Chapter 10: Strange Corpse Chasing

According to Yang Mei, the corpse chaser requires his apprentices to learn 36 kinds of skills, the first of which is the "standing merit" of the dead corpse, that is, first of all, they must have the ability to make the dead corpse stand and not put it down; the second skill is the "walking skill", which allows the dead corpse to walk as usual and cannot trip; the third skill is the "turning skill", which is to enable the dead body to turn and walk without falling, and what other "downhill skill" and "bridge crossing skill" are there...... In addition, there is also a "dumb dog skill", which can make the dogs along the way not bark when they see the corpse. Because the dead body is most afraid of the dog barking, if the dog barks, the dead body will be frightened to the ground, in the can not stand and walk, in short, in order to drive the corpse, you have to find a way to let the corpse walk, can smoothly go to its home, after its relatives look at the remains, it is determined that it is correct, it is considered to have completed a task of driving the corpse, get paid.

Especially when a dog pounces on and bites, because the dead body has no ability to resist, it will be bitten by the dog and bruised, and the body is incomplete, if that is the case, it is difficult for the corpse chaser to explain to the employer. When the employer sees that the corpse of a relative who has been sent to his home is scarred and unrecognizable, not only will he not give him money to drive the corpse, but he will also be unwilling, and he may go to court to sue the corpse collector for the crime of dereliction of duty and intentional desecration of the corpse of his relatives.

The last kind of skill is the "soul resurrection skill", the better the soul of the corpse chaser, the more souls of the dead corpses will have to be repaid, and the smoother and safer the corpses will be, then the more employers will come to the door to ask for the corpses, and the more prosperous the business of chasing corpses will naturally be, and the more money will be earned.

The corpse chaser walked in front of the corpse when driving the corpse, shouting loudly, striking the gong to warn passers-by to dodge, not to rush into the corpse, so as not to suffer bad luck and cause disaster, plus they are all in the night when the feet of the people regularly drive the corpse, most of the walking are mountain paths, meet very few people, in the dead of night, the sound of the gong and the shouting of the corpse chaser to lead the way to summon the soul spread farther, more and more piercing, frightening, the people who heard the sound know that the corpse chaser is passing, so they hurriedly dodge, give the corpse chaser the way, lest the collision attract bad luck, it is too late to dodge, how dare to peek at the secret among them, this provides the corpse chaser with the convenience of chasing the corpse to play ghosts, and it will be unimpeded all the way, and no one knows what the ulterior secret is.

The origin of the corpse is also said, according to legend, the ancient Chiyou (Miao) and the Yellow Emperor had a war, the result of the defeat, Chiyou could not bear to let his soldiers in the battle of the dead in the wilderness, become a lonely ghost and wander in a foreign land, in order to make the deceased with the return to their hometown, they did the method of driving the corpse to retreat, because the deceased was driven by the magic of Chiyou, the corpse did not decay, and could walk freely. Because Chiyou returned to his hometown for a long distance, the mountain road was rugged, he had to go over the mountains and mountains, walk through the inaccessible places, and pass through the mountains of poisonous insects and beasts.

Later, the industry of chasing corpses appeared, and there were corpse chasers leading the way in front, sounding gongs to open the way, and shouting at people to avoid them. The corpse chaser used straw rope to connect the corpses, one every six or seven feet, and walked at night, the purpose of which was to avoid the disturbance of the living, and the other to avoid the decomposition of the corpse caused by the scorching heat.

In order to prevent the human body from dying without decay, the corpse chaser often uses cinnabar to point the deceased in the heart of the brain, the back chest, the heart, the left and right hand plates, the feet and other places, together with the ears, nose, eyes, and mouth, and also uses cinnabar, in order to enclose its three souls and seven spirits, so as not to leak out, so as to return to the hometown safely, otherwise, the three souls of the deceased leave the body, the soulless body is rotten and difficult to stand on its own, can not walk back to its hometown, the lonely soul is difficult to return to its hometown, and a wild ghost wanders around, and the cocoon wails to be lonely.

Later, the corpse chaser found the trick in the repeated expulsion of corpses, summed up the experience, in order to make the dead body simple and easy, not only put the dead body on the morgue board for human processing, the deceased's head, The limbs of the hands and feet are cut off with a knife, and then the internal organs of the abdomen are taken out, and the straw is used to fill it, like a mummy, which not only prevents the corpse from being indestructible, but also reduces its own weight, and then carries it behind him, and he dresses up the corpse to move forward, walking in the deep mountains where no one is around, and can walk freely.

