Chapter 20 Differences in Concepts
Looking at the crowd jumping on the mountain road, Ding Hai showed a playful smile: "Junior brother, I know you don't agree with my idea from the bottom of your heart."

"It doesn't matter. Let's make a bet with this group of people and see if the justice you uphold can keep them alive."

Lin Jiu followed Ding Hai's gaze and looked at the crowd not far behind.

Having been a Taoist priest for so many years, he can still easily distinguish between the living and the zombies.

Although the five people at the back of this group of people look like zombies when they walk, it is still fake after all.

As long as you overcome your fear of the dead and observe carefully for a while, you can easily see the flaws.

They are clearly a group of living people, but they are pretending to be corpse drivers. There is obviously something wrong with this group of people.

Seeing that there was something wrong with the seven people behind him, Lin Jiu did not easily agree to gamble with Ding Hai. He asked doubtfully, "Brother, what exactly did you mean by what you said just now?"

"What do you mean? It's very simple."

Ding Hai replied: "Don't you claim to be the embodiment of justice? Then let's make a bet.

After seeing what these people did, are you still willing to save them?"

"What do you mean?" Lin Jiu was puzzled. Although the seven people in front of him behaved a little weirdly, they were all alive and well and seemed to be fine. Why did they need his rescue?

"I see that these people are unlucky and their foreheads are black. I predict that they will die within seven days.

During these seven days, you can use any means necessary to rescue them.

But the premise is that you are still willing to take action after understanding their behavior. After seven days, we will see the results. "

"Of course, to be fair, I will appropriately increase the difficulty for them before you take action," Ding Hai added.

Ding Hai did not explain it in too much detail, partly to keep it mysterious so that what follows will be interesting.

The second reason is that, for some things, unless you experience them yourself and suffer losses, no matter how much others say, it will be of no use.

Therefore, there was no need for him to explain things too clearly to Lin Jiu. After all, the lessons learned from personal experience were the most profound lessons.

After hearing what Ding Hai said, Lin Jiu frowned and felt an uneasy premonition in his heart.

He knew very well that although Ding Hai's behavior was strange, he would never do anything without a purpose.

He couldn't help but ask, "Brother, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.

Since you can see that they are down on their luck and will die, why don't you lend a helping hand and save them?"

Ding Hai sneered, a hint of amusement flashed in his eyes: "Junior brother, there are some things in the world that cannot be changed by human power.

You can only help them temporarily, but not forever. Unless they change themselves, they will eventually die."

Lin Jiu took a deep breath and said firmly to Ding Hai, "Brother, you are too pessimistic. I accept this bet. We will see the outcome in seven days.

If I win, I won't ask you to change anything, I just hope that in the future when I encounter ghosts and evil spirits, you won't urge me to leave early. "

Ding Hai nodded, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes.

Although the justice in his heart has long been wiped out by this messy world, this does not prevent him from appreciating people with justice in their hearts. On the contrary, Ding Hai values ​​such people more: "Okay, then we'll wait and see."

Then Ding Hai walked to the edge of the mountain path to make way for the seven people who were about to arrive.

Since they were going to be used as stakes, they naturally had to make sure they were always within their sight.

Therefore, Ding Hai decided to slow down and follow behind the group of people, so that it would be easier to observe their movements. Seeing this, Lin Jiu also followed and avoided them.

They were not wearing Taoist robes when they went out this time, and they turned around when they avoided the traffic, looking no different from ordinary passers-by.

Therefore, the two leading men, the fat man and the thin man who pretended to be corpse drivers, did not pay much attention to Ding Hai and the others. They just drove the "corpses" past the two men.

After watching the fat and thin corpse drivers drive away with the corpse, Ding Hai and the other man followed them from a distance.

The golden sun sets in the west, night gradually falls, and the earth is shrouded in darkness.

Neither the fat and thin corpse drivers in front nor Ding Hai and the other man in the back had any intention of stopping.

There are many taboos in the corpse-driving business. In order to avoid bumping into living people and attracting scolding, they often hide during the day and go out at night, and walking at night is commonplace.

Ding Hai and the other man disagreed. With his and Lin Jiu's strength and stamina, it made no difference to them whether they traveled during the day or at night.

In the middle of the night, nine people, one after another, finally passed through the mountains in southern Zhejiang and arrived at the border of Fujian.

After going down the winding mountain road, a checkpoint guarded by armed soldiers came into view.

The soldiers guarding the checkpoint never expected that they would encounter someone passing through the checkpoint in the middle of the night.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, the soldier leaning against the door looked at the fat and thin corpse drivers and their group with anger on his face.

If he wasn't afraid of firing rashly and startling the officer who was sleeping inside the checkpoint, he would have wanted to shoot these idiots who were jumping around.

Wait, bouncing when walking?
How can a living person jump when walking?
"What? No, zombies are coming down the mountain to kill people and suck blood." The soldier who noticed Huadian suddenly shouted. If his legs were not as soft as noodles, he would have wanted to turn around and run away immediately. There were many people guarding the checkpoint with the gatekeeper. After hearing the gatekeeper's shouting, they who were originally half asleep and half awake immediately became alert.

