Chapter 10: The Destruction of Bodies

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In an instant, I felt as if the tips of my fingers were on fire, and the pain was so severe that I got goosebumps all over my body, and I hurriedly kicked the thing away, and my fingers pulled out of the hole.

I picked up the lighter again, it was so hot that I was startled when I shone the light of the fire on my fingers. I saw that the nails of my right index finger and middle finger disappeared all at once, and the flesh of the two fingertips was blurred, as if something had bitten into it.

At this time, I suddenly heard a knock on the window, and when I looked up, it was Bu Jin. She was knocking on the window as she motioned for me to let her in.

I endured the pain and went to the window, but I couldn't use my right hand at all, so I had to use my left hand to open the window. As soon as I opened the sliding lock of the window, I found that this window not only had this lock, but also a very thick steel nail was inserted into the top and bottom of the window, and I took a lot of effort to pull out the two steel nails, and then go to open the window.

As soon as my palm touched the glass of the window, I immediately understood why Bu Jin didn't come in to save me just now, the thickness of the glass of this window was beyond my original imagination, and it felt a little like the tempered glass in front of the bank counter, very thick.

As soon as I pushed open the window, Bu Jin deftly jumped in from the outside.

This is also Bu Jin's character, she never makes useless attempts, at first, she knew that she had no way to break the glass from the outside to enter the house, so she didn't even try at all, but kept waiting for me to open the window.

Bu Jin's body slid past me, and a burst of her unique fragrance wafted in. As soon as she entered the house, she didn't stop at all, and rushed straight to my mother's body.

At the edge of my mother's body, she squatted down at once, first touched my mother's neck with her slender fingers, and then with the force of her palm, she heard a "click" and easily broke my mother's neck.

"What are you doing here?" I said angrily. Although I know that there must be a reason for what Bu Jin did, it is still difficult for me to accept this situation, and I don't want anyone to make any disrespectful gestures towards my mother's body.

Bu Jin ignored me, she pressed her thumb to my mother's jaw, pried her mouth open, and then stretched out two fingers to grope in my mother's throat.

"What the hell are you doing?" I asked again.

This time, Bu Jin stopped moving, but he didn't seem to think of something else because of my shouting. She turned around and suddenly said to me, "You put out the lighter first, and then you will use it later." ”

"Tell me what you're doing, then?" I asked.

"I'm looking for money." Bu Jin said lightly.

Money? What money?

I was thinking about it when a flash of lightning suddenly crossed my head - Bu Jin's Chinese was still not very good, so there were some things that she didn't say appropriately, and the money she said was probably the copper coin in my mother's mouth when she was lying in a glass coffin.

I remembered that Bu Jin seemed to have been looking for something since I entered my mother's funeral hall in the funeral home, and even asked me to help her open the glass coffin and search the quilt inside the coffin.

Although I don't have much research on metaphysics, I still know a little about some basic common sense, for example, nowadays, the deceased in many places will have a copper coin in their mouth before they are ready to be buried.

This custom can even be traced back to a long, long time ago, and I didn't know much about it at first, but after asking my cousin, she told me some of the things about doing so.

The contents of the dead mouth are called "mouths" in a more professional way, and there are two main theories as the reasons for "mouths".

The first theory sounds more romantic: this theory believes that after death, the soul enters the underworld, and the underworld has the River Styx as the boundary, and there are special boats shuttling on both sides of the River Styx to extradite the undead, but the underworld also has favors, and the souls of the dead want to cross the river, they need to give the boat a certain amount of money to cross the river. If you don't have the money to cross the river, you may be troubled by the boat, such as being pushed down the River Styx, or you may not even extradite the undead at all, and the undead have no choice but to return to the world and harass their offspring. In other words, in layman's terms, that is, the money is for the deceased to go to the underworld.

Compared to the first one, the second one sounds more evil. This statement originated from ancient forensic medicine. After death, due to the loss of muscle activity, many parts of the human body will be swollen, and if the human tongue is swollen, it is very likely to open the person's mouth. The ancients believed that it was the soul of the dead to flee from the mouth of the dead. Therefore, put a copper coin in the mouth of the deceased (some nobles will put jade), so that when the mouth of the deceased is opened, the copper coin or jade will naturally slide into the throat of the deceased, thus blocking the outflow of souls.

In the past, I didn't believe either of these statements. After the trip to Yunnan, although I have witnessed the fact that there are ghosts and monsters in this world, I still can't believe that there is any such thing as hell and Yama in this world, so I personally prefer the second theory.

It was at this time that I suddenly remembered that when I was in the toilet just now, there was a bloodstained copper coin that slipped at my feet, I picked it up at the time, and I didn't pay much attention to it, and now, the copper coin is still in my trouser pocket.

I didn't dare to be lazy, so I hurriedly took out the copper coin and handed it to Bu Jin, and asked, "Are you looking for such a copper coin?" ”

When Bu Jin looked at me, there was a rare look of surprise on her face, as if she was very surprised that what copper coins would be in my hands, in fact, I was also surprised by this matter.

