Chapter 117: The Evil Spirit in the Mountains 27
When they approached, helped the wounded down from the mule, and reunited their relatives after being in distress, it was natural that they would inevitably feel reproachful and concerned about it.
Li Feng instructed the hunters to set up firewood to boil hot water, and when they went into the valley to pick up the people, the few hunters who stayed behind had already cut a large amount of firewood with the help of others, and even boiled a pot of thick seafood soup.
Although it is inconvenient to use electricity in the field, it is not impossible to control the water temperature, and you can put some boiled pebbles into the turnover box. The three wounded took turns to soak in a hot bath in the rune glutinous rice water, all the corpse poison in the body was sucked away by the glutinous rice water, and the whole person came out of the water soaked red and sweated, after a short rest, they each went to the simple bathroom to take a warm bath, changed into clean clothes, and sat not far from the fire like everyone else to eat and chat.
The remaining dozens of catties of glutinous rice flour were taken by several hunters and scattered around the camp, surrounding the entire camp.
After the corpse poison in the bodies of Zhong Dahai and the other three wounded was expelled, the mental state of the whole person improved significantly, especially after drinking two bowls of delicious thick soup, his body seemed to have immediately regained some strength. Together, several people recounted to the rescue team about the nocturnal corpses they had encountered.
"I really can't imagine such a thing, and the story told by the old man in the village is really true." When they were finished, an older hunter sighed.
"What's the story?"
"What do you know? Let's talk about it. ”
The curiosity of the others was obviously aroused, and even Zhou Jiaxin and Shi Fatzi looked at the hunter, waiting for him to tell a story. As for whether the nocturnal corpses will come tonight, didn't Li Chuan say it just now, Li Feng just put a few stones in his hand to prevent it, why are they still fooling that heart?
"Lao Li, that incident was involved in your family's ancestors, why don't you talk about it?" The old hunter turned to Li Zihao's father and said.
Father Li smiled, "You are eloquent, you can say it, in fact, I don't know much more than you." ”
"Well, as far as I'm concerned, listen, listen to some of the old people in the village......" The old hunter saw that everyone else was looking at him, even the old professor and the third apprentice, so he coughed twice and cleared his throat, and slowly told the story he had heard.
The story he told happened about 100 years ago, when the population of their village was smaller, and many of the people in their village were medicine pickers and hunters who went to the mountains all year round to make a living. One day at noon, the tranquility of the mountain village was broken by the rapid sound of a gong, and it was the patriarch who was calling the people to a meeting.
Soon after, hundreds of people gathered in the village's ancestral hall, where a straw mat was laid and a man with a bloody face and tattered clothes lay on it, and they quickly recognized it as a young hunter from the village, and a local langzhong was washing his wounds and applying herbs. An old man, that is, the patriarch, looked at the side for a while, and then said to the surrounding clansmen: "Who is lying on the ground, I don't think there is any need to say more, the three sons and the four of them went into the mountain, and only one came back this morning." ”
"Uncle, just tell me directly, what's going on with them?" An old man next to him asked, there was a meeting in the clan, and the older and older the qualified, the higher the seat.
"The third son said that they met the corpse in the mountain." The old patriarch pointed to the man lying on the straw mat and said.
"Wow!" The people around seemed to have exploded, and everyone pointed and discussed.
"Silent ----!" The old patriarch paused vigorously with the wooden staff in his hand.
An old man who knew a little about bruising looked at the injuries of the young man on the ground, "Uncle, no, the injuries on the third son's body are all bumps and bumps, as if they were injured by their own falls." ”
"The injury was caused by himself, but it was his rhubarb (a soil dog raised by his third son, and he was also a good helper for hunting. Sacrificing his life to savior, he helped him drag the trouser leg of the corpse, and the third son accidentally rolled down the hill while fleeing for his life. The old patriarch listened to him talk about the whole process when the third son was still sober, and he knew a lot of information.
The previous people were united, and under the order of the patriarch, they quickly organized a team composed of more than 40 young and middle-aged people, and brought torches, firearms, machetes, ropes, etc. into the mountain to save people.
Because they knew the approximate location of the accident, and the people in the team were all young and strong, they marched very fast, and in the middle of the night they had reached the place where the three sons got rid of the corpse, and followed the bloodstains to find the body of the earth dog Rhubarb, who fell in a bush, and at a cursory glance, there were more than 30 wounds on his body that seemed to have been pierced by a sharp blade, and his mouth was still clenching his teeth and biting a piece of stinky flesh with rags.
Since it was rumored that the people killed by the corpse would be mutated, although everyone wanted to bury the loyal rhubarb, they still left a few people to clear a small open space and burn the rhubarb's body. After the people left behind burned the rhubarb, they quickly caught up with the brigade and continued to search the mountain.
It was almost early in the morning, and they finally found three people on the same hillside who had not returned, but unfortunately they had become dried corpses.
Seeing these three corpses, the dozens of people present felt a chill on their backs. The corpse's skin was a little blue, its nails were an inch long, black and shiny, and its wrinkled lips protruded from two upper fangs, and its eyes were wide open and their eyeballs slowly turning red.
Everyone was a little at a loss, "I'm afraid I'm going to turn a corpse." In silence, an older hunter shouted, "Hurry up and chop some firewood to burn." ”
The people present woke up and were indeed about to burn it quickly, so they hurriedly chopped wood and built a large pyre, and picked up the three corpses with a few thick branches and put them on the pyre, and the pyre soon ignited a raging fire.
Watching everyone devour the three terrifying corpses, a group of people just breathed a sigh of relief, and there was a roar in the distance that was different from that of a beast, and then, there was a rapidly approaching rustle, mixed with the click of some small trees being broken, and the people present quickly retreated behind the fire, and they were afraid that the fire just now would not burn through, and the pyre was big enough.
A moment later, a figure dressed in a tattered blue-gray linen robe burst out of the darkness in the direction from which the voice came, and they were immediately astonished at the sight, this is good, according to the old uncle, they have met the main lord now.
The comer's skin was blue, his eyes were red and violent, and a pair of upper fangs protruded two inches from his lips. It was stunned for a moment at the sight of the fire in front of it, then let out a loud cry, and went around the fire to the people who were closer to it.
Lacking understanding of the corpse, who dared to let it get close, so a few brave people directly took off the fire hammer behind their backs and fired at it.
With a bang, the clothes on the corpse's body were smashed into pieces and flew back two steps, but there was no real damage on the body, and after a roar, he pounced again.