Xixia dead book

Chapter 144 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (29)
"The black lama who was crushed to death..." Makarov murmured to himself, as if he was in deep thought. After a long time, he said again, "It's hard to say whether that corpse is a black lama. However, since we entered this Looking at the mysterious palace in the mountain, only this skeleton was found, and I also think that skeleton is probably a black lama!"

"The black lama died quite tragically. It seems that this group of people killed him not only because they were dissatisfied with him, but also to find Hanhai Micheng."

"Or, their dissatisfaction with the black lama comes from the secret behind the jade screen." Makarov said calmly.

"These people already have so many treasures, aren't they satisfied?"

"Tang Feng, the biggest question about this oath doesn't stop there!" Makarov reminded Tang Feng.

"Oh? What else?"

"Those nine words that were intentionally erased!" Makarov said firmly.

"I also noticed that the nine characters were not erased naturally, but were erased intentionally. Only the word 'Ma Yuan' was not erased."

"According to the Chinese custom, the nine Chinese characters should be the names of three or four people, plus this 'Ma Yuan', that is, these four or five people killed the black lama and made this oath. But then I don't know what The reason is to erase the names of those people."

"Four or five people?! These few people followed the black lama to escape the pursuit and fled here, and then for some reason, these four or five people killed the black lama. After these people killed the black lama, they did not enjoy this place. Instead, they searched for the remaining jade screens, but no one came back here in the end. Could it be that these people are all dead?" Tang Feng speculated about the whole process of what happened here.

"At least in Seven Colors Jinhai, these people have left clues!" Makarov reminded Tang Feng.

"Yes! The great lama mentioned that four unexpected guests suddenly appeared that year, and that group was exactly four people!" Tang Feng said in shock, but quickly denied himself, "But I remember the great lama said very clearly, then The head of the four uninvited guests is a middle-aged man in his 50s, the other three are in his 30s, and the other two are very young, only in their early 20s. If the oath on the stone platform is engraved on Mazong Mountain Shortly after the war, that is, the late 20s, the early 20s at the latest, and the four uninvited guests broke into the Qise Jinhai in the late 20s. In this way, the two young people never It may be the person who took the oath, and the person in his 30s may not be the person who took the oath."

Makarov pondered for a long time, but he didn't want to understand this question.

"Oops! We're just looking for treasures here, and Han Jiang is still outside!" Tang Feng said suddenly.

The two suddenly thought of Han Jiang, and they didn't know how he was doing outside.No one expected such a vast space behind the pool of mercury, and such a shocking discovery.

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Tang Feng and Makarov didn't take any of the treasures, so they hurried back along the same route.Everything seemed normal, and the two were soon back in the nave.Tang Feng walked down the stairs quickly, thinking that Han Jiang would still be standing on the other side of the Mercury Pool, waiting for them.But when they arrived at the north bank of Mercury Pond, there was no sign of Han Jiang.What surprised them even more was that the wooden plank on the pool of mercury disappeared.

"Damn it! This... Han Jiang actually ran away?"

"Han Jiang must have encountered some accident!" Makarov quickly made a judgment.

"Ah! Han Jiang fell into the pool of mercury!" Tang Feng quickly thought of another extreme.He stood by the side of the pool of mercury and looked at the bottom of the pool, and there was nothing unusual.

"That mysterious man!" Makarov said cautiously.

"Mysterious man?" Tang Feng exclaimed.

"With Han Jiang's skill, it is difficult for ordinary people to subdue him, unless he is attacked!" Makarov speculated.

"Okay! Don't worry about Han Jiang, he's hard-fated and can't die! Now let's think about how we can go back!" Tang Feng was upset.

Tang Feng and Makarov panicked for a moment.However, Makarov quickly calmed down: "Tang Feng, think about it, when Xixia built this place, it was absolutely impossible to cross the mercury pool with a wooden plank!"

"Yeah! Maybe there used to be a bridge on it, but it was destroyed by Liang Zuo's order later! Didn't he not want people to enter here?" Tang Feng guessed wildly.

