Chapter 1: The Mass Grave Refiner (I)
Late autumn night.
The moonlight shone miserably on the ground, and the dead branches were wriggling on the ground.
Take a deep breath at this time, the cold and gloom in the air will erode people's lungs, making people feel like they have inhaled cold and slippery maggots, shivering.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew through the ground, and there was a strange humming sound:
"I'm a loose person in Wollongong. ”
"Relying on yin and yang is like a backhand to Baoding Qiankun ......" The lyrics are unclear, babbling and weak.
Immediately afterward, there was a sound of rustling in the land. A pair of cloth shoes with mille-feuille soles stepped on the roadside and stomped the clods of earth to pieces.
Yu Xiu was holding the bamboo book behind him in one hand and a hoe in the other, and was staggering through the mass grave.
The moon was round, but the mass grave was so dark that he couldn't see the road ahead, so he could only walk very slowly. Fortunately, Yu Xiu is not the first time to come to this ghost place, and in January, he has made no less than seven round-trips, which is quite a bit of an old horse's knowledge.
After walking for half an hour, he saw a certain nameless grave, Yu Xiu took off the book on his back, picked up the hoe, and dug up the grave.
Judging by his modus operandi, it shouldn't be the first time he's done this.
After a dozen or so breaths, Yu Xiu bulldozed the pile of graves in front of him. Suddenly, there was a knocking sound under the hoe, very dull, like a knock on the door.
A scarlet coffin was revealed.
Yu Xiu looked at the coffin and said, "Excuse me." Then he shaved down with a hoe, directly opened the lid of the coffin, and threw it aside.
The scarlet coffin lid fell, compacting a piece of soil, and even making a sound.
The smell of rotting fish rushed out of the grave, making Yu Xiu's breathing sluggish. He forcibly suppressed the nausea in his heart, threw away the hoe, and recited a mantra in his mouth:
"The corpse refiner, the underworld, the dangerous land, the fierce land, the resentful land, the big murder is unlucky, and the impulse thinks it is compatible...... Those who are born in the lunar year and the moon are cloudy, the female is the upper and the male is the lower, bleeding and pulling out the bones, and cutting the flesh for the ......"
Yu Xiu paused and glanced into the coffin.
A body is lying down, with a red brocade wedding dress on her body, and a wind crown on her head, she looks like a woman, and she is a woman who is buried in a wedding dress ceremony, which should be very beautiful when you think about it.
But it's a pity that the corpse is growing circles of white hair, one finger long, revealing the wedding dress, dense, like a large piece of moldy dead pork, disgusting and terrifying.
Yu Xiu stared, and said secretly in his heart: "It's not like cutting meat for dirt, bleeding and pulling bones......"
The corpse in front of him was raised from hairless to hairy after he crossed over, and every seven days, he had to be fed with a decoction. Sometimes you even have to comb it yourself, and you can't fake it to others.
It can be said that every hair on the corpse is familiar to Yu Xiu. As soon as he thought of this, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart. If he hadn't been forced, how could he have fallen to this point?
In the past and present lives, Yu Xiu did not have the hobby of digging graves and raising corpses.
With his eyes closed, Yu Xiu tried not to look at the corpses under the grave. He took out a clay bowl from the book, opened it skillfully, and took out the medicinal herbs from it.
"Take five coins of centipedes, five coins of poisonous snakes, five coins of scorpions, five coins of geckos, five coins of toads, and two taels of oil in people, and put them in a pottery bowl...... Ground into crumbs......" the silent chanting continued.
The mantra for raising a corpse is not long, about more than 300 words, and when Yu Xiu read it to the end, the five poisonous crumbs in the pottery bowl were also scattered in the oil, but his movements stopped, motionless.
Yu Xiu's brows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something in his heart.
A cold wind blew.
"What about the last seven words?" the cold and hoarse voice suddenly sounded.
Yu Xiu was shocked, his body shook, and the pottery bowl in his hand almost fell to the ground.
The other party snorted coldly. A shriveled and withered yellow face appeared in Yu Xiu's eyes, this person had no eyebrows on his face, and two eyeballs were hung, more white and less black, like hanging two white lanterns, lifeless.
When Yu Xiu saw this person, his pupils shrank, but his face immediately showed surprise, and he shouted: "Master!"
The visitor did not respond to him, squinting his eyes and saying, "Why are you so afraid of being a teacher?"
"Nope. When Yu Xiu heard this, he shrank his head with a smile, and whispered: "It was windy just now, and it was a little cold......
The person who questioned Yu Xiu was dressed in a black robe, and his temperament was eerie, he was Yu Xiu's cheap master, and he was also the one who taught Yu Xiu the mantra of raising corpses.
