Madam let me die

Chapter 5 Grave Man (recommended for collection)
Since the Red Rain incident, the world has become strange, with three monsters, 'monster', 'nightmare' and 'grave man' appearing one after another.

Monsters are some people who have mutated after taking an overdose of Red Rain.

At first they still retain a certain amount of rationality, but as time goes by, these people's temperaments will gradually become brutal and bloodthirsty, and eventually they will be irrational at all, neither human nor ghost.

They either distort into two heads and multiple eyes, or jump like grasshoppers, or dive like fish...

Ordinary people are extremely difficult to deal with, only those who practice can kill them.

Nightmares are monsters encountered by some people who accidentally fall into the dream of Red Rain after taking Red Rain.

To put it simply, it is to be killed in a dream.

There is only a little information about it:
[This monster is the result of the victim's demons! 】

What is a demon?

Hatred, greed, delusion, obsession, resentment, obsession, etc. all belong to the inner demon.

For example, you hate or fear a certain person very much on weekdays, and over time, this person becomes a demon.Even when sleeping, the other party will appear in the form of nightmares.

Even if the other party is dead, it will still haunt my heart for a long time.

Another example is that you are very greedy for a certain treasure, but you can't get it.Over time, there will be serious demons, which are difficult to eliminate.

Lin Jiaoyue is like this.

Because the food was given a drug containing the ingredient of 'red rain', he fell into a coma and began to have nightmares, thus entering the dream of red rain.

And the nightmare who tried to kill her in the dream was Lin Jiaoyue's inner demon.

This is why after the nightmare appeared, Li Nanke didn't choose to kill it immediately, but observed the opponent carefully first.

He wanted to know, what was Lin Jiaoyue's inner demon?
After all, as a well-known daughter of a rich family in Dongqi County, she is well-clothed and well-fed, and there should be very few people who offend her on weekdays.

Why does such a carefree young lady have such serious demons?

Is it fear of someone?Or hate and envy someone?
Or... Obsessed with someone?

It's a pity that he couldn't tell the difference at that time, seeing that Lin Jiaoyue's life was in danger, he could only rescue her.

In addition to 'monsters' and 'nightmare', the most troublesome thing for the night watchman is the 'grave man'.

It also allows people to truly experience the 'resurrection from the dead'.

Its various cases are horrifying.

In the tenth year of Tianwu, old man Ding, who was a fisherman, heard someone knocking on his door in the middle of the night.

After opening it, I found that standing outside the door was my son who fell into the water and died three days ago!
In the 12th year of Tianwu, Boss Hu, a cloth merchant, saw his wife, who was poisoned half a month ago, sleeping next to him in the middle of the night.

In the early years of Yuanfeng, the villagers of Laowen Village in Xiangzhou saw the village head who was supposed to be dead for six days in the middle of the night.

... These 'resurrected' monsters are called grave people.

After ten days, they will disappear by themselves.

But those who have been in contact with them before will all turn into a pile of bones after ten days.Unless, the 'resurrected' monster is cut off in time.

Unlike monsters, these grave people look no different from ordinary people.

They don't have magic power, don't mutate, and still retain the memories and even emotions of the people who lived before them, just like living people.

This is also the most troublesome point for the Night Patrol Division.

With emotion, some people will deliberately conceal it and fail to report it, which will eventually lead to disaster.

Just like the cloth merchant, after seeing his beloved wife resurrected, he secretly hid his wife in the backyard and chose to hide it from outsiders.

As a result, ten days later, he was reduced to a pile of bones at home.

Of course, there are also those I don't know.

In the early years of Yuanfeng, Aunt Xu, who was weaving at home, was very happy to see her son who had gone to Beijing for an exam half a month ago to come home suddenly.

But ten days later, Aunt Xu and fourteen other people in the town who had been in contact with her son were all reduced to bones.

After investigation by the night patrol, it was found that his son was killed by robbers on the way home after the exam.

Most importantly, the Grave Man does not know that he is dead.

It will appear out of thin air in the place where the deceased stayed. Although it has the memory and emotions of the deceased, the memory of the death is blank.

The brain will also be in a dazed state when first resurrected.

I only vaguely remember what I was doing some time before my death.

Unless it sees the body of 'own', or learns that it has already died through others.

This was the case with Sister Xu's son. After being "resurrected", he was out in the wilderness. He only remembered that he had to rush home after the exam, but he didn't know that he had been killed by the bandits a long time ago.

He returned home in a daze, but killed his mother and other friends.

