When I was in the mountain village with Meng Dongxue, she once forced me to study together, so I learned many new words and concepts from her. For example, she said that we live in a three-dimensional space, so everyone becomes three-dimensional and has a sense of perspective of distant mountains and close waters.
The four dead people in front of me were arranged neatly, and their heads turned to look at me. This strange sense of perspective not only proved the new concept Meng Dongxue taught me, but also proved the truth that people will not die unless they seek death. Maybe if I hadn't lifted the last layer of curtain, this scene wouldn't have happened. And man is a strange creature, naturally repelling death, which is why I can tell at a glance that these four standing in a row are dead bodies.
The first one is a young man, about the same age as me. His left eye is a big bloody hole, and the eyelid of his right eye is only open. The eyelids are slightly turned up, even though he is facing me. But in terms of the angle of his eyes, he was looking in the direction of my head, and the bloody hole in his left eye, I could tell, was the result of being shot. This shot was the one that killed him.
The second man was a slightly fat middle-aged man with a bald head and squinted eyes. I couldn't see clearly the eyes inside. There were some scars on the exposed half of his face, similar to being rubbed on the ground, but But there was no blood. It's just that a piece of skull is missing from the bald head. The skin and flesh are flying everywhere at the broken place, but there seems to be no brain matter in the skull, or it may have been drained out long ago.
The third person was a woman, pretty in appearance and with neat hair. Like the first young man, she slightly opened her eyelids, or rather she didn't close her eyes at all. There were traces of blood flowing from her inner eyelids, nostrils, and mouth, but there were signs of drying and turning black. Judging from the appearance, there were no obvious external injuries, and the cause of death could not be guessed at the moment. However, the death method of bleeding from seven holes should be due to a violent impact on the body, which caused the blood to flow from every hole in the body to the outside of the body. flowed out.
The last one is a medium-haired man who looks to be in his thirties, a little thin, a little tall, with the corners of his mouth facing downwards, but grinning slightly. I can see the white teeth inside through the black lips, but there are no gaps between the teeth. But it was red and black, so it must be blood. His cheeks were sunken and his chin was crooked, as if someone had broken his mandible before he could reattach it. In the center of his head, there was an obvious inverted triangular gap. From my perspective, it looked like this It was as if someone had hit the head head on with a mountain axe.
I might not be particularly scared if any one of these four dead people is shown to me alone, but when four of them appear together and move so neatly, it makes people feel scared. After that strange "Look to the right" sound, these four dead people all looked at me. It was obvious that they turned their heads after hearing this instruction. At this moment, I realized that I It's the one on the far right, the one they need to look up to.
Since my neck cannot be rotated excessively, I cannot see what is behind me, but according to my guess, when the lights flickered, there were four people by the wall and one person behind me. Besides me, there were five people here. The person giving the order must be the one with wet hair that I saw when I turned around. Judging from the man's distracted eyes, he was also a dead person. The blood stains on his forehead showed that he lost a lot of blood when he died. Maybe the wet hair was also condensed because of the blood. relation. It proved that he also suffered serious trauma. In this way, I judged in my mind that these five dead people had one thing in common, that is, they did not die normally, and they all died very tragically.
Now I finally understand why the old man at the gate looked so frightened during the day, why the deaf old man when I asked for directions asked me if I was here to pick someone up, and why he met a young stranger like me. People lament the years. I also understood why Senior Qin refused to say a word, but asked me to come here. It turned out that he wanted me to solve this strange thing.
Yes, Senior Qin, this is his test for me, and it is my opportunity to prove myself. Although I am not good at academics, I am a trustworthy person. Although I know that I am unable to solve the matter in front of me, in the end, Mr. Qin Seniors will also come to solve it, but if it gets to that point, not only will I lose face, but my master will also lose face.
Thinking of this, I forced myself to calm down. After all, from the time I came in until now, even if I fell down and fainted, it was all because of my own failure to stand firm. If I want to be held accountable, I really can't blame these five people around me. Damn it, you can only blame me for being timid and careless. I quickly sorted this out in my mind.
