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Chapter 24 February [-]th
At the gate of the archives, I met Ye Xiao.Walking into the long aisle of the archives room, he said softly to me: "Dr. Mo is dead."

"Dead?" I was taken aback.

"On the night of his arrest, in the detention center, he banged his head against the wall and died alive."

"Bumping into a wall and committing suicide? I've never heard of such a way of dying."

"It's really strange. In short, he died a terrible death. His forehead was smashed and he was diagnosed with a skull fracture. He must have been knocked all night." He tried to keep his voice down, and we had already entered the archives room.

"He committed suicide in fear of crime." I blurted out.

"Be gentle." He looked around. There were not many people in the file room, and it was so quiet that he could hear all the voices clearly. He continued: "The reason has not been found out yet, so don't jump to conclusions."

"Maybe he found out his conscience and used death as a confession?"

"It's possible."

I suddenly remembered the words written on the calendar of Dr. Mo's desk on the day of his arrest - "fear".The "she" of the previous day, and "she is in the underground palace".I carefully pondered the word "fear", and then thought of "Ghost of the Ancient Tomb", the E-mail Lin Shu sent me before his death, and Lu Bai, Dr. Mo, who committed suicide by crashing into the wall, have something in common with them .Could it be that Dr. Mo is also like them?I told Ye Xiao about this sudden worry.

"My worry is exactly this." Ye Xiao said slowly, "Although Dr. Mo is a liar and a rapist, that is beyond doubt. But at the same time, he may also be a victim of 'Ghost of the Ancient Tomb'."

"We are far from the truth."

"Yes. Check it quickly." Ye Xiao turned it up skillfully. He checked the medical research files in Shanghai in 1945.

"How to check this?" I was a little puzzled.

"After the tomb robbery incident in 1945, the leader of the investigation team sent by the Nanjing government was Duanmu Yiyun, an expert in human physiology. He must have been to Huiling after the robbery. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he moved his studio back to Shanghai, but soon he returned to Shanghai. died. We'll start from here."

He started to search from the names of the people. There are very few people with the surname Duanmu who are also engaged in medicine. Soon we found the archives of Duanmu Yiyun's studio.There are some general records in the file——

In the autumn of 1945, Duanmu's studio moved back to Shanghai from Chongqing.Not long after he arrived in Shanghai, he became the team leader of the Dongling tomb robbery investigation team. In fact, the investigation team was set up by himself under the guise of the Nanjing government. The "investigation team" only stayed in Tanglin for 7 days, of which 5 days were in Huiling.Return to Shanghai soon.

"Just like that?"

"The most important files are not these, but the files attached to the files." As he spoke, Ye Xiao flipped through a large stack of files, which were all kinds of files left by the studio in 1945.The paper has turned yellow, densely packed with pen characters, and the formats are also different, appearing disorganized.

"Look," Ye Xiao said, pointing to a stack of documents, "Most of the documents here say ALT experiment."

Sure enough, the papers were bound, and the cover of the jacket read "ALT EXPERIMENT".Looking at the content again, it is full of medical terminology, plus it is all in very scribbled traditional characters, I can't understand it.

On the third page of the file was a report paper, which began: "Experimental Plan One"——

民国34年10月25日晚21点20分，ALT抵达上海西站。

At 22:40, ALT arrived at the studio.

At 10 o'clock in the morning on October 26th, the first inspection.

At 10:27 on October 14th, the second inspection.

At 10:28 on October 15th, the third inspection.

On November 11, the inspection report was officially submitted.

I know that the 34th year of the Republic of China is 1945, and what is ALT?Maybe some kind of medicine, or Duanmu Yiyun's English name?I continued to turn the page, and when I reached page 8, I saw a Western-style form with the four words "Autopsy Report" written on it.I read softly——

Female body height: 165 cm
Female body weight: 50.3 kg
The age of the female corpse: about 20 to 22 years old based on X-ray detection
Blood type of the female corpse: The blood type of the female corpse was determined to be type O by the method of inhibition of agglutination test

Remarks:

1.The original incision on the abdomen of the female corpse was 12 centimeters long and has healed naturally.

2.The soles of the female corpses were 26 centimeters long, the same length as modern women's soles.

3.The bust of the female corpse is 79 cm, the waist is 67 cm, and the hip is 86 cm.

