Urban Witcher

Wu Yao had already asked Yao Mengxue the way home, and when she was approaching a mountain pass, she reluctantly said goodbye to the two.

When they arrived at the mountain pass, the three of them were dumbfounded:

The way Wu Yao went home was cut off by a stream.

The stream was soaring, turbid and swift, and the three of them walked along the stream for a while. There was no possibility of crossing the stream of more than ten meters.

Wu Yao was so anxious that she was about to cry, she gritted her teeth, looked at Ye Shaoyang and the two of them and said:

"I can't go back from here. I don't dare to cross the mountains by myself. It's better for me to go with you. After you finish your work, go back to the town with you, and then slowly think of a way."

Ye Shaoyang naturally had no objection, but Mu Qingyu hesitated.

Wu Yao saw through her thoughts and said, "Grandma Qingyu, I know you are here to exorcise corpses. I can tell by looking at your attire for exorcising corpses. I don't shy away from it, nor am I afraid."

Mu Qingyu remembered that it was a seedling, and he must have some knowledge in this regard, so he was relieved at the moment.

"Aren't you going to Dapan Mountain? I am familiar with this area, so I can be a guide for you."

Mu Qingyu agreed.

"It's just that you are just a little bit better. Can your body bear this mountain-crossing?"

"I often go up the mountain at home, it's okay." Wu Yao smiled at Ye Shaoyang, "If you really can't walk anymore, Brother Ye can carry me on your back."

Ye Shaoyang's mouth twitched.

The mountain road is extremely muddy. Fortunately, there are many forests and the ground is full of fallen leaves, which can prevent slipping.

Ye Shaoyang asked about the details of expelling the corpse. Mu Qingyu told him that the purpose of exorcising the corpses was at a place called Dapan Mountain.

That mountain has the most gentle terrain, and there are three villages. The heavy rain caused a landslide, and one village was suppressed. The villagers rescued each other, but there were still a few people who could not be rescued. The torrential rain was pouring, and the villagers had to evacuate first. .

Later, the situation improved slightly. The villagers went back and dug up all the corpses, but the mountain road was difficult, and it was impossible to go down the mountain with the corpses on their shoulders, and it was impossible to drive in.

They went into the mountain this time to "drive" the corpse to the town.

Wu Yao asked about the number of corpses, and when she learned that there were twelve, she looked at Mu Qingyu in surprise.

"Grandma is so young, can she drive away twelve corpses?"

She is Shengmiao, and she has a little understanding of this kind of thing. She knows that the more corpses there are, the stronger the so-called corpse aura, and the stronger the mana is needed to drive the mortician away, otherwise it cannot be suppressed.

"Catch the ducks to the shelves." Mu Qingyu smiled wryly, then thought of something, glanced at Ye Shaoyang, and said, "But with you here, I can rest assured."

"I can only kill zombies, but not drive them away." Ye Shaoyang shrugged.

A group of three people came to Dapan Mountain with difficulty.

The mountain was not high, and the three of them climbed halfway up the mountain, and saw a long row of houses built along the mountain, some of which were indeed buried in the loess.

There is no grass growing on the loess, and it looks like it was turned up from the bottom of the mountain recently.

"It should be here."

Mu Qingyu took out a compass-like thing from his backpack, dipped his fingers in saliva, tapped in the middle of the compass, muttered something, drew a few lines horizontally and vertically, waited for a while, and walked over in one direction.

Ye Shaoyang really wanted to see if her compass was any different from the Taoist compass, but he was afraid of breaking a taboo, so he couldn't open his mouth.

Carefully walking on the earth that covered the house, the three finally found the corpses covered by straw mats under a huge camphor tree.

"That's right." Mu Qingyu pointed to the black flag hanging on the branch of the camphor tree, which was a mark left by the locals.

Lifting the straw mat, a strong

Some strange smells.

There was a layer of hoarfrost on the faces and bodies of these corpses.

Mu Qingyu explained that these were melted salt crystals, and since the corpse would have to be left undisturbed for a long time, it would inevitably rot if placed on the mountain. The villagers had no choice but to melt the salt and sprinkle it on the corpse to preserve it.

I went forward and counted a total of twelve corpses, both men and women. The oldest one was sixty or seventy years old, and the youngest looked twelve or thirteen years old, which was embarrassing.

On rainy days, there were puddles everywhere on the mountain. Mu Qingyu took out a hemp towel, dipped it in the water, wiped each dead body's face in turn, and then looked at it for a while before straightening it up and letting it lie down.

Ye Shaoyang inquired curiously, and learned that this is the first stage of exorcising corpses: looking at corpses.

Before expelling the corpse, the mortician should carefully look at the face of the expelled corpse. Be cooperative and don't mess around.

Although the soul in the corpse is gone, the corpse aura has not dissipated, and there will be a certain body consciousness, so after being stimulated, there is a theory of fraudulent corpse.

Ye Shaoyang secretly used the yin and yang disk to fix the stars, making sure that there were no ghosts and evil spirits around, so as not to disrupt the process of expelling the corpse, or it would be quite troublesome to use the corpse to revive the soul.

Wu Yao saw that the two of them were doing the trick, she sat aside to rest obediently, and didn't say much.

After "opening his face", Mu Qingyu was put down by the cowhide backpack, cleared a piece of land, took out some dry charcoal from the bag, ignited it with paper money, and burned the paper in the middle.

Then take out an alcohol stove, light a piece of solid alcohol, put a small pot, fill it with water, and sprinkle a few handfuls of glutinous rice in it.

"Give us something to eat?" Ye Shaoyang was a little hungry when he saw the food.

"For the dead." After Mu Qingyu finished speaking, he burst out laughing.

Ye Shaoyang was quite speechless.

Mu Qingyu took out some biscuits and chocolates from the bag, and the three of them ate them.

It was still raining lightly, and the bamboo hats on the heads of the three of them kept dripping water, and they were a little wet from top to bottom, making them very uncomfortable.

But I was still a little excited when I thought that I would see the real corpse thaumaturgy in a while.

The glutinous rice in the pot exudes a fragrance.

Mu Qingyu stepped forward and stirred the glutinous rice with a bamboo stick. The rice was not yet cooked, so he said "It's ok", turned off the fire, took out a copper basin from his bag, and put the half-cooked rice into the basin .

"Is there any explanation for this?" Ye Shaoyang asked curiously.

"Half-lived rice is for these people who died unexpectedly, which symbolizes that they only lived half their lives. 'Eat half-baked rice, and there will be no worries after death', which can dispel hostility."

Mu Qingyu asked Ye Shaoyang to help, opened the mouths of the dead one by one, fished rice with bamboo boards, fed each corpse, closed their mouths, and then did a dumbfounded thing:

He took out a long needle from his bag, threaded it with red silk thread, and sewed it on the mouth of a corpse. He sewed seven stitches in a row to sew the upper and lower lips together.

"What is this for?" Ye Shaoyang exclaimed.

In this way, after the corpse is lifted up, the corpse gas can be blocked in the body by the glutinous rice, and the stagnation cannot be resolved before it can be driven away. Otherwise, the corpse gas will dissipate when the mouth is opened along the way and the glutinous rice is spilled out.

The mouths of the twelve corpses were sewn shut one after another.

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