"And then?"

Yun Dingxiang dealt with his emotions and said: "The matter has come to this, what should be put down should be put down, soon, the patriarch died, Yun Ding'e inherited the position of the patriarch, since then, I have become an idle person in the village, Yun Ding'e does not care about me, in and out freely, so I often go out of the village, become a wandering person." ”

"So, you'll be telling in the teahouse later?"

Yun Dingxiang nodded and said, "I don't have anything to learn in my life, I like to listen to some anecdotes, and rely on this tongue to make some wine money." ”

"Then how did you end up living in the Crazy Village?"

"I know that so far, there are still a lot of questions in your mind that have not been solved."

I nodded, expecting him to clear my mind.

"This question is actually very easy to answer, first of all, we must figure out two things, one is how the madman village came to be, and the other is how it became like this now."

"But why?" I pricked up my ears, and finally got to the key clue.

"It's a secret that no one knows." Yun Dingxiang sighed and said, "Curse, there has been a terrifying curse in the Black Cloud Village for thousands of years. ”

"What curse?" I remembered what he had said when he had gone crazy before, and also mentioned the curse.

"What is the specific reason, I can't explain it clearly, in our Heiyun Village, every villager, as long as they are over fifty years old, will commit a disease, this disease will make people's limbs stiff in the early stage, skin blackened, and aging rapidly, if you can ask witch to cast spells at this time, it can be suppressed with Gu, but it can only last for five to ten years, and the old patriarch passed away during that time. However, not everyone can ask a witch to cast a spell, and many more can only choose to die at this time. ”

"Waiting to die?"

"Yes, wait for death." Yun Dingxiang said, "The terrible thing about this disease is that it is contagious, and the way of infection is very terrible. In the later stage, the seizures no longer seem like a person, but like a walking corpse, they don't recognize their six relatives, they are bloodthirsty, and all memories will be erased. ”

"What? Isn't that a zombie? "I was shocked.

Yun Dingxiang nodded and said, "That's right, it's a zombie." ”

"How can there be such a thing in the world, how can a living person become a zombie?"

"Even you, the god and ghost contractor, can't tell why, how can an old man of mine say it clearly." Saying that, Yun Dingxiang shook his head and continued, "So, for thousands of years, there has been an unwritten custom in Heiyun Village, the villagers in the village, except for the patriarch of the clan who can be healed by witches after the age of fifty and suppress the disease, all people, regardless of men and women, as long as they reach the age, will enter the madman village, and will be isolated from the world from then on, and fend for themselves in the madman village. ”

"This ...... Are their children left to their parents' own devices? ”

"What can be done about this, for thousands of years, this has been a clan rule that everyone in Heiyun Village consciously abides by, sacrificing one person to become a clan. In the final analysis, parents don't want to harm their children after they get sick, since there is no cure, it is better to cut themselves off. ”

"In this way, the so-called forbidden place is actually a barrier separating the sick from the village, and the real function is not to prevent outsiders from coming in, but to prevent people from coming out?"

Yun Dingxiang nodded, shook his head again, and said: "This statement is neither true nor true, the existence of the forbidden land is indeed for the clansmen to escape, but it is not false to prohibit outsiders from setting foot in it, because not only outsiders, but even Heiyunzhai itself cannot enter the madman village casually." In addition, in order to hide people's eyes, we call this village on Dagu Mountain a madman village, and people who don't know think that this village is really inhabited by a group of crazy people. Of course, there are very few people who know the name of Crazy Village. Those who have been to the forbidden land are even more of a minority, and you are the first wave of people. ”

"That's not it, the old pot head of the horse gang has been here."

Yun Dingxiang shook his head with a smile and said, "Ciwang, I am more familiar than you, he did come in, but he went around in a panic in the forbidden land, and he escaped without dying, and it was thanks to his courage, otherwise, he would not have been able to get out alive." ”

"So, you have raised many monsters and set up countless mechanisms in the forbidden land, the purpose of which is to defend against outsiders."

Yun Dingxiang nodded, said: "Heiyun Village has been more than 2,000 years now, the earliest, our ancestors migrated here from the Central Plains, relying on the advanced culture of the Central Plains, as well as the integration of the culture of the ethnic minorities here, we have mastered the ability to raise strange beasts, which is also the main reason why Heiyun Village can stand for thousands of years without falling, so that the Quartet is in awe." ”

"So, you lived in the village of madmen after you were fifty years old, but why did you ......?"

"You're trying to ask why I haven't had a seizure yet and can talk outside, right?"

I nodded.

"That's because I have Gu, the last time you saw the bug, it was Gu."

"Is it because of Xiaoya?"

Yun Dingxiang nodded and said: "Xiao Ya remembered the old feelings, hid from Yun Ding'e, and cast a spell for me, if it weren't for this Gu, I'm afraid I would have become a zombie long ago, exposing the corpse to the wilderness." ”

Hearing this, I finally know the "origin" of this madman village, and it is time to inquire about its "present life".

"Then why did this madman village become what it is today? Why did the chain bridge have to be torn down? I continued.

"It all started months ago."

"Oh?"

Yun Dingxiang touched his beard and said: "This incident is very weird, at that time, I was telling stories in the Shuizhai teahouse, and I met a group of people, the old man, my eyes were black, but my nose was good. ”

"How are they different?" The sudden appearance of this character made my nerves tense and my worst fears happened.

"The smell of the earth, the smell of the earth can't be covered no matter what."

