Xixia dead book

Chapter 150 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (35)
"Vulture's lair?!" Makarov's inadvertent words made Tang Feng and Han Jiang shudder.

"Look, the vulture is bleeding..." Makarov said.

"It was Han Jiang!" Tang Feng shouted.

"Keep your voice down! I didn't hit that... What is this vulture going to do?" Han Jiang also became timid.

"Avenge you!" Tang Feng joked.

"At this time, you are still joking with me!" Han Jiang shouted dissatisfied.

"Who's kidding you! Look at the vultures coming in!"

Saying that, the three of them retreated towards the entrance of the corridor in unison.The injured vulture did not come towards Tang Feng and the others, and the three were surprised to see the vulture walking towards Stephen step by step.The vulture stood still beside Stephen, spread its huge wings, then turned around and walked out of the coupon door.

The vulture walked out of the coupon door, and soon disappeared outside the door.Tang Feng and the three of them stared blankly for a long time before reacting and rushed out of the coupon door together.Outside the coupon door, the three of them were bathed in the warm sunshine again, but the vulture was gone.

Tang Feng looked around and found that the terrain here was very strange, surrounded by high rock walls, and they were located in a recessed "bottom of the pot".

"This place is amazing, we are at the bottom of the pot!" Tang Feng exclaimed in surprise.

"This looks like a tiankeng, but it's a relatively small tiankeng." Han Jiang judged.

"Don't talk about it, the tiankeng is usually in the karst terrain of the southwest mountainous area. How can there be here? Besides, how can the tiankeng be on this high mountain? In my opinion, it looks like a meteor crater." Tang Feng denied Han Jiang's inference.

"Meteor crater? I don't know where this is on the North Peak. We are trapped in the bottom of this pot." Han Jiang felt a little helpless.

"See if there is a way to climb up!" Makarov suggested.

So, the three of them started to circle around the rock wall, and found nothing, but saw a small gap on the other side of the rock wall.Through the gap, the three walked into another "bottom of the pot".There are still high rock walls all around, and the situation here has become more complicated, the surrounding rock walls present irregular arcs.While lamenting the uncanny craftsmanship of nature, the three were eager to find a way out.Suddenly, Tang Feng smelled a strong smell of blood.

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Turning over the protruding rock wall, the smell of blood became stronger, accompanied by the smell of rancidity.After a while, a large piece of weeds appeared in front of the three of them, and beside the weeds were piles of white bones.

"Here... here is indeed the old nest of vultures!" Tang Feng looked at the pile of bones in front of him in astonishment.

Han Jiang covered his nose and walked up to the pile of bones. "These are the bones of cattle and sheep, and there are some others that I can't tell..." Han Jiang suddenly froze as he spoke, because he found some scattered human bones among the many white bones.

"It seems that this vulture is really good at catching people!" Tang Feng suddenly thought of the nightmare that had been bothering him.nightmare? !Tang Feng trembled all over. "How long have we been in the cave?" Tang Feng asked suddenly.

Makarov looked up at the sky and reckoned, "It should be morning, which means we have been in the mysterious palace in the mountains for almost a day."

"I don't know what happened to Yelena and Dr. Xu?" Tang Feng couldn't help worrying.

"Look! That mark appears here again!" Han Jiang exclaimed suddenly.

Tang Feng and Makarov hurriedly looked over.Sure enough, a striking triangular mark appeared on the black rock wall, and the three deep notches impressed everyone.

"According to Stephen's account, I suspect that the bald head he mentioned is Stechkin!" Han Jiang deduced.

"Are you so sure?"

"The age, nationality, and means all match, who else could it be?" Han Jiang asked.

"Stechkin, White, General..." Makarov was thinking, "but I still can't figure out the connection between the three of them."

"Don't think about it too much. This triangle mark appeared again, which means that Stechkin is nearby, at least he has been here before." Han Jiang judged.

