Chapter 28 Swamp Floating Corpse

The winding Tomb Road Mountain Road has eighteen bends. The mileage just traveled alone adds up to at least twenty miles. However, it is a zigzag route, so what is the actual straight length? Everyone It’s also unknown.

After walking for a while, the road began to open up a bit, and the three people who had been walking at a constant speed looked happy: there was a change, which meant there was nothing strange, and it was finally a series of unlucky things that cleared up and saw the moonlight.

But before everyone was happy for a long time, the smiles on their faces instantly solidified, because the originally smooth tomb passage turned into pits again. Wogua took a deep breath and carefully said, "Let's gently, gently - "

Li Lvyan and Black Glasses were also afraid of encountering the fatal chase just now, so they began to slow down and prepare to move quietly. This time it was a bit special. There was a black and transparent color on the bumpy wall, which was obviously not the same as before. leech.

Wo Gua walked at the end, feeling itchy in his heart. Seeing that Li Green Ant and the black glasses were not looking at him, he couldn't help but want to reach out and prick him, but he was afraid of being sucked by the unknown object again, so he learned a lesson and picked up a little bit with a Luoyang shovel. In front of me, this challenge didn't matter. The original species tribe suddenly lost a few members, and suddenly the quiet wall suddenly became frantic, which was exactly the same sign before the giant leech chased after him.

"Wogua!"

Li Lvyan shouted loudly and discovered Wo Gua's sneakiness. Wo Gua was already feeling guilty. The hand holding the Luoyang shovel shook. In an instant, the Luoyang shovel fell to the ground. His voice was crisp and he raised his head stiffly. His black glasses looked a little helpless. , the sound of a huge thing running was heard in the distance again, and the three of them stared at each other, having a premonition that something was not good.

Li Lvyan glared at Wo Gua, "What are you doing standing still? Run away!!"

Not long after he ran, Wo Gua seemed to have thought of something, so he turned back and carefully held the Luoyang shovel with a missing corner in his arms. When he looked up, he saw a huge, transparent, spineless, snake-like thing with a little bit of white. Wu Ba, whose body was densely covered with hanging hook teeth, attracted all the descendants he met along the way. His face turned pale for a moment and he ran away in panic.

Seeing Wo Gua, who was lagging behind and trying to catch up, Li Lvyan shouted, "Wo Gua, what time has it been? Why are you still stunned?"

Wo Gua hugged the Luoyang shovel and said, "Didn't you say that you should take it out well and give it an award after it goes out?"

What the hell - Li Lvyan was angry and funny. Wo Gua looked back at the thing again, scared out of his wits and said, "Holy shit, what the hell is this thing!"

Li Green Ant looked bad. "If I guessed correctly, this should be Acanthus, whose scientific name is Acanthocephalus suis. It is an invertebrate pathogenic parasite. This parasite is infected by vertebrates, namely After being swallowed by the terminal host, the acanthus prolapses in the intestine, burrows into the intestinal wall with its mouth, and matures. It is an acanthus that can parasitize both animals and humans."

Wogua frowned, "This thing looks like a joke, but it actually has a name?"

"I took biology as an elective in college. Parasites in animals can cause host lesions in animals, so you have to recognize some simple parasites and learn how to effectively control them."

Li Green Ant solemnly said again, "Speaking of which, this time we will be chased by the pig giant rhinoceros. This is the first time we have grown so big. We have been chased for several miles by an invertebrate coelenterate. You, nest Comrade Gua, you must take full responsibility, and you can no longer act rashly without instructions from your superiors!"

Wo Gua agreed wholeheartedly, but immediately forgot about it. Everyone was panting from exhaustion and ran for a few more miles. Finally, they got rid of the Acanthus swine. However, when they looked up, they finally reached the eighteenth point of the mountain road. Turn around and come to a very strange place.

The reason why I say it is weird is because this place is completely out of the scope of the tomb and is a large swamp-like land.

Li Lvyan looked back at the dark passage: After coming out of there, there was no shadow of the tomb here at all. It should be said that it had been gone for a long time.

