Volume 1 Freaks Must Die Chapter 9 The Smell of Lemons in the Pit
Although Nangang is just a small town, supernatural events have never worn tinted glasses. They rarely happen in first-tier cities, but most of them occur in relatively remote areas.
And this kind of ringing alarm was the first time Chu Yu encountered since he joined the company.
This means that there has been an incident in Nangang that has a wide range of influence and has caused social panic.
In addition to the three left-behind armed personnel, everyone must immediately rush to the site of the incident, including logistics and data analysts.
In the garage modification branch, everyone got busy, brought all the equipment and instruments, and entered a broken Santana and van that was rumbling.
After getting on the car, Chu Yu saw the mission briefing.
The location is an old shopping center in a bustling area in the city. The ground collapsed, with a diameter of more than 12 meters and an unknown depth, causing panic among residents around them. The temporary publicity for external propaganda is the collapse of the air raid shelter.
The reason why it is defined as a supernatural event is mainly due to two reasons.
First, no underground facilities were built near the old shopping center, including subway passage construction and air raid shelters, so it is impossible to collapse for no reason.
Second, the collapse is definitely not artificial, because this large pit with a diameter of 12 meters is particularly round, just like a huge compass drawing, and there is no residual explosive material on the scene, which eliminates directional blasting.
After all, it was a special department. In the car, except for the armed personnel, Chu Yu and other civilians changed into work clothes from other departments.
Chu Yu was assigned a set of work clothes from the road government bureau. After arriving at the scene, he found that the old shopping center was blocked by the three layers inside and three layers outside the good people.
After getting off the car, Chu Yu sighed silently.
This is how Chinese people are. They can't get anywhere from the bustle, and they don't know how to live or die.
Such a melon-eating crowd undoubtedly caused a lot of obstacles to everyone's investigation.
Seeing that the police officers who were maintaining public order were a little helpless, several military jeeps drove to the periphery.
Bai Yue jumped out of the car, holding a camouflage combat bag in her left hand and a big lama in her right hand, and jumped directly to the hood.
"Get out of here, the gas leaks, and you bastards will be killed in a while!"
As soon as the loudspeaker shouted, the people who were eating melons suddenly scattered.
Natural gas leaks are much scarier than Godzilla, because the former is not subject to insurance claims.
Chu Yu and a group of young people were all civilians and were left on the periphery to guard the enemy. Bai Yue led Meng Yong and a group of dog legs to the vicinity of the collapsed tunnel.
Chu Yu is a man with strong curiosity. He stood behind the cordon and looked back from time to time.
Bai Yue, who was the on-site commander, might have noticed Chu Yu's gaze, and didn't know what he thought of, hooked his finger at Chu Yu who was dozens of meters away.
He cursed his mother inwardly, and Chu Yu ran over mercilessly.
He was not afraid of Bai Yue, mainly because he didn't want to deal with Bai Yue.
Because this girl is unreasonable, it hurts to beat someone very much.
She is pounding her chest, but she is pounding her ribs.
When he arrived at the tunnel, Chu Yu couldn't help but stretched his head and looked down.
Unexpectedly, before I could see clearly what was in the tunnel, I was suddenly pushed.
Seeing that Chu Yu was about to fall, the slender arm that pushed him pulled him back again.
"Hahaha, I'm scared you so much!" Bai Yue, who was holding Chu Yu's neck collar, smiled so hard that her branches trembled.
The others pretended to see nothing with speechless faces.
Chu Yu was too lazy to scold him. He felt that Bai Yue seemed to have some problems with his spirit. How did this woman become the deputy director? She was not out of here.
"You are a data analyst, right?" Bai Yue snapped her fingers and said, "Search the internal network to see if there have been any similar incidents."
Chu Yu rolled his eyes, opened his notebook, and began to retrieve information.
As for Bai Yue, Meng Yong was asked to operate the drone to conduct underground surveys.
After checking for a long time, Chu Yu did not find the relevant information, but suddenly he smelled a faint lemon smell.
At this moment, the drone sent back the picture. Because the underground was too dark, the picture was very blurry.
Everyone looked around the screen, but they couldn't see the reason for this.
The picture is relatively blurry, and you can only see a lot of silkworm pupa-like things stacked together at the bottom of the pit, with many strips of cloth scattered around it.
Meng Yong looked at the data on the screen and said, "The depth is 19 meters, the underground space is large, it is relatively humid and has no toxic substances."
Bai Yue pointed to the hill-like thing on the screen and couldn't help asking, "What's that?"
Everyone remained silent, but the visibility was too low and they couldn't tell what the hell was.