4.The female corpse had never given birth before her death.

5.The female corpse has intact teeth.

6.No antiseptic substances were found on the skin surface or in the body.

7.Through inspection, the female corpse was basically not found to have the usual phenomenon of dehydration and atrophy, the muscles were elastic, and the joints could rotate normally. Based on the above points, it was concluded that the female corpse was preserved intact, and it is recommended not to perform an autopsy.

Signature: Duanmu Yiyun.Time: October 34, 10

After reading it, my hands felt a little numb, so I handed this piece of paper to Ye Xiao.

After reading it without saying a word, he frowned and remained silent for a while, then said softly: "It's unbelievable. There is such a thing. Could this female corpse be the queen of Tongzhi? If it is really Queen Arut, then The so-called ALT experiment should be the Alut experiment, and ALT is the English abbreviation of Alut. No wonder Duanmu Yiyun wanted to go to Dongling, and he wanted to be in Huiling. It turned out that what he wanted was the queen's body, that is to say, The queen has been transported to Shanghai by him."

"It's unbelievable, could it be a forged document?"

"No, I have studied file identification at the Public Security University. These documents and files should be real. Come on, let me look through." He continued to look backwards.

I let out a long breath, thinking about the autopsy report just now, it was too bizarre, so the last time I saw the record in that book was absolutely true.According to the calculations, the queen died in the first year of Guangxu, that is, 1876, and it had been 1945 years since 69. The body was intact in 69 years, and there was no anti-corrosion measure.However, Cixi had only been dead for 20 years when she was dug out by Sun Dianying, and the body was a little broken as soon as it came out of the coffin, which echoed the saying that evil will be rewarded with evil and good will be rewarded with good.I remembered how the old man in the family looked after his death. The skin color was completely different from that of a living person, and the joints were so stiff that they could not be moved at all. Even if they put on makeup and entered the glass coffin of the memorial service, they would look different. What's more, the Queen has been dead for 69 years. Even after being pulled out of the coffin, it will take at least 10 days to reach Shanghai. Normal people will break down after more than 10 days of death.What's even more outrageous is that the autopsy report actually included the measurements of the female corpse. According to today's standards, this measurement should be considered a great figure. A woman who has been dead for so many years should have shriveled and shrunk long ago. Not to mention, it's amazing that the bust and hips are still so plump.

In short, this thing is too strange. The mummies of the ancient Egyptians have undergone complex embalming treatments. Although they are claimed to be well preserved, according to ordinary people, they are beyond recognition.As far as I know, embalming techniques in China have a long history. A female corpse was unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha. It was soaked in coffin liquid and did not rot.

The most abnormal thing was that the incision on the abdomen of the female corpse had already healed naturally, how could the dead man's wound heal by itself?Could it be that Duanmu Yiyun was confused and made a mistake, mistaking the body of a woman who had just died for the body of the queen?
I really couldn't figure it out, looking back, Ye Xiao was still looking at the "ALT experiment" carefully.I picked up another stack of documents, and in the middle row, I saw a large book with a black cover. I opened it and saw that on the first page it was written - "Work Diary of the 34th Year of the Republic of China".

I flipped through it roughly, and it was all in diary style, and it was complete every day, but some days had a lot of content, densely packed, and some days were just a sentence.It was written from January 1945, 1 to November 1.I looked at it from the beginning, and there was nothing special about it. It was nothing more than an experiment done on a certain day and month. It was all technical terms, which I couldn't quite understand.I simply flipped to the back:

February 8th

"Today, news of the Japanese emperor's surrender edict was spread in the streets and alleys of Chongqing. The eight-year war of resistance has finally been won, and we can finally return to Shanghai."

February 9th

"Shanghai arrived, we got off the boat, we went straight to No. 79 Tongtian Road, and my studio started working again."

February 10th

"Today is the birthday of the Republic of China, and I received a letter from a friend of mine in Peiping, who told me a very strange thing——

Duanmu my brother's Taiwan lesson:

Last month, a large-scale tomb robbery occurred in the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty, and the Huiling Tomb of Emperor Tongzhi was also doomed.After the robbers opened the coffin, they found that the emperor Tongzhi had become a pile of dead bones, while the jade body of the empress was safe and sound, just like a living person.Now the empress's body has been lying in the underground palace where it was opened for several days. The jade body is still there, and there is no sign of decay.

