Chapter 33: Corpse

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When I walked to the west of the sun, the surrounding scenery finally changed from a barren grass, and slowly began to have green grass and shrubs, and I could still hear the murmur of water in my ears.
They were so exhausted that they walked all day under the sun. Yan Danqiang supported herself without complaining a word. After all, she was the least capable of the four. If she still had the face to complain, it would be too unreasonable. She pursed her lips, and felt even more dry after hearing the sound of Ruoyoruowu. She carefully distinguished all the subtle sounds in her ears, but the murmur of water became clearer and clearer.
Yan Dan couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief: Fortunately, it wasn't that she was so thirsty that she was all hearing voices...
But when she ran to the water with joy, she was dumbfounded. Although this stream is running water, there are just sticky, turbid green masses floating down the terrain. She hadn't lowered her body yet, but a strong stench came on her face.
Yu Mo looked into the water and said flatly, "I wonder what is floating in this water?"
Yan Dan wanted to cry without tears, no matter what disgusting thing was in the water, there was an ancient echo in her heart: There is no water without water...If there is no water to drink, she will die of thirst...
Tang Zhou looked down for a while, and finally shook his head: "I can't see what it is, but it's a bit like—" Yan Danzheng shook his heart, and tremblingly stretched out his hand into the stream, he immediately said, "Don't say it! "But it was too late, Tang Zhou put down two words in a loud voice: "...worm eggs."
Yan Dan collapsed and pulled Tang Zhou's lapels: "Dare you not thirsty or tired? I told you not to say it, you still said..."
I saw Liu Weiyang step forward, knelt on one knee by the stream, slowly stretched out his hand to hold up a handful of water, and silently poured it on his face, then picked up some more, and took a sip without expression.
Yan Dan looked stunned, and only one sentence reverberated in his heart: He drank, he drank, he really drank it... Before she could recover from the shock, I saw Yu Mo lowered himself and slowly held it. A handful of streams came. Naturally, she knew that, based on their current situation, if they didn’t drink water, I was afraid that they would not be able to find the next source of water. They just let her drink such dirty water, whether it’s in my heart or in the past few years. The body can't stand it.
She grabbed Tang Zhou's sleeves and asked in a trembling voice: "Will you drink this kind of stream water?"
Tang Zhou looked at her and said in a declarative tone: "You dare not drink."
"Of course I dare not drink, this is not a shameful thing! You smell this stench, look at this green insect egg, if you pinch it with your hand, you will definitely burst out a pool of green dirty water..."
Yu Mo turned his head to look at her, with a bad tone: "Yan Dan!" He took out a silk kerchief, soaked in the water without wringing it out, turned around and handed it to her.
Yan Dan silently took things in his hands, wiped his face unwillingly, moistened his dry white lips, and took a look at the silk paw with two fingers. He wondered: "Yu Mo, Why do you still carry the silk paw with you?" She unfolded the silk paw and looked at the picture of a hundred birds fighting for spring from top to bottom carefully: "Look at this stitching method by Bailing embroidery. You just ruined it."
Seeing that they had all drunk water, Liu Weiyang said unhurriedly: "This is not an ordinary worm egg, it is a corpse."
Yan Dan covered his lips with his hands, and lost his voice: "Zie..." She knows that corpse is a kind of bug that eats corpses. She remembered that she had teased a local in the small restaurant in Qingshi Town, but she didn't expect the retribution to be unhappy, and it was her turn in the end. After all, it's one thing to talk about it, it's another thing to actually swallow it.
"Look at these worm eggs, I don't know how many corpses are around here. The road ahead should not be easy, and you need to be careful." Liu Weiyang finished speaking, and his sleeves fluttered away.
Yan Dan was terribly disgusted, only to feel itching on her face, and quickly tossed the silk paw on her hand to one side. Although Bailing's embroidery is exquisite, it is better to throw it away if it has been stained.
Wherever the group passed, the grass and trees rose up, and there began to be patches of woods. Against the faint setting sun on the horizon, a group of wild wolf-sized beasts are lying on the ground, stretching their claws to comb their fur, looking very docile and harmless.
They did not move when Yan Dan walked over. She couldn't help but glanced more, and saw one of them suddenly stood up and trembled. There was a squeak in her heart, and she saw that the beast's body had a face that was a bit longer than an ordinary person, and her eyes were dull, but in an instant a few red bloodshots broke out.
