The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 344

Just when I was confused by Tianran, while stirring the fish in the pot, he said: "You went out last night, you should have discovered that there is no living person here."

I didn't expect that he would take the initiative to bring up this topic, and he was so blunt. I was a little surprised, but immediately nodded and said: "Not only are there no living people, but there seem to be dead people everywhere. Yesterday we went the wrong way and broke into that hall , On the beam outside the window of the main hall, there was actually a frozen and hard body hanging... Also, there was a female corpse lying upstairs, but at dawn, for some reason, it suddenly fell into place. Gone."

Naturally, he didn't react at all to what I said, and seemed very calm, as if he had guessed the situation a long time ago.

He said: "The burial custom here is to hang the corpse. After death, people will be hung on the outer beams. They can't go up to the sky or down to the ground."

Drowning?
The corpse that we pulled up together is actually a corpse that has been 'buried'?Having said that, isn't there dead people hanging on the outer beams of every household?My god, I feel horrified just thinking about it.

I said: "I know about sky burial, water burial, cremation, earth burial, hanging coffin burial, and this is the first time I've heard of hanging corpse burial... Isn't it disrespectful to the corpse when you hang it naked like this? Think about it, How uncomfortable it is to be watched and strangled after death.”

Tianrandai didn't answer my question, but said, "How much do you know about hibiscus wood?"

I don't know why he suddenly asked this, but I still told the information I know.

Hibiscus wood, according to legend, came out of chaos, is the habitat of the sun and the moon, the place where time alternates, and the place where the golden crow circulates. It is located in "Tanggu". The starting and ending point of Fusang, therefore Fusang, also represents time.

Then, there was a short period between heaven and earth, where natural disasters occurred frequently, floods flooded, the earth burst open, and people, animals, birds and fish found it difficult to survive.Then, a divine phoenix came out of Tanggu with a tree in its mouth.What the divine phoenix holds in its mouth is a branch of the hibiscus tree. When the branch falls to the ground, it grows into a giant tree. The mountains, rivers, and rare and exotic animals on the tree form a world of its own.As a result, people, animals, birds and insects around migrated to live on this big tree one after another, calling this tree "Little Fusang in the World", and calling the people on the small Fusang "people in the tree".

These are all Zhou Xuanye told me when he was in the secret way of Yumen.

After all, the small hibiscus tree is just a branch, and it cannot live and die like the real hibiscus tree. Therefore, after the small hibiscus tree existed for an unknown period of time, it finally withered and collapsed, and the scattered debris was the hibiscus branch. The ability to draw demons and fight ghosts is very powerful.

After I finished speaking, Tianran said indifferently: "Then do you know what happened to the people in the tree after the small hibiscus tree collapsed?"

I thought about it, and said, "Maybe they are all dead? Could it be...are they still alive?"

The corners of Tianrandai's mouth suddenly turned up, showing a fleeting smile, which surprised me. To be honest, this kid is young, but he gives people a very calm and sophisticated feeling. On him, You can hardly feel the mood swings, so his smile, even though it was just a moment, was enough to surprise me.

In the next second, Naturally speaking at a very slow speed, he said flatly: "Some people survived. They collected some wreckage of hibiscus trees and lived in seclusion in a place far away from human habitation."

A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind: "You said, which part of the people are... from your little Fusang?" Tian Tiandai did not answer, but said to himself: "Everything here is made of It was built from the remains of hibiscus wood."

Although I am not a person with outstanding intelligence, I am not really stupid. When he said this, I thought of the shadow that looked like a "beautiful snake" that appeared in the small building last night, and I immediately understood it. This building complex is built with small hibiscus wood. When we entered this building complex, the fox fairy probably had a hard time, but it was still able to hold on at that time, so we only saw it occasionally. Shadow, mistaking it for a beautiful snake.

And there might be something powerful in that tower, which forced the fox fairy out.

"In my imagination, I thought that this kind of treasure must be a very small branch. I didn't expect that the whole building complex is made of hibiscus wood. It's amazing. You have lived here for generations?"

Naturally staring at me slightly sideways, I don't know why, although he has no expression on his face at the moment, but from his pair of black eyes, I seem to see a very special emotion.

This emotion was only for a moment, so fast that I almost thought it was just my hallucination, and I didn't even have time to taste what his eyes meant,

"Shi, Shi, Dai, Dai." He looked at me, chewed these four words slowly in a very slow voice, and after a while, he said slowly: "After eating, you go." This sentence The words announced the end of the conversation. It was really endless. I was a little confused, and couldn't help asking: "Can you stop talking halfway, you haven't told me yet, why did you say it just now, leave here and you will die?"

