Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Seeing this, everyone in the Huanren Army immediately became nervous again.

First, there are stone platforms and community trees that grew out of nowhere.

Then there is the strange insect stone sculpture that automatically recovers from the damage.

Now this tall and strong Suolongzhu has disappeared for some reason...

At this time, everything in front of them seemed extremely unusual, not only the people in the Huan army didn't understand what happened that night, even Wu Liang didn't have the slightest idea.

"You wait here first, Dian Wei and I will go up and check."

In order to prevent the entire army from being annihilated due to unexpected accidents, Wu Liang turned his head and gave such instructions to everyone, and then he took Dian Wei and carefully touched the big pure copper tree stump.

"Gentleman (son) be careful."

Everyone in the Tuan Army knew Wu Liang's habits, but they didn't insist on following them, they just spoke out to remind them.

"Ah."

After nodding in response, Wu Liang and Dian Wei had already descended into the lower excavation pit. One was holding a diamond umbrella that could no longer be closed, and the other was walking forward with a pair of halberds and two halberds.

Not long after, the two had successfully arrived at the big pure copper stump.

At this time, a puddle had formed around the big pure copper tree stump due to the heavy rain just now, but the puddle was very shallow, and Wu Liang and Dian Wei could not even submerge their feet while standing in it.

"Look, son, there is an extra thing that looks like a stone tablet."

Dian Wei was always vigilant, and when he entered the puddle, he immediately found a one-meter-high flat stone pillar on the other side of the pure copper stump, which indeed looked like a stone tablet.

"I saw it."

Wu Liang glanced sideways, but did not go to check immediately. At this moment, his attention was still on the big pure copper stump.

He was looking for the cut made by Dian Wei's halberd in the tree trunk.

The stone platform and the community tree grew out, and the damage on the stone sculpture of the strange insect also recovered automatically. He suspected that the cut marks on the big pure copper stump might also recover automatically.

But the situation is not the same as he thought.

Soon he found the [-] cm long incision on the side of the big pure copper stump.

And not only the incision is still there, even after the torrential rain, the mark left by the red liquid that flowed out of the incision before is still clearly visible.

"How is this going?"

Wu Liang was puzzled.

Everything I have seen so far has undergone some inexplicable changes, only this big pure copper stump has not changed...

Is it the fourth thing that exists in the secret realm and the outside world at the same time as the Yellow River, the holy mountain, and the three arches?
What about the lock dragon pillar?
They are still not sure whether the Suolongzhu has such characteristics, but they must have seen the Suolongzhu before in the secret realm, but now the Suolongzhu has disappeared inexplicably...

Wu Liang had asked Da Quan specifically about this matter before, and although Da Quan didn't answer confidently, he also said positively that he came to this place to play when he was young and had never seen Suo Longzhu.

And the lock dragon pillar is very tall, if it exists, it may be difficult to hide it, and it is naturally impossible for the big dog not to have seen it.

In addition, the rumors of the villagers in Sanmen Village only mentioned the three gate towers, and did not mention the lock dragon pillar that is difficult to ignore...

It is speculated that the Locking Dragon Pillar is very likely to exist only in the secret realm, and does not exist in the outside world!

Wait!
Thinking of this, Wu Liang suddenly had a new question in his heart.

If the lock dragon pillar is gone and no one moves it, has the lock dragon pillar changed, or have they changed themselves? !
Is it possible that they have walked out of the secret realm unknowingly, so they can no longer see the lock dragon pillar?

But think again.

There are still some loopholes in this idea, and the biggest loophole is the community tree.

Before Wu Liang used the art of controlling water to divert the Yellow River, this place had already become an underwater riverbed at the mouth of the Yellow River. Even if the stone platform and the stone carvings of strange insects were not afraid of being soaked by the river water, the community tree would definitely not be able to survive in the water. It is absolutely impossible for those who survived underground and underground to maintain such a lively appearance...

"Headache……"

Wu Liang rubbed his temples vigorously, but he still couldn't draw a flawless inference.

