Looking at the map in his hand, Zhao Youliang looked completely bewildered.
He quickly shouted in the direction the old man had left, "Grandpa, please don't rush off!"
"Let's add each other on WeChat, and then you can send me your location. I'm not very good at reading maps!"
The old man had already gone far away and naturally wouldn't pay any attention to Zhao Youliang.
Moreover, after Zhao Youliang shouted, he suddenly realized that he hadn't even bought a cell phone yet, so he didn't have WeChat at all...
In a moment of panic, Zhao Youliang quickly closed his shop and ran towards the barbecue restaurant with a map in hand.
He wanted to ask Sister Yingchun, a local, if she recognized the place on the map.
In the past, when I encountered problems, I could ask Granny Mi and Manager Sun for advice, but now both of them are no longer here.
Thinking of the two elderly people, Zhao Youliang felt a sudden pang of pain in his heart, and he almost stumbled and fell.
Barely managing to steady himself, Zhao Youliang continued running forward only after the intense pain in his chest subsided.
"Quantum, why aren't you resting at home? What are you doing here?"
While complaining, Sister-in-law Yingchun hurriedly brought a stool for Zhao Youliang to sit down.
Because he was worried about Huang's younger brother, Zhao Youliang quickly took out the map and pointed it out to Yingchun's sister-in-law.
"Sis, do you recognize this place? Where is this?"
"I need to get there urgently, it's something extremely urgent!"
Yingchun's sister-in-law, a pretty widow, was certainly not a fool to survive in society.
On the contrary, they are very clever.
Ever since the last ghost incident, she realized that Zhao Youliang was no ordinary person.
Seeing how anxious he was, I vaguely realized that something strange must have happened again.
Therefore, he didn't ask any more questions, but instead took the old-fashioned map and studied it in detail.
“Quantum, even though my sister-in-law can’t read a map, this place should be Mad Dog’s Pass.”
"Look."
At this point, Sister Yingchun spread the map out in front of Zhao Youliang: "Doesn't this mountain range look like a mad dog pouncing on people?"
"The large depression below the dog's mouth is called Mad Dog's Hollow by the locals. It used to be a quarry in the old days."
"A place for the imperial court to reform criminals through labor."
"Criminals of the imperial court?" Zhao Youliang was stunned when he heard these four words, his face full of blankness.
Sister-in-law Yingchun nodded: "They are criminals of the imperial court."
"Isn't that what they say in TV dramas? In ancient times, if someone committed a crime, they would be exiled to Ningguta to serve as a slave to the armored soldiers."
"We are near Ningguta (Note 1)."
Zhao Youliang was completely stunned: So he had been exiled! No wonder things got even worse after he got here...
While silently complaining, Zhao Youliang continued to ask, "Sister-in-law, how far is it from our town to Mad Dog's Hollow?"
"If we go now, can we make it back tonight?"
Sister-in-law Yingchun slowly shook her head: "It's far! It's two or three hundred li away!"
"Furthermore, there are no roads leading into the mountains, let alone at night, it's a feat to even make a round trip in a day!"
"It's so far!" Zhao Youliang was a little dumbfounded when he heard this.
Because he has to offer incense to the effigies every day, he can't stay out overnight at all.
But Brother Huang couldn't just leave without saving him... Zhao Youliang could no longer bear the feeling of his family and friends leaving him.
Rather than that, it would be better for him to die instead.
Just as Zhao Youliang made up his mind to abandon the shop, he suddenly saw a familiar figure walking towards him.
Isn't that the young man named Zhao Hongwei who came to the shop with the old man who drove the corpses before?
Upon seeing Zhao Hongwei, Zhao Youliang was overjoyed, for he knew that this man had also gone down into the tomb with Manager Sun.
Now that he's back, it means Manager Sun is back too!
"Hongwei, Hongwei, I'm here! Come over here right now!"
In fact, Zhao Hongwei had come to see Zhao Youliang, so when he saw Zhao Youliang beckoning him, he quickly went forward.
Before Zhao Youliang could speak, Zhao Hongwei spoke up with a sorrowful expression.
"Boss Zhao is in trouble! Something terrible has happened!"
"This time, my master and Manager Sun are both dead!"
"Everyone else died, but I was the only one saved by Lao Si risking his life!!"
"What?!" Despite being mentally prepared, Zhao Youliang still felt dizzy upon hearing the bad news.
Sister-in-law Yingchun and Zhao Hongwei pinched his philtrum and patted his back. It took a while for Zhao Youliang to recover.
He grabbed Zhao Hongwei by the collar and asked loudly.
"How did Uncle Sun die? How could he have died?!"
Zhao Hongwei understood Zhao Youliang's feelings, so he didn't mind his bad attitude.
Only after Zhao Youliang had vented his anger and was able to listen to reason did he reply in a deep voice.
"There's a rice dumpling in the tomb! A big rice dumpling!"
"When we were escaping, Lao Si said that thing was a golden-armored corpse!"
"Manager Zhao, you should know how powerful the Golden Armored Corpse is, which is why we all perished inside it."
"But there's something I still can't figure out: it's clearly the tomb of a civil official, so how could there be a golden-armored corpse there!"
To clarify, there are many ways to classify zombies according to the rules of different "schools".
The names of zombies differ in each method.
For example, in "Notes from the Thatched Cottage of Close Observation", they are distinguished by the color of their fur, such as white corpse, black corpse, wandering corpse, and uncorrupted bone.
In the story "Flying Zombie" from "Zi Bu Yu", there is a zombie that can fly into the sky.
In "Qin Zhong Mu Dao", the zombies are like fierce ghosts and demons, and are called "Black Fiends".
In summary, zombies in the Qing Dynasty had already formed six levels, classified according to the length of time it took to become a zombie, and by appearance and behavior:
The six levels are: "White Zombie, Black Zombie (some say Red Zombie), Jumping Zombie, Flying Zombie, Ba, and Demon".
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