 How does Loy Chuk bring the mummy to life?
A scream of brakes, the splash into icy waters, a long descent into alkaline depths ... His car hit the white-painted wooden rail sideways, crashed through, tumbled down a steep slope, struck a huge boulder, bounced up a little, and arced outward, falling as gracefully as a swan-diver toward the inky waters of the Pit, fifty feet beneath.... The edges of that almost bottomless pool were caked with a rim of white—for the water, on which dead birds so often floated, was surcharged with alkali. Presently, when he could no longer hold his breath, bitter liquid was sucked into his lungs. Time, the Brother of Death, and the Father of Change, seemed to wait.... The icy breeze tore tiny puffs of dust from grotesque, angling drifts of soil, nearly waterless for eons. Loy Chuk had flown his geological expedition out from the far lowlands to the east, out from the city of Kar-Rah. A mineral saturation that had held time and change in stasis. A strange accident, happening in a legendary antiquity, had aided them in their quest for knowledge. The chant of triumph ended, while instruments flicked in his tiny hands. The final instrument he used to test the mummy, looked like a miniature stereoscope, with complicated details. Though devoid of moisture, the mummy was perfectly preserved, even to its brain cells! Medical and biological sciences were far advanced among Loy Chuk's kind. It might move, speak, remember its past! With infinite care it was crated in a metal case, and hauled into the flying machine. Flashing flame, the latter arose, bearing the entire hundred members of the expedition. Loy Chuk's people had built their homes mostly underground, since the beginning of their foggy evolution. The mummy was taken to Loy Chuk's laboratory, a short distance below the surface. Fluids submerged it, slowly soaking from that hardened flesh the alkali that had preserved it for so long. The fluid was changed often, until woody muscles and other tissues became pliable once more. Still submerged in liquid, the corpse was submitted to a flow of restorative energy, passing between complicated electrodes. The cells of antique flesh and brain gradually took on a chemical composition nearer to that of the life that they had once known. Loy Chuk put an odd, metal-fabric helmet on its head, and a second, much smaller helmet on his own. At last, eager and ready for whatever might happen now, Loy Chuk pushed another switch.
 While rehydrating the body, Loy Chuk used electrodes to send energy throughout the body.
 While rehydrating the body, Loy Chuk sent electricity into the body using a metal helmet.  After rehydrating the body, Loy Chuk sent electricity into the body using a metal helmet.  While rehydrating the body, Loy Chuk used electrodes to send energy throughout the body.  After rehydrating the body, Loy Chuk used electrodes to send energy throughout the body.