Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 268: Eight Arrays (4200)

At this point, Zhuge Xuan finally stopped, the fear in his eyes could not be concealed, obviously the previous experience in the tomb had left him with a lot of psychological shadows.

At this moment, everyone fell into silence, more or less feeling a chill down their spine.

This kind of invisible and intangible unknown thing that can trap people alive is undoubtedly the most terrifying thing in the world.

"Emmm..."

Wu Liang also felt a little uncomfortable after hearing it, but at the same time he was also analyzing the experience described by Zhuge Xuan, trying to find some information that might be helpful for his next actions:
First of all, the air in this mausoleum should not be a major problem.

Otherwise, those dogs would definitely not be able to survive in the tomb for such a long time, and Zhuge Xuan would not even have the slightest chance of escaping from it alive;
Secondly, the tomb passage in the tomb may have been set up with some unknown tricks, which can also be said to be the so-called "array".

It is not impossible to get out of this mausoleum after entering it.

Zhuge Xuan provided a very important clue in the description. When a rope is tied, no matter whether it is a person or a dog, they can still walk out through the rope.

But if it is marked on the wall, it will not have the same wayfinding effect.

That is to say, everything seen in the tomb, even the marks made by oneself, may become an extremely terrible "misleading" factor.

Only a foreign object like a rope, and if it is not broken, can be the key clue to get out of the tomb.

If this is not a "blindfold" method, what is it?
It's just that the "blurring method" here is obviously much more advanced.

Not only may there be "misleading" vision, but it also has the same "misleading" effect on smell, otherwise the two dogs with a much more sensitive sense of smell than humans would not be trapped alive in the tomb;

Again, this "array" seems to be large or small.

Saying it was big, it sounded really big. Leaving aside the two dead dogs, Zhuge Xuan kept walking through the tomb passage for several days without coming out or going in.

According to the normal walking speed of human beings, at least dozens or even hundreds of kilometers have been traveled, which is not too small.

As for it being small, it does not seem to be very big. The two dogs died only a few feet away from the exit, and Zhuge Xuan stayed only a few feet away from the exit after walking for several days.

I don't know if this is a coincidence, but it does give people the feeling that they seem to have been in a small area for several days.

Besides.

Wu Liang was still thinking about a question.

If two people enter the tomb at the same time, and then choose to move separately, is it possible to meet without a rope link?

According to Zhuge Xuan's description.

The two dead dogs may not have met before, otherwise the latecomers would have eaten the corpse of the former when they were extremely hungry, but this did not happen.

But after Zhuge Xuan tied the rope and entered the tomb passage, he saw the dead bodies of the two dogs not far away.

Later, when Zhuge Xuan was trapped in the tomb passage, it was the dog tied outside the tomb with ropes who found him, and he was lucky enough to recover his life.

It can be seen from this that the situation described by Zhuge Xuan did not include the situation Wu Liang thought of.

This is indeed a question worthy of attention. It is directly related to what kind of strategy Wu Liang needs to adopt if he wants to enter the tomb together with everyone...

Therefore, Wu Liang felt that it was necessary to take a test before entering the tomb.

He had seen a dog in the small courtyard of Zhuge's house before, it should be the last dog that survived the tomb and saved Zhuge Xuan's life, maybe it can be used.

between speeches.

A group of people had already arrived at the sandy land, and the soldiers of the Huan Army quickly started digging.

Wu Liang pondered for a long time, then turned to Zhuge Xuan and asked, "Zhuge County Prime Minister, when you were lost in the tomb and looking for a way out, did you encounter the two yellow-eared corpses that died in the tomb before?"

"When I entered the tomb for the first time, I couldn't bear the rotten smell and buried the two corpses together. How could I encounter..."

Zhuge Xuan came back to his senses after hearing the words, the fear on his face was slightly reduced, and he said seriously.

"What about the traces, the decay of the corpse will leave some traces, and you once cut open the corpse with the two yellow ears in the tomb, will there always be some traces?"

Wu Liang asked unwillingly.

"I never noticed that."

Zhugexuan recalled it for a while, and said, "At that time, I had lost my mind, and the kerosene I carried with me was very limited, so I didn't dare to light the torch, so I could only make a simple small oil lamp with hemp rope and an oil can to save money. use, and the light of the oil lamp is really limited, it is a luxury to see the road clearly without bumping into the wall, and I really have no time to take care of these details."

"Ok."

Wu Liang nodded.

