Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 248 Uncanny Valley Theory (4000)

"The legendary wooden armor?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at Yu Ji in surprise, expressing that they didn't quite understand what he was talking about.

Only Wu Liang thought of something when he heard the word "Mujia", but he didn't say what he thought immediately, but asked as if to verify: "Mr., what did you say? What is your wooden armor?"

"I wonder if my lord has ever read Liezi?"

Yu Ji was still shocked, staring at the amputated arm and asked back.

"Could it be that what the old man is talking about is the wooden armor man made by Yanshi recorded in "Liezi"?"

At this point, Wu Liang was finally sure that what he thought of and what Yu Ji said should be the same thing, so he continued to ask.

"Liezi" records many rather mysterious things, such as "Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains", "Two Children Debate the Sun", "High Mountains and Flowing Water", "Remaining Sounds Surrounding Liang"...etc. book.

And "Wooden Armor" is a record in "Liezi".

It is about the Zhou Tianzi Mu Wang who met a mysterious craftsman named "Yanshi", and "Yanshi" was accompanied by a strange man covered in wood grain.

King Mu of Zhou was curious and asked who this strange person was. "Yanshi" told him that it was not a real person, but a wooden armor man made by himself, and ordered the wooden armor man to sing and dance for King Zhou Mu on the spot. His gestures and gestures are all the same as real people, almost confusing the real ones.

It's just that at the end, the wooden armor man cast a wink at King Zhou Mu's concubine.

King Zhou Mu was furious and reprimanded "Yanshi" for daring to find a real person to put on wooden skins and pretend to be a wooden armored man to tease him. Person A is composed of wood, leather armor, glue paint, and some messy dead things from the inside to the outside.

Then "Yanshi" combined these dead things again, and the Mujia people became lifelike and vivid again.

King Mu of Zhou was both surprised and delighted, praised him again and again, and took Yanshi and Mujia people back together.

600 years later, two famous craftsmen appeared in the world, namely, "God of Craftsman" Gongshuban (Luban) and "Father of Mohism" Mozi. Both of them believed that their skills had reached unprecedented heights .

However, when the disciples of the two told the two masters about "Yanshi" respectively, they were all ashamed of themselves, and never dared to talk about their skills again, and became carpenters honestly...

This is the record about "wooden armor" in "Liezi".

In fact, for this record, later generations generally believe that this is a fantasy myth, because in the understanding of later generations, it is impossible for such technology to exist in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Regarding this, Wu Liang also had some doubts in his heart.

Of course, as a graduate student majoring in archeology, he is definitely not making assumptions out of thin air, but there are many similar mysterious and mysterious myths recorded in "Liezi", and the "Taiping Qingling Jing" contained in "Taiping Qingling Jing" that Yu Ji somehow created Huang Laodao" thinking is also very similar to the records in "Liezi".

It is also because of this, starting from the Han Dynasty.

"Liezi" has never been regarded as a serious allusion of historical facts, but as a Taoist classic or a philosophical work.

Even in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was rated as one of the three pillars of metaphysics.

How could Wu Liang take the content recorded in such an ancient book so easily?

Therefore, even if Yu Ji said the word "wooden armor", Wu Liang did not jump to conclusions, but wanted to hear what opinions he had before making his own judgment.

But he also had to admit it.

At this moment, his views on "Liezi", especially "Wooden Armor", have been shaken.

Because he really couldn't explain how such a wooden arm that had been buried in the coffin for nearly a thousand years precisely grasped his arm just now.

There is no way to explain how this wooden arm precisely grasped the wooden handle of the engineer shovel when he wanted to lift off the golden mask of the humanoid corpse...

This is simply not something that can be done by a general preset mechanism, or by a finely crafted puppet.

Whether it is intelligence or power, it is incomprehensible.

"Exactly!"

Yu Ji nodded, and said with a slightly excited expression, ""Liezi" is an enlightenment book for me to pursue Daoguo, and I can memorize everything recorded in it, and this 'Mu Jiaren' is exactly what it records. A miraculous thing, unexpectedly taught me to see it here, hahaha, the old man chose to follow the young master, it was indeed the wisest choice, the young master is the old man who guides the way!"

