Xixia dead book

Chapter 143 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (28)
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After Makarov recalled the man-eating blubber, he unconsciously leaned back.Suddenly, he tilted his body, and his whole body seemed to sink in. "Tang Feng, there is a mechanism!" Makarov shouted.

Tang Feng also heard a dull sound. When he saw Makarov sinking in, he instinctively stretched out his hand to grab Makarov, but he couldn't.Seeing Makarov sinking deeper and deeper, Tang Feng was at a loss.And at this moment, the huge boulder behind Makarov sank inward for a while, and then stopped.

Makarov looked at Tang Feng, Tang Feng also looked at him, and the two looked around and at the top of the hall at the same time.They don't know what bad luck is about to befall them, or what to do next.

Time seemed to freeze, and the entire hall was silent.Makarov was still leaning against the sunken stone, he didn't dare to move casually, for fear of touching some terrible mechanism again.

Tang Feng signaled Makarov to stand up slowly.Makarov judged the situation, and then slowly straightened up.The huge boulder behind him remained unchanged, still sunken in the stone steps, Makarov calmed down a little.He quickly stood up and walked to Tang Feng before he dared to look back at the sunken boulder: "What's going on? The stone steps are also sunken?"

"You must have touched some organ just now!" Tang Feng said.

"what should we do?"

"I don't know!" Tang Feng thought for a while, and decided to take the risk to find out what was going on.He bravely came to the recessed stone steps, and tried the stone steps on both sides with his feet.The stone steps are as solid as a rock, motionless.The same is true for the stone steps at the same position up and down.

"It seems that this is indeed an institution!" Tang Feng firmly believed in his own judgment.

"But nothing happened?" Makarov estimated that seven or eight minutes had passed since he touched the mechanism.

"Could it be that the mechanism has failed because of the long history?" Tang Feng also felt strange.

Tang Feng took a step back and carefully observed where they were. It was the second stone step by the west side of the pool, and the recessed stone step was right in the middle of this level.

"Strange, this is neither the top corner nor the middle position..." Tang Feng was suspicious.

"If you look at it from the right, the sunken stone steps are about one-third of the way." Makarov made a precise judgment based on his professionalism.

"One-third place?" Tang Feng's brain turned quickly, and then he shouted, "I understand!"

After speaking, Tang Feng turned around and walked quickly towards the stone steps on the north side. Makarov followed behind and asked, "Tang Feng, what do you understand?"

"Golden section! This recessed location happens to be the golden section!" Tang Feng's shout made the whole hall buzz.

"Golden section?! God, party members also understand the golden section?" Makarov couldn't believe it.

Tang Feng came to the same position as the stone steps on the north side, checked it, and he was convinced that his judgment should be correct.He stretched out his hands and pushed hard, there was a dull sound, and the stone in front of him was sunken.

Although the stone steps on the north side were sunken in, there was still no change in the main hall.Tang Feng and Makarov came to the same position on the stone steps on the east side again, and did the same thing, the situation was exactly the same as the first two places.

Finally, when they came to the same location of the stone steps on the south side, both of them hesitated. This was probably the last stone step to trigger the mechanism.

The two hesitated for a long time before Makarov said, "Let me do it!"

Tang Feng did not insist, he was already mentally prepared to face any accident, but at the same time he was surrounded by indescribable fear.Out of fear of the unknown world, he instinctively drew his gun.

Makarov exerted force with his arms, and the stones on the stone steps on the south side were sunken in, and there was still no change... But when Tang Feng and Makarov were puzzled and looked at each other, a message came from nowhere. There was a loud noise.Immediately afterwards, Tang Feng and Makarov noticed that the pond in front of them had changed.

[No.15 The oath on the stone platform]

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A puddle of stagnant water in the pond began to boil, bubbling with tiny bubbles.Tang Feng and Makarov watched the changes in the pool in horror, and could not help but back away.

There was another loud noise, and Tang Feng found that the water level in the pool began to drop.Immediately afterwards, the gold, silver and jewels that had sunk at the bottom of the pool slowly surfaced.

It wasn't until the mountains of treasures clearly appeared in front of the two of them that Tang Feng discovered that all the gold, silver and jewelry were piled up on a square stone platform.There was a gap half a meter wide between the stone platform and the pool wall, and the water that was originally full of the pool was drained into this gap.

"This is... too incredible!" Makarov exclaimed.

"Could this be the treasure marked on that treasure map?" Tang Feng thought of the treasure map he saw in the east room of the inn.

Tang Feng is not interested in these gold and silver jewels, what he needs to find is the jade screen.When the stone platform rose to a position parallel to the stone steps he was on, he stopped.

After observing for a while, Tang Feng was convinced that there should be no danger, so he jumped onto the stone platform with a stride, and Makarov also jumped onto the stone platform.

