Chapter 67 The Disappearing Corpse
My heart began to pound wildly. If it was just shaken open by the vibration just now, it would be okay. But if the coffin was opened by itself, then this matter would be serious.
Yuanxiao and I winked, so the two of us split into two directions and leaned over. Yuanxiao raised the flashlight, looked inside quickly, and immediately retreated. I saw his expression a little confused, frowned and turned his eyes, as if he was thinking about something.
I pulled him, "Hey! What did you see?"
Yuanxiao waved her hand and told me not to speak, then looked inside the coffin again. When she saw it, Yuanxiao couldn't help but say "Huh".
I didn't understand, so I called the flashlight and looked inside the coffin. Through the gap in the coffin, I saw that there seemed to be no corpse inside the coffin. This discovery also made me wonder. Although I was not a professional fighter, I still know the use of the coffin. It is impossible for such a large coffin to be decorated!
I turned to look at Lanxiao, "Have you seen such a coffin before?"
Yuanxiao pondered for a moment, "I have seen it, and some of the clothes and tombs are like this."
I asked, "What do you mean, is this a tomb?"
Yuanxiao shook her head, "The tomb of clothes and crowns are unable to obtain a corpse, so she had to use the tomb of clothes and crowns for her relatives to remember them. To put it bluntly, the tomb of clothes and crowns were forced to do it, mainly to leave a memory. However," Yuanxiao pointed to the surrounding environment, "Make a tomb of clothes and crowns in this place, who will come to worship here. The ancients emphasized that leaves fall back to their roots. This place is not a place where people live, so why do they be the roots! At least, this tomb of clothes and crowns should not be here."
I thought about it and said, "Maybe the person in this coffin is a descendant of this tribe earlier, so I took myself..." Before I finished speaking, I felt something was wrong, "What do you think is going on?"
Yuanxiao rubbed his hands, "This is simple, just open the coffin and look at it."
"This," Although I am very curious about this, I think it's better to have less than more things, so I said, "Lanxiao, forget it, let's not cause trouble!"
Yuanxiao reached out and took out the engineer shovel in his bag, "I said Zhuoran, you told me not to cause trouble. I've been messing with me all the time. Now I'm stretching my head and slashing my head. I don't bite you when there are too many lice, and I don't feel worried about the creditor. Even if you don't open the coffin now, you can't protect the person inside for a while and come out to find us. If you want me to tell me, you can get more money now, so that you can save you a lot of money!"
The boy Lanxiao said a lot of words, and the last sentence made his heart say, just for the underworld!
I think this situation is probably not going to stop it, so why not just let him go!
So I helped Yuanxiao turn on the flashlight. Yuanxiao carefully checked around the gap in the coffin lid. After confirming that there was no mechanism, he used an engineer shovel to penetrate. Since the coffin lid had been shaken open a gap just now, Yuanxiao pried aside in just a few strokes.
Now the situation inside the coffin was completely revealed in front of us, clearly and clearly at a glance.
Just like what we just saw, there is indeed no corpse in the coffin. There is one thing that makes us feel relieved, that is, the lid of the coffin was indeed shaken open, not opened by the things inside the coffin.
But there is a little weird. Except for the corpse, everything else in the coffin is very complete. Everything I said is really detailed, even the ring on the fingers and even the crown on the head are placed in the corresponding position. This looks quite weird, like a transparent person in an American movie. If it weren't for the frustrated clothes and boots, I would really think that the corpse would be invisible.
Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but say, "This is not really a tomb of clothes, right? Look at you, you have all the clothes and pants! These should be the relics of the deceased during his lifetime!"
Yuanxiao seemed a little nervous, "No, no! These should not be the relics of the deceased before their death, but should be relics after their death!"
"After death relic?" I didn't understand, "What do you mean?"
Yuanxiao pointed to the clothes and shoes, "Look at these clothes and rings, even if they were so strongly shaken just now, they were not distracted."
After Yuanxiao said this, I realized, "It is true that even the small ring is still standing at the bottom of the coffin. But why is that?"
"This is because they are all firmly stuck to the coffin."
"Sticking on the coffin? What sticks it with?"
Yuanxiao stared at the clothes tightly and gently spit out two words: "Corpse oil!"
"Corpse oil? What is it?"
"Corpse oil is a period of time after a person dies. Because the human body's ability to absorb and metabolic disappears, the corpse's decay has caused some oil to seep out of the skin and form corpse oil! When you look at the clothes at the bottom of the coffin, all of them are stuck by the dried corpse oil." Yuanxiao explained.
