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

Chapter 624 Old Ghost
Just as I was staring at this tortoise shell, Zhou Xuanye suddenly hummed and picked up a tortoise shell to look at. Finally, his expression suddenly changed, and he held the tortoise shell and asked me: "What do you think this painting means?" ?”

I followed his hand and saw that it was also a picture of a tortoise shell. There were two children on it, one had only a head, and the rest was a skeleton, grinning at us; the other only had a head, but the body was Chubby and fleshy, but there are many needle-like things stuck on his body.

At first glance, the two are holding hands, but upon closer inspection, the positions of the two hands are actually distorted, vaguely, like a grimace.

I felt that this painting looked a little creepy, so I couldn't help but feel my scalp tingling, and said, "What do you mean? I can't tell, I'm just nagging." But Zhou Xuanye obviously had some thoughts about this tortoise shell, and his face was very ugly.

He said, "Pay attention to these two heads."

So I followed his words to look at the two simple faces, but when I looked at them, the familiar feeling came back.But this time, I quickly realized why, because among the two children, the one who had needles all over his body was actually very similar to Zhou Xuanye, as if someone had drawn a Q version of Zhou Xuanye's head portrait.

And the other one has a head and no flesh, which is almost exactly the same as the head of the peeing child in my hand.I didn't react just now, but now I suddenly realized, this, isn't this very similar to myself?

I couldn't help but also changed my expression, holding a piece of tortoise shell in each of my left and right hands, I just felt incredible.

"What's going on here? What the hell?"

Just when I thought I saw a ghost, I saw the human face on the tortoise shell, as if it was alive, and slowly made various expressions of joy, anger, sorrow and joy, so that it became more like it.Immediately, I felt as if I was holding two hot potatoes in my hands, so I threw the two pieces of tortoise shells on the ground immediately.

Zhou Xuanye frowned slightly, and said, "What is causing trouble?"

Just as I was about to speak, all of a sudden, I felt a chill coming from my back, as if someone opened the door of the freezer to my back.The hair on my back was so exciting that I wanted to hide to the side subconsciously, but my body hadn't moved yet. The next moment, my eyes went dark, and my brain felt like being hit by a heavy hammer. I don't know the personnel and affairs, and I don't even have a chance to react.

When I opened my eyes again, time seemed to have passed for a long, long time. I felt dizzy in my head, as if I had been hungry for seven or eight days, thirsty and hungry, and my legs were so weak that I couldn't stand up.

However, what I saw before my eyes was still this stone room full of tortoise shells.

At this moment, Zhou Xuanye was standing opposite me, and I couldn't help covering my head: "What happened just now... My head hurts, it seems like something hit my head."

Zhou Xuanye said with a calm expression, "You have been rushed." This is jargon, which is what ordinary people say about ghosts.

I was taken aback and said, "What hit me? Did you drive it away? How long have I been caught?"

Zhou Xuanye said: "Not long, just over ten minutes." But he didn't answer my first two questions, so I stared at him.Zhou Xuanye and I looked at each other for a moment, sighed helplessly, and said, "Do you really want to know?"

I said, "If you get shot, don't you want to know the reason why you got shot, or what you did after you got shot?" While talking, I checked my clothes and thought it was fine, I didn't run naked .

In the past, before the truth surfaced, when our relationship was still good, Zhou Xuanye told Tang Linlin and me many anecdotes and strange things, among them were ghosts.Some people walk at night, pee in the graves, or do something that offends the dead.

Of course, most dead people are just a corpse, and urinating on it is urinating.But there are always a small number of people who are unlucky, and they will be hated if they encounter lonely ghosts in the cemetery.

When encountering evil spirits, if that person can't find someone who has the true way to help him, then it's over.Some ghosts are not so hostile, and they will clean up people, but they will not kill them.The most common method is to rush behind and run naked on the street with other people's bodies. When people wake up, they will basically lose face.

Zhou Xuanye obviously saw what I was thinking at once, he said: "I didn't run around naked, and I didn't sing eighteen touches loudly, don't worry."

I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "What is that?"

Zhou Xuanye looked at the pile of oracle bones on the ground, and said, "It's an old ghost hiding in this place and lingering on its last breath."

old ghost?

I said, "And then?"

He said: "It's gone, it's dead." When the ghost dies, doesn't that mean it's gone?I was startled, and said, "Did you break up that old ghost?"

Zhou Xuanye laughed, and said: "I learned the technique of refining corpses, not catching ghosts. It used up the last bit of energy to rush at you, told me something, and then disappeared."

I said: "What is it?"

Zhou Xuanye said: "Things you cannot participate in."

I said: "Don't fool me with this, that old ghost is on my body, I have the right to know."

Zhou Xuanye tilted his head, seemed to be thinking about what I said, and finally said: "What it told me is about people and about Heizhugou."

Heizhugou?
I thought of the magnetic field that interfered with Heizhugou, and the black hole in the pile of human bones, so I couldn't help asking, "Is it related to that black hole?"

He said yes.

I said, "What did it say? What the hell is a black hole?"

Zhou Xuanye smiled and said nothing, I waited for a while, and realized that he didn't intend to say anything, I couldn't help but want to jump, but I couldn't, because being rushed is a very exhausting thing, I don't even want to stand now, I was so hungry that I almost had cramps, so I simply sat down on the ground, took out food from the equipment bag, and gnawed. While gnawing, I said, "I'll argue with you after I finish eating."

Zhou Xuanye clapped his hands and said, "No need to argue, I don't intend to take care of the things it entrusts to me, so, find a way to get out." He started beating the surroundings with a folding shovel, apparently planning to dig a hole out.

We don't have hairy corpses to chase us now, and there is enough time for us to dig a passage to the outside world.The structures here have also been damaged, but they haven't collapsed yet.The stones built around were all pushed out by the roots of the trees. The roots of many trees were exposed from the soil, and some of them simply hung down on the top of our heads.

I believe that in a few years, [-]% of this place will also collapse.

While I was eating, I watched Zhou Xuanye take a folding shovel and test it around with the shovel. I couldn’t help wondering whether what he said was true or not.

But seeing that Zhou Xuanye was really thinking about leaving with all his heart, and there was no other movement, I also thought about it.

After eating, I wanted to help, but my physical strength couldn't recover so quickly, so I had to sit first.During this process, I looked at the tortoise shells around again, but this time I didn't see the two pieces just now. It seems that we were 'blinded' just now.

Looking at these tortoise shells at this time, it is quite different.

And people don't have characters, but they have simple pictographs, which are more like simple patterns than characters.I looked down one by one, and found that the records on it should be some biographies, not the results of divination as in other regions.

There are holes in these oracle bones, which should have been strung together by something like hemp rope, but now that the rope has decayed, the oracle bones are naturally torn apart, making it difficult to form an album, and it seems difficult to connect.

However, these oracle bones can be summed up in three parts: one is hunting, the other is copper smelting, and the third is sacrifice.

And people also plant, but due to terrain constraints, they cannot be planted in large quantities, so hunting is also essential, so people are good at fighting.The second is copper smelting. There seems to be a large number of copper mines in the Heizhugou area, so the copper smelting technology is very developed, and copper smelting is a major livelihood event; the last is sacrifice, and the civilization of people lags behind the surrounding areas at that time. countries, so witch ghost culture is more prevalent.

I looked at many tortoise shells, but I couldn't find out who their sacrificial objects were.

(End of this chapter)