Chapter 10 Forty-fourth Night Corpse Slave

Bathing originated from the ancient Roman Empire more than two thousand years ago.The nobles of the ancient Roman Empire were very keen on building luxurious public baths, and they did not charge any bath money.Of course, the so-called free objects do not include the lowest-level people such as slaves. Since the Black Death pandemic that occurred in 1348, due to the risk of infection in public bathrooms, public bathrooms have almost disappeared for a while.Until the 18th century, bathing revived again in Europe.Along with the urbanization process brought about by the industrial revolution, the number of people sickened by industrial pollution has increased.Under this background, the concept of modern sanitation came into being, and the idea of ​​sanitation soon spread to the whole world.Specifically reflected in the laying of sewers, bathing as an effective means of hygiene has also been re-recognized by everyone.

This bathroom is different from ordinary public bathrooms.Because it claims to be a hot spring in the city.It is said that the water here comes from man-made hot springs. But in my opinion, the so-called man-made hot spring is nothing more than a hot pool with water constantly added to it.Of course, the boss may also add some iron filings or pebbles to it.This creates a hot spring rich in minerals.But the business here is so hot that there is still a queue.So this time I was more curious than taking a bath. When I came, the four had been waiting for a long time.Unexpectedly, Li Duo actually called Luo Lei to come. Girls are like this, they need to call for a companion when they go shopping and take a bath.

"By the way, what's your name?" Luo Lei squatted down and asked Li Zheng.Li Zheng was stunned.That is, we haven't named him yet.The three looked at each other.I immediately pulled Li Zheng over, patted his head and smiled. "His surname is Zheng, you call him Zheng Liba, it makes sense." I gave him a random name.Li Zheng glanced up at me, then sighed. "What a weird name." Li Duo looked up at the sky with his chin in his hands, as if thinking. "By the way, Xiaoli. How old are you? You're only seven or eight years old. Why don't you take a bath with your sister?" Luo Lei said, pulling Li Zheng away.

I quickly took Li Zheng off. "Boys should go to the men's bathroom!" Li Zheng looked at me with half-opened eyes again, spread his hands and shook his head.I gave him a hard look.Li Duo and Luo Lei told us to help Li Zheng clean up, so they went in talking and laughing loudly. "It was really dangerous just now." I sighed, and Ji Yan smiled. "Go in." Li Zheng put his hand in, looked back at us, and then walked in on his own.I found myself hating his bad temper more and more.Even more annoying than he used to be. The bathroom is huge.There is a square changing room on the left.It's not the same as a bathroom that costs a few dollars.On the right is a bath stone imitating a wild hot spring.After taking off my clothes and wrapping them around with bath towels, a waiter like a doorman will receive the bath stones we ordered.All the bath stones are located in a separate room, and they are all made of rock-like rocks. It seems that the boss really invested a little money.

This bath stone is an irregular circle filled with water with a diameter of three to four meters.Same as a big washbasin.The perimeter is made of granite, which feels like a real hot spring.Taking a bath here is like singing in KTV.Book boxes according to the number of people.But this place should be called Baopencai team.Only one person is called Xiaopen, and three or four of us are called Zhongpen.Of course, there are also large basins and giant basins, which are probably used for business meetings.Each bag pot is isolated from each other.Neither sound-transparent nor see each other.And there are good exhaust facilities.Not too blurred by the steam of the water.

All the water is running water. There is a water outlet on the top of the stone basin, which supplies hot water continuously, and the water below flows out slowly. Generally speaking, the water quality is still very good.It's quite deep inside, almost reaching the chin when you sit down. The three of them immersed their bodies in hot water.There was a very satisfied look on their faces.I felt as if all the 36,500 pores in my body had been opened.The heat seems to flow through the body.From all parts of the body to the head, there were waves of numbness.In fact, the human body has a natural dependence on water. Our lungs can breathe from water when we are embryos.

