At that time, the zombie attack had happened twice, and each time it was more and more bizarre.

The first time was in Pingxiang County, Guangxi, which was Pingxiang Tuzhou at that time, which belonged to Taiping Province in Guangxi and was a multi-ethnic mixed area. This is the border area, and it is closer to Hanoi in Vietnam than to Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, which is also a mountainous area.

In early July 1872, three people were killed by the Yi tribe in Pingxiang Tuzhou, suspected to be the work of a nearby Zhuang tribe, and dozens of people were injured in a fight.

A few days later, the Taiping Mansion sent people to intervene in the investigation, and one of the people in charge of the matter was a counselor of the Taiping Mansion, and the other was the head catcher of the patrol house, the counselor appeased the people of all ethnic groups, and the head catcher was responsible for investigating the truth.

On the night of their arrival, another person died, a member of the Dai tribe. The head catcher was secretly happy, because the bodies of the three deceased before were cremated and could not be autopsied, and the one who died this time left a clue to the truth.

The post-mortem report surprised everyone, and it was not human. Under the organization of the Manchu government/government, the sorcerers and gods of various tribes united to think of countermeasures, but they did not expect that the countermeasures would reach July 15. On the night of July 15, when the moon was sparse, the head catcher and a few wizards were patrolling a village, and a group of zombies rushed into the village, biting people on sight, even chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, etc.

The villagers retreated overnight. It wasn't until the next day that a few people were found dead, and eighteen people were basically old people and children who couldn't run.

At that time, Yan Shusen, the Guangxi prosecutor, happened to be nearby, and immediately rushed to the place of the incident after hearing the report. Yan Shusen was a person in the Daoguang period, and he didn't get into the jinshi, but in the end he became the governor of Guangxi, and he had great luck in his life, and he never believed in ghosts and gods.

Yan Shusen first ordered the mountain to be closed, and no one was allowed to enter the village within a radius of thirty miles, and then ordered the mountain to be burned. The fire burned for seven days and seven nights before it was extinguished. Since then, there have been no zombie attacks.

The zombie attack incident in Guangxi subsided, and later Yan Shusen gave a twist to the imperial court, to the effect that the English in Vietnam colluded with our traitors, burned, killed and looted, and wanted to commit misdeeds. There is no mention of zombie attacks in this recital, only that the British are ghosts.

In fact, there is no way for this Yan Shusen. Let's not talk about the impact of this incident, once it is said, it will definitely cause panic. If you don't get it right, it will also cause dissatisfaction among the emperor and Lafayette.

After thinking about it again and again, he decided to keep it a secret.

Yan Shusen's wishful thinking was very good, but he didn't expect that this zombie attack incident was just the beginning.

On the third day of the fifth month of the 11th year of Tongzhi (1872), the "Treaty of Commerce" (i.e., the "Russian-Argentine Treaty") was signed with Aguba, and China recognized Aguba as the leader of the "Zhedeshar", and Aguba agreed to the Tsarist Russia to trade in southern Xinjiang, establish a dental bank, and set up a commercial commissioner, etc., and the tariff on Tsarist Russian goods was set at 2.5%. Since then, Tsarist Russia's commercial goods have been continuously imported into southern Xinjiang.

A few months later, at a seaport in Guangxi, a batch of low-tariff goods from Tsarist Russia was delivered early.

A porter named Ah Niu struggled to carry the goods to the carriage of the Tsars at the docks, perhaps because he had not eaten enough yesterday, or perhaps because he was careless, Ah Niu accidentally stumbled while carrying a black-brown box, and the box rolled to the ground and fell out of a delicate metal container.

At that moment, Ah Niu was stunned, he really couldn't believe his eyes. I never dreamed that this box would contain such a valuable thing.

However, this only lasted for a few seconds. Ah Niu squatted down, looked around, made sure no one was paying attention, picked up the metal container, and put it in his arms.

He wouldn't be stupid enough to take the initiative to turn it in, sell this thing, and he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

Just as Ah Niu was happily dreaming, there was a sharp pain in his chest.

Ah Niu gasped, hurriedly unbuttoned his shirt, and saw a scene that made his eyes widen.

The metal container is dissolving and quickly sinking into your skin!

In just a few breaths, the delicate metal container disappeared as if it had never existed.

On Ah Niu's chest, there are some strange symbols.

At this moment, Ah Niu began to panic, and he grabbed his chest hard, hoping to grab those symbols.

His hand had barely touched his chest, and a temperature comparable to boiling water came to him.

At the same time, Ah Niu was dizzy for a while, and he only felt that his whole body was aching faintly, and an unspeakable heat spread to his whole body in an instant.

Maybe it was because he saw that Ah Niu was lazy, and the foreman scolded him loudly, but he didn't take his mistake to heart at all.

Anyway, you still have to work. Ah Niu endured the pain and carried the empty box up.

On this day, Ah Niu asked for leave very rarely, although the foreman looked reluctant, but it was really uncomfortable to see him, and he didn't say anything.

When Ah Niu got home, he lay down, and his brain was groggy all the way. After lying down, he couldn't sleep, and his whole body was in severe pain from time to time.

He lifted his shirt, and saw that the symbols that appeared on his chest had not disappeared, but the colors on them were getting darker and darker.

Ah Niu didn't think about cleaning it with water, but when he touched the position of those symbols, there was no trace at all, as if they were integrated with the skin and flesh.

During this period, Ah Niu's wife wanted to go to him and ask for a doctor. Her man was in pain like this, and she couldn't help but feel distressed.

When Ah Niu heard that he wanted to listen to the doctor, he refused to live or die, because it was a lot of money. He thought that he would grit his teeth and get through.

But in the middle of the night, he had a complete breakdown. The sharp pain was no longer limited to the flesh and skin, but the bones all over the body were exuding pain from the inside out.

Listening to Ah Niu's screams, his wife hurriedly invited the village doctor Ma Dafu over.

When he was young, he specialized in Feng Shui for others, and he also traveled to many places. Later, I didn't know what happened, I no longer looked at feng shui for others, and I stayed in the village and worked as a barefoot doctor for more than ten years.

When Dr. Ma arrived at Ah Niu's house, his face suddenly became solemn.

I saw Ah Niu lying on the wooden bed, with a painful look on his face, rolling there from time to time.

His movements were stiff, as if he were an old man in his last years. Doctor Ma used a fixation technique to immobilize Ah Niu.

Then, he brought the kerosene lamp to Ah Niu's chest and leaned his head over.

Under the dim light, those strange symbols were suddenly visible.