"Wait! Han Jiang, look here!" Tang Feng suddenly shouted, pointing at the rock wall not far from the triangle mark.

The three found another diamond-shaped mark on the black rock wall. "This...how is this possible?" Han Jiang was shocked.

"This is the mark we agreed upon before setting off at the camp!" Makarov was also shocked.

"It's absolutely impossible for the three of us to engrave, then...that's..." Tang Feng was so shocked by this discovery that he was almost speechless.

"It can only be Ye... Lian Na and Dr. Xu!" Makarov's voice trembled.

"It seems that they also entered Xuan Palace and came here!" Tang Feng said.

"No!" Han Jiang suddenly shouted, "If it was left by Yelena and the others, why haven't we found this mark in the passageway? No diamond marks were found."

"What if you didn't pay attention?" Tang Feng asked.

"Impossible. I have been very careful along the way, and I haven't found the diamond mark." Han Jiang is very sure.

"Okay, let's look further and see if there is still this mark." Makarov said.

Tang Feng and Makarov continued to walk along the rock wall, but looking back, Han Jiang was still staring at the diamond-shaped mark on the rock wall. "What are you still thinking about?" Tang Feng urged.

Han Jiang raised his head and looked at the sky and the high stone walls around him. After a long time, he murmured: "I really want to grow a pair of wings and fly up to see what this place is."

"Don't think about it, you won't grow wings in this life! Watch out for the vultures to come back later!" Tang Feng urged Han Jiang to leave quickly.

Vulture? !Thinking of the vultures coming and going in a hurry, Han Jiang's heart sank, and he hurriedly followed Tang Feng and Makarov and continued to walk forward.

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The stone wall turned another corner, and neither the triangle mark nor the rhombus mark appeared again.A series of craters and black rock walls made Tang Feng firmer in his judgment: "This is a series of craters! The craters were hit by meteorites during the formation of the earth's crust hundreds of thousands of years ago, so There are big and small, and they are all intertwined."

"But how could this be the Sutra Library in Shangsi?" Han Jiang asked in puzzlement.

Tang Feng also stopped Han Jiang's question. "Maybe...maybe that stone room is the Sutra Library!" Tang Feng could only explain in this way.

Han Jiang didn't say anything more.At this time, the three of them came to the end, and here was a huge crater without a gap.Tang Feng looked around and found a hole in the black rock wall.

"Another hole!" The appearance of this hole surprised Han Jiang who was tired of the darkness.

"That's right! I thought I finally saw the sun, so I didn't need to drill into caves anymore!" Tang Feng was also puzzled.

Makarov said, "Han Jiang, Tang Feng, did we turn all these craters around just now?"

"Turn around!" Tang Feng and Han Jiang didn't understand what Makarov meant.

"I'm worried that there are other openings besides the one we came out of and the one in front of us. If so, we may go the wrong way again!" Makarov expressed his worry.

"That's right! That would be bad!" Tang Feng was also worried that there was some omission just now.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, the three of them thought about it for a while, and Han Jiang suddenly said: "Don't think about it! Don't think about it! Look, there is another triangle mark here."

Tang Feng and Makarov looked over, and there was a triangular mark on the rock wall inside the cave entrance.The three hurriedly checked around the triangle mark, but this time they did not find the diamond mark again.

"Strange, the diamond mark disappeared!" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"There must be something wrong here." Tang Feng said.

"Do you remember what Stephen said just now? There was an accident in the front hall!" Makarov said suddenly.

"Accident? Yes! Stephen said that just now, but he passed out before he could explain clearly." Tang Feng was not without disappointment.

"I think the diamond-shaped mark is related to that accident! And the bald man who snatched Stephen's two treasure maps must have walked this way from the corridor outside the east gate of the front hall. He didn't go to the back hall to find the black lama's treasure, but to Going this way, I think... I think he already knows where the jade screen is stored?" Makarov said his inference.

