Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

In the coffin opened by Zhan Zhao, there was a sallow mummy, all the muscles in his body were shrunk, wrinkled and clinging to the person's body, like old clothes that had been sunk for a long time, and his whole body was ragged. of wrinkles.The face of the corpse was distorted to an unbelievable degree, the clothes on the body were loose, and the exposed arms could not see the flesh at all, as if a piece of dry skin was attached to it, and there were many uneven folds, outside the door Mottled moonlight leaked in and shone on the body of the mummy. The face was eerily white and looked very oozing.

Zhan Zhao frowned, but when he turned around, he saw Old Man He's terrified expression... He didn't understand, logically, it's not been a day or two for Mr. He to be in this Yizhuang, even though the corpse is a bit scary, it's not enough to put him in a hurry. A person who has been with corpses all year round is frightened like this, right?

At this time, Gongsun on the side suddenly said: "Old He, why do you say he is a zombie?"

Mr. He seemed to be still in shock, opened his eyes wide and gasped and said, "He is a zombie, he must be a zombie. I remember this corpse very clearly. It was delivered yesterday evening. At that time, the official sent me to tell me about the person in the coffin. He died on Qiongshan that day, you say, how could someone who died yesterday become like this, what else could it be if it wasn’t a zombie?!”

Bai Yutang glanced at Zhan Zhao with some doubts, but Zhan Zhao didn't speak.

At this time, Gongsun suddenly took out a pair of white gloves from the small box he was carrying, and put them on without paying attention to the people around him. The knife gently scratched the mummy's wrist.

Old man He gasped when he saw it!I thought how could this young man be disrespectful to the dead!

After the stroke, Gongsun raised his head, and said to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang indifferently, "It's just as I thought, he didn't have a drop of blood left on his body, that's why he became like this."

"Not a drop of blood left?"

Gongsun nodded, then gently raised the mummy's hand, turned it left and right: "It must have been sucked up by something..." Then he slightly raised the corpse's chin, "When he died, it was very painful."

"What do you mean, sir, that he was sucked out of his blood alive?"

Gongsun nodded, and said again: "I'm going to do a further inspection, you guys take Mr. He out first."

The two glanced at each other, and walked out the door with the terrified old man He.

As soon as he reached the door, he heard Gongsun behind him say without raising his head: "Close the door."

Helpless, the two reached out to close the door.Before the door closed, old man He tremblingly looked at Gongsun who was busy inside, and looked at Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao with a puzzled expression on his face: "Is it okay to let him stay inside alone?"

Zhan Zhao scratched his chin, thought for a while and asked with a serious expression, "Do you mean those corpses?"

The corner of Bai Yutang's mouth twitched, seeing Old Man He's puzzled look, he sighed, and asked seriously, "Do the officials often send coffins like this recently?"

Old man He turned his head and saw Bai Yutang's clear frosty face under the moonlight. It was so glamorous that it was not like ordinary people, but also incomparably beautiful. He nodded in a daze, thinking how could such a beautiful face be so beautiful It grows on a man's face, how many people would be fascinated by this girl!

Bai Yutang didn't pay attention to what Old Man He was thinking, seeing Old Man He nodded, he asked again: "Did they say anything when they brought it here?"

Only then did the old man come back to his senses, he thought about it seriously, and said: "They said that Qiongshan is not very flat recently, so I must not go there, if I do, maybe the person lying in the coffin next time will be I'm sorry, what did you say that these people didn't listen to persuasion, and in the end they all became the dead souls of sacrificial knives..."

Zhan Zhaofu frowned: "The soul of the sacrificial knife?"

Old man He nodded: "I asked them why these coffins were sealed with copper nails. They said that the people inside all died on Qiongshan Mountain. They were too resentful. If they were not sealed, the corpses would turn into ghosts and harm people."

Zhan Zhao said: "These stories about ghosts and gods have always been rumored and exaggerated, you don't have to take it seriously, Mr. He."

Old man He looked up at Zhan Zhao, hesitant to say: "I thought so too at first... But, just these few days, I heard... I heard voices coming from those crucified coffins... "

"A voice in the coffin?"

Old man He swallowed his saliva, and still said tremblingly: "Yes, very light, very light, but I still heard it, as if someone inside wanted to come out, they had to knock on the coffin every now and then... Boom, Boom, boom..."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, unconsciously feeling a little weird.

Bai Yutang looked at the closed gate of Yizhuang, and asked, "Could it be that... the people in the coffin are not dead?"

Old man He shook his head violently: "No... no, it's impossible..."

"Why?"

"Because, when these coffins were first delivered, they were as quiet as ordinary coffins... But after a few days, these nailed coffins kept making knocking sounds, intermittently, from time to time... You said, if the person in the coffin was a living person, how could it take a few days before knocking on the coffin board to get out?"

Bai Yutang was just about to ask if the person inside cheated the corpse or the person was drugged... But when he turned his head, he saw Zhan Zhao flipping through a book facing the moonlight with a look of enthusiasm on his face... …

"Cat, are you still in the mood to read?"

