But for now.

Wu Liang hadn't seen Linghu with his own eyes, and he hadn't learned about the environment and landform there, so it was too early to say anything.

Now, what we need to do is to lead the Yongren army to Linghu as soon as possible, and make a field investigation around there to see if we can find some other clues, so that it is possible to judge the real reason why Linghu "sucks people's souls".

And so on two days later.

The Hsmiling Army finally arrived at Linghu and took advantage of the rest of the soldiers.

Wu Liang led Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing, Yang Wanli and Yu Ji to the lake to check the situation.

"Old gentleman, my ancestral grave should be around here, please use the old gentleman's skills to help me investigate, I am grateful."

While observing the landform and vegetation around the lake and the situation in the lake, Wu Liang deliberately tried to find Ji.

"Childe laughed, the terrain here is flat and vast, and the old man can't observe the nearby sand and water style, so he really can't show his skills."

Yu Ji glanced at Wu Liang, turned his head and pointed to a foothill two miles away, and said with an indifferent smile, "But that hill is dozens of zhang high, if you can climb to the top of the mountain, the old man can have an unobstructed view of the sand and water here, and then he can use the skill of Kanyu to point out the tomb site for the son." ”

Wu Liang looked in the direction of Yu Ji's finger, and sure enough, he saw a hill about 150 meters high

The hill is very steep on one side and slightly gentle on the other, so it shouldn't be too difficult to climb from the gentle side.

As for Yu Ji's statement, Wu Liang agrees.

The root of the art of Kanyu is to watch the mountains and rivers, if Yu Ji just listened to his words and then performed the art of Kanyu on the spot without saying a word, then it would definitely be lying again.

If this is the case, this Yu Ji can't use it for himself even if he has the ability.

Wu Liang would decisively ask Dian Wei to throw the old man into the lake and grunt, and then drive him away and never say a word of nonsense again.

"Then there's Mr. Lao."

Wu Liang smiled and raised his eyes to look at the lake again.

At this moment, the Spirit Lake is no different from an ordinary lake, the lake water is clear and rippling.

Some waterfowl are hovering over the Ling Lake, and there are many wild ducks swimming leisurely in the middle of the lake, sometimes drilling down and sometimes floating up, and there is always something to gain.

Even under the aquatic plants near the lake, you can see some small fish swimming happily, and they can scurry around when they notice someone passing by.

What a beautiful original picture.

"Jingjing, I'm a little greedy, help get a few waterfowl to eat?"

Looking at the fat wild duck in the middle of the lake, Wu Liang looked at Bai Jingjing with a smile.

"If you want to eat it, grab it yourself, and ask me what to do?"

Bai Jingjing rolled her eyes and sneered.

"Presumptuous! Did you talk to Lang Jun like that? I don't know what to do! ”

Wu Liang reprimanded, but there was no displeasure on his face, but continued, "It's not that you can catch it with less effort, do you think I can't catch it?" Okay, okay, okay, you don't catch it, don't blame me for not giving you a chance, after a while, my unique delicacy 'called Flower Water Bird' will not give you a bite to eat when it comes out, just me and Dian Wei, Yang Wanli and the old gentleman eat it themselves! ”

"What kind of water birds are you talking about?"

Bai Jingjing suddenly turned around and asked suspiciously, and at the same time swallowed a mouthful of tears uncontrollably.

Although Wu Liang cooks very rarely, especially when he is at home, there are "beauties" serving him, and he is almost just a cloth to reach out for food and open his mouth.

But there were still a few times when Bai Jingjing was fortunate enough to taste Wu Liang's craftsmanship.

The taste is indeed more delicious than the food that Bai Jingjing ate before, the most important thing is that Wu Liang is willing to put the ingredients, and the spices that can be found in this era such as green onions, ginger, peppercorns, dogwood, garlic, cinnamon, lemongrass and so on are never stingy, and even if he goes south this time, he also brings such a small packet of seasoning powder in case of emergency.

And what Bai Jingjing misses the most is Wu Liang's special "roast pigeon".

While roasting with fruit wood charcoal, the pigeon is brushed with starch candy on the skin, and the roast is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the taste is endless, and you can't help but suck your fingers.

In addition, it has been nearly two months since she went south, and she has mostly used bread as dry food and corn porridge along the way, and only occasionally when she is repairing in the city can she eat a mouthful of decent food, and Bai Jingjing's mouth is about to fade out of the bird.

Now I suddenly heard Wu Liang say a cooking technique that I had never heard before.

Bai Jingjing instantly shed tears for those water birds.

