When the governor of Fenzhou heard this, he wanted to wipe his sweat again. It is already October, the northern land is covered with frost, and the cold wind is tight. When people stand outside, their breaths are full of white air. The Inspector of Fenzhou wrapped himself up layer after layer, even so, there was still fine sweat oozing from his brow.
The governor of Fenzhou said: "The commanding envoy's forgiveness is not due to my minister's wild words and strange powers, but this? A strange thing really happened in this village. This? A special place. Three months ago, someone suddenly fell ill in Guibei Village. At first we thought it was typhoid fever, but we didn’t take it seriously. Later, people died one after another in the village. I was afraid that it was a plague, so I immediately sent people to kill Guibei Village. The road was closed, and a doctor was sent here to see a doctor. But the minister sent several? The village is fenced off, and dry medicinal materials are thrown into it every day, but the people inside are not allowed to come out? The minister thought? Wait for the weather to get colder and get over the epidemic. Who knows what will happen later?… "
The governor of Fenzhou seemed to think of something terrible, and his body trembled? The governor of Fenzhou said it nicely, but when he sent soldiers to seal the village, he wanted to let the villagers fend for themselves. In this era when even typhoid fever can kill people, it is found that the plague is really helpless, only to control the source of infection, at least not to let the epidemic spread. Li Chaoge did not pursue the actions of the governor of Fenzhou who closed the village, but asked: "What happened later?"
The governor of Fenzhou stared wide-eyed, horrified, and said with trembling lips, "Later... a soldier got up at night and saw the dead people in the village standing up."
The people behind them breathed in one after another, did the dead man stand up? One? The officer rubbed the goosebumps on his body and couldn't help but ask, "Inspector, are you sure you read it right?"
"There's nothing wrong!" The governor of Fenzhou took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and said tremblingly while wiping off the cold sweat, "I thought at first? A pause. But people in the army were in panic, and within a few days rumors of dead bodies spread everywhere. In order to calm people down, I took my master and a few guards and quietly hid in the grass to watch. I wanted to personally To quell the rumors, I didn't expect... "
The governor of Fenzhou, his pupils dilated, pointed to the open space at the entrance of the village with a face of horror, and said, "Unexpectedly, I saw the corpse here with my own eyes, so I sat up by myself."
In front of the entrance of Guibei Village is a large open space, through which you can exit the village. Normally, the villagers would dry millet and go to temple fairs here. Later, too many people died in Guibei Village, and there was no time to bury them, so they were all dragged here to be placed here. Now, there are still many stretchers and white cloths in the open space, but the corpses inside are gone.
Li Chaoge looked at the empty space from a distance, and asked, "Where did those corpses go after that?"
"How can I still dare to look at it!" The governor of Fenzhou broke down, "I was so frightened when I saw those dead people sitting up, so I ran back to the camp with my master. Blocked the way out of the village with sacks and rocks, and asked people to raise the wall of Guibei Village. I asked Taoist priests to do it, but it was of no use. I heard from the patrolling soldiers that people in Guibei Village grew more and more at night. More and more, they stood in a row, circling the village, not knowing what to do. Chen burned, flooded, sprinkled dog blood, everything was tried, but it didn't work. Chen really had no choice but to You can ask the imperial court for reinforcements."
Looking at the trembling look of the governor of Fenzhou, Li Chaoge can fully imagine that they must have been terrified when they saw the dead man sitting up that day. How could they have the guts to pay attention to other details. With his hands behind his back, Li Chaoge walked slowly towards the pile of rocks at the entrance of the village.
The governor of Fenzhou yelled "commander" in panic, but Li Chaoge was unmoved. She stood by the stone, looked into the village through the gap, and then looked down at the edge of the stone. The governor of Fenzhou raised his heart in his throat, so it was a dead man cheating his body, maybe those things are hidden behind the stone, isn't Lord Sheng Yuan even afraid
Li Chaoge picked up a little soil from the stone, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it. Zhou Shao came with him and asked, "Commander, is there any mystery here?"
"I don't know." Li Chaoge took out a handkerchief, wiped his fingers clean, and told the demon guard behind him, "Take a sample of the stone here and put it in the evidence box."
