Chapter 8: The Living Corpse
Hearing this, Professor Wang hurriedly walked through the coffin pile and walked over. Maybe he was in a hurry, stepping on some rotten coffin wood chips under his feet, and the creaking sound of shattering, in the coffin field at the beginning of the night, Zhao Aiguo's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up, and he hurriedly squeezed into a crowded place.
By this time, Bahar and the others had already lit the torch and stuck one of the sticks in the four corners of the tomb excavation site.
Xu Shan took four torches down to the excavation pit, and let the three students also hold torches, illuminating the whole scene, and the orange flames danced to give people a sense of warmth and safety.
Professor Wang almost trotted all the way to the ship-shaped coffin. He observed the material of the coffin up close, touched the coffin with his hand, and walked around it, the essence of a pair of old eyes became more and more abundant.
"This, this is at least a coffin at the level of the chief of the Guloulan tribe! Although I am not sure that it is the Queen of Loulan, this time our archaeological team is really lucky, and the excavation of this coffin may add a strong stroke to the archaeological history of our country! ”
Professor Wang was very excited, and his words made everyone else on the scene excited, it is the lifelong wish of all archaeologists to have the opportunity to participate in the excavation of historical cultural relics, and now they have encountered such an opportunity.
"Professor, do you want to open the coffin now?" Xiao Liu asked with a flushed face. Although he was asking, he just turned his head, his body was already facing the coffin, the steel drill in his hand had already leaned over, and his actions had already reflected the true thoughts in his heart.
"Well, Xiao Li, a few of you will come over and open the coffin together, be careful not to be too strong, open it slowly, little by little." Professor Wang suppressed his excitement and instructed.
Hearing this, several students immediately gathered around, and the steel drill in their hands pried into the gap in the coffin lid from different directions, and then began to pull it hard.
"Crunch! Crunch! ”
The coffin board made a muffled sound and drifted through the dark shadows. Whoosh, whoosh! An inexplicable wind suddenly blew at the scene, and the torches in the hands of the three students in charge of lighting were blown from side to side violently by the wind, and they were about to be extinguished.
"Where's the wind? It's weird. ”
"Yes, even if there is a desert evening wind, we are almost two meters above the ground now, and there will not be such a strong wind, is it a cloudy wind?"
The three of them were muttering, and this yin wind became bigger and bigger as Xiao Liu Xiaoli pried the coffin board, and it became violent, and blew out all the torches at the scene with a roar! At the same time, the sobs around him suddenly became louder.
"Hell!"
Zhao Aiguo's participation in the excavation of cultural relics at the scene was the first time that the eldest girl sat in a sedan chair, where had she seen this strange scene, she exclaimed in fright, and hugged a student next to her. The scene suddenly turned black and was scary, and his action almost scared the other party to death, so he jumped up and shouted his mother.
"Hugh be alarmed! This is just the strong convection of the air produced by the moment the coffin is suddenly opened, coupled with the strong desert night wind blowing the fire torch. Bahar, what's the matter with you? Can't you pour more kerosene on the torches! ”
As soon as Professor Wang's scolding voice fell, Bahar had already re-lit the kerosene torches, and the moment the fire lit up, it finally helped Zhao Aiguo dispel a trace of fear.
"Keep prying!"
Professor Wang looked at Xiao Li and Xiao Liu, and pointed to the ship-shaped coffin without hesitation. These two people have been excavating cultural relics for many years, even if there is something unusual this time, but they are by no means as frightened as Zhao Aiguo, and after the lighting is restored, they start to pry.
"Click!" There was a crisp sound, and the lid of the ship-shaped coffin was pried open. Xiao Li and Xiao Cheng pushed open the coffin board together, and excitedly looked at it, but the next second the whole person froze.
Professor Wang frowned, the performance of these students today is really poor, and it is not the first time that the tomb has been excavated on the spot, so why are they always surprised.
He pushed the two of them away, and when he stepped forward to take a look, he immediately gasped. Seeing this, Xu Shan and other students also stepped forward to watch, all of them dumbfounded.
Zhao Aiguo looked at all this, and his heart was furious, could it be that there were green-haired zombies in the coffin? Or are there red-haired monsters? He suppressed the fear in his heart, squeezed the people in front of him, and stretched out his head to look, oh my God!
The coffin is covered with a milky white lining, the right lining is also embroidered with a beautiful landscape map, and the left is embroidered with a beautiful girl sitting on the green grass.
At the bottom of the coffin lay a female corpse, which seemed to be the girl in the painting. What shocked Zhao Aiguo was that the female corpse seemed to be asleep, and her white skin looked elastic or energetic under the light of the torch.
"She" has long eyelashes, scarlet lips, and her face is covered with a thin silk veil, and under the veil is a pretty face that captivates the country and the city, and through the veil it can be seen that she also has a sweet smile.
The "girl" has a green silk coiled on her head, and a golden hairpin is inserted on it, and if you look closely, there seem to be some strangely shaped runes engraved on the hairpin.
A pink robe embroidered with beautiful small flowers, dignified and pretty. This is an ancient corpse thousands of years ago, and it is clearly a noble princess who has just fallen asleep.
Xiao Li's eyes looked at the beautiful girl feverishly, his breathing gradually became rapid, and his trembling right hand was about to reach out to the girl's face.
"Stop!"
