43 Dried corpses
After the little Taoist priest left, Wen Shen and the other four each found some branches to make crutches, and walked slowly along the path that appeared from time to time. In the beginning www.biquge.info, they had to slowly find a staccato path from the weeds. But the more you go into the mountains, the more obvious the trail becomes, indicating that the road leading to the mountains in front of the trail leads in all directions, and more people are walking.
Several people followed the trail until they walked into the mountain road, and then followed the mountain road up and down into the mountain.
Along the way, although Zhao Daliang was frightened, he also gained a lot. The money he paid for his old ways was left behind on this road.
Even when several of them traveled all the way, several times when they encountered a fork in the road or could no longer find a clear road in the weeds, there would always be a few bills in front of them, thus pointing them out the path and direction that the old road had taken.
According to Wen Shen's inference, after following the old road and following the team to send Zhao Daliang's wife and Liu Shuya up the mountain, he must have found an opportunity to slip back to the top from other paths in the mountain. I just don't know if Liu Orion is with him? And along the way, I don't know what happened, and I scared the old way into a madman.
Wen Shen and Li Siguang hoped to find some clues from this self-sacrificial cliff to the upper view.
Everyone walked in the mountains around the corner, and finally came to a huge rock, Li Siguang, who was at the front, suddenly stopped and stretched out his hand to stop the people behind.
"No, it's weird."
Zhao Daliang listened, sniffed hard, and didn't smell anything. "No? What does it smell like? ”
"Dead taste."
Li Siguang looked around vigilantly, "Don't move, I'll take a look." ”
"Pretending to be a ghost." Song Weiren said to himself disdainfully.
Wen Shen paid great attention to it, "Lao Li, no problem, right?" ”
"No problem! But you better be careful, look around, and don't make any noise. ”
Wen Shen nodded, Zhao Daliang was frightened by Li Siguang's serious expression, and looked around in a panic, but he didn't know what he was looking at.
Li Siguang said that he wanted to take a look, but he didn't move, but stood in place, scanning the surroundings with vigilant eyes, making sure that the danger was not nearby, and then acted.
This old man looks like an ordinary old peasant, but his skills are excellent. Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit. As soon as the soles of his feet flicked, he was like a civet cat, and he went to the top of the mountain rock after dividing five by two.
Li Siguang's skills made Zhao Daliang look stupid. This mountain stone is as high as a small building, and the stone wall is beaten by the wind and rain all the year round, and it is slippery and does not leave hands, and there is no place to focus. It is difficult for an old villager like Zhao Daliang, who has been climbing in the mountains all his life, to climb up. And this old pedant, who seemed to have no power to tie the chicken, actually rushed up without much effort, which really surprised Zhao Daliang, and he was so surprised that he couldn't even close his mouth.
This time, even Song Weiren showed a trace of surprise and admiration for Li Siguang's agile skills, but his expression was not too exaggerated.
Wen Shen looked so sophisticated and calm that he looked solemnly at Li Siguang who was stepping on the rock, and did not show a look of surprise. It can be seen that these two people must be very familiar with each other and know each other well.
Li Siguang stood on top of the boulder, constantly looking around, and as he looked, he used his nose to smell something in the air.
Sniffing and sniffing, he squatted down, and then even threw himself on the rock, sniffing to the other side of the rock, sniffing and looking. Finally, I heard him lie on the stone and sigh, "Ah! ”
Wen Shen was very alert, "What's wrong?" ”
Li Siguang got up and jumped down from the rock, landing easily and steadily, without shaking. "Behind the rocks, you will know it when you see it."
"Li, Researcher Li, your skills are really amazing, it is estimated that Shanbao can't match you when he is dexterous." Zhao Daliang saw that Li Siguang's ability was not small, and he couldn't help but admire.
But Li Siguang didn't appreciate it, "Now is not the time to talk about this, come with me." ”
The other three followed Li Siguang around the huge mountain rock and walked to the back of the mountain rock, where the mountain rock was concave inward, forming a gap.
