Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 182 Corpses in Two States
"What's wrong with this guy..." Ogata couldn't help but mutter, "Why is he vomiting so much blood..."
A-Machi's judgment was the same as Ogata's - the pools of blood on the ground did not look like they were flowing or splashing, but more like they were vomited out by humans.
"I don't know..." The large pool of blood on the ground looked like vomited blood, which was so scary that Ating shuddered involuntarily. "Is there such a disease in the world that can make people vomit so much blood?"
"Who knows..." Ogata replied, "I don't know any medical skills."
After failing to find any more valuable information from the body that had turned into bones, Ogata and Atachi began to search the house for supplies.
Compared with the previous two houses, this house is really too poor.
Ogata and Atachi searched all possible hiding places, but couldn't find anything useful.
Deciding that this house was no longer worth searching, Ogata and Atachi headed to the next house.
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The two of them searched every house in the village one by one.
The process of searching for a house is like a lottery.
There are houses with abundant supplies, and houses with scarce supplies...
There are houses with corpses lying around, and there are clean houses...
As the search area continued to expand, Ogata and A-Machi discovered more and more bodies.
The village was not very large, but searching every building took Ogata and his companions a lot of time.
It was already past noon when the search of the last house was completed.
When he walked out of the last house, Ating let out a long sigh as if relieved:
"We've finally finished searching all the houses... Ayi, let's get out of here quickly... I don't want to smell this disgusting stench anymore..."
"Yeah." Ogata nodded. "I think the same as you. Let's go. I can't stand this smell anymore..."
The two men rushed out of the stinking village that had been completely looted by them as if they were escaping.
Only after he could no longer smell the stench of the corpse did Ating tear off the handkerchief that was covering his mouth and nose, and took several deep breaths, greedily inhaling every breath of fresh air into his lungs.
“For the first time, I felt how wonderful it was to be able to breathe air without any odor…” Ating sighed sincerely.
"Ugh..." After pulling off the handkerchief on his face, Ogata retched, "Now just remembering the smell in the village makes me want to vomit..."
"Let's take a rest under the shade of that big tree?" Ating pointed to a big tree not far away.
"Yes." Ogata glanced at the big tree, "By the way, let's also count the supplies we just found in that village."
The two of them walked slowly to the shade of the big tree, sat cross-legged facing each other, and then took out various things that they had just searched in the village and thought might be useful.
After some searching, the two took away the following supplies: a shoulder bag that could hold a lot of things, 4 bamboo tubes that could be used as water bottles, a little edible salt, a sturdy fishing net, 2 thick hemp ropes, some straw paper, and some medicines.
Among these medicines, Ating recognized several bottles of medicine that could treat bruises and injuries.
"For a village of this size, we only found so few useful things..." Ogata muttered, "It seems that - before us, this village has been plundered many times by others..."
"That should be the case." A-Ting echoed, "When I was taken on board and sent to the island, I heard from the soldiers who were escorting me that we were the fourth batch of prisoners to land on the island. Before us, they had already sent three batches of prisoners, totaling more than 300 people, to the island."
"Since so many prisoners were sent to this island, it is inevitable that this village has been 'visited' many times."
"Ayi, our luck is pretty good. Even though this village has been ransacked so many times, we can still find so many things. It's already a great harvest."
When Oobe heard Atachi say the word "prisoner", he couldn't help but think of the bodies they had just found in the village.
When searching the village just now, Ogata paid attention to counting the number of corpses.
According to Ogata's statistics, there were 29 bodies in the village.
Among them, 18 bodies were in varying stages of decay.
The other 11 bodies have turned into skeletons.
The bodies of these corpses were mainly in two states - one state was that the bodies were covered with strange bite marks and scratches.
Another state is that there are large areas of blood around the corpse, and these bloodstains do not seem to flow or splash out, but seem to be vomited out by humans.
"Ayi." A-Ming noticed that Ogata seemed to be thinking about something, and asked Ogata, "What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking about the bodies found in the village just now." Ogata did not hide anything and said directly, "I think - the bodies in the village have two identities."
Ogata held up two fingers.
"Those corpses in varying degrees of decay should be the prisoners who were sent to the island before."
"And those who have been dead for a long time and whose bodies have turned directly into a pile of bones are the villagers of that village."
"I don't know where the villagers who are still alive have gone..." Ating muttered, "No one has lived in that village for at least several months..."
"Who knows where those villagers who are still alive have gone..." Ogata shrugged. "Compared to this question, I am more concerned about the true identity of the cannibal ghost."
"Those corpses in the village with bite marks and scratches all over their bodies are probably the 'masterpieces' of those cannibals..."
After seeing the corpses covered with bite marks and scratches in the village just now, Xu Fang immediately recalled the zombie movies he had accidentally watched in modern Earth before.
Thinking back to the zombie movies he had watched before, Ogata felt a chill in his heart...
However, the corpses in the village were different from the corpses attacked by zombies in Ogata's memory.
Although the corpses in the village were covered with bite marks and scratches, there were no signs of being eaten.
"There are still too many mysteries..." Ogata sighed softly, "Whether we want to find out the true identity of the cannibal ghost or find a way to leave the island, we can only continue to explore this island bit by bit..."
After saying that, he raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky.
"…It's already past noon." Ogata said, "How about having some lunch first?"
" good……"
Ogata and Omachi took out their rice balls.
The crystal clear rice grains on the rice balls should have been very tempting, but Ogata and Atachi had no appetite at this moment.
Although they had left the village filled with the smell of rotting corpses, the extremely foul smell still left a very deep impression on them, making them extremely nauseous and completely losing their appetite.
"...Let's have lunch later." A-Machi silently put her rice ball away and stuck out her tongue at Ogata. "Right now, I want to drink water more than eat..."
