Chapter 158: Shadow Bone
I saw the fat man with the “body rope” will be the ancient corpse’s neck hooked, swung his arm round “pop pop pop pop”, ruthlessly smacked the ancient corpse five loud big slap, I hurriedly stopped him, listening to him say odd, then continued to ask: “You! Are not eating too much, beating people to death to do what?” But then thought, previously fat man in the “tongue drop”, could it be that it is still not completely removed, but also left something, I think that the owner of the set of “witch clothes”, was also killed by the King of献王, is not she transformed into a ghost, attached to the body of the fat man, in order to sneak into the palace of the darkness, like that When Wu Zixu’s behavior, flogging the body to vent their hatred?
Thinking of this, immediately raised his hand to strip off the fat man’s gas mask, look at his eyes, there is nothing special, but then heard the fat man said: “here moisture smoky, why do you strip my gas mask?” Said snatched back, and put on the face, continued: “I said Hu Commander, Yang Chief of Staff, you do not see it? You see this ……”
Fatty pointed to the coffin in the ancient corpse’s head, words just said half, only to see that eyeless ancient corpse’s head, suddenly in the body shook three, shook three shakes, only to hear the “thump” sound, but fell down, just fell to the edge of the “stone spirit ghost coffin”, stone spirit smooth Like ice, a little stay, and then rolled to the ground of the wooden coffin.
The three are all surprised, this stone essence made by the ghost coffin closed very tight, and is not unusual than the coffin, yin qi extremely heavy “stone essence”, although it is regarded as ominous things, but its unique cool attributes, can be extremely well preserved the original appearance of the body, open the coffin to see that the ancient corpse whiskers, muscles have not been shriveled and spoiled, most of the water in the body are also locked in which there is no rotting and drying. Locked in which there is no sign of rotting and drying, how this head is so not strong, fat man this few slaps although fierce, but also never possible to even the head off?
The fat man is also very strange, immediately dropped on the ground of the head held up, only to see that the head of the skin is beginning to gradually turn black, which should be due to the “wooden coffin” in the humid air environment, on the long term put to the closed environment of the ancient corpse, produced a rapid oxidation effect.
Fatty said: “how so not strong fight? It is to pull down, should not pull off ah?”
Shirley Yang took the ancient corpse’s head from the hands of the fat man: “Let me see.” Then asked the fat man: “What did you want to say just now? We didn’t see anything?”
Fatty said to Shirley Yang, “Oh, that …… I said did you not see what I was just doing? According to the fortune-telling blind man said, when they were fighting, encountered fresh corpses, they have to use the rope to bind the body will be wrapped around it, hard to whip it a few mouths, do not do so, the body of the convergence of the clothes, as well as coffins in the Ming ware, they can not come out, when he said these times, we are in the dinner together, you should have heard it, I would like to show you, the dumplings of the head, with the living in general, it is right to First whip it a meal, who would have thought that even as a paper mache, gently touch it off.”
I nodded: “So you are saying this thing, fortune-telling blind man is so said yes, but that is the means of those who they do that is in order to give themselves the courage to hold down the dead body, as for not draw the dead slap, convergence of the service of the Ming ware will not be able to take the statement, that more or less a bit of self-deception, and the object of the new death of the people who have just been buried in the graves, you do this is really redundant, I announce that from now on you will be dismissed from your post as deputy commander.”
Fatty wanted to argue, but heard Shirley Yang holding the ancient corpse’s head and said, “Don’t you argue, quickly come to see this head ……” said the head on the lid of the coffin, let us watch.
I went over to look at two eyes, the ancient corpse’s head in this short period of time, another layer of blacker than before, it looks extremely horrible, especially the two eyes are deeply sunken, making it look like a pitch-black skeleton, the edge of the eye sockets, there is a circle of spiral crimson blood traces, due to the fact that this head is constantly turning black and drying up, I only looked at a glance, and all those traces are gone.