As for how the tomb man appeared, the Night Watch Division gave a preliminary answer after a detailed analysis.

That is thinking day by day, dreaming at night, and resurrecting!
for example--

Aunt Xu accidentally drank the medicinal material mixed with "red rain" because of an accident, and fell into the red rain dream.

She is usually kind and has no inner demons, so no nightmares appear.

But because Aunt Xu was very concerned about her son who was going to Beijing to rush for the exam, she dreamed of her son in the red rain dream, which eventually led to the resurrection of her dead son.

The same goes for Boss Hu, a cloth merchant.

Because he missed his wife so much, he accidentally resurrected his wife in Hongyu's dream after taking Hongyu by mistake.

Aside from coincidences, there are also people who deliberately 'resurrect' their relatives or loved ones.

Knowing that it will lead to disaster, but in order to meet the missed person again, he took the risk of taking "Red Rain" to revive him, and finally tragedy occurred.

Of course, not everyone can be resurrected.

Only those who died in an accident during the third watch can be resurrected.

Those who died of illness, died of illness, or even committed suicide are not acceptable.

For example, the wife of the cloth boss was poisoned by a maid, and died of poisoning suddenly at around midnight.

For example, Aunt Xu's son, because he was anxious to go home, chose to drive in the wild in the middle of the night, but encountered robbers and bandits.

After summarizing, these three types of monsters can be briefly summarized.

Monsters: mutant people.

Nightmare: A monster in a dream, transformed by a demon.

Grave Man: The dead are 'resurrected'.

But no matter what kind of monsters, they all arise from the 'red rain'.

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By the time we had dinner, the sky had completely darkened.

The whole night was dark, as if thick ink dripped down from a high place, spreading it evenly into darkness, only the cold moon hung high.

Master Turtle was still lying in front of the door, eyes slightly closed, resting his mind.

Sister Goose stood proudly under the bright moon, some blurred and slanting shadows were imprinted on the surface of the pool.

There is peace inside and outside the house.

Li Nanke picked out the candle wick, took the bowls and chopsticks from his wife, and said with a smile: "This is the so-called 'candlelight dinner', so it's not romantic."

The husband and wife sat across the table.

Although it didn't reach the point of 'raising the eyebrows together', the atmosphere is hardly sentimental at all.

"Are there any patients in the afternoon?"

Luo Qianqiu asked.

Li Nanke shook his head, and replied honestly: "I'm a little tired, so I closed the door and went to sleep. As for whether someone knocked on the door, I don't know. You also know that sometimes I sleep more deadly, and the sky falls. I’m afraid it’s hard to wake up.”

At the end, the man joked again: "But you can ask Sister Goose or Master Turtle, they should know."

Luo Qianqiu smiled when she heard the words, and gave a pretty look: "Does my husband always like to entertain people like this? Why don't you go and ask on my concubine's behalf?"

"Of course you can, but you have to be skilled in asking them."

"What technique?"

Luo Qianqiu's appetite was whetted by her husband, and she looked at him curiously with ethereal and soft eyes.

Li Nanke said freely: "Didn't Madam say that they are not spirit beasts? It just so happens that I know such a method. First boil them in a pot, and when they are boiled into broth, we only need to drink them, and we can dream with them." Let’s meet and communicate.”

The man's tone was full of ridicule, but also seemed to be serious.

It seemed that he really thought about it.

Knowing that her husband was joking, Luo Qianqiu still showed an expression of listening to her emotions: "Is it really so magical?"

"Why don't you cook this bastard first?"

Li Nanke cast his eyes on Mr. Gui, who was lying at the door with his eyes closed, licked his lips, and encouraged his wife. "Not to mention anything else, drinking soup is really a beautiful thing."

Perhaps sensing the man's greedy gaze, Mr. Gui quietly retracted his head into the shell.

Sister Goose hesitated for a moment, and also hid in the pond.

Luo Qianqiu shook her head helplessly, picked up a piece of crab meat and put it in the man's bowl, her voice was full of anger: "If you really cook them and eat them, the master may break your bones and throw you into the wolf's den." Feed here."

"Master, is he a fierce old man?" the man asked curiously.

In his memory, Li Nanke didn't have the slightest impression of the old Taoist priest who adopted him, and he relied on his wife's words to make associations.

"It's very fierce. I remember that when you first arrived, you had a lot of whip wounds on your body."

The woman looks sympathetically. "Master beat them all."

Whip...injury?

