"Boss, save !"
Having just landed, you found seven missed calls on your phone as soon as you turned it on, all from Zong Wangyue.
As you were about to call back, he called again. The mont you pressed the answer button, you were greeted with his wails.
"Zongzi, what’s the situation?"
"This... I really don’t know where to start," Zong Wangyue hurriedly began, "This morning, I received a job, but no one else was available in the club, and the client was in a rush, so I went. But when I arrived at his house, my goodness! A headless rooster was just wandering around in the yard!"
"A headless rooster?"
"Yes! The rooster was headless but acted as if it was still alive!"
"Are you sure you didn’t see it wrong?" Since you had the speakerphone on, Xiao Feng furrowed his brows upon hearing Zong Wangyue’s words.
Zong Wangyue hastened to explain, "I’m not that idiot Yang Kai, who teases you guys for no reason. That rooster really didn’t have a head, and its owner said that it had been chopped off over half a month ago, and it still hasn’t died!"
After a mont of silence, you asked with a serious tone, "How does the rooster normally behave? Is there still blood on it?"
Upon hearing your question, Zong Wangyue quickly inquired with the owner and, after getting a reply, relayed, "The rooster’s movents are indeed strange. It’s afraid of sunlight and hides in dark places during the day, only moving around aimlessly in the yard at night. As for blood, the owner said that it would bleed initially, but there has been no blood these past few days, and its body has beco so emaciated it’s reduced to a re chicken strip."
Massaging your temples with a hint of a headache, you sighed, "This is a problem."
"Little Yunyun, what’s going on here?" Xiao Feng asked urgently, well aware of your temperant, knowing that anything that made you massage your temples was never a good sign.
At that mont, you were sitting in a stretch Humr, traveling on the expressway from Yuhang Airport to Yuhang City.
You kept your phone on, explaining to those around you while talking to Zong Wangyue, "From what Zongzi has described, that rooster is already dead. The reason it could hop around for half a month without a head is because sothing has burrowed into its body."
"What things?"
"Corpse Puppet Gu."
"Gu?"
"Corpse Puppet?"
"Yes, Corpse Puppet Gu, also known as Puppet Insect. This thing was concocted by the Xiangxi Corpse Drivers. In ancient China, when people died far from ho, the profession of Corpse Driving Craftsn was born to bring the deceased back to their hotown for a proper burial," you explained.
Yang Kai waved his hand impatiently, "Ah, Old Shu, co on, we’re not newbies here. We know these basic facts, so just highlight the important parts," he said.
"You don’t know jack!" you glared at Yang Kai with annoyance, "Corpse Drivers are divided into several types, and they generally co in three categories: Corpse Driving Celestial Masters, Corpse Driving Craftsn, and Corpse Drivers. The first two are disciples of the Taoism Sect. Despite being from different sects and possessing varying knowledge, they both use Taoism to control corpses, ensuring safe and swift transport back to their hos."
Yang Kai stuck out his tongue, shalessly inquiring, "And the third type?"
"The third type of Corpse Drivers are not disciples of the Taoism Sect and lack the ability to manipulate corpses themselves; they’re mostly ordinary people. However, in those days, most people couldn’t even dream of a full stomach, and to survive, so sought help from the Miao Region Gu Witches and learned a certain Gu technique. They started to cultivate sothing called Corpse Puppet Gu," you continued.
"Oh—"
Eyes around her widened as if they had an epiphany.
Their response made you sowhat amused and frustrated, and you continued, "The Corpse Puppet Gu does exactly what its na suggests—it makes corpses ’co alive.’ Corpse Drivers place the Corpse Puppet Gu into the corpse’s mouth and let it move inside the body. Generally, within about a quarter of an hour, the corpse will rise on its own; that’s what is called a stiff rising from the dead."
"Gulp."
As you described in vivid detail, people around swallowed hard, unconsciously touching their necks as if sothing was crawling into their mouth.
Nie Ying thought for a mont and then asked, "How does the Corpse Puppet Gu control the corpse?"
"Blood."
"Blood?"
"Mhm," you nodded, "The Corpse Puppet Gu feeds on the blood of animals. Even if a person is dead, as long as they didn’t die from excessive blood loss, the Corpse Puppet Gu can fully control the corpse, traverse mountains and hills, and so can even move with speed and dexterity, climbing trees and scaling walls."
Upon hearing this, Wu Qiyi shivered, bringing up a point that no one else had thought of, "If soone were to feed these Corpse Puppet Gus into the mouths of dead soldiers on a battlefield, then..."
"The issue Wu Qiyi raised has indeed happened in history. In the southwestern part of China in the Miao Region, there once were many small kingdoms and tribes held up by various ethnic minorities. Once, a group of Gu witches used the Corpse Puppet Gu to create an Immortal Army that destroyed two small kingdoms in an instant. Their brutal thods thoroughly enraged the Taoism Sect. Eventually, the Taoism Sect gathered six thousand disciples to execute them, extinguishing all the Gu witches."
You glanced at everyone around you and continued, "After that incident, the Corpse Puppet Gu was listed as a forbidden technique, and its production was strictly prohibited."
"If it’s a forbidden technique, how could it suddenly reappear?" Xian Qianling also sensed sothing different.
"That’s what I’m most worried about, because Puppet Insects never appear alone; they’re social creatures!"
"What!?"
Xian Qianling stood up abruptly, and in her excitent, she hit her head on the car roof.
She clutched her head, seriousness written all over her delicate features, "You an to say, there could be a large number of Corpse Puppet Gus in that place?"
You nodded seriously, and at the sa ti, you spoke to Zong Wangyue on the phone, "Zongzi, the police should be able to control the area soon. Don’t move from there and send the address; we’ll be right there."
Hearing that you were on your way, Zong Wangyue finally let out a sigh of relief.
The mont you received Zong Wangyue’s address, you forwarded it to Zhang Zifeng and Sun Mingyu. Then, Xian Qianling also called Zhang Zifeng, instructing him to work with the SWAT team to set up checkpoints in Ming Liang Village, the site of the incident, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.
In the car, you also gave everyone a crucial warning.
The size of the Corpse Puppet Gu varies; the smaller ones even have a latency period, which is the most dangerous aspect.
It was the headless chicken that had lived for fifteen days that made you realize, inside Ming Liang Village, there had been Corpse Puppet Gus no larger than the size of a little fingernail!
This ant that there were definitely other poultry and livestock in the village that had ingested the Corpse Puppet Gu, and it was even possible that, while people were sleeping, they could enter through the nostrils, ears, and other places!
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