Chapter 033 Zombies vs. Vampires

(Sorry, everyone, the writing is messy and I don't know what to say. I don't want to write a few paragraphs I thought of before, but I just want to end this episode as soon as possible and start a new chapter.)

It took a few minutes for Lin Xiao to quickly browse the content of the mural and swept up, but frowned.

In the channel, the ordinary monks and soldiers who were killed by themselves seemed to be made of wax oil, melting away, leaving only a few empty clothes.

Everything is silent, and the gloomy and terrible passage seems to come alive at this time. The walls are squirming, the dark red light flashing, and the ominous breath is about to erupt. Not waiting for Lin Xiao to escape from here, the earth trembled, and the whole channel collapsed directly!

The sky turned upside down and the earth shook. The dense cracks like spider web spread wildly on the wall. Lin Xiao only had to put her knees and hide in the corner. The next moment, the towering mansion collapsed.

"This is... Buried alive?"

A flame lit up at Lin Xiao's fingertips, illuminating the absolute darkness around him. I was trapped in a narrow corner, full of heavy boulders. If I hadn't taken some defensive measures before the collapse, I would have been killed by rocks now. Even so, Lin Xiao's forehead was still scratched by a piece of gravel, leaving a finger-length wound with blood.

Reaching out and pushing the stone beam above his head, the power that can easily overturn a truck can't help but weigh tens of tons of construction waste. What's more urgent is that although the passage collapsed, the strange force attached to the wall has not disappeared. The strange black fog filled, and Lin Xiao only felt that her skin was tingling and itchy, and quickly appeared a small red dot like goosebumps. And it soon rotted and ran out, and it was very painful.

Lin Xiao was shocked and had to use a teleportation card purchased from a mysterious store to escape.

Teleport card, priced at 3,000 points, disposable consumables. Ignoring the terrain restrictions, it can be transmitted within 500 meters after use without cooling.

A poker-sized silver card crossed a mysterious track in the air, and the next moment, Lin Xiao's figure disappeared. Before he could look up to the sky and laugh three times to celebrate his escape, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a hairy big hand hitting him in the air.

hong!!

The huge power came like a tide. Lin Xiao only felt as if he had crashed into a high-speed train head-on. His bones were faintly painful under this force, and his whole body spewed blood and flew backwards.

After rolling 17 or 18 times and finally stopping her body, Lin Xiao finally couldn't help spitting out a mouthful of black blood mixed with visceral fragments. Then he wiped the blood on his face and looked at the huge figure standing dozens of meters away in shock.

The seven-meter-high huge body stood on the ruins, with a large area of human bones at its feet. Between the ups and downs of the chest, the airflow spewed out like clouds. There is no doubt that this is a giant, but not an ordinary giant!

There is a dirty animal skin around the waist, and a pair of big eyes are full of endless anger. There are actually eight well-defined abdominal muscles in the abdomen. The combination of strength and beauty shows the explosive power of terror.

Insight Launch!

Giant Elite: Douglas. The remains of giants secretly imprisoned in underground caves by the Holy See were awakened in their deep sleep. Strength: 60, physical strength 60, agility 45, mental strength, 50."

" Skill 1: Blood pressure.???"

"Skill 2: Fight and roar.?"

"Skill 3: Elite Template.?"

"Skill 4:?"

Seeing this guy's attribute data, Lin Xiao's nerve toughness couldn't help taking a cold breath. No wonder I was half disabled by a slap, and 60 points of strength and physical strength have definitely reached the limit of the difficulty of the current task! Enough to crush any adventurer in the current scene... This guy is completely the standard big boss setting.

The whole temple was in chaos at this time, and the fire in the distance was fierce and the flames were rolling. Nearby giant Douglas slaughtered temple monks and royal guards. Another battlefield is seven or eight adventurers fighting together, hot or not, but more bloody and tragic.

"Damn it! You idiots who don't have enough to fail! If you dare to be so arrogant without a key, you actually provoke the sealed giant elite. Don't you know how to write dead words?!"

"Get out of here, I don't need you to teach me how to do it! Anyway, the thing has arrived. What's wrong with releasing monsters? I don't have a headache.

"Give over things, or you won't be able to survive and die!"

This is actually a scuffle of the adventurers of the three parties, splashing flesh and blood, vicious tricks, and all kinds of dirty words.

One of the short men with dark hair and braids sneered and suddenly threw a purple bottle. The bottle was made of ordinary glass. After it was broken, a mass of purple smoke spread directly. Several adventurers who could not escape were immediately festered by the smoke and their faces twitched.

