Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 400 Isn't This a Mace? (4000)

The Goki people originated from the epic legend "Jiang Ge War" passed down orally by the Qiang people until later generations.

According to legend, this group of Goki people lived on the grassland where the ancestors of the Qiang people lived.

The Goki people are short in stature but very strong, with high cheekbones, protruding eyes, and a short tail behind them, and they are very fierce. They often fight with each other because of competing for pastures.

One night, the Qiang people were suddenly robbed by the Goki people.

In order to avoid the war, the Qiang people were forced to move westward in search of a safe place, but the Goki people pursued them relentlessly and repeatedly pushed the Qiang people into desperation. Helped each other, and used their magic power and wisdom to completely defeat the Goki people. Since then, the Qiang people have lived a stable and prosperous life.

Wu Liang has read the original text of "Django Wars" compiled by later generations of scholars.

Although there are some unbelievable and even unreasonable places in the epic, the description of the Goki people is very clear, just like the "Goki people" are unimaginable in later generations, and the archaeological world has never found similar human beings. The race of the remains really existed.

And even more surprising.

The bronze mask unearthed in Sanxingdui has a history of 3000-5000 years, and its facial features have many similarities with the "Goki" in the Qiang epic.

Sanxingdui is one of the main gathering places of ancient Qiang people.

Therefore, many scholars in the archaeological world of later generations speculated that the image of the bronze mask, which is suspected to be an alien, may be the prototype of the "Goki people" in the Qiang epic.

It's a pity that no one found direct evidence or evidence to confirm this speculation until Wu Liang crossed over.

But the stone statue placed in front of Wu Liang now seems to be quite intuitive evidence.

Because at the position of the femur behind the stone statue, he saw a short tail that was clearly carved.

This tail is somewhat similar to a rabbit's tail, curled up into a small ball that is out of proportion to the stone statue.

Wu Liang stepped forward and carefully peeled off the small amount of sludge adhering to the small tail. He could clearly see that there were still some fine lines carved out along the curling direction of the tail. Normally, such a The texture should be to show the state of hair growing on the small tail.

"This……"

Some more gentlemanly images appeared in Wu Liang's mind.

In some circles of later generations, this race with a tail usually appears as a woman, and is deeply loved and sought after by some people in the circle, and has even formed a relatively small culture.

Wu Liang is not a gentleman, but an LSP, so although he is not an insider, he rejects this culture at all.

However, the short but very strong stone statue in front of him obviously does not conform to the aesthetics of this circle, and there are very conspicuous organs carved on the stone statue. It's hard to teach people what to think.

What's more, as a professional and rigorous archaeologist, Wu Liang has professional ethics.

and so.

Where exactly is this place?
Wu Liang looked at the densely packed caves on the mountain mausoleum, and began to think deeply.

The remains of suspected "Goki people" have never been found in later generations, and the "Ancient Qiang people" related to "Goki people" have always respected the custom of cremation, and even regarded it as a noble belief.

"Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" has a saying: "The captives of Di and Qiang do not worry about their tiredness, but worry about their death and do not burn them."

The meaning of this sentence is very clear. It is said that after the "ancient Qiang people" were captured and made slaves, they were not afraid of heavy labor, but they were afraid that they would not be cremated after death.

Therefore, these caves cannot be the tombs of the "ancient Qiang people".

In addition, "ancient Qiang people" usually do not have the habit of living in caves, so caves of this size are unlikely to be the residence sites of "ancient Qiang people"...

Wu Liang thought of a Qiang village called "Keku Township" in later generations.

On the hills not far from the village of "Keku Township", there are many mysterious caves built in unknown years and months. The local Qiang people call these mysterious caves "Golden Caves".

According to local people, these "golden caves" also have unimaginable legends. They say that the owner of these caves is actually a kind of short dwarf. Unfortunately, this kind of dwarf has long since disappeared, so these caves are now empty. It has been preserved until later generations.