Zhan Zhao raised his head, looked at the depressed Bai Yutang, blinked and replied, "Of course we must hurry up!"

"Hurry up?" Bai Yutang was even more puzzled when he saw that Zhan Zhao was reading the "Book of Changes" bought by Gongsun Ce.

"Earlier, didn't Mr. Gongsun tell us that we must read this "Book of Changes" by heart?"

Bai Yutang nodded, then reacted immediately and said, "Don't you mean to say, you plan to..."

Zhan Zhao smiled and threw another "Book of Changes" over, and said sincerely: "Mouse, learn it quickly, and we will go to Qiongshan as soon as the autopsy is finished, sir."

Bai Yutang took the book thrown by Zhan Zhao, weighed it, and sighed: "I'd rather accompany Gongsun for the autopsy than read the book, besides, I've already..."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang seriously, looked at him from the beginning to the end, until Bai Yutang felt hairy all over his body, then stroked his chin and concluded, "Mouse, with my experience in getting along with Gongsun for so many years, I can I can tell you with confidence, if you don't listen to him, you must be the one who is unlucky..."

Bai Yutang raised his head and thought about Gongsun Ce's often ambiguous smile, he froze for a moment, and sat next to Zhan Zhao with a book to read it.

So, the old man He wiped off his sweat, thinking that he saw a scene even weirder than the noise in the coffin under the moonlight. Two big men were sitting at the gate of Yizhuang, holding two books, especially, extremely, and Flipping through it very carefully?

After an unknown amount of time, the door of Yizhuang was finally opened, and the three people at the door turned their heads at the same time, only to see Gongsun Ce coming out with his gloves on. People looked at the "Book of Changes" that they had bought for them earlier, and couldn't help smiling.

Seeing that Gongsun finally came out, Zhan Zhao hurriedly got up and asked, "Sir, how is it?"

Gongsun Ce looked back at the coffin in Yizhuang, and said, "During the autopsy, I seemed to hear a slight noise in the other coffins that were nailed to death. Could you do me a favor and put the rest of the coffin boards together?" Throw it away?"

As soon as Gongsun's words fell, the two glanced at old man He at the same time, thinking, could it be true?

Gongsun saw that the expressions of the two were different, so he asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head and explained: "Sir, just before, Mr. He told us that he heard a noise coming from the coffin, and we are still wondering what it is..."

Gongsun said: "Oh? I thought I heard it wrong. In that case, let's open the coffin first and then talk about it."

Zhan Zhao nodded, dragged Bai Yutang into the gate of Yizhuang, Bai Yutang was dragged a few steps, quickly grabbed Zhan Zhao's hand and asked, "Why are you dragging me?"

Zhan Zhao pointed to a row of coffins in Yizhuang, and said without hesitation: "Help open the coffins, I didn't see so many, how can I get here by myself!"

Bai Yutang glanced at the coffin full of dust and dirt, his expression was even uglier than the people in the coffin.

Zhan Zhao squinted his eyes and smiled: "I've heard for a long time that Fifth Master Bai is a hero and a hero, and his righteousness is as small as the sky, so it's likely that he won't even do such a small favor?"

Bai Yutang sighed, thinking that this cat is really bad enough, knowing that he has a cleanliness habit, but still finding some things to torture him for him, if you don't do it, you are not chivalrous, and your righteousness is worthless?

After thinking about it, Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao and said, "Let me borrow your giant que."

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, he originally wanted to see Bai Yutang's dilemma, and thought it was funny, but he didn't expect someone to ask him for the Juque sword, Zhan Zhao scratched his face, and obediently handed over the Juque sword.

Bai Yutang took over the Juque sword, without saying a word, he struck out instantly, the gorgeous horizontal chop brought up the shadow of the sword, the sharp edge of the sword swept across the coffin boards, and the boards flew up together, then fell heavily on the ground, opened After all the coffin boards, Bai Yutang put the sword back into the scabbard, turned around and threw it back to Zhan Zhao, with a cold face: "Okay."

Zhan Zhao took Ju Que back, stuck out his tongue secretly, thinking that the rat's anger is really scary...

"The death conditions are the same."

The two turned their heads, only to see that Gongsun was lying in front of the coffin and looked up. They saw him walking back and forth in front of several coffins, and then frowned, as if he was a little confused.

"I dissected the first corpse. It was true that he died after being sucked dry of all the blood on his body, but if he was sucked dry by something, there should be wounds on his body. I didn't find any scars..."

Gongsun walked up to the two of them, and said slowly: "And in these coffins, everyone's death is exactly the same, and these people have been dead for more than a day..."

"Then... the noise in the coffin you heard..."

Gongsun waved his hand: "That's not the point, the point is that I found every corpse just now..."

"What?"

Gongsun thought for a while, and said: "Let's not talk about it now, lest you feel disgusted."

A few people were thinking about what kind of disgusting method it was, when they heard Gongsun suddenly say: "How are your books?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback, and said in unison: "I haven't finished watching yet!"

Gongsun said: "It's too late, let's go to Qiongshan now, otherwise more people will die!"