Chapter 82: Corpse Poison
I shook him in disbelief, "Old man Wang? ”
He ignored my voice, and I fell down at the touch of it, and I quickly grabbed him, and my nose moved, and I smelled a peculiar strange smell.
It didn't stink from him, but it was weird, like the smell of rat poison sprayed in the countryside.
This should be the 'corpse smell'. According to the spiritual theory, when the soul leaves the body after death, the corpse will emit a strange smell. In fact, after death, the corpse begins to decompose, and the microbial activity inside accelerates the decomposition of the gas.
There was a burst of despair in my heart, and the blue eyes were really dead.
It was only as close as they got close to the tomb that the procession dispersed. Alimu Yama and the two are missing, Dajin's life and death are uncertain, it is already a bolt from the blue for us, and now Shui Qingyan has not swallowed his breath, this, how can this be good?
Come to think of it, Shui Qingyan is already sixty years old, and he has been skilled along the way before, which makes me forget that he is still an old man. Let's ask, which old man can withstand the toss just now?
Most of this action has been abolished, and it can really be said that he died before he got out of school. Obviously, we have invited experienced red thieves to lead the team, but we still ended up miserable.
I looked at the corpse with blue eyes, and I only felt that everything was lost, and I didn't know what to do.
"Ho...... Ho ho ......"
I woke up suddenly, and quickly followed the sound to look, but it was Shui Qing's eyes with his mouth slightly open, and there was such a strange sound in his throat and eyes, as if he was stuck with a mouthful of phlegm. Seeing this scene, I suddenly remembered a story in the textbook when I was in school, about an old student who passed the exam, and was surprised by phlegm stuck in his throat and became crazy, or his father-in-law gave him two rays of light and beat the phlegm out to regain his senses.
Although the situation in front of him is very different from that in the story, there is no one around, no one understands medical skills, and he can only be a dead horse doctor. I looked at Shui Qingyan's old face that had become old and pale, waved my palm, and simply picked him up, let his head face down, and raised my palm to pat his back.
only listened to a sharp cough, and Shui Qingyan spit out a few mouthfuls of green sputum, which was mixed with blood. The green phlegm was in one place, and a strange smell emanated, which was the 'corpse smell' that I smelled before, and now it seems that the strange smell actually comes from this green phlegm.
Spit out the phlegm, Shui Qingyan collapsed like a lost soul, and I hurriedly held him up. Our drinking water is all on Yama and Alimu, and since we can't feed him water, we can only touch his chest with our hands.
Unexpectedly, after only a few strokes, Shui Qingyan opened his eyes suddenly.
I was startled, and I almost fell to the ground, not caring about anything else, and hurriedly said to him: "How do you feel?" ”
Shui Qingyan looked puzzled: "What's the matter, is Lin Xiaomei back?" ”
I looked at him as if nothing had happened, and was surprised, "You just ......"
Shui Qingyan frowned: "I just ...... Dozed? En......" His nose moved: "Where did the smell of corpses come from?" ”
Saying that, he quickly got up and called the pulse of Dajin, and muttered, "I'm not dead...... How can there be a corpse smell? As he spoke, he looked around, and after a while, he finally fixed his eyes on the green phlegm.
I saw that he had recovered a lot of energy, and he had just woken up and walked back and forth, no longer as weak as before, and I couldn't help but be surprised in my heart, the person who had obviously turned his back on his back just now actually jumped up vigorously.
Just thinking that Shui Qingyan had already walked in front of those mouthfuls of green phlegm, he covered his mouth and nose and squatted down, and said, "This ......" Then he seemed to think of something, and said in shock: "This is what you vomit?!" ”
I looked at his startled look, and suddenly felt a little funny: "That's what you vomited." ”
"I threw up?!" Shui Qing's eyes widened, and he looked at the green phlegm incredulously, and said tremblingly: "This is what I vomited?" Then I'...... What happened just now, you can tell me again. ”
I have never seen such an expression of the always steady and old Shui Qingyan, as if something terrible had happened, and hurriedly told me what had just happened.
Shui Qingyan's face was blue and purple for a while, and at the end, he looked at the green phlegm and let out a long sigh. After a while, he said, "Thank you...... Little brother Lu An, it seems that I am really old, I should always come......"
