Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 868 Rock Layer (4000)

"Bah... ahh..."

Walking on the mud, every step is accompanied by wet and sticky movements, and every time you lift your feet, you need to fight against the suction of the mud on the board.

Wu Liang walked very hard.

After walking 30 meters, his legs felt obvious fatigue, so that he simply used the lazy method, without lifting his feet, just rubbing the wooden board under his feet to slide step by step on the mud .

Looking back at Dian Wei.

Wu Liang couldn't help being envious. Although this guy didn't walk on the mud like walking on flat ground, it was obviously much easier than him... This physical fitness is really strong, and it is incomparable. No wonder Dian Wei was a long-term worker back then. At that time, the wife of the owner's family was willing to pay back.

After spending half an hour like this, Wu Liang finally crossed the distance of a hundred meters.

At this moment, he was out of breath, and he just wanted to find a place to sit down and have a good rest. Unfortunately, behind this muddy riverbed, there was no place for him to rest.

Dian Wei, on the other hand, remained unchanged, standing aside with a serious expression, looking around for vigilance.

Taking a breath like this, Wu Liang persisted and began to carefully examine the lock dragon pillar in front of him.

When I was standing on Hexin Island looking down, although I could see that the dragon lock pillar was not small, I didn't feel how grand and tall it was, but now standing under the dragon lock pillar and looking up, this feeling came out immediately up.

As seen before.

The shaft of the Locking Dragon Pillar facing the downstream of the river is being wrapped by a thick layer of slippery substance that resembles a mixture of algae and silt. The original appearance cannot be seen clearly, but the shaft facing the river still has this wetness The amount of slippery matter is obviously much less, and it is not difficult to see the situation on the surface of the column body.

Sure enough, something was engraved on the surface of the lock dragon pillar.

The first thing Wu Liang saw was a large cloud pattern located at the bottom of the Suolongzhu. To be precise, this should be the cloud tail pattern, which is the edge pattern of the cloud pattern.

Slowly looking up again, Wu Liang saw a huge tail among the clouds.

This tail looks like a fish's tail, with fish-like scales distributed on it, but if you look up along the tail, you will find that it is as slender as a snake.

Keeping looking up like this, a pair of sharp claws like eagle claws appeared...

dragon!
This must be the legendary dragon!

Although no matter in this era or in later generations, very few people have actually seen dragons, and even dragons were once regarded as fabricated mythological totems, but for every Chinese in the Celestial Dynasty, the image of dragons has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. A single person can draw a dragon neatly, whether the drawing is good or not is another matter, but the relevant main features will never be wrong.

Wu Liang continued to look up along the lock-dragon pillar, and the image of a dragon encircling the lock-dragon pillar came into view.

The horns are like a deer, the head is like a camel, the neck is like a snake, the abdomen is like a mirage, the scales are like a fish, the claws are like an eagle, and the ears are like a cow... There are some slight discrepancies in the details, but this is definitely the image of the legendary dragon. Couldn't find a second thing with such characteristics.

But in addition to these, this dragon has an extra pair of wings.

So it should be Yinglong, and it must be the restored image of the Yinglong skeleton that Wu Liang and others have seen before. Compared with that pair of Yinglong skeleton, the image on the lock dragon pillar is naturally more majestic and majestic. However, the sense of oppression brought to people is stronger than that of Yinglong's skeleton, which is a sense of oppression that is closely related to death!

Continue to look up.

On the upper end of this lock dragon pillar, there is still a large cloud pattern, but the difference is that there are four protruding things in the cloud pattern, which look like four nails into the lock dragon pillar from four directions, east, west, north, south. The huge nails formed a cross, so that when viewed from only one direction, the shape of the lock dragon column is somewhat similar to that of Huabiao.

Lock Dragon Pillar...

Wu Liang frowned slightly, a little confused about the function of the Locking Dragon Pillar.

Why does this thing not seem to be used to sever the earth's energy, but more like to pin the Yinglong that I saw before, so that it will stay here forever and cannot go to the sky?
Moreover, this Suolongzhu is very different from the Suolongzhu that Wu Liang learned about in the history books.

As far as he knew, there seemed to be relevant legends in ancient Taoist books. Although in the descriptions of ancient Taoist books, the Locking Dragon Pillar was also a stone pillar with cloud patterns and giant dragon reliefs on it, but it should be a divine dragon in the traditional sense. It was not the giant dragon that Wu Liang saw now.

