The owl kiss pattern is engraved on the bottle, but the eyes as big as sesame seeds are not dead, but alive!
If you didn't look carefully with a magnifying glass, you wouldn't be able to find it at all. Who would have thought!
Turning up the brightness of the desk lamp, I carefully pulled out the toothpick.
The next second, an unknown black-red liquid suddenly flowed out from the eyes. I was startled and quickly let go of my hand.
The owl kiss pattern looks like tears of blood.
At this time, the desk lamp on the table became flickering. I took several shots of the desk lamp before it returned to normal.
There was a pool of dark red liquid dripping on the table, which was very thick.
I dipped a toothpick into some of the unknown liquid and looked at it closely for half a minute. Out of curiosity, I quickly licked a little bit with my tongue.
"Pooh!!"
I ran to the bathroom, turned on the faucet and rinsed my mouth.
Damn it, this is extremely pure mercury liquid! This is different from coffin liquid! It's highly toxic!
Similar antiseptic fluids were mostly found in Chu coffins in Chu tombs in Changsha during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The kind is not very toxic and its main ingredients are a small amount of mercury plus camphor wood powder plus cinnabar powder. I have also tasted that kind, and it tastes like sourness. He Qizheng drink, even if you accidentally take a sip, it will not kill you. It will cause diarrhea for two days at most.
This one is different. This is very pure mercury, and other toxic substances are also added. Drinking more than 1 gram may poison people.
I rinsed my mouth repeatedly and brushed my teeth three times. I felt that nothing was wrong. I hurriedly woke up the head who had just fallen asleep in the next room and told him this important discovery.
After looking at it, he was surprised and said: "It's strange, how on earth was such a good sealing technology made back then."
"I think it may have been blocked from oxidation by being submerged in water for thousands of years. Be careful with your head and don't touch it. It's extremely poisonous."
With his head and brows furrowed, he opened the window for ventilation, thought for a while and said to me: "Hurry up and buy three boxes of pure milk, and two pounds of eggs."
I quickly bought something and came back.
The head asked me to cut all the milk, pour it into a pot and heat it, then pour it into a leather bucket, mix the egg whites into the hot milk, and finally, use briquette tongs to hold the silver bottle and throw it into the bucket.
Soon the bucket was bubbling, and the color of the milk gradually changed, from white to light black.
Repeat this twice until the milk is of normal color.
I thought it was okay, so I stretched out my hand to take out the things, but stopped me with my head and said, "Wait a minute, let's talk for an hour."
It was now around three in the morning. Boutou and I sat outside without turning on the lights, and the atmosphere was very depressing.
I lit a cigarette and said with lingering fear: "Boss, I have a bad feeling. Yu Dingcheng warned repeatedly not to open the bottle. Do you think we have opened Pandora's Box accidentally?"
Since I didn't turn on the light, I couldn't see the boss's expression. I only heard the boss say: "Don't scare yourself. I've seen weirder things than this. At best, this is just a mercury mechanism bottle designed by ancient craftsmen. It is similar to The high-purity mercury at the foot of Lishan Mountain is nothing compared to it. Your great-uncle even escaped unharmed when he entered the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, so that’s nothing.”
After waiting for a while, we went back to the house and fished out the silver bottle. To be safe, I put on Xiaoxuan's double-layered rubber gloves this time.
After pouring a lot of pure milk through the small holes in the bottle, I finally figured out what was going on with the bottle.
It turns out that the mouth of the bottle is a fake, and the real secret of the bottle is at the bottom.
When water (milk) is continuously poured into the bottle along the Chiki's eyes, there is a device similar to a siphon effect in the bottle. The water presses down, and then it can be opened from the bottom.
This explanation is a bit blunt, but I'm not a physicist and I can't understand it. I can only say that you can refer to the siphon principle inside the Changxin palace lantern and just replace the smoke with water.
This design is very clever. As for the highly concentrated mercury liquid sealed inside for thousands of years, I guess it may be a protective method to prevent outsiders from opening it. Fortunately, I was well-informed and dealt with it in time, otherwise I might have been poisoned to death.
