Archaeological Notes

Chapter 10 The Corpse in the Kang Cave
The first thing Dao Scar fiddled with out of the kang hole was a bunch of hair that he pulled out, which had already shrunk from the heat, and by visual inspection of its length, it probably belonged to a woman.He continued to pull, and there seemed to be something attached to his hair, much like burnt plastic waste in a dump.The thing in the pit had been burnt beyond recognition, exuding a smell of burnt flesh. When the scar completely pulled the thing out of the kang hole, I realized it in an instant. Immediately my hair stood on end. It turned out to be human. wreckage.

The corpse had been burnt to pieces, its limbs were pitch-black, and the milk-yellow bones could be vaguely seen in the crevices.Scar flicked the hair away, revealing a terrible skull that had been shrunk by burning, and a pair of beadless eye sockets that looked so dead, everyone in the room was horrified.

The monk was the first to react. Although he was shocked, he didn't feel terrified, "Where did this **** corpse come from? It's still in this shape, with its butt facing the sky -- it has eyes but no eyes."

Thanks to the monk, he was able to play haha ​​at this time. Master Shuanzi on my left saw it, and didn't show too much expression on his face.Just ask: "Whose body is this?"

Scar clapped his hands and stood up, stroking the stubble under his chin with his hands, without changing his face and heartbeat, "The ash in the kang is cold, judging from the characteristics of the corpse, it should have been burnt to death three days ago."

As soon as Dao Scar said this, everyone was shocked, and the bloodstains on the mattress on the kang were vividly visible, which made me particularly dazzling.Finally, something happened in the village. Someone was killed inexplicably and then thrown into the kang cave to destroy the body. If it wasn't for Scar's vigilance, it might have been covered up.In this situation, I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, as if this matter had something to do with myself, and I couldn't remember it for a while, but I saw something on the corpse inadvertently.

Although it had been burnt to such an extent that the original appearance could not be seen at all, a corner of the clothes worn by the deceased was fortunately preserved, and there was a brown floc on the neck, shoulders and elbows of the corpse.It seemed to be a textile fabric made of plastic fibers, like a women's sweater, so I asked the bald old man next to me, "Master, look at the clothes the deceased was wearing. People who have seen them in the village, can they Have an impression?"

The old man was getting old and seemed to be a little confused. He came with Master Shuan and a few idlers from the village.One of them was wearing a big-eared hat, and he seemed to have a little impression: "It seems that the third brother bought this dress from the city last month and said it was for his mother-in-law Shufen. That's right, the clothes are only worth a few tens of dollars, not expensive."

When I thought about it, it was not difficult to explain it this way. The squinting eye three disappeared in the village, and his wife Shufen was closed all day long, but she was not seen. Judging from the clothes of the deceased, it should be her.But who is the murderer?Who can afford to do that?Not only is she scheming and squinting, but even her family members are not spared. She is so miserable that she wants to kill them all?I pretended to glance at Master Shuanzi casually, and found that this old man was calmer than anyone else, with such an old face that you couldn't guess what he was thinking.

"In my opinion," the monk thought for a while, speaking with certainty, "don't make wild guesses about everything, I think the squint-eyed woman looks so damn good, and someone in the village met Liu Ha Lazi, Taking advantage of Squint Three's disappearance, plotting to do something wrong, seeing the sex, but knowing that people don't want to, evil is born out of courage, and the overlord will forcefully attack the bow, and directly rape first and then kill, or kill first and then rape, for fear of being exposed directly Throwing it into the kang cave to destroy the corpse, it's that simple."

As soon as the monk finished the call, all the people present looked at him with strange eyes, as if they felt that what the monk said was nonsense.However, I thought about it carefully, and although the words were a bit rough, the monk's speculation was not unreasonable, and it might be some wild guy in the village who did it.Dao Scar shook his head when he heard this, and said that it didn't look like it: "Since the murderer threw the body into the Kang cave to destroy the body, why didn't he burn the mattress together? Maybe there is his bodily fluid on it, once it is sent to the Public Security Bureau Check it out, and he'll be exposed."

