Chapter Twenty-Eight: Floating Corpses in the Swamp
The eighteen bends of the winding tomb road mountain road, only the mileage just walked, superimposed at least 20 miles, but it is a tortuous line, so the real straight length is unknown.
After walking a little further, the road began to become a little wider, and the faces of the three people who had been walking at a uniform speed were happy: if there was a change, it meant that there was no weirdness, and it was finally a series of unlucky things to keep the clouds open and see the moon.
But everyone didn't have long to be happy, and the smile on their faces instantly froze, because the originally smooth tomb road turned into potholes again, Wogua took a deep breath, and cautiously "Let's gently, gently-"
Li Green Ant and Black Glasses were also afraid of encountering Fang Cai's deadly serial pursuit again, so they began to take light steps and prepare to move over quietly, this time it was a bit special, the potholed walls were a little black and transparent, obviously not the leech just now.
Wogua walked at the end, itching in his heart, seeing that Li Green Ant and black glasses didn't look at him, he couldn't help but want to stretch out his hand and pick it, but he was afraid of being sucked by an unknown object again, so he learned to be smart, and picked a little with a Luoyang shovel and sent it to his eyes, this pick doesn't matter, there were a few fewer members in the original species tribe for a while, and suddenly the quiet wall suddenly became crazy, and the signs before the giant leech chased after him were exactly the same.
"Wogua!"
Li Luant shouted, found the sneakiness of the nest melon, the nest melon was already weak-hearted, the hand holding the Luoyang shovel shook, and in an instant the Luoyang shovel fell to the ground, the voice was crisp, stiffly raised his head, the black glasses were a little helpless, and the running sound of a huge thing came out again in the distance, and the three of them stared at each other, and they all had a premonition that something was wrong.
Li Luant glared at Wogua deadly, "What are you doing in a daze?" Run!! β
Not long after running, Wogua seemed to think of something, turned back again, carefully hugged the Luoyang shovel that was missing a corner in his arms, and looked up to see a transparent and slightly white spineless snake-like giant, densely covered with inverted hook teeth, hooking all the descendants he met along the way, his face was pale for a while, and he ran away in a panic.
Seeing the nest melon that was desperately catching up behind, Li Green Ant shouted, "Nest melon, when is this happening, why are you still stunned?" β
Wogua hugged the Luoyang shovel, "Didn't you say that you would take it out well, and you would give it an award when you went out?" β
What the hell am I-Li Luant was angry and funny, Wogua looked back at the thing again, and was so frightened that his soul flew away, "I'm relying on me, what the hell is this thing!" β
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be Echinocephalus, whose scientific name is Echinocephalus sus, is an invertebrate, pathogenic parasite." After the parasite is swallowed by vertebrates, the terminal host, echinocephalic animals come out of the intestines, burrow into the intestinal wall with their mouths, and mature. It is an echinocephalic insect that can parasitize in the dual roles of animals and humans. β
Wogua frowned, "This thing looks like a joke, and it actually has a name?" β
"I majored in biology when I was in college, and parasites in animals can cause host lesions, so I had to recognize some simple parasites and learn how to effectively restrain them."
Li Luant solemnly said again, "Speaking of which, this time we will be chased by this pig giant snouting echinocephalic worm, it is the first time that we have grown so big, and we have been chased and killed by invertebrate coelenterates for a few miles, you, Comrade Wogua, you have to take full responsibility, without the instructions of your superiors, you can no longer act rashly!" β
Wogua agreed, and in an instant, he left it behind, everyone was tired and panting, and ran for a few miles, and finally got rid of the pig giant kiss echinocephalic worm, but when he looked up, he finally figured out the eighteen bends of the mountain road and came to a very strange place.
The reason why it is strange is that it is completely out of the realm of the tomb, and it is a large swamp-like land.
Li Luant glanced back at the dark passage: after coming out of there, there was no longer a shadow of the tomb here, it should be said that it was long gone.
