Chapter 17 Chapter 5: The Last Quarter Moon Seals the Corpse in the Dark

night.execution ground.It's the waning moon. A waning moon hangs listlessly in the night sky, bleak and gloomy.The crow uttered a few hoarse and ugly calls, and the three shadows slipped into the execution ground in the tomb. These three people are me, Tian Gudao, and Ghost Cub Yao. At this time, a gust of wind hit, and the old and lonely neem tree in the cemetery made a rustling sound, and I couldn't help shivering.Tian Gudao, who has always been superstitious about crows as ominous birds, lowered his voice and said, "Brother, nothing will happen tonight, right?" I yelled in a low voice: "Shut your crow's mouth!"

Tian Gudao stopped talking. We tiptoed, held our breath, and touched the guillotine. Suddenly, we found a will-o’-the-wisp shaking on the grave. We immediately nestled sideways in a depression, and half-lyed down. Tian Gudao deliberately coughed a few times, and the will-o’-the-wisp went out immediately.At this time, a fat mouse crawled out of the grave and crawled across my crotch. The mouse had a big belly, and it must be a pregnant female mouse. I didn't say anything, and neither did Tian Gudao. I muttered in my heart: I really met a ghost tonight!Immediately press the thumb on the middle finger, and silently recite the mantra to get rid of ghosts.

There was a dead silence, and after lying still for a while, we continued to crawl forward. When I was about to reach the stage, suddenly, someone stretched out a hand from behind and grabbed my cuff.My scalp suddenly went numb, and when I looked back, it turned out that Tian Gudao staggered, failed to stand firmly, and almost fell to the ground, with a headless dead body under his feet. I cursed in a low voice: "Please pay attention, people are scary to death!" The corpse exorcisers are not afraid of ghosts and gods, but they are afraid of living people pretending to be ghosts, because once the spell does not work, they will inevitably be confused, and their souls will easily be lost in panic.

At this time, a strong smell of blood came to the nostrils, directly entering the internal organs, and a bad breath swept up, setting off shocking turbid waves in the body, overwhelming the river, and couldn't help but want to vomit. Trembling, he finally came to the guillotine. Before I could stand still, I staggered and almost fell to the ground, but Tian Gudao dragged me back.I was annoyed, and kicked the stumbling object, and the thing rolled out. I touched it with my hand, but I touched a row of teeth. I was panicked, and was about to pull my hand out, but was bitten by two rows of teeth, and refused to let go.I pulled my hand desperately, but brought out the head of a death row prisoner.It turned out that when I reached out to grope, Tian Gudao kicked the Tianling cover on the head, probably because of external stimulation, the mouth that was originally opened on the head was actually closed.

When I got closer and stared, I vaguely found that the eyes on that head were also staring at me, pointing to my needlepoint, and there was a long braid on the lonely head.I forcefully opened the dead man's mouth, carefully identified it, and found that it was not Song Guoli, the death row prisoner we were looking for, so I threw it away.His hands were covered with sticky, congealed blood. There were heads all over the stage. More than 30 death row prisoners were executed, plus more than 40 people who were massacred during the robbery of the execution ground, there are always more than 80 heads.

I groped around to find a bearded head with his mouth open as if he wanted to say something, but he was beheaded before he could get it out. Tian Gudao said: "This is the man who was beheaded last." All of a sudden, a wild dog sprang out from nowhere and rushed towards us with a low, menacing voice, as if warning us that we shouldn't encroach on its territory and rob it of its delicacies.Before we could react, we quickly took a head and walked away. Through the dim moonlight, I saw a dog in the distance gnawing on the bone vigilantly. Tian Gudao and I yelled in unison, if the head we were looking for was taken away, it would be a big disaster.

We immediately recited the dog-repelling curse, Tian Gudao ran over, snatched the human head from the dog's mouth, and picked up the wreckage next to the other dog's mouth, and took it over to see that the human head was not Song Guoli's.Feel a little relieved, but the head of the other person has been bitten beyond recognition, leaving only a skeleton with uneaten flesh still stuck to it, which makes one's hair stand on end. Tian Gudao said quietly: "If this is the head of the criminal Song Guoli, then it's over!" I was also not sure in my heart, so I said: "Let's go to the heads of the condemned prisoners first and then we can talk about it."

