Chapter 56: The Corpse Refiner
Black language is the internal discourse of groups that rarely engage in public activities in social life. Firstly, the communication is hidden, and people who are ignorant will not understand the meaning even if they stand next to them. Secondly, it is also a kind of identity recognition.
"Zhuan" is a slang term in the Bashu area, which means to kill or bury alive. There are many similar ones, such as "hairing someone", which means throwing the person into the river. Touch the village, write the entrance, and see the fortune.
It represents a planned theft, and the person who leads the theft is called Liangzi.
In the past, kidnapping children for ransom was called holding a boy, and kidnapping women was called picking up Guanyin, because most of the statues of Guanyin in temples during the Ming and Qing Dynasties were women, and women could give birth to children. There was also a saying that Guanyin gave birth to children. Kidnapping a rich man was called pulling a fat pig.
, robbing and stealing and then dividing the spoils on the spot is called setting up a diba.
"Rumble!" The tomb shook, and shrill screams came from the four walls of the tomb, mixed in with the billowing smoke.
"Tang Tian, look!" Chen Peng pointed at the mural beside him and shouted nervously.
The beautifully dressed lady in the mural showed a painful expression, purple-black blood gushed out from her mouth and nose, and a crack slowly penetrated her whole body along her head. The next second, the lady on the mural turned into a purple-black flower.
Blood flowers and blood gushed out from the murals like spring water, and a strong smell of rotting corpses instantly filled the entire tomb.
On the surrounding murals, blood flowers bloomed continuously. Under the dim light of the flashlight, the surface of the mural in the distance could be vaguely seen squirming. The characters in the painting were struggling and making ear-piercing howls.
Black blood accumulated in the tomb and gradually covered the top of my feet. I squatted down and dipped my hands in it. It was extremely greasy and had a pungent smell. This was not blood, but the smell of corpse oil.
"Chen Peng, the tomb passage is sealed!" I shouted loudly and used a flashlight to scan the direction I came from. I don't know when the tomb passage, which originally had a vermilion wooden door, now turned into a diamond wall.
The diamond wall is an ancient anti-theft measure. It uses blue bricks to build the tomb passage from the ground to the top. The gaps between the bricks are filled with white plaster mud, reaching a density that cannot be inserted by a needle. The white plaster mud
It is a mixture made of glutinous rice juice mixed with lime slurry and clay. It can be seen in the tombs of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the construction foundations of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is equivalent to modern cement, and its hardness is even higher than cement.
If the white paste mud is soaked by the moisture in the soil, it will turn into a blue-gray color. The humidity in the tombs in the south is generally heavy, so the north is called white paste mud and the south is called green paste mud. In the past, the local masters in the Changsha area of southern Hunan,
The often mentioned "Fire Cave" refers to the green plaster mud mixed with flammable oil and grease. When a native master with no kung fu skills hits the wall with a tool, the flying sparks will instantly ignite the green plaster mud.
As a result, the tomb was destroyed and many people died. The fire suddenly erupted. The gang leader had no time to escape and was burned alive.
Tufuzi used to make a living selling loess in the Changsha area. Because there is a lot of red soil in the area, the red soil is highly acidic, low in viscosity, and easy to seep water. Rich people will buy loess specifically to build tombs. The loess has high viscosity and is waterproof and insect-proof. In the Changsha area of southern Hunan
, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, slightly better tombs would be filled with loess. At the beginning, the local masters collected loess by the river to sell, and because the tombs in southern Hunan were generally not buried deep, 80 centimeters underground.
You can basically find it when you get to about one meter. The native master was looking for a tomb while collecting loess. He found that selling antiques was more profitable than selling loess, so he openly pretended to sell loess, but secretly he was the gang leader.
Work.
The Luoyang shovel is a tomb robbing tool that is more commonly used in the north. In the south, especially the Tufuzi lineage, the Luoyang shovel is rarely used. Instead, a hoe that looks like a crane's beak and has a long curved hoe surface is used.
It is called a pickaxe. The groundwater in southern Hunan is rich and the soil is moist. The Luoyang shovel cannot bring up the soil. In addition, the tomb is buried shallowly. Basically, if you observe it, you can dig it with a pickaxe.
