Volume 2: The Road of Life and Death 12. Crazy burning corpse
Luo Tianbao and I were also scared, but we were farther away from the bronze coffin than him, so the visual impact was not as strong as his. We only saw the female corpse's face appear in the milky white water, float up and down a few times, and then sink into the coffin again . There was no unusual movement.
Luo Tianbao asked, "Did you see this woman's face clearly? Is it the same statue enshrined in the temple?"
"Everyone was too panicked just now and didn't think about this," I said.
But this was only one chance. After the female corpse sank into the thick liquid, it never floated up again, and the fish also stopped moving. At this moment, Luo Tianbao did a very crazy move. He was ready to lift the female corpse out.
I was against this proposal because no one knew what kind of troublesome consequences would be caused by using the method of "hanging" to deal with the female corpse. However, Luo Tianbao seemed to be possessed by a demon. He ignored our dissuasion, made a hook with wire, put it into the place where the female corpse had sunk, and fished back and forth several times, and he actually hooked the female corpse up again.
However, the corpse was covered with a thick white liquid, and the facial features were not very clear. Luo Tianbao actually took out a rag from the car and wiped the thick liquid off her face. This time he could see clearly that the facial features of the female corpse were almost exactly the same as those of the stone sculptures in the temple. Needless to say, it was naturally her.
Luo Tianbao sighed and said, "I don't know whether to call you 'Big Sister' or 'Little Sister'. I hope you can hear what I say in the afterlife. Since you gave me this luck and let me get a coffin, why did you let me rest in peace later? I don't know the cause of your death, but I can feel that you must have been a kind person in life. You and I are different in life and death, so please be kind and let me go. I know there is water in the coffin and you are not comfortable living in it. I will replace it for you..."
Before he finished speaking, the corpse's limbs seemed to be shaken, and suddenly they moved violently. The corpse 's sudden movement deeply shocked us once again. Luo Tianbao said with a rather serious expression: "No wonder they use a bronze coffin. This girl is in a state of corpse movement. She might turn into a corpse in the future."
"What should we do? We can't put her back into the bronze coffin, right?" Chu Sen asked.
"If I stay like this, I'll be dead." Luo Tianbao said.
"A wooden coffin definitely won't work. Do we have to build a new copper coffin?" I said.
"Impossible. The copper coffin takes a long time to make. By the time it's finished, I'll be almost dead."
"A wooden coffin doesn't work, and a copper coffin doesn't work either. What should I do?" I said.
"At this point, the only risky move left is to burn the body."
I was shocked and said, "It is a taboo to burn a corpse without the family's consent." What I said is the most taboo thing in the earthwork industry, that is, to deal with the corpse of the employer's family without the employer's consent.
I think even a fool knows the reason behind this, so I won't go into details. Anyway, if the people in Longhua Village knew what Luo Tianbao did, not only him, but both of us would be kicked out of this business.
Chu Sen also knew that burning corpses was a serious matter. Once a fire was lit, it would be difficult to extinguish it. Perhaps seeing our hesitation, Luo Tianbao stood up and said, "Come on, there's no need to bother you with this. It's just a matter of lighting a fire. I can do it alone. Even if something goes wrong in the future, it has nothing to do with you. You two just need to help dig a hole."
Although the soil around here is extremely moist, there are a lot of dead branches and weeds around. As long as a spark is emitted, it will cause unpredictable consequences, so we must be extremely careful when burning the corpse. We chose a place as far away from the weeds as possible and dug a pit more than one meter deep. We also built mud walls on all sides of the pit. Then we put the female corpse into the pit and covered the corpse with weeds to ignite it.
After everything was ready, Luo Tianbao lit a ball of paper and threw it into the mud pit.
However, to our surprise, there was a random "boom" and then a huge fireball rushed up from the mud pit, the effect was like detonating an incendiary bomb.
Wild grass definitely does not have such a strong burning effect. Could it be that "combustible gas" was produced inside the female corpse?
I saw a raging fire rising in the mud pit, and the flames were two meters high. This was obviously not the burning effect that could be produced by a pile of weeds and a wet body. Could it be that the fire could burn out a "ghost"?
Thinking of this, we wanted to get closer to the mouth of the mud pit and take a look inside, but the fire was burning too fiercely, and before we could get close enough to the fire, our eyebrows were burnt.
Luo Tianbao waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's wait until the fire is out and then see what happens."
So we found a piece of grass to sit down and chat. After about two hours, it was getting dark. The strange thing was that the fire in the mud pit did not go out, and there was no sign of weakening. Instead, it burned more vigorously. The mud walls around it lost all moisture under the scorching fire and had been burned into rough bricks.
Luo Tianbao said, "Something's not right. How much fat can a corpse have to burn? The fire should have burned out long ago, but it hasn't even subsided."
"Yes, I felt something was wrong when the fireball rose up. There is indeed a problem here," I said.
"But what's the problem? Is there a natural gas leak underground that happened to be ignited by us?" Chu Sen said.
"Why do you always think about good things? Either you find treasure or a gas field. If you don't get rich in this life, you will be so depressed." I said.
"Nonsense! A man stands tall in the world. How can he be worthy of his gender if he doesn't make a career? If you ask me, a man without a successful career might as well just castrate himself and become a eunuch."
"Your theory is so ridiculous it's unpopular. After all, the majority of men in the world are worthless. If they were all made eunuchs, who would be responsible for the reproduction of the human race? Wouldn't it be the elite who lose the right to sex? This is the most primitive human need. You're going too far."
"It might sound extreme, but if you analyze it carefully, it's not at all. Children born to incompetent men often don't receive quality education. Once they enter society, they lack the connections to compete with others. Most of them end up doing the lowest-level jobs, contributing nothing to social progress. Do you think such reproduction is necessary?"
"Your theory is bullshit. If the world is full of elites, who will build the houses? Who will sweep the streets? What's the meaning of the money earned by the elites?" This time I was really annoyed, and I wasn't just arguing with him for fun.
Before Chu Sen could say anything, Luo Tianbao said angrily: "Can you two shut up? Is this the place to discuss topics? I say, are you confused? What does this kind of thing have to do with you? You are simply bored." Chu Sen was still not satisfied. He glared at me fiercely and turned around to smoke.
Luo Tianbao stood beside the crater, muttering to himself, "What's going on? What on earth is going on?"
At this moment, an idea suddenly flashed in my mind and I said, "Second brother, perhaps the answer to this problem can be found in Lianxing Feng Shui."
"Oh, analyze it for me quickly." Since I had guessed the location of the coffin before, Luo Tianbao became excited when he heard that I had figured out the problem.
"In fact, according to the theory of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, if any unusual phenomenon occurs in any area, it can be most directly reflected in the star position. I've said before that judging by the star position, the local area shouldn't have been flooded. It must be that the feng shui pattern was artificially destroyed, and then a bronze coffin was dug out from the soil. Metal and earth mutually restrain each other, so the local ground energy was unstable, and as a result, the soil was flooded. This is called 'jie' in Lianxingshu, which means sudden intervention. Lianxingshu also has a detailed explanation of the objects that suddenly intervene. Basically, whenever such an object exists, it will attract strange gather around it. Because the stranger the person or thing, the more sensitive they are to changes in the ground energy. That's why this white fish appeared in the bronze coffin. The white fish is definitely not a celestial dragon that has descended to earth, but a special fish species that grows underground in the area."
"What does this have to do with the fire?"
"I guess the reason for such a long-lasting fire isn't because of something wrong with the corpse. According to Lian Xing's Feng Shui, the problem should be with Baiyu."