C23 (2/2)
”Of course it's not that simple. The person who was chosen to make the burial clothes has to drink a type of medicinal soup a hundred days in advance, and then use the sun as a bath every afternoon. The medicinal soup will nourish his skin from the inside, and the Zang Redgrass will seep out and nourish his skin.
”How do you know this dead man is dead?”
”This is because it's said that people who have been soaked by Zang Hongji grass would be able to seep into the red lake from the inside out. Of course, the burial clothes they made would also be of a bright red color!”
”Cruel, perverted, and simply devoid of humanity!” I looked at the pygmy victim and felt pity for him. I could not be afraid.
”So we're in a dead man's cave that's shelved for burial?” The pockmark suddenly took a few steps back and looked around timidly.
”More or less, perhaps there is more than one red corpse like this, because after many burial clothes are completed, the most important step is to skin them alive, to ensure that they are not damaged at all. Almost everyone will not be able to withstand the pain and struggle, causing the burial clothes to be damaged, so, a successful burial clothes requires a lot of sacrifices!” The younger sister continued, ”If we can find something to burn, I have flint here. We can take a look at this hole!”
”F * ck, this one won't do. It looks green at first glance, so it's best to find some dried up soy tree!” Just as I said this, the branch in pockmarked hand twisted a little. I thought it was caused by the pockmarked hand, but it shook the branch as if it was electrocuted. ”That's, that's not a branch, it's a living being!”
” Snake? Did you just pick up a green snake? ” Only the snake is similar to the rope stick, I all over the chicken skin, panic-stricken.
” ”No, no, it shouldn't be a snake, because when I took it just now, it looked like it was hollow. How could a living snake be hollow?” The pockmark looked back in the direction he had flung it.
?” We squatted down in the relatively bright light of the cave entrance. It probably wasn't a snake, because it had no head or tail, but as we watched, it did occasionally writhe, and when it did pinch, I squeezed, too, and it was hollow, like an empty piece of snake skin left behind by a snake. But how could a snake's skin be alive? We all know that snakes have a strong life force. If you skinned a snake, you would chop it into pieces, then throw them into a frying pan to fry. For at least two minutes, every piece of the snake would writhe.
” Little sister, do you know him? ”
” It's like a snake's skin! ”
” Serpentine skin? ”But how can a slough move? Besides, isn't a slough usually the color of a cocoon?”
” Snake molt itself is not alive, but it contains living things. When it comes to temperature, it will awaken! ”
” ”Besides, the snake skin should be white, and the things that parasitize inside are green. Let's not disturb this for now, I suspect that there are a lot of these kind of snake skin in this cave. If all the living things inside were to wake up, we would have nowhere to hide!”
” ”That's not right. Since there are living things inside, how can they be hollow?” The moment I said those words, my little sister's face didn't look too good. I thought that I was questioning her knowledge and that she would lose a lot of face.
” Could it be the Incantation Qi? ”