Cao Cao asked me to go rob a tomb

Chapter 130 Horror Lake of Killing (Chapter 4000 of )
But for now.

Wu Liang has not seen Linghu with his own eyes, nor has he understood the environment and landforms there, so it is too early to say anything.

Now, what we have to do is to lead the Huren army to Linghu as soon as possible, and conduct a field survey around there to see if we can find some other clues, so that it is possible to judge the true nature of Linghu's "soul-absorbing" reason.

So two days later.

The Huan army finally arrived at Linghu, taking advantage of the soldiers' rest.

Wu Liang led Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing, Yang Wanli and Yu Ji to the lakeside to check the situation.

"Old man, my family's ancestral grave should be in the vicinity. I would like to ask the old man to use his skills to help me check it out. I am very grateful."

While observing the landforms and vegetation by the lake and the situation inside the lake, Wu Liang deliberately tried to speak to Ji.

"Young Master, you are joking. The terrain here is flat and vast. I can't observe the sand and water nearby, so I really can't use the art of geomancy."

Yu Ji glanced at Wu Liang, turned back and pointed to a foothill two miles away, and said with a smile, "However, that hill is tens of feet high. If I can reach the top of the hill, I can have a panoramic view of the sand and water here. At that time, we can use the art of geomancy to point out the tomb site for the young master."

Wu Liang looked in the direction of Yu Ji's finger, and he saw a hill about 150 meters high.

One side of the hill is very steep, and the other side is slightly gentle. It shouldn't be too difficult to go up from the gentle side.

As for Yu Ji's statement, Wu Liang agreed with it.

The art of Kanyu is basically to observe mountains and waters. If Yu Ji just listened to his words and performed the art of Kanyu on the spot without saying a word, he would definitely be lying again.

If so, no matter how capable Yu Ji is, he can't use it for himself.

Wu Liang would decisively ask Dian Wei to throw the old man into the lake to gurgle, and then drive him away without saying a word of nonsense.

"Then there is Mr. Law."

Wu Liang smiled, and looked up at the lake again.

At this moment, Linghu Lake is no different from ordinary lakes, the water of the lake is clear and rippling.

Some waterfowl are circling over Linghu Lake, and there are many wild ducks swimming leisurely in the center of the lake, sometimes drilling down and sometimes floating up, always gaining something.

Even under the aquatic plants by the lake, some small schools of fish can be seen swimming happily, and when they sense someone passing by, they run around.

What an original picture scroll with a beautiful environment.

"Jingjing, I'm a bit greedy, help me get some water birds to eat?"

Looking at the plump wild duck in the center of the lake, Wu Liang smiled and looked at Bai Jingjing.

"If you want to eat, you can grab it yourself, and ask me what to do?"

Bai Jingjing rolled her eyes and snorted.

"Presumptuous! Is there anyone who talks to you like this? I really don't know what it means!"

Wu Liang reprimanded, but there was no displeasure on his face, but he continued, "Isn't it because it's easier for you to grab it, don't you think I can't catch it? Okay, okay, okay, this is If you don't catch it, don't blame me for not giving you a chance, I won't give you a bite of my unique delicacy 'Called Flower and Water Bird' when it comes out of the oven, and it's just me, Dian Wei, Yang Wanli and the old man eating it by himself!"

"What waterfowl are you talking about?"

Bai Jingjing immediately turned her head and asked doubtfully, at the same time she swallowed a mouthful of tears.

Although Wu Liang seldom cooks, especially when he is at home, he is served by a "beauty" who almost just opens his mouth and stretches his hands to eat.

But there were still a few times when Bai Jingjing was lucky enough to taste Wu Liang's handicraft.

The taste is indeed more delicious than the food that Bai Jingjing ate before. The most important thing is that Wu Liang is willing to put in the ingredients. The seasonings such as onion, ginger, pepper, dogwood, garlic, cinnamon, lemongrass, etc. that can be found in this era are never stingy. The first time he went south, he also brought a small packet of seasoning powder as a backup.

What Bai Jingjing misses the most is Wu Liang's special "roasted pigeon".

While grilling with fruit wood charcoal, brush caramel sugar on the skin of the pigeon. The outside is burnt and the inside is tender. It tastes so good that you can't help but suck your fingers.

In addition, it has been nearly two months since she went south, and she mostly used biscuits as dry food and corn porridge along the way, and only once in a while in the city, she could eat a decent bite of food, and Bai Jingjing's mouth was about to fade out. .

Now I suddenly heard Wu Liang say another cooking technique that I had never heard of before.

Bai Jingjing instantly shed unbearable tears for those water birds.