After what he said, I suddenly thought, "Indeed, if this is the case, the murderer will be more seamless. Since he didn't do this, it means that there is no 'criminal evidence' left on the bed at all. Someone raped and murdered."

"And..." Scar pulled the mattress away, pointed to the blood on it, and said, "Such a large-scale bleeding must have been caused by the murderer slashing open the dead man's throat, which shows that it was not a sudden intention, but a very strong purpose. "

I nodded in agreement: "However, maybe Shufen's death is more or less related to Slanting Eyes Three."

The monk was bored and didn't shy away from it. He took the tongs and turned the corpse over and over again to study it. Suddenly, everyone rushed over, but he pointed to the neck of the scorched corpse on the ground, "No, look at it." It looks like it was bitten by some animal."

The corpse shrank into a ball, like a withered black-haired monster. I could clearly see that there were signs of being bitten on its neck.It can be seen that the deceased must have been in great pain during his lifetime, and the taste of such a large piece of meat must have been unpleasant.

"Could it be..." At this moment, the bald old man seemed to think of something, "Is it... a ghoul?"

"What is a ghoul?" I asked him immediately, wondering if there really was such a thing?
The bald old man found a stool in the wing room and sat down, took out a pack of dry tobacco from his pocket, slowly rolled the shredded tobacco into a tube, stuffed it into the bong, lit it, took a puff, and slowly exhaled: "Of course! It’s something that is kept secret in the village, so it’s okay for you to know about it, but you might not believe me when I tell you, so you have the right to pretend that I’m talking about Da Biao.”

Speaking of ghouls, the old man didn't know much about them. It was rumored that the Guo brothers died in the hands of the Japanese, and ended up with an unsatisfactory end.Later, the corpses were stolen back by bandits from the green forest. Although an ancestral hall was set up in the village and incense was offered, the two masters were still full of resentment and filth, and their souls wandered around, wandering among the mountains all day long , Shouting: "Give me back my head." The horse bandits who were killed by the Japanese in Fotou Village in Xing'an Mountains were even more haunted by ghosts and lingered for a long time. , a well-behaved person, once he went in, he never came out again.

Ever since, the village spread rumors that there are dead ghosts in Xing'an Mountains, which will attach themselves to people, and wait for an opportunity to suck the blood of people and livestock at night, and make troubles everywhere.It is said that some people saw the appearance of the ghoul, which was unusually burly, elusive, and addicted to human flesh.

After the bald old man finished speaking, I swept the people in the room, and it was dark. As soon as the people in Ganqing village heard the news, most of them came to join in the fun, and whispered to each other from time to time.It was not an option to leave this corpse here all the time, Master Shuan sent several people to bury it, and most of the people in the room left immediately.

However, there were still some people who did not leave. I glanced around and inadvertently focused my eyes on the person next to the hall, and found that his expression was a little strange.In this winter, everyone was shivering from the cold, but that man was sweating profusely, with a very interesting expression, a look of reluctance to vomit, it turned out to be the squinting buddy Liu Maodi.

Master Shuanzi sat down on a carved chair, looked at the rest of the people with a leisurely expression, but stared straight at the young man: "Maozi, tell me, you were farting with San'er earlier. what?"

This person is Brother Liu Maodi. One night a few days ago, we happened to come across him in the sylvestris pine forest when he stole the coffin from the ancestral hall with three squinting eyes.He was also one of the accomplices at the time. It seems that he might know something. I saw Liu Maodi still looking nonchalant, as if he was not sure whether he should tell Master Shuanzi, and the atmosphere was a little stiff.

"Little calf!" Master Shuan slammed his crutch vigorously, not angry but arrogant, "You can call me grandpa according to your seniority, I can let the past go, don't play tricks on me. Otherwise, be careful of me The old man acts according to the rules, so you can't blame me when the time comes."