The swamp was filled with foul-smelling water, and some unidentified objects were floating under the swamp, but they were crushed by something that looked like hay, and I don't know what they were.
The swamp is difficult to navigate, but there are many strange rocks stuck in the middle of the swamp, and they are so closely spaced from each other that you can walk over them with your feet.
The three of them looked at the road under their feet, and moved forward step by step with a flashlight, moving very slowly, but they didn't dare to speed up their walking speed in this strange situation, for fear of falling into the swamp and falling in.
Wogua fanned in front of his nose with a Luoyang shovel, "What is the smell, what is this, how can you brush the pot and the water is mixed with a smell of cow dung?" β
Li Luant stood in place for a while and said, "It's a microbial fermentation gas, which has a comprehensive taste of methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen and other gases, strange, is it because there is something fermenting under this swamp?" β
Wogua pouted, "What's that?" What the hell could be in this place? In addition to corpse fermentation, is there still Korean kimchi or Northeast rice? β
As he spoke, he jumped onto a flat stone and began to use the Luoyang shovel to remove the garbage from the swamp water, as if to see what the source of the smell was.
"This smell," Li Green ant sniffed, "is more like the taste inside the stomach of some animal." β
"Stomach?"
"Do you mean that there is some animal stomach under this swamp that is exposed and fermented for us to smell?" β
Li Luant rolled his eyes, and saw that no matter what he said, he had to die on his face, and immediately said, "Of course, the stomach of animals is occasionally exposed, for example, when the Australian Daigo yawns, he will expose his stomach as a whole, and the frog can also spit out the whole stomach and stuff it in good condition when it eats poisonous things or dangerous insects." β
Wogua took the hand of the Luoyang shovel for a moment, and even the black glasses couldn't help but glance at Li Luant more, "You really fucking studied biology." β
"This is another animal habit study that I have taken as an option, and it is not the same concept as biology."
Yes, this shell lang has a little color and opens a dye room, and the wogua decided not to promote the arrogance of Corporal Shell Lang's arrogance and arrogance, and he is vicious, "Even if there is really such a strange frog down here, or such a convulsive pelican is turning out its stomach to show us, it is at least a thing as big as the leech king just now, I will turn it out for you to see!" β
As soon as the words fell, Wogua rolled up his sleeves and pushed away the floating debris on the surface of the swamp, but he found that he couldn't move it, "This thing is quite heavy." β
The nest melon was ruthless, "oh yo" shouted, and used the Luoyang shovel to pick up the big ball of things that seemed to be wet garbage and threw it aside, stopped and looked startled, and almost fell into the water.
I saw a soaked white corpse, like a plastic ball, and when the blocking and restraint on it was gone, it immediately floated up quietly, as if to greet someone.
Wogua was scared, afraid that this water corpse was about to jump out and ask for his life, so he trembled and crawled towards the black glasses in front of him, "Boss, help, help, the water ghost is here to ask for his life." β
Water ghosts are dead corpses whose souls wander in the place where they drowned, and become water ghosts due to the breeding of yin qi in the lake. Then wait patiently in the water, lure, or directly force the living person into the bottom of the water to drown, so as to act as their own stand-in in order to seek reincarnation, called "substitute ghost", mostly occurs in the rivers, lakes and seas, but there is also a saying in the folk, called the water ghost "water monkey", in fact, it is a kind of infinite strength in the water, but on the shore on the limbs of the weak beast of vicious animals.
Now the dead corpse in front of him has his eyebrows closed, the whole person is at least twice as fat, and it is already very swollen, and Li Luant observed that the yin qi and fluctuations of his body have disappeared for a long time, not like a corpse, but he has already shivered and hid behind the black glasses, obviously when the disaster is coming, he still feels that the black glasses are more reliable.
The black glasses failed to live up to his heart, walked straight to the side of the floating corpse, put on gloves, grabbed the front placket of the floating corpse, rolled around in the water, and looked at it carefully.
