Wang Xiaoliu'er smiled and waved his hand, and the man nodded and bowed and followed Wang Xiaoliu'er and the others.
It was already midnight, and the four people changed their plans temporarily, but they didn't show any signs of embarrassment. Someone was leading them along the way, and the four of them stepped up. After about an hour, they finally reached a place with many mountains.
I saw a trench-like place in the old forest.
The man pointed to the cliff with his hand and said to Wang Xiaoliu'er and others, "See if there is a cave on the cliff."
Wang Xiaoliu'er sat aside and took a look. This cave is located in the middle of the cliff. It is surrounded by cliffs. Ordinary people can't go up or down at all. It's just this place, let alone a normal person.
, it’s hard to find.
Wang Xiaoliu'er looked at Zhenren Qian, turned his head, and motioned to Zhenren Qian to express his thoughts. When Zhenren Qian saw it, he was also confused. He frowned slightly and looked at it for a long time, then said to Wang Xiaoliu'er, "Ordinary corpses,
There is absolutely no possibility of entering this cave."
Wang Xiaoliu'er also nodded and said in agreement, "Yes, someone who can move in and out of a place like this is definitely not a good person."
"Then what do you think?"
The man looked at Wang Xiaoliu'er and then at Zhenren Qian, with a bit of contempt on his face, "How about we just go back like this?"
“You’re already here, what are you going to do when you go back!”
Qian Zhenren said, rolling up his sleeves, "I brought a rope, we can go in."
"I can go down."
The man said, pointing to the rope on his shoulder, "But let's agree first, if there is anything good in the cave, I have to share it!"
Wang Xiaoliuer couldn't help but laugh, "That's natural!"
"Then, I'll lead the way, you guys follow me!"
As the man spoke, he limped forward, looked around, and then tied the rope to a dead tree. Wang Xiaoliuer saw that although he had some problems with his legs and feet, he was agile and much better than the average person.
Young Master, couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it seems that people are really beyond their appearance. When I met Huang Cripple before, I saw that Huang Cripple's legs and feet were very nimble. Now looking at this person, he is not much clumsier than Huang Cripple.
After the man pulled the rope and went down, Wang Xiaoliu'er said to Zhenren Qian's two young apprentices, "Don't go down yet. Stay here. If something happens, be smart!"
After Wang Xiaoliuer finished speaking, he looked at Zhenren Qian again and said, "Old Qian, why don't you follow me? You can wait here."
"no!"
Qian Zhenren shook his head and said hurriedly, "I have to see if my master has really fallen here. If it is true, no matter what, I have to take him away!"
Wang Xiaoliuer saw that what Qian Zhenren said was serious and didn't want to say anything more. He nodded, pulled the rope with his hand, and dropped it slowly.
Wang Xiaoliu'er has been able to climb over walls since he was a child, and it's no problem to do rappelling. Although Qian Zhenren has some skills, he is obviously not good at climbing up and down. He clumsily spent a long time before he could do it.
Go down, and by the time he climbed into the cave, Wang Xiaoliu'er and the man had already gone quite far inside.
Qian Zhenren hurriedly took out his flashlight and ran over. He had just taken two steps when he felt something tripped under his feet. When he lowered his head, he saw, my dear, there are bones and sticks everywhere on the ground, and there are lots of white bones.
They were everywhere on the ground, and Master Qian felt a chill when he saw them.
"There's really something about this place."
Wang Xiaoliu'er's nose moved and he felt the fishy smell in the air. He pursed his lips and said to the mountain man, "Have you ever gone in?"
"The last time I walked here, I didn't dare to go inside again."
The man lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by something.
Wang Xiaoliu'er nodded and walked inside first.
He held a flashlight in his hand and walked slowly, paying attention to his surroundings as he walked. At this time, Qian Zhenren couldn't help but said behind Wang Xiaoliu'er, "Brother, brother! Do you feel that something is wrong with this place?"
Son? This cave, why, how do you look at it..."
"Like a burglar's cave."
Wang Xiaoliuer took the words.
Qian Zhenren nodded obviously, as if he agreed with Wang Xiaoliu'er's statement. Wang Xiaoliu'er did not shy away from it. He looked at the shovel marks in the robbery cave and said, "This is not just a robbery cave.
Moreover, it looks like an official thief."
"Um?"
When the mountain people in front heard this, the thief was obviously stunned. He turned to look at Wang Xiaoliu'er and the others, "You, are you also tomb robbers?"
"no."
Wang Xiaoliuer shook his head, "You are thinking too much."
