Chapter 745 Smiley Face

Death is not uncommon.

People die every day in this world.

Mortality rate is low,

But once the population base increases, the number will naturally increase.

But Nanchuan County is not a big county.

Within the entire county, the population is only three to four hundred thousand.

Within the county seat, the population is only 20,000 to 30,000.

With such a small population,

Which house has a death is more prominent.

Especially when there are more abnormal deaths, it is even more noticeable, enough to cause panic and discussion among people in the entire county!

nowadays,

Such a situation has occurred in Nanchuan County!

very beginning,

First, an old man from the slums came home drunk and fell asleep. When he woke up the next day, he was found lying on his back on a shabby mat, with his hands folded in front of his chest and a strange and scary smile on his face.

The whole person was stiff and breathless.

Everyone who saw it at first found it a bit scary.

But after all, they are all untouchables struggling to survive in the slums. They have exhausted their efforts in living and have long been numb to life and death.

There is not much energy to care about other things.

What's more, Lao Zhang is a drunkard who usually engages in sneaking around. I heard that some people saw him and a group of gangsters running into mass graves late at night to make money from dead people.

To the street neighbors, it almost looks like a piece of shit.

then,

Everyone around him rolled up Lao Zhang's body with the tattered mats under his body, and three or five people carried it to the mass grave and threw it away.

Not even digging a hole.

Naturally, there will be wild dogs, wolves and other wild animals wandering nearby to take care of the aftermath.

This is not because the neighbors are cold-hearted.

But poor people have no choice.

Again, for them, living means giving their all.

Digging a hole requires a lot of strength.

It also takes a lot of time.

It took most of the day to dig a hole, which delayed the work and left the whole family hungry.

Just Lao Zhangtou's poor thatched hut that leaked air during the day.

There is no property, so no one wants to spend too much energy on the aftermath.

Moreover,

Given the conditions in the slums, it would be difficult for three or five families to scrape together a hoe.

Why bother digging?

It is only proper to throw away the corpse and go to work to earn money.

It's not that poor people don't have compassion and kindness, but that real life doesn't allow them to have that kindness!

Anyway,

The body was thrown away.

No one cared that one person was missing.

In the slums, this kind of thing happens a lot.

It's just something no one noticed,

Not long afterward,

There are also such strange deaths one after another nearby.

Most of the dead people with weird smiles on their faces seemed to be friends who often hung out with Lao Zhangtou.

Some people muttered that those people must have done too many immoral things and were being asked for debts.

after all,

Someone once said that those guys who often sneak around would go to the mass graves with hoes late at night to make money from the dead.

It's so pitiful that the people who were thrown into the mass graves were all poor people. How could they have half a copper in their bodies?

There was only a rag to cover the body, a broken straw mat, and perhaps a few copper plates as burial objects occasionally.

This kind of behavior really scrapes several layers of oil from the bones of the poor guy!

It is natural for people to despise him if he can't even die in peace.

It’s no wonder that the neighbors were too lazy to take care of Lao Zhangtou’s affairs, so they just rolled up the mats and threw them into the mass grave.

In short,

at the very beginning,

Not many people care about this.

Everyone felt that it was because Lao Zhangtou and his group had done too many immoral things, so they got caught up in dirty things.

Poor ghosts don't have the money to hire monks and Taoists from temples to exorcise ghosts. At most, they can just avoid the place where they usually live, or pull out a few mugworts and sweep them, smoke them, and use local methods to drive away the ghosts. .

As for how much effect it can have, it mainly focuses on psychological comfort.

What if the family members of the deceased or the nearby residents were in a better financial situation?

Under the leadership of the leader, those strange corpses with smiling faces were burned with lychee wood.

During this time,

Another strange thing happened.

Probably one of them was with Lao Zhangtou and the others.

Maybe he saw his companions die one by one.

My heart can't bear it,

He's crazy!

After waking up, I was so horrified that I saw something. I put my head in my hands and yelled that I was wrong, I was wrong, and I would not dare to do anything in the future.

When others asked him, he did not answer.

Just kept shouting that I was wrong.

He was hiding in a dark corner with a horrified expression, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured on his head in the middle of winter. His whole body was shaking, and his face was as pale as paper.

When people around him saw this scene, they didn't dare to get close, and they didn't even dare to watch, so they dispersed early.

There were only a few old men who had some reputation around them. After some frightened discussions, they decided to collect some money and go to the temple to hire a mage to exorcise the evil spirits.

After discussing it, the group acted quickly.

About half an hour later, the eminent monk from Fahua Temple near Nanchuan County rushed over.

But when everyone gathered at that man's hut again,

Open up the half-covered weeds,

Seeing the scene in the dark corner,

that moment,

A gust of cold air went straight to the foreheads of everyone present.

The sun is clearly shining brightly above our heads,

As a result, everyone present seemed to have fallen into a cold and boundless ice cave, unable to move a finger!

In that dark corner, there was only a corpse lying upright, with his hands crossed on his chest, and a strange smile on his pale face!

The man who looked very frightened just a moment ago, as if he had seen something terrible, was trembling all over.

At this moment, he was dying with a strangely happy smile on his face!

On that day, everyone quickly settled the funeral arrangements.

He quickly found a pile of lychee wood and made a fire, burned the strange corpse to ashes, and then took it back to the temple to be suppressed by the monks of Fahua Temple.

Until Lao Zhangtou and his group, who often got together to sneak around, all died.

Several days passed.

No one died anymore.

Everyone around them calmed down a little in their lingering panic.

Things seemed to be going over like this.

until,

Seven days later,

Another person died!

Everyone who died had exactly the same movements and the same weird smile!

One, two, four, eight

In just a few days,

Dozens of people died!

And it shows a trend of spreading outward!

panic,

It also began to sweep throughout Nanchuan County.

People in the entire county became panicked.

The government dispatched a large number of government officials to cordon off civilian areas.

People at the top are looking for information everywhere.

The people at the bottom are suddenly at a loss!

This,

This is why Yang Qingyun felt something was wrong in the atmosphere after entering Nanchuan County.