Aftermath
The train back to Beijing traveled to the Qinling Mountains, and accidentally encountered a landslide, and a female corpse of the Ming Dynasty was washed in front of the train along with the coffin. I was invited to get out of the car as an expert, but I was surprised to find that the soil that had collapsed along with the coffin was not black, which means that the place where the lifelike female corpse was buried was not the legendary "place to raise corpses".
is not buried in the corpse field, but the corpse can not decay for a hundred years and is lifelike, what is the reason for this?
After a person dies, the cells in the body begin to autolyze very quickly. Lytic enzymes in cells release various proteolytic enzymes that gradually degrade biological macromolecules into small molecules. In addition to this autolysis process, the corpse is also eroded by various bacteria, causing the body tissue to decay and decompose...... So, under natural conditions, if you want to keep a corpse from decaying for hundreds of years, the only way to do it is to embalm it.
The embalming of corpses by the ancients was also strange and different. Mummies, dried corpses, thorny worms soaked in the sap of the dragon's blood tree, and the ancient corpse of the King of Dian dressed in golden jade clothes...... They are all treated by special embalming means to achieve the purpose of not decomposing or rotting the corpse.
But right now, this female corpse has no traces of any human treatment, no dried and embalming herbs, and no priceless talisman jade box, her incorruptibility reveals indescribable weirdness!
The middle-aged policeman asked the other people to return to the train to maintain order, and he took out a cigarette from the front door, lit one with the black bull each, stood on the rocks next to the female corpse, and continued to brag and chat.
I picked up a broken branch and continued to observe the female corpse with a flashlight. It was previously hit hard, and the deformed facial features that were photographed have been restored to their original state: phoenix eyebrows and red mouth, with an oval face, and it looks like it is in its thirties. I peeled her neckline open with a twig and found a deep white mark on her neck, which must have been left by the black bull pulling the agate necklace down with brute force.
I secretly sighed in my heart, this black bull doesn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, and he almost broke someone's neck for a necklace. Thinking about it again, in fact, she is not fragrant or jade, she is just an ancient corpse, in the eyes of the black bull, all the ancient corpses are just like sacks, just a skin.
I flicked her wide sleeve with a twig, revealing her white arm. There is a finger-long indentation on the pale wrist, which is obviously caused by wearing accessories such as bracelets for many years.
I coughed dryly, and the black bull turned his head to look at it in understanding, and also caught a glimpse of the indentation on his wrist, he didn't move, and continued to tell the story of Beijing City to the middle-aged policeman.
If the police know that the accessories on this ancient corpse are missing, it will cause unnecessary trouble, so we pretend that there are no abnormal findings. However, Hei Niu and I felt like a mirror in our hearts: it seemed that there was a bracelet on the wrist of this female corpse, but now this bracelet is gone, and I don't know whether it fell into the coffin, or if it was broken and buried in the rock.
Looking at the two marks on the neck and wrist of the female corpse, my heart suddenly lit up, could it be that the reason why the female corpse did not rot was related to the jewelry she was wearing?
Just as he was thinking, the conductor came over with a wolf-eyed flashlight, and the light rain floating in the air was like fine cow hair, brushing down in the beam.
The conductor asked with a solemn face: "Expert Su, does this collapsed ancient tomb have archaeological value?" The above means that if it is just an ordinary tomb, it is mainly to rush to repair the road and ensure that it is open to traffic. After all, this road is now carrying the task of driving in two directions, and it cannot be delayed. ”
I am extremely entangled in my heart: frankly speaking, this female corpse is well preserved, the costume is exquisite, from its dress and dress, the tomb owner should be a status of the Ming Dynasty, the research value of this tomb is absolutely very high. However, the female corpse had already shown signs of corpse transformation before, and it was all pressed by a jade cicada that was broken in two, and if it was tossed and studied again, and it was accidentally stiffened, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Seeing that I was hesitant, the black bull took a puff of cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the stone and crushed it with his foot, highlighted a large puff of smoke and said: "Do you still need to ask, the funeral goods in the coffin are all broken into slag, and there is no research value in fart!" There is also this female corpse, the shawl she is wearing is still worth a little money, but it was torn off by those policemen, and this must be reported, and they will inevitably be charged with destroying cultural relics. In my opinion, this female corpse is redundant to even send to the funeral home, so it is better to burn it on the spot! ”
The middle-aged policeman echoed again and again, and the conductor looked at me hesitantly, wanting to hear my opinion.
"The tomb has been seriously damaged, and the research value is really small, and this comrade's suggestion can indeed be referred to." As an archaeologist of a state unit, I had to go against my professional quality, open my eyes and tell nonsense, and personally destroy a female corpse with great archaeological research value.
"I'll report to my superiors and fight for the right to let us deal with it ourselves!" The conductor was relieved and trotted back to the train.
"Well, let's send her home!" The black bull patted me on the shoulder and comforted me, handing me a lit cigarette.
I haven't smoked since I broke up with my ex-girlfriend, and now, in the middle of nowhere, I was bored in the wilderness, so I took the cigarette from the black bull's hand and took two puffs. Maybe I inhaled too hard, and the smoke suddenly passed through my throat and rushed to my lungs, and I felt a puff of smoke in my throat and coughed suddenly.
The black bull laughed: "It's really yours!" It's only been a few years since I smoked, and I made you like this in just one bite, it's really hopeless! ”
Gao Moli lay on his back on the bed, removed the magazine, and glanced out of the car window.
I coughed a little, flicked the ash of my cigarette to the ground, and took two more puffs, which were noticeably more skillful, and there was an indescribable sense of comfort in my body, which had the effect of forgetting my worries.
I thought to myself: this is the end of my five-to-six-year career of quitting smoking.
The conductor trotted over excitedly and said to us: "The comrades in charge of accident rescue and vehicle maintenance are already on their way. In addition, the superiors also spoke, and asked us to properly dispose of the corpses in the ancient tomb on the spot. Expert Su, do you think it's better for us to bury it or burn it? ”
I glanced at the female corpse and said lightly, "Burn it." Everything in the world will eventually return to dust, and she should also settle down, but in this life. ”
"Gotcha, burn it! I'll go back to the car to maintain order first, and I'll leave the task of burning the woman's corpse to you. With that, the conductor hurried back to the car.
The middle-aged policeman brought half a barrel of gasoline. I quietly smoked a whole cigarette, put on my gloves again, and carried the female corpse to the hillside away from the train with the black bull.
The black bull unscrewed the lid of the barrel, poured gasoline on the female corpse, lit another cigarette, said "Let's go all the way", and threw the burning cigarette on the female corpse.
Suddenly, the flames flared up, and the whole mysterious female corpse turned into a flame! The surrounding area is red!