Volume 1: Die with Unclosed Eyes 6. Two Corpses in One Coffin
I won’t describe the vomit in detail to avoid disgusting you readers, but besides bile, have you ever seen anyone vomit dark green liquid from the stomach?
After vomiting, I suddenly felt a chill running through my body.
However, this cold air was very strange . After it passed through my body, I not only felt cold, but my mood also plummeted to the bottom in an instant. Although my mood had already been extremely low due to the huge fear , this cold air further cast a shadow on my mood , making me so depressed that I could hardly breathe.
Afterwards, because my limbs were weak, I sat on the ground and gasped for breath. I always felt that the "oxygen content" of the air I breathed into my body was too low, causing abnormal chest tightness.
Then the feeling of lack of oxygen became more severe, and I even felt as if something was wrapped around my neck. Not only was it difficult to breathe, but even speaking became difficult.
When people feel uncomfortable, they will have abnormal reactions, so I vomited dark green juice twice.
The strange thing is that although vomit looks disgusting, it has no strange smell at all.
After vomiting several times, the congested heart finally felt much better. I pounded my chest a few times and the air immediately flowed into my body. The feeling of sudden enlightenment and comfort was so refreshing.
The extremely uncomfortable feeling just now actually reduced my inner fear. After I recovered, I no longer felt scared . I rested for a while as the sky was getting light. I didn't want my second brother to see me "escaping from my post" when he came, so I returned to the yard where the morgue was located.
The two red dots on the oil paper had disappeared at this time, perhaps because the sky was getting brighter.
I sat on a chair at the door and wanted to rest for a while, but I fell asleep as soon as I closed my eyes.
Then I was woken up by a noisy voice. There were seven or eight middle-aged men who looked like migrant workers standing in front of me, and Luo Tianbao was standing next to me .
"Second brother is here?" I rubbed my eyes and stood up.
"Well, everything is ready. Now we're preparing to carry the coffin to the grave." Luo Tianbao said. After that, he turned to me and asked, "Nothing happened last night, right?"
"No, no." The reason why I didn't tell Luo Tianbao about what happened last night was because I ran out of the yard last night, and he asked me to stay in the mourning hall . However, since it was a funeral in broad daylight, nothing could go wrong, so there was no need to make trouble. Besides, I am refreshed now. What I vomited last night must have been the venom in my body. The reason for this must be that I have "successfully broken the evil spirit."
After "figured it out", I could finally breathe a sigh of relief, so I watched eight workers enter the room and one of them shouted loudly: "Brothers, pay attention, we're going to start the coffin." Then, amid a burst of shouting, I saw eight people carrying a black lacquered wooden coffin out of the inner room.
Luo Tianbao said: "These people are coffin bearers, transporting the coffin to the cemetery . Yesterday you were guarding the spirit, so today you have to walk ahead of them. When we get to the cemetery, remember to use a shovel to shovel three shovels of soil into the tomb." I took the shovel from him and walked at the front of the funeral procession.
But what is strange is that the coffin lid is tightly closed and riveted. If this is the case, how can the dead person in the coffin project the red light of his eyes onto the window paper?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little scared again, but fortunately the sun was shining brightly that day and the weather was really good. If ghosts could be present at this time , then there would be no distinction between the underworld and the living world in this world.
So we walked forward and soon left Linlou Village. Luo Tianbao said, "When you go back, you must avoid eating any raw or fishy food for a month."
"What about my dad? Does he need..." When I said this, I vaguely smelled a fishy smell.
At first I thought I was smelling it wrong, but after a while the fishy smell became stronger and stronger.
I subconsciously glanced at Luo Tianbao and saw that his brows were slightly frowned.
"Xiao Luo, do you smell a fishy smell?"
"Yes, the smell is very obvious." Luo Tianbao said.
"I know what happened. Water is coming out of the coffin." A craftsman who was carrying the end of the coffin tilted his head and said to Luo Tianbao.
