Outside, it was raining harder, as if the sky had been pierced. Lightning and thunder, strong winds, terrible. But I don't think it's as terrible as the hall in this building.

We didn't dare to go inside at the entrance of this building for a while. The man sat motionless in the corner, looking up in the direction of the door, without making any sound or movement. Like a dried corpse.

Geng Yan and Yang Fei also discovered his existence at this time, and the three of them stood at the door, looking at the person squatting in the corner with six eyes, and no one dared to speak.

After about a dozen seconds, the man was still motionless, and I had already recovered from the shock. To be honest, my courage has been practiced a lot during this time, as long as it is not a sudden fright, I can still bear it.

There was no mental preparation just now, which caused panic in my heart.

I took my nerve and whispered as little as I could, "Dead or alive?" ”。

Yang Fei shone the flashlight straight at the man's face. Those eyes glowed eerily green in the light, and they must not be human eyes, I thought.

Yang Fei frowned, probably not knowing whether the person was dead or alive. If it's dead, but the level of brightness in these eyes is definitely not a dead thing. If it's alive, then why don't you stand still.

The three of them couldn't pay attention to it.

Yang Fei picked up the gun and fired a shot at the man's location.

The sound of gunfire briefly drowned out the lightning and thunder outside. I was nervous all at once. I thought, this is too horizontal, and people didn't provoke us, so we just shot it over, if it was really a living one, it would make people anxious.

I nervously held the dagger at my waist, guarding against the man's next move. But after a long time, he still simply squatted there. frowned and muttered, a dead one?

Yang Fei put away the gun and said to us, "It's a dead man, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to be indifferent." ”。

Her arrogant approach, the Buddha's kinetic energy provoked the eyes, and that person still didn't move, which shows that it is indeed not a living thing.

I was relieved. It's better to deal with death than to live things.

Walked over to observe the man and saw that it was the body of a man. It was a tunic from the last century, and this kind of clothing was the most popular at that time, probably hot worn in forties and fifties, but this is not absolute. The corpse was kneeling on the ground, with its back against the corner, and it felt strange.

It is difficult for ordinary people to present this posture when they die, and I don't know how it is caused.

And that's not all, but there was something strange about the corpse that caught my attention.

The first is how dry he is. The skin on the corpse's body was already deep in the bones, and even so, there was nothing in tatters. Regardless of how many years this corpse has been dead here, the posthumous state of this corpse is definitely not caused by the environment here. Because the weather environment here is too humid and stuffy, the corpses that die here are the most easy to decay and deteriorate, and there will be a large number of fly maggots, and the epidermis must not be preserved so well.

The corpse looked to have been created in the dry climate of the desert, and there was no trace of damage to the skin on the body. That's a point.

The second is that there is a problem with the eyes of this corpse, and the eyes that shine through the flashlight are green and bright, and when he looks at it, he has a feeling of being looked at, and he is uncomfortable.

I took a closer look and realized that it was not the naked eye at all, it was a pair of jade in the shape of an eye that had been set in the eye socket, I don't know if it was jade or what.

After death, they will put something like this on their eyes, what the hell is this painted?

Yang Fei looked at me for a while and said, "You go and look through him to see if there is anything on him that can indicate the identity of this person."

I glared and blurted out, why don't you go?

Although I said so, although I didn't want to, but in the end I still squatted next to the corpse, first bowed to me and said, This woman asked me to desecrate your body, and if you are still killed, don't come to me, just go to her. Then I went through the pockets of the man's clothes.

The tunic had a little more pockets than the current clothes, and there was nothing in the pockets of the pants and the side of the clothes. In the two pockets on my chest, I pulled out a fountain pen and a couple of penny coins. The rest is left with nothing.

The pen was in good condition, but there was no ink left, so I unscrewed it to see that there was nothing.

Geng Yan took it and said, this is the 'hero' brand fountain pen, and some old intellectuals used this thing in the past. My master has one, but the nib of his pen is made of gold, which is much better than this one.

She pinched the tip of the pen in her hand and grinded it, frowned and continued, "It seems that this person is likely to be a teacher before his death?" ”。

I asked curiously, how do you guess?

Geng Yan put two fingers in front of me, and I saw a little red on her hands. "The ink is red and the average person doesn't generally use it. I'm not sure, but it's more likely that this person is a teacher. She gestured to the corpse.

I have no words, and I do not deny or confirm her inferences. I took those coins to the bottom of the flashlight and looked at them for a long time, but I didn't see anything famous. It was handed to Geng Yan.

