The thing had been licked for a long time, and my neck was wet and cold from it, and I didn't mean to stop.

I couldn't hold back any longer, slowly turned my eyes to the right, and tilted my head slightly to the right.

Damn!

I almost screamed!

It was a person lying on top of me!

A mass of people, to be exact.

The man seemed to have no bones, just a lump of flesh wrapped in skin, soft as a meat worm.

Look at it again.

The nose and eyes were distorted and shrunk into a ball.

His face was covered in black mud.

It's weird to look at me in the face.

Who is this wickedness?

How do you look like this bear?

My mind moved slightly, and I was about to close my eyes and pretend to be blind, when suddenly there was a tingling pain in the area of my neck where the green tendons were stalking, as if I had been stung by a wasp.

This thing bites me!

It looks like this disgusting man......

Will it be toxic?

I really wanted to swing the ancient sword to kill it, but I remembered Sun Xiao's words relayed by the black seedling grass ghost woman, and gave up this idea again.

If, this is the only way for us to avoid it, and I hack this thing to death, wouldn't it be for nothing to let it lick?

Fortunately, this thing didn't stay for long, and after biting me, it slowly left my body and crawled towards the bamboo window.

At this time, my tense heart gradually relaxed.

Look at Li Di again.

A dark mass was slowly creeping away from her.

With the squeak of the bamboo window, there was another squeak, and those things went out along the bamboo window......

Then, I heard Sun Xiao exhale with relief, and said in a trill, "Let's go...... Gone? Finally gone...... It's okay. ”

His voice was like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind, swaying, a feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe, spontaneously.

Obviously, he was taken aback.

I stood up with a carp and reached out and touched my neck.

There were no wounds, no bites, not even the pain was gone, and the skin was as smooth as ever.

Li Di also stood up, leaned on the bamboo window and looked out.

It turned out that she was not asleep either.

"What the hell is this?"

She muttered to herself as she looked out.

"You didn't see it?"

I'm curious, didn't they dare to open their eyes just now?

These words provoked the two of them to shake their heads at the same time, and Sun Xiao was even more afraid: "Where do I dare to open my eyes to see, have you seen it?" ”

I nodded, and was about to open my mouth to describe what I had seen, when the loud shouts of the five-clawed golden dragon came from outside the bamboo house.

"What kind of monster dares to break in late at night! Watch and hit! ”

Where did you find food for this thing?

Why haven't you come back until now?

After the shouting, only two "poofs" were heard, followed by the sound of the iron lock falling to the ground, and then the door creaked open.

The five-clawed golden dragon walked in with a black mass in one hand.

I could see a black line.

This strange thing that just left has been caught by it again!

The five-clawed golden dragon's eyes were blazing, and when he saw that the three of us were standing with big eyes and staring at each other, he was stunned at first, and then threw the things he was carrying in his hands on the ground, and said angrily: "The old witch said that this is not the terrible thing that is coming tonight, right?" ”

I pulled my flashlight out of my backpack, turned it on, and shone it at the two weird things.

Several other people also gathered around.

The two things were knocked unconscious by the five-clawed golden dragon, curled up on the ground like a puddle of mud, and like two dry pieces of preserved fruit.

I went out and found a bamboo and stabbed them a few times.

Lying on his stomach, the skin on the outside is very tough, very strong, and cannot be broken.

The five-clawed golden dragon frowned and snorted: "This seems to be a person who has been bone-cut......"

Before it could finish speaking, it reached out and stretched out one of the lumps and laid it flat on the floor of the bamboo house.

After looking at it carefully for a while, he said, "It's strange, why doesn't it have a wound on its body?" How are bones removed? ”

Li Di said: "Could this not be a human at all, but a strange creature derived from the swamp?" Just like the mountain ghosts born in the mountains, the water monkeys born in the water? ”

Sun Xiao saw that the black thing was like two noodles that everyone was playing with at this time, and he also became bold, leaned over and observed it carefully for a while, and exclaimed: "I know what this thing is, this is a peat tanned corpse." ”

"What's that? What is a peat tanned corpse? "A few of us spoke in unison.

Sun Xiao explained to us: "When you die, if you are buried in acidic soil or peat bogs, you will become like this. The reason why the soil appears acidic is because it is rich in humus, which is made up of humic acid. The same is true of the formation of swamps. Humic acid has the function of decalcification and embalming, so the corpse buried in it will not only not decay, but the skin will slowly tannize, and the proteins of muscle and other tissues will be gradually dissolved, so that the volume of the corpse will be highly reduced, and it will become similar to plasticine. Tannic acid can also decalcify bones and teeth and soften them so soft that they can bend at will, and this kind of corpse is called peat tanned corpse. ”

"And how did this thing crawl out of the swamp on its own?" The five-clawed golden dragon asked.

"yes, and bit me, this should be alive, not the corpse you said." I chimed in.

Sun Xiao was stopped by our questioning, and after being stunned for a moment, he said again: "I have only seen the record in the relevant literature, as for ...... As for moving this...... How can the things of this mysterious place be understood with ordinary thinking? ”

Speaking of this, Sun Xiao glanced at Li Di.

Along the way, he also saw my intimate behavior with Li Di, and he must have guessed something.

Li Di glanced at me and said, "As far as I know, there is a scientific basis for acidic soil to bury people without decay, and for our Taoists, this is a place to raise corpses." When a corpse is buried in a corpse rearing ground, a corpse transformation will occur...... Immortality, could this be the product of the corpse buried in the swamp? ”

When I think about it, it's not impossible.

Seeing me nodding, Li Di continued: "This thing can avoid scabies, maybe it is a unique effect. Just as the sweat corpse made of corpses is a rare medicine for the regeneration of severed limbs in the world......"

That's true.

The five-clawed golden dragon pondered for a moment, and a smile of approval appeared on his face.

"Maybe someone accidentally got stuck in the swamp and turned into a corpse......"

The two tanned corpses didn't know if they had been killed by the five-clawed golden dragon, and they had been lying motionless on the ground for a long time.

Sun Xiao was more cautious and asked the five-clawed golden dragon to throw them back into the swamp again, so as not to be discovered by the people in the village and cause other trouble.

After the carcass was disposed of, we couldn't sleep, the ground was almost all wet with muddy water, and the four of us sat against a clean corner, and sat like this until dawn.