Li Nanke was a little dazed, his thoughts were not simple, and he thought of many unimaginable plots for a while, and the food in his mouth was not delicious.

Could it be that Master has special hobbies?
But seeing the woman biting her lips lightly as if holding back a smile, she knew she was being teased by the other party.

Li Nanke was speechless: "My wife can play tricks as a husband."

Luo Qianqiu couldn't help laughing at her husband's shriveled appearance. She covered her mouth lightly with the back of her white hand, her posture was as elegant as a ceremonial, playful yet dignified and quiet.

At this moment, the husband and wife who were originally as respectful as strangers became a little closer.

Luo Qianqiu put down her chopsticks and looked at him seriously: "But when the master sent you here, you were indeed covered in bruises, and even your hair was cut off. Later, when he was healing your wounds, the concubine... hit you on the head again, I'm really afraid that I won't survive."

hair cut...

Li Nanke was startled, thoughtful.

After dinner, Li Nanke offered to help clean up the tableware.

Luo Qianqiu soaked the medicinal materials fried during the day in special leaf juice several times, then baked them next to the stove for a while, and put them back into the medicine box.

Li Nanke doesn't understand medicine, but after going through these days, he also understands that his wife's medical skills are really good.

Those who came to seek medical treatment gave five-star praise.

These "good reviews" are not just for review, because those patients or family members who gave bad reviews will be greeted by Sister Goose.

Even if she wakes up from her kang the next day, she can see Sister Goose standing outside the window, staring at them, secretly observing.

After finishing the chores, Luo Qianqiu quietly read the medical books.

Li Nanke had nothing to do, so he planned to pick up Sister Goose to masturbate, but he couldn't find it after searching outside, so he went back to the house and looked for a medical book to pretend to read.

After a while, the man dozed off.

Even though he took a nap in the afternoon, he entered the Red Rain Dreamland to slay the nightmare, and his mental exhaustion had already reached the critical point.

Luo Qianqiu looked amused, and said softly: "Master, let's go rest first."

Without waiting for the man to respond, she got up and made the bed, and took advantage of the opportunity to light a stick of soothing incense mixed with medicine and put it beside her.

"Aren't you going to sleep?" Li Nanke asked.

He didn't want to play some casual applause games with the other party on the bed, after all, although they were in the same room, they had different beds.

In matters of men and women, Li Nanke still respects each other very much.

If you don't want to, don't force it.

The twisted melon is really not sweet.

It wasn't because he was afraid of being poisoned by the other party.

"No, I still need to read for a while." Luo Qianqiu took off his coat for the man and hung it on the hanger.

"Okay, then you should go to bed earlier, staying up late is not good for your skin."

"Ah."

The woman lightly tapped the jade head, fearing to disturb her husband, she deliberately went to the corner table with a candle to read a book.

Maybe it was because he was too exhausted, or maybe it was the effect of soothing incense, Li Nanke soon fell into a deep sleep, and even occasionally snored a few times.

The moonlight is clear, but the candlelight is muddy.

The moonlight squeezed in through the window melted into the halo of the candle, reflecting half of the woman's pink neck so clear and white, with green veins faintly visible.

It wasn't until the cicadas were singing outside that Luo Qianqiu put down the Chinese medicine book in his hand.

She looked sideways at her husband who was sleeping soundly on the bed for a while, then got up and walked out of the room lightly.

The cool breeze blows the woman's soft blue hair.

In the dense night, the steep mountains and peaks in front of me are like ghosts, and they seem to be covered with a layer of gray silver light, as ethereal as smoke.

Luo Qianqiu looked at the bright moon, dazed.

At this time, she was like a white jade statue, standing quietly and prettyly.

Watching the thick clouds in the distance gradually approaching, watching the bright moon like a frozen disk being swallowed up bit by bit, watching the night get darker...

Suddenly, the sound of gongs and banging of bangs could be faintly heard from the city street in the distance, all three times.

In the middle of the night, the third watch has arrived!
Luo Qianqiu took a deep breath, turned and entered the room.

She skillfully took out a half-foot-long pointed awl from under the table, and walked lightly to the bed.

The man on the bed took long breaths and slept soundly.

The woman unbuttoned his underwear, exposed half of her body, held up the sharp awl, and murmured: "Sir, the third watch is here, it's time to go on the road."

After all, he stabbed into the man's heart!
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(Author's note: The characteristics of the three monsters have been explained in detail. If you don't understand something, don't worry. The author will explain it many times when writing the case.)
(End of this chapter)