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After the call was connected, Wang Laoqiang was heard saying anxiously: "Commander, come over quickly and take a look, something has happened."

Zhang Taiping sat up straight and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I can't explain it clearly on the phone, so you'd better come over and have a look."

"Where?"

"It's right here on the newly dug foundation." During this time, the village was also well-known, and there was an endless stream of people coming to bathe in the hot springs. The original hot springs were no longer enough, and now they are starting to build another one.

"Well, I'll be right over." Zhang Taiping hung up the phone and stood up.

Cai Yazhi asked: "What's wrong?"

"Something may have happened to the newly dug foundation. I'll go over and take a look." Zhang Taiping didn't waste much time and hurriedly walked out of the yard. Wang Laoqiang was not an unreasonable person. He must be a man who could make him so anxious.

No small thing.

When Zhang Taiping arrived there, there were already a lot of people around and it was noisy.

When the onlookers saw Zhang Taiping coming, they all moved out of the way to let him in. The bathhouse is not a very tall building. There is no need to hire a construction team to build a two-, three-, or four-story building. The villagers can build it themselves.

Okay, so the busy people here are villagers and bricklayers from nearby villages.

The old village chief, Wang Laoqiang, Wang Gui and others are all here. Except for Wang Gui, everyone looks serious.

Seeing Zhang Taiping coming over, the old village chief nodded and shouted to the people around him: "What are you guys doing here? Just go ahead and do whatever you need to do."

The villagers who were watching were obviously in a bad mood when they saw the old village chief's unkind tone. At this moment, no one dared to get into trouble and they all left. Only a few city dwellers were left standing around.

"Everyone, please disperse, something happened here, there is nothing to see anymore." Wang Laoqiang also said to several city residents.

After all the onlookers had left, Zhang Taiping frowned and asked the old village chief: "Uncle, what happened?"

The old village chief pointed to the foundation at the corner not far away and said, "See for yourself." There was a piece of white cloth covering it.

Zhang Taiping's heart skipped a beat. This kind of scene can only be seen when someone is dead. He frowned and asked, "There was an accident?"

"No." The old village chief shook his head.

Zhang Taiping did not ask any more questions and went over to check. It looked like a person was lying on the white cloth cover. Since someone was not killed in an accident, how could it be?

After uncovering the white cloth, his eyes suddenly shrank. Although the person under the white cloth was not dead, it was more terrifying than the dead. The first thing that caught his eye was a head with two holes in the eye sockets. It seemed that only the skin was still wrapped around the head, and there were already

Without flesh and blood, it looks extremely ferocious, even scarier than the zombies in horror movies. Children and even timid adults would not dare to leave home after seeing it at night.

Zhang Taiping completely uncovered the white cloth, and the scene below was completely revealed. This was a mummy, and there were traces of a rotten coffin next to it. It was obviously very old and even the coffin was rotten, but it was surprising, surprising and horrifying.

It's because this corpse didn't completely rot into bones.

What surprised Zhang Taiping the most was that there was no odor coming from such a mummy. After careful inspection, he could not see anything unusual. He then covered it with a white cloth and left the foundation tunnel.

Wang Laoqiang asked: "Commander, how do you see things?"

Zhang Taiping said: "Judging from the signs of decay on the coffin, it should have been buried here a long time ago. This eliminates the possibility of murder and burial in the near future, and there is no need to worry about any cases. As long as it is not related to murder.

Things, dig out a body and do it

There's nothing wrong with corpses. It's common to dig out foundations and dig out bones and skeletons. Just set them on fire. It's not a big deal." He paused and then said with a smile, "Looking at how anxious you were when you called me just now, I thought.

It was a life-threatening incident, so I was shocked."

Wang Laoqiang said: "I also feel that this matter is not a big deal. It will be fine if it is less. At most, we can just invite a mage to come here to do a ritual."

"Wang Gui, what do you think?" Zhang Taiping turned to Wang Gui and asked.

Wang Gui said: "Judging from the clothes on the mummies, they should be at least from the Qing Dynasty, or even earlier. I have the same idea, just burn it." Wang Gui is definitely an expert in identifying antiques.

What he said is probably correct.

