Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 808 Human Head Mushroom (4000)

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Without any lessons learned from the past, Wu Liang couldn't judge what the patterns of these vegetation and branches and this seemingly ordinary but not ordinary bird inscription really meant.

With such doubts in mind, Wu Liang turned around and waved to everyone outside the door: "Mister, Mi Er, you two come in first."

So when Yu Ji and Zhen Mi came to him, he pointed to the pattern on the bronze tripod and said: "I have never seen the pattern on it, and it is very different from the inscriptions on gold inscriptions in the pre-Qin period. I have seen a lot, but where or when have I seen such a bronze inscription?"

"hiss……"

Yu Ji stared at these patterns for a moment, but he just shook his head and said, "I have never seen such an inscription in gold, don't say that this bronze tripod must have been cast in the Spring and Autumn Period of Duke Ai of Qi or earlier, it is now There is no such inscription in gold."

"No."

Zhen Mi also shook her head, and answered rather briefly.

"Since this is the case, I can only put this matter on hold for now. Perhaps there is an answer I want in the depths."

Wu Liang had no choice but to skip the questions on the inscriptions on the bronze inscriptions, and began to look at the things inside the copper tripod.

The aroma that everyone smelled before obviously came from this bronze cauldron, because when Wu Liang came here, he had clearly felt that the indescribable aroma was slightly stronger.

But this fragrance is not pungent, but gives people a rather fresh feeling.

Besides, Wu Liang didn't feel any discomfort for the time being, and the big rooster was still in good shape until now, and the color of the comb on its head didn't show any obvious change.

Therefore, Wu Liang's worries eased a little, and he walked further into the bronze cauldron, leaning forward to look inside the cauldron.

The first thing that catches the eye is a dark green.

The same as the moss-like moss-like dark green that climbed up the edge of the copper tripod, the inside is also covered with similar things, almost completely covering the things placed in the tripod.

But there is one exception.

That is? !
At the same time when he saw that thing, Wu Liang felt a horrific chill rushing up from the soles of his feet to the Tianling Gai, and the Tian Ling Gai had already started to go numb.

It seemed to be a red face, as if an old acquaintance with bright colors had just been doused with blood.

But it is not an ordinary human face, but a terrifying face that will only be formed after the appearance of a giant.

Many people don’t know what the view of the giant looks like. In short, it is the horrible appearance formed after the corpse is highly decomposed after death, and all the soft tissues are filled with rotten gas. As far as the face is concerned, it usually manifests as swollen face, protruding eyeballs, and distorted lips. Large and valgus, protruding tongue tip and so on.

The purple-red human face in front of him was not too different, and the facial features could be barely distinguished, but these facial features had swollen to form swellings similar to sores, and the appearance of the deceased could not be seen for a long time.

"This is……"

While Wu Liang felt his scalp go numb, he was very puzzled.

First of all, the view of giants usually only appears in the early stage of the decay process of the corpse. According to different seasons, the shortest time is 3 days, and the longest time is about one month. The Qiai Cemetery has a history of more than 1000 years, so long Unless using special means or being in a special environment, any corpse will have gone through all the corruption processes after all, and the rest will only be a dry bone or a mummified corpse;

Secondly, Wu Liang didn't smell any corpse odor, what was replaced by that indescribable fragrance, and the giant view will definitely be accompanied by a large amount of corrupt gas, without exception, and the giant view will never show such a bright red color Color, even if bodily fluids are exuded, is usually a dirty green or yellow color due to the influence of putrid gases;

Again, this face doesn't look like it was fixed by the suffocation technique. At least the corpses that have been suffocated before have no similar situation at all, and there are many differences in the details, so It cannot be generalized.

"Mister, Mi'er, come and see what this is."

Slowing down a little, Wu Liang turned around and said to Ji and Zhen Mi.

Hearing the words, the two of them moved a little closer, stretched their necks to look into the Tongding, and then frowned again.

"It looks a bit like the rotting face of a dead man, but not too much..."

Yu Ji said in a deep voice.

