Bang bang bang!
This weird businessman named Zhou Mu began to beat his chest hard. The expression on his face gradually became ferocious, and it became frighteningly pale under the moonlight.
This sight made Xu Xinyi, Wang Chuanfu, and Assistant Zhao feel a cold air rushing from the soles of their feet to the back of their heads, and goosebumps appeared on their bodies.
It’s still the boatman who often runs boats. He is well-informed, experienced and courageous.
He suppressed his fear and roared.
"Don't make trouble! No one wants to know why you didn't ask for help. You don't have to answer us. Just be quiet."
When the boatman said this, Zhou Mu actually shut up and stopped screaming in a cold and weird voice. He also stopped beating his chest.
But Xu Xinyi clearly saw that the place where Zhou Mu hit his chest with his fist dented and did not recover again.
He had already guessed the terrible answer - because after death, the body's skin and muscles had lost their elasticity and had been soaked in water.
So if you press lightly on the skin of a dead person, a small depression will appear and there will be no way to bounce it back.
What's more, this kind of vigorous beating?
The muscles in Zhou Mu's chest were dented, looking very weird.
At this time, Xu Xinyi still didn't know that the so-called businessman named Zhou Mu in front of him was actually a corpse!
He felt extremely regretful.
He regretted that he did not listen to the old boatman's advice, was delayed by this damn kindness, and insisted on bringing a suspicious person on board...
As a result, corpses were brought onto the boat, causing harm to others and ourselves.
But Zhou Mu, after he stopped going crazy, seemed to have returned to his gentle and kind self.
He also bowed his hands to Xu Xinyi and the others and said, "I'm sorry, I was a little out of control just now."
Xu Xinyi tried his best to put a smile on his face that was ten times uglier than crying, and returned the favor.
"It doesn't matter, Brother Zhou, don't take it to heart."
After he finished speaking, he didn't know what to say anymore, and the atmosphere on the ship became silent and depressed again.
At first, when Xu Xinyi thought that the other party was a businessman like himself, he was quite warm. I want to talk to the other party about the current world situation.
As a result, when he found out that the other party was a corpse - or a zombie, he gave up.
Where do you have the guts to say more?
So, everyone in the boat was silent.
The boatman and helper Xiao Zhao were also trembling, not knowing what to do.
However, even if it knew that Zhou Mu was a zombie, it would not take the initiative to attack people first. They definitely don’t have the courage and guts to take action first!
If it were a gangster and robber, he might still have the courage to do it directly.
But this walking corpse...it's so scary!
Zhou Mu still felt strange, why did these three people suddenly stop talking?
He originally felt that he was a guest, and the host's attitude became less enthusiastic, so there was no need to say anything more. He just silently found a place to sit on the bow of the boat and looked at the river without speaking.
For the three living people on board, this night was extremely difficult.
Every minute and every second is as long as a hundred years.
Finally, the boat finally arrived at Dangkou Town.
At this time, it was Yin time, and in the villages far away on both sides of the river, roosters began to crow!
Geez!
Geez!
The high-pitched crow of the rooster echoed back and forth in the small plains on both sides of the flowing Sichuan River.
It's like a sharp sword piercing the thick night fog, and also like cutting and dividing yin and yang, reminding or driving away those night things that don't belong to the day, and get ready to leave!
I don't know why, but when they heard the rooster crow, Xu Xinyi and others, who were extremely nervous, felt a little relieved.
Although the stone in my heart has not fallen to the ground, it is a little lighter.
At the moment when the rooster crowed, Zhou Mu, who had been sitting quietly on the bow of the boat, suddenly stood up, startling Xu Xinyi and the others again.
Zhou Mu covered his heart, the expression on his face became painful again.
He said: "What's going on? Why do I suddenly feel a lot of pain in my heart... Boss Xu, can you think of a way to stop the ship and find a doctor for me?"
When Xu Xinyi heard this, he secretly looked at each other with the boatman and probably guessed what was going on.
He hurriedly said: "Boss Zhou, I'm sorry, the current is strong in this section. It's difficult to reach the shore. Either you have to be patient, we are about to reach the Dangkou Town Pier."
"Okay, okay..."
Zhou Mu covered his heart and fell down on the board of the boat.
Xu Xinyi saw that the back of his hand exposed outside his sleeve was densely covered with corpse spots! There seemed to be more than when we got on the boat before.
He shuddered and didn't dare to think about it further.
When the grain ship arrived at the dock of Dangkou Ancient Town, it happened to be the second rooster crow.
At this time, Xu Xinyi had the illusion that the darkness and fog around the riverside had weakened significantly in an instant. The fear that night brings to living people is also weakening...
At this moment, Zhou Mu suddenly screamed and fell to the board of the ship with a "thud" like a piece of wood.
There was no movement.
Boatman Wang boldly poked him from a distance with his bamboo pole, but he remained motionless and showed no reaction.
