Shonan Onianuma Chapter 7 The road encounters corpses
After walking for a while, we could no longer hear the bell, but somehow the bell came into our ears with a gust of wind. "We can't be lost, right?" Yang San asked, "This forest is so dense, are we going back again?" ”
"No, no! I've been here three times before, and I haven't lost my way in any of them! I remember this road, the door is clear, it is impossible to go wrong! Professor Yu said very seriously.
"That's strange, isn't this bell following us? Why else could you still hear this voice after so much of a day? Feng Pingping was also puzzled.
"Well, what do you think it is?" Xiao Hu, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly pointed to the front and asked, his expression becoming frightened.
I heard the voice, only to see that it was only thirty or forty meters away, I don't know when a group of people suddenly appeared, because we were coming head-on, how many people could not see clearly, but I just saw that the person at the head of the row was wearing a red robe, very wide, almost drooped to the ground, lowered his head, looked at his feet, held a bell in his left hand, held high above his head, kept shaking, and made a crisp sound along the wind.
The other hand kept pulling out the yellow paper from under the robe, scattering it into the air intermittently, and some of it had already floated in front of us along the wind.
This person's face can still be seen clearly, but the people behind him really can't see their faces at all, and the people behind him are all in white robes, with a veil on their faces, and a wide straw hat on their heads, and they don't even show their eyes, and they don't know how they saw the way.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Yang San asked with squinted eyes.
Professor Yu looked at the group of people who were approaching us, and shouted nervously, "Don't look, hide quickly!" As he spoke, he had already walked to the grass on the side of the road with his crutches and squatted down.
We saw that he looked nervous, although we didn't know what was going on, and looked at the approaching team, and we didn't have time to ask more questions, and several people followed closely and moved into the grass.
As soon as our group squatted into the grass, the group of centaurs had already arrived at the place where we had just stayed, and I don't know if this group of centaurs saw us, anyway, a few of us squatted in the grass to see it clearly, there were seven people in this team, not counting the person in red clothes at the head of the row, the rest were all white robes, and they all wore straw hats, and the six people were dressed in the same way, but they were uneven, or they looked like they were reproduced.
The group walked very fast, and in a blink of an eye they had already left us, and we dared to leave the grass and look at the group of people farther and farther away, and then we breathed a sigh of relief. "Teacher, who are these?" Feng Pingping asked.
"Let's chase out the corpses!" Professor Yu stared ahead, not quite sure that he was saying, "Anyway, we are in a foreign land, so it's better not to provoke these unclear things!" ”
"Chase out the corpse? Old Professor, are you saying that the people in that group are dead? Yang San asked incredulously.
"I guess so! But I didn't expect it to be the 80s, and there would still be corpses! It's unbelievable! The professor was also a little dumbfounded, thinking that what he had just seen was a little incredible.
In the early years, I also heard my grandfather talk about a mysterious witchcraft in southwest Hunan called "Xiangxi Chasing Corpses", and I was very scared when I heard it, but it was only a story to hear, because even my grandfather who told this thing had never seen it with his own eyes, but I didn't expect to think that I saw it today, and it really made people a little frightened.
It is said that there are also many doorways in this corpse drive, such as "three rushes and three non-rushes", which means that those who are beheaded, hanged, and die can be driven away. The reason is that they are all forced to die, they are not convinced, they miss their hometown and their relatives, they can use spells to hook their souls, use charms to calm their corpses, 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. Those who die of illness, those who die voluntarily by hanging their necks by throwing themselves into the river, and those whose limbs are incomplete by thunder and fire cannot be rushed. Among them, the souls of those who died of illness have been hooked by Hades, and spells cannot summon their souls back from the ghost gate; And the souls of those who throw themselves into the river are "replaced", and they may be in the process of handing over, if the new soul is recruited, the old soul cannot be replaced, will it not affect the reincarnation of the old soul? In addition, those who died from the thunder were all guilty people, and those who were burned by the fire were often incomplete in their flesh and skin, and these two types of corpses could not be driven away either.
There is also the fact that although it is said that the corpse is not divided into day and night, the corpse can be driven, but because there are more pedestrians during the day, I am afraid of disturbing the pedestrians, so most of the corpses are carried out at night, and it is fortunate that we have a group of people just now, if I am the only one who meets this group of corpse teams, I have to be scared half to death!
Moreover, I heard that the people who drove the corpses all went to the wilderness, firstly, because there were few people, it was not easy to cause panic, and secondly, it could be avoided because they went to a place with a large population and encountered any vicious dogs, once they barked, they were afraid that they would disturb the corpse and cause the corpse to be defrauded, so that the corpse chaser could not be controlled.
Professor Yu said: "The so-called chasing corpses is actually just carrying corpses. The corpse chaser found someone to dissect the corpse, and then sprayed a special potion on the stump to prevent the carcass from decomposing. A man with a stump on his back, wrapped in a long and large black robe, and a large straw hat on his head, covered the entire head, and even the outline of the face was difficult to see. Another person disguised himself as a corpse caster and threw yellow paper and rattled a bell in front of him to show the way to the corpse bearer. The two also deliberately created an atmosphere of terror so that people did not dare to approach them. If the road is far away, the roles of the two will change day by day. But this time, this team of people appeared all of a sudden, which is really a bit confusing! ”
Professor Yu doesn't believe that chasing corpses is people walking with corpses, but believes that chasing corpses is just a local custom, and many "corpses" wear straw hats, just to hide people's eyes and ears.
Anyway, I'd rather believe this kind of thing than not, but since Professor Yu said so, I don't want to argue with him anymore, after all, it is difficult for the old man to change his fixed thinking, and since the corpse team has already passed, there is no need to think about anything more, so he hurriedly smiled: "Don't worry about this corpse!" Let's hurry up, I see that the sky is cloudy, I'm afraid it's going to rain soon, it's better to find the grass house that the professor said, I don't want to be a soup chicken! ”