Chapter 035 Zombie Lover (18)
Xie Xinglan didn't say anything for several seconds.
Xie Chi: "What are you thinking about?"
"Really want to know?"
"Yeah." Xie Chi urged in a low voice.
Xie Xinglan smiled and said, "When the time comes, I'll hold your waist, support your butt, and then you'll put your arms around my neck..."
"That's good." A faint blush appeared on Xie Chi's face, his limbs were slightly stiff, and he challenged him nonchalantly, "Brother, you can still think about it more deeply."
Xie Xinglan had originally just wanted to tease him, but now he was choked and could only sneer: "Xiao Chi, you have such a big mouth..."
Xie Chi licked his lips subconsciously, expressionless: "You will get a bargain in the future."
Xie Xinglan was stunned for several seconds, and felt the cat scratching him again. He said, "Damn!" in a hoarse voice, "You're really annoying."
"Are you praising me?" Xie Chi unbuttoned the top button of his shirt, letting out the heat from his chest, and shrugged his shoulders. "If you want to die... then come out quickly and die on me."
He is not afraid of talking nonsense.
Xie Xinglan: "...Xiao Chi, you have become a bad person."
Xie Chi raised his eyebrows slightly, and shamelessly denied the debt: "You spoiled me."
"..." Xie Xinglan finally calmed down the anger in his heart, "Does it hurt? Let me take over?"
"No, I'm going to interrogate Zhang Linu. If my brother can talk to me, I won't feel any pain."
Xie Chi held back his laughter, he was not really afraid of pain, mysophobia depended on whether one had the conditions to be so, when his brother was asleep, he was not afraid of pain and had no mysophobia, when his brother woke up, he felt terribly painful and had a mysophobia to death.
[Why was the boss still arguing with Taoist Master Lianxi just a second ago, but now he is as quiet as a chicken...blushing? Is he blushing? Am I seeing right? ]
[Why can he still laugh when his friend's life or death is uncertain? How heartless. ]
[Moral kidnapping in front? The boss has prioritized and done what needs to be done. Why can't I smile? Do I have to wait like Lu Wen with red eyes and twitching shoulders? ]
After Taoist Master Lianxi sprinkled the boy's blood evenly in the pit, he glanced at the injuries on Lu Wen and Xie Chi and said, "I'll go outside to buy some herbs."
Xie Chi immediately responded and said obediently: "Thank you, uncle."
He was worrying about how to get Taoist Lianxi away to interrogate Zhang Linu. After all, the scene might be too bloody. If Taoist Lianxi changed his decision to let him be the corpse controller, it would be troublesome.
Taoist Master Lianxi said, "Watch out. Once the top layer of boy's blood has dried, immediately pour a new layer. Don't make any mistakes."
The two nodded.
Because of Yan Jing's matter, Zhang Linu was forgotten in the corner. Now he was finally free, Xie Chi dragged a bench from the side and sat down, then took out the clothes stuffed in Zhang Linu's mouth.
Xie Chi asked: "What is your relationship with Madam Zhao?"
Zhang Linu spat and said viciously: "Don't even think about getting any information out of me. I won't tell you even if I die!"
"You're quite courageous?" Xie Chi glanced at him and chuckled, "You're not afraid of death, because you don't have your hand anymore and you don't want to live, right? I understand."
There was some fear in Zhang Linu's eyes, and he was not sure what he meant.
Xie Chi suddenly lowered his upper body and moved closer, pinching his chin, his eyes scorching: "Are you afraid of the pain? I can make you live a life worse than death."
Lu Wen was secretly ashamed. Xie Chi was too much of a villain in both character and behavior. He was perverse and did whatever he wanted. Who could stand this?
Although he thought so, he still silently stuffed the peach wood sword into Xie Chi's slender and beautiful hands.
Zhang Linu widened his eyes in fear. The man in front of him was half covered in blood, with a strong smell of blood. His fair and gentle face was covered in bloodstains, and his eyes were frighteningly bright with undisguised malice.
Zhang Linu had no doubt that if he continued to be stubborn for another second, this man would tear his skin apart.
As the sword tip approached, Zhang Linu broke out in a cold sweat and trembled all over. When the sword tip touched his hair and was about to cut through his fragile skin, Zhang Linu finally collapsed: "No! I said!"
"You're so quick to change your attitude according to the situation!" Xie Chi sighed lightly, his tone sarcastic.
