treacherous world

At midnight, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, there was a scream in Wuzuo's room.

This scream was powerful, and the screams came from three people——Bao Yan, Pang Yu, and Tang Shitou!

First of all, the little fourth son who had just fallen asleep was startled awake, and slipped into Xiao Liang's arms, "Xiao Liangzi, who is calling?"

Xiao Liangxin said that Pang Yu didn't know if it was a nightmare or something, but this is Kaifeng Mansion, and some people are in charge, so he covered Xiao Sizi's ears, "Jin'er is not afraid, there is me, you continue to sleep, there may be someone Had a nightmare."

"Hmm." The fourth son continued to rub his hands, hugged Xiao Liang and went back to sleep.

Gongsun and Zhao Pu were also quarreled. The two of them were having a lively conversation. Zhao Pu had been busy for a while and hadn't done anything pleasant.Now that Yuehei Fenggao is very wolfish, and he is about to hug Gongsun to play hooligans, it just so happens that this bookworm also has that meaning, so it can be said that they hit it off.But the two of them had just rolled a couple of times, and Gongsun was so startled by the shout that he lost all character. Zhao Pu became angry and wondered why he was howling in the middle of the night?

Bao Zheng was reading the dossier, and he shook his head helplessly when he heard that Pang Yu also had Bao Yan in that shout.He was wondering, did Pang Yu settle down in Kaifeng Mansion or something?I don't see him going back to Taishi's mansion, he always stays in Kaifeng mansion, tomorrow he must find a way to blackmail Pang Ji's fat man for food!

Only the Shadow Guards, who are in charge of the safety of Kaifeng Mansion, followed the sound to find them.

Zi Ying poked Zhe Ying, "Zhe is smart, I just saw Pang Yu and the others going to the morgue."

Zhe Ying frowned, "Why do you go to work in the middle of the night? Looking for excitement?"

Ziying wrinkled her nose and shook her head, "I don't know, but Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't call, if they did, let's not go, just run for our lives, surely it's either a zombie coming out of the cage or a ghost walking in the night?"

Zhe Ying laughed tremblingly.

Suddenly, the shadow guards arrived at the courtyard wall outside the courtyard of Wu Zuofang, and saw the gate of the courtyard, Bao Yan was hiding behind Tang Shitou, Tang Shitou was hiding behind Zhan Zhao, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were standing by the door, Pang Yu was rolling and crawling. Come out, hide behind the pillar, and finish the yell just now, "Cheat... a corpse!"

With his voice, all the sleeping people in Kaifeng Mansion woke up, and Bao Zheng hurried out from the study, "What? A corpse!"

Xiao Liang glanced at the rosy-faced little four who was sleeping in his arms, and said to himself, it's a good thing he covered Jin'er's ears just now, he has been practicing all day long, so he didn't come out to see him when he had a chance to hug his little four at night What about cheating corpses?Think about it, cover the quilt and continue to sleep.

But at this time, in the office room, the corpse that suddenly sat up just now was sitting on the bed, a pair of eyes were opened, but the eyes were fixed, dull, completely lifeless.The whites of the eyes are covered with bloodshot eyes, and from a distance, the eyes are almost blood red, which is as scary as it gets.Looking at his body again, his body is green, and his face is covered with a layer of gray. Looking at him through the hazy moonlight outside the window, it seems that he has grown a layer of fine and dense gray fluff.

Zhan Zhao stared at it for a while, then asked Bai Yutang in a low voice, "What is that?"

Bai Yutang saw that there were bloodstains on his body and head, and there were some straws, and thought, "Is that the corpse on the bus?"

"That's right, that's the one just now!" Pang Yu fell face to face with him just now, so he recognized him.As soon as he thought of this, he understood, stomped his feet and said, "Oh, it's over, it's over, I remembered, when I fell down just now, I yelled at him, he must have sucked my yang energy, so It's a scam!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also know that there is such a saying, but it is just a trick of folklore to deceive people, right?Really so wicked?

