Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 61 Tomb Keeper

In fact, Wu Liang did not suspect that Yang Wanli had lied.

There is no such thing as materialism in this era, and individuals are subject to the influence of ghosts and gods. It is not surprising that Yang Wanli has such rhetoric.

Moreover, after seeing J in the tomb of King Liang Xiao, Wu Liang's materialistic values, which were not firm at all, had already fallen apart, but some things that could be explained by 21st century science would certainly not scare him, such as what Yang Wanli said. He didn't take the cries of women in the valley seriously.

As for this so-called curse, without any basis, he certainly has reservations.

"There has always been such a legend among the people of Bingzhou. The villain has heard it since he was a child, and it is by no means a lie."

Yang Wanli clasped his hands and explained.

"Hearing is believing, seeing is believing. You have robbed many tombs with Lu Bu, but have you ever seen them with your own eyes?"

Wu Liang turned around and asked.

"It's not..."

Yang Wanli replied awkwardly.

"Then when you followed Lu Bu to rob the tomb, how can you tell whether a tomb has had a blood sacrifice and whether it can be robbed?"

Wu Liang asked again.

"This……"

Yang Wanli was stunned for a moment.

"If Lu Bu came here and found that there was a blood sacrifice in this tomb, based on what you know about Lu Bu, would he order someone to excavate this tomb?"

Wu Liang then asked.

Yang Wanli was stunned for a while, and after thinking for a while, he finally said: "If you go back to Sima, you should."

"Isn't that enough? Lu Bu can steal, why can't we? Besides, this is Jizhou, and the rumors of Bingzhou may not be useful."

Wu Liang grinned.

Rumors are always just rumors, as long as you investigate the root of it with a research attitude, it will naturally be self-defeating.

After checking around the wordless stele, the soldiers finally completed the installation of the engineering shovels, carrying them on their shoulders one by one to report.

The batch of engineering shovels that Wu Liang asked Cao Tian to help build actually borrowed some characteristics of the third generation of engineering shovels.

Although it cannot be deformed and folded, it already has the four conventional functions of shovel, pick, crowbar, and saw. It can also be used as a spear and an axe in war. However, limited by materials and craftsmanship, there must be no future generations of engineers. The shovel is so strong and durable, and it is not as sharp as a weapon, but it is already much stronger than the current general farm tools and weapons.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is Wu Liang's special Luoyang shovel.

Although his Luoyang shovel was slightly smaller than the engineer shovel, it was equipped with more than a dozen wooden sticks at once, except for the one already installed on it, the rest were bundled into a bunch by Dian Wei and carried behind his back.

Until now, they don't understand what the Luoyang shovel is used for, even Cao Ting is no exception.

It is not yet the time for the Luoyang shovel to function, Wu Liang did not explain much, but went straight to the place where the tomb-suppressing beast was dug out that Yang Wanli pointed out earlier, and ordered the soldiers to remove all the excavated soil. Re-excavate the place to see.

"Brother talented and virtuous, why did you do this?"

Cao Ting asked puzzledly.

"Now we only know that there may be a group of unexpected people here, but we don't know the identity and purpose of that group of people. Maybe this move can help us find the answer."

Wu Liang murmured.

As Yang Wanli said, although these stone tomb-suppressing beasts are not easy to make, they are not worth much to people today, and even if someone finds them, they will never take the trouble to dig them out and move them away.

So Wu Liang felt that there must be something hidden behind this strange incident, and it was very necessary to investigate it carefully.

As a result, after digging like this, something really happened.

Ten minutes later.

A soldier hurriedly ran to Wu Liang and Cao Zhi: "Report! Captain and Sima, we dug out according to the instructions and found two human heads from below. Please step forward and check!"

"Head?"

Wu Liang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly received the reward and Cao Wen came to the scene.

In the middle of the first two side-by-side pits that were only 50 centimeters deep, there were two bloody heads on each side. It seemed that they had been dead for a long time. Even in today's late autumn, they still appeared. More serious rot, exuding a pungent rancid smell.

In addition, at the position of the back of the head of the two heads, there is also an erected wooden stake inserted into each of them, and it is not known what it is used for.

at this time.

"It's them! These are the two people who disappeared that night!"

Yang Wanli also pushed aside the crowd and got in, and immediately screamed when he saw the two heads.

"Keep digging, dig it out, and see what's down there."

After confirming the identities of these two heads, Wu Liang unconsciously remembered the man-eating monster that Yang Wanli mentioned before.

It seems that this matter is not groundless, the two people have completely ruled out the possibility of fleeing without authorization, so there is only one possibility left: they were captured by the "man-eating monster" without Yang Wanli noticing, After being killed, he was buried here again!

Of course, it was said that it was a "man-eating monster", but Wu Liang never suspected that what happened here was a man-made disaster from the beginning to the end.

Because the wordless stone tablet here and the tomb-suppressing beast that Yang Wanli said are both artificial traces, it is only humanly possible to dig out the tomb-suppressing beast and fill the hole.

Therefore, the "man-eating monster" that the charcoal seller said should also be disguised as a human.

But what is puzzling is that the "man-eating monster" was encountered by the charcoal seller more than ten years ago, and the legend of "No Return to the Valley" is obviously even older.

So, what kind of person can live in such a place where the birds don't shit for so long?
And what kind of person keeps harming people, thus creating the legend of "No Return to the Valley", and doing those strange things that ordinary people can't understand, but actually it seems to prevent outsiders from entering the valley?

At this moment, Wu Liang almost already had the answer in his heart——

Gravekeeper!
Tomb keeper is an extremely mysterious profession. This profession has existed since ancient times, and it is the ultimate embodiment of loyalty and filial piety in ancient China.

Most of them are loyal servants of the owner of the tomb or relatives with some blood relationship. After the death of the owner of the tomb, they made a vow of guardianship for generations. Therefore, their fate is tied to a tomb until one day, together with the tomb and almost stagnant Time disappears together in the smoke and dust of history.

If there is a tomb keeper in this mausoleum, then there will probably be a battle with the Huan army who opposes it.

Just as Wu Liang was contemplating.

"Captain, Sima, please take a look!"

The soldiers had already cleared away the soil around the two heads, finally revealing the horrific scene buried underneath.

I saw that apart from the heads of these two corpses, there were only bone frames left below the necks, and some bones were still connected with strands of rotten minced meat.

In this way, the two skeletons were fixed to the wooden stakes behind them by ropes, keeping the kneeling posture in the same direction, as if they were apologizing to someone, and it also seemed to be a more common kneeling posture in the Han Dynasty.

Seeing this scene, Yang Wanli exploded immediately, and quickly shouted with a pale face: "No mistake! The tomb-suppressing beast we dug up is in this posture. Could it be that this action offended the tomb owner? Are they apologizing in this way?"

(End of this chapter)