Chapter Seventy-Four: Feathers and Fish Scales
Emma and I walked around the mercury corpses, and sure enough, we spotted the figure we had both seen earlier. It seems that the feng shui physiognomy www.biquge.info "the bones do not dissolve, and the souls of grievances do not disperse," is not a complete nonsense. In the face of so many corpses of soldiers, we are still a little sad to let go.
The fat man sighed and said, "Old Zou, let's bury them all, it's really enough to suffer if you have stood here with your soul for thousands of years." ”
I smiled bitterly, these mercury corpses, where is it so easy to deal with, if you bury them all, I am afraid that it will be difficult to perish in another thousand years, because as long as mercury is not volatilized, or has not been completely removed, it is like a preservative that does not need to be changed in the human body.
Emma was puzzled: "Isn't there a good way to deal with it?" ”
I said, "Yes, yes, but we don't have enough things right now, so we can't do anything about it." ”
The method is actually very simple, the world talks about entering the soil for peace, in fact, it is just like a concept of integrating with the loess earth after death, but if it is because of mercury, the body does not rot, then don't talk about what to enter the earth for peace, to put it bluntly, it is cremation, a fire burns the corpse, and the corpse and mercury will naturally separate.
The fat man also sighed, and said helplessly to these ancient soldiers: "Everyone, it's not that we don't help you, and we really can't do anything." ”
Because there was a long accumulation of mercury in it, and it was not known whether the air was circulating, for the sake of safety, everyone sat at the entrance of the passage where they came and rested for a while. Emma has checked An Changwei's injury, the situation is not optimistic, a whole day has passed since his injury, his forehead has begun to be a little hot, his current coma must be somewhat related to fever, but at the moment not only is there a lack of medicine, but even a few books of diet are a problem.
Emma sat on the ground and looked left and right, his eyes fell on those mercury corpses again, and asked with a puzzled expression: "There are at least a hundred corpses here, if it is placed now, it is at least a reinforcement company, so many people follow a dead king, haven't you thought about rebellion?" If they really want to live, even if they defect to the Qin State, it is not a difficult matter, and it is really unbelievable to say that this dead King Ba really has such a personality charm. ”
Not to mention the ancient times when the population of the entire land of China in the past was at most 50 million, even today it is a large number, these people were killed almost at the same time, and after death, they were made into mercury corpses, if it were not for the fact that as emma said, the king of Ba has a strong personality, that is, even if the king of Ba is the king of the dead country, he is accompanied by tens of thousands of soldiers, otherwise it is really unimaginable.
Soon this anxiety between me and emma was completely broken by the fat man's restlessness, and emma and I were chatting and discussing kung fu, the fat man somehow got into the mercury corpse pile, and I don't know what kind of mentality he had, he took the sapper shovel and began to knock on the mercury corpses, and soon the pottery armor on the corpse was smashed to the ground, and there were ceramic armor scattered everywhere.
Emma and I rushed to hear the sound and were about to stop it, only to see the fat man holding the sapper shovel and slamming it at the armor on a mercury corpse, the sapper shovel hit the armor, and it immediately shattered to the ground, and the sapper shovel was also deeply inserted into the body of the mercury corpse. Emma and I were both taken aback, and hurried up to ask what the fat man was doing.
The fat man waved the sapper shovel in his hand and said, "Oh, it's nothing, didn't I hear from the two of you just now that I had seen those two people, I didn't move those two people, but I just felt strange, why did the two of them come to you, and the others didn't come." ”
If you follow the logic of the fat man, if you were an ordinary person, you would definitely knock the two mercury corpses that appeared first, but the fat man didn't do this, his reason was that he was afraid that we would be of no use in waiting for a while, so he didn't make that plan, and started with other corpses first.
I was so angry and funny when I heard what he said, and I asked him, "Have you found anything that you have found after so much effort?" ”
He was wearing a mask on his face, and he couldn't see his expression clearly, but he could guess seven or eight points by looking at his small eyes, and he looked thoughtful: "Hmm... There are discoveries, but further exploration is needed. ”
I scolded: "Little fatty, your uncle is not afraid of being struck by lightning, and he was still saying that he had also been a soldier and carried a cannon, so he came to destroy the corpse at this time, and he wanted to find out..."
