Xixia dead book

Chapter 138 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (23)
Tang Feng felt in his backpack with his hand, but before the stone wall was washed away by the flood, he stuffed the flashlight into the backpack.At this moment, he took out the flashlight again, which is a waterproof flashlight specially used by special forces. Even if it is used in water, the light can be emitted several meters away.

Tang Feng raised the flashlight above his head and shone forward.In the dark world, he saw Han Jiang's head, and next to Han Jiang was Makarov.At this moment, he understood that the powerful force that grabbed him just now was Han Jiang and Makarov.

"Stop taking blind pictures! Are you okay?" Han Jiang scolded.

"I'm fine! How about you?"

"I'm fine, the old horse is a little weak, thanks to him grabbing me first, otherwise your life would be lost now!"

"After I go out, I must treat the old horse to dinner!"

"Come on! Let's see how we get out first!"

Tang Feng raised the flashlight even higher and kept shining forward.The huge stone wall was completely lifted by the force of the flood. Through the gap between the stone wall and the water, several huge statues loomed.what is that?Suddenly, Tang Feng saw the world behind the stone wall.

【No.12 Deep Mountain Mysterious Palace】

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After an unknown amount of time, the flood in the cave receded slowly, but the remaining water still did not reach the knees of the three of them.Tang Feng was the furthest away by the flood. Seeing that the water had receded now, he grabbed the rope around his waist and moved closer to Han Jiang and Makarov little by little.

Tang Feng walked to Han Jiang and Makarov, and found that although Makarov was fine, his face was full of fatigue. After all, he was an elderly person.

"Old horse, you have to hold on!" Tang Feng gave Makarov two refreshment pills.

"Don't worry, I won't die yet!" Makarov waved his hand.

Han Jiang shined forward with a flashlight for a long time, and said, "The stone wall is finally opened, we have to move forward quickly, at least find a warm place. I don't want to wait here to die in wet clothes."

"Who said we were going to die!" Tang Feng yelled dissatisfied.

"Don't talk nonsense! I saw some stone carvings looming behind the stone wall just now." Han Jiang said.

"I saw it too."

"What would that be?"

"Who knows!"

"Could it be the so-called 'Going to the Temple'?"

"Shangsi? Don't you think that big platform outside is the site of Shangsi?"

"But there's nothing there, but here..."

"Maybe it's a new discovery."

As they said that, the three of them waded through the muddy water and came to the stone wall again step by step.Makarov touched the stone wall and couldn't help sighing: "How much energy is needed to lift this stone wall!"

"Without relying on manpower, only floods have such great energy in nature." Tang Feng said.

"Is this also a masterpiece of the party members? I am getting more and more confused now. The ruins of the temple and the pagoda are easy to understand, but what is the purpose of the big Buddha and the huge maze here? Why did the party members build these things? "Han Jiang looked puzzled.

"Maybe all of this is already there?" Tang Feng speculated.

"What do you mean? What does it mean to have it?"

"The history of human beings is the process of understanding and transforming nature, but after understanding nature, human beings often adopt different methods to transform nature. Some people change the world and rebuild mountains and rivers; some use nature a little to achieve the purpose of transformation. "

"You mean, there was this complicated labyrinth in this mountain, and it was transformed by the party members?"

Tang Feng did not answer Han Jiang's question, because he had already passed through the stone wall first, and saw the scene that shocked him.He noticed the change under his feet, and the terrain behind the stone wall gradually rose.As the terrain rose, the water level under his feet became lower and lower. Finally, when he was shocked by the sight in front of him and couldn't move his steps, the water level under his feet had dropped to his ankles.

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Tang Feng, Han Jiang, and Makarov gathered their flashlights together, but they couldn't illuminate the huge mountain palace.The first thing they see is a bridge ahead.Tang Feng couldn't tell if it was built of stones, or made of wood, or was it formed naturally!

At the head of the bridge facing them, there are two huge stone statues of warriors.Tang Feng carefully observed the two stone warrior statues, which were exactly the same as the stone warrior statues at the lower temple pagoda, except that the stone warrior statues here were bigger.

