Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 278 Ancient Combination Lock (4000 first update)
After this episode, everyone became more cautious.

Fortunately, the tomb passage where Wu Liang and others are located is not filled with the smell of oil, which means that even if there is some oil in this tomb, it should not cause any harm to Wu Liang and others for the time being.

Moreover, if the smell of the oil itself is not too high, the toxicity is almost negligible.

What is more deadly is the gas produced after the burning of oil, which is much more powerful than the thick smoke of a fire. A few more puffs will cause a very serious poisoning situation, easily killing people's lives.

and so.

Before the situation is clarified, as long as comprehensive "fire prevention" measures are taken, this discovery will not affect Wu Liang's determination to continue exploring the tomb.

At this time, the role of "Suihou Pearl" is fully reflected.

This thing not only has a good lighting effect, but also does not need to worry about the hidden dangers of fire at all. It is simply an artifact of grave robbers.

So the group continued to move forward under the guidance of Zhuge Liang.

As for the big yellow dog, the poor little thing still needs time to recover even after eating some dry food. For the time being, Yang Wanli can only pick him up and follow the crowd.

However, Wu Liang had already tied it to everyone with the "silkworm silk".

To prevent it from running around after gaining strength and causing unnecessary trouble for them...

It took less than half an hour like this.

"Brother talented, now we have entered the center."

After walking out of a corner, Zhuge Liang stopped and turned to Wu Liang and said.

Wu Liang looked around for a while, but he didn't find any obvious difference between this place and the place he walked before, so he asked curiously: "Brother Zhuge, you said earlier that this center formation is the final formation. With it, the entire formation can be deduced into many different formations, so how long will it take you to break this middle formation, and what is there to pay attention to?"

"It's hard to say yet."

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "Although the center formation is the final formation, it is generally the place where the generals plan their strategies. That is to say, the outer formations should be the ones that are really powerful. Once the outer formations are broken , the Chinese army has lost the foundation of the enemy, without the soldiers to cooperate with the command of the center, no matter how powerful it is, it is just fish on the chopping board."

That is to say, since Wu Liang and others have come here, the central formation has become what later generations often call a "commander with a bare rod", which is not at all justified.

"Everyone should be more careful, the matter of breaking the formation will be left to Brother Zhuge."

Wu Liang nodded slightly and said, "Mr., you will continue to use the compass to record the path we have traveled in detail, and provide assistance for Brother Zhuge to break the formation."

"Old man obeys."

Hearing this, Yu Ji took out the compass.

Wu Liang suddenly thought of something again, looked at Zhuge Liang and asked a very abrupt question: "Brother Zhuge, do you know a crossbow that can shoot ten arrows in a row?"

"A crossbow that fires ten arrows in a row?"

Zhuge Liang was slightly taken aback, then shook his head and said, "I've never heard of it. If there is such a bow and crossbow in the world, wouldn't the power of the archer be multiplied several times? Why did Brother Youcai ask this question? Did Brother Youcai see it before?" "

"I've only heard of it, but I've never seen it."

Wu Liang also shook his head slightly, and said to everyone seriously, "Next, everyone should pay special attention to the sound of machine springs. Whenever and wherever you hear such sounds, you must fall down immediately, and then Slowly investigate the situation. Jingjing, you have to be more dedicated, it is best to be able to give an early warning."

Since the current Zhuge Liang doesn't know what the "Zhuge Liannu" is, it is very likely that the "Zhuge Liannu" is also a product of the Qiumu Cemetery.

As far as Wu Liang knows, the "Zhuge Liannu" created by Zhuge Liang in history is actually a semi-automatic crossbow.

However, if this kind of crossbow is properly set up, it can be transformed into a triggerable mechanism trap, and it is naturally a sharp weapon against tomb robbers.

If you are not careful, you may end up with a "thousand arrows piercing the heart".

"Brother Talented seems to know a lot about this mausoleum..."

Zhuge Liang said with some doubts.

