?Yecheng was silent under the night sky. There was no one on the streets under the curfew, except for the night patrol team, and the palace was also quiet. Except for the imperial guards on night, there was no other ｗwww...lā

However, the emperor's bedroom was brightly lit. In addition to the imperial guards on duty outside the hall, there were also people in the hall. Yu Wen Gankeng, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, sat upright behind the desk, while Yu Wen Wen, the governor of Xiyang County and Bazhou, sat opposite each other across the desk.

Yuwen Gankeng's face was full of nervous and expectant expressions. Several eunuchs stood behind him, standing with their hands hanging down, looking listless, but listening with their ears tilted, all listening to the "experience" that Yuwen Wen, the Duke of Xiyang County, was talking about.

"I investigated the case, but because the case was complicated, I took a private visit to search for clues. One day I rested at the official road station. Shortly after I sat down, a person came. I sat down next to drink tea and eat. He heard that his accent was from Xiangyuan, Jiangnan."

"The master of Zheng Tong is acquainted with this person. His surname is Jia and his hometown is from Yuanzhou. He lives in a business trip. Half a year ago, he received news that his mother at home was critically ill, so he took a boat to the river. When he passed through Xiyang, the boat broke down and fell into the water. He rescued the navy. Because all his belongings were lost, Zheng Tong gave him money to him and went home."

"It has been several months since this incident. The two of them met and greeted each other. When Zheng Tong saw that he was wearing a talisman, he asked why. Jia Yue said that he encountered a strange incident on the way home. Zheng Tong was curious and asked several times, which would be convenient for the experience one by one..."

Yuwen Gankeng swallowed his saliva. Yuwen Wen, who entered the palace today, told a story. The plot was tense and exciting, and he couldn't stop. After hearing a few more, he became more reluctant to let him go, so he asked the other party to stay in the palace and continue to tell stories at night.

The previous story is about the "experience" of cat demons who harmed people and surrendered to the masters at the last moment. The plot is a bit terrifying. Yuwen Gankeng was afraid and wanted to hear it. He specially added a few more eunuchs to foster courage and then asked the other party to continue talking, and now what he is talking about is a newexperience.

Jia Yue, a merchant from Xiangzhou, learned that his mother was seriously ill and was very filial, so he traveled home day and night. After entering the junction of Xiangyuan, because the mountains were stretched, there were thieves, tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves in the mountains, so he had to rush through the day and stay at the inn or houses at night.

He could only travel in the day and made the journey home long. Jia Yue missed his mother at home and was anxious. One day, he arrived at the foot of a mountain at dusk. Seeing that his fellow travelers were about to stay at the inn again, he planned to cross the mountain overnight.

"Climbing mountains overnight? Isn't he afraid of jackals, tigers and leopards?" Yuwen Gankeng asked, and the eunuchs beside him also nodded silently. The story told by Xiyang County Duke was thrilling, and they all heard it intrigued.

"Of course I'm afraid, so Jia Yue spent a lot of money to hire a few experienced hunters in a nearby village to escort him over the mountains overnight." Yuwen Wen said, "These hunters are all experts who have hunted tigers and are familiar with the roads in the mountains. After Jia Yue paid the money in advance, he asked these people to take him into the mountains..."

"Jia Yue is not afraid that these people will kill him halfway through, so he buried his body in a secret place, and came back and lied that he had sent him across the mountain?" Yuwen Gankeng asked again.

"Jia Yue has been walking outside all year round, so he naturally knows to be careful, so he asked the postmaster and his companions to testify." Yuwen Wen replied, which was beyond his expectations for the other party to be so careful.

The story continues: Jia Yue is accompanied by a hunter and his confidence in climbing mountains safely has increased greatly. However, the risk of walking through the mountains and forests at night is still very high. In order to avoid disturbing the bandits and avoid attracting tigers, leopards, jackals, they did not light the torch and rushed to the road in the moonlight.

Hunters were used to walking in the mountains at night, so they didn't feel inconvenient. Jia Yue stumbled at the beginning, and a hunter held his hands and was able to keep up with the team's speed.

I don’t know how long it took to leave. Jia Yue saw that there were mountains and forests around him and shadows were everywhere, and he couldn’t help but feel frightened. Thanks to the kind words of the hunters in the same journey, he was relieved.

When they arrived at a valley, the group rested on the spot. In order to prevent the disaster, they still did not ignite the fire. The hunter faced the surroundings and protected Jia Yue in the middle. Thanks for this, he was not scared by the howls of the wolf from time to time in the forest.

After a while, just as they were about to get up and continue on the road, the team leader suddenly showed that something was going on. Everyone held their breath and did not dare to move. Soon after, several people walked up the mountain road, and there seemed to be a bell sounding while they were walking.

In the middle of the night, there were either urgent matters like oneself or thieves with ulterior motives. Jia Yue couldn't help but feel nervous when he thought about this. It was naturally impossible to say hello and ask questions. He suddenly shouted in a dark and lit manner. Who knew if the other party would attack immediately?

