Although the Hu army is well-equipped and powerful in combat, their main occupation is digging hills and digging graves.

On weekdays, many large tombs with mountains as tombs have been dug, not to mention such an inconspicuous small tomb. Not even half an hour has passed, and the tomb has turned into a large pit of three meters square.

When they dug two meters underground, one coffin lid was exposed.

"Stop! Everyone, go out and retreat twenty feet away. Don't come any closer without Young Master's order."

Yang Wanli quickly stopped everyone in the Hu army and directed them to crawl out of the pit.

Wu Liang slid into the pit and took the time to investigate the condition of the coffin.

This is a cypress coffin. When Wu Liang got closer, he could smell the unique smell of cypress wood, which was also accompanied by a musty smell.

Different from those large tombs that have been painstakingly built, this tomb is actually a common burial tomb among the people. A coffin is directly buried in the moist soil. After being in this environment for many years, even the anti-corrosion and moisture-proof cypress wood can withstand

It cannot withstand the ravages of time, so it is normal for it to become rotten and moldy.

Seeing this, Wu Liang didn't even dare to step directly on the coffin lid, fearing that it would accidentally break off and fall into the coffin, and then crush the contents inside the coffin.

"Give me a shovel."

Seeing that only a small part of the coffin lid was exposed, Wu Liang asked Yang Wanli for an engineering shovel and started removing the layer of soil attached to the surface of the coffin lid layer by layer.

Yang Wanli and Dian Wei were not idle and began to help dig the soil around the coffin.

Soon after.

The coffin lid finally revealed its true appearance, and the coffin was completely exposed to the public.

After careful inspection at this time, Wu Liang quickly discovered several gaps in the coffin lid. These gaps were all located where the descendants' nails were nailed. They were obviously not formed by natural decay, and the descendants' nails had disappeared.

You can also see the holes left in the coffin.

This confirmed Qiu Lian's previous statement that the tomb had indeed been dug and the coffin had been opened.

In this case, 80% of the valuable items in the coffin have been taken away.

However, Wu Liang doesn't care about those gold and jade things. What he is looking for is clues about the "Bian Que" organization. Even if it is just a hint, it is not without gain.

Unfortunately, Wu Liang did not find any valuable information on the surface of the coffin.

So he had to teach Yang Wanli and Dian Wei to help open the coffin.

Without the descendants' nails to hold it in place, Yang Wanli and Dian Wei easily pushed the coffin lid aside with just a little force. Immediately afterwards, a foul smell hit their faces, making the eyes of Wu Liang and others sting.

In other words, they had put on gas masks a long time ago, otherwise they might have been fainted by the stench.

"Ahem! Ahem! Master, isn't this a tomb? Why is it so smelly!"

Yang Wanli couldn't stand the stench, so he quickly turned his back and coughed and asked.

Wu Liang also felt sick in waves.

He couldn't understand what was going on. Even if the coffin contained the strange poison they were poisoned with in Qi'ai Cemetery, if he remembered correctly, the strange poison should have a fresh fragrance, and there was absolutely no way it would have such a foul smell.

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With such questions, Wu Liang endured the stench and looked inside the coffin.

I saw a shallow layer of black mucus deposited at the bottom of the coffin, and in the black mucus, there were two heads:

A dummy head, apparently carved from stone;

The other one is a real human head, but now only the bare skull remains.

"this……"

Seeing this scene, Wu Liang immediately remembered what Qiu Lian had said before about the "Bian Que Curse".

The villager who dug up Bian Que's tomb was poisoned by the same strange poison as them. Eventually, everything below his head turned into smelly black water, leaving only a dead head.

besides.

Qiu Lian also mentioned that apart from a set of clothes, there was only a head carved in stone in this tomb.

Therefore, the fake human head carved from stone inside the coffin should be the symbol of the "Bian Que" head.

And that real head...

Wu Liang was a little surprised. Could it be that after the villager who dug the grave died, someone collected the black water and buried it with his head in Bian Que's tomb?

