Chapter 5 Chapter Four Fragmentary Mummy

Cooperation is naturally a good thing for me, at least there will be no more incidents of Deng Shi calling the police to deal with me, even if there is, I will definitely be notified and leave as soon as possible. So I immediately said: "Okay—it's just that this matter should not be attended by too many people." "Of course, it's me and you. If there is no result, I won't put it in the file at all, as if it never happened." I nodded and said, "You—" Jack said: "It's still the same way. You and I sneak into his house. I believe that based on the experience of the two of us, we can avoid many anti-theft devices. After entering the house, we put a wireless TV camera tube, spy on his actions."

I thought about it for a while: "Yes, let me meet with Bai Su first." Jack led me to another room, and before he opened the door, Bai Su rushed towards me, and I quickly said: "It's okay, we can start from the beginning." Bai Su gasped: "I'm really worried!" I smiled and said: "Now, this Colonel Jack is also going to participate in our spying operation. He also has better new equipment. I think we have to act quickly, otherwise, Deng Shi may have to move away. .” Jack hurriedly said: "In half an hour, I can prepare everything, you wait for me."

He turned and walked out. We waited for him. Half an hour later, we left the police station in his car. Twenty minutes later, we arrived at the gate of the building. The idiot private detective I hired actually had the face to see me. He didn't even know that Deng Shi had called the police to arrest me, but at this moment, he told us a piece of news that surprised us: Deng Shi had Moved away! That was fifteen minutes ago. A big truck, carrying a lot of things, left, and the private detective finally took a picture of the situation with a camera. The three of us knew that Deng Shi had moved out, but we still went to the twenty-third floor and opened the door to go in.The furniture in the living room did not move at all. I hurriedly opened the doors of the two rooms and looked in.

The "bedroom" was completely empty, with nothing in it. The other room was also empty, but on the wall of that room, there were things that aroused our interest. They were four depressions, the two on the top seemed to be just enough to accommodate two arms, and the bottom ones Two, you can accommodate two legs. It seems that if Deng Shi could cut off his limbs at any time, these four recesses would be used to store the severed limbs. But, is there really anyone who can cut limbs at will and make the limbs move freely? Jack and I looked at each other and smiled wryly! We made a very thorough search of the house again, but could find nothing.

We had no choice but to rely on the photos taken by that private detective. However, when the photos came out, we were even more disappointed. The idiot detective is indeed an idiot detective. The photos he took are useless, just a car. Just big trucks. There are no photos of what Deng Shi moved away. The only value of such photos is that we can trace the source of the big truck and know where Deng Shi moved. However, when we dug deeper, we were again disappointed! The big truck belonged to a moving company, and it is said that it moved the things to the door of a small bungalow, unloaded the things and left.But when we arrived at that address, it was an empty house with nothing in it. When we wanted to contact the owner, we found out that the owner had already gone to France. The house was entrusted to a real estate company. For sale, it has not been sold yet.

The problem was already obvious, Deng Shi came here, turned the car again, and moved his things away.Where did he move to? Because of the interruption of the clues, we can no longer trace it! We have asked those porters in detail what exactly Deng Shi moved out of the house, but we couldn't figure it out. They said that Deng Shi's house was full of large and small boxes. , that is, those boxes. As for what is in those boxes, the porters naturally don't know. We contacted Professor Yang again, because the first time I met Deng Shi was at Professor Yang's home.But Professor Yang didn't know his details, so of course he had no way of finding out.

In the first few days, I couldn't help being very frustrated, because I believed that if I had time to drill a small hole at that time, I would have the opportunity to see Deng Shi's secret. But now, Deng Shi has gone somewhere, and maybe he will never appear again. I am afraid that his secret will always be stuck in my heart. This can be said to be a great pain for a person with strong curiosity. I have spent more than a week looking for Deng Shi's whereabouts, but to no avail. Colonel Jack has given up on this matter, and as the Lunar New Year is approaching, Bai Su is busy with family affairs and ignores Deng Shi at all. , Only I am still busy, but I have achieved nothing.

When it was almost the end of the old calendar year, I suddenly received a telegram. This telegram gave me a new turning point in my pursuit. But when I first received that telegram, I didn't know that it was related to Deng Shi.The telegram was sent by a friend of mine who teaches archeology at Cairo University. The telegram is very simple: "An incredible thing has happened. I hope it will be resolved quickly. Hu Ming." "Unbelievable things" This is the thing that attracts me the most.I discussed with Bai Su, and when I showed her the telegram, she shook her head: "Don't pay attention to him, it's almost Chinese New Year, and you still have to leave home?"

