"Mr. Peng is here! Come with me to the house! Seeing that Mr. Peng took the tiger into the courtyard, a lean and somewhat hunchbacked man hurriedly greeted him—he was a servant of Changtu Mansion. This man is surnamed Wang, and he is called Wang Honestly. He said that if he is not accurate, nine out of ten cases are not committed by living people. After all, it is the food of the dead, and the gods and ghosts all believe in it, and all the gods and immortals worship it, which must be right.

He carried the lamp and took Mr. Peng and Huzi into the firewood room. The house is leaking rain, and the ground is still damp. There was a wooden plank on the ground, and the corners were padded with bricks, so that the board was a fist high from the ground. The corpse rested on the board and was tightly covered with a felt cloth.

Wang Laoshi lifted a corner of the felt cloth, revealing the skeleton! After lifting the lamp and looking closely, I saw that the skin and flesh were still on my body. The corpse's skin was shriveled and the color of dead wood, clung to the bones. The flesh between the skin and the bone seemed to have been dug up, and there was nothing left.

Mr. Peng wrapped his hand in a cloth and reached out to pinch the corpse's forearm, only to feel that the flesh touched by his fingertips looked like dehydrated gnocchi. This corpse doesn't look like a hunter who didn't come out of the mountains a few days ago, but like a dried corpse that has been out of a cellar for decades!

"Tricksters! See what's coming? The speaker leaned on the door frame, chewed on the sweet pole (a kind of sugar cane), and glanced into the house with the afterglow, "Let me tell you, the Queen Mother Lafayette is gracious, there has been no major event in the house in recent years, and it is called a country and people." This case is closed even if I come, 'Orion went up the mountain and encountered a fierce beast, accidentally fell down the mountain and died', Wang Laoshi, if you find this trickster to make me a murder case, I will take off your head! ”

"What do you say?" Wang honestly grimaced, "Han Zhutou, you take a look at yourself, this is like 'accidentally falling down the mountain col and dying'?" If we don't poke things out, can we still get things done? ”

As he spoke, Wang Laoshi lifted off the entire felt cloth and cooled the dead man inside: "Take a look for yourself!" If this is what a zombie can look like if he encounters a righteous zombie? This dead Orion thing can be covered, no one has the ability to suppress it, and something will happen! If you want to continue to eat this bowl of rice in the official gate, you have to stop the succession of dead people! This person is the first to die, and he can't hold the zombie who has become a spirit, I'm afraid he will still die! ”

"Bad luck!" Han Zhutou spit out the dregs in his mouth outside the house, "This sweet rod festival smells fucking." As he spoke, he was discharged from the hospital.

"This has nothing to do with zombies, I'm afraid." Mr. Peng squatted beside the corpse, rubbed the corpse's neck and said, "Wang Jian, come and see ......."

Wang Jian hurriedly put the lamp over. Mr. Peng continued, "Zombies seek the blood of the living, and they want to bite with their mouths. Zombies harm people because zombies are neither yin nor yang, and they have to devour the flesh and blood of living people in order to keep themselves alive. And this Orion corpse has no external injuries on its body, it should not be the work of zombies. ”

Wang honestly nodded, stroked his mustache and thought for a while, and said, "Then it shouldn't be the work of a beast, otherwise it should leave a wound if you suck flesh and blood." Mr. Peng, what do you think is going on? ”

Mr. Peng didn't answer, but looked at Huzi. Huzi also walked in and said, "There is no yang energy at all, it doesn't look like he has only been dead for two or three days." ”

Generally speaking, when a living person swallows his last breath, it is considered that his soul has left his body. But the flesh is still the flesh of a living person, and the yang energy fed by grains and flavors is still in the body. Why do we have to stop the first seven? There are two things: one is that the soul is newly dead, it is difficult to give up the red dust, after seven days to see his corpse, eat the meal prepared by the first seven, enjoy the incense, and then be able to go without worry. The second one is that the yang energy of the physical body has not dissipated, holding the soul and making it unable to leave. These seven days did not mean that there was no waiting for the yang energy in the body to dissipate.

But now looking at this Orion, the yang energy on his body has been dissipated, and it doesn't look like he just died, so it is naturally a little strange. Mr. Peng's first thought was whether the body was not the Orion, but someone else, who was mistakenly taken back by his family.

"Wang Zhen, who found this body? Where did you find it? Can I see him? Mr. Peng asked.