His expression suddenly changed, and he immediately waved his hand to signal to stop, then walked to the side of the wooden coffin. Although I didn't follow him, I saw a highly concentrated transparent liquid flowing out from the gap between the two wooden boards at the bottom left side of the coffin.
The concentration of this transparent mucus is very high, almost like glue. Whenever the liquid overflows, the fishy smell in the air becomes obvious.
Luo Tianbao frowned and said, "How strange! There shouldn't be a crack in the coffin." Before he finished speaking, there was a "bang" sound, and the coffin carried on the shoulders of the eight people swayed obviously from side to side.
Now everyone saw it clearly, and no one remained unmoved, especially the eight coffin bearers, whose eight pairs of eyes were fixed on the coffin without moving an inch.
Luo Tianbao's voice was a little panicked as he said, "Hurry and send it to the cemetery. Quickly."
However, before he could finish his words, there was another louder sound from the coffin, and the coffin shook even more violently.
"Boss Luo, the dead man in the coffin is knocking on the coffin." A man said tremblingly with an accent from another place.
"What should we do? We can't carry a corpse's coffin." Someone shouted.
Luo Tianbao's forehead was now covered in sweat, and his face was pale. He said, "My fellow villagers, please don't panic. If we leave the coffin behind at this moment, we might just die. Don't panic, just..."
Then a series of "dong dong" sounds were heard from inside the coffin, and the dead person in the coffin began to knock on the coffin wall continuously. Later, there was a crisp sound, and the wooden board on the left side of the coffin was smashed and cracked. Then fishy water splashed everywhere, and a blue-gray arm stretched out from the coffin.
Seeing such a horrifying scene, the coffin bearers didn't care what they said. The eight of them shouted and threw the coffin to the ground. Then they heard a "click" and the coffin lid was pushed open. Then a wet, blue-gray man stood up from the coffin.
This was the first time I saw a zombie with my own eyes. I was immediately scared to death. My legs went soft and I sat on the ground. I wanted to run but I couldn't even move.
Although the corpse stood up, his limbs were still limp. His limbs and head drooped down but kept shaking. The appearance was as weird as it could be .
Then the corpse jumped out of the coffin. I realized that she was a woman with a long shawl and thick gold ornaments on her ears, neck and wrists.
Just when all my attention was focused on the zombie woman, a cylindrical body emerged from the coffin.
It turned out to be a thick and long python. The python's body was blue-gray in color and covered with irregular patterns. Its body was about the same thickness as an adult's thigh, and its surface was covered with shiny mucus.
The ping-pong ball-sized eyeballs on both sides of the python's head were as red as blood.
The blue-gray body and a pair of blood-red eyes make the snake look extremely ferocious, like a monster escaped from hell .
There was actually a strange python in the coffin for burying someone. After the strange python broke out of the coffin, it moved its huge head back and forth in the air for a few times, and then it hung on the coffin wall with a click and became motionless.
Looking at the "corpse woman", she was lying straight on the ground, motionless.
Luo Tianbao circled around the woman and the strange python and said, "It's over, it's over, it's all over now."
After confirming that the snake and the people were completely dead and there was no possibility of corpse transformation, I bravely stood up and approached Luo Tianbao and asked, "Second brother, what is going on?"
Luo Tianbao paused and suddenly looked at me angrily, "I know, it's you. You must have ruined my plan."
I was stunned for a moment and said, "Brother, I have nothing to do with this matter."
"You were the one who kept vigil last night . If not you, who else could it be?" He seemed to be getting angrier.
I was speechless. Could it be that just because of that one departure, there would be "unusual movement of dead people"? What kind of logic is this?
The more I thought about it, the more confused I became. Luo Tianbao asked, "Well, do you dare to say that you stayed at the funeral hall honestly and didn't leave last night?"
"I, I... well, I did leave for a while. I had a stomachache and was looking for a place..."
"You're lying. You clearly couldn't resist your curiosity and peeled off that layer of window paper, right?"