Book 3: Chapter 49: Corpse Herding Drawing

Book 3: Chapter 49: Corpse Herding Drawing

Fatty smelled it, too. We hadnt eaten for a long time, so the smell was enough to make our stomach muscles contract. When he looked at me, I handed him Shigongs mole.

Fatty took it and sniffed it. At this time, the mole no longer looked as disgusting as it did before. Fatty was looking at me as he sniffed it hard, almost like he would eat it when I wasn't paying attention.

"What are you playing at?" I asked him. "Eat it if you want to. I won't stop you."

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"Shit, don't be so disgusting." I felt a little creeped out. Fatty's degree of disgusting behavior had really plummeted in recent years. Since we were so familiar with each other, it would just make things awkward if we got all mushy with each other.

"No, it's definitely your scent," Fatty said. I reached over to take the mole back, but he wouldnt let me, "You certainly wouldnt notice it, but we outsiders can definitely smell it. Of course, the smell coming from this mole is very strongactually, its much stronger than the smell coming from your body."

I thought he was joking, but then I wasnt sure if he actually was. Fatty threw the Shigongs mole to Poker-Face, who sniffed it and then looked at me.

They looked so sure of themselves that it almost seemed as if I was the carrier of some strange body odor.

"Do you know Xiang Fei?" Fatty made an Er Kang expression.(1)

"First it was about dancing girls and now you're talking about Xiang Fei,(2)I said. What are you up to? You want to see me dance? Ill dance for you when we get out of here."

"This Shigongs mole is covered in your scent and its even stronger than your own," Fatty said. "You cook less than I do so you probably don't know what it means."

As we continued moving forward, I kept shining my flashlight all around. I didnt know why, but those figurines had me feeling very stressed out. I felt like I was a delicious piece of food walking in the midst of gluttony and they were all turning their faces towards me.

But it had to be an illusion because I couldnt actually see them clearly.

We soon arrived at the mural on this side, which was more complete than the previous one.

Fatty looked at the picture, glanced at me, and then said to me, "So this is what herding corpses is." I looked up and saw that the entire mural was a huge picture depicting corpse herding. Both horse and human corpses were all lumped together like a flock of sheep, which seemed to indicate that there was some kind of religious significance to it.

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TN Notes:

(1) Hes a character from My Fair Princess. This is probably the face Fatty is making:

(2) Xiang Fei was a concubine in the Qing Dynasty, who was said to have an extraordinary fragrance because she had been brought up in flower petals and other spices since she was a child. The Chinese characters for "Xiang Fei" mean "Fragrant Concubine".

(3) If you cant tell, thats like top grade meat. Wu Xies a handsome hunk of beefcake hehehehehe

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This might be it today and there might not be anything tomorrow. My friend is coming into town and I haven't seen her in like a year and a half so we're gonna live it up () Til next time darlings~~~