"Be careful, don't suffer from heat stroke." Seeing that my eyes were closed, Ji Yan warned me.Taking a bath in winter can also cause heat stroke, because the doors and windows are closed tightly, the heat cannot circulate, and the sweat is not excreted smoothly, so heat stroke will naturally occur. I looked at Li Zheng, who was only showing his head, looking at me and Ji Yan, and suddenly wondered where his chubby corpse control insect was usually kept.I asked Ji Yan, and Ji Yan was also very curious.So we asked Li Zheng to explain. "You guys are really boring. You always think about this kind of problem. If you have time to think about it, why don't you think about how to force the person who stole my body out." Li Zheng didn't want to say it at first, but he couldn't bear our stalking Hit, had to speak out slowly.

"I got the corpse-controlling worm just like you got the one in your eyes." Li Zheng suddenly stretched out his finger from the water and pointed to my eyes.Oh, it seems that he knows that I have a mirror demon sealed in my eyes. The hot air next to me rushed straight to my forehead, and I felt a soreness in my eyes.A little thing jumped onto my shoulder and slowly lowered itself into the hot water.Then squinted the small eyes as big as soybeans and trembled all over, and then let out bursts of creaking sounds, looking very comfortable. It turned out to be a mirror demon!Ji Yan said that it will hibernate, but it seems that it will come out when the weather is warmer.As soon as I grabbed its neck, the mirror demon's eyes rolled up immediately, its short claws shook, and it kept barking.

I shook it vigorously, and the thought of this guy sleeping in my eyes when I was always in danger and needing help was driving me crazy. "Every time something happens to me, you are sleeping soundly. Now that you are in the hot spring, you are alive again? You still look satisfied. Am I your master?" The mirror monster's slender ears drooped limply after being shaken by me. down. "Let it go, hibernation is the nature of this kind of monster, you can't blame it, but the mirror monster is a very timid monster." Ji Yan didn't persuade me, I really wanted to seal it completely.The mirror demon that ran out of my hand was lying on the stone wall, trembling, looking at me quietly.

"What kind of monster is really raised by someone." Li Zheng said again. "Let me tell you how I became the master of corpse-controlling insects." Li Zheng splashed water on his face, and I suddenly found that there was rare sadness in his eyes, and the mature voice that did not match his appearance slowed down. Slowly accompanied by the sound of hot water flowing, I recalled it in this empty room.We also fell silent, and the mirror demon also opened its eyes wide, jumped on top of my head, lay down on top of me and stood up carefully. "During my freshman year of college, I stumbled across a book in the library. I found it by digging through a pile of very worn out books, no, it wasn't so much that I found the book as it was the The book itself picked me. Because just as I was about to leave, the book fell off the shelf by itself and slammed onto the floor.