However, Bu Jin's look of surprise did not last long, she quickly regained her former calm, and, from the look in her eyes, I could infer that she seemed to be looking for this copper coin only to confirm one of her previous assumptions, and now, when she saw the copper coin, her original hypothesis was confirmed.

Bu Jin stood up again and said to me, "It must be burned immediately." ”

"Burn it?" I repeated in amazement.

Bu Jin nodded and pointed to my mother's body on the ground.

Burning corpses? With a lighter? How is this possible?

I looked at the dying flame and said, "That's unlikely." ”

Bu Jin's answer surprised me even more, and I only heard her say in a flat tone: "At least burn your head." ”

"For what?" I asked, puzzled. I said that it was not easy for me to find my mother's body again, and I had already made my mother's body unrecognizable in the fierce struggle just now, although I knew that what was now in front of me was no longer my mother, but after all, it still had my mother's appearance and posture, and I really couldn't do this kind of rebellious thing.

However, Bu Jin didn't care about my reaction at all, and she once again said to me almost commandingly: "Extinguish the lighter." ”

I listened to her advice, extinguished the lighter, and in an instant, the surroundings were black again. As a city dweller, I'm almost like a blind man when there are no lights. But for people like Bu Jin, who have lived in the mountains since childhood, their eyes can easily adapt to the darkness in front of them at some point. Moreover, when I first looked in Bu Jin's direction, I saw her faint red eyes floating in the air again, which also helped me determine her position.

Bu Jin didn't seem to be much affected by this darkness at all, and I saw her eyes (which are a bit weird to say, but that's the way they were) drifting to this desk for a while, and to that desk for a while.

I heard the sound of the desk pulling drawers back and forth, and Bu Jin seemed to be looking for something.

After a while, apparently she had found what she was looking for, and she returned to my eyes and crouched beside my mother's body.

I couldn't help my curiosity, I lit the lighter again, and in a flash of fire, I was surprised to see that Bu Jin was squatting on the ground at the moment, holding a very sharp pair of office scissors in his hand and heading straight towards the neck of my mother's body.

Seeing this situation, I hurriedly rushed to her side, grabbed her wrist holding the scissors, and regardless of whether my fingertips were bleeding or not, I scolded sharply: "Long Bujin, what are you going to do." ”

Bu Jin's expression was as indifferent as water, she pointed to my mother's head with her other hand, and then said lightly: "Unload." ”

My heart chuckled, and I didn't care if Bu Jin was a girl or not, so I scolded: "What did you say? You're going to take my mother's head off in front of me? You're fucking crazy, aren't you? ”

Bu Jin didn't resist, she just said: "The spirit is not in this body, it has already gone out, and there are people manipulating this corpse around here." ”

I didn't have time to listen to her explanation, so I shook my head vigorously and said, "No, no, even if you say that the sky is broken, I will not allow you to do this, and you will not be allowed to destroy my mother's body." ”

I think it would be of no use to Bu Jin that I said these words, because I seriously suspect that this girl may not know what family affection is. I saw that she looked very puzzled and said to me: "This is to save her, her spirit is nearby, and she doesn't want anyone to manipulate her body." If you don't believe me, I can let you see her. ”

I was suddenly shocked in my heart, and I said, could it be that Bu Jin has been looking for the copper coin just now in order to confirm whether my mother's soul is still sealed in my body?

Indeed, the copper coin is not in my mother's throat, but in my hand, that is, if the second statement of "mouth" is correct, then my mother's soul has left the body, and her body is being manipulated by something as Bu Jin said?

I was stunned for a long, long time, and Bu Jin didn't interrupt me, she just looked at me blankly, and then said softly, "Time is running out." ”

Bu Jin said that she could let me see my mother's ghost, and I didn't doubt that at all, in fact, I should have been able to see ghosts, but since I came back from Yunnan, I haven't seen any ghosts. I think it's probably because I pulled the cat's eye out of my stomach when I pooped sometime.

I thought about it carefully for a long time, and I felt that Bu Jin had no reason to lie to me at all, and if she could say this, there must be her reasons. It's just that, after all, it was my mother's body, and I couldn't bear to look at it. After thinking for a moment, I turned my head away, left tears in my eyes, and said, "Whatever you want." ”

After about five minutes, Bu Jin tapped me on the shoulder, but I didn't want to look back. Bu Jin said to me, "Go and burn it." ”

I didn't speak, I went straight to the window, rolled over and jumped out.

Bu Jin and I walked a long way to a suburb, and I didn't say a word along the way. When I arrived in the suburbs, Bu Jin made a small bonfire with a lot of weeds and dead branches from the trunk of a tree, asked me for a lighter, lit the bonfire, and threw my mother's head into the fire.

I always turned my back to all this, but I could hear the firelight "crackling", and I couldn't help but think that the day before yesterday Ryazan called, he said that I was likely to encounter a lot of strange things in the near future, and the tone was obvious, I seemed destined to go to Hubei, as if this was a predestined thing. However, so far, although I have encountered many strange things, none of them have given me a reason to go to Hubei.

I was thinking about it when I suddenly heard a heart-rending "squeak" from the fire behind me.

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