Xixia dead book

Chapter 130 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (15)
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In a dark and deep corridor, Makarov walked alone holding a torch.He doesn't know where this tunnel leads to, and he doesn't know why he came here, is he here to explore the lost civilization, or to get King Hao's treasure?
He kept moving forward like this, and suddenly, a white ghost flashed in front of him, blocking his way!Terrified, he took two steps back, leaned against the stone wall, and then stood still again.He looked at the white ghost opposite again, and couldn't help murmuring the name "Misha".

The ghost Misha looked at Makarov, and said to him in a low and hoarse voice: "Follow me." After saying that, Misha turned around and continued to walk deep into the corridor.Makarov didn't know what Misha meant, but he saw Misha walking lightly and quickly towards the depths of the deep and dark corridor, so he had to chase after him closely.But Misha was getting faster and faster, Makarov tried his best, but still couldn't keep up with Misha's pace.He wanted to call out to Misha, but he opened his mouth wide, but no sound came out of his throat... Finally, after turning a corner, Misha disappeared.

Misha disappeared forever in the dark corridor, and the surroundings returned to calm.Makarov stopped in his tracks and looked around quietly.This is the end of the tunnel, there is no more road ahead, and there are black rock walls all around.Where's Misha?Why did it disappear in the blink of an eye?Makarov came to the end of the tunnel suspiciously. He illuminated the entire rock wall with a torch, and suddenly found some strange lines and some residual colors on the rock wall at the end of the tunnel.He leaned closer to the rock wall, under the light of the torch, his eyes suddenly widened, he...he saw that terrible pattern again...

"No!—no!" Makarov yelled, waking up with a start.Tang Feng and Han Jiang hurriedly helped him up.

"What's the matter? Old horse!" The two asked with concern.

Makarov sat up, only to realize that he had fallen asleep leaning against the rock wall just now. "I had a nightmare!" He wanted to calm himself down quickly, so he said lightly.

However, when Makarov recalled the scene in his dream, his heart was suddenly pulled.He stood up, staring at the black rock walls around him in a daze.Tang Feng and Han Jiang didn't know what he was going to do.Suddenly, I saw Makarov taking a flashlight back more than ten steps, then turned around, and shined the flashlight on the huge stone wall in front of him.

"Old horse, what are you doing?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"This stone wall appeared in my nightmare." Makarov looked at the stone wall in front of him intently, but the light from the flashlight was still too weak.

"What does the stone wall have to do with your nightmare? I think you must be exhausted..." Han Jiang comforted him.

"No!" Makarov interrupted Han Jiang, "Don't you think this stone wall is a bit strange?"

"Strange? It's strange. It abruptly blocked our way." Han Jiang said angrily.

"That's not what I said..."

"Do you think this rock wall is much smoother than the surrounding rock walls?" Tang Feng saw some clues.

"Well, Tang Feng, you're right. Just now we were only looking for a way out, and didn't take a closer look at this stone wall... If only there were torches..." Makarov suddenly lost his voice when he said this.Tang Feng noticed that in an instant, Makarov's eyes widened suddenly.

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"Lao Ma, what did you find?" Tang Feng asked immediately.

"Look, is there a painting on the stone wall?" Makarov's voice trembled.

"Is there a painting?" Tang Feng and Han Jiang aimed their flashlights at the stone wall in front of them at the same time.

Under the illumination of the three flashlights, some irregular lines vaguely appeared on the huge stone wall.Tang Feng slowly moved the flashlight in his hand, and with the movement of the light, he could see the lines circling on the stone wall with twists and turns...

What's this?What exactly is painted on the stone wall?The length of the line far exceeded Tang Feng's estimate. Could it be that the line covered the entire stone wall?If it were a petroglyph, what a gigantic painting it would be!Tang Feng had a premonition in his heart that this would be another amazing discovery.

In order to see the lines on the stone wall clearly, Tang Feng involuntarily backed away and took another ten steps before stopping.Han Jiang and Makarov also retreated.All three of them stared wide-eyed at this moment.

"It's a giant petroglyph!" Tang Feng exclaimed.

"The petroglyphs are all painted on the cliff walls. How could they appear in such a deep cave?" Han Jiang also recognized the huge petroglyphs in front of him outlined with ochre-red lines.

"In such a deep cave, making such a huge petroglyph just shows that this place is important!" Tang Feng expressed his inference.

"Maybe, but I still don't understand. What is this painting?" Han Jiang asked.

"The painting looks like a wolf, with an eagle standing on top of the wolf, maybe it's not an eagle, but a vulture!" Tang Feng saw the content of the painting.

"What? An eagle standing on the wolf?!" Han Jiang immediately thought of the repeated tattoos on the man in black.

"Yes! It's almost exactly the same as the tattoo pattern on our opponent's body." Tang Feng also thought of the tattoo that appeared repeatedly.