I was confused by his thoughtless words, he seemed to have figured out what was going on just now, and asked curiously, "Just now, what happened to you?" ”
Shui Qingyan sighed again, gave Dajin another pulse, took out a medicine bottle from his bag, poured out some pills and fed it. He handed me the bottle and said, "Take three." ”
I took the pill bottle and took out three pills, only to see that the pills were full of particles, each one was only slightly larger than a rice grain, and the whole body was dark and green, not like a medicine, but like an ancient pill. Put it in my mouth, I felt numb and bitter for a while, and then I only felt a clear stream flowing down my throat, my body and limbs were refreshed, the pain was gone, and my tired body also regained a lot of strength.
I marveled at the magic of this pill and asked Shui Qingyan, "What kind of medicine is this?" ”
Shui Qingyan said: "This is my own medicine...... I named myself Qingxin Dan. It can refresh and concentrate energy, remove pain and stop bleeding. But you can't use it too much, and once you use it too much, it will become addictive. ”
As he spoke, he snatched the vial, poured out a handful of it, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it. His face is much better again, and even the wrinkles on his face are much less.
Although it is very effective, it is mixed with addictive herbs, so it will become addictive for a long time, and in severe cases, it is no different from drug abuse. This Shui Qing's eyes were talking about harm, and it was really strange to eat this pill without moderation at all.
Shui Qing knew what I was thinking when she saw my face, and said with a smile: "Didn't you just ask me the reason for my illness?" It also has something to do with this elixir......"
Hearing this, my heart moved, and I said, "Could it be that the symptoms of suspended animation just now are the side effects of this pill?" ”
Shui Qingyan shook his head and said, "I developed this elixir to prevent this disease. In fact, you should be taking these pills too. ”
I was shocked, what does this mean? Am I destined to suffer from this disease in the future? Looking at the symptoms of this old man, it doesn't seem to be an infectious disease. This disease is actually quite dangerous, it was okay to have me just now, but if it suddenly became ill when no one was around, it would not be as dangerous as just now.
Seeing my shocked appearance, Shui Qingyan smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's not that serious, I'll tell you the origin of this disease."
In ancient times, tomb robbers were beautiful, and some even dug a large tomb to have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, and squandered it at will. But most of the fate is quite tragic, most of them are in different places, strange deaths, or there is no peace after death, and the clan is decaying.
Most of these tomb robbers committed taboos when robbing tombs. Therefore, there are many rules left behind in ancient tomb robbing, but in modern times, most of those rules have been lost. Most of the thieves broke open the tomb and took the treasure by brute force alone.
There is a way to be paid by heaven, and cause and effect are reincarnated. After a long time, some experienced red thieves found that the final outcome of the tomb robbers was extremely tragic, and no one escaped except for the tomb robber family. In addition to the so-called illusory and traceless 'yin virtue', the most troublesome thing is 'corpse poison'. ”
I nodded again and again, as early as when I entered the industry, I heard that the ancient tomb is closed all the year round, and the corpse of the tomb owner decomposes into a highly poisonous corpse gas hovering in it, which lasts for thousands of years, and the tomb robbers will inhale the poisonous gas into the body if they break in, and the light ones will fall into the root of the disease, and the heavy ones will die violently on the spot. What's more, the tomb owner died of poison during his lifetime, and the poison merged with the corpse after death. Once the corpse is raised, the living will die when they touch it.
Seeing me nodding, Shui Qing continued: "Actually, it's not just rumors, just like me, or missing a hand, they are all deeply troubled by corpse poison. Although we have been extremely careful in every action, over the years, there have been hundreds of ancient tombs that have been dug up under our hands, coupled with the 'corpse gas' spit out by zombies after encountering corpses, and the accumulated corpse poison over the years is also quite terrifying.
These corpse poisons accumulate in the body, more and more, eroding the internal organs and causing the body to decay. Perhaps when you are young, the corpse poison will lurk, and when you are old or seriously injured, it will suddenly explode, and even the lucky ones will be eroded by the corpse poison and turn into the walking dead, which is the legendary 'walking corpse'. ”