It was in this gap that a man lay down.
Dead person!
Dry dead!
A withered dead man who has been sucked out of blood!
The face was terrible, the skin and flesh shrunk, and Zhao Daliang was so frightened that his legs were weak when he saw it.
"Ahh Liu, Liu ......"
"The missing Liu Orion?" Wen Shen didn't wait for him to finish, and then answered. He repeatedly and carefully studied the entire process report on the zombie fight incident handed in by Zhao Daliang; I am very familiar with every name in the event; He also has a good understanding of the development process of events.
On this basis, Wen Shen et al. also made many assumptions and inferences about the unknown part of the incident participants in this incident.
So this time when he saw this dried corpse and heard Zhao Daliang say the word "Liu", Wen Shen immediately knew that this dried corpse that had been sucked blood should be Liu Orion.
Zhao Daliang was so frightened that he couldn't speak at the moment, but nodded subconsciously.
"It seems that this guy and the old Taoist priest are slipping away together, they don't want to go back to Xiatou Village, so they slipped away by copying the trail together, and as a result, here, they met a blood-sucking zombie, this zombie sucked up Liu Orion's blood, but did not move the old Taoist, the old Taoist priest was scared crazy, and then he relied on his instinct to find the way back to the top." Li Siguang reasoned.
"I agree with you, but I have reservations about the 'zombies', as I should say that they are unknown creatures." Song Weiren said very stubbornly.
"Whatever it was, it used to eat only animals, and now it has started eating people. That's not a good thing. Wen Shen said coldly.
After Wen Shen finished speaking, Li Siguang and Song Weiren actually stepped forward, squatted down, and carefully examined Liu Orion's body.
Zhao Daliang looked at Liu Orion's bulging and miserable white eyes that leaked life, and was so frightened that he didn't dare to look at it at all, and unconsciously took two steps back and stood behind Wen Shen. But he couldn't help but be curious, and stuck his head out from the side of Wen Shen's head, wanting to see what Li Siguang and Song Weiren were doing.
Up to now, Zhao Daliang has admired these experts sent by his superiors. These people not only show profound knowledge everywhere, but also hide it deeply, and have some skills that have nothing to do with knowledge. What's more, they are still bold, and even the corpses that have been sucked dry by zombies dare to reach out and fiddle.
Zhao Daliang thought to himself: "If I knew this, I should have waited for these experts to come, and then I would organize the villagers to cooperate with them. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel really annoyed in his heart.
Although Li Siguang and Song Weiren were not afraid of Liu Orion's dry corpse, they did not fiddle with the corpse with their bare hands, they were always afraid that some corpse poison would be infected.
Song Weiren magically took out a pair of rubber gloves from his pocket and put them on his hands, and then grabbed Liu Orion's shriveled hands and examined them carefully.
Li Siguang got a branch from the side, walked to Liu Orion's head, and looked at his neck carefully, only to see that the skin of the left cervical artery was bitten and rotten, and the shriveled flesh was very blurry, and he couldn't see why.
Li Siguang used a branch to move Liu Orion's head to the other side, but the body was stiff and his head couldn't move at all. So Li Siguang said to Song Weiren, "Xiao Song, lift the corpse up, and I'll look at his right neck."
Song Weiren didn't look at him, and replied, "Don't you know how to get it yourself?" ”
Li Siguang grinned, "Am I not wearing gloves?" Otherwise, I'll just touch your pocket and get a pair of gloves to bring on? ”
Song Weiren said coldly, "I only brought a pair of gloves. When you were in the village, didn't you talk about it? How can you go on an on-site scientific expedition and don't even know the most basic equipment to bring? That being said, he was not very pretentious, and since he took advantage of his words, he could cooperate with his actions.
Liu Orion was originally a burly figure, but after being sucked dry, it was not heavy, and Song Weiren lifted his body with both hands.
