After dinner, everyone talked freely, and then went to rest. The trek was not a short distance in the past two days, and I was still in a state of excitement before, so I didn't feel anything, but now that the excitement is over, the fatigue sweeps over, and everyone becomes a little drowsy.

But Mu Yuan, Long Ling'er and Luo Xuanren didn't sleep, they quietly came to the room of the third elder.

"Mu Yuan, I heard Xia Xue say that you bumped into the funeral procession today, saying that the deceased had a cat face?" Xuan asked unreasonably.

"That's true!" Mu Yuan nodded, "Teacher, you are well-informed, if an animal causes a corpse, will the appearance of the deceased really change?" ”

"That's!" Xuan Wuli said, "I met a few times when I was young, and I have never seen any of them change their appearance!" ”

"Is there really such a thing as a corpse?" Luo Qiren asked in surprise.

"Yes, but not often!" Xuan Wuli said, "When livestock and poultry encounter corpses, they do not necessarily cause corpses, which requires very strict prerequisites, such as the main soul is separated from the body but the other two souls are still there, and the animal and the deceased's life are in harmony or conflict...... This kind of corpse is essentially a soul transfer, and this so-called 'resurrection' is not only very short, but also has no intelligence! At least that's how the few times I've encountered it! ”

"What does that look like?" Long Ling'er asked with a grin.

"You're curious!"

"Who said that, I'm sure Brother Muyuan also wants to know!"

"They can't see or hear, and when they're locked in their rooms, they walk a little out of order, and they just walk along the wall and bump into each other!" Xuan Wuli said, "But when you touch something like a pillar, you will be pinched or hugged to death!" ”

"Do you open your mouth to bite?" Luo Qiren asked.

"No!" Xuan Wuli said, "The only thing that has is the sense of touch, every one of them has a closed mouth, and most of the eyes are also closed, just like a blind man walking around the house!" ”

"Teacher, did you find anything today?" Makihara asked.

"We just hastily walked around a few places, Fang Zhilin was timid, he didn't dare to take us to the cemetery, just pointed from a distance!" Yi Youdao said, "But according to our analysis, this seems to have something to do with a mysterious sect on the rivers and lakes!" ”

"Mystic Sect?"

"Didn't Long Ling'er tell you about the Jianghu Sect?" Yi Youdao asked.

"I've talked about it, are you talking about Erdou (Southern Xuanbei Yi), Four Evils, Five Sects, Six Domains, Eight Gates, Seven Evils, and Nine Mountains?"

"Hmph, this little girl really cut corners again!" Xuan said unreasonably.

"Cutting corners?"

"Yes, she deliberately didn't say anything about the three clans!" Tan Xiaosheng said with a smile.

"What are the three tribes?" Makihara asked curiously.

"The three clans refer to three terrifying clans, namely Gu, Dys, and Zombie, one in Miao, one in Zhuang, and one in Xiang!" Xuan Wuli ruthlessly exposed, "This little girl came out of the first clan!" ”

Mu Yuan looked at Long Ling'er strangely, but he was thinking in his heart, could he have guessed her origin wrong?

"Hehe, I only knew Brother Muyuan at that time, and I was afraid that saying it would scare him away!" Crayfish make an excuse.

"Three masters, what you're talking about are Gu poison, hesitation, and corpse raising!" Luo Qiren asked.

"That's right, we suspect that this Zhaojia Village is one of the three clans, and it is secretly raising corpses here!" Tan Xiaosheng nodded, "Mu Yuan, the two masters of Nanxuan and Beiyi said that you had people do a detailed investigation of this place before, and today you went to inspect it on the spot, did you confirm it?" ”

"It has been confirmed that there are 360 houses in total, and this number is true, of which only 180 people live!" Makihara said, "As I guessed before, there are only two hundred households and eight hundred people!" The only thing that goes in and out is that there is an extra house, the ancestral shrine in the middle of the village! That's 361 buildings! ”

"Muyuan, how do you calculate?" Luo Qiren was frightened, they hadn't figured out the number for four generations, but Mu Yuan had a clear idea in the afternoon.

"It's easy!" Long Ling'er said disdainfully, "Yin Hao has called the satellite map to reconnoiter before, we used to count the chimneys this afternoon, and if people live there, they will inevitably burn the fire and cook, these houses seem to be built randomly, but in fact, the number of houses between each street is exquisite, and it is very good to count!" ”

Luo Xuanren was really a little embarrassed, he didn't expect it to be so simple, and this is the difference between an insider and a layman, the difficult will not, and the will not be difficult.

"Admire!" Luo Qiren said sincerely, "It seems that my grandfather and I are going to change our brains, otherwise we will be too backward!" ”

"Brother Luo, it's okay if you don't learn or not!" Makihara smiled, "After all, most sources can't use modern technology!" ”

"That's just as well!" Luo Qiren nodded, and then asked the three masters, "The three masters just mentioned raising corpses, is there any evidence?" ”

"Let Mu Yuan finish talking first!" Tan Xiaosheng said, "Let's confirm our speculation again, so as not to laugh and be generous!" ”

"Yin Hao called up the historical data and compared the population data, fortunately, although Zhaojia Village is isolated from the world, it has been involved in all previous censuses!" "There are five times that the data can be queried, namely in 1909 in the first year of Qing Xuantong, in 1928, that is, in the 17th year of the Republic of China, and in 1953, 1964 and 1982 after the founding of the People's Republic of China. After comparison, the birth rate, mortality rate and population ratio are completely incompatible, especially between 1953 and 1964, the population has a large negative growth, which is consistent with the large number of deaths mentioned by Brother Luo before. ”

This time, Luo Qiren was completely convinced, and he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

"Three masters, you can talk about it this time!" Long Ling'er asked.