So, Wada and I began to grope around in a pile of heads. We have already memorized the appearance of Song Guoli, the death row prisoner, especially the goatee under his mouth is a very good sign, which is clear at a glance. clear. The ghost cubs were not afraid, they followed us and handed the heads around them to us for identification one by one. More than 80 heads are piled together like a small mountain bag. We have to open them one by one to identify them, which is really time-consuming and labor-intensive.Under the dim moonlight, the difficulty was even greater, because we were afraid of being discovered, and we dared not light torches.At the beginning, we carefully identified each one. In order to improve efficiency, we decided to use the elimination method. If there is no goatee, we will throw it aside.

"Brother, we are more fucking executioners than executioners! If we had known this, we would have asked for more rewards!" Tian Gudao complained under his throat. "I found it!" Tian Gudao suppressed his voice as much as possible, but he still couldn't suppress his excitement. I stepped forward and saw that there was no goatee, but a red turban wrapped around it. It turned out to be the executioner who died in the execution ground. The executioner's surname was Wei, Wei Kefu, a native of Xiushan County, no marriage and children, only an eighty-year-old mother at home, and no relatives or friends.After he was killed, several executioners who usually had a good relationship with him pooled up money. Through some unknown means, they found out that we were morticians, so they found us and asked us to drive Wei Kefu's dead body back to Xiushan.Anyway, by the way, I can earn more money, so that I can earn enough money to go to the exam as soon as possible, we naturally agreed.

Then there was another burst of groping, but Song Guoli's head could not be found. Tian Gudao and I were a little discouraged, and agreed that the wreck that was bitten by a dog just now was Song Guoli's head. "Grandma is a kimchi, why is she so unlucky!" Tian Gudao cursed bitterly. After tinkering for so long, the busy work was wasted. The two were startled and tired, so they sat facing each other, silent. "Brother, why don't we just find a head and put it together? Then put on a good make-up, and the mourners may not recognize it." Tian Gudao came up with a bad idea. I don't know if he is serious or joking.Thanks to him being able to figure it out, I know he didn't want to make the trip in vain.According to the rules of driving corpses, all the corpses must be driven back to be considered complete.

