Xixia dead book

Chapter 155 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (40)
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The group returned to the camp and stayed at the camp for one night.Strange to say, Han Jiang didn't arrange a night watch this night, but everyone slept soundly, without any nightmares, and even the strange noise disappeared.

Early the next morning, Han Jiang and Tang Feng made a plan and decided to go down the mountain from the original avenue south of the Black Eagle Temple.Although the avenue of that year has long since disappeared, everyone quickly passed through the forest this time.Outside the forest is a lush forest, and the road under your feet is constantly declining.Looking back, the towering North Peak has become farther and farther away.

Tang Feng kept judging the way, and everything went smoothly.When they walked out of the mountain pass in the south, their eyes suddenly opened up, and after walking a while, a dirt road appeared.After observing for a while, Han Jiang said excitedly, "There are ruts on this dirt road, so we should be able to see people."

"There is a communication signal!" Xu Renyu also exclaimed excitedly.

"There are still footprints, as if someone just walked by." Tang Feng found a series of footprints on the dirt road.

Seeing that there was a communication signal, Han Jiang immediately contacted the headquarters with a dedicated line, briefed Zhao Yong on the situation in the past two days, and ordered him to bring people to Helan Mountain to find the bodies of Stechkin and Stephen. There is the most important jade screen.

After resting for a while, the group continued to move forward.The footprints on the dirt road have also been extending forward.

"Like two people, not far from us." Tang Feng said.

"And it's a man and a woman!" Han Jiang further judged.

"Could it be that besides us, Stechkin, and Stephen, anyone else went to the Black Eagle Temple?" Xu Renyu suddenly asked in surprise.

"Impossible, this footprint was found outside the mountain pass." Han Jiang said.

"One man, one woman, I think of two people..." Tang Feng seemed to think of something.

"Who?" Han Jiang asked back.

"Do you still remember the young couple we met in the inn?" Tang Feng replied.

"You suspect that the footprints were left by the two of them?" Han Jiang pondered.

"This season is not the tourist season of Helan Mountain. How could a young couple come here? It's not a big deal. Think about the people living in the inn. We came here with a special mission. The east room is Stephen, and the south room is small. Could it be that simple for a couple?" Tang Feng analyzed.

"So what if it's not that simple? I think you are worrying unnecessarily. The young couple didn't show up at the Black Eagle Temple at all. Even if the footprints belonged to the couple, they only came to climb the mountain." Xu Renyu retorted.

"No matter that much, the first task now is to find the bodies of Stephen and Stechkin, as well as the jade screen." After Han Jiang finished speaking, everyone saw a town faintly appearing in front of them.

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After resting in the town for one night, when everyone woke up the next day, Zhao Yong had already been ordered to lead people into the mountain to search.Han Jiang, Tang Feng, and Yelena drove to the foot of the mountain. Tang Feng judged that the place where Stephen and Stechkin fell should be under the cliff on the west side of the North Peak.When the car reached the foot of the mountain, there was no road. The three of them hiked into the mountain. There was no trace of human activities in front of them, and the ground was covered with weeds and thorns.

After struggling for more than an hour among the weeds and thorns, Han Jiang felt that it was almost done: "This is the cliff below the west side of the North Peak. The bodies of Stechkin and Stephen should be in this area."

Tang Feng looked up at the cliff above his head, and said worriedly: "I'm afraid it's not as simple as you said. Falling from such a high cliff, they may fall in a large area."

"Well, Tang Feng is right, the higher the place, the wider the spread. So Stephen, Stechkin, and Yuchaping may fall in a very wide area, and here are high mountains and dense forests. It's not easy to find!" Yelena said.

"So I called Zhao Yong. I have analyzed it, and I have divided the possible areas under the cliff into 16 yuan. We are now in the fifth area, which I think is the most likely to find their bodies and jade screens. So this area was searched by a few of us, and the other [-] areas were searched by Zhao Yong."

"Okay! Then shall we search separately, or together?" Tang Feng asked.

