Chapter 41: Traces of Corpses in the Mountains
At this time, it was almost dusk, the cold air was gradually rising, and the tired birds returned to the forest, Lou Lanfeng hesitated, went back and took a micro flush, and decided to continue tracking.
He reported his position according to the regulations and went into the mountains with a gun on his back.
Because the direction has been roughly clear, the subsequent tracking has been much smoother, and Lou Lanfeng can smell each other's scent on the trees and grass from time to time.
Such a scene reminded Lou Lanfeng of Chen Yongge in Daqi Town, who was also a running corpse. According to the company's later analysis, it is likely that his brain was invaded by underground people when he went up the mountain to search for missing people in Dagu Village! At present, the underground man is able to freely dispose of human corpses, but the ability to control the living seems to be immature, causing him to fall off the cliff, but for some reason, the underground man did not give up leaving, but stayed until he died in the hospital, and finally controlled the corpse to try to return to the third well behind Dagu Village.
Lou Lanfeng had a bold guess at that time, after the underground people entered Chen Yongge's consciousness, they did a certain degree of fusion, this kind of fusion is risky, once Chen Yongge suddenly fell into a coma, it would cause the underground people to be trapped, and they could neither get out of Chen Yongge's consciousness nor command his body, and they could only wait until Chen Yongge's death could continue to control his corpse action.
So could this be the case with this dried corpse? Lou Lanfeng basically denied this possibility. The dried corpse has been more than 200 years old, although it has not decayed, and the muscles even have a certain elasticity, but the brain tissue has long since dried up and shrunk, there is no problem of mind control, and the underground people are trying to control human beings with their strategic considerations, they are conducting some kind of ulterior experiment, they don't need to control a useless corpse.
It is said that if a cat jumps over the corpse, it will cause the corpse to be defrauded, and the corpse will move, and even chase people. In fact, this is a legend that has been circulating for a long time, but it has never been definitively verified.
Although the truth of the deception has not been verified, the scientific explanation has not been absent, and he took the initiative to come out. It is said that the cat has bioelectricity, and getting close to the carcass will cause the carcass to release the residual bioelectricity, so it moves. So there is also bioelectricity in people, why didn't it cause corpse fraud? The difference between science and superstition is repeated experimentation, and it is clear that this is an untested so-called scientific explanation.
Assuming that this Qing Dynasty dry corpse is a fraudulent corpse, it may not be impossible, but it can still be deceived after more than two hundred years, and she is inevitably a little allergic.
For the deception of the corpse, Lan Feng believes in another explanation, which he analyzed by himself. In the past, in the agricultural society, people would stay at home for a few days when they died, and there were often cats and dogs and other animals at home, and the main reason for prohibiting cats and dogs from touching the corpse was that they could not gnaw on the corpse! Now there have been countless incidents in society where the owner died at home and was eaten by cats and dogs, and zoologists have said more than once that if your cat or dog licks your face and smells your nose when you are asleep, don't think that it is making out with you, they just want to confirm whether you are dead and can you start eating!
People reminded each other not to let cats and dogs approach the carcass, in fact, to avoid the carcass from being eaten, and in the end, the words were unknown.
If the corpse doesn't exist, then there is another possibility that it is a zombie. Lou Lanfeng watched a lot of Hong Kong zombie movies when he was a child, and then he also watched Hollywood zombie movies, and concluded that those zombies are just beasts with the appearance of people, they have no thoughts, and they just want to eat human flesh for some reason. The most unbearable thing is the problem of eating human flesh, they are all rotten like that, is the digestive system still intact? Eating and drinking Lazar or going on normally? This setup is clearly a bit retarded.
But whether today's dried corpse is a zombie or not, this is already an extremely unusual event. Because the corpse ran away on its own.
Wang Shuo carried her out of the institute while saying this to her, and insisted that she was alive after being caught, and these confessions, if the body was still under the bridge, could be explained as Wang Shuo's mental problem. But now that the body is not only gone, but there is also evidence that she left on her own, then it can only be explained that Wang Shuo was bewitched by her and put her here, and then she went up the mountain by herself!
Is this a dry corpse with a mind that can communicate? Or to paraphrase the old saying, the haunting zombie? Unthinkable, now that the forest is getting darker, thinking of these Lou Lanfeng still feels cold and uncomfortable, and he tries to keep himself from thinking about these problems.
The mountains here are not high, the altitude is hundreds of meters, Loulan Feng chases the smell, goes up the mountain peak and goes down the valley, and then climbs a mountain, it is already the bright moon in the sky.
The mountains shrouded in silver light are silent, and the red and yellow mountains and fields are immersed in shadows during the day. The mountain wind stirred and whimpered in all directions, adding sorrow to every mountain peak.
There is a cliff in front of it, it is very difficult to climb down, if the corpse climbs down from here, it will definitely leave a very obvious smell, but Lou Lanfeng tried to find it, but did not find it, the smell is still concentrated in his own way.
Could it be that the corpse has turned a corner here? Lou Lanfeng searched left and right but didn't find it. And it's an outlet, and the mountain breeze blows away the smell, making it extremely difficult to track. The night was too deep, and no matter how strong Loulan Feng's eyesight was, he couldn't reach the point where he could see things at night like day, and he hesitated here for a while.
Lou Lanfeng calculated the time, and if he chased it down, he might not be able to return to the company to continue his treatment, in case there was a problem with the activation plan, and it would be very difficult to do it again, so he decided that it would be better to rush over directly after the treatment tomorrow, believing that with his speed and tracking ability, there should be results tomorrow.
It's just a matter of finding a corpse that might walk on its own, how far can a corpse go?
After a busy day, he didn't eat lunch or dinner, although his energy storage was greatly improved, but his stomach felt a little unbearable, so he stepped up to a boulder more than three meters high on the side, took out self-heating dry food and ate it.
Suddenly, he heard a "snap", as if someone in the valley behind him had stepped on a broken branch! Loulan Feng's hearing has been greatly liberated, and he can determine the specific location very accurately with the insects and birds within a hundred meters around, and the sound of broken branches comes from the right side of the valley floor three hundred meters away behind him!
This Xiangfeng Mountain is too close to the urban area, and the animals that are physically fit enough to step on the branches of the trees have long been extinct, is there anyone still active on the mountain at this time? Or is it just the dried corpse? But Loulan Feng was tracking the smell all the way to the top of the mountain, and it didn't make sense to leave the dried corpse behind.
Lou Lanfeng lowered his posture, lay on the boulder, and carefully observed the direction of the source of the sound as far as his eyes could.
Calmly, Lou Lanfeng heard clear and slow footsteps, and slowly came down the valley from top to bottom on the right side, and when he crossed the road with Loulan Feng, the other party turned left and climbed up the mountain facing Loulan Feng!
When the other party climbed to a distance of fifty meters, Loulan Feng had basically seen clearly, the person who came was a woman wearing a long black wind and snow suit, her skin was fair, especially obvious in the dark night, black hair shawl, flying with the night wind from time to time.
Although it was late autumn, it was not the time to wear such a thick snow suit, unless I planned to spend the night in the mountains.
There are few people here, there is no road, the woman does not climb fast with her hands and feet, but she seems to be very familiar with the environment, and without the slightest hesitation, she climbed to a distance of more than ten meters from Loulanfeng in a few minutes.
At this time, the bright moonlight illuminated her unusually pale, and she looked slender and very thin, like a ballerina, and her face was a little wrinkled, as if she had been so full of vicissitudes that it was difficult to distinguish her age for a while.
But her scent soon betrays her age!