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Chapter 28 - Chapter 28: Broken Palm

After the cat screamed, the sound of Meng Changqing chanting a mantra came. (.) We dare not go out inside, and we don't know what's going on outside, anyway, it's quite intense outside.

When they couldn't wait any longer, the villagers were ready to go out to have a look. Just as they were about to open the door, they saw Meng Changqing walking over. Li Yan followed behind him. His body was scratched a lot and he was constantly repairing it.

Seeing Meng Changqing coming, the villagers quickly opened the door to let Meng Changqing in. When Li Yan came in, the villagers were startled. Seeing the strange look in Li Yan's eyes from the villagers, Meng Changqing first turned to Li Yan and said concernedly: "Are you okay?"

Li Yan shook her head with a smile, Meng Changqing then chanted a spell to get her into the bracelet.

The villagers felt strange seeing Li Yan's sudden disappearance, but compared with the infant spirit just now, it was nothing. Seeing that Meng Changqing was concerned about Li Yan, they just asked Meng Changqing who the girl was just now.

After Meng Changqing said that it was a friend's soul, the villagers were relieved, and they didn't have much doubts. They have seen a lot of things these days, so it's not surprising.

After Li Yan entered, Meng Changqing asked us if there was anything wrong, we shook our heads and said no, he hummed and asked the villager to call everyone in the village over.

Naturally, there are important things to explain to such a mobilizing teacher. The villagers did not dare to neglect, and hurried out to call someone. Then I went out to take a look at everything, but I didn't see Yingling's body. I came back and asked Meng Changqing where the body was. Meng Changqing said that Yingling It's just a mass of resentment formed, and it's gone when it's broken up.

I nodded to express my understanding, and Meng Changqing then said: "Zhang Shike's body turned into a walking corpse and ran away. If your grandpa killed him, he will definitely seek revenge from your grandpa. Let's chase him all the way. It can prevent him from harming people, and secondly, you can find your grandfather. We will leave after I explain something to the villagers in a while, otherwise we will not be able to find him after the walking corpse leaves a certain range."

When Meng Changqing told me about "Hundred Ghosts" before, he talked about walking corpses. Walking corpses are divided into zombies and walking corpses. What they have in common is that after death, the corpses left a little bit of obsession and got up and ran around, endangering the living. . As for the difference, zombies move by jumping, and walking corpses move by walking. Zombies are easy to recognize, but walking corpses are difficult to recognize, and because they all move at night, it is easy to mistake walking corpses for living people because they cannot see their faces.

Spiritual beings that exist in the world today are either conscious but without a body, which are called ghosts; or have a body but not conscious, which are called dead things; animals with both a body and consciousness.

Those with strong consciousness have strong abilities, so among them, ghosts are the strongest, followed by animals, and dead things have no consciousness, so they have no abilities.

But this only applies to most spiritual creatures, such as walking corpses, they are the exception, they have a body without consciousness, but they are not dead, they rely on an obsession to support them to walk, they do not have the function of blood production, they will Instinctively suck the blood of people or animals, and use the aura in the blood to keep the body incorruptible.

To sum up, walking corpses are more terrifying than ghosts, and unconscious living creatures are terrifying, because only by eliminating his obsession can he be eliminated, and burning him in the movie is simply not feasible.

When I was wandering here, the villagers poured in. As soon as I came in, I thanked Meng Changqing for removing the baby spirit for them. After I didn't say much, Meng Changqing stopped me. After the villagers stopped, Meng Changqing said: "I've been here for a while, thanks Please take care of me, I have something to leave now. After I leave, you spread a circle of glutinous rice around the village to prevent corpses from returning to the village. After that, change it every other week, and it will be good for four times. In addition, the two children If you want to take them away, please take care of their house so that it does not collapse."

The villagers knew that Grandpa had gone away and Second Grandma was not at home. No one would take us with them. Although the people in the village were kind, no one was willing to raise two children from other people's families. Now that Meng Changqing was willing to take us with him, they naturally did.

It's just that after they heard the walking corpse, they asked inexplicably what it was. Meng Changqing told them that Zhang Shike's corpse had turned into a walking corpse, and he was going to chase it now.

The villagers gave up after hearing this, and immediately prepared glutinous rice, for fear that he would come back again.

Meng Changqing took us out of the village while the villagers were preparing glutinous rice. After leaving the village, Meng Changqing looked back at the village and sighed that he might not come back.

Afterwards, Meng Changqing carried Xiaoxiao on his back, and I followed him and started walking. The road was dark at night, and Meng Changqing told me to be careful.

I hummed, envious of Xiaoxiao who was on his back. I wondered if it was too comfortable on his back, or because he felt too secure. Xiaoxiao fell asleep after lying down on it for a while.

Meng Changqing led us all the way. I saw him walking around like this without thinking, so I said, "Can we find the walking corpses like this?"

"The walking corpse will only go to popular places. There are only people passing by this road in the vicinity. The walking corpse can only walk tonight, and it has not yet adapted to it. It walks very slowly. Pay more attention to the nearby vegetation. Nothing moves."

I responded and moved closer to Meng Changqing, fearing that the walking corpse would suddenly jump out and bite me on the neck.

We walked on the road for about half an hour and arrived at the next village. After arriving at the village, Meng Changqing woke Xiaoxiao up and asked her to get off her back. Then Meng Changqing took out a compass from his body and put some things on it where Uncle Zhang's body had been lying. Then I recited the incantation about finding grandma's reincarnation with the Kongming lantern. After the recitation, the pointer on the compass turned in one direction. Meng Changqing looked at it, then bent down and carried Xiaoxiao on his back.