Zhang Taiping looked at the old village chief squatting there without saying a word, just smoking a dry cigarette, his face shrouded in light blue smoke was not relaxed. He asked: "What else do you have to worry about?"

The old village chief took out the dry cigarette holder from his mouth and said in a deep voice: "You still don't understand, this is a dry demon!" When he said this, his whole body was trembling slightly, and he didn't know whether it was because of emotion or fear.

"Hanban" once seemed to Zhang Taiping to be just a noun that appeared in fairy tales.

Our country has a vast territory, and natural disasters such as droughts and floods have occurred frequently since ancient times. In ancient times, people attributed many natural phenomena to the control of ghosts and gods, such as drought, which they considered to be the work of "drought demons".

The legend of the drought demon originated very early. For example, in the Book of Songs, there is a poem that says, "The drought demon is so cruel that it feels as if it is burning." The ancient myth "The Great Wilderness Bei Jing" of Shan Hai Jing says: When the Yellow Emperor fought against Chi You, Chi You invited Feng Bo.

rain master,make crazy

There was a heavy storm. The Yellow Emperor invited the female demon to calm down the wind and rain, defeated Chi You, and killed him. Later, the female demon could not return to the sky, so she settled on the earth. Where she lived, there was no one all year round.

Rain. This female demon is the drought demon.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the concept of zombies as drought demons was very popular, which led to the customs of "driving drought bones" and "burning drought demons" to pray for rain. Folklore recorded in "History of the Ming Dynasty" said that whenever there was a drought, people would discover new ones.

burial tomb

They dragged the corpse out of the grave and mutilated its limbs, which was called "dry bone pile driving." Although the Ming Dynasty banned this practice, until the Qing Dynasty, this practice was still very popular among the people, and it evolved from "drought bone pile driving."

It developed into burning corpses.

This custom is also seen in foreign countries. For example, farmers in some areas of Russia often dig up the corpses of drunken victims and sink them into the nearest swamp or lake once they encounter a drought. They even mutilate their limbs to

Come here to ask for rain.

This kind of saying is also spread now, but most of it is spread in mountain villages with underdeveloped information and relatively conservative ideas. Usually the village chief seems to be quite liberal, but I didn't expect that the old village chief still retains such ideas.

In fact, with the development of modern society, most young people have completely believed in science, but the older generation still has awe of ghosts and gods in their hearts, and sometimes they still attribute some unexplainable things to ghosts and gods.

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "The drought demon is nothing, as long as it is burned, it will be fine."

The old village chief shook his head and said: "As long as the drought demon appears, there will be a drought. Even if the drought is burned now, it is inevitable."

Wang Gui said: "Anyway, let's burn it first. It's not a big deal to leave it here like this. Otherwise, some germs may spread."

The old village chief nodded and said solemnly: "Then let's burn it and bring over some kerosene."

Wang Laoqiang said: "There is no kerosene, but I have a barrel of gasoline at home."

"Gasoline is fine too."

"I'll go over and get it." Wang Laoqiang turned around and went back to get the gasoline.

Without moving, he directly poured gasoline on the white cloth and soaked it in. Throwing a cigarette butt over it ignited a raging fire.

The mummy had already lost its moisture, so it burned like dry firewood and was burned clean quickly. After burning, Wang Gui took a stick and dug through a pile of ashes, and quickly found a bead.

He said, "As expected." He used an empty cigarette box to put the beads that had been burnt black.

Wang Laoqiang asked: "What is this?"

"This is a bead that can keep a corpse from decaying." Wang Gui said and handed over the cigarette case.

Wang Laoqiang took it over and looked at it. It had been burned completely black, and he couldn't see any difference now: "Is this the thing that keeps this mummy from rotting?"

"It should be." Wang Gui said, "There are always some things that have such an effect, but this one has been burned out and is useless."

The old village chief was still thinking about Hanba's incident and said, "Try not to spread the news about what happened today."

"It may be a bit difficult." Zhang Taiping said, "There were quite a few people watching before."

"Try your best." The old village chief sighed. "It's fine if the weather is smooth, but if there is a drought, it will become a panic."

Zhang Taiping also understands this truth. If a mummy appears here and there is a drought, people will naturally connect it. Once the drought is mentioned, it will become the mainstream public opinion, and panic will immediately arise.