Chapter 112 Tuberculosis

Since I entered this line of work, if I talk about my feelings, there is only one thing. The romantic love between a human and a ghost like Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen only appears in books. Most people will never meet ghosts and gods in their lifetime. If they really meet them, they are basically not good people, and good people will not come!

I calmed down a little, and immediately held the Tianguan Blade across my chest. My palm was already on it, and I was about to scratch my palm and wake it up directly, but the thing that was drilling in the bushes retracted its head, and the grass and trees surged, accompanied by a "rustling" sound, and disappeared without a trace.

My master and several people saw that I was behaving abnormally, and they all came out of the cave and asked about the situation.

"No time to explain, chase after it first!"

I carried the Tianguan Blade, bent my body and rushed out immediately. My master and brothers were all around me. With more people and more courage, I was not afraid of being calculated if I chased after it.

The temperature in the mountains was very low at night, but I was sweating profusely, and I felt like a thorn in my back.

How could a regular guest of the Yinren Inn appear here?

Is it a coincidence? I don't believe it.

There are so many displaced ghosts in the world, and such an encounter from Taiyuan to my hometown in the vast sea of ​​people is too unreliable!

There is only one answer, this thing is following me.

Moreover, the tracking time should not be long, otherwise, my master would have noticed it long ago. Although this thing has a hideous face, it is at most a miserable death. It should not be very powerful. It is impossible to be compared with such ruthless characters as the Water King and Cang Yao.

Could it be... the ferryman?

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is really possible. The Yinren Inn is not a charity organization. Debts must be repaid. I have stayed in the Overlord Inn there. Before leaving, the old man made a harsh statement. Maybe he is really looking for trouble.

"Don't worry, everything will become clear once we catch this ghost thing secretly."

My master narrowed his eyes slightly, with a cold light flashing in his eyes: "The Yinren Inn is too complicated. We Taoists don't want to have any disputes with them. We have always kept our distance from each other. But if he is really behind this, then we are not afraid of trouble. What if we kill him? We can't let any cats and dogs stand on our heads and do whatever they want, not to mention that he is not a ferryman, but just an old slave!"

"That old guy is not a ferryman?"

You can imagine my surprise. My mouth was so wide that an egg could be stuffed in. This was the first time my master talked about the Yinren Inn in front of me, and he dropped a bombshell as soon as he opened his mouth.

"If it's the ferryman, we really have to think about it carefully."

My master sighed and said that the ferryman, like the Heavenly Official, has become a legend and is probably dead now. This kind of person is not easy to mess with. It is said that he can stand in the Yin and Yang worlds and defeat the ghost king Yin Shuai. He is quite good at fighting. Simply speaking of martial arts, even the Taoist Tianshi and our Tianguan can only bow down to him. Without this ability, they dare not say that they can ferry Yin and Yang.

"When the water is full, it will overflow; when the moon is full, it will wane; when it is too hard, it will break easily. The ferryman has no good end, which is also related to what they do."

My master said: "However, the ferryman has disappeared, but the Yinren Inn is still there. The one guarding the inn is just an old servant who followed the ferryman in the past!"

He didn't say much about the rest. The matter of tracking that thing was naturally handed over to Lao Bai.

Lao Bai could only use his bone-chopping skill again, mumbling non-stop, complaining that the way is to have one yin and one yang, and that there must be a price to pay for what one gets. He said that all kinds of skills cannot be used in this way. For example, he used too much bone-chopping skill today. I am afraid that his sense of smell and taste will fail in the next few days. No matter how good the food is, it will be like chewing wax in his mouth. If it hurts his body, who will feel sorry if he loses weight?

I patted his rather plump belly, and it made a "pop" sound, and the big waves rolled, which was very spectacular.

Lao Bai knew the meaning of the string, and stopped complaining. He worked honestly. However, tracking this thing is much easier than tracking my parents. Lao Bai's nose moved and he immediately knew: "This is not a ghost, it's probably a corpse, and it's a wet corpse. I can smell the corpse gas, it's fishy, ​​but not smelly."

He waved his hand, motioning us to follow.

Not long after, Lao Bai found a big tree. This tree was a bit strange. One side of the bark was normal in color, but the other side was pitch black and covered with black oil that looked like ink.