A total of six human-faced badgers, even before she had time to blink, rushed forward with a roar. Previously, only one made her in a hurry, but now six came all at once, and she couldn't think of any other way besides running away. I saw Liu Weiyang drew out the short sword in the jade flute to fend off a human-faced badger, with a stern tone: "Walk along the crooked path!"
The human face badger pounces very fast, if it goes straight, it is easy to be caught by them.
Yan Dan just ran away a few steps, only to hear the cold wind behind him, and quickly lowered his body and rolled forward, avoiding a human-faced badger that was flying towards him. She didn't even have time to stand up, and the second claw rushed from the diagonal. Yan Dan had to crawl away two steps embarrassingly, and dodged, just in time for a face-to-face encounter with another human-faced badger. I saw that weird face was close at hand, almost touching the tip of her nose to her face.
Yan Dan's face was pale and his whole body stiffened.
I saw Aomori's cold light flashing, and a string of blood beads splashed out. The human-faced badger raised his head in anger and roared, and rushed towards the sword. When Yan Dan saw the opportunity, he immediately stepped aside, and Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Yu Mo with the sword. The moment he shook the sword, a blue light and shadow appeared on the spine of the sword, like a dragon or a fish, straight out of the abdomen of the human-faced badger.
For a moment, Yan Dan only caught a glimpse of the blood dripping, and what other, white flowers fell on the ground. The remaining few human-faced badgers were shocked by this scene, gritted their claws in their throats, but did not dare to step forward.
Yu Mo stretched his hand to hold her wrist and strode forward. Yan Dan was led by him, and couldn't help thinking, could it be that Yu Mo couldn't practice more beautiful and less lethal magic arts? Every time it is not a violent storm or a laparotomy, it is too bloody...
She was thinking like this, suddenly feeling the strength of her wrist tightened, Yu Mo's steady footsteps suddenly staggered. Yan Dan felt that something was not right, so he hurriedly got closer and saw that on the other half of his face, the corners of his eyes were still swollen with blood. His eyes hurt like this, and it takes a lot of effort to even open them, let alone looking at the way. No wonder he was erratic just now.
Yu Mo turned his face away, and smiled indifferently: "It's okay, just look at the road."
Yan Dan replied obediently, and helped his arm to walk as flat as possible: "Your eyes..."
"A little skin trauma, it's okay."
"Really, you were badly injured last time and said it was OK."
"...Don't look at me, look at the way."
Yan Dan had to stare straight ahead, not knowing if it was an illusion. He was walking on the flat ground, but felt that the ground seemed to tremble slightly. She had to think to herself, this should be her illusion. It's good, how could the flat ground shake? This is not the mortal world, how could there be such a thing as an earthquake?
Just listen to Liu Weiyang's as always calm voice coming from behind obliquely: "Go west!"
Yan Dan subconsciously followed what he said, after all, he has been the most reliable companion since he entered the demon state to the present. She climbed all the way up the mountain road to the west, and when she looked up, her heart was cold: there was no way to go, there was only an empty cliff.
Before she could fully react, she felt that someone pushed herself hard from behind. Yan Dan was unsteady and fell straight down the cliff. Her eyes were quick and her hands were quick, she immediately let go of Yu Mo's arm, and reached out to grab the vine growing on the side of the inclined wall. She fell down by herself, couldn't she still drag Yu Mo down together? His eyes were hurt...
Fortunately, Yan Dan's luck was not bad, so he could still touch the vines when he went to catch him. She turned her head laboriously, only a glimpse of Sen Leng's sword aura passed through the corner of her eyes, and the life-saving vines she was clutching immediately broke into several pieces.
After the sword gas, there were pale white sleeves blowing in the wind, as well as the person's indifferent eyes.
Yan Dan didn't know if he was dead. If he fell from such a high place, he would lose half his life even if he had a demon-like bodyguard. But now, she was lying peacefully in a soft swamp, with her hands and feet well.
When she first fell into the swamp, she struggled a few times in shock, and soon found that the harder she struggled, the faster she sank, and she lay there without moving. After a while, I found that the swamp was still flowing slowly and pushed her slowly to the shore.
Yan Dan looked at the sky above his head and thought with a little annoyance that Liu Weiyang had been opposed to them all the time, because he entered the demon state together, and became a companion. And she was so stupid that she was no longer wary of him. She was pushed off the cliff this time, completely asking for it.
After only about half a cup of tea, she felt her back touch the ground and tried her best to climb up. My feet had just stepped on the ground, and I heard a loud rumbling noise coming from a distance, resounding like thunder, reverberating constantly in the valley. Yan Dan calmed down to discern the direction of the voice. It seemed to come from the cliff where she fell. So what happened after she fell?