But what exactly is this picture?

Wu Liang was puzzled.

It stands to reason that after a person dies, his family should collect him and bury him in the ancestral grave. Why should he be reburied in Bian Que's tomb? This is unreasonable and unreasonable, and it definitely cannot be regarded as a tribute to "Bian Que".

Apologizing is a more serious offense, right?

But I have to admit it.

For Wu Liang and others who were also poisoned, this was a rather strong visual impact. There was nothing more frightening than directly seeing their own imminent death.

Fortunately, Wu Liang did not tell anyone else in the Hu army about this, so now he is the only one who is frightened.

After calming down for a while, Wu Liang no longer wanted to understand why this corpse appeared in Bian Que's tomb, so he had to ignore the matter for the time being and focus on the dummy head carved from stone.

Holding back the stench like this, Wu Liang leaned forward and took out the dummy head.

It's very heavy to start with, I estimate it weighs more than ten kilograms.

It can be seen from the marks on the dummy head that the black mucus in the coffin is lighter than expected. It seems that the bottom of the coffin is just painted with a layer of black paint, and there is absolutely nothing hidden underneath.

So the only thing in the coffin that has research value is the fake human head.

However, Wu Liang looked at the fake head carefully from top to bottom, but did not find any noteworthy details. Even the image of the fake head did not have any unique features. It looked similar to the later Qin Shihuang Mausoleum.

The image of the terracotta warriors and horses in the film is almost the same...

Devour

Just at this time.

"Sir, look here."

Dian Wei actually pointed at the coffin lid that they had just opened and reminded him.

"What?"

Wu Liang looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that the coffin lid had been opened by Yang Wanli and Dian Wei together, then turned over and put aside, so that he could just see the inside of the coffin lid.

And on the inside of the coffin lid, scratches of varying depths were left for some unknown reason.

Wu Liang walked closer and took a closer look.

A foreign object embedded in a deep scratch was soon discovered.

"This is?"

Putting on gloves, Wu Liang carefully took out the foreign object. After carefully examining it, he discovered that it was actually a piece of human fingernail!

"Why are there human nails here?"

Wu Liang subconsciously looked at the skull still in the coffin.

Could it be that this person was buried in the coffin while he was still alive and struggled in the coffin for a long time before dying?

This possibility is not impossible. Even if the coffin is not nailed with descendants, as long as it is buried two meters deep underground, no one will be able to escape from it.

But judging from the situation inside the coffin, this person should have died of a strange poison.

However, according to Qiu Lian's story, it should take about three months from the poisoning to the onset of the poison, and if a living person is put into a coffin and buried underground, it can only last for a few days at most.

So Wu Liang was a little confused.

Is this person infected with a strange poison first and then buried in a coffin to die, or is this person infected with a strange poison after being buried in a coffin... Although both of them should be able to cause the situation at hand, their properties are not completely different.

It's the same, but the story behind it will be completely different.

With these thoughts in mind, Wu Liang finally became interested in the skull.

So he first put the ordinary dummy head aside, then Wu Liang leaned into the coffin and tried to take out the skull.

"winter!"

Just as Wu Liang picked up the skull, a small object suddenly fell out of the skull and hit the bottom of the coffin with a muffled sound.

"?!"

Wu Liang quickly looked around.

I saw that the little thing was actually a small ball.

Although it was stained with some black mucus, Wu Liang could still tell that it was an eyeball, just like the eyeball he had just found from the village chief's cellar not long ago!

Why is there an eyeball here?

Wu Liang couldn't help but look at the skull in his hand.

Since it is an eyeball and it is hidden in the skull, Wu Liang has reason to suspect that the eyeball was an item worn by the deceased during his lifetime. It may have been installed in the eye socket and disappeared as the soft tissue gradually decayed after his death.

, the eyeball slipped into the inside of the skull, and it was not until Wu Liang went to get the skull that the eyeball fell out.

If so...
To be continued...