Xixia dead book

Chapter 140 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (25)
"That's wishful thinking. Now you do as I tell you, and you can move whichever stone I tell you to move." Han Jiang said in an orderly tone.

"Obey!" Tang Feng shook his head helplessly.

According to Han Jiang's instructions, Tang Feng gently removed the last piece of gravel in front of the door, and all the bones were presented in front of them.

Han Jiang took two photos of the skeleton with a digital camera, and Tang Feng wondered, "It turned out to be half a skeleton?"

After taking the photo, Han Jiang put away the camera and let out a sigh of relief: "No! It's one, a complete skeleton."

"But we only saw half of the skeleton! It seems to be the upper body of this person." Tang Feng was puzzled.

"Look carefully, that person has a lower body." Han Jiang reminded Tang Feng.

Tang Feng took the flashlight in Han Jiang's hand, and then shined on the skeleton in front of the door, from head to toe, bit by bit, the skull, breastbone, ribs, pelvis... until the pelvis was gone.Tang Feng didn't know why, but his heart was beating wildly at this moment.He took another half step forward. Suddenly, his eyes widened, and the flashlight in his hand almost fell to the ground.He saw—he saw the lower body of the skeleton in front of him was clamped inside the heavy gold-clad bronze door.

"This... this is too..." Tang Feng was terrified, and there seemed to be a terrifying scene of the deceased being caught in the crack of the door and struggling in pain before his eyes.

"Do you understand?" Han Jiang asked calmly.

"This person was trapped to death by the gate?!" Tang Feng said in surprise.

"How he died is not yet certain. But from the painful posture of the deceased before he died, it can be imagined that the deceased must have encountered something terrible behind the door, so he fled desperately to the door, but was still arrested. This heavy door is clamped." Han Jiang boldly deduced.

"God bless this unfortunate man!" Facing this strangely dead skeleton, Makarov even rarely drew the sign of the cross on his chest.

"What's so scary behind the door?" Tang Feng's words trembled a little, and he completely lost the confidence he had just now.

"Yes! What will be behind the door?" Han Jiang also seemed to lack confidence.

However, driven by great curiosity, Tang Feng still stretched out his hands involuntarily, trying to push open the gold-clad bronze door in front of him.But Tang Feng hadn't tried his best yet, Han Jiang suddenly shouted: "Wait!"

Tang Feng withdrew his hand suddenly: "What are you yelling?"

Han Jiang ignored Tang Feng, came to the gold-clad bronze door, and gently lifted the gilt-bronze shop heads on both sides of the door with his hands.After scrutinizing it for a long time, he suddenly asked Tang Feng: "Do you see anything special about this thing?"

"Isn't this just a pair of shop heads? It's also a door knocker. In ancient times, there would be such a pair of door knockers in front of the doors of rich families."

"No! I'm not asking you this. Have you seen the half of the rope on the door knocker?" Han Jiang gently picked up the rotten half of the rope on the door knocker on the left.

It was only then that Tang Feng noticed that there was still half of the rope on the door knocker on the left.He picked it up and looked at it: "This rope looks old, but..."

"But what?"

"But this kind of rope is by no means from the Xixia period. There would be no such kind of rope at that time, and the history of this kind of rope should be within nearly a hundred years." Tang Feng expressed his judgment.

"Well, I think so too." Han Jiang said.

"This shows that someone has been here in the past hundred years, but it is absolutely impossible to be that mysterious person." Makarov added.

"Don't worry about it, let's go in first!" Tang Feng was about to unlock it with his gun again, but this time he found that the gold-clad bronze door was not locked... Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Makarov exchanged surprises Look, I was stunned for a long time before I recovered.Tang Feng and Han Jiang stood still on one side, full of doubts and exerted force together, the seemingly heavy gold-clad bronze door was gently pushed open.

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The three of them walked cautiously behind the gold-clad bronze door, and shone forward with a flashlight, surrounded by wide and smooth corridors.The three of them walked forward for more than [-] steps along this corridor, and then they came out of the corridor and came to a stone hall again.

