Xixia dead book

Chapter 129 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (14)
"I really didn't do anything, I just sighed that the passage was well repaired, and then...then the stone gate was closed." Tang Feng looked innocent.

"You said why are you lamenting blindly, now it's over, we are locked inside." Han Jiang had already turned on the flashlight, and a ray of strong light pierced the endless darkness.

Han Jiang returned to the back of the stone gate with a flashlight and carefully inspected the surrounding stone walls.There is nothing on the flat stone wall, except that the stone wall is still a stone wall, surrounded by stones.Han Jiang knocked hard on the stone wall beside the stone gate with his fist, but there was no response.

"Damn it, King Hao's opening and closing eyes are too irregular!" Han Jiang was still angry, and shouted at Tang Feng again, "Your words are too powerful, just like his mother's 'Open Sesame', you have Say it again, let the door open."

Tang Feng was speechless, so Makarov had no choice but to persuade them: "Fortunately, Yelena and Dr. Xu are outside, don't worry. We should continue to explore the road."

Han Jiang didn't say anything anymore, and waved his hand to go back on the road, but this time Tang Feng didn't want to lag behind.Han Jiang was angry again: "I'm still excited to say something about you. Okay! If you want to go ahead, then you will go ahead. If you encounter monsters and ghosts, I'll see how you deal with them!"

So, the two swapped positions in a fit of anger, Tang Feng walked in front, and the three continued to move forward.Tang Feng silently remembered the number of steps under his feet, and carved a diamond-shaped mark on the stone wall.After walking about two hundred steps, the three of them finally walked out of the narrow corridor and came to a hall.This hall is not big, only more than [-] square meters, it is square, and there is nothing in the hall.Han Jiang was not very interested, so he glanced around and was about to leave.Tang Feng found that there was a niche on each side of the square hall. He roughly calculated it and said, "These two niches are used to place kerosene lamps. Although we have only walked a short distance now, we have already It can be seen that the scale of this project in the mountain is huge and the construction is meticulous."

"Okay, hurry up." Han Jiang urged.

At the back of this square hall there is an opening that is exactly the same as the passageway from when they came, and there is no other way.Tang Feng got into the hole headlong.To his great surprise, the inside of the cave was not a smooth passage like before, but a stone ladder extending upwards.

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The three of them began to climb the stone ladder.At the beginning, the stone ladder was relatively flat, with a platform every nine steps, but as one walked forward, the stone ladder became steeper, and the platform in the steps disappeared.What surprised Tang Feng even more was that the originally flat cave walls were gone, and the cave walls on both sides of the stone ladder looked very rough, as if they hadn't been polished at all.

On the long stone ladder in the mountain, the three of them were panting heavily and only focused on climbing up.Tang Feng didn't know where the stone ladder led. Judging by the terrain, he was climbing up a mountain.At this moment, they are in the North Peak.

Tang Feng was guessing wildly, but the stone ladder under his feet changed again. The stone ladder that had been extending upward began to extend downward. Han Jiang and Makarov also noticed this change.Han Jiang called Tang Feng: "Take a break first, what's going on? After climbing up for so long, you started to go down again?"

Tang Feng looked ahead, and the deep stone ladder extended all the way down, it's unbelievable! "I feel like we're going in circles in the mountains," he gasped.

"Have you noticed that since we discovered that rivet, we haven't found any trace of that mysterious man, and that man seems to have disappeared!" Makarov said suddenly.

Han Jiang was also surprised: "Yes, I checked the cave wall along the way, but there was no mark, and the triangle mark did not appear again."

"I don't think this is normal. If you are afraid of getting lost in the woods, you need to mark it. In this place, you need to mark it even more." Makarov said.

"Forget it, we have come all the way, and we haven't encountered a fork in the road, so why do we need to mark it? Let's go forward quickly!" Tang Feng urged.

No way, the three continued to move forward.The descending stone ladder had about fifty or sixty steps. When Tang Feng's feet were on the flat ground again, he found himself in a wide corridor.The stone wall of the corridor is not smooth enough, but clear chiseling marks can be seen on it.

"What does this mean?" Han Jiang was a little puzzled.

"It means that this place has also been polished manually, but the construction standard is not as good as that at the beginning." Tang Feng deduced.

The three walked along this wide corridor, and soon a problem came.Tang Feng felt that the corridor was obviously curved, but fortunately there was no fork in the road.

"Don't have a fork in the road! Don't have a fork in the road! The fork in the road is a floating cloud! A floating cloud!" Tang Feng murmured.I don't know whether it was his prayer that played a role, or the original arrangement of fate, but they didn't encounter a fork in the road.The three of them kept advancing in this wide corridor until a smooth and solid stone wall appeared in front of them.

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The three of them walked slowly to the huge stone wall. "What's going on? Is this the end?" Han Jiang shouted, his voice buzzing in the tunnel, and there was a huge echo.