And look at the "zombie", suddenly fell to the side... the whole body fell off the bed, and with a "bang", Tang Shitou jumped on his back in shock, "What is it going to do?"

Tang Shitou held a broken knife, "Yes, what do you want to do?!"

"Zombies... are usually used to bite people, right?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

"Well, it's said that he likes to suck blood from people." Zhan Zhao replied slowly.

"You two are still talking sarcasticly..." After Pang Yu roared, he suddenly saw the zombie standing straight up from the ground.

"Ah!" Pang Yu pointed and shouted, "It's really a zombie, you can't bend your joints."

Bao Yan was also terrified, and he and Pang Yu got together and hid behind Tang Shitou. Tang Shitou looked at Bai Yutang in front of him, pulled out his chest desperately, thinking that this person has a paralyzed face?The zombie jumped up and it turned out to be silly.

Bao Yan shouted in a dignified manner, "Hey! Brave monster... This is Kaifeng Mansion, no mischief is allowed!"

But it didn't seem to work, the zombie moved the stiff body forward.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang stared at each other, they are both from the Jianghu, and they have seen a lot of pretending to be ghosts, but the zombie's trick just now...is a bit evil.That zombie doesn't seem to have much martial arts, and the numb joints don't seem to be pretending. How did it do it?

The turmoil here has attracted almost everyone in Kaifeng Mansion.

As soon as Gongsun heard that there were zombies, he rushed over immediately, and asked the government servants to find a cage. If there were any, we would catch one and keep it in the town house. Zhao Pu couldn't stop it.

When I got to the front, I saw the zombie standing straight in the middle of the office room, staring at the people at the door.

"Guard Zhan!" Bao Zheng entered the door, Zhan Zhao pointed inside, "My lord, look, the corpse just stood up."

"Bao Xiangye cheated on the corpse!" Pang Yu blurted out, and Bao Yan kicked over, "You are the one cheating on the corpse, don't say my father!"

His kick was too strong, and Pang Yu couldn't stand still. He took a step forward but tripped over the threshold and fell into it.

"Oh." Pang Yu lay on the ground, thinking that Bao Yan, you kicked me again!raised his head...

I saw two feet in front of my eyes, wearing bloody boots, and gradually raised my face, and saw the zombie brother standing in front of my eyes.The point is, when the zombie lowered its head slowly, Pang Yu heard a "hiss", a terrible sound like a big snake opening its mouth to inhale.The most horrifying thing was that the zombie opened its mouth, and a pair of sharp fangs frightened Pang Yu to let out an "ow".

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also felt that something was wrong. Seeing that the zombie seemed to be about to pounce on Pang Yu, Zhan Zhao raised his leg and kicked a stool placed at the door, hitting the zombie's chest.

The zombie was thrown into the air by the stool, and hit the wall behind with a "bang".The stool was smashed, and the wood fell all over the floor.

Bai Yutang used his empty palm to use his inner strength to pull Pang Yu, who was still terrified on the ground, to the door.Bao Yan and Tang Shitou quickly helped Pang Yu out, but was pulled behind by the shadow guards.

Seeing that the people inside were narrow and dark, Bai Yutang was afraid that Zhan Zhao would suffer, so he yelled, "Cat, come out and fight!"

Zhan Zhao stepped back, and at this time, Zhao Pu also arrived at the yard. Seeing the situation inside, he reached out and grabbed Gongsun who was rushing forward with excitement, and threw him into the shadow guards, and asked Bai Yutang, "What is it?" ? " Bai Yutang shook his head, at this moment, Zhan Zhao had already arrived beside the two of them, motioning them to look at the wall.It turned out that there was a big hole in the wall hit by the zombie just now.It can be seen that his body is stiff.

Seeing many people, the zombie opened its mouth and let out a loud roar, which was somewhat similar to howling of a wild animal, and it was very scary at night.