Tang Feng squatted down to check the bridge deck.He was surprised to find that the bridge deck was not made of wood, nor stones or bricks, but black rocks. Except for the two stone sculptures standing at the head of the bridge, it was almost impossible to see any artificial carvings on the bridge. trace.Tang Feng was secretly surprised, is this bridge really natural?

The natural stone bridge abruptly straddles the dark mountain stream, and the surrounding area is still pitch black.Tang Feng couldn't see the surrounding space, and the beam of light from the torch shot out more than ten meters away, still staying on the bridge.

"How long is this stone bridge? Where is the place beyond the stone bridge?" Tang Feng's voice trembled.

"I'm more concerned about what's under the stone bridge," Han Jiang said.

"Under the stone bridge? It should be a river!" Tang Feng said indiscriminately.

"I didn't hear the sound of water!"

During the conversation, the three of them had already boarded the stone bridge.Tang Feng found that there were no guardrails on both sides of the stone bridge, and it was really just a natural stone bridge.The three walked forward cautiously.After walking more than twenty steps, Tang Feng suddenly found that the bridge deck was getting narrower and narrower.He stopped and watched carefully.Under the beam of light from the flashlight, he still couldn't see the end of the stone bridge, and the bridge deck where he was located was less than two meters wide, and the bridge deck in front of him was still narrowing.

"This stone bridge won't disappear suddenly as we walk, right?" Tang Feng's voice lacked confidence, but there was a huge echo in the empty darkness.

Han Jiang shined a flashlight on the bridge in front of him, and said, "Let's explore further!" His voice also lacked confidence.

The three of them walked forward for more than [-] steps, and the bridge deck was already narrow to only about one meter left.Tang Feng used a flashlight to shine under the stone bridge. There was no sound of water, no light, and he saw nothing except darkness. "Is it really bottomless down here?" Tang Feng's voice was trembling.

"Be careful ahead..." Han Jiang shone around with a flashlight, and the beam of light from the flashlight penetrated into the thick black curtain, and was engulfed by the boundless darkness again.But when he moved forward along the bridge deck, he was surprised to find that at the furthest point where the flashlight could shine, the bridge deck was so narrow that only one person could pass through.

Tang Feng and Makarov also saw the unusually narrow bridge deck in front of them. They wanted to see what it looked like under this narrow bridge deck, but the beam of light from the torch could only shine there. "If the bridge behind is narrower, or simply broken, it's not worthwhile for us to go any further," Tang Feng said.

"Isn't it worth it? If you don't move forward, do you want to go back?" Han Jiang asked back.

"No matter what, if we go another twenty steps, at least we can see the situation behind the narrow bridge," Makarov said.

"I'm afraid that after ten steps, the bridge deck we see will be even narrower!" Tang Feng said worriedly.

"If you are timid, go to the back, I will go to the front!" Han Jiang scolded.

"If you tell me to go to the front, I will go to the front, and if you tell me to stand behind, I will stand behind? It's too embarrassing! Isn't it just twenty steps? Do you think I dare to go there!"

Tang Feng was excited by Han Jiang, and his fighting spirit immediately came, one step, two steps, three steps... until No. 17, he suddenly stopped.

"Why don't you leave?" Han Jiang asked from behind.

"Go ahead!" Tang Feng's voice was all wrong.

"I just said you can't do it, let me go ahead!" Han Jiang walked behind Tang Feng, two steps away from Tang Feng, saw Tang Feng blocked in front of him motionless, and urged, "You should move!"

"You...look ahead!" Tang Feng said and slowly turned sideways.

Han Jiang found that right in front of Tang Feng, the bridge deck was so narrow that only one person could pass sideways, and what was even more frightening was that no one knew what was under the bridge.Except for the bridge deck, the rest of the space is completely dark.

"Then you withdraw and let me go ahead." Han Jiang ordered.

"I...I can't come back..." Tang Feng wanted to retreat, but he couldn't move his feet.

