Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 869 Strange Stone Sculpture (4000)

But one thing is certain.

These dregs are by no means the most common basalt near this holy mountain, but should be sandstone similar to the Suolongzhu. As for whether the Suolongzhu has the same source as the rock material below, it is still unknown.

But now Wu Liang needs to make a judgment first, what exactly did Dian Wei's shovel shovel?
Is it a rock formation hidden under the river bed, or something else?
In fact, it is not difficult to make a judgment.

Now the depth of the Luoyang shovel is less than two meters. Even with the strength of Wu Liang and Dian Wei, they will soon be able to dig such a deep hole in the soft mud. what.

But Wu Liang didn't intend to spend such effort and effort, he adopted the simplest method.

"Brother Dianwei, come here and take another shovel."

Wu Liang took a few steps back, pointed to a place three meters away and said.

"promise!"

Dian Wei responded, and immediately moved forward, inserted the Luoyang shovel into the soft mud again, and pressed it down hard.

This time it was easier than the last time, and the Luoyang shovel easily went down to a depth of more than one meter.

Dian Wei exerted his strength again, and the Luoyang shovel continued to penetrate downwards without hindrance, and soon went down to a depth of more than two meters.

"Can we continue to explore?"

Wu Liang frowned slightly.

This depth has obviously surpassed that of the previous shovel, but it seems that it still hasn't touched anything hard.

Could it be that the hard object discovered just now is not a rock formation hidden under the river bed?

After all, under normal circumstances, the rock formations are all connected together, and there should not be too much drop within a relatively short distance. Therefore, if you have explored the rock formations before, you should almost be able to touch them this time.

"It seems to be okay. Wei has not felt anything hard touched by the Luoyang shovel."

While talking, Dian Wei deliberately tried again, and with such force, the Luoyang shovel actually sank about ten centimeters, obviously not encountering too much obstacle.

"Go deeper, and try to get under one foot."

Wu Liang pondered and said again.

"promise."

Hearing this, Dian Wei immediately took off the halberd behind his back, and used the halberd as a hammer to strike the Luoyang shovel, making it go further down.

Wu Liang came to the front at the right time and held the handle of the shovel to help.

Under such cooperation, the Luoyang shovel continued to probe, and soon after, it actually reached a depth of more than three meters, which seemed to have exceeded what Wu Liang said by one zhang.

"Could it be that the hard thing you just discovered isn't a rock formation?"

Wu Liang said something to himself, but then looked at Dian Wei and said, "Go on, from now on, every half a foot you go down, bring up the soil below for me to check."

So Dian Wei continued to tap the long handle connected to the Luoyang shovel to make it go down further.

While Wu Liang was assisting, he carefully inspected the soil every time he brought it up.

However, the soil picked up during this period was still the unique sandy silt of the Yellow River bed, which did not bring any surprises to Wu Liang until the Luoyang shovel reached more than four meters.

"Wait a minute!"

Looking at the dirt brought up from the head of Luoyang shovel, Wu Liang finally showed a strange color on his face.

This time, the soil brought out from the shovel head showed obvious stratification. The upper layer was still the kind of sandy silt with no value, while the lower layer turned into a completely different red clay clod.

Wu Liang quickly squatted down and took some red clay clods for a closer look.

Although the surface of this laterite clod was somewhat damp, it was not difficult to see that the interior was so dense that it was difficult for Wu Liang to crush it with just the strength of his hands, so he had to rely on the help of a copper dagger.

This is obviously not a naturally formed soil, but more like a layer of rammed earth that has been artificially suppressed. At least in the eyes of tomb robbers, finding such soil can basically conclude that there are traces of human civilization underneath, so we have to dig it out anyway. Take a look so as not to miss any valuable antiques.

The most important thing is.

This land is in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, so most of the soil in this place should be loess brought down by the Yellow River through the Loess Plateau, and this kind of red soil usually appears in the south closer to the tropics, so it seems even more unreasonable.

Could it be that there are ancient tombs or relics hidden underneath?

Wu Liang couldn't help but feel agitated.

