"Miss Jingjing, there is only one thing I regret the most now."

Wu Liang also laughed, raised his eyebrows and said.

"What's the matter?"

Taking the sapper shovel handed over by Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing asked curiously.

"Hehe, I'll tell you if I don't die this time."

Wu Liang smiled coquettishly.

"No need! You'd better die here! ”

Bai Jingjing instantly sensed something from Wu Liang's ill-intentioned laughter, and rejected Wu Liang on the spot.

Yu Ji was thrown to the ground and was shocked, but at this moment, he saw that Wu Liang and the others could still laugh, and shook his head and wailed while crawling up: "Crazy, you are all crazy, all crazy!" But why bother the old man......"

Yet at this moment.

Without Princess Dianwei's hug, it was absolutely impossible for Yu Ji to escape under this swarm with his old arms and legs, and he knew that he was already in a catastrophe, so he didn't run anymore, just hid behind the three of them and sighed and shook his head, seeing that he was about to cry.

Between words.

The swarm is already in front of us.

Wu Liang's expression tightened, and he could no longer distinguish between God and Bai Jingjing, he only felt that his brain was hot, and he shouted hard: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

"Fight!"

Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing also responded, but they didn't know whether to say it to others or to themselves.

The three of them immediately waved the sapper shovel in their hands and slashed towards the dense swarm.

"Huh!"

With each shovel, at least a few strange insects were cut in two, or they slammed them into the wall, leaving a yellow-brown sticky mark.

But there are too many monsters, even if they do it with all their might.

It only took a few breaths to completely submerge the swarm.

There were strange insects crawling on their bodies, and there was no time to shake them off, even Yu Ji, who was standing behind, was not spared, and kept jumping and shouting, so he actually trampled a few strange insects to death......

And then.

was slipped by the viscous liquid that burst out of the monster's body, and fell heavily to the ground.

Then, in just a moment, he was crawled all over his body by strange insects, and he looked like a humanoid monster composed of strange insects.

That's when it happened.

"Something is wrong!"

In the midst of the insect swarm, Wu Liang suddenly put down the sapper shovel, shook off more than a dozen strange insects that climbed up his body, and said to Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing with a look of surprise, "Have you noticed that the target of these strange insects does not seem to be us, to be exact, they do not have any hostility towards us at all, but more like we are wishful thinking to block their way?" ”

"This ......"

Hearing this, Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing paused suddenly.

It seems that this is indeed the case, although these strange insects crawl very fast, and many of them have climbed on their bodies, but so far, not a single strange insect has hurt them.

Instead, they've been slaying down these monsters......

“！？”

Hearing this, even Yu Ji, who was lying on the ground and rolling wildly, subconsciously stopped.

At this moment, his body was already crawling with strange insects, and if these strange insects really intended to hurt him, he would have basically been eaten at this moment.

But miraculously, these strange insects did not bite or claw on him.

It seems that he is just an obstacle that must be climbed on the way forward, a doorway?

"Click, click, click......"

The sound of strange insects crawling filled the entire tomb, Wu Liang and the others, you look at me, I look at you, and no one spoke again.

“……”

The atmosphere was slightly awkward.

It's an embarrassment of misrepresentation.

Just now, Wu Liang and the three of them hope that no one will remember it......

"Crying dad and calling mother" just now, Yu Ji hopes that no one will remember......

Especially Yu Ji.

As the only "outlier" among several people, and the other three people combined are not as old as him, if he knew that it was like this, he would definitely make himself more calm.

It's good now, the only image left is gone......

Moreover, here is the most strange insects he killed, Wu Liang and the others went down with a shovel, and he rolled around is a piece, whether it is his body or the ground that rolled just now, it is already a mess and miserable.

That's it.

Wu Liang and the others stood quietly in place, letting those strange insects crawl past them or on their bodies, at most when the strange insects were about to climb above their waists, shaking off the strange insects.

After a few minutes of this, the number of strange insects finally gradually decreased.

"Whew-"

Wu Liang took a breath, and at the same time was surprised in his heart, he decisively stopped mentioning what happened just now, but squatted down to carefully examine the strange insects that died at his feet.