This also saved him a lot of trouble.
Xie Chi threw the sword back to Lu Wen and leaned back in his chair: "Just explain it yourself."
Zhang Linu nodded palely.
In the next half hour, Zhang Linu explained the cause and course of the incident.
Zhang Linu's family has made a living by performing puppet shows for generations, and the puppets used for puppet shows are also made by the clan members themselves. This craft has been passed down from generation to generation until it was passed down to Zhang Linu.
Zhang Linuza's puppets are the best and most famous.
Zhang Linu was obsessed with puppets. He made them day and night. He could not sleep well without holding a puppet. He was unmarried and naturally had no children. He treated the puppets he made as his wife and children and poured all his efforts into them.
When he had mastered the puppet-making craft to the highest level and there was no further improvement, Zhang Linu became depressed for the first time.
He was no longer satisfied with making cold and rigid puppets, he thought puppets should also have souls. He searched for puppets everywhere, wanting to make them better, until one day, he saw a dirty puppet on a stall.
The puppet was very ordinary, even ugly. Zhang Linu glanced at it and was about to leave when he was shocked to find that the puppet winked at him.
When Zhang Linu looked again, the puppet was still intact. Zhang Linu's heart was pounding, and he pretended to be calm, bought the puppet, and ran home.
The surface of the puppet felt very slippery and oily. Zhang Linu didn't know what it was at first until he pulled out a white handkerchief from the back of the puppet. Based on the words on the handkerchief, Zhang Linu realized that the surface of the puppet was actually... human skin.
Written on the white handkerchief was the method of making a human skin puppet: peel off a woman's skin alive and wrap it around a prepared frame, soak the pulling thread with the person's heart blood, and then embed the pulling thread into the prepared puppet.
The puppet created in this way will possess the residual soul of the original owner with stored memories, will be able to think and speak, but will only act completely according to the instructions of the puppeteer.
Zhang Linu was hesitant at first, but the hesitation did not last long and he took action on the first woman.
This woman is Peony in the painting of ladies. Peony was a prostitute who behaved like a dissolute person. Zhang Linu kept her for one night and skinned her alive that night.
Lu Wen couldn't stand it anymore after hearing this: "You beast! You're killing people!"
Zhang Linu turned his head mechanically to look at him and suddenly laughed a few times. The laughter was hoarse and unpleasant, making people feel uncomfortable all over.
"Who said I killed someone?" Zhang Linu looked at Lu Wen's face. "Look at you, do you think this thing on your face is scary? Do you often feel inferior because of it?"
Lu Wen's face turned cold: "What does this have to do with you killing people?!"
Zhang Linu clicked his tongue and said, "Did you hit a sore spot? People's skin is imperfect, how can I call this murder? Mudan used to have only one nipple, the other one was bitten off by her patron. I peeled her skin and made her into a puppet. I can make her whole by just touching that part of her body with a pen. I also retouched her face. Isn't she beautiful?"
Zhang Linu's eyes revealed pride and madness.
"I preserved her remaining soul. She just exists in another form. I gave her a perfect body and eternal life. She should be grateful to me."
"You!" Lu Wen was so furious that he wanted to pick up his sword and kill him.
Xie Chi looked at him coldly, his face expressionless.
Zhang Linu smiled with an ambiguous tone, and said, "Do you really think that I killed all the ten ladies here?"
Lu Wen frowned in confusion and said coldly, "What do you mean? If you didn't kill him, could it be that Madam Zhao killed him?"
Xie Chi crossed his legs and suddenly chuckled: "Those women came to me voluntarily for beauty or life."
Zhang Linu glanced at him unexpectedly .
Zhang Linu said, "Miss Xingbai is bedridden and unwilling to die. She asked me to turn her into a puppet. As for Chuntao, she was born pretty and beautiful, but her appearance was ruined by an accident, causing her husband to hate her. She also made many inquiries and took the initiative to come to me. She wants to obtain the ultimate beauty and live a dissolute life to avenge her husband."
Lu Wen's face was filled with disbelief: "Can anyone really be this crazy? Willing to endure the pain of being skinned alive?"
Xie Chi tilted his head to look at Lu Wen, and sneered, "You are not a fish, how do you know that the fish is not happy?"
Zhang Linu looked at Xie Chi again in surprise: "If I hadn't been entrusted by Lady Zhao, maybe I would have become friends with you. You and I both have the madness to accomplish something at all costs."
