Gao Chao looked back, only to find that behind him, the shadow was still chasing after him, but on the body of the shadow, a flame was burning for some reason.

It's just that the flame seems to have just been burning for a short time, and it hasn't given much light yet, but Gao Chao can see some of the shadows clearly.

I saw the shadow crawling in the narrow passage, as if it were all fours, like an ugly spider, and in front of it there was a head, and above that head seemed to grow eerie white hair.

Seeing this, Gao Chao immediately remembered the dry corpse in the basement, just because the dry corpse was dressed in a tunic suit, but it also had a head of white hair on its head, and at the moment Gao Chao secretly said, how the is it now, it seems that the thing that is chasing behind him, maybe it is the dead rice dumpling like that person's meat box, before the ghost blew out the lamp and candle, it must have been a corpse hiding in this passage, and now it is really a narrow road, it is to drive out all the people who enter their graves.

Gao Chao thought like this, he couldn't help but feel frightened, but at this time he found that the fire on the zongzi seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and then took a closer look, it turned out that the zongzi was wearing a Zhongshan suit, Gao Chao's eyes rolled, and then he thought that the lighter that Xu Fei threw at it in a hurry just now happened to fall into the open clothes of the zongzi, and it was accidentally lit.

At this moment, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, and the firelight suddenly illuminates the front and back of the passage, at this time, Xia Qing and the fat man, who were running in front of Gao Chao, also found that there was a fire in the passage, so they all looked back while running, and at a glance, they found that the zongzi chasing them had turned into a fireball.

At this moment, the zongzi has been burned to a "squeak", and the black corpse oil keeps coming out of the body, and when it sees the fire, it ignites the flames that have been burning more and more.

The zongzi was burned in extreme pain, and his limbs and torso twisted and struggled in the fire, looking like he was dancing some kind of weird dance.

The fire became more and more intense, and the stench of burnt rotten flesh wafted through the passage, which was unbearable, and the three of them could not help but cover their mouths and noses with their hands, but they still could not hide the disgusting smell.

The fat man was so tired that he had no human form at the moment, huddled in the passage, his legs trembling, but he didn't forget to pinch his nose and say: "Lao Gao, it's really you, in the end, it's the captain of our two-person squad, a well-deserved combat hero, he can actually give his mother a big dumpling with a corpse, it's really a heifer who doesn't give birth to cubs, it's bad......"

At this point, he accidentally choked on the stench that permeated the air, and then he grunted for a while, almost vomited, and when he calmed down a little, he was shocked and angry and scolded: "It really stinks to me, I didn't expect this dead zongzi to be a modern product!" ”

Although the stench in the air was permeated at the moment, Gao Chao covered his mouth and didn't want to speak, but when he heard the fat man's words, he couldn't help but ask: "Fat man, what do you mean?" Why are you sure that this zongzi is a modern product? ”

The fat man pinched his nose and said: "Lao Gao, do you know, the legend can kill the zongzi in many ways, but only this fire to burn the zongzi is the most effective way, and when the fire burns the zongzi, if it is only a thousand eight hundred years old zongzi, it is said that only because the body has already absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, the aura of the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, so although the body of the zongzi can be burned into ashes by the fire, but the rui qi on the corpse will be sublimated into smoke and dust in the fire, and the smoke and dust smell is fragrant and refreshing, and the legend is where the smoke and dust reachIt is said that as long as the person who is fumigated and poisoned by the smoke and dust, he can force out all the corpse gas on his body, so in the southwest area, the kind of old zongzi that is more than 100 years old is a precious witch medicine used by local witch doctors to treat corpse poison, as for the thousand-year-old zongzi, not to mention it......"

When the fat man said this, he pointed to the dried corpse that was burning in the distance, and then said: "But if you look at the zongzi in front of us, it stinks when it is burned with fire, it looks like a modern product, and it won't be twenty years old!" ”

In fact, what the fat man said is true, and the most famous one in history is that it happened in 1872, the zombie attack in Guangxi.

