Chapter 61.2
The mummy was wrapped in white bandages and from the body shape one could vaguely tell it was once a woman . Atop the corpse were a few jars holding the internal organs that had been coated with antiseptic .
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But it seemed she had made a mistake in her process . A thick, rotting stench came from the jars . The entire house was filled with the smell .
“Too bad, ya,” she looked at the things in the jar that gave off the disgusting smell and looked to the mummy . “If I had known earlier I would have just fed this to the dogs . Oh wait, your infectious disease might have infected the dogs . So I guess it’s better to chop these to pieces and create fertilizer . ”
Putting aside the jars, Mu Rulan bent to carry the mummy, moving it slowly to the top of the trolley . Translated by The Novelst
The basement was very damp and the marble top hadn’t been sealed enough, which was why she had planned to come and move the latest addition to her collection to a new location . Since it had rained, she was afraid it might rot .
Mm, her mummy would need to be placed somewhere that could be sealed and locked, just like the ancient pharaohs that were entombed in pyramids, placed into coffins after mummification .
Mu Rulan leaned on her sofa to begin thinking . Should she buy a coffin? Hm… That wouldn’t do . Someone might notice it and think she was abnormal .
Suddenly she had a thought that made her eyes brighten . She took out her phone and dialed a number .
The sound of a mature woman’s voice sounded on the other end . “Hello? Lan Lan ah, what’s wrong?”
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“Aunt Mian, are you busy?”
“No, I’m not . Do you need anything?”
“It’s like this . Someone gave me a business card and asked if I was interested in buying a mummy . I thought that it’s kind of odd so I wanted to ask you if the buying and selling of mummies is legal?”
“What?!” Liu Mian’s voice increased in pitch due to her surprise .
The world was so large that anything could happen . People who kept in contact with Liu Mian were naturally not afraid of corpses, and some even had eccentric hobbies like being obsessed with mummies .
However, how could mummies be allowed to be privately collected? They originated from Egypt and those discovered in Egypt were typically sent to museums or the Cultural Relics Protection Agency, so not just anyone could buy them even if they were interested and had the money .
However, as long as there was a demand, there would be a supply, even if someone was interested in a human embryo .
Taking the corpses in the hospitals that no one claimed and wrapping them with bandages to disguise them as mummies filled one such demand . Even if the buyer was not fooled, they would likely be willing to take one home: to put it bluntly, it was simply necrophilia .
That kind of selling was forbidden by law, but there was always a darker underside to things .
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Mu Rulan smiled, hanging up the phone . She knelt to touch the face wrapped in bandages . “Don’t worry, I’ll send you home very soon, hehe…”
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Lu Zimeng stood at the entrance of his house, thinking over what Mo Qianren had said to him as he sent Mu Rulan back home . Weird . Why did he feel something was off?
He couldn’t understand the differences between the types of psychopaths . Though Mo Qianren had given him some examples, making him feel as though psychopaths were mysterious beings, thinking back, something was truly strange…
Mother and Father Lu drove into the courtyard . His mother saw Lu Zimeng spacing out before the entrance and waved her hands in his face . “What are you spacing off here for?”
“…Huh?” Lu Zimeng was half a beat too slow . Translated by The Novelst
“What do you mean, huh? Where’s Lan Lan and Qianren?” Mother Lu was beginning to get excited again . She worried that Mu Rulan might be shy, so she had returned late . Now they must have worked through that embarrassment and done everything by now, right?
Lu Zimeng couldn’t help rolling his eyes . “Mom, do you have to be so excited? Qianren already sent Miss Mu back home . ”
“What? Already?!” Mother Lu was nearly shouting . “How can she leave so soon? He could have kept her longer to foster affection!”
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Lu Zimeng felt very wronged . “Mom, the person to send her home wasn’t me! You should say this to Qianren!”
“Talking back?” Mother Lu stretched her hand out to grab him by the ears . “Didn’t I, your mother, urge you to keep her from leaving the house?”
Now that his mother mentioned it, Lu Zimeng remembered, but he had been scared by Mu Rulan’s frightening gaze in the morning . How could he…
His expression turned serious . He finally understood what had gone wrong . The criminal cases that Mo Qianren brought up had misled him . The main point was not whether or not Mu Rulan was a psychopath who would do things like murder someone . Instead, if she was truly a psychopath, then no matter how good she was they would never let Mo Qianren to be together with her .
Who would be willing to see their son marry a psychopath?
“What’s wrong with you?” His mother asked strangely, noticing the change in her son’s expression .
“Mom, I think it’s better not to push those two together for now,” he said seriously .
“What nonsense are you saying?” She glared at him, not understanding why he suddenly said this when he was fine just yesterday .
“Why? Is there any problem between them?” asked Father Lu .
Lu Zimeng knew that if he didn’t tell them why, they would never stop pushing the two together, so he said without any intention of hiding, “I’m telling you, Mu Rulan might be…”
“Lu Zimeng,” Mo Qianren’s voice sounded icily from behind him to interrupt the words that were coming out of his mouth .
He turned back to see Mo Qianren standing not far behind him .
Mother and Father Lu looked at each other and just when they were on the verge of speaking, Mo Qianren said, “Come to the study . ”
He was speaking to Lu Zimeng and the two vanished up the stairs together, leaving the elders behind . What was wrong with them? Had they fought?
Lu Zimeng entered the study and locked the door behind him .
Proofread by: Hannah