The people from the demon town responded and immediately began to collect evidence. The governor of Fenzhou watched these people's movements, he was a little surprised at the courage of these people, and a little afraid that they would bring down the stone. Li Chaoge left the intersection, followed the path, and walked towards the fence.
Li Chaoge is a princess, and an imperial envoy sent by Dongdu. The governor of Fenzhou did not dare to let Li Chaoge take risks by himself, so he had the courage to follow him. Li Chaoge walked around the wall for a while, but it was a pity that the wall was raised higher by the governor of Fenzhou. Standing outside, he couldn't see clearly what the inside of the village looked like. Li Chaoge asked: "I think it's quiet inside, they only work at night?"
The governor of Fenzhou nodded: "Yes. Once the sun comes out, they don't know where they are going. That's why I dare to send troops to raise the fence."
"That is to say, you saw the people who died of the plague sit up and walk around the village, but when the day came, they disappeared. Did you?"
The governor of Fenzhou nodded vigorously: "The commander is wise. I have invited many Taoist priests to cast spells, and even invited a Miaojiang sorcerer. But at night, they should be active or active, and according to the guards The soldiers said that there are more and more people walking around at night."
Li Chaoge asked: "Are there any living people in the village?"
The governor of Fenzhou shook his head like a quail. Li Chaoge glanced at him, and said coldly, "No, or? I don't know?"
The governor of Fenzhou smiled embarrassingly: "I don't know. However, the village is like this. Even if there are living people, can't they be released?"
When the governor of Fenzhou ordered the closure of the village, most of the people in the village were already infected. The governor locked them in the village and left them to fend for themselves. At that time, many people had died in the village, and the road was blocked, so they could only be carried to an open space. Later, the soldiers who got up at night accidentally saw the activities of the dead, and everyone was terrified. Guibei Village was reinforced layer by layer, and the road out of the village was completely blocked. Later, the governor of Fenzhou found people to cast spells and sent people to sprinkle dog blood. After so long, there was still no movement inside, probably no living people.
Through the fence, you can see the roofs of the village, one after another, there are thatched houses and brick houses. Li Chaoge asked: "Have you searched the village?"
The governor of Fenzhou wiped his sweat and said awkwardly: "No. Even the most daring soldiers dare not go in. No one knows what the village looks like now."
Li Chaoge nodded. She seemed to have seen enough, left the fence, turned around and walked in another direction. The governor of Fenzhou has a fat body, and he has a lot of wine and meat. He eats, but he doesn't do much exercise. He followed behind Li Chaoge, already sweating profusely from exhaustion, but the other party was the princess of the Queen of Heaven, and he dared not not accompany him, so he could only wipe off his sweat and catch up panting.
Li Chaoge only wore a black uniform with a cloak over it. He was tall and slender, as light as a swallow, and climbed up a small hill in a short while. Li Chaoge stood at the top, raised his hand to block the sun, and looked into Guibei Village. The village was quiet and quiet, and there was no one in sight, and there was no trace of the dead body that the governor of Fenzhou was talking about at this moment. Compared with Dongdu, the yards of these farmhouses are messy and simple, but they are full of life. Farm tools, ladles, etc. are hung on the walls, and bacon is hung under the eaves of many houses. It seems that the host family has only been away for two days, and will come back immediately after opening the door.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a village suffering from a plague. On the contrary, it gives people a feeling that their lives are still going on as usual, except that the villagers don't move around during the day.
Panting for breath, the governor of Fenzhou finally climbed up. The governor of Fenzhou kept wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, and said out of breath, "Commander, please forgive me. I'm not as light as a swallow, so I can't walk anymore. Commander, what are you looking at?" "
Li Chaoge raised his eyes and looked around. At the foot is the endless wilderness, the cultivated land is empty, no crops can be seen? There are dead branches and stems piled up beside the fields. In the west, the setting sun is sinking all the way, and the boundless wind blows across the yellow land, making that round of setting sun look extraordinarily round.
Li Chaoge suddenly asked: "Why is this here? What is Guibei Village?"
The governor of Fenzhou was panting with difficulty. When he heard Li Chaoge's words, he was stunned for a moment and replied, "Return to the commander, because? We have a special terrain here. It looks like a turtle from a distance. This? The village is just on the back of the turtle. So it’s called Guibei Village.”
