Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 887 Insect Swarm (4000)

"Miss Mi'er said so, it does look a bit similar..."

After hearing Zhen Mi's words, Yu Ji frowned slightly and stared at the image on the stele for a moment, then nodded and said, "However, if these two vertical lines represent the trunk of a big tree, then the four vertical lines represent the trunk of a big tree. What does the image distributed in the trunk of the big tree represent?"

"..."

Everyone in the Huan army shook their heads.

Wu Liang also had no clue at the moment.

From bottom to top, they have seen the holy mountain and the community tree in the first image, the alternation of day and night, and the armor worn by the soldiers of the Jiuli Kingdom in the second image.

They have also seen the strange insect in the third image, but they have not appeared since entering this secret realm.

As for the pair of huge eyes suspected to appear in the sky in the fourth image, they have never seen it before. Only when Dian Wei fell into a coma and was affected by some mysterious spiritual force, he vaguely remembered that there was a side in his subconscious. fate...

But to link all these things together and interpret them according to the sequence in the image of the stele, Wu Liang had no idea.

Under such circumstances, Wu Liang knew that he could not waste too much time on this stele, so he turned around and told Ji and Cao Ni: "Mr., please copy the image on this stele first, Nier, You also keep the content of the image in mind, don't miss any details, this thing may come in handy at any time."

"understood."

The two nodded in agreement.

Wu Liang had already bypassed the stele, and under Dian Wei's protection, he came to the big pure copper stump again.

Wu Liang didn't find anything of value through the opening that Dian Wei cut on the tree trunk before, because the inside of the opening was still solid pure copper without any impurities, and he couldn't even figure out what was flowing out of the opening before. Where did the drop of red liquid suspected to be blood come from.

In this case, he could only shift the direction of exploration to the center of this large pure copper stump.

From the very beginning, Wu Liang discovered that the heart of this big pure copper stump is hollow like paulownia wood, and because the diameter of the big pure copper stump is astonishing, the diameter of its hollow heart is more than one meter. It looked like a wellhead leading directly into the ground.

However, this is currently only a side sensory perception. If he wants to find out how deep the hollow tree core is and whether there are any unknown things hidden in it, Wu Liang has to climb to the top of the pure copper tree stump and then conduct it condescendingly. Further inspection.

"Brother Dianwei, help me."

Thinking of this, Wu Liang has already climbed to the top of the pure copper stump with the help of Dian Wei, and then slowly approached the hollow in the center of the stump.

Dian Wei also jumped up and followed closely, holding a mother-child halberd and followed closely.

But the following investigation did not bring any surprises to Wu Liang.

What is presented in front of you is a vertical hole with a diameter of more than one meter. The inner wall of the vertical hole is also made of pure copper, and it looks very smooth. Actions.

As for the depth of this vertical hole, it is still unknown.

Wu Liang looked down, and could only see a black hole, and couldn't see the bottom at all.

"Brother Zhuge, pass a stone up."

Wu Liang turned around and asked Zhuge Liang for a stone, and then told Bai Jingjing, "Jingjing, listen to the sound from this stone, and try to deduce the depth of this hole."

While speaking, he had already taken the stone Zhuge Liang handed over to the top of the vertical hole, and then called "Start" before letting go of his hand to make it fall freely without any assistance.

In fact, even without the help of Bai Jingjing, you only need to remember the time when the stone falls to the bottom and make a sound, and you can use the free fall formula you learned in high school to calculate the depth of the vertical hole. If the hole is not too deep, it can be ignored.

But now that Bai Jingjing was here, Wu Liang had another object of comparison, so the conclusion he drew would naturally be more accurate.

What's more, he actually only needs an approximate data now, and the error within a few meters is completely acceptable, so there is no need to be so realistic.

"..."

Seeing this, everyone immediately held their breath, for fear that making a sound would affect Bai Jingjing's judgment.

however.

One second!
Two seconds!

three seconds...

