Chapter Thirty-Two: The Walking Corpse

  At that moment, several villagers in the house were frightened and let out a loud cry, their bodies trembling and collapsing to the ground. Imagine for a moment, a corpse standing in front of you, beckoning to you with its hand, what kind of scene is that?

  "Xiao Liang, you must look clearly, we are all from the same village." A villager cried out.

  At this moment, Xiaoliang slowly turned his head, like a statue being moved by someone. His body slowly turned towards the outside of the house and began to walk step by step in an extremely slow manner.

  He walked with his back hunched over, struggling to move forward like an old man.

  I came to my senses at this time, and my heart also trembled violently. A few days ago, Xiaoliang was walking in front of me like this, but he was a living person. But a few days later today, Xiaoliang is walking in front of me again like this, but he has become a dead man.

  My mind kept replaying that scene, Xiaoliang's face was pale, and he beckoned me with his hand. When I thought of this scene, my head became a bit dizzy, and my body involuntarily walked forward.

  I'm almost becoming a corpse too, in fact, my walking posture is no different from Xiaoliang's.

  In the dark of night, Xiaoliang's body slowly walked out of the village, and I silently followed.

  Actually, I've read about Xiao Liang's situation in a book. The Ghost Doctor's Art records that after a person dies, if they still have an extremely strong unfulfilled desire in their heart, even though they're dead, their soul won't leave the body. Then it transforms into resentment and remains in the body.

  And this resentment will eventually drive the corpse to stand up again and start walking. Generally, this is called a zombie transformation. Zombie transformation can be divided into several types, one of which is to transform into a stiff corpse that cannot move but can only jump. Another type is to transform into a walking corpse, which can walk freely like a living person.

  However, whether it's a zombie or a walking corpse, in fact, after the transformation, they don't have consciousness. But the little brightness in front of me exceeded my expectations. Although he is a walking corpse, I vaguely feel that he has his own consciousness.

  I was shocked and speechless, silently following. The small light in front still moved slowly.

  Under the moonlight, if someone looks down from mid-air, they will definitely see a very strange scene. A corpse is walking in front, and a living person is following behind.

  After walking for a long time, he encountered some hills. Xiaoliang climbed for half a while before climbing up, and when he encountered some potholes, he would fall directly into them and take half a while to climb out again.

  And I, while walking, occasionally observed the surroundings. We were already far away from the village at this time, heading towards the back mountain of the village. I gradually sobered up and began to size up the surroundings.

  I've already understood Xiaoliang's meaning, is he going to bring me to the back mountain to tell me something?

  Looking ahead, Xiaoliang encountered another slope. Xiaoliang walked straight up the slope with his body upright, then he kept walking forward, and his body kept falling down on the slope.

  He can't climb up this slope.

  Looking at his struggling back, I gritted my teeth and walked towards him, still with a tiny bit of fear in my heart. Actually, if facing strangers, this sense of terror would be slightly smaller, but I just had a deep impression on Xiaoliang, and his sudden death would make people even more terrified.

  But I still walked towards him, and reached Xiao Liang's side. I called out to him: "Uncle Xiao Liang."

  He slowly turned around after a while. I saw his face, which was even whiter than white paper. Staring at his face, the fear rose up in my heart again, but I closed my eyes, gritted my teeth and grabbed his arm, then supported him as we walked up that slope.

  When I let go of him, I found myself trembling all over.

  Li Xi ah Li Xi, he is Xiao Liang ah, why are you still feeling afraid? My heart, is self-blaming.

  After a long, long time, we walked even further. Just then, Xiaoliang stopped suddenly. He raised one hand and pointed forward, then his body stiffened and he fell to the ground with a thud.

  As I walked up to Xiaoliang's body, I saw that his eyes were already tightly closed, and one hand was still stretched out in front of him.

  I looked up in the direction where Xiaoliang was pointing, and in the darkness, I saw several large trees stretching towards the sky like chicken claws. They were the five willow trees that the villagers had mentioned. Was Xiaoliang going to turn into a zombie just to tell me where these willows were?

  I have some doubts in my heart.

  Looking at Xiaoliang's body, I fell silent for a while. The fear was gone. I touched his arm: "Don't worry, Uncle Xiaoliang, go reincarnate in peace, I'll take care of the village."

  Then I exerted myself to pull Xiaoliang's body, but his body was too heavy and I couldn't move it. Exhausted, I ran back to the village and called the adults in the village, only then were they able to carry Xiaoliang's body back.

  Xiao Liang was banned from the Internet cafe for the second time.

  That night, I didn't sleep all night and kept watch beside Xiaoliang's coffin. The next morning, I came to the mountain alone and saw footprints on the ground, which were exactly the ones that Xiaoliang and I had left behind.

