This time, the wooden coffin in the middle was revealed.
The wooden coffin in the middle is not big, wide at one end and narrow at the other. The wood is painted with red paint. It is estimated that when the ancestor died a few hundred years ago, he should have passed away.
The middle layer was very easy to work with. The fourth uncle stepped forward and cut out the wooden wedges on the coffin board, and then knocked on the coffin board with a hammer.
"It's ready to be opened. Everyone, please stand away." The fourth uncle felt a little hesitant in his heart. The movements of his hands paused for a moment, and then he turned to Chen Yulin and asked, "In the tomb of the ancestor of your Chen family, there should be There aren’t any hidden weapons or poisonous gases, right?”
Chen Yulin recalled for a while: "I've never heard of that. How about... open it with a tool and let's move back a little distance?"
The fourth uncle nodded, and then used a rope to block the coffin board: "Everyone, please step back some distance."
In the end, a few of us hid on the edge and pulled the rope hard with the fourth uncle.
"One, two, three, harder!"
There was just a roaring sound, and the coffin board was pulled away directly by us, and as expected, as soon as we said it was too late, the moment we pulled out the coffin board, the inside of the coffin immediately flew sideways. Shoot out several jet-black needle-shaped hidden weapons!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The fourth uncle's eyes widened, he grabbed Liu Ruxiang's and mine's arms, and jerked us back.
"Bang!"
In the blink of an eye, there was a crashing sound on the wall behind him.
The pitch-black needle-shaped concealed weapon flew onto the wall, instantly creating a shower of sparks.
My heart tightened, and by the time the God of Return came, a cold sweat broke out on my back.
Fortunately, the fourth uncle acted quickly and had an eye on it in advance. The flying needle concealed weapon just shot at an oblique angle of 45 degrees. This position is quite tricky. If the method of using a rope to pull it away is not used, there is a high probability that it will shoot. When it comes to our own people, I feel scared when I think about it.
When the dust settled, a group of us loosened the ropes in our hands and turned around to look for the few steel needles that had been shot out.
We looked at the wall with flashlights. The jet-black steel needle hit the wall and suddenly hit the granite stone wall, directly breaking a stone the size of a thumb.
"The power is amazing. After hundreds of years of time, this mechanism still has this power. It is simply incredible."
"That's right. Fortunately, the brother from the Liu family warned me, otherwise I would have had two more holes in my body."
When Chen Guangge said this, he seemed to be accusing Chen Yulin.
Old Chentou was speechless: "It's been a long time since it happened. This is the first time for me, a descendant of the Chen family, to come to the ancestral land. Please forgive me, forgive me!"
Everyone stared and waited for a while, until there was no movement inside the coffin box, the fourth uncle dared to be the first to step forward to check.
As soon as the fourth uncle walked up, his eyes widened and his mouth opened wide, staring at the contents of the coffin with a look of disbelief!
We slowly moved closer around the coffin. We hadn't seen the scene inside the coffin yet, but when we looked at the expression of the fourth uncle, we were all a little dazed.
"Fourth uncle... you, what did you see?" I asked, unable to suppress my curiosity, I rushed forward in three steps, and my eyes immediately widened.
I just couldn't believe it, a lifelike old man with a kind face was lying in this coffin.
However, her body had already lost its movement early. Compared with the coffin lying under her body, it looked lifeless. No one could connect it with this living old man.
I know, that's why the fourth uncle was surprised.
I couldn't help but get closer and take a closer look.
If such a person is lying in a coffin, is he alive or dead?
When I realize this problem in my heart, I can't help but admire and feel unbelievable again.
Chen Yulin came up and was stunned: "Why is this happening? Is this my ancestor?"
Chen Yulin looked at it carefully and couldn't help but wiped his face: "My descendants and this ancestor do look somewhat similar."
We looked at him and the people inside the coffin, and we all nodded.
The Chen family of this lineage have a very similar feature, that is, a straight nose bridge. Unexpectedly, our ancestors hundreds of years ago looked like this.
"It's so lifelike. Why on earth can it remain like this and its body not rot for hundreds of years?" I looked at it again and again, and couldn't help but ask questions in my heart.
The fourth uncle leaned down, carefully observed the body in the coffin, and finally explained: "It is said that in the northwest region, there is a Buddhist practice of special secret methods. After the death of the enlightened monk, his body will not rot and will not fall down for hundreds of years. "
Chen Guangge nodded, and continued what the fourth uncle said: "It takes less than two or three days after an ordinary person dies for his body to begin to rot and swell. After four or five days, his body will be infested with maggots and be bitten by maggots. It will probably last for dozens of years." After a few days, the oil mixed with blood and water in the body will drain out, leaving only the skin, skeleton, and non-perishable hair and nails."
