C1 (1/2)

Jiamusi, Extreme East China.

In winter, it was abnormally cold here. At temperatures around -40 degrees Celsius, not to mention peeing, even the puffing from his mouth would turn into a congealing state.

Jiang Chao and Qiu Ning appeared together at the Fuyuan Port, which was a distance away from Sharpei Pioneer.

A thick layer of ice had already covered the intersection of the Wusuli River and the Heilongjiang River in front of Fuyuan Port.

Every year, during the winter months of November and December, the navigation routes on the river would be blocked. Today, however, an icebreaker was slowly heading towards Fuyuan Port from the direction of Sha Russia.

”Sister Qiu, what did you pull back this time?” Jiang Chao curiously and nervously asked.

Jiang Chao was a senior in the Ha City Forensic Department, and Qiu Ning was his teacher.

”I heard it's a mummified corpse that the archaeological team brought back from Russia. This mummified corpse seems to have existed for a thousand years, and the preserved corpse is even better than the mummified female corpse of Ma Wang. The archaeological team and Russia negotiated to bring this mummified corpse back for research.” Qiu Ning was a teacher at Ha City in the provincial capital, and also the external forensic expert for the Criminal Police squad.

There were a lot of outstanding students in the class, but for the first time, Qiu Ning brought Jiang Chao, who was at the bottom of the class, to the ceremony of handing over the corpse that was sent back from the archaeological team.

”It's another dried corpse, and it's a thousand year old corpse!” Jiang Chao was a little afraid in his heart. He remembered that when he first went to the System Dissection class at the age of eighteen, many students in his class were shocked by the terrifying feeling of dissecting a corpse. But after four years of university, basically all the students in his class could only imitate the corpse twice.

But only Jiang Chao, no matter what, did not dare to touch the corpse. He could not overcome the fear in his heart. After all, the cold corpse on the planer was once a living person's.

Jiang Chao, prepare for a bit. When it is time for us to arrive, help us with the archaeological team's work. Qiu Ning instructed.

”Alright, Sister Qiu.” Jiang Chao nodded.

Qiu Ning was already over thirty years old, but the one she was maintaining was a young woman around twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old.

No one would think she was a medical examiner just from her appearance.

Qiu Ning took good care of Jiang Chao, but unfortunately, Jiang Chao was the last person in the class for whom he failed. Standing in front of the port, Jiang Chao encouraged himself, and this time no matter how terrifying the situation was, he had to subdue the fear in his heart.

But when the ice breaker landed on the pier, Jiang Chao was stunned.

A few robust crew members used ropes to slowly lower a huge bronze coffin onto the pier.

The bronze coffin looked somewhat strange.

There were many carvings of skeletons on top of the coffin. In the center of the coffin was something like an ox head or an evil spirit. It stretched out its long tongue and licked the skulls around it.

The coffin looked rusty, but the carvings on it looked lifelike.

”The archaeologists are here. Jiang Chao, let's go.” Qiu Ning reminded Jiang Chao.

After Jiang Chao heard this, he finally woke up from his hysteria and rushed over.

A man in his forties who had a beard and seemed to be in high spirits came down from the boat and tied a rope around the bronze coffin.

”The people from the Cultural Relics Enforcement Unit said that they will appoint a forensic expert. Who am I, it's you, Professor Qiu?” This middle-aged man who wore the uniform marked 'Black Dragon Archaeology' seemed to know Qiu Ning and laughed as he spoke.

Qiu Ning also politely brought a smile on her face before going straight to the point, ”Lao Qin, is this a female corpse or a male corpse inside the coffin?”

”It's a female corpse. According to the date of the tomb, it dates back to the Spring and Autumn Battle Country or even earlier, but this female corpse still looks very lifelike.” Lao Qin said excitedly with a smile.

”Did you reseal the coffin while you were in the process of transporting it?” Qiu Ning asked with concern.

If the coffin was originally sealed, it would easily cause the body to oxidize and speed up its decay after being pried open.

”Don't worry about Professor Qiu, I really haven't seen such a perfectly preserved corpse. When I first saw it, I thought it was dead for one or two days, so I'll explain the details to you guys after we get to the research institute.” The Lao Qin was suspenseful.

”Alright.” Qiu Ning nodded, and paused for a while, before turning to Jiang Chao, ”Jiang Chao, go and help Lao Qin.”

”Alright.” Jiang Chao immediately ran over to Lao Qin's side.

To be honest, this Jiamusi's winter was really cold.

However, Jiang Chao knew that the Sister Qiu had given him a chance this time. Jiang Chao also wanted to gain more experience, so he completely took off his clothes of being a coward like Ginger and let all his teachers and classmates think highly of him.

Jiang Chao took the initiative to cooperate with Lao Qin and the other members of the archaeological team to pull the bronze coffin.

However, when Jiang Chao and the others tried to pull at the rope, they realized that there was something huge inside the bronze coffin. Under the combined effort of five or six men, they actually didn't move at all.

”Big guy, use a little more strength! Just drop him off on the car and he'll be OK! ” Lao Qin led the group by pulling on the rope and shouting.

After hearing Lao Qin's words, everyone held back their urge to drink their milk and moved the bronze coffin forward a little.