Brother An You
Tonight, I didn't sleep all night, I was very shocked, there is such a thing, if it is true, then the empress of Tongzhi's jade body must be extraordinary, from the perspective of human physiology, it has extremely high If the remains can be tested scientifically and some results can be obtained, it will probably be an epoch-making discovery that will greatly benefit mankind.I must report to the Nanjing government and go to Tanglin once, no matter how difficult it is. "

February 10th

"The bureaucrats of the Nanjing government are all gangsters, and they only approved us to go to Tangling in the name of the national investigation team until today, and sent the local police to be responsible for the security. The train is about to leave tonight, and we will go to Tangling via Tianjin. , I am very excited now."

February 10th

"After a long journey, the soldiers on the road were indistinguishable, we finally arrived at Dongling, and it was indeed a dilapidated scene, which was horrible.

We immediately rushed to Huiling of Emperor Tongzhi. The gate of the underground palace was open. We lit torches and walked into the underground palace accompanied by some local policemen. Passing through several large stone gates, everyone was already shuddering, looking at each other, their faces were pale, like dead people.Already a few timid ones fled back, or knelt down and sobbed.I was also terrified, but in the end, for the sake of science and the future of mankind, I led you into the last underground palace.

The scene of the underground palace is quite bleak. Two huge golden nanmu coffins are placed in the center, and both of them have been moved.In the southeast corner of the tomb, we finally found the queen's jade body.Under the torch, I witnessed this miracle with my own eyes. Sure enough, the queen was completely intact. Her skin was as white as jade, but it was by no means the paleness of the dead. At first glance, it looked like a picture of a young beauty sleeping in spring , and even touches the heartstrings of men, making us feel distracted.However, there was an incision in the queen's abdomen, and the intestines flowed out. It is said that a vicious person cut open the queen's jade body in order to search for the gold when the queen committed suicide by swallowing gold.

I put on sterilized rubber gloves and stuffed the queen's intestines back into her body. She has been dead for nearly seventy years, but her internal organs are still intact and soft as an ordinary person.When my hand touched the abdominal cavity of the Queen's body, it felt like the feeling of performing an abdominal operation on a daily basis.I immediately sewed up the incision on her abdomen with needles. I took the courage to lift up the jade body of the empress. I didn’t feel the stiff feeling of a dead body. The empress’s jade body is soft and the skin is full of elasticity. It can sit upright at 90 degrees and the joints can rotate. .If it weren't for the queen's jade body being cold, we would definitely not be able to believe that she has been dead for many years.I retreated to the side and began to observe the environment of the underground palace. The underground palace was somewhat leaky, and it was not completely sealed. Although the air was thin, it could not prevent rot. It is certain that the environment of the underground palace has no direct relationship with the queen's jade body.

Soon, the remains of Emperor Tongzhi were discovered, which had become a pile of thoroughly decomposed bones.According to historical records, the emperor and empress of Tongzhi died within more than a month. They were both young people in their twenties when they died, and they were buried at the same time. The preservation environment is exactly the same. Why are the results so different?I can't figure it out after a lot of thinking. "

February 10th

"Today we set off to return to Shanghai. The environment here is too bad. Thieves are rampant all around. The so-called protection police are just stealing sheep. I also heard that the Eighth Route Army will soon be stationed in Dongling to suppress bandits. It is really not suitable to stay here for a long time. And Queen, I can't let her The jade body of the queen was left in the underground palace, and she must be transported back to the studio in Shanghai for in-depth research to solve all the mysteries. I ordered a light coffin, put the jade body of the queen into it, and then The coffin was sealed, and then a lot of money was hired to carry it into a car, transport it to Tianjin, and then return to Shanghai by train from Tianjin.

February 10th

"After a difficult journey, it is night and I am sitting in the train. We have booked a carriage, and the coffin of the queen's jade body is beside me. The train is rickety, and it is going to Shanghai. I meditate by the window , if we can solve the mystery of the queen's incorruption, then human beings will be greatly changed. Maybe we don't need graves anymore, and the dead relatives can be remembered for a long time by our side as if they were alive. Whenever we look at Seeing one's dead relatives put into the coffin and buried in the soil, the pain of farewell is so great, each of us may have experienced this kind of trauma in the heart, maybe, after new discoveries, in the future, death will no longer Terrible, death is just going home, just like Zhuangzi, we drum and sing. Death is eternal life. I suddenly had this idea, and looking back at the coffin, my heartbeat suddenly accelerated."