I was about to teach him a good lesson, but Emma suddenly stopped me: "Zou Yi, look at it, what is that." ”
Looking up, the place emma was pointing to was the mercury corpse that had just been cut by the fat man, although he was still standing at this time, but there was a big opening in his chest, and he would have been rotten in his stomach if he were a living person, but it was a corpse after all, and naturally it could not be compared with a living person, but something flowed out of the open opening.
At first glance, it was actually feathers, whether it was a corpse or a person, there were no viscera in the stomach, but some feathers, which was really a little weird, I reached out with rubber gloves to pick up the feathers that fell out, and when I touched them, these feathers instantly turned into powder. Since they have not been exposed to air in the human body for a long time, the color of these feathers was extremely bright at first, but now when they see the air, they have also changed color, becoming a little yellow and black.
Where have we ever seen such a situation, Emma looked at the feathers that fell out and was a little puzzled, and muttered to herself: "Feathers? How can there be feathers? ”
The fat man held the sapper shovel in one hand, stroked his chin with the other, and said in a heavy tone: "Hmm... It is understandable that if the gold and silver are a little incomprehensible. ”
The meaning of the fat man is very simple, King Ba did not hesitate to spend so much money in order to attract the phoenix, and built such a dungeon altar in such a mountain, although he was pitted by his great uncle when he was alive, and did not fulfill his wish, but he still hoped that he could continue to complete his unfulfilled wish after death. So I found some people, hollowed out the internal organs, stuffed them with feathers, and made them into figurines and stood here.
Although I have heard Gu Tong say before, because most of the archaeological things are not recorded, most of them rely on the cultural relics found at that time and the situation of the ancient tomb ruins to guess, so as to draw some of the most seemingly reliable conclusions. But the fat man is making up nonsense, let alone emma, who is proficient in archaeology, even I, a halfway monk, will not believe it.
I wanted the fat man to stop and stop messing around, but Emma told him to knock on the other mercury corpses one by one.
I don't understand Emma's decision very much, maybe because I myself have been a soldier and fought in battle, and I have a special feeling for these sergeants who did not die on the battlefield, which is almost like whipping corpses, I really can't accept it, and I have the heart to stop it, but I saw Emma's eyes firmly said to me: "These corpses may not be as simple as we imagined, and we may be able to find some important clues." ”
More than 100 mercury corpses, the fat man smashed them one by one with a sapper shovel, but the result was still like that, it was easy to smash down, and it was difficult to pull it out.
After a fierce ideological struggle, I also joined the smashing team, depending on the situation, whether I can make a move or not, these mercury corpses will always be smashed, so I can simply add in to shorten the time.
But this time, these corpses were no longer just smashed into a single hole, but the entire chest was cut off, and the entire upper body fell off. The inside of the mercury corpse was empty, except for the flesh and skin, only mercury and bones remained, and the mercury was injected into the flesh of the corpse.
But not every corpse had feathers on the inside, and some turned into scales, which were as big as a copper coin, and I don't know what kind of fish would have such large scales on their bodies.
In about two hours, the mercury corpses, except for the two that Emma and I saw, were cut in half by our brush, Emma took a sapper shovel with gloves and pulled out the scales from one of the standing lower corpses, and in a short time the mercury corpse was hollowed out.
In fact, because of the bones, these mercury corpses are just empty to the pelvic bones, and then down are the pelvic bones and leg bones, presumably they also had some concerns at the beginning, if the leg bones are removed, it is difficult for these scales and feathers alone to stand a person upright, so it is just the internal organs of the person are hollowed out.
However, this alone can keep a corpse so upright, even if the upper body is cut off, the lower body is still so immovable, it is definitely not possible to do it by ordinary means, the mercury corpse with the upper body broken is standing there at this moment, showing a trace of eerie horror, after all, this was a big living person.
At the same time, the two intact corpses seemed a little strange to stand out from the crowd, and I was in the middle of the hundreds of mercury corpses at this time, almost the same on the left and right, and the two intact mercury corpses were also standing diagonally diagonally, one on the left and one on the left, and the direction and position were exactly the opposite.
I seemed to have a clue, but I was still unexpected, and the feathers and fish scales on the ground gradually turned into a pinch of dust because of the long exposure to the air, and the air movement also drove the dust on the ground.
The fat man looked at these two intact mercury corpses, and said coldly: "Old Zou, why is this thing so similar to the black and white dots on the gossip?" (To be continued.) )