I sat on the ground, panting, the clothes on my back were all soaked with cold sweat, and it was very uncomfortable to stick to the skin, I touched my hands down, my pants were also half wet, and my legs trembled like a massage chair, and I didn't obey the call at all.

I know that this feeling is called fear, and I often had it last time when I was in the underground palace. Anyone who studies medicine knows that this physical reaction must have a process of release, and as long as the person's psychology adjusts, these symptoms will naturally disappear after a period of time.

I gasped for breath for a while, and felt my heartbeat gradually stabilize at this time, at this time, the wisest thing to do is to pull the cold bench and leave here quickly, but I have said before, I am a very curious person, and I have to be curious to see how I died. What's more, it's the first time I've seen this zongzi, three-dimensional, alive, and free.

It is said that tomb robbers must open the coffin, and the coffin will meet more zongzi, but we are neither tomb robbers, nor have we met the coffin, the two conditions have not been met, but a zongzi jumped out for no reason, I really don't know whether to say unlucky, or lucky.

The zongzi didn't dare to look at it carefully at the time, but now that I am calm, I am mentally prepared to look up and look again, it seems that it does not look so scary. Its body is smaller than normal, riding on horseback, coupled with the long distance and dark light before, so it will visually feel very tall.

Its body was thin and dry, but its flesh was still there, a dark brown color in the light, a bit like cinnamon in traditional Chinese medicine, firmly stuck to the bones, almost completely fused with the bones. The most terrifying of these is his face, the skin and flesh of his face have shrunk together due to severe dehydration, forming a gurgling ravine, which makes people have goosebumps straight down, its eyes have rotted so much that only two black holes the size of fists remain, and its lips turn upwards and outwards, revealing two rows of teeth inside, which are small and dense, and make people's scalps numb......

I couldn't help wiping the cold sweat on my forehead, and said in my heart that fortunately, Lao Tzu ran fast, otherwise it could have bitten my neck in one bite at that distance just now! At this time, my brain suddenly stirred, and I immediately thought of the human ghost head in the dungeon, the degree of disappearance of this zongzi is too similar to the human ghost head, which makes me feel again and again that these things are not coincidences, and there must be some deeper connection between them.

After the cold bench rescued me, he turned over and jumped on the horse, as if his curiosity was heavier than mine, and he couldn't take his eyes off the zongzi. I tried curling my legs, but I seemed to feel a little conscious, and as soon as I exerted my thighs, I stood up.

I hit the power station to the side of the horse's belly, and saw that the cold bench was staring at the zongzi in a daze, and his thoughts seemed to have run to outer space, I called him twice in a row, but he didn't respond.

I sighed in my heart, this cold bench sickness seems to be getting worse and worse, and when I go out this time, I must persuade him to seek medical attention early, I heard that young people can also get Alzheimer's disease now.

At this time, the eyes of the cold bench suddenly lit up, and the two withered wrists holding the zongzi went all the way up, stopped at the shoulder, and then turned the palms over, and then touched the chest and stomach.

I watched him move strangely and asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

At this time, I saw the two thumbs of the cold bench, not lightly or heavily, pinched the belly of the zongzi, and instantly saw a stream of air rushing up from the stomach, and then, the mouth of the zongzi opened, revealing a black thing from the inside.

I've seen this in novels before, and some dead people will have some jade or beads hidden in their bodies, which can keep the corpse from decomposing for a long time. But this is just fiction, and there is no scientific basis, especially for us studying medicine, and it is even less convincing.

After death, the reason why the body will gradually decay is simply because the human body itself contains toxins and cadaver acid that promote decay, but when alive, due to the body's metabolic functions (such as sweating, eating, defecation, etc.), it will form a balance with these toxins and cadaver acid. Then after death, the metabolism stops, the balance inside the body is broken, and coupled with the catalytic effect of the external environment, the body will naturally decay.

Therefore, on the basis of knowing this principle of decay (of course, this is just a very simple and easy-to-understand explanation, and I am afraid that the rigorous professional analysis will not be able to be written in half a book), if you want to keep the corpse from decaying, you only need to do the opposite. Put simply, it's about finding a way to continue to maintain that balance, or to suspend and terminate it.