Don’t underestimate this kind of stuff. No matter whether it’s been a thousand years or two thousand years, as long as it has not evaporated completely, it will still be very toxic. If this kind of high-purity mercury was used to soak the entire corpse in the coffin in ancient times, it would be a very strong anti-theft agent. means.
The ancients did try to do this, but basically failed, because there is someone lying in the coffin, and corpse water will be released after death. A dead person can produce about 80 liters of corpse water, plus thousands of years of When it comes down, external water vapor seeps inward along the seams of the coffin. When mixed together, the original mercury will be diluted greatly, and eventually it will turn into a light red coffin liquid similar to that in the Mawangdui coffin.
It is conceivable that if there is such a high-purity mercury sea under Lishan Mountain, how toxic would it be?
I feel like wearing a gas mask is useless as it may directly corrode the skin.
The first thing I said was that my great-uncle escaped unscathed back then. It’s not that I didn’t believe in my great-uncle’s ability. It’s just that I couldn’t imagine how he could do it in that era of material scarcity.
Now using scientific instruments to check, the mercury content on the surface of Lishan Mountain is more than 600 times higher than the normal surface. This is because there is a sealing soil layer of tens of meters thick in the middle. If you go down to the underground palace, it may be tens of thousands of times higher than normal.
There is also a silver metal tube inside the Chiki silver bottle, and the surface is sealed with a layer of white paraffin wax. I pressed it hard with my nails and it fell off.
Please be careful not to damage your head. This metal cylinder is a bit like a smaller version of a prayer wheel. Because it is well sealed, it looks like it is newly made. This is what the "Lao Sai Xin" brand in the industry refers to. Look, people with weak eyesight would not dare to recognize such things.
There are exquisite patterns engraved on the surface of the metal cylinder, which seem to be pictures of Buddha's sermons. There are several people wearing robes around the audience. It is impossible to tell whether they are men or women from their faces.
Opening the metal cylinder, we finally saw what was sealed inside.
This is a "bone" with a curved surface and two honeycomb-shaped sections. It is yellow-white in color and has a light luster.
My eyelids twitched slightly and I said, "Head, these are human bones."
"Well, it's between the eyebrows." Boutou said.
"It's not a monk's." I said.
Nod your head in agreement.
Sealing human bones into silver objects reminds me of some customs in Zangmi. We don’t know whose eyebrow bone this is, but it most likely does not belong to a monk.
If it belongs to a monk, then the metal tube will be embedded with seven treasures, such as opal and tourmaline.
Not all Manichaeans are monks, there are also many ordinary people. When Manichaeism was introduced to the Central Plains, they first wanted to move closer to Buddhism, but Buddhism at that time did not recognize each other and did not let them play. Later, Manichaeism began to move closer to Taoism. Taoism initially ignored them. Later, under the pressure of the rulers, Taoism also began to expel Manichaeism. Finally, Manichaeism disappeared underground among the people and disappeared completely after the mid-Ming Dynasty.
If calculated based on historical time, Zhejiang during the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties can be regarded as the home base of Manichaeism, and the later White Lotus Sect also originated from here.
I had no choice but to overturn my previous judgment again. This silver vase was not a sacrificial vessel, but a burial vessel. This bone probably belonged to an important figure in Manichaeism in the Song Dynasty.
Now that we have reached the most critical moment, as long as those words are translated, we can probably know their identity.
"Botou, do you think the original owner of this bone was a man or a woman?"
He raised his head and frowned and said, "It's more likely to be a man."
The heads are as I expected. Most of the people with a bulge in the middle of the brow bone and concavities at both ends are men.
"Can't you find someone who can translate this word?"
He sighed, shook his head and said, "It's very difficult to find it."
It was the end of 2006, and the systematic study of this type of writing in China only started after the famous > was unearthed, and that was a few years later.
I stood up, put out the cigarette butt, and said excitedly: We must find out who this Lord is, no wait! I’ll take a trip to the Tang Dynasty! "
