A few hours later, it was getting late.

Wu Liang and the others finally explored the foot of the mountain and the mountainside, but still found nothing.

"If there is no error in the technique of 'dividing gold and fixing acupoints' of the virtuous brother, I am afraid we will have to go back to the dense forest that we passed through when entering the valley to find it."

Cao Yu yawned and said with some disappointment.

In addition to the tomb of Baling and the tomb group of King Liang of Dangshan that was stolen before, most of the Han tombs are covered bucket-type mound tombs.

As a native of the Han Dynasty, Cao Yu inevitably had some solidified thinking about the form of the mausoleum, and he didn't have much experience in tomb robbing, so he naturally thought that there was no need to explore further after exploring the mountain.

However, this kind of thinking is not completely unreasonable, under normal circumstances, even if it is a stone tomb with a mountain as a mausoleum, the entrance is also set at the foot of the mountain or on the mountainside, which is not only relatively low in construction difficulty, but also more convenient for future generations to worship.

But there are no absolutes, and everyone thinks differently, so there will always be some exceptions......

"Brother Anmin, don't be impatient."

Wu Liang raised his head and looked at the entire foothills, and thought of a very special mausoleum case in later generations - the tomb of Zhao Yi, the king of Nanyue in the Western Han Dynasty!

This tomb is neither a bucket-shaped mound tomb, nor a mausoleum by the mountain, but an extremely rare "splitting the mountain as a mausoleum".

The so-called "splitting the mountain for the mausoleum" is to split the mountain stone from the top of the mountain, chisel out a vertical hole with the shape of "convex" on the plane, and then open the horizontal hole from the east and west sides of the front end into the ear chamber, and open up the slope tomb road in the south, so that it becomes a mausoleum.

Because of the peculiarity of such tombs, the entrance is set on the top of the mountain.

Therefore, it is impossible to find any traces only at the bottom of the mountain, and when you look up, you will only think that this is just an ordinary foothill, and if you don't see it with your own eyes, very few tomb robbers will run to the top of the mountain to explore.

As a result, the mausoleum has been well preserved for more than 2,000 years.

It was not until June 1983 that the construction of the local infrastructure was carried out and was inadvertently dug up by the construction team.

It was the first time that the tomb of the king of Nanyue was buried, and everything in the tomb was well preserved, which shows that even in the era when tomb robbery was the most rampant in later generations, no one had ever found this tomb.

Hao Meng's subordinates have been digging in the Valley of No Return for so many days under the plague and have found nothing, and now they have finished investigating the bottom of the mountain, leaving only a dense forest to explore.

There may be very little left of the area where the mausoleum is hidden, could it be that the mausoleum was also built in an unusual place?

"What's wrong?"

Cao Yu looked at Wu Liang a little strangely, but when he saw Wu Liang looking towards the mountain, he laughed again, "Talented and virtuous brother, you don't suspect that the entrance to the tomb is on the mountain, right?" I've grown so big, I've never heard of anyone building a tomb on a mountain. ”

"I've heard of it, anyway, it's not bad for this time, you might as well go up and have a look, even if it's not, maybe you can make new discoveries if you climb high and look far away."

Wu Liang patted Cao Yu on the shoulder and led him to climb up the mountain where there was not even a path.

The soldiers also had a good eye, and hurriedly ran to the front with sapper shovels to cut through the thorny bushes to clear the way for the two.

"Let's go!"

Dian Wei followed behind, staring at Bai Jingjing expressionlessly and urging.

"Oh, oh!"

I don't know why this girl was a little distracted at this moment, and when she heard Dian Wei's urging, she suddenly came back to her senses, and hurriedly trotted to follow.

Meanwhile.

Her eyes secretly looking at Wu Liang's back were already much more complicated, some were jealous, some were surprised, some were doubtful, some were worried, and some were at a loss.

As if in a body that wasn't too tall and wasn't strong.

There is a demon who can see people's hearts and all things, and nothing can escape his eyes......

That's when it happened.

Wu Liang suddenly glanced back at her.

！

Bai Jingjing was startled, and hurriedly lowered her head to avoid it, but her heart was pounding.

But Wu Liang didn't say anything to her, just hooked the corners of his mouth to show a strange smile, and then turned back to continue climbing...... Crooked mouth God of War hasn't seen it, right?

……

By the time we reached the top of the mountain, it was already completely dark.

"Woo-woo-huh-woo-"

The biting cool breeze of late autumn blew through the valley, and the "woman's cry" that would ring in the valley every night followed, and everyone who heard it felt a little numb.

But it was precisely because of the wind that the "woman's cry" appeared, and Wu Liang was much more relieved.

There is no doubt that this sound is a unique sound produced by the combination of special terrain and wind, a very normal natural phenomenon, and there is no need to take it too seriously.

Cao Yu had already called more men in advance and brought torches for lighting together.

It is said to prevent wild beasts from infesting the mountains, but the meaning of finding people to strengthen their courage is actually more obvious.

However, Wu Liang also agrees with Cao Yu's approach, the beast doesn't matter, the main thing is the tomb keeper, the sight is not good at night, and it is necessary to prevent other tomb keepers who may take the opportunity to sneak attack.

The summit of this foothill is fairly flat, not all rocky, and there is some land near the middle.

And some relatively thick cypress trees have grown on the land, which has formed a small forest, which shows that the thickness of the soil layer here is still considerable, otherwise such a forest would not grow.

Several soldiers had already used the Luoyang shovel to punch holes under the command of Wu Liang, and it didn't take long for them to dig to a depth of about 5 meters.

"Brother Xian, come and see if there is a tomb down here?"

Cao Yu hurriedly came over and asked, according to his previous habit, Wu Liang could already "divide the gold and fix the acupoints" by digging to this depth.

Several soldiers also habitually stopped, waiting for Wu Liang to make a judgment.

"It's hard to say now, keep digging deeper."

Wu Liang said unusually.

In fact, when he said this, there were already a lot of waves in his heart.

Because the soil excavated here is already different from the soil below, since the excavation to a depth of 2 meters, the soil has become large flower soil.

The so-called large flower soil refers to the natural soil after excavation and backfill secondary stirring, disrupting the original layer, color boundaries, into a combination of a variety of soil layers of flower soil, this kind of soil can not be integrated even if it is old, is one of the important clues to find tombs.

Moreover, it is still in such a place where it is almost impossible for humans to cultivate and live......

In other words, someone must have touched the earth down here.

It's just that adhering to the spirit of scientific rigor, Wu Liang will not give a conclusion in advance until he sees other soil qualities that can prove that there is a tomb below.

So the soldiers continued to punch holes downward.

When it was beaten to a depth of more than ten meters, the soil brought up by this shovel finally changed again!

It is a pure black gray powder, which is relatively compact and a little damp, but it will scatter like sand when you touch it.

It's – charcoal powder!

"Congratulations, Brother Anmin, I found it! This is this place, I dare to assert that there must be a tomb underneath, and the brothers can dig it! ”

Wu Liang finally hit Cao Yu's shoulder hard and grinned.