Chapter Twenty-Six: The Interception of the Living Corpse
Bingliang supported Gongsun Shengyan all the way to the inn where everyone lived, and the coachman followed closely behind, and looked back without going far, until he returned to the inn, and did not find anyone following him, so everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Due to nervousness and hurry, everyone felt that the corners of their mouths were dry and bitter, so the three of them held the teapot and poured it violently. The inn serves carefully concocted multi-flavored herbal tea, which is filled with a lot of herbs to dispel fire and detoxify, and it tastes sweet and delicious, especially in such an environment.
Gongsun Shengyan put down the teapot, hiccuped, looked at Bingliang embarrassedly and smiled, Bingliang was no better, poured a stomach full of water, and fell into the chair with his eyes looking at the ceiling in a daze. They summed it up, whether it was their own spirit was too nervous or not, in short, this place in Nanyue should leave quickly, leave as soon as possible, and leave after a short rest. There is still a long way to go from Yunnan, and as the so-called long nights and dreams are many, no one wants to encounter unexpected things on the road. Today, this old Taoist feels weird when he looks at it, although he feels that the other party has no malicious intentions, but this person who is full of teahouses, he just came up to greet Gongsun Shengyan, which makes everyone feel really uneasy, it is better to have more than one thing and one less thing.
Bingliang carefully packed up all the things in the room, made sure that nothing was left, took some scattered silver coins and put them on his body, and went to the stable with the coachman. Gongsun Shengyan was also apprehensive in his heart, frightened, he actually felt that his spirit was even better, not as weak as when he first went out, he tried to walk back and forth in the house a few times, and his pace was obviously faster and more steady than before, so his mood began to improve.
Careful Bingliang also bought some food to eat on the road in the inn, this thing looks like a zongzi, and not as big as a zongzi, wrapped in fragrant leaves, tied with a thin rope outside, the innkeeper said that this is called "Rice Din", it is to use a mallet to hammer the rice to a paste, and then wrap it with a huge mint leaf of local specialties, people who travel far away eat this is particularly refreshing. The innkeeper also specially told him to finish eating it as soon as possible, because it would not taste good after a long time. When Gongsun Shengyan heard the boss say this, he took out another one on the spot, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully.
The town was not large, and the carriage had not been on the official road for half an hour after it had come out of the inn, and there were no houses to be seen on either side, only long hills and unkempt weeds. Bingliang and Gongsun Shengyan sat in the carriage and gradually relaxed. Occasionally, there were passers-by or cars and horses passing by, and the two of them were still interested in sticking out their heads to take a look. I walked all the way with a grin, and soon the sun set.
When Gongsun Shengyan was in a coma, Bingliang was in a hurry, and secondly, he really couldn't bring up the interest of staying in the hotel, except for the intervals when horses and people really couldn't stay up and needed to rest, basically spent the night on the road. Bingliang fell asleep in a daze in the carriage, and when he woke up again, he saw Gongsun Shengyan sitting next to the coachman because he was bored, and the two chatted while driving the horse. The night was already deep, and the sky was full of twinkling stars, just right to discern the direction.
When the time had passed, Bingliang saw that the coachman was a little tired, so he asked him to stop his horse and go and change the coachman himself, so that the coachman could rest in the carriage as well. Don't look at the size of this carriage, but in order to take care of Gongsun Shengyan, it is very comfortable to pack inside, just the cotton wool used to cushion is spread with thick two beds, and there are fox fur jackets and silk sheets next to it, no matter whether it is hot or cold, there are suitable things to cover, and there are mosquito repellent potions on both sides of the carriage, even if the car is parked in the mountains, there will be no mosquito bites. The coachman didn't have a chance to enjoy such treatment all the way, but now that Gongsun Shengyan woke up, he listened to Bingliang's words, and naturally handed over the handle to Bingliang with joy, and happily drilled into the quilt, and fell asleep in the swaying carriage for a while.
Bingliang drove the horse, feeling a little hungry in his stomach, so he asked Gongsun Shengyan to take out the "Midin" he had bought at the inn before and eat a few to cushion his stomach. Gongsun Shengyan answered, turned around and went to the package he was carrying to get it, and as soon as his butt was raised, he heard Bingliang shout in panic: "Young Master Shengyan, what do you see in front of you?"
