Lin Xixue held her chin and watched the walking corpse twisting in the street for a long time without moving far.
It's hard to figure out how to walk, and it's obviously even more impossible to climb over a wall.
She immediately understood that since this walking corpse could not climb over the wall, there was only one possibility for it to appear here.
It was nothing more than the Naxu Mansion being a beggar-thy-neighbor and throwing this walking corpse into the street in a majestic manner.
After all, the old man of the Xu family is about to have his birthday, how can the family allow such a change to happen?
It's quite reasonable when you think about it.
It is really trouble-free to no longer worry about other people's affairs. She can observe silently and silently as a complete bystander, and her whole mentality is much calmer.
A moment later, a group of policemen with knives and lanterns rushed over and blocked the streets and alleys. Then they approached step by step, surrounded the corpse in a corner, pulled up the chains, and tied the corpse until it could not move.
The messenger was followed by an official and two officials.
Lin Xixue only glanced at the official's official uniform and recognized at a glance that this person was an official from the Tingling Department under the Yunzhou Prefecture.
It's easy to guess these two clerks. Looking at their attire and what they were doing, I guessed that one was a cobbler and the other was a corpse driver.
As the name suggests, the Cultivation Department is an agency established by Yunzhou Prefecture that is responsible for collecting corpses and burying corpses.
The second cobbler is specialized in the business of sewing corpses together. Different from the previous life, people in this world can accept cremation and pay attention to leaving the whole body after death.
Therefore, before burial, if the body of the body is missing, a cobbler will be required to sew it up and make it whole.
The reason for the corpse chaser is that when burying in this world, in addition to requiring the body to be intact, it is best to return the dead to his roots and return the deceased to his place of origin before he can be buried.
Naturally, the family of her predecessor also had affairs, so Lin Xixue, who had obtained the memories of her predecessor, was naturally no stranger to these trades.
These rather complicated taboos before burial were just common customs in the eyes of the predecessors at that time.
But now Lin Xixue has discovered many strange things about this world. Looking at these customs and taboos, she feels more and more that there must be some special reasons behind them.
Lin Xixue saw the embarrassed expression on the second cobbler's face, put her mouth close to the ear of the Tailing Division official, and whispered something.
However, although his voice was very small and he was very far away from Lin Xixue, Lin Xixue could naturally hear him clearly with his spiritual consciousness locked on him.
"Sir, I am a corpse stitcher, but this is not a corpse, it is a walking corpse. Apparently the city god refused to accept his spirit. Look at me..."
The two cobblers were almost crying at the end.
"You bastard, sir, don't I have eyes? Don't I know this is a walking corpse?" The official from the Department of Soul Relief lowered his voice and scolded.
"Because it's a walking corpse, there will be disaster if it stays in the city. I asked these dozen police officers to tie it up and hold it down. Just sew his head back while he can't move!"
"Then you!" He pointed to the corpse exorcist, "Choose the hardest coffin before dawn, nail the coffin board to me, and then send this walking corpse out of the city."
The corpse exorcist naturally looked innocent and said in confusion: "But sir, this man's origin is unknown. Where should I send him?"
"Idiots, you two idiots, you just need to send them out of the city. No one cares where you send them. You can just find a mass grave and bury them. The zombies can be anywhere before dawn, except in Xinliang City. understand?"
The corpse driver and the cobbler looked at each other, hesitating again and again before saying, "Sir, our business is a sideline business. You also know that those in our business must abide by the rules..."
The official of the Sui Ling Department had a gloomy expression on his face, his teeth clenched and he shook his sleeves.
"Thirty taels, thirty taels each for you two! If you want to do it, do it, if you don't do it, get out!"
Upon hearing such a large reward, the two cobblers immediately beamed with joy and said flatteringly, "Thank you, sir, for the reward!"
But the corpse exorcist still rubbed his hands nervously and replied tremblingly: "Sir, thirty taels is a lot, but I have to be alive to come back to collect the reward!"
"Idiot, I asked you to use the hardest coffin. Do you know what the hardest coffin is? Nail it, then tie it up with iron hoops. If you tie it up a few times, will there be any problems?"
Seeing that the corpse exorcist was still hesitating, the official of the Department of Funerals finally lost his patience, waved his hand and said: "Gungun, I'll call someone else!"
"Sir, I'm going, I'm going!"
After being driven away, the corpse driver immediately made up his mind. If the vote was successful, it would ensure that he would have no worries about food and clothing for three years.
When the second cobbler saw that the corpse exterminator had agreed, he immediately discussed with the official of the Department of Souls in a low voice: "Sir, if you look at this corpse, you have to find its original head first, right?"
"There is no need to worry. I have found out the whereabouts of the heads of these five walking corpses, and they will be sent to you later." The official of the Department of Mortals spoke confidently, as if everything was under control.
However, Lin Xixue, who was watching the excitement from the sidelines, felt that this matter was about to unfold in an unexpected direction.
To tell you why...
Because before she left, she tore off all the skins and scalps of these five people, so she could still tell who was who.
What will happen if the wrong end is sewn?
Lin Xixue continued to observe the changes in the situation, and sure enough, in the time it took to drink tea, someone arrived on horseback with five bloody spherical packages in their hands.
The cobbler took the package from the horse and opened it, only to see darkness in front of his eyes.
"Sir...this, this...how can I distinguish this clearly?"
The official of the Sui Ling Department looked at the scene in front of him, and his mind was a little dazed. He had been working in this position for seven or eight years, and this was the first time he had seen this scene.
He gritted his teeth again, stretched out his five fingers, and said: "Fifty taels, try them one by one, one of them will be right!"
The second cobbler knelt down, kowtowed, and begged for mercy: "Sir, you are kind, don't say give me fifty taels for this job, even five hundred taels, even five thousand taels I can't do it. You'd better ask for three yuan The immortals who are watching, please come and do the powwow."
The official of the Tingling Department was choked up when he heard this, his eyes flickered, and a plan suddenly came into his mind.
He grabbed the collar of a police officer next to him and said: "Go to the city gate right away and summon five refugees. Just ask them to know how to do simple needlework, and say that all those who can come will be given a full meal! Go quickly!"
Then he called for another policeman and said, "You, within a quarter of an hour, no matter where you come from, find enough food. You must feed the refugees who come into the city later."
"And you, after the refugees are full, don't bring them all at once, but bring them one by one, so that others will not notice anything strange and dare not come. Do you understand?"
"My subordinates understand!" The officer received the order and immediately rushed to the city gate.
After a while, the first refugee was brought.
The cobbler looked at the refugees with clearly unbearable eyes, but he suppressed himself from speaking.
If these refugees notice something strange later and dare not get in, they will have no choice but to let him get in, and he will be the one who dies.
When the first refugee saw the bloody head and the headless corpse wriggling strangely on the ground, he was naturally extremely resistant.
However, when the officer's knife was placed on his neck, he realized that he had no choice.
I had no choice but to pick up a faceless head with exposed muscle tissue and walk towards the walking corpse...