Han Jiang looked at Yelena, then at Tang Feng, hesitantly said: "Search separately, but you can't place an order, there may be danger at any time."

"Then you don't bring more people! I told you to bring Dr. Xu with you, but you are still not happy!" Tang Feng complained.

"Dr. Xu is injured and needs to rest!"

"Fart! I hurt more than anyone else!"

"Okay! Okay! You are the most injured, so let Yelena be in your group and I will be in my own group. Let's search back and forth from the left and right according to the area demarcated on the map; each return takes about an hour, We'll all meet once. If anyone makes a discovery, a flare will be fired. Well, it's settled!"

After Han Jiang assigned the task, he searched to the left alone, while Tang Feng and Yelena searched to the right.According to the route drawn by Han Jiang, they started from the edge of District [-] and searched all the way to the bottom of the cliff. This process required about four turns and turns, which meant that they needed to meet four times.

The first time they met, the three of them arrived on time and found nothing; the second time they also found nothing, and disappointment was already written on Han Jiang's face.But when Tang Feng and Yelena arrived at the agreed third meeting place, Han Jiang did not show up on time.

Tang Feng and Yelena looked at each other, and a cloud of suspicion arose in their hearts. "Han Jiang may have discovered something." Yelena guessed.

"I hope so!"

Tang Feng and Yelena waited at the appointed place for five or six minutes, but Han Jiang was still nowhere to be seen.Yelena was a little puzzled: "Didn't he say he found something and send a signal flare?"

As soon as Yelena finished speaking, a dazzling flare appeared in midair. "I said Han has discovered it!" Yelena excitedly searched for the signal flare.

Tang Feng followed Yelena and walked for about ten minutes, passing through a forest, they saw Han Jiang standing in a bush in a daze.They approached Han Jiang and saw a horrible corpse lying among a pile of dead wood.

"Stephen—" Tang Feng called out, he had never seen such a miserable corpse.Although Stephen's body looks relatively complete, upon closer inspection, there is almost no complete muscle, and the skin is completely torn. Some internal organs have been exposed, and the bones are all broken. Several broken ribs directly pierced through the body. Muscles, skin and clothes are exposed.The scariest thing was Stephen's face, which completely lost its human form. One eyeball was still in the eye socket, but there was only a black hole in the other eye socket...

"It fell like this?!" Tang Feng stared at Stephen's body and couldn't help sighing.

"It seems that the fifth district is indeed the most promising area to find jade screens." Yelena said.

Han Jiang was stunned for a long time before regaining his senses, and said slowly, "But I searched around, but I didn't find Stechkin's body, nor the bag with the jade screen."

"Maybe it landed elsewhere!" Tang Feng guessed.

"I thought so too at first, but after looking carefully at Stephen's body, I found some clues. Look at Stephen's clothes!" Han Jiang reminded.

"What happened to the clothes?" Tang Feng was puzzled.

Yelena seemed to see the problem: "Stephen is wearing a bulletproof vest inside!"

"Well, that's right. Stechkin's strike was precise. It was because of wearing this bulletproof vest that Stephen escaped from Stechkin's eyes. This confirmed Stephen's narrative. I had been prepared for it. In the end, Stephen held Stechkin and died together, which surprised Stechkin even more, because Stechkin never thought that Stephen was not dead yet." Han Jiang finished explaining, and then Pointing to Stephen's arms, "Look here again."

It was only then that Tang Feng realized that Stephen's arms were still in the same posture as when he hugged Stechkin, and he couldn't help feeling: "Looking at Stephen's appearance, he seems to be steadfastly unwilling to let go!"

"Yes! If Stephen and Stechkin fell down together, and Stephen kept holding Stechkin tightly, then their bodies should be together." Han Jiang said.

"Yes!" Tang Feng thought for a while, but couldn't figure it out, and finally had to say to Han Jiang, "Let's search this area first and then talk about it!"

