Chapter 41: Slavery
The village chief sighed, got up and walked to my side, helped me up, and then let me sit on the chair, I wanted to resist, and pushed the damn old man away, but my body actually moved uncontrollably, I felt stiff, and a cold air invaded my body.
"This kid went to patrol the cemetery with me last night, and then he seemed to be scared, and he didn't sleep all night, that's why his face is so bad."
"Patrol?"
The village chief nodded, and said with a sad face: "It's the incident I mentioned to the Taoist chief some time ago, this Honggang Village doesn't know what kind of bad luck has fallen, a lot of corpses have been stolen for no reason during this time, all of them are in the cemetery, I have received reports from many families, so I thought about taking Zhang Jun to investigate." ”
"Ah, I see." Guan Tianzi nodded suddenly, as if he had known about this matter for a long time, looked at me and asked, "Zhang Jun, did you see anything unclean in the cemetery?" Otherwise, with your knowledge, you shouldn't be scared like this by a mere cemetery, right? ”
I didn't have time to think about anything, I found that my mouth was also "myself" moving, and said: "That's not true, the main thing is that I have been a little unwell in the past two days, Dao Chief, you don't have to worry." ”
Guan Tianzi frowned, and then looked at me suspiciously for a while, and only said after a long time: "Zhang Jun, although I can't say the details, I feel that your kid may have suffered some unclean things in his body, and your spirit is a little weak, so take a good rest during this time." ”
"I know, don't worry about it."
After that, the village chief said that he had something to talk to Guan Tianzi, and he also put me out of the warehouse, and after Guan Tianzi left, I returned to the warehouse again. The atmosphere in the room was quiet, and the village chief stared at me with a smile on his face.
"What, you're not running?"
Seeing me standing motionless, the village chief laughed twice and said sarcastically.
"What the hell did you do to me? Why is my body out of my control! I shouted angrily, and when I saw the village chief, he stared at me with a playful face, and he didn't mean to answer me at all, and couldn't help but punch the village chief directly in the face.
Then the person didn't hit me, and the sharp pain in my head came into play again, and I screamed and rolled on the ground with my head in my arms.
"Zhang Jun'er, you listen to me now, I will give you two choices - one is to listen to me obediently and do what I tell you to do, so that I can help you relieve your pain, hehe...... As for the second option, it's very simple. ”
The village chief stretched out his finger and lightly touched my eyebrows, the smile on his face disappeared, and he said coldly: "That is, you will be tortured to death under the pain of ten thousand ants devouring your heart, and after that, I will suck your three souls and seven souls dry and turn you into a dry corpse!" ”
"Old thing, who the hell are you! Why do you want to do such a thing as robbing corpses......"
The village chief stood up and said leisurely with his hands behind his back: "Of course, it's for the cultivation of my Corpse Emperor Sutra...... Hehe, when I suck in the corpse qi of a hundred corpses, it will be the day when the corpse emperor sutra is completed! At that time...... Lao Tzu doesn't have to continue to live in this poor country, hahaha! ”
"...... the Corpse Emperor Sutra?"
I was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it for a while, I finally remembered what the Corpse Emperor Sutra was, and my face changed dramatically at the moment. As a descendant of the Earth Burial Master, it is naturally impossible for me not to have heard the story about the Corpse Emperor Sutra, but I never imagined that the village chief of the small Honggang Village would actually be a cultivator of the Corpse Emperor Sutra.
This is an extremely evil witchcraft, even more evil than the funeral scriptures. Cultivating the Burial Sutra will cause the cultivator to receive a poisonous curse, but after all, the Burial Sutra is also a spell used by the underground burial master to drive away the demons and monsters in the world, but the price is heavy.
But the nature of this Corpse Emperor Sutra is completely different, if a living person cultivates the Corpse Emperor Sutra, he will eventually turn himself into a corpse demon who will be excluded from the three worlds of heaven, earth and man, although after becoming a corpse demon, he can obtain the ability of immortality, but it is no longer a living method.
Now the question in my heart is also completely solved, I said why the village chief stole the corpse, it turned out to be to absorb the corpse qi in the corpse, so that his body decayed a little bit, and when he absorbed enough corpse qi, he would become a real corpse demon. And just now the village chief also said that he was going to suck the corpse qi of a hundred corpses, which means that his goal is likely to become that hundred-year-old corpse demon.
If a hundred-year-old corpse demon appeared in the small Honggang Village, almost all the living people in the village would suffer, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
"I think your kid is also Zhang Changsheng, the grandson of a dignified burial master, it is impossible not to know the power of my corpse emperor scripture, Zhang Jun, now I just lack a helper here, if you know each other, just follow me obediently, and when my exercises are completed, you will definitely be indispensable, how about it?"
Hearing the village chief propose to me like this, of course I refused without even thinking about it, what are you kidding, if I help the village chief do this kind of thing that damages yin morality, I guess my future fate will not be much better than cultivating the funeral scripture. When the village chief saw me, he refused, didn't give him face at all, his face was stunned, and he slapped me in the face with an angry snort.