Therefore, the current medical method of preserving corpses, one is to rely on advanced medical equipment to carry out liquid feeding and catheter defecation on the human body to complete metabolism and maintain homeostasis, the most common example is vegetative (to some extent, half a dead person); The other is low-temperature refrigeration and formaldehyde soaking, low temperature inhibits bacteria, formaldehyde can bind with the amino group in the protein in the human body, so that the protein coagulates, thus playing a role in terminating the balance.

So, unless the beads in the novel are filled with formalin (an aqueous solution of formaldehyde), I would never believe that it will have a preservative effect. Even then, the corpse had to be sealed in its entirety, not in the belly of the corpse, and unless the corpse was in a completely vacuum, sterile environment, the grave robber would be even less likely to succeed.

Therefore, tomb robbing is really a discipline and a question.

When I looked at it, I saw that it was an object the size of a silver lock worn by a child, in the shape of an arched bridge, only about the thickness of a one-dollar coin, and the color looked white and black, a bit like silver, and there seemed to be words engraved on it.

The cold bench squatted on the horse's back, a lot taller than me, I cushioned my feet, but I still couldn't see the front of the object, and said anxiously: "What is this, why is there a word on it?" How did it end up in the belly of this zongzi? ”

The eyes of the cold bench flashed, as if he had just noticed me, and his eyes stared at the corpse and said, "This is not a dumpling, it is a dried corpse." ”

"Dry corpse?" I was stunned in my heart, I felt an itch in my throat and eyes, and I couldn't help swallowing my saliva, "As far as I know, the dried corpses are buried in places with a dry climate and very little rainfall, like the Loulan beauty found in Lop Nur in Xinjiang in the eighties, and Zhang Xiong, the general of Weiyuan excavated from the Astana cemetery...... However, this place is located in the Central Plains and is on the verge of Weishui, and the climatic conditions are obviously not in line with it! ”

The cold bench thought for a while and said: "It may not be the cause of the climate, it is the lack of water in its own body, and after some special treatment, it has the potential conditions for the formation of dry corpses, plus it is located in an underground canyon, the terrain is low, and the air is difficult to circulate all year round, so it is not impossible to form a dry corpse." ”

I suddenly remembered that in 1972, a female corpse unearthed in the ancient tomb of Mawangdui in Hunan Province, because of its well-preserved degree and close to life, shocked the world when it was discovered. The climatic conditions in Changsha are more humid than in Xi'an, which is obviously not conducive to the formation of dried corpses, but according to archaeological experts, the reason why this female corpse is so well preserved is because the corpse contains a large amount of ethanol, mercury sulfide and acetic acid, etc., which proves that the female corpse has undergone special treatment, and the mercury sulfide in it has a very great effect on the embalming of the corpse.

In addition, the entire burial chamber at that time was buried dozens of meters underground, which was basically isolated from air, sunlight and moisture, and the sealing effect was also very good. In this way, the formation conditions of the dry corpse of Mawangdui and the dried corpse in front of him are very similar.

I couldn't help but take a step forward and once again use my mortal eyes to spy on the secrets of this thousand years, and my heart was filled with emotion for a while, all the phenomena of nature, the magic of creation, really not seen with my own eyes, absolutely unable to feel the case.

Under the light, the skin of the dried corpse exuded a charming glow, and then I noticed that its arms were naturally drooping, its hands and fingers were folded together, and its two thumbs were on top, in the gesture of a monk meditating, and its legs were naturally hanging down on the sides of the horse's belly. From this, it can be felt that when this ancient man ascended to immortality, his state of mind should be very calm and serene.

The cold bench seemed to be infected by some kind of atmosphere, and stared blankly at the dry corpse, without even blinking his eyes, as if he was in a fixed position. He watched like this for five or six minutes, and then suddenly in the blink of an eye, he turned over and jumped down, and said softly, "Let's go." ”

When he passed me, I seemed to see his eyes red, as if he had cried. I was stunned in my heart, and was about to stop him, when suddenly there was a loud noise behind me, I turned my head to look, damn it, I saw a burst of wolf smoke suddenly rolling up at the end of the valley a hundred meters away, and vaguely seemed to see a group of samurai in armor, wielding spears and swords rushing towards us.