Gongsun Shengyan was startled by Bingliang's shouting, and quickly twisted his body back and didn't go to get food. I saw that about ten zhang in front of me, there was a black shadow nearly one person high, staggering in his direction, not fast, but the posture was very strange, like a drunk old dog, crawling on all fours.
"Huh......" Bingliang grabbed the horse and looked at Gongsun Shengyan with a nervous expression.
The coachman was still asleep in the carriage, and he had no idea what was going on outside.
"Another one!" Bingliang saw the same thing follow behind the first shadow, but it looked slightly smaller than the previous one, and his voice began to turn in fright.
"Two, three ......" Gongsun Shengyan saw that black shadows kept crawling out of the mountains and forests on both sides of the road, and he was so nervous that he began to shout.
The black shadows gathered more and more, and in a short time there were more than twenty of them not far in front of the carriage. The horses began to get restless, knocking on the ground with their hooves, and raising their heads and flicking the reins and neighing. Gongsun Shengyan loudly told Bingliang to quickly turn around and retreat. The car barely turned ninety degrees, and Bingliang shouted with a crying voice: "There are also ...... behind"
Gongsun Shengyan saw that there were a lot of the same things on the road when he came, but the distance was far away, and he couldn't count how many there were in the chaos. The carriage was in the middle of the road, and the road was lined with dense mountains and forests, and if he abandoned the car and fled, he was really not sure if he could shake off the large number of dark shadows on the road. Gongsun Shengyan had the courage to survive in the bottom of his heart, he and Bingliang swapped places, took the reins and the whip in his hands, and then slowly dropped the front of the cart back to its original direction with the horse.
The shadow that appeared at the beginning in front saw that the carriage turned around again, and seemed to be very satisfied with the "cooing" a few times, and the rest of the black shadows moved slightly after hearing it. The black shadow who took the lead finished muttering, and suddenly stood upright, his body soared to the height of two people, and at the same time let out a sharp howl, hearing that the hairs on Gongsun Shengyan and Bingliang's bodies exploded, not to mention that their scalps were numb, and even their jaws were numb with nervousness.
With the howl of the black shadow in the lead, the shadow in front of him stumbled in the direction of the carriage, and Gongsun Shengyan saw clearly when it was three or two feet away, and all the corpses that came over were walking on all fours with their limbs close to the ground. It is not entirely accurate to say that they are corpses, their whole body is uncovered, the skin on their bodies has long been festering, the locks of hair are scattered, and the eyeballs in the eye sockets glow with a faint green light, but each of them looks very strong, not at all the loose appearance of a dead man.
Gongsun Shengyan had no other choice but to swing the whip in his hand against the horse's buttocks, and hit the horse's buttocks hard with a "snap", the horse's buttocks hurt, and with a force under his feet, the whole carriage was pulled forward with a bang. Gongsun Shengyan held the reins in his hand and whipped hard at the other horse. The dead body rushing to the front did not expect the horse to accelerate suddenly, and was trampled under the hooves before it could dodge, and then it was crushed by the wheels of the carriage, and the carriage almost jumped from the ground in the high-speed movement, when the sleeping coachman in the carriage woke up, and looked around in confusion, not understanding where the confusion began.
The carriage continued to rush forward, and Gongsun Shengyan bowed his head and hunched his body, nervously biting the back socket of his teeth. After overturning three or four living corpses, the speed of the carriage slowed down, and at this time several living corpses jumped up from the ground like frogs, and landed on the horse's back, and one of the living dead turned around and grabbed the horse's mane and plunged his fingers stained with dirt and grass clippings into the horse's eyes.
The coachman was a tenacious man, and after he had figured out what was going on, he began to roll unsteadily around the carriage like a ball because of the bumps. When the car was stopped by the living dead, he immediately picked up a long stick in the car, and then threw himself forward to take the nearest living corpse. The living dead body was just about to pounce on Bingliang's body, and "sizzled" in mid-air, but he didn't notice the coachman's attack, Bingliang was so frightened that he had already lost his seven souls and six souls, and his legs were soft behind the carriage, smelling an indescribable fishy stench in front of him, thinking that he was going to confess on this road. Just when the living dead body was less than a small arm's length away from him, he only heard a "poof", a long stick passed through the throat of the living corpse, and the coachman behind him used too much force, and after piercing the living corpse, he couldn't contain his strength, and staggered down beside Bingliang.
