Chapter 31: The Mystery of the Lotus Thirty-One
Qiu Min told his nephew Qin Tai that if the meat on a person's body was not processed, it would generally be similar.
But climate and environment can also alter the extent to which the deceased's body changes. For example, the difference between summer and winter can make the body of the deceased vary greatly.
In summer, the weather is hot and humid, and it is usually two or three days before the corpse stinks or even decomposes. In winter, the weather is relatively cold, which can hinder and prevent the change of the corpse, so the corpse will generally have corpse spots after two or three days, it will officially stink after five or six days, and it will rot and deteriorate after ten days.
The geography of the south and the north is not the same, which will also affect the change of the corpse. It is rainy in the south and easy to mildew, so it will generally change a day or two earlier than under the same conditions in the north.
The north is colder and drier, so when it comes to air drying in the later stage, it is a little faster than in the south.
Special geographical environments, such as mountains and deserts, also affect the changes in corpses. There is more dew at night in the mountains, and there are many trees to block the sunlight during the day, so the corpse deteriorates relatively quickly, but when the corpse decays and becomes the nourishment of flowers and plants, the corpse will grow near the lush and more able to expose the target.
The desert has a large temperature difference between day and night, and people are dead of heat during the day and cold at night, and there is a lack of water and rain. In this case, unless the deceased died on a day of heavy rain, the body will not deteriorate under normal circumstances.
The low temperature at night keeps the body warm and set, and the high temperature during the day drains the water out of the body. This is the natural formation of dried corpses, which can remain the appearance of the deceased at the time of death for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Qiu Min told Qin Tai that the main reason why a person's flesh stays fresh is that people can breathe while they are alive, and their muscles move with their breathing, and along with them, their skin and blood are also driven.
The flow of blood in the blood also gives the body some room to move. Once a person dies or loses exercise, the muscles will contract and atrophy, and once the blood in the blood veins stops, the muscles will change.
Just like a paralyzed patient, his muscles are not as developed and normal as those of a normal person. Through experiments with live pork, the enemy learned that once the blood stops flowing and the muscles lack movement, the quality of the meat will change.
Half an hour after the blood stopped, the meat began to deteriorate, and after an hour, the meat began to lose its rosiness. Qiu Min finally understood why the same pork tasted different.
Freshly killed live pork is the best, not only fresh but also delicious to eat. If the pork is not processed in time, the color will not be fresh, and the taste will not be good.
Some unconscientious pig dealers sell pork that is black in color, not only does it not taste very good, but also makes you sick if you eat it.
If the spoiled pork does not dare to be sold, the pig dealer does not dare to sell it, and even if it is sold, no one will buy it. Qiu Min told his nephew Qin Tai that generally speaking, pork is the same as human meat.
Without outside intervention, change should be like this. About half an hour after the blood stops flowing, the muscles start beating completely.
After the blood stops for an hour, the muscles begin to relax and stiffen. When the blood stops, it means that you are dead, and the flesh becomes dark red and not fresh after half a day after death.
Generally, it starts to stink after two or three days, which means that the meat has changed its taste. After four days, the corpse began to decompose, after six days it began to crawl with maggots, and after seven days, it began to crawl with all kinds of insects and ants.
If you don't deal with it at this time, the corpse will start to decompose
"Hulling" transformation. The insects and ants inside the corpse crawled out, and the rotting flesh could no longer attract the interest of nearby animals.
The long-term lack of water and air-drying caused the corpse to begin to harden and dry. At this time, a large earthquake or strong wind will cause changes in the corpse.
After thirteen or fourteen days, the flesh on the corpse began to completely separate from the bones of the corpse, and if it fell off one by one, it would become like air-dried beef jerky, not only lighter, but also smaller and drier.
The meat is either used as nourishment, or continues to dry and becomes fragments mixed with sediment, or is used as food by small animals.
The bones of the corpses began to be exposed to the outside world, gradually drying out and hardening. Some ants begin to gnaw on the fat and minced flesh on the bones, which are then pushed by the wind and rain, and the bones begin to become smooth.
It takes a while to go from a corpse to a skeleton. The enemy has experimented, and it takes three months to six months to bury it in the ground, and it takes three or four months to expose it to the ground.
After becoming a skeleton, the corpse generally does not change much, and it will not change for more than ten years or even hundreds of years.