Naturally, he stirred the fish in the pot, started to fill the soup with a simple jade bowl, and said without looking back, "The reason, I told you just now."

I was going crazy, pulled my hair, and thought to myself when did you tell me?Talking here and there, asking me what I saw last night, and then talking about the hanging corpse burial that can’t reach the sky or the ground, and then simply telling me the legend of the ancient hibiscus tree... Although it’s a lot of talk. But this kid didn't answer my original question at all, okay?

Is he playing tricks on me on purpose?Or... am I missing something?
I began to carefully recall our conversation just now, but I still didn't catch any limited clues. At this time, Tianrandai had already put the soup bowls on the tray one by one, and walked out with the tray.

I was still sitting by the stove, puzzled.Just when I had no idea, I accidentally glanced at the stove hole, and suddenly thought of something: the snow area has less vegetation, more plateau grasslands and short shrubs, and because of this, the people in the snow area use cattle to make fire. dung, otherwise it would be okay to collect firewood to make a fire, but it is impossible to make a fire with small bushes every day.

This place is covered with ice and snow. In the snow ditch outside, you could occasionally see some strange plants in the snow, but this place is full of glaciers, and not even a single grass grows. What did he use to light the fire just now?
There is no cow dung in this place, so you can't use hibiscus wood to make a fire, right?
Or, using snow ghost dung to start a fire?

Are snow ghost dung and cow dung the same thing?

Out of curiosity, I lowered my head and took a look into the stove hole, which was beyond my expectation. What was burning inside the stove hole was really wood, and it was the kind of wood that was split neatly. The color is yellow-white, and it is obviously not hibiscus wood.Judging from the shape, it should be firewood chopped from a large tree.

It's strange... There are no such big trees in the snow area. Besides, even if there are, it is impossible to have them in the depths of the snow mountains and the thousands of miles of frozen land.

Where did this wood come from?
Suddenly, I remembered something, that is, Team Zeng once told us that he once saw a forest in Xiaofusang. At that time, we all thought that he might not have regained his sanity, and his memory was a little confused. But now, these woods make me wonder: Could it be that there is really a forest in this place?

Thinking of this, I ran out quickly, intending to ask what was going on.

When he went out, the rest of the people were already drinking fish soup and eating fish with their jade bowls. Naturally, he was eating too. He used a very small jade bowl, only the size of a palm, with a small piece of fish in it, and the rest was Soup.

I sat down by the table, Tan Ren glanced at me, I shook my head slightly, indicating that he didn't find out anything.

The taste of the fish soup is particularly delicious, which is very tempting for those of us who eat biscuits every day. I didn't think about it for a while, and decided to finish the fish soup first.

When I picked up the soup, I looked at the small natural bowl and the watery clear soup in the bowl, and felt that I couldn’t get over it. They gave you food and drink, and they prepared it for you, but I ended up with clear soup with little water. Some can't justify.

So I grabbed a large piece of fish from my bowl and planned to share it with him, but at this moment, Naturally stood in the way and said lightly: "I don't need to eat too much, you can go on the road after you are full."

Before I could speak, Fatty Ma spoke first, and he said: "No, I said, little brother, people are iron and rice are steel, you are a young man, how can you drink this little soup? Come, come, my I'll share half of it with you." As he said that he was going to pick up the fish, Zirandai picked up his own bowl with one hand and started to drink the soup slowly, so we couldn't give him the fish.

Fatty Ma shrugged and muttered, "Weird."

After eating and drinking, Zhou Xuanye was arranging the equipment, and I told Tan Ren about what happened at the stove just now, and Tianran packed the bowls and went to the back.

After Tan Yan heard what I said, he squinted his eyes and said: "When a corpse is buried, it can't go up to the sky or down to the ground. This is..." Zhou Xuanye heard our words, he turned around, and said: "Go up Can't touch the sky, can't touch the ground, it's a corpse search array. The corpse can't touch the earth's energy, it doesn't stay in the sky, and it doesn't collect in the ground. In this way, the soul will always stay in the corpse. This situation is similar to that of the hanged person. It's very similar, so the hanged ghost is also a very fierce kind of ghost, but there is a separate set of rules for hanging people when they are buried with ropes."

I was taken aback, and said, "So, the corpse we pulled up...isn't actually a simple dead person?"

Zhou Xuanye nodded slightly, and said: "The soul is still inside." He lowered his head and thought for a while, his brows gradually wrinkled, and said: "If this is the case, then this little Fusang can almost be said to be a ghost town."

(End of this chapter)