While the two were talking, Makarov remained silent.Tang Feng turned his head to look at Makarov, and found that he was standing in front of the stone wall in a daze, with fear written in his eyes. "Old horse, what's wrong with you?" Tang Feng asked.

"How...how...is this..." Makarov murmured in Russian.

"Old Ma, have you seen this pattern?" Han Jiang suddenly remembered Makarov's strange reaction when he saw the tattoo on the man in black in the Stone Waterfall Cave.

Tang Feng also remembered Makarov's reaction when he saw the tattoo on the man in black.Both of them stared at him, expecting him to solve their doubts.But Makarov remained silent, as if he had fallen into deeper memories.

Han Jiang had no choice but to turn to Tang Feng: "Do you think this rock painting is from the Xixia period?"

Tang Feng approached the stone wall, stretched out his right hand, and lightly touched the mysterious line.Suddenly, a strange feeling swept over his body, and he instinctively withdrew his hand: "It's very strange, according to the style of this rock painting, it should be from the Xixia period, but the lines on the surface of the rock painting are not the ones we saw before. ocher red."

Han Jiang also stretched out his hand to touch the lines on the stone wall, then observed carefully, and said: "Well, the color seems to be brighter, closer to bright red, but it may be because of the age, so it is not so bright. However, Xixia Wouldn’t you use this color to create petroglyphs from time to time?”

"It's hard to say..." Tang Feng continued to look down the lines of the petroglyphs, his fingers touched these ancient lines lightly, and suddenly his fingers stopped moving, "Look here." Han Jiang followed Tang Feng At the place of the finger, I found that there were two lines appearing in the original single line.

"What's the matter?" Han Jiang didn't understand what Tang Feng meant.

Tang Feng observed carefully for a while, and said: "This explains my question just now. You can see that the line suddenly became two here, but it was actually drawn twice. The color of the line below is the ocher we saw. red."

Han Jiang found that there were indeed two lines here, one was ocher red and the other was bright red.Tang Feng continued to explain: "The ocher-red lines are older, and should have been painted in the Xixia period; and the bright red lines covered on the ocher-red lines were painted again with cinnabar by later generations, so there is a Such a petroglyph we saw."

"In other words, someone repainted the original Xixia painting."

"To be precise, it was described again."

"Who did this? Why did they do it?"

"I can't figure it out either. Who would do this? In this cave in the deep mountains, it seems that there is no need for this at all." Tang Feng shook his head.

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The two studied the petroglyph that frightened Makarov for a long time, and when they looked back at him, they seemed to look better.Tang Feng walked over and asked, "Old Ma, what's the matter? Why are you so nervous when you see this rock painting?"

Makarov walked slowly to the petroglyphs, slumped on the ground, and said, "Han Jiang, you are right. That time I saw a tattoo of this pattern on the body of the man in black in the stone waterfall cave of the Seven Colors Jinhai." Later, Yelena also saw such tattoos on the bodies of several men in black who were shot dead in Petersburg, which surprised me even more. This shows that these people who are fighting against us all come from a mysterious organization, this The organization is marked by this pattern, and judging from the fact that members have the same tattoo on their bodies, it is a very tight-knit organization."

"Well, we also found the same tattoos on several other members of this organization, so we can conclude that our opponent is indeed a very strict organization." Han Jiang paused, and then said, "But I don't understand, you Why are you so terrified when you see this tattoo?"

"Because I have seen a tattoo of this pattern before, and I dreamed of this terrible pattern in a nightmare just now." Makarov said.

"Have you seen it? Before this?!"

"Yes! Decades ago. Do you remember the trip to Mongolia that I mentioned to you?"

"Of course, the forward base, Buldenko..." Makarov's thoughts returned to the forward base on the Gobi Desert. That was the first time he saw this strange symbol...

In the hot summer, after a sandstorm, the furious Gobi Desert calmed down again, and the air was still filled with fine dust.Makarov pushed open the iron gate of the base, and spat out a mouthful of dust.

"Summer on the Gobi Desert is as tough as severe winter!" Burdenko's voice sounded behind him.

"Yeah! I don't know when such a day will be the first."

"Patience, we still need patience." After Burdenko said something that didn't hurt or itch, he walked out of the base.

At this time, Makarov just wanted to stay in the house and do nothing, but his sense of responsibility prompted him to patrol the base and check the damage.

fine!No important equipment was damaged, and Makarov walked slowly towards several iron houses outside the base.After he and Burdenko came to the base, they successively set up several iron houses on the periphery of the base, which were used for guard duty and sometimes for training.Especially in the east of the base, Burdenko built several iron houses, saying that they were used as training bases.Makarov didn't bother, and even after the training base was built, he didn't visit it a few times.

Makarov walked slowly to the outside of the newly built iron houses on the east side. He didn't know why he came here under the scorching sun today.Outside these tin houses, a barbed wire fence was added at some point, and the barbed wire surrounded several tin houses, leaving only one opening for easy entry and exit.