"Corpse poison!"

Brother Yaozi's eyes condensed, and he shouted softly: "I have never seen such a heavy corpse poison. The corpse poison of ordinary zombies is in the abdomen. When biting people, the corpse poison will penetrate into the body through the teeth. But looking at the traces on the tree, it is clearly left by the zombie leaning here, which means that there is a huge amount of corpse poison on the body of the other party!"

Lao Bai thought the torch was not bright enough, so he took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight, shone the tree trunk, and smiled: "Did you make a mistake? This is not an ordinary corpse poison, take a closer look."

Brother Yaozi looked at it for a while and said to himself: "Strange, ordinary corpse poison is very penetrating and spreading. Whether it drips on an object or enters the human body, it will quickly penetrate into every corner, but this corpse poison does not spread, but is very corrosive. Look at this tree trunk, it has obviously become dregs, just like a sponge, it is estimated that it will be rotten if you grab it with one hand."

Of course, no one was stupid enough to really grab the tree trunk to verify the correctness of Brother Yaozi's words.

"Short-sighted, ignorant!"

Lao Bai squinted his eyes, twisted his mouth, and said sarcastically, "This is the poison of tuberculosis."

This is a huge problem.

Not to mention me and Brother Yaozi, even my master doesn't quite understand what tuberculosis is.

Lao Bai said that tuberculosis is very rare, and basically concentrated in Xiangxi. It is impossible to appear now because there are no such conditions.

In the old days, there were many corpse drivers in Xiangxi. When they rested on the road, they would put the corpses together. Because they were too concentrated, and the corpse drivers themselves were careless and did not pay attention to protection, the corpse gas would inevitably leak out, affecting innocent people.

Some unlucky people will develop strange diseases after inhaling these corpse gases. At first, corpse spots will grow on their bodies in patches. It is strange for living people to have corpse spots on their bodies. Moreover, these corpse spots are like some moles, and green hair will grow on them. After a long time, they will become neither human nor ghost, and become monsters in everyone's eyes. Then, the head begins to shrink, as if the water and parts inside are sucked away little by little, leaving only a thin layer of skin.

Lao Bai said that at this time, the person is basically finished, and the head is like a buttocks, with layers of folds stacked on top of each other.

For such people, there is a law after death. On the seventh night of the return of the soul, they will definitely rise from the dead. Moreover, after rising from the dead, they are not like ordinary zombies, who are muddle-headed and no different from wild beasts. They have the same thinking ability as living people, making it difficult to tell whether they are dead or alive.

The common people didn't know the truth and thought that it was a strange tuberculosis. It used its brain too much and consumed its brain, so such a walking corpse was called a tuberculosis corpse.

Tuberculosis corpses are not very powerful, but they are very difficult to deal with. They will secrete a large amount of corpse poison on their body surface. These corpse poisons are highly corrosive. If they really come into contact with people, they will die in a short time. Moreover, such corpse poisons cannot be removed by glutinous rice. If you are hit, it is basically hopeless.

It is easier to track it after determining what it is.

Tuberculosis corpses will not hide their smell. The corpse poison on their body surface has a foul smell, which is similar to bad pus. It is naturally not difficult to track them with Lao Bai's nose. Along the way, we have found that many things that tuberculosis corpses have come into contact with have black corpse poison left.

This tuberculosis corpse was very good at escaping, and it slipped away without a trace. We crossed the mountains and finally tracked it to a rather open meadow. A dilapidated house stood here. It should have been the place where the mountain people rested at night when hunting before the hunting bureau was banned. It was already very dilapidated. The exposed rafters of the wooden house were rotten and ventilated everywhere.

A white flag was inserted in front of the door of the dilapidated house. The flag was bright in color and rustled in the mountain wind.

My master stopped, stared at the white flag for a moment, and said, "I won't leave."

"The tuberculosis corpse is not in this house."

Lao Bai reminded: "It passed here and fled to the distance."

"Then I won't chase it. The real owner has been found. Why are you still chasing a shrimp soldier and crab general?"

My master stretched out his finger and pointed at the white flag, sneering: "There is a soul-calling flag in front of the door. Ghosts and gods dare not ask when they pass by. Except for the ferryman, who else in the Yin and Yang worlds dares to be so arrogant?"