Mantra

Chapter 255 The Mystery of the Mummy
The sudden stop of Wang Hou made me a little nervous.

I watched him stop on the dead body's chest, with the motionless tip of the knife, and asked uneasily, "What's wrong?"

Wang Hou looked at the dead man's chest, which was as stiff as a wax sculpture. After holding his breath and staring at the gap, he asked me: "Old Tian, ​​take a closer look at the dead man's chest...is it moving?"

Wang Hou's words didn't cause me too much thinking and doubts, and on the contrary, I found it quite funny, and somewhat complained about Wang Hou's nervousness.

A blackened mummy, like firewood, is so dead that it cannot move.

I shook my head and said, "Old Wang, are you reading it wrong? You're all fucked up, you can turn into a fan with just one breath..."

"No!" Wang Hou continued to stare at the dead man's chest and the dagger in his hand and kept shaking his head. He interrupted me and said, "His chest is moving! And... it's a heartbeat!"

If the king roars again, I can't take it as a joke at all, so Xian Hongye and I turned up the halo of the flashlight and stared carefully at the mycelium-covered chest of the dead man.

The three of them didn't even dare to vent their breath.

After a while, I finally saw that the mummy's chest was indeed... moving, and it was beating abnormally regularly, as if a heart was beating in his chest.

The mummy... actually has a heartbeat!
Seeing this weird discovery, Xian Hongye and I took a step back at the same time, as if we had lost our way, but Wang Hou remained motionless, just pointing the knife at the guy's chest to calm down and be on guard.

Just at this time, our movement seemed to "stimulate" this corpse, because just as we were exercising, I was sure I saw that dry corpse...suddenly sat up!
In fact, it is not right to say that the corpse suddenly sat up, because it was a relatively slow process for him to "sit" up, and he had no strength, and Wang Hou's dagger was blocking it, and it only flicked once, just like a dying person General twitch.But... that's just as terrifying,

The emergence of mummies and fraudulent corpses in the past century can be called a shocking change!
In the panic, Wang Hou reacted quickly, pierced the dead man's chest with the dagger mercilessly, then raised the knife and slashed five times in a row, cutting off the head, neck and limbs of the mummy.

After Plato Leader Wang made a decisive decision, the dead man suddenly became a naked "human pig". Even if he could explode and hurt people, he had no head and claws, so he couldn't make any waves.

The limbs of the mummy were broken when touched, and there was no blood, so it was not as bloody as imagined. We looked with a flashlight, and only saw some oozing liquid on the chest covered with hyphae, as if... gel transparent jelly .

Looking at the transparent liquid, I suddenly understood: "This dead man is the same as the golden python and pangolin before, with something in his stomach!"

A very bad premonition crept into my head.

But with a sense of luck, I still asked Wang Hou for a dagger, and gently cut open the frozen abdomen of the mummy with the tip of the knife to find out.

As the hand raised and lowered the knife, the dead skin like wool felt was cut open, and there seemed to be a huge pressure in the chest cavity, so that the wrinkled skin and film attached to the hyphae were immediately separated along the sternum of the dead body.

As I guessed, what was in the dead man's chest was not a heart or human organs, but a mass of white-brown, breathing, living "meat".

I was stunned and said: "Yin Mountain Tai Sui Meat! Ghost Eight Treasures...how is it Ghost Eight Treasures again!"

What I said made Xian Hongye frowned, and made Wang Hou a little confused. He pointed to the tumor in the dead man's chest and said, "What is Yinshan Taisui? What is a ghost?"

I stared blankly at the shrinking and trembling thing, and first told Wang Hou: "Pi Ling, Jin Zhuyi, carp monster, human placenta, Tai Sui meat, soft fragrant jade, human milk, blood leeches... are called Ghost Eight Treasures, although these eight kinds of food are delicious, they are either strange in nature or contrary to human relations. It is said that eating them will damage Yin virtue, so...ordinary people dare not touch them at all, so they are called 'Ghost Eight Treasures'."

Among the eight treasures, Tai Sui meat ranks fifth, but when it comes to his legend, it ranks first.

Tai Sui is also called "meat Ganoderma lucidum". It is actually a kind of fungus, but this kind of fungus is extremely special, neither belonging to animals nor plants, neither fungi nor prokaryotic organisms or other known classifications.

According to some researchers, this kind of creature is closer to the most primitive form of life. It seems to exist at the "origin" of biological evolution. After billions of years, the form has not evolved or changed.

Perhaps also because of this primitiveness, "Tai Sui" has many magical "functions". It is said that this thing has no life span, neither lives nor dies, grows when it encounters water, and sleeps when it is dry. Without nutrients, buried deep in the ground or high in the air... will not die.

Also because of the weirdness of "Ganoderma lucidum", it was covered with mysterious colors. Before the Ming Dynasty, Ganoderma lucidum was called "Tai Sui", and he was considered to be the projection of "Tai Sui Xingjun" on the ground. Coming out is the most unlucky thing in relocation and groundbreaking, after all, the family will be destroyed.

Therefore, in order to avoid this lump of strange meat, the ancients did everything possible, and even invented a set of unique Feng Shui theory to prove and study its operation law.

Hearing this, Wang Hou questioned: "Is this thing so evil? Then you people from Wu Zang Temple still dare to eat it?"

Regarding this, I smiled helplessly and said: "When people are hungry, they even eat dirt, poison and even relatives. What is this Tai Sui meat?"

Taisui meat is called "Meat Ganoderma lucidum" or "Immortal Grass" in Huogong language. Its medicinal and edible value is considered to be similar to that of Ganoderma lucidum and bird's nest. "Quenching Tai Sui".Yinshan Taisui is also called "Earth Taisui". It mostly grows in mountains and extremely cold lands. Quenching Water Taisui is also called "Chaorou" and it mostly grows in water streams and mountain streams with excellent water quality.

Among them, according to the experience of Wuzang Temple, Yinshan Taisui is the most suitable for making soup, and quenched water Taisui is suitable for making cold dishes or even eating raw, and so on.

What's interesting is that the history of eating Tai Sui in the Wu Zang Temple is very "long" and "short". Before Li Shizhen published "Compendium of Materia Medica", the folks were in awe, and few people dared to eat it. At one time, it was a "meat" or even an "elixir" that only the emperor could enjoy.

At this point, I turned around again and looked at the trembling "meat ball" in the dead man's abdomen that seemed to be breathing.

I thought for a while and said: But...whether it is Yinshan Taisui or Quenhui Taisui, they should not grow on a human body, and they are still a mummy that has been dead for many years, unless...

(End of this chapter)