I want to embrace the moon for nine days

On the hills, under the moonlight, there are few trees, old branches and withered vines, and empty bird nests.

There was originally a temple on the mountain, and it was unknown which mountain god Tuwang was enshrined. The statue was chopped up as firewood and dragged away some time ago.

Not a single bit of the roof beams, thatched doors, windows, or even the threshold is left. Only the four mud walls, which are of little use, are still left in this mountain wilderness.

Six people from Wangjiacun hid in the mud wall, picked up some dead branches, and made a fire. They found a place that could block the wind and keep warm.

Several branches were inserted next to the fire, and rabbit and bird meat were skewered. They were roasted until they were slightly brown, exuding the unique aroma of meat.

Although there is no salt, ginger or garlic, when you eat it, the aroma of the meat will be greatly reduced and mixed with fishy smell, but it is enough to attract the attention of those around the fire.

Wang Qianqian picked up the rabbit meat and tore it open a little. When he saw that the parts near the bones were cooked, he nodded and distributed it to several children.

She is in her early twenties and is already the oldest among the six. The other five, four boys and one girl, are all under the age of thirteen.

After receiving the rabbit meat, several children ate it in a hurry. While they were not satisfied with the heat, they blew air and chewed harder. They were really hungry. The thin bones were slowly bitten into pieces and swallowed by their efforts. .

Wang Xiangqian saw that they had almost eaten, and divided the bird meat among them.

The girl took a bird wing and hesitated: "Sister, won't you eat it?"

As soon as she spoke, several boys came back to their senses and looked at Wang Qianqian.

Wang Qianqian shook his head: "I ate a snake, drank rabbit blood, and a few bird eggs. That's enough. You can eat it."

Wang Xiangqian did not lie. Several children depended on her to survive, and she would never let herself go hungry.

Moreover, if children eat things like rabbit blood and snake meat, they are likely to get sick, but if she eats it, except that the taste is unacceptable, it is no different from eating a meal of mutton.

The cold and strange-smelling snake blood, snake meat, snake bones, and the juice extracted from leaves and grass will turn into strength when eaten.

"After you finish eating, while your stomach is just getting warm, go to bed quickly."

Wang Xiangqian warned, "We will set off at dawn tomorrow and try to reach the city before dark."

The children were very well-behaved, but also very tired. After eating, they wrapped themselves in clothes, curled up by the fire and fell asleep.

Wang moved the fire forward to prevent them from being burned by the fire, then sat on the side and closed his eyes.

Crack!

The dry branches burned, and the firelight reflected her face. Even the ugly centipede-like scars on her face became less conspicuous, giving off a somewhat peaceful feeling.

Because she was so beautiful when she was a child, and her family loved her so much, not only did she not think of selling her for money when she fled, but she was also afraid that she would cause trouble, so she gritted her teeth and scratched her face.

As people grew up, the scars became lighter, but also became thicker. Some were connected from the corner of the mouth to the forehead, some were across the bridge of the nose, and some were connected from the cheek to the side of the ear.

The skin and flesh at the scar were stretched tighter than the rest of her face, which also caused her facial features to grow abnormally, making her expression, speech or smile look particularly ugly.

But after moving to Wangjia Village, many elders in the village also had various scars on their bodies. She blended in without being very conspicuous, and lived a stable life for several years.

Unfortunately, Wangjiacun is gone now.

Crack! !

A scar inside the branch was burned and cracked, making a very obvious sound.

Wang Qianqian suddenly opened his eyes and looked out the door.

She seemed to hear the sound of wild animals jumping, which was quite heavy.

Wild dog? Wild wolf? There won't be any tigers, right?

Wang Xiangqian became vigilant, quietly woke up several children, asked them to gather together and hide in the corner, then took out some burning branches from the fire and threw them out the door.

In the light of the fire, something did move past in the low trees outside the door.

Wang Xiangqian became even more nervous and asked each of the children to pick up a branch while he clenched his fists.

After a while, there was no movement outside, and there was only the smell of burning trees in the air.

Wang Qianqian frowned more and more, and suddenly looked back.

This ruined temple has no roof, and the children are hiding in the corner. On top of the dim wall, a half-crouching black figure is swooping down.

"roll!!!"

Wang Qianqian's fist hit the black shadow hard.