Xie Chi did not comment.
【Hahahahahahaha, the boss has won the favor of the villain. 】
【Boss: I have mixed feelings.】
"What happened next?" Xie Chi asked calmly.
Perhaps because he had met a soulmate, Zhang Linu opened up completely.
"After I killed Mudan, I fled with her skin, but because I acted too hastily and left too many clues, I was quickly caught. I thought I was doomed, so I stayed in jail for a few days, but was released."
Xie Chi raised his eyebrows: "Madam Zhao?"
Zhang Linu said, "Yes, I was knocked unconscious after I got out of jail and was secretly taken to the Zhao family. I saw Madam Zhao and she said she wanted to cooperate with me."
Xie Chi thought thoughtfully: "She is powerful and influential, helping you escape the crime and providing you with the right person to be your puppet. As for you, you serve her?"
"right."
Xie Chi asked a different question: "What about the boy's blood? Is it a necessary material for weaving an illusion?"
Zhang Linu shook his head: "This is the only thing you said wrong. In fact, my illusion can be created with ordinary human blood, and it is best to use the blood of boys. The one who really wants to kill those children is Madam Zhao."
Lu Wen stared. Only after hearing Zhang Linu say it himself did he realize how big the contrast between people could be.
The concierge also said that Madam Zhao fasted day and night to pray for the child, but in fact, she was the one who killed the child...
Zhang Linu said, "She asked me to use the puppet god to secretly kidnap those children and kill them to take their blood. The blood in the blood pool you saw was actually only a small part of the remaining blood. The majority of it was transported to the Zhao family by me."
Xie Chi's face darkened.
Lu Wen clenched his fists: "How many children did you kill?!"
Zhang Linu was about to die, so he had nothing to fear: "There should be six or seven people in Huai'ao Town. We dare not act too rashly, for fear of angering the superiors and causing trouble, so our targets are relatively scattered. The combined number of people in the neighboring towns should be thirty or forty."
He spoke so lightly, as if thirty or forty lives meant nothing to him. Lu Wen gritted his teeth, wishing he could stab him with a sword to vent his anger.
Xie Chi was not moved at all: "She loves her husband very much?"
Zhang Linu was always paying attention to Xie Chi's expression, secretly thinking about how much he could say to satisfy Xie Chi and stop torturing himself. He had been in contact with Lady Zhao for so many years, and if he said he knew nothing, Xie Chi would definitely not believe it. But if he really told everything, how could he be willing?
He also hoped that Madam Zhao would kill these people to avenge him.
Zhang Linu was calculating secretly in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He said quickly, "Yes, Madam Zhao loves her husband very much."
Xie Chi smiled in an intriguing way: "She wants virgin blood and a powerful zombie. Plus, her husband is dead and she loves him deeply. Does she want to... use zombies to revive and continue their past relationship?"
Zhang Linu said in a normal tone: "I don't know, I only work for her, I don't want to know anything else, and I'm not qualified to know."
"One last question." Xie Chi paused, "Is it okay for a man to refine a puppet?"
Zhang Linu didn't understand the meaning of his question, so he answered subconsciously, "No, the handkerchief said that when women are really cruel, they are hundreds of times more cruel than men. Only they can endure the pain of being skinned and truly be reborn and become immortal puppets."
"Men can't do that. Only women can refine puppets, right?" Xie Chi asked again for some reason.
Zhang Linu said truthfully: "I have never trained a man, so I don't know."
Xie Chi: "What else do you know?"
Zhang Linu: “No more.”
When Zhang Linu said the word "gone", Xie Chi and Lu Wen's cell phones suddenly rang.
[The plot progress has been updated, and the plot has been completed: Zhang Linu's confession. Note: The horror movie protection mechanism is at work, and no valid information will be obtained if you ask again.]
[Note: The film will not provide specific plot exploration in the later stages. The specific data will be reviewed after the filming is completed.]
As soon as the two finished reading the news, they looked down and found that Zhang Linu had died from excessive blood loss. For some reason, before he died, the corners of his mouth showed a strange and ambiguous smile.
He looked up at Xie Chi and Lu Wen, as if cursing them to go to hell with him.
Taoist Master Lianxi rushed back after buying the herbs, distributed the herbs wrapped in lotus leaves to the two of them, and then went to check on Yan Jing's condition.