Then I felt my scalp tingle again, and immediately a terrible pain swept over me, as if a thousand steel needles were piercing my brain at the same time. I cried out in misery, rolling around with my head in my hands, tears and snot coming out of the pain.
On the surface, nothing has changed in my body, but the pain from the inside out is more profound than anything I've ever experienced. And it is clear that now whether I will continue to suffer from this inhuman suffering, the choice is entirely in the hands of the village chief.
So my persistence didn't last half an hour, and I collapsed under this severe pain, and I promised the village chief to be his assistant, and until he cultivated the Corpse Emperor Sutra to usher in the day of Dacheng, I was by his side to help him steal the corpse, refine the corpse, and refine the corpse qi for him to absorb.
Under the surveillance of the village chief, I didn't dare to tell Wang Er Mazi the truth of the matter, only that the client's tomb had already been stolen, leaving only a wax man. After that, I was almost always tied up by the village chief, and the white shop left by my father had to be temporarily closed.
Every day by the village chief's side, I spent almost the whole day in the remote, uninhabited warehouse to help the village chief dispose of the corpses. He gave me a prescription to use herbs to help him make a special medicinal oil, which was applied to the corpse and soaked in a black jar filled with salt water, and it turned into a special pool of blood.
At night, I went out with the village chief in disguise to steal corpses, and I did all the hard work, almost like a slave, but I had to resist in the slightest, and once I resisted, the pain that awaited me was fatal. After digging all the decaying corpses out of the coffins, the village chief will perform a spell to temporarily inject the corpse qi from his body into the corpses, giving them the ability to move.
When I returned, in the gloomy woods, I would walk in front, holding the black rope around the necks of these corpses, leading them towards the warehouse. When I had brought all the corpses back to the storehouse, I continued to refine the medicinal oil, while the village chief stripped naked and sat down in the black jar by himself, soaked in the blood made from the corpses.
I don't know what the village chief has done to me, during the period of being controlled and enslaved by the village chief, I didn't feel any fatigue, almost 24 hours a day to help the village chief work endlessly, I feel that my body is getting weaker and weaker, and my spirit is gradually numb, but I don't have any sleep.
One night I was dragged by the village chief to Nanshanling, which is the most famous mass grave near Honggang Village, it is said that more than 30 years ago, there was not only one village in Honggang Village, there were a total of five or six villages close together, but in the end, because of the abnormal plague, two-thirds of the people died, and finally there was only one Honggang Village left, which is why there are many wastelands near Honggang Village.
The southern mountain range is densely wooded, and the road is winding, to be honest, there is actually no decent road, and the lights are blind at night, so I completely follow the village chief and follow him, if he does not lead the way, I don't know where there is a cemetery.
At that time, the plague came and went faster, and people were dying in piles and piles, just like garbage, without any respect and due treatment, and in order to control the further spread of the plague, people were dug a pit everywhere and buried in the woods of this southern mountain range. It is also absolutely not okay to throw it in the water, once the corpse decomposes and contaminates the water source, the plague is more likely to spread.
Recently, there have been frequent cases of corpse theft in Honggang Village, of course, because the village chief has been stealing corpses, and the villagers of Honggang Village will spontaneously go to the cemetery with tombstones on the north side to patrol and investigate at night, and it is not as easy to steal corpses as before. So the village chief took me to this Nanshan Ridge this time.
The plague more than 30 years ago, almost everyone in Honggang Village talked about it, and the old people in the village were extremely excited when they talked about it. But I vaguely remember that the most famous rumor about this Nanshan Ridge, which is known as a mass grave, is still the ghost fire.
To say that there are so many corpses in this Nanshan Ridge is an exaggeration, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are corpses buried under almost every tree growing in the Nanshan Ridge. It is said that many descendants of the dead villagers wanted to find the bodies of their relatives and wanted to bring them back to set up a tombstone, but they did not come out again after entering Nanshanling.
In addition, there are also rumors that they see their relatives walking around in the woods of Nanshan Ridge during the day, and at night there will be female ghosts who come out and pretend to be outsiders to trick men into Nanshan Ridge and eat them.
In fact, in a remote small village like Honggang Village, the police force of the police station is almost just a decoration, but the police of the police station still took great pains to surround a fence around Nanshanling, and also set up a sign - the wooden sign is painted with red paint with four big characters: entry and exit are strictly prohibited.
The village chief himself was obviously a half-dead monster, but when he took me to this Nanshan Ridge, he also looked a little stunned, and ordered me to fight quickly and dig up a few bones from the ground as soon as possible.
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but that night I was under the order of the village chief, and I dug up the shovel when I saw the ground, and as soon as I dug up, it was a white corpse, and I thought to myself that the mass grave was really worthy of the name. In less than two hours, a total of more than 20 dead bodies were exhumed.
Some of them were still wearing tattered cloth clothes, while others had corroded so much that even their white bones were a little black and yellow. After the village chief infused the corpses with corpse qi, I saw that the corpses were surrounded by a dark green breath, and then the rotting flesh attached to the bones and grew little by little. If I hadn't seen this horrific scene with my own eyes this time, I would never have dreamed that there was such a thing in the world.