Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Chrysalis of Human Skin
Such an inexplicable curse, anyone will be in a bad mood. After scolding the owner of the tomb, the little monkey was still puzzled and continued to scold: "And this old target, what kind of heart does this old guy have." Obviously, their people are very powerful, why do they have to let us go to the grave. ”
Speaking of this old target, Liu Xiaoge suddenly thought of the notebook he had picked up in the hands of the dead man in the lower tomb. There were too many dangers when he was in the lower layer just now, Liu Xiaoge just flipped through it hastily, and didn't look at it carefully at all. Now when I hear the little monkey mention the old target, I remember the notebook.
Immediately took out the notebook, and a few people began to read it carefully. The owner of the notebook is actually Jiang Datou who was killed by Leng Mian, and most of the content in the front of the entire notebook is Jiang Datou's diary. By the time I got to the middle pages, the content had changed in vain, and it was no longer a nutritious diary.
It's some records about the old target, and this record made Liu Xiaoge stunned, and began to wonder if this diary was a fiction made up, because the content was too incredible. Liu Xiaoge roughly sorted out dozens of pages in a row, and the whole thing completely appeared in front of Liu Xiaoge's eyes.
Jiang Datou joined the industry in 1999 17 years ago, when Jiang Datou was only in his early twenties, and he was a stunned young man who had just come out of society. The year before, just in time for the 1998 catastrophic flood, Jiang Datou's hometown was not spared and was flooded. Jiang Datou's family background is very poor, and he is already poor, and now he has nowhere to make a living.
In desperation, Jiang Datou slipped into the city and did some petty theft to live, after most of the year, he has been living in such a muddy way, seeing that the New Year is coming, his waist bag is still empty, and he is about to run out of food, Jiang Datou is thinking about doing a big vote. Soon Jiang Datou fell in love with a prey, and the prey was a fat man who looked like a businessman, and this businessman was carrying a very heavy package.
Jiang Datou had a bad idea at that time, so he took advantage of the fat businessman's inattention to steal the duffel bag, returned home happily, opened the package and looked at it, and was immediately dumbfounded.
Just when Jiang Datou lamented his declining life, the door of his house was broken down by a group of people of unknown origin. It was the fat merchant who took the lead, and he immediately retracted when he saw that the contents of his bag were intact. Originally, Jiang Datou thought that he was going to be beaten severely, but he didn't expect that this fat man not only didn't beat Jiang Datou, but also gave Jiang Datou a sum of money, so that he could have a good New Year, and if he wanted to have a good errand after the year, he would find him.
After the New Year, Jiang Datou looked at the empty waist bag again, and finally decided to defect to this person. This time became a major turning point in Jiang Datou's life. After joining them, Jiang Datou was quickly controlled by these people and imprisoned in a small closed mountain village. At first, Jiang Datou thought it was a pyramid scheme.
But later, since these people asked him to start learning to use a lot of strange tools, the whole learning process was very strict, and Jiang Datou was tortured unspeakably, and his diary was full of complaints and curses. But in the end, Jiang Datou persevered, mastered the use of these tools proficiently, and learned a lot of cultural knowledge here. Completed the process of turning from an illiterate thief to a skilled thief.
After the intense and brutal training, Jiang Datou was told that he was working for a tomb robbery gang and was responsible for going to the ground to find gold and fight. Jiang Datou himself is not a good product, so he did not resist, but officially accepted such a special job. Although he knew that the tomb robbery industry was not easy to do, he joined the tomb robbery industry without hesitation.
Soon Jiang Datou received his first job since entering the industry, and it was said that it was in March 1999. Jiang Datou's first tomb, which is a private landlord's tomb in the late Qing Dynasty. The size of this tomb is not large, the perimeter is a masonry structure, there is no underground palace and tomb at all, only a mound. I have to say that Jiang Datou's guts are still very big, and half a catty of soju is in his stomach. Carrying a short-handled hammer and a whirlwind shovel, he came alone in the dark of night to this old grave that had been abandoned for many years.
This is in the middle of the barren mountains and mountains, and it is inaccessible, so Jiang Datou also let go of his courage and lit an oil lamp and hung it on the tree to illuminate it. After determining the location of the coffin, he picked up the whirlwind shovel and excavated. The scale of this mound is not large, and after digging for about an hour, the shovel in Jiang Datou's hand touched the coffin board and made a dull knocking sound.
Jiang Datou was robbing a tomb for the first time, and he was alone, digging a pit for more than an hour, and he was already sweating. The wine has already woken up for most of the time, and looking at the wooden coffin in front of him, his heart is actually a little drumming. But as soon as he thought of the gold and silver jewelry that might be in the coffin, Jiang Datou instantly threw these boring fears behind him.
It took more than half an hour to dig out the entire coffin, and Jiang Datou looked at the size of the coffin, the length was more than two meters, and the width was more than one meter. It's a big coffin, and it's made of excellent wood, and it's been buried for more than a hundred years, but it hasn't rotted much. Immediately drooling, and picked up the crowbar and lifted out a few nails on it.
