"The legendary wooden armor?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at Yu Ji in surprise, expressing that they didn't quite understand what he was talking about.

Only Wu Liang suddenly thought of something when he heard the word "wooden armor". However, he did not immediately say what he thought of, but asked as if to verify: "Old sir, what did you say?"

What is the wooden armor?"

"I wonder if you have ever read Liezi?"

Yu Ji still looked shocked, looking at the amputated arm and asked.

"Could it be that what the old gentleman is talking about is the wooden armored man made by Yanshi recorded in Liezi?"

At this point, Wu Liang was finally sure that what he was thinking of should be the same thing as what Yu Ji said, and then he continued to ask.

"Liezi" records many rather mysterious things, such as "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain", "Two Children Debating the Sun", "Mountains and Flowing Waters", "The Echoes of the Sound Reverberate in the Liang"... and other historical allusions that are well known to everyone in later generations all come from this book.

book.

And "Wood Armor" is a record in Liezi.

It is said that King Mu, the emperor of Zhou, met a mysterious craftsman named "Yanshi" by chance. Next to "Yanshi" was a strange man covered in wood grain colors.

King Zhou Mu was curious and asked who this strange man was. "Yanshi" told him that this was not a real person, but a wooden armor man made by himself. He ordered the wooden armor man to sing and dance for King Zhou Mu on the spot, and the wooden armor man did it one by one.

Every gesture and gesture is the same as that of a real person, almost fake.

But at the end, the wooden armor man even tried to die to wink at King Zhou Mu's concubine.

King Mu of Zhou was furious and scolded "Yanshi" for daring to find a real person to stick wooden skins on him and pretend to be a wooden armor man to tease him. In order to clear up the suspicion, "Yanshi" quickly took apart the wooden armor man in front of King Zhou Mu, only to see the wooden armor.

Man A is made of wood, leather armor, glue paint, and some random dead objects from the inside out.

Then "Yanshi" combined these dead objects, and the wooden armor man became lifelike again.

King Mu of Zhou was naturally surprised and delighted. He praised him repeatedly and took Yanshi and the wooden armor man back together.

Six hundred years later, two more famous craftsmen appeared in the world, namely Gongshu Ban (Lu Ban), the "God of Craftsmen", and Mozi, the "ancestor of Mohism". Both of them believed that their skills had reached unprecedented levels.

high.

However, when their disciples told the two masters about "Yanshi", they were both ashamed of themselves and never dared to talk about their skills again, and started working as carpenters honestly...

This is the record about "wooden armor" in Liezi.

In fact, later generations generally believe that this record is just a fantasy myth, because in the understanding of later generations, such technology could not have existed in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Wu Liang also had some doubts about this.

Of course, as a graduate student majoring in archeology, he was by no means just making assumptions out of thin air, but Liezi also recorded many similar mysterious and mysterious mythological stories, and the "Taiping Qingling Jing" contained in the "Taiping Qingling Jing" that Yu Ji somehow produced

Huang Laodao's thoughts are also very similar to the records in Liezi.

This is also why it started from the Han Dynasty.

Liezi has never been regarded as a serious historical allusion, but rather as a Taoist classic or philosophical work.

Even during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was rated as one of the three pillars of metaphysics.

How could Wu Liang take the contents recorded in such an ancient book so easily as truth?

Therefore, even if Yu Ji said the word "wooden armor", Wu Liang did not jump to a conclusion, but wanted to hear what his opinions were before making his own judgment.

But he also had to admit it.

At this moment, his views on "Lieh Zi", especially on "Wu Jia", had wavered.

Because he really had no way to explain how such a wooden arm that had been buried in a coffin for nearly a thousand years could accurately grasp his arm just now.

There is no way to explain how this wooden arm accurately grasped the wooden handle of the engineer shovel when he wanted to lift off the golden mask of the humanoid corpse...

This is simply not something that an ordinary preset mechanism or a puppet with fine craftsmanship can do.

Both intelligence and motivation are difficult to understand.

"Exactly!"

Yu Ji nodded and said with a gradually excited expression, "'Liezi' is an enlightenment book for me to pursue Taoism. I can recite every detail in it, and this 'Wooden Armor Man' is exactly what is recorded in it."

A magical thing, I didn’t expect to see it here. Hahaha, I chose to follow the young master before, and it was indeed the wisest choice. The young master is my guide!”

"Oh? Since the old gentleman recognizes the wooden armor, can he tell you the reason behind it?"