Li Chaoge nodded lightly: "So? That's it. Where is the turtle head?"
"Fenzhou."
Li Chaoge gave a low hum, turned his head and walked down the hill. The governor of Fenzhou had just climbed up. He watched the princess walk briskly and disappeared in a blink of an eye. He sighed in resignation, and hurried down to chase after him: "The commander told you to slow down."
Li Chaoge came on the hill? Turned back, his face remained unchanged, and his breath was not disturbed at all. The governor of Fenzhou, however, was out of breath, chasing after Li Chaoge, and kept acquitting himself: "Commander, do you really want it? Mingcha, I have tried all kinds of methods, and I really can't do anything about these strange things. Wait for you in the future Return to the Eastern Capital, please? Please speak well for the minister in front of the saint Tianhou."
Li Chaoge's face was expressionless, and he didn't want to talk to him. When she walked to the entrance of the village, the demon town people immediately surrounded Li Chaoge when they saw Li Chaoge: "Commander, the evidence has been collected."
Li Chaoge glanced at it and saw that there was probably no problem, so he said, "Put away the things and keep them properly."
"yes."
The Inspector of Fenzhou saw that these people were not surprised, as if the resurrection of the dead was not a big deal at all. The governor of Fenzhou was a little scared, and asked tentatively, "Commander, what are you going to do next?"
"Naturally, to find out the truth." Li Chaoge stared at Guibei Village, and said in a calm tone, "Tonight, I want to see for myself. What is the dead man like? Resurrection method."
The governor of Fenzhou was shocked, and blurted out: "The command is impossible. You are a rich man, how can you risk yourself?"
Li Chaoge glanced back at him, and asked calmly, "Then? You come? For me?"
The governor of Fenzhou got stuck, his face flushed, and he was speechless for a moment. Li Chaoge snorted lightly and said, "If it's all right, you can get out."
The governor of Fenzhou had a bloody face, but he still walked away cowardly. When the governor of Fenzhou sent people to seal the village, the army was stationed there. Later, after the incident of fraudulent corpses, most of the army was scared away. Fortunately, the original tents are still there, and only a few soldiers are left to patrol the camp, but they are so frightened that they dare not even go out at night. After Li Chaoge and others arrived, they welcomed Li Chaoge into the main tent tremblingly. After that, they didn't even dare to say anything. As soon as it got dark, they hurried back to their tents.
Looking at the way they ran away, it seemed that they would be caught by ghosts if they were too late. Zhou Shao looked down on these bastards very much, and said, "Commander, it's too messy here, and this subordinate will clean it up for you."
"No need." Li Chaoge raised his hand, stopped Zhou Shao's movements, and said, "It's just a temporary stay. I won't stay here tonight anyway. There's no need? It's a waste of effort. You can find a free tent, take a rest for a while, in the middle of the day Gather and enter the village."
"yes."
The days are short in winter and it gets dark very quickly. The night was dark and heavy on the horizon, and there were no crops in the plowed fields? It was barren and cold, and the new wind rolled through the fields, making a whining sound.
Listen carefully, the wind outside seems to be crying. The soldiers who were forced to stay in the camp huddled together, covering their ears and trembling. But at this moment, the light in the main tent flickered and suddenly went out without a sound.
There were already several people standing at the gate of the camp. Li Chaoge randomly counted the number of people and said in a low voice, "Let's go."
"yes."
Li Chaoge had already taken a good look at the terrain during the day, and now she was walking on flat ground in the dark, and soon returned to the entrance of Guibei Village. She looked at the piles of rocks piled up high, lightly tapped her toes, and easily turned over.
Others also turned over from the wall one after another. They drew out their swords, lined up in the shape of a wild goose, and walked cautiously into the village. Li Chaoge stood at the very center, slowly putting her hand on the hilt of the Qianyuan Sword, her eyes carefully scanning the surroundings.
Suddenly someone shouted: "Be careful." Everyone turned their heads immediately, and saw the end of the dark dirt road, slowly walking over? A "person". He staggered, his limbs were stiff, and his skin was dotted with corpse spots. The cold wind blew away the dark clouds, and the moon came out from behind the clouds. Only then did everyone see clearly that his eyes were open.