The two of them were surrounded by mountains of gold, silver and jewels, and there was nowhere to stay.Tang Feng stared blankly at the treasure in front of him. Suddenly, he realized that something was wrong.He picked up a piece of porcelain from the treasure mountain, which was a jade pot and vase with colorful flowers and birds.Years of academic accumulation allowed him to judge at a glance that the porcelain vase in his hand should be a porcelain vase fired during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.Putting down the porcelain vase, Tang Feng picked up another copper stove. Under the copper stove was a famous inscription, which clearly stated "Xuande Annual System".

Tang Feng had already seen some clues, he shook his head and put down the copper furnace, and said to Makarov, "It's really strange, these treasures don't belong to Xixia."

"Oh? How did you see that?" Makarov was astonished.

"The jade pot and vase with colorful flowers and birds I took just now was from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and Xixia would not have colorful porcelain; the copper stove was from the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, and it did not belong to Xixia. The gold and silver jewelry here is not at all. None from the Xixia period, many from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and more gold and silver from the Republic of China period." As he spoke, Tang Feng picked up a few necklaces and jewelry from the treasure, "And they are all folk things. Nothing compares to the royal jewels of the emperor."

Makarov bent down and picked up a few silver and gold coins, looked at them, and sighed: "This can also explain the two silver coins we found in the nave."

"Well, the two silver coins found in the nave should have the same origin as the treasure here." Tang Feng judged.

"Tang Feng, this... I don't understand! Everything in the Black Vulture Temple, whether it's Buddha statues or buildings, shows that this is a relic from the Xixia period, but how can there be treasures from the Republic of China here?"

"This is really strange, and I can't figure it out. Judging from the characteristics of gold, silver and jewelry, it should have been stored here during the Republic of China; and judging from the wooden boards and ropes left in the corridor, the people who entered here should also be from the Republic of China. .”

"Who could it be? Also, what is stored here?"

"Yes! Are there no cultural relics left over from the Xixia period?" Tang Feng thought, and began to carefully clean up the gold, silver and jewels piled up like a hill in front of him.But he checked all the gold, silver and jewels, but he still didn't see a relic from the Xixia period, let alone the jade screen they were looking for so hard.

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Tang Feng was a little tired, so he sat down among the gold, silver and jewelry, and said, "Damn it! Could it be that fate played a trick on me? I came here after going through all kinds of hardships and overcoming many dangers, and found the treasure, but it wasn't What I want to find! Who is the owner of these treasures?"

Tang Feng felt that the owners of these treasures seemed to have played a big joke with him.He was annoyed, but Makarov made a new discovery: "Look, Tang Feng, there seem to be characters on this stone platform, like Chinese characters."

Tang Feng also found writing beside him, and the two moved away the gold, silver and jewels piled up on the stone platform, and were surprised to find that the stone platform was full of writing, and they were all traditional Chinese characters.

"Like an article." Tang Feng said.

"Maybe it was carved by the group of people who entered here during the Republic of China." Makarov said.

Tang Feng carefully identified and read out the words engraved on the stone platform bit by bit——

The black lama has no morals and does not listen to honest advice. If there is such a defeat, Mazong Mountain will not be preserved, and the Dunhuang Tianjie will not be famous.My brothers and I are here today facing the Buddha and God and vowing: unite with sincerity, participate in major events together, kill black lamas, reorganize rivers and mountains, and we must find the disappeared ancient city of Xixia, and share the glory and wealth.The sun and the moon are shining, and this heart can be used as a lesson. If anyone violates the oath, he will be sentenced to death.

Sworn person: Ma Yuan
Tang Feng finally finished deciphering this half-literal and half-white text. There seemed to be nine characters behind "Ma Yuan", the last swearer, but they were already blurred and unrecognizable.

"The following words should be the name of the covenanter, but they were all erased intentionally, leaving only this Ma Yuan." Tang Feng told Makarov.

"The black lama is mentioned in this oath!" Makarov thought of the person that the big lama had mentioned to them in the Sea of ​​Seven Colors.

Tang Feng also thought of it: "During the Seven Colors Jinhai, the great lama once mentioned that during the period of the Republic of China, there was a famous big bandit Danbi Jianzan in the northwest area, and people called him the 'black lama'. Legend has it that It was this black lama who obtained the jade screen stored in Dunhuang."

"Yes! The oath mentioned 'Dunhuang'. I checked some information about the black lama before. The black lama was originally a Mongolian. After the revolution broke out in Mongolia, he fled to China and made a living by robbery. At that time, he used Mazong Mountain as his base and was active in Dunhuang and Jiuquan, so it is very likely that he got the jade screen in Dunhuang."

"The black lama later became a scourge for China and Mongolia. With the help of the Soviet Union, the Mongolian government sent agents to raid Mamane Mountain for a long distance, killed the black lama by surprise, and cut off his head. It is said that his head is still in storage. In Petersburg."

"There is such a saying! However, the information revealed in this oath seems to be different from what we already know." Makarov stared at the traditional Chinese characters on the stone platform in doubt, "The oath is traditional Chinese characters, and it is mentioned Black Lama, then we can conclude that this oath was engraved from the mid-20s to the 20s, no later than the 20s at the latest. Combined with the relics and treasures in the stone temple, it should be closer to The early days, that is, the late 40s, or the 20s."

