Evil Spirit Book

The hand was raised, the knife fell, and a head flew out with black hair.

The thing had no blood, only a bare, broken neck, and its body slipped into the water in an instant.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and my brain was like beating a drum. There was only one thought: Damn, I'm possessed, the ninja spirit is possessed.

No, he is better than holding back the turtle, and I even felt a throbbing pain in my neck.

The little yellow dog heaved a long sigh of relief after chopping off his long tongue, and the bamboo knife in his hand fell to the bamboo raft, obviously exhausted, with sweat all over his forehead.I felt like crying, and asked the uncle beside me: "Can I still bully him in the future? What if he cuts me off?"

The uncle breathed a sigh of relief, his face obviously relaxed, he patted my waist, and said: "Don't be afraid, I will bully you as usual, and uncle will support you."

I looked at my uncle's old arms and legs, and suddenly felt like weeping... rely on you?unreliable.

The little yellow dog took a breather before walking to the stern of the boat. It was obviously in the same posture, but I suddenly felt like a hero. I couldn't help gesturing to his previous posture of chopping off his tongue, and asked, "What is this?" , How did you practice this?"

The little yellow dog pursed his lips, and said with a secretive expression: "Want to know?"

think!If I know how to do this, it will be so cool.Hastily nodded.

The little yellow dog said: "In the past, you can't use carbon or gas for the medicinal bath water, you can only use firewood, which is all made by chopping firewood. If you want to learn, there are more than ten trees in Master's backyard. You can take them one by one. Chop, I'll give you pointers by the side."

I thought about it, and said sincerely: "Forget it, it's a harmonious society now, it's not good to fight like this." The little yellow dog rolled his eyes, snorted coldly, and scooped it up in the water. The bamboo that was broken by a third was a little short, but it was barely usable.

In view of the fact that the little yellow dog's paws were really unsafe, Bada stuffed the bread into his mouth, patted the crumbs on his hands and took over the work of the paws. The flying head did not know why For some reason, his face was floating with the current, but he didn't intend to sink.

When the bamboo raft passed the edge of the head, I remembered what my uncle said earlier, and couldn't help asking: "Uncle, do you know this thing?"

"Hmm." The uncle nodded, and said, "Didn't you say that you saw the witch at the Spring Festival in the stone room below? This is it?"

I didn't understand what Uncle meant for a while, so I tilted my head and stared at him.

The uncle was so angry that he scolded me for being an idiot, and then explained: "The image of this thing is very similar to the legendary 'witch corpse'. The idea is that it is the corpse of the corpse, not the teacher of the master. This kind of thing is relatively rare. There are no relevant legends in the folk, and most of them are recorded in some unpopular unofficial histories. I once read an unofficial history, which recorded such a sentence."

"...There is a witch, whose corpse is like a living person, filled with pills, sick and plagued, old and immortal?"

I was confused, and when my uncle finished speaking, I asked, "What do you mean?"

Uncle knew that I was the last one in liberal arts since I was a child. Except for medical books, I couldn't understand the rest of the old sayings. It will not rot or rot for a hundred years, just like a living person, after a long time, a pill-shaped thing will gather in the body, this thing can cure all diseases, eliminate disasters, ward off evil spirits, and make people look young."

Listening to my uncle's translation, I said abruptly, "That's not right... Is this the effect of the Stone of Agelessness?" It doesn't refer to any stone at all, but 'immortal corpse', referring to the thing inside this long tongue?

I think this is a bit unscientific, and it took me a long time to spit out a few words: "Impossible? How could the corpse be like this?"

The uncle obviously understood our thoughts, he frowned, and explained: "This thing may be real." After a pause, the uncle was probably trying to organize his words, and after thinking for a while, he finally explained to us.

In ancient times, witches were equivalent to doctors, but they were different from ordinary doctors, just like us, we only saw a doctor and did not involve some ghosts and gods, but witches, in fact, were a combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Taoist medicine. They were said to be able to In addition, the pharmacopoeia at that time was far less complete than it is now. Wu would often take medicine by himself, and even at that time, he would also take a lot of minerals such as cinnabar and mica.

In fact, the process of this witch taking medicine is very similar to the Taoist alchemy that evolved later, adding herbs, and finally combining gold and stones to make the medicine coagulate. Therefore, it is not impossible if there is a medicine pill in the corpse.

