Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 142 The Mysterious Device in the Main Chamber

"Miss Jingjing, there is only one thing I regret most now."

Wu Liang actually laughed too, raised his eyebrows and said.

"what's up?"

After receiving the engineering shovel from Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing asked curiously.

"Hey, I'll tell you if I don't die this time."

Wu Liang smiled coquettishly.

"No need! It's better for you to die here!"

Bai Jingjing instantly sensed something from Wu Liang's malicious smirk, and rejected Wu Liang on the spot.

Yu Ji was thrown on the ground and was still in shock, but seeing Wu Liang and the others still laughing, he shook his head and wailed as he climbed up: "Crazy, you are all crazy, you are all lunatics! But why do you want to implicate the old man... "

But at this moment.

Without Princess Dianwei's embrace, it was absolutely impossible for Yu Ji to escape from the swarm of insects with his old arms and legs. He knew that he was doomed, so he didn't run away anymore, but just hid behind the three of them, sighing and shaking his head. Seeing almost crying.

talking room.

The swarm has arrived.

Wu Liang's expression tightened, he couldn't separate God from talking and laughing with Bai Jingjing anymore, he just felt his head getting hot, and shouted loudly: "Kill!"

"kill!"

"Fight!"

Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing also responded, but they didn't know whether they were speaking to others or to themselves.

The three of them immediately swung the engineering shovels in their hands, and slashed towards the dense insect swarm.

"Shh!"

Every time they shoveled down, at least a few strange insects were chopped into two pieces by them, or they flew directly and smashed heavily on the wall, leaving a sticky yellow-brown mark.

But there are too many monsters, even if they try their best.

It only took a few breaths before the insect swarm was completely submerged.

Strange insects kept crawling up their bodies, and it was too late to shake them off. Even Yu Ji who was standing behind was not spared, jumping up and down and screaming, under such circumstances, he trampled to death a few Just a bug...

then.

He was slipped by the viscous liquid that shot out from the strange insect's body, and fell heavily to the ground.

In just a split second, he was immediately covered by strange insects, looking like a humanoid monster made up of strange insects.

Also at this time.

"Not right!"

Among the insect swarms, Wu Liang suddenly put down his engineering shovel, shook off more than a dozen strange insects that climbed up on his body, and said to Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing with a surprised expression, "Have you noticed that the target of these strange insects seems to be It’s not us, to be precise, they don’t have any hostility towards us at all, but it’s more like we’re wishing to block their way?”

"This……"

Hearing this, Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing suddenly stopped.

It seems that this is indeed the case. Although these strange insects crawled extremely fast, and many of them climbed onto their bodies, so far, no strange insect has hurt them.

Instead, they have been working hard to kill these strange insects...

"!?"

Hearing this, even Yu Ji, who was lying on the ground and rolling crazily, stopped subconsciously.

At this moment, his body was already covered with strange insects. If these strange insects really intended to hurt him, he would have basically been eaten at this moment.

But miraculously, these strange insects did not bite or claw at him.

It seems that he is just regarded as an obstacle that must be overcome on the way forward, a stepping stone?
"Crack clap..."

The sound of strange insects crawling filled the entire tomb passage. Wu Liang and others looked at me and I looked at you, but no one spoke.

"..."

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

This is an embarrassment of being wrong.

Wu Liang and the others hope that no one will remember the "death as home" just now...

Yu Ji hoped that no one would remember the "crying for father and mother" just now...

Especially Yu Ji.

As the only "heterogeneous" among the group of people, and an old man who is not as old as the other three combined, if he knew this, he would definitely make himself appear calmer.

This is great, the only image left is gone...

Moreover, here is where he killed the most strange insects. Wu Liang and others only shoveled down a few of them, and he rolled in a circle, and at this moment, whether it was on his body or the ground that rolled over just now, there were already a few of them. It was a terrible mess.

that's it.

Wu Liang and the others stood quietly on the spot, allowing the strange insects to crawl past them or on their bodies. At most, they shook when the strange insects were about to climb above their waists to shake them off.

After several minutes like this, the number of strange insects finally gradually decreased.