The sacred mountain, Yinglong, and Suolongzhu organized by "Bianque"...all the information we know so far connects this place with the ancient times, and can be directly related to the legendary battle for the deer.

If there are indeed ancient tombs or ruins hidden below, it must be traced back to the ancient times full of mythology.

If so, this is the oldest historical site that Wu Liang has discovered so far, and it is definitely a historical site that has never been discovered in later generations. After all, it is almost unable to hold on now, and it is impossible to keep it in later generations. ... It is absolutely impossible for any archaeologist to find such a monument without being excited.

"Brother Dianwei, take another shovel and see, this time it's only a deep shovel!"

Excited, Wu Liang immediately told Dian Wei that he needed to further verify his discovery.

After a moment.

The next shovel of soil was brought up, and this time the soil was no longer stratified, and it completely turned into that kind of red clay.

And because it is deeper, the red clay clods lifted this time are also drier, so the texture is much harder, and it is like holding a hard stone in the hand.

Can't go wrong!
This is definitely rammed earth formed by repeated pressing, and its density exceeds that of ordinary ancient tombs in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States and Han Dynasties. It is obviously a project with great care!
as of now.

Wu Liang has already set his mind on a comprehensive excavation, and even almost forgot the dangerous situation he and the Huan army are in now. If they are not careful, they will disappear with this secret place.

But it's no use worrying too much.

After all, the three gatehouses have been destroyed, even if Yang Wanli is asked to lead his men to repair them, it is nothing more than a dead horse as a living horse doctor, even if they are repaired, they may not be able to get out.

In this case, it is better to do both.

On the one hand, he ordered Yang Wanli to continue to lead people to restore the gatehouse, and on the other hand, he tried to excavate this historic site.

Maybe those three gates couldn't get out, but he found a way to leave the secret realm here. After all, this secret realm overlaps with this historic site hidden under the riverbed so much, there may be some unknown connection .

So……

What was the hard object that Dian Wei touched with the first shovel just now?

Now it seems that [-]% should not be the rock layer under the river bed, but more like rock products placed on this layer of red earth rammed earth.

If it is assumed that it is a rock product, then analyzing the depth difference between the rammed earth layer and the hard object, the height of the object should be more than two meters.

As for what it is, it's hard to say.

With such thoughts in mind, Wu Liang did not draw a conclusion right away. In order to further verify his guess, he had to make several trials before making a final decision.

"Brother Dianwei, come here again and use another shovel."

Taking the first exploration hole as the center of the circle, Wu Liang raised his foot and moved to another direction, and also selected a detection point two meters away.

Dian Wei stepped forward to do the same.

Not long after, the Luoyang shovel was successfully driven to a depth of more than four meters. At this time, the soil brought up by the Luoyang shovel was the same as the red soil in the previous cave.

"Come here again for a shovel."

Wu Liang immediately changed another position, and continued to order Dian Wei to shovel.

The result is still the same.

At this moment, Wu Liang finally confirmed his guess thoroughly, and finally stopped ordering Dian Wei to shovel, but said with a happy face: "Okay, we can go back first, the next one will definitely be a big project, only the two of us I'm afraid that if we want to dig into the year of the monkey, it's better to borrow some people from Yang Wanli to help."

……

After walking out of the river bed, everyone in the Tuan Army immediately gathered around to inquire about Wu Liang's discovery.

At this moment, Wu Liang could only conclude that there must be ancient monuments under the riverbed, so he naturally couldn't say anything more to them. He just briefly described his guess and then went to find the dignitary Yang Wanli.

Excluding the two Huan army soldiers who were taken into the water by the strange insect when they were outside, there are still 18 Huan army soldiers left.

What Wu Liang meant was to assign ten people to help him dig the river bed, and the remaining eight people continued to follow Yang Wanli to repair the gatehouse.

Yang Wanli naturally had nothing to say.

What's more, when Wu Liang came over, the main body of the three gate towers had been spliced ​​together, and the next thing to do was to put together and fill in more detailed pieces.

This workload is greater than that of splicing the main body, and requires great patience, and it cannot be completed in a short period of time.

At the same time, this job is not suitable for a large number of people. When there are too many people, it is easy to mess up. If there is chaos, it is more likely to make mistakes. Instead, it is better to assign some people to do other things.