Tang Feng listened to Makarov's deduction and nodded: "Old Ma, you continue to talk, what's the difference?"

"The black lama was mentioned twice in the oath. The first time he said that the black lama had no way, and the second time he said that he would kill the black lama. According to the literal meaning, it seems that the group of people in the oath killed the black lama. This has nothing to do with us. What you know doesn't match."

"Well, there have always been rumors that the agents of Mongolia and the Soviet Union killed the black lama, and there are still heads to prove it. But there are also legends that the black lama escaped the pursuit and took the treasure that was so rich that no one knew. " Tang Feng said.

"If this oath from the Republic of China period is true, then the man who was killed by Mongolian and Soviet agents is a fake."

"But how can we judge that the person who wrote this oath is reliable?"

"Now I am more inclined to believe the information disclosed in this oath. Because this is first-hand information, we can read between the lines, so I would rather believe the content of this oath."

"Well, judging from the content of the oath, the person making the oath should be the person involved. But who is this?" Tang Feng was puzzled.

Makarov's thinking has expanded a lot: "Tang Feng, look at these gold, silver and jewels, and you can guess who the oath is."

"You mean, the people who made the oath are the owners of these treasures, so they are most likely to be the people of the black lama. Only the black lama, or the men of the black lama, could gather such a large amount of wealth during the period of the Republic of China! "Tang Feng thought for a while, and then said, "During the period of the Republic of China, the legend of the treasure of the black lama has been circulating in the Northwest. It is said that the black lama once accumulated wealth that was incomparable to the country by robbing the passing business trips. The mystery of it is gone, gone forever."

"That's right! The first mention of the black lama in the oath is actually the reason for the second mention of 'killing the black lama'. 'The black lama has no way'. , its true meaning should be that these swearers complained that the black lama 'does not listen to faithful advice'; the deeper meaning is that these people resent the black lama."

"It seems that there was already an anti-his force in the black lama's team at that time!" Tang Feng was secretly surprised.

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An anti-black lama force?Makarov affirmed Tang Feng's judgment: "Well, I think it's the same. The consequences of 'the black lama has no way, don't listen to good advice' are 'If there is such a defeat, Mazongshan will not be preserved, and the reputation of Dunhuang Tianjie will not be there' 'If there is such a defeat' I mean the battle where Mongolian and Soviet agents attacked the Black Lama."

"It can only mean that. Then later they swore to 'kill the black lama', that is to say, the black lama did not die in the battle when he was attacked by Mongolian and Soviet agents. However, all news about the black lama was cut off afterwards. After that battle, the world has never heard of the black lama."

"With the personality of the black lama, he will not be content to remain silent. There can only be one explanation for why he didn't show up later, and that is—he is indeed dead."

"According to what you said, the black lama should have died not long after the battle at Mazong Mountain."

Makarov nodded: "It must be so. After the Battle of Horsehair Mountain, the black lama and some of his followers escaped. Where would they most likely go?"

"It must be here. Judging from the situation at that time, in Mongolia in the north, black lamas could not go back; in Xinjiang in the west, the governor Yang Zengxin was very strict with black lamas; Qinghai in the south was a barren land; only in the east, Hide in Helan Mountain. Moreover, there are high mountains and dense forests here, and there is this stone palace where you can hide.”

"No! Tang Feng, the black lama must have fled in a hurry at that time, and it is impossible to carry too many things. Moreover, the black lama must have discovered this place before. In order to prevent problems before they happen, all the gold, silver and jewelry he accumulated It is stored here. After the First World War on Horsehair Mountain, this should be the first hiding place that the black lama and his accomplices thought of." Makarov's explanation seems more reasonable.

"Then the treasure map of the Republic of China period that Han Jiang and I found in the inn should refer to this place!"

"That's not important anymore. The important thing is how did the black lama find this place?"

"Yes...it's the jade screen!" Tang Feng was startled, "But there shouldn't be any information about Helan Mountain on his jade screen!"

"Yes! But I think the black lama already knew the secret of the jade screen, so he was also looking for the other pieces of jade screen. But with his ability, he couldn't find it! This can also be seen from this oath , "Sincerely unite, cooperate with great events, kill black lamas, reorganize rivers and mountains, we must find the disappeared ancient city of Xixia, and share prosperity and wealth." What does "major event" refer to? It is also said later that "must find To the ancient Xixia city that disappeared'!"

"Han Hai Mi City?" Tang Feng asked in surprise.

"That's right, it was during the process of searching for the jade screen that the black lama probably accidentally discovered these stone temples in the mountains of the upper temple of the Black Vulture Temple."

"What about the jade screen in Helan Mountain?"

"This is what I am most concerned about, but it seems that there will be no more here!"

"Old Ma, I suddenly thought of the person who was trapped to death in the gold-clad bronze door. Could it be a black lama?" Tang Feng said suddenly.

(End of this chapter)