Chapter 24 ghost attack

Shangdeyuan in the Chu state is a big village with not very honest folk customs.There are only two surnames living here, one surnamed Ni and the other surnamed Yan.However, the two surnames worshiped the same ancestral hall. This is because the ancestor of the Ni surname lived here earlier, and was recruited by the Yan surname to inherit the foundation of the Yan family.A few generations later, in order not to let the Ni surname be broken, some descendants restored the Ni surname, thus forming the current big family with two surnames. The Yan surname passed down a unique skill from the ancestors. This skill is only passed on to the real surname and not to the foreign surname. Even the descendants of the same clan who worshiped the same ancestral hall with the Ni surname are not passed on. This skill is to drive corpses.At that time, the world was in chaos, and there were wars for years, so the meal for the dead was the best.Common people all want their souls to return to their hometowns, so they are willing to pay a lot of money to take the corpses back to their hometowns for burial.Some soldiers who went to war had no other family members at home, so they simply sent all their family's money to Yan's family before going to war.If he dies outside, the funeral will be handed over to the Yan family, and they must take his body back to their hometown.

So when there was a big battle at that time, many descendants of the Yan family always followed behind the army.Every time the war ends, they go to the battlefield to find their employers.The first rule of the Yan family is that you should not break your trust with the dead, and in the business of exorcising corpses, only if you don't break your trust with the dead, the living will trust you even more.Having said that, in fact, there are still many customers who cannot be brought back every time.On the ancient battlefield, swords and guns were hacked, horses and carts were crushed, and many corpses were really unrecognizable in the end.And falling off a cliff, going with the current, or being captured by the other party, it is even more impossible for Yan's family to find them.Therefore, it is unavoidable to spend some ignorant money every time you go out to work.

The Yan family's technique of driving corpses is very magical, it is said that it is a combination of the unique skills of the two sects of Middle Earth Taoism and Northern Cold Barbaric Shamanism.After finding those employers, you only need to insert a long golden needle in the Niwan Palace on the top of the corpse's head, and put the spell in the mouth.Then shake the bell and read the mantra, and those dead employers will crawl out of the pile of corpses by themselves, and follow the bell to their hometown in groups.Even corpses with missing arms and legs would limp and even crawl behind. (The exorcising of corpses before the Northern Song Dynasty was like this. As for why they become zombies and must be exorcised at night, I will explain in detail later in the book.)

Yan's surname drove corpses to earn money, but Ni's surname did not have such skills, so he followed Yan's family to help with the funeral.Carrying a coffin and digging a hole can barely make ends meet.But after doing this kind of thing for a long time, he developed the unique skill of digging holes and digging graves with one hand.Not only the graves of the dead are dug, but also the graves of those who have been dead for a long time.Although digging the graves of people who have died for a long time does not accumulate virtue, the harvest can allow them to buy land, build houses, start a family, and continue the incense of the Ni family.However, because of the behavior of the descendants of Ni surnamed digging graves to make a fortune, and because Yan's family ignorantly deposited money from the dead, Shangdeyuan was also called Sangdeyuan.

But in the face of disasters, there is no distinction between Yan and Ni, and there is no distinction between rich and poor, and there are only distinctions between life and death.What's more, some disasters may really be retribution from heaven. The old and young people in Shangdeyuan did not expect the disaster to come so suddenly.It was just dawn, and the morning fog was so thick that it was impossible to see anything more than a dozen steps away.And what is often more defenseless than seeing is that you can't hear any sound while seeing. There was an old man who got up very early. Before he got up, he could vaguely hear something moving slowly outside the house, but when he opened the door, he couldn't hear anything.The disapproving old man directly opened the courtyard door and walked into the fog, so he saw many ghost-like faces in the fog.

The face is that of a ghost, and the body is that of a human being. Although he stands motionless in the fog, he is standing in a position that surrounds every house in Shangdeyuan.The old man didn't have time to sound a warning, the moment he opened his mouth, there was a cold light, and the throat that should have made the sound was cut off.No sound came out of the wide-open mouth, only hot blood gushed out. All the attacks were followed by a long dull sound, which was so dull that it felt like it came from hell.It's like the long sigh of a person dying, and the last groan of a ghost before drinking Meng Po soup.

The exclamation came from someone who was the first group of people who were attacked but had time to respond. The tragic cry made the entire Shangde Plain deeply feel the fear.In a chaotic world, anything can happen.So he hurriedly called the family members to get up, and then greeted each other in the brothers and neighbors, and the sound of calling for children and father became one.But all these actions were too slow, and before some people were awakened by the call, the horror came. The ghost's attack was silent, like a gust of wind blowing from the fog.Running, jumping, jumping over walls, and passing houses, there was no sound at all.The ghosts are also fast, just like the crop fields swept by the locust swarms, Shangdeyuan disappeared before people fully reacted.

Shangdeyuan is gone, people are gone, and houses are gone.Some of the people disappeared, mainly young and middle-aged people who were taken away.Some of the rest are dead, and these are all old people, children and women. Although the rush came suddenly, but the young and middle-aged men reacted and fought with the unhuman.It is very strange that these people who resisted fighting were finally caught by tripwires, nets, and flying chains, while those old women and children who had no resistance at all were killed on sight. When the house was gone, it was burned down. No one was left. The fire burned from morning to night, and the tiles on the roof exploded like firecrackers.Later, people in the neighborhood said that it was because they had done too much digging ghost graves with the surnames Yan and Ni, and ghosts from the underworld came to take revenge.