"Ridiculous!" Bao Zheng couldn't believe it, and asked Gongsun, who was holding his chin, "Mr. Gongsun, do you know what kind of disease this is?"

Bao Zheng asked about illness, saying that he did not believe it was a zombie.

Gongsun didn't believe it either, he looked at the corpse, "Something looks like canine disease...or maybe the head was injured, so the maniac attacked people?"

"Head injury?" It was the first time Bao Yan heard that head injury would cause such symptoms.

"Yes." Gongsun told everyone, "If a hard object is accidentally stuck in the head and hurts a certain part, it will make people crazy and restless... But there is no reason to grow teeth!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking it was true.

Seeing the zombie fell to the ground, Bai Yutang didn't move. He stretched out his hand and flicked a piece of the Moyu locust rock, hitting him on the head.

The zombie raised its head suddenly, roared and stood up again.

"This action is so scary!" Pang Yu pulled Bao Yan and hid behind Bao Zheng. The so-called evil can never prevail, and Mr. Bao Wenquxing descended to earth, this time is the most reliable!

After the zombie stood up, it jumped out and rushed towards Zhan Zhao and the others.

Seeing that he is not afraid of death, Zhan Zhao exchanged a glance with Bai Yutang and let him fall into the courtyard. Zhao Pu told the shadow guard, "Bring the rope!"

Gray Shadow and the others have already prepared.Four shadow guards stood on the four courtyard walls, each with a chain in his hand.Zhan Zhao and the others were in charge of forcing the zombie in the middle of the courtyard, Yingweimen threw the chain, Zhao Pu, Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and Tang Shitou grabbed the head one by one, and changed positions around the zombie, and then The eight people tightened their ropes.

The moment the chains trapped the zombie, Zhan Zhao and the others felt something unusual. The zombie was extremely strong, and it struggled fiercely.But it seems that only fierceness and lack of resourcefulness are left, completely mad and venting anger, and can't turn at all, whether it is joints or head.

Bao Yan watched in amazement, and asked Bao Zheng, "Father, he is very close to a zombie in every way."

Bao Zheng nodded, "Yes...but what exactly is it?"

After trapping the zombie and fastening the chain, Zhan Zhao kicked him and put him in the cage.

Bai Yutang turned his head abruptly, staring at Wu Zuo's room, and at the same time, Zhao Pu yelled, "Not good!"

Then, everyone heard a "crash", the sound coming out of a broken window.

"One ran away!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang rushed out with a "whoosh", and Zhao Pu told the government servants, "Tie all the corpses together with the shrouds with iron chains!"

The soldiers rushed into the office room one after another, and at the same time, they heard a woman's scream coming from behind.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang rushed to the yard, and saw a gray-black figure, which should be another "deceived corpse", biting a little girl dressed as a maid.

"Xiaoyu!" Zhan Zhao immediately recognized the screaming girl as Xiaoyu, a servant girl from Kaifeng Mansion, and kicked the zombie away.Bai Yutang raised his hand and crossed the zombie's neck with a knife, and the zombie's head was separated and fell to the ground, its head rolled aside.

"Xiaoyu!" Zhan Zhao hurried to help the maid.

"It hurts so much, Mr. Zhan..." Xiaoyu clutched her neck, sobbing in fright.

Bai Yutang squatted down to take a look, and looked at Zhan Zhao, both felt that the situation was not good—on Xiaoyu's neck, there were four bright red tooth marks and blood stains, "What is that?" Xiaoyu looked at Rolling to the ground, the ferocious zombie head with its fangs exposed, cried even more fiercely, "I was bitten by a zombie, woohoo... It is said that if you are bitten by a zombie, you will turn into a zombie, right?"

Zhan Zhao quickly tapped her acupoints to stop her bleeding, then took her to the room in the front yard, and asked Gongsun to come and have a look.

