04 Yizhuang
Xian Jingyue suddenly became suspicious, could it be that this headless corpse actually came from the Yizhuang outside the street? Looking at the wound on the broken neck of this headless corpse that had begun to decompose, it was the body of the deceased four or five days ago, and it was very likely that it was a corpse parked in the Yizhuang of Yumen Pass, so it suddenly appeared on the street.
However, if this is the case, when you think about it carefully, it is creepy, could it be that this headless corpse can still find the breath of a living person to come out of Yizhuang by itself after defrauding the corpse, and come all the way to the street in front of the Yumen Pass to kill the living, what is going on? Not to mention that last night everyone cracked the case of smuggling and entrainment in the name of "Yinshan Hall" in the name of driving away corpses, and they also went to this Yizhuang to check at that time, but they did not find anything strange about the corpse inside, how did it come to noon today, there was this headless corpse to deceive the corpse and hurt people?
Xian Jingyue couldn't guess the mystery for a while, and after a little discussion with Master Zhou, he divided the team of sergeants brought by Master Zhou into three ways, all the way to stay on the street to deal with the aftermath, and collect the headless corpse that was split into two pieces; all the way to the military tent to inform the leader of the garrison here, General Lu Yuanpo, and the last way, a total of about 20 people, followed Xian Jingyue and Master Zhou to Yizhuang, half a mile away, to investigate.
After the arrangements were made, Xian Jingyue took the lead and went straight to the door of Yizhuang, only to see that the two gates that were still intact last night had been clearly destroyed at this time, most likely by the headless corpse just now. After a little discussion, everyone was bold and bold in the art of competing for the moon, so they let Master Zhou and the accompanying sergeant wait outside the door, and stepped into Yizhuang alone with the glaive knife in his hand.
It is said that this whole Yizhuang is a closed stone house, and there are fifty or sixty coffins in it, which Xian Jingyue has seen last night. But at this time, the house was in a mess, with overturned coffins and corpses everywhere, obviously experiencing a commotion, and I didn't know which coffin originally contained which corpse, let alone whether the headless corpse on the street came from the coffin here. Looking at the room again, the entrance to the tunnel leading to the "Yinshan Hall" store at the end of the street is still open, it is because Shang did not give up the activation mechanism last night and did not close, Xian Jingyue searched around again, and did not find any danger, so he beckoned Master Zhou and the sergeants outside to come in.
Then the sergeants had the courage to count the corpses in the house, as for how many corpses were originally parked in this Yizhuang, and how many coffins were empty, Master Zhou couldn't say clearly, only said that this Yizhuang has always been taken care of by the Taoist priests of "Yinshan Hall", because the relationship between the two sides has been harmonious, so the garrison did not interfere much. When the sergeants put the corpses on the ground back into the coffins one by one, there were still more than twenty empty coffins left, and no one was sure whether the headless corpse had ever inhabited these empty coffins.
Master Zhou couldn't help but mutter: "Assuming that the headless corpse is indeed out of Yizhuang, then there are two possibilities. One is that this headless corpse was parked in Yizhuang, but for some reason it suddenly cheated the corpse, so it ran to the street to kill, and the second possibility is that those Taoist priests in the 'Yinshan Hall' are playing ghosts. How could there be such a coincidence in the world when they had just transported 12 corpses to Yizhuang last night, and today there was a fraudulent corpse? Maybe that headless corpse was one of the 12 corpses that were brought back last night. ”
Xian Jingyue's heart sank, Master Zhou's words were reasonable, could it be that Xie Yixiang and Shang did not abandon last night's inference, and actually thought about the Taoist priests of the "Yinshan Hall" simply, except for the smuggling entrainment, these Taoist priests still have other activities in secret? However, if you want to find out the ins and outs of the whole thing, you have to interrogate the Taoist priests of the "Yinshan Hall" who were arrested last night, and the top priority at the moment is to find out whether there are other fraudulent corpses in this Yizhuang. If Master Zhou's guess was correct, the headless corpse was one of the corpses that the "Yinshan Hall" transported back last night, then most of the other eleven corpses were also strange.
Thinking of this, Jing Yue first looked at the open entrance of the tunnel in the house, and couldn't help frowning. Could it be that there are other corpses that cheat the corpses, but they break into this tunnel, and then go to the store opened by "Yinshan Tang" on the street through the tunnel?
Hearing Xian Jingyue's speculation, Master Zhou hurriedly ordered several sergeants to go back and inform them to send a heavy army to guard the store of "Yinshan Hall", while Xian Jingyue lit a torch and went into the tunnel alone to investigate, leaving the others to wait in Yizhuang. He had walked through this tunnel last night, but it was not long, and it took only a cup of tea to complete the journey of more than half a mile, but there was no trace of corpses along the way; when he came to the end of the tunnel, he saw that the exit above was also closed and had not been opened. Xian Jingyue was still not at ease, and pushed open the wooden board on the top, and went up to the store of "Yinshan Hall" to check, seeing that the store was empty, and even the two stone doors that entered and exited were locked from the outside.
Then Xian Jingyue returned along the original path of the tunnel, who knew that when he walked near the exit of Yizhuang, there was a smell of blood from the front. He secretly shouted that it was not good, could it be that at the moment when he got into the tunnel, the other corpses in Yizhuang had been cheated again? If so, compared to the strength and speed of the headless corpse just now, Master Zhou and the dozen or so sergeants who stayed in Yizhuang were no opponents.
Xian Jingyue hurriedly unfolded his body and rushed to the exit of the tunnel, and then found that there was a bloody severed hand on the ground in front of him, which was actually torn off his body alive, and it looked like the arm of the fellow sergeant. In this way, Xian Jingyue immediately confirmed his guess, wouldn't this method of tearing up the body of a living person exactly the same as the headless corpse? At that moment, he was about to jump out of the tunnel to save people, but suddenly found that the tunnel exit leading to Yizhuang had been sealed at some point.
I remember that last night Shang did not abandon in Yizhuang to open this tunnel, but to fiddle with a few coffins in the house horizontally and vertically, Xian Jingyue did not understand the mystery, and now the exit is re-closed, most likely because there was an accident in Yizhuang, and the sergeants did not touch the coffin connecting the organ in a panic, which closed the exit of the tunnel.
Xian Jingyue was anxious, but he didn't know the art of organ news, and he didn't know how to open the mechanism from the tunnel. He even urged the murderous aura to slash at the top of his head with the Glaive Knife, but the stone wall at the exit was extremely thick, and there seemed to be a thick iron plate buried in it, and with a large amount of rubble being chopped down by him, he still couldn't split the exit. Xian Jingyue made a decision, and hurriedly walked back along the tunnel, and returned to the store of "Yinshantang" on the street, intending to get out of the other side of the tunnel and rush back to Yizhuang from the street.
Who knew that Xian Jingyue split the lock outside the stone gate from the store of "Yinshan Hall", but he didn't see the sergeant arranged by Master Zhou stationed outside the store. When I went outside, I saw that the whole street behind the Yumen City Wall was in chaos again, and many people were rushing back from the direction of the city wall, all with horror written on their faces. And under the city wall, there are hundreds of soldiers blocking the gate of Yumen Pass, holding swords in their hands to guard the city gate, as if to prevent something from rushing into the gate. And on the city wall, a thick wolf smoke rose, sending a warning signal to the 100,000 garrisons here.
Xian Jingyue hurriedly pulled a panicked person and asked, "What the hell is going on?" The man's face was already pale with fright, and he immediately shouted loudly: "Why are you holding me back? Why don't you run for your life......! A lot of living corpses...... It's the living corpses that are coming to attack the city!"