Chapter 158 Pearl powder

"What are you talking about?"

Lao Bai didn't hear what I muttered clearly and immediately asked questions from the side.

I repeated that sentence again, looking at the pottery figurines and the statues on the altar with shining eyes, and said softly: "I vaguely feel that this place is very important, and it may be related to the resurrection of those two evil creatures!"

"This kid is a little crazy."

Lao Bai curled his lips and said with a smile: "Do you really believe what the snake spirit said? Is it possible that dead things can really be resurrected?"

I shook my head and didn't explain much.

Not all the words of the great wizard are false. It is true that he tested the Gu King, and it is true that he wants us to do things for them. Regarding the last wish of the Donghu survivors and this tomb, there is no need for it to make up random things. After all, this is

In its view, it is their biggest bargaining chip, provided they truly believe that those two evil beings can stir up trouble.

"Ghosts are really afraid of worship.

If it's just for future generations to pay homage to the ancestors' spiritual tablets, it's fine, and there may even be some benefits. But ghosts are ghosts. If there are more people worshiping and the incense is strong, it's easy for something to happen!

I have heard of such a thing before. An unclean person has cultivated an immortal body, is not afraid of the sun, and is not afraid of the law. He has sneaked into the temple and lived on the Buddha statue. When the world worships the Buddha statue, it is equivalent to worshiping him.

He got it, and he almost got it in the end, but the master used all his skills to kill it!"

Brother Yaozi shook his head and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "What the great wizard said is indeed interesting. It seems that these two evil creatures, since Donghu who can deceive him regards them as gods, must have some skills, maybe they will die.

Resurrection is not something that is impossible to achieve.

Jingzhe, please ignore Lao Bai and continue talking!"

I nodded, and based on what I saw and heard along the way, I expressed my guess.

I always had a vague feeling that these two evil objects did not look like things from outside the customs, but rather seemed to have flowed over from the mainland.

The reason is very simple. The great wizard once said that everything here originated from the wisdom of the great god Coiled Snake. In other words, many of the methods in this tomb were passed down from the great god Coiled Snake.

The nomads in the past did not take matters of life and death so seriously. Therefore, their civil engineering technology, secret passages, and Feng Shui gates in tombs were far less rich than those of Zhongyan. The earliest talcum rope we saw was this kind of mechanism.

It was born in the Central Plains and appeared in the late Warring States Period.

Since this technology was brought by the Great God Coiled Snake, one can naturally guess the origin of this thing.

Next up is this pottery figurine!

Before Xiewu passed away, he said that as long as there are still people who believe in me in the world, I will return one day.

So, the role of these pottery figurines in this tomb is similar to that of humans!

There are people who are so particular about it, it’s also the Central Plains!

The Chinese have been a farming nation since ancient times and have a particularly deep affection for the earth. When it comes to playing with mud, no one in the world can play better than the Chinese.

Early printing, ceramics, etc. were all related to mud!

In Chinese myths and legends, it was the Empress Nuwa who molded people out of mud, unlike in Nordic myths and legends, where Odin carved people out of driftwood from the sea.

Pottery is made of clay, so in a sense, pottery figures can represent people, especially in tombs.

After entering the feudal era, the rulers believed that human martyrdom would waste a lot of population resources. After it was banned, it became a tradition to bury people with pottery instead of human beings!

Here, the pottery man worshiping the statue is equivalent to someone believing in him and worshiping him. Although the effect is not as good as that of a living person, the key is to last. Who living person can kneel here like this for two thousand years? And a nation whose country has been destroyed and its family has been destroyed.

, at the last moment, I am afraid there is no time to promote their faith and let more people worship. Using pottery people instead of living people to worship here for two thousand years, the accumulation will be extremely rich, and it is probably the best choice.

"It's just that I still can't figure out what the old fox wants to do by taking so many people from the pastoral area?"

I puzzled and said: "According to their routine, so many pottery people have been worshiping here. Believe them, the souls of those two evil creatures should be immortal and manifest sooner or later. They can just be honest

Just wait, why do you have to catch some living people when you have nothing to do and attract the attention of the Xuanmen people outside?"

"There may be some things we have overlooked. It's not that simple."

Zhang Xinya frowned and said: "The old fox and the Moluo corpse have not appeared yet, and the last queen of Donghu whom the great wizard mentioned, we have not seen her coffin, which means that this is not the end of the tomb.

Those two evil beings have so many plots. They don’t just want someone to miss them after death so that they can live forever in the world without reincarnation. Their plot should be even bigger!"

I nodded, and in my heart I agreed with what the other party said.

Unknowingly, we have walked into these pottery figurines and walked step by step towards the altar, where we may find something else.

"Oh my god!"

Suddenly, Lao Bai yelled and jumped back suddenly. I was frowning and thinking about everything I had discovered along the way. Without any precautions, I was stepped on by him, and I felt like my big toes were all numb.

He was about to be crushed into a piece of meat. Tears of pain filled his eyes involuntarily. He pushed Ya away and angrily scolded him for having eyes on his butt.