It's violent.
Li Luant and Wogua couldn't help swallowing their saliva when they saw that the black glasses were so rude, but at this time, the black glasses muttered, "It turns out that you have been here a long time ago, and you died here." β
Well? Keen to capture this sentence, Li Luant looked sideways at the black glasses, and the focused gaze of the black glasses was all projected on the floating corpse, and asked tentatively, "Do you recognize him?" β
The black glasses threw the rotting corpse away, took off the gloves and put them away properly, and smiled as if "Don't you know?" β
What? Wogua came over as if listening to a book from heaven, Li Luant was very strangely questioned by this sentence, carefully looked at the still floating corpse, and was suddenly surprised, "The costume of this floating corpseββ"
Wogua also shouted, "Corporal Shell Lang, why is this floating corpse a guy in a jacket again?" β
Li Luant shook his head, took out a photo from his pocket to confirm, the direction in which the seven people in the photo were standing was very regular, two of the four people in the back row who seemed to be bodyguards died, and the faces of the two next to him were also seen very clearly, although the floating corpse in front of him was swollen by the water for many years, but the appearance of this person: It's him, it can't be wrong!
"It's the guy in the picture!"
Wogua stretched his head over and found that it was indeed the case, and was surprised, "It's true, we only got here in a group of battles, how can there be people in this world who go deeper than us?" β
The black glasses said coldly, "Don't you understand when you see this person dying here?" β
Wogua shrank his head and looked at Li Green Ant, Li Green Ant solemnly "This shows that they are taking two roads that are completely different from ours, and to a certain extent, maybe their path is correct, we have taken many dead ends by mistake, this dead road was originally not allowed to pass through anyone, if it weren't for black glasses, we would have died a long time ago, in other words, the road we came in was fundamentally wrong." β
Wogua's face froze, but the black glasses had already begun to check its other floating objects on the swamp, obviously he also felt that there was a lot to study in this swamp, Wogua hurriedly pulled Li Green Ant's sleeve, "They are on the right path, why would anyone die here?" β
"I don't know, maybe even the right path is accompanied by risks and uncertainties, maybe it was because I died of the unequal distribution of the spoils, I was killed by my companions, and I entered this swamp by a very coincidental coincidence."
The dark glasses on the side faintly said, "You are far away and you can't see clearly, the cause of his death is due to a bullet in the heart, which is the deadliest." β
Heart?
Li Luant was surprised, "But if it's a mercenaryβ"
"Yes, the mercenary's heart is the most crisp and deadly, and he is generally not the most trusted partner, and he will never expose his heart, so this person's death has nothing to do with the tomb of King Guangling itself, it is due to the brutal killing of the people who entered this tomb together, and the corpse was discarded before entering here by many coincidences."
Wo Gua and Li Luant fell into deep thought: there are a total of seven people in the photo, if all seven people enter the tomb of King Guangling, and remove the two who died in the Circumvention of the Sky, and the one here, then there are only four possible murderers left.
Wogua probed and said, "By the way, Corporal Shell Lang, what did you say about the cause of death of those two people before?" β
"It's a normal death, not because of physical injury, if it's poisoned, it's not very similar, because if most poisons enter the human body, the bones will also reflect the color to a certain extent after death, and it's not fatal with a shot like this, so I didn't tell you the cause of death at that time."
Black Glasses paused when he heard this, but he didn't say anything and continued to move.
Originally, the group of people who broke into the tomb of King Guangling had nothing to do with the three of them uninvited guests, but now it is good, it has become a special task force, and even who the murderer is has become a cloud that weighs on the hearts of the two of them.
Li Luant glanced at the photo again, the photo was a little wrinkled, although it had been waterproofed, but the paper in the middle was also a little separated and scattered, and his expression changed suddenly, and the thumb of his left hand wiped his waist without a trace.