"Mom, what kind of poison is this? It's so horrible!"

"I know him. He is a famous poisoner who specializes in all kinds of poisons. People who fall into his hands have always been unable to survive."

"Is that pervert?"

"Hey, pervert? I like it." The short man sneered, and his eyes bloomed like a poisonous snake, which made people shudder.

"Friendly reminder, the big purple bottle I made is made of a mixture of the juice of the blood-sealed throat tree and the venom of various jungle poisons. It is a serious weapon to dominate. Ordinary treatment methods have no effect, hehe.

Everyone shuddered. See blood sealing throat tree, also known as arrow poison wood, Sangke, see blood sealing throat plant. This is a real plant, distributed in subtropical rainforest areas, which can be seen in Yunnan, Hainan and other places in China. It blooms in spring and summer, and bears red fruits like small pears in autumn, which become purple-black when ripe. This fruit tastes extremely bitter and contains toxins and is inedible. The sap is highly poisonous and usually dies within 20 minutes after entering the body.

In the big purple bottle, there is not only the highly poisonous sap, but also the venom in the rainforest poisonous arrow frog backpack, as well as the venom of the black mamba viper. All kinds of venoms are mixed together, which is really horrible.

Others were shocked to hear that the injured adventurer's wound had been quickly burned and ulcerated, and they were even more anxious. I can only endure the pain and drink 1,000 points per bottle of antidote to save my life.

On the other side, there is a battle between the two team leaders. Coincidentally, one of the two leaders strengthened the European vampire bloodline, and the other strengthened the traditional Chinese Taoist ability to control two zombies and fight vampires.

Due to the invasion of Western cultural trends, vampires and werewolf bloodlines are popular in space. Strong recovery ability, enhanced attributes after transformation, and pseudo-immortal body all attract the attention of some young people. However, the strengthening of traditional Chinese Taoist priests is extremely rare. What's more unexpected is that this Taoist priest has two zombies in Qing Dynasty official uniforms!

Vampires and zombies, two undead creatures from the traditional culture of East and the West, collide fiercely in this different time and space!

The adventurer's bloodline strengthening has obviously reached level B. His blood-red eyes are cold, and a pair of flesh wings behind him are two meters wide. The cheekbones are towering, the chin is prominent, and the face is blue and dim. The two iconic pointed tusks protrude the lips, which are full of the length of the baby's fingers.

Vampire fingers are bloody, which is the incidental energy "blood energy" of the vampire bloodline, which is good lethal and corrosive. The snowlight turns into a long whip, and the two zombies are angry and howling and irritable.

Lin Xiao wiped off the blood from the corners of his mouth and looked at the three iconic eastern and western undead creatures fighting together, and couldn't help thinking of an entertainment post he had read.

Why are the zombies in the zombie movies I've watched since I was a child wearing official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty? Why can't I wear other clothes? Moreover, the zombies we see in this horrible world are also wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms. What does this mean?

In fact, this problem has troubled many people, such as me and your generation of young people, who can't understand why the zombies in movies wear Qing Dynasty official uniforms. After someone's in-depth exploration and verification, the following conclusions are drawn.

Zombies are very popular themes in Hong Kong movies in the 1980s.

In the movie, zombies always wear Qing Dynasty official uniforms, with their hands straight, and their feet jump together like sparrows to distinguish the position by human breath. Another significant feature is that they can fix the zombies with a talisman' forehead. Because zombies always jump forward, in the feng shui practice of Chinese architecture, a threshold about 15 cm high is usually installed under the gate to prevent zombies from jumping into the house.

But why do zombies always wear Qing Dynasty clothes? This can be analyzed from many angles.

First, from an economic perspective: there were many costumes in the Qing Dynasty, which were cheap. Zombie films are generally low-cost movies, considering the cost, so the producer changed the zombies into clothes of the Qing Dynasty, and some Qing Palace dramas and so on. You can also run to borrow clothes. Maybe a courtier in the Qing Palace drama wore official clothes and was worn by zombies yesterday.

Second, time angle: the time of death is less than 100 years, and the time of death is more than 500 years to become a demon. Or the bone is gone, so only the time of death between 100 and 500 can become a zombie.

In this way, only people born in 1600-1900 can become zombies, and almost all people born in this period are from the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, it is said that people in the Qing Dynasty wore official uniforms and were decent when they were buried. According to this estimate, the zombies appearing in film and television works a few years later should be wearing a Zhongshan suit, a suit or Nike, wearing three watches, and using the toothpaste recommended by the dental defense group.