There is no title, just the bound book, which looks old, and there is neither author nor title, so I don't know how to borrow it.Later, I found out that the library's alarm system didn't go off when I took the book out directly. I didn't tell anyone about the book, anyway, I don't have any friends, so I would find a secluded classroom to read after class during the day. I didn't quite understand it at first, but I gradually understood that this book is to teach you how to defend a corpse.In the previous history, the Xiangxi exorcists have always carried some mysterious colors. In some people's eyes, expelling corpses is pure nonsense.It is said that in a certain place in Jiangxi, after a person dies, a strong male relative wears his or her black clothes to carry his or her body on his back, and walks around along his or her usual route, and it must be within seven steps. Jump once.If one looks at it in the dark or with bad eyesight, it seems that the corpse is walking or jumping by itself.The so-called fraudulent corpse also comes from this. At first I also thought this was the truth about expelling corpses.But when I found out from the books I read later.Manipulating the dead is not unique to China. According to a foreign tourist, he once discovered a secret opium manor on a certain island.And all the growers are expressionless and can work continuously without eating or drinking under the scorching sun and other extremely harsh weather.Later, he learned that the manor owner could actually control the dead to work for him through some kind of drug, so as to make huge profits. There are countless such things.And I also learned in that book that there are many types and levels of corpse control. The most advanced among them is the corpse slave. " "Corpse slave?" I asked.Ji Yan touched her chin and thought for a while. "I heard my father mention it. It seems that the technique of controlling corpses appeared as early as our ancestors. It can even be traced back to the Han Dynasty. It is said that the reason why the Yellow Turban Rebellion swept across China in the early days was because he used the dead as an army. His soldiers are basically invincible. But later his technique was broken, and those rebels are naturally no longer the opponents of the regular army." Li Zheng nodded and continued: "The corpse control technique has high requirements on the corpse, and people with different abilities can achieve different effects. For example, when I use the corpse control technique now, I can make the dead talk and act as if they were alive, and even cover up the dead body. Putrid smell, and low-level people can only temporarily animate the corpse. part 4 At that time, I was crazy about this forbidden technique.And experiment on some small animals, the result is very successful, the dead animals can stand up again.However, I have never dared to implement this technique on living people. I couldn't find a fresh corpse, so the use of the technique had to come to an end.At the end of the book, it is mentioned that the highest level of real control over corpses is to control corpse control insects.But it doesn't say how to get it.And the last page of the book was stuck with something.I threw the book aside and gradually forgot about it. Later, the book disappeared, and I roughly thought that I didn't know where to put it.Didn't look any further.But then strange things happened one after another in the school. It started with multiple students missing.Then, their bodies were found not far from the school.Most are highly decomposed. Although the school secretly blocked the news.But I still got it from a classmate. His name is Wenk.I said that I have almost no friends.But Wenk can be counted as one.Since I have the same hobbies as me, I sometimes discuss anecdotes about ancient China with him.However, he is different from me. Wen Ke is very yearning for those mythical magic arts, and often shows a very longing look in his eyes, which even makes me feel a little uncomfortable.But I trust him very much, and even have a sense of dependence.He is one year older than me, and his family is rich, so he knows much more than me. People always like to make friends with people who are stronger than themselves.But I never told him about my origins, nor about the book. However, as the son of the school leader, Wen Ke can indeed tell me a lot of inside information. "Do you know the difference between those corpses and other corpses?" Wenke found me that day and said to me pretending to be mysterious.Naturally, I shook my head, and then asked him, Wen Ke said triumphantly after making a fool of himself. "On all the bodies, there were small holes that were invisible to the naked eye. It was almost visible under a magnifying glass. Because of these holes, all the bodies that had only been dead for a few days were highly decomposed. Four victims have now been found Yes. All of them are school students. They are very busy these few days." Speaking of this, Wen Ke felt a kind of uncontrollable happiness.I know that he has always hated his father. I offered to go with Wenk to the place where the body was found, and he readily agreed.We found an afternoon when there was no class, and came