Chapter 281: The Headless Thing
It turned out that the amazing sense of smell of this "dog nose open" was not innate, but a special ointment was used. This ointment is very miraculous - as soon as you rub it into your nose, your sense of smell will immediately change wonderfully: it will become extremely acute, and you can smell all kinds of faint and wonderful smells, especially "yin".
"Dog Nose Zhang" said that the Chinese ancestors believed that everything in the world is made up of the fusion of yin and yang, and for ordinary people, this is just a theory, but once this ointment is applied to the nose, the feeling is completely different - you will clearly smell the yin and yang qi, and the yin and yang qi is no longer an illusory theory, but has become a smell that can be truly felt.
The reason why "Dog Nose Zhang" can rely on his nose and steal tombs is because the soil layers of different ages will emit different yin qi, and after he applies the ointment, he can distinguish these different yin qi lightly; Not only that, but as long as there was a tomb somewhere, no matter how deep it was buried, he could smell it effortlessly.
After saying this, he trembled and put his hand into his arms, took out a yellowed piece of paper, and then handed it to Huizhong tremblingly, and said with difficulty: "I have no children, no daughters, no relatives and no reason, this may be retribution, I steal the grave and dig the grave too much, too damaging yin morality, you must not do this, alas, the secret recipe of this ointment is for you, you are my best friend, although we have not worshipped, but I have always regarded you as my eldest brother."
Huizhong saw that he said so desolately, and he couldn't help but have a sour nose and almost burst into tears, but he tried his best to hold back, nodded vigorously, took the prescription handed over by "Dog Nose Zhang", and then held the hand of "Dog Nose Zhang" tightly. I wanted to say a few words of comfort, but I didn't know what to say for a while.
That night, "Dog Nose Zhang" died with a whimper.
Since then, Huizhong has kept the prescription alive. To be honest, he was always skeptical of what "Dog Nose Zhang" said, and felt that this thing was too bizarre and weird, and it was hard to believe that it was true.
However, driven by curiosity, Huizhong once prepared this ointment according to the prescription, and also applied it to his nose, after that personal attempt, Huizhong was surprised to find that "Dog Nose Zhang" really did not lie to him, that kind of ointment is really amazing, too wonderful. After smearing, the whole world seems to have changed, as if the eyes of the sky have been opened, and it seems that there are more senses, and you can feel the incomparably magical side of this world.
But Huizhong never dreamed that this ointment would come in handy at a critical moment - to help him find the special yin qi that killed the corpse insects.
When this idea came to him, Huizhong was shocked with excitement, because it made him see hope in despair.
Huizhong glanced at the wall clock on the wall - it was already past four in the morning! Because he was a doctor himself, he had all kinds of herbs, and he quickly made the ointment according to the secret recipe.
At this time, it was already early in the morning, and Huizhong felt a little tired, so he decided to take a break for a day, take a good rest, and wait until midnight to act.
Why wait until midnight? Because no matter what kind of yin qi, it is only at midnight when it is the most intense and easy to track.
Huizhong was still very worried, because he really didn't know whether this method was feasible, but other than that, he couldn't think of any other way, so he had to do it.
So, he locked the door of the clinic, climbed to the second floor of the clinic, lay on a big bed, and was ready to sleep well, in order to recharge his energy and prepare for the night action, but it may be that this incident had too much impact on him, so although he was a little sleepy, he tossed and turned, and he couldn't sleep, and his mind was always cranky.
The more Huizhong couldn't sleep, the more impatient he became, and the more impatient he was, the more he couldn't sleep, and in the end, he found more than half a bottle of rice wine and drank almost all of it. As soon as the strength of the wine came up, I fell asleep groggyly.
I don't know how long he slept, but when he woke up, he felt a dry mouth and a terrible headache, so he turned on the light and drank some water.
When Huizhong's consciousness gradually sobered up, he suddenly remembered what happened before, as well as tonight's task, so he hurriedly looked at the floor clock in the corner of the wall - it was already past midnight!
Huizhong hurriedly got dressed, picked up the ointment and flashlight that had been prepared before, and rushed out of the clinic in a hurry. When he came outside, he shivered when the night wind blew, and he came to his senses completely.
Luckily, the clinic is very close to home, a five- or six-minute walk to my doorstep.
At this moment, everything was quiet, there was no one nearby, only a few dim street lamps, emitting a faint light. Huizhong took a deep breath, calmed down, and then took out the ointment and rubbed it in his nose.
This ointment has a special smell, neither fragrant nor smelly, but as long as you wipe it on, the seven orifices suddenly feel extremely smooth, as if every cell in the body will be excited.
Huizhong is a person who is deeply versed in medical skills, and he knows more about the medicinal properties of this ointment than "dog nose open". Based on his own experience and research on the formula, he suspected that the ointment was easily addictive and had great side effects, and that the fact that the "dog nose Zhang" had no children all his life, and that he had not even married a wife, was most likely related to the ointment, which can destroy a man's reproductive ability. It was the "dog nose zhang" who often used this ointment, so his reproductive ability was severely destroyed.