"No! Impossible! There is nothing here. Could it be that such a grand project came to an abrupt end here?" Tang Feng also found it difficult to accept this reality.

"Let's try to push this stone wall!" At the critical moment, Makarov remained calm.

So the three of them lined up in front of the stone wall, gathered all their strength, and pushed the stone wall in front of them together.But after several times of hard work, the three of them were already exhausted, but the stone wall did not move at all.

"Is this stone wall really the end?" Makarov also began to lose confidence.

Han Jiang checked the stone wall in front of him, but found nothing.Tang Feng slumped under the stone wall in disappointment, muttering to himself: "Maybe we were wrong from the beginning, we were wrong from the beginning!"

"What are you talking about? What was wrong at the beginning?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng.

"I mean we shouldn't rashly enter through King Hao's right eye. Since Yuan Hao spared no effort in manpower and material resources to build such a grand project, he will definitely not allow outsiders to break in casually."

"Then what do you mean..."

"I mean, we should try King Hao's left eye and see what's behind it!" Tang Feng expressed his dissatisfaction.

"What's the use of saying this now!" Han Jiang said angrily.

"I'm also thinking, maybe we really shouldn't come in hastily. I checked carefully in this wide corridor just now, and there is no sign of that mysterious man." Makarov's words were also full of remorse .

"In this case, let's go back the same way. Didn't we leave marks along the way? Go back first, and then go to explore King Hao's left eye. I want to see how many secrets are hidden behind Yuan Hao's eyes!" Han Jiang was still stubborn.

The three of them summed it up, and that's all they could do.Tang Feng regained his energy and began to return along the same route. He walked back according to the marks he had made when he came.But it was this wide corridor, and the three of them walked for more than half an hour, but they still didn't see the stone ladder at the end of the corridor.

"No! We must have gone wrong." Han Jiang stopped in his tracks, "I estimated that it would take at most 10 minutes to get down the stone ladder, enter this wide corridor, and walk all the way to the stone wall. But we We have been walking for more than half an hour now, and we are still in this corridor. We must have lost our way!"

"This... how is this possible? There is no fork in this corridor!" Tang Feng also felt that something was wrong.

"Where are the marks you made along the way?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng.

Tang Feng looked around, took two quick steps, pointed to the diamond-shaped mark on one side of the rock wall and said, "Here! These are the marks I made along the way, and I followed the directions of the marks."

"It's really strange. I have been observing the marks left by Tang Feng all the way. We have been walking according to the marks, but we just can't get out." Makarov also fainted.

"There must be something wrong! Tang Feng, think about it carefully, did you carve the diamond-shaped mark on the stone wall? Don't let the situation in the forest happen again!" Han Jiang said angrily.

Holding the flashlight, Tang Feng checked several diamond-shaped marks on the stone wall continuously: "That's right, I carved these, it's impossible to admit mistakes."

"Then who can tell me what's going on?" Han Jiang became irritable.

"Han! Calm down! No matter what time it is, don't lose the basic qualities of an agent." Makarov was the only one among the three who was calm, at least on the surface.

When Han Jiang calmed down, Makarov suggested: "I think so, let's go forward according to the mark left by Tang Feng and try."

It could only be like this, and the three of them continued to walk forward along the corridor. After 5 minutes, they finally came to the end of the tunnel, but what appeared in front of them was not the stone ladder, but the huge insurmountable stone wall.

【Chapter Eight In Desperate Situation】

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When Tang Feng, Han Jiang, and Makarov faced the huge stone wall again, they were all at a loss.

"Why are we back here?" Tang Feng's voice was filled with panic.

"Did we turn around in this corridor?" Han Jiang was also panicked.

"No, how is this possible?" Tang Feng couldn't believe it.

"So there are two identical stone walls in the corridor? But...it doesn't look like it!" Han Jiang himself denied his deduction.

"It can't be two stone walls. We are walking in the direction of going back, and we should be getting farther and farther away from that stone wall!" Tang Feng deduced.

"But the truth is we're back here again!"

"Have you noticed that we seem to be walking in a straight line in this corridor, but this corridor is actually curved." Makarov said suddenly.

"Well, I've noticed it too. But I think the arc is not big enough for us to circle around inside." Tang Feng used the flashlight to illuminate the wide corridor behind him again.

"Maybe...maybe our estimate is wrong?" Makarov said doubtfully.

"What do you mean, the arc of this tunnel is much larger than what we can see, so that we circled inside?" Tang Feng asked Makarov back.

Makarov said: "I just doubt that there is such a possibility."

"If that's the case, then we should be able to see the stone staircase we came from, or there should be a fork in the road!" Tang Feng refuted Makarov's deduction.

"So I can't be sure what happened in this tunnel."

"Okay, it's too late to say anything now. I don't want to be trapped here. There is no other way but to continue to find a way." Han Jiang said helplessly.