Chen Guangge's expression changed again and again, and finally he looked at the body of the ancestor of the Chen family and suddenly shook his head.
We all looked at him and continued: "A few years ago, I was invited by a friend to visit a well-known Buddhist holy place in the northwest region. In the temple, I paid homage to the image of an eminent monk. After passing away, his body was placed in the main hall for worship. Nearly a hundred years have passed, and the body is still incorruptible and the treasure is solemn."
"However, according to my speculation, the Buddhist golden body dharma is definitely not that mysterious. I later asked that friend for advice. He told me that the enlightened monk would start preparations one or two years before his death, and finally At the end of life, when you are about to die, you will not eat or drink, you will scrub your body with medicinal soup every day, and you will also be exposed to the sun in order to reduce the water content in your body."
"When he finally dies, the disciples in the temple will carry his Dharma image to the outside world to be exposed to the wind and sun. As everyone knows about the climate in the northwest, the fruits hanging on the trees can be dried easily, and the monk's The same goes for the body. After being exposed to the sun until it becomes dehydrated, it is then smeared with oil, honey and other things, and wrapped in a cassock, to ultimately ensure that the body does not rot."
I suddenly realized: "It would be better to say that the body is not rotten because the body is dehydrated and dried out."
Chen Guangge nodded.
"However, as far as I know, our Chen family did not have such a secret method before, and there is no such secret method in the entire Lingnan region."
Chen Guangge's family is a branch of the Chen family in Shuanghu Town, but they were taken away later, so they also know some secrets from the past. And according to the facts, the old man lying in the coffin is also his ancestor.
Chen Yulin also nodded.
"I'm sure of this. Anyway, I have only heard about various methods of preserving corpses since I was a child. I have never seen such a miraculous situation."
"Even if it is refined into a zombie, the body will change."
Everyone had not recovered from the shock, and they couldn't help but praise.
But at this moment, I was staring at the corpse in the coffin. I looked at the face and the chest of the corpse. Why do I always feel that there is some strange smell somewhere?
Soon...I discovered something was wrong!
The old man in the coffin seemed to have some movement in his body!
I suspected that my eyes were dazzled, so I couldn't help but move my body forward, and then stared closely at the old man's face, looking at the wrinkles on his face, the patterns and buttons on his coat, I stared at it carefully He stood there, holding his breath, afraid of being dazzled by the slight shaking of his body.
Chen Yulin saw my condition and felt something was wrong.
"Boy from the Liu family, what are you looking at so closely? Is this your ancestor?"
I ignored him, but the more I stared at him, the more doubt and fear I felt in my heart.
"Humph, Chen Yulin, our children from the Liu family have contributed a lot when they came here. What happened to the long experience?" The fourth uncle was arguing with Chen Yulin, and I didn't want to talk to them.
I couldn't believe it, shook my head, and turned to look at Liu Ruxiang: "Master, something is wrong. This corpse is still moving!"
Only then did I realize that Liu Ruxiang's attention had not been diverted and she had been staring at the body in the coffin.
Liu Ruxiang slowly put her finger to her mouth and made a "shush" gesture.
At this moment, something was wrong between our master and apprentice, which made other people realize that there might be something wrong with the corpse in the coffin. They didn't dare to talk nonsense and stared at the corpse to observe.
Next, all of us stared with our eyes wide open, looking in disbelief at the old man's chest that suddenly rose and fell in the coffin, as if he was breathing!
Resurrection from the dead?
Impossible, absolutely impossible.
We were just thinking about why a person's body could remain intact for hundreds of years, but now, we all have a terrifying thought in our minds. After a person dies, it will be very difficult for the dead body to remain intact!
However, what if this person is not dead, but is a living person, breathing evenly and having blood flowing all over his body, his body will not corrupt out of thin air anyway?
As for the old man's body in front of him, although his face was yellow, his whole body didn't have the pale color of a corpse at all!
Why, is he really not dead?
There was no food or drink in the coffin, and there was no trace of excretion or urination. This is not normal at all!
However, we have another reasonable explanation, that is, the ancestors of the Chen family hundreds of years ago may have used some kind of secret method of immortality. This can also explain why Liu Ruxiang summoned the soul before, and the soul of the ancestor asked us to open the coffin!
Because he wants to come back to life!