"It's not... living... living..."

Lao Bai shuddered, his lips were trembling, and his trembling fingers pointed at a pottery figurine next to him.

I glanced at it subconsciously and couldn't calm down anymore.

The face and figure of this pottery figurine should be that of a woman. There was a stone lying next to it. It was obviously the one thrown by the old man. It happened to hit the front of the pottery figurine, and a large piece of pottery shattered. However,

The bottom is not empty...

To be precise, there is a person inside!!!

Because the broken pottery was in the front jaw, I could see jet black hair and a smooth forehead!!

This scene was really too scary. Several of us thought that something evil had happened again, and our hair stood on end and we backed away one after another.

But where can we retreat to?

This stuff is everywhere here!!

However, after a brief panic, it was Lao Diaoye, an outsider, who noticed something was wrong for the first time and whispered: "Don't you find it strange that if it is something like a zombie, the body should have signs of decay?

, but look at this one in front of you, it doesn’t look like a corpse, it looks like a living person, the kind that is particularly well-maintained, with white and tender skin!”

After he reminded me like this, I stopped looking around. When I thought about it carefully, I realized that it was the same thing. So I held the Heavenly Official Blade in one hand to be on guard, and gradually got closer to the pottery figurine in front of me. When I saw that the other person was still kneeling motionless,

There, he reached out and knocked the other person on the head.

Dangdang!

The voice coming from the other party's head was very clear.

I raised my eyebrows and touched the other person's forehead again.

Very slippery...

But this kind of slipperiness is not the slipperiness of human skin, but is as slippery as porcelain. When I raised my finger, I found that it was stained with some white powder. I brought it to the tip of my nose and smelled it. There was no corpse.

It's smelly, but it does have a faint aroma.

This aroma is hard to describe. It is a bit similar to the pearl gouache sold in Jiangnan water towns, but the smell is very light...

"This is indeed a human being!"

I thought about it and said, "It's a kind of processed corpse!"

When it comes to the preservation and embalming of corpses, there are many methods, including removal of internal organs and pickling.

But there is one method that is the most advanced, but it has been lost.

It’s not that this method of preserving corpses has been lost, but that the material is no longer available.

This kind of material is called pearl powder.

The so-called turtle has nothing to do with the alligator we are talking about today. It is a land turtle that has been extinct for more than 2,000 years. It is pure white and does not occasionally turn albino. It is born this way and has always been regarded as sacred.

This kind of white turtle is very interesting. Some tumors will continue to grow inside their shells. The texture is like stone, which is definitely not comfortable. These tumors will constantly rub against the flesh and blood of the white turtle, gradually forming a kind of

Orb.

This formation process is very similar to the formation of pearls. This kind of beads is called pearls, and pounding them into powder is called pearl powder.

However, pearl powder is different from pearl powder. It cannot be used for beauty. On the contrary, it is a highly toxic substance. When mixed with water and made into a paste, it will be poured into people's mouths.

All microorganisms are completely killed and will eventually penetrate from the epidermis to form a glass-like crystal!

In the past, some people used bead powder to preserve corpses. The corpses treated with this stuff will have crystal clear flesh and blood, and the appearance of death will be very beautiful. As the saying goes, one white can cover up all ugliness. All the dirty bacteria in the body will be killed, the skin will be clear, and ugly monsters will become adults.

She is so beautiful, and because of the glass-like crystal on the body surface, the body can be preserved for thousands of years without any problems!

Unfortunately, the white turtle has too strict requirements for the living environment. It is said that this kind of thing is only a short-lived thing in NMG. Because of the unique climate of NMG, it once created a unique landform two thousand years ago, which is a calcareous and heavily alkaline form.

Nothing can grow on this kind of soil, and nothing can survive except white turtles. Unfortunately, desertification is rapid. After turning into a desert, the white turtle's habitat was destroyed, and it became extinct.

In the past thousand years, no one has seen anything like this.

The corpse in front of me was obviously treated with tamarind powder, but I don't quite understand its effect. Could it be that it can enhance the power of the pottery figurines?

"Then the body is still fresh? Is it the same as when it died?"

Lao Bai asked curiously: "Do you think it's still warm inside?"

"Why are you curious about everything?"

I said angrily: "Everyone is desperate, can the heat be preserved?"

Lao Bai smiled and seemed to want to try, so he poked the eyeballs of the pottery figurine. Unexpectedly, the pottery pieces there were very thin, like cicada wings, and after pouring the bead powder into the corpse,

The crystals formed in the eyes were also very thin. When he poked it with his finger, it could be said that it went straight in. With a "pop", he poked it in, and dirty blood immediately flowed out.

Probably even he himself did not expect that such a situation would happen. He looked up at us in a daze and said in a voiceless voice: "It's really hot, it really has body temperature..."

After saying this, he seemed to have thought of something. He immediately squatted down and put his ear to the chest of the pottery figurine. In an instant, his whole face drooped and he cried mournfully: "Damn it, this is not a corpse. It's not just a corpse."
Chapter completed!