At that time, it was the eleventh year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, and Yan Shusen, who was then the envoy of Guangxi, recorded in detail in his diary the incident that happened during his tenure.

Pingxiang County, Guangxi Province, was Pingxiang Tuzhou at that time, belonged to Guangxi Taiping Prefecture, as today, Guangxi Pingxiang County is a multi-ethnic mixed area, here has been the border area since ancient times, and even from here to Hanoi, Vietnam, than to Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, it is much closer, and the border area is mountainous, here is no exception, belongs to a region of 100,000 mountains, but Pingxiang County is a traffic fortress on the border.

It was probably the eleventh year of Tongzhi, that is, in early July 1872, it was reported that three people died in the Yi tribe of Pingxiang Tuzhou for unknown reasons, and their own people suspected that the neighboring Zhuang tribe had done it, so the two sides had a fight in the quarrel, resulting in dozens of injuries.

However, on the night of the investigators' arrival, a member of the Dai tribe died again, although the incident happened suddenly, but the investigators were secretly happy, because the previous three deceased had been cremated and could not be autopsied, and this time the deceased person was likely to leave clues for the investigation of the case.

But the next development made everyone shudder, because after the autopsy, an astonishing conclusion was reached that the cause of death of the deceased was not human.

At that time, Guangxi and other places, from the people to the officials had some feudal superstitious thoughts, which was very normal at that time, so the investigators found the wizards and gods of the surrounding tribes, and united them to discuss countermeasures, but the countermeasures had not yet been formed, and the time was to the Zhongyuan Festival on July 15, that is, the Ghost Festival.

That night, the black clouds obscured the bright moon, the stars blew away, a scene of slaughter, the investigators and a few wizards patrolled in a village, but unexpectedly, the village from all directions, suddenly rushed into a group of people and beasts, their skin was black, their limbs were stiff but flexible, they were all beasts that bite people when they see them, and even chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and other livestock, can not escape their mouths.

The villagers had already fallen asleep at this moment, and only the alert young and middle-aged people hurriedly withdrew from the village when they saw this, and when they checked the number of people the next day, they found that more than 20 people had died, basically all women, children, old and young who could not run.

After this incident, it happened that Yan Shusen, who was the envoy of Guangxi at the time, inspected in Linxian County, and immediately rushed to the place of the incident after hearing the report, fortunately, Yan Shusen was born in the Daoguang period, and he had been the governor of Guangxi for more than ten years, this person had great luck in his life, and never believed in the ghosts and gods, so he immediately ordered the mountain to be closed, and the village was not allowed to enter within a radius of 30 miles.

The fire ignited, burned for seven days and seven nights, and then slowly extinguished, and when the fire burned, a fragrant fragrance could be smelled all over the sky within a radius of 100 miles, and Yan Shusen was really puzzled, and found the local village chief to ask the reason, it turned out that there were thousands of years of ancient corpses in the local area, and such a fragrance would be produced by burning with fire, which was used to detoxify and dispel stasis and drive away poisonous insects, which was really miraculous.

After this incident, there was no zombie attack in the local area, and the incident subsided, but the imperial court could not fail to report it, so Yan Shusen made a twist and turn, and wrote: "There are English people in Yunnan, tall and powerful, heinous, colluding with the border Burmese, burning, killing and looting, and wanting to do wrong...... Get the news, and punish them all. ”

So far, this matter has not been mentioned again, but is widely circulated among the people, until later generations someone accidentally got the diary manuscript of Yan Shusen, the then Guangxi inspector, that the Guangxi zombie attack incident was revealed to the world again.

At the moment, the fat man's conclusion is also somewhat related to that incident, only because the fat man saw that the zongzi was burned by fire, but released such a foul smell, it reminded him of those legends, and he would decide that the formation of the zongzi must not be long, and it will definitely not exceed 20 years.

Although Gao Chao didn't know about those legends, but after hearing what the fat man said, he couldn't help but feel that this zongzi was indeed weird, and then said nervously to the fat man: "Fat man, if what you said is right, then this person will have been dead for more than ten or twenty years, but...... But who could this person be? ”