Makarov's deduction made Tang Feng and Han Jiang fall into deep thought. "This is indeed a problem. But according to Stephen's narration, the black lama and his grandfather came here to find the jade screen, but they didn't find the jade screen here. They just used it as a place for them to hide their treasures and take refuge. " Tang Feng said.

"That is to say, even if the bald man got two treasure maps, he didn't know where the jade screen was stored, but he didn't enter the apse, so why did he just come here." Han Jiang said confused.

"Why are you two so stupid!" Makarov said suddenly, "You can think of this level, but Stephen and that bald man can't think of this level!"

"Oh! I see. Stephen looked at the treasure map and knew that the jade screen would definitely not be in the apse, so they came here directly from the east gate. We did waste too much time inside."

Tang Feng suddenly realized.Seeing that Han Jiang didn't seem to have turned the corner, he pulled him over: "Don't think about it, let's go there quickly. If I'm not wrong, this hole won't be too deep!"

"How do you know?" Han Jiang asked puzzled.

Tang Feng didn't answer, turned on the flashlight, and plunged into the hole.

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Walking into the entrance of the cave, Tang Feng discovered that this corridor is exactly the same as the previous one, and it also spirals upwards.After more than [-] steps, a triangular mark appeared on the rock wall again, but there was also no diamond mark.

The situation after that is roughly the same.After Tang Feng and the others saw the tenth triangle mark, a bright light finally flashed in front of them. "It's finally over!" Han Jiang sighed.

"Hope it's no longer a damn crater," Makarov said.

The three of them finally walked out of the tunnel, and everything suddenly became clear. This place was not a crater, but the top of mountains.Tang Feng looked at the magnificent scenery down the mountain in surprise, and was so excited that he couldn't speak for a moment.

Han Jiang was also stunned by the beautiful scenery in front of him, and walked forward a few steps involuntarily, and came to the edge of the cliff on the east side.Looking down, he saw more than a dozen large and small craters hidden in the grass and bushes. Han Jiang exclaimed: "This is the crater we passed just now!"

As soon as Han Jiang finished speaking, two huge shadows covered the top of his head, and the three of them raised their heads together.Two huge vultures were spreading their wings and passing over everyone's heads, swooping down to the crater below, and then landed accurately in the crater.

"Then...there is indeed a nest of vultures!" Tang Feng felt inexplicable fear when he thought that he might have to go back from there.

"No! Not only is there their nest, but the entire mountain is their nest!" Han Jiang recalled the shocking scene of the vulture catching blue sheep that he saw at the foot of the mountain.

"The entire mountain top? Then we are not safe here!" Tang Feng said in panic.

"Of course, vultures may attack us at any time." Han Jiang turned around and looked around, "Be careful of that mysterious man."

Tang Feng also looked at the situation on the top of the mountain.The cave where the three of them walked out was located on the east side of the entire mountain top. The east and south sides of the entire mountain top were flat, while the west and north sides were elevated. That should be the highest peak of the North Peak.

Some trees grow sparsely on the high north and west peaks.Tang Feng was very surprised that there were still trees growing on such a high mountain, while the rest of the mountain was covered with large areas of weeds and bushes.

Han Jiang was also observing the topography of the mountain: "Why didn't you see that guy?"

"Maybe that guy is hiding in a corner!" Makarov said.

"I don't see any place on the top of the mountain to store the jade screen, and I can't see any relics from the Xixia period here?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"That's right! It's not safe to put it on the top of the mountain. I can't figure it out because of lightning, thunder, wind and rain!" Makarov was also very confused.

"We should think in reverse. The black lama and Ma Yuan and his gang have been entrenched here for a long time, but they couldn't find the jade screen. I think the jade screen in Helan Mountain must be stored in a very secret and imperceptible place. .”

