[75] Zhao Yan falls into a dream

Mu Yan was listening on the side, and it turned out that some strange things happened in Yangjia Town not far from the capital recently, and people died one after another in the town recently, and all of them were at night.The strangest thing is that these people didn't show any abnormalities during the day, but they died silently after one night, and the corpses also disappeared without a trace.The yamen in the town saw that the strange situation had caused panic among the people, and even some people in Kaifeng Mansion were in panic all day long when they heard the news.Kaifeng Mansion also received a letter from the official of Yangjia Town, and immediately launched an investigation. The Five Rats came to Kaifeng Mansion to help solve the case when they heard the news not far from Beijing.

According to several people, it has been more than half a month since the first person died in this case. From the beginning, one person died every day to now four or five people died every night, and all the bodies disappeared. .Not to mention anything else, one of them lost half of his head and his brains flowed out. He was clearly dead, but he still disappeared without a trace.

Chao Mahan had already gone to Yangjia Town to investigate first, but the news came back that the investigation had no clue, and Mr. Bao was so worried that he didn't think about eating and drinking all day long.What's even more weird is that Yangjia Town is constantly inspected by officers and soldiers every day, but there is still no way to prevent the deaths of the people.There was no sound in Yangjia Town at night, and no sound was heard from the people who died tragically.Now the people in Yangjia Town are in a state of panic, and there are rumors everywhere that ghosts and ghosts have murdered people, and they are rushing to flee.Now it seems that if the case cannot be solved, even if the people do not escape, they will all be killed, and Yangjia Town will become a dead city sooner or later.Moreover, the Holy Majesty has issued an imperial decree ordering Kaifeng Mansion to solve the case in January, otherwise it will be severely punished.

Now that the Five Rats are coming to Beijing, Mr. Bao has arranged for Zhan Zhao and the Five Rats to go to Yangjia Town to investigate the case. Today, everyone gathered here at Mu Yan's place to discuss the case in detail.When Mu Yan heard this, she knew that Zhan Zhao and his party were going to Yangjia Town tomorrow, and she also pestered Zhan Zhao to want to go with her, not because of other strange things that happened but she couldn't ask for it. Besides, Mu Yan felt that she was brave I am careful and knowledgeable, so I want to follow along to see if I can help.

Zhan Zhao was a little hesitant at first, but he thought that Mu Yan had helped solve the case several times before, so he agreed to her request to go on the road together tomorrow.Early the next morning, Mu Yan and his party of seven left the city and hurried to Yangjia Town.It was more than a day's journey from the town to the Fengfu, and under the fast-paced efforts of several people, they finally entered the town before the city gate was closed.The town was depressed, the doors of the shops on the street were closed, and white paper lanterns were hung on the doors of many people. It seemed that many people had died in the past few days.

Several people rushed to the posthouse overnight, Wang Chao Ma Han had been waiting for a long time, seeing Zhan Zhao and the others coming, Wang Chao Ma Han heaved a sigh of relief, especially when he saw Mu Yan also coming, he saw the hope of solving the case .In their hearts, Mu Yan is a very smart woman who has a strange background and knows a lot of things that others don't understand. Now that Mu Yan came with her, it seemed to the two of them that she came to help after she had a clue.

Several people sat down and talked about the case without taking care of the pleasantries.According to Chao Mahan's investigation these days, although there is no major progress, some clues have indeed been found.The two visited the homes of all the victims in the past few days and found one thing in common. The victims were all people who went out at night or went out during the day and returned at night, and the deceased were more or less scratched and bitten There are no traces, and there is also a guardian of Yizhuang who saw the process of leaving the corpse with his own eyes.According to the old Wu Zuo, he was taking a nap that night when he was suddenly awakened by a soft rustling sound.But the scene I saw when I opened my eyes was something I would never forget until I died. I saw that the four corpses who had been confirmed dead by me and signed the corpse list in person slowly sat up from the mortuary bed one by one. , slowly jumped off the bed, strode on stiff legs, stretched out the arms already covered with corpse spots, and slowly walked towards the gate of Yizhuang and disappeared into the vast night...

Zhan Zhao and the others were shocked when they heard the news. It’s unbelievable that zombies were the cause of the disaster, but even if they knew about it, it would be of no use. Those things are already dead, so no one knows how to subdue them.Mu Yan also opened her eyes wide in disbelief when she heard that, zombie.She didn't expect to be lucky enough to see such a bizarre case, but seeing the gloomy looks of the few people in front of her, Mu Yan didn't rush to act too excited, as if watching the excitement was not a big deal.