Although he didn't get the answer he wanted from Zhuge Xuan's mouth, Wu Liang still caught another small detail - light!
The light of the small oil lamp is indeed relatively dim, especially in this kind of tomb passage where you can't see your fingers.

However, even if it is a torch, the range and brightness that can be illuminated are actually relatively limited.

As far as Wu Liang knows, some people in later generations seem to have done similar experiments. If some relatively small, step-by-step, and endless steps or slopes are set up under very limited lighting conditions, it is possible to create an environment that can deceive human beings. The closed-loop trap of the senses makes people feel that they are always "upward" or "downward". In fact, they are only walking in a closed loop that is not too long from the beginning to the end, and can never reach the end.

This is the famous "hanging soul ladder" in the legend.

It's a pity that Wu Liang hasn't entered the mausoleum yet, and he hasn't seen the condition of the tomb passage in the mausoleum, so he can't make a judgment hastily, but he just kept this small detail in his heart.

However, compared with Zhuge Xuan, Wu Liang has a great advantage in this respect.

This advantage comes from the "Suihou Pearl". The brightness and lighting range of the "Suihou Pearl" are by no means comparable to torches and oil lamps, and they don't care about the problem of fuel at all. This is a real treasure...

By now.

Wu Liang felt that it was impossible to get more valuable things from Zhuge Xuan, so he turned to look at the bewildered Zhuge Liang, and suddenly asked a question that was extremely abrupt to everyone's ears: "Brother Zhuge, Have you ever heard of the 'Eight Arrays'?"

"Brother talented, are you talking to me?"

Zhuge Liang was also slightly taken aback, pointing to his nose and asking.

"That's right, Brother Xian, have you ever heard of the 'Eight Array Diagram'?"

Wu Liang slowed down his speech and asked word by word.

"Eight formations... picture?"

Zhuge Liang was even more puzzled, obviously he couldn't understand what Wu Liang was talking about.

And not only him, but the other people beside him also showed puzzled expressions.

Firstly, they didn't understand that Wu Liang suddenly asked Zhuge Liang such a strange question, and secondly, they didn't understand what the "Eight Arrays" Wu Liang was talking about.

"It's fine if you haven't heard of it..."

Wu Liang didn't give any further explanations, but just pretended to smile casually... Zhuge Liang's reaction was the answer he wanted.

The "Eight Formation Diagram" is actually one of Wu Liang's main suspicions about the "formation" in the tomb.

This thing has almost become synonymous with Zhuge Liang, whether it is in the official history books discovered by later generations or in many literary works with historical origins.

However, the official history books only mentioned in general that Zhuge Liang had "deduced Qiu's method and made the eight formation diagrams, and got the essence of it", and did not record the specific effects of the "eight formation diagrams".

Even Du Fu, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem called "Eight Arrays" for this purpose:
"Great over three parts of the country, known as the Eight Arrays.

The river flows and the stone does not turn, and the regret is lost and swallowed Wu. "

This poem tells the story of Zhuge Liang and the "Eight Arrays", which shows the profound influence of Zhuge Liang and the "Eight Arrays" on later generations.

Although the poem still does not describe the specific effect of the "Eight Arrays", it also reflects its power from another angle.

Later, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the famous novelist Luo Guanzhong mentioned the "Eight Arrays" in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

It is written in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that Zhuge Liang once used stones to lay out the "Eight Arrays" formation when he entered Sichuan. The famous general of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Xun, led his army to investigate in order to pursue Liu Bei, but he was almost trapped in the formation. Finally, with the help of Zhuge Liang's father-in-law Only then did the "Eight Arrays" come out... This plot, which is widely known to later generations, undoubtedly casts a veil of suspense on the "Eight Arrays".

Not to mention whether there are any elements that need to be fabricated for the plot in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Just the mention of this matter in history books or literary works of various ages is enough to prove that the "Eight Arrays" really existed, and it has an inseparable relationship with Zhuge Liang, and it has also played an extremely dazzling role in history. Therefore, it can be passed down from generation to generation.

But the current Zhuge Liang doesn't know anything about the "Eight Arrays".

Not only that, but Wu Liang also specifically confirmed before that Zhuge Liang also knew nothing about "Wooden Niu Liuma".

What does this mean?
This shows that Zhuge Liang must have had some enviable and unknown adventures in the future, so that he was able to come up with so many strange gadgets that he himself had never heard of, and became a famous figure of the Shu Han Dynasty.