Tang Feng suddenly felt that there was some strange luster on the ground in front of him, so he hurriedly shined it with a flashlight. "It's water! There's a pond in front?" Tang Feng exclaimed.

"It's unbelievable. There is actually a pond in this deep mountain palace?" Han Jiang was also surprised.

But Makarov said quietly: "That's not a pond, and there's no water in it."

"Oh?" Tang Feng and Han Jiang looked at Makarov together.

"That's mercury," Makarov said with certainty.

"Mercury!" Han Jiang was startled.

"The pool of mercury in Xuangong!" Tang Feng immediately thought of the situation of placing mercury in the emperor's tomb that was recorded in ancient Chinese classics.Is this... this... Could it be the "Mercury Pond" recorded in the history books?It was also the first time he saw it.

"Mercury is highly poisonous, everyone should be careful." Makarov warned the two.

Tang Feng illuminated the entire stone hall with a flashlight. There was only this pool of mercury in front of it, and there was no other way to bypass it.

"What... what should we do? Can't we make it through?" he asked.

Makarov and Han Jiang were also watching.The beams of light from the flashlights in the hands of the three finally converged on the north bank of the Mercury Pool, and a staircase extended upward from the north bank of the Mercury Pool to the high platform on the north bank...

Tang Feng couldn't see the situation on the high platform clearly. There was only this pool of mercury in front of him. Only by crossing this pool of mercury could they climb to the high platform on the north bank.Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang, Han Jiang looked at Makarov, no one could cross the pool of mercury.The small pool of mercury has become their insurmountable moat.

The three of them looked at each other, helpless.Han Jiang was still calm, he took out a few more candles, put the lit candles in the grooves on the stone wall beside them, and put two more in the corridor.He had just finished all this when he suddenly felt something kicked under his feet.By candlelight, he found a long wooden plank lying on the left side of the corridor.

Han Jiang's eyes brightened: "How could there be such a wooden board in the corridor?"

Tang Feng immediately thought of the reason: "We are so stupid! There must have been people who wanted to pass through, and they must have used tools to pass through. Isn't this wooden board prepared for the Mercury Pool? There is no unparalleled road!"

"Be careful, this board looks old, in case..." Han Jiang didn't say any more, but the terrifying scene of stepping on the mercury pool flashed in the minds of the three of them.

Makarov knelt down to examine the long board carefully.After a long time, he nodded slightly: "Although this board is old, it should be no problem to bear the weight of one person. Let's pass it one by one."

"No! We must leave one person here in case of accidents." Han Jiang suggested.

"Well, two people go over and one person stays here." Tang Feng also agreed.

Han Jiang intends to let Makarov stay here, but Makarov insists on going there.Han Jiang thought about it, nowhere is safe in this ghostly place.Therefore, he agreed to let Makarov and Tang Feng pass by, and he stayed here as the rear.

The wooden plank was set up, not too long or too short, just enough for the length of the pool of mercury. It seemed that it was indeed specially prepared for passing through the pool of mercury.Tang Feng was the first to jump onto the plank.The wooden board is only 30cm wide, and because of its age, Tang Feng staggered on it, as if walking on a single-plank bridge.

Tang Feng spread his arms and tried to keep his body balanced. He didn't dare to look down at his feet, but he had to.Looking at the pool full of mercury, Tang Feng became dizzy for a while, his body swayed, and he almost lost his balance.Fortunately, he squatted down in time and regained his balance.

Tang Feng slowly stood up again and continued to move forward. It was 34 steps, and Tang Feng firmly remembered every step he took on the wooden board.Finally, Tang Feng saw the north bank of victory, but he didn't dare to jump, and moved to the north bank step by step with small steps.

Makarov also walked over smoothly, Tang Feng and he looked at each other, and then looked at the high platform on the north bank in unison.what will there beTreasure of the Xixia Dynasty?Or is it the third jade screen they are looking for?
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The stairs leading to the high platform were just enough for two people to walk side by side. Tang Feng and Makarov walked up the stairs side by side, a total of fourteen floors.When Tang Feng stepped on the last step, he couldn't help trembling.Because with the light of the flashlight, he vaguely saw a scene that shocked him very much.