This Taoist priest has no eyebrows, and Yu Xiu often calls the other party "Taoist priest without eyebrows" in his heart.
The eyebrowless Taoist sneered a few times, turned his head to look at the white-haired female corpse in the coffin, and said, "Wu'er, you have to memorize the last seven words." ”
"Yes, master. A young swordsman holding a sword suddenly turned out from behind the Eyeless Daoist.
Yu Xiu glanced at this person, who had a dead face, and he hurriedly shouted in a low voice, "Senior brother." ”
The dead-faced swordsman didn't look at Yu Xiu, he spoke calmly, and began to recite the first word of the corpse raising formula, and recited until the last seven words: "Pour into the corpse, comb your hair and rub your face"
The Eyebrow Daoist Priest laughed: "Okay! you can't make a mistake in half a word of the corpse refining formula, otherwise not only will you not be able to refine a zombie, but you will also lose the essence treasure in vain." ”
The eyebrowless Taoist priest stared at the white-haired female corpse, flicked his sleeve robe, and drank: "Open its mouth and pour it into the belly of the corpse!"
The dead-faced swordsman raised his eyelids and promised loudly: "Yes, master." He walked up to Yu Xiu, didn't say a word, and snatched the corpse medicine from Yu Xiu's hand.
But the Eyeless Taoist suddenly snorted coldly: "Put it down!" The words were like ice, which made the movements of the dead man's face suddenly freeze, and his face was shocked.
The eyebrowless Taoist priest glanced at the dead man's face and said again: "The corpse qi cannot be disordered, Wen'er will go and feed the medicine." The old Taoist priest in front of him summoned Yu Xiu and the dead man's face to Wen'er and Wu'er.
"Yes. When Yu Xiu heard this, he hurriedly stomped over to take the corpse medicine from the dead-faced swordsman's hand.
But the eyebrowless Taoist priest shrugged his nose slightly, and opened his eyes again and drank: "Wen'er, why do you smell of blood?"
Yu Xiu was taken aback by the old Taoist, and it took a lot of time to stabilize his body, and explained in a low voice: "The disciple went to the pharmacy in the evening to get medicine, but the pharmacy was closed, and the disciple had no money, so he had to climb over the wall and enter, and was bitten by a vicious dog...... But the herbs were obtained. ”
As he explained, he quickly rolled up his sleeves, revealing his bloodied left limp forearm.
After listening to Yu Xiu's explanation, the Wumei Taoist priest's face softened slightly, he lowered his eyelids, bowed his chin, and motioned for Yu Xiu to come forward to feed the medicine again.
"Senior brother, give it to me. Yu Xiu made a gesture and stretched out his hand to the dead-faced swordsman to ask for it.
"You can be bitten by a dog if you take a small medicine" The dead man's face was cold, and he sneered: "It's too much to use!"
Yu Xiu reluctantly took the corpse medicine, and then hurriedly stepped down into the corpse coffin.
"Don't sprinkle it, it's delaying a big event, a certain family wants you to look good. ”
Yu Xiu turned a deaf ear, he lay on the body of the white-haired woman, endured the pungent putrid smell, broke the long hair on the other party's face, and skillfully knocked his teeth to open the corpse's teeth.
Although the female corpse has an ugly and disgusting appearance, her teeth are crystal clear, as if it has been filled with mercury, but the mouth is black and hollow, and it is bottomless.
Yu Xiu pinched the clay bowl and poured the corpse medicine into the mouth of the female corpse.
After pouring the decoction, Yu Xiu rolled up his sleeves again, endured nausea, and rubbed his cheeks and head for the other party in a specific way, seven times in one place, once in seven places, and back and forth seven times without interruption. When he finished rubbing, he took out a wooden comb from his sleeve and straightened the other party's scattered hair and fallen white hair one by one.
In this way, it is called "combing hair and rubbing face".
By the time he was done, a quarter of an hour had passed, and Yu Xiu was already sweating profusely, and his whole body was full of the smell of white-haired female corpses, which was rotten. He climbed out of the coffin pit and sat directly on the mound of grave, gasping for air.
Although the process of raising a corpse sounds simple, it requires a lot of energy, and Yu Xiu always feels that the last time he comes, his body will be empty.
After Yu Xiu poured the corpse medicine on the white-haired female corpse, the atmosphere around the corpse pit suddenly became quiet, strange and gloomy, so that he had to suppress his breathing so as not to disturb anything.
Yu Xiu raised his head and looked at his cheap master and cheap senior brother, and found that the two were staring at the corpse pit tightly, with a look of anticipation on their faces.
He turned his mind around, clapped his hands and stood up, quietly stood back a lot, and then stood on tiptoe, squinting at the pit with the same squint.
Something frightening......