After talking to Xu Ruohui for a while, she knew that she couldn't change my mind, and she no longer persuaded me, but got into my arms and hugged me tightly to sleep, and I slept very peacefully this night

The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, I was woken up by Xu Ruohui's voice, she looked at me and smiled apologetically

I shook my head and said, "It's okay, I'm sleepy, I've slept enough."

When I got out of the tent, I found that everyone else had already gotten up, and Tang Siyan and Cen Sixian had already begun to prepare breakfast

It is said that it is breakfast, in fact, it is to boil some hot water, and then use hot water to wash away the tsamba we brought, and then add some condiments to eat, but this is a good mouthful

Seeing that I got up, Xiao Jing came over enthusiastically and asked me about today's arrangement, probably after listening to the hexagram I solved yesterday, he knew that the final result was good, so he was not very anxious and was willing to listen to my decision

According to the hexagram, it is said that we "retreat to the enemy, and if we move, we will be fierce", so I said to Xiao Jing: "The trouble in this forest is solved, let's go around this forest a few more times, let's not go into the lakes first, maybe that thing will take the initiative to find the door."

Xiao Jing nodded, and then together with Tang Siyan, he began to arrange the formations and talismans around

I said to Xiao Jing: "Don't be in a hurry to let Tang Siyan boil the hot water and brew the tsamba."

We had breakfast, and then we all went out together to tidy up and set up everything around our camp, and we built a fence along the same huge wall of branches and dead leaves that I had built with the mermaid ghost earlier

As for the door, the round opening in the wall of the branch and the dead leaves was also made by me before

After finishing the fence wall, Tang Siyan took out a stack of talismans and began to swing outside the fence, I knew that she was arranging the talisman array

And Xu Ruohui also released some Gu worms around the wall, some of those Gu worms were responsible for standing guard, and some of them were going to the distance to reconnoiter and see if there was anything special approaching us

We have set up a makeshift stockade in this wood

Everything was arranged, and Xiao Jing came to ask me again, how long will we wait here, and if there will be no harvest for a while, we will continue to move forward

I nodded yes

The time spent here in my mind is three days, and if we don't get what we want after three days, we'll continue westward, of course, we won't go deeper, but we'll find a lake, and then stop and wait

Anyway, we couldn't have been too fast for the first few days

Hearing my answer, Xiao Jing smiled again and said: "It's good that you have these things in your heart, and I will definitely not bother you again in the past two days."

After last night's long talk, the contradiction between me and Xiao Jing was put aside for the time being, and the two of us were finally able to talk like friends

On the first day we were all arranging defenses, and by the evening we felt that the surroundings of our little village were already like an impregnable wall, and the dirty things below the level of Qing were coming, and those defenses alone were enough to extinguish them

And in the course of this day, Yi Wu has completely recovered his three homework in the morning, noon and evening, and he has not fallen behind

We were very busy this day, so I felt that time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the night was arranged, and the people on duty were arranged, and we went to sleep

In the blink of an eye, the next day wakes up, has morning homework, eats, and then waits, and this day is a little longer than the first day

At noon, as soon as we had eaten, a few of Xu Ruohui's Gu worms flew back, they circled around Xu Ruohui a few times, and Xu Ruohui turned her head to us in surprise and said: "On the first day of the first year, these Gu worms said that there is a group of corpses in the southwest of the forest, and the corpse qi is very heavy."

Hordes of corpses

When I heard these two words, I was shocked, and the corpses were still a group, which was too weird

I asked Xu Ruohui if she could say specific points, such as how far away and how many were there

Xu Ruohui said: "It should be three or four miles away, but it's hard to say how many Gu worms are not smart enough to count the number of corpses."

I nodded, "We need to go over there and see how it goes."

As soon as my voice fell, Xiao Jing said: "I'll go on the first day of junior high school."

Xiao Jing is deliberately acting, I can see from his expression that he actually doesn't want to go, he wants to change his heart with actions, but now it seems that the effect is not very obvious

I thought about it for a while and agreed, but I won't let Xiao Jing go alone, Xu Ruohui and I will definitely go too, because the address was discovered by Xu Ruohui's Gu worm, so she followed us and we could find the place as quickly as possible

As for Tang Siyan, Cen Sixian, Yi Wu and Fang Junpu, they stayed here in the village, in order to prevent anything from happening here, I left An An here

As for the other four ghosts and Kang Kang, they all followed us

An An was a little unhappy about this, but I coaxed it to bring it delicious food when I came back, and then it reluctantly agreed, and then ran to Yi Wu's shoulder to play

I, Xu Ruohui, and Xiao Jing set off to check in the direction where Xu Ruohui's Gu worm flew back

It was only two or three miles away, and in less than ten minutes, we arrived at the scene, and when we got here, we did feel a heavy corpse, but we did not find any signs of corpses

On the contrary, the trees here are relatively thicker, and each tree has a strange branch, as if it has been artificially processed

There are also some trees that have dried up and died because of the forks that were so large

After looking at the trees for a while, I realized that the heavy corpse qi was coming from those strange trees, could it be that those corpses were hiding in the trees

I looked at Xu Ruohui, who said to me, "Those corpses are hidden in the hollow under the fork of the tree."