Xu Xinyi said cautiously: "Is it because the rooster crows and the sky is about to dawn, so the demons and ghosts subside and no longer dare to stay in the human world. He becomes a corpse again?"
The boatman and the helper also felt that what he said made sense and nodded vigorously.
When the ship entered the dock, you could see some early-rising dock workers already starting to work. Xu Xinyi asked the boatman to guard him. He and his helper quickly got off the boat and called the police.
It was the early years of the Republic of China, and many things from the former Qing Dynasty were still used. For example, the police station in Dangkou is located inside the original infantry yamen.
After hearing about this strange incident, the patrolman went to Xu Xinyi's boat with a coward.
Medical professionals are the professions now known as forensic doctors and coroners.
When he did an autopsy, it turned out that Zhou Mu had been dead for a day!
And it was initially determined that the time of death was the morning of the previous day.
Xu Xinyi understood it as soon as he heard it.
It was obvious that all the people on the boat Zhou Mu was on, including himself, had actually drowned.
The time is right too!
At first, the patrol leader was a little suspicious that Xu Xinyi had colluded with the boatman and helpers to kill people and make money.
But upon inspection, it was discovered that all kinds of gold and silver money in Zhou Mu's bag, including identification information, were all there. There were no signs of being turned over.
What's more, he then thought about it, these days, the whole world outside is basically in chaos. Murder, looting, and dead people are just a common occurrence.
If Xu Xinyi really wanted to kill someone for money, he could just throw it into the river.
Why go to such trouble to bring the body to Dangkou Town, and also deliberately call the police to make it happen?
Of course, the most important thing is... After the man checked the marks on the ship's board and the condition of Zhou Mu's body, he told the patrol leader seriously.
It is said that Zhou Mu’s corpse must have been transformed!
It must not be left behind, it must be cremated immediately and burned to ashes. Otherwise, there may be big trouble when it gets dark.
But Nazuo didn't understand why the grain merchant named Xu Xinyi said that Zhou Mu could speak and communicate normally like a living person?
Wu Zuo, who deals with corpses every day, is a person who eats the food of the underworld. In fact, it can be regarded as the folk tradition of Xuanmen Jianghu.
It's just that this business has been hidden in government offices since ancient times, and people eat public food, so it's a little different.
To put it bluntly, wuzhuo and Red Ship Beard are similar jobs. In terms of practice, he belongs to the folk dharma lineage, but what he eats is the food of the public family and the court.
The police officer usually had a high prestige in the police station. When he said this, the police chief was immediately frightened. Then let him make arrangements to burn the body as soon as possible.
Xu Xinyi was not shy at all in being able to become a small grain merchant in Fubei County during those troubled times.
Since it was broad daylight and Wu Zuo was by his side, I proposed that I also want to follow him to see how to deal with this corpse.
The man said that he was also curious about whether this zombie was really what Xu Xinyi and the others said, and had the thinking ability of a living person and could speak human words.
Therefore, I planned to use secret techniques to suppress and restrain the corpse ghost and place it in the wilderness outside the town. Wait until after dark to see if it is really a rare "living corpse" before getting rid of it.
So Xu Xinyi went to sell the grain first and put it away in money. I took my helper Xiao Zhao to the police station to find the man, and waited until dark to go and deal with the corpse.
The men tied Zhou Mu's body tightly with hemp rope soaked in black dog's blood. Then they took three feathers from the rooster's chest, dipped them in chicken blood, and placed them in a row on the corpse's forehead.
Finally, tie it to a log. Below is a pile of firewood.
After doing all this in the wilderness outside the town, the sun set.
At this time, Xu Xinyi also knew that Wuzuo's surname was Huang, so he asked cautiously: "Huang Wuzuo, why don't you wait and burn it directly. If it comes back to life and is very powerful, then..."
Huang Wuzuo said: "Don't worry. Even if it is really the rare living corpse you mentioned, it can think and speak like a living person. But it is still a corpse ghost. As long as it is a corpse ghost, it will be affected by black dog blood and rooster blood. suppression."
Hearing what he said, Xu Xinyi felt a little relieved...
It was getting dark.
The moment when the sun completely sets and darkness engulfs the world.
Zhou Mu, who was tied to a wooden pillar with a black dog blood rope, opened his eyes. He looked around in confusion and asked Xu Xinyi.
"Boss Xu, what's going on? Why did I fall asleep? Where am I? I...why am I tied up?"
He looked a little panicked.
Xu Xinyi was about to speak, but Huang Wuzuo held his shoulders and shook his head at him.
Then he walked forward and yelled loudly: "How dare you, evildoer! You have died long ago and are no longer a living person. Now you are just a corpse transformed into an evil thing. Why don't you hurry up and kill me."
When Na Zhou Mu heard this, the expression on his face suddenly froze, and his eyes became hollow. It seemed that he couldn't accept the fact that he was a "dead man".
Then, his expression became twisted and ferocious...