According to such legends, some scholars in later generations also suspect that these caves may be related to the legendary Goki people.

Unfortunately, there is no reliable evidence to prove this guess.

……

With these guesses in mind, Wu Liang took out a piece of sackcloth from his body, and continued to carefully clean up the mud and moss on the stone statue.

Dian Wei stood behind guard without saying a word, and at the same time, according to Wu Liang's instructions, he would beat the mysterious snare drum that Wu Liang gave him every once in a while to prevent the disappearing "creatures" in the water from making a comeback.

After such a quarter of an hour.

Wu Liang finally cleaned up the stone statue.

Compared with the stone statue before cleaning, the current stone statue is not much different except that the carved texture on it is clearer, and there are no more details worth studying.

But at this moment Wu Liang could already confirm one thing.

The face details of this stone statue are exactly the same as the bronze mask unearthed in Sanxingdui later. It can even be said without a doubt that the two are actually the same thing, but the unearthed place is thousands of miles away.

But the difference of thousands of miles is not unrelated.

This is the migration route of the ancient Qiang people, and in "Django Wars", the Goki people have been chasing the ancient Qiang people, and it is very likely that they followed the ancient Qiang people to get there.

"Dian Wei, follow me to investigate around."

Wu Liang did not continue to clean up other stone statues, but started to search along the relatively gentle foot of the mountain.

Those mysterious caves on the mountain mausoleum didn't know what was there. In order to prevent any dangerous situation from happening and ending up alone and helpless, he planned to wait for the Huan army to arrive before entering the investigation together with the backbone.

……

At the foot of the mountain, there is a flat area about two meters wide that is different from other places.

This flat area stretches continuously along the foot of the mountain, looking like a man-made road.

Wu Liang was suspicious, so he stopped and used the engineering shovel he carried with him to shovel away the slippery layer of mud covering the area for inspection.

This layer of silt is not thick, not even five centimeters.

After shoveling an area like this, Wu Liang found that what was hidden under the mud was actually a layer of small stones compacted together. These small stones were very uniform, and there were some adhesive ingredients similar to sand and mud mixed between the gaps, which could These small stones play a fixed role, which is somewhat similar to the common gravel roads in later generations of parks.

However, in terms of strength, it is slightly worse after all. After all, the gravel roads of later generations will be paved with a thick layer of cement concrete, not the sand and mud that can be shoveled by an engineer shovel.

Wu Liang dug down for a while with an engineering shovel, trying to find out the thickness of the small gravel road.

It took a moment to finally dig through this layer of small gravel road.

The paving of the small gravel road is a full [-] centimeters thick, and the materials used are very uniform, and there is no sign of cutting corners from top to bottom.

Undoubtedly, it can be concluded that it is a road paved manually, and...

Wu Liang looked into the distance along this flat area, and found that this road was not only at the foot of the mountain, but also had many forks, and it continued to the mountain.

This is definitely not a small project!

Especially for the ancients who were not mechanized, it took a lot of manpower just to collect these small stones of similar size and transport them to the corresponding location.

At this moment.

Looking at these well-built roads, Wu Liang looked up at the caves on the top of the mountain, and even suspected that this was not a mountain at all, it might have been a bustling city, or a huge fortress that was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

……

So keep going along this path.

Soon after, Wu Liang came to the first fork in the road, which was a fork in four.

Except for the fork that Wu Liang walked through, one of the forks extended to the top of the mountain, one of the other two forks continued along the foot of the mountain, and the other extended to the big river that just appeared.

The fork extending to the top of the mountain connects the two caves with the lowest terrain and the closest to Wu Liang, and at the same time divides the other fork and extends to other places;
The fork that continues along the foot of the mountain can't be seen at a glance;
And the fork extending towards the river...

It didn't enter the river, but connected to a strange pit only ten meters away from Wu Liang.

The pit has a square shape, with an area of ​​about ten square meters, and the depth should be only half a meter by visual inspection. At this moment, the pit is covered with a layer of dark silt. It is not known what is buried under the silt.

