"What happened next?"
Yun Dingxiang dealt with his emotions and said: "The matter has come to this, and what should be let go should be let go. Soon, the clan leader passed away, and Yun Ding'e inherited the position of clan leader. From then on, I became an idle person in the village.
Yunding'e didn't care about me and I could come and go freely, so I often went out of the village and became a wanderer in the rivers and lakes."
"So, you will tell stories in a teahouse later?"
Yun Dingxiang nodded and said: "I haven't learned much in my life. I just like to listen to strange stories and earn some drinking money by relying on my tongue."
"Then why do you live in the lunatic village?"
"I know that so far, you still have many unanswered questions in your mind."
I nodded, hoping that he could clear up the doubts in my heart.
"This question is actually easy to answer. First of all, we need to understand two things. One is how the Madman Village came about, and the other is how it became like this now."
"But why?" I pricked up my ears and finally got the key clue.
"This is an unknown secret." Yun Dingxiang sighed and said: "The curse, there is a terrible curse that has been circulating in Heiyun Village for thousands of years."
"What curse?" I remembered what he had said before when he was crazy, and also mentioned this curse.
"I can't explain the specific reason. In our Heiyun Village, every villager who is over fifty years old will suffer from a disease. In the early stage of this disease, the limbs will become stiff and the skin will turn black.
, aging rapidly. If you can ask a witch to cast a spell at this time, you can suppress it with Gu, but it can only last for five to ten years. The old patriarch passed away during that time. However, not everyone can
Many people who ask witches to cast spells can only choose to wait for death at this time."
"Waiting to die?"
"Yes, waiting to die." Yun Dingxiang said, "The scary thing about this disease is that it is contagious, and the way of contagion is very scary. In the later stages, the people who have the attack no longer look like one person, but like walking zombies.
, they disown their relatives, are bloodthirsty, and all memories will be erased."
"What? Isn't that like a zombie?" I was shocked.
Yun Dingxiang nodded and said, "Yes, it's a zombie."
"How could such a thing happen in the world? How could a living person turn into a zombie?"
"Even you, a contracted person of the gods and ghosts, can't explain why. How can I, an old man, explain it clearly?" After saying that, Yun Dingxiang shook his head and continued, "So, Heiyun Village has been passed down for thousands of years.
According to an unwritten custom, villagers in the village, except for the elders of the clan who can be cured by witch doctors after the age of fifty to suppress their illnesses, all men and women, as long as they reach the age, must enter the lunatic village and be isolated from the rest of the world.
Fend for yourself in a village of lunatics."
"This...then are their children left to their parents to fend for themselves?"
"What can be done about this? For thousands of years, this has been a clan rule that everyone in Heiyun Village has consciously abided by. Sacrifice one person to help the entire clan. After all, parents don't want to harm their children if they become ill. Since
There is no cure, so it is better to kill yourself."
"So, the so-called forbidden area is actually a barrier that separates patients from the village. Its real function is not to prevent outsiders from coming in, but to prevent people inside from coming out?"
Yun Dingxiang nodded, shook his head, and said: "This statement is both correct and incorrect. The existence of the forbidden area is indeed for the tribe to escape, but it is not true to prohibit outsiders from setting foot, because not only outsiders, but also black people
People in Yunzhai are not allowed to enter the Madman Village at will. In addition, in order to deceive others, we call this village on Dagushan the Madman Village. People who don’t know think that this village is really inhabited by a group of madmen. Of course
Well, there are very few people who know the name Madman Village. Those who have been to the forbidden area are even more rare among the few, and you are considered the first wave of people."
"That's not true, the old Guotou from the caravan has been here."
Yun Dingxiang smiled and shook his head and said: "I know Ciwang better than you."
, he did come in, but he walked around in a panic in the forbidden area and escaped only after escaping the catastrophe. It was thanks to his courage, otherwise, he would not have been able to escape alive. "
"So, you have raised many monsters and set up countless mechanisms in the forbidden area, the purpose is to defend yourself from outsiders."
Yun Dingxiang nodded and said: "Heiyun Village has been around for more than two thousand years. At the earliest, our ancestors migrated here from the Central Plains, relying on the advanced culture of the Central Plains and the integration of the ethnic minority cultures here.
, we have mastered the ability to raise exotic beasts, which is the main reason why Heiyun Village can stand for thousands of years without falling, and is awe-inspiring from all around."
"So, you lived in the lunatic village after you turned fifty, but why did you..."
"You want to ask me why I haven't had an attack yet and am able to talk outside, right?"
I nodded.
"That's because I have a voodoo. The bug you saw last time was a voodoo."
"Is it because of Xiaoya?"
Yun Dingxiang nodded and said: "Xiaoya missed her old love and cast a spell for me without telling Yun Ding'e. Without this poison, I would have become a zombie and been exposed in the wilderness."
After hearing this, I finally knew the "origin" of this crazy village, and now it was time to inquire about its "present life".
"Then why did this lunatic village become what it is today? Why did the chain bridge need to be demolished?" I continued to ask.
"Things started a few months ago."
"oh?"
Yun Dingxiang touched his beard and said: "This thing is very strange. At that time, I was storytelling in the Shuizhai teahouse and met a group of people. My eyes were black, but my nose was fine."
"How are they different?" This sudden appearance of a character made my nerves highly tense, and what I was most worried about happened.
"The earthy smell, that earthy smell cannot be covered no matter what."
"Earthy smell?" I immediately thought of the other party's identity, "You mean, this group of people are tomb robbers?"