"Oh? Since the old man recognizes the wooden armor, may he explain the reason?"

Wu Liang hurriedly asked again.

"nature……"

Yu Ji nodded again, just when Wu Liang was overjoyed, the old boy was just panting, "...No, I just read the records of this thing, if I can really understand the principle, then I'm afraid If you have obtained good luck, wouldn’t you be able to attain Taoism and ascend to immortality?”

"Could it be that the principle of the 'Wooden Armor Man' is also related to metaphysics or Taoism?"

Wu Liang was a little speechless, and didn't fully agree with Yu Ji's statement in his heart.

But in fact, what this old boy said has some truths. No matter whether he can become an immortal or not, the person who was able to create a "wooden armor man" in the Western Zhou Dynasty is indeed only worthy of the word "God".

Also.

Wu Liang agrees that the "Wooden Armor Man" must have some unknown mystery, and this mystery must be difficult to replicate or popularize, otherwise it will definitely be used in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period after the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even later generations In all dynasties of China, the wars in the ancient Chinese dynasties will also become jaw-dropping "Mech Wars".

However, only through this severed arm, it is not completely sure that the humanoid corpse in front of them is the legendary "Wooden Armor".

Wu Liang felt that it was necessary to conduct further research.

"This old man can't say it well, but this 'wooden armor' is something that can't be found. I must study it carefully, maybe I can have a deeper understanding of Taoism."

But Yu Ji had already confirmed that this was the "wooden armor", and rushed forward with a red face while speaking, which was completely different from his attitude of greed for life and fear of death just now.

"Oh, be careful..."

Wu Liang thought about it for a while, but when he reacted and opened his mouth to stop him, he saw that the old boy had already held up the amputated arm with trembling hands, and looked up and down very carefully as if he had found a treasure.

Fortunately, the amputated arm didn't make any move, and the humanoid corpse lying on the ground didn't respond at all.

Everything seems to be very peaceful for the time being, and Yu Ji's life is not threatened.

Seeing this situation, Wu Liang was finally relieved.

"Old sir, have you ever seen some clues?"

Wu Liang then came to the front, and it was good to urge Yu Ji, just quietly watching him play with the amputated arm, but unfortunately he couldn't see the reason from it after watching for a long time, so he asked again.

"The main material of this arm is all wood, but some glue-like paint is filled in the joint joints. In addition, there are some unknown green mallets (huo four tones, cyan minerals) and other foreign objects in the hollow arm. In addition, the old man has not seen anything out of the ordinary, if you want to get more information, I am afraid you need to take this 'wooden armor' apart."

Yu Ji shook his head, but said without raising his head.

"This is not the place to do these things. If this corpse is really 'Wooden Armor', it is better to take it out and study it slowly."

Wu Liang was also quite interested.

"What your son said is very true."

Only then did Yu Ji finally withdraw his gaze from the broken arm, and looked expectantly at the humanoid corpse lying on the ground.

"Old gentleman, please step back first, and make a decision after I have verified the authenticity."

Wu Liang worried that the old boy couldn't help rushing forward to take risks, so he pulled him behind first, and then stretched the engineering shovel towards the humanoid corpse again.

……

Soon after, Wu Liang turned the humanoid corpse over with an engineering shovel.

Then he carefully stretched out the engineer shovel and continued to pry off the golden mask on the face of the humanoid corpse.

"Dang!"

This time, the humanoid corpse finally did not "resist" in any form. With a soft sound, the golden mask fell off from the humanoid corpse's face, revealing a...human face sewn from brown leather.

The shape of this face is indescribably weird.

The facial features are all available, and it looks lifelike, but the mouth maintains a very inappropriate smile, and it is a big smile with the corners of the mouth wide open.

And its eyes.

It was a pair of narrow black and white eyes.

At this moment, the eyes also maintained a crooked smile, and the black pupils were tilting towards Wu Liang and the others, as if they were staring at them.