She couldn't care if her clothes were dirty by the swamp, and hurried away.
She clearly remembered that she fell off a cliff and fell into the swamp. The stone wall under the cliff was slightly inclined, with smooth tentacles, and there was no place to climb. But in front of me, there are no cliffs, only large tracts of small hills, and even mortals who are not capable of martial arts can climb up.
Yan Dan was shocked, what went wrong? Could it be because in the magical appearance of the magical tool Chumo, she went to another completely unfamiliar place after falling off the cliff? Right now, she is the only one left.
Yan Dan stood there slightly in a daze, before finally distinguishing his direction and walking forward alone.
If the demons are as true as Liu Weiyang said, at least half of them have seen the things inside. Then Yu Mo and Tang Zhou should be able to deal with the danger ahead, but she and Liu Weiyang are really worrying. Whether Liu Weiyang is dead or alive, she doesn't care. Most importantly, she must save her life.
Yan Dan walked a long distance in the mountains and forests, and the road under his feet gradually opened up. From a distance, you can see the blue smoke rising in the air. She couldn't help but stunned. The smoky smoke in the distance was probably the smoke from ordinary people cooking and boiling water. Is there someone still living here?
She walked a few steps closer, and the wooden houses in the distant village gradually became clear in her eyes. Cooking smoke, sunsets, and noise will always give people a sense of stability when they are unstable.
Yan Dan speeded up involuntarily, and when he walked under the lush old tree, there was a sudden clatter on the top of his head, the branches and leaves were swaying, and the broken leaves fell, but a face suddenly lay before her eyes.
The muscles on the man's face twitched and stiff, his complexion was pale, his eyes widened, and he stared at her firmly.
This was too sudden, Yan Dan quickly took three steps backwards, and when he took a closer look, he took a long breath and muttered, "It turns out that it's just a dead person. I thought it was something strange again..."
Yan Dan raised his head and took a closer look at the corpse that was hung upside down in the tree. The corpse was dressed in a plain white shirt and had no hair with a white rope.
No matter how you look at this situation, this person is a human sacrifice.
Human sacrifice is to offer a living person as a sacrifice to a certain god. This is a kind of sacrificial ritual that often existed in ancient times, and the more it was in the wild land, the more common it was. Most of the human sacrifices were chosen when the person was underage, or even when he was just born. After he reached adulthood, he put on white clothes and gave it to the gods being sacrificed. Sometimes, when there is flooding, there are places where the selected living people and sacrifices will be put on a raft together by lottery to make sacrifices to the river god.
Yan Dan suddenly remembered that Liu Weiyang was wearing a pale white robe. He had said that he was approached by Tao Zizhen, but she didn't believe it very much. Thinking about it this way, he should have wanted to treat himself as an adult. Come in for offerings? She took a close look at her surroundings. It was a mountain and forest. There did not seem to be any ferocious beasts around her. Then who was this man sacrificed to, and why did she have such a painful and stiff expression on her face?
Yan Dan became curious for a while, stretched out his hand to pull out the hairpin, turning it into a long jade sword, and gently slashing across the collar of the man's sacrifice. I saw that the skin under the neckline was all bluish-black dots, large and small, and the small ones were slightly smaller than the copper coins, but the big ones had the palm of the hand.
She was uneasy, looking at the village in front of her from a distance, and she still saw the serene scene of smoky smoke. Yan Dan stood there, wondering whether he would take the road to walk into the village, or would rather take more roads around.
In many cases, unknowable things are far more frightening than known dangerous things. You don't know what will happen before, and you don't know what it will bring you.
Yan Dan thought for a moment, but decided to borrow directly from the village. If he is lucky, he might be able to spend the night there.
She was about to lift her foot and walk forward, only hearing a click, a branch above her head broke, and the corpse suddenly sank two feet. Yan Dan looked straight forward, facing the abdomen of the corpse. The upper and lower hem of the corpse had been completely shattered, just revealing the tattered lower abdomen. I saw that the corpse’s lower abdomen was packed with black corpses, as if the man’s corpse was used as a nest, with layers of green worm eggs stuck in it. These worm eggs were exactly the same as the ones she had seen before by the stream. .
Yan Dan felt a nausea rushing to his throat, his feet were soft, and he almost fell to the ground. A cold hand suddenly stretched out from behind and gently covered her mouth. Yan Dan immediately smelled a faint, if there was a scent of sandalwood, but there was still a little blood in the sandalwood scent.
Just listen to Liu Weiyang's voice whispering in her ear: "Quiet."