To tell the truth, Wu Liang didn't have much research on insects, and it was difficult to distinguish their species just by the appearance of these strange insects.

But with his research on "corpse turtles" in his previous life, he already had some speculations in his heart.

It's likely that these monster bugs are burial bugs, or corpse eaters.

There are about 175 species of burial insects in later generations, and they are beneficial insects that have no interest in fresh meat and blood, and only feed on dead or decaying animal carcasses, which can be transformed into substances that are easier to recycle in the ecosystem, just like scavengers in nature, and play a role in purifying the natural environment.

It is reported that when the burial insect eats the carcass of animals, it always keeps digging the ground under the carcass, and finally will naturally bury the corpse in the ground, hence the name of the burial insect.

It's just that the burial insects known in later generations are very small, with an average body length of only 2.5 centimeters, which is far less large than the tomb of the Marquis of Haidu.

It is also because of this that Wu Liang did not link the two together before.

But there is a significant feature that makes Wu Liang have to connect the two together after seeing the characteristics of these strange insects - those "beehives"!

Ghoul insects build bee-like nests in places where there is plenty of food or when they lay eggs.

So those "beehives" are most likely the nests or delivery rooms of this kind of large burial insects that he can't imagine at all......

This may also be an extinct creature.

After all, a burial bug of this size requires a large number of corpses to survive.

The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous eras were full of huge dinosaurs, and the carcasses of those dinosaurs naturally met the needs of burial insects, but with the extinction of dinosaurs, the vast majority of mammals were not as large as before, and the living space of such large burial insects was naturally squeezed, so there were fewer and fewer until they became extinct.

Of course, these are just inferences made by Wu Liang based on the known information.

Whether these strange insects are burial insects remains to be verified, and if a later generation of entomologists traveled with him, it may be possible to draw a relatively accurate conclusion.

In a word.

This trip is thrilling and exciting.

Let's just treat them as burial bugs for the time being.

Go back and take the corpses of two strange insects back and use pine resin to make them into specimens and store them, if they are left for nearly 2,000 years later, it will be amber, which may help future generations to study.

……

As there were fewer and fewer strange insects, Wu Liang and the others finally regained their calm completely.

"Head of the house, shall we continue to enter?"

Bai Jingjing also never mentioned Wu Liang's "most regretful thing", and looked at the deep tomb in front of her and asked.

"Come in, but wait a little while and you'll hear if there's anything else."

Wu Liang said cautiously.

Although he already knew that these strange insects had no ill will towards them, he was still worried about whether there was anything in the tomb that could threaten these strange insects, so he scared these strange insects out of the house.

"Are you really daring, and the things in the tomb are so attractive to you?"

Bai Jingjing gave him a hygienic eye, and said angrily.

"You don't understand."

Wu Liang smiled indifferently and turned around to check on Yu Ji's situation.

This guy just rolled around, although he was not attacked by these strange insects, but it was inevitable that some hard arthrops were cut or punctured through the skin, and the wounds were in close contact with the body fluids bursting out of the bodies of these strange insects.

Wu Liang was really worried that this guy would be infected or poisoned if he was not careful......

However, looking at Yu Ji's energetic appearance now, the problem of poisoning should be ruled out for the time being, and the only thing to worry about is whether he will be infected in the future.

After all.

These strange insects have been in the tomb for hundreds of years, and if they are really burial insects, they will be corpses or corroded, and it is really difficult to say that they carry any strange bacteria and viruses on their bodies.

All he could do now was to look as closely as he could, lest the severed limbs be left under his skin.

After dealing with Yu Ji's problem in this way, it was already more than ten minutes later.

Wu Liang turned around and asked Bai Jingjing about the situation.

After learning that he had not heard any other abnormal noises for the time being, Wu Liang finally decided to continue deeper.

"Isn't it, Childe, are you still going to enter now?"

Yu Ji naturally didn't want to enter, and wanted to come over to dissuade Wu Liang.

At this moment, this guy was covered in the body fluids of strange insects, exuding a disgusting stench, Wu Liang naturally would not be embarrassed, so he deliberately said: "If the old gentleman is worried, it is better to stay here and wait, and we will come out and take the old gentleman out later." ”

In fact, Wu Liang would not let this guy act alone at all, in case he walked around the tomb casually and took things, it would not be in Wu Liang's interests.