If Song Guoli's head is really eaten by dogs, then not only will this work be wasted, but it will also affect our reputation.Unfavorable start, it can't be so unlucky!I cheer myself up.If there is no other way, the wreckage should be brought back for a mission. I exchanged ideas with Tian Gudao and decided to find Song Guoli's body first. So we groped and crawled towards the guillotine. The headless corpses of the condemned prisoners were all piled up in a cone shape, as high as a person, and blood flowed everywhere.The headless corpses were scattered all over the place without any order. Most of the dead corpses had their hands clenched tightly, and there was a puddle of blood on their necks, giving off a strong fishy smell, which was particularly terrifying in the hazy night.A group of rats scrambled and squeaked on the corpse for food. The ghost cub who went up first let out a cry of "Wow". I stepped forward to take a look, but saw a dead body with complete limbs lying down in a pile of headless corpses. I was shocked at the moment, today is really a bit evil!How could there be a whole body? "Obviously all of them were decapitated. There should be only one executioner surnamed Wei in the entire execution ground, but his body has already been found in the audience. How could there be one more!" Tian Gudao said with a hint of imperceptibility panic. "Could it be that the relatives of the deceased bribed the executioner and deliberately left a whole body?" I guessed in a low voice. "Brother, that's not right, there is no knife scar on his neck at all." Tian Gudao climbed up and touched his neck carefully, but found no knife scars, and his deep voice began to change its tone. It seems to be something unclean, this cemetery is already full of yin, plus the dead bodies are everywhere today, maybe it will attract lonely souls and wild ghosts? I pulled Tian Gudao away, took out the treasure "Huya Red Sandalwood Ruler" bestowed on me by my master, and slapped it down on the corpse, feeling like I was hitting something hard. "Ah yo." The corpse actually let out a weak cry. "Function weapon!" I issued an order to Tian Gudao, but even the "Huya Suppressing Ruler" couldn't do anything about it. It seems that this is a vicious ghost!A fierce battle is indispensable today! We were about to cast a mantra, when the corpse whispered again: "Long Lang Qiankun, we are magnificent; Taishang Patriarch, lend me the courage of the heavens; Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha, give me the earth bag; the heavens and the earth let me play freely, and the bottom is a river." On the top of the mountain is the sun and stars. I contain heaven and earth, curse poison to kill ghosts, curse gold and gold to destroy themselves, curse trees and trees to collapse, curse water and water to exhaust themselves, curse fire and fire to extinguish themselves, curse mountains and mountains to collapse, and curse stones to destroy themselves. Stones crack themselves, curse gods and gods to bind themselves, curse ghosts to commit suicide..." It turned out to be a fellow corpse exorcist!The knowing mantra he recited was a wedge for the exorcist to identify himself, and only the exorcist could understand it. It was equivalent to the slang of martial arts, and it was used to distinguish identity and connect.Just had a false alarm!I felt a little more at ease with Tian Gudao. The man stood up, but he was holding a human head in his hand. Through the moonlight, he could vaguely see a goatee growing on his chin.Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Song Guoli's head.Tian Gudao snatched it over and held it tightly in his arms, for fear of losing it again. The man squatted down and communicated with us in a low voice. It turned out that he was a mortician from Guizhou, three of the Bailian sect members executed today were from Guizhou, and he was entrusted by their relatives to drive these three dead bodies back to Guizhou.Because he was worried about encountering officers and soldiers and causing unnecessary trouble, he, like us, only started to act at night. He said that he had just arrived at the execution ground, and was about to lighten the button to find the head and sew the corpse, but when he heard the strange noise we made, he was startled, thinking that it was someone from the government who came to find out the truth, so he quickly lay down in the pile of corpses and pretended to be dead. He died, and he didn't have time to drop the head in his hand. So, the two groups of people were busy with their own work. We only need to find Song Guoli's physical body and we can practice it.However, it was very difficult to find the corpse he wanted to chase among the more than 80 headless corpses.Because the head has typical facial features, it is easier to find it, but it is not easy to identify the corpse without a head clearly in the night. After searching for a while, I turned all the corpses over and over again, but still couldn't figure it out. When I was exhausted, I suddenly remembered the "Liu Pai Walking Corpse Secret Technique" given to me by my master. There is a way to deal with this situation. So, I asked Tian Gudao to take out Song Guoli's head, set it up next to the pile of headless corpses in the direction of the deceased's hometown, announced the deceased's birth date, and recited the mantra.As soon as the incantation was finished, one of the scattered headless corpses suddenly slapped the hand of a corpse and made a noise.The Guizhou mortician was taken aback and reminded us not to make too much noise. Tian