Chapter 02 Corpse

When the first ray of sunlight shined in the morning, Beckham had already got up. His body is no longer so weak that he can move freely.

When he came to Kaka's house, he saw Uncle Ka sitting on the threshold, smoking and grinding some powder. Beckham has retrieved the jade pendant and the magic bead. He knows that Uncle Ka is a doctor, so he wants to ask what's going on with this bead. It can actually avoid poison.

As for the jade pendant, it gave him a headache. If no one can escape its curse, then he harmed the village and these simple villagers. Fortunately, nothing has happened yet, and Beckham has suppressed this matter.

"Xiaobei got up so early. Come on, take these pills back and boil them. It's very helpful for your recovery. Maybe you can recover in another week." Kaka handed a bag of unknown medicinal materials to Beckham. Although Beckham didn't like the taste of herbs very much, it was Uncle Ka's heart after all, so he took it.

"Thank you, Uncle Ka." After thanking Xiaobei, he told Uncle Ka the purpose of coming here, and then took out the magic bead and handed it to him.

At the same time, Beck couldn't help but panic when he saw Uncle Ka. Uncle Ka must come into contact with Gu Yu. He was afraid that Uncle Ka would leave like a fat man, but he could do nothing. That helplessness and pain tormented him deeply.

"Uncle Ka, you are not afraid of that jade..." Beckham finally mentioned this matter. He wanted to remind people to be on guard after all, although Beckham didn't know if it was useful.

"Hahaha." Uncle Ka laughed brightly. Xiaobei, don't worry, Uncle Ka's life is hard. Let me take a look at this bead first.

Xiaobei looked at all kinds of green plants in the yard and rubbed the ancient jade in the palm of his hand. The smooth texture was transmitted by his skin, but he was really not in a good mood anyway.

There is always an inexplicable feeling that I will not be so easily out of this whirlpool, as written in the diary, as targeted as prey.

Uncle Ka looked at it for a long time and didn't see what was special about the bead. After returning it to Beckham, he began to smoke again.

Suddenly, a villager ran in in panic. The person Xiaobei met is relatively tall, so the villagers like to call him big.

The big man was sweaty and out of breath. He bent down and shouted, "No! There's something wrong!"

Xiaobei, who was sitting next to Uncle Ka, suddenly stood up.

"What happened? Take a break first and make it clear."

"I can't tell. You'd better go and see it by yourself. Everyone is at the entrance of the village!"

Beckham and Uncle Ka looked at each other and rushed to the village without saying a word.

Bamboo fence surrounds the village, with layers of villagers in front of it. Beckham squeezed in and found a man lying in the middle, no, or to be precise, a corpse.

The deceased seemed to have just died, with dark red dots all over his body, foaming at the mouth and a frightening face. Even Beckham, a layman, could see that he had died of poisoning.

It's strange here that people here have rich experience in mountain and forest survival. They should know what is poisonous and what is not poisonous, but why does this happen?

After waking up from Beckham, he learned that this place is far away from Dayan Town, and the distance from the ancient tomb is so big that there should be no connection, that is, artificial poisoning? Beckham shook his head. It's impossible. People here are like a family. How can they do such a vicious thing? So there must be a problem.

"Where was he found? How long have you been dead? Uncle Ka came forward and asked the villager at the front. He took out a silver needle-like thing from hundreds of millions of pockets and stabbed it into the mouth of the deceased.

"This is not very clear. It was found less than 20 meters away from the entrance of the village this morning, so I brought it back. There are deep drag marks on the road behind. It should be because he wanted to climb back to the village but couldn't hold on, alas.

Beckham saw that the silver needle had been dyed black and secretly smacked his tongue, which was so toxic.

Suddenly, he saw something in the deceased's slightly open mouth and pointed to Uncle Ka. Uncle Ka, look!"

Uncle Ka opened the mouth of the deceased, and half of the strange plant was exposed.

The shape of the plant is a bit like a mimosa, but it is extremely short. Unlike the mimosa, the edges of the leaves are jagged, with milky white circles, because there is only half left, and only so much can be seen at present.

"It's not the product here." Uncle Ka stood up, put the half of the plant in a small bag, looked into the distance, and walked along the messy traces.

Beckham quickly followed.

"What do you think is going on?" Suddenly, Uncle Ka stopped where the traces disappeared and asked Beckham.

"I feel like a man-made, but it's definitely not from the village. This plant is forcibly stuffed into my mouth, and it is indeed inaccessible here. Outsiders will not appear, and it will not take much effort to force the poisonous grass to convince the dead." Beckham found a small pit in the mud not far away. When he approached, Beckham's expression finally panicked.

It is a footprint, which belongs to animals. Although it is very shallow, it can be faintly recognized.

"Cat's paw print." Uncle Ka frowned.

He has heard Beckham talk about this series of things, and the reason for all this is that the black cat has officially started. Now this footprint has to make him face up to this problem. Is there any connection between the two?

The two wanted to find it again, but they couldn't find any trace, so they went back with so much thought.

The sky gradually darkened, and Beckham sat in the room with Uncle Ka, and there was a "shudling" sound of someone fetching water by the well outside.

"Have you decided?"

"Hmm. I'll go back tomorrow. I really don't want to involve others.

"But this may have nothing to do with you."

"I have a psychological problem. It feels like I'm tied to a big stone, and I feel uncomfortable."

"Do you think everyone can be safe as soon as you leave?"

Xiao Bei was stunned. Yes, why didn't I think that leaving might not completely solve the problem, but should find the cause of the matter to solve it completely.

"Then I will find out the matter before I leave, Uncle Ka, in fact, I..." Beckham stopped talking, but finally didn't say anything.

"Stupid child, needless to say, let's eat first." Uncle Ka lit the cigarette pot again and took a breath, with a faint smell of tobacco surrounding the room.

It should be time to eat, but it is unusually noisy outside and brightly lit. I don't know what happened.

Beckham opened the door and found that the people outside were running around exclaiming and finally gathered in one direction. And that direction is the place where the deceased lived before his death.

"What happened?" Beckham walked down the attic and stopped one person from asking.

The man looked a little strange and whispered close to Xiaobei's ear, "It seems that the corpse has been scammed. Everyone is running over there. Go and help."