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Tang Feng's legs were trembling unceasingly, and he couldn't turn around and retreat at all.With his body sideways, he had no choice but to take another small step forward, almost approaching the narrowest part of the stone bridge.He wanted to turn around and take a look at the bridge deck in front of him, but he had more energy than he wanted.Tang Feng's heart was beating wildly, and he unconsciously used the flashlight to shine on his feet.But before he could see clearly, the flashlight slipped from his hand.He was startled, almost lost his balance, and fell into the dark abyss.

Tang Feng kept his balance. For a long time, he didn't hear the echo of the flashlight falling to the bottom of the valley. His heart also fell into the dark abyss with the flashlight.

When Han Jiang and Makarov saw that Tang Feng was suddenly completely dark, they were both surprised. They hurriedly used flashlights to illuminate Tang Feng, and found that Tang Feng was still there, so they were a little relieved. "What's wrong with you? Don't scare us?" Han Jiang shouted.

"Scare... scare you? Who is this scaring... who?" Tang Feng's voice was dragged out of tears.

"Stand don't move!" Han Jiang said, also turned sideways and moved forward two steps, walked to Tang Feng's side, and held up a flashlight to shine forward, "The bridge deck in front seems to have widened."

"Really?" Tang Feng couldn't believe it.

"Really! If you take two more steps, you will pass!" Han Jiang was actually not sure that the bridge would become wider.

Han Jiang's "Looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst" was still effective. Finally, Tang Feng regained his courage and took a few steps forward sideways. The bridge under his feet was indeed wider than before.

Han Jiang and Makarov also followed.At this time, a gust of dark wind came from nowhere, making Tang Feng tremble all over, and finally made him recover from the extreme panic just now.

"It seems that we have passed the narrowest section." Han Jiang took a few more steps forward, and the beam of light from the torch could already shine on the bridge deck in front of him.

"The bridge ahead has not only widened, but also has a downward slope. It seems that we have reached the other side of the bridge!" Makarov was a little excited.

Han Jiang took out a spare flashlight from his bag and handed it to Tang Feng: "If you drop it again, it will be gone!" After speaking, he took the lead and strode forward.Not long after, two more stone warrior statues appeared in front of the three of them.

Two stone statues of warriors stand at the head of the bridge, one on the left and one on the right, which are exactly the same as those on the other side of the bridge.The three of them scanned the front with flashlights, and several irregular holes appeared in front of them.Tang Feng deduced: "We must choose the right direction. Since we opened the stone wall and walked here through the stone bridge, there must be a way to the outside."

"Maybe it leads to where we are going." Han Jiang said.

"But which road should we take? It seems that these roads have not been excavated by humans, and they seem to be formed naturally." Makarov said.

"I'm really afraid of falling into another ecstasy..." Han Jiang still felt palpitations when he thought of the labyrinth-like corridors before.

When Han Jiang and Makarov were considering which way to go, Tang Feng turned around and stared at the stone warrior statues on both sides of the bridge.Han Jiang turned his head and said, "Tang Feng, what are you looking at? Let's find a way to leave!"

"Look, the warrior statue on the left is different from the other three." Tang Feng said suddenly.

Han Jiang and Makarov were taken aback. Could it be that the statue of the warrior in the northeast corner of the pagoda in Xiasi implied a mystery?But Han Jiang stared at the two warrior statues for a long time, but he couldn't see it: "What's the difference?"

"Yes! What's the difference?" Makarov didn't see it either.

"This warrior statue is not as obvious as the warrior statue in the northeast corner of the lower temple pagoda. Have you noticed the eyes of this warrior statue?" Tang Feng pointed to the warrior statue on the left.

"The eyes again?" Han Jiang felt a little headache when he saw the eyes.

Sure enough, Han Jiang and Makarov noticed that the eyes of the warrior on the right were wide open, looking straight ahead.The eyes of the samurai statue on the left are very strange. Although the eyes are still in the middle of the eye sockets, they always give the impression that they are staring at the front left.

"What's going on? The eyes of this warrior statue are very strange, but when you look closer, his eyeballs are obviously in the middle of the eye sockets like the warrior statue on the right!" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"This is where the craftsmen of Xixia are so skilled. The eyeballs are also carved in the middle of the eye sockets, but it only takes a little trick to carve the eyeballs to different thicknesses, which gives people a special feeling." Tang Feng explained.