Even the people who have killed monsters several times in the town of monsters feel creepy. If this person closes his eyes and doesn't move, he looks like a dead person. But now, like a toddler, he staggered in the empty village.
Zhou Shao tensed secretly, and reminded: "Commander, there's still more to come."
This? The man seems to be the leader, followed by one after another? There are many people, men, women, young and old. Their eyes are open, but their pupils are dilated. They are moving in one direction, and their mouths are slightly opened, as if chanting words.
Someone in the team cursed in a low voice, and said, "What the hell is this? They're still talking?"
Following these words, the wandering villagers suddenly changed their path and walked towards them expressionlessly, as if they had discovered something strange here. It was the first time for the demon town people to see this kind of battle, and they backed away in fright. The muscles on Zhou Shao's arm were tense and swelled up like a small hill. Zhou Shao asked, "Commander, what's next? What should we do?"
Li Chaoge pulled out the Qianyuan sword silently, her eyes were sharp, bright as a torch in the night. Li Chaoge glanced at the walking corpses in front of him, and reminded: "Don't touch their limbs, be careful of corpse poison."
People around hurriedly responded. A certain man had the courage to step forward and cut the villager with a knife. The person who was chopped off looked like a strong young man in his twenties. His skin became so soft that it sank when he touched the knife, and half of his arm was cut off by the knife. His arms collapsed and fell to the ground. The villager staggered a few steps and fell to the ground.
The demon townspeople heaved a sigh of relief, as long as they can be hacked to death? But before they could relax for too long, the man who had been chopped up stood up again, dragging half of his stumped arm, and stumbling towards his attacker. The rest of the villagers also seemed to be unable to see the severed limbs on the ground, and stepped on the ground expressionlessly, staring at the monster town with empty eyes.
The demon town master came here and killed eight people, but there are hundreds of families in one village. The demon town was soon surrounded by villagers. At this moment, someone suddenly raised his arm and pointed at the demon town, "Poor, suffering..."
These villagers? have been dead for several days, and their corpses are all decomposed. What they say? Zhou Shao vaguely heard some words like "suffering", so emotionally, a group of dead people surrounded them, and even pointed at them and muttered to themselves, anyone would get goose bumps all over. Zhou Shao scolded, frowned hard, and asked, "What are they talking about?"
Zhou Shao didn't understand, but Li Chaoge had a good ear and caught everything. Li Chaoge said: "They feel that we are living and suffering, and want to rescue us."
Zhou Shao's scalp went numb, and he blurted out: "What?"
Following Zhou Shao's words, the crowd on the opposite side suddenly became excited? They stretched out their arms and rushed towards them. Li Chaoge yelled to be careful, raised his leg and kicked a? Villager?, sweeping a large area with his hard kick. A gap was briefly cleared in the encirclement. Li Chaoge immediately stepped forward, clearing the way, while shouting behind him: "Follow carefully, don't get scratched by them."
The few remaining members of the Zhenyaosi stood back to back, followed closely behind Li Chaoge, and broke out to the outside. At the very beginning, they cut off half of the villagers' arms with one sword, and they felt that these dead people looked scary, but they were actually nothing to be afraid of. But after walking a few steps, they knew that they had underestimated the enemy.
Most of the villagers' flesh and bones are rotten and vulnerable, but some of them have black and black skin and are invulnerable. When a sharp long knife cuts on the opponent's body, they don't even scratch the oily skin. Everyone watched, and couldn't help trembling in their hearts. At this time, the advantage of Zhou Shao's great strength appeared? He wrapped his fist with a cloth and smashed a head with one punch. Li Chaoge opened the way at the front, and he followed behind with headshots. The two quickly cleared a path of blood.
The people from the demon town quickly followed, holding knives and following behind, taking advantage of the gap to deal with those who slipped through the net. Gradually, those around them became invulnerable iron corpses. Later, some villagers with missing arms or legs? Wu Yangyang followed behind, persistently trying to "rescue" them.
Zhou Shao hit the villager on the temple with his fist, and the headshot trick, which was always invincible in the past, didn't work at this moment. That? Villager? Without moving his head, he slowly turned his eyes, looked at Zhou Shao, and suddenly roared.