Bai Su's attitude was like this, so I didn't take this matter to heart, but I didn't say anything like Bai Su did. I quietly sent a reply, explaining that I couldn't go to Cairo, but in the telegram At the end, I still couldn't help asking: What is the incredible thing, can you tell me?Early the next morning, Hu Ming’s reply came, and the message was quite long: “You must come, this incredible event involves the entire history of mankind, as well as the mystery of the ancient Egyptians making mummies and preserving corpses, and even more weird The most absurd phantom of the fragmented movement of the human body, hurry up."

"The whole history of mankind" and "the mystery of the mummy" can't attract my interest, but the sentence "absurd phantom of disjointed human body movement" makes me have to go. Hu Ming added the adjective "extremely absurd" and the conclusion of "illusion" to the matter of "disjointed human body movement". I believe he has never really seen the situation of disjointed human body movement. I saw it and reported it to him.However, I have seen the "fragmented movement of the human body", and I know that although it is absurd, it is not an illusion, but a real fact.

I'm not sure that the person who made Hu Ming aware of the situation of "disconnected human body" was also Deng Shi, but this situation is undoubtedly very similar to Deng Shi's separation of hands and feet. Therefore, I listed to Bai Su a thousand and one reasons why we must go, and Bai Su also explained a thousand and one reasons why we should not go. We had a lengthy debate like a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The reason why we can't go together is not because the New Year is approaching, but because Bai Su's father, Boss Bai, is seriously ill. This rare genius in the Chinese gang has reached his twilight years after all. If I want to go, I need Separated from albino.In the end, the reason why I was able to make the trip was because of Boss Bai’s words. He said to Bai Su: “Let him go, life is so short, and there are so many unpredictable and incredible things in the world. If you have the opportunity to explore the truth of a strange incident, why don’t you let him go?” So I was able to board the plane, and when I arrived at Cairo Airport, Hu Ming was picking me up.Hu Ming and I met because I was interested in archaeological work many years ago and joined an amateur archaeological team, which carried out archaeological activities in Central Asia.And I quit this kind of activity soon, because my interest is to discover a lost ancient city every day, but in fact, it is very hard to engage in archaeological work, and often I can't find a single tile in a month or two. But Hu Ming never tired of it, and later entered a famous university to specialize in archaeology. He can be said to be an expert in the study of ancient sites in Asia and Africa, and he already has a high academic status.I saw him when I got off the plane. Although I haven't seen him for many years, his appearance is the same as that of many years ago. He is short and dark, and he talks like a cannonball. When he is moving in the fields, his eyes are sharp and his movements Agile, like a field mouse. As soon as Hu Ming saw me, he tightened my hand: "I believe you must have made a worthwhile trip." This is not the first time I have come to Cairo. Last time I fought a swordsman named Yusuf in the Arabian desert. I found it in an underground building of an extremely ancient city. It can turn animal muscles into transparent objects. At that time, Hu Ming was leading a delegation in Azerbaijan, Central Asia, so I never met him. Therefore, I answered him like this: "If what happened to you this time is not as strange as what I experienced last time, I will definitely stop talking to you." Hu Ming laughed "haha": "No matter what kind of weird things you experienced last time, they are definitely not as weird as things are now. You will definitely continue to regard me as a friend." We drove into the city, and Hu Ming's residence was the professor's dormitory of the university. Although he was only one person, the living area he occupied was astonishingly large. In fact, his residence was like a small museum. On entering the house, he asked his housekeeper to prepare food, but ordered it to be sent to the cellar, and then he led me into the cellar. There was an extremely unpleasant and indescribable smell in his cellar. When he first came in, he was almost nauseated by the smell, but Hu Ming still took a deep breath, with a strange look in his eyes. Guanghui said: "The air here is so beautiful, only in such an environment can I feel the value of life!" I looked around, although the lights in the cellar were bright, but being in it still made people feel eerie! Because, in the boss's cellar, there are almost 80 mummies, as well as various sarcophagi and funerary objects, and all the strange smells come from things that were thousands of years ago. I sighed: "Mr. Professor, you didn't call me here to invite me to have a meal next to the mummy." Hu Ming shouted: "Of course not, come and see, this is it, these sarcophagi, have you seen them?" The