Moreover, there is no setting that looks like four huge nails on the Dragon Locking Pillar in the ancient Taoist books.

There seems to be an existing Suolongzhu in later generations.

However, the lock dragon pillar is located in the Shu land in the southwest of the Tian Dynasty. It is said that when Yu Dayu was controlling the water in the Staggered Gorge area of ​​Wushan, there were twelve dragons who were stubborn and endangered the living beings, making the flood bigger and bigger. Yu caught it, locked it on a stone pillar and killed it. Since then, the mountain where the dragon was killed has been called the dragon-killing platform, and a huge stone pillar next to the dragon-killing platform is the dragon-locking pillar.

However, there is a huge difference between that Locking Dragon Pillar and this Locking Dragon Pillar.

Wu Liang once went on a trip to see that the Suolongzhu in Wushan Mountain in later generations is just a solitary stone pillar formed naturally, without any engravings or traces of artificial carving.

The relevant legends and stories are just fabricated by people.

Have these in mind.

Wu Liang stretched out his leather gloved hand to peel off the layer of mud covering the dragon lock pillar, and finally saw the essence of the dragon lock pillar.

According to preliminary observations, the material used for this Suolong column should be relatively common sandstone.

This kind of rock has a rough surface, less stable structure than marble and granite, and is relatively more susceptible to erosion by wind and water, but it is easier to carve and shape.

Of course, there are no absolutes, and the sandstone generated in some special environments is still very strong.

The sandstone used in the Suolongzhu in front of us is considered to be of a relatively solid type, otherwise, even if the Yellow River diverted its estuary to this place in the past ten years, it would have caused great damage to the ordinary sandstone.

But at this moment, the pattern on the lock dragon pillar is still very clear, but some places that should have been sharp and angular have become smoother, so it can be seen.

By now.

Wu Liang even initially completed the investigation of this Locking Dragon Pillar.

The harvest is not too big, and Wu Liang doesn't intend to completely clean up this lock dragon pillar, which will consume a lot of manpower, so it can only be put on hold temporarily.

"Brother Dianwei, take down the Luoyang shovel, let's try it out here."

After recovering, Wu Liang said to Dian Wei.

He had prepared the Luoyang shovel in advance before setting off, in order to verify the previous speculation that there might be an ancient tomb of a certain ethnic group here.

Dian Wei has been in the Tuan army for several years, and he is also familiar with the use of Luoyang shovel.

It didn't take a while for him to assemble the Luoyang shovel, insert the shovel head into the soft mud, and then cooperate with Wu Liang to knock the Luoyang shovel into the ground piece by piece.

"What's that?"

Seeing this scene, Hua Tuo asked like a curious baby.

"That's also the invention of the talented brother, the only one in the world, but you don't need to know the specific function, and only the talented brother can use that thing. Even if ordinary people get it, it's just a piece of iron that doesn't work well. shovel."

Zhuge Liang maintains a sense of superiority and plays tricks.

But what he said was not bad, only Wu Liang could tell the difference between the soil brought up by the Luoyang shovel. Although the people in the Huan army often operated it by hand, they still didn't master the secret of it.

And Wu Liang didn't intend to pass on the secrets. He knew better than anyone else that once this thing became popular in the late Han Dynasty, it would definitely be a disaster for the ancient tombs of the Celestial Dynasty. Nine out of ten tombs of the Han Dynasty are empty, but all ancient tombs are out of ten.

"Wu Taishi is really the strangest person I have ever met."

Hua Tuo didn't get to the bottom of this issue, but just sighed, "It is possible to produce so many unique inventions and creations in the world... I would like to ask, Wu Taishi is probably not as simple as Taishi Ling? I'm afraid you are not either. Ordinary officers, right?"

"What do you mean by that?"

Zhuge Liang looked suspicious.

Everyone in the Huanren Army also looked at Hua Tuo cautiously. Could it be that this guy has seen through their background and guessed what they usually do?
If so, keep an eye on him.

After going out, it will be up to the young master to decide whether to include him in the Huan army, or kill him to silence him...

