Chapter 11 Deadly Bacteria in Graveyards
Back at the hotel, Sister Li found some disinfectant and asked me to wash my hands carefully. She also scrubbed the rusty iron box with disinfectant.
Then under the light, we carefully observed the rusty iron box we picked up from the cemetery. The box was not big, only about the size of a palm. The opening was sealed with something like mud, and there were also stains on the "mud"
A seal was stamped. As for the words on the seal, Sister Li and I studied it for a long time, but we still couldn't figure it out.
But when I wanted to open the box, Sister Li stopped me again. She told me such a thing.
Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, was not only good at using troops, he was also good at fighting. He was good at using a long sword and often went into battle to kill Japanese pirates. He also set a goal for himself - to kill 1,000 Japanese pirates with his own hands.
If this goal can be achieved, he will be the Chinese who has killed the most Japanese in history.
But unfortunately, after Qi Jiguang killed 999 Japanese pirates, he suddenly fell ill, and due to ineffective treatment, he died half a month later with deep regret.
After Qi Jiguang's death, his coffin was sent back to his hometown in Dengzhou, Shandong for burial.
But then, something magical happened - the thousandth Japanese killed by Qi Jiguang turned out to be the 349th year after his death.
Can you kill someone after death?
Here's the thing.
349 years after Qi Jiguang's death, in 1937 AD, Japanese pirates invaded our country again. At this time, the Chinese people gave these Japanese invaders a more popular name - Japanese devils.
This year, a detachment of Japanese invaders invaded the Dengzhou area of Shandong Province. The leading commander was named Ichiro Oda. The strange thing is that on the first day of his arrival in Dengzhou, Ichiro Oda did not go anywhere, but went straight to the tomb of Qi Jiguang, and
Qi Jiguang's grave must be dug.
Why is Xiaotian so interested in Qi Jiguang's tomb?
It turned out that Xiaotian's ancestor was one of the leaders of the Japanese invaders who was personally killed by Qi Jiguang during the Ming Dynasty. After Xiaotian learned about this history from his family's genealogy, he vowed to avenge his ancestors.
In addition, Xiaotian also had another purpose for digging the grave - that is, he heard that Qi Jiguang wrote a military book called "Qi Wu Bei Art of War" before his death. This book recorded the essence of Qi Jiguang's life's combat experience. It is said that after getting this secret military book,
You can win every battle on the battlefield.
As a soldier, this kind of military book is of course very attractive to Oda.
After a period of busy work by Japanese engineers, Qi Jiguang's tomb was quickly excavated.
Then, Xiaotian couldn't wait to order people to clean up the funerary objects, and found that there were not many gold and silver treasures inside, but there were many weapons from that time, such as swords, guns, swords and halberds, and even more than a dozen muskets.
Suddenly, a Japanese soldier shouted: "General, we found some military books!" Oda felt ecstatic in his heart.
After returning to his apartment, Xiaotian started reading eagerly.
While flipping through these ancient books, he found that there seemed to be a layer of green stuff on them, as if it had a layer of hair. Xiaotian patted it casually, and the layer of "hair" flew all over the room after he patted it.
Oda choked and coughed a few times, but this detail did not attract his attention.
Oda was so absorbed in reading it that before he knew it, it was already midnight. Oda felt a little sleepy, so he closed the book of war and went to bed.
The next day, Xiaotian's orderlies found that Xiaotian had not come to dinner, so they went to call him. They knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered. They knew something was wrong, so they broke the door and rushed in, only to see Xiaotian dead.
on the bed.
It was not an ordinary thing for a Japanese commander to die inexplicably in the house. For this reason, the Japanese army sent relevant experts to investigate the cause of Oda's death. After more than ten days of investigation, analysis, testing, and autopsy, they
The cause of Oda’s death was finally found:
He did not die of illness, because he was in good health; nor was he murdered, because there were no signs of a struggle at the scene and there were no external injuries on the body.
The real cause of his death was found in the ancient books retrieved from the tomb - because investigators discovered that the layer of green hair on the ancient books was actually an antiseptic drug in ancient times. The ancients often used it for corpses and coffins.
Antiseptic, but this drug is a chronic poison that can stimulate people's central nervous system and cause people to die unconsciously.
As the news spread, many people in Dengzhou set up altars at their homes and silently comforted Qi Jiguang's spirit in heaven: "Mr. Qi, your wish to kill a thousand Japanese pirates has now come true!"
After listening to Sister Li's story, I understood the reason why she wouldn't let me open the box - she was afraid that there would be deadly bacteria inside.
I suddenly felt that Sister Li's charm was not just sexy, but that she was so knowledgeable and considered a standard talented woman.
I couldn't help but ask Sister Li: "Ha, OK, you are knowledgeable enough, but I think the story you told sounds like folklore? There is no scientific basis."
Sister Li also smiled and replied: "I didn't expect that your logical thinking is quite rigorous. But if I tell you a real case, you will know that many germs in corpses are very scary. On this, I'd better listen to my dad.
What you're talking about, don't forget that my dad is our
In the Shaanxi region of my country, during the Anti-Japanese War, a group of military horses contracted anthrax and died. The horses were then sealed in an abandoned cave dwelling and buried together. At that time, perhaps no one thought there was anything wrong with this.
From an ordinary person's point of view, this kind of thing may be trivial and not worth mentioning - just burying a few horses that died of illness, what could have happened.
But the most dangerous things in the world are often hidden in what ordinary people take for granted. As time goes by, this "normal" thing is quickly forgotten by everyone.
In the 1980s, by chance, the cave dwelling where the dead army horses were buried was dug up by the villagers. At this time, these army horses had turned into withered bones. Aren't they just a pile of horse bones? They were not human.
So no one present at the time was particularly surprised.
But what the villagers didn't know was that the raised dust contained deadly anthrax spores. Later, anthrax spread in the village, and more than a dozen villagers died one after another.
Chapter completed!