sarcophagi that Hu Ming pointed out to me were all placed on a huge oak work table. There are six sarcophagi in total, one of which is very small, square and only one foot square, which can be called a stone box. Long and two feet wide. Those sarcophagi, it can be seen at a glance that they are extremely old. The sarcophagus is full of erosion marks. On the lid of the coffin, there are reliefs, but because of the erosion, they can no longer be seen clearly. I approached: "What does this mean? Although these sarcophagi seem to be ancient, they are also very ordinary." Hu Ming shook his head: "You're wrong, it's not unusual, you open it and look at the smallest one first." I looked at Hu Ming suspiciously, and then held down the smallest sarcophagus with both hands, which was a square stone box. I lifted the lid of the coffin vigorously and looked inward. After that, my hands loosened involuntarily, and there was a sound of "clap", the coffin lid in my hand fell down, bumped against the corner of the table, and fell to the ground again, crashing quite a large piece , but I didn't bother to pick it up, because the things in the coffin were really unexpected to me. That's a human head! It was a severed head up to the neck, mummified and shriveled, of course.But it is in a very good shriveled condition, its facial features can still be seen very clearly, and even the traces of beard dregs can be seen on its sallow skin. It was a man with a wide forehead and a high nose. Before he was alive, this man must have been quite intimidating. And that human head happened to be placed in the sarcophagus.What I mean is that the sarcophagus was hewn from a whole block of stone, and a groove was cut out, and that groove was in the shape of a human head, and the human head was placed in the groove, seamlessly. I looked at it for a while before raising my head: "This is too strange, I have never seen such a fragmented mummy." Hu Ming shook his head again. He approached, lifted the coffin lid that I had dropped to the ground by accident, put it on the table, and said, "You didn't expect it again, he is complete." I almost suspected that Hu Ming was an idiot, but I was still patient: "What does this mean? Complete? I only see one head." With a very fast movement, "bang bang bang bang", Hu Ming pushed the lids of the other sarcophagi aside, so that I could see all the things in the sarcophagus, and I understood what Hu Ming meant. This mummy is indeed complete! It lacked nothing: in the two elongated sarcophagi, two arms, in the other two larger elongated sarcophagi, two legs, and in the large sarcophagus, the body. Hands, feet, head, body, nothing lacking at all, can you say it is incomplete?Of course not, but it is separate, not connected. Seeing such a mummy, I can't help but feel extremely disgusting in my heart, because it is against nature, and there is no doubt that it is the result of ancient torture. I took a few steps back: "What crime did this mummy commit during his lifetime, and was punished by dismemberment?" Hu Ming shook his head: "You are too ignorant. You can be made into a mummified corpse. If you are not rich, you are expensive. How could you be a sinner who was dismembered and died?" I glared at Hu Ming: "Then, who is this?" Hu Ming said: "I have done research. He is a pharaoh who reigned for a very short time. His pyramid is very small. I led the staff to excavate it a year ago. There are no funerary objects in the pyramid, only these five The sarcophagus was lined up in the same way that I have it on my work table today." I am very interested in it. It is really interesting to unearth things that have been obliterated thousands of years ago.I said, "What else have you verified?" Hu Ming said: "There is a stone in the pyramid that clearly engraves the name of this pharaoh. It is absolutely correct. His life is also recorded in history. This man is very melancholy. Single, not close to women, ascended the throne at the age of twenty-six, and died at the age of twenty-eight, when he was on the throne, he did not make much contribution. Originally, such a pharaoh is not worth studying, but—" When he talked about this, he pointed to the sarcophagi: "Why is his mummy like this? There is no record in history that a pharaoh was dismembered. Regarding the death of this pharaoh, the record says He died suddenly and was succeeded by his uncle, and it is a mystery why his mummy was divided into six parts." I thought about it for a while, and said self-righteously: "Probably his uncle wanted to find a job and killed him." Hu Ming said: "You don't understand Egyptian history, that's why you have such ridiculous ideas." I couldn't help being very angry, and said loudly: "Dr. Hu Ming, yes, I don't understand anything, I have no knowledge, but please, why did you ask me to come?" Hu Ming laughed "haha": "You must have heard too many compliments!" I was still angry: "I don't hear compliments, but I don't hear much harsh words." Hu Ming stretched out his hand and patted me on the shoulder: "Okay, okay, to be serious, after I discovered these six sarcophagi, I spent a lot of time researching why the pharaoh's limbs were