In fact, Wu Liang did not suspect that Yang Wanli had told a lie.

In this era, there is no such thing as materialism, and it is individuals who are affected by the theory of ghosts and gods, and it is not surprising that Yang Wanli has such a statement.

Moreover, after seeing the Qi in the tomb of King Xiao of Liang, the materialist values that were not firmly in Wu's conscience had long since fallen apart, but some things that could be explained by the science of the 21st century would definitely not frighten him, such as the cry of the woman in the valley that Yang Wanli said, he didn't take it seriously at all.

As for this so-called curse, he certainly has reservations without any basis.

"There has always been such a legend among the people of Bingzhou, and the villain has heard it since he was a child, and it is by no means a rumor."

Yang Wanli explained.

"Hearing is false, seeing is believing, you have followed Lu Bu to rob a lot of tombs, have you ever seen it with your own eyes?"

Wu Liang turned around and asked.

"It's not ......"

Yang Wanli replied embarrassedly.

"Then when you follow Lu Bu to rob the tomb, how can you tell if a mausoleum has had a blood sacrifice and whether it can be robbed?"

Wu Liang asked again.

"This ......"

Yang Wanli was stunned for a moment.

"If Lu Bu came here and found that there had been a blood sacrifice in this mausoleum, with your understanding of Lu Bu, would he still order someone to excavate this tomb?"

Wu Liang then asked.

Yang Wanli was stunned again, and after thinking for a moment, he finally said: "If you go back to Sima, you should be able to." ”

"Isn't that it? Lu Bu can steal, why can't we? Besides, this is Jizhou, and the rumors of the state may not be useful. ”

Wu Liang grinned.

Rumors are always just rumors, as long as you use the attitude of research to get to the bottom of the matter, it will naturally be self-defeating.

After some investigation near the wordless stone monument, the soldiers finally completed the installation of the sapper shovel and came to report on their shoulders one by one.

Wu Liang asked Cao Yu to help build these sapper shovels, which actually borrowed some characteristics of the third generation of sapper shovels in later generations.

Although it can not be deformed and folded, it has four conventional functions of shovel, pickaxe, crowbar and saw, and can also be used as spears and axes in battle, but it is limited by materials and technology, and it is certainly not as strong and durable as the sapper shovels of later generations, nor as sharp as weapons, but it is much stronger than the current general agricultural tools and weapons.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is Wu Liang's special Luoyang shovel.

Don't look at his Luoyang shovel, which is slightly smaller than the sapper shovel, but it is equipped with more than ten wooden strips at once, except for the one that has been installed on it, the rest are bundled into a bundle by Dian Wei and carried behind him.

Until now, they didn't understand what the Luoyang shovel was used for, even Cao Yu was no exception.

It was not yet the time for the Luoyang shovel to play a role, and Wu Liang did not explain much, but went straight to the place where Yang Wanli had dug up the tomb beast before, and ordered the soldiers to dig up all the places where the soil had been moved again.

"Talented and virtuous brother, why is this move?"

Cao Yu asked puzzled.

"Now we only know that there may be a group of unexpected people here, but we don't know who they are and what their purpose is, maybe this will help us find out."

Wu Liang groaned.

Just like Yang Wanli said, although it is not easy to make these stone carving tomb beasts, they are not worth much money to people now, and even if someone finds out, they will never bother digging them out and moving them away.

Therefore, Wu Liang felt that there must be a hidden secret behind this strange incident, and it was very necessary to investigate it carefully.

As a result, as soon as I dug it up, I really dug up something.

Ten minutes later.

A soldier ran to Wu Liang and Cao Yu in a panic: "Report!" Lieutenant and Sima, we dug according to the instructions, and actually dug up two human heads from below, please move to check! ”

"Heads?"

Wu Liang was immediately stunned, and hurriedly received the reward Cao Yu and came to the scene.

I saw that in the middle of the two holes dug side by side in the front were only 50 centimeters deep, and there were two bloody human heads placed there, which looked like they had been dead for a long time, even in the late autumn season, there was still a relatively serious phenomenon of decay, exuding a pungent rancid smell.

In addition, there is an erected wooden stake in the back of the two heads, and it is not known what it is used for.

That's when it happened.

"It's them! These are the two people who went missing that night! ”

Yang Wanli also pushed the crowd in, and immediately screamed when he saw the two heads.

"Keep digging, dig thoroughly, and see what else lies down there."

After confirming the identities of these two heads, Wu Liang unconsciously remembered the man-eating monster in the mouth of the charcoal seller that Yang Wanli mentioned before.

It seems that this matter is not groundless, these two people can completely rule out the possibility of fleeing without permission, then there is only one possibility left: they were arrested by the "man-eating monster" without Yang Wanli noticing, and they were buried here after being killed!

Of course, it is said that it is a "man-eating monster", but in fact, Wu Liang never suspected that everything that happened here was a man-made disaster.

Because the wordless stele here and the tomb beast in Yang Wanli's mouth are all artificial traces, digging up the tomb beast and burying the pit is also something that only people can do.

Therefore, the "man-eating monster" in the mouth of the charcoal seller should also be a human pretend.

But what is puzzling is that the "man-eating monster" was encountered by the charcoal seller more than ten years ago, and the legend of the "Valley of No Return" is obviously even older.

So, what exactly is it that can live in a place where such birds don't poop for so long?

What kind of people continue to harm people, thus creating the legend of the "Valley of No Return", and doing those strange things that ordinary people can't understand, but in fact it seems to prevent outsiders from entering the valley?

At this time, Wu Liang almost had the answer in his heart -

Grave Keeper!

Tomb keeper is an extremely mysterious profession, this profession has existed since ancient times, and it is the ultimate embodiment of the ancient loyalty and filial piety of the Celestial Empire.

Most of them were loyal servants of the tomb owner or relatives who were slightly related by blood, and after the death of the tomb owner, they made a vow to protect it for generations to come, and thus their fate was tied to a tomb, until one day they disappeared into the dust of history, along with the tomb and the almost stagnant time.

If there really is a tomb keeper in this mausoleum, then the Hsmiling army that contradicts its position is afraid that there will be a battle.

Just as Wu Liang was contemplating and pondering.

"Captain, Sima, please take a look!"

The soldiers had cleared the earth around the two heads, revealing the horrific sight buried underneath.

I saw that in addition to the heads, the two corpses had only bone frames left below the neck, and some of the bones were connected with wisps of rotten flesh.

In this way, the two skeletons were fixed by ropes on the wooden stakes behind them, maintaining a kneeling posture in the same direction, as if they were making amends to someone, and it was like a common kneeling posture in the Han Dynasty.

Seeing this scene, Yang Wanli exploded at that time, and hurriedly shouted with a pale face: "It's not wrong!" The tomb beast we dug up is this gesture, could it be that this move offended the tomb owner, and the tomb owner asked them to make amends in this way? ”