Gudao and I dragged out the abnormal corpse, butted the head against the neck of the fleshy body, and the knife edge really matched. We immediately took cinnabar and poured it into Song Guoli's neck, preparing to sew Song Guoli's body together with needles and threads. Tian Gudao said in a low voice: "Xiucai, today is going better than I expected. As soon as the body is sewn up, I will immediately cast a spell to leave this place!" When we were rejoicing, we suddenly felt the dark cemetery light up, our eyes were dazzled, we lost our vision, and we couldn't see anything immediately. Before we regained our vision, the sound of war drums and shouts sounded in our ears. It turned out that we were surrounded by officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers thought I was a member of the White Lotus Sect who came to collect the corpse, and they had been waiting here for a long time. The mortician in Guizhou complained that our incident just now woke up the officers and soldiers, and we didn’t bother to care about him. The first priority now is how to save our own lives. Jiu will take his own life. According to the imperial decree, anyone who joins the White Lotus Sect or has an affair with the White Lotus Sect will be severely punished until Ling Chi. I told the Guizhou guy, now is not the time to complain to each other, we should form an alliance, deal with the officers and soldiers together, break out of the siege, and the Guizhou guy nodded in response. The four of us picked up some twigs nearby, and the ghost cub was even more flexible in his hands and feet, and brought a large bundle.Tian Gudao was so strong that he pulled a wooden pillar from the execution ground.Then, Tian Gudao, I, and the Guizhou guy recited the "Illusion Curse" together.Those branches immediately turned into large and small snakes, making swishing sounds, and swam towards the officers and soldiers in different directions.Many of them have deformed bodies, some have weird shapes, and some have double heads. A giant python is particularly eye-catching, with a length of three feet, a thick waist, eyes like torches, and a mouth full of hunger. The unbearable appearance is very scary. "Giant python eats people, run!" Hearing a scream from among the officers and soldiers, he ran away. "Don't run, this is the sorcery of the White Lotus Sect, you'll be fine if you just sit quietly with your eyes closed..." A man who looked like a general yelled out his voice, but no one listened to his instructions.He raised his sword and chopped off the soldier who fled first, and the other soldiers who followed him stopped running immediately and turned to face the snakes. The man and the snake fought fiercely, the officers and soldiers screamed in horror, a small leader cut off the head of the giant python, but the python head that fell on the ground refused to let him go, and jumped up from the ground, biting him hard. Hold his neck.The leader suddenly rolled his eyes white, bulging outwards, with a terrified expression, and fell to the ground dying of breath. But the headless boa constrictor was still wandering around, rampaging in the formation of officers and soldiers, frightening a group of officers and soldiers trembling.After a fierce battle, the officers and soldiers lost a lot, and all the snakes were killed. "Listen, bandits of the White Lotus Sect, your sorcery has failed, come out obediently and suffer your death!" The general began to shout at us. "Grandma, pickle, you are the White Lotus Sect. Your whole family belongs to the White Lotus Sect. Eighteen generations of your ancestors belonged to the White Lotus Sect!" The reputation of the corpse chaser. Seeing that we didn't respond, the other party didn't dare to attack easily.The execution ground fell into a brief silence again. I exchanged opinions with Guizhou guys.Only then did he see clearly that the other party was an old man, who described it as ugly, even a little scary. We divided the work, and the Guizhou guy and I performed the "casting the shadows" technique, commanding the lonely ghosts in the execution ground and the cemetery to make trouble.Tian Gudao chanted a spell to manipulate the body of the executioner Wei Kefu to walk, psychologically intimidating the officers and soldiers.The ghost cub catapulted the leader of the officers and soldiers with the sandalwood bow in his hand. Tian Gudao stuffed the ghost machete into the executioner Wei Kefu's right hand, and picked a random head from the pile of heads, let him carry it in his left hand, and then cast a spell.After a while, the dead body of the executioner Weikov stood up and walked straight to the officers and soldiers, walking steadily and forcefully. "Hurry up and shoot him!" Some officers and soldiers shouted. At this time, a person came out to stop it, and he shouted: "This is our own person, wait until he comes over!" With the torches of the officers and soldiers, it turned out that the person who called out was today's supervisor and beheader.Perhaps he thought that the executioner was not dead, but just drugged, and now that the effect of the drug had worn off, he could walk back to the camp. The camp of officers and soldiers was rioting, complaining, and quarreling.The dead body ignored this, and walked straight towards the supervisor, and after a while, walked up to him. I saw the beheading officer stopped Wei Kefu's dead body, tested his nose with his hand, and then tested his nose again, with a confused expression on his face. Then, he touched the heart of the corpse, his complexion became abnormal, and