Hearing the cry, Wu Liang had no choice but to temporarily give up on the strange traces he had discovered, and took the lead in going to Yang Wanli to check.

"Captain, Sima, please see, after the villain dug up the tomb beast with deer ears and antlers, he placed it behind this boulder and covered it with these branches before leaving!"

Yang Wanli pointed to a pile of dry branches and said.

The leaves on these branches have all dried, but there is still a touch of green in them. In addition, the broken parts of the branches also look relatively fresh. They were indeed broken or chopped and placed here recently.

But at this moment, apart from these branches, is there any trace of the tomb beast behind the boulder?

"And here."

Yang Wanli turned around and came to an open space not far away, and said nervously, "There have been several tomb-suppressing beasts here before, and I can see them clearly, but now all these tomb-suppressing beasts have disappeared.

Captain, Sima, please come over and take a look, there are still some traces of excavation on the ground, and the villain is not lying!"

Cao Chen followed him and inspected it carefully, then looked at Wu Liang and nodded and said: "There are indeed traces of excavation here. Although it was later filled and compacted, the soil quality is still somewhat different compared to other places.

"

These traces were obvious, so Wu Liang naturally would not waste his words on this, so after pondering for a moment, he asked: "Yang Wanli, when you follow Lu Bu to rob the tomb, will you steal these stone tomb-suppressing beasts?"

"Of course not. This kind of stone statue is not valuable. We always only take the gold treasures in the tombs when robbing tombs. Moreover, after robbing the tomb, we will not waste manpower to refill the holes. This is the same as taking off your pants and farting.

What's the difference?"

Yang Wanli frowned and replied.

But before he finished speaking, Cao Zhen had already slapped him on the head, and scolded him with a guilty look on his face: "Just say whatever I ask you, how come there are so many irrelevant nonsense?"

After scolding him, he still looked at Wu Liang with sympathy.

After their army robbed the tomb, they had to refill it. This was the case with the tomb of King Xiao of Liang last time, and it looked like it was filled up.

Wu Liangze automatically ignored that sentence and continued to analyze attentively: "In this case, it is not Lu Bu who is ahead of us, nor is it Yang Wanli's two missing companions before. The two of them have limited strength. If they meet

There is absolutely no need for Cai Qi to do such a thing. In other words, other people may have come to this valley, and their purpose may not be to rob tombs..."

Upon hearing this, Cao Zhen and Yang Wanli suddenly became nervous. They quickly looked around and said, "Young and talented brother (Sima), who do you think he could be?"

"It's hard to say yet."

Wu Liang did not make a hasty inference, but looked at Yang Wanli and asked, "Where did you dig out the tomb-suppressing beast before?"

"this……"

Yang Wanli didn't quite understand what Wu Liang's question meant, but he still went to the places with excavation traces and recalled them carefully. Finally, he pointed to the ground at the edge and said, "It should be this location, little

People remember that the tomb beast is on the far side and has the most exposed parts."

"Um."

Wu Liang nodded, turned around and said to Cao Chen, "Brother Anmin, now you can order our people to cut some wooden poles of suitable thickness and install the Luoyang shovel and engineer shovel that they carry with them. The engineer shovel is

Tools can also be used as weapons. If we encounter a small group of enemies, we will not be without the strength to fight."

"good!"

Cao Zhen immediately gave the order.

Wu Liangze took Yang Wanli back to the stone tablet, pointed to the small dark brown dry mark and asked, "Yang Wanli, did you see this mark when you came here last time?"

"this……"

Yang Wanli knelt down and took a closer look, shook his head and said, "It was already dusk when the villain came here last time, and it was already midnight when the tomb-suppressing beast was dug out, so he didn't pay attention to this detail... Sima is indeed very thoughtful.

Such a person, I admire you!"

"You don't have to do this with me in the future. As long as you do things for me sincerely, I will reward you based on your merits and I will never treat you badly."

Wu Liang cursed with a smile, then took out the copper dagger from his waist, inserted it into the small piece of dark brown dry mark and dug out a small piece of soil, then crushed the piece of soil, stretched out his hand to twist a little and put it away

He sniffed lightly under his nose.

The smell of blood!

The stinking smell of blood penetrated into his nose, causing Wu Liang to cough twice.

But why is there blood here?

Fight?

This possibility can basically be ruled out. If there was a fight, there would definitely be traces of the fight nearby.

And if someone is injured, it is absolutely impossible to leave such a small stain of blood, let alone emit such a pungent smell. This blood has obviously been stored for a period of time, and on such dry land, blood is very

It will seep into the soil quickly and there will be no time to stink.

Then there is only one other possibility: someone deliberately poured blood that had been stored for a period of time here.

As for what the purpose is...

Wu Liang raised his head and glanced at the wordless stone tablet one meter away. The place where the blood was poured was right in front of the wordless stone tablet. It looked very much like a worship and offering ceremony.

However, as far as Wu Liang knows, the ancients usually used blood sacrifices, and the objects of sacrifice were usually gods, such as the God of the Earth, the God of Grains, or at worst, ghosts such as the Dragon Dragon and He Bo, in order to obtain blessings.

Bless.

But when it comes to worshiping the dead, there is rarely any mention of using blood.

"What the hell?"

Yang Wanli was very curious when he saw Wu Liang's strange expression, and he quickly imitated Wu Liang's example and picked up some soil and smelled it.

It didn't matter what he heard. Yang Wanli immediately opened his eyes wide and said with a look of panic on his face: "Sima, it seems to be blood. The blood is poured here. Could it be for worship?"

"So what?"

Wu Liang looked at him with some confusion.

"Don't you know, Sima? Blood can only be used to worship ghosts and gods. If it is used to worship the dead, it will become an extremely vicious curse that can make the dead trapped here and unable to die. Therefore, unless you treat someone with deep hatred,

No enemy would do this."

Yang Wanli advised solemnly, "Sima, forgive me for being blunt, I'm afraid our trip this time will be in vain. If this place is the residence of ghosts and gods, we can't afford to offend you. If this place is a mausoleum, that tomb

The master is trapped here by a vicious curse and cannot pass away. He has turned into something terrible. I am afraid we cannot afford to offend him, so we must not rush in!"

"Hey! Where did you hear this statement from?"

Wu Liang frowned slightly after hearing this.
Chapter completed!