

I Was Turned Into a Mummy
Five years ago, I was the rising star of the nation’s top chemistry research lab, but on the eve of publishing my groundbreaking study, I was brutally murdered. The culprit made others violate me, disfigured my face, injected sulfuric acid into my stomach, crushed my bones, and discarded my body—all while I was three months pregnant. She told everyone I stole research results and fled the country. My own husband helped label me a criminal. Five years later, a nighttime explorer discovers my mummified remains in an abandoned warehouse basement.Chapter 1 Chapter 1
A glossy, mummified corpse was placed in a kneeling position on the dissection table. Since it was heavily dehydrated, the edges of the skin that was flipped over inside out due to it being cut had become stiff. Even the gender of the body was hard to discern. There was nothing left that resembled the person I once was. “Well, Jim?” When Zephyr Howard, a police captain, walked in, his face was grim. “The victim’s face and skin have been horribly mangled. Without a doubt, this is intentional homicide. “Also, the victim’s entire body is covered in pine resin that has unique properties, which is why it’s abnormally stiff. I can’t dissect it by normal methods. For now, I can’t determine the time of death.” Jim Lewis did not look up because he was holding a small electric saw right then and measuring it against my body. “I was just about to talk to you about that.” Zephyr nodded. “We just figured out that the warehouse was abandoned five years ago. The victim’s time of death might have been around that time, too.” Jim froze for a moment before the electric saw started buzzing. But in the next moment, he regained his composure and calmly turned off the saw. My soul levitated in the air, and I felt a bitterness settle in my heart. So, I had been dead for five years? After I turned into a ghost, I was stuck in a dark basement. Every day, I watched cockroaches and rats climb all over me, but they were unable to bite into my flesh. Then, one day, a livestreamer who proclaimed himself to be a nighttime explorer opened the basement. I was finally discovered! But to think that the person in charge of dissecting me would be Jim… Buzz! He turned on the electric saw again. The center of my torso was the best place to cut into. When the saw sank into my body, a strong stench of decay wafted out and filled the entire dissection room. “Ugh!” As a police officer with years of experience, Zephyr had seen plenty of gruesome things, but his face paled, and he threw up so badly that he almost fell into the trash can. Even Jim frowned and took a step back. He grabbed the edge of his mask. After a long pause, he suddenly asked Zephyr, “Grace didn’t come today, did she?”“Don’t worry. Your sister-in-law went with her to the hospital for a pregnancy routine check.” Zephyr wiped his mouth awkwardly in a disheveled state. “I’ll make another call later and have them go straight to try out the wedding gowns. I’ll tell them they don’t have to wait for you for lunch. “After all, she’s pregnant, and this smell is unbearable. “But you have to hurry up with the wedding. She’s starting to show her baby bump a little. If she does, she won’t be able to wear a beautiful wedding gown.”“I know.” Jim’s voice was gentle, and his eyes crinkled as he smiled in happiness. I stared at him in disbelief. My husband once loved me dearly, but he was about to marry my murderer? He even got her pregnant?
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“Jim, how could you do this to me?!” My heart twisted in pain, and I wanted to grab his collar and shout, “Grace killed me!” But my hands just passed through him. “The pine resin must have been poured on the victim before they died. “The stomach cavity has also been injected with a strong acid. All the organs have melted and rotted away. Otherwise, the decay within the victim’s body wouldn’t have been preserved to this extent… Hmm?” Jim was calmly analyzing my body, but once he opened up my stomach cavity, he scowled. Zephyr noticed it and asked, “What’s wrong?”“The victim was pregnant.” Jim sighed and turned my body over to Zephyr. “The murderer injected the resin into the victim’s womb through her genitals. The fetus is preserved to perfection.”“What the hell?! What crazy b*stard did this?!” After recovering from his shock, Zephyr cursed so loudly that his voice echoed in the dissection room. Meanwhile, I stared at my stomach in surprise. I could see the tiny life
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When Zephyr heard that, he gave Jim a thumbs-up and said excitedly, “As expected of a wedded couple! We’ll do that!”as Jim frowned. “We’re no longer married. “She’s no longer worthy of being my wife. But she has to pay the price for the damages she caused the country and to Grace.” I could not believe my ears. For Grace’s sake, he was willing to erase all of my past contributions? Those were the results I got after getting my fingers frozen by liquid nitrogen, getting burned by sulfuric acid, risking becoming infertile, and spending countless nights performing experiments and calculations! Those results were more important than my life! “Sorry. It just slipped out,” said Zephyr awkwardly. “You and Grace are getting married soon, and I just...”“It’s fine. But don’t let it happen again.” With an icy face, Jim cleaned up the instruments. “Let’s go. Once I send this fetus to the lab, I have to go back and cook for Grace.” My mind buzzed. When I snapped out of my daze
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“The smell of oil and smoke will affect my sense of smell. It’ll be far too easy to make mistakes when trying to decipher the smell of corpses. “My hands are only for cutting open corpses. The arc of kitchen knives can easily damage the nerves at my fingertips. I can’t afford to make a mistake.” I laughed bitterly as I recalled his words. All of those had been just excuses. He simply did not love me. But I thought his excuses were real and spent so much effort and energy thinking about new recipes for him. I had to make sure that they were tasty and nutritious and also had to worry about whether they would affect his sense of smell and taste. I was such an idiot. At that time, I did not know about Grace. Besides, Jim was the one who tried to win my heart. Then, half a year after we got married, he got drunk and mistook me for Grace. It was then that I learned that he had a crush on her and had never gotten over it. They were childhood friends, and they even went to
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I knew that Jim did it on purpose. But at that time, it was a crucial moment for an important project for the research lab. I had no time to care about Grace and spent my entire time in the research lab for more than two months before I finally got the most accurate data. It was a huge success. In my excitement, I cried while typing the conclusion of the study into the computer, but I never expected that I would never get to publish this important study. Grace had quietly set up a camera in my lab and soon figured out that I was not as alert as I usually was. “Bad news, Luna. There was a murder case tonight. When Jim was inspecting the body, he suddenly fainted, but we don’t have any extra people, so I need you to take him to the hospital.” She used a voice changer to impersonate Zephyr. I did not suspect anything and hurried over to the location she mentioned, and that was where my life came to an end. “Who would have thought? It’s a beautiful scientist in a white la