Although Zhuge Liang lacked some life experience, his IQ was not low at all. Combining the context, it seemed that Wu Liang had already known what might be in the tomb in advance. Naturally, it was not difficult to come to such a conclusion.

However, how did he know that everything Wu Liang knew was inferred from him...

"It's only natural. You are the only one in the world who has mastered the technique of raising a ghost. If you get along with you for a long time, you will gradually be as familiar with us as we are."

Yu Ji stroked his beard and smiled at Zhuge Liang, with an air of self-promotion.

This must have been measured by the young master through the technique of raising a ghost!

Because the "History of Qi" does not record any details of the Chumu Cemetery at all, the only thing that can be found is the few words about the Fengshui pattern of the tomb passage.

Therefore, Wu Liang previously asserted that Zhuge Liang was so talented that it was possible to crack this formation.

Now there is a kind of Liannu that is very magical when you hear it, and everyone is ordered to be extra careful about sounds like "mechanical springs".

All of these things can only be explained by the thaumaturgy that can predict the prophets, such as "Najutsu"...

……

The next trip to the tomb was unexpectedly smooth.

Although there are still many twists and turns in the tomb passage, the overall walk down is completely one way, and there are no traps encountered during the period.

After walking like this for about ten minutes, everyone entered a small circular hall less than ten meters in diameter.

There is only one tomb passage in and out of the small circular hall, which is the tomb passage that Wu Liang and others entered.

Therefore, on the surface, it seems that Wu Liang and others have reached the end of the tomb passage, or it can be said that they have entered a dead end...

However, the small circular hall was not empty.

At its very center, there's a... art piece of square timber?

This thing does look quite artistic, and it looks like a huge oval football made of "mosaics".

The exposed edges and corners of square wood are very similar to "mosaic", but the overall shape and outline are somewhat similar to rugby. Of course, it can also be said to be similar to eggs and pineapples.

Besides.

There is also a metal column that runs through the "rugby ball".

The diameter of this metal pillar is about [-] centimeters. It looks like bronze on the surface, but it is slightly different from bronze when you look closely. It is more like an alloy with a higher bronze content.

Looking up along the metal pillar, everyone immediately felt extremely depressed.

Because the dome of this small circular hall is very peculiar.

It was an unreasonable inverted pyramid shape. The spire of the pyramid was just on the top of the metal column. It looked as if the weight of the entire dome rested on the small metal column.

Also.

This dome has also changed from the previous masonry material, using the same metal material as the metal pillars, and the entire dome is a whole, which is incompatible with the wall that is still made of masonry...

"This……"

Wu Liang couldn't help but think of some secret room traps that he had seen in later generations of film and television works.

It is the kind of secret room trap where the walls or the bottom slowly compress, making the space in the room gradually shrink, and eventually squeeze people to death or crush them to death.

This small circular hall gave Wu Liang a similar feeling.

Because he always felt that as long as he moved that metal pillar, the inverted pyramid-shaped dome above would lose its only support, and it would immediately fall down...

Besides these.

The smell of oil in the small circular hall is also much stronger than before.

Just now, in the tomb passage that was about to reach the small circular hall, Wu Liang and others had already smelled this smell, so they couldn't help but pay more attention to fire prevention.

Soon, Wu Liang found the source of the smell on the wall.

It was a kind of petroleum crude oil similar to the brownish-red jelly on the big yellow dog. Judging from the traces, it seemed to be leaking from the connection between the dome and the wall.

However, the leakage was not serious, only a few places flowed down the wall, and finally left a few extremely limited small beaches on the ground, the largest area was less than half a square meter.

There are still a few small footprints and some yellow hairs on one of the small beaches.

Needless to say, this mark must have been left by the big yellow dog.

Although this guy was almost starving to death, he actually entered the middle formation when he was wandering aimlessly in the tomb... This proves from another aspect that the legendary "Eight Formation Diagram" is actually not so Absolutely, if you're lucky, there's still a chance that you can come out or go in, but the probability is pitifully low.

and so.

When Zhuge Xuan was about to starve to death in the tomb, this big yellow dog found him.