Fortunately, they did not make fire when they were resting, and they hid in the grass on the roadside to hide their bodies, avoiding a conflict with each other. Just as everyone was waiting for each other to pass by, Jia Yue saw clearly the situation of the visitor and was shocked.

"Your Majesty, do you know what Jia Yue saw?" Yuwen Wen asked suddenly, and he paused for a moment.

"I... don't know what he saw... what he saw?" Yuwen Qiankeng asked stuttered, his palms were full of sweat. He felt that what Jia Yue probably saw was not a human, but a jackal, tiger and leopard in the mountains.

"Jia Yue... was still shocked when he said this. He drank a few cups of tea before he could calm down. Weichen was still joking at the time, saying that he had seen a singly-formed jackal, tiger and leopard." Yuwen Wen said with a serious expression, "So... Can you tell me what he was talking about?"

"What...ah?" Yuwen Qiankeng asked. When the tone behind him changed, he naturally knew that what Jia Yue saw was afraid of something terrifying, so he was so scared that he couldn't speak smoothly, but curiosity still prevailed.

The eunuchs around them all wiped their foreheads involuntarily. They were so fascinated by listening to the stories, but they did not dare to rudely urge them, so they could only wait anxiously for Yuwen Wen to continue telling the story.

"Jia Yue said, he was just in the moonlight and saw the strange whereabouts of the visitor. He was wearing a Taoist robe, holding a bell in one hand, and pointing the way with a wooden sword in the other hand, whispering some unknown spell..."

"The strange thing is not this person, but the five people behind him. These five people were all wearing black robes and high hats, with talisman paper on their foreheads. They couldn't see clearly. They raised their arms forward, as if they were climbing on the shoulders of the person in front of them. As they walked, their legs did not move, and their bodies were shaking up and down, as if they were jumping forward..."

"There is another person at the end of the team, who is wearing a Taoist robe like the lead man, but he only holds talisman paper in his hand. I don't know what it is for. The team has seven people walking among the mountain roads. Except for the two people at the beginning and end, five of them jumped forward in a uniform manner."

Hearing this, Yu Wen Qiankeng was so nervous that he forgot his breathing. The team in the story was indeed very strange, especially the five people in the middle, with talisman paper sticking on their foreheads, and they had a strange walking posture. What is this!

"This team passed by not far in front of Jia Yue and others. Suddenly, the talisman paper on the forehead of the fourth person in the team fell. Jia Yue was so scared that he almost shouted out..." Yuwen Wen paused deliberately, "He saw that the man's eyes were closed, his mouth and nose were bleeding, and his face was pale. There was a living person there!!"

The flames of the oil lamp in the hall suddenly shook at the same time, illuminating Yuwen Wen's face dark and uncertain. Yuwen Gankeng felt as if he was here in person. In the dark forest, he saw several people who were acting strangely. One of them suddenly turned to look at him.

"At this moment, the abnormal change suddenly broke out!" Yu Wen Wen suddenly raised his tone, scaring Yu Wen Gankeng trembled. An eunuch beside him was unstable and almost collapsed to the ground. "The man suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were all white, and he had no pupils. He roared in his mouth, showing his rotten teeth!"

Yuwen Gankeng felt that his hair was standing up, and a chill covered his whole body, his teeth couldn't stop fighting, and he almost couldn't sit steadily.

"He twisted his body and seemed to be trying to get rid of some restraints, and the rest of them were restless. Seeing this, the people at the end of the team quickly stepped forward and put the talisman paper in their hands on his forehead, and rumored it in their mouths, and then calmed down for a moment."

"Then...what later?" Yuwen Gankeng asked tremblingly. He only felt that the content of the story was too strange. What was going on with those people? He was doing such a strange behavior.

"Later? The team continued to move forward, but Jia Yue didn't know how fart it fart. The fart sounded very loudly, alarming the team. The other party stopped and stopped. Five of them turned around at the same time and looked at Jia Yue..." Yuwen Wen said gloomyly.

He deliberately stopped, and the hall was silent. Yuwen Gankeng looked pale and had no courage to ask any further. The eunuchs also widened their eyes and looked at the brightly lit bedroom behind them from time to time, but they felt that it was too dark.

"The two groups of people confronted each other silently for a moment. Seeing that this was not a problem, the hunter in the leader stood up slowly and talked to the man in Taoist robe in local dialect. He didn't know what he said. The other party shook the bell again and led the team to continue moving forward, gradually disappearing between the mountain roads."

"I didn't know how long I waited, and the hunter signaled everyone to get up and continue on the road. Seeing such a strange thing, Jia Yue was so scared that his legs were limp and he could not walk. It was because the hunters persuaded him for a long time before they set off on the road with fear."

"He kept asking about this, and the hunters just shook their heads and said nothing until dawn, and after they walked out of the mountain, the leader of the hunter spoke, saying that the person they saw at night was the corpse-driver who was driving the corpse."