Bai Yutang was still in the backyard, squatting down, looking at the terrifying zombie head with wide-eyed eyes on the ground.

"Brother Bai!" Bao Yan and Pang Yu ran over, and Tang Shitou also followed. He looked at Bai Yutang who was squatting aside with a knife, and secretly envied him—this Bai Yutang, people and swords seem to be born with each other. When they are together, no matter what actions they make with the knife, they are very airy, if only I can do that.

At this time, in the office room at the back, the sound of "wailing" was heard one after another.

Bao Yan and Pang Yu shuddered when they heard this.

Zhe Ying ran over and said, "Mother, it's a good thing they are all tied up, and they are all fake corpses!"

"Isn't it?" Pang Yu looked at the corpse on the ground and asked Bai Yutang, "Xiaoyu was really bitten by a zombie, will she also..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Bao Yan was also a little flustered, "Maybe it's not a zombie, Mr. Gongsun didn't say it just now, maybe it's dog disease!"

"Wow, you saw it just now, little steamed buns. They have teeth in their mouths!" Pang Yu said seriously. This is not a zombie, what is it!"

Bao Yan also felt that his self-comfort was untenable.

At this time, Bai Yutang suddenly drew the knife and turned it around in his hand... the head on the ground, the mouth was cut into two by his silver knife.

After the mouth is parted, the teeth on both sides are clearly visible, and the canine teeth are particularly sharp.

Both Pang Yu and Bao Yan shrunk their necks. Bai Yutang deserved to be a wanderer, and he was really ruthless.

And Bai Yutang pulled out a veil from his bosom, and pulled out a sharp canine tooth wrapped around the corpse... even a tooth was pulled out.And looking at the corpse again, the original canine teeth are still there, not long!

"Huh?" Pang Yu took the lantern that Bao Fu was carrying and took a closer look, "Huh? This guy's teeth didn't grow out, they were wearing braces!"

"What?" Bao Yan also came to look.

Bai Yutang held the fang and looked at it for a long time, "It's a wolf fang."

"That's right!" Pang Yu also nodded, "So someone pretends to be a ghost, so Xiaoyu is not afraid of becoming a zombie!"

"Not necessarily." Bai Yutang showed the teeth wrapped in white cloth to everyone, "Look inside the teeth!"

Bao Yan and Pang Yu tilted their heads, looked at the hollow inside the braces, and saw some clear, green powder... medicine? !

"There are still holes in the teeth!" Tang Shitou pointed out to everyone with sharp eyes, and Pang Yu opened his eyes wide, "Oh, isn't this harmful!"

Bai Yutang asked people to clean up the corpse, and hurried to the front yard with his teeth to find Gongsun, Bao Yan, Pang Yu, and Tang Shitou quickly followed.

Before leaving, Pang Yu tripped over the corpse lying on the side of the road. Looking down, he saw that the corpse's hands were covered with scars, as if they had been whipped.

Pang Yu looked up to the sky and thought for a while—whip?Why would you be whipped?Prisoner?

When I came back to my senses, I found that Bao Yan and the others had already run far away, so I quickly gave up thinking about it and chased after them.

When Bai Yutang arrived at Xiaoyu's room, he saw Gongsun taking her pulse and checking her wounds, while Bao Zheng was also watching.

There are only three or two servant girls in Kaifeng Mansion. Xiaoyu is usually cute and smart, and everyone loves her very much. In addition to her young age, Bao Zheng is also worried. If something goes wrong, how can she explain it to her parents?

Bai Yutang spread out the white cloth for everyone to see, Zhan Zhao frowned, "Medicine?!"

"There's still a head!" At the door, Zhe Ying came in with a plate holding a zombie's head, and saw a piece of wood inserted in front of the head, near the forehead, a little to the left.The piece of wood was square, inserted deep into the head, sinking into the scalp, so cold that I really couldn't see it.