"Well, it seems that our inference is correct at the moment!" Tan Xiaosheng nodded, "The people of Zhaojia Village, or the people of Zhaojia Village in the past, are stealing corpses, moving souls, and raising corpses!" We asked Jiang Bixue to go to the cemetery where she was cremated and secretly counted the tombs of nearly a hundred years, and the number of burials there conformed to the law of birth, old age, sickness and death in the number of households and people, so who were buried in other cemeteries? If it's not an empty coffin, it's only a corpse robbery! ”

"In other words, cremation is the burial method of Zhaojiacun's own people, and everything else is disguise?" Luo Xuanren reasoned.

"Yes!" Xuan Wuli said, "People who raise corpses are most afraid of karma, they have refined corpses for a lifetime, and the most taboo thing is that they will become walking corpses after they die, plus dealing with dead corpses all year round, it is inevitable that they will be stained with yin qi, so the best way is to be cremated!" ”

"The other eight Tibetan customs are all secret methods for raising corpses, and the eight burials correspond to the eight stiffnesses!" Tan Xiaosheng said, "And these eight stiffs are sweat and white flying shade, fighting purple and swimming hair!" ”

"There are eight types of zombies?" Makihara asked in surprise.

"Do you think there is only one kind, the one that wears the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty? You've watched too many movies! Yi Youdao said with a smile, "There are actually eight kinds of zombies, each of which has its own weaknesses and strengths, in addition, zombies can also be divided into four categories, namely zombies, blood corpses, and squirts, and the scars are divided into white-haired calves, black-haired calves and golden hair-haired calves!" However, these are all legends, and the drought has been recorded in history, but the wolf only appears in mythological novels! ”

In myths and legends, Mu Yuan also has some understanding, in myths and legends, he has the terrifying power to fight with the gods, and has thousands or even tens of thousands of years of Taoism. In mythological novels such as "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Gods", there are records about the Qian.

In the eighty-third chapter of "Romance of the Gods", Xu Zhonglin wrote that the Cihang Daoist who broke through the Four Elephant Array, and his mount was the Qiang. Wu Chengen wrote in the seventy-first chapter of "Journey to the West" that after Sun Wukong defeated the monster Sai Tai Sui, who would use three kinds of bells in Qilin Mountain, he met Guanyin Bodhisattva to collect this monster, and Guanyin Bodhisattva told Wukong: This monster is its crotch mount called Golden Retriever, because the shepherd boy fell asleep and lost his defense, this evil animal bit off the iron rope, and King Zhu Zi also eliminated the disaster. Guanyin Bodhisattva shouted: "That monster rolled over, showed its original body, and let the Bodhisattva ride it."

Note: I dropped my book bag here, readers and friends, don't blame!

It is also said that the Golden Retriever is the only one among the zombies who has cultivated the Golden Retriever. Zombies are dead corpses do not decompose, flesh and blood shrink into the bones, begin to have a tendon, tendons have white hair, five hundred years later, white hair turns black, another five hundred years, black hair turns yellow (some say red), another five hundred years, cultivate into a golden retriever. When the cultivation reaches a thousand years, there is a heavenly thunderstorm, and almost all the zombies are wiped out, but the only one who cultivates to the golden retriever is not destroyed by the thunder, it is the golden retriever. The golden retriever is covered with golden hair, except for a little white hair on the neck, which is where the door is located, that is, the weakness. ——Guo Degang said in "The Biography of Jigong" that the mount of the Buddha, the Golden Retriever, came from here.

Before and after the Tiananmen Gate Tower, there are white marble pillars, its name is Huabiao, in the upright pillar body of Huabiao, carved with exquisite dragons and clouds, a cloud plate that is horizontal on the top of the column is called Chenglu Plate, there is a stone carved monster squatting in Chenglu Plate, the master of Dongxuan in the Qing Dynasty has a record in "Describing Differences": like a dog, cannibalism, ferocious, the legend is that the son of the Dragon King kicks the dragon, it has the habit of watching, roars at the sky, so it is called "Qian", commonly known as "looking at the sky", "Chaotian Xuan".

The Qianqi in front of the Tiananmen Gate Tower, because it faces the south, it is specifically watching the emperor's external patrol, if the emperor does not return for a long time, it calls the emperor to return to take care of political affairs quickly, so it is called "Wangjun returns". Tiananmen Gate tower behind the Qian, because facing the north, looking at the Forbidden City, it is to monitor the emperor's behavior in the palace, if the emperor lives in the palace, ignores the government and does not ask about the people's suffering, it will urge the emperor to go out of the palace, to observe the situation, so it is called "Wangjun out". This is the good wish of the ancient working people to the emperor to serve the people diligently! ——Wang Yuebo also quoted this explanation in his commentary, such as "Yongzheng Swordsman".

"Teacher, does that cat-faced old lady also have something to do with this?"

"It should be related!" Yi Youdao said, "But I can't guess what it is, in addition to the changes of the times, the corpse demon beast mentioned by Xuanren is probably also a reason!" ”

"There must be an antidote within seven steps of a poisonous snake, this is the unchanging cause and effect!" Xuan Wuli said, "They raise corpses here, which will inevitably attract some ghoul monsters, and they moved here thousands of years ago and worked hard to build such a residence, I'm afraid it's also because of this reason!" ”

"What the hell is this monster? I'm a little curious! Makihara said.

"Let's not worry about this for now, let's go to see the funeral tomorrow, and then go to find out at night!" Xuan said unreasonably.