Chapter Seventy-Three: Vermilion Lacquer Face

With a strong unwillingness, Wu Liang immediately moved to the end of the Bronze Pavilion.

Unexpectedly, although the clothes on this tanned corpse had long been decayed, even if some places had been broken before Wu Liang touched it, the two boots on his feet were relatively well preserved.

So the boot on his left foot became something that prevented Wu Liang from further verifying the identity of the tomb owner.

"Brother Dian Wei, help me keep an eye on her."

Wu Liang turned around and handed over to Dian Wei and handed over the rope that tied Bai Jingjing to him.

The fact that he had to take off his boots for the tanned corpse himself could not be left to Cao Yu and a few soldiers, in case they were frizzy and damaged the tanned corpse, especially the skin on the tanned corpse's left foot, it would be more than worth the loss.

Seeing Wu Liang bend down and slowly stretch out his hand to the corpse in the bronze coffin, Bai Jingjing immediately stomped her feet again, scolded loudly with red eyes: "You rebel villain, what else do you want to stop?" ”

It's a pity that Dian Wei's strength is amazing, and no matter how she struggles with the rope, it is difficult to get close to stop Wu Liang.

Wu Liang simply ignored her, and pinched the boot on the left foot of the tanned corpse intently.

Then he gently pulled it outward, and it seemed that the boots were quite tight, and there was no meaning of fading off the tanned corpse's feet at all.

"Looks like that's the only way to do it."

Wu Liang had to hold the copper dagger in one hand, and gently lifted the left leg of the tanned corpse through the boot with the other, and then used the blade of the copper dagger to start to pick down the top of the shoe little by little.

Wu Liang was very careful to grasp the proportions, and his expression was focused like a doctor who was undergoing surgery.

Cao Yu and the others didn't dare to disturb, just stood in the distance and looked quietly.

In this way, the boot was quickly picked in half.

Thanks to time, the boots were not as torn as clothing, but they were also much more fragile than they were, and they would break at the slightest pick.

That's when it happened.

"Woohoo!"

Suddenly there was a strange noise in the bronze coffin.

The sound was accompanied by the sound of liquid flowing, and some dullness, as if it were ...... It's like the sound of a person's abdomen when they're hungry or have indigestion.

!?

Cao Yu and the others couldn't help but beat a spirit.

Wu Liang also immediately stopped and carefully looked at the tanned corpse in the coffin.

It doesn't matter if you look at it!

I didn't know when, a small piece of cyan jade polished from the mouth of the tanned corpse was half spit out by everyone unconsciously!?

The mouth of this piece of jade has been eroded, and the black and red silk threads have seeped into the jade, as if it has become a real "dead jade".

This kind of "dead jade" is in the folklore of later generations, but it is a harmful evil thing with extremely heavy yin qi, if it is worn on the body or placed at home, not only one's health will be affected, but also the family will be implicated.

In this regard, Wu Liang has always held the view that it is better to believe it than not.

After all, this thing has been with dead corpses for hundreds or even thousands of years, and even if there is no so-called "yin qi" and "evil qi", God knows how many ancient viruses and bacteria are hidden in those red and black silk threads that seep into it......

But now is not the time to talk about that!

"Talented and virtuous brother, this is ......"

Cao Yu's expression was flustered, and several soldiers also wrinkled their faces, and the two trembled.

"Stand back and stay away."

Wu Liang didn't look back, gently let go of the left foot of the tanned corpse, and hurriedly moved a few steps to the side of the bronze coffin, reminding everyone extremely vigilantly.

That's when it happened.

"Huh!"

The upper body of the tanned corpse suddenly sat up like a spring!

At the same time, a large mouthful of unknown black-brown viscous liquid spewed out of the tanned corpse's mouth along with the piece of mouth, and spit out more than two meters away with a "whoosh".

Fortunately, Wu Liang avoided it in advance, otherwise he would definitely be sprayed with this disgusting unknown liquid.

"Ahh

Seeing this terrifying scene, Cao Yu and several soldiers were even more frightened with their pupils constricted, and they jumped backwards and backwards for a long time, their faces were as white as paper, and cold sweat came out.

Someone's lips trembled, and he looked at the tanned corpse in the bronze coffin in horror, and his teeth kept fighting up and down: "This, this, this, this...... It's not going to be a haunt, is it? School, school captain, Sima, this, this place is too evil, or, why don't we take the gold and leave quickly? ”

Not only them, but even Bai Jingjing was shocked at the moment.

Obviously, this situation has also exceeded her cognition as a tomb keeper, after all, if it has been more than two hundred years since Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan, committed suicide, even if she is a tomb keeper, she is only a descendant who has been passed down for many generations, and may not know all the details of the tomb.

"Whew-"

Even Wu Liang was equally shocked by the cold sweat of his vest.

The scene just now was so weird and too sudden that even he was completely unprepared.

Now that he finally calmed down a little, and after seeing the tanned corpse sit up, he buried his head between his legs, and there was no movement since then, Wu Liangcai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he got a little more courageous, and after carefully examining it with the help of the firelight, he finally turned back and smiled at the frightened people: "Don't panic! This is not a haunting, but a man-made anti-theft mechanism. ”

"Anti-theft mechanism?"

Everyone was puzzled, and Bai Jingjing also looked at it suspiciously.

"Yes, the real killer move of this mechanism is actually those venoms!"

Wu Liang pointed to the black-brown liquid on the ground and said, "Just inject gas into the cavity of the corpse in advance, and then pour the venom into it along the throat and eyes, and seal it with a mouth, if someone moves the corpse, it will squeeze the gas in the cavity of the corpse, so that the corpse will sit up and squirt out the venom, if it is drenched, it will be terrible...... The strange sound we heard just now was caused by the compression of the gas in the cavity of the corpse when I lifted the corpse's legs. ”

This kind of burial institution is recorded in the Yuan Dynasty's "Shu Zhai Lao Xue Cong Tan".

It is said that in the last years of the Jin Dynasty, there was a tomb robber surnamed Zhu, and when he stole the tomb of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, he found that Zhao Kuangyin's corpse had an extremely valuable jade belt tied around his waist.

Helplessly, Zhao Kuangyin's body was extremely fat, and he couldn't move it with all his might, so the tomb robber made a rope around the back of the corpse, and then tied the rope around his neck and knotted it to move it vigorously.

Unbeknownst to him, the gas in the corpse's body was squeezed a little, and he could sit up sharply and spray a mouthful of unknown liquid in the face of the tomb robber.

The tomb robbers had no choice but to flee and return home to wash their faces with clean water, only to find that the liquid spit out of the mouth of the corpse was actually poisonous, but all the places that had been contaminated with "corpse liquid" left reddish-brown traces, and no matter how they washed, they could not be washed clean.

Since then, the tomb robbers have had the name of "vermilion lacquer face".

Later, because of this "vermilion lacquer face" that could not be hidden, this poor tomb robber was captured by the government not long after and died in the government office.

But then again, the venom encountered by "Vermilion Face" is relatively merciful, and it only leaves a large mark.

Like the venom that Wu Liang encountered this time, it may not be so merciful, maybe he will die if he is contaminated with a little!