Gao Changgong looked at it, although the corpse still retained the shape of a human, his skin had dried and hardened like rotten tree bark, and his teeth had been like charred coal, piercing the skin and leaving it exposed. The long hair faded one by one, and was covered in gray, and when you touched it, it fell out a lot.

And his empty eyes were empty, only some dry tendons and white bones.

"I guess it's been dead for hundreds of years. Gao Changgong gently patted the shriveled chest of the dried corpse in the shape of ribs, almost causing Abu to scream.

Gao Changgong turned his head, looked at Qin Ke and Abu, and said angrily: "What are you afraid of, you have come all the way, and it is not that you have never seen dead people." You've all seen dead people crawl out of coffins, and you're afraid of a dead corpse that can't die anymore?"

It's not that Qin Ke hasn't seen dead people, and it can even be said that he has seen a lot of dead people, when he fled with his parents, there were people starving to death everywhere, their lips were chapped, their eyes were empty and tired, they were lying on the dirt in tattered clothes, and their bodies were already rotting and stinking.

It's just that Qin Ke has really never seen a dried corpse of this shape, not to mention that there are too many incredible encounters along the way, which makes him like a frightened bird, and he feels that this matter is not simple when something happens, so he screams.

"Are you sure he's dead, won't he come back to life like King Ye?" Qin Ke said with some concern.

"King Ye will only become a walking corpse if he is fed by the yin qi of the entire large array, and he is the only one in the entire mausoleum who is eligible to enjoy it, where does this person have that opportunity. Gao Changgong glanced at it and said, "Probably the craftsman who built this mausoleum back then, this is something that ordinary nobles above the duke level would do, so that all traces of the mausoleum will be cut off, and no one will find this place again." ”

"This man is not a craftsman. Zhuge Wanling stood aside but spoke, he carefully looked at the dried corpse lying on the ground, with a long mouth that looked a little frightened, and repeated, "It's not a craftsman." ”

"Not a craftsman?" Gao Changgong was slightly stunned, "Who is that?"

Zhuge Wanling squatted down, reached out and grabbed some fragments of the corpse, pinched them between his fingers, and muttered, "Sure enough, that's right." ”

He stood up and said, "He's wearing armor." ”

"Armor?" Qin Ke glanced at the dried corpse again, and now it seemed that he was not afraid at all, but felt that this person was very pitiful, just lying here, when he died, it was dark all around, and he must be very lonely, "It won't turn into ashes in a hundred years." ”

He thought about it for a moment: "Isn't the armor on King Ye's body good?"

Zhuge Wanling explained with a smile: "Although the previous dynasty was strong, even so, it was impossible to wear iron armor for every infantryman, at most it was just to put an iron heart guard on the chest. Generally, only officers above the rank of ten commanders can be assigned a set of iron armor composed entirely of armor pieces. This person's status is obviously not qualified enough, and he can only wear cowhide armor, and cowhide armor naturally cannot be as well preserved as iron armor. ”

"Not really. Gao Changgong shook his head, he has been a general for many years, he knows everything about the big and small affairs in the army, and Zhuge Wanling knows even less about armor than him, "Even if it is cowhide armor, it shouldn't be so rotten that there is nothing left, our army's cowhide armor follows the craftsmanship of the previous dynasty, and it is made of selected cowhide, and it has been soaked and dried by medicine, and it will not rot for decades, and the clothes on the surface of his body have almost become coke-like things, how can it be said that it is cowhide armor?"

"Cowhide armor naturally doesn't rot so quickly. Zhuge Wanling smiled, "But ...... It's not the same when you're scorched by a hot stream. ”

"Hot Flow?" Gao Changgong was stunned, "What do you mean?"

"Let's keep walking. Zhuge Wanling did not answer, but turned around and continued to walk along the rock wall, although his feet were not as strong as Abu's tall and long, but they also walked steadily.

Gao Changgong smiled bitterly and scolded softly: "What I hate most is your temperament that likes to sell guanzi, sometimes I really want to give you more than ten or twenty boards with a gun." ”

Abu and Qin Ke couldn't help but snicker, they were glared at by Gao Changgong, and immediately closed their mouths, Abu kept a straight face, pretended to be serious, and continued to move forward.

Along the way, such dried corpses kept appearing, from the sparse at the beginning, to the dense rows in the back, hugging each other, pushing and shoving, their empty eyes seemed to reveal horror, as if they had fallen into a nightmare that would never wake up.

Beneath some of the dust, their broken spears and swords popped out, rusty edges reflecting slightly, as if to prove their military identity.

Gao Changgong didn't say a word, maybe because he lost face because his guess was punctured by Zhuge Wanling, or maybe because he was shocked by such a shocking scene, along the way, he seemed extremely silent.

Qin Ke looked at the dried corpses, and only felt as if he had returned to the war and famine when he was a child, on the wasteland, the fields that should have been planted with crops were burned to a scorched earth, and the roads were full of dead corpses.

He shook his head hard, trying to get these things out of his mind, but he heard Gao Changgong suddenly speak: "Is it a living sacrifice?"

His voice was rarely low and angry, like a low thunderclap that rumbled in the thick clouds.

Qin Ke even felt that his blood was a little restless for a while, the qi and blood of Gao Changgong's body were so strong that it could even affect the ordinary people around him and even the cultivators, it was really terrifying.

After a while, he realized that Gao Changgong was the general of Jing Wu, and he naturally had a heart for the soldiers. And these people, dressed in armor and lying here with spears and swords, are not they regarded as sacrifices for living sacrifices by King Ye, what are they?

When Qin Ke was studying, he also read the words "Emperor Bintian, the concubine was martyred in the mausoleum", in his opinion, this kind of thing of a person dying but having to drag a group of people to be buried is really a bit unreasonable.

But the emperor's funeral, most of them were concubines, and the burial of princes was at most just some domestic servants and people's husbands.

With the army to be martyred, isn't King Ye afraid of mutiny and rebellion below?

Zhuge Wanling shook his head and said, "If it's a burial, why give them weapons? And in this kind of place, it's not a suitable place for siege and killing. ”

Gao Changgong was a little relieved, but the doubts in his heart were still unanswered, and he was a little depressed: "What is the situation, you can tell me." ”

Zhuge Wanling glanced at him, shook his head, and said, "Actually, you should be able to see it yourself, since this is the hiding place of 'it', these people are dying as if they have been baked by the heat flow, so that they can become dried corpses and not rot for hundreds of years." ”

Gao Changgong's eyes changed, and he looked at the dried corpses on the ground with sharp eyes: "It's not a funeral...... It's a ...... Attack!"

"Offense...... Who's it?" Among the three people, only Qin Ke was a complete outsider, he couldn't understand the sharp edge of the two fights at all, looking at those dried corpses, thinking to himself If these people became like this on the way to kill something, then wouldn't they be walking the same old path as them when they continued to go down?

Gao Changgong suddenly laughed: "I see. It seems that this King Ye is not only not a loyal minister, but even so ambitious that he can't even cover the sky. ”

This is a completely enclosed mountainside space, when Gao Changgong's laughter spread in the mountainside, it naturally formed an echo, for a while, there seemed to be countless Gao Changgong laughing in the mountainside, and the sound shook Qin Ke's originally damaged eardrum a little painful.

But his eyes widened, and at the moment when Gao Changgong's laughter converged, a huge sigh sounded in the belly of the mountain!