A large-scale Buddhist altar was displayed in front of them, and seven tall Buddha statues were lined up on the altar, which was magnificent.Looking next to the Buddha statue, there are many Bodhisattvas and Arhats surrounding it.This scene made Tang Feng think of Xitian Lingshan in an instant. Could it be that this is the Xitian Paradise?

Tang Feng tried his best to keep himself calm.He can tell with just one glance that these are all Xixia-style Buddha statues.No need to ask, this place is still King Hao's masterpiece.But the scene that shocked Tang Feng and Makarov didn't stop there.

Tang Feng used a flashlight to illuminate the back of the Buddha statue, and he found that the back of the altar was still not finished, it was pitch black, as if there was still a huge space.Tang Feng and Makarov turned to the back of the altar, and they were surprised to find that there was another well-shaped hole on the stone wall behind the altar.

Just as Tang Feng was about to take a step, there was a crisp metal sound under his feet.He hurriedly used the flashlight to shine a light on his feet, and in the thin floating soil, something like two coins appeared vaguely.He bent down to pick up the two "coins", and after only looking at them, he lost his voice and said, "Sure enough, someone has been here before!"

"What? What did you find?" Makarov asked.

"Look, Ma, this is a silver dollar from the period of the Republic of China. We call this silver dollar 'Yuan Datou'." Tang Feng handed the silver dollar to Makarov.

Makarov looked at it: "In other words, there were people who came here during the Republic of China."

"It seems to be true. The rope on the gold-clad bronze door knocker, the bones in the door crack, and the missing door on the south side of the stone hall, all these show that people have been here before us. But these people Much earlier than us, these two silver dollars basically fixed the group of people who entered here in the period of the Republic of China." Tang Feng deduced.

Makarov pondered for a while, and said, "Tang Feng, when you said that, I suddenly thought of the two skeletons we found in the stone waterfall cave in the colorful brocade sea."

Tang Feng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in surprise: "Yes! At that time, we also found some ammunition and tools in the Stone Waterfall Cave, which were all from the period of the Republic of China, so we judged that the two skeletons also belonged to the period of the Republic of China."

"Later, the great lama of Qise Jinhai mentioned to us that in the 20s, four people entered Qise Jinhai to find the jade screen in Animaqing Snow Mountain. The leader claimed to be a secret of the National Government. Colonel of the bureau," Makarov recalled.

"Old Ma, if you didn't mention this, I would have forgotten. The great lama did mention the four people who broke into the Seven-color Brocade Sea. Later, the great lama's clan designed to trick the four people into the stone waterfall cave... Today we found relics and bones from the period of the Republic of China in Heijiu Temple Mountain. Could it be... during the period of the Republic of China, there was also a group of people who fought bloody battles for the secret of the jade screen?"

"A battle that has lasted for a hundred years!" Makarov muttered to himself.

"Maybe this competition has never stopped!" Tang Feng sighed.

Makarov didn't say anything, and took a flashlight to look around.Suddenly, he pointed to the back of the big Buddha in the middle and shouted: "Look, Tang Feng, there are words here."

Tang Feng leaped onto the altar and shone a flashlight on the back of the Buddha statue. A line of Xixia characters written vertically appeared on the back of the Buddha statue.Tang Feng identified it carefully, and slowly read out: "Jie-Tai-Shang-Temple-Middle-Hall-Ji-Bit..."

"Tang Feng, what does this mean?"

"It seems that this is the temple we are looking for!" Tang Feng said with a hint of excitement.

"I didn't expect that the party members would dig such a grand monastery in the mountain!" Makarov once again looked around in amazement.

"More importantly, this sentence reveals where we are now. This is the nave of the upper temple, so that is to say, the stone hall we saw in front is the front hall, and it also tells us that the back should be There is an apse." Tang Feng became more and more excited as he spoke.

