Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 404 Bronze drilled from the mountain (4000)

Hearing Zhuge Liang's words, Wu Liang immediately raised his head and looked above his head.

He saw a golden color, which was a slightly curved metal strip about three inches long extending from the mountain at the top of the cave.

This metal strip was about as thick as Wu Liang's index finger.

The end gradually becomes slender, looking like a thick and thin tail growing out of the mountain.

"Young master, is this gold?"

Seeing the golden yellow on the metal strip, Yu Ji's old eyes lit up immediately, and he hurriedly approached and asked expectantly.

"Hard to say."

Wu Liang said noncommittally, and then said to Dian Wei, "Brother Dian Wei, please lift me up, I want to get closer for inspection."

"promise."

Dian Wei responded and stepped forward.

With such a kung fu of bending down and standing up together, Wu Liang was easily carried on his shoulders, so that Wu Liang's Tianling cover almost touched the rock on the top of the cave.

Everyone has long been familiar with Dian Wei's strange power, so there is nothing to be shocked about.

And Wu Liang also immediately began to carefully examine the condition of the metal bar. After so many glances, he reached a conclusion, and said to everyone with great certainty: "This is not gold, but ordinary bronze."

In fact, many people have some misunderstandings about bronze.

Based on the name "bronze", many people will think that bronze should be blue or green.

But in fact, the bronze that has just been refined is golden yellow, and its color is very similar to gold.

It is precisely because of this that bronze has always been called "gold" or "auspicious gold" in ancient times, and based on this name, the archaeological world of later generations "rewarded a few thousand gold" and "Jiatun" for any disagreement with the Han Dynasty court. There has always been another speculation in the records of "tens of thousands of catties of gold", that is, the "gold" rewarded by the Han Dynasty court may not be gold, and those local tyrants with "tens of thousands of catties of gold at home" may not have gold, but may be bronze. .

This speculation is actually not unreasonable.

After all, in the Han tombs excavated by the archaeological world in later generations, no burial gold that can be used as a unit of "ten thousand gold" has been found. Only more than 100 kilograms of gold were found in the tomb, which is really far from the "tens of thousands of catties of gold in Jiatun" recorded in historical documents.

Originally, Wu Liang also felt that this kind of speculation in the archaeological world of later generations made sense.

This speculation was finally overturned until Wu Liang personally participated in the excavation of three Han tombs: the tomb of King Liang Xiao, the tomb of King Guangchuan, and the tomb of Marquis Haihun.

As a person who has experienced it, he can say with certainty that "tens of thousands of jin of gold in the household" is really not a rare thing among the princes and princes of the Han Dynasty.

The reason why the archaeological world in later generations did not find those gold.

The main reason is that after two thousand years, the tombs of the Han Dynasty have basically been stolen.

Lv Bu stole it, Boss Cao's Faqiu Zhonglang and Mo Jin Xiaowei stole it, plus the repeated dynasty changes, even some little-known little thieves must have patronized, and I am afraid that more than one time, more than one group of people patronized.

So that in later generations, archaeological experts basically don't even have soup, and they can be considered lucky if they can find some leftovers that were left out.

Anyway, no one knows better than Wu Liang how the gold in the tombs of King Liang Xiao, King Guangchuan and Marquis Haihun disappeared.

Even why the tomb of Marquis Haihun sank to the bottom of the water, and why left some leftovers for later generations, making it the Han tomb with the largest amount of gold discovered in the archaeological world in later generations, Wu Liang is also very clear.

So it is.

What Wu Liang knew better was that he and the Tuan army were really not suitable to leave their names in history, so it was perfectly fine to call them Lieutenant Mojin and General Faqiu Zhonglang.

As Boss Cao, as the biggest beneficiary and instructor, he should be responsible for this blame, and Wu Liang will not bear it anyway.

Thinking a little further.

Wu Liang quickly shook his head and turned around.

But Yu Ji then asked unwillingly: "Master, even if this is bronze, I'm afraid it can't be ordinary bronze, otherwise how could the color be so fresh?"

"The old man really has some insight, this time he finally hit the point."

