Chapter 178 – #45_At the Crossroads Between Mortality and Eternal Life (2)
One.
Humans feel fear of human corpses.
If so, is it congenital? Or is it acquired innately?
Chan Yu suggested two possibilities for this.
First, the presence of a corpse can be taken to mean that there are risk factors that can cause that death.
Thus, the instinctive need to survive sounds the alarm and, as a result, creates a feeling of displeasure to get out of it.
Second, man exalts himself as the lord of all things.
Countless religions claim a soul and an afterlife for humans, and try to assert that humans are unique and magical beings unlike other animals.
But the body makes them forget.
A corpse that has turned pale and cannot move or speak is no different from that of an animal.
They feel a sense of avoidance because it tells them that humans are, after all, blood and meat inside their skin.
Of course, Yu-chan did not fall under either of the two cases.
Therefore, as if appreciating an ordinary art object, they set out to find messages left throughout the corpse.
First of all, plants used for decoration.
In order to interpret the black box, Yu-chan was well versed in the habits and flower language of all kinds of animals and plants.
Cypress crowns overhead for two girls.
The cypress symbolizes immortality and immortality.
The artist who created this work seems to want to say that his actions have given eternal life to a corpse that was only a piece of meat.
Next is a magnolia that blooms beautifully all over the body.
Magnolia symbolizes friendship.
Is it to honor the warm sisterly love of two sisters who have transcended death and sublimated into a beautiful work of art?
Then, cosmos on the ear.
What the cosmos symbolizes varies depending on the color, but here it probably borrows the meaning of a girl’s innocence.
Even if the body was dirty while alive, it became a beautiful sculpture and washed away the dirt of the world…
It’s kind of meaningful.
The last one is a red poppy bitten into the mouth of a standing girl.
Poppy decorates the finale enough to be called the end of the painting, perhaps because of the use of plants with no color as a whole.
The unrealistically large poppy petals played a big role in giving this whole piece a dreamlike feeling.
Poppies are used to make opium and heroin, a magic drug that makes you forget all the grievances and pain in the world.
Perhaps that is why the language of flowers also symbolizes consolation and consolation.
This work was not only a Yuban but also a memorial service for the two girls.
“Um… “
Of course, growing poppies is illegal.
This is because it can be used as a raw material for drugs.
However, since it is much easier to grow than hemp, which requires strict temperature and humidity control, if you go to the countryside a little bit right now, there are a lot of farmhouses secretly growing poppies.
Yuchan also had been cultivated at a pension site in the provinces a few years ago.
I quickly got busy and left it alone.
Speaking of impressions, it’s like a little special commotion of a psychopath.
Treating a corpse as a work of art and claiming that the act grants immortality is already a cliché.
There is no novelty or aesthetics whatsoever.
What’s the use of decorating a dead person no matter how pretty it is?
With a sad expression on his face her, Yu-chan decided to take a closer look at the sculpture.
Judging by the timing, it was at least several months ago that the two girls were laid to rest.
Of course, after that amount of time, the corpse in its natural state becomes difficult to recognize except for the bones.
This is because of the self-lysing enzymes and microorganisms in the body that decompose at the cellular level.
Therefore, very special work must have been done on this corpse.
In a way, it is a very similar work to taxidermy, but leaving such an excellent shape is much more difficult than taxidermy.
Taxidermy is basically done on furry animals.
Animals have skins and furs, and these skins and furs do not easily rot if they go through a simple process.
Only the inside of the leather is treated with embalming, the inside is filled with cotton balls like a doll, and stuffed animals are completed by inserting only prosthetic eyes.
In that sense, it was close to impossible to preserve the human complexion intact with the existing taxidermy method of animals.
Human flesh and skin are very intoxicated with certain animals and react easily to all kinds of chemical stimuli.
So how do you stuff a human?
It is through the work called Embalming.
Preserving the human body permanently is a time-honored technique that began in Egypt before the B.C.
In particular, in modern times, technology has advanced so much that it is possible to implement it with almost no difference from what it looked like in life, and in the southern United States, it is compulsory to perform it before a funeral.
So, let’s look at that order.
First of all, the whole body is thoroughly washed and disinfected, and then the desired facial expressions and movements are made.
Bending a corpse with advanced rigor mortis requires a lot of strength.
It was likely a healthy adult male who did this, as there were no signs of mechanical devices on his arms and legs.
The second is to inject an antiseptic into the artery.
A drug called Embaming Fluid is used for this operation, and the preservative injected into the artery fills the entire blood vessel and pushes out the remaining blood inside the blood vessel.
Third, the abdominal cavity is opened to remove the remnants remaining inside the organ.
However, here, the organs were completely missing, as if it had been slightly arranged.
It was an inevitable procedure to keep it for several months, not just one or two months.
As you can see, it requires a lot of hassle and professional skills that are incomparable to simply disposing of a corpse.
Yu-chan put on the latex gloves he always carried and started touching the two sisters here and there.
The skin is very hard, probably because it was pickled in the medicine properly.
Even if you try to chop it with the ax you’re holding now, you’ll have to hit it dozens of times.
Perhaps she wondered if there was something in her wide-open belly. She put her sister away for a moment and looked inside her, but saw nothing but her musty smell her.
“Did you make this fuss just to brag?”
Maybe you are listening
Yoo-chan’s eyes froze as he mumbled to listen.