As the lid of the coffin was opened, Jiang Datou couldn't wait to look inside. But the coffin seemed to be covered with a layer of black gas, and no matter how you looked at it, you couldn't see what was inside. Jiang Datou was a little anxious, and stretched out his hand to touch the coffin. A whole strange piece of stuff that I touched as soon as I went to the hand, and it felt a bit like leather to the touch.
Jiang Datou didn't think much about it, so he took out this piece of stuff and illuminated it under the light. It's a bit whitish, with lines and some fine black hair, presumably some kind of animal leather. Jiang Datou was a little happy when he saw it, the owner of this tomb was still wearing a fur coat when he died, how rich this person should be.
As soon as the greed arose, he reached out and continued to touch. This time, I touched a leather object that was about the same as just now, and when I took it out, I saw that it was indeed another piece of leather. It seems that the owner of this tomb also wore several pieces, which is really heroic. As Jiang Datou stretched out his hand again and again, he found this kind of leather.
I've lost a bunch of them around me, but it's still leather to the touch, as if it's endless. At this time, Jiang Datou was a little uncalm, and he felt a strange aura. Simply took off the oil lamp on the branch and put it into the coffin, and as the oil lamp was put in, the black gas in the coffin actually began to tumble.
It didn't take long for the black gas to disappear, revealing the contents of the coffin. Jiang Datou fixed his eyes and saw that in the coffin was a human-shaped silkworm chrysalis. There was a corner that had been hollowed out in a large area, the area where he had just found the leather.
Looking at the layers of white leather, Jiang Datou remembered the extremely famous Egyptian mummy recently, and the feeling of this corpse was almost exactly the same as that of a mummy. The only difference is that the mummy was wrapped in linen, while the body was wrapped in leather of this unknown material.
Jiang Datou's curiosity suddenly rose, and he climbed into the coffin and moved his hands together, desperately tearing the leather on the surface of the corpse. This time the efficiency was much higher, and after a few efforts, Jiang Datou opened several layers, and the outline of the corpse below could be vaguely seen. The more this pulls out, the more Jiang Datou feels that something is wrong, because the feel of the leather underneath is getting more and more wrong.
Because the leather is more complete and tough, it can already be recognized as a single piece, not a little cracked from drying up like the above. Looking at the shape of the leather, it is getting closer and closer to a complete human skin, as if it was made from a human skin plucked alive from a living person, it is possible that this is the legendary human skin chrysalis.
Speaking of this human skin chrysalis, Jiang Datou also saw it in an unknown ancient book, and there was only such a small record without a head or tail. The details are not written at all, as if it was some kind of strange witchcraft used for special rituals. Since he didn't understand Jiang Datou, he didn't want to think about it anymore, and planned to open the last few layers to find out.
Soon peeled back to the bottom layer, and the last layer was a thin film-like thing. The film is translucent, and the corpse below can be seen through the film. The corpse was very well preserved, as if it had not been dead for a long time, except that the skin was a little pale, as if it had fallen asleep.
You can even feel his breathing and heartbeat, Jiang Datou stretched out his hand to peel off the last layer of film, and when his hand touched the film, he felt a trace of temperature, this corpse actually had body temperature, which was completely beyond Jiang Datou's understanding. And the skin is elastic and not stiff at all.
It stands to reason that this touch is only available when touching a living person, thinking of this, Jiang Datou felt a little numb, and thought of the words of his predecessors, there are zongzi in this coffin. Jiang Datou didn't care about touching gold at this moment, he turned over and wanted to run, but at this moment, the person in the film suddenly opened his eyes and opened his mouth, and the film burst in response.
The corpse in the coffin actually sat up violently, stretched out his hand and grabbed Jiang Datou's ankle, Jiang Datou fell headfirst from the coffin into the dirt pit with a scream, knocked his head and fainted with black eyes. The corpse sat motionless in the coffin until the morning sun rose, when Jiang Datou covered his head and woke up groggily. The moment I saw the sun, I felt like I was awakened from a nightmare, and I struggled to stand up.
When I got up, I saw a person standing not far away, this person was wearing his own clothes, only to find that he only had a pair of small red underwear left. Jiang Datou raised his hand and slapped himself, wanting to try to see if he was still dreaming. But the feeling of pain came, proving that the scene that Jiang Datou was most reluctant to believe was true.
The man heard the slap, turned around, glanced at Jiang Datou and said in a hoarse voice: "This year is that year, and I have forgotten the time after sleeping for too long." Jiang Datou once again couldn't bear the fright and fainted again. The last thought was, what the hell is this guy, sleeping in a coffin, you are kidding me!
Seeing this, Liu Xiaoge felt a little like Jiang Datou in the diary, this thing was too and completely unscientific. However, at this time, Liu Xiaoge had also seen a lot of things that could not be explained by science, and he was about to continue to watch it. Suddenly, a series of explosions like firecrackers rang out from the ceiling of the main burial chamber. The three of them looked up, and they were all stunned by the scene above their heads.