Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 822 Another Eyeball (4000)

Although the Tuan army is well-equipped and powerful in combat, digging mounds and graves is their old profession.

On weekdays, many large tombs with mountains as mausoleums have been dug, not to mention such an inconspicuous small mound, so that even half an hour has not passed, and the mound has become a big three-meter-square earth pit.

When the dug was two meters underground, a coffin lid was exposed.

"Stop! Everyone go out and retreat twenty feet away, and don't get any closer without the order of the young master."

Yang Wanli quickly stopped the Huan army and commanded them to crawl out of the pit.

But Wu Liang slid into the earth pit and seized the time to check the condition of the coffin.

It was a coffin made of cypress wood, and Wu Liang could already smell a unique smell of cypress wood when he got a little closer, accompanied by a musty smell.

Different from those big tombs built with painstaking efforts, this clothes-clothed tomb is actually a common folk burial tomb. A coffin is directly buried in the moist soil. It has been in this environment for many years. I can't bear the ravages of the years, so it is normal for rot and mold to appear.

Seeing this, Wu Liang didn't even dare to step on the coffin lid directly, for fear that he would accidentally break it and fall into the coffin, and then crush the contents of the coffin.

"Give me the shovel."

Seeing that only a small part of the coffin cover was exposed, Wu Liang asked Yang Wanli for an engineering shovel to remove the layer of soil attached to the surface of the coffin cover by himself.

But Yang Wanli and Dian Wei were not idle, and began to help dig the soil around the coffin.

Soon after.

The coffin lid finally revealed its true face, and the coffin was completely exposed to everyone.

At this time, after careful inspection, Wu Liang soon found several gaps on the coffin lid. These gaps were all located at the places where the descendants nails were nailed. Obviously, they were not formed by natural decay, and the descendants nails had disappeared. Holes left behind can also be seen on the coffin.

This confirmed Qiu Lian's previous statement that the tomb had indeed been dug, and the coffin had indeed been opened.

In this case, [-]% of the valuables in the coffin have already been taken away.

But Wu Liang didn't care about those gold and jade things, what he was looking for was clues about the "Bian Que" organization, even if it was just a relief, it would not be fruitless.

Unfortunately, Wu Liang did not find any valuable information on the surface of the coffin.

So I had to ask Yang Wanli and Dian Wei to help open the coffin.

Without the nails fixed by descendants, Yang Wanli and Dian Wei easily pushed the coffin lid aside with a little force, and then a foul smell rushed towards their faces, making Wu Liang and the others' eyes sting.

That is to say, they had already put on gas masks a long time ago, otherwise they might be directly fainted by the stench.

"Cough! Cough! Cough! Young Master, isn't this a tomb of clothes? Why is it so smelly!"

Yang Wanli couldn't stand the stench, so he turned his back and coughed.

Wu Liang also felt nauseated intermittently.

He also couldn't understand what was going on, even if the strange poison they poisoned in the Qi Ai Cemetery was hidden in the coffin, if he remembered correctly, the strange poison should also be a fragrant smell, and it is absolutely impossible to have such a stench .

With such doubts, Wu Liang endured the stench and looked into the coffin.

I saw a layer of light black mucus deposited on the bottom of the coffin, and in this black mucus, there were two human heads:

A dummy head, apparently carved from stone;

The other is a real human head, but now only the bare skull remains.

"This……"

Seeing this scene, Wu Liang immediately remembered what Qiu Lian had said about the "curse of Bian Que".

The villager who dug up the tomb of Bian Que's clothes was poisoned by the same strange poison as them. In the end, all the parts below the head turned into stinky black water, leaving only a dead head.

Besides.

Qiu Lian also mentioned that in addition to a suit of clothes, there is only a stone-carved head in this tomb.

Therefore, the dummy head carved from stone in the coffin should be the symbol of the "Bian Que" head.

And that real head...

Wu Liang was a little strange. Could it be that after the death of the villager who dug the grave, someone deliberately collected the black water and buried him in the tomb of Bian Que with his head?

But what exactly is this picture?

Wu Liang couldn't understand it.

It stands to reason that after a person dies, his family should collect him and bury him in the ancestral grave. Why should he rebury him in the Bian Que Clothes Tomb? Apologizing is a more serious offense, isn't it?
But have to admit.

For Wu Liang and the others who were also suffering from the strange poison, it was quite a strong visual impact. There was nothing more frightening than seeing their own imminent death.

Fortunately, Wu Liang didn't tell everyone in the Huan army about this, so now he is the only one who is frightened.

Slightly calming down, Wu Liang no longer wanted to understand why this corpse appeared in Bian Que's tomb, so he could only ignore it for the time being and focus on the dummy's head carved from stone.

Resisting the stench so strongly, Wu Liang leaned forward and took out the dummy head.

It was very heavy to hold, probably weighing more than a dozen catties.

From the traces on the dummy's head, it can be seen that the black mucus in the coffin is lighter than expected, as if it was just a layer of black paint on the bottom of the coffin, and there is absolutely nothing hidden underneath.

So the only thing of research value in this coffin is the dummy head.

However, Wu Liang looked at this dummy head carefully from top to bottom, but found no noteworthy details. Even the image of this dummy head has no unique characteristics. The image of the terracotta warriors and horses in the movie is almost...

Just at this time.

"Young master, look here."

Dian Wei actually pointed to the lid of the coffin that they opened just now and reminded.

"what?"

Wu Liang looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw that the coffin lid was lifted by Yang Wanli and Dian Wei together, then turned over and placed aside, just enough to see the inside of the coffin lid.

On the inner side of the coffin lid, scratches of various shades were left behind for unknown reasons.

Wu Liang walked closer to observe carefully.

A foreign object embedded in a deep scratch was soon discovered.