Tree holes

Xu Ruohui said: "That's right, some of those trees are hollow."

At the same time, Xiao Jing, who was more careful over there, suddenly said: "On the first day of junior high school, you saw that there were some branches over there with hemp ropes tied to them, some long and thick trees were broken, and some were trapped in the trees, and the other end of those hemp ropes was all stretched into the soil, and they were tight."

The hemp ropes were about two or three hundred meters away from the branch of the tree where the corpse was hidden in the other direction

Then Xu Ruohui suddenly pointed to the other side and said, "On the first day of junior high school, you see that a pile of dead branches over there doesn't look like a collapsed shed."

I looked at it and nodded, and said, "It's really similar, and there seems to be corpse gas in that pair of dead branches, and the hemp rope leading to the ground also seems to be connected to corpse gas, strange, strange."

After a while, Xiao Jing suddenly said: "On the first day of junior high school, do you remember that Tashi Cijie mentioned some other folk customs in Chayu on the way to Benchai Village, and mentioned the funeral traditions of the Yu people?"

I nodded and said, "What do you mean, these are the corpses of the Yu people, this is a funeral group of the Yu people."

The funerals of the Yu people are very distinctive, and there are generally two kinds

In the first type, they bend the body of the deceased into a fetal shape, wrap it tightly in a bamboo mat or clothes, and then place it in a nearby shack to rest for a few days, and after a shaman's practice, they are transported to the wilderness for cremation, and the ashes are buried for two days

The second type is the same as bending the body into a fetal shape, and then stuffing the body into a log made of a book trough, and then digging a pit to bury it, and then when buried, a hemp rope will be tied to the deceased's body, one end will be left on the ground, and after a year, the family of the deceased will come to pull the hemp rope, if the rope is loose, it means that the good luck will not be taken care of anymore

If the rope is still tight, the body is immediately exhumed, cremated, and the ashes buried in the ground

From these two funeral traditions, we can see one thing, that is, the funerals of the Yu people seem to be on guard against corpse changes all the time

What did this people go through to have such customs?

Although the funeral of the Yu people has now become a coffin, this is also a matter of recent years, and the Yu people have been using the previous two funeral methods for thousands of years

Thinking of this, I still don't understand a little, because of these two funeral methods, the body is not directly put into the living tree hollow, which conflicts with the funeral habits of the Yu people

What's going on?

I had a lot of doubts in my mind

We stood near Ze for a while, not a single corpse moved, and not a single corpse jumped out of somewhere to attack us

However, we will not take this lightly, because the corpse gas here is too heavy, which means that many of these corpses are corpses

At this time, Xiao Jing suddenly asked me: "I never understood what it meant to bend my limbs into a fetal shape in the first year of junior high school."

I said, "What is a fetus is called a fetus when it is in the mother's womb, and what shape is in the womb of the child's mother, then their corpse is bent into something."

Hearing me say this, Xiao Jing nodded and said, "It's so simple."

I didn't speak, but slowly walked a few steps forward, Xu Ruohui quickly grabbed me and said, "What are you going to do on the first day of junior high school?"

I said that it would not be an option for me to go and look in the hollow of the tree and always look here

Xu Ruohui was about to speak, so I said to her: "Don't worry, I have this"

As I spoke, I took out a talisman from my backpack, this is the Extreme Yang Talisman given to me by Xu Xuan, this is the best talisman for dealing with corpses

Seeing that she couldn't persuade me, Xu Ruohui said to me: "Then I'll send you to the branches, you be careful."

After speaking, Xu Ruohui spread the Gu worm's wings and sent me directly to the branch, which was covered with a thick layer of leaves, and I can be sure that there is indeed a tree hole on it, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes if there is a corpse in it

I took a deep breath and took a step to blow the leaves

Of course, I don't dare to make a big effort, in case those corpses don't want to attack us, but I get provoked, then it's not fun

As the leaves were blown away, a long whirring clump of hair floated out of the hole and landed right at my feet, and there were indeed corpses in there