Chapter 55: The Instinct to Survive
This matter was not publicized for the time being until Xu Youye was found, so we could only talk to the village chief privately.
"Your son has completely stiffened, the loss of these domestic animals in the village, I'm afraid it has something to do with him, his demand for blood is getting bigger and bigger, the livestock have begun to be unable to satisfy his appetite, and he is likely to attack people next. ”
Qingyang Dao Elder first said his own ideas.
The village chief took out his dry tobacco bag, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath and said, "Since the matter has come to this point, I can only treat it as if I didn't give birth to this son, and you can deal with it as you want." ”
We specially calculated the time that night, and calculated that it was almost this time, Xu Youye was going to come out to hunt for food, he needed a lot of blood to replenish his vitality, and the night was dark and the wind was high, and it was the time for the walking corpse to relax its vigilance.
By the moonlight, I and Qingyang Dao Chang reached the back mountain in the dark, and the night wind blew coldly and made me shiver, and bursts of cool air jumped up from my back, and the cold drilled into my pores from all directions.
Instantly I sensed that something was wrong, and I remember that the Taoist Governor had told me before that the chill started from the soles of my feet, and it was the most dangerous place to hide, and it was also the best hiding place for walking ghouls.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but raise my attention, but when I looked around, there was no grass and trees, and there was no sound of insects and birds chirping, and it was too unusually quiet.
Animals' sensory organs are much more sensitive than humans, and they can usually sense dangers that humans can't perceive, so I am afraid that I have entered a dangerous place at this time.
At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of a rope not far away, like the sound of some giant crawling through the grass.
Qingyang Dao Chang held a compass in one hand, and the pointer was rotating rapidly, and finally stayed straight in the southwest direction.
"Be careful in the southwest direction. Daoist Qingyang reminded me.
I leaned down and looked in the direction from which the sound came, and in the silvery moonlight, I saw a man dragging a black buffalo moving forward at an unusual speed.
It was a full-grown buffalo.
Even if it is a calf, a normal person may not be able to move, let alone an adult buffalo, even if there are three or four people, it may not be able to move.
According to the feeding speed of the walking corpses before, they have already started to bite sheep last time, and it is no longer a problem to bite a cow to death this time.
I cautiously followed the walking corpse, trying not to make a noise.
After walking for a short distance, the light in front of us became dimmer and dimmer, and only then did we realize that we had unknowingly followed the walking corpse into the cave.
As soon as I entered the cave, a pungent putrid smell rushed into my nose, and I almost choked on my stomach, and along the road into the cave, there were rotting animal carcasses on both sides, ranging from rats and snakes to wild dogs, ewes, white bones and carrion.
There is no light in the cave, it is already dark inside, and my vision will be hindered if I go inside, Qingyang Daoist picked up the gossip bronze mirror that he carried with him.
The Bagua Mirror feels the Yin Qi glowing with a faint green light, and relying on the green light, we can discern the direction from the Bagua Mirror.
We cautiously moved into the cave, too slow to keep up with the walking corpses.
Fortunately, there is only one path in the cave, and we will not lose it.
I don't know how long we walked inside, but we felt that the light outside the cave was completely invisible, and we could only grope in with our previous sense of direction.
At this time, I tripped over something under my feet, and my body lost my balance and I fell forward, not expecting anything in front of me.
When the Qingyang Daoist slapped the light at my feet, the huge thing scared me backwards.
At my feet turned out to be the shriveled corpse of an adult bull, the blood on the bull's body had been sucked dry, and the skin and flesh were dry and sticking to the skeleton, so it could be seen that Xu Youye should have eaten and drunk enough.
And it must be near us, I nervously took a small step back, and in the darkness I didn't know what I had kicked but heard a bang.
"Watch out for your back. "Qingyang Daoist hit the light behind me, I don't know what he saw, and the other hand has nervously pulled out the copper coin sword behind him.
Seeing Yang Daochang's posture clearly, I couldn't help but feel apprehensive in my heart.
I felt behind me and felt a piece of wood, which was cold, and I turned my head to look back.
Under the faint green light, what I saw was a coffin, and it could be seen from the color of the wood that it had been a long time, and the wood slag fell down when I touched it.
Suddenly, I felt something moving under my hand, and the lid of the coffin kept going up, and it felt like a hand was pushing from the inside out.
At this time, I have the heart to die, whether my hand is left or not, and it is not when I retract it.
At this time, the force under the coffin became stronger and stronger, as if it was about to rush out from under the coffin.
Suddenly, a powerful force broke through the coffin and jumped out of the palm of my hand, which frightened my heart, and the blood all over my body was about to be cold, but I heard two squeaks.
A mouse jumped from the coffin onto the lid of the coffin and ran away with a thud.
It turned out to be a mouse, and it scared the fuck out of me.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and I looked through the hole in the lid of the coffin, and a pair of round eyes were staring at me.
In an instant, my scalp was numb, those eyes and face, I couldn't remember that it was Xu Youye who was lying inside.
I didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of alarming Xu Youye, I broke the peace, and was about to use a gesture to inform the Taoist, when suddenly, a dry hand rushed out of the coffin and instantly grabbed my elbow, and that hand was completely devoid of flesh and skin, like steel bar.
I didn't have time to react to the impact, I just felt a force pulling me into the coffin.
Instantly I smelled a foul stench that made me sick like a dead rat had been stuffed into my mouth.
The inside of the coffin was extremely sticky, and everywhere my hands touched it was viscous liquid, and the space of the coffin was narrow, so I couldn't use my hands and feet at all, so I could only improvise and wait for the rescue of Qingyang Daochang.
Then I felt a chill mixed with a strong stench coming at me, and in the darkness I saw a pair of glowing green eyes coming towards me.
I didn't have time to think in the crisis, and my hand had already reacted before me.
The instinct to survive made me directly hit Xu Youye with my elbow, and hit Xu Youye's neck firmly, but the feeling from my hand was as if I had hit an iron plate.
Xu Youye grabbed my arm and tried to bite me on the other side again, and I raised my foot against Xu Youye's chest, forcing a safe distance between us.