However, Chu Yu sniffed his nose hard and thoughtful.
Everyone returned to the tunnel again. Bai Yue took a flare and was about to throw it down, but Chu Yu quickly stopped her.
"Wait!" Chu Yu frowned: "There may be mummies below, so there is no open fire!"
"Murder?"
"There are many strips of cloth in the underground space. As for those silkworm pupa-like things, although they are not clear, they are likely to be mummies." Chu Yu pointed to the bottom of the tunnel, and continued with some uncertain tone: "The most important thing is that I smelled a faint lemon smell, so I suspected that the hill-like things were tied into mummies and piled up together."
After Chu Yu finished speaking, Bai Yue and Meng Yong also sniffed their noses hard.
"It seems, it does have a faint lemon smell."
Chu Yu explained: "In ancient Egypt, a thousand years ago, people believed that people could be resurrected after death, so they developed mummies to ensure that the corpse will not decay and be preserved intact."
"There are dozens of ways to make mummies, but they are all similar. Generally, the body is cleaned up the whole body, and then the iron hook is used to penetrate deep into the brain from the dead's nose. After shattering the brain marrow, the brain marrow and other liquids in the brain are then drawn out of the brain, and finally some medicines and spices are stuffed into the skull."
"The next thing to deal with is the internal organs. Except for the heart, the other lungs, stomach, intestines and liver are all removed, then clean and soaked in alkali. After it is thoroughly dried, it is then stored in four independent bottles and cans.
Replenish spices, the remaining two steps are dehydration and makeup, and finally wrap them with a special cloth strip. No matter which step, a large amount of spices will be used, including palm wine, alkaline bags, resin, salt and frankincense oil.
After a pause, Chu Yu said in a affirmative tone: "After these spices are mixed together, the initial scent of which is a faint lemon smell, which means that the body has not yet been marinated and tasted."
After Chu Yu finished speaking, Bai Yue looked at him suspiciously: "Aren't you a data analyst? How come you know so much?"
Chu Yu said helplessly: "I used to study religious and mysticism overseas."
"Wow, it sounds very powerful." Bai Yue said with a smile: "Why did you run back to China?"
"I came back to do business, and I asked you to tie it up as soon as I got off the plane."
"Why do you talk so much nonsense?" Bai Yue pointed to the tunnel awkwardly: "I will go down, if it's a corpse, I will carry it up two."
Chu Yu pretended not to hear it and took two steps back.
Meng Yong, who is more realistic, brought an oxygen cylinder and equipment and began to descend along the safety rope.
After a while, Meng Yong, who was covered in dust, climbed up, and behind him was a corpse wrapped in cloth strips.
"Damn, Xiao Chu said it well." After putting the body on the ground, Meng Yong took two breaths of fresh air and continued: "There are thirty-two corpses in total. It is initially speculated that they are all adult men, and some of the strips of cloth have fallen off. Judging from the hair and facial features, they should be Eastern Europeans."
Everyone squatted down and surrounded the mummy.
Chu Yu was the same, covering his mouth and frowned.
Bai Yue observed for a moment, then put on gloves and pulled out a sharp knife from behind her waist.
A cold light flashed, and a sharp knife cut the strip of cloth wrapped around the head.
After plucking the long fingers twice, the cloth strips scattered, and everyone could see clearly the face of the corpse.
The face is still well preserved and there is no rot. It looks like it is an Eastern European, but the hair has been shaved. There is also a long scar from the center of the eyebrows to the back of the neck. It is obvious that he suffered a not-rigorous craniotomy before his death.
"Huh?" Bai Yue raised her long eyebrows slightly, then she raised her knife again, and all the strips of cloth on the entire body were cut open.
As Chu Yu expected, it was indeed a "mummy". The corpse had long sutured wounds on the chest and abdomen, and there was a large amount of fillings between the chest and abdomen.
Bai Yue picked up his nails, and the silk thread between the chest and abdomen of the corpse was split. Then, his hands gently patted and pressed down on the surface of the corpse.
After a while, Bai Yue stopped, wiped her hands with a wet wipe and said, "That's right, it's the way to make mummies. The heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, and liver have all been taken away."
After saying that, Bai Yue looked at a subordinate: "Start investigate. We will not rule out Class A incidents, but investigate in the direction of religious worship, especially those who are more familiar with ancient Egyptian culture in this city. We will focus on the investigation and check the files of foreign missing persons at the same time."
"No!" Chu Yu, behind him, looked at the corpse, narrowed his eyes slightly, and screamed involuntarily.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!