he was still not reconciled, so he tried the nose of the corpse again.At this time, seeing his complexion changed drastically, he looked shocked and terrified, and shouted "there is a ghost", before he finished speaking, his eyes turned white immediately, he fell to the ground, and flung himself stiffly on a graveyard. When others saw it, they fled around desperately. Someone exclaimed, "The zombies are coming", the voice was full of panic, miserable and sad, echoing in the weird cemetery. Wei Kefu's body was still chasing the timid officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers screamed.Wherever the corpse went, the officers and soldiers there were afraid of avoiding it, and they had already taken the initiative to give up a wide road.One of the soldiers was unable to dodge in time, fell to the ground, and died of exhaustion due to excessive panic. At this time, the Guizhou guy and I also started to cast Yin spells.I recited the incantation and wiped away the fire from my forehead, only to see ghosts swaying beside the tomb and the execution ground, the ghosts were lying around, the ghosts were impermanent, and the phantoms of ghosts appeared and disappeared from time to time, grinning or grinning. Bloodless, or blue-faced fangs, in pairs, in piles, baring their teeth and claws. I saw a group of hungry ghosts, lying on the pile of dead bodies in the execution ground, sucking the coagulated blood of the headless corpses, some holding the heads and nibbling with gusto.The two hanged ghosts stuck out their chi-long tongues and swayed around. The tongues were as flexible as the tongues of giant pythons, sticking out in the air from time to time, as if they were sensing the breath of living people.A group of headless wandering souls are wandering around aimlessly, as if they are looking for a way back, and they seem to be looking for their own lost heads. Among a group of ghosts and ghosts, I saw the executioner surnamed Wei strangling the beheading officer, as if he was looking for the envoy of impermanence to comment.There are also many officers and soldiers whose souls have left their bodies, wandering outside their physical bodies, being chased by a group of fierce ghosts.An old woman was leaning on a snake-shaped cane, and she kept chanting: "Give me back my life, give me my life back", sending out a life-threatening spell... People have their own words, and ghosts have their own ghost words.I recited the "ghost mantra" and used the ghost language to communicate with the group of ghosts: "All the lonely ghosts obey the order, and you will wander in the cemetery and the cemetery, and the slaughterhouse in the execution ground. You will never be saved, reincarnated, or turned over. You can't avenge your grievances, you can't lock your soul, it's all because the time has not come. Now is an opportunity. If you have a grievance, you can avenge your vengeance. Everyone gets what they want, what a joy..." The group of ghosts heard the law and rushed out one after another, heading towards the camp of the officers and soldiers, using their own tricks to torture and frighten the officers and soldiers. Let's say that the officers and soldiers were still in shock from the dead bodies commanded by Tian Gudao, and suddenly a gust of wind blew by, and the torch in their hands was extinguished instantly, lit again, and then extinguished again, so repeated, the more they were lit, the more frightened they became. Some officers and soldiers were slapped and looked around, but there was no one there.Two officers and soldiers became suspicious of each other, and finally they stood face to face, with their hands down, but they were still slapped repeatedly, and immediately screamed "there is a ghost", and ran wildly. Many officers and soldiers were also baffled. They were either stripped of their clothes, or their hats were taken off, or their weapons were robbed, and some of their necks were bitten.The officers and soldiers looked around, but there was no one there, and they were all shocked when they called their mothers and fathers. At this time, a cock crowed in the distance, our hearts tightened, and we had to leave as soon as we thought.Because the crowing of the rooster means that the sky is about to dawn, and ghosts have to hide because they are afraid of the yang energy when the sun comes out after dawn. So, taking advantage of the confusion and fear of the officers and soldiers, we arranged the corpses, chanted a spell, and shouted "Get up", and the corpses to be chased stood up "噗". In order to further create a terrifying atmosphere, we did not wait for Song Guoli A headless dead body had its head sewn on, but let the dead body carry its own head and walked straight out.We intentionally showed a terrifying and ferocious face, echoed back and forth, and let the ghost cub walk in front holding the head in both hands. His appearance was strange and frightening, and it was even more eerie in the gloomy execution ground and cemetery.Especially those few headless corpses walking around are even more frightening. When the officers and soldiers saw this scene, they were all so frightened that they fled, thinking that they were in the underworld, unable to distinguish between life and death. At first, the general who shouted "This is an illusion" has long since disappeared.After several rounds of tossing, the officers and soldiers of nearly a thousand people are now torn apart, and they only care about fleeing for their lives. Our team of mixed corpses escaped under the noses of the officers and soldiers.