Makarov walked into the barbed wire fence, and couldn't help sneering, thinking that there are no sentries here, so what's the use of setting up the barbed wire fence?
He came to a larger iron house, which was an office where Buldenko often led people to train.Suddenly, a scream came from the house, which made Makarov shudder.Instinctively, he drew his pistol and came nervously to the door.

Before Makarov could push the door, the door opened suddenly, and Bourdenko came out sweating profusely. "What happened just now?" Makarov asked.

Burdenko smiled unnaturally: "It's nothing, the students are playing a small game."

"Little game?" Makarov opened the door doubtfully and walked into the room. He saw a few students with their upper body naked, pressing another thin student.Li Guowen, the leader, was standing beside him with the smallest military dagger in his hand; while the thin student's back neck was already torn and bloody.

"What are you doing?" Makarov asked sharply when he saw this.

Li Guowen was obviously not mentally prepared, and felt a little guilty: "No, no...it's nothing, we're just playing a small game."

Makarov was about to explode when Buldenko stabbed him from behind.It was inconvenient for him to have an attack, so he had to follow Buldenko out.

Back at the base, before Makarov could speak, Buldenko laughed dryly and said, "You have been sitting in an office in the city for a long time, and you don't know much about the difficulties down below. If you want to train these people well, you don't need to resort to extreme measures. No. I’m being tough on them today, in fact, for their own good, so as to save them from being useless in carrying out their missions, which will not only ruin our business, but also bring bad luck to them.”

"But have you been approved by your superiors for doing this?"

"Don't be stupid. For such a trivial matter, the top has always turned a blind eye. The top has the idea of ​​​​the top, and the bottom has the method of the bottom." Burdenko spoke plausibly.

Makarov also knew that there was corporal punishment in the KGB, which he could not change.After listening to Buldenko's explanation, he had no choice but to shake his head.

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A week has passed, everything in the base is normal, and Makarov's life is still as usual.On this day, he felt a little dizzy, so he came to the infirmary of the base, looking for the only military doctor in the base to prescribe some medicine.

Walking into the infirmary, there was no one in the outer room, so Makarov went into the inner room.There were two beds here, and he saw a person lying on one of the beds. The military doctor was wearing a mask and was removing the stitches for that person with scissors and medical pliers.

After greeting the military doctor, Makarov wanted to wait outside, but when he turned around, he found that the person lying on the bed was the student who was physically punished by Buldenko a week ago.

He stopped in his tracks, and stood aside in a daze, watching the military doctor remove the stitches.The military doctor quickly removed the thread, and Makarov saw that the back of the man's neck was red and swollen, but to his surprise, a clear pattern appeared on the man's red and swollen wound, which was an eagle standing on top of a wolf. on the body.Could this pattern be the masterpiece that Buldenko and Li Guowen left on this man with a military dagger that day?He couldn't help but tremble when he thought of this.

Makarov was wondering when suddenly the door opened and Li Guowen walked in.The two were startled when they saw each other.Makarov pulled Li Guowen out of the infirmary, and asked him sharply, "Is the wound on that student's body your masterpiece?"

Li Guowen smirked twice: "Hehe, that's right."

"Is that how you treat him?"

"That was just a small punishment."

"Small punishment? Do you have it on you?"

Li Guowen didn't expect Makarov to ask such a question, and was taken aback for a moment: "I..."

"Comrade Bultenko asked you to do this?" Makarov asked.

"Well, it was his order."

"Then tell me, what does that pattern mean?"

"pattern?!"

"It's the eagle, and the wolf!"

"Oh! That pattern is meaningless. Comrade Bultenko asked me to do it. He said it was a totem of an ancient tribe." Li Guowen said calmly.

"An ancient tribe? What tribe?"

Li Guowen shook his head: "I don't know, Comrade Burtenko said he saw it in a valley near the base."

"Which valley?" Makarov quickly searched the nearby terrain in his mind, but he couldn't think of any valley near the base.

"I haven't been there either, so I don't know the exact location of that valley. However, Comrade Bourtenko seems to have mentioned that the valley is quite far from the base, and is very close to the border." Li Guowen replied simply .

Makarov hesitated for a while, and finally asked the biggest question in his heart: "If it's a tattoo, why use such a cruel method? As far as I know, there are very civilized methods for tattooing now."

Li Guowen shrugged and explained: "You know, the conditions here are poor, and tattoos are not allowed in the army, so where can we get special equipment? And there is..."

"What else?"

"And..." Li Guowen hesitated.

"Say it!" Makarov was a little annoyed.

"Also... You'd better ask Comrade Bultenko, I've already said everything I can say." Li Guowen straightened up suddenly, and said firmly to Makarov.

Makarov was a little startled, he didn't expect the Chinese in front of him to answer him like this, so he waved helplessly at Li Guowen.Li Guowen gave him a military salute, then walked into the infirmary, and took the student away.

(End of this chapter)