"As long as it's complete, it's okay. He's dead anyway, maybe he can still live."
Yue Guanchao scratched the back of his head, unable to understand Lu Fengjian's riddle.
"Why didn't the big rat we encountered just eat the corpse inside?"
When Lu Fengjian said this, Yue Guanchao's heart skipped a beat, and he finally realized: "What you mean is that there is something wrong with the body!"
"Yes, let's see what this corpse is?"
Yue Guanchao opened the smelly shroud, and the corpse that appeared inside shocked the two of them.
"Who is this? His whole body is covered with scales. He must be a monster."
Yue Guanchao looked at the corpse covered with scales, so disgusted that he couldn't even look at it.
"No, this should be a python coat, but it is covered with scales made of shells."
Yue Guanchao observed carefully and found that the thing on the body was indeed a python garment sewn from python skin. In order to create the impression of a dragon, it was covered with shells polished into ginkgo leaves, which looked exactly like the scales of a dragon.
From a distance, it looks like a demon covered in snake scales lying in the coffin, exuding an evil aura!
Yue Guanchao looked at the corpse that died in such a strange way, lowered his head and muttered: "It's strange, it's strange. I've seen people wearing dragon robes before they died, but I've never seen people wearing python clothes."
"This matches the coffin. It seems to be for some kind of ceremony."
When Yue Guanchao looked at him, Lu Fengjian continued to explain:
"You still remember the totems we saw at the bottom of the coffin. After looking at these corpses, I realized that this kind of ritual is probably related to dragons. Otherwise, we would not have found the python-clothed corpse sac in the dragon coffin."
While he was talking, Lu Fengjian helped him turn the python garment over completely. When he untied the python garment, he found a naked mummy wrapped in it!
If you look closely, you will see that the mummy is about the size of an adult, with black and blue skin all over its body, its eyes tightly closed, and its eyes, ears, mouth, and nose all dried and sunken inward.
Before he died, his hands were intertwined in front of his heart. The muscles of his body had shrunk, and the surface was covered with mercury spots. There was nothing on his body except a layer of linen gauze.
When I got closer and smelled it, I found that the corpse had an unpleasant medicinal smell, which was exactly the same as the smell of the female corpse figurine.
This shows that Lu Fengjian's guess is correct. These slave mummies were treated with secret medicine before death, and the whole body was completely dehydrated to be preserved in the coffin for so long.
After Yue Guanchao browsed the whole body of the mummy, he turned his attention to its belly.
The belly of this corpse was like a round bulging bag, obviously bulging into a ball shape, and it looked like a belly that was five months pregnant.
"Is it possible that the slave became pregnant before being buried?"
Yue Guanchao looked at his slightly bulging abdomen and could only guess that!
"No, if you look at the facial features of the mummies, the ones with more protruding mandibular angles are usually men."
Lu Fengjian's words only made Yue Guanchao even more curious. He winked at Lu Fengjian and said, "If you want to make sure whether it is a boy or a girl, you can only tell by looking at the crotch!"
Just as he was told, Yue Guanchao pushed aside the gauze on the body and took a closer look below the belly and above the thighs. Sure enough, there was something that all males had hanging on it.
As the tulle was untied, the lines on the green and black belly shone in the darkness.
Yue Guanchao knelt down and took a closer look. He saw that the bulge in the belly of the male corpse was sewn with a wound circle the size of a basin, just enough to completely cover the bulge. The belly was inlaid with the Sushen Heavenly Book spelled out in silver.
"Since it is not a female corpse, it means that it is not pregnancy. What is in the belly of this male corpse is not sure."
He looked at the abdomen of the male corpse, his curiosity was at its maximum, and without stopping, he picked up a dagger and cut open the belly of the mummy.
"Ugh, it tastes so good!"
Yue Guanchao endured nausea and opened the sutured wound. He originally thought that the abdomen of the male corpse would have gastrointestinal, liver, kidney and other organs, but he did not expect that everything inside had been completely removed. What held up the belly was a human arm. The size of a dried eagle's claw!
"Is this an eagle talon?"
Lu Fengjian was not sure. Yue Guanchao wanted to turn on the flashlight to see clearly, but when he thought about the horror of the female corpse figurine, he gave up the idea.
He took out his eagle talon and looked in the direction of the grotto. There was indeed the smell of birds.
"Yes, it is indeed an eagle's talon. It's so good. Sewing the eagle's talon into the belly is not a big deal!"
Yue Guanchao didn't understand. Lu Fengjian stared at the eagle claw for a long time, then thought of the dragon claw at the bottom of the coffin, and immediately connected the two.
His breathing became heavy: "Guan Chao, I guess there are corpses like this in every coffin. The only difference may be that the things sewn in the belly are different."
"Think about it, the image of a dragon is a collection of animals!"
Yue Guanchao knew this very well. He blurted out: "Hump head, deer antlers, crocodile legs, horse mouth, turtle eyes, snake neck, fish scales, mirage belly, fish spine, tiger paws, eagle claws, goldfish tail."
"Eagle Claw?"
The two people looked at each other and instantly understood the meaning of the eagle claws in their bellies.
Lu Fengjian looked at the corpse and told the most likely situation:
"From the eyes, ears, nose, and tail to the scales and claws of the tail, if you want to build a complete dragon body, you must put the organs of different animals into the belly of the male corpse. I think this will also require so many coffins. s reason."
"This altar has a real purpose. It uses different animals to create a dragon's body, probably for sacrifice and to summon spirits."
"Let's see if there is anything else. Can we determine what this body is?"
Yue Guanchao moved the body away, groped under the coffin board, touched a cold copper piece with his hand, and pulled it out with great strength.
"This is a copper slip!"
Lu Fengjian looked at the copper slip. This copper slip was about the same size as a fan. Thanks to the slow air circulation in the coffin, the copper slip had not oxidized much and looked golden. The ancient inscriptions on it could be seen clearly without light.
"Dragon Vein Spiritualist!"
Lu Fengjian seemed to have encountered a strange heavenly book. He took these ancient texts into his eyes verbatim. After reading the copper slips, countless gleams flashed in his eyes:
"I understand the function of these coffins. They seem to be summoning the soul of the dragon. So the really important part must be the dragon head."
"Furthermore, there is one point mentioned in the Dragon Vein Soul Resurrection Ceremony - once the soul summoning is completed, the dragon's body in the coffin will crawl out of the coffin and combine into a real dragon."
"but."
Lu Fengjian changed the subject: "Since these corpses have dried completely, it means that the soul summoning ritual has not been completed. The dragon vein soul summoning ritual mentions that if you want to start the soul summoning again, you must sacrifice the woman's soul and restart the soul summoning ritual."
"Sacrifice...the woman's soul?"
When Yue Guanchao heard this, his heart pounded, and the hairs on his back stood up unconsciously. He finally understood why those female corpse figurines wanted to arrest Song Siyuan and Aying.
If nothing goes wrong, the two of them will be killed to be sacrificed to the entire altar, and the spirit summoning ritual will be restarted.
As for what kind of disaster will happen after the Dragon Vein Soul comes out, none of them knows!
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