Geng Yan looked at it for a while and then said: This is an ordinary coin, the money of that era was still more practical, and a penny can be spent as a dollar now.

I know what she said is true, the money of the last century is more affordable than it is now, and a hundred yuan is equivalent to the income of a white-collar worker now.

Yang Fei was inspecting the corpse, and when he heard Geng Yan say this, he raised his head to look at her, and then went to fiddle with the corpse again.

She looked so closely that she even cut the corpse's clothes with a dagger.

While admiring her strength in her heart, I can't help but wonder if this girl has a necrophilia.

And when I saw the corpse of the person whose shirt had been cut off, I was immediately attracted to it.

Because there was a large hole in the abdomen of the corpse, and there was something gray in it, I felt a feeling of nausea in my heart.

Geng Yan was also taken aback, looking at the position of the corpse's abdomen incredulously.

Yang Fei finally stopped what he was doing, stood up and said to us: "This person's internal organs have been cleaned up, and the inside has been filled with white lime, and there are also in his mouth, and his eyes are inlaid with opal. I guess that's why the corpses just dry up and don't decompose. ”。

Her words were conclusive, not like she was talking about it.

I took a cursory look at the corpse and asked, "How?" What is the reason? It shouldn't be for nothing, right? ”。

Yang Fei shook his head and said he didn't know, and looked at Geng Yan, as if asking what Geng Yan meant.

I thought about it, Geng Yan is the junior sister of a ghost hunter Taoist, so he should know a little bit about this strange thing.

But we were wrong, Geng Yan was even more confused than the two of us. She frowned and thought for a while, then said to us uncertainly: "I have heard Feijing talk about the purpose of this before, as if it is to trap people's souls in this skin, but I don't know the specifics. Feijing told me this, but I forgot about it. Wait a minute, I'll think about it."

I said, "Think about it."

The rain outside was still falling as always, and it seemed that it would not stop for a short time. I think you should be prepared to spend the night here. I said to the two of them.

Geng Yan was really pretending to think on the side. Yang Fei and I didn't bother her either.

I was so uncomfortable that my clothes were sticking to my body, and it was very sticky.

I twisted my body to look around, and said to Yang Fei: "Get this corpse aside, let's make a fire and roast the clothes." ”。

This is a psychological effect, and it feels awkward to have a corpse around. Yang Fei nodded, and then the two of us carried the body to a room in the corridor and lit a smokeless stove in the hall.

We all had a change of clothes in our backpacks, and I took them out to see if they were still dry. This backpack is actually waterproof, the outside is canvas, and the inside is a layer of soft leather.

The three of them found a nearby room and changed into dry clothes, and then they felt comfortable. We roast old clothes by the fire.

Yang Fei suggested going to each floor to have a look, and I said that it was better to simply wait here for the rain to stop. This building is so weird, it's better not to go deeper.

She thought I was being too careful, but she didn't say anything.

Geng Yan had been thinking about the corpse since just now. I guess she probably really knew something, but she really couldn't remember it, which is why she thought about it so seriously. This is a kind of habitual thinking of people, vague memories that cannot be grasped, and they always try their best to dig them out.

I didn't expect her to really remember, after sharing a box of canned beef with Yang Fei, I saw that Geng Yan was still frowning thoughtfully.

I thought it was funny and said to her, "Don't think about it, let's eat some Dongxi first."

Geng Yan nodded, picked up the can I handed her, and looked at the fire. Suddenly, she shouted to us, "I thought of it."

Her voice startled me and Yang Fei. Then I was shocked and asked what she had in mind.

Geng Yan's expression was a little excited, a little scared, and very conflicted. She glanced in the direction of the doorway, then turned back to us and said, "This is the way to make a human skin lantern, to hollow out the corpse of a person, and to light a candle inside." We didn't look closely just now, and we don't know if there was a candlestick in the stomach of the corpse. ”。

I was swishing in a cold sweat on my back by what she said, and asked, "Is there anything special about this method, it can't be for fun."

Geng Yan looked at me, then at Yang Fei and said, "The problem is here, the usefulness of this thing is evil." I used to be so scared when I heard Feijing say that I didn't dare to go out for months. ”。

Yang Fei and I glanced at each other. Both of them were attracted by Geng Yan's words.

Geng Yan didn't sell it, and said to us: "This is a method used to prevent evil spirits. The simple four words are 'to town ghosts with ghosts'. ”