They felt that there was a high probability that Wu Liang would include Hua Tuo in the Tuan army. After all, this person had just received the inheritance of "Bian Que", and his medical skills must have reached an unmatched level. Such a person is very important to the Tuan army. It is useful, but Wu Liang has always loved talents, how could he be willing to kill him?
What's more, for a long time, except for some people who cornered them and threatened their lives, Wu Liang seldom killed people...Of course, if he really wanted to do something, he would kill them all, and no one would be left alive. Down.

"I think you are very similar to an organization that Emperor Wu walked in the world before, especially Wu Taishi. Whether it is his ability or temperament, he is almost a copy of the leader of that organization."

Hua Tuo said.

"I wonder what organization Miracle Doctor Hua is talking about?"

Yu Ji asked again.

"The Mo family."

Hua Tuo said, "Wu Taishi is your leader, like the giants of the Mohists, and you are Mo Bian, who are not good at force but have their own strengths. Those soldiers are the Mohists of the Mohist family. Xia... At least any army I have seen is not like yours, and the personnel will not be so complicated when going out."

Speaking of this, Hua Tuo looked at the big dog standing behind him again, and said with a smile on his face: "And you also tried your best to save the fishermen nearby, and you never left me when I was dying... The officers and soldiers don't have this You have a leisurely mind, so in my opinion, you are more like an organization of knights, not a simple army."

"Mo family?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Hearing Hua Tuo's self-righteous guess, everyone in the Huan army was taken aback for a moment, and then they looked at each other and laughed.

……

Hearing the laughter of the people in the Huan army, Dian Wei, who was operating the Luoyang shovel, glanced sideways, with a puzzled look on his face.

Wu Liang also heard everyone's laughter.

But at the moment they have business to do, so they just took a look at it, and after seeing that nothing special happened, they continued to work in a tacit understanding.

The mud underfoot was too soft.

The two of them didn't spend much effort, Dian Wei alone had already inserted the first piece of Luoyang shovel into the ground by more than one meter with his arm strength, so he had to add the second piece immediately.

The first half of the second section was also soft. Dian Wei used his arms to match his own body weight, and the handle of the shovel sank down a lot.

But in the second half, the shovel head below has already touched something hard.

Dian Wei pressed down a few times as hard as before, but there was no sign of the Luoyang shovel continuing to go down, so he had to temporarily stop his hand and look at Wu Liang: "Young master, it seems to have hit something."

"How does it feel when you press down?"

Wu Liang asked.

"The thing I touched should not be rammed earth. No matter how solid the rammed earth is, it will definitely change after soaking underwater for so long. When I pressed hard just now, the Luoyang shovel didn't move at all. It must have touched something hard."

Dian Wei replied seriously, "My lord, how about if I smash it and try, can I continue to probe?"

"Something hard."

Wu Liang pondered, "It may be the rock layer below the river bed, or it may be other foreign objects. If it is a rock layer, it is okay to say, at most it is the blade of the shovel, but if it is something else, it may be subjected to brute force. damaged when…”

Since it was speculated that there might be an ancient tomb of a large ethnic group hidden nearby, Wu Liang naturally had to be more cautious. He would feel distressed if some ancient relics with archaeological value were damaged.

After pondering for a while, he finally said: "No hurry, let's take the Luoyang shovel back and have a look first. If there is something down there, we can also see some clues through the soil brought back from the upper layer."

"promise!"

Dian Wei responded, then grabbed the rope attached to the head of the Luoyang shovel and lifted it upwards.

Not long after, the Luoyang shovel was lifted up completely, and at the same time brought up the soil below.

Wu Liang immediately stepped forward to investigate.

The soil brought out by the Luoyang shovel head is all silt, which has nothing to do with the rammed earth of the ancient tomb.

The silt content of these silts is much higher than that of the silt on the surface of the river bed, and the sediment content becomes higher the further down the river. This is the inevitable result of the sand washing by the Yellow River, so there is nothing to be concerned about.

but……

When inspecting the mud on the shovel head, Wu Liang still noticed a detail that was easily overlooked.

I saw that in the silt near the shovel head, there was a very small amount of gray rock dross mixed in. The gray dregs were as big as a grain of rice, and the smaller ones were simply dust-like powder.

The most important thing is that the appearance of this dross is very new, and it is very likely that when Dian Wei pressed down hard just now, the head of Luoyang shovel scraped off the hard object below.

Wu Liang picked up a few pieces of trash and came closer to check.

Is this the rock layer that has been explored under the river bed, or...

(End of this chapter)