to the mountain behind the school where the body was found. The university I attended is very large, and the mountain behind it was originally a barren mountain. It is said that there are rumors that some people have seen wild animals.A small road was dug at the foot of the mountain to provide food transportation for the mountain people and field experiment lessons for some students on the mountain.In addition, there are many trees planted by the students themselves on the mountain. The place where the body was found is on the mountainside.However, compared with the number of missing people and corpses, there is still an inexplicable missing of a girl's corpse. That girl is our school belle. Wen Ke likes this girl very much, but the school belle maintains relationships with several men at the same time. According to the meaning of the girl's words in the legend, she still needs to be screened. Who does she want to see? Love her more, because she thinks that only the existence of rivals can better stimulate men's desire for competition. But Wenk is the kind of guy who has no desire to compete. "Let's be together if you can, forget it if you can't." Whenever I talk about this with Wenk, he always shrugs his shoulders and says lightly.I always feel that he doesn't seem to care about anything, and never takes one thing seriously, just like an old monk who sees through the red dust.Although I don't like his personality very much, being a friend with a person who has no desires and desires always has the effect of calming your heart. We climbed for about an hour.Because of such a thing, it is reasonable that martial law should be imposed on the mountain, but the journey along the way is very smooth.I guessed that the school probably wanted to keep it a secret. "Where is it?" I was tired from walking, and I asked Wen Ke who was leading the way from time to time.At first he looked back and smiled and said he was almost there.But slowly he stopped talking to me, and the speed was getting faster and faster, and I could hardly keep up with him.His back made me feel very strange, but I always followed behind him. For me, for me who often wears an indifferent face that people cannot approach, I hope from the bottom of my heart to see a tall figure standing in front of me and sheltering me from the wind and rain. Is it the father, or the elder brother? Anyway, Wenk can often bring me this feeling. "Ah Zheng." Wen Ke stopped suddenly, and I, who had been looking down at the rugged mountain road, didn't pay attention, and almost bumped into his back. "Huh? Is it here?" I looked back around.It turned out that we came to a stone field that unexpectedly protruded from the mountain.It's about the size of a basketball court, very flat, with no weeds or trees.But if you go straight ahead, you will come to the edge of the cliff.It is said that many people have chosen to commit suicide here since the school was built.But even so, most of the time when going up the mountain will come here.The reason is that there is such a large open space to rest, in addition, it is also a very good viewing place.Along the way, I always felt that there was something behind me, but when I looked back, there was nothing. I remember reading a book, which said that the better the scenery, the more corpses may be buried underneath. Here it is. Wenk turned around slowly, with a strange smile on his face. "Come and kill me." Wen Ke raised his hand, made a knife-like shape, and scratched his slender neck. "Are you crazy? Why are you making such a joke." Although Wen Ke usually talks nonsense, I don't take it seriously, but this is the first time I have heard such words.I tried to walk over, but I couldn't move my legs. Looking down, two hands grabbed my ankles. Those are very bright hands, indeed, the white ones make people feel a little dazzling, a little greasy, a little disgusting, just like that expired cream.I turned my head with the arm and saw the owner of the hand. A ragged, almost half-naked girl with many bruises.She bowed her head, and I couldn't see her face, but she had a good figure, slender and delicate.However, on her long-haired head, there was a bloody hole the size of a bowl, which was black and stuck some hair together.It looks like it was hit by a stone.I can hardly move my eyes away.Although the incident in the mother's bed let me know that there are some things in this world that ordinary people cannot explain and resist, but this time, it really made me feel a little timid.Wen Ke's clean and clear face gradually became blurred. "Ah Zheng, I can't turn back." Wen Ke walked towards me slowly, and raised his left hand to make a strange gesture.I felt a force from the person behind me, and I was pulled down suddenly, lying on the ground full of gravel.Wenk squatted down, and I looked up at him. "Forgive me, I took your book." He said lightly. It turned out that he took the book. Thinking about it, it is true that no one else has this motivation and opportunity except him. "Manipulating the dead, what a tempting spell. I know that you learn very quickly, and it seems that you are very qualified in this area. But you only stay on animals. This is the biggest difference between me