Therefore, Huizhong rarely uses this ointment in normal times, but this time it is really a last resort.
After applying this ointment, Huizhong really smelled a special yin qi - this yin qi was very strong and very "sharp", it was like a wielding sharp blade, extremely offensive and lethal.
Based on the nature of this yin qi, Hui Zhong could almost immediately determine that the death of those corpse insects was caused by this yin qi.
Huizhong's heart was beating wildly, and he followed the direction from which the yin qi came out, and walked forward cautiously and tentatively. In this silent night, except for the chirping of insects, everything is quiet, and Huizhong can hear his own violent heartbeat.
After carefully distinguishing it with his nose, he found that this yin qi was emitted from a small forest not far away.
This small forest, only two or three hundred meters away from Huizhong's residence, the forest is not big, but dozens of acres, but it is very dense. There are some small paths inside, and there are occasional residents walking in them.
Because this is a suburb of Shanghai, there are not many people in this area, especially the small forest, and even fewer people go there, so you can often see some wild animals in the forest.
In the middle of the night, this grove that covers the sky during the day is even more gloomy.
Huizhong bravely walked in, but his legs were still a little weak. He didn't turn on the flashlight, but felt the darkness and stumbled in for dozens of meters before he stopped suddenly, because his sense of smell told him that the object that emitted yin qi was just a few meters in front of him.
At this moment, it was pitch black in the woods, so Huizhong couldn't see what that object was. However, he could vaguely sense it through his sense of smell that the object was still moving slowly—it should be a living thing.
Huizhong struggled to suppress his fear, gritted his teeth, and slammed on the flashlight to shine on the thing.
At the moment when Huizhong saw that thing, his first reaction was not even fear, but he couldn't believe his eyes at all, he subconsciously leaned forward, and when he was sure that what he saw was real, he couldn't help but be frightened and his legs were weak, his eyes were dark, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks, almost fainting!
Because the scene in front of me is really terrible:
It was a headless chicken, standing there, pacing slightly!
What the hell is this!
Huizhong trembled, took out the ointment from his arms, and this time not only wiped it on his nose, but also wiped it on his temples, and suddenly his spirit was much more excited.
He was ruthless, gritted his teeth, and scolded loudly: "× your mother, no matter what kind of demon you are, Lao Tzu will fight for you." The scolding worked, and he became much more emboldened, and as soon as he rolled over and got up, he picked up a branch the thickness of his forearm from the ground, and rushed up, ready to kill the headless chicken.
But the headless chicken, as if he could still feel the attack, hurriedly dodged to the side, and was about to run away, but Huizhong was in a state of excitement, he chased after a few steps, waved the branch in his hand, and slapped the headless strange chicken to the ground at once.
This beat was very powerful, and the headless strange chicken immediately fell to the ground, at this time, Huizhong seemed to be crazy, and before the strange chicken got up again, he frantically picked up the branch in his hand and smashed it at the chicken, until the chicken's flesh and blood were blurred, feathers were flying, and he was lying motionless on the ground.
Hui Zhong then stopped, and taking advantage of the excitement, he picked up the chicken and walked out of the woods and went straight to his clinic. When he returned to his clinic, closed the door, threw the dead chicken on the floor, and sat down on the couch, he felt trembling all over, gasping for breath, and his mind went blank.
After Huizhong slowly calmed down, the extremely strange scene just now began to flash in his mind repeatedly, especially looking at the headless chicken on the ground, although it was dead, but for some reason, Huizhong still felt creepy.
If it weren't for this bloodstained headless chicken, he couldn't believe what had just happened.
Why does this chicken survive without a head? Is it a monster? But if it's a monster, then how can it be so lightly killed?
It was already past one o'clock in the morning. Because he had slept too much before, he was not sleepy at the moment.
It turns out that the source of that strange yin qi is this headless chicken, but what is incredible is that why this chicken has no head but can still live?
This chicken was so mysterious and weird that he couldn't figure it out.
Suddenly, he remembered a man who, yes, might be able to help him answer that question.
The person Huizhong remembered was a German surgeon in the concession, this surgeon was very skilled, and he was very well-known in Shanghai's high society.
Huizhong met him at a party, both of them studied medicine, although one is a Chinese medicine and the other is a Western doctor, but after all, they are peers, and they talk very speculatively, and they have become friends.
This surgeon is not only a superb doctor, but also has an in-depth study of various mysterious phenomena of life, and Huizhong has heard a lot of strange things from him.
For example, he told Sù Huizhong that after some men die, the underlying organs can still be erected, because of the earth's gravity;
The doctor also told Huizhong that, according to his research, many people drown in the desert, why is that?