"Destroyed by Zhang Zuo? Unless it is a wooden bridge, but I don't think there is any trace of a wooden bridge beside the mercury pool!" Makarov said after checking.

"That's the stone bridge!" Tang Feng said indiscriminately.

"Stone Bridge?" A series of images popped up in Makarov's mind. He suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly groped on the stone wall on the north bank of the Mercury Pool.

"Lao Ma, what are you doing? Do you think there will be an agency here?" Tang Feng asked back.

"Why not?" Makarov looked confident.

The stone walls on the north bank of the Mercury Pool are all made of irregular hexagonal stone blocks. Makarov tried one by one, and suddenly, one of the stone blocks was pushed down by him.

Tang Feng was also surprised. He found that the stone pushed down by Makarov was more regular than other hexagonal stones.When Makarov pushed the stone into the innermost part, there was a change in the pool of mercury.

After a small surge, six hexagonal stone piers slowly emerged from the pool of mercury, just to build a stone bridge over the pool of mercury.

Tang Feng approached the pool and saw that the hexagonal stone pier was in the shape of a lotus flower.As the so-called "step by step lotus", this is the auspicious meaning in Buddhism.Tang Feng didn't care much, and stepped on the first stone pier first, followed by the second, and the third... When his feet stood on the south bank of the Mercury Pool again, he finally let out a sigh of relief.Makarov also followed to the south bank of the Mercury Pool.

The two dared not slack off, nor did they dare to call Han Jiang's name.They all pulled out their pistols tacitly, and the mysterious man may be outside the gold-clad bronze door...

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Tang Feng and Makarov walked through the wide corridor, where the oval-shaped stones were piled up, the same as when they came here, the two ropes on the gold-clad bronze door were still there, and the one was placed on the pool of mercury The wooden boards were put back on the left side of the corridor.Tang Feng raised his foot and was about to pass through the gold-clad bronze door, but Makarov grabbed him.Makarov pointed to his feet, and Tang Feng found some messy shoe prints on the floating soil under his feet.

Tang Feng squatted down to check these messy shoe prints, but found that the shoe prints on the ground were all left by him, Han Jiang, and Makarov, and there was no fourth person's shoe prints.

Makarov was also very puzzled, and the two returned to the front hall, which was empty.Han Jiang disappeared? !Tang Feng looked at the west gate that was opened when they came, and then at the opening to the south, and found nothing unusual. Then he looked at the originally closed east gate, which was actually ajar...

"The east gate has been opened!" Tang Feng whispered in surprise.

"Han Jiang's shoe prints on the ground also extend here." Makarov found that Han Jiang's shoe prints finally disappeared in front of the east gate.

The two looked at each other, instinctively opened the safety of the pistol, and walked sideways to the east gate.They didn't know what happened to Han Jiang, how he left his post and ran into the east gate.What is behind the golden lacquered gate in the east?According to the design outside the west gate, there should be a corridor outside the east gate.How long will this corridor be, and Han Jiang will never return?

Tang Feng gestured to Makarov, meaning that he would open the door and Makarov would cover.Makarov nodded, and Tang Feng slowly opened the door with his right hand. With a sound of "squeak," the golden-lacquered wooden door on the east side of the front hall was pulled open.As expected, there was a dark and deep corridor outside, and no one pointed a gun at him, so Tang Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

Tang Feng walked sideways into the corridor outside the door, and Makarov followed in.Tang Feng turned on the flashlight and took a picture of the tunnel. It was no different from the tunnel they came in. The cave walls were polished by hand, but they were not very smooth.He walked a few steps forward, and found that the road under their feet seemed to be going to a higher place.After walking a few more steps, a bend appeared ahead.Turning the corner, Tang Feng took a look with a flashlight and found that the slope suddenly became steeper.

Tang Feng was suspicious, and was about to step forward when something tripped him suddenly.He was startled, and instinctively pointed the gun at his feet, but at this moment, he found that there was also a muzzle pointing at himself.

"Who?!" Startled, Tang Feng took a step back and leaned against the stone wall, and the flashlight in his hand fell to the ground.

"Don't panic! Kid!" It was Han Jiang's voice.