Slanting Eyes Three seems to have evaporated in the world these past few days. The trees fell and the monkeys scattered, and the people who hang out with him on weekdays can't stand it.Unexpectedly, when Liu Maodi heard Master Shuanzi say "do things according to the rules", he was so nervous that he sifted the chaff, his knees became weak, and he fell to his knees on the ground with a plop.

"Retribution, this is all retribution!" Liu Maodi looked depressed and lost his mind to the extreme. When he was silent for a moment and thought he didn't want to talk anymore, he suddenly raised his head and shouted: "Third brother has turned into a ghoul!"

The whole story is not as simple as I thought. According to Liu Maodi's account, the nightmare started on the day we arrived at the ghost village.

It was a dark and windy night, and the squint-eyed third-class people used their bag tricks to steal the coffin containing the big head of Guo Daclangzi on the left side of the shrine.Liu Maodi is usually idle and lazy, so he followed him after being bribed by squinting three times.He was also there when the coffin was carried to the mountain and opened. It was a headless corpse with a terrifying appearance, and its body was covered with black hair that was more than an inch long.There seems to be a piece of yellow paper on the neck, but the words on it can no longer be read clearly.Strangely enough, the body was not completely decomposed, and it looked dead but not stiff.

Brother Liu Maodi was immediately stunned. He had heard about zombies before, but now they were placed upright in front of him.The strange rotten smell from the dead body made him even more uncomfortable, and he couldn't help vomiting a few mouthfuls of acidic water.Slanting eyes and three guts, he wanted to run away, but when he thought about it carefully, maybe there were some valuables on the corpse, so he squatted down and inspected the coffin carefully, but he just reached out to touch it, and he was caught.

No one was on guard, the corpse suddenly sat up, and the long purple and black nails instantly scratched several long holes on the squint-eyed three arms.At that time, Slanting Eyes San didn't take it seriously, and ordered several people to turn their backs. After finishing the matter in a hurry, they carried the body to Guiyan Ridge, dug a grave to bury it, and blasted it with a detonator before leaving.

But since he squinted at the dead body three times, his whole body began to have problems the next night. Not only did he lose a lot of weight, his teeth gradually turned black, his whole body was weak and groggy, as if he had been poisoned by the corpse.On the night of his disappearance, according to Liu Maodi's recollection, Slanted Eyes three said that he had something to do, and then there was no news.

Hearing this, I suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill rising from the soles of my feet to my vest. No wonder Squint Three was so nervous that night, maybe it was as they said, he was poisoned by the corpse and turned into a ghost Doesn't it look like a ghost?What is even more unacceptable is that he turned into a ghoul, drained his wife's blood and ran away?Immediately I felt dizzy because this was so unbelievable.

At this time, the cell phone on Scar's body rang, breaking the oppressive atmosphere. When he answered, he heard that it was Tian Rui who asked us to go back to the hotel.After leaving the door, watching Master Shuan and the others lead Liu Maodi away, I felt heavy in my heart, and sighed for nothing these days!The monk was very open-minded, and advised me not to be so pessimistic, like a sister Lin, put my heart in my stomach, and worry about other people's affairs.When I thought about it, even though I smiled lightly, I still couldn't let go of it, and I couldn't forget the terrifying look on Slant Eyesan's face that night.

Back at the hotel, I carried a bucket and boiled hot water to take a shower. Because I was very dizzy, I greeted Dao Scar and the others, and went back to the room to rest.

Although the lights were turned off, I was dazed, but I couldn't fall asleep, and I felt like I swallowed a toothpick and panicked.He simply took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Xiao Subei, a shop assistant in Tianjin, asking about his grandma's condition.When I heard that everything was fine, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and I felt much calmer now.

I plugged in the earphones and listened to some songs, but the phone ran out of battery, so I took out the battery, installed the universal charger, and then went to the socket on the bedside.Unexpectedly, misalignment in the dark, the battery snapped and bounced under the bed.

I slept alone against the wall, with a gap between my fingers, and I couldn't reach in to get it, so I got out of the bed and crawled under the bed to find it.

