Holy Bone

Chapter 158 The strange corpse separated from the corpse

The junction of Wuzhou Prefecture and Cangshan Prefecture.

At the same time, it is also the junction of the branch of Wushan Mountain and the branch of Cang'er Mountain.

There is a small town outside the mountain.

It's called Jinsha Town.

It is said that in the early days, this small town was originally a temporary gathering place for people who entered the mountains for logging, hunting, medicinal herbs, and stone quarrying. Later, because more and more people gathered, it gradually became prosperous, and it gradually developed into what it is today. Jinsha Town.

Jinsha Town is not rich in gold.

The reason why the people at the beginning gave the town this name means that the reason why everyone gathered here at the beginning was to pan for gold to support their families.

On this day, a group of people came from Jinsha Town.

The group consisted of three people.

They are two Taoist priests, one old and one young.

Plus a middle-aged man with a big belly.

The young Taoist priest was wearing a five-color Taoist robe, a pair of ten square shoes on his feet, and a Taoist nine scarf on his head.

This young Taoist priest was naturally Jin An.

Ever since Jin An began to wear the Taoist Nine Scarves, his hair was either long or short, with somewhat nondescript shawl hair. After putting his hair up and wearing the Nine Scarves, it was finally no longer embarrassing to be stared at his hair.

Of the remaining two, it was naturally the old Taoist priest, and the stalker who had to go to Wutou Village to become the corpse king Li Weiwei.

A few days ago, they found clues to Wutou Village through the Xue family, and the next day they saw that the Xue family's young lady and the Xue family's old lady were all fine, so they set off directly to find Wutou Village.

Although the young master of the Xue family is very likely to be in danger at this time, but taking money from people means doing good things for the Gu's family, seeing people in life, and seeing corpses in death.

in fact.

The old Taoist priest and guard Li who accompanied him were very clear in their hearts.

The reason why Jin An was so determined to find Wutou Village this time was probably because he wanted to find Yu Youzi, a Taoist priest of Wuzang Taoist Temple who was killed in Wutou Village, and then bury his body.

Into the ground is safe.

So as not to become a lonely ghost in the wilderness.

Jin An looked up at the sky. It was getting dark and it was not suitable to go into the mountains today, so they planned to board in Jinsha Town tonight.

Wait until tomorrow morning to go into the mountain to find the hanging road.

The atmosphere in Jinsha Town today is tense. Before arriving in Jinsha Town, there were several interrogations by government officials and Xiangyong along the way, and two portraits of wanted criminals were posted at the gate of the city.

After inquiring, it turned out that there were two wanted criminals who were murderous without blinking an eye. They fled to Jinsha Town recently after committing serial crimes and murders, and then fled into the nearby mountains yesterday.

In order to prevent the two wanted criminals from going back and returning to Jinsha Town, the local government was on the verge of arresting and searching everywhere.

The three of them waited in line to enter the city, and soon it was their turn. Jin An and the old Taoist priest had a Taoist plate, and Guard Li also had a guide, so they didn't encounter any trouble when entering the city to check their identities.

When the soldiers guarding the city gate checked the papers of the three people, they did not let them go immediately. Then there were two little Taoist priests, aged seventeen or eighteen, who had been traveling around in the wind and rain all year round, and their skin was slightly rough and dark. the whites of the eyes.

Then handed out a jug of wine for the three to drink.

"Sanyang wine?"

Jin'an and the old Taoist could immediately smell the strong smell of medicinal herbs in the jug.

"This Taoist brother has a good nose. This pot of wine is indeed Sanyang wine. Daoist priest and Taoist brother have offended you a lot. I hope you will understand me. Please cooperate with the government and drink a bowl of Sanyang wine. "

Perhaps it was because of their peers, or because Jin An and the old Taoist could smell Sanyang wine at once, the attitude of the two seventeen or eighteen-year-old Taoist priests opposite them changed to a lot more respectful.

Wine can disperse qi, while Sanyang wine is pure yang, which is specially used to drive away evil spirits.

Jin An pondered.

It seems that Jinsha Town has been doing evil things recently, and this inspection of the whites of the eyes should be to check whether there are black marks on the whites of people's eyes, so as to prevent evil people from entering the town and harming people.

Jin An has been with the old Taoist for so long, and he has already mastered these methods of exorcising evil spirits and identifying evil spirits.

When Jin An expressed his thoughts, he got an affirmative answer from the two little Taoist priests on the opposite side.

"Speaking of this, we have to start after entering the rainy season."

The person who spoke was a young Taoist priest with an active personality and a thinner physique. Jin An already knew that his name was Zhao Youcai.

He is the younger brother.

The other shy and honest little Taoist priest was his senior brother named Sun Ping. Sun Ping was not as lazy and slippery as Zhao Youcai. He was diligently feeding Sanyang wine and checking the whites of the eyes for other people who entered the city.

They are all locals in Jinsha Town, and their master is a Taoist priest named Tie Juan in the morgue in the town.

Zhao Youcai continued: "Most of the people in Jinsha Town are hunters, herbal gatherers, stone quarrymen, woodcutters, etc. who rely on the mountains to live on them, so many people go to the mountains to seek a living on weekdays."