Everyone was shocked by this sound wave and retreated. Zhou Shao withdrew his hand, frowning and moving his numb wrist. Zhou Shao was born with great strength, and could crush a boulder into powder with one fist, but just now he hit the opponent's most vulnerable temple, but his joints ached from the shock.
What are these corpses that are so strange? The rest of the town demon boss couldn't move anymore. They slashed at each other with one knife, and the opponent was unscathed, but their blades curled up instead. In just a short time, several people had scrapped the long sword.
No one knows what will happen if they are scratched by a corpse. Once they lose their weapon advantage, the consequences will be disastrous.
Li Chaoge and his party walked slowly into an alleyway while fighting and retreating. Li Chaoge looked around and made a very bold decision: "Go into the house."
Several people from Zhenyaosi were shocked when they heard this: "What?"
These villagers are invulnerable, will not be hurt or tired, and it is so difficult for all of them to fight together. If they walk into the villagers? Li Chaoge was very firm, saying: "They judge people by their breath. We have so many living people gathered together, our blood is too heavy. The village was sealed off early, and the number of people in the village is limited. So many people are on the road, so what? There should be no one in the house. Two? Two? Form a team, hide in an empty room, communicate with each other with a secret signal, lead them around in circles, and then attack them one by one."
Although Li Chaoge's decision is bold, it is not unfounded. There was no other choice at the moment, and the crowd quickly hid in the farmyard in twos and threes. Li Chaoge quickly said to Zhou Shao: "You stay? Take care of them, I'll go to the roof to have a look."
After finishing speaking, Li Chaoge was like a swan, and flew into the air as soon as he turned around. Zhou Shao took another person to hide in the thatched pile, and they had just hidden when they saw a black shadow on the opposite roof flash past and disappear in an instant.
The mighty army of iron corpses suddenly lost their target, and the breath of strangers was everywhere, but each one was very faint and constantly changing. Following their breath, they stumbled and separated after a while.
I don't know if Zhou Shao's luck is good or bad. There are "people" in the yard where they are hiding. It was a little girl between fourteen and five. She pushed open the door and came out stiffly to sweep the yard. She picked up the broom from the corner, tilted her head suddenly, and sniffed in confusion.
Why did she feel? There was a strange smell in the yard.
This young girl is not as evolved as the Iron Corpse outside, neither her sense of smell nor her reaction speed is far behind. She took a broom and walked towards the place where Zhou Shao and the others were hiding. Zhou Shao gestured to the other person, and the two of them tiptoed and quietly hid in the opposite direction. The girl is very confused, why is there a strange smell? Why is it in the east and in the west for a while? She carried the broom and went to the rear, Zhou Shao and the two ran back again, like playing hide-and-seek, struggling to avoid the corpse.
Another person wiped his sweat. He has grown so big, and he has never played such a terrible hide-and-seek game. The two of them gradually figured out the pattern, and the two of them cooperated with each other, but they could still hang girls. But still? Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the door was suddenly pushed open.
An iron-blue "person" stood at the door, who seemed to be the father of this young girl. It was him who was unscathed by Zhou Shao's all-out punch just now.
After the girl's father came in, he didn't know what he said to the girl. His dark eyes swept across the courtyard, and he suddenly walked in one direction. Zhou Shao leaned against the pile of firewood, unconsciously clenched his fists.
The other person also unknowingly pressed on the handle of the knife, and his heart was very heavy. They should be unlucky. Which? The yard is not good, but this? Iron Corpse's old lair. Just now all the people couldn't beat this iron corpse, they only have two people, wouldn't they be sent to death
The veins on Zhou Shao's neck were bulging, and when he was about to rush out to fight to the death, a light flashed faintly on the opposite side, and then, a burst of air pierced across the night sky, and sank into Iron Corpse's chest with a whoosh. Zhou Shao poked his head out from behind the haystack in surprise. He couldn't see the arrow at all, but the invulnerable iron corpse just now froze in place. The iron-blue skin degenerated rapidly, and finally turned into rotten flesh. He fell to the ground with a sound.
Zhou Shao looked up and saw a woman standing on the opposite beam, holding a bow and arrow. Black clouds flowed quickly behind her, and the moon appeared and disappeared. With the light on her back, her figure was slender, like a goddess descending.