  I came to the place where Xiaoliang fell last night and saw four willow trees in the distance. There should have been five, but one had been cut down. I walked towards the willows and indeed found a large tomb area not far from them.

  And in this tomb, there was someone squatting.

  I was originally quite indifferent and just glanced at the tomb, but when I saw that person, I suddenly turned back again.

  The grave was just a short distance away, and the person crouching in front of it was burning paper money at the foot of a tombstone. The ashes fluttered about, and a faint wisp of smoke could be seen rising up.

  But this person was extremely strange, I dare guarantee that he wasn't from the village at all. So I couldn't help but walk over to take a closer look. I walked right up behind him, and this person still didn't turn his head around to look.

  I continued to walk forward and stopped at a position less than ten meters away from him. At this time, I vaguely heard that he was muttering something in his mouth. It seemed like he was reciting scriptures.

  In order to hear more clearly, I continued to move closer. Then, I finally heard it clearly.

  "Though the flesh may be weak, the spirit remains unbroken. My heart is not reconciled, my great wish is yet to be fulfilled. The bitterness of the world awaits your experience, what does it matter if we are separated by life and death?"

  This sentence was recited from the mouth of the man who was burning paper in front of that tombstone. His voice was extremely hoarse, as if there was a thick phlegm in his throat. And when he recited this sentence, I saw his hand still gesturing constantly, and the fire in front of him kept growing bigger.

  The moment I heard this incantation, I immediately felt a sense of tension. This incantation is generally inaudible to ordinary people, but after seeing many ghost doctors' incantations, I can roughly make out the meaning of this incantation.

  This curse is not a spell to exorcise ghosts, nor is it a spell to calm the spirits. Listening to it sounds more like a curse of accumulated resentment. Repeating this curse will only deepen one's resentment. Of course, this curse is not meant for human ears; in this graveyard, there is no one else but him. Or rather, there are no living people.

  I immediately became cautious and stared at the person's back. At this time, the person suddenly stood up and let out a joyful cry: "It's done, it's done."

  I also looked forward curiously, and as a result, I saw that on the mound in front of him, a black gas suddenly burst out. In an instant, the black gas disappeared, and this person stood up, wanting to leave.

  I called out to him at this time: "Who are you? What are you sneaking around for in broad daylight?"

  That man suddenly turned his head, and I was shocked immediately. All I saw was that the man's face was extremely ugly, with a complexion like a toad's skin, densely covered with protrusions, uneven and bumpy. Apart from this, his eyes were exceptionally vicious, making me feel chilled to the bone.

  Just as I was stunned, he turned his head and walked away. I silently watched his back, feeling more and more uneasy. Looking at this person's behavior, and still lingering around the old willow tree, could it be that he is the one who instructed the bachelor to cut down the tree and killed Little Liang?

  No way, can't just let him go like this.

  As soon as I saw him leave, I immediately followed. The man seemed to have discovered me and suddenly ran at an astonishing speed. In the blink of an eye, the distance between us grew farther and farther apart. Then, he directly disappeared into a patch of wild grass.

  I panted back to the old willow tree, staring at the four old willows again, and a feeling of something being off arose.

  I feel like the trees I saw today are a bit different from the ones I saw last night.

  I recall that when I followed Xiaoliang here last night, what I saw was also four trees. In addition to this, there was a wooden stake. At this moment, what I see is still the same - four trees plus one wooden stake.

  Four trees were fine, I shifted my gaze to that stake, and suddenly felt a chill on the back of my head, something was off about the stake.

  The wooden stake I saw last night was obviously higher than it is now.

  Now that I think about it carefully, there seemed to be someone crouching on the wooden stake last night.

  Yesterday evening, Xiao Liang's corpse walked to here and pointed in the direction of the willow tree. But it wasn't pointing at the willow tree, but rather at the person on the stake?

  Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart and turned around to run back to the village.

  Just as I guessed, the one who ordered the bachelor to cut down the tree is around here. I must tell the villagers about this and find that person.

  Back in the village, it was already late. I couldn't calm down, so I quickly gathered everyone together. Then, I told them everything I saw last night when I followed Xiaoliang's body, without missing a single word.

  The villagers' faces turned pale one by one after hearing this. I continued to talk about today's events, and the villagers listened with clenched fists, their faces filled with indignation.

  "I never thought this scoundrel was always around our village. Damn it, if I catch him, I'll skin him alive."

  In an instant, the villagers began to discuss it in a flurry. I looked at them and remained silent for a while. The sky had not completely darkened yet, so I called on them to bring their gear and set off immediately.

  The villagers were all in high spirits and quickly went to find their gear. Some were fierce, directly bringing hunting guns and hunting dogs. Then, our big group of people set off with a flourish.

  When we arrived at the mountain, it was already dusk. We split into several groups and searched in different directions.

  However, as they searched around, all the other villagers had disappeared.