Ancient tomb coffins in the body, I have not seen much, full count, only the black wind mouth of the tomb of the golden man, the entrance to the jungle in the Valley of insects in the jade coffins, that one of the body immersed in blood, I see the head of this ancient corpse, in addition to the eyes were gouged out outside, can not see what special place, asked Shirley Yang said: “Inspection of the ancient corpses, I’m not in the line, do you think that the Is it possible that this is the head of King Xian?”
Shirley Yang said, “It is difficult to determine whether it is King Xian, you just saw, the head of the eye frame, there are traces of blackened torture, there is a kind of torture device in ancient times, shaped like a wine glass, inside the teeth of the rotating knife, placed in the eyes of the people a turn, can be alive all the eyeballs gouged out.”
Fatty and I nodded at the same time, two years ago I saw an exhibition of ancient Tibetan customs in Beijing, in which there was a bowl for plucking out the eyeballs of a living person, but those artifacts were from Tibet, so it turned out that the mainland had the same kind of torture instrument in ancient times, but why was this ancient corpse plucked out of its eyes while it was still alive? And why would be converged in a heavy Yin Qi “ghost coffin” in the middle? No one other than the royal family would be buried in the King’s Tomb, so who is this ancient corpse?
In addition, I also found that the ancient corpse’s head, there are traces of being cut by a sharp instrument, but not like being decapitated, but after death was cut off, it seems that this is not the fat man’s hand is heavy, will be the ancient corpse’s neck broken, the human head was originally spliced into the body, and do so in what reason? Could it be that ancient Yunnan has this custom of cutting off the head after death and pressing it again?
I suddenly thought of a possibility, just for the time being can not be asserted, must first look at the “ghost coffin” in the body in order to further confirm, so we gathered in front of the coffin, I let the fat man holding a flashlight to illuminate the hands of Shirley Yang and I, with the paratrooper knife to cut the layers of white brocade wrapped around the corpse, the Han Dynasty king has a jade ( also known as the jade box) custom, the king has a jade jacket (also known as the jade box), the king has a jade jacket (also known as the jade box) custom, the king has a jade jacket (also known as the jade box). Han Dynasty kings had the custom of jade clothes (also known as jade box), with cool and moist jade antiseptic, and this ancient corpse is wrapped tightly with white brocade, but the head exposed to the outside, which is very outrageous.
Those white brocade also began to be damp mold erosion, the more to the inside, the more difficult to peel, in the stifling heat of the gas mask, the tip of my nose are sweating, finally Shirley Yang to assist, finally will be layers of shrouds completely dismantled and peeled.
In peeling that several layers of white brocade, I have noticed that the feel is different, but see the situation inside, the flashlight beam shines into the coffin, will countless golden light reflecting to the smooth stone spirit shows, dazzling golden light hooked soul, the heart is quite surprised, how could it be like this?
Shrouded corpse in the white brocade, is a golden skeleton, in addition to the spine and waist and crotch, still retains a few pieces of human bone, the rest of the part, are made up with gold, without a trace of flesh and skin, this half-bone and half-golden cavity, it seems to be due to the corpse of the bones of the degree of decay is too high, almost all turned into the air of the mud, and then artificially organized and put together again to create a set of gold bones.
This gold glittering bones, and that by the fat man knocked down the head, formed a sharp contrast, a fast rotten without, need to fill the bones with gold, how that the human head but not the slightest decay? If we say that because we dismantle the body shroud white brocade, resulting in rapid disintegration of the body, instantly disappeared into the air, but also absolutely no reason.
Shirley Yang said to me, “Old Hu, look at the neck of this golden bone, there is a jade hoop, is used to connect the head, just now by the fat man a slap, the jade hoop off, only to cause the head to fall to the ground.”
The fat man immediately said: “Yang chief of staff or you Ming play, if not this commander hand force pinch just right, can not be so easy to find the secrets of this ancient corpse, this body of gold bones, mortals where to consume, I see this is the dedication of the king of that old thing.”
