Chapter 204 Take Care of the Hei Feizi

I ignored him, went up, swung the shovel, and chopped Bao Sa’s head off. His neck was already broken, so when the shovel hit, his head flew off, and rolled several meters before it hit the threshold.

Unsurprisingly, the body still didn’t fall. It was even weirder to see the upper body with no head wriggling towards me.

I was completely helpless, so I grabbed Che Zhong who was off to the side and started dragging him as I moved bit by bit against the wall. The corpse seemed to be able to see me, because every time I moved to one spot, its direction of advance also moved. Fortunately, it wasn’t as fast as I was. After making a small circle around the room, I finally reached the door. I pushed Che Zhong out first, and then grabbed Brother Xiao Man’s two front legs and dragged him out.

The villagers had all run away by this point; otherwise, regardless of what this thing was, we could all gather together and attack it mercilessly, and this thing would definitely be dealt with. As I alternately dragged Che Zhong and Brother Xiao Man away from the ancestral temple, the corpse crawled out and followed us.

After being dragged by me for a while, Che Zhong finally regained his senses a little. Upon seeing this scene, his memory instantly recovered, and he grabbed my hand to help himself up. He immediately asked, “How did this happen?”

“How would I know what’s going on with this hei feizi? Is there any way to kill it?”

“This isn’t a hei feizi, no. It is a hei feizi, but it’s not now.” Che Zhong was a little incoherent, and stammered for a long time before he took a breath and said. “What are you doing? Hurry up and go behind him and hit him in the middle of his shoulder blades.”

I immediately separated from Che Zhong and went behind the corpse, but it turned and began twisting towards me.

I said to Che Zhong, “Shit, he’s more interested in me.”

Che Zhong tried to stand up and pointed to the shovel in my hand. I threw it over the corpse, and Che Zhong caught it, but he lost his balance and fell to the ground. He immediately clenched his teeth, braced himself, took a few steps forward, and then swung the shovel toward the corpse’s back.

A person that drunk couldn’t aim well and had no strength at all. The shovel slashed straight into the corpse’s back, and cut deeply, but Che Zhong couldn’t pull it out after two tries.

He moved back a few steps, and the corpse start twisting violently, but it could no longer stand up straight, and coiled on the ground like a snake.

I went up, stepped on the shovel with one foot, and stood on it with all my strength. As soon as the shovel was inserted to the handle, the wound began bleeding profusely.

I pulled it out with another shovel, slashed it on the back again, and watched more blood come spurting out. The body wasn’t moving now, but the hands and feet were still twisting in strange patterns.

“The hands and feet have to be cut off.” Che Zhong said from behind me. “At the joints. All the joints have to be cut off.”

I looked at him. Although Bao Sa definitely wasn’t a good person, he was already dead. His fucking corpse had already been used once, and now Che Zhong wanted to desecrate the body?

Looking at the state the body was in, however, I felt that desecrating it like this wouldn’t be much worse than what it had already gone through. Che Zhong was still screaming at me, so I had to believe him.

I took a deep breath, and removed Bao Sa’s hand with the shovel. In an instant, I saw a black-haired snake writhing desperately among his severed limb, as if it was trying to crawl out. As I stomped the snake in two, my body was covered in a cold sweat.

I should have seen his broken arm bone in the severed limb, but instead of seeing the bone, there was actually something like this. No wonder the corpse’s movements were so strange.

I went up with my shovel, and cut all the limbs off the body, finding that all the bones had been replaced by this kind of snake. The black hair had entered the muscles, and the snakes themselves were trapped inside the body. By stimulating the muscles, the snakes could make the corpse do all sorts of strange movements.

“They replace the bones, and the largest one sticks to your spine. The black hair covers your spine, preventing you from moving even if you wanted to,” Che Zhong said, looking at the corpse’s hands and sighing. “Fortunately, this hei feizi is dead. If it was alive, none of us would stand a chance.”

The snake blood all over the ground made me sick. When I asked what the hell was going on, and what exactly a hei feizi was, Che Zhong said it was a human being, or a very mysterious person. No one knew where these people came from, or what their purpose was. All they knew was that in many grave robbing activities, these hei feizi would watch the grave robbers all the time. In the wilderness, they could follow the grave robbers from five or six kilometers away, and they had only been found once or twice in decades. If it weren’t for Changsha having a dog king, it was estimated that this matter would have never been settled, and only the legend of the hei feizi being a monster that looked like a human and a ghost would have remained.

They also believed that the hei feizi’s tracking wasn’t always perfect, and once it failed, the person being tracked had to die.

My grandfather was the only one who had encountered a hei feizi and didn’t die. It was one of his dogs that saved his life at that time.

In the forests, only dogs could guard against a hei feizi’s attacks.

Che Zhong motioned to Bao Sa’s severed hand, and said: “Your grandfather only told me that hei feizi are actually the same as us. Brother Xiao Man was trained to deal with them. Your grandfather was very familiar with hei feizis’ behavior patterns, and said they have a special smell. He specially trained his dogs to recognize this smell.”

I remembered how Brother Xiao Man had been so excited just now; so that was how it was. Che Zhong said that Bao Sa must have really been a hei feizi; otherwise, Brother Xiao Man wouldn’t have gone off on him like that. Fortunately, he was already dead.

I squatted down and looked at the strange snakes. Bao Sa must have died before these snakes acted like parasites, and took over his body. I had seen snakes with similar habits in Tamu-Tuo. It seemed like this kind of black-haired snake also liked to hatch its eggs with the heat generated by rotting corpses, but it was different because it seemed to be able to take over the corpse, and move it.

“They use this method to move the body to a higher and safer place. Did you see my dogs? They weren’t torn apart by wild animals, but by the snake eggs being hatched in the body. The snake eggs secrete a mucus that melts the internal organs. Soon after being parasitized, the body becomes a hollow cavity. The internal organs quickly decay and inflate, shredding the already brittle corpse to pieces.” Che Zhong touched his belly and scratched his throat. “Fortunately, you filled me with wine.”

He and I picked up Brother Xiao Man, found a few mules, and put him on one. The villagers must have called the police by now, so we had to retreat quickly. We would leave the mules at the foot of the mountain; they knew the way home, and would make it back on their own.

I took one last look at Bao Sa’s corpse, poured the rest of the wine on it, and lit it. I then shoveled all the things Che Zhong had spit out in the room, and threw them into the fire. It was at this time that I saw the strange ring-like thing. It was man-made, but where did it come from?

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