"It's called flowers and water birds. You don't have to eat anyway, so why ask so many?"

Wu Liang glanced at her, and said intentionally, "Dianwei, go get a pot, we're going to catch birds."

The so-called "beggar water bird" is a vocabulary invented by Wu Liang himself, and the original form refers to "beggar chicken".

In fact, this kind of cooking technique has already existed as early as the Zhou Dynasty. One of the "Eight Treasures", "Pao Dolphin", is like this. The suckling pig is wrapped with clay and grilled to become a dish.

However, this kind of "not on the table" eating method was no longer popular in the Han Dynasty, so it was rare even among the people, and there was no such word as "begging flowers" at this time.

As for hunting birds, it was much easier.

A pot, a small wooden stick, a hemp rope and a handful of grain are enough. This is not difficult for Wu Liang, but it just takes a little time.

But Wu Liang didn't need to worry about this, as there were so many soldiers in the Tuan army, he could just call two people over to do the job.

"Wait a moment."

Bai Jingjing hurriedly stopped Dian Wei, and a bright smile appeared on her face the next moment, she stepped forward and gently shook Wu Liang's sleeves, and said delicately, "Oh Patriarch, I was just joking with you. It’s just a water bird, how could I disobey the Patriarch’s wishes, let me handle this trivial matter.”

"..."

Conscience of heaven and earth, this is the first time that Wu Liang has seen Bai Jingjing act like this.

So much so that he even suspected that next time if he came up with something better to eat to lure this girl, he would be able to hit the base easily.

Emmm... The conditions are not so good now, I must try it when I go back!

While talking.

"Gudong—crash!"

Suddenly there was a very strange sound of water splashing in the lake.

The wild ducks that were leisurely cruising on the lake were immediately disturbed, flapping their wings and flying away into the distance.

!! ?
Several people in the entourage quickly looked into the lake, and thought that the big fish in the lake was churning.

But Wu Liang and Yang Wanli were the only ones who were really shocked. In order to prevent unnecessary panic, Wu Liang did not choose to disclose the rumor of "soul-absorbing lake".

Only then did I find out.

At this moment, there is a string of white bubbles rising rapidly from the bottom of the lake in the lake. When the bubbles reach the surface of the lake, a huge splash will appear like boiling water. It is big but small, and this picture looks a bit spectacular.

"I'm afraid there are big fish down here. My father said that the bigger the fish, the bigger and more blisters it will spit out."

Bai Jingjing said in surprise, "However, these blisters are so big and there are so many, how big a fish must it be? Oh? Patriarch, why do you look so ugly?"

"It's okay, I'm a coward by nature, I'm just scared."

Wu Liang smiled and said.

Originally, he was going to tell everyone to run for their lives first, but seeing that there were only a string of blisters, and after the water bubbles had run out, the lake surface became calm again, so he finally endured it.

At the same time, after seeing this scene, combined with Yang Wanli's previous description, Wu Liang immediately had a relatively certain judgment in his mind about the vision of "the evil lake sucking soul".

This is probably not caused by ghosts, but a natural phenomenon!
As far as he knew, there were three very famous and terrifying killing lakes similar to the vision of Linghu in later generations.

These three terrifying and murderous lakes are called Lake Nyos, Lake Kivu and Lake Morovin.

Large-scale murders have occurred in all the terrifying killing lakes, and those victims all died quietly in an instant.

In severe cases, it can even kill nearly 4 people and more than 1800 livestock in 3500 villages without warning in a very short period of time. Even the deceased himself did not know why he died.

At first, people thought it was some kind of terrible biological weapon attack.

But after careful research by scientists, the possibility of a biological weapon attack was quickly ruled out.

Because these victims did not die of any virus or disease, but died of inexplicable suffocation.

finally.

The real culprits of such strange killings have been found, and it is these terrifying killing lakes.

These lakes are either located in craters or above cracks in the rocks of the earth's crust, so that carbon dioxide in the earth's crust can penetrate deep into the lakes through rock cracks.

However, due to the considerable depth of these lakes, the pressure and pressure generated are extremely high, and the carbon dioxide escaping from the cracks in the crustal rocks will be dissolved in the lake water by high pressure. After years of accumulation, the dissolved and accumulated carbon dioxide in the water will eventually One day it will reach a critical value.

At this time, the whole lake is like a bottle of fat house happy water that has been shaken violently.

If it is not disturbed by the outside world, it may be able to barely maintain a balance, but if there is a relatively severe vibration, such as an earthquake, large-scale rockfall, volcanic eruption, etc., or it will be thrown into the lake like generations of Haihunhou. A large number of corpses, large-scale construction.