Uncle’s words reminded me of a news report I once saw: It was said that there was a sorceress in Jiangxi, the kind that is common among the people to beat ghosts and cure diseases. Now most people regard them as magic sticks. Traditional Chinese medicine does not belong to Daoist medicine either. Strictly speaking, it should belong to the lost witch doctor.It's just that the witch doctor has been handed down to this day, incomplete, and has long been fragmented. Most of the people who inherited it only knew superficially. In today's society, they are naturally regarded as magic sticks.

It is said that the old witch lived seventy-four years old, and died at the age of 74. When she died, she ordered her family not to bury him, so they put his body in the room where she lived before. The dead body has been kept at home for ten years. It does not smell, rot, rot, or change color, but it is stiff. The rest of it is like a living person, and the skin feels like metal.

Following the instructions of the witch, the family members originally did not plan to bury her. Later, people in the same village found out about it and thought it was too appalling, so they reported it to the local government and were forced to cremate her.

Before cremation, in order to understand the mystery of why the corpse is not rotten, and even the smell is not there, some experts conducted a special research. The extracted skin content showed that the old man's skin, muscles and bones contained a lot of metal substances, many The substance can't even tell what it is, and there is only one substance that can prove it: cinnabar.

After questioning, I found out that this sorceress had been taking cinnabar for ten years.

I think this is probably also an ancient tradition of witch doctors, that is, the healers themselves have to test the medicine.

Once the two are combined, the medicine pill may really exist in the body of the woman with the long tongue.It accumulates the medicines that the 'Witch Corpse' took during his lifetime, and condenses them into a pill. Although it may not be able to cure all diseases, there may be no problem with general minor diseases.

As for immortality, this may be a bit of an exaggeration. The so-called immortality is probably the immortality of the corpse with the medicine pill, so it was handed down, and it was gradually misrepresented as the "immortal stone" from the "immortal corpse", which harmed the descendants. Thought, the stone of youth is a stone.

Immediately, I just wanted to say three words: cheating!

Uncle said this, and my heart moved. I remembered the action of the little yellow dog chopping up the 'Witch Corpse' just now. Although the coefficient of difficulty is very high, with Ghost Chen's skill, it should be possible to kill the 'Witch Corpse'. Why did the ghost Chen didn't kill it?

I had a guess in my mind, but I needed someone to prove it, so I asked the thin man: "You and my brother were entangled by witch corpses, what was the specific process, and how did you get out of trouble?"

The skinny man probably doesn't understand why I'm asking this question, but my uncle's theory just now revealed his profound knowledge and arrogance, which made him feel reverent, so he looked at me differently, and replied honestly: " I don’t have any impression of it, one is the small environment, and the other is that the lighting is not good, Brother Chen told us to run first, and he was behind, we ran away for a while before he caught up.”

I thought about it and asked, "How long have you escaped?"

The thin man gave me a weird look, apparently not knowing why I asked so carefully, he recalled a moment, and said, "About 10 minutes."

I didn't continue to ask, but the guess in my heart became more obvious.

For 10 minutes, that is to say, during those 10 minutes, the ghost Chen has been fighting the witch corpse?This is obviously impossible, even if it is because of the narrow water hole, with the skill of the ghost Chen, it will not take 10 minutes to deal with the witch corpse. There are some scratches on the body, but there is no major loss. Even the ghost Chen thinks that except for the clothes, it is almost intact.

In other words, it was impossible for this witch corpse to pose a threat to him from the very beginning.

But that kid, he pretended to be tough and sent us all away, what the hell did he do in those 10 minutes?

There is only one thought in my mind, he is digging for medicine pills!

In order to prove this idea, I proposed to salvage the corpse of the witch corpse. Since it is inconvenient to say these words in front of Bada and the thin man, I said: "It seems that the so-called stone of immortality should be the medicine pill in the corpse. The three of us are terminally ill now, we have reached this point, we might as well give it a try."

The thin man said, "You mean?" He obviously thought as I did. After knowing that the pill inside the witch's body was the so-called stone of youth, he was obviously moved.I nodded, and the skinny man said, "That's good!" Regardless of the injury on his leg, he gestured to Bada, indicating to go into the water to retrieve the corpse.

Both of them grew up by the water, and their water skills are better than ours, so we don't have to compete to do it. Besides, I don't want to do it, because if my guess is true, then the medicine pill , is likely to have been poached by the ghost Chen.

The uncle gave an order, saying that if the medicine pill really exists, it must be in the stomach of the corpse, and its shape should be something like bezoar.

The two nodded and plunged into the water.

As soon as the two left, my uncle and I spoke almost at the same time.

After a pause, I said, "Uncle, tell me first."