However, after this period of getting along, he has basically understood Yu Ji's character.

This super old boy definitely doesn't have the guts to stay here alone.

Absolute!

Really.

"This ...... Could it be that the old man is a person who is afraid of things? The old man is just worried about your safety! ”

Yu Ji hesitated slightly, but saw that Wu Liang and the others had already walked into the distance, so he gritted his teeth and hurriedly followed.

It looked like it was less than 100 meters in the tomb.

Wu Liang and the others finally arrived at the end of the tomb.

In front of you is a large and a small doorway, the main gate is located on the east side, and the small gate is located on the west side.

According to the excavation results of the tomb of the Marquis of Hailun published in the previous life, the east gate should lead to the main coffin room, while the small door on the west side leads to the west palace with a screen of Confucius portrait and gold.

Here it is.

The strange fragrance in the air is also getting stronger and stronger, and even slightly pungent.

It seems that this trip is really possible to solve the mystery of the strange fragrance that has not been dispersed for three years after the excavation of the tomb of the Marquis of Haidun in the later generations, and it is a little exciting to think about it.

There was a slight pause.

Wu Liang chose to enter the west side of the tomb, which is a habit he has had since he was a child, and when he can choose, he always likes to save the delicious food for the end.

……

In the burial chamber on the west side.

"I'm dripping mother, alas......"

As soon as Yu Ji walked in, his eyes widened instantly, and his old face was full of consternation.

Even Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing changed color slightly, looking around the furnishings in this tomb in disbelief.

It's just too much!

As Wu Liang expected, what was stored in this tomb was not the 115 kilograms of gold found in later generations, but ......

Wu Liang has no way to estimate it for the time being, because the gold here is not directly melted into gold bricks and piled up into a hill like in the tomb of King Liang Xiao.

Instead, it is classified according to the shape and size of the gold like an exhibition hall, and it is arranged in a different pattern like obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Big gold cake, small gold cake, big horseshoe gold, small horseshoe gold, big lintoe gold, small lintoe gold, and some square gold bricks, gold nuggets, gold plates......

Some of the gold is also annotated in upper, middle, and lower scripts.

I don't know if it's used to mark the count, or if it serves some other purpose.

After seeing the scale of these gold, Wu Liang had a bottom in his heart, and the total amount should not be less than the gold excavated in the tomb of King Liang Xiao, which is like the owner of the tomb who once entered Beijing and became an emperor.

As for the screen with a portrait of Confucius......

Wu Liang looked at it carefully, this Confucius is much uglier than the textbooks of later generations, but it is more in line with the records in the "Zhuangzi" and "Historical Records": "He is quite tall, but the upper half of the body is long and the lower half of the body is short, he looks a little uncoordinated, slightly hunchbacked, his ears are attached to his head, the top of his head is still concave, but his forehead is more prominent......"

Later generations saw this description and said that it was because Zhuangzi opposed Confucianism and Taoism and did not like Confucius, so he used this way to scandalize Confucius.

But there's no denying it.

The Records of the Western Han Dynasty also describes Confucius in this way.

Regardless of whether Sima Qian was influenced by the Zhuangzi or not, at least during the Western Han Dynasty.

That is, in the era when Liu He, the Marquis of Haidu, lived, people would still believe in the "Historical Records" compiled by Sima Qian, a historian of the imperial court, so Confucius in people's eyes may be this image.

After walking around the tomb, it was found that there was nothing directly related to history other than gold and a portrait of Confucius.

So Wu Liang didn't stay any longer, turned around and walked out of the tomb and went straight to the main coffin.

Yu Ji originally wanted to watch it for a while, but he was driven by Dian Wei and had to follow.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the main coffin, Wu Liang immediately asserted that this was definitely the place with the strongest fragrance in the entire mausoleum, and there was no one.

Therefore, this should be the source of the strange fragrance.

Stepping into it with so much caution and lightness, Wu Liang was immediately attracted by a mysterious device located on the east side of the coffin, which looked slightly complicated.

Even because of this, the coffin of Liu He, the Marquis of Haidu, who was placed in the middle of the tomb, was ignored!