Chapter 20: Driving Out the Corpses
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The symptoms after being poisoned are very similar to those of the corpses in white coats, the dead men and women in the villa, and Ma Li, so the content of various parasites in the bodies of these bizarre dead people will become a direction of the case investigation. In addition, according to research, in the Chuwu culture, in addition to the Gu poison that makes people fearful, there are also "corpses" and "cave girls", which are known as the "Three Evils of Xiangxi".
Therefore, Lin Suo suspected that in Wudu Medical University, the appalling white coat corpse that moved was someone secretly playing the ghost trick of "driving out the corpse". The strange phenomenon of "driving out corpses" also belongs to a kind of Miao Gu art, which is part of Chu Wu culture, and it is also said that this spell is related to Maoshan art, and is also called "moving spirits" by the Miao people.
According to historical records, this strange method of removing corpses originated in the four counties of Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi, and Lipu in Guchen Prefecture. The Miao people there have spoken of word of mouth, and about thousands of years ago, the ancestor of the Miao people, Apu Chiyou, led his troops to fight the enemy on the edge of the Yellow River. After three days and three nights of brutal fighting, a large number of enemy corpses were finally killed all over the field and rivers of blood flowed, and a complete victory was won in the war.
After the victory, Apu Chiyou led the soldiers back to the court, and their army could only carry a large number of wounded soldiers back to their hometowns, but they could not bring home their brothers who had died by the Yellow River. At this time, many people could not bear to throw their dead compatriots in place, so Apu Chiyu ordered Apu to find a way to send the brothers who died in the war back to their hometown for burial.
After praying for the will of the gods, the Apu military advisor disguised himself as Apuchiyu. He first carried the brothers who had died in battle together, and then stood alone among the corpses, reciting incantations and praying to the gods. After a while, the corpses that were originally lying on the ground actually stood up all at once, and they followed the "rune paper" held high by Apu Chiyou, and walked south together in an orderly manner.
Until he finally arrived at his hometown, this is the earliest version of Xiangxi's "chasing corpses".
Because it was the spell implemented by the Apu military division that allowed the brothers who died in a different place to return home, the Miao people called the person who could cast the spell "Lao Si". Moreover, it is said that the spells used by the Apu military division were the "fog techniques" granted by the Miao gods, so people replaced these spells with the word "witch".
The word "witch" is a hieroglyph, the top horizontal represents the sky, that is, the gods in the sky, the lower horizontal represents the earth, that is, the mortals in the world, and the middle vertical represents the "rune paper", that is, with such a thing as a charm, the god with boundless magic can be associated with ordinary people.
According to the legend of the Miao people, the person on the right represents Apu Chiyou, and the person on the left represents Apu Laosi, that is, the earliest legendary Apu military division. Combined, they mean that the magic of "witch" requires two people to work together.
According to this tradition, the "Gu worm" or "corpse chasing" must be two people, that is, one person is the caster and the other person is the recipient. In ordinary days, "corpse chasers" and ordinary people will plough the fields, work and do business, and only when they receive the "corpse chaser" business, they will put down their work and choose to go out temporarily.
As for the time for the "corpse chasers" to go out, it is determined by the distance, location, number of people, and difficulty of the "corpse chasers"; some easy corpses only need three to five days, and some are very far away and very difficult to expel corpses, and it may take several months. According to the investigation, the general "corpse chaser" is a master and apprentice.
The master needs to walk at the front of the line, shout specific words in his mouth, shake special "yin bells", and throw paper money with charms printed on them to guide the way for the corpses. The apprentice walks at the back to avoid special situations in the team. When they were in a hurry, they all went out day and night, and everywhere they went, passers-by avoided them, cats and dogs did not bark, and the stars and moon were dark.
And some special "corpse chasers" act alone, that is, no matter how many corpses there are, he alone completes the work of "chasing corpses". This kind of person in Miaojiang, the usual dress is that no matter what weather it is outside, he must wear a pair of straw sandals, a green cloth gown on his body, a black belt around his waist, and a green cloth hat on his head. They would always carry a small bag with a special gong and a lot of rune paper.
Legend has it that there will be some "dead inns" on the way to "drive away the corpses", this kind of mysterious inn will only entertain the dead and the "corpse chasers", and ordinary people will not let the living live. The inn is said to be wooden inside and out, the door will not be locked all year round, the layout of the inn is peculiar and gloomy, in case of heavy rain and other extreme weather, the corpse will be parked in the inn for a few days and nights. This is very similar to the mortuary of a hospital or the dissection room of a medical school.
Traditionally, there are only three types of "corpse chasers": those who have been beheaded (their heads must be stitched together), those who have been hanged, and those who have been tortured to death. Because of the legend that these people are all forced to die, they die unconvinced and unwillingly, and their hearts will miss their hometown and relatives.
Therefore, the "corpse chaser" can use spells to hook his soul, and use charms to calm all parts of the corpse, and then use spells to drive them to climb mountains and mountains, and even get on a boat and cross the water to return to their hometown for burial.
Correspondingly, there will be three situations in which the "corpse chasers" will not be rushed, that is, people who die of illness, people who commit suicide by hanging themselves by throwing themselves into the river, and people who die of incomplete limbs due to thunder and fire. According to the rules of the ancestors, no matter how much money these three kinds of people give, the "corpse chaser" cannot be chased.
Because, the souls of those who die of illness have been hooked by the king of Hades, and mortals can no longer summon their souls back from the ghost gate, otherwise, the "corpse chaser" will be severely punished by the king of Hades. If the "corpse chaser" summons the soul of the suicide person back at this time, the soul that died before cannot be reincarnated, that is, the rules of reincarnation are disturbed, and the "corpse chaser" will also be severely punished by the gods of heaven and earth.
In addition, those who died as a result of lightning strikes were people of great sin and did not deserve to be "driven out" for burial, and their bodies had been destroyed by the fire of heaven, and the "corpse chasers" could not be driven away. Otherwise, the "corpse chaser" will also set himself on fire and receive the most severe punishment from heaven.