The few people were silent for a long time before Zhan Zhao said: "The most urgent thing is to find out where the zombies are now, and what is the method of committing the crime? Only in this way can we find a countermeasure." Zhao Chao and the others nodded, and they summed up For a moment, since they are all people who return at midnight, why not take the initiative and pretend to be people who return late to lure those evil things out to make plans.

That night, Wang Chao, Ma Han, and Jiang Ping pretended to be late returnees and wandered in the streets and alleys of the town until midnight, when Ma Han made a movement behind him.When Ma Han walked into an alley, he suddenly saw a figure at his feet. Ever since he realized that the figure was following him, Ma Han pricked up his ears to listen, but the strange thing was that the person behind him didn't show any signs of life. After listening for a long time, Ma Han not only There was no sound of walking or even the sound of breathing, and the longer the road, the colder the back of Mahan's ridge became.Because looking at the figure on the ground, it is not difficult to find that the walking movement of that person is very stiff, and he feels that the joints of his legs cannot be bent, and he is following him step by step.

Seeing that we have come to the end of the alley, this is a dead end alley, and we still have to turn back at the end.Ma Han was about to strike first, but he suddenly stopped and flew up to the wall, turning around to look at the dark alley shrouded in moonlight.Under the moonlight, a dead body with rotten skin dangled around like a headless fly. It really was a zombie.

In order to find out how the zombies can hurt people, Ma Han ventured to jump off the wall. As soon as his feet hit the ground, the zombie jumped up swiftly. Sure enough, as Mu Yan said, zombies can't climb high, so he jumped onto the wall He has no purpose.Mahan quietly walked around from the wall to the zombie's back, pulled out the long rope around his waist, wrapped it around the zombie's neck and tied a slipknot, and wrapped the other end of the rope around the zombie's legs so that he could not move until he was completely trapped. The living zombie Mahan let out a long mouthful and jumped off the wall.When Ma Han was about to drag the zombie away, he might as well stretch out two dead arms with black nails behind him and attack him. If Ma Han didn't see the change from the corner of his eye, he would definitely be caught by the zombie. Ma Han Han hurriedly held his breath and bent over the figure of the man, turned his head to look, and saw a disheveled female corpse standing behind him with half a rotten tongue sticking out.

Ma Han was a little panicked, he only brought a rope, how could he have imagined that there were so many zombies.For a while, I can only jump up the wall to hide, but this is not a solution, I can only observe the movements of the zombies below.I saw the female corpse rubbing against the tightly bound zombie, biting the rope in a strange posture. After a while, white smoke rose from the rope, and the rope broke after the smoke passed.The two zombies walked towards the wall where Ma Han was. When they reached the corner, the male corpse slowly squatted down, while the female corpse slowly climbed onto the male corpse's back.

Ma Han was surprised. These corpses have IQ and know how to fight together, so they must not be zombies. What are these things?Don't think much about it now, Ma Han turned his head and ran to where he came from. Fortunately, the wall was not low, and his skills were passable. After a while, he ran from the top of the wall to the entrance of the alley. The streets are full of those things that came out of nowhere, and they were clearly not there when I passed by just now.Ma Han lay motionless on the top of the wall. Looking around in a daze, he saw a person crouching on a roof not far away. Looking at the white clothes in the night, it should be Bai Yutang.Apparently Bai Yutang also saw him and waved to him to let him pass. Ma Han came to Bai Yutang's side after a few ups and downs, only to see that Bai Yutang's clothes were covered with bloodstains.Ma Han pointed to the bloodstain and asked him in a low voice, Bai Yutang shook his head with a sullen face, motioning Ma Han to look down.

In the darkness, I saw those dead people wandering in twos and threes on the street, without footsteps or breathing, it looked very strange.A few of them reached the door of the house and even set up a ladder to turn over and enter the house, while the dead man who entered first opened the courtyard door slowly, and several other people entered one after another.Bai Yutang pulled up Ma Han and followed them into a residential house. He leaned on the roof of the house and looked down. He saw an old man curled up at the end of the bed under the dim light. Looking in horror at the several figures that suddenly appeared outside the window, they slowly approached the door of his room with a strange posture.

