Chapter 62: Black Bones
The corpse of the woman in red had just been pulled off the stone platform by us, but when we saw that the face of the entire corpse immediately began to wither rapidly. The entire corpse of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info also dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon only a red robe remained.
"What the is this filming? This special effect is well done, huh? The fat man rubbed his eyes vigorously and looked at the scene in disbelief.
I lifted my feet out of the coffin and wanted to go up and find out. But before he could walk over, he was pulled by Cui Linghong, only to hear Cui Linghong say: "Don't go yet, I guess the embalming in the female corpse was destroyed by us when we pulled it." That's why this female corpse weathered so quickly. ”
"Wasn't mercury the most used for embalming in ancient times? This is also what Qin Shi Huang is best at using. "I was shocked, and secretly thought that I was fortunately stopped by Cui Linghong, and I wouldn't dare to be so careless next time." Not to mention that Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum is surrounded by the Milky Way, which is actually a protective circle filled entirely with mercury. Moreover, Qin Shi Huang searched for the elixir of life, and most of those alchemists in ancient times used mercury to refine pills. I guess I ate too much, and I found that this thing can also be embalmed. ”
"I deliberately wanted the body of this woman in red to be filled with mercury in order to keep it incorruptible for so long. We pulled the female corpse and caused the mercury to leak out, so it quickly dried up and rotted. In the past, mercury evaporates very quickly in the air. Cui Linghong covered his mouth and nose with his hands and said vaguely.
I turned my head to look and found that the fat man and the thin monkey had already covered their mouths and noses, and I was the only one who stood there stunned, and hurriedly covered my mouth and nose in the same way.
About half a pillar of incense passed, and the four of us stood in the coffin group, covering our mouths and noses and looking at the shriveled female corpse under the stone platform.
At first, the fat man couldn't bear it, let go of his hand and liberated his mouth and nose, took a deep breath and said: "If you continue to understand it, you will be suffocated to death by yourself if you don't get poisoned, and if you want me to see that this mercury has volatilized for thousands of years, it will be fine for a long time." As he spoke, he walked towards the stone platform.
I thought to myself that if this mercury had volatilized thousands of years ago, this woman's corpse would have rotted thousands of years ago. But I also felt that it had been so long and that it should be fine, so I let go of my hand and followed the fat man.
Cui Linghong and the thin monkey saw that I and the fat man had walked over, and nothing unusual happened, so they also followed.
After the female corpse was corrupted, the red palace skirt she was wearing was also weathered. With the fat man's casual pull, most of the clothes turned into pieces of rags.
The bones of the female corpse were exposed under the clothes, and these bones looked very terrifying. Logically speaking, the bones of corpses are generally white, but the bones of this female corpse are actually black, and this black is the kind of dark and shiny black. Even the hair of the female corpse was unusually black, and the clothes and internal organs on the female corpse were all rotted and gone, except for the hair and a small part of the bones that still had some substances stuck to them.
Cui Linghong took out a few pairs of gloves from his backpack, gave each of us a pair, and told us to bring gloves. Then I saw her crouch down, carefully picking up the pieces of those clothes and putting them into a waterproof bag. Soon a complete black shiny corpse was revealed in front of our eyes, and the fat man couldn't help but be stunned: "Sure enough, it's a doctor of archaeology, this work is really meticulous, and it can't be compared with us!" ”
"You are a tomb robber, compared with other people's archaeology, aren't you uncomfortable finding it yourself?" I didn't have a good sense of it.
"You are the one who robbed the tomb, our business is called natural selection, instead of tyrannical things, it is better to take them out and do some useful good deeds." The fat man made a strong argument.
"Do you do good? The only good deed you have ever done is to comfort the woman who has lost her footing. "I sound funny, but it's not good to continue to dwell too much on the matter of tomb robbery in front of Cui Linghong, so I half-jokingly staggered the topic.
"Don't mind, when did you see me to visit the woman who had lost her foot? Fat man, I can be proud of everything else, I have lived alone for more than 20 years and am still alone, this matter is difficult to talk about. If you have to pull this thing out today, I'll tell you about the fat man. "The fat man rolled up his sleeves and had the posture of fighting with me.
"Don't be poor, come and see here." Before I could answer the fat man, I heard Cui Linghong interrupt us, she squatted on the ground and waved to us without looking back.
The fat man and I had to temporarily turn off the fire and squat, only to see Cui Linghong pointing to the head of the corpse and saying: "The head of this female corpse is darker than the other parts, so it should be mercury poured from the head down." ”
Then he pointed to his abdomen and said, "Look here, there is still mercury left in the abdomen that has not had time to evaporate." And this blackening continues all the way to the toes, so the mercury that is poured into it should be a lot. ”
"This kind of death is really miserable, being poisoned alive by mercury." The fat man covered his nose with a look of surprise.
"She wasn't poisoned, the mercury should have been poured into her before she died. She was blown to death by the mercury, which means that she was not dead after the mercury was poured into it. That's why the mercury enters her limbs, causing her whole body to turn black. The density of mercury is much higher than that of water or even human blood, so she must have been poured with mercury and lived for a while before dying. Cui Linghong stared at the bones on the ground and analyzed it clearly.
"That's even worse, I haven't heard of anyone drinking mercury to kill themselves. The person who poured mercury on her was really vicious. The fat man also stared at the bones of the female corpse, and couldn't help but shudder when he looked at the blackened bones.
"Are you pitying? The feudal dynasties of ancient China, not to mention pouring mercury on people, were countless tortures at the level of splitting the corpses of five horses. It's just that the practice of pouring mercury has never been seen or heard of, which is a bit rare. "There must be something hateful about the so-called poor people, and I think there must be something big going on behind this corpse.
"It should have happened that this female corpse was executed with such cruel capital punishment before she died. And judging by the layout here, this female corpse should not be much different from what you guessed. Even if he was executed, it made it difficult for outsiders to see the cause of death, and he also retained the demeanor of the deceased before his death. Cui Linghong continued to analyze.
"Isn't that right? Why was it poured with mercury, and the expression of this female corpse still looked very serene? Could it be that this female corpse liked to drink mercury as water when she was alive? "I suddenly thought of an incredible thing, how can anyone be poured mercury and still die peacefully?