The sudden change caused Ma Chao's soldiers to endanger themselves and did not dare to act rashly.

After tapping the supplies, the soldier reported: "The food and grass are all there, but thousands of horses have all died, and the cause of death is not clear. ”

"What do you mean?"

Ma Chao was strange, and personally went to check the corpses of the dead war horses, and found that they did not have any injuries on their bodies.

You must know that the situation at that time was that even the men and horses fell together, and the soldiers were more or less injured.

Only these dead horses were the mounts of light cavalry, and they were not wearing heavy armor at all, and there were no small scars at all.

Gao Shun also found a problem, and immediately pulled out a big knife and slashed at the corpse of the war horse.

Poof!

Blood flowed sideways, spilled on the ground, and among the corpses that were broken open with a knife, the flesh and blood were clear, the bones were complete, and there were no internal injuries!

Spooky, weird!

"This..."

Gao Shun, Xu Shu and others looked at each other, and what they saw in front of them subverted their cognition for many years in their lives in one fell swoop, which was simply contrary to common sense.

As a traverser, Ma Chao knows far more things than the ancients of this period, but even so, in the face of thousands of strange corpses in one place, he can't say why.

"Don't think about anything else, since the carcasses of these war horses are intact, then cut them all up, roughly make them into rations, and take them away."

An order was given, and hundreds of soldiers remained here to divide and preserve the pieces of meat.

The other soldiers, along with Ma Chao, will go to explore the place they are facing.

Catching the sunlight overhead, it was easy to tell that they were in a bronze hall.

The main hall is full of long bronze bricks covered with blue-green patina.

Ma Chao picked up a piece of bronze that had fallen on the ground, peeled off the outer layer of patina, and revealed the gold-like color inside.

Bronze is an alloy that resembles the color of gold when it is first smelted.

In Homer's epic poem "The Iliad", the shield used by the demigod Achilles is cast in bronze by Hephaestus, the god of fire and craftsmen.

Ma Chao confirmed that the bronze in his hand was bronze, his brows furrowed deeply, and even Xu Shu beside him was very puzzled, who was the person who built a bronze hall at the bottom of Beibi Mountain?

Moreover, Beibi Mountain is the location of the emperors' mausoleums, and the location of each one, people probably know, but this bronze hall does not look like a mausoleum, and there is no trace at all.

At this time, Zhuge Xuan came over and said, "I have been observing for a long time, and I found that this hall has another mystery. ”

Ma Chaoqi said: "Say it quickly, what is it?" ”

Zhuge Xuan said: "Since ancient times, the emperor's mausoleums have been built against the back of mountains and rivers, with an open and changeable terrain, symbolizing their ambition to control all things. ”

He paused for a moment, and then said: "Judging from the terrain we passed before, it is the opposite, pillow on the river and kicking the mountain, which is unconventional, not to mention the treasure land of feng shui, it is simply a tiger's den in Longtan, and it cannot sleep peacefully." ”

"Therefore, I feel that we have entered the mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu!"

Zhuge Xuan's words were amazing, it was clear that the original mausoleum where Liu Xiu was sleeping was not in this area, why did Zhuge Xuan say that they were in Liu Xiu's mausoleum?

Gao Shun was a little disapproving, thinking that Zhuge Xuan was just praising other generations, but Ma Chao was full of thoughts and thought about it for a long time.

Many things can only be discovered in the future by using powerful scientific and technological means.

Among them, there are many emperors' tombs that they have always thought were actually just a well-dressed mound, or they were directly a suspicious mound.

At this time, Zhuge Xuan said this, Ma Chao felt that there was really a little possibility.

At this moment, a soldier came running over and reported: "Generals, there is a passage leading to other places. ”

"Let's go check it out."

Everyone then arrived, and sure enough, there was a passage, but because it was in a place with the sun back, the naked eye could not find the passage hidden in the darkness at first.

Cleaning up the bronze fragments scattered all over the ground, it was found that the passage was extremely wide, wide enough to accommodate at least dozens of people.

A group of thousands of people can walk in.

The passage was deep and obscure, and as it continued to go deeper into it, there was really no light at all, and I couldn't see my fingers.

"Ahh

Suddenly, there was a scream behind him, which was particularly harsh in this extremely dark passage.

"What's that?"

"Who is it? Who's screaming? ”

Many of the soldiers trembled in their hearts, for the screams were so close to them that they seemed to be ringing in their ears.

A second scream was heard a little later, followed by a third, then a fourth.

It wasn't until more than a dozen people screamed at the same time that people's ears finally heard a strange sound.

It was as if there were countless insects crawling on the ground.

"Something on the ground?"

Although it was dark and could not see anything, it did not hinder the movement of the soldiers, and some people shouted loudly and stepped on the ground, and everyone raised their feet together and stepped on it fiercely, and indeed heard a popping sound, as if an insect had been trampled to death.

Ma Chao suddenly felt a force coming from his legs, and Liu Xie's immature voice came: "Ma, General Ma, I, I'm afraid!" ”

Ignoring the screaming soldiers behind him, Ma Chao leaned down, slowly patted Liu Xie's back, and said, "Your Majesty, don't be afraid, I'm here." ”

"Hmmm! I believe you! ”

During the days when the two fled together, Liu Xie and Ma Chao established a complex emotional connection, they not only had the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, but also the love of life and death together, and the friendship of brothers.

Liu Xie hugged Ma Chao's thigh, only feeling that as long as he could be by Ma Chao's side, then this was the safest place in the world.

He lost his parents since he was a child, and he fled from the pampered palace, wandering all the way, and suffering a lot, in the depths of Liu Xie's heart, he has long regarded Ma Chao as the only person he can rely on.

When he raised his head again, a cold light burst out in Ma Chao's eyes, and he instantly opened his double pupils.

Among the pupils of the eyes, a second pair of smaller pupils appeared again, heavy pupils and peeps, and the two talents were mixed together.

A wireframe appeared in front of me, and the lines stretched into the distance, interweaving and converging, forming a vivid and dynamic picture.

Liu Xie seemed to feel something, and when he suddenly raised his head, he saw a faint blue luster bursting out of Ma Chao's eyes in the darkness, Liu Xie was suddenly surprised, but he was silent.

As the wireframe moved slowly, Ma Chao noticed that on the walls on both sides, at each distance, there was a protrusion that looked like an oil lamp.

He immediately issued a statement: "The soldiers near the walls on both sides obey the order!" ”

"I order you to immediately grope for the wall on your side and look for the oil lamp on it!"

Zhuge Xuan listened to his words, but was taken aback, it was dark here and nothing could be seen, why could Ma Chao know that there was an oil lamp on the wall?

After a while, sure enough, a soldier touched the oil lamp, and when the soldier's hand just touched the oil lamp, his whole person suddenly spontaneously combusted!

"Ahh

"Help, save me!".

Everyone stared at the only light source in front of them in amazement, watching each other burn to death.

Then, a lamp suddenly lit up on the wall, dim green, and the fire above the wick flickered and flickered, as if it would be extinguished at any moment.