I followed as Uncle Three followed Chen Wen-Jin's directions into the depths of the cave, where I saw the huge teorite I had seen back then. The teorite full of holes was embedded in the bottom of the underground cave, and the Queen of the Wests sacrificial altar was still there. I followed as they climbed into the teorite.
The teorite seed to be made of bronze and extended out in all directions. When we climbed into a larger cavity, I saw a lot of gravel burial mounds covered in bronze fragnts. There was a lot of equipnt around, but it was so old and rotten that I couldnt tell what it was anymore.
"In order to get out of that ancient undersea tomb back then, we all took those pills and let ourselves enter a corpse-like state. After we ca out, we thought that everything was fine. It wasnt until Huo Ling started to transform that we realized that people who ate that kind of pill had to wrap their whole body in jade armor made of this bronze teorite. Otherwise, they would be poisoned. Even if they survived, they would gradually beco monsters like sea monkeys or forbidden won," Chen Wen-Jin said to Uncle Three. "The principle of these pills is very simple. They contain dormant corpse-eater kings and are made from the powder of the bronze teorite. After taking the pill, the teorite powder limits the toxicity of the corpse-eater kings in the blood, so that the bugs can drill into people's brains and secrete a toxin. The corpse-eater kings are influenced by the jade armor, so if you wrap it around your body, the toxin secretion slows. This way, the toxins slowly change the human body. According to the legends, after the corpse-eater king dies in two thousand years, you can leave the jade armor. The toxins that are left in the blood can repel insects and enable people to live a long ti.
If the person was dragged out of the jade armor before the two thousand years were up and the corpse-eater king wasnt dead, then the bug would wake up and all the toxins would be released at once. The persons skin would instantly be covered in blisters and they would beco a blood zombie.
Chen Wen-Jin and the others conducted research in Golmud, trying to find a way to relieve the toxins. They eventually decided to go to Tamu-Tuo to look for the bronze teorite and make jade armor to keep themselves alive.
After untold hardships, they found the teorite and entered it. They went into a dormant state one by one, but she suddenly woke up decades later. She didn't turn into a blood zombie, but she didn't dare open the others burial mounds either. In the end, she lived alone in the snake marsh.
Sadly, she couldnt leave the area. The farther away from this teorite she got, the more her body resembled a blood zombie. So, she could only live in this swamp. At that ti, she firmly believed that Uncle Three would appear one day and take her out of this place.
But when Uncle Three finally appeared, Chen Wen-Jin had given up hope. She had beco one with the swamp.
Under the gravel burial mounds, the others from the Xisha Archaeological Team might not wake up until two thousand years had passed.
Uncle Three squatted on the edge of these gravel mounds, remaining silent for a long ti. I didnt know what he was thinking. There was a mont where I saw that he wanted to hold Chen Wen-Jin's hand, but he just clenched his hand into a fist instead. Chen Wen-Jin's fingernails were as long as a zombies, so her hands no longer looked like those of a girl. When Uncle Three leaned forward, I seed to see that young man who used to reach out naturally to hold his beloved girl's hand. The conditioned reflex was still there even after decades had passed, but it was abruptly stopped. I didnt know if it was because of the terrible appearance of her hands, or if his heart had already cooled down despite being so persistent all those years.
If it were , I would hold it anyway. This was what I initially thought, but later, I wasnt so sure.
My description is quick and simple, because I dont want to describe things that are irrelevant to the information here. But for Uncle Three, his goodbye to Chen Wen-Jin was longer and more obscure than that promise I made to Poker-Face so long ago. Uncle Three was more persistent than , and Chen Wen-Jin had been waiting in the sa place. Their stubbornness wasnt like that of ordinary people, but the end result was still the sa.
Uncle Three stood up and Chen Wen-Jin took him to climb into the center of the teorite. I followed behind them. They eventually ca to the center of the teorite, which shouldve been where Zhang Qiling went back then. I saw a completely dried corpse wearing majestic clothes sitting in the center of the cave. I recognized that outfitit was the body of the Queen of the West. Her corpse was surrounded by broken pieces of teorite, and her lower body was adorned in sothing that looked like a whole piece of snakeskin. At first glance, she seed to be half-human, half-snake.
There was a strange thing in front of the corpse that attracted Uncle Three's attention.
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