There was a smelly liquid in the swamp, and there were some unknown objects floating under the swamp, but they were pressed down by something like hay, and I didn't know what they were.

The swamp is difficult to navigate, but there are still many strange rocks stuck in the center of the swamp. The distance between them is very close, but you can pass by just lifting your feet.

The three of them looked at the road under their feet and moved forward step by step with flashlights shining on them. They moved very slowly, but they did not dare to walk faster in this strange situation for fear of falling into the swamp and sinking.

Wo Gua slapped his nose in front of his nose with a Luoyang spatula, "What does it smell like? Why is there a smell of cow dung in the water for cleaning the pot?"

Li Green Ant stood there for a while and said, "It's the fermentation gas of microorganisms. It contains the combined smell of methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen and other gases. It's strange. Is it because something is fermenting under the swamp?"

Wo Gua pursed his lips, "What is that? What can be found in this damn place? In addition to the fermentation of corpses, is there Korean kimchi or Northeastern rice?"

As he talked, he jumped onto a flatter stone and began to use a Luoyang shovel to push away the garbage on the swamp surface, as if he wanted to see where the source of the smell was.

"This smell," Li Green Ant sniffed, "is more like the smell of an animal's stomach."

"Stomach?"

Wo Gua laughed loudly, "Do you mean that there is some kind of animal's stomach under this swamp, which is fermented for us to smell?"

Li Lvyan rolled his eyes and saw that Wo Gua would remain stubborn no matter what he said. He immediately said, "Of course, the stomachs of animals are occasionally exposed. For example, the Australian Daigo will cut its entire stomach when it yawns." If exposed, the frog can vomit out the entire stomach and stuff it back intact after eating something poisonous or dangerous insects.”

Wo Gua held the Luoyang shovel in his hand and paused. Even with his black glasses, he couldn't help but glance at Li Lvyan, "You really fucking studied biology."

"This is another elective study of animal behavior that I took, and it is not the same concept as biology."

Well, when this dung beetle got some color, he opened a dyeing room. Wogua decided not to encourage Corporal dung beetle’s extravagant, lewd, galloping arrogance, and said viciously, “Even if there really is such a weird frog down here, still The convulsing pelican is turning its stomach out for us to see. It is at least as big as the leech king just now. I will turn it out for you to see!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wo Gua rolled up his sleeves and pushed away the floating objects on the surface of the swamp. However, he tried his best and found that he couldn't push them away. "This thing is quite heavy."

Wo Gua yelled "Oh yo" and used a Luoyang shovel to pick up the large lump of stuff that looked like wet garbage and threw it aside. He stopped to look at it and was startled, almost falling into the water.

I saw a soaked and white corpse, like a plastic ball. When the covering and restraints on it were gone, it immediately floated up quietly, as if to say hello to someone.

Wo Gua looked scared, fearing that the water ghost was going to jump out and claim his life. He tremblingly crawled towards the black glasses in front of him, "Boss, help, help, the water ghost is here to claim his life."

Water ghosts are the souls of dead bodies that linger in the place where they drowned, and are transformed into water ghosts by the Yin Qi in the lake. Then wait patiently in the water, seduce, or directly force the living person into the water to drown, thereby acting as one's own substitute for reincarnation. This is called "scapegoat", which mostly occurs in rivers, lakes and seas. However, there is another kind among the people. According to legend, water ghosts are called "water monkeys". They are actually vicious animals that are extremely powerful in the water, but become powerless when they get ashore.

The dead body in front of him now has its eyes closed. It is at least twice as fat and very swollen. Moreover, Li Green Ant observed that the yin energy and fluctuations in its body have disappeared for a long time. It does not look like it can get up, but it is nestled. Gua was already shivering and hiding behind the black glasses. Apparently, when a disaster was imminent, he still felt that the black glasses were more reliable.

Black Glasses lived up to his expectations and walked straight to the floating corpse. He put on his gloves, grabbed the front of the floating corpse, rolled it around in the water, and looked at it carefully.

