243.Chapter 243: Are You My Prince Charming?
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A bell rang, and it was particularly striking in the barren forest in the evening.
The bell stopped, and an old man in his seventies, with a thin body, a blue face, but his hair was black and shiny, wearing a green cloth robe and a pair of straw sandals, walked out of the forest.
In his left hand he held an old rattle with a string of bells tied to it, and in his right hand a lantern for illumination, and a brown package tied to his back, stuffed to the brim.
While walking, he kept shouting and shouting, and he was full of energy.
What caught my eye, though, was the seven stiff men who followed him.
Oh, corpses, to be exact.
Each of these corpses was six or seven feet apart, connected by straw ropes, with straw hats on their heads, and this yellow talisman was pasted with glutinous rice on the seal hall, neatly led behind them by the old way.
"Corpse chaser?"
I didn't expect to come across this profession in this place, which is almost gone.
He Xiaonuan looked at the corpses and asked a little nervously: "Master, what is the corpse chaser? Is he also a mage or a Taoist?"
I nodded, and shook my head again.
"The corpse chasers can indeed be said to be people who deal with yin and yang, but their spells are the lowest, and they basically only know some fur. At the beginning of the last century, a war broke out in Xiangxi, and many people who died in a foreign land, the corpse chaser was doing this kind of people's business, driving their corpses back to their hometowns, and it was also the most prosperous era for the corpse chasers. ”
"Ahh......h Their spells are not high, aren't they afraid of corpse mutations?" He Xiaonuan listened ignorantly.
I shrugged my shoulders: "Of course I'm afraid, but danger represents high income, now that transportation is developed, this profession is declining more and more, but in ancient times, the profits obtained from successfully driving a group of corpses are estimated to be enough to live for a year!"
Hearing this, He Xiaonuan also understood a little, but when she saw so many dead corpses for the first time, she was still inevitably afraid, and her little head looked around: "Then what kind of corpses are they, do they rush it? There should also be some taboos!"
I smiled, yes, the children can be taught, and they can be understood at all.
Of course, the point is that the master I taught well, hehe!
"There are indeed a lot of taboos. Dead corpses are inherently evil, and corpse chasers basically don't drive out three types of people. The first is the great evil person who is unforgivable and has heinous crimes, the second is the person who commits suicide or dies accidentally, and the third is the person who belongs to the yin and is feminine. After these people die, it is very likely that there will be a corpse transformation, and in this case, the only fate of the corpse chaser is to be brutally bitten to death!"
"Moreover, when the corpse arrives on the ground, there must not be the slightest decomposition, and it must arrive at the time specified by the guest, and at the same time, it must not collide with the living!"
This is also why the old man in front of him, after discovering me and He Xiaonuan, his first reaction was to remind us to avoid it.
At this moment, there was a sudden movement behind the seven corpses, followed by a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, tied with two playful ponytails, and jumped out.
I rub, where does it come from?
This head is also a little smaller, and standing next to me is probably not as tall as my thigh!
Her face was round and tender, her face was covered with dust, like a flower cat, her complexion was a little tanned, and she ran to the front with a frightened look, and grabbed the clothes of the old way of chasing corpses: "Grandpa!
Lao Dao sighed in his heart, and immediately ran to the last corpse, and sure enough, the corpse was trembling, and the straw rope tied to it also cracked a few cracks, and it seemed that it might break at any time.
"This ......"
Lao Dao suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, hurriedly unwrapped the brown package, took out a handful of glutinous rice, replaced the blackened glutinous rice on the corpse's forehead, kowtowed tremblingly, and muttered an incomprehensible spell in his mouth.
Poof!
However, as soon as the newly replaced glutinous rice came into contact with the corpse, it instantly emitted black smoke and crackled, sounding like someone was stir-frying!
I frowned, walked closer, and said, "Uncle, this corpse is going to be transformed!"
Normal people use glutinous rice to suppress corpse gas, if glutinous rice is black, it means that the corpse gas has soared to the sky, and the corpse will rise at any time!
Lao Dao saw us approaching, his expression was even more panicked, and he shook his head at us: "Two, I'm really sorry, I'm a corpse chaser, today's situation is special, the corpse collided with you, you leave quickly, remember to take a bath with peach blossom water when you go back, otherwise there will be disaster!"
After speaking, he reluctantly squeezed out a wry smile and comforted the little little dot on his shoulder: "Lingling, don't be afraid, out of this mountain, there is a grandmother in the village outside the mountain who can help us suppress the corpse, let's go faster!"
I immediately thought of the eyeless old lady, and I didn't know if the grandmother in the old way was her.
"Grandpa, I'm not afraid, Lingling is bold!"
The round face is small and her chest is straight, she is very sensible and has no nonsense, she seems to be very curious about me and He Xiaonuan, and has been secretly targeting us.
Lao Dao nodded with satisfaction, and was about to walk to the front to continue driving the corpse, when he unconsciously glanced at the seventh corpse again, and almost sat on the ground without being scared.
I didn't know when, the corpse had opened its eyes, a pair of lifeless dead fish eyes, staring at him stunned!
Immediately afterwards, his mouth also opened, and he exhaled a breath of corpse breath, blowing off the yellow talisman on his forehead, and the corpse jumped up, stretching out two purple claws, and was about to choke Lao Dao.
Lao Dao was completely stupid, he didn't expect that this corpse actually said that the corpse change is the change!
The fangs in its mouth are shining with fine light, the nails are more than ten centimeters long, and the most terrifying thing is that the hairs on its body are also long, piercing the clothes, standing up straight, like sharp silver needles!
In just a few tens of seconds, it completely turned into a terrifying evil corpse!
"Roar!"
The evil corpse roared angrily and pounced, Lao Dao only felt a pain in his waist, and his whole body flew up fiercely, falling to the ground with a thud, and then the evil corpse didn't care about him, opened the foul and bloody corpse mouth, and was about to bite his granddaughter's head.
"Evil animal, don't!" Lao Dao shouted hysterically, tears flowed out instantly, he was lonely, only this precious granddaughter was left, if she died, what reason did he have to live.
With a miserable smile, Lao Dao reluctantly got up, pulled out the willow branch in his bag, and pulled it up tremblingly.
"Woo~!" which evil corpse was not afraid at all, and disdainfully swallowed the willow branch in its mouth, and it suddenly bit into a sham, and then knocked the old road away again.
The girl named Lingling cried and shook her head: "Woo, grandpa, you run, don't care about Lingling!"
She was scared, but strong, raised her immature little fist and smashed it on the stinky face of the evil corpse with all her strength.
Facing the fishy face of the evil corpse that was getting closer and closer, she closed her eyes in despair.
However, the imaginary death did not come, but felt lying in a warm embrace.
The little girl opened her eyes in disbelief, and saw my face staring coldly at the evil corpse.
"Brother...... Are you my Prince Charming?"