Ichthyosaur

After Longchi dragged the corpses near the shore ashore, he began to fish for the corpses in the river.

The water in this section of the river is very deep, and the river surface is wide. The river water pushes the rotten ship's wood and corpses to float downstream. As long as the wood does not block the river or is not attached to evil spirits, she has no time to pay attention to it.

Most of the corpses floating on the water were mummified corpses in a terrible state of death. They sank and floated with the waves like rotten wood, and even the wandering corpses in the water ignored them.A large number of relatively intact corpses floated underwater, either with unnaturally curved bones, or with bruises on their bodies, and some with hideous faces and blue skin, as if they had been corroded by a large amount of Yin Qi to death.

Walking corpses are not all corpses, they are also very picky.They only like the corpses of drowned people, especially young and strong ones.Even if the broken corpses with missing arms and legs were pulled to the bottom of the water by them, they would throw them away again after a while.If it is a corpse with mutilated limbs, it will float up soon, but for those whose chest and abdomen are leaked, and the body cannot store air and cannot float up, she needs to dive down to fish it out, otherwise, they will probably feed the fish , and the resentful souls attached to the fish, shrimp, turtles and crabs in the water turned into water monsters and came out to harm people.

These wandering corpses were dispatched, and there were too many corpses to be retrieved, so Longchi didn't go into the water to do unnecessary fighting with the wandering corpses.She walked forward on the logs floating on the river, stayed in the middle of the river, found ropes or rags from the debris washed down, wrapped them around the corpse, and strung them up like rice dumplings.She herself sits on a log that can bear her weight, finds a smaller plank as an oar, and paddles to the shore.

She paddles to attract the walking corpses.

They would come and lift the log she was on, trying to throw her into the water.Therefore, the wood she picks is usually long, and she sits on it by herself, so she can see when there are wandering corpses coming, and she doesn't need to go into the water, just pull out the water-dividing sword, raise the sword with her hand, and drop it, not to cut them The head is to cut off the claws they stretched out.

If the wandering corpse has its head cut off, it will also die.

At this time, the sun was still strong, and the board she was riding on was too small to cover much of the water surface, and the sun could shine under the water, which made most of the wandering corpses reluctant to approach her, and there would only be large floating objects near her. At this time, the wandering corpses hiding under the floating objects will risk being burned by the sun for a short attack.

Longchi rowed the wood to the shore, she turned around and untied the rope tied to the wood, and then untied the corpses tied to the rope one by one, carried them to the shore and arranged them neatly.

At this moment, it is already sunset time.

Wang Ergou and Gua Chu had bought enough firewood, and they were carrying poles to pick it up here.

Although Gua Chu hadn't done rough work before, he only needed strength to pick firewood.

He had been in the hot sun for a whole day, his fair and clean face was flushed red, he was so hot that he was sweating profusely, and his Taoist robe was soaked.

Wang Ergou was even shirtless, revealing his firm skin that was tanned and shiny by the sun.

Gua Chu followed behind Wang Ergou, looking at the blue mark on his back from time to time.The mark looks like a tattoo, but it is surrounded by a heavy evil spirit. It is the head of a ferocious ghost, which is extraordinarily vivid, as if it is about to break through the skin at any time and pounce out to devour people.

Wang Ergou put down the firewood, and when he turned his head, Guachu hurriedly looked away, looking very embarrassed.He grinned and said nonchalantly, "You can watch it if you want. Everyone in the village has seen this thing on my back. Some of them said that I was reincarnated by an evil spirit, and some said that I was possessed by an evil spirit."

Guachu asked: "Then what is this?"

Wang Ergou said: "I don't know, I have had it since I was a child."

Gua Chu didn't ask any more questions, he put down the burden, unloaded the firewood on the firewood pile, wiped off his sweat, turned his head to look at the corpses lined up next to him, and asked Longchi who was carrying the corpses: "Shall we light the fire now? "

Longchi didn't answer, she looked up at the group of people rushing along the path by the river.The people who came were men, women, young and old, and they were much wealthier than ordinary villagers.Ordinary villagers mostly wear clothes made of burlap or coarse cotton, and those from better-off families wear fine linen or fine cotton.Silk, brocade and forging are only affordable by rich families, but the clothes made of fine cloth are the worst for these people. Many people still wear silk and satin, and they can have a few pieces of gold jewelry. .

Whenever a water bandit dies, such people will come to claim the body. They are all family members of the water bandit.

Most of the water bandits in Bamenzhai are locals, except for a small number of strange people who defected or recruited.Except for the tidal flat village, which guards the treasure land of geomantic omen, the other villages grow crops depending on the sky for food. It is impossible to get rich by growing crops. You can only work hard for a whole year with your face to the loess and your back to the sky. It is not uncommon for people to starve to death in bad years.Relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, as long as you dare to work hard and go to Bamenzhai, even if you are just a small guy, and do a few business deals, you can make the whole family eat and drink without worry.They did well in Bamenzhai, and their families could live a good life along with them, but if they died in the river, their families would go to the corpse beach to find the corpse.

Dazhuzi and Erlangtou from Zhao Village next door also followed.These two are water bandits, and they often bring people to the corpse beach to collect corpses. It was these two who taught Wang Ergou how to gamble.

Dazhuzi came to Longchi and said, "Little Chizi, thank you for your hard work. Too many brothers died in this big business. The higher-ups were worried that you and Er Gouzi would be too busy, so they specially asked our brothers to come over to help. You Just feel free to retrieve the corpses, and leave the rest of the work to our brothers."

