Chapter 55: Where the Soul Returns

With what we needed, Liu Yuwei and I once again returned to the original location of the old campus.

This is the first time we have come to the old campus during the day, and now I have found out that the reason why this place is difficult for anyone to find is because its location is on the reverse slope of the shady side of Lion Rock, which is not suitable for burying people, and it is much worse than the feng shui environment of the empty ancient tomb on the mountain: not only is it easy to hoard rainwater in the valley, but it is also easy to be corroded on the shady side.

But thinking of the corpses of those girls, maybe Meng Lao Zombie was specifically looking for this kind of place to be buried, and he ended up making himself a zombie.

Walking on the road, Liu Yuwei asked me a little sullenly: Zhang Heng, in fact, I still don't understand, what is the so-called zombie? How exactly did it come to be? Why does garlic kill zombies?

This should be explained in this way: in fact, the zombie is not the corpse itself, but a strange microorganism formed on the corpse after the corpse dies, which can generally be called corpse fungus. This bacterium is presumably a strange species that has been genetically mutated by some kind of microorganism after death, and this microorganism will take control of the human brain and entire body, so that active zombies will appear.

And zombies are made of microorganisms, and naturally they will also maintain the characteristics of microorganisms: they can be killed with sterilized garlic water, which is what happened. I laughed.

Liu Yuwei nodded: So that's the case, so is there any connection between zombies and ghosts?

One is **, the other is the soul, in fact, there is no connection. I laughed and said: Ghosts appear after people die, and zombies are made up of microorganisms, and there is actually no connection between the two, our old Zhang family is mainly to deal with zombies, and our family does not have a good way to deal with ghosts.

Liu Yuwei didn't explain much about the process that takes a process to digest these words.

After a while, Liu Yuwei asked again: So does a person really have a soul? What exactly is the soul?

The problem is too complicated. I smiled and said: When we watched Li Shuqin paving the road to the dead soul that day, the wild ghost you saw was a wild ghost, what do you think it should be?

Liu Yuwei looked up at me and shook her head vigorously: I don't know. I see, I still need to ask you?

Let me ask you this. I smiled and continued to guide her: If there were two other things around the two of us at the time: a cat and a dog, do you think the cat and dog would have seen that wild ghost?

Cats and dogs? Liu Yuwei didn't understand it anymore: I don't understand what your question means?

I was lying on my grandfather's lap, and he asked me the same thing, of course, I didn't understand what grandpa meant. By now, I can roughly understand what Grandpa meant: if you weren't human, would you think humans have souls?

Liu Yuwei was already completely confused by me, I smiled and didn't explain, at this time we had already arrived outside the hole.

You're just waiting for me here, I'll go in and get it done. I looked at Liu Yuwei and said.

Well, I'll wait for you here. Originally, she probably wanted to go in with me, but thinking about those female corpses, she still had some trembling feelings.

But I still don't understand the meaning of what you just said. Do people have souls? Watch me put on my gear. Liu Yuwei sat on a rock, as if she was thinking about what I had just said.

Liu Yuwei, in fact, I don't have a standard answer until now. I said with a sigh.

My understanding is that the soul is something that cannot find a physical existence: what is it made of? How much does it weigh? What are the physical properties? None of these things at all. But we can see them, and for some other non-human species, the existence or absence of the human soul has no meaning to them. In other words, there are only two possibilities for the existence of souls: first, they are just imaginary ideas in our minds. Second, they exist, but they have nothing to do with us.

I put on my equipment and prepared to go, and when I saw where Liu Yuwei was still meditating, I smiled and said: Liu Yuwei, don't think too carefully about these metaphysical things, just give yourself a plausible answer, and then go carefully to verify it yourself, it's useless to break your head like this, what about you when you go to Zen?

You people just like to play tricks! Liu Yuwei pursed her lips and said.

Smiling, I burrowed into the tomb.

Because I was going to stay here for the afternoon, I prepared a camping lamp that was lit for a long time, and when I went, I immediately saw the corpse of the soul: she was sitting on the edge of the coffin, motionless.

Maybe for the past 1,200 years, she has been sitting motionless on the sidelines most of the time?

Arriving at the ear chamber on the other side, I began to prepare to open the little coffin.

