The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 500
When Professor Xia mentioned the Sea Snake Country, Ming Zhou slapped his forehead, as if thinking of something.

When I heard this, I couldn't help being curious, and asked, "What is the sea snake country doing?"

Hanba... No, or it should be Wei Liming. He didn't speak, but Zhou Xuanye said, "Speaking of the Sea Snake Country, I have to mention Western Miscellaneous Notes." Most of the time, I drink tea, read books, play chess, and live like an old man.It seems that he has read this Western Miscellany.While talking, he talked about the origin of the sea snake country.

It all started with Zheng He's voyages to the West during the reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty.At that time, the Ming Dynasty had strong national strength, internal and external stability, coupled with the rise of foreign trade and some political reasons, Ming Chengzu ordered Zheng He to lead more than 2 people, sailed seven times, and visited more than 30 people in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. More than 30 countries and regions have been to Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Chenla, Guri, Siam, Bangkala, Adan, Tianfang, Zuofar, Horumos, Mugudusu, etc. countries, as far as East Africa and the Red Sea.

This voyage was a century earlier than Magellan, Columbus, etc., and was hailed as the pioneer of the age of great exploration. Some people even predicted that Zheng He had discovered America one step earlier, but there was an ocean in the middle, and America was vast. Well, the Chinese are not good at aggression, so they didn't put America in their eyes. On the contrary, later, the Europeans invented guns and massacred and enslaved the local aborigines in the Americas. It is really hateful.

It is said that Western Miscellaneous Notes were written by a navigator on Zheng He’s ship. What they wrote were all what they saw and heard during the voyage. Because the ancients were good at exaggerating, they always liked to speculate or call ghosts and gods about things they didn’t understand. Therefore, the content of the Western Miscellaneous Notes is a bit exaggerated and bizarre. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "Journey to the West" from the sea, so it is difficult to be used as a historical record, so it is very partial. It is difficult for Zhou Xuanye to have read such a partial book Book.

It is recorded in the book that when the ship sailed to the western Pacific Ocean, it encountered a country on the sea called the Sea Snake Country.The people of the Sea Snake Kingdom are slender and thin, with a tall and protruding chest, and their eyes are larger than those of the people in the Central Plains.

The Sea Snake Country is composed of 24 large and small islands. The island is densely forested and lush. There are no large beasts, but there are many poisonous insects and snakes. Shoot poisonous arrows and manipulate poisonous insects to fight back.

In addition, the reason why the people of the Sea Snake Country are called Sea Snakes is because they have a special ability, that is, they can hold their breath for a long time, and they can dive into deep water, just like sea snakes.

The Sea Snake people also have the custom of sea burial. Because they are not good at weaving, they love the cloth and silk of the Central Plains. The island produces a kind of shellfish like giant clams, which can absorb moonlight.

After Zhou Xuanye finished speaking, he said: "The archipelago, the moonlight, and the burial at sea, these three points are all aligned. It seems that the ghost island may be the former Sea Snake Country, but the rest of the islands should have been destroyed by geological activities. .”

Wei Liming hummed and continued.

When it was determined that this place was the Sea Snake Country written in Western Miscellaneous Notes, everyone felt as if they had been beaten to death.
Professor Xia was even more excited, and said: "There may be relics of the Sea Snake Kingdom on the bottom of the sea, no, I want to go down and see for myself."

Mingzhou tried to stop him. He was still a bit older than Professor Xia, but Professor Xia would not listen. These people would be absolutely crazy as long as it involved their own professional field.

People from the Sea Snake Country, it is recorded in the book, can use their human body to move around the seabed.You know, the water pressure of sea water, without modern equipment, is the limit for normal people to dive up to 30 meters.

Using modern equipment, the current highest diving record was created by an Egyptian, said to be more than 300 meters underwater.

This depth is scary for people, and it must be a professionally trained person.

Although Professor Xia is physically strong, none of the group has undergone professional diving training. Even with the best diving equipment on board, 70 to [-] meters is about the same. For Professor Xia and his group, it is still difficult.

Under the persuasion of the group, Professor Xia finally compromised, and decided to let Wei Liming and five people sneak into the seabed to find out the situation.

After having lunch that day and resting for more than two hours, in the calm afternoon, a group of five people, wearing the top domestic diving equipment at that time, entered the water one after another, and dived all the way along the stone pillars, trying to reach the bottom of the sea. To the clues about the sea snake country.

Hard work pays off, the trend of the whole bottom of the sea is funnel-shaped, the farther you go, the shallower the sea is, so at about 30 meters, everyone has reached the bottom.