Under such circumstances, he had no choice but to come back to his senses for a while, and shifted his gaze from the big pure copper tree stump to the flat stone pillar that Dian Wei had just discovered that looked like a stele.

Before reaching the stone pillar, Wu Liang regained his spirit immediately.

Because he found that this stone pillar is really a stone tablet with engraved patterns.

The inscriptions left on the stele are not like the ancient characters from the ancient times, or have nothing to do with the characters at all, but more like a relatively naive stick figure.

And the stick figure above is divided into four parts from top to bottom by three horizontal scratches, making it look like a kind of comic strip that can be connected with each other.

"This……"

Wu Liang squatted down in front of the stele, and looked at the four stick figures from top to bottom according to his usual reading habits.

The first stick figure on the top is extremely simple. It just carves two symmetrical ovals like willow leaves on the upper part of the picture, and also engraves two circles in the middle of the two ovals.

a pair of eyes?
Wu Liang immediately had such an association in his mind.

At the same time, he also recalled the only short memory in Dian Wei's coma. Dian Wei saw a pair of huge eyes in the dark night sky, and those eyes brought him great fear and anxiety. pressure……

I don't know if these eyes are related to the pair of eyes that Dian Wei saw, but judging from the position of these eyes on the screen, there is a feeling of hanging in the sky;

The second stick figure is a little more complicated.

Wu Liang saw more than a dozen carvings in the shape of tadpoles in the lower part of the picture. Except for the curved tail, there is an extra "ten" in the circle that resembles the head of a tadpole.

Combined in this way, the shape looks very much like a "Jia" character, except that the vertical line under the "Jia" character has become a crooked curve.

And on top of the tadpole-like character "Jia", there is another symbol similar to the character "Xi", but the point in the character "Xi" is slightly longer, so that it sticks out a bit.

All the engravings in this picture are densely crowded together, lying down, standing up, or obliquely, but the structure is exactly the same. There are so many ordinary ones out. …

Speaking of which, looking at it this way, Wu Liang felt that the engraving looked like a single character, and he could teach Yu Ji and Zhen Mi to come and have a look before making a decision later;

Looking further down, the third stick figure is much easier to understand.

Those are five simple upright portraits. These five people have arms and legs, a head and a body, and there are a pair of horns on the top of their heads, which look similar to those on the copper helmets excavated by the Tuan army. The horns are very similar, and it is very likely that the engraving is the image of a soldier from the Jiuli Kingdom;
The fourth stick figure at the bottom is easier to understand.

Wu Liang saw a circle and a crescent in the upper part of the screen.

The circle and the crescent are located on the left and right sides respectively, and in the middle of them is a large triangle that runs through the top and bottom of the picture.

If the circle is the sun and the crescent is the moon, then this big triangle should be a mountain... a holy mountain?
The holy mountain is such a lonely hill, and it is an extremely regular cone, which is exactly such a big triangle when viewed from the side.

And under this big triangle, there is a figure that looks like a tree, and there are two longer lines that should represent the branches, and they are specially carved crookedly... The society tree? !

Wu Liang couldn't help turning his head to look at the community tree that he had just inspected.

On the community tree, there are two larger branches with twisted and weird lengths, which are very similar to the stick figure tree on the stone tablet!
Besides.

Not far from the community tree, Wu Liang also saw three square boxes side by side, but these three boxes did not have the bottom horizontal line, making it look like a "door" character... Those three gates that can enter and exit the secret realm? !

Wu Liang's heart skipped a beat.

Could it be that the last stick figure depicts the scene here? !

But what exactly is this expressing?

Wu Liang carefully read the four stick figures from top to bottom, but he couldn't see the connection between them anyway.

Then he tried to check from bottom to top, but still had no clue.

"What exactly does that mean?"

Wu Liang frowned tightly.

This is the only ancient object he found in this secret realm that seems to convey some kind of message. If he can decipher the contents of these stick figures, it can help them understand the background of this secret realm, and perhaps this will become their The key to getting out of this secret place.

At this time, it is necessary to use the collective wisdom and strength, especially Yu Ji and Zhen Mi who are knowledgeable about ancient Chinese and historical sites.