Wu Liang glanced at Yu Ji approvingly, nodded and said, "Bronze is a metal that is easily corroded, so some aged bronzes we usually see usually have a layer of blue-gray or blue-green oxide layer. It is basically impossible to maintain the golden yellow color of the bronze when it was first refined."

While talking, Wu Liang looked at the small piece of bronze strip, pointed to the coffins of portraits on both sides of the cave, and continued: "In the same environment, the bronze nails used in those coffins suffered quite a lot. The corrosion is severe, but this small piece of bronze strip is intact, this is the most strange and most worthy of our investigation."

"Brother Youcai said so, he must have seen the clues!"

Zhuge Liang said immediately, his little face was full of admiration and anticipation, and he almost took out a small notebook and started to take notes.

"No."

Wu Liang shook his head again, and said without hesitation, "According to my knowledge, apart from the vast universe, there is no way to prevent the oxidation of bronze in our natural world, especially in such an environment, so , I can’t tell what’s going on.”

"..."

The scene suddenly turned cold, and everyone couldn't answer, so they could only keep silent.

Wu Liang stopped talking nonsense, and with Dian Wei's help, he got closer, and then stretched out his gloved hand to gently touch the small piece of bronze strip.

The texture is firm.

There is no doubt that it is made of bronze.

But this small piece of bronze strip does not look like an artificial decoration embedded in the mountain. Not only does it not have any decorative patterns on it, but the shape does not look beautiful at all. Look, it looks more like it was forcibly drilled out of the mountain.

Considering that the cave where Wu Liang and others are now is located in the middle and lower part of this mountain mausoleum, there are many caves with higher altitudes on it.

Wu Liang had reason to suspect that this small piece of bronze strip might have been placed in the upper cave when some bronze ware was placed, as in later generations, the upper floor penetrated through the floor and penetrated to the lower floor, which is why this happened.

However, this still cannot explain why this small piece of metal strip did not show the slightest oxidation phenomenon...

So Wu Liang stretched out his hand to hold the small piece of metal strip, and then slowly pulled it down, hoping to further understand the structure and condition of the small piece of metal strip hidden inside the mountain.

The result was...not moving at all.

From this point of view, this small piece of bronze strip was just as he guessed, not an independent small body, but involved something inside or above the mountain.

But Wu Liang didn't intend to force him.

Whether it is for protection or for research purposes, he does not want to conduct some irreversible and destructive excavations here before he has figured out the situation.

at this time.

"Wu Youcai, there is movement!"

Bai Jingjing suddenly said with a serious expression.

"Is that the crooning you heard before?"

Wu Liang's heart tightened, and he asked subconsciously.

"No."

Bai Jingjing shook her head and said, "There is movement in the mountain. Just now when you pulled this small piece of bronze strip, I heard some extremely slight noises. This noise didn't just come from a certain place, but like A line generally runs through the rock above our heads and continues down into the depths of the cave."

"Continuing all the way to the depths of the cave?"

Wu Liang frowned.

He could understand the meaning of Bai Jingjing's words, but he couldn't figure out what it meant.

Could it be that this small piece of bronze strip is actually just an inconspicuous thread, which directly involves some unknown thing deep in the cave, and may affect the whole body?

This undoubtedly made Wu Liang even more puzzled.

He was no longer sure whether he should continue to pull this small piece of bronze strip, worried that if he accidentally pulled it out, it would cause a big problem, and eventually he and the backbone of the Huan army would be buried under this mountain.

So pondered for a moment.

"Dianwei, let me down."

In the end, Wu Liang chose to put this small piece of bronze strip aside for the time being, and no longer act rashly. He first fully ascertained the situation in the cave before making a decision.

……

With this big or small puzzle, the Tuan army continued to go deep into the cave.

As a result, he walked less than 30 meters away, and Wu Liang encountered another suspicious situation.

On the coffin lid of a coffin with a figure on the right side of the cave, there is actually a small piece of golden bronze protruding from it.

It is different from the small piece of bronze strip before.

It is very certain that this small piece of bronze strip was drilled out of the coffin.