The seabed at a depth of more than 30 meters is also pitch black. With the help of underwater searchlights, you can see all kinds of sea creatures swimming around.

The bottom of the sea is densely covered with reefs and sea sand, and the inclined trend makes people only continue to deepen. For them, the depth of 30 meters is nothing for the time being, so the group swam very slowly, turned on the lights to the maximum, and observed the surrounding waters and the bottom of the water.

Soon, the five people found different relics on the seabed one after another, some stones, some iron pieces, or some things that were covered with gray-white particles and shaped like clay pots.

If these things are seen by ordinary people, it is probably difficult to notice them. I am afraid they will be easily mixed with ordinary sand and stones on the seabed.But Wei Liming and others are not ordinary people. They are all very professional people, and archaeology, evolution, and biology are all in the same line. Wei Liming and Caiyun have worked so hard to get into the water, why are they curious about the uniqueness of this place? Biological environment under magnetic field?Isn't he curious about the mystery of the sea snake people holding their breath for a long time in the sea?

Therefore, these seemingly ordinary things can almost be seen in the eyes of this group of extraordinary people.

They found the well-polished diamond-shaped masonry covered by gray-white particles. The broken pieces are unique patterns, raised, and collapsed buildings with the shape of the past. The shallower they go, the more obvious their traces are. Finally, when the five get together and look ahead with lights on, a ghostly underwater world can be seen.

Another civilization wrapped in dark and cold sea water, I don’t know how many years it has been sleeping in this sea, the sea sand covers them, swimming fish shuttle between the dilapidated buildings, and in some places, some large and small whirlpools are formed , and even human bones can be seen.

In the deeper waters, there are still many blurred outlines, but the five of them already felt a little strenuous, and the water pressure made them very uncomfortable, and they were powerless to dive further.However, even so, they were shocked, excited, and excited by what they saw, and their hands and feet trembled a little.

After the excitement, Ming Zhou gestured to the four of them, pointing to his feet, meaning to bring some specimens up. After all, he is at the bottom of the water, the situation is unknown, and what he saw is not very clear. If he wants to understand this civilization better, he still has to bring some specimens. Some things go up and try to figure out.

They selected a few very representative ones, one was some broken patterns, the other was some pottery, and besides that, there were some jade wares with obvious Chinese characteristics.According to records in Western Miscellaneous Notes, the people of the Sea Snake Kingdom love the textiles and jade articles of the Central Plains, and they have related trade contacts.

After filling the salvage bags to the brim, the five of them were about to leave with the salvage bags when Caiyun suddenly pulled Wei Liming's arm. Can communicate with gestures.

I saw Caiyun holding Wei Liming's hand and pointing to the southwest. Wei Liming followed his line of sight and suddenly found a figure standing under the dark sea water!

The figure was located at the junction of light and dark, standing upright, which shocked Wei Liming.But soon, Wei Liming came to his senses, thinking how could there be other living people under the sea?Judging by the motionless posture of the figure, could it be something like a stone man?So he gestured to everyone, signaling to go over and see what happened.

However, when they really got close to that person, everyone was dumbfounded.With the light of the searchlight, I saw that it was not the stone man that Wei Liming and others guessed, but a real person, a woman!
This is a naked woman without any diving equipment on her body. Her long black hair drifts with the current and sometimes wraps herself up. Although her face looks beautiful, she looks like a woman in this deep water. Scary as a ghost.

She closed her eyes, her feet were sunk in the sea sand, the sea sand went straight to her knees, and her whole body, as if being nailed by nails, stood straight and motionless.

Obviously, this is absolutely impossible to be a living person.

But if you want to say that she is a dead person, how can she be so lifelike?
These people work in Organization J, have you seen any weird things?As for the kind of corpses that were kept intact, they had actually seen them before, but those corpses were all processed.

But now this woman, to be more precise, this female corpse, was soaked in the water.

A normal corpse would already swell after one day of soaking, not to mention, judging by the appearance of this corpse, I don't know how many years it has been soaked.

The strange underwater female corpse, with black hair tangled with the rippling sea water, closed eyes, and naked body, all of them reveal a strange and creepy color.

The five people looked at each other in the sea, wearing diving helmets, they couldn't see each other's faces, they could only see their eyes. After the five pairs of eyes looked at each other for a moment, Ming Zhou waved his hand, signaling to dig out the body.

The five people did not hesitate too much, and immediately made a move.

Do people in this line of work still be afraid of death?
(End of this chapter)