Chapter Seventy-Three, Analysis of the Infant Remains (II)
"Air-dried?" This word was deeply imprinted in Liu Ruoyun's heart, because it had been mentioned since he saw the corpse. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Xiao An observed Liu Ruoyun and Xiong Feng's expressions, and then continued,
"Molly, you go on."
In fact, Xiao An understands everything very clearly.
Molly continued:
"In autumn, although there is plenty of sunlight, the weather will gradually become warmer, and then it will become colder, so the air drying time can be stopped, and there are refrigeration methods for preserving corpses in addition to air drying."
"You're talking about using very low temperatures to keep the temperature of the corpse below freezing, and then using that to preserve the corpse?"
Shi Jia asked, Molly looked at Shi Jia comfortably, and tilted her chin,
"That's right, the theory that the corpse was air-dried is from the desert area of the mainland, where there is a serious shortage of water, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, which is not conducive to the breeding of decomposing bacteria, so there is a saying that the corpse in the desert is called a mummy."
Mu Zisheng nodded and said,
"This kind of knowing, that is to say, after years of strong light, the corpse completely evaporates the water, and then leaves the skin and bones, forming a mummy, and the impact of the mummy on the contemporary era is that some archaeologists use its funerary goods to determine what the ancient identity of the mummy is."
"And then this kind of mummy is also very popular with tomb robbers today, the older it is, the more valuable it is, and there are also exhibitions in museums, as for the place where this kind of mummy can be formed, it is mostly the Western Regions, that is, the barren desert area."
has to bring Mu Zisheng's popularization of air drying, everyone looked at Mu Zisheng with some eyes, and they all wanted to applaud, but out of this kind of place, everyone still couldn't help it.
Molly couldn't help but praise:
"That's right, that's what our Mu Dacai said, and the person who handled the baby's corpse probably had this idea."
Molly glanced at Mu Zisheng and blinked her eyes:
"I thought you were just physical, and you had a strong knowledge of all kinds of theories, but I didn't expect you to have some research on this kind of historical stuff."
Ge Dali frowned on the side, and said with some puzzlement:
"Zisheng said so much, how do I feel like a tomb robber, what's the matter, your ancestor is the captain of the gold school?"
Mu Zisheng said embarrassedly,
"Where, where, it's just that I've read some of this kind of tomb robbery novels, more or less heard of it, speaking of my family is a family of touching gold, this is simply wronged, my ancestors have been farmers for three generations, and when I came here, I also said that I would be an official, but in the end I came to the investigation team."
As soon as he said this, the investigation team laughed, but looking at Liu Ruoyun and Xiong Feng, their expressions were not very good, and then they turned serious.
Molly continued:
"In general, it's about preserving the corpse."
Liu Ruoyun couldn't help asking:
"What do you mean by refrigeration, has this corpse been refrigerated?"
Molly paused,
"This has to be told by Captain Xiao, he has more control than me."
Xiao An looked around, his eyes were focused on him, he was still a little uncomfortable, cleared his throat, and then said:
"As for the refrigeration that Molly said just now, as the name suggests, it is to refrigerate the corpse, let's popularize the knowledge of refrigeration first, and you can talk about it!"
Mu Zisheng pushed his glasses, his expression had turned serious, and then said:
"Refrigeration is to freeze the corpse below zero, bacteria can not survive at zero temperature, and the corpse can remain absolutely intact, that is to say, the meat is not rotten, you can see the expression characteristics of the deceased, this kind of corpse generally appears on the glacier of those expeditions and mountaineering, some explorers lose their footing in the mountain, and then freeze into ice due to the temperature, the meat in the body remains unchanged, but once out of the glacier, the corpse will quickly decay into meat slurry."
"To put it in layman's terms, it's like putting the meat you just bought in the refrigerator or refrigerator, so that you can keep the meat quality and keep it in its original form, which is very common."
Everyone understands this explanation, but the body is now placed in the morgue, and the temperature of the morgue is too low, and how to explain the fact that it has been refrigerated, this is the question in the hearts of Xiong Feng and Liu Ruoyun.
"On what basis did the body be refrigerated?"
Xiong Feng asked, Xiao An wrapped his clothes, and then said,
"First of all, we said that what we could see with our eyes, there was a stream of corpse water behind this corpse, and we all knew that the corpse had been dried for a while, but it was not fully mummified, and then the result of freezing would appear corpse water."
"Secondly, because of refrigeration, the body was found in the air conditioner of Liu Ruoyan's house, there is no refrigerator in it, so the body can only be hidden in the air conditioner, the weather here is very hot and in the whole space, only the air conditioner can be refrigerated, so the murderer put the body in the air conditioner, on the one hand, to achieve the effect of refrigeration, on the other hand, it can also achieve the effect of covering up the body."
"But the temperature of the air conditioner will not go below zero, and when we take down the body in the air conditioner, I deliberately looked at the temperature displayed on the air conditioner, the temperature is exactly 5 °C, and the temperature of 5 °C cannot achieve the effect of refrigeration, so this can also explain the source of the corpse water, and another point, if the corpse is not deliberately cooled, the corpse will decay more quickly, so this is also the result of refrigeration."
Everyone nodded, Xiao An, as the leader of the first team, naturally had weight in what he said, and it was the investigation of this case that his words were unquestionable.
He touched his head vigorously and shouted in his mouth:
"I don't know how I sound like taxidermy, and I don't know how many ways to preserve corpses."
Speaking of making specimens, everyone's eyes are on Molly, Molly is the one who likes to collect human structures as specimens, so naturally they all look at her, and Liu Ruoyun and Xiong Feng are also looking at Molly a little inexplicably.
Molly hurriedly waved her hand and said:
"Don't look at this has nothing to do with me, but Dali is right, it does look like making a specimen, but the specimen is taken out for viewing, this is hidden, and the nature is completely different, okay? However, it is worth considering whether or not to make specimens. ”
Speaking of which, Molly held her head and thought about it, and slowly exhaled and said:
"There's more to preserving the body than just drying and refrigerating, it's like I soaked the guts with formalin or something, which doesn't cause the body to decompose, but it smells great."
Speaking of formalin, this is in the hospital, and it is a little uncomfortable to think of the unpleasant smell, but Molly is very correct in what she said, and many people still understand this common sense.
Xiao An immediately said,
"Even if you really make a specimen, you don't choose formalin in the first place, because this unpleasant smell can easily attract the attention of people around you."
Everyone nodded in unison, and Molly continued,
"As for the others, I have heard that in ancient times there was a ritual, a kind of rich and noble family, or an official kiln family, when someone died, they would take a pair of virgins and girls, who were just born children, and open them from the top of their heads, and then inject mercury into them, and the mercury was all over the body because of the blood circulation, so that not only could they make specimens, but also keep the original clothes of the virgins, which could be kept above the front, and the appearance would not be destroyed, just like iron men, but real people, and the purpose of this was to accompany the funeral goods. It is said that there are boys and girls on the Huangquan Road. ”
This made everyone feel numb, Molly looked at these looks, and then said:
"Don't be afraid, that's the old feudal superstition, people nowadays don't do it, and it's really cruel to do it, and you can't find so much material. As for other ways of preservation, I don't know if I'm shallow in my knowledge. ”