Tang Feng hurriedly picked up the flashlight and photographed the person opposite, only to see Han Jiang slumped under the stone wall weakly.At this time, Han Jiang had already put down the gun in his hand.

"Why did you come here to sleep? You left your post without authorization, so we almost couldn't come back!" Tang Feng complained.

"Tang Feng, Han Jiang seems to be injured!" Makarov had already seen Han Jiang's weakness.

"How on earth did you come here?" Tang Feng also saw that something was wrong with Han Jiang. They said a few words, but Han Jiang didn't say anything.

Tang Feng helped Han Jiang up.Han Jiang shook his head vigorously, and the back of his head was in great pain: "I saw you... you guys have been thinking about water... the mechanism of Mercury Pond, and I discovered the mechanism of Mercury Pond. At this moment , I heard... I heard a gunshot, I judged that the gunshot... came from the front hall, I ran... ran to the front hall, and heard a few more gunshots, I heard... the gunshot came from In this tunnel, so...so, I followed in. As soon as I got here, I...I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, and when my eyes went dark, I...didn't know anything, and now the back of my head still hurts ..."

After listening to Han Jiang's intermittent narration, Tang Feng laughed: "Don't pretend, with your body, even if you are attacked ten times, it won't be like this! Get up!"

"No! This... this time is different. I have been attacked before, but never... never as serious as this time!" Han Jiang tried his best to recall the moment when he was attacked.

"You've been photographed brainless! What can you do this time?" Tang Feng didn't believe it, thinking that Han Jiang was pretending.

Makarov checked Han Jiang's wound, and a large bruise appeared on the back of his head. "This time it's really serious. The people who attacked Han Jiang were precise and ruthless!" Makarov judged based on years of experience.

"Have you seen that person clearly?" Tang Feng asked.

"So fast, I... didn't react at all!" Han Jiang replied.

"That is to say, you don't know where this guy has gone?" Tang Feng said disappointedly.

"The person who attacked Han Jiang should be that mysterious person!" Makarov said suddenly.

"Mysterious man? How can you be sure?" Tang Feng was puzzled.

Makarov took two steps forward, stood by the stone wall, and pointed to a striking triangular mark on the stone wall: "Look! This mark has appeared again!"

"It really is that mysterious person!" Tang Feng also recognized that the mark on the stone wall was exactly the same as the one he saw in the forest.Although it was facing a hard stone wall, the triangular mark was still divided into three strokes, and it was carved on the stone wall so hard that the stone wall at the edge of the mark was completely peeled off.

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The three of them analyzed the existing clues and believed that the mysterious man walked along this corridor again.So Tang Feng and Makarov supported Han Jiang who hadn't recovered yet, and the three began to search forward with difficulty.

"Gunshots? How many gunshots did you hear?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang.

"There were at least three shots, maybe four or five shots! Several shots were fired continuously, and they were so far apart that they couldn't be distinguished!" Han Jiang tried his best to recall.

"Is it one gun firing continuously, or multiple guns fighting?" Makarov asked sharply.

Han Jiang was taken aback, and he thought for a while: "It seems that there is more than one gun! But I'm not sure."

"Are there other people besides the mysterious man?" Tang Feng said, touching his gun involuntarily.

The three fell silent again.Because Han Jiang was very weak, the three of them walked very slowly.Tang Feng found that the terrain of this corridor has been rising, and it seems to be turning constantly.He looked at the surrounding stone walls. On the one hand, he was looking at the marks left by the mysterious man, and on the other hand, he was worried about forks and new caves.He didn't want to get lost in this deep corridor again.

Tang Feng silently remembered the distance they had traveled. It was more than a hundred steps away from the place where Han Jiang's accident happened, and the corridor seemed to be still extending.Every twenty steps or so, Tang Feng would see the eye-catching triangle mark on the stone wall, which indicated that the mysterious person also walked from here, and also indicated that danger was approaching them step by step.

When Tang Feng found the eighth triangle mark on the stone wall, he suddenly found a pool of blood under his feet: "Look, there is blood here!"