"Tang Feng, I know that in Chinese architectural culture, the latter is often the most important. Is that right?" Makarov asked.

"Not all, but the underground palaces of general mausoleums are like this." Tang Feng blurted out.

When Tang Feng finished speaking, both of them were stunned.Mausoleum and underground palace?Could it be that the place where they are located is a Xixia royal tomb?But Tang Feng quickly denied this idea. The Western Xia royal tombs are all under Helan Mountain, so how could they appear here?
"Then let's go to the apse quickly!" Makarov urged Tang Feng, pointing to the hole in front of him.

Apse?Is the hole in front of you the passage leading to the apse?What will be in the apse?A series of questions kept flashing in Tang Feng's mind.He jumped off the Buddhist altar, already numb to the endless dark hole, and now he just wants to get rid of the darkness as soon as possible.To enter here, is to enter the world of light, or deeper darkness?

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Tang Feng and Makarov got into the hole leading to the apse without hesitation.The two walked forward for more than fifty steps in the dark corridor, but they still haven't seen the end of the corridor.Tang Feng couldn't help feeling suspicious: "Shouldn't the corridor connecting the nave and apse be so long?"

"That's right, the corridor from the front hall to the nave is not long." Makarov was also surprised.

"Old horse, have you noticed that this corridor is not as wide as the one in front, but it is very regular, obviously polished by hand."

"It's a little strange. If our speculation is reasonable and the apse is the most important, then the corridor leading to the apse should be wider, and the gate of the apse should be more noble and high-grade, maybe it will be a pure gold gate. "

"Pure gold gate?" Tang Feng was startled, then smiled, "Old Ma, can you really think, do you know how much gold it takes to build a pure gold gate? If there is a pure gold gate waiting for us, then The gold-lacquered gates and gold-clad copper doors we saw before are all floating clouds. Although gold is also used for gold-lacquered and gold-clad doors, compared to pure gold, they are all very small amounts of gold. I think, if Xixia If you can really use gold to build a gate like that, you will basically use up all the gold in the Xixia treasury."

"I just speculate based on the Chinese hierarchy."

"Wish we could see the gate of solid gold you speculate!"

As soon as Tang Feng finished speaking, he suddenly found that the tunnel seemed to have come to an end.He couldn't believe his eyes, but his eyes didn't deceive him. The beam of light from the flashlight had already shone on a stone wall made of huge stones.

"What's going on here?" Makarov also saw it.

"No wonder this corridor is not as wide as the one in front, it turned out to be a dead end!" Tang Feng cried in disappointment.

"Impossible! It was clearly written on the back of the Buddha statue just now that it was the nave, and there should be an apse behind the nave!" Makarov couldn't accept this fact either.

While talking, the two of them didn't stop, and quickly walked to the end of the corridor, but there was no way.Tang Feng held up the flashlight and looked around in disappointment. There was no pure gold gate here, but only the same stone blocks as the front hall and nave, which fit perfectly.What exactly is going on?Is there really no apse?

No!Impossible, without the apse, why dig this long corridor?Tang Feng didn't believe that this was the end of the corridor.He used a flashlight to search the stone wall bit by bit...Suddenly, he found an arch-shaped brick trace on the stone wall on the left side of the corridor; after careful inspection, within the arch-shaped brick trace, There are some irregular boulders piled up.Tang Feng counted, and there were six pieces in total. On two of them, he saw "bull-nosed eyes", and there were still two ropes left in the "bull-nosed eyes", which were dragged to the ground.

"What is this?" Makarov also saw the difference on the left stone wall.

"That's where the problem lies." Tang Feng exhaled lightly, and said again, "This was originally a coupon gate, and the inside of the gate was closed with a huge stone, blocking the coupon gate."

"Then what's behind this coupon door?"

"Maybe it's the pure gold gate you mentioned!" Tang Feng laughed.

"Look at the writing on this boulder, there are quite a lot!" Makarov said, pointing to one of the boulders.

(End of this chapter)