"It's called a flower and water bird. You don't have to eat anyway, so what are you doing with so much? ”

Wu Liang glanced at her and said deliberately, "Dian Wei, you go and get a pot, let's prepare to catch birds." ”

The word "called Huashui Bird" is a word invented by Wu Liang himself, and the original form refers to "called Flower Chicken".

In fact, this cooking technique has been around since the Zhou Dynasty, as is the case with the "Cannon Dolphin", one of the "Eight Treasures", which wraps the suckling pig in clay and grills it to become a dish.

However, the Han Dynasty is no longer popular for this kind of "not on the table" way of eating, so even the folk are very rare, and at this time there is no such word as "called flower".

As for bird hunting, it's much simpler.

A pot, a small wooden stick, a hemp rope and a handful of grain are enough, which is not difficult for Wu Liang, but it takes a little time.

But there is no need for Wu Liang to worry about it, there are so many soldiers in the Hongren Army, just call two people over and be competent.

"Wait a minute."

Bai Jingjing's expression was tight and hurriedly stopped Dian Wei, and the next moment a bright smile was already leaking from her face, she stepped forward and gently shook Wu Liang's sleeves, and said delicately, "Oh, the head of the family, I'm just joking with you, just catching a few water birds, how can I disobey the will of the head of the family, leave this little matter to me." ”

“……”

The conscience of heaven and earth, Wu Liang saw Bai Jingjing's posture for the first time.

So much so that he even doubted that the next time he could make something better to eat, so as to tempt this girl, he would be able to get to the base easily.

Emmm…… The conditions are not very good now, and I must try it when I go back!

While he was talking.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, there was a very strange sound of water splashing in the lake.

The wild ducks, which were leisurely cruising on the surface of the lake, were immediately disturbed and flapped their wings and flew off into the distance.

！？

The entourage hurriedly looked into the lake, and said that the big fish in the lake were churning.

But only Wu Liang and Yang Wanli were really startled, in order to prevent unnecessary panic, Wu Liang did not choose to make public the rumors of "Fierce Lake Sucking Souls".

I only found out at this look.

At this moment, there is a string of white bubbles rising rapidly from the bottom of the lake, and when the bubbles reach the surface of the lake, they will turn out a huge splash like boiling water, which is large and small, and this picture looks a little spectacular.

"I'm afraid there are big fish down here, and my dad said that the bigger the fish, the bigger and more blisters it spit out."

Bai Jingjing said in surprise, "However, these blisters are so big and so many, how big a fish must be?" Alas? Head of the house, why is your face so ugly? ”

"It's okay, I'm a naturally timid person, and I'm just scared."

Wu Liang smiled and said.

Originally, he was ready to tell everyone to flee for their lives first, but seeing that the blisters were just like this, the lake surface returned to calm after it was over, and he finally endured it.

At the same time, seeing this scene, combined with Yang Wanli's previous description, Wu Liang immediately had a relatively certain judgment in his heart about the vision of "Fierce Lake Sucking Souls".

This is not a ghost, but a natural phenomenon!

As far as he knew, there were three terrifying murder lakes that were very famous and similar to the vision of the Spirit Lake.

These three horrific murder lakes are called Lake Neos, Lake Kivu and Lake Morowin.

Mass murders have occurred in all of the Horror Killing Lakes, and those who were killed have all quietly died in an instant.

In severe cases, it can even kill nearly 1,800 people and more than 3,500 livestock in 4 villages in a very short period of time without warning, and there are no traces of injuries on the body of the deceased, let alone witnesses at the scene of the disaster afterwards, and even the deceased himself does not know why he died.

At first, people thought it was some kind of terrible weapon attack.

But after careful study by scientists, the possibility of a weapon attack was quickly ruled out.

Because these victims did not die of any virus or disease, but from inexplicable suffocation.

Ultimately.

The real culprit of this strange murder has been found, and it is these terrifying murder lakes.

These lakes are either in volcanic craters or on top of rock fissures in the earth's crust, so that carbon dioxide from the crust penetrates deep into the water.

However, due to the considerable depth of these lakes and the extreme pressure and pressure generated, the carbon dioxide escaping from the cracks in the earth's crust will be dissolved in the lake water by high pressure, so that after years of accumulation, the carbon dioxide dissolved and accumulated under the water will one day reach a critical value.

At this time, the whole lake is like a bottle of fat house happy water that has been violently shaken.

If it is not disturbed by the outside world, it may be able to maintain its balance, but if there are more violent earthquakes, such as earthquakes, large-scale rockfalls, volcanic eruptions, etc., or a large number of corpses and construction projects are thrown into the lake like generations of sea dusk marquis.