and you. You may think I have an indifferent and cynical attitude towards everything. In fact, you are wrong. I am more possessive about anything than other people. It's just that I hate showing it." He looked at the one lying on the ground behind him girl. All of them seemed to have been killed by him.It's just that I don't understand why he wants to kill people. The book doesn't say that people need to kill people to practice this kind of thing. "Corpse, I need fresh corpses to cultivate corpse worms. I opened the last page of that book. It records how to cultivate corpse worms and establish a master-servant relationship with them. However, just like raising children, cadaver worms It needs to reproduce in the human body. Finally, they crawl out of the corpse one by one after sucking up the nutrients. They are so small that they are even as big as human pores. Finally, a large number of corpse-controlling insects can fuse into a monster with independent consciousness. In this way, its owner can manipulate the dead body at will, at will, exactly according to your ideas. I thought I had succeeded, but I was wrong. "After he finished speaking, he looked at me with cold eyes. I didn't know what he wanted to do. Although he told me to kill him at the beginning, I was the lamb to be slaughtered from the beginning to the end. The controlled corpse is very powerful. I couldn't stand up. Wenk still stood in front of me and delivered a tirade. "I hate my father, and my mother died for giving birth to me, so he blamed all the resentment on me. In this school, people look down on me, and the superficial respect is all because of his status. No matter what I do, no matter what success Whether it's failure or failure, people will always mention my father. I'm just his shadow. And he is very satisfied with me as his accessory. At home, I'm just a dog for him to vent his dissatisfaction. Beating and scolding, wanton insults. So before I met you, I lived in a daze. But you are different, you live in your own world. You are the only person who treats me as an equal. You talk to me because I am Wen gram, not because of whose son I am. However, my curiosity killed me, and after I killed those people, I got the embryo of the corpse control bug.Those little bugs double the rate at which a corpse rots after sucking the last remaining nutrients from the body.But the book said that in order to realize the real corpse control insect, the realization of the corpse control insect with independent consciousness needs to use the body and consciousness of the person closest to him as the price. Wen Ke suddenly stood up, laughed, and covered his face with his hands. "My first thought was my father." Wenk's face began to twitch, and he covered his eyes with his hands. "Really, I wouldn't hesitate if I could. But I found it useless, yeah, but I don't think he's the closest person to me at all. Then I remembered the school belle I used to like, and I put that The girl tricked her here. Pushed her down the cliff. When she went down, she looked back at me, full of doubts. She didn't even make a sound, and her body fell straight like a sandbag, hitting the rock again. Bounced. Seriously, watching a living person die for a few seconds is such a powerful thrill and pleasure. Her head hit a rock. It took me a long time to wash the blood off and brains. But still not working.My corpse control technique only stays in manipulating the corpse for a short time.You look back and her eyes are still lifeless.The corpse slaves obtained by using the corpse control insects should be no different from ordinary people. " I looked back and the girl looked up too.I happened to meet her eyes. Those are not the eyes of a living person. Dazed and angry, someone forced a black, dusty iron ball into the dead white eye socket.It's like a doll in a wax museum.With this kind of look, even if there is no big hole in her head, I wouldn't think she is alive.It seems Wenk was right. "It's just you, Ah Zheng." Wen Ke reached out and stroked my hair.He often does this, always saying how nice it is for me to have a younger brother like you.I would be very happy before, but today I subconsciously avoided his hand.Wenk frowned, but quickly raised it again. "If you kill you, you can get the real corpse-controlling insect. But I don't want to kill you. But I can't stop. I killed all the policemen under martial law. So, there are only two of us here now. Kill me , I’ve figured out a solution for you, it doesn’t require too much strength and tools, and I’ll feel relieved.” Wenk looked down at me lying on the ground, and took out a box from his pocket. "I haven't changed my mind yet, hurry up, either kill me, or else, I'll kill you." He said word by word.I know, he's not joking. For the second time in my life, I felt like crying. The first time was when I saw my father kill my mother, hammering nails down one after another. Every scream from my mother made me terrified. And this time too, fear and pain haunted me. "Inside the box is the corpse control worm. After opening it, just cut a wound on my body." He took out a blade.Pass me both together. "Take it," Vink said commandingly.Trembling I bore the blade and the box.The box was