"call--"

Wu Liang took a breath, and while he was pleasantly surprised, he decided not to mention what happened just now, but squatted down to carefully examine the strange insects that died at his feet.

To be honest, Wu Liang didn't have much research on insects, and it was difficult to distinguish the types of these strange insects just by their appearance.

But based on his research on "Corpse Turtle" in his previous life, he already had some speculations in his mind.

These strange insects are likely to be-burying insects, or corpse-eating insects.

There are about 175 species of burying insects in later generations, and they are beneficial insects. They are not interested in fresh meat and blood, and only feed on dead or rotting animal corpses, which can transform the corpses into more easily recycled animals in the ecosystem. Matter, like a scavenger in nature, plays a role in purifying the natural environment.

It is reported that when burial insects eat animal corpses, they always dig the ground under the corpses, and finally bury the corpses in the ground naturally, hence the name burial insects.

It's just that the burial insects known to later generations are very small, with an average body length of only 2.5 cm, far less than the one in the tomb of Haihunhou.

That's why Wu Liang didn't connect the two before.

But there was one remarkable feature that forced Wu Liang to connect the two after seeing the characteristics of these strange insects—those "hives"!
Carrion bugs build honeybee-like nests in places where food is plentiful or when they lay eggs.

So those "hives" are very likely to be the nests or delivery rooms of this kind of large burial insects that he can't imagine at all...

This may also be an extinct creature.

After all, a burial bug of this size needs a lot of corpses to survive.

The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous eras were full of gigantic dinosaurs. The corpses of those dinosaurs might naturally satisfy the needs of burial insects. However, with the extinction of dinosaurs, most mammals were not as big as before. The living space of this large burial insect is naturally squeezed, so it becomes less and less until it becomes extinct.

Of course, these are just inferences drawn by Wu Liang based on known information.

It remains to be verified whether these strange insects are burial insects. If a future entomologist travels with him, it may be possible to draw a relatively accurate conclusion.

In short.

This trip has no danger, really exciting.

Just treat them as burial bugs for now.

Go back and take the corpses of the two strange insects back and use turpentine to make them into specimens and store them, maybe they can be left for future research.

……

With fewer and fewer strange insects, Wu Liang and the others finally regained their composure.

"Patriarch, shall we continue in?"

Bai Jingjing also never mentioned Wu Liang's "most regrettable thing", looking at the deep tomb passage in front of her and asked.

"Come in, but wait for a while, and then listen to see if there is any other movement."

Wu Liang said cautiously.

Although he already knew that these strange insects did not have any malice towards them, he was still worried about whether there was anything in the tomb that could threaten these strange insects, so he scared the strange insects and ran out.

"You are so bold, are the things in the tomb so attractive to you?"

Bai Jingjing gave him a hygienic eye, and said angrily.

"You do not understand."

Wu Liang smiled lightly, and turned around to check on Yu Ji's situation.

This guy rolled around just now. Although he was not attacked by these strange insects, his skin was inevitably scratched or pierced by some hard joints, and the wounds were in contact with the body fluids ejected from the bodies of these strange insects. close contact.

Wu Liang was really worried that this guy would accidentally get infected or die from poisoning...

However, seeing Yu Ji's energetic appearance now, the problem of poisoning should be ruled out for the time being. The only thing to worry about is whether he will be infected in the future.

after all.

These strange insects have stayed in the tomb for hundreds of years. If they were really burial insects, they would be dead or corroded.

And what he can do now is to look as carefully as possible, lest there be any severed limbs left under his skin.

It was more than ten minutes after Yu Ji's problem was dealt with in this way.

Wu Liang turned around and asked Bai Jingjing about the situation.

After learning that he hadn't heard any other abnormal noises for the time being, Wu Liang finally decided to go deeper.

"No, son, you still want to enter now?"

Yu Ji naturally didn't want to go in, and wanted to come over to dissuade Wu Liang.

At this moment, this guy was covered with the body fluids of strange insects, exuding a disgusting stench. Naturally, Wu Liang would not embarrass Dian Wei, so he deliberately said: "If the old man is worried, it is better to stay here Wait, we will come out later and take the old gentleman out."