So Wu Liang carefully observed the surrounding environment again, and after confirming that there was no danger for the time being, he turned around decisively and greeted everyone: "Everyone, come here, there is a stone tablet here, you also come and have a look, if anyone can interpret it Just come out."

……

After a moment.

Everyone in the Huan army stepped forward to look at it one by one, and in the end, only Yu Ji and Zhen Mi were left behind.

"Young Master, according to what I see, this is most likely a single word."

Yu Ji pointed to the more than a dozen tadpole-shaped engravings in the second stick figure and said, "This suspected character 'jia', and the vertical but long and curved character below, I have seen in an ancient book. , it should mean worms. As for the general term for all worms, or a specific worm, the old man is not sure... and the symbol on the word 'A' that seems to be the word 'Xi', the old man is not sure. I don't know what that means."  …

The voice did not fall.

Zhen Mi had already picked up the words, and said in a very positive tone: "There's no need to guess, gentleman, these two symbols are joined together to form the word '嘉', Chi You's '虫'."

"Chi?"

Everyone was taken aback when they heard the words, and looked at Zhen Mi suspiciously.

After all, in comparison, there is still a big gap between the inscriptions on the stone tablet and the "Chi", and it is difficult for normal people to connect the two.

"Do you know what 'Chi' means?"

Seeing the reaction of the crowd, Zhen Mi immediately asked back.

"This... I don't know."

Everyone shook their heads.

Only Yu Jizheng said: "The old man has seen an ancient book note before. The word Chi You originally meant a kind of insect that parasitizes the human body. The Jiuli Kingdom regards this insect as a totem god, so it is called the Lord of Jiuli. As Chi You, so the word 'Chi' is taken out by itself, and it should refer to this kind of bug."

"The old man's words are good, but not accurate enough."

Zhen Mi nodded and continued, "As Lao Shengsheng said just now, the word 'jia' with a slender and curved tail does mean a bug, but it is not a general term for all bugs, but specifically refers to the kind of mouthparts that are very The shape of the character 'Tian' on the upper part of the character 'Jia' is a fierce insect, which depicts the sharp-toothed mouthparts of the insect."

"As for the out-of-the-ordinary character 'Xi', it was usually used to refer to people's toes in the early days. On the bronze ware, in order to make the font more regular, the upper part of the word "Chi" was changed from 'Zhi'."

"So the two are connected, which refers to a kind of insect with very powerful mouthparts that can bite people's toes."

"So I can be sure that this is a word 'Chi'."

While talking, Zhen Mi turned her head to look at the stone sculpture of the strange insect, and continued, "'Chi' should be the name of this kind of strange insect. If you look at the word 'Chi' in this picture, it should be It is the word 'Chi' that is used to refer to this kind of strange insect, and it shows the shape of them being crowded together."

"Makes sense..."

Everyone nodded in agreement after hearing the words.

"Miss Mi'er is really knowledgeable, I admire you."

Yu Ji also said sincerely.

"As expected of Mi'er."

Wu Liang looked at Zhen Mi appreciatively, and then asked, "Then these four pictures are connected together, can Mi Er see what the meaning is?"

"This……"

Zhen Mi looked at it carefully again, and finally shook her head and said, "...I can't say it myself, but I wonder if the gentleman has noticed these two engravings that run through the four pictures?"

There are indeed two lines running vertically through the four pictures from top to bottom on the stele.

However, these two lines are located on both sides of the edges of these images, and they just interweave with the three horizontal lines that separate the four images, forming a ladder-like shape, which seems to be specially designed for the four images. The secondary image was drawn like a grid, so Wu Liang didn't take it seriously before.

Hearing the words, Wu Liang looked at the stele again, and subconsciously asked, "What does Mi Er mean, these two vertical lines also have a special meaning?"

"It's not good to be a concubine."

Zhen Mi shook her head slightly, "It's just that these two lines are slightly different from those three horizontal lines. They are not regular straight lines, but slightly curved."

"In addition, the distance between these two lines is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. Especially when it reaches the bottom, the arc suddenly becomes larger. It looks like the trunk of a big tree. Don't you think so?"