Er Hammer looked at the high pile of firewood and asked, "Little Chizi, don't you want to burn the corpse?"

Longchi said lightly: "So many people have died, what if we don't burn them and cause a plague?" She turned around and went to the riverside to drag a mummy that had been dragged to the bank to the pile of corpses, saying, "It's too late to die." I can't even recognize my own mother and I, and the ghosts have eaten their souls." She raised her head, looked at the two of them, and asked, "I told you to bring these corpses back, do you know where to send them? Why don't you just go to the corpse beach?" The house was set on fire, so you can take the ashes back home to save trouble."

Erhaotou snorted with a half-smile, and said, "What you want to burn are the whole corpses with their souls still in them. The Taiping Temple people are still here, so who are you trying to bluff?"

Da Zhuzi turned his head and said Erhamtou: "How do you talk? Is Xiao Chizi like that?"

Guachu stepped forward in two steps, puffed out his chest and stood in front of Longchi, saying: "You Bamenzhai have done a lot of evil, burn your corpses so that you won't cause another disaster."

Erham made a "yo ho" sound, "It sounds like you have a high level of integrity in Taiping Temple, and you are not a group of people who took advantage of the fire to rob and fall into trouble, I pooh!" While speaking, he spit on Gua Chu's chest.

Gua Chu was so angry that his face turned green, and he shouted: "You—"

Er Hammer yelled ferociously: "What me? I tell you, if I'm here, don't even try to burn our brother's body."

Longchi found that Erhamtou was very confident today.She was wondering when she saw the village chief running over in a hurry.On such a hot day, he was out of breath and seemed extremely anxious.

When the village chief saw Longchi, he bent over and took a few breaths, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and then came over covering his mouth.When he came to Longchi's side, he saw that Longchi was covered with dirt from his hair to his clothes. He frowned uncomfortably. Sentence: "Bamenzhai blocks all the entrances and exits of our village, allowing people to enter and not to exit." After finishing speaking, he dropped the sentence: "I'm leaving." He hurried away again.

Longchi's thoughts moved slightly, and he immediately understood.She looked up at the sky calmly, and greeted Gua Chu and Er Gouzi, "I'm hungry, go eat at my place first."

A person claiming the corpse came over, just about to stretch out his hand to hold Longchi, but seeing her dirty body and smelling the stench of her corpse, he withdrew his hand abruptly, and begged instead to let Longchi go into the water to help him retrieve the corpse .

Long Chi turned his head to look at the woman speechlessly, and said, "Auntie, if there are only three or five in the water, I'll catch them for you as soon as I go down. But if you look at the river, there are more than three or five of them floating on the surface of the river." Fifty, floating under the water... You can see for yourself, there are eight hundred if not one thousand, and the bodies are still floating down from the upper reaches."

The aunt was already crying with snot and tears, and when she heard this, she sat down on the ground, patted her thigh, and began to cry: "My poor San'er, God who did evil, I have already lost three of you!" I have a son..."

Long Chi showed no sympathy, and said in his heart: "It's not God who did the crime." A few more claimants came to claim the corpse. Looking at their expressions, Long Chi knew that they wanted her to go into the water again, and she didn't wait for them to speak. Da Zhuzi said: "Da Zhuzi, let me tell you, Zhao Village is downstream from the tidal flat village. With so many corpses piled up here, if there is a plague, the tidal flat village will not fare well, and your Zhao village will not have to run away either." She patted The clothes were stained with corpse fluid and dirt, and he looked indifferent, saying: "Anyway, I grew up beside the corpse beach, and I have long been trained to be invulnerable to evil, and no one can die."

As she patted her clothes vigorously, the people who surrounded them retreated away in fear of getting dirty.

Suddenly, an old lady who is not afraid of getting dirty rushed over, hugged Longchi's leg and began to cry, "Xiaochizi, I beg you, help me find my big man! I'm a widow, and it's been hard. I dragged him up, expecting him to go to the village to earn some money to beg for a wife, but unexpectedly he lost his life, my poor son...you left my mother, how can I make my mother live..."

Longchi's expression froze, and he quickly said, "Ma'am, hey, don't cry, maybe your son is still alive."

The aunt continued to cry loudly: "His boat is sinking... His boat is sinking..." Weeping, she buried her face in Longchi's lap and wiped her tears.

The corner of Longchi's mouth twitched.Her trousers were so dirty that she even disliked them, and this aunt even wiped her nose on them, but she didn't dislike the smell.She flattened her mouth and said, "I don't have a boat yet, and I can live well by jumping in the river all day." She continued to comfort: "Maybe he swam ashore by himself and hid. You think your son is stupid, Qizhong How big is the ghost of Lou, the ghost princess Xiya, the daughter of Da Sui ghost king, had to run away when she saw it in a bronze boat. How could your son do something that killed him, maybe he jumped into the water and escaped early. It’s just Afraid of being investigated in the village, I dare not show up." After she finished speaking, she forcibly pulled her leg out, saying: "If you want to find the corpse, you have to wait until I have enough to eat." She hurriedly called Wang Ergou and Gua Chu to leave.

Seeing that these people were still chasing after her, she hurriedly frightened them: "Hurry me again, be careful when I pick up the corpse." After finishing speaking, she ran away like a gust of wind.

Wang Ergou hurriedly pulled Ba Gua Chu and chased after Longchi.