"Where's the trick?"

"Is there a zombie? Run around the fire quickly. I've heard from the old people that zombies are afraid of fire. Just run around the fire and they won't be able to catch up with you."

"Bang, bang, bang." Just as the soldiers were running around like headless flies, three gunshots suddenly stunned the soldiers guarding the pass.

"Everyone, be quiet. You have guns in your hands, not fire sticks. If dozens of guns open fire at the same time, even a great immortal will have to lie down."

The leading officer was from the new army in Fujian. Having received rigorous training, he was not afraid of any evildoers.

In the early years, when the new army in Fujian was just formed, the artillery battalion in the new army was often pulled out by the commander-in-chief to fire at the evil spirits entrenched in the mountains and forests that were harming the people.

Those monsters who are said to be so powerful in daily life are not much stronger than ordinary people when facing the overwhelming artillery fire from the artillery camp, and they still have to die.

As the leading officer's angry shouts rang out, the originally chaotic checkpoint gradually returned to order.

The soldiers were shocked by his majestic aura. They tightly grasped their guns and stood nervously at their posts.

The fat and thin corpse drivers and their group were also caught off guard by this sudden change.

They stood where they were, looking vigilantly at the soldiers around them, and only breathed a sigh of relief after they were sure that they had no intention of shooting immediately.

The fat corpse driver in the lead took a deep breath to calm himself down, then stepped forward and tried to communicate with the leading officer.

"Sir, we two brothers are corpse drivers. We are on this journey in the middle of the night because we are in a hurry to send the corpse back to the hometown for burial. We really didn't mean to disturb your checkpoint just now."

While speaking, the fat corpse driver took out more than ten silver dollars from the sleeves of his Taoist robe and handed them to the leading officer covertly.

"Please be lenient, sir, and let our fellow disciples and these poor people who died in a foreign land pass." The fat corpse driver's voice was filled with sincerity and pleading.

The leading officer did not reach out for the money immediately, but looked at the fat and thin men for a long time.

He had heard of corpse-driving, and this business was indeed one that was active at night and dodged during the day.

But this is Lingnan, not Xiangxi, and there are very few corpse drivers here.

In their place, most people who die in a foreign land will be sent to the local charity cemetery, and then fellow villagers will give the deceased's family a message, asking them to go to the charity cemetery to collect the bones within a specified time.

If no one collects the bones and body of the deceased within the specified time, the village guards in the charity cemetery will move the dead body out of the cemetery, wrap it in a straw mat, and take it to a nearby mass grave and bury it in a random pit.

Although he had some doubts in his mind, the officer, who thought the dead were unlucky, did not step forward to search. After taking the big dollar from the fat corpse driver, he casually pointed his finger and sent one of his men forward to pretend to do so.

The soldiers who were assigned to search the place already disliked the bad luck of dead bodies, and when they saw their superior accepting the bribe, they immediately knew what they should do.

After pretending to walk around the five zombies, he trotted over to his superior and reported loudly, "Report, nothing special."

"Well, since you are the corpse driver, then you should go over quickly. But remember, don't come to scare people in the middle of the night next time." After listening to the report from his subordinates, the leading officer waved his hand to signal the soldiers to let them pass.

The fat and thin corpse drivers were overjoyed when they heard this and hurriedly expressed their gratitude.

Thank God, I didn’t expect to pass this time so smoothly.

In the darkness in the distance, Lin Jiu frowned as he watched this scene: "This shouldn't be the case? That soldier was so close to the group of people, there was no need to search them carefully.

As long as he reaches out and touches the five fake zombies, he will find out that they are real people pretending to be zombies. Why?"

"Junior brother, are you confused?" Ding Hai looked at Lin Jiu, whose eyebrows were almost connected into one, and finally understood why he was nicknamed "One-brow Taoist Priest" in the future.

"A little bit." Lin Jiu did not hide his doubts, he really didn't understand.

"There are so many places connecting Zhejiang and Fujian. Do you know why the officials from Fujian chose to set up a checkpoint in this remote place?"

"why?"

Ding Hai pointed to the weed-covered mountain road under their feet and said, "Because this mountain road under our feet can help some caravans save a lot of money."

"This mountain road is rugged and can only accommodate a horse-drawn carriage moving slowly. Merchants will lose a lot of money if they take this road." Lin Jiu shook his head and denied Ding Hai's words.

It's not like he hasn't seen traveling merchants before. When a large caravan is traveling, it is definitely the waterway that they prefer to take. If there is no waterway, they will give priority to the official road. Except for some traveling peddlers, no merchant would go into the mountains.

"What if they are transporting contraband that can fetch ten or a hundred times the profit?"

"What kind of contraband can bring people ten or a hundred times the profit? Senior brother, please stop exaggerating." As he spoke, something that could harm people appeared in Lin Jiu's mind.

Opium cream.

It is small in size and of great value. Compared with the low cost, it can indeed fetch ten or even a hundred times the profit once sold.

"These fake corpse drivers, are they also selling that stuff?" Although he used a question sentence, Lin Jiu already had the answer in his mind.

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