"Get up!" shouted the coachman to Bingliang, "there's a firewood knife in the carriage." ”
This knife was originally used to open a road in the mountains and forests, and when they first escaped from Jiangnan, they tried not to take the official road, and they suffered a lot because of this. Bingliang crawled into the carriage with his hands and feet, rummaged through his memory, and finally got the firewood knife in his hand.
The living corpse that had been pierced by the coachman was like a skewer of mutton that had just been put on a hammer, and the stick pierced through its throat and came out of the back of its neck, and it hung the stick and tried to rush forward, but as soon as it stood up, it was knocked down by the force of the stick against the carriage, and it was so anxious that it fluttered back and forth like a loach, and could not make a sound. When the coachman saw this, he stepped forward and grabbed the end of the stick, and then lifted it up with all his might, and the living dead were lifted up in such a way that the coachman shouted loudly, and poked the stick into the mud by the roadside, and nailed the living dead.
Gongsun Shengyan was very embarrassed, I don't know why, but nine out of ten of the living dead were going for him. At this time, Gongsun Shengyan had been forced to jump off the carriage, barely resisting with a thick wooden stick, while circling around the carriage. These living dead corpses are also human heads and pig brains, looking extremely ferocious, they will only follow Gongsun Shengyan around the carriage in circles, and their brute force cannot be exerted at all, so they have to be angry with the two horses pulling the cart, and they directly tear and bite the stomachs of the two horses, and in the blink of an eye, the horses are taken out of their intestines and rotten, and they are bleeding hot water and blood.
Bingliang, who was holding a firewood knife in his hand, saw this scene and did not dare to get out of the car, so he had to stand on the car and slash at the living dead who continued to circle around. This living corpse doesn't hurt, and he doesn't know where the key is, Bingliang's mind is blank and he doesn't know how many knives, and finally he cut one of them annoyed, looked up at Bingliang, and then jumped into the carriage again. Bingliang looked at the living corpse in front of him who was about to bite his own with his mouth open, standing on the carriage and unable to advance or retreat, he simply turned his heart sideways, dodged the big mouth of the living corpse that opened like a big dung pit, lowered his head and bent, hugged the other party and rolled off the car.
A person and a corpse rolled out five or six heels on the ground, hit the hillside on the side of the road and stopped, the firewood knife in Bingliang's hand had already fallen to the side, and he was unarmed at this time, fighting with the living dead with a desire to survive. This living corpse is cool and slippery to the touch, and slimy like a mouthful of thick phlegm spit out by the side of the road, Bingliang is afraid that it will bite himself, and he will hold the chin of the living corpse with his head, and he is afraid that the other party will dig out his belly and take himself like the two horses around him, and the gods will not be able to save him, so he grabbed the two wrists of the living corpse with two hands, and clamped its torso desperately with two legs, and at the same time arched up to protect his chest and lower abdomen.
The coachman was also in a dilemma at this time, the living dead didn't seem to be interested in him, as long as he didn't provoke the other party like Bingliang did just now, it was estimated that the time to sit down and make a pot of hot tea would be enough. But in front of him, Gongsun Shengyan had been chased by the living dead and was out of breath, Bingliang was wrestling with the living dead, one person and one corpse were engrossed in classical wrestling, and there was no distraction. He looked left and right, and found that the firewood knife that had fallen when Bingliang was rolling just now was not far away, so he jumped over the head of the living dead body in a circle and ran to the firewood knife.
Gongsun Shengyan has been running for more than ten laps, and the wooden stick in his hand has fallen to the side at some point, he has just recovered not long ago, and at this time the soles of his feet are soft and his legs are cramping, but the living dead body does not look tired at all, but the more he chases, the more excited he becomes. If you continue like this, you have to run to death, Gongsun Shengyan saw the opportunity, climbed into the carriage with his hands and feet, and the living dead also fluttered into the carriage as if they were being pulled by a locomotive. The carriage was already small, and after Gongsun Shengyan entered, he kicked the back door open, and rushed out of the carriage with a rolling belt. Gongsun Shengyan originally planned to close the back door after coming out, but he almost fell into a dog in a panic, so he had to watch the living dead behind him huddle in the carriage, and then a slightly smaller living dead body jumped directly towards him from the crooked companion like a frog by the pond and pressed on his body.