Chapter 781 One is missing?

I looked at the scene in front of me in amazement, and my mind was full of confusion.

I have seen many forms of joint burials. When he was in our village, my master presided over joint burials for many elderly people, but most of the joint burials were old couples who were buried together after their death, but I have never seen a family of three buried together, and I have never even heard of it.

Moreover, these three bodies have obviously been dead for many years, but for some reason, the bodies not only have not decayed, but there is not even a bad smell.

The most important thing is, since the people are dead, why doesn't anyone bury them and let them rest in peace?

"Although some ethnic minorities do have the custom of not burying their dead, they are only a minority after all. Even if they have inherited the Miao customs, the Miao also emphasize burying their dead. Why are they placed here? Could it be..."

A strange thought suddenly popped up in my mind, and I was shocked.

"Could it be that everyone in the village is dead and there are no living people to bury them?"

But then I shook my head and denied this idea.

If everyone in the village is really dead, then who put them in the coffins?

Could it be that they crawled in before they died?

This is obviously not in line with common sense!

Next, I checked around the coffins again, and then I found that the three bodies seemed to be covered with something.

That thing was yellow, just like grease, and was smeared on the surface of the bodies.

I scraped off a piece of it with the Miao Dao at my waist, put it in front of my nose and sniffed it, and then my face changed drastically.

"This is corpse oil!"

At this moment, I finally knew why these three bodies could die without decaying, because the surface of their bodies was actually covered with a thick layer of corpse oil.

It's just strange, why did they do this?

Did they want to sacrifice these three bodies into zombies?

But it doesn't look like it!

Corpse oil has many uses. If it is ordinary corpse oil, it can be used for preservation or even to keep corpses. If it is a female corpse, especially a pregnant female corpse, it can be used to summon ghosts, cast spells and blood curses!

However, these are all evil methods and are despised by people.

Before in our village, Liu Laosan's family used corpse oil to keep corpses, which gave rise to Miao Cuicui, a mother-son evil.

However, the scene in front of us is obviously not for keeping corpses, but more like... wanting to keep the corpse intact.

But, death is like a light going out, so what can it do even if the corpse is well preserved?

Can it be resurrected from the dead?

There was nothing else in this room except this coffin. I took a deep breath, closed the lid of the coffin again, and walked out of the room and went to the next room.

There was only a wooden fence between the two rooms. I jumped over it and landed in the yard. Then I stood up and walked into the room quickly.

This house was as dilapidated as the previous one. Before I entered the house, I had already smelled the strange smell similar to bacon. Obviously, there must be a coffin in this room.

Sure enough!

When I pushed the door open, what caught my eye was indeed a large coffin.

However, this coffin was a little bigger than the previous one. I estimated that at least five corpses could lie side by side in it.

I walked around the coffin and observed it, and then I found that this coffin was better sealed than the previous one. The gap between the coffin lid and the coffin body was sealed with corpse oil.

I used a Miao Dao to dig out the corpse oil, and then gently pushed the coffin lid open.

I squinted my eyes and looked inside the coffin, and then I found that there were indeed five people lying in the coffin.

Lying on the two sides were two elderly people, and then inwards were two middle-aged men and women in their forties, and in the center was a child of about ten years old.

This turned out to be a coffin for a family of five!

I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, thinking to myself, what is going on? Why are the people in this village placed in the house after death, but not buried?

The most important thing is, why are all the people in this village buried together, and they are also smeared with corpse oil?

What is the purpose of doing this?

I thought to myself that this village is too weird. Compared with this place, our village is simply normal.

"No wonder the evil celestial phenomenon settled here!" I swallowed my saliva with a "gulp", then covered the coffin lid and slowly pushed it out of the house.

Next, I looked at the five houses around.

What surprised me was that there was a coffin in all the houses, and in the coffins, there were several dried corpses.

At this moment, I just felt a chill on my back, and thought to myself, damn, the people in this village, they can't really... all die?

"No, I saw the smoke from cooking before. There must be people alive in this village."

With this thought, I hurried out of the house, scanned the dark, found a relatively intact house, and walked straight in.

Compared with the previous houses, this house was much cleaner. Although the doors and windows were closed, it was not dilapidated.

It was just strange. Although it was dark now, it was only a little after eight o'clock in the evening. Could it be that everyone in the village had gone to bed?

I slowly walked to the front of the house and put my face against the window to look inside, but the house was too dark. I looked for a long time but couldn't make out anything. I made up my mind and raised my hand and knocked on the window.

There was no response, and the house was still dead silent, as if there was no one alive in this seemingly clean house.

I thought it was strange, and then walked to the door, quietly opened it, and then dodged and went in.

After entering the house, a coffin that was larger than all the previous coffins immediately caught my eye. This coffin was too big and no longer had the shape of a coffin. It looked like a huge wooden box.

Moreover, this coffin was not painted. From the rough edges of the wood, it could be seen that the coffin seemed to have been made not long ago.

"Could it be that this family just died not long ago?"

I frowned, then walked to the coffin, scraped off the body fat that sealed the coffin, and then pushed it hard.

"Squeak..."

A strange sound rang out in the dark room, and as the strange sound fell, the scene inside the coffin was revealed in front of my eyes.

I saw that there were six corpses lying side by side in the coffin.

These six corpses were old and young, male and female, and they should be a whole family buried together.

"Strange, judging from the newness of this coffin, the coffin should have been made not long ago, but... this is not in line with common sense!"

I used to think that every household in this village would prepare a coffin, and when someone in the family died, the body would be placed in the coffin.

But now it seems that this is not the case.

I even suspected... that the whole family died together.

Otherwise, the coffin should not be brand new, but very old.

I squinted my eyes and carefully looked at the bodies, but then my pupils shrank.

Because I saw that there was an empty space on the left side of the coffin, and on that space, there was clearly a yellow-orange mark. Judging from the mark, there was obviously a body lying there before.

"Why is there one less? Where did this body go?"