With An Order, I Recalled All The Traversers

Chapter 56

The legends of zombies [2] appear most frequently in Xiangxi, which may be derived from the local legends of chasing corpses. The corpse in Xiangxi, also known as Yiling, was rushed back to the hometown by warlocks for burial when the corpse was not corrupted. The warlocks who drove the corpses went together about three to five. Some tied the corpses with ropes, one every few feet, and then put yellow paper symbols on their foreheads. Throw the stack before the sky light, lift the talisman paper, the corpse stands against the wall, and continues on the road at night.

The corpse chaser is also called the corpse chaser, and what they chase is a walking corpse. Usually before dawn, the corpse is rushed to Yizhuang or a fixed shop. The corpse is generally draped in a wide black corpse cloth, with a tall felt hat on its head, and a few yellow paper with a book on its forehead hanging down on its face. In front of these corpses in black corpses, there was a living person holding a gong. He beat the small Yin gong in his hand while leading the group of corpses forward. He didn’t light the lantern, and shook a dementor bell in his hand to let the nocturnal walkers avoid him, and told people with dogs to lock them up. If there are more than two corpses, the cadaver will use straw ropes to string the corpses one by one, one at a distance of seven or eight feet away. [3]

Modern doctrine tends to interpret the corpse driving in Xiangxi as: In order to transport the dead, the front and rear cadavers actually use two long bamboos to carry the corpse through a row of corpse sleeves, and the two ends are then carried by a strong man like a sedan chair. The corpse chaser wore black clothes and walked at night, so passers-by would naturally not see the corpse chaser, thinking that there were zombies. And because of the elasticity of bamboo, the corpse will swing up and down when the corpse chaser is carrying the corpse while walking, so the image of the zombie with its hands stretched out and jumping appears. At night it looked like a group of people stretched out their hands and jumped forward with their knees straight, and the legend of shooing the corpse spread like wildfire.

There is also another theory that these jumping corpses are actually faked by people. Because chasing corpses has always been relatively unfavorable, people just look at them from a distance, so they can’t see the appearance of jumping corpses. Over time, the zombie jumps forward. statement.

There is another way of saying the work of the corpse shoveler: for some reason, someone died in a foreign country, and the corpse must be taken home and buried in the ancestral grave. The duty of the corpse chaser is to divide the corpse into many pieces, carry it on his back, and walk to the deceased’s hometown to splice it into a whole body for burial. In order not to attract people’s attention, most of them choose to drive at night.

Qing Dynasty Zombie

Qing Dynasty Official Uniform Model

Qing Dynasty Official Uniform Model

The zombie image from Hong Kong movies, the more famous is Lin Zhengying’s zombie Taoist series. Such zombies are dressed in Qing dynasty official costumes, their knees are stiff, and they jump forward. They are afraid of sunlight and act only at night. Those who are bitten by taking human blood will also become zombies. They can be sealed by Taoist runes.

The most notable feature is that they are all blind. Zombies use human breathing to locate targets, perceive and hunt prey. Therefore, as long as they hold their breath, zombies cannot find their prey.

Some warlocks can control zombies in a specified way. If a warlock with an unhealthy mind wants to avenge others, but does not want to do it himself, he will let the controlled zombie do it for himself. However, the zombies themselves are extremely dangerous monsters. If they are not properly controlled, they may be the ones who are in trouble.

There is also a legend that warlocks can create zombies by refining corpses, similar to raising ghosts. For example, it is said in Taoism that there is a method of refining the shape of the Taiyin, and the corpse will be buried for hundreds of years, and will be resurrected after the expiration of the term.

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Zombies are monsters that are transformed by certain influences. According to the records of “Zibuyu” and “Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes”, zombies also have three aliases: moving corpses, walking shadows, and walking corpses. In the early days, zombies did not eat human flesh, but they did not suck blood. In later film and television, they were assimilated by foreign vampire elements.

Corpse transformation can be produced in various ways, such as being infected with corpse poison, borrowing from the yang energy of living beings, feng shui problems, shining in the moonlight, black cat passing by, being possessed by evil spirits and other evil things, leaving the soul behind, being struck by lightning, etc. . “Yuewei Cottage Notes” divides the corpse into a zombie for two reasons: the new corpse is mutated, and the corpse does not decay after being buried for a long time.

“Yuewei Caotang Notes” once described the appearance of the zombie: “White hair is all over the body, eyes are red like cinnabar, fingers are like hooks, teeth are exposed and lips are kissed like a knife, and the nose is bloody.”

Legend has it that there is a kind of corpse called the shadow corpse, which is regarded as a transition form between the corpse and the zombie. Even if the corpse is buried for a hundred years, it will not decay, and the hair and nails of the corpse will continue to grow. The corpse of the shadow can be found in the corpse farm. Science points out that it is actually due to the muscle contraction of the human body after death, which exposes the hair and nails that were originally hidden in the flesh.

In the “Continued Child Not Talking”, it is mentioned that there were once miners in Yunnan who were unable to reach under soil pressure, or for decades or centuries, they were nurtured by the earth’s metal atmosphere, and their bodies were not bad, and they turned into dry muntjac.

In the literature, several uncorrupted corpses are mentioned: purple zombies, white zombies, black zombies, green zombies, hair zombies, and flying zombies. There are three types of corpses resembling zombies, but with only bones, which are regarded as “three types of skeletons”: wandering corpses, corpses, and no bones. There is also a claim of unknown origin, which refers to the fact that zombies can become monsters and become ghosts.

Zi Zheng, the zombie when it was just formed, turned purple at this time, and the body was able to initially keep from decay. After practicing, it could drive the corpse energy and make the purple of the body thicker and thicker. The purple body after death does exist, but it’s not a zombie like in a horror movie, it’s just a corpse. Modern science believes that the body is purple because of a toxin, and the blood is stained purple and spread to the whole body after death.

The white or black dead body is white or black, and the hair color is the same. The white zombie is slow and very easy to deal with. It is extremely afraid of sunlight, fire, water, chickens, dogs, and even people.

Green Zombie, the corpse qi exuded and the body of the zombie are green. Compared with White Zombie and Black Zombie, it jumps extremely fast, not afraid of people, not livestock, but only the sun.

The hair is stiff, the corpse grows hair, it is a famous copper skin and iron bone, the higher the repair, the stronger the body. Acting agilely, leaping from the house to the tree, jumping like flying, not afraid of common fire, or even the sun.

Flying Zombie is a thousand-year-old zombie who has successfully cultivated and appeared in Anzhou, Zhili. Flying zombies can be good at spells, their body is not bad, because this kind of zombie can fly, so it is called zombies.

No bones. After death, certain parts of the body are infused with spirit. The so-called mental infusion is like a rice-bearer worker who has been working with his shoulders. After he dies, the vicinity of his shoulders may not be corrupted. And the part of the shoulder that does not melt is called the unresolved bone, and if the unresolved bone later gets the sun and the moon essence, it will cause trouble.

The corpse is a thousand-year-old corpse that cannot be moved. It can be said that it is a complete corpse without bones. After a long time, the essence of the sun and the moon will gradually turn into a wandering corpse.

The corpse, the zombies that have experienced the first robbery of the “Tian Lei”, are born from the resentment of the heaven and the earth. They are not old, immortal, and immortal. They are abandoned from the six reincarnations for the heaven and the earth. They are cultivated into the corpse. , Can be said to be from heaven to earth. It will move with the moon due to the seasons, and will have no fixed place. After a long time, it will turn into a flying yaksha. .