Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 37

Looking at this corpse, I could only smile wryly for a while, since we entered this Yinyang Liubu Village, we have never met a living person, this is simply a corpse village.

The boy Tofu has no nerves, he didn't realize that the person in front of him was a corpse, he stabbed the person on the bed with the tripod in his hand, and said politely: "Old man, wake up."

I said: "Don't be so polite." After finishing speaking, I pressed the object in my hand, and the side lying corpse was lying on the ground. Its skin was dry and black and purple, and its eyes were sunken. The clothes on the body can be identified, it is the old man who took us in.

As the corpse turned over, there was a crisp bell sound, and I thought about it for a while, but it was a copper-yellow bell in the corpse's hand, exactly the same as the one I had seen before.

Could it be that the ghost of this corpse was talking to me at that time?

The thought of this possibility made me shudder.However, with the ringing of the bell, the group of corpses crashing outside the door suddenly quieted down, blocking the outside without any movement.

Gu Wenmin frowned slightly, with some doubts, staring at the door with dark eyes, then turned her head, and said in a low voice: "What's going on?"

Tofu has always been very imaginative, and said: "The eve of the storm is always calm. I think they must be waiting for their skills to cool down, and then release their killer moves."

I said: "Bullshit, I told you to play less online games, but you didn't listen, what kind of skill cooling... I think it's probably because of this bell." When the bell rang, the crowd of corpses outside stopped, It was a bit of a coincidence, and it was even more weird when I thought about the old man ringing the bell in the middle of the night.

When I thought about it, I leaned down and carefully pulled the bell out of the corpse's hands. The tofu next to me immediately focused the flashlight on the bell.The four of us observed together and found that the surface of the bell was engraved with many things like Taoist runes, but the inner core of the bell was very strange. Holding its fangs, it looks like an evil spirit.

If I was a little unclear when I saw the bell at first, then I understood it when I saw its core now, and said to everyone: "You should all know about Xiangxi driving corpses, right?"

Tofu said: "I know, it is often written in movies and novels..." At this time, his head was still bright, and he suddenly realized, "Could it be that this corpse is a corpse chaser?"

I nodded.

Gu Wenmin looked suspicious and asked, "How did you know?"

I pointed to the bell, motioned them to look at Dangxin, and said: "In movies and novels, the exorcism of corpses in Xiangxi is indeed often mentioned. But most of them are artistically exaggerated, and many places are fictional. In fact, the real exorcism, The details here are very important, even one day and one night can’t finish it.”

Xiangxi is a multi-ethnic gathering place, and there are many ethnic minorities. Chasing corpses is a kind of witch culture belonging to the Miao nationality.

As we all know, Miao people are good at using Gu poison, and driving corpses and Gu poison Miao Luohua Dongnv are collectively called the "three evils" in western Hunan.

The main function of exorcising corpses is to send the dead bodies back to their hometowns by exorcisers who know the "secret technique". After the death of the mortician, he traveled across mountains and rivers and returned to his hometown.

The person who drove the corpse was a mage wearing Taoist robes.In front of these corpses covered in black shrouds, there was a living person, whom the locals called "the dead man".

Regardless of the number of corpses, the mortician alone will drive them away, rest during the day and go on the road at night.

On the way to drive corpses, there is also a "dead corpse village store" to rest. This mysterious "dead corpse village store" only lives in dead corpses and morticians, and ordinary people can't live there.Its gates are open all year round.

The mortician drove the corpse, arrived at the "dead corpse shop" before dawn, and left quietly at night.

Among them, it is divided into "three catches, three not catches".

Anyone who has been beheaded, hanged, or died in a cage can be driven out.

Because these three kinds of people were all forced to die, and they died unconvinced.I miss my hometown as well as my loved ones.Their souls can be hooked with spells, and spells can be used to suppress their respective corpses, and then spells can be used to drive them to climb mountains and mountains, and even board boats and cross waters to return to their hometowns.

Those who died of illness, those who died voluntarily by throwing themselves into a river, and those who suffered from physical insufficiency by thunder and fire cannot be driven.

