Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Flower of the Mummy
What is the purpose of Wei Chiran?
He doesn't know what his purpose is, maybe it's to find out everything, but what does this "everything" represent?
Ever since his parents died, he had been living in terror, and nightmares all day had brought him constant terror, which was slightly better after he was adopted by his second adoptive father, Liu Chang, but after Liu Chang was also killed, Wei Chiran almost became a mute, a mute whose brain would run rapidly, but who was unwilling to communicate with people.
But he is not autistic, but he will hurt other people when he opens his mouth, after Wang Lun adopted him, he found that Wei Chiran spoke habitually to the point, in layman's terms, it is to directly state the other party's purpose regardless of the occasion, which makes people embarrassed and even angry.
So, for a long time, Wang Lun has been training how to make Wei Chiran become like a normal person.
It's a pity that the character is innate, and since it can't be changed, it can only be made for him to learn disguise.
People wear masks for too long, and when they are in a panic, they will want to take it off, and Wei Chiran is no exception, so he will take off his mask from time to time and become his real self, although it is only for a short moment, but it is enough to surprise people.
This is also the reason why he had a very poor relationship with the people around him after he went to the police academy, but because of this, his sensitivity and sensitivity also made him discover that he was under surveillance, so after graduating from the police academy, he did not go to the main bureau, but applied to be transferred to the Northwest Police Station with Wang Lun.
The Northwest District was the beginning of Lieutenant's nightmare, he wanted to get back here to find out everything, of course, his investigation was pretending to be careless, and he needed to get his watchmen to let their guards let their guard down.
This is also the root cause of his doubts about everything.
If he is not cautious and vigilant, then he will most likely disappear from this world in the next second.
But on the other hand, who wants to spend all day with a neurotic, nervous person?
The human corpse case happened again, and after the true identity of his parents was exposed, Wei Chiran didn't feel relaxed, and he also noticed that the person who was monitoring him didn't seem to be alone, so who were they?
At the same time, he felt scared, he was afraid because in the face of all this unknown, there was an irrepressible excitement in his body, so he said that he hated being alone, but he couldn't wait to embark on an adventurous journey.
Perhaps, as Chu Xia said, his parents are lonely, and he should be born to be lonely.
Feng Rui looked at the distracted Wei Chiran: "Answer me, why?" â
Wei smiled suddenly: "It's fun." â
The two words that Wei Chi said made Feng Rui shudder.
Feng Rui didn't say any more, but walked into the cave on the right, Wei Chi followed behind, his mind racing, looking through everything he had experienced before, looking for clues in it, trying to find out why Feng Rui was in a hurry to find the blind old man.
is also about Hongru, and this person's identity is not so simple.
But it doesn't matter, let them continue to pretend, and they don't know anything, because soon these people will be revealed.
There was a passage to leave the cave on the right, and the passage was curved and stretched, so that only one person could pass alone, so the four of them lined up and walked forward with Fengrui leading the way.
The curved passage seemed to go around in circles, and the four of them walked in it for a full hour before they reached the exit.
The moment he came to the exit, Wei Chi raised his eyes and saw the sky above his head, as well as the scorching sun in the sky.
"Crater?" This was Wei Chiran's first reaction.
Indeed, it resembles a volcanic crater, with a huge opening above the summit and a depression below it, and a dozen caves have been dug into the mountain wall around the depression.
The depression in the center was full of black mud, which looked exactly like the ones in the well, and it was constantly wriggling, and from time to time it would puff up disgusting bubbles, but the air did not smell of sulfur as a crater, but a smell of decay and dampness.
Around the depression are a circle of pebbles of almost the same size, each with strange symbols painted on them.
After inspecting the depression, Wei Chi went into the cave next to him to check, and counted them, there were a total of twelve caves, the caves were of different sizes, some of the caves were stored with all kinds of chests, some of the caves were carved with words and patterns on the walls, and two of the caves were like cells, and there was nothing else in them except broken utensils made of earth fire.
Wei Chi looked at the cave full of boxes, and when he opened them, he found that they were all ancient books that were about to rot to ashes, and there was no way to tell what was written in them.