So violent.

Li Lvyan and Wo Gua couldn't help but swallowed when they saw that Black Glasses was so rude, but at this moment Black Glasses muttered, "It turns out that you have been here a long time ago, and you died here."

Um? Li Lvyan, who keenly grasped the unusualness of this sentence, turned his head and looked at Black Glasses. Black Glasses focused his gaze on the floating corpse and asked tentatively, "Do you recognize him?"

Black Glasses threw the rotting corpse away, took off his gloves and put them away properly, and said with a half-smile, "Don't you know him?"

What? Wo Gua came closer as if he was listening to a book from heaven. Li Luyi was questioned very strangely by this sentence. He carefully looked at the motionless floating corpse and suddenly said in surprise, "The dress of this floating corpse——"

Wo Gua also yelled, "Corporal Shit Beetle, why is this floating corpse another guy wearing a jacket?"

Li Lvyan shook his head and took out a photo from his pocket to confirm. The seven people in the photo were standing in a very regular direction. Two of the four people in the back row who looked like bodyguards were dead, and the faces of the two next to them were dead. He could also see clearly that although the floating corpse in front of him was swollen from being soaked in water for many years, the appearance of this man: it was him, there was no mistaking it!

"It's the guy in the photo!"

Wo Gua stretched his head over and saw that it was indeed the case. He was surprised, "It's true, we only got here after fighting many dangers. How could there be anyone in this world who could go deeper than us?"

Black Glasses said coldly, "Don't you understand when you see this man dying here?"

Wogua shrank his head and looked at Li Lvyan, who solemnly said, "This shows that they are taking two completely different paths from us, and to a certain extent, their path may be the right one. We We have hit many dead-end roads by mistake. No one was allowed to pass through this dead-end road. If it weren't for the black glasses, we would have died long ago. In other words, the road we took was simply wrong."

Wo Gua's face froze, but his black glasses had already begun to check other floating objects in the swamp. Apparently he felt that there was a lot to study in the swamp. Wo Gua hurriedly pulled Li Lvyan's sleeve and said, "They're leaving." It’s the right way, why do people still die here?”

"I don't know. Maybe even the right path is accompanied by risks and uncertainties. Maybe I died of uneven distribution of spoils and was killed by my companions. It was a coincidence that I entered this swamp."

Black glasses stood aside and said calmly, "You are far away and you can't see clearly. The cause of his death was a bullet in the heart, which is the most fatal."

Heart?

Li Lvyan was surprised, "But as for mercenaries——"

"Yes, the heart of a mercenary is the most delicate and deadly place. Generally, he is not the most trustworthy partner and will never expose his heart. Therefore, this man's death has nothing to do with the tomb of King Guangling itself. It is Due to the massacre of people who entered the tomb passage together, it was only by coincidence that they entered here after the body was discarded."

Wogua and Li Lvyan fell into deep thought: There are seven people in the photo. If all seven of them entered the tomb of King Guangling, excluding the two who died in the Heavenly Reincarnation Technique and the one here, then there are still possibilities. There are only four murderers left.

Wo Gua put his head in and said, "By the way, Corporal Dung Beetle, what did you say was the cause of death of those two people?"

"It's a normal death, not due to physical injuries. It doesn't look like poisoning, because if most poisons enter a person's body, the bones will also show color to a certain extent after death. It's not like a shot like this. It was fatal, so I didn’t tell you the cause of death at that time.”

Black Glasses moved when he heard this sentence, but did not speak and continued to move.

The group of people who originally broke into the tomb of King Guangling had nothing to do with the three uninvited guests. Now, it was a good thing that they had become a special task force. Even who the murderer was had become a cloud weighing on their minds. open.

Li Lvyan took another look at the photo. It was a little wrinkled. Although it had been waterproofed, the paper in the middle was also a little separated and spread out. His expression suddenly changed, and he wiped his waist with his left thumb without leaving any trace. .

Wo Gua keenly caught this and suddenly shouted, "Corporal Shit Beetle, why are you rubbing your pants? Are your underwear so tight that you have misplaced herpes?"

