The Dead Man

  "Isn't it? He's confused, you're also drunk, aren't you?" The coffin in my arms said.

  I signaled him to shut up, because now I'm talking to an old man like this, every sentence you have to think three sentences ahead of him, otherwise in those thousands of years of experience, I'm just a rookie.

  "The language nowadays is really hard to understand. Actually, many people have come to my place intermittently, and I just understood the things of the present world from their mouths. However, in the past hundred years, no one has come, and I don't know anything about what's going on outside."

  "Why didn't you go out, senior? I see your body is still very robust."

  "Hahaha" The mortal man burst into three loud guffaws, then turned around and said to me:

  "You don't know, I have long been a dead man, you come and see."

  He carelessly pushed open a large stone, and I held the coffin to look inside. To my surprise, there was a skeleton of the same size as a human being in the world. He said he had died long ago. Isn't what we are facing now the legendary "ghost"?

  I unconsciously took a few steps back.

  "You don't have to be afraid, that's just my physical body. I'm not the kind of ghost or monster you're talking about. I still retain my own consciousness and live a normal life, it can be said that it is your so-called longevity method."

  "So how did you get eternal life?" The coffin seemed to be quite concerned about this.

  "The place where you are sitting is a strange rock, and I died there at first."

  I and the coffin jumped up at the same time, turning back to look at that place where he sat casually.

  "That piece of stone was strange, I felt that it emitted a kind of energy all over its body. Before I died, I only felt its weak message, so I poured all the remaining true yuan in my body into it. Unexpectedly, it stimulated the internal energy inside it, and I used this force to preserve my primordial spirit."

  "How is it so similar, is this really a coincidence? Have you reached the state of becoming an immortal?" I asked.

  "Sister-in-law, don't be silly." The coffin beside me said.

  "This piece of stone should be a meteorite, storing a powerful energy magnetic field inside. I don't know what kind of radiation it is, maybe he used so-called qigong or internal force to break through this meteorite and make all the magnetic fields inside burst out, causing his body cells to mutate instantly and producing an effect of soul separation. His life consciousness was preserved while his physical body was destroyed."

  His explanation made me somewhat understand that what the worldly people said was actually an interpretation of ancient Chinese alchemy, and the coffin was explained using those Hollywood blockbuster concepts. Anyway, I now know what's going on.

  I couldn't help but walk closer to the object I was sitting on earlier, which had been processed by mortals and had become a square-shaped bed. I lay down on it boldly. The coffin tried to stop me, but it couldn't resist. Lying on it didn't feel like anything special, just a bit cool, probably because the underground was very humid, and my body didn't feel any discomfort either.

  "It won't work like this, I need to be the medium to bring out its power."

  After finishing speaking, the mortal stretched out his hand. In a flash of green light, the stone under me suddenly emitted a burst of green light. At this moment, I couldn't move even if I wanted to. The coffin in my arms let out a loud cry:

  "This is getting out of hand, you're messing around with something that might be harmful to your body. What if you end up turning into one of those 'Fantastic Four' rock people, how will you face others?"

  It just occurred to me that after being interfered with by the magnetic field of these rays, not only can it change the DNA inside a person's body, but also modify one's appearance. In movies, for visual effect, they always make the protagonist look handsome and elegant, but in reality, won't we become monsters?

  The green light disappeared, and I suddenly sat up. At this time, however, I saw the mortal lying on the ground. Looking at my hands and feet, there was no change, and then picking up the coffin lid to gaze at each other, fortunately, it remained unchanged, and my heart finally put down.

  He came to the mortal's side and saw that his eyes were slightly closed and his breathing was rapid.

  "Senior, how are you? Have you exhausted your strength?"

  He struggled to sit up and said to me:

  "This is strange, it's the first time this has happened. I feel that the energy inside the stone is draining away and it's going to die."