As she casually examined her body, she belatedly noticed what she had overlooked.
It was a shocking moment that could be said to be the biggest surprise of her life.
“How do you know?”
I’ve dealt with quite a few people so far.
The methods were always different, but she had never, at least not once, adopted the emba ming of leaving behind her evidence of her.
However, the moment she sees this corpse, all the procedures and detailed know-how come to mind as if she recalled things she had forgotten a long time ago.
When bending the joint, insert an antiseptic to prevent internal bleeding, fix it after shaping it first to avoid leaving traces of wire for bonsai, and insert a prosthetic so that the eyelids do not turn off after removing the eyeball.
She knows the details of the unknown.
She felt her head her throb.
But no matter how much, no matter how much I remember, I’ve never learned or heard anything about embaming from anyone.
Unknowingly, Yoo-chan took a step back.
Her sister’s gaze at her, with her eyes closed, seemed to be fixed on her.
“What the fuck… “
How do you know?
If you knew, why did you forget?
Did X anticipate this reaction and put this exhibit on display?
No,
Is this really X’s work?
Yu-chan hurriedly ran out of the underground parking lot.
I needed someone to confirm this from a very objective point of view.
2.
“Follow.”
“Uh, where are you?”
Having been raped by Yu-chan for hours, I fell asleep without having time to save my despair.
I didn’t like the sight of him waking me up suddenly because I had been back in Hong Kong with words that belonged to the barrel of being violated without resting like an animal.
If you rolled like that, shouldn’t you give it a break?
“I am going out. Wear this.”
“Outside?”
But my complaints and dissatisfaction went into his words.
Are you saying you’re going out now? Judging by the way he speaks, he doesn’t mean the mansion’s garden.
“Really?”
Are you giving me a reward for listening well?
Also my choice was right.
I evaluated this job very positively in that the opportunity that would come after a long time had already arrived.
He gave me the clothes he had confiscated earlier.
“Change your clothes.”
Are you really, really going out?
I was so agitated that I woke up from sleep. But at the same time, anxiety crept in.
It’s because his voice and appearance his were n’t as relaxed as before.
I don’t know if the police investigation is a ploy to get me away, or maybe they’re getting into an unknown situation and trying to dispose of me forever.
They say they are going outside now, but why aren’t they told to come out because the death row inmates are also visiting before execution?
I got nervous and looked into his eyes.
Even though I am harassed with pictures circulating on the Internet, tattooed on my body that cannot be erased, treated as a sex slave, and forced to act and speak like a child… I am happier in this world than in the underworld.
“Dad, I… Are you really just going out? Did Maria listen to you and take you for a walk?”
He sighed as he hesitated in his clothes.
“It’s okay to act as you normally would while wearing that outfit. However, don’t even dream of escaping.”
Even the tone of voice was normal, so I wanted to release it, but I quickly nailed it.
I hurriedly undressed and wrapped myself in the normal clothes I missed so much.
Yoo-chan didn’t blink even when he saw me naked in the middle, and as soon as he was over, he put several layers of large tape on my mouth and put a mask over it.
“I’ll warn you again, but if I see you trying to roll your head in the slightest…”
“Um… Um… “
I shook my head violently and agreed with him.
No matter how you think about it, this situation was not the kind of outing he wanted.
If he had allowed me to go out for a day as part of his teaching assistant his, he would have been more pompous than he is now and risk all kinds of sexual shame.
“I know you still think about escaping. But don’t say Not today.”
Hearing that, yes yes, I get it. Did he really think that there would be prisoners who thought, “Looks like you’re in trouble today, so I’ll think about it later”?
If I get a chance, I’ll run away right away! I’m not afraid of any bluff like that.
….No, it’s actually a little scary.
Anyway, Yoo-chan finished preparing and headed out of the mansion with me.
Before I had time to feel the thrill of stepping on the soil after a long time, he pushed me into the passenger seat.
And as soon as he sits in his car, he is handcuffed and covered with a lap blanket.
Without saying anything, he showed me a blue-bladed ax and got behind the wheel.
He was so expressionless that I couldn’t tell for sure, but he was nervous now.
The proof is that the threat that relies on excessive violence unlike usual, and that his breathing while smoking a cigarette is stronger than usual.
I thought maybe I wouldn’t be able to come out of this mansion for the rest of my life.
The moment he went down the mountain road and entered the secluded national road, he felt his heart flutter.
The car, headed for the highway at once, ran steadily while complying with the speed limit.
I stared blankly out the window at the street lights and cars passing by.
Even the scenery that I would have naturally enjoyed in the past makes my nose tingle for some reason.
So, the place we arrived at was an abandoned building lying in an empty lot.
It was a building with an old signboard reading Incheon Logistics Center dangling from it.
Judging by the condition, it seems that it was probably closed a long time ago.
I became more anxious.
“I’ll take the tape off.”
He removed his mask, taped off, and even released his handcuffs.
After all, he knew he could n’t escape under his watch his, so he did n’t feel particularly inspired.
“Why did you suddenly come here?”
“Get off and walk.”
Yu-chan finished smoking half a pack of cigarettes and put his hand around my waist to lead me.
No matter how much I think about it, I don’t expect anything pleasant…
But it is unavoidable.
As I looked around, I found a plastic bag in his hand.
I became more anxious.
I carefully took my reluctant steps and matched them.
