After listening to Yu Ji's words, Wu Liang asked intently, "You mean to say that these shadow corpses were not originally here, but were later moved here?" ”

When he asked this sentence, Wu Liang thought of the eight evil recipes Huangquan.

That's the most readily available place to keep corpses.

Then he thought of the rumored thousands of Han soldiers who were in the "Spirit Lake Soul Sucking" for the first time and the villagers who were suppressed and killed by the Han army, especially those Han soldiers.

If this is the tomb of Liu He, Marquis of Haiding.

Then only those Han soldiers and villagers died before Liu He, and only they could be buried nearby, and moved to this place after being found to be an incorruptible and incorruptible corpse.

As for why this is done......

Perhaps this is related to the previous concept of burial, the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty were popular for thick burials, in addition to precious funeral goods, there is more or less one thing indispensable, that is, terracotta warriors and horses.

These terracotta warriors and horses are the yin soldiers of the people in the tomb, forever guarding the tomb and soul of the tomb owner.

In fact, as early as the Qin Dynasty, it was not popular to use real people for burial, and it is for this reason that the terracotta warriors and horses came into being, but if it is some people who have long died, such as the shadow corpse, it is another matter.

And then.

These shadow corpses were moved here, and they could no longer suck the Yellow Spring Qi from the place where the corpses were raised, and after a long time, the Yellow Spring Qi gradually ran out, and finally it was difficult to escape the fate of decay.

Unfortunately, there were no clothes left around these bones, nor did they leave anything that could prove their identity, such as weapons and armor......

"It should be this possibility, after all, in the realm of the Eight Evil Yellow Springs, the most important thing is the place to raise corpses."

Yu Ji nodded, confirming some of Wu Liang's guesses, "And judging from the location of this tomb, the person who chose the tomb site for Gongzi's ancestor may also be a strange man who has mastered the art of Kanyu, it should not be difficult to do this, but the difficulty is how to prepare so many corpses in advance to bury them in the place where the corpses are raised, and turn them into shadow corpses for the burial of Zhiyong." ”

"Hmmm......"

Wu Liang groaned and did not say the guess in his heart.

He thought it might be a coincidence, those Han soldiers or villagers were buried nearby after they died, and they happened to be buried in the place where the corpses were raised, and finally they were found to be turned into shadow corpses, so they were still used by Liu He after death.

Of course, it is also possible that it is indeed the work of a strange man who has mastered the art of public opinion, on the one hand, to help Liu He cultivate the "Terracotta Army", and on the other hand, to achieve his unknown purpose.

But that was more than 200 years ago.

Even if this stranger really had any purpose, he should have returned to dust by now, and there was no need to care too much about these things......

"Remove the bones and continue excavation."

Wu Liang turned back and gave orders to the soldiers.

He took the initiative to take a sapper shovel to pull the bones under his feet, and soon found the "beehive" hidden under the bones through the Luoyang shovel two days ago.

At this glance, Wu Liangcai found that the scale of these "hives" is also amazing.

It was connected into a large piece under the bones, and it looked like a huge foam blanket, at least Wu Liang didn't find out where its boundary was for a long time.

It's a pity that they have all become empty nests.

Wu Liang couldn't help but be a little slanderous.

It's still unclear what these "hives" are, but if they are used to reproduce and hatch some kind of insect larvae, like real beehives, then the size of these insects is not to be underestimated.

"What are these?"

Yu Ji next to him saw the "beehive" and couldn't help but ask curiously.

At the same time, Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing, Yang Wanli, and the nearby soldiers of the Qiren Army also looked at each other with puzzled expressions.

"I don't know, anyway, let's dig first."

Wu Liang shook his head and said, "By the way, try not to destroy these things after they are dug up, help me collect them, I'll study them first, maybe there are some useful materials." ”

In fact, what he wants to say is that it may be a material that cannot be artificially made in this era.

If that's the case, it's a big deal to get such a lot of it all at once.

So before leaving.

Wu Liang did not forget to cut off a large piece of "beehive" with a sapper shovel and carry it in his hand, and then took people back to the mountain.

……

Don't look at the small piece of "beehive" that Wu Liang found a few days ago, it was light and loose, this time after he cut off a complete piece of "beehive" with a sapper shovel, he found that this thing was quite sufficient.

This weight comes mainly from the gelatinous yellow-brown substance at the bottom of the "hive".