So, from now until Zhuge Liang came out at the age of 27, what kind of adventures did Zhuge Liang encounter?

According to official history, since Zhuge Liang followed his uncle Zhuge Xuan to live in seclusion in Nanyang County, until Liu Bei came to visit the thatched cottage for three times, he never moved the nest again.

Based on such an analysis, it can be inferred that his adventure is likely to be near the place of hermitage.

Combined with Zhuge Xuan's second job now, people will naturally associate Zhuge Liang's achievements with the Qiumu Cemetery hidden in this mountain.

Even Wu Liang has made up a series of things by himself:
Zhuge Liang's uncle Zhuge Xuan will die three years later because of the "evil curse" on his body. After his death, the Qiumu Cemetery will be inherited to Zhuge Liang as an "inheritance".

At that time, Zhuge Xuan hadn't brought Zhuge Liang's family to relocate, which means that the excavation of the Qiumu Cemetery must have not been completed. Maybe even this strange formation that makes people go nowhere has not been cracked. Naturally, the burden fell on Zhuge Liang from then on. body.

And Zhuge Liang did not disappoint Zhuge Xuan in the end, and finally successfully broke the formation and entered the tomb, and got something from the tomb that would benefit him all his life...

If what he made up in his brain is true, then the strange formation in the tomb is likely to be the legendary "Eight Formation Diagram".

At present, it seems that its effect does have many coincidences with many folk legends. Although I don't know if it can resist hundreds of thousands of soldiers, it is still completely fine to trap a person to death.

Of course, it is not without other basis for Wu Liang to make such an inference.

The most important basis is that he can be sure that the "Eight Arrays" is not Zhuge Liang's original creation.

Because the earliest record of the "Eight Arrays" known to the archaeological world in later generations was in the period of the Yellow Emperor. The deeds of the Yellow Emperor and Fenghou's research and development of "Eight Arrays".

Therefore, Wu Liang has every reason to suspect that Zhuge Liang's strange gadgets are likely to come from "airborne"!
Think about these.

Wu Liang was looking forward to this Qiumu Cemetery even more...

……

After half an hour.

Yang Wanli, Bai Jingjing and a group of soldiers from the Huren army had already arrived, and the passageway that Zhuge Xuan had explained had also been completely dug up, and it was presented in front of Wu Liang and the others without any cover.

Needless to say, this passage is quite spacious, allowing one person to stand and walk in it. It can be seen that Zhuge Xuan also put in a lot of thought at the beginning.

"Zhuge County Prime Minister, can I borrow your yellow ear?"

Wu Liang turned around and asked Zhuge Xuan with a smile.

In fact, at this time, the soldiers of the Tuan army had already led the yellow ear over... Zhuge Xuan could say something, but of course he could only smile wryly and nod: "You are welcome, Captain Wu."

"Thank you very much then."

Wu Liang smiled slightly, privately instructed the accompanying officers to take good care of Zhuge's family, and then led Dianwei, Yu Ji, Yang Wanli, and Bai Jingjing into the passageway.

In this way, a group of people walked tens of meters in the passage, and finally came to the entrance of the mausoleum.

Most of the Vajra wall at the entrance of the mausoleum has been demolished, exposing a large opening comparable to the tomb passage inside.

And the passage dug by Zhuge Xuan here has also become much wider, and it can already accommodate four people in parallel. This is probably because Zhuge Xuan deliberately widened it to facilitate the use of tools when he demolished the Vajra Wall.

Besides.

There are also two wooden stakes nailed to the ground outside the mausoleum, and beside the wooden stakes are many coiled hemp ropes of different thicknesses. These should be the hemp ropes that Zhuge Xuan used to explore the tomb before.

"Young master, shall we go in like this?"

Seeing that Wu Liang had already stood at the entrance of the mausoleum, Yu Ji's old problem immediately recurred, and he asked with a frown of fear on his old face.

"No hurry, let's do an experiment first."

Wu Liang squatted down and untied the rope around the dog's neck, and patted the dog hard into the tomb.

The dog groaned, and then ran to the depths of the tomb like a joy, and disappeared from the sight of Wu Liang and others within a few breaths.

"This...why did you want to untie its rope? If Zhuge Xuan's words are true, then it will be gone forever, right?"

Seeing Wu Liang's actions, Yu Ji suddenly asked in confusion.

"Later, Dian Wei and I will tie silkworm silk and go in to look for it. I hope we can still find it."

Wu Liang pointed out something.

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(End of this chapter)