Han Jiang stared at the warrior portrait for a while, and sure enough, the eyes of the warrior statue on the left were of different thicknesses, giving the impression that the warrior was looking at the left front. "Back then, the craftsmen worked so hard to carve the warriors like this. There must be a purpose?" Han Jiang speculated.

"That's why I asked you to pay attention to the difference in the statue of the samurai on the left."

"Are you sure the two warrior statues on the other side of the bridge are all right?"

"I've looked carefully, and only the eyes of the warrior statue on the left are special. The eyes of the warrior statue must be carved like this. People who are not careful or don't know the inside story will not notice it." Tang Feng said.

"Then we should go to the left front!" Han Jiang said, using a flashlight to shine on the left front, and it really showed a corridor extending forward.

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Tang Feng, Han Jiang, and Makarov agreed to follow the instructions of the warrior statue on the left and take the corridor in front of the left.Tang Feng got into this tunnel first.This corridor is almost exactly the same as the previous labyrinth-like corridor. There are not many traces of artificial polishing, but it can clearly smell the breath of the ancients.

Han Jiang and Makarov didn't have Tang Feng's sense of smell. They could only follow Tang Feng through this corridor.But all three of them were worried in their hearts, not knowing where this corridor would lead them.

After more than ten minutes, Tang Feng regained the confidence that fell into the abyss on the stone bridge, because a dark red gate had appeared in front of them.

The three stopped when they were twenty steps away from the gate. "Finally not lost!" Han Jiang heaved a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, Tang Feng saw the secret of the warrior statue." Makarov also sighed.

"Don't be too happy, I don't know what is behind the door." Tang Feng tried his best to keep himself calm, but his heart was beating wildly.

Tang Feng walked straight to the dark red door. "Be careful of hidden weapons!" Han Jiang reminded later.

"Okay! Don't be afraid, even if the ancients left hidden weapons, they would have failed after so many years!" Tang Feng looked quite sure, "I think you read too many tomb robbery novels, and you really thought that the ancient tomb Are there stabs in the back? Besides, is this an ancient tomb? This is not an ancient tomb either!" Tang Feng said as he arrived at the dark red gate.

Han Jiang and Makarov followed carefully, and Han Jiang pulled out his gun nervously.At this moment, Tang Feng regained his energy: "Look at your nervousness, isn't it just a door?"

"Be prepared... Besides, why do I think this door is so similar to the gate of the underground palace in the mausoleum?" Han Jiang said.

Tang Feng touched the door in front of him with his hand. A thick layer of dust turned the originally bright red door into a dark red.He wiped off the dust, and found that the outside of the door was actually covered with a layer of cinnabar, and he also found a little golden substance on the door.

Tang Feng put these golden substances under the flashlight to observe.Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and exclaimed, "What a noble gate!"

"what is this?"

"Gold paint!"

"what?"

"This is a gold-lacquered gate. I can't even imagine what this gate looked like when it was first built. There was another layer of gold paint on top of the cinnabar. If the gold paint hadn't peeled off over the years, it would have been so dark in this dark passage. What a magnificent gate will be in front of us!" Tang Feng sighed sincerely.

"This door is so golden?" Han Jiang couldn't believe it.

"Well, that's it. Think about it, how glorious and noble this gate must be!"

Makarov didn't quite understand: "Tang Feng, you mean this is a golden gate?"

"It's not Jinmen, but it's about the same!"

"Oh! God, what will be inside this door?" Makarov was also amazed.

"I don't know, but it must have been an important place in Xixia back then." Tang Feng deduced.

"Don't rush in, you have to check carefully to make sure there is no danger before entering." Han Jiang still hasn't forgotten about the hidden weapon.

The three of them took two steps back and looked at the noble golden lacquered gate in front of them again.Tang Feng discovered that the two sides of the gate were made of huge stone walls, and the original unpolished rock walls stopped abruptly on both sides of the gate.Could it be that there is a mysterious palace in the mountains built with huge stones?Tang Feng didn't dare to think about it any further, but he was sure that there must be something special inside the door, and he couldn't wait to open this magical door.

(End of this chapter)