A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 764: Deadlock! (Please order in full!)

Everyone heard that Pan Jinlian's grave had been stolen and her body was missing. Although they felt a little incredible, except for Wu Dalang, they didn't take it to heart. Wu Song even said two words coldly: "Retribution!"

Hua Twelve didn't take it seriously and was about to let his team continue to leave, but the policeman said solemnly:

"General Lin, this matter is a bit strange, otherwise you should go take a look!"

Hua Twelve felt that there was something in the officer's words, so he asked: "Is there something weird? What's weird?"

"This"

The messenger looked at the Imperial Guards soldiers around him and whispered:

"General, this matter is really unbelievable. If you say it out loud, it may cause panic. However, I have been a head catcher in Yanggu County for 20 years. This is the second time I have encountered this situation. You'd better go and see it for yourself. I'll do it again. Let’s talk to you in detail!”

Wu Song said from the side: "General, this is Zhang, the head of the county, who has a stable character. When he said this, something strange must have happened!"

Hua Twelve pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "That's fine, anyway, I won't miss this moment, so I'll go and have a look!"

Immediately, he asked the team to stand by and took Lu Da, Yang Zhi, Yue Fei, Wu Song, and Wu Dalang, and ordered another hundred people to follow the head catcher to the random graveyard on the outskirts of Yanggu County.

Hua Twelve was confused by Zhang Captou's sudden appearance. He frowned slightly and asked:

"Why is Zhang Captou doing this? If you have any unkindness, please tell me directly. If it's for the people, I will do my best. If I, the general, can't do it, then it's useless for you to do this!"

"There are footprints every three feet, all the way south. This morning, I took a few brothers to check along the way. The section ahead is a tributary of the Yellow River, and the footprints are no longer there."

He led everyone three feet southward, and another three-inch golden lotus with two legs side by side appeared on the ground:

When Zhang Captou said this, he looked at the faces of Hua Twelve and others and saw nothing unusual, then said: "It's like he jumped out of the grave."

Zhang Liang nodded: "This is something I can't figure out, but it's not weird. The weird thing I'm talking about is the fourth person's footprints."

"That time, an old beggar man in the county, named Liu Laoshi, was wrongfully accused of stealing money. Because he was a beggar, the onlookers accused him of stealing it. No one believed him, including the old man. He was a fiery man, and when he couldn't explain it clearly, he was so angry that he ran into the street and died!"

After he finished speaking, he clasped his hands and knelt down on one knee, as if he wouldn't get up if you didn't agree.

Zhang Captou pointed to a few footprints on the grave and said:

Wu Dalang's eyes widened at this moment and he said tremblingly: "These are Jinlian's footprints. I recognize them. These are Jinlian's footprints."

"Before he died, he also said that he was unjustly accused. If he can't prove his innocence while alive, then he must seek justice after death!"

Hua Twelve also felt a little strange at this time, and said in surprise: "Pan's tomb looks like a thin burial at first glance. How can it attract so many people?"

"The weirdest one is this footprint. The other three footprints are all foreign, and this footprint seems to be..."

Zhang Captor continued: "Okay, didn't the villain say before that I have been a captor for twenty years, and this is the second time I have encountered this situation? It was because of such a weird thing, as early as more than ten years ago, I've encountered this once too."

Zhang Captou pointed to the other three footprints and said: "Those three people's footprints, two of them went eastward to unknown places, one of them walked towards the county town with messy steps, as if he was drunk, and as for this woman's footprints"

When they arrived at the place, Zhang Captou told Hua Twelve to protect the scene and asked the soldiers not to get close yet. He only led a few people to the cemetery. When he got closer, he saw that the new grave that had just been buried yesterday had been dug up.

Wu Song was grateful for Hua Twelve's kindness to his family and didn't want to embarrass him. He came up and pulled Zhang Cap's head up with one hand:

"Old Zhang, if you have anything to do, just say it, why bother doing this!"

"I was just buried yesterday. According to the custom here, the soil around the grave should be compacted and leveled. No footprints should be left. The footprints that appear now are obviously left last night. I looked carefully and there are four in total. Personal footprints, two of which are very shallow, like a martial artist who knows how to lighten one's body in martial arts. Among these two footprints, one of them has a deep and one shallow footprint, which means he is lame. The third footprint is from when he went to the tomb. people."

As he spoke, he pointed with his hand. There was a small footprint next to the grave. The two feet were side by side, which was a woman's three-inch golden lotus.

After Zhang Captou finished speaking, he said worriedly to Hua Twelve: "General, this matter is very strange and dangerous. I have an unmerciful request. Please accept it, General!"

Zhang Captou had a wry smile on his face: "It's the villain who was rude. This matter really made me lose my sense of proportion!"