"If you didn't reach the target, how would you know it was an official thief?"
"You're a stupid person to think about."
Wang Xiaoliuer looked around with his hand, "This cave is so high and spacious. Do you think it could have been made by ordinary tomb robbers? Ordinary tomb robbers are just like mice when they dig holes. They can make the entrance of the cave."
Make the hole as small as it is. If you meet someone with extremely high skills, the hole will be like a mouse hole. One person can barely get through it, and no one with a bigger hole can get through it."
"Um?"
The mountain man looked confused, "Then, why is that?"
"Why else? Just to deceive others."
Wang Xiaoliuer pursed his lips and continued, "I've heard people say that in the tomb robbing business, people are most afraid of being known. Some powerful tomb robbers know how to make soil. When they dig holes in the ground, they dig out the soil.
The ground can be removed, so you can only see the hole on the ground, but you can't see the soil he dug out, but this is a technical job that ordinary people can't learn."
Master Qian nodded and said, "I've heard about this too. I heard that some powerful people can also do the clavicle technique. If they make a hole, they can go in by themselves!"
"No, I'm asking you, why do you need to make such a small hole?"
The mountain man looked at Wang Xiaoliu'er curiously.
Wang Xiaoliuer also looked at him and said a little impatiently, "Why else? Firstly, it is to avoid attracting other people's attention. Secondly, it is also for safety. He made the hole very small and was not discovered by others."
At that time, no one else could get in. By the time someone opened the hole and wanted to go in, he would have dug a hole and run away."
"Ah, that's what happened!"
The man nodded, with a puzzled look on his face, "Then, why did the official thief..."
"The official thieves don't have much ability, but there are many people. With more people, they are more powerful. It is not difficult to dig an ancient tomb. They don't have the ability to touch Xiaowei Jin to find the dragon's cave. They can only use brute force to open the tomb. If there are more people, take it away.
There are many things coming in and out.
They are people. The hole is too small and they are so crowded that they can hardly breathe. Therefore, most official thieves don’t have holes that are too small. In addition, they have official status and are not afraid of people knowing.
If you have any scruples, you don’t have to think too much.”
Qian Zhenren said with deep emotion, "The founder of official thieves is said to be Cao Cao. At that time, Cao Cao had no military funds. In order to raise money and food, he hired a group of people to dig graves everywhere to increase military pay. From then on,
That’s why there are so-called official thieves.”
"Is that so?"
The mountain man looked at Wang Xiaoliu'er.
Wang Xiaoliuer thought for a while, "Yes, but I can't say it is completely true."
Wang Xiaoliuer pursed his lips, "Strictly speaking, official banditry probably started with Cao Cao, but in a broad sense, official banditry is much earlier than this. Isn't the red-browed army's digging of Empress Lu's tomb an example?
, the uprising of the Red Eyebrow Army was much earlier than the Three Kingdoms era. Those people who robbed tombs, do you think they were official robbers? In essence, they were!"
"Yes, yes, that's right."
Qian Zhenren nodded, "I have also heard my master say this. It is said that when the Red Eyebrow Army robbed the tomb, they opened the coffin and found that Lu pheasant was still lifelike. Those guys saw this and became so animalistic that they even killed Lu.
What did the pheasant do to that?"
"This is indeed recorded in the history books!"
As soon as Wang Xiaoliu'er finished speaking, the mountain man on the other side grinned, "How many years have you been dead and can you still be alive? What else can you do?"
"snort."
Wang Xiaoliu'er snorted coldly, thinking that you looked like you had never seen the world before, and then said leisurely, "Under some special environmental conditions, it is possible for corpses to become lifelike, but when you encounter such a corpse, it is impossible to
Be careful, because even if those things show no signs of corpse transformation, it does not mean that they will not transform into corpses."
"That's not true!"
Master Qian was very confident in these things and hurriedly said, "My master and I met him when we were traveling around the world! To be honest, at that time, we were not so afraid of the old rice dumplings with long fangs. We were most afraid of meeting them.
Yes, those fair-skinned and beautiful little girls! Those things have been lying in coffins for hundreds of years without changing at all. Just thinking about it is evil!"
Wang Xiaoliuer turned to look at Zhenren Qian and said with a smile, "Have you really met him before?"
"Don't mention it!"
Qian Zhenren's face turned red and he looked like he was about to give up. He waved his hand and said, "Don't say this, don't say this!"
He looked up at the cave above his head and said, "Look at the cave, it looks like it's been there for several years, at least hundreds of years!"
"right."
