Chapter 198: The Golden Mummy of the Snow Mountain
We stood on the ice and looked down, it seems that this ice cirque is not a product of nature, the corpses frozen in the ice, all put on a mysterious posture, standing and looking down at the oblique down, the fat man smiled and scolded after looking down: "Don't forget to bow your head and pick up your wallet when you die." ”
I waved my hand at them, don't talk about it, I have to hurry down and rescue Han Shuna, no matter what, this ice cave is full of evil spirits, and it is definitely not a good place.
So everyone hurriedly put down the rope, I picked up the ice chisel and dragged the climbing rope into the ice cave, and then Shinley Yang also followed, the two of us didn't care about the private people in the ice walls around us, and quickly checked Han Shuna's injuries first, there were no obvious external injuries on the body, but there were a few shallow scratches on the face by the ice, and the person just passed out.
I took out saltpeter and rubbed it on the end of her nose, Han Shuna immediately sneezed and woke up, I asked her if she was hurt? Han Shuna shook her head, it turned out that her shoes were loose just now, she lowered her head and re-tied them, and she had distanced herself from everyone, when everyone saw that they had finally found the top of the dragon, they were very excited, so they didn't notice that someone was left behind for a while, when Han Shuna caught up, she deviated from the route and stepped on the ice shell, it was dark here, so she turned on a flashlight to illuminate it, and then prepared to send a signal for help, but before she could open her mouth, she found that she was surrounded by ancient ice corpses, although she usually came into contact with many ancient corpses, but in this special environment, Unprepared, I was scared and fainted.
I saw that Han Shuna was not injured, so I put my mind at ease, and held a wolf-eyed flashlight to look at the corpses in the ice around me, not like the bronze people I saw in the Heavenly Palace of the Tomb of King Xian, these corpses may have been frozen in the ice wall when they were alive. It is difficult to estimate how many corpses there are in the ice, but there are no less than ten corpses that can be seen, although they are all dressed in ancient clothes and ancient crowns, but they are not the costumes of the demon country.
Shinley Yang ticked "fast hanging" to Han Shuna, and was about to let Uncle Ming and the others pull Han Shuna up on it, and when the two of them lowered their heads to prepare, they suddenly exclaimed in surprise and jumped backwards respectively, as if they saw a poisonous snake on the ground.
I hurriedly looked down and shone my flashlight on the flat and smooth ice underground, only to see a hazy black figure inside, curling the human body, curled into a ball, and lying sideways in the ice underground. If you look at it coldly, you may think it is a frozen oversized shrimp.
I said to Shinley Young, "What's so scary about this? It's just freezing to death. But how did you put on such a strange pose? ”
shinely Yang shrugged his shoulders and said, "I didn't see what was down there at all, I was taken aback by Sister Han just now." ”
Han Shuna said: "Just now when I saw the figure below, it seemed to be curled up in a ball, I thought of the appearance of a fetus, but suddenly I thought of how there is such a big fetus in the world, so I was so frightened that I jumped back. ”
I asked Han Shuna to go up first, her specialty is ancient corpse identification, and it can't help much here, so I can only add to the chaos, and after she goes up, I discussed a few words with Shinley Yang in the ice bucket, this may be the main tomb of the reincarnation religion. This is buried in the Evil God and Demon Tower Glacier, it must be a holy place in the eyes of the believers of the reincarnation sect in the future, their previous sect master believers, probably also buried here after death, this ice cirque is one of them, the black shadow curled up underground, probably one of the sect leaders, these people around are the believers in the burial ground, there are nine-story demon towers under the glacier, I don't know how many such ice cellar tombs, you might as well dig out the body of the sect leader under the ice, and see if there is any information in his burial goods.
After the two of them discussed, they also climbed back from the cellar, and told everyone the plan, where we are now, it can be said that the four snow peaks are where their respective glaciers meet, forming a large thick and deep "ice tongue", where the terrain is uneven, the ice ditch and ice crevices are vertical and horizontal, because the Tantra has not even formed the feng shui theory when the demon tower was built, that era is too old, so it is impossible to use the method of dividing the gold and determining the acupoint, and gradually investigate on the ice tongue like looking for a needle in a haystack. It is better to dig the tomb of this reincarnation religious lord first, so as to determine the exact location of the demon tower.
Uncle Ming and others have no experience in this area, naturally what do I say, the arrangement has been completed, and a wind horse flag was planted next to the ice cirque just now as a sign, and a tent was erected on the spot, and Peter Huang and the guide Chu Yi were responsible for the sentry to prevent the wolves from sneaking in, Uncle Ming and Han Shuna were responsible for the diet of the expedition, and I took Ah Xiang, Shinley Yang and the shed, and after eating, I went into the ice cirque to start work.
At this time, it was getting late, and in the deep forest in the distance, there was a burst of wolf wailing, it seemed that the wolf king had also gathered the wolves, and followed, I heard the wolf howl, and I remembered the blue belly of the Gema military doctor, and gritted my teeth with hatred, and asked the first junior high to be on guard, and then carried the equipment and went down to the ice cellar.