Wu Song said impatiently: "If you have anything to do, you should tell me quickly!"

Everyone was attracted by what Zhang Captou said, and Luda even asked anxiously: "What happened after that?"

Zhang Captou sighed: "It was getting late at that time, so I parked the body in the yizhuang, planning to bury it the next day, but the body was picked up that night."

When he talked about this, his voice trembled involuntarily. Yue Fei was young, and when he heard such mysterious things, he couldn't help but let out an "Ah" sound.

Lu Zhishen gave Yue Fei an angry look: "You boy, the Sa family wasn't scared at first, but they were frightened by your scream!"

Everyone couldn't help laughing, and the creepy atmosphere they had just heard from the ghost story dissipated instantly.

Zhang Captou continued: "Liu Laoshi left such footprints. Later, I heard people say that after the corpse is lifted up, it becomes a zombie. Its legs are stiff and cannot bend. When moving, it can only jump forward. Liu Laoshi's footprints are Just like Pan Jinlian today, only one step is not as far as three feet, only two or three feet!"

When Yue Feizheng was a young man, he was the kind of person who was addicted to food when he heard this kind of story. He hurriedly asked: "What happened to the old man?"

Zhang Captou recalled: "On that day, there was a farmhouse in the county. All the chickens and ducks they raised died overnight. When they saw the marks of being bitten on the chicken and duck carcasses, they suspected that the neighbor's dogs had bitten them. The neighbor didn't recognize it, so the two sides struggled with each other. When someone called the police, a few of us rushed over and found that all the blood in the chickens and ducks was gone."

As he was talking, he heard footsteps in the distance. It was the sound of someone running quickly. Everyone looked at the sound and saw a man dressed as a police officer coming towards this direction. When they saw it, everyone looked Then he shouted:

"Something happened to Zhang Tou. Zhang Tou. is dead."

Hua Twelve couldn't help laughing. Others were puzzled. Only Zhang Captou's face turned dark:

"Nothing happened to me. I'm very fine. Even if you die, I won't die."

As soon as the man came up to him, he was scolded by Zhang Tou. He immediately said aggrievedly: "I didn't say anything about you. It was Zhang Tou, your brother and sister-in-law, who came to find you and told you that something was wrong. They said that all the ducks and geese raised by your brother's family were all gone." They are dead, and they asked you to go over and make decisions for them." Everyone was startled when they heard this, it couldn't be such a coincidence, right?

Hua Twelve looked at Zhang Captou with suspicion, wondering if this guy was playing him.

Zhang Captou naturally saw what everyone was thinking: "I dare to swear to God that I will never deceive you. Why don't you just follow me and take a look!"

Something happened at his brother-in-law's house, so he was naturally anxious. After asking Hua Twelve for instructions, he rushed to his brother-in-law's house in a hurry.

Zhang Daotou's brother and sister-in-law's home is on the east side of Yanggu County. There is a stream in front of the door. They raise some ducks and geese. When I woke up this morning, I didn't see the ducks and geese. I thought they went to play in the stream to hunt for food, so I didn't take it to heart. But Someone who went to cut firewood came down from the stream and told them that there were many carcasses of ducks and geese downstream, which seemed to belong to their family.

Zhang Captou's brother and sister-in-law hurried over to check, and when they saw that it was indeed their own ducks and geese, they were immediately furious. They thought it was someone's jealousy that let their dog bite them, so they ran to the county government to ask their brothers to make the decision.

When everyone arrived at the home of Zhang Baotou's brother and sister-in-law, they learned about the situation. Hua Twelve asked, "Why do you think it was a dog bite?"

Brother Zhang Captou took out a big goose carcass and said, "Look, there are two fang holes on it!"

Everyone looked over and saw two dried blood holes on the goose's neck, which looked very much like the bites of two canine teeth of a dog.

Zhang Captou's expression changed, he pointed at the wound and said, "General Lin, look, this wound is black, it was obviously bitten by that thing!"

Everyone looked over and saw that the two blood holes were somewhat black.

Zhang Captou quickly asked his elder brother to gather the killed ducks and geese together. Hua Twelve stepped forward to check them one by one, and saw that they all seemed to have been drained of blood and died. He thought to himself, could it be that Pan Jinlian was really Is it possible to become a zombie?

Zhang Captou piled the carcasses of ducks and geese together, got some firewood, and was about to light a fire, but his brother and sister-in-law stopped him and said:

"Brother, what are you doing? These are meat, and they can be sold!"

Zhang Captou glared at his elder brother: "Brother, do you still remember Liu Laoshi, the one who always begged for food at the corner of County Government Street more than ten years ago?"

When he mentioned this, he immediately remembered what happened back then, and his hand that grabbed the goose body instantly let go: "Brother, do you think it was bitten by that thing?"

