously, I'm still curious about that corpse chaser. ”

"What's there to be curious about, isn't it just a profession that arises after letting people who die in a foreign land be able to return to their roots, return to their hometowns, and settle down in the soil."

Qi Tianyang said with a light breeze: "However, if something goes wrong on the road and the corpse is fraudulent, it will be another matter." ”

I listened, and my body shivered.

"Isn't it troublesome that they come all the way from such a long place, and anything can happen on the way?"

I am really full of curiosity about these terrifying things, and after listening to Qi Tianyang's explanation, I probably have some understanding of "chasing corpses".

The reason why the business of driving corpses is more common in Xiangxi is that it is full of high mountains and deep valleys, dense jungles, and it is not easy for cars and horses to pass. If you want to return to your hometown and be buried in your ancestors, this is the easiest and most effective way.

Although, with the change of times, this kind of work is gradually disappearing. However, the things handed down by the ancestors have been passed down into the bone marrow, but I didn't expect that there are still these things here, but they are not well known to the world.

They wander by night and by day, haunting places where there are few people. Since ancient times, people have been very in awe of this industry and taboo, so it is known as "the official does not stop, the soldiers do not care, the people do not hinder, and the bandits do not rob".

Suddenly, a crisp sound of bells in the distance, accompanied by the subtle sound of gongs, completely captured my full attention.

"Here, don't make a sound." Qi Tianyang's deep voice sounded in my ears, and my heart tightened in an instant, this was the sound of the soul bell.

"Dust to dust, dust to dust, life is so hard. Zombie zombie come with me, go back to my hometown and go to the underworld as soon as possible......"

In the distance, there was the sound of the corpse chaser singing and harmonizing, accompanied by the gust of yin wind, I couldn't help but grab Qi Tianyang's clothes, very nervous.

Gradually, the voice got closer and closer, and through the dark night, I saw a line of white figures. In this dim moonlight, it flickered and flickered.

Until I really saw clearly, in the approaching group of figures, there were two "living people" wearing Taoist robes, one of them struck a gong, and there were words in his mouth; The other, with a dementor bell in his hand, opened the way in front of him and scattered paper money along the way.

Then, I saw that behind the corpse chaser, there were four "corpses" walking like living people, each wearing a high felt hat on their heads, and several pieces of yellow paper with charms written on their foreheads, hanging down their faces, indescribably strange.

If you look closely, the four walking corpses are all connected by a straw rope. They followed in the same footsteps, following the corpse chasers in front of them, standing and walking in the same posture.

Luckily, the night was dark, and I couldn't really see their faces.

I subconsciously covered my mouth and nose with my hands, for fear of making a little noise.

In this way, I watched the group of corpses and walked past me, and the corpse catcher did not seem to notice us, still ringing the bell and ringing the gong, and gradually melted into the night.

I exhaled deeply when I was sure they were far away, and in just two minutes, it felt like two hours had passed.

"They must have just come out of the "Dead Inn" in front of them. ”

The "Dead Inn" is a resting place for corpses and corpses. Its doors are left wide open throughout the year for corpse chasers to enter, as it is generally unguarded.

And behind the two large doors is the place where the corpse rests, so the door is never closed. The corpses were all standing neatly against the wall behind the door panels.

The corpse chaser drove the corpse, arrived at the "corpse shop" before dawn, and quietly left at night. When the road is difficult to walk on a rainy day, I will stop in the store for a few days and nights.

"Actually, those corpse chasers are also quite hard, and when they encounter a difficult road, they have to carry them one by one, and they are panicked thinking about it."

Qi Tianyang looked at the direction they left at this time, and said slowly: "I think, I'm afraid it won't be peaceful tonight!" ”

"Why?" I wondered, it's not peaceful, could it be the corpses? But there is nothing strange about these corpses.

"I feel that something is wrong with the second walking corpse, I'm afraid it's going to be a corpse."

I was shocked: "Corpse? What does it mean to raise a corpse? ”

"The so-called corpse is that those corpses can suddenly stand up for some reason and harm the living. These walking corpses are just controlled, and if they break free, the consequences will be unimaginable. Qi Tianyang said very seriously.

"Is it the zombie from the movie?" I was shocked when I heard this, and I didn't believe it.

"Almost, some zombie movies still have some basis." Qi Tianyang looked at me with disdain, as if he was laughing at me for believing in the movie.

I was frightened, but for some reason I was a little excited.

However, I have also heard this kind of statement.

Legend has it that the presiding officer of a temple in Tibet died, and the monks of the whole temple placed his body in the sutra hall of the temple, and then everyone sat in the hall to chant and pray day and night, and did not close their eyes for three consecutive days and three nights.

On the night of the third day, the body of the host was unexpectedly raised.

At this time, however, only one monk was awake and did not fall asleep from the exertion of continuous chanting. The rest of the monks fell asleep one by one because they couldn't help but feel sleepy.

In the second half of the night, when the sober monk saw the corpse that had suddenly sat up, he was completely frightened. In a panic, he forgot to wake up the monks, pulled out his legs and rushed out of the door, and slammed the temple door to flee for his life.

As a result, hundreds of monks in the whole temple were all turned into corpses overnight, and none of them were spared. Fortunately, they couldn't make it out of the temple gate, but just rampage through the temple, turning the world upside down.

I always thought it was just a legend, but now it seems that it is not that simple.

"Then what should I do, why didn't you tell those corpse chasers just now, what if the corpse is really raised?"

Qi Tianyang's expression was indifferent, and I felt a little relieved when I looked at it.

"During the period of chasing corpses, the most taboo thing is to see the living, let alone come forward to speak. If I had done that just now, maybe the corpse would have really been a corpse. ”

"So what are we going to do? Doesn't it matter? ”

"Let's go, let's follow, if it's really a corpse, we'll go and see the excitement."