Volume 1: Ancestral Mountain Burning Immortals - Altar of Prudence Chapter 45: The Cruel Truth of the Coffin
When these words came out, everyone's hearts were mysterious, and even Ah Niu and Ah Hu swallowed their saliva: "You can open it with confidence, don't say it's a real corpse, even if a wild boar runs out, we can also be put down with one shot." ”
Wu Tuman was afraid that Yue Guanchao would be bad again, so he looked at the young man behind him: "Xiaolong, Xiaowu, help him open the coffin~." ”
Yue Guanchao and the other two villagers bravely went together, shouting and slowly pushing the coffin lid open.
A handful of dust fell like snow, it can be seen that the coffin has been sealed for decades, accumulating a lot of dirty things, the older the wood, the more heavy it is, they pushed a stick of incense kung fu, and it was considered to completely push the lid open.
With a bang, the coffin lid fell to the ground.
A layer of gray mist rose on the ground, and at the same time, the smell of the coffin wafted out along the opening!
In an instant, everyone smelled an unusually unpleasant smell of medicine.
This kind of taste, like being forced into a pot of yellow lotus soup, is so bitter that the whole body is trembling, as long as you inhale it, it will stick firmly in the throat, no matter how much you swallow the saliva, they quickly retreated more than ten meters, not daring to go forward.
Yue Guanchao was afraid that it would be the scene last time, so he hurriedly asked everyone to bite the tip of their tongues, and each took a cloth mask dipped in water to cover their mouths and noses.
"Woo... Are you all right? ”
Yue Guanchao didn't feel the hallucinations in front of him and asked the others, and they all shook their heads.
Lu Fengjian covered his nose and muttered through the mask: "Ahem, cough, cough... We're all fine, but what is the smell of this medicine, people can't stand it. ”
Yue Guanchao shook his head at everyone:
"I don't know about this, but I think it's the corpse inside that is smeared with medicine, otherwise what we smell must be the smell of corpses, and it won't smell like this kind of Chinese medicine."
"If you're daring, you can follow me to see the coffin!"
Yue Guanchao took Ah Niu and Ah Hu back to the coffin, the smell of medicine was getting stronger and stronger, and he looked down at the coffin!
Only a few layers of thick dry straw were laid on the coffin board, and a white-haired old man in a shroud lay sideways in the coffin, his body curled up like a boiled shrimp and worm, and nothing else.
"It's so dangerous, I'm still thinking about zombies, but it's just an old man!"
Yue Guanchao breathed a sigh of relief, and Song Siyuan and the others saw that there was no danger, and they also had the courage to surround them.
"Why is this old man so dead?"
Hotaru's words reminded everyone present.
Song Siyuan also saw the suspicions on the corpse:
"If it's the end of life, there should be funeral goods, and the old man won't be curled up in the coffin like this, we have to pull this old man out to see what is going on with him."
After hearing this, Yue Guanchao was about to pick up the old man's body, but Utuman hurriedly took a shovel and opened him:
"You are in this offspring, you don't want to touch it with your hands, the corpse has to be deceived as soon as it is popular, and there is no good fruit to eat if the corpse is gone."
"Take out the black dog's blood hemp rope!"
Utuman took the hemp rope handed by Ah Niu, tied a knot around the corpse's neck, and then let Ah Hu Ah Niu pull it to the sides.
The corpse seemed to come to life, propped up from its coffin.
Just now the old man was sideways, they didn't really see it, at this moment his body was pulled up, and any subtleties were hidden under the flashlight.
The old man was not wearing a shroud, but a regular dress with an eagle and bird pattern, and his skin was like a shrunken black apple, withered and full of wrinkles.
The corpse was covered with small pustules, which turned into hard bumps after shriveling, and if you look closely, they are also covered with a layer of fine black hair!
The ears, eyes, and nose were swollen, twisted at a strange angle, one hand covered his throat, the other hand covered his stomach, and his mouth opened wide as if he was trying to scream!
Even if you don't look at these limbs, you can guess that he suffered a great deal before he died.
"The corpse only shrunk but did not decompose, and there was no particularly strong smell of medicine on the body, and the smell we smelled was not emanating from the corpse!"
Song Siyuan's eyes flashed, and she groped into the coffin wearing metal gloves.
As soon as he raised his hand, there was a pitch-black liquid on it, like melted brown syrup, sticky.
"I understand that it was the coffin that was smoked with medicinal liquid, which kept the body from decomposing for decades."
Song Siyuan continued to observe, the old man's neckline obviously had a few deep folds, and she untied the old man's clothes and looked at them carefully.
The black marks were not wrinkles, but scratches!
She shone the flashlight at the old man's nails, which had shrunk like chicken feet, but the nails seemed to have been worn off by blunt objects, and only a short section was left, which was embedded with black ash and flesh.
It can be expected that the nails used to be bloody and bright red flesh, and when she looked at the old man's neck and chest, she immediately understood where the blood stains in the nails came from.
A trace of unbearability flashed in Song Siyuan's eyes, and her tone became more and more low:
"I guess that this old man was nailed into the coffin alive, because the oxygen in the coffin is limited, the old man's heart is extremely depressed after running out of oxygen, so he can only scratch his throat and chest with his hands, until the flesh and blood in his chest are torn apart before he dies."
Although these people from the mountains and wilderness don't understand certain words, they can guess that they are suffocated by looking at the state of death.
The light in Utuman's eyes disappeared instantly, and he said with a gloomy face: "Later life, I think it's more than that, this old brother was still holding his stomach before he died, and it is estimated that he was poisoned, I'll try it." ”