Zhang Liang nodded: "It's true, but you must not spread this matter to the outside world, otherwise it will frighten the neighbors. If it causes trouble, and the county magistrate is responsible for it, I can't protect you!"

His eldest brother was stunned for a moment and nodded repeatedly: "I know, I know!" But he didn't dare to stop him. His mother-in-law tried to stop him, but she was scolded by him.

After Zhang Captou lit the fire, he took another spoonful of rapeseed oil and poured it on, adding fuel to the fire, making the fire more and more intense. When the corpses of the ducks and geese were burned by the flames, there was an extremely smelly smell. The smell, accompanied by black smoke, emerged from the flames, causing everyone to subconsciously take a few steps back.

At this time, everyone believed that these ducks and geese had died strangely. They looked like they had just died, but the smell of being burned by fire could not be explained at all.

Hua Twelve asked what Zhang Captou had not finished talking about just now: "How did you deal with the zombies more than ten years ago?"

Zhang Captou said with lingering fear: "We didn't know what was causing trouble at the time. We just thought it was some kind of wild beast. Some people even bought the chickens and ducks that had been bitten to death at a cheap price and took them back to eat!"

"The next night, many large animals were killed again. The county magistrate at that time even organized the young men to go hunting to see if they could clear away the wild beasts nearby!"

"On the third night, those who ate the dead chickens and ducks all fell ill. Their eyes were black, their cheeks were sunken, and they had more air coming out and less air coming in. Fortunately, a Taoist priest traveled here and passed by our Yanggu County. I saw something was wrong."

"The Taoist leader inquired about what happened and concluded that the chickens, ducks, and livestock were bitten to death by zombies sucking their blood, so these chickens, ducks, and livestock were all covered with corpse poison. The people who ate these chickens, ducks, and livestock also... If you are infected with corpse poison and are not treated in time, you will turn into a zombie and harm others!"

Zhang Captou sighed: "At that time, our county magistrate did not believe in ghosts and gods, so he denounced the Taoist priest as a deceiver who talked nonsense just to defraud people of money, so he ordered people to drive him out!"

"As a result, those who ate chicken and duck that night turned into corpses!"

"At that time, we had more than a dozen policemen, and ten of them died one night, including the headman. Fortunately, the Taoist leader was not really gone during the day. When he saw the zombies causing trouble, he quickly came out to slay the demons. This saved us!"

Zhang Captou still looked frightened when he thought about what happened back then.

Yue Fei was young and couldn't hold his breath, so he asked again: "I think the Taoist priest has some skills, but can he get rid of those zombies?"

Zhang Captou smiled bitterly and said: "It's okay to say that those who just turned into corpses were suppressed by the Taoist priest, but the old beggar Liu Laoshi, after sucking enough blood, shining the moonlight, and sucking human blood, has become Because of the bad weather, the Taoist priest had no choice but to force him into a wild mountain, and asked the county magistrate to find Xiang Yong to set fire to the mountain. The fire burned for seven days and seven nights. No one has seen Liu Laoshi since then, nor has he The zombies are causing trouble and should be burned to death in the mountains!"

He pointed toward the southwest as he spoke: "The barren mountain over there is the same mountain back then!"

After Zhang Captou finished speaking, he said to Hua Twelve: "Now only the general can save the people of Yanggu. Please also ask the general to send your men to search nearby and find the zombie as soon as possible before it becomes a threat. , burn it as soon as possible, otherwise the zombies will become more harmful with each passing day."

When Hua Twelve heard that Zhang Captou said that he had noses and eyes, and was well-founded, he immediately did not hesitate and ordered Yang Zhi, Lu Da, Wu Song, and Yue Fei to order a hundred troops each to search in a direction.

He also brought a hundred imperial soldiers with him to search due south, and agreed that if anything abnormal was found, they would use the sounding arrow as a signal.

In addition, Hua Twelve also gave Zhang Captou an order to quickly find capable Taoist priests and monks nearby.

To deal with zombies, you have to be a Taoist practitioner, and they are professionals. If you really want to find an expert like Mao Xiaofang, you won't have anything to do with them. They can handle it by themselves, so that's a lot less worry.

Everyone agreed with a loud voice, and rushed back to gather their troops and start a search around Yanggu County.

But after searching for a whole day, there was no trace. Zhang Captou invited two Taoist priests from the Jingyanggang Shangshan Temple. They were said to be able to exorcise ghosts and catch demons, but nothing unusual was found.

It was like this for two days in a row. Just when everyone thought it was a false alarm, a trader came from the south. News came from the south that there was an unknown evil in Qinghe County in the south, and more than a dozen families died in two nights.

(End of this chapter)