Shirley Yang not to can not, just pointing to the golden skeleton said, “The left side of the ribs are missing a few, seems to be intentionally did not fill …… up.”
When I saw that I already had a clue here, I said to Shirley Yang, “This is obvious, this is to maintain the appearance that the skeleton was subjected to the extreme punishment of hollowing out the heart in its lifetime, it seems that the ancient corpse in the ghost coffin is a body put together with the owners of the three coffins in the chamber, we have already thought of it earlier, three sets of alien coffins of different periods are sealed with the three great nobles who have been subjected to the extreme punishment of death, and they Although they were executed, they were still enjoined to enjoy the same burial system as their status in life, and they were all recognized as King Xian’s past lives, indicating that he had gone through three prisons, and that they were the shadow bones he left in the underworld before he became immortal.”
Since ancient times, “Confucius has benevolence, Laozi has Taoism”, Taoism specializes in refining pills and cultivating qi, in order to seek proof of Taoism to become immortal, and to get rid of the pains of birth, old age, sickness and death of mortals, but immortality naturally is not something that can be obtained by waiting for an idle time, if you want to take off the skin and change the bones, it is not as simple as peeling off the layer of skin, and you must go through several major catastrophes, which are not something that can be forced on you, so Some of the people in the door of the Taoist, they look for their first three lives of the bones to do generation, buried into the Yin cave as a shadow bone, in order to show to heaven and earth, they have been through three prisons, enough to be able to get rid of the bones, in this way, the birth of the immortal would have counted on.
It seems that King Xian is doing this, the “wooden coffin” under the tomb of the netherworld represents the underworld, the three corpses of the tortured part, put together a complete double here, and the three corpses, because they are recognized as King Xian’s first three lives, so there is no difference between them and the person himself, and they are also placed in the main tomb.
Shirley Yang thought more or less the same as I did, and said to me, “Maybe there are different meanings symbolized by each layer of this chamber, the middle layer represents the earthly world, while the wooden coffins underneath represent the netherworld of nothingness, and there should be another layer of the chamber above the chamber, which represents the Immortal Mountain, on which King Xian’s real corpse lies.”
I said to Shirley Yang and Fatty, “What we have just said is just a hypothesis, or should be further confirmed, to this kind of king’s tomb that cultivates immortality and seeks longevity, not many people have seen it, it seems that there are mysteries everywhere, why don’t we first find out if there are any other things in the coffin that have any informational value, and now that we have already finished looking at the head and the body, and that the stone essence can keep the corpse immortal for a thousand years, the corpse’s state should be the same as the immortal mountain. So the state of the bones of the corpse, should be consistent with the original appearance in the respective coffins, I think the head is so well preserved, it must be from that superb eight-inch plate of the cellar coffin, the middle section, the bones are all blocks of rotten without, only had to use gold to make up for it, more than likely, it’s the remnants of the bones in that sarcophagus, and the dan lacquer outside of the sarcophagus is sealed later.”
Fatty said: “this patchwork of body bones, only the legs left we have not seen, may be what is worth the line again.”
I think that’s unlikely, the legs are from the huge bronze coffin, the first two prisons were “plucking out the eyes” and “pulling out the heart”, then the third prison must be the most horrible “capture the soul”. That’s why the master in the bronze coffin is so fierce and evil. I peeled off the white brocade wrapped around the legs of the bones and asked Shirley Yang and Fatty, “Do you know what is soul snatching?” Shirley Yang said, “What is soul snatching?”
Shirley Yang said, “It seems that in the Shang Tang period, there is a kind of witch torture can draw away the soul of the living person, the remaining body, it becomes a walking corpse that is neither alive nor dead, but exactly how to do it, there is no record in history, and it is still a mystery, that kind of mysterious witch torture is soul snatching?”