In fact, Wu Liang would not let this guy act alone at all. If he walked around in the tomb and took things indiscriminately, it would not be in Wu Liang's interest.

However, after getting along for this period of time, he has basically understood Yu Ji's character.

This super old boy would never have the guts to stay here alone.

absolute!

really.

"This... Is this old man a fearful person? This old man is just worried about your safety!"

Yu Ji hesitated for a moment, but seeing that Wu Liang and the others were already walking towards the distance, he gritted his teeth and hurriedly followed.

In this way, he traveled about less than [-] meters in the tomb.

Wu Liang and the others finally reached the end of the tomb passage.

There are one large and one small door openings in front of you, the main door is on the east side, and the small door is on the west side.

According to the excavation results of Haihunhou's tomb announced in the previous life, the gate on the east side should lead to the main coffin chamber, while the small door on the west side leads to the West Palace with the screen and gold of Confucius portraits.

here.

The strange fragrance in the air became more and more intense, even slightly pungent.

It seems that this trip is really possible to solve the mystery of the strange fragrance that persists for three years after the excavation of the tomb of Marquis Na Haihun. I am a little excited when I think about it.

So there was a slight pause.

Wu Liang chose to go first to the tomb on the west side. This is a habit he has had since he was a child. When he can choose, he always likes to save the delicious food for last.

……

In the tomb on the west side.

"My mother..."

As soon as Yu Ji walked in, his eyes widened instantly, his old face was full of astonishment.

Even Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing changed color slightly, looking around the display in the tomb in disbelief.

It's just too luxurious!

As Wu Liang expected, the 115 kilograms of gold found in the tomb was not stored in the tomb at all, but...

Wu Liang has no way to estimate it yet, because the gold here is not directly melted into gold bricks and piled up into a hill like in the tomb of King Liang Xiao.

Instead, it is classified according to the shape and size of gold like an exhibition hall, and it is placed in different rules like obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Big gold cakes, small gold cakes, big horseshoe gold, small horseshoe gold, big Linzhi gold, small Linzhi gold, and some square gold bricks, gold nuggets, gold plates...

Some of these golds are annotated with upper, middle and lower characters.

I don't know whether it is used to mark the count, or it plays some other role.

After looking at the scale of these golds, Wu Liang knew in his mind that the total amount should not be less than the gold unearthed from the tomb of King Liang Xiao.

As for the screen with the portrait of Confucius...

Wu Liang took a closer look. This Confucius was much uglier than the textbooks of later generations, but it was more in line with the records in "Zhuangzi" and "Historical Records": "He is quite tall, but his upper body is long and his lower body is short, which looks a little uncoordinated. She is slightly hunchbacked, her ears are attached to her head, the top of her head is still sunken, but her forehead is more prominent..."

Some people in later generations saw this description and said that it was because Zhuangzi opposed Confucianism and Taoism and didn't like Confucius, so he used this method to vilify Confucius.

But it is undeniable.

The "Historical Records" written in the Western Han Dynasty also described Confucius in this way.

Regardless of whether Sima Qian was influenced by "Zhuangzi", at least during the Western Han Dynasty.

That is, in the era when Haihunhou Liu He lived, people would still believe in the "Historical Records" compiled by the court historian Sima Qian, so this is probably the image of Confucius in people's eyes.

After walking around in this tomb, I found that apart from gold and the portrait of Confucius, there is nothing directly related to history.

So Wu Liang didn't stay any longer, turned around and walked out of the tomb and went straight to the main coffin chamber.

Yu Ji wanted to watch for a while, but was chased away by Dian Wei, so he had to follow.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the main coffin chamber, Wu Liang immediately asserted that this is definitely the place with the strongest strange fragrance in the entire mausoleum, not one of them.

Therefore, this should be the source of the strange fragrance.

Stepping into it so carefully and lightly, Wu Liang was immediately attracted by a slightly complicated mysterious device located on the east side of the coffin.

Because of this, he even ignored the coffin of Haihunhou Liu He placed in the middle of the tomb!
　Jia Geng uses a 4000-word chapter, which is quite sincere, hehe.

　　Thanks to the two bosses [Auntie, a meat bun, no meat, thank you] and [Lonely passerby] for their support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)