Chapter 9 - Manda\\\'s body
The smell of corpses in the cave is indeed very heavy. For Manda, this smell is not pungent, or even unpleasant. In his previous life, he had eaten all kinds of carrion, some of which tasted worse than this. many.
The entrance is very narrow, and following the only light in front of me, I walked tens of meters, like entering the gourd belly from the gourd mouth, and the surrounding area immediately opened up.
is not only open, but also bright. There are torches on the walls, candlesticks on the table, and a bare wooden bed. There is no blanket or quilt, with red, green and green spots on it.
This is blood. The reason why some places are green is because of the growth of mold. Manda was curious about the purpose of this bed, and suddenly heard an old laughter from behind.
“Hey hey, what a nice boy.”
Manda turned around and saw an old lady standing behind him. As a twelve-year-old boy, he was less than 1.5 meters tall. Since coming to this world, Manda has been looking up at the adults around him most of the time. People (except Quinta), but now he can easily look down at the old lady.
The old lady crouched, as if she was not a metre tall, carrying a cane that was taller than her in her hand.
was wearing a gray linen robe, very old, but neat.
was wrapped in a dark brown silk scarf, under the candlelight, the shadow of the silk scarf just covered her face.
Manda kept looking for angles, trying to see what the old lady looked like, but she suddenly raised her head.
“What do you want to see? What do you want to do? What do you want from me?”
This time he saw the old lady’s face clearly. Her skin was as rough as tree bark, and the criss-cross wrinkles were dotted with bumps of various sizes. The lips and brown skin were almost the same color, a huge nose, as if A head of dried garlic hung on her face, her sparse eyebrows were as gray and interlaced as her hair, and only those eyes were muddy, but very energetic.
“You’re Portia, I’ll take my body.” Manda looked at the old lady calmly, without any fear on her face. For him, an elderly woman was nothing to fear, even More or less so kind.
But the old lady didn’t want to be too kind, she put her face in front of Manda, grinned her toothless mouth, and said with a grinning smile: “So, you are here to die?”
Manda stared at the old lady for a while, then suddenly stretched out her little hand and touched the old lady’s face.
The old lady raised her eyebrows and suddenly raised her cane. Unexpectedly, Manda stretched out her mouth and kissed her on the forehead.
“Beautiful lady, I want my body.”
The old lady’s cheeks were red, and she was shaking with her crutches.
After a long stalemate, the old lady returned to calm, holding a cane and a candlestick, and came to the stone wall.
“Don’t pretend to be so brave, I know you are almost peeing on your pants.”
She slammed her cane to the ground, a piece of dust fell, and a large rock wall shrank aside like a curtain.
There are dozens of corpses hanging behind the rock wall, including men, women, old people and children.
Manda came closer, and he fought a cold battle with a forcing chill.
“Do you know you are afraid?” The old lady sneered, “Look at which one is your corpse?”
Manda looked at it for a long time, and pointed to a boy who looked like him and said, “I want that!”
“Good eyes, this kid looks like you.”
The old lady picked the corpse off the hook with a cane.
“A sensible child should be able to help the elderly.” The old lady looked at the wooden bed. Manda understood what she meant, and followed the old lady and carried the body onto the bed.
“There are always such unlucky people every year. They come where they shouldn’t be. Naturally, the corpses of the Claudesai family have to be returned. Other people’s corpses have other treatments. I like to eat their hearts and livers.”
Manda looked at the old lady seriously: “Does it taste good?”
The old lady frowned and said, “Do you want to taste it? If you don’t want to have a nightmare, just close your eyes!”
The old lady put the candlestick aside, took out a knife, cut open the corpse’s belly, and skillfully took out the internal organs.
“This is the heart, this is the liver, this is the lungs, this is the stomach, this is the intestines, it’s almost there, there are just a few bits and pieces left…”
The entrails were thrown into the wooden barrel under the bed, and Manda stood by, looking blankly.
The old lady changed another knife and dug out the eyes of the corpse. This time, instead of putting it in a wooden barrel, she put it in a small wooden box.
“This is the most precious thing, it must be kept, and this…”
She used a pair of pliers to pull out the teeth of the corpse: “I just left to make a new set of dentures. Anyway, it is the corpse. They won’t care about the missing teeth.”
After pulling out the teeth, she shaved the corpse’s hair again to make sure that there was nothing to take away. The old lady wiped the blood drain on her hands: “This is yours.”
Manda was startled: “I took him to the mouth of the valley like this? They are not fools, you can tell at a glance that this is not me.”
“I thought you were a fool!” The old witch smiled, took out a clay pot from the crypt under the wooden bed, scooped out a spoonful of turquoise powder with a wooden spoon, and put it into a cloth bag.
“Sprink this thing on the corpse, don’t touch your hand, the corpse will soon become bones, leaving no flesh.”
Is this the legendary corpse powder?
Manda was excited, picked up the cloth bag, and was about to sprinkle the powder, but saw the old lady hit Manda with a stick.
“What do you want to do? Destroy the body now? Do you want to go outside the valley with a bunch of bones on your back?”
“What’s wrong with this?” Manda rubbed his hands, “the bones are lighter.”
“Can you put him together completely? Are you afraid that someone will see you? Go outside the valley to dissolve the body, you stupid boy!”
Manda struggled to carry the corpse and came to the entrance of the cave. Below it was a cliff tens of meters high, almost straight up and down, climbing down with a corpse of tens of kilograms on his back, which is tantamount to a idiot.
“I can’t go down!” Manda yelled into the cave.
“Do you want me to carry you down?” The old lady’s voice came out.
“If I fall to death, you have to carry me up, take out my internal organs and then carry me out. Wouldn’t it be more troublesome?”
The old lady was amused. She raised her cane, took two steps to run, and threw the cane out like a javelin.
The crutches penetrated Manda’s clothes, but did not hurt Manda, and took him directly outside the cave. After a gliding, he landed smoothly on the ground.
The walking stick withdrew from the hole in his clothes and jumped back into the cave.
“I kissed your face, but you refused to give me another ride. It’s a hard-to-please woman. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com”
Manda complained a few words, carrying the corpse, and walking to the mouth of the valley in the evening twilight.
This corpse is almost the same weight as Manda, but it doesn’t make much difference to carry it on his back as if he was carrying a schoolbag.
The physical strength has improved, and it has improved a lot.
Manda couldn’t help but started trotting, and the speed was very different from before.
There was a rabbit grazing in the valley ahead. Manda leaned over and grabbed it, then threw it out again.
The rabbit got up, raised an ear to Manda, and continued to eat the grass.
Manda’s physical fitness has been greatly improved. This is the change brought about by the blood of the gods. With this physique, coupled with the fighting skills of previous lives and dinosaurs, Manda can easily deal with three or four adult men.
He quickly ran to the mouth of the valley, but the watchman did not stop him. There was indeed no one around, he put the body on the open space outside the valley, and poured the powder in the cloth bag on the body.
I thought I would see a violent chemical reaction, but the scene was calm at the beginning, the body slowly turned into water like jelly, there was no sound, no smoke, and no trace of flesh and blood left on the smooth bones.
Manda felt that the location was not very good. He wanted to make the body more visible, but he didn’t dare to move it easily, for fear that it would break the skeleton. While tangled, two flares appeared in the distance.
He hurriedly hid in the valley and saw the two men walking next to the bones, as if he had discovered their long-lost father, and yelled excitedly.
These two people were the family members of Baron Claudesai. Manda knew them. One of them stayed to watch the bones, and the other went back to report. Manda could confirm one thing. In name, the illegitimate son of the Claudesai family had already died.