The folk industry in Xiangxi has been exorcising corpses since ancient times. Not many people learn this industry, but they must meet two conditions: first, they must be courageous, and second, they must be in good health.
Moreover, one must kowtow and kneel down to worship the master. The corpse-removing craftsman never accepts apprentices randomly. The apprentice's parents will first establish a written certificate, and then the corpse-removing craftsman must interview.
Generally speaking, it depends on the age of 16 or above and the height of 1.7 meters or more. There is also a very special condition. Apprentices must be ugly in appearance.
The corpse driver first asks the candidate to look at the sun in the sky, then spin in place, and then suddenly stops, asking you to immediately distinguish between east, west, north and south. If you cannot tell the direction, you will not be hired.
Because you don't distinguish between east, west, north and south at this time, it means that you can't tell the direction when driving the corpses at night, and you can't chase the corpses at all. Next, the corpse driver will ask you to find things and carry a load.
After all, the corpse is not a living person. When encountering a steep slope, the corpse cannot climb up, so the corpse mover has to carry it up the slope one by one.
Finally, there is an interview. This is where the corpse exorcist places a tung tree leaf on a grave in the mountains and asks you to retrieve it alone in the dark. Only in this way can you show that you have the courage to be a corpse exterminator.
If you successfully pass these three levels, you will have the possibility to become an apprentice of the corpse exorcist. At the same time, the apprentice must learn the thirty-six skills of the corpse exorcist before he can exorcise corpses.
The first skill is the "standing skill" of the dead body, which means that the dead body must first be able to stand up. The second skill is "walking skill", which means that the corpse can walk freely, and the third skill is "turning skill", which means that the corpse can turn while walking.
In addition, there are "Downhill Kung Fu", "Bridge Crossing Kung Fu", "Dumb Dog Kung Fu", etc. The "Dumb Dog Kung Fu" can prevent the dogs along the way from barking when they see the corpse, because the corpse is afraid of the dog barking. Will be shocked, especially when a dog bites, the dead body has no ability to resist. The dead body will be bitten to pieces.
The last kind of skill is the "resurrection skill". The better the soul-resurrection skill, the more souls of the dead corpse will be recovered, and it will be particularly easy to pick up the corpse. This "resurrection technique" actually uses a special herb from western Hunan to be sprinkled on the corpse.
According to relevant literature, there are three sayings about driving corpses: "Three kinds of driving, and three not driving". The corpses of those who were beheaded, those who were hanged, and those who died standing in cages can be driven away.
The reason is that they were all forced to die. They died with dissatisfaction and resentment. They missed their hometown and their relatives. They could use magic to attract their souls, use spells to suppress them in their corpses, and then use magic to drive them to climb mountains and ridges. Even get on a boat and cross the water to return to your hometown.
Those who died of illness, those who voluntarily died by hanging in rivers, and those whose limbs were damaged by thunder and fire cannot be driven away. Among them, the souls of those who died of illness have been taken away by the King of Hell, and magic cannot call their souls back from the gate of hell.
The souls of those who drowned themselves in the river were "replaced", and they may be in the process of handover. If new souls are summoned, and the old souls cannot be replaced, won't it affect the reincarnation of the old souls?
In addition, those who died due to lightning were all sinners, and those who were burned to death in fires often had incomplete skin and flesh. These two types of corpses could not be driven away either. A scientific explanation for driving away corpses.
Modern theory is more inclined to interpret the corpse driving in Xiangxi as: In order to transport the deceased, the two driving corpses actually used two long bamboos to pass through a row of corpse sleeves to carry the corpse on their shoulders, and strong men were carried at both ends like a sedan chair. But because the corpse chasers were wearing black clothes and walking at night, passers-by naturally couldn't see the corpse chasers and thought there were zombies.
Because bamboo is elastic, the corpse will swing up and down when the corpse is carried by the corpse chaser, so there is an image of a zombie jumping with its hands stretched out. At night, it looks like a group of people stretching out their hands and jumping forward with their knees straight, and the legend of corpse hunting spread like wildfire.
During this mission trip, Song Yu and I finally arrived at the location of the incident as night fell and under the moonlight. A desolate small village in the distance appeared in my field of vision.
After nightfall, I activated the Blood Demon Eye Technique, carrying my small satchel on my shoulder, and walked side by side with Song Yu on the small mountain village path leading to this weird zombie incident. But when Song Yu and I approached this small mountain village, hundreds of within meters.
I discovered the difference in this village. I was no longer a newbie who knew nothing. With the special ability of the Blood Demon Eye Technique, I discovered how special the village in front of me was from a hundred meters away. Why was it special?
Because the village in front of me gave me a dark feeling. The sky around the village was not dark normally. It was full of dark clouds with a trace of evil spirit floating around.
In the air I saw in my eyes, there was a trace of black air surging, and I unconsciously slowed down a few steps. This was obviously due to the large number of deaths that had occurred in this village, and the heavy darkness. Anger and resentment enveloped the entire village.
The resentment persists for a long time. The so-called resentment is that the person who died in vain is unwilling to accept such an unfair fate. After death, the resentment emanates from the inside out. When the bright moon is in the sky, the resentment is thick and forms a mass of black air.
It seems to be there but not at all. The greater the resentment, the greater the black energy. Resentment can also accumulate. After reaching a certain level, it will be like a sight of billowing black clouds.
Among the people, when there is a lot of grievances, the local people will invite Taoist priests, magicians and the like to deal with it, practice exorcism, and protect the peace of people and the land. When there is great grievances, it is enough to change the weather. .
According to ancient legends, Dou E had suffered a huge injustice and had no place to redress her grievances. Before she died, she swore an oath that her blood would splash on the white silk of the execution ground.
In June, heavy snow fell all over the sky, and there was a severe drought in the area for three years. All these vows came true after her death, and everyone in the world came to know that Dou E had been wronged.
The so-called resentment is still a kind of power. This kind of power will evolve into many things under special circumstances, that is, the corpses that died here will become zombies after being corroded by resentment.
Zombies use resentment and Yin energy as their energy. After absorbing resentment and Yin energy, zombies have the ability to cause harm to the world.
Finally, I stopped twenty meters in front of the village. Song Yu also stopped and took a deep breath. Seeing that I stopped and had no intention of moving forward, he guessed something and looked towards He looked at me and said, "Feng Lin, can you tell?"
I nodded and looked up at the moon in the sky. As expected, the moon was very round tonight. In such an eerie place, I don’t know what would happen on a full moon night?
I looked at Song Yu and asked, "I really didn't expect this place to be so eerie and scary. If you don't have some cultivation, you probably can't even get close to it, right?"
"Is it possible that no one lives here since the legend spread during the Qing Dynasty? There is endless yin and resentment all around. How many people must have died for this to happen?"