After Wu Liang took the ten people away, he did not immediately rush to the riverbed where the Suolongzhu was located. Instead, he led them to collect the trees that had been uprooted in the earthquake, and asked the people in the Huan army to remove these trees from the ground. Split in the middle to make a piece of plank.

Everyone in the Huan army didn't understand why.

It wasn't until Wu Liang led the crowd to lay these planks on the river bed full of mud that they suddenly realized that Wu Liang wanted to lay a road on the mud to facilitate the excavation work later, otherwise if everyone was like Wu Liang and Dian With the kind of sled-like shoes on the feet like Wei, it takes a lot of energy to go back and forth.

Moreover, this kind of board is longer and wider than the special sled shoes, and it can bear more pressure, so it will only be more stable for everyone to walk on it.

In this way, not only Wu Liang, Dian Wei, and Tuan Army soldiers could go to the excavation site, but also Yu Ji, Bai Jingjing, Zhuge Liang and other people with weak physical strength could easily go to the site to provide some help within their ability.

Therefore, although the preliminary work is a bit strenuous, it can definitely make the subsequent excavation work more effective.

This busy work is a whole day.

When the sky was completely dark, all the people in the Tuan army built a bonfire on the edge of the river bed and set up a tent for repairs.

The earthquake had stopped now, and the secret place could not be left for the time being. They even made a special trip back to the camp that was on the edge of the tiankeng to retrieve the abandoned supplies.

Especially those foods.

At first they thought they were going to leave the secret realm soon, and the situation was very urgent at that time, so there was no need to bring those food, but now, because they couldn't get out of the secret realm with no living things, Bai Jingjing could no longer trick the birds, Dian Wei and Yang Wanli They were also unable to hunt, and the problem of food became the biggest test for the Tuan army.

The only thing I can only be thankful for is that they just went out to replenish food the day before, and Dian Wei also brought a wild boar nest in the mountain, not to mention killing a wild boar weighing three hundred catties, and even the three young wild boars in the nest were killed. They brought them back together to raise, and Zhen Mi, Bai Jingjing, and Cao Ni each raised one, and they all liked it very much.

Plus a sack of seabirds tricked by Bai Jingjing.

Saving some of these things should be enough to last for three to five days... After all, there are more than [-] people including Hua Tuo now, and the daily consumption is not small.

As for the future, it might be time to attack those three cute little wild boars.

After that, Wu Liang subconsciously looked at Brother Rooster who was locked in a cage not far away...

What are you thinking!

Wu Liang immediately slapped himself, brother rooster is a comrade in arms, not to mention the little meat on it, divided between thirty people is not enough to fit between the teeth!
In short, before the food is completely cut off, we must find a way out!

……

Near noon the next day, the road designed by Wu Liang was finally paved.

Soldiers of the Tuan Army immediately seized the time to start excavation work. After spending another two hours, they dug a large pit in the mud with a square meter.

The depth of the big pit just reached the red soil below the silt.

This efficiency is due to the softness of the silt, and the people of the Tuan army hardly need to expend too much physical strength when digging down, but what really consumes the physical strength is transporting the silt.

as of now.

The things that Dian Wei shoveled before were finally exposed to Wu Liang.

"What is this..."

At first glance, Wu Liang thought it was a snake.

With a large rock of one meter square as the base, four snake-like things were carved out of it.

This thing is about the thickness of an adult's arm, and its length is hard to say because it is entangled, but it should be three to four meters or four to five meters long.

And the reason why it can be clearly judged is four.

It was because Wu Liang saw four heads raised up like cobras when they entered the offensive state.

At the moment Wu Liang is on the back of this thing, and he still can't see what their heads look like, but from the worried and strange expressions on the faces of the soldiers of the Huan army standing in the pit, he has already realized that this thing is probably very dangerous. unusual.

In this way, go down to the pit along the set up plank.

Wu Liang went straight to the front of the thing, and then only glanced at the stone sculpture, his expression immediately became weird: "This?!"

"Is this the bone-biting monster in the Yellow River?!"

(End of this chapter)