Holy Bone

When the Ghost Eye Clan was mentioned, everyone present became interested.

Jin An and the others soon saw the mummies of the Ghost Eye Clan.

This is an adult male mummy. The clothes on the body are adhered to the mummy. It seems that it has been kept in a closed environment for many years, and the clothes have not been severely weathered.

However, there is no serious weathering here, but relatively speaking, the clothes adhered to the mummy can almost be described as rag strips.

The mummy is somewhat blackened, with sunken cheek muscles and deep-set eye sockets.

There are no eyeballs in the deep-set eye sockets.

It’s not that the rot is gone, it’s just that it’s literally gone.

"Does this ghost-eyed tribe mean that they are all blind and have no eyeballs?" Fatty Li, who was worried about these strange things, squeezed to the front and interjected in surprise.

Grand Leader: "The people of the Ghost Eye Clan make a living by using ghost eyes, and I took away their ghost eyes."

After saying that, the Grand Hierarch flipped his palm, and two more eyes appeared.

These two eyeballs are a bit strange. They are still alive even after being preserved, and the pupil in the center of the eyeballs actually moved.

Fatty Li, who looked closer at this sudden scene, was frightened and jumped back.

"What happened just now?"

"Suddenly I saw my eyeballs moving. Is it an illusion?"

Fatty Li shouted loudly.

Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and Master Zunzhu were all attracted by this strange scene. Jin An picked up one of the eyeballs and brought it closer to check. The scene that Fatty Li saw reappeared, and the pupils of the eyeballs rotated, as if they were at a close distance. Staring and sizing up Jin An.

Jin An: "They are worthy of being called the Ghost Eye Clan. People have been dead for so many years, and their eyes have been removed from the body. I never thought they could still be alive."

Master Zunzhu also picked up an eyeball and inspected it. A pair of Buddha-eye wisdom beads could look directly at the essence of the world and said: "The pupil in the center of the eyeball is a special corpse insect that lives by clinging to corpses."

Hearing this, the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li hurriedly came over to take a look. They stared at the eyeballs carefully for a while. The two stared at them until their eyes were sore and almost turned into cross-eyes. Finally, they could see the eyeballs clearly. The pupils have thin legs and are squirming slightly.

It is precisely because this corpse insect is completely black, plus its small size and slight squirming movements, that it was not noticed at first that the pupil was not a pupil.

Fatty Li: "Master Zunzhu, are you saying that the Ghost Eye Clan lives by the corpse bugs in their eyeballs? Then what is the difference between this and the walking dead? The Ghost Eye Clan are all dead people who are walking corpses?"

Master Zunzhu nodded first, then shook his head. He looked at the great elder and the great leader: "You two have been to the ruins of the Ghost Eye Clan. Did you learn about the origin of this corpse insect from the ruins?"

The two looked at each other and then nodded solemnly: "We found a sacrificial temple. There are several memorial stone pillars in the sacrificial temple. The memorial stone pillars indeed depict the sacrifice process of the Ghost Eye Clan, including the relationship between the Ghost Eye Clan and the strange insects in the eyeballs. Origin." Master Zunzhu, the master of Tantric Buddhism, said with a warm smile: "About this special corpse insect, I saw a record in the ancient family book. I will tell it and check to see if it belongs to the same kind of insect."

The great elder and the great leader nodded.

Master Zunzhu: "There is a kind of strange insect in the snow mountains that can live by attaching itself to the dead. One tribe believes that this is resurrection from the dead, and that relatives return to the tribe to reunite with the family."

"It's just that as the resurrected relatives returned to the tribe, strange things began to happen one after another in the tribe. At first, the corpses buried in the sky were missing, then a large number of cattle and livestock were found to have died, and finally disaster befell the living people. People die in pain, and their bodies disappear after death.”

"This incident evolved into a terrible plague that spread rapidly. One tribe was affected one after another. The tribes all had one thing in common. After death, the bodies disappeared."

"The scope of the plague expanded, and some herdsmen came to the temples for help. Not only was the plague not under control, but all the monks in several temples died, and their bodies were still missing after death."

