Chapter 172: Autopsy

When the prince saw that I was about to approach the headless floating corpse, he immediately became even more nervous. He grabbed my wrist and said in surprise: "You don't want to die? Are you kidding you?"

I smiled slightly, knowing that he would not give up without explaining it clearly, so I pointed to the floating corpse and said, "Look, this thing has been floating for so long and has not attacked us. This means that it is just a dead corpse, not the roar you said. And look at the magnitude of its swaying, one in front and one behind, it is very regular, just like the pendulum of a big clock. It is obviously not its own swing, but the naturally swaying after being smashed by you." Then I added apologetically: "I was so fussy just now, I'm sorry for everyone."

The prince stared at the floating corpse for a while, as if he felt something was right, but he still frowned with suspicion, and then said again: "It's still wrong, then where did my six-sided seal go? Even if it doesn't work, it should have fallen to the ground. But not only did it not fall, it disappeared instead. Do you think it was swallowed by it?"

I pointed to the belly of the floating corpse and was about to speak when I heard the bearded man answer first: "Its belly may be empty, your thing should have fallen into its belly." After that, he flashed suddenly and ran towards the position of the floating corpse.

After running near, he didn't stop at all, but instead rushed faster and faster. Then he soared into the air and took three steps on the left edge of the door opening. He saw his whole body lifting three times in the air. After the third step was finished, he had already jumped to a height of seven or eight meters.

When everyone was amazed, they suddenly saw his wrist trembling and throwing a silver thread from the collar lock out. With a "hiss" sound, the silver thread was like a sharp blade, and it slashed over the head of the headless floating corpse. Then the floating corpse sank and fell from the air without any effort.

The bearded man's movements were almost at its peak. After running up, pedaling, jumping, and swinging a series of movements, it only took a few seconds. When his feet fell to the ground, we were still in the original posture and did not move at all. The prince's hand was still holding my wrist, but there was a lot of slippery sweat between his palms.

Seeing that the bearded man was safe and sound, I smiled slightly and raised my chin at the prince, meaning: "Look at what I said right? You're looking at me again this time." Then I broke free from the prince's palm and rushed to the position where the bearded man was.

After running near, I squatted bearded man next to the headless corpse and checked. Although I didn't dare to reach out to touch it for the time being, the two strong lights of the flashlight were close to the corpse, and the whole picture of the mummy appeared in our eyes.

This was indeed a headless mummy, and all the parts above the neck were gone, only that circle of extremely strange and huge wounds were still there.

The clothes on this person's body were completely ruined, and only a simple armor was still hanging on his chest. However, due to his age, the leather armor had already oxidized and decayed. Just touch it with a finger, some fragments of residue would fall from it.

I gently lifted the arm of the mummy with a dagger and found that there were signs of introspect at the top of its five fingers, and the marks on its nails also showed a sharp triangle, which was extremely similar to the shape of the blood demon's claws. It seemed that it was the corpse of a blood demon.

The bearded man also saw the special palm. He immediately looked bright and whispered: "It's the blood demon! Who killed it? And the people who hunted the blood demon also came here?"

I shook my head slightly, feeling that this matter would not be so simple. Then I lifted up the armor on the chest of the corpse, and below the armor was its hollow abdominal cavity. All the internal organs had dried up, but among the shrinking internal organs, there was an extremely long thin line extending out. The thin line extends from the abdominal cavity to the outside of its body. Looking along the thin line, I found that the thin line finally wrapped around the shoulders of the corpse, tied a knot behind it, and continued to extend upward for more than half a meter.

My bearded man and I looked at the thin line for a while, and suddenly pointed at the thin line and shouted in surprise: "It's the intestine!" It turned out that the thin line was the entire intestine of the corpse. I don't know who was so vicious. He actually used his intestine to wrap around his entire body, and then hung it high at the top of the cave door. As the corpse was dry, the intestine gradually shrank and thinned, and finally formed a dark brown thin line, which was extremely difficult to detect in the shadow. If I hadn't understood the swaying rules, we might still think that this was a flying corpse.

The bearded man looked at the mummy for a while and could not tell the truth behind it. I knew that he was not very good at this kind of thing. Not to mention him, even I was confused. This kind of thing must be examined by Ji Wenhui, and perhaps some available clues can be found from it.