Wang Xiaoliu'er nodded, "I don't know who did it."
"Could it be Cao Cao's men who did it?"
The mountain man was quite curious and asked Wang Xiaoliu'er. Wang Xiaoliu'er thought for a while and shook his head, "Who can say for sure?"
"Hey, Cao Cao robbed tombs, is that really a thing?"
"It's normal. Nothing is impossible."
As Wang Xiaoliuer walked inside, he continued, "A person like Cao Cao is definitely the kind of person who will do anything to achieve his goal. Although this matter may not have been his own instruction, he did it with his own hands.
Those people down there are totally capable of doing this!"
"Can it?"
The mountain people were still a little skeptical.
Seeing him questioning himself, Wang Xiaoliuer couldn't help but continue, "In the early days of the Three Kingdoms, there was a very important counselor under Cao Cao, named Cheng Yu. This man was one of the five best counselors under Cao Cao. In terms of status,
In general, he is definitely one of Cao Cao's most trusted subordinates.
, throughout his life, he followed Cao Cao in east and west expeditions, made countless achievements, and was extremely loyal to Cao Cao. Although this man is usually recorded as a good old man in history books, in fact, this honest man named Cheng Yu was at that time
But he did something notorious."
Wang Xiaoliuer paused, "He once had dead human flesh, passing it off as pork, to use as military pay. Although it was also a war at the time, and the military rations were gone, there was really no other way. But can ordinary people use human flesh as military rations? So?
It is said that if you are not a family and do not enter the same family, Cao Cao will do things unscrupulously, and the people under him will follow suit. However, Cheng Yu also had his own reasons for doing this. The situation was that way at the time, and he was not forced to do so.
As a last resort
, it is true that no one does this. Secondly, he did this out of loyalty. To put it bluntly, it is impossible to say whether Cheng Yu did this. Who doesn’t have a few people who take the blame? But
Cheng Yu's lifelong reputation is indeed
It was ruined by this incident, so much so that after Cao Cao died, bastards like Hua Xin and Wang Lang were ranked among the three nobles, but Cheng Yu was never reused. Thinking about it, this incident also caused
The negative impact he brings is inseparable."
"You're right."
Qian Zhenren nodded, "Now those big bosses and so on, whoever works for them, can't support a few temporary workers and so on!"
"Isn't it?"
As Wang Xiaoliu'er said, he suddenly stopped. Qian Zhenren and others were thinking about Wang Xiaoliu's words. When they saw Wang Xiaoliu'er stopped, they all stopped too.
"What's wrong?"
"Listen, what's the sound?"
Wang Xiaoliu'er turned his ears and made a gesture of silencing. The two people behind him were also listening attentively. After listening, suddenly, Wang Xiaoliu'er heard a strange sound.
The voice was not close, but it still sounded very obvious, as if someone was whispering.
Wang Xiaoliu'er was suddenly startled and became alert, because he heard that the sound was like two people talking in a low voice, and the distance was far and near. Although the sound sounded
It's not scary, but the way it suddenly comes and goes makes Wang Xiaoliu'er wary.
Wang Xiaoliuer didn't get used to it. He stood at a "T"-shaped intersection, looked to the left and to the right, and then took out a black candle from his arms.
Wang Xiaoliuer squatted on the ground and lit the candle with a lighter. The strange thing was that when he held it and burned it, there was a green light, which looked very strange.
Wang Xiaoliuer held the lamp with one hand and slowly raised it. As the light and shadow flashed, Qian Zhenren and the mountain people all looked above their heads. It was better not to look at it. But when they looked up, Qian
The real person and the man's expressions suddenly changed with fright!
I saw that the top of the arch-shaped bridge-shaped head was full of protrusions, which looked very irregular. But if you look closely, you can clearly see those shadowy shapes.
The ugly things looked like dead bodies half buried in the mud!
They either showed half of their dead faces, or struggled with their arms as if they wanted to leave, or they lay flat with only two big eyes and high cheekbones showing, or some people were trying hard to use their arms hanging down.
He scratched and scratched at the three people, his eyes full of resentment and anger, as if he wanted to drag the three people into the mud and eat them!
"I'll go..."
Even though he was well-informed, Qian Zhenren was so frightened that his feet went weak and he almost sat on the ground.
He was half-crouching on the ground, his body crooked, and even his breathing was obviously becoming faster. He looked and looked, and suddenly heard a click. Qian Zhenren and Wang Xiaoliuer turned around almost at the same time. With this turn,
, I saw something falling to the ground with a clatter on the top of the originally solid tomb passage.