And when Wu Liang threw the big yellow dog into the tomb, he tied a rope and went to search for it, but he couldn't find it no matter what.

This should also be a matter of probability, otherwise Zhuge Xuan would have undoubtedly died at that time, and it is absolutely impossible to survive until now and be blackmailed and fooled by Wu Liang...

Besides.

Wu Liang felt that this big yellow dog named "Fugui" might be the real dog of destiny.

In the face of such a small probability, it rescued Zhuge Xuan at a critical moment, and after entering the tomb, he entered the middle line unintentionally, and then when he was about to starve to death, he met Wu Liang who came in again Waiting for someone, a life was recovered...

What kind of luck is this big yellow dog called "Fugui" to encounter so many pitifully low probability events, and to say that he is not the "dog of destiny"?
Emmm...

When you take Zhuge's family away, you must not forget this big yellow dog.

Maybe it's good to train it, and if necessary, force it once or twice, it will also know how good it is, and maybe it will become a backbone member of the Huan army in the future, and use its somewhat unnatural luck to serve the Huan people. The army is adding bricks and tiles.

But these are the aftermath.

Wu Liang continued to follow through on the oil seeping from the junction of the wall and the dome.

Perhaps the leakage occurred because of a problem with the sealing for a long time, but this has already made Wu Liang think of a more serious problem!

Will it be...

The dome is filled with petroleum crude oil. Once the metal pillars supporting it are moved, the dome falling may not only kill them, but also there may be some small ignition mechanism to ignite the petroleum crude oil?

If this is the case, not only will they end up with no bones left, but a terrible explosion will occur in the entire tomb, burning everything in the tomb in an instant.

Even the soldiers of the Tuan army and Zhuge's family guarding outside the tomb may be seriously affected!
at this time.

"Look, son, there are some handwriting left here!"

Yu Ji suddenly pointed to the "handicraft" made of square wood in the middle of the small circular hall.

"No one should act rashly!"

Seeing that everyone wanted to check Yu Ji's words, Wu Liang immediately stopped them with a soft drink.

The metal pillar supporting the dome was inserted into the square wooden "handicraft". If someone stepped forward and accidentally touched the place that should not be touched, causing the metal pillar to change, the consequences would be disastrous.

"!"

After receiving such a drink from Wu Liang, everyone stopped immediately and looked at each other.

But they didn't question Wu Liang's order, they were just curious about what made Wu Liang so serious, obviously it was no small matter.

"What's written on it?"

After stabilizing everyone, Wu Liangcai looked at Yu Ji again and asked.

Yu Ji was standing next to the square wooden "handicraft" at the moment, and only when he heard Wu Liang's words did he dare to squint his eyes to examine it carefully. While reading, he translated: "The handwriting on it is also in ancient Qi script. It is the mausoleum of Duke Jiang’s third son, Duke Mu, but only the descendants of Duke Mu of Qiu know how to open this ‘close’ and enter the tomb safely.”

"It also said that if outsiders can reach this place, they must have understood the essence of the 'Eight Formation' formation, so this formation will be regarded as a gift from Duke Mu of Qiu, and it is also threatened that anyone will get this formation They can all become dragons and phoenixes among men, and I advise us not to continue to force it, it is best to accept it as soon as we see it."

"Otherwise, not only will we get nothing, but we will also turn the whole mausoleum into dust with no place to bury our dead."

"..."

After hearing these words, everyone's expression became slightly tense.

Although Dianwei, Bai Jingjing, and Yang Wanli followed Wu Liang to steal the tomb of King Liu of Guangchuan, they all saw the curse left by the owner of the tomb to warn the tomb robbers, and they did not take it seriously.

But the words translated by Yu Ji are not like a simple curse, but a very sincere forecast, which makes people unbelievable.

And at the same time.

"close?"

Wu Liang focused on this word.

He knew that the word "closed" was the name for locks in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

In other words, this square wooden "work of art" is actually a lock, and it is a combination lock that only the descendants of Duke Chumu know how to unlock?

　Thanks to the boss of [Love Beast l] for his support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)