February 10th

"Because the studio is located in a western-style building, there are many government agencies, in order to avoid being known by more people, I put the queen's jade body in a glass coffin in the basement, and the environment in the basement is similar In the underground palace and the burial chamber. We conducted the first autopsy in the basement, and the results confirmed my judgment that the jade body of the queen was intact. I decided to carry out the second step, which is the dissection. When I am about to write down the dissection plan Suddenly, I stopped. I don't think there should be an autopsy. From a scientific point of view, an autopsy is the most effective method. But facing the perfect queen, yes, she lay perfect in front of me, just Even the abdominal incision was miraculously closed. If I took a scalpel and opened her abdominal cavity again, I can’t imagine that it would be a crime. Since I studied medicine, I have dissected countless dead people. Chest cavity or abdominal cavity, for me, is easy and commonplace, but I can't do it when facing the queen's jade body. Because I don't feel that she is a dead person, she is like a sleeping person in front of me. Sleeping beauty, how can I dissect a sleeping person? At this moment, I was in great pain. Finally, I signed the autopsy report: female corpses are not suitable for dissection.”

February 10th

"Today is the second test, same result as yesterday."

February 10th

"The third inspection found no new findings. It has been twelve days since October 10. During these twelve days, we have not done any anti-corrosion measures to the empress's jade body, in order to maintain its original appearance .I once guessed whether there would be a good person who stripped a woman who had just died and threw her clothes in the underground palace to pretend to be a queen to deceive us. Now it seems that there is absolutely no such possibility, even if it is sixteen The one who just died on the same day, today, no matter how well preserved it is, there will be changes. And now the queen's jade body is exactly the same as what I saw twelve days ago, except for the abdominal incision. This is definitely a miracle. In the past, I was Those who don’t believe in miracles, now I do, and even though I can’t explain it yet, one day I will be able to use scientific methods to explain it.”

10月29日、10月30日、10月31日，三天都没有任何内容。

February 11th

"I'm going to officially submit the inspection report today. I don't know how to write the report. My studio is owned by the government. People in the Nanjing government will not pay attention to this report. Even if they read it, no one will believe it. .In recent days, I always have a special feeling in my heart, especially when I am close to the queen's jade body."

February 11th

"My right-hand man Yang Zisu died today. The cause of death was very strange. He strangled himself to death. I have never seen such a way of death, because when a person's breathing is difficult, there is no strength in his hands. Last night, he was on duty in the studio. This morning, when I walked into the basement where the jade body of the empress was kept, I found him. He had died, probably between 0 and 1 in the middle of the night. His eyes were open, and his appearance was terrible. His eyes stared straight at the jade body of the empress lying in the glass coffin. I looked at his eyes, and then at the empress who was peacefully asleep. I suddenly felt a kind of fear in my heart."

February 11th

"Tonight, I decided to stay on duty in the basement by myself."

This is the end of the diary, November 11rd is the last page.My head was a little dizzy, and I thought carefully about what I saw just now, but I couldn’t say anything. Duanmu Yiyun’s writing was a bit strange, classical Chinese for a while, and vernacular for a while. Maybe people’s written language at that time was half-literate and half-white. .I closed this "Work Diary" and didn't dare to read it a second time, so I handed it to Ye Xiao.

After Ye Xiao finished reading, his face turned pale, and he said slowly: "Duanmu Yiyun's file says that he died on the night of November 1945, 11, and the cause of death was intravenous injection."

"Intravenous?" I was confused.

"He injected himself. It was suicide."

"I'm really a little scared."

"To be honest, me too. Come on, take a look at this document. I found it on the last page of the ALT experiment when you were looking at your work log." He handed the document to me.