Wogua keenly captured this, and suddenly shouted noisily, "Corporal Shell Lang, why are you rubbing your pants if you have nothing to do?" Tight panties or herpes misplaced? β
The suspicious eyes of the black glasses projected over, and Li Luant was not angry, "Can herpes still be misplaced?" Can't I scratch my stomach? β
"Then why are you scratching your stomach and waistband?"
"It's just that the pants prepared according to your size are too big, I found a trouser belt to tie, and it is itchy if it is too tight, you are talking nonsense when I scratch it, how much trouble did you pick up along the way? Why don't you go and do the Black Glasses a favor?! β
Wogua asked a question and was personally attacked twice, the boss reluctantly moved to the black glasses, and began to move the floating objects on the marsh, seeing that the words were fooled, Li Luant finally breathed a sigh of relief, and re-pinched the corner of the photo and put it away.
Nothing else, just now the middle of the photo cracked, and his thumb was stained with a little ink, Li Luant was surprised, but immediately thought of the most likely possibility: in the middle of this photo, there must have been words written with an ink pen, and for some reason some blurred and rubbed on his fingers.
The person in this photo, Li Luant originally felt that it had nothing to do with him, but it involved Wogua's father and three nameless corpses, and the first one on the left of the first row, the man who looked a little elegant, always couldn't help but have a little sense of familiarity in his heart, this sense of closeness is by no means gratuitous, it is very likely that this person has seen it himself, or this person is related to himself.
In addition to Professor Jiang and the villagers who established Qiushi Primary School, Li Luant has no relatives in the real sense in his life, and seems to be like an isolated person, living alone for decades. All the people in this photo, when you go back, you must find out!
casually came to the side of the nest melon, and the nest melon was a little awkward because of the words that he had just been squeezed by Corporal Shell Lang and didn't want to rely on him, Li Luant smiled helplessly: This nest melon's heart is too sincere.
The dark glasses never turned their heads from beginning to end, but the corners of their mouths hooked up a hint of a smile.
Several floating corpses were salvaged one after another, and most of the next rotting corpses were dressed in Han Dynasty costumes, and there were no more floating corpses like abnormal people, but I didn't see anything new.
Several people changed their positions several times to work, but they still didn't find any clues, and Wogua shouted, "This can't be a place to raise corpses, when is this Han Dynasty, why don't these corpses rot?" β
Asked in a word, Li Luant guessed, "Maybe it's the water, I found that this water is a bit similar to the liquid that completely saturates formalin, it should be a corpse or something, and it doesn't rot easily." β
If the corpse is not quickly eroded and decayed by the natural environment, there are only two ways, one is the cryopreservation method, that is, the corpse is placed in the freezer, but although this method is convenient, it cannot be preserved for a long time, even if it is inanimate things will be stored for a long time, there will be problems, not to mention the corpse with a complex circulation structure; The second method is formalin preservation method, which only requires 3%-5% formalin solution, which can be poured into the blood vessels in the body through the large arteries of the body, or soaked in the solution, which can be used for long-term preservation.
Wogua listened to a long list, grasped the point, and his eyes lit up, "If this is really the case, then wouldn't I be able to live forever?" Now that technology is so advanced, when I make money in the future, I will soak my cells in formalin, and a hundred years later, Ben Dashuai will still be a good man! β
Li Luant smiled and said, "Immortality is just a myth, things have a new life and there is extinction, besides, formalin is poisonous, the cells soaked in formalin have no use value, they can only be used as specimens, and freezing can not preserve the cells for too long, but the technology you just said is mature, and now there are indeed companies that preserve embryos, but they are generally used to freeze eggs or sperm, and are used for life reconstruction, and there is no half-dime relationship with immortality." β
Wogua was a little deflated, Li Luant patted him on the shoulder, "Life must be happy, don't make the golden bottle empty to the moon, why do you live for so long?" In the world for decades, I have experienced so much happiness, felt birth, old age, sickness and death, and it is no longer in vain, if it is really immortal, it is a kind of pain. β