one of those flat cardboard boxes.When it was finished, I could actually feel the temperature and something wriggling inside. Wenk stretched out his right hand, and he rolled up his sleeve, revealing his white and slender wrist. "Very quickly, just a light stroke." I didn't do it.Wenk's face became very cold. Suddenly, I felt that the force on the ankle increased, and it felt like it was being pulled apart again. "I'll give you another chance. If you don't do it again, I'll let the corpse behind grab your leg and tear it into two pieces." Wen Ke looked at me blankly. The blade slashed past his wrist.Wenk smiled contentedly.Blood flowed out of the slender wound quickly.I opened the box.A golden thing about the size of an ordinary silkworm squirmed quickly onto the wound.Then actually got in.Wenk's face never showed much pain.He smiled at me. "I've been thinking about giving you a gift. Now I can do it. For you, I must be the closest person. Kill me, and the corpse control insect will belong to you." Within seconds.Wenk couldn't speak anymore, he fell down quickly, without any injuries on his body.The corpse slave behind me also let go.Standing up quickly, I ran to Wenk. He's not breathing. I don't have time to be sad.There was only a small but orderly rustling sound.It's like the sound of silkworms nibbling on mulberry leaves. then.Some small yellow spots gradually appeared from the side of Wenk's body.The yellow dots are combined into yellow lines.About half a minute later.I stared at what was in front of me in astonishment. About a foot long, fat guy. That is the corpse control bug.But it didn't mean to leave, it just swayed what I might call its head at me. I remembered that it was introduced in the book that to establish a master-servant relationship with it, you only need to use your own blood to write a word of its name on the forehead of the corpse controller.I immediately cut my finger with a razor blade, and wrote a straight character on its forehead with blood. As soon as the orthographic characters were written, the red characters slowly sank into the chubby head of the corpse controller like a brand.Then, it disappeared. But it's on my shoulders whenever I want it to be. The female corpse behind her also quickly decomposed. I almost moved slowly down the mountain.Subsequently, a large number of police officers were found in the mountain stream.But none of them died.Just fell asleep. That was the only lie Vink ever told me.I still believe that Wenk's soul is in the corpse control worm.Wenk's body was carried back to his father.Soon, it was revealed that he had killed several students.Because Wenk himself sent the photo to the police on the same day.Wenk's father didn't feel much grief. But no one saw him again.Some said he was mad, others that he committed suicide, and others that he married another wife. Anyway, Wenk was gone.Like most people who die every day.In this sense, human death is not much different from the death of other animals.Perhaps, the life and death of a stranger is not as important as the health of a mouse or cat or dog. However, I will only remember him.Because since then, I don't trust anyone anymore, and I understand that I have to learn to protect myself in order to survive. So Wenk is my only friend, always was and always will be. "Li Zheng finished speaking. Then he closed his eyes and put everything below his nose into the water. I looked at Ji Yan, and his face didn't change too much. "Now, are we considered a cooperative relationship?" Ji Yan asked.Li Zheng didn't answer, maybe he hummed, but I didn't hear it because the water was too loud. "By the way, where is that book?" I asked Li Zheng.He rose from the water and shook the water. "It's gone, that's been bothering me, but this book is missing. I've been to every place Vink could have put a book, but I can't find it. I don't know how Vink opened the last page , Of course, I don’t know what else was recorded on it besides how to cultivate corpse control insects. Anyway, the book disappeared mysteriously like this.” What a strange book. The mirror demon above his head screamed, as if performing high diving.I jumped into the water with a plop, splashing water all over my face.Then I watched the little guy proudly perform various swimming movements in front of me. "Where did it see this?" I asked strangely. "The mirror monster can observe things outside through your eyes, and it will naturally learn what you see." Ji Yan explained, "A monster like this can materialize itself at any time. Of course, as long as it wants to, in fact, you can't touch it." It's here." The mirror demon seemed to hear it, facing me, stretched out its short and fat front paw with only three claws, and made a gesture of showing its middle finger to me.The long translucent ears swayed triumphantly. I swear I'm going to go back and fix it. "The mirror demon is of the light system, so it is very afraid of the cold. When the temperature drops, it will naturally hide. The temperature of the human body is of course much more suitable." Ji Yan patted the mirror demon's bald head. Li Zheng looked at us, and I vaguely saw the corners of his mouth twitching. Was it a smile? Maybe my eyes were dazzled.