"Gloves, although they are not necessary, since you have them, it doesn't hurt to use them." Li Siguang said as he leaned over to Liu Orion's neck and looked at it carefully. The flesh on the right side of the neck is not rotten, but on the arterial vessels, there are obviously two tooth holes, which can be seen from the shape of this hole, the teeth of the bite holes are the sharp canine teeth in the mouth of the creature, and the lower mouth is quasi-ruthless, penetrating deep into the skin and flesh, penetrating the arteries and blood vessels. ”
"Xiao Song, did you bring a scalpel?"
Song Weiren glanced up at him this time, "You don't bring anything, but you think that others have brought everything for you?" ”
Li Siguang listened and said with a smile, "I am somewhat familiar with your teacher Hu Yigong, and I know that he likes to carry these things with him at all times. You are his proud disciple, and so should you. Did you bring it or not? ”
Song Weiren was a little surprised when he heard Li Siguang mention his teacher, and felt that this bad old man was qualified to say this about his teacher.
But what Li Siguang said was good. When Academician Hu Yigong went out for scientific research, he did not leave his spare and portable equipment. Except for personal disciples like Song Weiren, no one else knows very well. It is precisely for Academician Hu Yigong to have such a habit, and as his right-hand man, Song Weiren is the same.
So he pulled a small scalpel out of his pocket, "What are you going to do?" ”
Li Siguang pointed to the left side of Liu Orion's neck. "Test your anatomy and cut the skin tissue and muscles on the arteries in the neck to expose the arteries in the neck, but not the arteries."
Song Weiren frowned, "Don't you know how to get it yourself?" ”
Li Siguang smiled: "I'm old, my hands are easy to shake, and I don't have gloves, so you should come." ”
Song Weiren said unconvinced, "Seeing that you are very good at climbing stones, your hands will still tremble?" ”
After speaking, he didn't shirk and started to cut.
Song Weiren's movements were very swift and extremely professional, and it only took ten seconds to peel off the shriveled and wrinkled flesh on the left side of Liu Orion's neck from the dry arteries, revealing the gray blood vessels.
Li Siguang took a closer look, and the blood vessels were intact and not ruptured.
"Well, can this corpse still be raised?" Wen asked with deep concern. As a folklore expert, his first concern is whether the zombie will raise a corpse.
"I can't get up. The blood was sucked dry, and he died directly, and he could never turn over. Li Siguang replied casually, as if answering an ordinary matter. But in Zhao Daliang's view, this thing is extremely terrifying.
"The strong suction causes severe dehydration of all the cells in the body, a bit like making bacon, where salt is used to draw water out of the cells. The difference is that this suction force, which comes from the mouth of the predator, is transmitted to the whole body through the blood vessels for a very short time. All the cells in the body are ruptured and necrotic due to the instantaneous loss of water, and the virus has no soil to grow, so it is estimated that the phenomenon of corpses is impossible. Song Weiren used a seemingly relatively scientific explanation to show that Liu Orion could not get up again.
But from their words, Zhao Daliang heard a conclusion that shocked him, "These people are quite familiar with zombies. ”
Just when Zhao Daliang was shocked by a series of strange actions and words of these three people, Li Siguang spoke again, "Strange, this thing has always been extremely accurate in eating people and looking for blood vessels, and I have never heard of a second mouthful, how can I bite one side and then bite the other side this time?" ”
"It wasn't bitten by the same predator. Although the wound on the left is vague and extensive, it is not fatal, and the teeth that bite open the flesh are not so sharp, so it can be said that they are sharp teeth that have not yet grown. The cavity on the right is deep, accurate and clean. It is a mature bite with sharp teeth. ”
"And what are your conclusions?" Wen Shen asked very seriously.
"More than one, predator" When Song Weiren slowly said his conclusion, Li Siguang stretched out two fingers quite cooperatively and shook them in front of Wen Shen and Zhao Daliang.