Zhen Mi put forward a different point of view, and said seriously: "Gentleman, I have seen something similar to this one before, I don't know if you have heard of it."

"what?"

Both Wu Liang and Yu Ji looked at Zhen Mi curiously.

"Human head mushroom, some places also call it blood Ganoderma lucidum, or coffin mushroom."

Zhen Mi said.

"Speaking of Coffin Zhi, although I have never seen it with my own eyes, I have heard about it."

After Zhen Mi's opening, Yu Ji immediately continued, "However, this thing usually only grows on coffins, but not all coffins can grow head mushrooms, only the tomb owners who died with great resentment, their coffins It is only possible to grow rentouzhi on the ground, and the greater the resentment, the more resemblance this rentouzhi will look like a human face. However, it is said that although rentouzhi looks very permeable, it is a great tonic for the good fortune of heaven and earth. It will be of great benefit if you take it."

"Great benefit?"

Wu Liang shortened his body slightly, and looked at the bottom of the face in front of him through the dim light of Sui Houzhu.

He did see a thin cylinder at the bottom of that human face. A human's neck would never be so thin, so it might really be the Rentouzhi that Zhen Mi and Yu Ji were talking about.

As for Rentouzhi, later generations actually exist.

According to Wu Liang’s knowledge, Rentouzhi was called Rentou fungus in later generations, and in some places it was also called Ganoderma lucidum or coffin fungus. It is said that burial was still the mainstream form of burial, especially according to the tradition of the Chinese dynasty. When looking for a place outside the village to mound up and wait for a few years, and then move back to the ancestral grave at the right time, such fungi will often grow.

Others say that this is because there is still a mouthful of ginseng gas in the body after death, and the ginseng gas cannot dissipate for a long time after burial, resulting in a kind of stipe spit out from the corpse in the coffin, and then this stipe will continue to be derived to the outside of the coffin lid, eventually forming fungus at the coffin head.

Of course, Yu Ji's statement just now has also been circulated.

In short, the folk rumors related to head fungus are more or less horrifying, and normal people will not touch them lightly, lest they be infected with dirty things.

However, as the funeral customs of later generations gradually changed and most people used cremation, head fungus or coffin fungus has become less and less common, and can only be seen occasionally in remote rural areas where burial is still followed.

In the scientific community, there are also researchers who have conducted research and analysis on the components of the head fungus.

The conclusion reached is that the main composition of the head fungus is actually fungi, which is not much different from other wild fungi. The reason why the head fungus grows on the coffin is because most of the coffins are made of wood, and the wood is affected by the environment. After a long period of time, it will recover and decay, which also provides the necessary conditions for the growth of fungi.

However, why the cap of the head fungus grows into a face-like appearance is a problem that researchers cannot explain in detail.

Also.

The recipes of the Celestial Dynasty are also the most complicated in the world, and the human head fungus is so mysterious, it naturally attracted some people's attention.

In addition, there are indeed some rumors similar to Ji Fangcai's great supplements that have been circulated in later generations, coupled with some people's false propaganda, there are actually people who spend a lot of money looking for human head mushrooms to buy back and eat...

As for what happened to the people who had eaten human head mushrooms, Wu Liang didn't know. Anyway, he had never publicly admitted that he had eaten human head mushrooms, or gained any specific benefits from it.

"I don't know what the benefits are. This is the first time I have seen this thing. What I said are all folk rumors, and I can't find the specific source."

Yu Ji didn't dare to speak too much, and added ambiguously.

"Gentleman, I don't think it's easy to try it. Even if what the old man said is true, you might as well pick this head mushroom first, and then consider whether to eat it after going back to verify it."

Zhen Mi obviously didn't know the benefits of eating Rentouzhi, so she suggested to Wu Liang at the right time.

"Well, first let's see where the head mushroom grows. There is no room for a coffin in this copper tripod."

Wu Liang nodded slightly, but he didn't bother with this question anymore, and turned to look at the layer of green substance similar to moss or mold, and stretched out a hand towards Dian Wei.