Professor Wang shouted, and Xu Shan immediately pushed Xiao Li away with one hand. Xu Shan was stronger, Xiao Li was pushed and stumbled, and smashed a coffin next to him at once, he fell to the ground, and then screamed, almost bouncing up.
It turned out that he had just pounced on a pair of bones, and his mouth was almost touching a skull.
"This is a rare non-rotting ancient corpse, not a female ghost. Didn't the Soviet Union just refrigerate the body of Comrade Lenin? Although it is not known what method Gu Loulan used to store the corpse, this is indeed a female corpse that has existed for thousands of years. ”
"Comrades, this excavation will help us understand the methods of preserving the corpses of ethnic minorities, which will fill the gap in archaeological history and is of great epoch-making significance!" Professor Wang said loudly.
"Professor, what do we do now? Is it to bring the female corpse back to Jiangcheng to study? ”
"Let's collect the artifacts in the coffin first, and as for the female corpse, let's not touch it yet. After arriving in Lop Nur Town, I contacted Jiangcheng City and even the State Cultural Relics Department to send a helicopter to transport it away. ”
Professor Wang thought for a moment and made a decision. Then the arrangement was made:
"Xiao Cheng and I have the longest time and the most experience, now you alone will collect the cultural relics in the coffin, and the others will take a good look and learn his methods."
Xiao Cheng answered, rubbed the back of his hands, and saw that there was no dust, then took out a pair of white gloves and a mask from his pocket, put them on, and then began to clean up from the female corpse.
There were egg-sized round beads on each side of the female corpse's body, Zhao Aiguo didn't know what it was, and even Professor Wang frowned.
As Xiao Cheng took out the first bead, the sound of low cries around him became louder again, and even some of them were like the scraping sound of sharp objects, but these people were now in a state of excitement, and they were all howling in front of the night wind, and no one cared, except for Zhao Aiguo.
What's going on with this Nima? What the hell is crying? Surely the bones don't cry, is there really a ghost here? Amitabha Buddha and Jade Emperor, hurry up and finish the matter.
But what made Zhao Aiguo strange was that when Xiao Cheng took out the second round bead, the crying sound disappeared, and the scene was suddenly silent, and it was terrifyingly quiet.
Still no one noticed, because their minds were focused on Xiao Cheng's hands. Even Bahar jumped down and watched.
After taking the round beads, Xiao Cheng set his eyes on the head of the female corpse. At this time, the veil on her face attracted Xiao Cheng's attention. This is a veil of gold silk, and the ability to process gold into such a delicate gold thread is that the craftsmanship level of this ancient Loulan is really ingenious.
Xiao Cheng held his breath, he was about to take the veil from the face of the female corpse. To be on the safe side, he tightened his mask tightly. Xiao Cheng is very experienced, and if he gets so close to a thousand-year-old corpse, if he accidentally inhales the corpse qi, he will die.
From a scientific point of view, corpse gas is the gas emitted by the decay of the body after death, and it generally has a special foul smell. If a living person inhales this rotting gas, the germs will invade the organs in the body, causing lesions in the body, ranging from cancerous organs to death.
The mask Xiao Cheng wears is not an ordinary mask, but a special mask made of spices such as mulberry branches, calamus, fennel and mugwort leaves mashed and sewn into the sandwich, which can effectively prevent the inhalation of corpse gas.
As the saying goes, how can you not break your shoes when standing by the river, in order to prevent accidents, Xiao Cheng's gloves and even the clothes on their bodies are fumigated with some realgar and cinnabar, which can effectively prevent the invasion of corpse gas.
Xiao Cheng's left hand rested on the female corpse's chin with one hand, the palm of his hand opened upward, and his right hand gently pulled the gold silk veil, gently moving it to the palm of his hand, and finally gently held up the silk veil to prevent the veil from being damaged to the greatest extent.
Everyone's eyes were attracted by this magnificent treasure, and their eyes moved with Xiao Cheng's palm. But Zhao Aiguo's eyes wandered, and he was shocked that the seven souls and six spirits were out of his body!
"She, she opened her eyes!"
Zhao Aiguo roared almost madly, shifting everyone's attention from the golden silk veil to him, and after looking at his unbelievable appearance, he quickly looked at the female corpse in the coffin, and all of them took a step back.
I saw that the female corpse in the coffin really opened her eyes, but the smile on her face just now was gone, replaced by anger and resentment! The eyes, which were still black, quickly turned white, and finally became miserable white eyes.
"Don't panic! It may be that the veil has the effect of insulating the air flow, and when we remove the veil, the eyes of the female corpse are oxidized. Professor Wang's brain was spinning rapidly, and his words did a little bit to ease his fear.
Everyone saw that the female corpse had no other changes except for a pair of frightening eyes, and a heart hanging in the throat returned to the stomach.
"Xiao Cheng has done a good job, and when I go back, I will recommend you to the school for doctoral students. Now leave the gold silk to me for safekeeping. You continue to collect other artifacts inside the coffin. Professor Wang smiled and stretched out his hand.
Xiao Cheng looked at the treasures in his hands, and was very reluctant in his heart. But he understood that this was not his personal treasure, so he hesitated, suppressed the possessiveness in his heart, and carefully handed it over to Professor Wang.
At this moment, a mutation suddenly occurred.
The golden silk veil that had just been fine, after Xiao Cheng turned it out of the coffin, began to turn black in less than three seconds after it reached Professor Wang's hand, and finally turned into a black mass.