In fact, the girls who were nailed to the wall outside were not even funeral goods, they could only be regarded as utensils, and the people in this coffin were the real burial goods.

First of all, I took a closer look at the coffin, this observation is relatively simple, it should be to cover the coffin lid directly, and then nail the coffin lid with nails, and it is very simple to open.

I found a total of ten rotten coffin nails, and after I dug out a head in the wood, I pulled them out one by one with a vice, and after confirming that there were no other mechanisms, I patted the coffin lid and turned it open.

Inside is a very gorgeous female corpse: the standard skirt of the Tang Dynasty, holding a long skirt, wearing a shawl (shawl), and half an arm (that is, short sleeves) are all daily clothes, but because the time is too long, it is already gray and invisible, and this coffin seems to have leaked, many parts have been moldy and lost, and it does not have any cultural relics value.

The woman inside looks like she should be the true form of the Soul Keeper corpse.

This corpse willingly contributed his soul and the souls of the other twelve girls, and used the body of one of the girls to make a soul guard corpse to protect the mausoleum, although I don't know the relationship between this woman and Meng Bian Nian, but since this woman is willing to be so loyal to Meng Bian Nian's soul for a thousand years, the relationship between the two is naturally extraordinary.

After checking that there was nothing else, I began to restrain the corpse.

Our funeral science is really hard, if it is a modern corpse, it will be enough, at least it is fresh, the most troublesome is this kind of old zombie that has passed thousands of years, it is very troublesome to pack up all the treasures, I am trying not to tear the clothes on the corpse, while trying not to break the corpse. After tossing for a long time, the body was finally completely separated from the coffin and put it in the body bag.

After being fixed on a stretcher, this thing is done, and this corpse is really light.

I walked outside alone with the single machine, the soul guard corpse was still sitting in the original, I came to her side and said: I will take care of your soul body, since you choose to continue to cultivate here, then I will close the entrance to the cave, and no one will disturb you in the future, and the souls of those girls have all been exceeded, do you think this is okay? The Soul Guardian nodded slightly, and then pulled out something for me.

A piece of jade, it looks like it should be Lantian green jade.

Lantian jade should be divided into ancient Lantian jade and modern Lantian jade, modern Lantian jade is the Lantian of Xi'an, and the ancient Lantian is not.

The so-called Lantian is the alias of the jade out of the Green Ridge (Kunlun Mountain), and then it is also mistaken for the Lantian of Xi'an. This sentence comes from Song Yingxing's heavenly creation, so the ancient Lantian jade refers to the Kunlun jade.

This piece of jade looks like it should be a peiyu, that is, a jade worn on the chest, green jade is not a very common jade in Kunlun jade, but this piece of ancient jade is also quite good, this is probably some reward given to me by this soul guard corpse.

I nodded, collected the jade, and walked out of the tomb with the corpse.

This toss took more than two hours.

Outside the tomb. Liu Yuwei was still sitting in place, not knowing what she was thinking, when she saw me come out and helped me lift the body.

All you have to do is cremate the body and seal it off. I looked at the body bag with the body in it and said.

I thought about what you said for a long time, and I still don't understand some of it, but some of it does. Liu Yuwei took out a wooden comb from her handbag, combed her hair, and said: Actually, you guys are going around with one meaning: it doesn't matter if the soul has this thing, it just depends on what you think in your heart, right? You think there is, you think there is none, that's probably it, right?

Well, the female benefactor is quite wise, and she is good. I laughed and picked up the shovel.

I backfilled it with the dirt on the side, and I quickly plugged all the holes.

She is willing to continue cultivating, what will she become in the future? Looking at the filled hole, Liu Yuwei looked at me and asked.

Now she is a level 4 zombie, and she can become a level 5 hidden corpse in the future, but that will be many years later, and we may not be there. Okay, let's leave her alone.

After three last bows to the mausoleum, Liu Yuwei and I picked up the body and left the old campus.

The heroic souls of the old campus have all been overdosed, Meng Lao Zombie has also died, and in the end, there is still a fourth-level zombie hidden in the innermost, and there will probably be no more haunting here, and no one will enter the ghost domain again.

This matter here is completely over.

Back at home, we first put the body directly into the cold storage of the morgue, and then went up to find Lao Song.

The cold bolt is also here, looking at us and smiling and saying: I was just looking for you: I have found the black sand.