If it is seen from a distance by the people in the village, it will also think that the corpse chaser is driving the dead body by, and seeing the corpse with talismans on its face, arms stretched out, jumping forward in unison, hearing the shouts of the corpse chaser, no one will have any suspicion, no one thinks of what means the corpse chaser will do to hide from the world. In order to prevent the leakage of secrets, the corpse chaser only takes his own apprentices to drive the corpse, even if he feels that there are not enough people to take the job, he will not let outsiders participate in the corpse.

After returning to the destination, in order to prevent the relatives of the deceased from seeing any flaws and causing trouble, the corpse chaser will ask the family of the deceased to avoid staying away from the body, so as not to disturb the spirit of the deceased and bring ominous information to the relatives.

The corpse chaser put the dead body on the morgue board, sprayed water to make the corpse sit up, and decorated the dead body himself, so he could do some hands and feet, and the corpse chaser turned his back to the relatives of the deceased who were standing at a distance and watched, and put the severed head, hands, feet and limbs of the deceased according to the human body, and put on the shroud to make a burial, and then let the relatives of the deceased close to the coffin to pay homage to the remains, in order to mourn.

They used straw to tie the torso to confuse the relatives of the deceased, in fact, they did not pierce it indiscriminately and blindly, but had already touched the complete body of the deceased, measured the deceased, obtained data, and knew it by heart, so it was difficult for the family of the deceased to see any flaws in their grief. Because the height of the deceased is different from person to person, if the deceased is not measured in advance, and the deceased who is tall and fat is pierced into a thin torso, his relatives may see the flaws and arouse suspicion. They will think that it is a mistake to drive the corpse, and they will come close to distinguish the truth from the fake, then they will expose their feet, expose the secret, not only will they not get the money, but they will also be violently beaten and sent to the government to eat lawsuits.

Liu Yong listened to Yang Mei's talk about driving out the corpses, and thought of the mystery of the actions of the Golden Tiger gang, and said: "Listening to your words, I feel that the Golden Tiger and the gang may be doing something about drug trafficking, because drug smuggling can make a lot of money, and how many outlaws have led them to take their dangerous paths. I suspect they probably hid the drugs in the stomach of the dead body, otherwise they wouldn't have gone to great lengths to disembowel the corpse and dispose of the corpse's organs, and even the coffin where the old woman was lying might have had drugs or something. ”

"I feel the same way, and I've heard that one of their main sources of income is the income from drug smuggling," Yang said. ”

Liu Yong said: "This makes me want to find out more and more, if I follow the golden tiger to his nest, maybe I can find out something, and even find out what is lost and urgently need to be found." ”

Yang Mei said: "I know that their nest is a strong barrier, with many mechanisms, killing machines, easy to get in and difficult to get out, aren't you afraid of ......"

Liu Yonghao said: "What regrets are the husband's birth, what is the fear of death, cutting off the head is all like a hat blown by the wind, the will is firm and unwavering, as long as the evidence of their evil can be found, the lost things can be recovered, and the people can be benefited, I will never tire of doing it, even if it is on the knife mountain and into the sea of fire, I will go all out and never regret it." ”

Yang Mei admired and said: "Since you have such lofty ambitions, I am willing to accompany you to danger as a wife." ”

The two discussed it properly, and since they decided to hide their shadows, they secretly followed them into their caves, thinking that they would return to their original colors without the need for disguise. Day after day, day after night, he and Yang Mei finally followed the Golden Tiger and his gang, and quietly sneaked into their lair on a dark and windy day. It's a big manor, built next to the mountains, with high walls and walls, and it's gloomy. There are many houses in the courtyard, row upon row, uneven, scattered, dazzling to look at, difficult to distinguish between east and west, north and south, it seems to be like a ** array of furnishings.

Jin Hu and his party walked into a house in the back in a roundabout way, lit the lamp, and asked the person pretending to be a zombie to put down the corpse on his back, and then ordered the person who carried the coffin to carry the coffin into another house. After everyone roared away, Jin Hu took the housekeeper back to the house where the zombies were placed, ordered the housekeeper to close the door, took out a sharp knife himself, carefully peeled off the belly of the zombies one by one, took out bags of white things from the straw filled in his abdomen, and put them in a safe.

Liu Yong, who was hiding outside the window, saw it clearly and asked Yang Mei: "What is that bag?"

"That's drugs, probably smuggled from abroad," Yang said. ”

Liu Yong said: "As expected, they are really cunning, smuggling drugs by driving corpses, I don't know how many people have been harmed." This makes you right, these people are really evil, not only drug trafficking and smuggling, but also opening kilns and casinos, providing one-stop services, letting the money roll around, or finally rolling into the pockets of his surname Jin, it seems that we did not ......come in vain."

Liu Yong was talking when he suddenly heard someone in the dark shadow shouting and asking, "Who ......"9