novelraw Chapter 554 - 361: Corpse Driving, Corpse Hover
Chapter 554 - 361: Corpse Driving, Corpse Hover
Chapter 361
Looking at the sky again, it was gloomily oppressive, as if there was a layer of lingering mist emanating from the mountain, shrouding the expanse above...
A most uncomfortable place indeed.
Gloomy and dim.
The people were bewildered for a moment, and just as the village chief was about to speak, Sui Yi suddenly raised his hand.
A single gesture, and everyone instantly understood.
Especially since Third Lady Yin had reminded them, "Someone is coming."
Everyone fell silent and stopped moving.
Once it was quiet, they started hearing something...
The sound of bells and human voices...
The bell rang rhythmically, as if oscillating with the steps of the people... They followed Sui Yi’s gaze.
From another opening in the hazy fog-covered dense forest emerged a line of figures, about four or five hundred meters away from them.
Without needing a sign from Sui Yi, whether from personal alertness or other instincts, everyone quietly retreated into the woods behind, using the cover to remain hidden from the other group.
They could still vaguely see the other group’s movements from afar.
Poeple in such a place... impossible, unless they share the same goal, heading for the Warring States ancient tomb... Enemies?
Everyone was on high alert and hostile, but upon closer inspection, each of their faces turned peculiar.
In their line of sight, that line of people crossed the field...
It should be said that only the first person was walking.
That person wore hemp clothes with a long hem that resembled the clothes worn in ancient times, a hat on his head, and soft cloth flat boots typically worn by monks or Taoists; one hand held a bell and his mouth muttered something while the other hand occasionally reached into a large square cloth bag at his waist to scatter a stack of things, the rustling yellow square papers glided downwards with the wind, and those following behind...
With a ring of the bell, they lunged forward, another ring, another leap...
Everyone stayed deathly silent until that line of leaping shadows entered the depths of the gully along the field... The clouded and misty gully was utterly unknown.
What exactly was this line of figures, they knew even less.
Once they had gone far.
"Oh my god, this is..." Pang Shuai’s face turned green, and Skinny Waist and the others couldn’t hold back from speaking out.
"Heh, quite the experience, huh..." Third Lady Yin laughed.
"Corpses driving in Western Hunan... Jie Jie, we are indeed lucky to have seen this, I thought it was lost long ago," Mount Mover, the most experienced in Jianghu affairs, spoke openly, leaving no room for doubt.
"Corpses driving from Western Hunan... is that path a shortcut as well?" Second Master Gong was keen to grasp the key point.
The village chief glared at him, "What, you thought I was deceiving you? The path we took earlier was the only shortcut, but it’s for the living, what they took is for the dead, even if you’re willing to take it, I myself dare not."
It’s not that I don’t want to, but that I dare not.
However, driving corpses, indeed a frightening and mysterious affair, it’s unknown how the bodies jump up, and perhaps only the supernatural can explain it.
But Feng Sha, having encountered living dead beneath the Ye family ancient tomb, was not overly curious, yet now he was suspicious, "I heard that corpse driving traditionally helped those who died abroad return intact to their homeland, earning the living of the corpse drivers from the rewards of the deceased’s families, but where are these dead headed? Are their homelands in this deep mountain? And where did they come from... This is very unusual."
Feng Sha, being a capable lieutenant under Gong Jiu, hit the nail on the head with his words.
However, the village chief changed his expression, "Are you suggesting we follow them?" Second Master Gong glanced at him.
The village chief sternly replied, "All I know is that this path has existed for at least hundreds of years, but ever since I can remember, I have never seen corpse driving... somehow it has started again."
If it’s abnormal, there must be a demon!
The crowd sensed a strange, eerie hint.
"You mentioned earlier that those two boatmen are from Poison Dragon Gully, is that true?" Sui Yi suddenly asked, confusing the village chief, but he still responded, "Yes, I didn’t lie to you about that, that man is indeed bad news and doesn’t have a good reputation, always involved in inferior activities, disliked by both our village and his tribe, and after committing some offense was banished from the village, hasn’t been seen for years now, look over there at those houses, they were once inhabited by people from Poison Dragon Gully Earth Tribe, but overnight all ended up dead, that Shi Yao was the only one who survived, later made a name for himself, earned the favor of the River God, and no one dared to challenge him."