The three had no choice but to turn back and head towards the opposite direction of the stone wall.They walked very slowly this time, and the three flashlights illuminated almost the entire cave wall, looking for any clues that might be useful.

"Be sure to pay attention to whether there is a hole in the corridor. There may be a fork in the road that makes us turn wrong." Han Jiang reminded everyone.

The three of them groped in the corridor with extreme caution.But more than an hour later, they returned to the stone wall at the end of the corridor.

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When the three of them faced the huge stone wall again, they were all stunned.

"This..." Tang Feng felt like he was about to collapse.

"It seems that we have entered a huge maze since we entered King Hao's right eye!" Han Jiang muttered to himself.

"No! From the moment we stepped into Helan Mountain, we have already entered a huge labyrinth. The mysterious inn, the lost forest, Fanny's death, the huge vulture, the looming huge rock painting, and so on. All kinds of traces left by that mysterious person, plus the current deep mountain palace, all of these are like a huge maze, and we are deeply trapped in it." Tang Feng recalled the scenes since entering the mountain.

Han Jiang and Makarov were also lost in thought. "Could it be that King Hao arranged all of this back then?" Huge fear enveloped Han Jiang, making him suspect that all of this was an arrangement of fate.

"I don't believe that this was completely arranged by the ancients hundreds of years ago. We must have fallen into a trap." Tang Feng said suddenly.

"Trap?!" Both Han Jiang and Makarov were shocked.Although they also thought of this level, when Tang Feng said the word "trap", his heart still sank.

"Think about it, why can't we see the mark of the mysterious man since we entered through the right eye of the Buddha?"

"Why?" Han Jiang and Makarov had already thought of the answer.

"There is only one explanation. The mysterious man did not enter this maze. He deliberately left rivets on the top of the Buddha's head to lure us into this maze!"

"This... this is incredible." Makarov said.

"It's unbelievable, but this may be the truth." Tang Feng paused, and began to explain his conspiracy theory, "I always feel that when we came to Helan Mountain this time, our old opponents got ahead of us from the very beginning. The mysterious figure in the proprietor's house, Fanny's death, the triangular mark in the woods, and the rivet on the head of the Buddha can all prove it."

"I saw this too, so I made a mistake in a hurry." Han Jiang began to regret that he had rashly entered the Buddha's right eye.

"However, our opponent's actions this time seem to be very different from the past." Tang Feng further explained, "First of all, Fanny's death is very suspicious. Fanny has always been inseparable from Stephen, and her death is very natural It reminds us that Stephen is here too; and there is Stechkin, who has been heard but never seen, what is the relationship between them? Why did Fanny die?"

"I thought they should be in the same group." Han Jiang said.

"I thought so before, but now I don't think it's that simple. If we were tricked in, that is to say, if my conspiracy theory is established, then our opponent is not so simple."

"You mean that the rivet on the Buddha's right eye was intentionally left by that mysterious man? Just to lure us in and trap us here?" Han Jiang asked in surprise.

"If that's the case, then Yelena and Dr. Xu will be in bad luck outside." Makarov couldn't help worrying about Yelena.

"Also, in the past, Stephen gave us the impression of being brave and foolhardy, but this mysterious man is much smarter. Not only is everything ahead of us, but I suspect that Fanny was killed by this mysterious man!" Tang Feng further deduced.

"Fanny is our opponent. Is this mysterious person helping us or harming us by killing Fanny?" Han Jiang was a little confused.

"I always thought that our opponents were far from being a simple force, they were very powerful and complex." Tang Feng deduced.

"But our speed is fast enough, how could they come here ahead of us? Even if there are ghosts inside us, they wouldn't be so fast, right?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

Tang Feng thought for a moment, and said, "Maybe the problem still lies in that treasure map."

"Is that the treasure map we saw in the inn?"

"Well, the red circle on the treasure map is very close to where we are now, so I suspect that the so-called red circle is actually here - the inside of the Buddha, but we found the wrong entrance." Tang Feng suddenly opened After thinking about it, everything seemed to suddenly become clear.

"You are exaggerating a bit. There is not much information on that treasure map. It is impossible to be sure that the red circle is here."

"If the person living in the east room had something to do with Fanny's death, you wouldn't think so. A single so-called treasure map is not surprising, but it is related to Fanny's death and our current encounter. Together, isn't it clear enough?" Tang Feng began to feel a little difficult to breathe, so he had to lower his voice.

Han Jiang pondered, and he also began to agree with Tang Feng's inference: "It seems that we have overlooked many important things from the beginning."

"There must be information on that treasure map that we have ignored!" Tang Feng said.

As soon as Han Jiang heard that, he wanted to find the photo he took, but was stopped by Tang Feng: "We didn't find it at the beginning, but now we are trapped here, what's the use of finding it?"

Yes, it's too late to say anything now.Exhausted, the three of them leaned against the rock wall in despair...

(End of this chapter)