The black shadow flew more than ten feet high. Before it landed, Wang Qianqian had already jumped onto the wall. When the black shadow reached the height of the wall, he punched it out again.

The black shadow flew across and hit the earthen wall where the doorway was opened, knocking down the top of the wall and causing dust to fly. When it fell, it hit the burning firewood directly.

The flames were stamped out by two feet, and the black shadow roared.

That was actually a person.

But this man only had some pieces of cloth hanging on his body that were almost in ruins. His skin was blue and black, covered with wrinkles like bark, and had a weird hard feeling.

From his face to his body, he was extremely skinny, his facial features were all skinny, his teeth were exposed, his head was bald, and only some sparse white hair remained on the back of his head.

"Living corpse?!"

Several children screamed, and Wang Qianqian's heart was beating wildly. He jumped down from the wall and stood in front of the children.

Although she hit the living corpse twice, her fists still hurt slightly, as if they were hit on solid blue rock.

This kind of living corpse is at least five or six years old, and ordinary hand crossbows cannot penetrate his flesh.

Moreover, this kind of living corpse is very vengeful, with a flexible body and a keen sense of smell. If it encounters a living person who has resisted it, it will definitely pursue it to the death.

To a certain extent, even if you encounter a tiger, it is better than encountering this kind of living corpse.

After the living corpse roared, it pounced on him again. Just now, he pounced from the sky and was caught off guard, and was hit in the chest by the king.

This time he pounced with his feet on the ground, as fast as a tiger or leopard, with his arms clasped in front of his chest, and his nails were as black as iron pieces, and he grabbed Wang forward.

Wang leaned forward suddenly, kicked high, and kicked the living corpse's chin with his heel.

The legs were longer than the hands. Before the living corpse could catch anyone, it was kicked and fell out.

However, the force of his attack was too great. After Wang kicked him forward, he became unsteady and staggered several steps.

"Run!"

Wang stomped forward and hit an earth wall sideways. The entire earth wall shook and collapsed.

Several children ran as hard as they could, but before they got four or five feet away, they screamed again and smashed the burning branches in their hands.

In the sparse forest, there were actually more than a dozen living corpses, and they were also surrounding here.

Even if a burning branch hits their faces, it will be of no use.

When Wang Xiangqian saw this scene, his heart dropped.

But something strange happened. When the dozen or so living corpses rushed towards us, a violent wind suddenly sounded in the forest.

Woo! ! !

The violent wind caught the moment when the feet of the living corpses left the ground, and actually sucked them into the forest. What's even more strange is that it can suck these living corpses back when they pounce forward. Such a strong suction force has no impact on Wang Qianqian and the others who are not far away from the living corpses.

"After running so far, I finally saw some people..."

Under the moonlight, Su Hanshan's robes were fluttering. He stood on the branch and saw clearly the "people" he had sucked over. The words in his mouth couldn't help but get stuck.

He quickly turned his swallowing into vomiting, turned his palm, and the vortex-like energy turned into a thick wall of Gang Feng Qi, which he suppressed.

Boom! !

These living corpses in mid-air were dancing and dancing before they were smashed into the ground by him, and most of their bodies were buried in the ground.

"What the hell? Zombies don't look as unique as you."

As Su Hanshan spoke, he looked forward and pointed.

In the ruined temple, the living corpse that had just gotten up was penetrated by a flash of ice-blue energy through its head. It shook its head and continued to pounce forward.

Well, destroying your brain is useless?

Wang Xiangqian recovered from the shock, saw the scene behind him, and shouted: "The whole head must be cut off."

Before he finished speaking, another blast of icy blue energy shot through and severed the neck of the living corpse.

The incision was frozen, like a bright mirror.

After the head rolled down, the headless living corpse jumped and fell down.

Seeing that it was indeed effective, Su Hanshan followed the same method and killed all the living corpses he had just smashed into the ground.

Wang Qianqian was stunned. He didn't expect that these living corpses, which made people angry, would be easier to kill than the chickens and ducks waiting to be slaughtered in front of the man in white who suddenly appeared.

Almost in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen living corpses of a certain age were completely dead.

When Su Hanshan flew down in front of her, Wang Xiangqian led the children to kneel down.

"Thank you, thank you so much for saving my life!!"

"stand up."