"Originally, in the past, it has always been peaceful."

"But since this year's rainy season, as long as it rains, there will be a few people who enter the mountain from time to time and have not returned. When they were found by their relatives, they were found to have been circling in situ, shouting whatever they wanted I didn’t wake up until I fainted from exhaustion, and then I woke up the next morning and returned to normal.”

"Even hunters and herb pickers who have not been found will come back by themselves the next day, claiming to have wandered around the mountain all night, and they can't get out no matter how they go, and they won't be able to get out of the mountain until the next day."

"This incident has become more and more troublesome. In recent days, no one dared to enter the mountain again. The only ones who entered the mountain were the wanted criminal brothers who fled into the deep mountain. The people in Jinsha Town said that this was someone who died in the mountain before. People help collect the corpses, so after a long time of death, the resentment accumulates and gradually becomes a mandrill that harms people."

"So how many people have been killed?" Jin An asked curiously.

Zhao Youcai shook his head and said that was not the case, not to mention that people were killed, it was a miracle that he was not taken away by hungry tigers, wild bears and wolves after spending the whole night in the mountains.

His master said that the mountain ghost who died in the mountain was just trying to find the way to the mountain, and it was harmless.People are harmless to people's hearts, and ghosts will naturally not knock on the door to harm you.

Mountains are shady places, because the canopy covers the sky and the sun, there is not enough sunlight, and there are many canyon basins, so these places are low-lying places where it is very easy to gather yin energy, and it is easy to breed dark and strange things.

But no one can tell, if this evil spirit really walks out of the mountain with someone, will it turn out to be harmful?
So the town invited the only Taoist priest in the town to go out, wanting to go into the mountain to find traces of the evil spirit.

But it has been fruitless.

And recently, it happened that two wanted murderers fled to the vicinity of Jinsha Town, so they had to go back to the town first to take strict precautions to keep the people of Jinsha Town safe.

Hence the present situation.

They are responsible for checking whether there is any abnormality among the people entering the city one by one.

At this time, because of the darkness of the night, the gate of the city was about to be closed, and the number of people entering the city suddenly increased. Sun Ping alone was too busy, so Zhao Youcai hurried to help his senior brother.

Afterwards, Jin An and his party entered the city.

When the three of them passed through the city gate, they saw a small room in the city gate, which was a special place for the soldiers guarding the city gate to rest.

Sitting cross-legged in the small room is a middle-aged Taoist priest who does not need to be, and is practicing luck with his eyes closed.

It seems that this is the Taoist priest in the mortuary cemetery, the Taoist iron scroll.

The other party seemed to sense Jin An's gaze.

Close your eyes.

To Jin An and the old Taoist priest who were also wearing Taoist robes, he nodded slightly and made a fist-cup salute, which was regarded as a friendly greeting.

Jin An and the old Taoist also clasped their fists together, their mouths intersected, their left hands were on top of their right, like a yin and yang diagram, and saluted each other.

This is the etiquette for meeting fellow Taoists in the secular world.

Li Huwei also made a secular clasping ceremony to Taoist Tiejuan.

Not long after entering Jinsha Town, the sky darkened. Not long after, Jian Jian sneaked into the town, followed the code Jin An left along the way, successfully met the three of Jin An, and stayed at the inn.

……

……

Silent all night.

The next day.

The four of Jin'an got up and were having breakfast at the inn when suddenly, the people of Jinsha Town all hurried towards the gate of the city.

"Everyone, go to the city gate, the bodies of the two brothers Wang Haichuan and Wang Haifu, the wanted murderers, have been found!"

"It was found by Taoist Tiejuan, his master and his apprentice!"

"The Wang brothers, who are full of crimes, deserved their crimes, and finally got their retribution!"

"The two Wang brothers who are masters in the rivers and lakes were executed by the three masters and apprentices of Taoist Tiejuan!"

what!
The two Wang brothers are finally executed?

The people of Jinsha Town were all blown away, beating gongs and drums for a while, cheering and running around to tell each other.

Even the diners who were eating breakfast in the inn all went to the empty building, and all the big guys followed the people on the street and ran to the direction of the city gate to watch the dead bodies of the two Wang brothers.

Where can I still eat.

I was afraid that if I went late, I wouldn't be able to get a good spot to watch the dead bodies of the Wang brothers.

This pair of Wang brothers ran around and committed crimes, murdered and plundered, committed all kinds of crimes, and carried dozens of lives in their hands. Not only the people of Jinsha Town hated them, but many merchants and wealthy sons were kidnapped and killed by them in many places in Wuzhou Prefecture. Notoriety, miss.

The streets were full of cheers and lively applause, all spitting and yelling at the Wang brothers for killing them well. All the people in the town ran to the city gate to watch the dead bodies of the Wang brothers.

People eat for food.

The world is full and the food is the biggest.

The four of Jin'an didn't get up until they finished their breakfast, and then went to the gate of the city to watch the excitement.

At this time, Jinsha Town was empty of thousands of people, and the streets were empty, which avoided the chaos of crowds.

just.