"Wood chip?" Zhao Pu frowned, "How could a wood chip pierce a hard skull?"

"We are also very strange." Zhe Ying said, "Everyone has been checked, and there are wood chips in the same position!"

Gongsun took out the tweezers, pulled out the piece of wood, sniffed it, and frowned, "Oh...so that's how it is!"

"Study, what's up there?" Zhao Pu asked.

"Mafeisan." Gongsun replied, "That's why there seems to be no pain, and the body won't bend."

"Mafeisan is used to relieve pain and paralysis..." Bao Zheng frowned, "Then why is it inserted in this position?"

"My lord, this is a very important part of the head. Once injured, people will become extremely irritable, even violent! In addition to this green powder, if I guessed correctly, it is poison made of dog bile. With the combination of three prongs, talents will be as brutal as zombies coming out of cages!"

"Then...why didn't they attack immediately, but waited until they died?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

Gongsun stood up and thought for a while, "Too bad, those people may not be dead!"

"What?" Bai Yutang frowned, wouldn't he be innocent if he didn't die?I just killed one myself!

"Catch me a live one and come in, be careful, don't get bitten!" Zhao Pu ordered the shadow guard.

Soon, a bound zombie was carried in and placed on the ground.

Gongsun stretched out his hand to uncover the skirt of his chest, and sure enough, he saw green spots on its body and many scars, which had already festered.

"Sure enough." Gongsun looked at the crowd, pointed at the green spots on the zombie's body, "This is puffer fish poison! If you smear the body, especially the wounded area, it will cause people to fake death, and the whole body will turn blue and their face will be pale. After the effects of the medicine wear off, it can take an hour or two to three or four days for the person to wake up. However, it takes a long time for the green spots to disappear, because the toxin will remain in the body. And the person is almost dead lying on the ground, It is very easy to be infected with corpse poison, and this time Xiaoyu was poisoned by two kinds of toxins, corpse poison and dog poison, and when the time comes, her whole body will turn blue, her eyes will be red and congested, and then she will go berserk and hurt people."

"I don't want it!" Xiaoyu was still awake, crying out of fright, and pulled Bao Zheng's sleeve, "My lord, I'll kill you with a headshot!"

Bao Zheng hurriedly asked Gongsun, "Sir, is there any cure?"

Gongsun nodded, "Yes! Drink soap root with water to wash the wound, and then take the antidote I prepared." After speaking, he wrote a prescription and asked someone to grab the medicine immediately.

"It's good to be saved!" Bao Yan comforted Xiaoyu, Tang Shitou and Pang Yu both nodded.

Zhan Zhao stood aside frowning, and Bai Yutang almost habitually kept an eye on the changes in Zhan Zhao's expression. Seeing that he seemed to have something on his mind, he asked, "Cat, what's wrong?"

"Oh, I was thinking..." Zhan Zhao said, "According to what Gongsun said, these corpses have been dead for two or three days. That means the onset of tetrodotoxin was late. Could it be that the onset of tetrodotoxin was early?"

One sentence from Zhan Zhao made everyone break out in cold sweat.

Bao Zheng also shook his head again and again, "If this thing ran out before, it must be regarded as a fraudulent corpse. When the time comes, there will be rumors... Kaifeng will be chaotic"

Before he finished speaking, footsteps came from outside the yard, "Amazing! Mr. Bao, Mr. Xiang!"

Bao Zheng raised his heart, everyone recognized this voice, it was Eunuch Liu, the eunuch next to the emperor.Several eunuchs around Zhao Zhen are very capable. This Eunuch Liu is a master of martial arts. He usually stands far away to protect Zhao Zhen. It is impossible for him to come here today for nothing serious.

"Eunuch Liu..." Bao Zheng didn't finish his sentence.