Feng Rui stayed in the cave full of words and patterns to study, and after Wei Chi Ran entered, he found that Feng Rui was looking at it very carefully, so he asked, "What is recorded on it?" â
Feng Rui pointed to the left and said: "Judging from the newness of the words engraved on it, they belong to different periods, but without exception, the research is all about the human body, and the latest engraved words are all related to mummies." â
"Mummy?" Wei Chiran felt very strange, "How can it have anything to do with mummies?" â
"Because in ancient times, mummies were made to wait for people to be resurrected. â
Wei Chi said: "The mummy is Egyptian, right?" â
Feng Rui said: "This word is indeed a foreign word, it is transliterated, if you insist on translating, it should be the meaning of 'wax', but in China, there are also mummies, but it is the Khitan people, they call it 'įž', which means dried meat, and the Khitan emperor Yelu Deguang has also been made into a įž, which is the famous emperor įž, that is, the meaning of the emperor's mummy." â
The earliest record of mummies in China comes from Tao Zongyi's "Nancun Dropout Record" in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, which records that there is a seventy-eight-year-old man who returns to the field, who voluntarily sacrifices himself to help others, never eats and drinks, but bathes and eats honey. Menstrual months, drowning in honey, both dead, the people of the country buried in the sarcophagus, still full of honey, engraved years in the coffin lid, scab. A hundred years later, when the seal is opened, the honey agent is also. If a mortal breaks a limb, he eats a little, and he is healed. Although there are not many of them, they are commonly known as honey people, and they are mummies.
The word referred to here is from the Arabic word for mummy, which means a corpse that has been anointed with perfume or soaked in honey. After it was introduced to China, the word was translated as "Mu Minayi", "Nameless", "Wax Man", etc.
The most incredible thing is that when mummies were introduced to China, they were used as a medicine, and there were medical records as "Wei Ganping, the main gold sores, bruises, internal damage, pain relief, and muscle building".
Even mummies are recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica.
However, this method is not only in China, but also in Europe at the beginning of the last century, where the absurd claim that mummies can cure all diseases.
Mummies are usually divided into two types, those that are made by people and those that are naturally formed.
There are two kinds of man-made production, the first is the well-known waiting for death, digging out the internal organs, embalming the corpse, and then wrapping it; In the second case, instead of digging out the internal organs, a liquid is poured directly into the corpse to dissolve its internal organs and embalm them from the inside out.
The reason why mummies were made was because people at that time felt that certain people were not dead, but only temporarily went to another world, and sooner or later they would be resurrected, and the resurrected soul needed the original body, so the body had to be preserved for the resurrection of the dead.
Naturally occurring mummies are formed by corpses in extreme environments such as extreme temperatures, drought, high salinity, or drought.
Feng Rui pointed to the text on it and said: "The text on this is to say, the earliest sewing of a thousand corpses is the first study of how to make the corpse immortal, the first problem is how to ensure that the internal organs of the corpse do not decay, if the internal organs are gone, people will not be able to resurrect." â
Wei Chiran looked at the text on it carefully, although it was very difficult to read, but he could still understand seven, seven, eighty, eight, after all, he had been influenced by his father since he was a child, and he had a certain study of classical Chinese, but when he grew up, he didn't have that kind of environment, so he lost interest.
The inscriptions on the stone walls record the methods and methods of mummification found from ancient times to the present, but strangely enough, large areas in many places have been deliberately crossed out, and it is impossible to see what was originally recorded.
Wei Chiran stood there and muttered, "Internal organs, seven guts, galls? The gall is also a part of the internal organs, could it be said that the seven galls mean not rotting the internal organs? â
Feng Rui heard what Wei Chiran said, turned his head to look at him and said, "What you said makes sense. â
Wei Chiran said: "However, in the story of the Dead Ear, Guan Kang'an, who had become immortal at that time, was dying, and if he wanted to be resurrected, he had to find an old tomb, what does this mean?" â
Feng Rui said: "I don't know, keep watching, I haven't finished reading it yet." â
After a hundred years of not discovering the secret of resurrection, the ancient sewing thousand corpses decided to change the direction of research, that is, to study how the living do not die and how to break through the limits of the body.
Therefore, they decided to use the medicine in the ancient way of the indigenous people of Xiangxi, and the production of this medicine requires a very cumbersome process and a large number of corpses.
After reading the process recorded below, Wei Chi was stunned, because that is the production method of Chenzhou red, Chenzhou red is not refined and mixed from traditional drugs, but extracted from the other side of the flower, but this other side of the flower is different from what you see in daily life, it is completely different from the moment it is planted.
Wei Chiran pointed to the text and said, "Use the corpse to plant flowers on the other side!?" â
Feng Rui nodded slightly and said, "Yes, the corpse, it must be the corpse that has become a mummy." â
According to the written record, the corpse must first be made into a flesh coffin, that is, the surface of the corpse is coated with black mud, and at the same time, the seeds of the other side flower are buried in it, and then buried in the ground, and then watered with human blood, so that it can take root and sprout, wait for it to bloom, and then use the stalk to juice and refine, and finally turn into the drug Chenzhou red.
When he saw this, Wei Chiran immediately understood everything, and when he subconsciously touched the pistol on his waist, he heard the sound of the bolt pulling from outside the hole.
When Wei Chiran and Feng Rui turned back together, they saw Xiangsha, who was standing outside the entrance of the cave, holding an assault rifle and aiming at them.
Immediately after, Guan Hongru slowly walked out from behind Xiangsha and looked at them expressionlessly.