Three steps, two steps, one step, the slow knock on the door sounded, slow and rhythmic.The old man was shaking even more when he was close to the corner of the bed, and the sound of knocking on the door became louder and more powerful. From the roof, the door frame began to shake, but the sound of the zombies outside the door knocking on the door became louder and louder. The two people on the roof knew in their hearts that this wooden door would not last long.

Bai Yutang and Ma Han had a soft discussion. Bai Yutang flipped a kite and landed on the ground. It just landed by the window at the corner of the bed where the old man was. Hearing the call, the old man hesitated to open the window a gap, Bai Yutang hastily motioned for the old man to climb out of the window, and supported the old man to jump up to the roof again.

The three left in a hurry, but an accident happened at this time.The old man slipped a tile and dropped it in the yard, and the crackling sound alarmed the zombies who were still pushing the wooden door in the yard.One of them stretched out his stiff arm and pointed at the three people on the roof, and the other zombies began to scramble to push and rush to the roof where several people were, setting up a human ladder and preparing to climb up.Bai Yutang murmured "Not good", picked up the old man with one hand and ran away, Ma Han followed closely behind.

The three fled the residence in a hurry, and the zombies on the street were also missing. The three rushed back to the post under the cover of night.Zhan Zhao and Lu Fang and Xu Qingye have returned to the post house, only Han Zhang and Xu Qing Dynasty have not returned yet, and Lu Fang also brought back a few people who were besieged by zombies, and they are anxiously waiting for the news of Jiang Ping and the other three. .It wasn't until the sky was getting brighter that Han Zhang's call came from outside the door.

Han Zhang was still wearing a golden glove, and supported Xu Qing with the other hand, followed by Wang Chao with a nervous expression.Everyone hastily let the three of them into the room. It was not until they entered the room that they saw a wound on Xu Qing's shoulder that went straight to his back.

Everyone was shocked when they saw Xu Qing's wound. Improper handling of the corpse poison is fatal. Now there is a shortage of doctors and medicines here, not to mention that there may not even be a doctor, so what should we do?

Mu Yan came out of the house when she heard everyone talking loudly outside.Zhan Zhao and the others were afraid that zombies would attack her, so they hid her in a box in the post house, and made a simple mechanism for the box opening, so that people could not open the box from the outside and could only push it from the inside. .Before the situation was not clear, Zhan Zhao didn't dare to signal Mu Yan to come out, until everyone came back, Zhan Zhao signaled Mu Yan to come out, and Mu Yan stayed in the box for a while before coming out of the house.

Seeing that everyone looked at Xu Qing's wound in embarrassment, Mu Yan asked Xu Qing: "This was caught by a zombie." Xu Qing nodded in frustration.Mu Yan said to Xu Qing: "I know there is a method, but I don't know whether it will work or not. Do you dare to try it?" Everyone hurriedly asked what the method was, and Mu Yan hesitated to say the method that she saw on TV before. Apply round glutinous rice to the wound to pull out the poison of the corpse.

Everyone had no choice but to treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor.The old man Bai Yutang and the others rescued said that they had round glutinous rice at home, Bai Yutang hurriedly followed him to get it, and after a while, he took it back, soaked the glutinous rice with rice wine according to the method Mu Yan said, and then applied it to the wound.As soon as the glutinous rice was attached to the wound, Xu Qing screamed and almost broke free from the shackles of the group of people, but it was strange to say that the part of the shiny white glutinous rice that touched the wound was faintly gray, and the wound was wrapped with a cloth strip, and all that was left was to wait. .Only then did I have time to ask the rescued people about the whole story of the so-called zombies hurting people.

According to the people in the town, it was half a month ago that the eldest son of the rich Sun family in the town had a big funeral at his home, and the strange thing started from his house.The grandparents of the grandson’s family lived in the town. According to the old people in the town, there have been at least four or five generations. The grandparents have guarded the grain and rice shop in the town, a jewelry shop in the county, and a hundred acres in the village near Yangjia Town. Liang Tian takes care of the family's livelihood.The masters of each generation of the Sun family have different personalities, some are generous and some are stingy, but this generation's young master Sun Changxing is different from other generations of masters. The friends who come and go are all people who practice Taoism and alchemy. Although they claim to be people who practice, they don’t take compassion into their actions. They beat or scold the long-term tenants. Rising instead of falling, forced tenants to sell their sons and daughters to pay rent.Moreover, he also likes sex, and the slightly pretty girls and daughters-in-law among the tenants are basically raped by him. If anyone refuses to obey, he will collude with the county magistrate to find ways to trap people and kill them, or wait until the woman he likes comes to ask for forgiveness. If you are willing to give up, in the past ten years, Sun Changxing of the Sun family has not only been a well-known bully in Yangjia Town, but even in Zhongmou County, and the people gnash their teeth when they mention it.