"Go here and have a look first, be careful."

Wu Liang gave Dian Wei such instructions, and while probing the void under his feet with an engineering shovel, he cautiously groped towards that strange pit.

In the pit, two upside-down "animals" were found.

They lay motionless in the mud, and those jointed limbs were also hanging limply to the side, as if they were completely dead.

"Boom boom boom!"

Dian Wei hurriedly stopped Wu Liang behind him, and immediately beat the mysterious small drum.

The two "creatures" still did not respond.

It was basically confirmed that they would not pose a threat to Wu Liang, but when Dian Wei was about to explain to Wu Liang, he heard a few "pops".

Wu Liang had already taken out the improved version of the "Warring States Repeating Crossbow" at some point, and shot randomly at the two "creatures", emptying the arrow box in the blink of an eye.

"It looks like he should be dead."

Facing Dian Wei's somewhat unresponsive eyes, Wu Liang already smiled, retracted the "Warring States Repeating Crossbow" and came to the front of the pit openly.

Next to these two "spirits" that have been shot into hedgehogs.

On the other hand, there was a stick about the thickness of a wrist inserted obliquely into the mud. The exposed part was estimated to be three feet long, and one end just extended to the edge of the pit.

Wu Liang lowered his body and inspected it carefully.

It was found that the stick had been tightly wrapped by a layer of green algae, and then it was carefully wiped with a linen cloth.

As a result, after wiping the greasy algae on the outside, there was still a very rough green trace inside.

"bronze?"

Wu Liang has stolen so many tombs, and has seen countless bronze utensils. He is very familiar with this rough green trace, which is obviously the unique rust of bronze.

After confirming the material of this stick, Wu Liang pondered for a while, and finally reached out and held the bronze stick in his hand, trying to pull it out from the mud.

result.

"Hey?"

It's pretty heavy.

Although Wu Liang exerted his strength slowly, he knew that all his strength had been exerted, and the bronze stick only showed some signs of looseness, and he could not pull it out as he wished.

And as the bronze stick loosened, the mud in the pit also surged slightly.

The area where the silt surged was not small, and it felt as if there was something bigger attached to the bronze stick, hiding under the silt.

"Dian Wei, come and try."

Wu Liang is a self-aware person, so he resolutely gave up his position to Dian Wei.

He is not afraid of any damage to this thing, anyway, given its current degree of corrosion and the environment it is in, even if Wu Liang protects it, it is almost impossible to pass it on.

And what he has to do is to figure out the archaeological value of this thing.

Then record as much useful information as possible, which may be more meaningful than forcing the thing itself.

"promise!"

Dian Wei responded and stepped forward, grabbing the bronze stick with his big hands whose thumbs were almost as thick as Wu Liang's wrists.

"Hey--"

With only one hand, with a sudden force, he directly pulled the bronze stick out of the mud.

"Whoa-!"

Along with the bronze stick being pulled out, several things under the mud were brought out together, turned over and fell onto the mud.

"This is……"

Wu Liang looked quickly.

What was brought out from under the mud were several heavy weapons made of bronze!
Among them was a square-headed hammer about three feet long. Both the hammer head and the hammer handle were made of bronze.

There are also two large axes with a length of two feet. The ax is also bronze, and the ax looks exaggeratedly bigger than the hammer head of the square hammer. Wu Liang estimates that it must weigh at least thirty or forty catties.

Even Dian Wei held a weapon.

Except for the longer handle at the back, on the head is a large oval head shaped like a date stone.

And on this big oval head, there are many protruding sharp corners densely distributed. Although these sharp corners are not very sharp, they do look very dangerous.

"Isn't this a mace?"

Wu Liang was slightly taken aback.

This kind of weapon existed as early as the era when oracle bone inscriptions were used, but it was not called "mace" at that time, but "殳 (shu)".

　Thank you [Moment of the Night] boss for your support, okay?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)