Wu Liang quickly asked again.

"nature……"

Yu Ji nodded again. Just when Wu Liang was overjoyed, the old boy was just gasping, "...No, I have only read the records of this thing. If I can really understand the principle, then I am afraid

If you have obtained fortune, won’t you have to attain Taoism and ascend to immortality?”

"Is it possible that the principle of this 'wooden armor man' is also related to metaphysics or Taoism?"

Wu Liang was a little speechless, not completely agreeing with Yu Ji's statement.

But in fact, what this old boy said has some truth to it. Regardless of whether he can attain Taoism or become immortal, the person who was able to create the "Wooden Armored Man" during the Western Zhou Dynasty, indeed only the word "god" can be worthy of him.

in addition.

Wu Liang agrees that there must be something mysterious about the "Wooden Armor Man" that is unknown to the public, and that this mystery must be difficult to copy or popularize, otherwise it will definitely be exploited in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods after the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even in later generations.

All the dynasties, the ancient wars of the Celestial Dynasty will also turn into jaw-dropping "mecha wars".

However, based on this severed arm alone, it was not completely certain that the humanoid corpse in front of them was the legendary "Wooden Armor".

Wu Liang felt that it was necessary to conduct further research.

"I can't say for sure, but this 'wooden armor' is something that can only be found but cannot be found. I will definitely study it carefully. Maybe I can gain a deeper understanding of Taoism."

Yu Ji was already sure that this was the "Wooden Armor". As he spoke, he rushed forward with a red face. This was completely different from his greedy and fearful attitude just now.

"Oh, be careful..."

Wu Liang had something in mind for a moment, but when he reacted and opened his mouth to stop it, he saw that the old boy had already picked up the amputated arm with trembling hands, and looked up and down very carefully as if he had found a treasure.

Fortunately, the amputated arm did not make any move, and the humanoid corpse lying on the ground did not react at all.

Everything seemed very peaceful for the time being, and Yu Ji's life was not threatened.

Seeing this situation, Wu Liang finally felt relieved.

"Old sir, have you seen any clues?"

Wu Liang came forward immediately and urged Yu Ji. He just watched him quietly playing with the amputated arm. Unfortunately, he couldn't figure out what was going on after watching him for a long time, so he asked again.

"The main material of this arm is wood, but the joint joints are filled with something that looks like glue and paint. In addition, there are some unknown green minerals (huo four tones, blue minerals) and other foreign objects in the hollow arm.

, Apart from that, I haven’t seen anything out of the ordinary yet. If you want to get more information, I’m afraid you need to take this ‘wooden armor’ apart.”

Yu Ji shook his head, but said without raising his head.

"This is not the place to do such things. If this corpse is really a 'wooden armor', it would be better to take it out and study it slowly."

Wu Liang also said with great interest.

"What the young master said is absolutely true."

Yu Ji finally looked away from the broken arm, and looked expectantly at the humanoid corpse lying on the ground.

"Old sir, please step back and let me verify the authenticity before making a decision."

Wu Liang was worried that the old boy would not be able to bear the risk of rushing forward again, so he first pulled him behind him, and then extended his engineering shovel towards the humanoid corpse again.

…

Soon after, Wu Liang used an engineer shovel to turn the humanoid corpse over.

Then he carefully stretched out the engineering shovel and continued to pry the golden mask on the face of the humanoid corpse.

"Clang!"

This time, the humanoid corpse finally did not make any form of "resistance". With a soft sound, the golden mask fell off the face of the humanoid corpse, revealing a... human face sewn with brown leather.

The shape of this human face is indescribably weird.

All the facial features are complete, and he looks lifelike, except that his mouth is smiling at an inappropriate time, and it is the kind of smile with the corners of his mouth wide open.

And its eyes.

It was a pair of narrow black and white eyes.

At this moment, the pair of eyes also maintained a crooked smile, and the black pupils were tilted towards Wu Liang and others, as if they were staring at them with keen eyesight.

The combination of such a mouth and such a pair of eyes resembles the "funny face" in later emoticons.

But under this situation, Wu Liang didn't find it funny at all, but felt a little chilly in his heart.

Because those eyes are so bright, as bright as the eyes of a living person, as if they can see through everything inside them...

"You can't be wrong, this is not a human body at all, it must be a 'wooden armored man'!"

Seeing this scene, Yu Ji seemed even more excited.

"..."
To be continued...