Dian Wei understood immediately, and handed a sapper shovel to Wu Liang.

Wu Liang took the engineering shovel, and didn't touch the Herba Cinnamomi plant first, but carefully shoveled down along the inside of the bronze cauldron, and only gently dug out a small piece of green substance.

In this way, the small piece of green substance was taken out of the copper tripod with an engineering shovel like cutting a cake. Wu Liang first carefully inspected the thin layer of green substance on the top.

Definitely not moss.

It's more like some kind of mold that has dried up, and the green substance is in the form of powder, much like dried mold or occasionally some fungal spores.

Hidden under this layer of green powder is all black, soil-like substance.

Wu Liang put on his gloves and took a little bit of black substance to check.

Looking at it with the naked eye, it can only be seen that it is also composed of a kind of black fine particles. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a powder, but this black substance still maintains a certain degree of humidity, which is not like those green substances. Generally loose.

As for the taste...

In order to prevent inhalation of bad things, especially this thousand-year-old antiquity is very likely to contain superbugs or germs, even through a gas mask, Wu Liang didn't get close to smell it.

The only thing that was certain was that after the contents of the bronze cauldron were dug up in this way, there was no obvious smell.

In order to find out what was stored in the bronze cauldron, Wu Liang decided to clean out all the contents before making a judgment.

This work was handed over to Dian Wei and Yang Wanli.

According to Wu Liang's instructions, the two dug out the black substance inside bit by bit like he just did. They were very careful with each shovel, so as not to damage things that might be buried in the black substance if they were not careful.

The other people had already entered this tomb, and together with Wu Liang checked whether there were other hidden compartments in the empty tomb besides the wooden door like a matryoshka doll.

……

After half an hour.

"Young master, come and have a look."

Wu Liang and others did not make new discoveries, but Dian Wei and Yang Wanli finally found something different from those black substances and green powders in the bronze tripod.

It was a piece of bone, but the pit was probably due to the erosion of those black substances, the surface of the bone had become the same black, only some holes and the shape of the bone that gradually appeared on it due to a long time can still be seen. Clue.

"Leave the next thing to me."

After careful inspection, Wu Liang took out a smaller shovel and brush from the tool bag, and finished the cleaning work by himself.

And so on for another half an hour.

Most of a complete skeleton has been displayed in front of everyone.

It was indeed a pair of human remains, but this remains was very strange. Although his bones did not show any obvious signs of fracture, they maintained a kind of "like" that was difficult for ordinary people to achieve. It was placed on its back in the copper tripod in the way of "iron bridge", and it was just like this that the legs of the remains were shrunk, so that it could be stored in the copper tripod, which was much smaller than the coffin.

Besides.

Everyone can also clearly see that the rhizome of the Rhizoma chinensis grows from the mouth of the remains, and the bright red roots have spread, coming from the jaw, eye holes, and nostrils of the remains. Waiting for some hollows to extend from the inside to the outside, and finally wrap the entire skull tightly, making it look like a red ball of thread, how weird and weird it looks.

"What the hell is this? Every time you go out on an expedition, you deal with this kind of thing?"

This scene naturally gave Cao Ni a lot of mental shock, she finally couldn't bear it anymore, she wrinkled her small face and asked very depressed.

Before officially marrying Wu Liang, or before entering the Qi Ai cemetery, she really didn't know what Wu Liang and the Huren army were doing. Yongqiu made pottery gui.

"It's not every time you see something like this."

Wu Liang was still carefully cleaning the black soil inside the copper tripod, and said without turning his head.

"Gentleman, why don't I ask my mother to intercede with my father to release you from the corvee service after I go back. You are always in contact with this kind of thing, I'm afraid it's not good."

Cao Ni said seriously.

"It doesn't have to be..."

Wu Liang knew that Cao Ni had good intentions, and was thinking of how to reject her, but there was already a small thing in the cauldron that attracted his attention.

At that time, a piece that had also been wrapped by the roots of Rentouzhi... should be a jade article, with only an inconspicuous little point exposed.

(End of this chapter)