At that time, the bottle of "Fat House Happy Water" that has been violently shaken will suddenly unscrew the cap of the bottle, and a large amount of carbon dioxide that has reached a critical value will be poured out in an instant.

At this time, not to mention that the lake is boiling, it is extremely normal for Yang Wanli to inquire about the phenomenon of dozens of zhang high "water dragon pillars" from folk rumors.

Under normal circumstances, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is a non-toxic, harmless, colorless and odorless gas.

However, if the carbon dioxide exceeds the normal concentration.

Once it reaches 10%, this can already make it difficult for all aerobic organisms to breathe, and soon the alveoli in the lungs will be paralyzed by the respiratory center due to high carbon dioxide concentrations, and hypoxia will be suffocated.

And once it reaches 15%, the vast majority of aerobic organisms will not even have time to react and die immediately!

In addition, carbon dioxide is denser than air.

In the event of such a large dump in a short period of time, the carbon dioxide forms a layer of gas tens of meters thick that spreads rapidly along the ground to the surrounding areas.

All the aerobic creatures shrouded in this gas layer were like being firmly covered by a pillow falling from the sky in an instant, and they were suddenly suffocated to death.

Seeing the situation just now, combined with the details of the rumors.

Wu Liang was almost certain that the current Linghu Lake was such a "terrifying murder lake"!

Because in the three major horror murder lakes discovered in later generations, this inexplicable bubbling phenomenon will also appear, and the locals will also come to see it as a wonderful "spectacle" when they don't know the inside story.

"That's a bit of a problem......"

Thinking of this, Wu Liang was no longer in the mood to make "Flowers and Water Birds", and frowned slightly.

Because this problem is not something he can solve at all......

Even if later generations targeted the Horror Murder Lake, they used a relatively stupid "artificial degassing method".

Several floating platforms are placed in the middle of the lake, and an exhaust pipe is installed on the platform that leads directly to the bottom of the lake, and then a powerful pump is used to suck up the water with high carbon dioxide content at the bottom of the lake and spray it high at high speed.

During the high-speed injection, carbon dioxide from the water is released into the air.

In this way, a large amount of carbon dioxide is released slowly in low concentrations and in multiple batches, so that such a low dose does not cause harm to the breathing of nearby animals.

But even then, the degassing efficiency is extremely low.

Scientists estimate that it would take years to remove all the existing carbon dioxide from the lake of horrors, even with a multi-pronged approach.

What's more, in the process, there will still be new carbon dioxide produced under the water......

If this is still the case in later generations, Wu Liang will naturally be even more powerless.

The only solution he could think of now was the power of nature......

According to Wu Liang's knowledge, the reason why the tomb of the Marquis of Hailun is a relatively well-preserved tomb in the archaeological discoveries of later generations.

The main reason is that because of a major earthquake in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the tomb was damaged, and a large amount of lake water poured into the tomb to stump those tomb robbers who did not have the ability to operate underwater, and the isolation of water can also better block the oxidation of most cultural relics.

Based on this, it is inferred that the reason why the "Spirit Lake" no longer has the ability to "Horror and Murder Lake" in later generations is likely to be related to this earthquake.

In that big earthquake.

The earth's crust is moving again, causing the rock crevices at the bottom of the lake to be completely sealed, or the location is cheap, so that carbon dioxide will no longer accumulate at the bottom of the lake, and there will no longer be the vision of "the lake sucking souls".

However, these are all later words, and now Wu Liang does not have the ability to summon a great earthquake with the "Earthquake Fruit", nor can he build an "artificial degassing" machine in later generations.

If that's the case, I'm afraid it can only ......

Wu Liang frowned and thought for a long time, and finally looked at Yu Ji and said, "Old man, let's go up the mountain to find the grave first, right?" Please. ”

"Well said."

Yu Ji didn't shirk either, stroked his beard and nodded slightly.

"Huh? Wait a minute, can you catch the waterfowl? Are you still calling it a flower and water bird? ”

Bai Jingjing hurriedly caught up and asked.

She has shed a lot of tears for those water birds, and now that Wu Liang suddenly doesn't mention this stubble, won't the tears be in vain?

"Catch! Some waterfowl nest in the woods near the water, and they catch them even in the mountains. ”

Wu Liang helped Yu Ji to walk, nodded and said, and then said to Dian Wei, "Yang Wanli, you go and call our people to go up the mountain together, and we will set up camp on the top of the mountain." ”