And how important is the word "tomb robbing".
You know, we just came here for the ancient tomb. I had previously suspected that the leak of corpse poison in the ancient tomb might not be accidental, but man-made. If there were really tomb robbers, wouldn't the whole clue be closed?
"That's right, you can't go wrong with that taste!"
"Are there any other clues?"
"Of course." Yun Dingxiang continued, "Since then, I have always had a bad premonition. Sure enough, one night, after finishing my book, I was walking alone by the Shuizhai River. I clearly heard the sound in front of me.
There was a man and woman walking in front of me, and suddenly a gust of evil wind came over me. As soon as I stopped, there was no movement in front of me."
"People disappeared?" I asked in surprise.
"Not only that, I also smell a familiar smell?"
"What is that familiar smell?"
"Water monkey, a kind of monster that has been soaked in poison and grown up. I have seen this thing in Xiaoya's shop. They usually hide in the water. They are extremely ferocious and move very quickly. They can move in a few seconds.
time to knock down a grown man."
"You mean the water monkey attacked the man and woman?"
Yun Dingxiang nodded and continued: "But water monkeys can only be encountered in the forbidden area. Once they leave the forbidden area, the poison in their bodies will take effect and they will not be able to live long. Therefore, if you are far away from the forbidden area,
When I encountered water monkeys in such a remote water village, I always had doubts in my heart. But that's not the weirdest thing."
"oh?"
“It tastes wrong!”
"What's the meaning?"
"The water monkeys in the village have a strong medicinal smell, so that people in the village can avoid them and avoid accidental injuries. However, the smell of this water monkey is long and rich, as if it has been treasured for many years.
It is a precious medicinal material, and this is not the taste of water monkeys that you usually see."
"Then what do you suspect is going on?
?”
Yun Dingxiang shook his head and said: "At that time, I only had questions, not doubts, until another thing happened not long after."
Yun Dingxiang is indeed a model storyteller in Shuizhai. This story is told from his mouth, and the more I listen to it, the more exciting it becomes. I wholeheartedly look forward to him continuing to tell it.
"A few days later, I heard someone in the teahouse whispering another strange thing. They said that many people in the water village had mysteriously disappeared in recent days. At first, I suspected that it was the water monkeys, but after listening carefully, I realized
I feel like things are not that simple.”
"Someone said they saw zombies on the beach on Front Street."
"Zombie?" I was shocked.
"Yes, it's a zombie."
"Has anyone seen it with their own eyes?"
"I don't know whether I saw it with my own eyes, but according to rumors, the zombie theory should be true."
"Why do you think it's just a rumor?"
"Of course I have my own reasons for saying this. First, the zombies that appeared on the river beach were not the zombies in the ancient tombs, but the villagers in the water village. When they found him, his face was pale, his movements were dull, his orifices were bleeding, and his face was full of gloom.
More importantly, there was another corpse on the hillside by the river beach at that time, which was bitten to death by a zombie, and the person who turned into a zombie had been missing for several days."
"Is there such a thing?"
"What's even weirder is yet to come."
"oh?"
"Zombies are infested, and everyone is in danger. Every house is closed at night, and no one dares to go out. However, unexpectedly, an accident happens. The corpse lying by the river that day suddenly appears, killing thirteen members of the family overnight.
Pay it back in your lifetime.”
"Fake corpse?" The more I listened, the more I felt something was wrong. At the same time, I felt that this script seemed familiar, but I couldn't connect the cause and effect for a while.
"Old man, where are the bodies of these people?" The first thing I thought of was autopsy.
Yun Dingxiang shook his head and said: "There are still corpses. The people in the water village heard that people who were bitten by zombies would pretend to be corpses. How could they dare to keep the corpses and directly cremate them?"
"What about...the zombies that were first discovered?"
"It's strange to say that the zombie has never appeared again since it killed people on the river beach. I also investigated it secretly, but nothing happened, so I had to give it up. But..."
"But what?"
"This zombie biting incident happened strangely. It happened to be just after the mysterious group of tomb robbers appeared. This water village has been safe and sound for thousands of years. However, something like this happened at this juncture, which has to make people feel...
Lenovo.”
I also agree with Yun Dingxiang's intuition, but intuition must be based on evidence. After all, relying on mere speculation is not a problem, so I asked: "Do you have any evidence?"
"have!"
"What evidence?"
"Do you still remember the strange things I encountered at the Dagushan Ancestral Hall forty years ago?"
"Remember, is there any connection between what happened back then and this zombie appearance?"
Yun Dingxiang sighed and said: "Originally I didn't want to mention this matter, but fate played a trick on people, and it happened that the scars were revealed again forty years later. At that time, after Yun Ding'e rescued us, I worked for
Master Mibao checked the wound and found out that Master Mibao's limbs were completely destroyed. He didn't know what kind of torture he had suffered. His hands and feet were withered and shriveled, as if they had been burned by fire. I will never forget that scene in my life. I beat myself up as a zombie.
After the bite, I went to the home of a bitten person and examined the corpse. When I touched the skin of the corpse, I felt extremely familiar. At that time, my heart skipped a beat, and I suddenly remembered the tragic scene forty years ago.
"
"There is such a thing!"
"Yes." Yun Dingxiang lamented and continued, "However, Yun Ding'e insisted at that time that the death of the rice bag master was caused by an extremely poisonous poison, and we must find the person who caused the poison to take revenge. And we
Chapter completed!