Makarov checked the bloodstains: "It's human blood, it looks like it was left just now."

Tang Feng found another bullet casing on the ground, he found two, and Makarov also found two.Han Jiang and Makarov summed it up and found out: "These are shell casings fired from two different pistols!"

"That is to say, at least two people were shot here?" Tang Feng asked back.

"Almost!" Makarov said.

Han Jiang and Makarov used flashlights to illuminate the nearby rock walls, leaving only the pool of blood. "The bullets from the two guns left only blood on one person. It seems that the other person should be fine!" Han Jiang judged.

Going forward, bloodstains continued to appear dripping, while the triangular mark on the stone wall disappeared.Tang Feng couldn't help becoming suspicious: "Could it be that the mysterious person was attacked?"

"It doesn't look like there's any serious injuries, this man is still moving forward!" Han Jiang said.

"What's going on here? Besides that mysterious person, who else? It seems that the injured person should be seriously injured. Why do you want to go forward desperately..."

While Tang Feng was talking, Han Jiang covered his mouth.Only then did he realize that the corridor seemed to have come to an end, and a hole appeared in front of him.Before he could see what was outside the cave, Han Jiang turned off his flashlight.

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The three walked out of the corridor in the dark based on their feelings.There is no light here, and it is still a dark space.Tang Feng still couldn't feel how big the space was here. He wanted to turn on the flashlight, but his hand was pressed down by Han Jiang Kongwu's powerful hand.He heard two movements in the darkness, it was the sound of Han Jiang and Makarov opening the safety of the pistol.Han Jiang's hand slowly left Tang Feng's flashlight.

Tang Feng understood, and also opened the safety of the pistol, holding the gun in one hand, and put the other hand on the switch of the flashlight.After a while of silence, Han Jiang and Makarov turned on the flashlight almost simultaneously, and aimed the beam of the flashlight at the front left almost simultaneously.

Tang Feng also hurriedly turned on the switch of the flashlight, and turned the flashlight to the front left.The strong light from the three flashlights converged in one place, piercing the dark space.Tang Feng found that it was a small stone room, and in front of them on the left, there was a person lying on his back on the ground.

"Stephen!" Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Makarov recognized the man lying on the ground almost at the same time.

The three walked up to Stephen carefully.Stephen's face was pale, and there was a bullet hole on his left arm, and bright red blood was gurgling out.

"He looks weak!" Makarov said.

"It seems that the blood along the way belongs to Stephen!" Han Jiang quickly thought of Fanny who died tragically in the inn at the foot of the mountain.

Makarov took out some pills from his backpack, poured them down for Stephen, pulled another piece of gauze, and bandaged his wound.The three waited for Stephen to wake up, while observing the stone room they were in.

Tang Feng judged the location, and the entrance of the corridor they walked in was located in the west.On the east side of the stone chamber, he was surprised to find that, like the corridor leading to the apse, an arch-shaped door appeared on the stone wall.It's just that this door seems to be blocked by a whole boulder, and there is no trace of it being opened at all.

Tang Feng stretched out his hands and pushed the ticket door with all his strength, but there was no movement.He thought that since the door couldn't be pushed open, there must be a trap, so he searched around the door.After looking for it, Tang Feng found a few words on the lintel: "Look, there are words here, which are Xixia characters."

Han Jiang and Makarov also looked at the coupon door.

"What did you write?" Han Jiang asked.

"Jie-Tai-Shang-Temple-Tibet-Jing-Building?" Tang Feng slowly translated the Xixia script on the door lintel.He wondered if he had made a mistake in the translation, so he read it carefully again, and it was indeed these words.

"The Buddhist scripture building?" Tang Feng was the first to express his puzzlement, "How could there be a Buddhist scripture building in this mountain? It's unbelievable!"

Han Jiang and Makarov didn't understand either. "Don't worry about it, open this door first, and you'll know everything!" Han Jiang seemed to have regained some strength.

So, the three of them pushed the door hard together, but the stone door remained motionless, as firm as a rock.

"You... don't bother! This door... can't be pushed!" A voice suddenly came from behind the three of them.

(End of this chapter)