The combination of such a mouth and such a pair of eyes resembles the "funny face" in the emoticons of later generations.

But under this situation, Wu Liang didn't think it was funny at all, but felt a little cold in his heart.

Because those eyes are so divine, they are as bright as the eyes of a living person, as if they can see through everything in them...

"You can't be wrong, this is not a human corpse at all, it must be a 'wooden armor man'!"

Seeing this scene, Yu Ji seemed even more excited.

"..."

Wu Liang didn't reply, and then put on Cao Ang's saber again, and slowly stretched it towards the tightly wrapped silk clothes under the humanoid corpse.

He wanted to cut the clothes off, and make a decision after a thorough inspection.

However, when he handed the sword to the neck of the humanoid corpse, an even weirder scene appeared. The eyes of the humanoid corpse began to slowly turn downwards, looking at the tip of the saber ?
"Fuck..."

Wu Liang was a little flustered.

This thing is still "alive"!

Although the broken arm had already proved that the humanoid corpse was "alive", when he watched the eyes start to turn downward, the visual impact of this scene was undoubtedly stronger!

"It's moving! The eyes are moving! Damn, can't there be some things from the underworld in this tomb?"

Seeing this strange scene, Cao Ang, who had been silent for a long time, finally couldn't help muttering again.

This is because Yu Ji and Wu Liang just talked about some things about the "Mu Jia Man", which can be regarded as a foundation for him, otherwise this guy's mentality will definitely explode at this moment.

"Wu Youcai..."

Bai Jingjing posted on Wu Liang's back worriedly.

I have to admit, no matter whether I have the bottom of my heart or not, this scene is still very scary no matter how I look at it...

This is the "uncanny valley theory" of later generations.

The higher the degree of simulation of a humanoid toy or robot, the more people like it, but before the similarity is close to 100%, this kind of favorability will suddenly decrease. uncanny valley.

Therefore, the more the behavior of this so-called "wooden armor" looks like a real person, the more terrifying it looks, and the more uncomfortable and palpitating it is.

However, Yu Ji cried out with great excitement: "It is recorded in "Liezi": "A man in wooden armor can't speak if he abolishes his heart; if he abolishes his liver, he can't see; if he abolishes his kidneys, he can't walk." .', now that the 'wooden armor' can't speak, it means that its heart is probably damaged; if it can't walk, maybe its kidneys are also damaged; but its eyes can still see, it means its liver is still intact, young master, Why don't you open its clothes and take a look?"

Wu Liang has naturally seen these few lines in "Liezi", and knows that this old boy is not talking nonsense.

So in order to verify the authenticity of the records, and to further confirm whether this humanoid corpse is the legendary wooden armor man, he was cruel and cut open the layer of silk clothing from top to bottom under the gaze of those eyes. .

Since then, the body of the humanoid corpse has finally been presented in front of everyone without reservation.

The parts above the collarbone and the two shoulders of this humanoid corpse are made of the same wood as the arms, and the parts below the waist and the two legs are also made of the same wood.

And each joint is connected by special technology like the joint of the broken arm, which can bend and move like a real person.

Only the entire chest cavity is made of a completely different bronze material.

It is worth noting that the chest cavity is not cast in one piece, but is composed of many small bronze pieces. The largest piece of bronze on the front chest is located at the position of the pectoral muscles. It looks like a heart guard covering the entire pectoral muscles.

But maybe because of the age, or other reasons, this "heart guard" has become loose and misplaced.

A finger-wide gap was exposed at the part where the pectoralis and abdominal muscles were connected.

Wu Liang calmed down, and used Cao Ang's saber to pick the "heart-protecting mirror".

The dislocation of the "heart guard" immediately became more serious, and the gap also became larger...

Just then.

"Click! Click!"

The "Wooden Armored Man" twitched suddenly for some reason, and the "heart guard" actually slipped off its chest cavity, exposing the things hidden in the chest cavity to Wu Liang and others...

　Thanks to [akrfr] boss for his support.

　　
　
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