Ten seconds!

Wu Liang secretly remembered the time, but ten seconds had passed, but he still didn't hear the sound of the stone falling to the ground.

"This……"

Wu Liang couldn't help being a little confused.

Regardless of the short ten seconds, if he remembered correctly, in a state of free fall without external force, the stone should have fallen to a height of about 490 meters!

490 meters!
That is already a terrible height. It should be known that the propagation speed of sound in the air is only 340 m/s. At this point, if you hear the sound transmitted by the stone again, the time for the sound transmission can no longer be ignored. Error.

What's important is that Wu Liang still hasn't heard any voice until now.

"Wu Youcai, shortly after you let go of your hand, I seem to have heard an extremely slight sound, but I'm not sure if it's the sound of a stone falling to the ground, so I didn't mention it to you in time."

Bai Jingjing also listened intently for a long time, and finally said with a frown.

"Oh? How long after I let go? You may infer the approximate depth from this?"

Wu Liang turned around and asked.

"Probably after one breath."

Bai Jingjing replied.

There is no concept of "second" in this era, and the unit of "breath" is not accurate for short periods of time, because a normal person breathes about 12-20 times per minute, so on average, the time of one breath That's 3-5 seconds.

Using this unit to calculate the motion of a free-falling body will produce a large error.

But soon Bai Jingjing added: "If I heard correctly, the sound should be more than ten feet away from the ground where we are."

"Ten feet?"

Wu Liang secretly calculated in his heart.

A dozen feet is estimated as 50 meters. If it is included in the free fall formula, it means that the stone fell for a little over 3 seconds at that time, which is indeed within the scope of a breathing unit of timing.

This shows that Bai Jingjing must have heard correctly.

This vertical hole may be so deep that the stones had already landed at that time...

But what is at the bottom of this tree hole?

If the bottom is some kind of hard material, or a liquid like water, the falling stones will definitely make a lot of noise, and it is absolutely impossible that only Bai Jingjing can hear it.

Wu Liang couldn't figure it out, so he had to say to Zhuge Liang again: "Brother Zhuge, pass me another stone, Jingjing, listen carefully this time, and try to hear what kind of thing the stone fell on. How could the sound of landing be so slight."

……

The second stone quickly fell into the hole.

Only 2 seconds later this time, Bai Jingjing immediately opened her eyes and said, "This time the voice became clearer, it sounded like it fell into a mass of soft and sticky stuff, and was immediately caught by this It is swallowed by something, so the sound is extremely small, and there is also..."

"This voice is only four or five feet away from ours, right?"

Before Bai Jingjing could finish speaking, Wu Liang had already taken over the words and asked in a hurried tone.

"Did you hear this time too?"

Bai Jingjing asked subconsciously.

"?"

The rest of the people showed suspicious expressions, even Dian Wei who stood on the big pure copper stump with Wu Liang did the same.

They were also trying to listen to all the voices just now, but apart from Bai Jingjing, they still didn't hear a single sound, especially Dian Wei, who could stand directly beside Wu Liang, and Wu Liang was not as strong as Bai Jingjing. With extraordinary hearing, why could Wu Liang hear this voice, but he couldn't hear anything?

But at this moment, Wu Liang didn't have the heart to explain to them, so he immediately pulled Dian Wei, jumped off the tree stump and urged everyone: "Quick! Brother Dian Wei, come with me, brothers also retreat quickly, Let’s retreat ten feet away from this tree stump first!”

"Why is that?"

Everyone in the Huan army was even more puzzled.

However, from Wu Liang's state, they could also see that Wu Liang was not joking with them, so no one dared to be careless, and took action to follow Wu Liang to retreat.

In fact, Wu Liang didn't know what would happen next.

However, based on the information Bai Jingjing heard and combined with his own calculations, it is not difficult to judge that something in the vertical hole is moving upwards at this moment, and it is about to rush out of the hole.

And it should be something soft and sticky...