After Tang Feng finished speaking, he began to look clockwise along the edge of the cliff.One foot is deep and the other is shallow, there is no road under his feet, and all Tang Feng sees are weeds and shrubs.When Tang Feng and the others walked to the edge of the cliff on the south side, a large black cloud floated in the sky, covering all the sunlight in an instant, and a thick fog rose from the valley.Looking down the mountain, it is already a vast expanse of whiteness, without seeing any scenery.The fog is getting bigger and bigger, and the mountain tops are all shrouded in clouds and mist.

"What a weird weather!" Tang Feng's heart was also shrouded in thick fog.

Han Jiang and Makarov didn't say anything, and the three continued to walk forward with their heads bowed.Not long after, the three of them had already circled to the small mountain peak on the west side.Tang Feng looked at this small peak, and then at the raised small peak on the north side. The two peaks looked about the same height, and it was difficult to judge which peak was the highest peak of the North Peak.

"Do you want to climb up?" Makarov asked the other two.

"Since we've come here, of course we can't miss it!" Tang Feng felt more and more strange, where did that mysterious person go, and why did he suddenly disappear?Where is the jade screen?Maybe standing on the small mountain peak can find some clues.

Tang Feng, Han Jiang, and Makarov climbed to the western peak first, and looked around, surrounded by clouds and mist, without seeing anything.Disappointed, the three of them descended from the peak on the west side and climbed up to the peak on the north side. They were still shrouded in clouds and mist, but nothing unusual was seen.

The dark clouds in Tang Feng's heart are getting thicker and thicker.After untold hardships, it has come to the end, everything should have ended long ago, but nothing has been found.Neither Yuchaping nor the mysterious person was found. Could it be that all this will end in vain?The triangular mark clearly pointed here, but... but there was nothing but clouds and grass.Thousands of years ago, the party members might not have left anything here at all, and everything was just their own assumptions!
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A gust of wind blew by, and the wild grass on the top of the mountain swayed in the wind like waves, Tang Feng felt a deep chill.

"There won't be anything up here, let's go down!" Han Jiang said.

Just when the three of them were about to go down, another gust of wind hit, and the wild grass was blown to the ground by the gust of wind.Suddenly, Tang Feng's eyes lit up, and something strange seemed to flash out of the wild grass. "Wait!" Tang Feng shouted.

Han Jiang and Makarov froze in place at the same time.Tang Feng couldn't see what it was. He took two quick steps, convinced that he was standing on the highest point, and looking down, the place he just discovered was in the middle of the entire mountain.The more Tang Feng looked at it, the more he felt that there must be something wrong there.

Han Jiang and Makarov looked at him blankly, not knowing what he had discovered.Tang Feng stood on the highest point of the mountain, staring at the wild grass in the center.He was waiting, waiting for God to give him another gust of wind.

A few minutes later, a stronger gust of wind blew towards Tang Feng, and the wild grass on the top of the mountain was oppressed by the gust of wind, and they all fell down.Tang Feng's eyes widened.good!That's it!He found a round mound looming in the center of the mountain top amidst the weeds.

The mound is not high, and the upper part is very flat, but the area is not small.Tang Feng shouted excitedly, "I found it", and then ran down the hillside.

Han Jiang and Makarov were completely fooled by Tang Feng, they had no choice but to keep up with Tang Feng, and the three of them came to the center of the entire mountain together.

"You were startled and shouted wildly, what did you find?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng.

"Look! What is this?" Tang Feng dug a few times in the wild grass, and then picked up a black clod.

"What's the matter? Isn't it just a clod of soil?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"Look carefully!"

Han Jiang still didn't see anything.Makarov peeled off the mud outside the clod and saw the clue: "This looks like a brick, and it should be an ancient brick."

"Yes! Ma, you are right, this is a brick from the Western Xia period." Tang Feng spoke with excitement.

"Damn! You have become a god, and you can tell that this is a brick from the Xixia period!" Han Jiang shouted.

"Why don't you understand! It's not that I can see that this brick is from Xixia, but... It's that I can see that there is a building site here."

"Architectural ruins?" Han Jiang and Makarov were shocked.

(End of this chapter)