The space under the bed is very narrow, full of dust, piled up with unwashed smelly socks and waste, I groped for a while, and found that there seemed to be a mobile phone lying next to a pile of garbage!When I retrieved the electric board and climbed out of the bed to have a look, it was still an iPhone.

I was stunned. I have never used such a high-end smartphone. I guess it must not be Yixiang’s. Generally, no one in the countryside can afford this kind of thing. It may be left behind by tourists who lived in this room before.Except for some dust and scratches on the fuselage, there is basically no damage, and the condition is relatively new. The Gionee I use is not of the same grade at all.

The battery has run out of power, I went to borrow a charger from Tian Rui, she gave me a suspicious look, but didn't say much.After returning to the room, I plugged in my mobile phone, and when I was playing with it with great interest, the corner of my eye suddenly glanced at the window, and I felt that it seemed a little strange.

I immediately fixed my eyes in that direction, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, because at some point, a pair of maroon-purple withered hands rested on the window sill.

I immediately fell into an ice cellar. First of all, I am 100% sure that there was no such thing on the windowsill before, so it can only be said that it was built while I was not paying attention.The window lattice was already dilapidated and decayed, and a large newspaper was pasted on it, and the hole like a fist was constantly pouring wind into the room. My chills did not come from itself, but from the pair of shriveled little hands at the hole.

The small [-]-watt light bulb in the room made the room more and more terrifying. I was shocked to see that the hands on the window sill were skinny and skinny, almost like the claws of the mummy. The strange thing is that the nails are so long More than an inch out!
My first reaction at the time was, don't it be a big zongzi crawling out of some grave?It's fucking bad luck to grandma's house, I have nothing to do with you, even if you hurt someone, you can't come to me!I stared straight at the window sill, and moved back towards the door, thinking that even if there is a sudden change later, Monk Scar is a good hand living in this hotel, so I don't worry about you.But when I retreated behind the door, in the blink of an eye, the little hands on the window sill made a "swish" and retracted.

It just froze for more than ten seconds, because I didn't know which way the thing was from, so I didn't dare to go forward to check it rashly.After a few more minutes, there was still no movement, so I couldn't hold back anymore.Walking into the edge of the window sill with light feet, looking left and right from a foot away, the outside is a dark mass, not very clear.

I wondered if there were too many things in the village these two days, and I became nervous, and I had a subconscious hallucination out of nothing.But I closed my eyes and thought about it, just now I really saw the pair of little hands on the window sill, I secretly strengthened my courage, and moved closer to the hole in the window sill, and this time, I saw a pair of hands that I couldn't believe back!
It may be caused by the rising moon in the night sky outside. The window was white and misty, with some hazy light reflected in the snow, and a looming figure of a man suddenly appeared in the wind and snow.The tall skeleton, worn-out cotton jacket, red scarf, and that familiar attire staggered in the knee-high snow, walking unsteadily, and drifting away.

In just a moment, I immediately had a stern eye, and squinted three times!
That's right!It was him, and I turned from fear to ecstasy in an instant, and the drumming situation in my heart disappeared immediately.Since coming to Ghoul Village, although absurd and unruly things happened one after another, they were all related to this person without exception.If I can find some clues from him, maybe I can solve and explain something among the mysteries I have accumulated in the past few days, and this person is the best entry point for me to have no clue.Thinking of this, I immediately put on a coat and sneaked out of the hotel wearing a pair of cotton shoes.

When I came out, I realized that the snow was falling more heavily than I had imagined. It almost made me unable to get used to it, and I was so cold that I couldn't breathe.I went around to the back of the hotel and saw that in the snow field corresponding to the small window of my room, where was the figure of Slanting Eyes Three?I was a little dejected, the two rows of footprints in the snow extended into the night, and when I was hesitating whether to pursue it, I saw the place where I squinted three times just now, that is, there was a golden thing under the window sill of my room. Extraordinarily dazzling.

(End of this chapter)