The suspicious look from the black glasses made Li Lvyan angrily, "Can the herpes be misplaced? Can't I just scratch my itchy stomach?"

"Then why are you scratching your belly and scratching your waistband?"

"The trousers I prepared according to your size were too big. I found a belt to tie it on. It was too tight to make it itch. You said nothing when I scratched it. How many troubles did you cause along the way? Isn't it quick? Go help Black Glasses?!"

Wo Gua asked and was physically attacked twice. The boss reluctantly moved to the black glasses and began to stir the floating objects on the swamp. After a few words and a few words, Li Lvyi finally breathed a sigh of relief and removed the picture. I pinched the corners of the photo again and put them in place.

It has nothing to do with anything else. The photo just cracked in the middle and his thumb got a little ink. Li Lvyan was surprised, but he immediately thought of the most likely possibility: there must be words written with an ink pen in the middle of this photo. I don’t know. Why did I faint and rub some of it on my fingers?

Li Lvyan originally thought that the people in this photo had nothing to do with him, but it involved Wo Gua's father and three unnamed corpses, and the first one from the left in the first row looked a little refined. When you are angry with a man, you can't help but feel a sense of familiarity and closeness. This feeling of closeness is by no means unreasonable. It is very likely that you have met this person yourself, or that this person is related to you by blood.

Except for Professor Jiang and the villagers who established Qiushi Primary School, Li Lvyan has no real relatives in his life. He seems to be an isolated person who has lived alone and helpless for decades. Suddenly he met How could he ignore a being that might be related to him? Everyone in this photo must get to the bottom of things when they go back!

He walked to Wo Gua's side as if nothing had happened. Wo Gua was a bit awkward and didn't want to rely on him because of what Corporal Dung Beetle had just said. Li Lvyi smiled helplessly: This Wo Gua's heart is too honest.

Black Glasses never turned his head from beginning to end, but a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Several floating corpses were salvaged one after another. Most of the corpses that followed were dressed in Han Dynasty clothes. There was no floating corpse like the abnormal person just now, so there was nothing new about it.

Several people changed their positions several times, but still couldn't find any clues. Wo Gua yelled, "This can't be a corpse raising place. When is this Han Dynasty, why don't these corpses rot?"

After asking about the idea in one sentence, Li Lvyan guessed, "It may be because of the water. I found that the water is somewhat similar to a liquid that is completely saturated with formalin. It should be like a corpse, and it is not easy to decay in it." .”

There are only two ways to prevent a corpse from being quickly corroded and rotten by the natural environment. One is the cryogenic preservation method, which is to put the corpse in a freezer. However, although this method is convenient, it cannot be preserved for a long time, even if it is a lifeless thing. There will also be problems, let alone a corpse with a complex circulatory structure; the second method is the formalin preservation method, which only requires 3% to 5% formalin solution, which is poured into the blood vessels of the body through the aorta of the body. , or soaking in a solution can be used for long-term preservation.

Wo Gua listened to a lot, grasped the key points, and his eyes lit up. "If this is really the case, then wouldn't I be able to live forever? Now that technology is so advanced, when I make money in the future, I can soak my cells in Fore In Marin, a hundred years later, I will still be a good man!"

Li Lvyan laughed and said, "Immortality is just a myth. Everything dies as soon as it is reborn. Besides, formalin is poisonous. Cells soaked in formalin have no use value. They can only be used as specimens and cannot be frozen." Preserving cells for too long is a condition for the mature technology you just mentioned. There are indeed companies that preserve embryos, but they are usually used to freeze eggs or sperm for life regeneration, which has nothing to do with immortality. "

Wo Gua was a little discouraged, and Li Lvyan patted him on the shoulder, "If you are proud of life, you must enjoy it to the fullest. Don't let the golden bottle stand in front of the moon. Why live for so long? In the past few decades in this world, I have experienced so much happiness and feelings. After birth, old age, illness and death, life is no longer in vain. If you really live forever, it will be a kind of pain."