Half past four in the morning.

The whole of Jingzhou fell into a deep sleep, and the streets were quiet, with only a crescent moon hanging in the air, illuminating the dark night.

But inside the Jingzhou Institute of Biology, there is a busy scene.

After two hours of systematic dissection, Mr. Sui, who was opened to the chest and abdomen, was finally dissected by the medical team.

All of his internal organs were properly stored in a clear glass bottle containing the protective solution.

The incision on the corpse was also re-stitched.

In addition to the hollowing out of his body, from the outside, Mr. Sui is still very complete.

An autopsy is not a dismemberment, but an in-depth examination of the body.

After the completion of the autopsy, everyone gathered around the dissection table again and bowed to Mr. Sui very solemnly.

"Okay, next we will inject antiseptic for Mr. Sui, and prepare a professional antiseptic crystal coffin."

"Mr. Sui's body, we will study it carefully and deeply, hoping to find some physical differences between modern people and ancient people."

Professor Wu, who was in charge of the dissection, put down the suture needle with satisfaction and breathed a sigh of relief.

Today's autopsy is definitely the most meaningful and special one among the hundreds of medical dissections he has experienced in his life.

He was so satisfied, even glad that he was able to participate in such an important dissection.

However, Professor Lu, who was next to him, was a little swollen after that short period of excitement, and even had a trace of bold ideas in his heart.

Although Mr. Sui is rare and valuable, the ancient corpse 2,100 years ago is basically the same as the human body structure of modern humans.

More often than that, with the help of Mr. Sui's remains, we can explore the physical condition of the ancients two thousand years ago.

If only the incorruptible ancient corpses found today were not 2,000 years ago, but 20,000 years ago!

Homo sapiens in late China 20,000 years ago has not yet found complete fossilized bones.

If there were an incorruptible Homo sapiens corpse, the research prospects would be incomparably broad, and it could even change the current anthropology.

It's just a pity that it's a bit unrealistic.

Unless you dig dozens of meters into the ice of the North and South Poles, it should be difficult to find intact Homo sapiens corpses that have not been fossilized.

"Knock knock."

A staff member who had just taken the body cavity fluid obtained from Mr. Sui's body to the next door for testing during the dissection connected to the intercom inside and outside the laboratory.

"Several professors, according to the preliminary laboratory tests, the body cavity fluid does not have any microorganisms and bacteria breeding, and it is very clean!"

This news immediately interrupted the people talking and laughing in the laboratory.

The end of the autopsy does not mean that the work surrounding Mr. Sui is over.

On the contrary, in fact, the research on Mr. Sui has only just begun.

And the first question that needs to be solved urgently is why Mr. Sui will not be corrupt in 2100?

It is obviously against the laws of nature that a person can not decay for such a long time after death.

There must be a special reason, and even specifically mention the good anti-embalming measures.

It's just that the Western Han people 2,100 years ago mastered such superb anti-corrosion technology?

"There are no microorganisms and bacteria growing in the body cavity?" Professor Wu, who was in charge of the autopsy, no longer remembers, but this is the first time he has exclaimed today.

However, Kong Jianwen said without being surprised: "If microorganisms and bacteria are found in the body cavity, it will be incomprehensible." ”

"The absence of bacteria and microbes is normal."

Without the presence of bacteria, the corpse would not be contaminated by bacteria, and naturally it would not decompose.

If Mr. Sui's body is full of bacteria, but it doesn't rot at all, it will be a puzzling situation.

I even have to think about metaphysics, is it any cultivation that is successful, and the flesh is not corrupted by the ancient qi practitioners.

Only if there are no bacteria and microorganisms in the body, it is in line with science!

"The corpse is not decomposed, it is nothing more than several reasons, closed, oxygen-free, stable environment, and then embalmed."

Kong Jianwen led the team of medical experts to the side of the inner coffin that was left out in the cold.

In medicine, he is inferior to these people.

But in terms of archaeology, these people can't catch up with Kong Jianwen.

Kong Jianwen pointed to the inner coffin, motioned everyone to look inside, and then slowly explained: "When this inner coffin was unearthed, it was very closed, and it was wrapped in six layers of linen on the outside, completely isolating the inside of the coffin. ”

"And when you were doing an autopsy for Mr. Sui just now, Xiao Chen and I were not idle, and carefully examined the inner coffin."

"In addition to a few precious cultural relics that you don't understand, there are two most special places in the coffin."

"The first place is that the coffin is filled with red fluid, and the second place is that there is a pile of nearly 30 centimeters high in the coffin."

Kong Jianwen said a lot, but the medical team present didn't understand at all, but became even more confused.

Professor Wu, who was more anxious, simply interrupted directly: "Director Kong, what is the reason why this ancient corpse is not rotten?" ”

Get.

Kong Jianwen couldn't resist the desire to roll his eyes, and this group of people who study the human body and biology every day shouldn't go around in circles.

He simply said directly: "It's because of these two special places." ”

"I carefully distinguished, most of the accumulation at the bottom of the coffin should be the residue of silk fabric, probably the tomb owner's personal burial clothes, the remnants of decay."

"The residue alone is so thick, it can be inferred that when Mr. Sui was buried, the coffin should have been stuffed with all kinds of silk fabrics."

"That is, there is not much space left in the coffin for oxygen."

"And these burial silk fabrics also need a lot of oxygen to decay."

"There is not much oxygen in the coffin, and it is simply not enough to support the decay of so many things, so even if the male corpse autolyzes, it will soon stop as the oxygen is exhausted."

"However, for this reason alone, it is not so easy to keep the corpse from decomposing for 2100 years." Professor Lu, who majored in human biology, frowned, a little incomprehensible.

"Even underground, no matter how tightly the coffin is sealed, it is impossible to completely isolate the entry of oxygen, right?"

Kong Jianwen tapped the corner of his mouth: "At this time, these red liquids in the coffin played an important role. ”

He raised his head and looked at Chen Han, who had been frowning and thinking hard, regarded this place as a class scene, and asked him directly: "Xiao Chen, I'll test you." ”

"What do you think is all this red fluid inside the coffin?"

Everyone present turned their heads to look at Chen Han when they heard the sound.

Including the two old professors, there was a hint of inquiry in their eyes.

In the laboratory, Chen Han, who has always been a small and transparent, was suddenly stared at by everyone coldly, but he was very calm.

If there is anything to say that is most related to embalming, and it can be obtained in the Western Han Dynasty before the Common Era.

Mercury is clearly the case.

As early as the pre-Qin period, the Chinese people already knew that mercury could be used to embalm corpses.

The most famous is that the legend says that Qin Shi Huang built a mercury underground palace for himself, in order to keep his bones from rotting.

In the Western Han Dynasty, it was recorded more than once in the history books that the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty would wipe their bodies with dansha before being buried after death.

And, there are already examples to prove it.

In the No. 1 Han Tomb of Mawangdui, which was excavated in the 70s, the coffin containing the body of Mrs. Xin Chai was filled with red coffin liquid like Mr. Sui's coffin.

The red coffin liquid in the Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb, after laboratory testing, concluded that the liquid was rich in mercury.

Mercury, mercury also.

Chen Han grinned and replied confidently: "Teacher, the red liquid in this coffin should be the cinnabar after melting in water!" ”

Cinnabar, a natural ore, was used as a traditional Chinese medicine in ancient times.

The most important thing is that cinnabar is red in color and mainly contains mercury sulfide!