Because wooden coffins are different from rocks, when a hole is forcibly drilled out of the wood, the wood thorns and wood slag produced by the destruction of the wooden structure will not be scattered directly like brittle and hard rocks, but will be connected to the coffin lid in one direction. Tilt.

"This……"

Seeing this scene, everyone was even more puzzled.

"Dian Wei, Yang Wanli, you two help me open the coffin!"

Wu Liang was not polite to this coffin, and immediately took off the tools and gave orders to Dian Wei and Yang Wanli, "Don't put this coffin down, just keep the original appearance and take off the bronze nails on the coffin one by one. As soon as the coffin lid is slowly opened, I want to find out where this bronze strip came from."

"promise!"

The two responded immediately and stepped forward to help.

So it doesn't take a moment.

Dian Wei and Yang Wanli had already worked together to remove the coffin's lid steadily, and the small piece of bronze strip was naturally pulled out of the coffin's lid steadily.

But this time, what was presented to Wu Liang was not a lifelike and incorruptible corpse.

It is a dry bone that has been completely shriveled, and only the outline of the bone can be seen.

When Wu Liang saw this dead bone, he waited for a short while, wanting to see if it would turn into dust in a very short time like the corpse in the coffin they opened earlier.

However, it does not.

This dry bone has not undergone any mutations, it looks like an ordinary mummy.

And that piece of bronze strip just pierced through the chest of the bone, and then penetrated the coffin lid that Wu Liang and others had just removed.

In other words, the source of the bronze bar should still be behind this withered bone...

Wu Liang carefully observed the dead bone.

It is also a male corpse, and its size is also not tall. Visually, it will not exceed 1.3 meters at most, but even if it has become a dry bone, the skeleton still looks much thicker than a normal human being. The thickness of the arm bones alone is enough. It is already as thick as the thigh bone of an adult man.

Also.

Wu Liang also purposely moved closer, wanting to see if the coccyx of this corpse fits the description of the Goki people in "The Great War of Chang Ge". To put it bluntly, he wanted to see if it had a tail.

It's a pity that the corpse maintained a standing posture facing outwards.

In addition, the bones of the pelvis are also thick, and there is a layer of shriveled skin covering it. It is impossible to see the situation behind it without turning it over.

"Dian Wei, Yang Wanli, follow me as I took off the coffin lid just now, slowly move out the whole coffin, also don't damage this section of bronze strip, and try not to damage this corpse."

Wu Liang observed for a while, then said again.

So the three of them worked together to slowly move the coffin out of the perfectly fitted groove.

When it moved half way like this, Wu Liang had already discovered that this section of bronze strip was also drilled out of the rock wall, and then passed through the bottom of the coffin, the corpse and the coffin lid, and strung the three together like mutton skewers. together.

Besides.

This piece of bronze strip is finally no longer intact.

In the process of moving the coffin, Wu Liang discovered that the part of the bronze strip passing through the chest cavity of the corpse had undergone some indescribable fusion with the corpse.

As a result, when the bronze strip was slowly pulled out from the corpse's chest cavity, an irregular transparent hole with a diameter of about 10 centimeters unexpectedly appeared.

When Wu Liang waited until the corpse was irreversibly damaged, it was already too late.

So he had to order Dian Wei and Yang Wanli to continue to act.

In this way, when the coffin and corpse were finally completely detached from the metal strip and placed horizontally on the ground, Wu Liang seized the time to go forward and check carefully.

It was only after he saw this that he realized.

The place where the bronze strip was once connected to the chest cavity of the corpse was no longer the original golden yellow color, but turned a dark red color very similar to blood.

And the surface of that small piece of bronze strip has many small bumps similar to chicken skin, which is much rougher in appearance and touch than other places, but the hardness is not much different from ordinary bronze, light Light tapping can also hear the unique metal collision sound of bronze.

Of course, Wu Liang didn't dare to use too much force.

Because this piece of bronze strip was drilled straight out of the stone wall, but it was more than three feet long, so that it could penetrate the coffin. Now that there is no support for the coffin, it is already a little wobbly.

Wu Liang knew that bronze was a relatively brittle metal after all, and it was easy to break under such circumstances.

　Thanks to the boss of [Mu Yu, Only Love One] for his support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)