Xixia dead book

Chapter 126 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (11)
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Tang Feng couldn't confirm when the mark appeared. When they returned to the camp at night, Xu Renyu just checked things, and none of them checked the changes around the camp.

Tang Feng judged the direction of this mark, and it was almost exactly south.due south?According to his inference, the south direction should be the passage down the mountain. They have never explored to the south, and this mysterious triangular mark appeared in the south again... As he thought, his feet had already walked into the southern forest involuntarily. , he found another triangular mark appeared on another tree not far ahead.

Tang Feng came to the second triangle mark and carefully identified it, which was exactly the same as the first one.Immediately afterwards, he found the third, fourth, and fifth marks in the woods to the south...all the marks extended to the south.Just as he judged before, the terrain in the south declined rapidly. It seemed that this was indeed the right way up the mountain, but it was lost in the dust of history because of the long time.

Around the tenth mark, Tang Feng found another tall mound.He held up the flashlight and slowly checked the mound. It was not as big as the largest rammed earth platform at the ruins of the Black Eagle Temple, but it was taller than that.The towering mound looks like a monument built with earth.

As Tang Feng approached the mound, a ferocious face suddenly caught his eyes.He was so shocked that he dropped the flashlight to the ground.He backed away a few more steps, and did not regain his footing until he leaned against a tree trunk.

"Who?" Tang Feng whispered, with fear in his words.

No one answered, and the surroundings were silent. Tang Feng saw that his flashlight was still shining, and he was lying beside the mound.He regained his courage and boldness, and followed the light from the flashlight to the tall mound.He bent down to pick up the flashlight, clutching it tightly in one hand, and pulled out a pistol in the other.But when he saw that face again, he smiled first.

It was a stone-carved human face, to be precise, it was a stone-carved statue of a Western Xia warrior.The samurai is tall and tall, with a fierce face, arms raised, a sword hanging from his waist, his eyes are piercing, and he is staring at Tang Feng.

Tang Feng walked over and brushed off the thick floating soil on the warrior's body with his hands. He couldn't help but marvel at the exquisite carvings of Xixia. At the same time, he noticed the warrior's arms raised high.The samurai's thick and powerful arms were raised high, as if he was holding something important and heavy.Tang Feng looked up at the high mound in front of him, what was the warrior holding?This tall mound must have been an important building, so Yuan Hao wanted to order craftsmen to carve such an exquisite warrior statue to hold it up.

pagoda? !Tang Feng thought for a while, and only a pagoda is worthy of such an exquisite stone warrior.

Tang Feng observed the location where the stone-carved warrior statue appeared. It was in the northwest corner of the tall mound, that is to say, there should also be a warrior statue in the other three corners.So he circled the mound counterclockwise.Sure enough, as he expected, in the southwest and southeast corners of the mound, a stone-carved warrior exactly like the one in the northwest corner was found, which made him believe in his judgment even more.When he turned to the northeast corner of the large mound, he found that the stone warrior statue in the northeast corner was different from the other three statues.

Curiously, Tang Feng bent down and looked at the warrior statue.Compared with the three samurai statues seen earlier, this samurai statue seems to be larger.He rubbed his eyes, logically speaking, they should be the same size, maybe he was delusional, and he didn't have tools to measure them, so the visual measurement might not be accurate.But what surprised him even more was that the shape and facial expressions of this warrior statue were different from the other three statues.

The three warrior statues had ferocious faces, but although this warrior statue also had a sword hanging from its waist, its face was much kinder, it could even be said to be benevolent.Looking at the shape again, the three warrior statues in front are shaped with arms raised high, while this warrior statue has his hands clasped together, and his legs are also carved into the appearance of cross-legged meditation.

"Maybe the craftsmen who carved it at that time were ingenious!" Tang Feng thought, and suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the warrior statue in front of him.

Tang Feng stared at the stone warrior statue in front of him, what's wrong?Hanging a sword at the waist, sitting cross-legged in meditation, with a kind face, clasped hands... well, the problem lies in the clasped hands.

The clasped hands of this stone-carved warrior statue is different from that of ordinary Buddhists. The clasped hands of the stone-carved warrior statue in front of him lean forward, pointing straight ahead.Is this the unintentional work of the craftsman, or is it intentional?This question mark hit Tang Feng's mind heavily.But without allowing him to think about it, he made a new discovery.

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Tang Feng slowly moved the flashlight under the stone warrior statue, and he found that this stone warrior statue was different from the other three statues: the other three warrior statues raised their arms high, and their feet stepped directly on the ground. And this warrior sits cross-legged in meditation, so there is an extra stone-carved lotus seat under his body.

Tang Feng almost lay down on the ground, and holding up the flashlight, he carefully inspected the stone carved lotus seat under the warrior bit by bit.Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he found a row of characters on the lotus pedestal, which was a row of Chinese characters.It is said that Xixia lacked skilled craftsmen back then, so many major projects were built by Han craftsmen, so it is not surprising that Chinese characters are engraved here.Thinking about it, Tang Feng didn't care about other things, and hurriedly wiped off the dust on the lotus pedestal with his hands, and a line of elegant regular script Chinese characters appeared in front of his eyes-"Heaven granted rituals in February of the tenth year of Yanzuo, and ordered to build Dajietai Temple Go down to the Vajra Relic Pagoda in the temple."