It wasn't until later that the bones deteriorated and became fossils, or became brittle and became powdered and scattered. Generally speaking, in a tomb hundreds of years later, if the bones inside are not treated with a tibia, the bones inside should have been deformed.
Either it turned into powder or hardened into a semi-fossilized one. It will take hundreds or thousands of years for these semi-fossilized bones to become fossils.
The bones that have become fossils are beyond the scope of autopsy, and it is impossible for anyone to find relevant clues.
The reason why Qin Tai remembered this matter was because Qin Tai thought of a question. Qin Tai saw these corpses just now, and deduced that they entered the agency in three batches.
The first group of people who died probably thirteen or fourteen days ago, and the second group about seven or eight days ago.
Now Qin Tai looked at these pieces of meat and remembered the words of the enemy back then, which made Qin Tai have a new idea.
The pieces of meat were apparently brought out by the soldiers who had escaped from them. In other words, these pieces of meat are the flesh of comrades who went in with them and died in the trap.
These people were so hungry that they couldn't stand it, so they decided to eat the flesh of their comrades to survive. Supposedly, this meat is the only food they will live on, and they will take care of it so that it does not spoil and stink as much as possible.
In terms of the preservation of these pieces of meat, these soldiers are very well protected, do not get wet and try not to contact the air, which is much better than ordinary natural conditions.
In addition, the inside is dry and has less water, which is cooler than the outside temperature, which is more convenient for food preservation. However, the rotten flesh that Qin Tai saw was more rotten than the second batch of soldiers, and even faster than the first batch of soldiers.
One of the pieces of meat was almost half dry, and the meat was black and hard. The soldiers did not eat any more and would not eat the rotten and smelly pieces of meat, that is, the pieces of meat that stinked after they died.
Based on the humidity and temperature here, Qin Tai guessed that this piece of meat had been cut for at least nearly twenty days. That is to say, the owner of this piece of meat has been dead for almost twenty days, and he is not the first batch of soldiers to die in battle.
There were other people who went in before the first soldiers died, and the first people who were counted were not the first to go missing.
Qin Tai called Boss Chen over and asked him to carefully recall whether anyone had gone inside when he left here to ask for help in the capital.
Boss Chen was the only one who had been here, and he recalled it for a long time, and after looking at the Jinyi Guard soldier on the edge of the location where the package was, he finally remembered the situation of this Jinyi Guard.
Lao Mo is a veteran of Jinyiwei, and just after they discovered the secret passage, Lao Mo was one of the people in one of the groups.
However, they lost contact soon after entering, and after two or three days there was no news before they were treated as missing.
But no one expected that Lao Mo did not die at that time, but died in seven or eight days. Qin Tai had an even bolder speculation, Lao Mo's group was the first batch, the first group of corpses was found was the real second batch, the second group of dead soldiers was the third group of people who entered, and the soldiers who were instigated and eaten by Du Yuan were the fourth group of soldiers who entered.
Except for the last group of the most unlucky soldiers, it is estimated that the first few groups have all entered the second layer, and even entered the third layer.
Qin Tai estimated that this organ was only unilaterally controlled, that is to say, it could be controlled when entering, and it would require the cooperation of people from the outside to come out.
After Lao Mo and the others entered the second layer, they couldn't go back and had to continue to move forward into the third layer. They found the package on the third floor or beyond, but they couldn't get out and couldn't get out and get in touch with the people outside.
It wasn't until they met the second group of people who came in, and since their entry opened the passage from the third floor to the second floor, they retreated to the center of the second level of the agency.
They were so hungry that they began to eat the flesh of the soldiers who had been killed or wounded. Finally they held out to the third group, but they didn't have time to retreat, and they were frightened back by the arrows.
This caused the first corpse scene here, and it also made the recruits who came in later frightened.
Lao Mo and the others finally figured out the truth on the second floor, and everyone covered Lao Mo to rush out, the premise was that someone outside triggered the mechanism to let them leave the second layer.
Finally waited for the fourth batch of people to come in, and Lao Mo rushed out with everyone. It was supposed to be able to rush out, but I met a recruit who had never seen a dead man.
These recruits not only did not cooperate, but also disrupted the steps of Lao Mo and the others, and finally caused everyone to die together under the organs of this layer.
The unlucky recruit died without figuring out anything, and when he died, he had to be eaten by his comrades-in-arms who came with him, which was really unlucky.