Zuo Shisan walked around from behind the black shadow to the front step by step.
He took two steps forward and shined a bright flashlight on the dark figure's face. A strange human face with an oily sheen appeared in the light of the bright flashlight!
The expression on the person's face was a bit ferocious. The ferocious and terrifying expression seemed to be frozen on the face without any change.
When Zuo Shisan saw this, he knew that the person in front of him was definitely not a living person, so he took a few steps closer again and sprinkled the cinnabar powder in his hand on the person.
The red cinnabar powder was like a big net, covering the man's body all of a sudden.
The cinnabar fell, but the person in front of him still showed no reaction, and the ferocious expression on his face never changed. When Zuo Shisan saw this, his curiosity prompted him to start moving closer.
As the distance got closer and closer, the ferocious expression on the man's face became more terrifying. Zuo Shisan was basically certain that the man standing in front of him was a long-dead corpse.
Male, thin, about forty years old.
The entire body of the corpse seemed to be completely wrapped in a transparent wax.
On the face of the corpse, wrinkles are clearly visible, the eye sockets have been completely sunken, the eyeballs have shrunk into a small white ball, the mouth is wide open, and the hands are stretched forward, as if they are trying to grab something before dying..."
Thirteenth person from the left saw this man’s clothes and equipment, he must be a tomb robber.
Seeing this, Zuo Shisan was a little surprised. He couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that there were tomb robbers who found the tomb of the King of Dian before us?
Zuo Shisan was looking at the corpse in front of him and thinking deeply, when the old bald man's voice suddenly came from the other side:
"Young man, have you seen it clearly? What on earth is that?"
Zuo Shisan looked across and shouted:
"There's no danger, come here, it's just a dead body."
After hearing what Zuo Shisan said, the Miao girl Ling'er came over with everyone.
When they saw the strange male corpse clearly, a look of confusion appeared on everyone's face.
Why is a tomb robber wearing modern clothes sealed here with wax?
If we follow common sense, no matter what, it is absolutely impossible to kill a living person with a wax seal without controlling his body.
Even if the wax juice is poured all over the person's body, it will take time for the wax juice to solidify, and the living person will continue to struggle to wipe the wax juice off his face and body.
Therefore, if you want to kill a person alive with a wax seal, your body must be completely immobilized and cannot move or struggle before it can be completed.
But the wax-sealed male corpse in front of us had no restrictions on its limbs at all. So what method was used to kill him by wax-sealing him?
Shang Yunsu, Zhao Man and others also frowned after seeing clearly the wax-sealed male corpse.
At this moment, the old bald man walked up to the male corpse, stretched out his hand and put it on the male corpse's face. He gently touched the transparent wax on the male corpse's face, then put his hand under his nose and gently touched it.
After taking a slight sniff, the expression on his face froze instantly:
"Ling'er, there's something wrong with this... there's something wrong with this wax!"
When Ling'er heard what the old bald man said, he immediately asked:
"What's wrong?"
"This...this is mermaid wax!" the old bald man said.
Everyone present was stunned when they heard "mermaid wax"!
Whether it is Zuo Shisan and others, or Ling'er and others, they all know what mermaid wax is.
Since the Han Dynasty, the ancients like to use wax made from mermaid oil to completely seal their corpses when they are buried. This not only ensures that the corpse will not rot when it enters a vacuum state, but they also superstitiously believe that mermaids have the ability to attract people.
The ability of people to rise into the air, this can ensure that the souls of their victims after death will rise to the sky as soon as possible and will not fall into the eighteenth level of hell.
The so-called mermaid is just a giant dragon fish in ancient rivers, similar to the ancestor of today's human-faced fish. This kind of dragon fish is huge, with rough skin and thick flesh. Because its huge head resembles a human face, it is refined into a mermaid.
The fish oil that comes out is also called mermaid oil.
The price of this kind of mermaid oil was comparable to gold at the time, and it was priceless but not marketable. Therefore, many fishermen on the riverside went crazy to hunt and kill dragon fish in order to make a profit. In the early Tang Dynasty, there were no records of live dragon fish...
If it is true, as the old bald man said, that the wax sealed on this man's body is made of mermaid oil, then...then where did this mermaid oil come from?
Now that the dragon fish has long been extinct, could it be said that the tomb robber was sealed to death by the human oil remaining in the tomb of the King of Dian?
But this explanation is too far-fetched.
"How is that possible? Mermaids have long been extinct!" Zhang Rong said.
The old bald man sneered, with a complicated expression on his face:
"Perhaps we shouldn't have come to the Tomb of the King of Dian."
Linger looked at the old bald man and asked:
"Lao Ye, do you regret it?"
The old bald man shook his head and said:
"The capital has already come down. There's no point regretting it now. If we can't find the Dian King's Seal this time, do you think the boss will let us go? I can see that he is bound to get the Dian King's Seal this time.
."
The strong man also nodded and said:
"That's right, the boss has spent a lot of energy on this operation. We had everything under control, but who would have thought that Qingyou of the Dragon and Tiger Sect would show up halfway."
Ling'er's red lips moved:
"I want to see if this mermaid oil is really as rumored. It can be burned with just one drop. A few drops can burn it for three days and three nights."
"Ling'er, are you going to set this corpse on fire?" the old bald man asked.
Ling'er nodded and took out a talisman from his body.
The old bald man stopped him quickly:
"Don't worry, maybe we can find some clues from this person."
As the old bald man spoke, he pressed the male corpse's head with one hand and used the inner strength in his body to shake all the mermaid oil sealing the male corpse to the ground.
When Shang Yunsu saw this scene, he couldn't help but gasped. This old bald man's cultivation and internal strength were far superior to his own. It seemed that the three people sent by the Nine-Headed Buddha were not good people.
I'm afraid this time it will really fall into the hands of these three people.
The old bald man searched the man's body and found a black token from his backpack.
"It turns out that he is a corpse exorcist. He has been chasing dead corpses all his life, but in the end he was mummified alive. It's really interesting." The old bald man said, throwing the black token on the ground and preparing to search again.
, Linger suddenly said:
"Old Ye, something is wrong!"
When Lao Ye heard Ling'er's words, he immediately stopped what he was doing:
"What's wrong?"
Zuo Shisan said for Ling'er:
"This dead man doesn't seem to be dead!"
Zuo Shisan said this because he saw the nails on this man's hands. The nails on the ten fingers continued to grow after his death, and even began to curl. If it were a normal person, the nails would never grow after death.
Longer.
And the most important thing is: the male corpse seemed to be grinning just now!