When Tang Feng read this line of words lightly, he felt ecstasy in his heart.This short sentence proved his previous inference all at once, and clearly stated that this was the Black Eagle Temple they were looking for.The official name of the Black Eagle Temple in Xixia was "Jietai Temple", and the time when the pagoda was built also shows that this is a temple in the Xixia period. The word "Chijian" indicates that this is a royal temple built by Yuan Hao. The "Vajra Relic Pagoda" also verified my inference that this large mound is a pagoda, and it is a relic pagoda.As for the "Xiasi"... Tang Feng fell into deep thought. Could it be that the ruins he discovered were the "Xiasi"?Where is the "Shangsi"?
Tang Feng carefully inspected the surroundings of the stone warrior statue, hoping to find some new discoveries, but found nothing.He stood up, suddenly felt the world spinning, and hurriedly supported a tree beside him with his hands, and then stood upright.I don't have high blood pressure, how can I feel dizzy?Maybe it's because I haven't had a good rest these days.After Tang Feng calmed down a bit, he wanted to leave here, but when he withdrew the hand that was supporting the tree trunk, he found that No. 11 triangular mark appeared on the trunk of this tree, which...

Tang Feng looked around, and there was still a dead silence.A gust of cold wind calmed him down from the newly discovered ecstasy just now, and Han Jiang's advice sounded in his ears - don't leave the camp.Tang Feng trembled all over, how far did he leave the camp?He hurriedly turned around and looked in the direction of what he thought was the camp, but it was pitch black, with no light at all.

Tang Feng panicked. He began to recall his own experience on this journey just now, and calculated the distance from the camp, but no matter how he thought about it, he felt that he was not far away from the camp, right?You should still be able to see the campfire.But at the moment, I can't see anything.

Tang Feng discerned the direction, and finally determined a direction according to the position of the pagoda ruins. He thought this was the true north, which was the direction of the camp.But after he walked more than fifty steps in this direction, he was shaken and felt that his judgment was wrong.At this time, two forks appeared in front of him, Tang Feng decided to adjust his direction, and he took the fork in the northwest.However, when he took this fork in the road, he began to repeat the painful experience in the woods in the early morning of yesterday.

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Tang Feng seemed to have entered a maze, going around in circles, always seeing some familiar environments.He started to cry out in despair, but there was no echo here, only darkness and silence around him.

Tang Feng fell into the dark ocean, he didn't understand, how could this seemingly ordinary forest repeatedly lead him to death?Maybe... Maybe this is the Jedi that Yuan Hao refuses to allow people to step into!

Exhausted, Tang Feng collapsed under a tree in despair and closed his eyes unconsciously...

Two giant vultures flew to the top of the tree, stopped on the strangely shaped tree, and watched Tang Feng who was sleeping soundly under the tree.Suddenly, one of the vultures swooped down towards Tang Feng, and when Tang Feng opened his eyes, he was already suspended in mid-air.In the dark night sky and the cold wind, he wanted to call for help, but he couldn't make a sound.They flew over a tall pagoda, then several majestic palaces, then a large pine forest, and finally came to a high platform on the edge of a cliff.The vulture swooped down to the high platform, and threw Tang Feng down at a height of five or six meters from the high platform.

Tang Feng only felt that his internal organs were about to burst. He was lying on the icy rock, and when the cold wind blew, his whole body was in severe pain.He tried to support himself to stand up, but fell weakly on the rock.

Suddenly, a burst of strange music came into Tang Feng's ears leisurely, followed by a burst of passionate drumming, and then some words that Tang Feng could not understand, as if there were many people singing and dancing around him.He didn't know if these people had any malice towards him, the instinct of survival prompted him to turn over suddenly, wanting to see the faces of those people clearly.

Is that a group of demons, or a group of people?Suddenly, Tang Feng saw many hideous faces.He rubbed his eyes vigorously, only then did he see clearly that this was a group of people wearing masks, singing and dancing around himself and a blazing bonfire...

Tang Feng couldn't understand the language of those people, but he recognized this big platform. The platform by the cliff was the one he and Han Jiang found during the day.Look at the group of people still jumping vigorously, then kneeling on the ground devoutly after a while, raising their hands, shouting something hoarsely.

Tang Feng was bewildered, he looked up the mountain, trying to see what those people were worshiping, but he couldn't see anything except the dark night and the cold stone wall!The two giant vultures also disappeared, but Tang Feng always felt that the vultures were on the mountain, above his head, and might swoop down again at any time, leading him into the endless abyss.

The group of people shouted for a long time, as if they were performing some kind of sacred ceremony.When this group of people stood up again, they stopped singing and dancing, and Tang Feng found that they were rushing towards him.He suddenly recalled what happened in Qise Jinhai, and hurriedly shouted: "I'm not a devil, not..."

But Tang Feng opened his throat, but couldn't make a sound. Those people couldn't argue, they lifted him up at once, and then walked to the edge of the cliff step by step.Tang Feng had already shouted out his throat, below was the abyss of eternal doom, he was desperate, and was thrown into the abyss.