Eunuch Liu came in and grabbed his sleeve, "It's terrible, Mr. Xiang, a maid who died in the palace suddenly cheated and bit people! Master Nangong Ji was bitten in order to protect the emperor and queen mother, and wanted to commit suicide to prevent the corpse from changing. The emperor gave an order to tie them up! The emperor asked me to ask..."

"It's saved, I'll prepare the antidote immediately." Gongsun stood up, and Eunuch Liu heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that he could cure it.

"How could someone cheat the corpse in the palace?" Bao Zheng asked Eunuch Liu.

"Oh, that maid is called Bi Lin, who is in front of the Queen Mother. The afternoon before yesterday, I heard that the old mother was seriously ill. The Queen Mother specially gave her half a day off to go home to accompany her mother. After returning to the palace, she was fine, but this afternoon she had a fever and died. Palace Fearing that she contracted a strange disease when she went out, she stopped in the mortuary first, but she didn't expect to cheat on the corpse just now, running around and biting people!"

"Let's go into the palace with you to have a look." Zhao Pu was afraid that there were still zombies, so he took the shadow guards to investigate, and Bao Zheng also took Zhan Zhao and the others into the palace.

Gongsun called the little fourth son who was sleeping soundly with Xiao Liang covering his ears, and asked him to dispense the medicine according to the prescription, and he followed Zhao Pu into the palace.

When Zhan Zhao arrived at the inner palace, he found that the guards were heavily guarded, and the soldiers were all on the verge of an enemy.

There was a big iron cage in front of Zhao Zhen's bedroom, inside which was a manic maid, and there were several seriously injured lying on the side and tied up.Nangong Ji was also tied up, meditating aside, Zhao Zhen was standing beside him.At the door of the bedroom, the queen mother also came, and there seemed to be Concubine Pang holding Xiangxiang and looking around.

"Uncle Nine, Bao Qing." Zhao Zhen came out, and just about to speak, Zhao Pu slightly waved his hand, and said everything about the discovery of the corpse and the fraudulent corpse in Kaifeng Mansion just this afternoon.

While Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang checked the situation of the maid in the cage, Gongsun saw Nangong Ji's injury, turned around and told Bao Zheng, "It's the same!"

Bao Zheng frowned, no need to ask, the maid was tampered with when she was out of the palace.

Zhao Zhen asked Chen Banban to find several acquainted maids who were on duty with the maid.

Bao Zheng asked, "After Bilin returned to the palace, is there anything wrong?"

Several court ladies recalled, "Bilin just said she had a headache, and then lost her temper once. We thought she was ill, so we lost our temper, and we didn't dare to let her move around."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Bilin's forehead, there were indeed pieces of wood, but there were no sharp teeth!

"If you don't have braces, how can you spread the dog disease?" Zhao Pu asked Gongsun.

"The canine disease is contagious." Gongsun said, and asked the court ladies, "Does Bi Lin have any symptoms of being afraid of cold, afraid of water, and lack of energy?"

"Yes!" A maid hurriedly said, "It's a hot day this afternoon, we were sweating from the heat, and Bilin actually said she was cold!"

Zhan Zhao and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, looking at Dai Ying behind Zhao Pu.Daiying ran up and picked up Bilin's skirt with a sword to check it, then turned around and said, "She was bitten by a dog, and there is a wound on her calf!"

Everyone understood that Bi Lin had been tampered with, but the canine disease was spread through her.The piece of wood was inserted into the head, and you couldn't see it unless you looked carefully. Bilin might feel a headache but he couldn't feel it.

"Who did such evil?" Zhao Zhen was furious, "Bao Qing, this matter is of great importance, no matter what, we must thoroughly investigate!"

Bao Zheng took the order and took Zhan Zhao and the others back. All night, no matter in Kaifeng mansion or the palace, everyone was busy detoxifying and taking medicine, and finally there was no "dead change".

Early the next morning, as expected, several people in Kaifeng city reported that they were bitten by zombies last night.Kaifeng Mansion, which used to be extremely lively, has now become deserted...