Chapter 59: Speculation
The moment my arm stretched out, I really felt that my heart was about to stop, so I quickly took two deep breaths to relax myself a little.
When my mind calmed down, I didn't stay there, after all, even fish like to eat live bait! If I had been motionless, the shadow would have thought that a stick had been stretched out, and it would have ignored me.
But I regret this move! I only lamented that I was really dead, and when my arm swung to the right, I seemed to feel a touch of stuff on the tip of my middle finger.
Seeing that I suddenly stopped moving and my face turned white, Kong Xian realized that there was a situation, and hurriedly reminded softly: "If there is a problem, quickly withdraw your hand, if not, we will find a way." ”
Although he said this, my whole body seemed to be stiff, and now I dare not move, for fear that the guy will tear my arm off if I move slightly.
"Good...... It's like touching a clump of hair. I stammered in a whisper.
"A clump of hair?" Liu Yang glared and asked, "Little brother, you won't touch other people's chest hair, right?" Quickly withdraw your hand, and after a while, it will think that you are insulting it, and it will be over directly. ”
I glared at him to shut him up, and scolded in a low voice, "I still want you to say that if I dared to fucking move now, I would have taken it back." The point is, I don't know if this thing has noticed me. I just touched a little bit of the tip of the hair, and it probably didn't feel anything. If I do it again, maybe he'll have to pull my arm off the ground. ”
"Oops!" Liu Yang was anxious, "Little brother, why are you so hypocritical?" You think the pestle won't notice you when it's there? Maybe it's facing away from the past now, and you just touched it, and it hasn't felt it yet. Wait a minute, it will turn around, just in time to see your outstretched hand, and that's it! ”
As soon as I heard this, it seemed to be the truth, so I quickly stiffened my body and retracted my hand.
When I took my hand back, all three of them were completely stunned. I saw that my whole middle finger was black, but it didn't look like it was dyed with ink, and it wasn't a solid structure, but it looked like mold had been crushed.
Kong Xian picked up my hand, put it under his nose and sniffed it, his expression immediately changed, and said, "It's so dangerous, fortunately your hand was withdrawn in time, we can't mess with this thing, no matter how big you hang it, even if the prince comes back to life, he can't protect us." ”
After he finished speaking, he didn't care whether we could go out or not, and immediately beckoned Liu Yang to quickly nail the window with a bench strip.
I was frightened by his sudden nervousness. While Liu Yang was nailing the window there, he asked him: "Master Jin, tell us quickly, what's going on?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of fingernails scraping from the window outside, and the thing seemed to know that the weakest point in the window was the window paper. So I picked the gap and scraped it on the window.
Kong Xian immediately made a silent gesture to us, and then went up to help Liu Yang nail the window. It wasn't until the window was completely sealed that he pulled the two of us back to the bed.
We waited for half an hour for the sound to pass.
It wasn't until it was completely quiet that I whispered again to him what was out there. Why do you say that even if the prince comes back to life, he can't do anything about it.
Kong Xian held his forehead and sighed, before he washed his hands with water and said at the same time: "If what you touch is the black shadow we saw before, then the things outside are similar to zombies, but he is not stiff like a zombie, but it also belongs to the mutation phenomenon of mold parasitism." Five years ago, there was such a terrible incident in Shanxi, and I remember this very well. I had a friend who was in the criminal police team at the time, and I heard that more than a dozen people died in the team in order to arrest this thing. I didn't believe it when he told me, and it wasn't until he said he was taking me on a mission that I fully understood how terrible this thing was. ”
His voice was not loud, but I could clearly hear a hint of powerlessness, which must have had a great impact on him, even to the point of psychological shadow.
According to him, five years ago he studied with a forensic doctor and worked as an assistant to him. At that time, they were not in Shanxi, but they had already heard about Shanxi. Although this matter is closed to ordinary people, it has already become a matter known to everyone for these insiders, and he happens to have a friend who is tracking this matter in the criminal police team in Shanxi, and he knows it even more clearly.
That year, a strange thing happened in a border lake village in Shanxi, a place that no one cared about in the wilderness, but one day it was suddenly contracted by a rich big boss. The big boss bought all the land in the entire village of Bianhu Village, and spent a lot of money to transfer all the villagers out and let them settle in the city.
Relocation, as long as there is compensation, is always a good thing for poor families. So no one came out to make trouble at that time, and the village chief took the villagers to prepare to relocate.
But after all, this is a piece of land where they have lived for generations, and the ancestral graves are all here, and if you want to go, you must first move the graves. It's a very simple thing, and it's human nature, how many big things are moving a grave?
But I don't know why, the big boss just didn't let them dig the graves, and none of the graves in the village were allowed to be moved. Some people even secretly went to open the grave at night, and they didn't even want the ceremony of moving the grave, just to take away the ashes and corpses of their ancestors, but they were beaten severely after being found by the big boss.