At that time, the bottle of "Fat House Happy Water" that has been shaken violently will suddenly pour out a large amount of carbon dioxide that has reached a critical value, as if the bottle cap was suddenly unscrewed.

At this time, not to mention the boiling of the lake, even the phenomenon of "water dragon pillars" as high as tens of feet that Yang Wanli inquired about from folk rumors was extremely normal.

Under normal circumstances, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is a non-toxic, harmless, colorless and odorless gas.

But if the carbon dioxide exceeds the normal concentration.

Once it reaches 10%, it can already make it difficult for all aerobic organisms to breathe, and soon the alveoli in the lungs will paralyze the respiratory center and suffer from hypoxia and suffocation due to the high concentration of carbon dioxide.

And once it reaches 15%, most aerobic organisms will die immediately without even having time to react!

Plus carbon dioxide is denser than air.

When there is such a large amount of pouring in a short period of time, the carbon dioxide will form a gas layer tens of meters thick, and spread rapidly along the ground to all sides.

All the aerobic creatures covered by this layer of gas felt as if their noses and mouths were firmly covered by a pillow that fell from the sky in an instant, and they suffocated to death unexpectedly.

After seeing the situation just now, combined with the details in the rumors.

Wu Liang was almost certain that the current Linghu Lake was such a "horror killing lake"!
Because this kind of inexplicable bubbling phenomenon will also appear in the three terrifying murderous lakes discovered in later generations, and the local people will come to watch it as a wonderful "spectacle" without knowing the inside story.

"This is a bit troublesome..."

Thinking of this, Wu Liang was no longer in the mood to make "Calling Flowers and Water Birds", and frowned slightly.

Because this problem is beyond his ability to solve...

Even if later generations target the terrifying Killing Lake, they still use a relatively stupid "artificial degassing method".

People will place several floating platforms in the center of the lake, and install an exhaust pipe directly to the bottom of the lake on the platform, and then use a powerful water pump to suck up the water with high carbon dioxide content at the bottom of the lake and spray it to high places at high speed.

During the high-speed jet, carbon dioxide in the water is released into the air.

In this way, a large amount of carbon dioxide is divided into low concentrations and released slowly in multiple batches, and such a low dose will not cause harm to the breathing of nearby animals.

But even so, the degassing efficiency is extremely low.

According to scientists' estimates, even if a multi-pronged approach is taken, it will take several years to exhaust all the existing carbon dioxide in the terrifying killing lake.

What's more, during this process, new carbon dioxide will continue to be produced at the bottom of the water...

If this is the case in future generations, Wu Liang is naturally even more helpless.

The only way he can think of to solve this problem now is the power of nature...

As far as Wu Liang knows, the tomb of Marquis Haihun is considered a relatively well-preserved tomb in the archaeological discoveries of later generations.

The main reason is that a major earthquake occurred during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when the tomb was damaged, a large amount of lake water poured into the tomb, which stumped the tomb robbers who did not have the ability to work underwater, and the isolation of the water was also able to block most of the cultural relics. Oxidation.

Based on this, it can be inferred that the reason why "Spirit Lake" no longer has the ability to be a "terrorist murder lake" in later generations may also be related to this earthquake.

In that big earthquake.

The earth's crust moved again, causing the rock crevices at the bottom of the lake to be completely sealed, or the position shifted, so that carbon dioxide would no longer accumulate at the bottom of the lake, and the phenomenon of "the evil lake sucking soul" would no longer appear.

But these are things for later, now Wu Liang does not have the ability to summon a big earthquake with the "shocking fruit", and it is impossible to create the "artificial degassing" machine of later generations.

If that's the case, I'm afraid it can only be...

Wu Liang frowned and thought for a long time, finally looked at Yu Ji, and said, "Mr., let's go up the mountain to find the tomb first? Please."

"Good to say."

Yu Ji didn't refuse, stroked his beard and nodded slightly.

"Oh? Wait a minute, are you still catching that waterfowl? Are you still able to do that beggar waterfowl?"

Bai Jingjing quickly caught up and asked.

She had already shed a lot of tears for those water birds, but now that Wu Liang suddenly didn't mention this, wouldn't those tears be shed in vain?
"Catch! Some waterfowl will build their nests in the woods by the water, and you can catch them when you go up the mountain."

Wu Liang supported Yu Ji as he walked, nodded, and then said to Yang Wanli, "Yang Wanli, go and ask our people to go up the mountain together, and we will set up camp on the top of the mountain."

(End of this chapter)