When the four of them came outside the city, they found that the place was already overcrowded, and the people of Jinsha Town surrounded the corpses of the Wang brothers with six floors inside and six floors outside.

Even the nearby canopy was filled with many spectators.

Looking at the overwhelmed and bent branches, Jin An was really worried that those branches would snap and cause a stampede.

Suddenly, Jin'an, who was standing at the outermost edge, saw government servants and Xiang Yong pushing several carts of lychee branches to the outside of the crowd.

Then these yamen servants and Xiangyong pushed and shoved the people away, and the people gave way one after another, fearing that they would run into these officials.

Jin'an, Chijian, and Li Huwei had practiced martial arts, and their bodies were quite strong, so they took the opportunity to follow behind these yamen servants Xiangyong and squeeze into the crowd.

The old Taoist priest with a thin body also hurriedly followed the figures of the three of them.

With a lot of strength, several people squeezed to the front of the crowd, and finally saw the bodies of the two Wang brothers. The two brothers died terribly.

Corpse separation.

"If you can't make a move on this iron scroll, if you make a move, it will be a craniotomy hand, and the corpse will be separated directly..." The old Taoist saw the two heads next to the two headless corpses, and felt that the iron man who looked very kind yesterday Daoist Juan, he didn't realize that apart from being a Taoist priest, he was also a decisive martial arts master.

"what?"

At this moment, the old Taoist carefully looked at the two heads next to the corpse, and suddenly he was surprised.

Not only the old Taoist saw the abnormality of the two heads, Jin An, Qi Jian, and Li Huwei also saw the abnormality.

The appearance of the Wang brothers' death was a little creepy, their eyes were wide open, their complexions were livid, and the veins on their faces protruded violently, and their eyes were full of strange black threads.

But the strangest thing was not this, the two heads actually showed signs of advanced decay, and it looked like they had been dead for ten and a half months.

However, the body has not yet shown signs of decay.

Jin An looked at the carts of lychee branches brought in from the yamen, his eyes pondering.

He finally understood.

Why didn't the yamen transport the corpse into the city, but cremated it outside the city on the spot? The death of the wanted murderer is probably not artificial.

It was a mountain ghost that was unlucky to meet in the mountains, a ghost.

"Daoist Jin'an and Daoist Chen, didn't you say that the wanted criminal brothers just fled into the mountains the day before yesterday? Why do you see that the degree of decay of the head is completely different from that of the body?"

Guard Li asked in a low voice.

When Li Weiwei was questioning, everyone saw the pair of senior brothers Sun Ping and Zhao Youcai, who had known them yesterday, with a few helpers, coming towards the carriages piled with lychee branches, intending to carry the lychees The branches of the tree cremated the body during the day.

"Little Daoist."

"Little Daoist."

Li Huwei, who is easy to give people the image of a big fat man with a wide body and a good talker, waved at the pair of senior brothers and asked what happened to the two corpses?

Seeing that it was Jin'an and his party, the pair of brothers moved slowly and lazily while explaining the reason in a low voice.

Sure enough, the Wang brothers were not killed by the three of them.

After the city gate was closed for curfew yesterday, Taoist Tie Juan brought his two apprentices and several Xiangyongs, planning to go into the mountain again to have a look.

It just rained in the mountain the day before yesterday, and it was the most active period for that shadowy ghost in the mountain. Maybe in the past two days, we could bump into that shadowy ghost that has been getting louder and louder recently.

As a result, the bodies of the wanted criminals were accidentally found.

It's just that when they found the body, the two of them were not normal at all. They kept walking back and forth on a steep cliff road, as if they had been hit by a ghost and couldn't get out of the illusion.

Tie Juan Taoist and others originally wanted to set up an ambush to capture the two of them alive, and then bring out the illusion of ghosts hitting the wall.

Unexpectedly, Daoist Tie Juan had just fished the two out of the ghost wall and led them out of the cliff road. As a result, the moment the two woke up from a start, their bodies were separated and their heads fell to the ground.

Cliff Road?
The old Taoist priest and Li Huwei showed joy in their eyes, what is this called, sending pillows as soon as they fell asleep, and it took no effort to get them?

The two hurriedly asked the senior brother in front of him what the cliff road looked like.Where is the specific location?

After listening to the description, they said that the cliff road was very steep and difficult to walk, and it was difficult to even drop half a human foot at the narrowest point. Is it the hanging road they have been looking for!

But the old Taoist immediately became worried again.

How does this look like the ferocious ghost from the headless village came out of the cage and started to run out to affect the hanging road?
Li Huwei's reaction to that of the old Taoist priest was exactly the opposite.

A ghost out of the cage?

He is cheerful.

Next, the group of four decided to enter the mountain immediately while it was still early, without waiting for Road Master Tie Juan to cremate the bodies of the two brothers Wang.

It is estimated that the headless corpses will not be cremated within a short period of time before the sun rises and the yang energy of the heaven and earth is at its peak.

Shortly after.

When returning to the inn to check out and retrieve their bags, the four crashed into the vast mountain and disappeared deep in the lush forest.
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(End of this chapter)