"I don't know this," Wang said honestly, "after receiving the case, I came in the rain with Han Zhutou and two or three messengers, and when I got to the ground, I examined the body, but I didn't know the whole story." If you want to ask, you have to ask Han to catch the head. ”

Huzi snorted uncomfortably: "Ask him?" The prickly nose and vertical eyes don't have any ability. Mr. Peng glared at Huzi: "Don't talk nonsense, you go with me." ”

Mr. Peng and Huzi came out of the firewood room, and saw that the catcher and two or three poor people were getting together, but when they got closer, they also heard something: "It's late tonight, I'm afraid it won't be done." We'll stay here at night, and tomorrow morning we will go into the mountains to see what kind of evil stuff it is. ”

"Han catches the head...... Really? Mr. Peng asked. Hearing this, the head catcher turned around and looked Mr. Peng up and down: "What's the matter?" Say. ”

Mr. Peng arched his hand: "I just watched it with Wang Jianjian, and the death of that person is really strange, and I want to ask the person who saw this corpse first." ”

"I've asked it all over......" Catcher looked a little impatient, "Cheng, I'll go with you a little longer, and see what you can ask as a trickster." ”

After speaking, Han Zhutou led the way and came to the main house. Originally, the two of them were far away and couldn't show anything, but this threshold can be seen a lot. This house is a mud rammed grass house, the door frame is low, Mr. Peng just walked over it is okay, the head of the Han catcher has to be a cat's waist, Huzi only then realized that this head of the Han catcher seems to be much taller than ordinary people.

The back room is not big, and there are four people and one dog in sight. A woman sat on the edge of the kang with red eyes, and from time to time she took her sleeve and smacked her nose twice. A large dog lay at the woman's feet, looking listless. A child who looks like he is two or three years old, takes a "can't fall" and plays happily on the kang. The other person was the old man who had gone to look for Mr. Peng, who was standing on the side and just clicked the dry tobacco. The rest of the one looked like sixteen or seventeen, standing next to the old man, playing with his fingers.

"Chili pepper...... The official is here! The old man saw that the three of them had entered the house, and quickly knocked the cigarette on the sole of his shoe, and called the woman. Then he turned his head and arched his hand to this side: "Official! Yo, Mr. Peng is also there! ”

Han Zhutou raised his chin at the old man and said, "Aren't you going to ask?" Just ask. ”

Mr. Peng was stunned for a moment, and looked at the old man: "This person, did you find it?" Without waiting for the old man to pick up the stubble, the junior who was standing next to the old man spoke first: "No, my brother-in-law was found by me." ”

Mr. Peng nodded, looked at the latter and motioned for him to continue. The man was emboldened and said, "My brother-in-law is the mountain that has been going forward for six days. As usual, it is common for a small half a month to have no faith. Yesterday morning, my brother-in-law's family ran back from the mountains, and when he entered the village, he began to call, and the pestle called at the door of my sister's house, and the village heard it. When the big head saw my sister, he bit my sister's trouser leg and dragged it away, and then we knew that something was wrong. I found a few gentlemen and went into the mountains with me. The big head took us to the bottom of a small slope and found my brother-in-law. ”

"What about the others? Think again? Han Zhutou asked beside him, "Can you still find it somewhere?" ”

The latter thought for a while: "There is nothing else, I was frightened at the time...... If you let me find it, I can find it! I didn't go far into the mountains, but I went down a small slope not far from the river. ”

Mr. Peng asked, "Are you sure that is your brother-in-law?" ”

"Yes!" The latter replied without thinking about it, "That's my brother-in-law!" I also know the little finger of my brother-in-law's right hand to let the clip be discounted, and I can recognize the back connection. Besides, his clothes and guy were all there at the time, and he recognized it. ”

"Wait a minute!" Mr. Peng interrupted, "You mean your brother-in-law was originally wearing clothes?" ”

The young man shook his head: "No, no!" ”

"Hey! I'm your uncle! Han Zhutou was stunned at that time, "Lao Tzu still thinks that you are going to change his longevity clothes!" When you look for it together, it's naked? This is evil! Why didn't you say it earlier? ”

"You didn't ask for a long time...... Hou Sheng replied in a suppressed voice. Han Zhutou listened to the fire when he heard it! When did a flat-headed common man talk back to him like this: "What did you kid say? Believe it or not, I'll kill you! ”

The old man hurriedly stopped Han Zhutou raised his hand: "Han Zhutou, you are angry, you are like a child, his brain is not innocent, you have a lot of adults, don't worry about him." ”

"What about finding something with the dead? I want to see it. Mr. Peng said. The old man was eager to change the conversation earlier, and hurriedly replied, "Here! What about this! Mr. Peng, come and have a look. As he spoke, the old man lifted the curtain of the table on the floor, and a bunch of things were just huddled together and piled under the table.

Mr. Peng stretched out his hand and picked it up: a musket, two knives, more than a dozen large and small clips, and a dirty blue indigo clothes.

It's not good to see these things, and Huzi's brain is as if it's exploded! He's seen something, and he can't forget! At the bottom of the small slope not far from the river, Huzi lived so much and saw the Living Spring Palace for the first time, can he forget it? Huzi dared to guarantee the ticket, these things were the house of the hunter he saw! The unlucky ghost who died is also the protagonist of the Living Spring Palace that I saw by myself!

"Huzi, come and see, can you see anything?" Mr. Peng turned his head and asked.

Huzi swallowed his saliva, licked the tips of his upper teeth twice, and said, "Master, I seem to know...... I know what's going on. ”