I dared to look again——

Investigative report on the death incident during the ALT experiment
Due to two deaths occurred during the ALT experiment, the deceased were the famous human physiologist Mr. Duanmu Yiyun and his main assistant Yang Zisu. Although they were determined to have committed suicide, the cause of suicide is unknown.The government decided to investigate the matter.The confessions made by the staff of Duanmu Studio are listed as follows——

My name is Zhang Kai. I am 26 years old. I am a student of Mr. Duanmu and a member of his studio.I went to Tanglin with Mr. Duanmu and participated in all his activities and experiments.After we returned to Shanghai with the Queen's body, we temporarily placed the Queen in the basement. We conducted all tests on the Queen's body except for the autopsy, and found that the Queen was intact.On the evening of October 10, Yang Zisu invited me to have dinner at Paramount. His spirit was very poor these days. I asked him why, but he refused to answer.Later, we drank a lot of wine, he had a poor capacity for drinking, and soon got drunk, he said a lot of words after he was drunk, I still remember a few of them, he said to me: "Open, I fell in love with you A woman."

"Really, tell me, who is it? Is it the newly transferred Ms. Liu?" I asked him.

"No." He shook his head, looked miserable, and took another sip of his wine.

"Zi Su, stop drinking, look at you drunk."

"No, I'm depressed because I fell in love with a woman." He took another sip of his wine.

"Who are you in love with?" I reached out to snatch his glass.

"You won't believe it." He pushed my hand away.

"I believe." I think he would feel better if he said it.

"I'm in love with—the Queen."

"Who?"

"Queen."

"You drank too much, let me help you go home."

"I didn't drink too much. I'm getting more and more sober now. When we saw the queen's jade body for the first time in Huiling's underground palace, I was attracted by her. I have never seen her in my life. Such a beautiful woman. After returning to Shanghai, I faced her alone many times. Whenever I looked at her, I always thought that I was in front of a sleeping woman, not a corpse. I silently Looking at her, although I graduated from a medical university, I feel that I am an insignificant life in front of her, and she is a goddess of eternal life, yes, a goddess, I love her, I worship her, I love her Worship, I will die for her, and use my life as her sacrifice."

"You're crazy."

"I know you won't believe it. That night, I suddenly had an urge to touch her. When I was alone in the basement, I opened the glass coffin privately. I touched her body, although her body It was so cold, but I felt like I was touching my wife. I suddenly thought of something, so I dared to lift her closed eyelids. God, I think she is looking at me, I really I have this feeling, just like you look at me now. The whites and eyeballs of her eyes are well preserved, and the pupils are not dilated, which is the same size as a normal person. There is a kind of light in her eyes, a white light. Suddenly , I saw something changed in the corners of her eyes, the lower edge of the eye sockets began to become wet, some liquid appeared, flowed out of her eye sockets, and flowed down the corners of her eyes and down her cheeks. I was trembling with fear , at a loss, I touched the liquid with my hand, it turned out to be warm, I put the liquid in my mouth and tasted it, it was salty, my God, this is tears, human tears. According to my According to medical knowledge, this is absolutely impossible to be corpse fluid, there is no doubt that it is tears, tears secreted from her lacrimal glands. I... I'm sorry, I can't go on..."

He then left the restaurant immediately and disappeared alone.At that time, I thought he was drinking too much, talking nonsense after drunk.Unexpectedly, two days later, he was found dead in the basement, in front of the queen's body.

Findings:

one.The above confession is purely fabricated and fabricated to confuse the public. He will be dismissed from public office and will never be hired.

two.As for the cause of death of Duanmu Yiyun and Yang Zisu, it is suggested to temporarily announce to the public that the two committed suicide due to mental breakdown due to high work pressure.

three.Duanmu Yiyun Studio was immediately disbanded.

Four.Stop the ALT experiment.

Fives.The body of Empress Tongzhi was temporarily stored in the basement.

Official seal on November 34, 11
I put the file back in the lab report.I searched carefully again, but found no other useful things. The latest ones were in December 1945. They were about the aftermath of the disbanded studios, and there was no mention of the queen's body.

At this time, I suddenly felt sad in my stomach. It turned out that we had been in the archives room for a whole day without eating lunch, and now the staff was clearing the place.Ye Xiao and I walked out of the archives and went out to eat something.

While eating, I asked Ye Xiao, "Where are we going tomorrow?"

He replied lightly: "Tomorrow, we will go to the queen."

Ye Xiao seemed to see something in his eyes.

Outside the window is the winter night in Shanghai.

(End of this chapter)