This is to completely provoke the people in the village, and directly fight with this big boss. But this big boss also has the means, and directly took out the weapon of the law and forcibly moved all these people away. Not only that, in order to give himself the upper hand in the lawsuit, he also made up a false story, saying that the graves in this place were all lonely graves left before the Anti-Japanese War, and the villagers tried every means to move the graves in order to steal the contents of the graves. Then he also said righteously and awe-inspiring that these things should belong to the state, and he would not allow anyone to take them privately.
Don't look at what he said so nicely, in the end, to put it bluntly, in fact, this boss is a tomb robber himself. The reason why he took all the land in that village was not to develop real estate there in a foolish manner, nor to build a large factory, but because there was a large tomb under the village, which is said to be the tomb of a corrupt official in ancient times. The reason why he didn't let the villagers there move the grave was because he was afraid that the tomb would be exposed when the ground was broken.
I don't know where the big boss heard the gossip, the people in the village have lived here for generations, and they haven't heard that there is a tomb here, but he is quite capable.
But after the villagers moved out, about a month later, more than half of the people brought by the big boss died. He knew that tomb robbery was illegal, and he could only carry it himself if something happened, and once the police knew about it, he would be finished. So at first, he choked and hid without reporting the crime, but it wasn't until the monsters who killed them later began to extend their claws to the ordinary people in the surrounding villages that he really couldn't hold it anymore, and this matter was stabbed all at once.
The province attached great importance to it, so it sent a criminal police team down to investigate the problem, but it only took three days to reach the destination, and the transferred police officers suffered heavy losses. In the end, in order to ensure the safety of the people, all the residents of the surrounding villages were evacuated to the city.
After Kong Xian heard about this from his friend, he always wanted to go and see it, so the two made an appointment for a time and place. planned, and brought Kong Xian with him when he was on a mission. But two days after Kong Xian arrived, before the two of them met, he received a notice that his friend had also been killed.
Originally, he only had a funny mentality, but now he couldn't take it seriously, and at the same time, it completely aroused his curiosity.
So he went to the city not far from the place of the incident and lived in the house of a very young university professor. This professor used to have some fate with him, and the two had a good relationship. He told the professor the purpose of the trip, but he did not expect that it also aroused the professor's curiosity, and he had to accompany him to the place of the incident the next day.
It also goes very smoothly, as far as Kong Xian's ability is concerned, it is not a problem to shake into the blockade area at all. This professor is also young and promising, so he naturally has his strengths. After some tossing, I don't know if it was good luck or bad luck, after sneaking into the blockade line, they stayed for about four or five days, and they were lucky to find an opening.
The professor said that this hole was dug by a person, and it was somewhat like the technique of a tomb robber, but the tools used must have been very advanced, so the digging was very neat. The soil is very fresh, maybe it was dug by the previous big boss's men.
So as soon as the two of them discussed, they hastily climbed down from this opening, wanting to see what was going on inside.
This time, they found that this hole can be said to be very perfect, and there must be quite knowledgeable people on the big boss's side. From the thief hole, he went directly into the ear chamber.
There were candlesticks around the transept, several cornucopia-shaped grooves full of gold and silver jewelry, and even more so in the main burial chamber, with boxes of gold surrounding the main coffin. That tomb can be summed up in four words: "People are stupid and have a lot of money", basically I don't see any hidden weapons, and there are no more complex structures. Feng Shui is considered to be above average, and it is not distinctive. Kong Xian wondered if it was a corrupt official or a local tyrant?
But what puzzled them was that there was no body in the coffin in the middle of the main burial chamber, only a black mass spread on the bottom of the coffin.
This is simply abnormal, as a tomb robber, would you choose to throw away the gold and silver jewelry and steal a corpse? This is completely impossible.
At that time, the professor saw the layer of black substance laid under the coffin, his face turned white, and he said to run, and he took the lead and rushed out, but he didn't take anything. Although Kong Xian didn't know why, seeing the professor's reaction, he didn't dare to stay longer, and hurriedly ran out. After the two of them crawled out of the thief hole, the professor stopped staying, and dragged Kong Xian back to the city, and the whole person was panting as if he had been greatly stimulated.
After his emotions calmed down completely, he told Kong Xian that the body in the coffin might not have been stolen by someone else, but mutated and ran away, to be precise, it was parasitized by a special substance, resulting in a chemical reaction. This parasitic bacterium feeds on the blood and body tissues of humans or animals, and once they have eaten the original host completely, they will obtain food in the form of murder.
"That's not right!" Liu Yang asked, "Even if this thing is attached to the corpse, it should be the same as the corpses we saw before that were parasitized by the killing vine, moving slowly, and can only move by jumping?" After all, the bones of the corpses were already stiff. ”
Kong Xian said: "It's different, the killing vine is just parasitic on the surface of the corpse. And that bacteria simply eats the corpse clean, and after eating, they will no longer maintain the form of the corpse, but will reattach to another corpse. ”
"And that dark shadow we saw earlier......"
Before I could finish speaking, Kong Xian asked, "Don't you think the black shadow is very familiar?" ”