Xiaoxiao said she was going on her own, and wanted to get down, but was rejected by Meng Changqing, saying: "You are still young, and it is easy to fall when walking at night, so it is safer for me to carry it on my back."

I felt it was unfair to hear it. I have been with him for so long, and every time he either stretched out his hand to hold me, or clamped me in his armpit, he never carried me on his back.

Although I felt it was unfair, Meng Changqing treated me very well, but he was a little harsher.

Xiaoxiao didn't feel sleepy right now, she looked at me from Meng Changqing's back, and told me to be careful.

I got it, and looked around at the same time, afraid that the walking corpse would suddenly come out.

Xiaoxiao didn't feel sleepy right now, so she started talking to me, asking me from time to time if my eyes still hurt, and if it hurts, I must tell her so that she can treat my eyes.

Meng Changqing asked suspiciously after hearing this: "Girl, do you know how to cure his eyes?"

"Drink my blood." Xiaoxiao said.

"Aren't you afraid of pain?" Meng Changqing asked again.

"It hurts, but Brother Ye Hai also hurts, I don't want him to hurt." Xiaoxiao squinted at me and said with a smile.

I smiled at her, and then asked her if the wound on her hand was healed. She opened her little hand and signaled to me, saying that it was healed.

Seeing Xiaoxiao let go of one hand, Meng Changqing looked back, then asked Xiaoxiao to show him his hand, Xiaoxiao did so, he looked at Xiaoxiao's hand by the moonlight, and then let Xiaoxiao Withdraw your hand to support his shoulder, don't fall.

After Xiaoxiao took it back, Meng Changqing asked Xiaoxiao how the scar on her hand came about. After Xiaoxiao told him how it came about, Meng Changqing said: "The lines on the palm of a person are closely related to their luck. Fate cannot be changed, but luck can be changed. Everyone The lines are different, and the fate is also different. The lines on your palm were originally Kefu's, but your knife just cut on the extension line of the emotional line, so the three lines of the palm meet and become a severed palm."

"What is Broken Palm?"

"People with broken palms have unique conditions for drawing talismans, pinching seals, etc. Girl, you should learn from me."

"I'm going to be cut like Xiaoxiao tomorrow, do I have talent too?" I asked expectantly.

"You can try it and see if it works."

"Then it won't work!"

"It's impossible to draw deliberately." Meng Changqing said, and then continued to move forward.

He stopped talking, so I chatted with Xiaoxiao, she fell silent after talking for a while, I looked up, and she had fallen asleep unknowingly.

When it was almost dawn, there was a scream of chickens in a small village 100 meters in front of us. After hearing this, we immediately speeded up.

Meng Changqing said that at the beginning, walking corpses have a certain fear of people, and they dare not directly suck human blood. They will first target some animals.

It's only around four o'clock now, and the chickens haven't been released from the pen at all. It must be weird to hear the crowing of the chickens now.

When we quickened our pace and reached the place where the cocks were crowing, we didn't see any traces of walking corpses, only the chicken farmer and his wife were watching at the door of the chicken coop.

The chicken coop of this family has been torn to pieces. There are three chickens on the ground, one rooster and two hens.

We walked over and they looked at us a few times, and then discussed what was going on. Their guess was that a weasel came nearby, and the chicken was bitten by a weasel. In order not to waste their hard work in raising chickens, they decided to I'm going to take this chicken home and cook it.

When they were about to take it into the house, Meng Changqing stepped forward to stop them, saying that the chicken had been poisoned, and it was full of lifelessness, so it could not be eaten.

The chicken farmer saw that Meng Changqing was an unfamiliar face, and saw the two of us dragged by his side, so he thought we were ordinary passers-by, so when he greeted me, he said, "Hurry up before dawn, are you going to visit relatives?" ?"

Hearing what he meant, Meng Changqing didn't care about what he said at all, so he explained the walking corpse to him. After talking about it for a long time, they still didn't believe it. Even Meng Changqing's identity was doubted. It's just visiting relatives, where is there a Taoist priest.

Seeing that they still didn't believe it, Meng Changqing explained: "The weasel is not very big. It is impossible for it to bite the chicken so fast, and according to the habit of the weasel, they will only drag the chicken to other places before eating. We are chasing chickens. Looking at this walking corpse, walking corpses can't stand masculine things. The two hens bitten earlier are more feminine, and they die as soon as they bite. The rooster gets up and crows every day. The corpse bit the rooster by mistake and left after being burned, otherwise the chickens in your coop will not escape bad luck."

The chicken farmer saw that Meng Changqing was speaking clearly and logically, so he couldn't help wondering whether it was a walking corpse. He told Meng Changqing that he hadn't seen such a mysterious thing here for so many years, and asked Meng Changqing if it was real.

Meng Changqing had no choice but to explain again. After explaining for a while, he asked the chicken farmer to help take care of the two of us. He searched for the traces to find the walking corpse. As long as it is daytime, the walking corpse will find a shady place to hide and wait until night. Action, he can just take advantage of this time to look for it.

It's not a big deal to take care of us, it's about the safety of the chickens in the coop, so he's willing to exchange this. Meng Changqing explained a few words to the two of us and asked me to take care of Xiaoxiao before leaving.

When I left, I told him to be careful, and he hummed, then put on his Taoist robe and left with the money sword.