separated. Famous surgical experts came to study together. According to the research results of several surgical experts, the separation of the limbs of the Pharaoh was definitely not caused by the cutting of any metal castings. The bones were all separated at the joints, which were natural and smooth. The large and small blood vessels all have closed and intact traces──” I couldn't help but said, "What did you say?" Hu Ming said: "The blood vessels at the incision have undergone a closed operation, that is to say, the blood is still in the arm, so it can be said that it has not flowed out." I sneered and said, "There is something wrong with these surgeons. It is very difficult to perform such a surgical operation today, let alone thousands of years ago." Hu Ming said: "Yes, they also know this, but the fact is that they have to come to such a conclusion." I shook my head, it was unbelievable. Hu Ming said: "I have made many guesses and assumptions about this mummy, but it is useless. I have not even announced the matter about this mummy to the outside world, because there is no conclusion. I am afraid that people will say that I deliberately made such a mummy. One of the mummy's for grandstanding." I said "huh": "Now, you have come to a conclusion?" Hu Ming took out a diary from his coat pocket, and carefully showed me a newspaper clipping in it: "Just read this news." It was a piece of gossip, and the newspaper that published the news obviously never believed what it reported was true, so the text was very simple, to the effect that in a house in Cairo, someone saw two hands and pushed them away. The door went in, but no one was there. Those who saw it were more certain, among them was Yunyun who was wearing an opal ring on his right hand. After I read the news, I must have been so depressed that Hu Ming asked me repeatedly: "What's wrong with you?" I looked up. "He's in Cairo." Hu Ming hurriedly said: "Who, who is here?" I said, "A person—" Hu Ming couldn't wait to say: "A person, of course a person, I mean who is it, why is your complexion so ugly?" I made up my mind: "This incident is too coincidental. It will take me a long time to explain it to you. It is better for you to finish what you want to say first." Hu Ming looked at me for a moment, and then said: "Alright, this lace news made me suddenly think of a very strange idea, can these separated corpses be separated by him before his death?" Woolen cloth?" I looked at Hu Ming, he was able to make such an assumption, which shows that he is a person with an extremely rich imagination. Judging from his expression, he seemed to be afraid that I would laugh at him, but to his surprise, I did not. Without laughing at him, I just said: "It's very well founded." He paused for a moment, and then said again: "According to the records, this Pharaoh is very withdrawn, he may have some magical method to separate his limbs, or he is a magician, you know, in China and India, In ancient times, there were magic tricks that could separate people's limbs. In short, this is something worth studying!" I nodded again, expressing my agreement, and then said: "Hu Ming, you found me in this matter, it can be said that there is nothing better, because I have also seen a hand that does not belong to anyone, and a foot that does not belong to anyone. , and I once kicked on such a foot!" Hu Ming looked at me in surprise: "You!" I nodded and said, "Me!" I told Hu Ming everything exactly, and I explained it in great detail.There is no need for me to exaggerate, the matter itself is already mysterious enough. Therefore, Hu Ming's complexion became paler and paler, and after I finished speaking, his complexion was already extremely ugly. The two of us were silent for a long time before we heard Hu Ming say: "This is really unbelievable. The person you are talking about, Deng Shi, clearly has the magical power to separate his own limbs!" I said: "The mummy you found may also have such abilities!" Hu Ming stretched out his hand and tapped his forehead lightly: "But, I still don't understand, even if a person has this ability, what's the use? It's not like an invisible person, people can't see him, he You can do a lot of things that ordinary people can't do." I just shook my head: "I don't understand either." Hu Ming pointed to the sarcophagi on the table: "I think we have to temporarily put this strange mummy aside, because there is so much information about this mummy that can be studied, it would be better to go to Deng Shi .” I naturally agreed: "I've been looking for him for a long time, and now I can't find any place to find him, so I have come—" Before I could finish my sentence, I was interrupted by a sudden scream.That scream came from above, followed by the sound of "ping pong" smashing porcelain, and then another scream.After hearing the constant screams, anyone can understand that an accident happened above. Hu Ming shouted: "Housekeeper!" The two of us rushed up almost together, and as we rushed out of the cellar into the living room above, we saw the housekeeper covering her face and screaming. At the same time, we also saw something that made her scream. Those are hands!