Su Hanshan raised his hand, and the surging air made Wang Qianqian and others stand up straight, and said, "My name is Su Hanshan, and I just happened to be passing by. What are your names, and what are these monsters about?"

Wang reported his name to Xiangqian and said: "These living corpses must have been hiding nearby. Maybe there are no living people in the surrounding villages, so they went dormant. We didn't expect to encounter them."

Su Hanshan looked solemn and had some thoughts in his heart.

He originally thought that these monsters were something like poisonous zombies, specially concocted by some martial arts sect.

In that case, the number shouldn't be too much.

However, looking at the way Wang Xiangqian looked, he seemed to think that this kind of thing was very common and common.

At most, they treat them like tigers, leopards and wild wolves, and don't think it's so strange that these things can still move after their heads have been pierced.

Su Hanshan said: "Then what should be done with these living corpses after they are killed?"

Wang Qianqian looked a little confused: "How...to deal with it?"

"I have frozen their wounds now, but if I leave them here and leave them alone, won't the poisonous blood and poisonous gas be released after the ice melts?"

Su Hanshan said, "You seem to be familiar with these things. How did you deal with them before?"

Wang Qianqian said puzzledly: "Just throw it there. Although living corpses are scary, after cutting off their heads, the corpses left behind are similar to wood and stones. There is no special toxicity. They are not even like chickens, ducks, or live corpses." Human corpses are prone to decay."

"When they rot, it's like wood rotting."

If human corpses are not buried, plague may occur after they rot.

But the corpses of these living corpses rot very slowly even in summer and will not breed plague.

Su Hanshan was full of questions and didn't want to talk bit by bit.

After he swept the living corpse out of the ruined temple, he took Wang Qianqian and others back to reunite with the fire.

By the firelight, Su Hanshan simply said that he hit his head two days ago and seemed to have lost part of his memory. He did not understand many things nowadays and wanted to ask Wang Qianqian to teach him.

This excuse is really perfunctory in the extreme.

Wang Xiangqian was dubious, but the other party saved her and the children and just wanted her to talk about common sense at the moment, and there was no reason to refuse.

She carefully organized her thoughts and started explaining.

Let’s talk about history first. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were unified by the Xuan Dynasty. After the death of the Second Dynasty, the Xiaohan Dynasty took over. It was divided into two parts, the East and the West, for a total of 500 years. Then the Three Kingdoms stood in triplicate, and evolved into the coexistence of the Han and Hu countries. After the chaos among the countries, , the nine states in the world were unified by the Kaihuang Dynasty, but it only lasted two generations before reaching the Wude Dynasty.

She explained this paragraph very roughly. She probably didn't learn it in detail, but it was just passed down through word of mouth among the people.

During the three hundred years of the Takeru Dynasty, the current situation was turbulent and the world was in chaos.

The emperor existed in name only, and the governors from various places all had the ambition to become kings and emperors, and they attacked each other and annexed territories.

But at this time, living corpses appeared in the world.

As if overnight, many people lost their body temperature and heartbeat, lost their minds, and attacked and bit others crazily.

No one knows how many people turned into living corpses at that time.

However, most of those arrogant and arrogant Jiedu envoys and the unscrupulous troops under their command quickly collapsed when faced with living corpses.

Civil officials died or fled, the army was torn apart, and complete authority in one place could no longer be maintained.

But fortunately, these living corpses have no ability to infect others, they just need to be treated as a large number of wild beasts.

People finally adapted to the existence of living corpses, reunited their teams, and occupied territory.

But on the winter solstice of the next year, another group of people turned into living corpses.

I don’t know how many years passed before people came up with some rules.

On the winter solstice every year, you must not fall asleep within twelve hours.

If you fall asleep, there is a high chance of turning into a living corpse. If you don't fall asleep, there is almost no chance of turning into a living corpse.

In this way, people gradually resumed their lives, killing the living corpses and expelling them from the large cities.

It has been about forty or fifty years since the emergence of living corpses, and the number of new living corpses added every year has been very few.

However, the world is still in troubled times, and no one can rebuild the dynasty in such a world.

Some people dare to call themselves kings as long as they occupy a city, and no matter how weak they are, they dare to call themselves generals.

Even a country man like Wang Xiangqian had met many princes because of his early refugee experience.

(End of this chapter)