Among them, the souls of those who died of illness have been hooked off by Hades, and they cannot be recalled from the ghost gate;

The souls of those who throw the river hanger are "substituted" and entangled, and they may be handing over. If the new soul is brought in, the old soul cannot be replaced, which will affect the rebirth of the old soul;
In addition, those who died due to lightning were all sinners, and those who died in fire were often incomplete, so they could not be chased away.
Among them, all kinds of details have gone to the sea, and I can't say enough for a while.

When Gu Wenmin heard this, he looked at the corpses piled up outside our door, and suddenly said in surprise: "Could it be that this Yinyang Liubu Village is actually a shop for expelling corpses?"

Tofu was stunned, and asked: "Pervert Chen, you still don't admit that you are a pervert, who would know these things? How do you think this old man is a corpse?"

I said to myself: Tomb robbers and corpse exorcists both deal with corpses. When two groups of people meet, the tomb robbers have a strong body and can easily disturb the corpse of the exorcist.Therefore, in the field of mushroom digging, there is another rule: those who dig mushrooms upside down should avoid the morticians quickly and must not show their faces.

Otherwise, the dead body driven by the mortician would be attacked by the yin energy of the tomb robber, and it would jump up and attack people. This was recorded in Grandpa's work notes.

Of course, I can't say it clearly, after all, Gu Wenmin and Mao Rooster are here, so I said to Tofu, "I love to study. When you are playing games, don't I always learn knowledge? I know a little more than you." Boy, you are not convinced. As for how I figured it out, it’s very simple. Look at the shape of the Dangxin. It’s the shape of a ‘fierce ghost’. According to legend, it’s in the underworld to drive ghosts across the road to the underworld. Wherever you let the ghost go, the ghost has to go. There are two types of dementor bells, and one of them has a bell core, which uses the shape of a 'fierce king and ghost', which can't be wrong."

Mao Rooster is a local, and he knows the theory of expelling corpses quite well. He broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, and said, "It's hard, no wonder this place is called... Yin, Yinyang Liubu Village. It turned out to be a village where dead people live. I, I see this Chasing away the mortician, yes, it must have been accidental, accidental death here...here, those corpses...the corpses outside, maybe...he didn't rush back, go back. "

When he said this, I remembered hearing the old man ringing the bell in the middle of the night, and I thought: Could it be that this old man is unwilling to finish his work, so the ghost refuses to leave, so he rings the bell every night to drive away the corpse?
Before those corpses found us, they obviously walked out and wanted to get out of the village.

It's a pity that this mortician is dead. According to legend, ghosts who die violently cannot leave the place where they died. He may never be able to drive back the corpses left in Yinyang Liubu Village.

Back then, the old man took his corpse to rest in Yinyang Liubu Village. What happened to cause him to die suddenly is an unsolvable mystery, and we are powerless to explore it.

Tofu has always been soft-hearted. Hearing this, he said to the corpse of the mortician: "Old man, we don't intend to offend you, and we know that your death was wronged. When I get home, I will definitely do a water and land dojo to save you. But before that, I still have to ask you to save us, raise your hands high, and ring the bell again to drive all the zombies outside back to sleep, I am grateful, I am grateful, Amitabha, Hallelujah, Amen."

I thought of the other corpses wearing modern clothes that I found in the corpses before, and thought: We should not be the outsiders who came to this Yinyang Liubu Village for the first time. Those corpses were all wearing mountaineering suits and wanted to come with us. My experience is similar, it should be a mountaineering team, got lost and lived in the village, presumably killed by those corpses, and became a part of it.

If there is no way to escape, the next group of people who come here will see the four of us among the corpses.

Thinking of this, all the sympathy I had for the old man disappeared, and I deserved it for killing others after death.

Knowing the ins and outs of the matter, the panic in everyone's hearts has been reduced a lot, Gu Wenmin said: "It seems that these corpses are restricted by the exorcists, and they cannot leave the village. Let's follow the original plan and see if we can Jump out the back."

I nodded in agreement, and put the bell in my hand on the table next to me, thinking that the corpse would not be able to hold the soul-destroying bell, and see how it can do mischief.Immediately afterwards, he began to look for things like windows in the bedroom.

(End of this chapter)