This substance should look like beeswax in a real beehive, playing a role in shaping the "hive", but it is difficult to say what the specific substance is.

After returning to the mountain, Wu Liang first cut off a small piece of the light and loose "beehive" in the upper part, and then crushed it with his hands to examine it carefully.

This thing seems to be a kind of fiber, but it's hard to say what fiber it is.

When burned on a fire, it is flammable like hay, and after burning, it becomes something similar to grass ash, and it will crumble into powder when touched.

This thing may be used as an ingredient to make fire folds......

It should be known that the Han Dynasty did not have such a convenient ignition tool as the fire fold, and when going out to light the fire, a concave copper mirror called "Yang Sui" was used, and when the weather was fine, as long as the sunlight was focused on the combustible, it could be lit like a magnifying glass.

However, if you are unlucky and encounter a cloudy day and no sun, you can still only use the most primitive method of "drilling wood for fire" to make a fire.

But after thinking about it, Wu Liang still gave up this idea.

There are many kinds of ingredients for making fire folds, and they are not difficult to obtain, but the fibers of this thing are relatively coarse, so it may not be the best choice.

However, in the future, you should make a batch of fire folds for your own family or the Hingren army to use......

The main reason is that Wu Liang usually doesn't need to make his own fire to cook, so he has never paid attention to the details of this aspect, so he has not considered this aspect of the problem.

After inspecting the material of the upper part of the "hive", Wu Liang cut off a small piece of yellow-brown gel at the bottom of the "hive" to shape.

This substance has a softer texture.

Almost everything opens, and it has a slippery grease to the touch.

It can't be wax, right?

A normal "hive" would have a similar gel, and the main ingredient of that gel was beeswax, so it could be inferred that this thing might be wax as well.

If it's wax, it's really a big deal!

It is necessary to know that in this era, candles are still treasures that even if the Han royal family is not willing to use those grand sacrificial activities.

It is recorded in the "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" that in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the king of Nanyue presented 5 stone honey and 200 honey candles to Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and the ancestor of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed.

Even in the Tang Dynasty, candles were also highly valued by the royal family, and officials were specially set up to manage them.

The Tang Dynasty poet Han Yu wrote such a poem in "Cold Food", "The candles were passed in the Han Palace at dusk, and the light smoke dispersed into the five marquis' homes", when the fire was banned during the Cold Food Festival, the emperor wanted to reward the officials above the marquis and the high-grade officials with candles, which is enough to show how transcendent the candles that can be seen everywhere in later generations in ancient times.

In other words, this thing is a priceless thing at this time, and I'm afraid even gold will have to stand aside!

Anyway, Wu Liang has been in this era for a few months, and he has seen a lot of gold, but he has never seen a single candle...... Even if Boss Cao uses an oil lamp.

It is also for this reason that Wu Liangcai has not reproduced the classic picture of "people lighting candles and ghosts blowing out lamps" in later generations, and lit a candle in the northeast corner of the tomb when the museum opened.

Can't get candles at all, take the head?

Of course, Wu Liang is not ignorant of other methods of making candles, but it requires a lot of processes, and he can't do it for the time being.

One of the easiest methods is the "insect ash" that people began to discover and use in the Yuan Dynasty, which can be realized, but it requires the use of a kind of ash worm and ash tree unique to the south wind, and the raw materials are almost ready-made, but now the production area is not in the territory of Boss Cao.

Thinking so, Wu Liang immediately took this small piece of gel to the fire and roasted it.

"Smack!"

The gel was quickly incinerated, and a drop of viscous liquid dripped down, which was caught by Wu Liang with a sapper shovel and placed on the side, waiting for it to cool down while examining it carefully.

As the liquid cools, it quickly condenses into a small piece of creamy solid.

Then Wu Liang simply melted the whole piece of gel on the sapper shovel, and soaked a linen wire in it, and after lighting it, it really burned slowly like an oil lamp!

That's what wax is.

Nature's gift of wax!

The only thing Wu Liang suspects now is the source of this wax.

These "hives" were built under patches of shadow corpses, and now the shadow corpses have become dry bones, and the creatures in the "hive" do not know where they have gone.

The two are linked......

Wu Liang had to wonder what connection there was between these "beehives", the shadow corpses, and the creatures that he didn't know what they were.

After all, the human body contains a lot of oils, which can be converted into wax after being "processed...... So isn't this candle made of wax corpse oil wax?