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Chapter 26 Black Iron
When Zhu Yu heard his description and saw how he gestured, he immediately felt overwhelmed.

This was the thing I feared the most in the past, but I couldn't avoid it in the end.

"I'll have to trouble you two brothers for this." She called the talismans over and said, "Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth for a while. After you go in, ignore the others and just carry the largest and strangest one to a place closer to the cave entrance.

Remember, your movements must be gentle and slow, and you must not use too much force! "

Fu Wen and Talisman looked at each other, and although they were a little puzzled, they accepted Zhu Yu's order without any objection. The two brothers used local materials, tore a piece of cloth from their clothes, covered their mouths and noses, and entered the cave.

After a while, two people were seen moving out with difficulty. As they moved, the stench became stronger.

In a place that was still a little distance away from the cave entrance, but not so stuffy and a little brighter, Zhu Yu signaled them to put the corpse on the ground.

Lu Qing frowned. Zhu Yu saw it and reached out to push him out. "You all should go over there where there's some fresh air. Otherwise, it's too smelly and you might not be able to handle it."

After sending the three people away, Zhu Yu took out a cloth towel and put it on his face, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and walked towards the huge creature that runes and talismans had just carried out.

The man didn't look particularly tall, but he was as big as a mountain, with a belly as big as a drum, and his exposed face and neck were a strange gray-green color.

He was clearly dressed like a Jin countryman, but at first glance, one could see that he had bulging eyes and thick lips, and his appearance was totally different from that of a Central Plains person.

Zhu Yu sighed as if resigned to his fate, walked to the corpse and stopped, put the small cloth bag aside, and untied the rope tied to it.

After the imperial decree granting her marriage fell upon her, Zhu Cheng called her over and asked her what she wanted. Zhu Yu thought about it and said that she only wanted a set of small things made of black iron.

Such a trivial request only earned Zhu Cheng a smile. He did not take it seriously at all and asked his guards to take Zhu Yu to the weapons depot and told her to tell the craftsmen there what she wanted.

So Zhu Yu asked the craftsmen to help him make such a set of tools. He didn't think too much about it at the time. He just had a complicated feeling and wanted to keep some memories of his past.

But now, seeing that this thing came in handy again, Zhu Yu didn't know whether he should believe in the so-called destiny.

However, although she was wondering in her heart, her hands did not stop moving at all. After all, she did not have the time to think about these things at the moment.

She squatted down in front of the huge corpse, endured the waves of stench, and quickly examined it. She saw that the corpse's mouth was slightly open, and a fat tongue was faintly visible in the crack of the mouth, as if it would be pushed out soon.

Zhu Yu quickly lifted the already exposed collar of the corpse's clothes, carefully pressed the skin with his fingers, frowned, shook his head slightly, and pulled something out of the small cloth bag he had just opened.

While Zhu Yu was busy working, Lu Qing quietly came behind her and saw at a glance that the thing in her hand was made of black iron. The color was much darker than ordinary iron, and there was a faint light around it.

Black iron is unique to the Shuo Kingdom. As the daughter of the King of Shuo, it is not surprising that Zhu Yu has utensils made of black iron in her hands.

But the thing looked quite strange. It was only as thick as a little finger, with one end sharpened. It looked like an Emei spear but without the spear head, and it was hollow in the middle.

Zhu Yu carefully touched the swollen belly of the corpse and quickly found the right place. She deftly inserted the strange black iron "stick" in her hand and quickly moved aside.

An indescribable stench suddenly spread, and a pus-yellow, foul liquid gushed out of the black iron "stick" and flowed onto the ground. As the filthy matter and foul-smelling gas gushed out, the corpse, which had been swollen like a mountain, visibly deflated, eventually returning to the size of a normal person, but it still did not look like a normal "person."

If it wasn't so smelly, Zhu Yu would have wanted to breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the crisis that was right in front of him was resolved. At least he didn't have to worry about the corpse swelling too much and suddenly exploding, covering their heads with a layer of "human juice".

"The weather right now is cool in the morning and evening, and hot in the afternoon. This means this man has been left here for at least five days." Zhu Yu pulled out the hollow, thin tube made of black iron and flicked the remaining dirt aside. "If he had been pierced in the waist and abdomen originally, he wouldn't be in this state..."

She muttered to herself, and reached out to feel carefully around the ribs of the corpse. Soon she felt an unusual depression. Zhu Yu's brows relaxed, and she had the answer in her mind.

The stench was so strong that it made her dizzy. She quickly checked the corpse from head to toe and did not touch it again. She packed up her tools, stood up, walked out of the cave quickly, and walked to the wind vent, breathing heavily.

Seeing Lu Qing walking towards him out of the corner of his eye, Zhu Yu subconsciously dodged to the side, and was immediately pulled in front of him by Lu Qing.

"I stink badly." Zhu Yu said hurriedly.

Lu Qing glanced behind her and said, "It doesn't matter if it smells a bit, but it's more important to be careful of the cliff.

If you fall from here, you might break your bones or become stupid."

Zhu Yu looked back at where he had just stood and found that he was only one step away from the edge of the cliff outside the cave.

This frightened her so much that she broke out in a sweat.

"Second Master, you don't look well. How about I go buy some Angelica dahurica and Atractylodes macrocephala to burn?" Fu Lu asked. He had seen that before, the yamen outside would burn some medicinal herbs before examining the corpses to dispel the foul evil spirits and to prevent the examiners from being suffocated by the stench of the corpses.

"No need." Zhu Yu shook his head. "Ordinary people wouldn't go out of their way to buy all those herbs. If you were to buy those things, wouldn't you have to get a stove and some vinegar to cook and smoke them?

Isn't this just because they are afraid that others won't know that someone is performing an autopsy in private?
Not only must we not let anyone discover us, but we'll also have to ask you and the talisman to put the bodies back in the same position as you found them, so no one can tell they've been examined."

The people who were skilled in runes and talismans were very skillful, and in a short while they restored the place to the state it was in before they arrived.

Except that the huge corpse has returned to its original size.

Fu Lu took out the cowhide water bag from his waist, and several people washed the dirt off their hands. Zhu Yu couldn't wait to leave this stinking cave.

"Second Master..." Fu Wen looked into the cave before leaving, still a little worried. "The corpse was swollen like a drum just now, but now it's deflated. What if that thief comes back again? What if..."

Zhu Yu stopped and turned to ask him, "Did he look like that when you found this place yesterday?"

Fu Wen thought about it and shook his head: "It doesn't seem to have risen as much as today."

"Yeah, so don't worry. The murderer might not have known that the corpse would become like that." Zhu Yu waved his hand, "Let's go. If we stay any longer, I'm afraid the stench will really make us sick."

　Thanks to Yaotai Jianfeng for the reward of 100 Qidian coins!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)