Three months ago, Sun Changxing hired an old Taoist priest who was blind in one eye.Ever since the Taoist priest entered the Sun family, Sun Changxing no longer did evil in the town, and even seldom went out. The woman he had captured into the Sun family before was also released, just when everyone wondered whether Sun Changxing had abandoned evil and followed good Then a strange thing happened in the town.

There is an honest man named Zhou Laoshi in the town. He has no great ability to guard his family's tea shop and a few acres of Susukida to live a small life. Although he is not rich, his family is harmonious.Zhou Laoshi has a son and a daughter. The son is studying in the county. The daughter is sixteen years old, just like a flower. Once she went out, Sun Changxing spotted her several times and was rejected. Although the offshoot of a big family in the capital has nothing to do with the main house, it is not something that can be easily bullied, so Sun Changxing did not dare to act rashly.But as the saying goes: a wife is worse than a concubine, a concubine is worse than a thief, and stealing is worse than not being able to steal.The eldest girl of the Zhou family became the one that Sun Changxing couldn't steal, and as time went on, it became Sun Changxing's heart disease.It wasn't until he accidentally met the one-eyed old Taoist Sun Yunyang, and connected himself to the clan, that his heartache was solved by this uncle of the same clan thought of a clever way.

This Yunyangzi gave Sun Changxing a magic talisman, and asked him to find an opportunity to drink the ashes of the talisman for her, and there would be unexpected effects. Naturally, Sun Changxing would not give up this good opportunity, and in a few days, he would find a night to sneak into Zhou's family fans. The fragrance fascinated Zhou Laoshi's family and poured the talisman water to the Zhou family. That night, all the girls of the Zhou family willingly committed themselves to Sun Changxing, but Zhou Laoshi and his son who returned home for Xunxiu died violently at home. His daughter-in-law, Zhou Song, soaked naked in the water tank in the garden and drowned.It is said that the matter has come to an end at this point, but it is not the case.

Early the next morning, when the children next door were climbing the wall to play, they saw Zhou Songshi soaking in the water tank. They were so frightened that they fell off the courtyard wall. The neighbor knocked open the door of Zhou's house and found Zhou Song. Except for the missing eldest daughter, the other three people died at home.Wu Zuo's autopsy filled the death list of the father and son with the death of liver and gallbladder rupture, in other words, the death of internal organs burst.But Zhou Song's was not like this. The cause of death was excessive wear and tear in the house, which in vernacular means excessive indulgence.It became a hot topic of discussion in the streets and alleys for a while. Although it was strange, it was not a strange thing. What was really strange was that on the third day after the four died, someone saw the dead Mrs. Zhou Song on the street at night. Wandering on the street, the person holding her hand was the eldest daughter of the Zhou family, who had been missing for several days. At that time, Miss Zhou's eyes were dull and her movements were slow.Early the next morning, someone saw the eldest daughter of the Zhou family dead on the street, with a row of deep tooth marks on her neck.

The second one is Sun Changxing.It is said that that night when Sun Changxing came home in the middle of the night and was lying on the bed after washing, he suddenly heard someone knock on the door. He opened the door and saw that it was the eldest girl of the Zhou family, dressed in a delicate and pretty appearance, standing by the door. Seeing Miss Zhou, she rolled onto the bed, and after a while, she suddenly thought of the news that Miss Zhou had died, which the servant had said before, and was startled. She lowered her head and looked at Miss Zhou in her arms. He was scared to death.With a livid face, stiff limbs, and a body that faintly smells like corpses, where does he still have the handsome look just now, but now he is hugging a real dead man.Sun Changxing passed out after yelling, and never woke up again.The next day, the news of the sudden death of the young master Sun Changxing came out from the Sun family.Since then, there have been constant deaths in the town, until now. The small town with only one or two hundred households has become a well-known ghost town.The people in the town walked away to death, and there were not many mouths left.But no one knows why.