Fan Xiaotian arrived at Shangdeyuan just as the sun was setting. Although the sky was already dark, compared with the morning fog, the visibility was still much clearer.Fan Xiaotian didn't see Shangde Yuan, what appeared in front of him was only a fire scene that had already burnt to an end, a burnt ruins, and even blacker corpses in the ruins. Fan Xiaotian stood there blankly for a long time.He didn't know why there was such a terrible scene here, and he didn't know whether the miserable scene had anything to do with his arrival.Many times he is also an assassin who kills without blinking an eye, but seeing this situation, he still can't help but feel terrified.Throughout the ages, no assassin in the world has been able to kill so many people. It is no wonder that the fundamental intention of the Patriarch's assassination is to stop the war with assassination, so that the world will be free from contention and looting, and the common people will live in peace and happiness.

With a crisp sound of "cracking", Fan Xiaotian was so shocked that three souls lost two of them.He didn't know why he was like this, usually he was a master of frightening skills, the most powerful one was when he was first working, under the leadership of his senior, he used the technique to scare the thorns to death.But now why did the slightest noise scare him into such a state?No!It's not because I'm timid, but because the surrounding situation is too miserable.Even the scene of hell is not so miserable. "Wow, ah, ah!" Immediately afterwards, there were repeated strange screams, like a ghost crying, like a devil howling.The strange cry was right behind Fan Xiaotian, very close.He couldn't help but the hairs all over his body stood up, the chill between his ribs was like wind, and he broke out with cold sweat.

However, Fan Xiaotian was not in chaos, nor did he run away, but immediately raised his spirits, collected his essence and blood, and stuck to his core.These are the states of self-protection of the body's internal environment when encountering scary things.Then he turned around slowly, very slowly, squinting and looking timidly at the place where the sound came from. In the process of turning around slowly, Fan Xiaotian could feel the stiffness of his body, which was caused by the tense muscles on both sides of the spine.He could also feel his straight beard trembling slightly, which was caused by his lips being pressed together too tightly.It is said that people who pretend to be ghosts are actually most afraid of ghosts, and Fan Xiaotian is a good proof.As a master who majored in the art of surprise, if he didn't have awe of ghosts and gods in his heart, and he didn't feel any fear at all when he did the tricks, how could he use it to scare others? Fan Xiaotian imagined several horror scenes that he might see: With a "crack", the ground that had been scorched for a day cracked, and then a half-decomposed skeleton with teeth and claws came out from the ground.It may also be that the scorched black corpse crawled up and stood up, and the "crack" sound was that a bone somewhere in the body had been brittle and broke due to the weight of the body, and the "wow" was because the bone was broken Pain, or the panic of not being able to stand still because a bone is missing.It is also possible that the grilling time was too long, and the brain inside the corpse's head was heated and expanded, and the crispy skull burst with a "crack", and the "wow" was because the hot brain flowed into the mouth.It's possible... Fan Xiaotian's eyes instantly opened like copper bells, he sucked in a mouthful of dusty and smoky gas, and held it back for a long time before daring to spit it out.What he saw was completely different from what he had imagined, and it was precisely because of the difference that he felt even more horrified and surprised. What he saw was a woman, not a female corpse, but a living young woman.The scene itself was weird enough, and what was even weirder was that the woman was very clean without any dust or black smoke.But there is something even more weird, that is, the woman's body, which was not stained with a trace of dust or smoke, turned out to be completely naked, and her wet body looked particularly greasy and firm.At that time, society had all kinds of feudal rules and regulations for women. It was already shocking for a woman to stand naked in the wild, let alone in a place full of black bones and charred corpses. Jiang Huyan: When you see strange things, you will encounter strange things.Originally such a strong and fit carcass could taste a bit of fragrance, but the woman twisted her irregular face, opened her bloody mouth and howled in a hoarse voice, "Wow!" Like the birth of Yaksha, weird and terrifying. Fan Xiaotian stood there frightened for a long time, and the woman also howled for a long time. Fan Xiaotian finally exhaled the breath of dust and smoke that was pent up in his body.For he saw that the woman was not howling, but crying.Finally, I saw the clothes that should have been worn on the woman, and the clothes were in a puddle of water under her feet.And on the woman's side were two large pieces of porcelain jars that had fallen down. This is not a ghost, this is a woman who survived, she was hidden in the water tank by someone and escaped the murder.The lower half of the water tank was buried in the soil, and the lid was a stone slab pressed down with a millstone.Fortunately, the water tank was far away from the burning house, otherwise, the woman would not be able to withstand the pressed stone slabs and millstones in the water tank, and would have to be boiled alive.But even if it was far away, the inside of the water tank was still very hot, otherwise the woman would not have taken off all her clothes. "Wow!" The woman was still howling, no, it should be crying.She didn't care whether there was anyone in front of her or who it was, she just stood there naked and cried. Fan Xiaotian no longer had fear, and without fear, his thinking would become extremely sharp.First, he scanned the surrounding environment vigilantly again, which is an assassin's due caution.The woman's sudden cry may attract someone's attention.In addition, it is also necessary to prevent the naked woman from being a claw in the pocket, the purpose is to divert his attention.So that some people can sneak up on him and attack him. Scanning around did not find any abnormalities, so Fan Xiaotian began to carefully observe the woman's expression, crying and occasional eyes.Some phenomena can be inferred from the surrounding things, but it is difficult to see the inner essence of a person from the external details, unless the person is a master who has been around for a long time.