"Smell of earthy?" I immediately thought of the other party's identity, "You mean, this group of people is a tomb robber?" ”

And how important the word "tomb robbery" is.

You know, aren't we just running for the ancient tomb, I suspected that the leakage of corpse poison in the ancient tomb may not be accidental, but man-made, if there are really tomb robbers, won't the whole clue be closed.

"yes, you can't be wrong with that smell!"

"Are there any other clues?"

"Of course." Yun Dingxiang continued, "Since then, I have always had a bad premonition, sure enough, one night, after I finished finishing my book, I walked alone by the Shuizhai River, I clearly heard a pair of men and women walking in front of me, suddenly a gust of demon wind hit, I just stopped, there was no movement in front of me. ”

"The man is gone?" I was surprised.

"Not only that, but I smell something familiar?"

"Familiar taste, what's it?"

"Water monkeys, a kind of demon beast that has grown up soaked in Gu, I have seen this thing in Xiaoya's shop, they usually hide in the water, they are fierce and abnormal, and their movements are very fast, they can knock down an adult man in a few seconds."

"You mean the water monkey attacked the man and woman?"

Yun Dingxiang nodded and continued: "But water monkeys can only be encountered in the forbidden land, once they leave the forbidden land, the Gu poison in their bodies will attack, and it is impossible to live for a long time, so when I met the water monkeys in the water village so far away from the forbidden land, I always had doubts in my heart." But that's not the weirdest of all. ”

"Oh?"

"It doesn't taste right!"

"What do you mean?"

"The water monkeys in the village have a strong smell of medicine, so that the people in the village can avoid them and avoid accidental injury. However, the smell of this water monkey is long and strong, like a cherished medicinal herb that has been cherished for many years, which is not the taste of the water monkey that is not commonly seen. ”

"And what do you suspect is going on?"

Yun Dingxiang shook his head and said, "At that time, I only had doubts, and I didn't have any doubts until another incident appeared not long after. ”

Yun Dingxiang is worthy of being a model storyteller in Shuizhai, this story comes out of his mouth, the more he listens to it, the more wonderful it becomes, and he looks at him to continue to tell.

"A few days later, I heard a strange thing in the teahouse in private, saying that many people in the water village had mysteriously disappeared in recent days, and at first I suspected that it was the water monkey, but after listening carefully, I felt that things were not so simple."

"Some people say they saw zombies on the riverbank side of Front Street."

"Zombies?" I was stunned.

"That's right, it's zombies."

"Someone saw it with their own eyes?"

"I don't know if I saw it with my own eyes, but rumored to be true."

"How can it be just a rumor?"

"I naturally have my basis for saying this, first, the zombies that appeared on the river beach are not the zombies in the ancient tombs, but the villagers in the water village, when he was found, his face was pale, his actions were wooden, his seven orifices were bleeding, and his face was full of gloomy atmosphere, and more importantly, there was another corpse on the mountain by the river beach at that time, which was bitten alive by zombies, and the person who became a zombie had been missing for several days."

"And such a thing?"

"The weirder ones are yet to come."

"Oh?"

"Zombies are infested, everyone is in danger, every family is closed at night, no one dares to come out, but I don't want the accident to happen, the corpse lying by the river that day suddenly deceived the corpse, biting the whole family to death 13 overnight, no life survived."

"Corpse?" The more I listened to it, the more I felt that something was wrong, and at the same time, I felt that this script was familiar, but it was not possible to connect the cause and effect for a while.

"Old man, what about the corpses of these people?" The first thing that came to my mind was the autopsy.

Yun Dingxiang shook his head and said: "How can there be a corpse, when the people in the water village heard that the person who was bitten to death by the zombie would cheat the corpse, how could they dare to keep the corpse, and directly cremate the corpse." ”

"That'...... What about the zombies that were first discovered? ”

"Strange to say, that zombie hasn't appeared since it bit someone to death on the river beach, and I've secretly investigated, but there has been no follow-up, so I have to give up. But ......"

"But what?"

"This zombie biting incident is weird, the time is just after the appearance of the mysterious tomb robbers, this water village has been safe and sound for thousands of years, but this juncture has such a thing, it has to make people reminisce."

I also agree with Yun Dingxiang's intuition, but intuition is intuition, and we have to talk about evidence, and it is not a matter of speculation alone after all, so I asked: "What evidence do you have?" ”

"Yes!"

"What evidence?"

"Do you remember what I told you about the strange thing I encountered in the Great Lonely Mountain Ancestral Hall forty years ago?"

"Remember, is there nothing to do with this zombie incident?"

Yun Dingxiang sighed and said, "Originally, I didn't want to mention this matter, but the creation made people, but after forty years, the scars were revealed. At that time, after Yun Ding'e rescued us, I checked the wounds of Master Mi Bao, and when I looked at it, I found that Master Mi Bao's limbs were completely destroyed, and I don't know what kind of torture he suffered, his hands and feet were withered and shrunk, as if they had been burned by fire, and I will never forget that scene for the rest of my life. Ever since I had been bitten by a zombie, I had been to the home of a bitten person and examined the corpse, and when I touched the skin of the corpse, it felt so familiar that I was reminded of the tragedy of forty years ago. ”

"And such a thing!"

"yes." Yun Dingxiang sighed and continued, "However, Yun Ding'e insisted at that time that the death of the rice bag master was due to an extremely vicious Gu, and the person who released the Gu must be found to take revenge. And we have been looking for decades, and there is no clue at all. ”