Without figuring out what it was and whether it could endanger everyone's lives, Wu Liang of course had to choose to lead everyone away quickly to avoid any uncontrollable situation.

And just when all the people in the Huan army had just run under the community tree.

"Wu Youcai, something rushed out of that copper tree!"

Bai Jingjing subconsciously turned her head and said to Wu Liang.

"?!"

Everyone turned around unconsciously when they heard the words.

It doesn't matter if you look back this time, everyone shuddered at the same time, and the steps under their feet immediately became much faster.

I saw a gigantic monster with a pink color like fresh meat had drilled out of the big hole in the center of the big pure copper stump, and at the moment it had a bloody mouth full of layers of sharp teeth facing the people of the Huan army. The direction of the head kept twisting, as if it was roaring silently.

Judging from the part that came out of this huge monster, its body should be strip-shaped like a snake.

But its body is not covered with any scales, replaced by slippery mucus and countless tentacles that are constantly twisting like it.

"This?!"

Seeing this scene, while Wu Liang and the others felt their scalps go numb, they couldn't help but think of the giant gnat that they met in the Qiai cemetery, which was composed of countless gnats.

But the two are clearly not the same thing.

The huge monster in front of it was obviously the same as the strange insect on the stone carving, but its size was at least hundreds or thousands of times larger. On the contrary, the writhing tentacles on its body were about the same size as the strange insect on the stone carving.

at the same time.

This huge strange insect is still coming out of the tree hole, and the part that got out of the tree hole in the blink of an eye has reached more than two feet. No one knows how long it is, but everyone present can see it , the target of this strange insect at the moment is them.

Fortunately, its speed is not too fast.

With its current speed, it may be difficult to catch up with the crowd who are struggling to escape.

It was also at this moment that Wu Liang finally understood why the stone that was thrown into the tree hole made the sound that Bai Jingjing described. The tree hole was so big, and this strange insect almost completely filled it. It will directly fall into its bloody mouth, and will naturally be swallowed immediately.

But I don't know if the strange insect suddenly came out of the tree hole, and it seemed to swallow them alive, whether it was disturbed by those two stones.

"Sir, what should I do now?"

While running to the distance, someone saw that the huge strange insect would not be able to catch up with them for a while, so they asked distractedly.

"Keep a safe distance and see exactly what it's up to."

Wu Liang pondered and said, running away is indeed not an option, after all they are trapped in this secret place, no matter how much they run, they can't leave.

"I don't know if this thing is afraid of fire?"

someone else asked.

"I don't know if it's afraid of fire or not, but I know this thing should be afraid of salt. The young master has demonstrated it for us, but unfortunately we don't have much salt, and for such a big monster, no matter how much salt there is, it won't be enough. "

Someone shrugged and said.

At the same time, Wu Liang couldn't help thinking of the image on the stele.

One of the images painted all of these strange insects, but the strange insects in the image must not be so big, otherwise they would not be "Chi" image.

After all, the thing in front of me is not just as simple as biting people's toes. It might not be a problem to swallow three or four people alive.

at this time.

The huge monster also seemed to realize that it would not be able to catch up to Wu Liang and the others if this continued. It stopped suddenly, raised its head like a cobra, and "looked" at Wu Liang and the others with its bloody mouth.

"Why don't you chase?"

Everyone in the Huanren Army slowed down their pace immediately, and looked back in surprise.

"grumble--!"

A sharp voice suddenly sounded.

Although the voice didn't have any momentum at all, it was extremely penetrating. Wu Liang and the others felt that their eardrums were about to be pierced, so they quickly raised their hands to cover their ears.

next moment.

The tentacles on this huge monster insect started to fall off, and those tentacles were all smaller monster insects!

They twisted their bodies and fell to the ground, instantly covering the ground completely.

at the same time.

Although the huge strange insect no longer drilled out of the tree hole, there were more such smaller strange insects pouring out continuously, as if it were endless!
(End of this chapter)