Obviously, the body becomes completely stiff within seven hours after death, so it is unreasonable to ask a stiff corpse to turn its head or stand. So I judged that these corpses were able to move like living people without being pulled by external forces, and they were controlled by the power of invisible ghosts. In other words, these four dead people around me are completely dead people, not even ghosts are here. Then the only ghost present should be the one speaking behind me. But when I pushed him down earlier, although it felt very heavy, the touch was extremely real, like pushing a human figure filled with iron sand. Coupled with my judgment after seeing him at that moment, I think he is also a real corpse, but this corpse will show emotional expressions, have obvious intentions to control these things, and even speak. , this is really beyond my understanding.
I quickly recalled in my mind every book I had read and every word Master had ever said to me, trying to find some clues related to the matter in front of me. Suddenly, I remembered that I was chatting with Master while eating. At that time, we once talked about the topic of zombies, but at that time, the word "zombie" did not exist, so the word "zombie" that Master told me was "living dead".
Literally understood, it means a dead person who is just like a living person.
Master said that there are many types of metaphysics in the world, and most of them can lead to the same goal through different paths, but they only have different understandings in their respective religious environments. But Master mentioned a particularly weird religion, even a cult. It originated in Africa and flourished in the Americas, but its influence has spread to almost the whole world. This religion is famous for various witchcraft and is called "Voodoo". "Teaching", the two most famous witchcraft are pricking villains with needles and resurrecting the dead.
The trick of pricking a villain with a needle is actually involved in many witchcrafts, and even in the Taoism I have learned, it is involved to some extent, so I didn't find it strange. But the resurrection of the dead makes me feel incredible. As the saying goes, life and death have destiny. If some metaphysical means are used to prolong the life of a dying person, I would think that it is God's goodness. But resurrecting the dead is obviously against heaven. Back then, I was relatively naive, and I once excitedly told Master that if this were the case, it would save many families from the pain of losing their loved ones. This would be a great thing. Master told me that although he had not seen it personally, he knew that those who were "resurrected" were like machines, with only functions and no souls. You can eat but you don't taste the food, you can sleep but you just close your eyes and don't sleep. Except for your heartbeat and physiological cycle, the rest is no different from a dead person.
So the "living dead" I marveled at at the beginning was the one behind me giving orders? I have long heard that Senior Qin is proficient in Taoist magic and Miao witchcraft. Could it be that Miao witchcraft also includes the technique of resurrecting the dead? Is this a problem he deliberately left for me? If they are really the "living dead", why can these corpses be controlled? Why can't my body move?
The more I thought about it, the more scared I became. What I was afraid of was not these corpses, but the unknown fear in my heart. Just when I was terrified, the strange voice sounded again:
"Look ahead! Turn left!"
The sound was strange, like a mouthful of phlegm stuck in the throat, the sound was muffled, or like someone covering their mouth with a towel and talking through the towel. However, I could swear that I did not follow his instructions and turn left, but my body seemed to be no longer my own. I turned to one side, clicked my feet, and made a left turn in an extremely standard manner.
After turning around, the heads of the four dead people all faced me, especially the first young man, who was less than a foot away from me. Even through the medical mask on my face, I could smell the smell coming from his hair. The stench of corpses came out. At this moment, after I turned my body to the left and turned my eyes slightly, I saw the "living dead" giving orders.
But it's strange, you said he is also a dead person, but he doesn't have the stiff posture of the dead person in front of you, because he is pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, three steps to the left and three steps to the right, his head is moving very flexibly on his neck, and his eyes are still moving. He glanced back and forth at the four dead people and me. If it weren't for the white, blue skin and the unfocused eyes, judging from these actions alone, there would be no difference between them and a living person. Only that The four dead people and me being controlled by it indicate that he is a ghost, and a ghost with considerable power.
Since there are ghosts, it means they are not the living dead. After all, ghosts are souls, at least a little more advanced than the living dead. So after I eliminated the possibility of "living dead", there was only one result left:
Resurrection from a dead body!