"Drive... drive the corpse?" Yuwen Gankeng asked. He had only heard of driving chickens, ducks, geese, geese, horses and sheep. This was the first time he had heard of driving the corpse. When he recalled the scene in the story, a group of corpses jumped forward in the mountains and forests, he felt chills all over.

"It's just driving the corpse." Yuwen Wen smiled, "The land in Xiangyuan is densely covered with mountains and the land is barren, so many people go out to make a living. If someone goes out to die in a foreign land, the so-called fallen leaves will return to their hometowns if they return to their roots..."

"It's just that the mountains are high and the water is far away, and the mountain roads are rugged and difficult to walk. It's very difficult to carry a coffin to cross mountains and rivers. Someone used ancient secret techniques to practice the method of driving corpses. The relatives and friends of the deceased spent money to hire these corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven corpse-driven steadily and follow him all the way..."

"The corpse-driven warlock is usually a pair of people walking together, rushing several corpses at night, mainly to avoid sunlight. The team must be the master's guide and shaking the soul-catching bell. On the one hand, it is to warn those who are walking around at night to avoid giving in, and on the other hand, it is to drive away wild animals to avoid disturbing the dead and causing corpses to change. Once the corpse changes, the disciples behind the palace will use talisman paper to shock..."

"Corpsy...Corpsy transformation!" Yuwen Gankeng swallowed his saliva with difficulty. The word corpse transformation doesn't sound like a good thing.

"The corpse is transformed, and the corpse is bitten by cats and dogs and is disturbed. It is very easy to turn into white-haired zombies. If you can't get into swords and guns, you can live by eating people's hearts and livers. Those who harm it will also turn into zombies and become tigers..."

Yuwen Gankeng no longer knew what to say, such as driving corpses, transforming corpses, white-haired zombies, invulnerable to swords and guns, and cannibalism. These are all "experiences" that he has never heard of, and they have never been recorded in the book. The story sounds very exciting, and he is afraid and wants to hear it.

"Your Majesty, if it's too late today, will you go to bed? I'll listen to the story of Xiyang County Duke tomorrow." An eunuch asked tentatively. Anyway, the story has almost been finished. If you listen to another word, they are afraid that they will not be able to sleep tonight.

"Ah... the story has not been finished..." Yuwen Wen said with regret. Yuwen Gankeng was energetic when he heard this and repeatedly urged him to ask. Yuwen Wen glanced at him, then asked with a smile: "Your Majesty still wants to hear it? I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep tonight!"

"Then...what is there to be afraid of..." Yuwen Gankeng said hesitantly. The more he did this, the more he wanted to continue listening.

Yuwen Wen coughed dryly and continued: "That day I heard Jia Yue telling a strange adventure. Weichen and Zheng Tong felt it was absurd and disregarded it. After more than a month, Zheng Tong met several people in Xiyang City..."

"These were the people who fell into the water with Jia Yue that day, and they were also his fellow villagers. After Zheng Tong greeted him, he talked about meeting Jia Yue a month ago. Unexpectedly, the other party was full of horror and said that Jia Yue was no longer alive a few months ago."

"He... didn't he talk to... Zheng Tong just a few months ago?" Yuwen Gankeng asked with his eyes wide open, and the eunuch behind him also looked at Yuwen Wen nervously.

"Zheng Tong was so questioning. The other party even said that this matter was impossible. Jia Yue learned that his mother at home was seriously ill, so he rushed home day and night. They also walked together. Later, when they arrived at the foot of a mountain, it was already dusk. He originally planned to stay at the inn, but Jia Yue was eager to return home and hired a hunter guard to cross the mountain overnight..."

"The next day they climbed the mountain along the mountain road and found the bodies of Jia Yue and his fellow hunters in a certain valley. The death was terrifying and everyone's heart disappeared..."

Yuwen Wen said lightly.

"Jia Yue was already dead that day. In grief, his companions went to the local government to report the case. The government sent people to patrol everywhere but failed to get the key points. They just thought that these people were killed when they met the thief."

"Jia Yue and the rest of the murdered hunters were placed in the official office to collect the room. The next day, the officials found that the bodies were missing."

"Ah? Then... I was talking to Zheng Tong that day..." Yuwen Gankeng was so shocked that he was sweating profusely. Yuwen Wen smiled when he saw this: "At this time, I couldn't understand. Maybe it was someone who looked similar to Jia Yue, who deliberately teased Zheng Tong."

‘Teaching? It is obvious that I met a corpse-driven warlock while walking at night, and then alarmed the dead and caused the corpse to turn into a zombie. After killing my life, I also turned into a zombie. I wandered around the world and became a tiger. I thought to myself, and my body was cold.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, so please rest as soon as possible. I will chat with You tomorrow." Yuwen Wen smiled. This old story in later generations has a surprisingly good effect. Seeing the little emperor trembling like a frightened quail, you have to stop at this time.
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