"That is to say!" I suddenly realized what Yuanxiao wanted to say. When I thought of this, I felt a cold sweat on my back. "What you mean is that there was a corpse in it at first."
"That's right!" Yuanxiao nodded, "But where is the body now?"
"Maybe, maybe it was carried away!"
Yuanxiao shook his head, "It is impossible. If the corpse is carried away, these clothes will inevitably be moved. Once these clothes are taken from these corpse oil and there is no more corpse, it will definitely not be stuck!"
"Maybe the corpse has rotted and dissolved!" I was trying hard to find some reasons that could explain these.
"Even if the meat is corrupted, the bones should still be there!"
"This," I couldn't say any other reason at once.
"Then there is only one possibility!" Yuanxiao said, "That is, the corpse inside disappeared for some reason!"
"This, how is this possible!" I think this is even more fantasy than a fantasy blockbuster!
"I don't think it's possible, but the facts are right in front of us. Apart from this reason, can you come up with other possibilities?"
I opened my mouth and closed it helplessly.
Yuanxiao turned around the coffin twice and reached out to get a jade ring inside the coffin. I waved my hand quickly, "Stop it! This coffin is so weird, let's not take it!"
"You don't understand this!" Yuanxiao pinched the ring and looked at it himself, "Now there is no body in the coffin, which means that the things in it are now unowned, so I took them!"
"There is corpse oil on it, don't you feel disgusting?"
"Disgusting?" Yuanxiao smiled, "Although these oils sound terrible, think about it, at least they do not have chemical gutter oil! Go back and wash, it is absolutely a good thing! Look at the quality and texture, you can take it out at least a price of hundreds of thousands." As he said that, Yuanxiao put the ring into his backpack.
I didn't expect this kind of thing to be so valuable. If you add the four pieces of Yuli dug up from the outer wall of the coffin just now, this kid must have made a lot of money now! No wonder he looks in a good mood.
I suddenly saw a wooden box in the coffin where the deceased had a crown. My heart moved because I had already discovered a wooden box on the back of the stone door that had just entered the tomb passage. So I was more sensitive to this kind of thing. I reached out and picked up the wooden box. This wooden box was a bit similar to the one just now. Could it be from the same batch?
When I opened the wooden box, there was a roll of brocade. I was very happy to see such a written thing. This kind of record was much more intuitive than those who read pictures. I carefully opened the brocade, for fear that it would be broken over time. Fortunately, it was preserved relatively well.
Lantern Festival also came over, and we were deeply attracted by the content on the brocade.
The content on this brocade is roughly as follows: During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Faqiu Gate accidentally discovered this tomb. After investigation, it was found that this place was the legendary land of the heavenly coffin. According to legend, there is a huge secret in this land of the heavenly coffin. If anyone can understand this secret, he can look at the eternal and look down on the way of heaven. It is such a legend that only the leader of the Faqiu Gate and the shadow of the Faqiu who is on par with the leader are qualified to know. But no one knows what the secret of the Heavenly coffin is.
Now that I have found the place of the Heavenly Coffin, I am only one step away from the shocking secret. How can the Faqiu Sect give up at the time of its decline?
The leader of Faqiu was really a genius, and he actually saw some tricks. As for what these tricks were, they were not mentioned in the brocade. It was just that this matter was of great importance and if it was not successful, it would be successful. At that time, Faqiu Zhiying tried his best to dissuade him, thinking that the time was not ripe, but the leader of Faqiu believed that the opportunity was not missed. So, he forcibly imprisoned Faqiu Zhiying and his wife, and the couple died.
The leader of Faqiu devoted his strength to the sect, but ultimately failed. Not only did he suffer heavy casualties, but he also caused changes in the bloodline of Faqiu. The leader of Faqiu declined from then on. Therefore, the leader of Faqiu blamed himself for his death. However, before the deadline, he made major discoveries, so he left clues and tokens here to wait for the future disciples to get it and restore the reputation of Faqiu.
The content on the brocade is very simple and a bit unbelievable. Many key points are not explained. Based on the content on the brocade and the engravings on the stone wall next to it, I speculate that the person in the coffin should be the leader of Faqiu back then. I just don’t know what he encountered back then, and even the body disappeared.
Lantern Festival and I couldn't help but look at each other.
Chapter completed!