Third, national emotional perspective:

In the early Qing Dynasty, when Manchu entered the customs, they killed a lot, and many civilians died in a foreign country, so there was a job of transporting corpses and transporting the bodies back to their hometown for burial. Later, it was said that there were corpse chasers in Sichuan and western Hunan, and the bodies would jump away by themselves.

Moreover, the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty has always been the mainstream ideology in Hong Kong. Many people sympathize with the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty and belittle the Manchu people, so these jumping corpses are placed on the appearance of Manchurian officials.

And Hong Kong was divided by Britain in the Qing Dynasty, so Hong Kong people have resentment, so they make fun of the Qing Dynasty, which is part of Hong Kong culture. As for why they chose official uniforms, it is because the folk anti-Qing and anti-corruption performance is the imagination and social sustenance of scholars, doctors and literati.

Fourth, the perspective of film and television:

The official obedience shooting effect of the Qing Dynasty is more in line with the image of zombies. Because the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty is more unified, the color is darker, and the appearance of the official hat, the whole clothing is different from Hanfu, and it has a depressing and dull taste, so it is most suitable for shooting zombies. It is not impossible to shoot with the clothes of the Tang, Ming and Han dynasties, but because the color of Hanfu may be lighter and relatively broad, it is not suitable to shoot zombies as Qing official uniforms, but there will be an elegant fairy spirit in it.

So beautiful female ghosts generally wear ancient Hanfu, which is a series of classic female ghosts. Imagine what effect it would be to let Nie Xiaoqian wear the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty?

Fifth, folk perspective:

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a kind of Taoist priest called 'corpse trainer', who had a spell to guide the action of corpses. There are many people with status and rich people who want to return to their roots after death. When the body is not corrupted, the warlock will rush back to their hometown to be buried. At this time, the body needs to be disposed of. Taoist priests usually use their skills to make the body stiff so that they can walk. Then dress up, and it's also a good thing to put on official clothes for them at this time.

The corpse driver is called the 'corpse driver'. Some of them are tied with ropes, every few feet, and then put yellow paper symbols on their foreheads. Others ring the gongs to open the road and walk day and night. Before dawn, he threw the stack, lifted the rune paper, and stood against the wall. Continue on the road at night.

There is also a saying that the corpse driver actually carried the body on his back, but because he was dressed in black at night, passers-by naturally could not see the corpse driver and thought there was a walking corpse.

Sixth, from the perspective of literary history:

The theory of zombies prevailed after the middle of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. On the one hand, the Qing Dynasty has more records of zombie events and more research on zombies. More importantly, literary forms such as novels and reading books of the Qing Dynasty have emerged. Folk popular literature will give different explanations for such strange things, such as ghosts and so on. Zombies are one of them.

These things have also been recorded in more books and folklore, and have been used in some movies today. The Qing Dynasty recorded the largest number of zombies, with Yuan Mei and Ji Xiaolan. These two books can be said to be the 'zombie collection'. Hong Kong's zombie movies mostly come from these books, so naturally zombies wear Qing Dynasty clothes.

This is a joke that Lin Xiao once heard in the pub. At that time, he just laughed it off, but when he thought about it carefully, it made some sense.

As for the origin of vampires in the West, the more reliable explanation is for oraruci. Forperin disease is a term used to describe the symptoms of abnormal heme production in the blood. Some of these diseases, such as skin hematoporenoidosis, which causes toxins to deposit on the skin. Patients with this disease are usually very ** to light, because light can activate these toxins in the skin. When the toxin is activated, the skin will be eroded and lead to disfigurement, including erosion of lips and gums. These factors may cause patients to have a rotten appearance like a corpse, and they are also afraid of the sun.

At this moment, both sides are angry. The vampire count howled, his voice was sharp and harsh, and his claws were like hooks, directly overturning the skull of a zombie.

Unfortunate, zombies are not zombies, and they will not die if their heads are broken. After being scratched by the vampire count, he howled and bit the vampire's neck. In an hour, flesh and blood flew away.

Lin Xiao is enjoying this Hollywood blockbuster-style battle, and a piercing coldness comes behind him. It seems to be electrocuted, which makes people numb!

"No, there are assassins!"

Lin Xiao's mind turned around, reacted in an instant, and hit the front without thinking about it. At the same time, a transparent light mask appeared out of thin air, covering him.

The next moment, a dark dagger stabbed out of the shadow, paused slightly when penetrating the energy barrier, and then stabbed into Lin Xiao's vest again.