Uncle Ming hung fluorescent lights on it, he was a veteran of the ancient corpse, and when he saw a corpse with such a strange posture under the ice, he was also curious, maybe he could dig up a priceless glacier crystal corpse, so he watched it with Han Shuna.
It is much more convenient to take Ah Xiang with you than to light a candle, but Ah Xiang is very timid, in order to prevent her from being stupid and unable to speak, we still light a butter candle at the Shengmen in the southeast corner according to the old rules.
The fat man poured ginger juice into a pneumatic watering can as I said, sprayed the ice on the ground a few times, and then all he had to do was wait slowly for it to seep in.
The frozen corpses in the surrounding ice walls are all looking down at the ice surface that we are about to dig up, as if a group of people watching the excitement are surrounding us, staring at us coldly without saying a word, which makes people feel very uncomfortable, the fat man said that this is too awkward, or let's find a cloth to block the ice walls around us, it really makes people feel furious.
I said to the fat man: "You're not a big girl, and you're afraid of being seen, so you just treat those dead bodies as if they didn't exist......" Although I said this, I also felt that this ice bucket was very evil, I had never seen this way of burial, and the tomb owner did not have a coffin, and there was a hole like a prawn underneath, and it was really hard to say what would be dug up later.
Shinley Yang probably saw that I was a little hesitant, so he said to me: "The Reincarnation Sect retains a lot of the cult traditions of the Demon Kingdom, and in the Hero King rap poems, the Demon Kingdom is a country that worships the abyss and caves, and the surrounding mourners, making a posture looking down on the abyss, probably have something to do with their religious beliefs, no need to make a fuss."
At this time, the ginger juice has penetrated almost completely, we use the ice chisel wind drill to excavate, ginger juice is the nemesis of the ice, ten thousand years of ice can be easily solved, this ice is not much thick, not long, dig out a square ice sheet, and then there is no ice below, we found that there is a swim bladder stuck under the ice, and the corpse is wrapped in it.
When they saw the corpse, everyone was very surprised, Ah Xiang was so frightened that her whole body trembled, Shinley Yang had to hug her and ask her if she had found anything? Ah Xiang shook her head, she just thought that this corpse was too terrifying.
I turned my head to look at the candle, it was burning normally, it seemed that there was no problem, and then I sank seven to look at the corpse exposed under the ice, before the ice was broken, what I saw was a black shadow, but at this time I saw that the corpse was very huge, the whole body was white, not the long white hair of the corpse, but as if the whole body had a thick layer of hard calluses, and in a few places the white cocoon shell fell off, revealing the golden light inside, which seemed to be full of gold.
The corpse is clasped on its knees and curled up in a ball, which may also be related to the evil teachings of the Samsara sect, which will be reincarnated after death, so the deceased is placed in the posture of returning to the mother's womb as a fetus.
Uncle Ming could also see it clearly: "Wow, this is a snow mountain mummy, no, it's terrible, this snow mountain golden body mummy is worth more than one million...... It's just that the age is too recent, if it is a little longer, it will be almost the same as a glacier crystal corpse. ”
I looked up and asked Uncle Ming, "What snow mountain is a full-body mummy?" "None of us know as much about these "bone" as Uncle Ming and his mistress.
In order to see more clearly, Uncle Ming also went down to the ice cellar, fortunately, it was more spacious in this ice bucket, and there was one more person, and the space would not seem too cramped, Uncle Ming looked at it with a magnifying glass for a long time, and then reached out and touched the white cocoon shell of the corpse, and licked his fingers: "Yes, it is definitely a golden mummy of the snow mountain." ”
The treatment of this type of corpse is very complicated, first the deceased is placed in a specific position, placed in a sarcophagus, filled with salt, left for about three months, waiting for the salt to completely enter all parts of the body, replacing all the water in the corpse, and then after the pickling is properly applied, then coated with a cement-like substance, which is made of sandalwood, spices, clay and various medicines.
Then the substance gradually solidifies and hardens, and all the sunken or wrinkled parts of the corpse, such as the eyes, cheeks, and stomach, will swell up on their own, forming natural and harmonious proportions, and then apply a layer of molten patent leather on the outside, which is the golden body, and finally it will be wrapped in a layer of marsh salt, and only the suzerains and masters of some religions are eligible for such treatment.
The fat man and I were stupid, I didn't expect the zongzi to have such a complicated production process, Uncle Ming said let's move the snow mountain mummies up, but we found that we couldn't move it, the corpse was still ice under it, frozen into one, extremely strong, with a flashlight to shine deeply, there seemed to be a lot of things under the ice, but I couldn't see it clearly through the ice.
So he took out the watering can again, sprayed the ginger juice on the ice, waited for a while, and estimated that it was almost over, so an ice drill went down, and unexpectedly, along the ice pierced by the ice drill, a long huge blue flame suddenly appeared, with a scream that could pierce the ear bones, and jumped straight into the sky from the deepest part of the ice cirque.