Lu Wen moved a stool and was about to sit over when he turned around to see Xie Chi with half of his shoulder exposed, applying medicine with an expressionless face. His movements were extremely rude and perfunctory. He seemed to be still thinking about Zhang Linu's words and was a little absent-minded.
Xie Chi's wound was deep, but it was not in a critical area and did not affect his movements.
Lu Wen stared at his smooth white shoulders for several seconds, then silently moved a stool and sat beside him, lowering his head and not daring to look around.
After a while, he couldn't help but take another look. This time, Xie Chi's technique was completely different, gentle, meticulous, and careful.
Feeling Lu Wen's gaze, Xie Xinglan covered his shoulders with his hands and narrowed his eyes dangerously.
Lu Wen instantly recognized that this was Xie Chi's boyfriend. He shuddered all over, turned his back, and was determined not to turn around even if he died.
【Why is the atmosphere so subtle? 】
【I want to be the boss's finger. 】
After finishing his work, Lu Wen walked up to Xie Chi with a guilty conscience and asked, "Did you find anything?"
Xie Chi said calmly, "It should be a foregone conclusion that Madam Zhao used a zombie to return her husband's soul. I don't think this film intends to hide the fact that Madam Zhao used a corpse to return the soul."
Lu Wen was stunned for a moment, and explained: "Zombie movies have always been like this, not too focused on reasoning, but more on fighting, and the ending usually ends with a fight with a boss zombie."
Xie Chi nodded: "That's it."
Lu Wen: "I think you asked twice just now, 'Can men make puppets?'"
Xie Chi said calmly: "I was just thinking, if men can make puppets, then Madam Zhao wouldn't go to such lengths to try to use a corpse to revive the dead."
Lu Wen suddenly realized: "That's right, just turn her husband into a puppet. Anyway, all his memories can be preserved, once and for all, and he will be healthy and immortal."
Xie Chi: "So Zhang Linu denied that men can make puppets, which indirectly confirmed that men can use corpses to revive the dead."
"I was just daydreaming, and suddenly a new question came to my mind." Xie Chi wiped his hands with the cloth handed to him by Lu Wen.
"what is the problem?"
Xie Chi handed him the cloth and said, "If you found a new body for your lover, and your lover became an immortal zombie and gained eternal life, but you would still experience aging and death, if you were Lady Zhao who loved her husband deeply, would you be willing?"
Lu Wen was stunned for several seconds, not understanding what he meant.
Xie Chi smiled: "I don't want to anyway."
Lu Wen was confused.
Xie Chi didn't say much.
"What time is it?" Xie Chi asked.
Lu Wen glanced at his phone , understood what he meant, and said, "There is only one hour left before Madam Zhao and her husband return to the spirit world on the seventh day. We still have time to rush back now."
Xie Chi nodded, stood up, and was just about to look at Yan Jing before going to Madam Zhao's house with Lu Wen, when his cell phone suddenly rang.
Lu Wen's phone also rang.
[The known information of actor Xie Chi has been monitored and has reached the standard. Due to the needs of the plot, the time method is activated and the time is immediately entered three days later.]
Xie Chi looked surprised: "Is it possible?"
Even though he was well-educated, he couldn't help but say "fuck".
Xie Chi glanced at the time on his phone. It was indeed the same time three days later...
This means that they missed the opportunity to stop Madam Zhao's plan of resurrection.
[Is it because the boss explored too quickly? So the movie had to do this to maintain its continuity? ? ]
【Hahahaha, I am dying of laughter, the boss has become a bug-like existence.】
[It's understandable. The staff originally calculated that they would be trapped in the illusion for at least two or three days, or that they would be delayed for a while due to insufficient effective information. Who could have thought that he would move so quickly? ]
[If the boss really ruins Lady Zhao's plan to revive through a corpse, then there won't be much to watch in this zombie movie. So should the boss zombie be born? Will the boss fight against the advanced zombies? Can he win this time? ]
[Yue Xiuming hid near the Zhao family.]
Lu Wen had never encountered such a situation before, and looked at Xie Chi nervously: "What should we do now?"
Just as Xie Chi was about to pull Taoist Master Lianxi away and go to Lady Zhao's house as planned, Taoist Master Lianxi, who had been watching the zombies, exclaimed, "Oh no! We're going to fail! There are cracks on our face!"