"This is?"

Putting on the gloves, Wu Liang carefully took out the foreign object, but after careful identification, he found that it was actually a piece of human nail!

"Why are there human nails here?"

Wu Liang subconsciously looked at the skull that was still in the coffin.

Could it be that this person was buried in a coffin while he was still alive, and then died after struggling in the coffin for a long time?
This possibility is not impossible. Even if the coffin is not nailed with descendants, as long as it is buried two meters deep, no one can escape from it.

But judging from the situation inside the coffin, this person should have died of a strange poison in his body.

However, according to Qiu Lian's narration, it should take about three months for the strange poison to take effect, and if a living person is put into a coffin and buried underground, it can only last for a few days at most.

So Wu Liang was a little confused.

Was this person poisoned by the strange poison before being buried in the coffin to die, or was the person poisoned by the strange poison after being buried in the coffin... Although both should be able to cause the current situation, the nature is not completely different. Even if it is the same, the story behind it will be completely different.

Thinking of this in his heart, Wu Liang finally became interested in that skull.

So he put the ordinary dummy head aside first, then Wu Liang leaned into the coffin and tried to take out the skull.

"Boom!"

At the same time Wu Liang picked up the skull, a small object suddenly fell out of the skull and hit the bottom of the coffin with a muffled sound.

"?!"

Wu Liang looked over quickly.

I saw that the little thing was actually a small ball.

Although it was stained with some black mucus, Wu Liang could still tell that it was clearly an eyeball, just like the one he found from the village chief's well not long ago!
Why is there an eyeball here?

Wu Liang couldn't help looking at the skull in his hand.

Since it was an eyeball and it was hidden in the skull, Wu Liang had reason to suspect that the eyeball was an item worn by the deceased during his lifetime. It might have been installed in the eye socket, and after his death, the soft tissue would gradually rot and disappear. , the eyeball slipped into the inside of the skull, and it was not until Wu Liang went to fetch the skull that the eyeball fell out.

If so...

Could the eyeball obtained before also belong to the deceased?

After all, eyes are usually in pairs, and although these two eyeballs are absolutely impossible to be human eyes, they look exactly the same on the surface, and there is indeed such a possibility.

For proof of that...

Wu Liang thought of a way. Isn't there a frozen picture in the pupil of the eyeball he got before?
If this eyeball belongs to the same person, then it is very likely that the same image is preserved in its pupil, so it can be known at a glance.

But even so, Wu Liang still finds it unbelievable.

If a person wants to replace both eyes with such eyeballs, the first thing to do is to goug out his own eyes, or be born blind.

And more importantly, what happens after doing so?

Wu Liang didn't know either. He could only be sure of one thing now, and that was that these two eyeballs were definitely not ordinary dead objects. The aura emanating from them was enough to prove that they contained some unknown mysterious power.

……

After some investigation, Wu Liang found nothing new, so he had to take some black mucus as specimens, and ordered the army to restore the tomb of the flat magpie to its original state.

And he himself used alcohol to disinfect the eyeball he had just obtained, and then took it in front of his eyes to check the situation in the pupil.

Sure enough, a freeze-frame image was left in the pupil of this eyeball.

The freeze-frame image left in the pupil of this eyeball is also a human face, and the expression on the human face is also extremely frightening, but the difference is that this human face is obviously different from the human face left in the pupil of the previous eyeball. the same person.

This is the face of a middle-aged woman.

And the background of this freeze-frame image is much clearer than the previous one, Wu Liang can see the changes in the environment at a glance!

And this environment is even more familiar to Wu Liang, because he saw the old mulberry tree in the center of Sanmen Village, but compared with the current old mulberry tree, the old mulberry tree in the image seems to be slightly younger, and there may be some differences in seasons , so the branches and leaves on the old mulberry tree are more lush.

"This……"

The mystery in Wu Liang's heart became more and more.

The freeze-frame images left by the two eyeballs are different, indicating that they may not belong to the same person.

And the skull in the Bian Que Clothes Tomb has only one eyeball. Could it be because the deceased wore only one eyeball?

Also.

From this freeze-frame image, it can be seen that some tragic things may have happened in Sanmen Village before, and it must be related to the deceased and the eyeball.

And these tragic events may be the reason why the deceased and the eyeball appeared in the tomb of Bian Que.

But why does it have to be the tomb of Bian Que?
If they want to get rid of the dead man and the eyeball, the villagers of Sanmen Village can choose other methods. After all, only after controlling the dead man and the eyeball can they bury him alive in the Bian Que Clothes Tomb. Apparently already seated.

Under such considerations, Wu Liang had to suspect that this eyeball, the deceased, and even the fairy mountain seen in the previous eyeball had some kind of connection with "Bian Que". That's why the villagers of Sanmen Village thought of using Bian Que. To "suppress" this terrible thing.

Thinking about this, Wu Liang felt more and more that he had to go to that fairy mountain first to investigate.

Otherwise, their next stop would be Zhongqiu Pengque Mountain in the hinterland of Jizhou. If they still got nothing there, they would have to waste more time and take more risks if they wanted to go to Xianshan again.

In fact, regarding this matter, he might return to Sanmen Village again and ask about it to those old people who were unable to escape due to their limited mobility. The old man already has a blood feud, and they may not be willing to tell the truth, even if they ask something, they must carefully screen it, otherwise they will take the risk of being misled.

Rather than that, it would be better to go directly.

"Everyone."

After figuring out these joints, Wu Liang quickly called all the people in the Huanren Army together, and announced solemnly, "Everyone, get ready, I decided to set off for that fairy mountain immediately, and most of the next ones will be uninhabited areas that are inaccessible. It's worse than we imagined, everyone should be mentally prepared in advance."

(End of this chapter)