"Hoo ho!" The diamond wall blocked the tomb passage, and the tomb became a closed space. The strong smell of corpses made people dizzy. Perhaps because there was no fresh air coming in, Chen Peng and I breathed heavily.
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"Holy shit...Tang Tian, do you think the scene is very familiar?" Chen Peng frowned and pressed his palm on the tomb wall, leaving a black palm print.
"The floor was covered with corpse oil, and there was no wind in the tomb..." I kept looking at it.
"The Corpse Refiner!" Chen Peng and I stared at each other and shouted in surprise.
When they were young, the children of the seven major families of Bashu would fight with each other and curse each other. When they grow up, the leader of the gang will be turned into a corpse. The corpse-refining corpse is a magic skill learned by the village owner in the tomb, and the leader of the gang will be killed.
If you are trapped in a tomb, the lack of oxygen will make you weak. If you slip on the floor of the tomb, the corpse oil will slowly submerge the human body and wrap the person in thick oil. After a while, the person will not die. The corpse oil will evaporate from the tomb.
It penetrates into all places with holes in the human body, and even the pores on the arms will be blocked, resulting in a deep suffocation.
After death, a person's skin will turn purple-black, veins will bulge all over the body, and the whites of the eyes will protrude. The eyeballs may even be squeezed out of the eye sockets due to excessive pressure in the body. They are pulled by a few optic nerves and hang down near the nose.
Because the tongue is blocked by the corpse oil, it cannot extend outward. Under the lubrication of the corpse oil, it will naturally tilt upward, extend deep into the brain, and the tip of the tongue will penetrate into your brain.
After the body dies, the soul cannot come out. The corpse oil itself has a strong sinister aura. Over time, it will assimilate the soul trapped in the body and turn it into a thing that only knows killing. This is how the walking dead came to be.
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After the soul has been obliterated, corpse oil has a protective function on the corpse, so as time goes by, the nails and hair of the corpse wrapped in corpse oil will grow longer. From a distance, it looks like an old man, so it is called refining.
Corpse man.
The Zombie Refiner is controlled by the village owner and can go out for activities in the afternoon when it is almost dark. This is why some people who live in rural areas all year round said they saw zombies stealing chickens, eggs and killing livestock. Jinshiyu Micro Record
There is also a theory mentioned in the book that the body of the village owner has decayed in the tomb, and the Corpse Refining Weng can be used as the carrier of his resurrection.
Among the seven major families in the Bashu region, there are gang leaders from all ages who were accidentally handed over to the Corpse Refiner by the owner of the village. These people say they are dead but are still alive. They say they are alive but their souls are already dead. Therefore, on the family altar,
There are no memorial tablets for them, and they have lost their qualifications to be worshiped and recalled. There are many ghost arts inherited in Southeast Asia. It is said that some people still use the evil technique of corpse refining to artificially cultivate some walking corpses.
The only way to avoid being killed is to escape from the tomb.
"Tang Tian, think of a solution quickly!" Chen Peng said anxiously with a look of panic on his face.
The black corpse oil flowing down the tomb wall has submerged near the calf, and the air in the tomb has become thinner. The microorganisms in the corpse oil consume a lot of air.
"Jin Qiaoqiao is from the Jin Dynasty. Cremation was popular among the aristocrats of the Jin Dynasty. Just get a gold and silver box or nice-looking porcelain and put the ashes in it. It's normal to not have a coffin." I thought to myself, my feet were dripping with corpse oil, and I tried to look for it.
A jar or box that may contain Jin Qiaoqiao's ashes. "This place is Jin Qiaoqiao's realm. If you find her ashes, you may be able to force her out. She will definitely know the way to escape."
"This tomb is just an empty tomb." I searched for a while, and black spots began to fill my eyes. This was a sign of suffocation and fainting due to insufficient oxygen.
"Chen Peng, have you brought your earth sword?" I asked out of breath.
"Bring it with you. If you don't take the sword with you when you go out, you will be embarrassed to say that you are from the Chen family." Chen Peng wiped his hand on the tomb wall that was constantly dripping with corpse oil, and circled it close to the tomb, leaving a long line.
Chapter completed!