Mantra

Chapter 225 Great Changes in the Army
The water urn that Pao Zhongying found was not big in itself, and when more than 90 people drank it in turn, it had already bottomed out.

In the end, it was evenly distributed, Zhao Gong was still with the other two sergeants, and did not get any water.

Zhao Gong didn't mind this, after all, he had gained the morale of the army, so it was nothing to be thirsty.

In the end, Zhao Gong and the other two drank some horse blood to quench their thirst, and casually ate some dry horse meat to satisfy their hunger.

There was nothing to say that night, but the next morning, when Zhao Gong woke up from his uneasy sleep, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

At this time, in the Paozhong camp, the lifeless soldiers were still lying down, but all of them had turned into black "mummy".

Zhao Gong looked around and saw those mummified corpses were in strange shapes. Everyone was dying. Some opened their mouths and seemed to be screaming, and some crawled on the ground as if trying to escape, but without exception, they were all left with wrinkled skin and skinny bones. Like a body, the whole person seems to be sucked dry by something, the flesh and blood are as horrible as the spinal cord.

More than a hundred lives just disappeared without a sound.

Zhao Gong looked at the catastrophe in front of him and couldn't react for a long time, but when he did, he could only cry loudly.

He knew that the Paozhong Camp, which he had worked so hard for many years, was over, his capital to fight against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was over, he was fighting against the chieftain, and his plan to base in the northwest of Guizhou was over.In short, it was all over for him.

At that moment, Zhao Gong thought of death.

In desperation, Zhao Gong pulled out the knife and wiped it on his neck. Only at the last moment, he was rescued by his two remaining men.

The two subordinates who rescued him were the ones who drank horse blood with Zhao Gong yesterday, and they were also shocked by the scene before them, but compared to Zhao Gong who had lost all hope, these two saw it more openly.

After they seized Zhao Gong's sword, they immediately dissuaded their chief general, saying that although there is no team, as long as they are alive, there is still a way out. Everyone can go south and join Li Dingguo, and retreat can hide in Guizhou. And take life.

The most important thing is that at this time, the bones of the brothers in Paozhongying are still not cold. Even if they die, they must find out the cause of their death and avenge them before dying.

After some persuasion from the two survivors, Zhao Gong finally did not die. Then, with extremely complicated psychology, he collected the bodies for the brothers while investigating the cause of death of the brothers.

Soon, he thought of the inexplicable jar of water.

In the Paozhong camp, only he and the two surviving sergeants did not drink water, and this also aggravated Zhao Gong's suspicion.

After confining the corpse, Zhao Gong led people to the water urn in the pit to conduct repeated inspections.

Soon, he was dumbfounded by what he found.

According to the records in Zhao Gong's handbook, the narrow pit where the water urn was placed was full of human hair and fingernails, and when the sun shines, they are covered with white flowers, really like fish scales that have been plucked all over the ground.

And it's not a big deal, what made Zhao Gong's scalp tingle the most was that he didn't realize until the morning that the water jug...was also spelled out by fingernails.

…Hearing this point, I temporarily interrupted Xian Hongye’s talk, and everyone took a breath and said: “You mean that he Zhao Gong found a water tank made of fingernails? And drank that the water in it?"

Xian Hongye nodded with a pale face, pointed to the words on the letter and said: "It didn't say the specific shape of the water jar, but it did say that it was made of fingernails...human fingernails."

After listening to Xian Hongye's words, I suddenly had a desire to vomit.

The soldiers of the Paozhong camp drank the water in the ghost urn, so it’s no wonder that nothing happened, but why did they turn into mummies, and why the description of the mummies was so similar to the way my old squad leader was buried, and Xianyun The death patterns of Du students are so similar... I seem to know what they have encountered.

After everyone's emotions have eased a little, we suggest that Xian Hongye quickly take over this article and continue to talk about the following content.

Xian Hongye nodded, and then continued to talk to us: "After seeing those fingernails and hair, Zhao Gong knew that his soldiers were killed by a kind of 'magic', and he also knew that this deserted cottage is a City of Devils', you should escape quickly."

But before leaving, Zhao Gong was not reconciled to the fact that his brothers were rotting away in this cottage, and felt even more hated for this ghost town that ruined his future.

So he set fire to it, and at the same time burned his brother's body.

In the ferocious flames, Zhao Gong suddenly saw that his dead brothers "moved" again. Every corpse opened its mouth mechanically, sticking out its tongue desperately, as if it was about to spit out something.

In the end, a red skull flower emerged from the mouth of each corpse. Those flowers had four blood-red petals, as delicate and charming as poppies. From Zhao Gong's point of view, the flowers in those mouths were just Like blood-colored skeletons, they smiled strangely at him.

Seeing all this, the three of them collapsed in an instant. They were so frightened that they didn't even want their horses. They ran out of the ghost village and fled south along the Furong River.

During the retreat, Zhao Gong ran along the mountain road, avoiding the chieftain's pursuers all the way, and finally came to a place called Xuerong Village.

When they arrived at Xuerong Village, Zhao Gong and his men couldn't move anymore, so in order to survive, they concealed their names, took off their military uniforms, hid their treasured swords, and only held a close-fitting kitchen knife and dagger, trying to sneak into Xuerong Village first. In the middle, eat a few full meals before leaving.

Later, the three of Zhao Gong sneaked into the Miao village at night, but to their surprise, every house in this village closed their doors and every household was mourning. It really seemed like another "ghost village".

Because of the previous experience, Zhao Gong was more careful this time. Although he was hungry, he did not look for food indiscriminately. The driver steals food.

His theory is also very simple. Some people say that the food they eat is reliable, so they can't put poison and Gu in the food they eat.

Based on this theory, Zhao Gong quickly located a family on the southeast side of the village.

The family that Zhao Gong spotted had only a woman and a dead man. The woman was very young, and she was as beautiful as a flower, and the dead man was an old man, lying straight in a coffin as a "cold corpse", probably because there were too many dead in Hongrong Village. Because of the reason, the dead old man did not mourn, and no one cared to bury him. In short, they seemed to be used to death.

It was such a family, Zhao Gong decided to go to her house to steal food.The most important thing is that there is only one little girl in this family, so it should be impossible to pose any threat to him.

(End of this chapter)