So the bearded man and I returned to our original place, carried Ding Yi and Ji San'er into the cave door, and then gave up the position next to the body, leaving enough space for Ji Wenhui's work.

Since Ji Wenhui has confirmed that the floating flying corpse was a misunderstanding, she is no longer as scared as before. After all, archaeology is her job. In the past few years at the Archaeology Institute, she may have faced many unknown ancient corpses. She has long been used to the work of examining corpses.

She looked around the corpse without saying a word, then nodded slightly, as if there had been a new discovery. Then she pointed to the armor of the corpse and whispered: "This is the breastplate from the Qin and Han Dynasties. Judging from the workmanship and shape, it should be worn by the southern soldiers. If it were the northern soldiers, the upper part of the breastplate should be able to protect both shoulders. But the weather in the south is stuffy and the breastplate is made into that shape, which will cause sweating in the armpits, and the soldiers will feel very uncomfortable. Therefore, most soldiers in countries or tribes located in the south use this shape of breastplate as protective gear."

Then she pointed to the wound on the neck of the mummy and said, "The wound here is quite special. The incision in the first half is flat and smooth, as if it was cut by some kind of sharp weapon, and the second half becomes uneven, as if it was forcibly pulled open by a huge force. In other words, this person may have first cut a huge wound by a sharp blade, and then his head was twisted off."

Then she turned her gaze again, returned to the chest of the corpse, pointed to the withered internal organs and said, "Basically all internal organs are still alive, and the intestines are used to surround his body as a suspended tool, and the rest of the internal organs have been air-dried and petrified. But there is only one important organ that has disappeared, which is the heart. Judging from the damaged traces in the heart, this should have been pulled down by someone after they were opened and used very primitive means to pull the heart off."

After saying that, she put on gloves and fumbled in the hole in the mummy's abdomen for a while. Then she put something out from below her abdomen and held it in her hand and saw that it was the six-sided mark that the prince had just thrown out.

Seeing that his spell hit a wall again, the prince had to cry and took the six-sided seals over with a sad face. Then he walked aside in a disappointment and stopped participating in the discussions he had connected.

I laughed in my heart that he was really a childish person and always had troubles over such things. But at this time, there was no time to play with him anymore. The most urgent thing was to determine the identity of the dead body and the situation in the cave.

I discussed a few words with the bearded man and Ji Wenhui in a low voice, thinking that the dead body must be a blood demon, and that the time of death was not the near future. Judging from the degree of drying of internal organs and muscles and the degree of air drying, it should at least be consistent with the dynasty of the clothes he was wearing, about two thousand years ago, or even further away.

The blood demon's way of death was very special. Not only was it twisted off its head, but it also broke its belly and pulled its heart down. That's not all, it also had to hang its intestines in the air. The viciousness of the method was simply horrifying.

This is obviously a method of showing public opinion. In ancient times, using tortured corpses to show public opinion was a great shock and an extreme humiliation to the deceased. I wonder if this blood demon committed a very serious criminal law? Or did some kind of evil and evil, so he was punished by King Jiulong? However... for the blood demon, what else can be considered a heinous crime?

I really didn't expect that just when I thought I was about to solve the mystery of the Nine Bridge Hall, such a bizarre mummy broke out of thin air. This not only defeated my confidence, but also completely overturned my understanding and judgment of this place.

However, things must continue to progress. Gao Lin wants to find them, the strange caves must be advanced, and the turtle stone must be eliminated. The current plan is to take one step at a time, and to complete the things to be done quickly, and the rest can only be left to be studied slowly in the future.

After the agreement, we ignored the strange mummy and prepared to go into the cave to investigate according to the plan. However, when the three of us stood up, we found that the prince was not close and we didn't know where we had gone.

I was so shocked that I was sweating in a cold sweat, fearing that he would disappear out of thin air like last time. So I quickly glanced outside the door and found that there was no figure of him outside the door. Then I hurriedly ran into the hole a few steps, and at the same time surrounded my hands around my mouth and made a trumpet shape, and shouted inside: "Bald! Bald!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the prince's voice came from the cave: "Stop calling! Come here quickly! There are still a lot of dead bodies here, all exactly like that dead body!"

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