"No! I'm not..." He finally yelled out, and the heart-piercing shout was accompanied by the ruthless wind, resounding through the entire canyon.

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Tang Feng woke up, it was another nightmare.He sat up and carefully recalled the dream just now, which seemed to have some connection with yesterday's dream.Vulture?A group of people wearing masks... Before Tang Feng could think about all this, that strange and terrifying sound hit him again.

Tang Feng trembled all over and wanted to stand up, but his legs had no strength at all. No matter how hard he tried, he still collapsed under the tree.He looked up, and the mysterious symbol came into view again, a triangular mark carved with three cuts, clear and eye-catching.He gave up completely, closed his eyes, and let the cold wind torment his eardrums with the strange noise.

"Tang Feng, what's wrong with you?"

"How did you get here?"

After an unknown amount of time, Tang Feng was awakened by a burst of shouting.He slowly regained his senses: "The strange sound... and... that strange sound again."

"We heard it, but how did you come here?" Yelena's voice came from Tang Feng's ear.

"I told you not to run around, but it turned out to be good. One of you fell asleep, and the other ran into the woods again." Han Jiang complained.

Makarov poured some mineral water into Tang Feng, and Tang Feng stood up with support.He didn't know how to explain it to everyone, so he pointed at the triangular mark on the tree trunk beside him with all his strength: "It's all because of this."

"This?" Han Jiang touched the triangular mark on the trunk with his hand.

"There are also here?" Yelena asked in surprise.

"It's not just this one, it's all in this forest." Tang Feng told everyone what happened to him intermittently.

When everyone heard this, they were all horrified.Han Jiang and Yelena supported Tang Feng, walked through the forest and returned to the camp in less than 10 minutes.Tang Feng shook his head. He couldn't believe that the place where he was trapped and lost was only 10 minutes away from the camp.

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Not long after everyone returned to the camp, the strange sound disappeared.Han Jiang quickly judged the situation and said, "I will keep watch until dawn. You all continue to rest, no matter what noise you hear, don't come out."

It had no choice but to be like this.Everyone anxiously waited for the dawn in fear and cold.After such a toss, Tang Feng was already exhausted and slept until dawn.

After dawn, Tang Feng asked Han Jiang with concern: "Did that strange noise still ring out later?"

"It rang again, but the duration was very short." Han Jiang said.

"Really?" Tang Feng chatted with Han Jiang while arranging the things he carried with him.He turned on the digital camera, ready to look at the photos taken yesterday at the ruins of the Black Eagle Temple, but what broke him down was that the photos turned out to be blank, with nothing there.

"What... what's going on here? I obviously took a photo, and after I took the photo, I played it back and watched it again." Tang Feng cried.

"Would you like to see the others?" Han Jiang asked.

Tang Feng hurriedly looked at the other two: "It's also blank."

"Strange thing!" Han Jiang was also a little dazed.

"No, I want to go to the rock paintings again." Tang Feng said that he was going to the ruins of Heijiu Temple, but Han Jiang stopped him, "Don't go, it's not important now."

"Oh, how did you see that?" Tang Feng didn't understand what Han Jiang meant.

"I listened carefully to what happened to you in the forest in the early morning. Apart from the mysterious triangle mark, there is another thing that attracted me, which is the stupa you found."

"What did you think of?"

"After dawn, Yelena and I have already checked the stupa. As you said, the stupa is in the south-east of our camp, and the ruins of the Black Eagle Temple we discovered yesterday are in the north of the camp. In this way It seems that the pagoda and the ruins of Heijiu Temple should be connected as one, that is to say, the pagoda is a part of Heijiu Temple. Then, according to the inscription on the pagoda, we can conclude that this is the so-called ' Dajietai Temple Xia Temple'."

"Yes, I think so too." Tang Feng agreed with Han Jiang's opinion.

"This also negates your hypothesis yesterday. This place cannot be the 'Shang Temple', and the Shang Temple should be elsewhere!"

Tang Feng nodded: "Well, that's right! Then, the large platform we found on the edge of the east cliff yesterday is very suspicious."

"Yes, the two Xixia words 'Shangsi' we found on the platform clearly and unambiguously reminded us that the Shangsi is there, and the stone ladder we found leads to the Shangsi." Han Jiang deduced.

"It's there?" Tang Feng was still hesitating, "It can't be that simple, the wind is so strong on the platform, and it's full of rocks, how to build a temple?"

"Of course I can't answer your question now, but a discovery on the pagoda can prove my point."

"Oh? You mean the warrior statue in the northeast corner?" The smart Tang Feng immediately understood Han Jiang's meaning.

"Well, think about it, why is the samurai statue in the northeast corner different from the other three? Is this a coincidence? No, absolutely not, the samurai statue is different from the other three in terms of shape, size, and expression. There is only one explanation for this, that is, it was intentional when the tower was built."

"I also thought about this level, but I'm still not sure. After you said that, I remembered that the biggest difference between the warrior statue and the other three is his hands. The warrior statue has folded hands, and The clasped hands are weird."

(End of this chapter)