"This matter was later solved by our clan. According to the records in the ancient books of the clan, the strange snow mountain insect is an ancient worm that escaped from the devil hell suppressed by the holy mountain after the snow mountain glacier collapsed. It looks like a centipede. , with dark bodies, live on corpses, and like to devour souls and memories, so they, who have inherited the memories of the corpse owner during his lifetime, are often mistaken for the deceased’s family members as being resurrected.”

"As long as there is a corpse hosted by the ancient worm, it will continue to multiply. Two will be born, two will beget four, four will be a hundred... When one appears, nearby corpses will be 'resurrected' one after another, which is often mistaken for a miracle by ordinary people. Then overhaul the temple for worship. These ancient worms are not only intelligent but also cunning. They usually hide in the tribe in disguise. When there are no corpses for the reproduction of the tribe, they will come out to kill themselves... With so many corpses gathered together, a plague disaster will inevitably occur. , the water source was contaminated, causing the death of a large number of cattle, horses and people."

"Donor Li asked me just now if this was the walking dead. My answer was that these ancient insects are good at housing corpses, so they will find ways to search for corpses to shelter. It seems that the same disaster has occurred in the Ghost Eye Clan. People in a country all believe in this ancient worm from the devil’s hell as a god that can bring their loved ones back from the dead. They have believed in it to the point of going crazy and losing their minds, and even changed the country’s name to the Ghost Eye Clan.”

Master Zunzhu sighed: "This disaster happened a long time ago, thousands of years ago. The ancestors thought that these evil insects that could bring plagues and disasters had been exorcised... Unexpectedly, there were still remnants left in the world, hiding secretly. Go deep into the desert and grow.”

The Great Elder and the Great Hierarch looked at each other after listening. The Great Hierarch said, "Although the scene depicted on the stone pillar of the temple record is slightly different from what Master Zunzhu described, we all feel that the true origin of the Ghost Eye Clan is what Master Zunzhu mentioned. That kind of ancient worm.”

"The Ghost Eye Clan records that their earliest ancestors came across the desert, and the dead who were touched by the ancestors would come back to life and be reunited with their relatives, which was regarded as a miracle. In order to thank their ancestors, the people of the Ghost Eye Clan built The temple enshrines ghost eyes, uses ghost writing instead, actively desires to be inhabited by ghosts and insects, and hopes that the ancestor can lead the entire clan to immortality and eternal life."

Jin An pondered at this time and said: "If it comes from the depths of the desert, then all the clues are correct. The depths of the desert are connected to the snowy mountains of the plateau. There may be ancient worms coming to the desert along the melted snow water, and then contaminating a The country has developed a ghost-eyed clan where the whole country is full of zombies and no one is alive."

Master Zunzhu nodded in agreement: "The climate of the desert is dry, corpses have not decayed for thousands of years, and many people die of thirst in the desert every year. These are the favorite environments of this ancient evil insect, and it can continue to multiply people."

Fatty Li took a breath when he heard this: "There are Li Gui hidden among the living people. They are so hidden. You don't even know when you are stabbed in the back by this Li Gui."

Master Zunzhu nodded slightly and said: "All things are mutually reinforcing and interfering. This ancient pest needs the corpse to be intact and slows down the decay rate of the corpse. Therefore, it likes yin but not yang, dryness and humidity. It likes the ancient country of Zhangxiong and Kunlun, which have cold winters all year round. The mountainous and snowy north does not like the misty and rainy snowy south."

"It is recorded in the ancient books of the clan that our ancestors exorcised demons and dispelled the plague in the snowy north, but it had not yet spread to the entire snow-capped mountains of the plateau."

"These walking corpses have always retained their living habits in the hell below the Holy Mountain. They are active at night and dormant during the day. As long as they master the rules of their activities and are prepared, Donor Li doesn't have to worry too much."

At this time, the old Taoist priest made a suggestion: "If you put the ghost eyes back into the mummy, will the mummy come alive..."

"Then we can learn from its mouth the historical truth of thousands of years ago, such as the causes and consequences of the Kingdom of the Immortal God? How did these countries become swallowed up by the desert?"