Han Jiang had no choice but to cover Stephen's body and make a mark, and then continue to search the rest of the area with Tang Feng and Yelena according to the original plan.

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The further you go down the cliff, the more difficult the road becomes.Tang Feng and Yelena walked through the wild grass and thorns without any paths, and couldn't let go of any suspicious places.The thorns stabbed Tang Feng several times.Suddenly, Yelena, who was walking in front, gave a soft foot and fell forward in the weeds and thorns.

Seeing this, Tang Feng hurried up to help Yelena up.Seeing that she was only scratched, he joked: "You can't have something to do, otherwise I can't explain to Han Jiang!"

"Don't be poor, I seem to have tripped over something just now."

Tang Feng found a strap wrapped around Yelena's boots, his eyes lit up, isn't this the strap of Stechkin's backpack?Tang Feng hurriedly pulled out the backpack from the grass.

Yelena was surprised and delighted: "Stechkin's bag!"

The two hurriedly opened the backpack, and several pieces of broken jade pieces appeared in front of their eyes. Tang Feng recognized at a glance that they were the pieces of the three jade pieces. "It's over, those jade pieces fell like this, and the jade screen will definitely not get better!" He couldn't help worrying.

Turning down again, the scene Tang Feng was most unwilling to see appeared, and he found a few broken pieces of jade.Tang Feng quickly recognized that the jade fragments found from the bottom of the bag were exactly the jade screen he found in the golden well: "It's over, it really is broken!"

Just when Tang Feng lost his mind, Yelena suddenly discovered that there was a brocade box in the bag: "Huh? Why is there a box here?"

Tang Feng was startled, he also saw the brocade box, opened it, and found another jade screen, a jade screen that had been broken into dozens of pieces.

"This... how come there is another jade screen?" Yelena was puzzled.

"This should be the jade screen that Stephen's family has passed down from generation to generation, but unfortunately it was also broken!" Tang Feng immediately thought of Stephen's father, Ma Changguo.

"This is an accidental discovery. We found all four pieces of jade screen, only... only two pieces were broken." Yelena said regretfully.

"Look again, I found Stechkin's bag, and his body should be nearby." Tang Feng looked around.

After hearing what Tang Feng said, Yelena instinctively drew out her gun. "Stechkin has been smashed to pieces, are you still afraid?" Tang Feng felt that she was a little too cautious.

"Don't take it lightly, Stechkin was not an easy person to escape from Ponotska!" Yelena warned Tang Feng.

Yelena's advice reminded Tang Feng of being attacked by Stechkin in the grass on the top of the mountain.A seemingly thin old man has so much strength, it is an irresistible force... Thinking of this, Tang Feng also quickly pulled out his gun.

Tang Feng and Yelena carefully searched the vicinity, but they couldn't find Stechkin's body.Yelena looked at her watch. It was almost time to meet Han Jiang, so she had to take Stechkin's backpack first and went to the agreed meeting place with Tang Feng.

Han Jiang also held a bag in his hand. "Stechkin's umbrella bag!" Tang Feng recognized the bag in Han Jiang's hand at a glance.

"I found it nearby, and I haven't opened it!" Han Jiang introduced.

"It didn't open? That means Stechkin's parachute didn't open, and he should surely die!" Tang Feng said pleasantly.

Han Jiang pondered for a moment, then said: "From the unopened umbrella bag, it should be so, but what about Stechkin's body? We have searched the entire Fifth District, and found Stephen's body, Stetchkin's body here. Qijin's umbrella bag and backpack, and Yuchaping were also found, but Stechkin's body was not found."

"Could Stechkin's body fall into another area? After all, Stephen's body and these two bags are scattered and not in the same place. Stechkin's body may also fall farther away from here." place." Yelena deduced.

Han Jiang looked at the sky and said, "Let's search again. If we still can't find it, we'll go back and wait for news from Zhao Yong and the others."

So, the three of them split up and searched from the bottom of the cliff to the outside again.A few hours later, when Han Jiang met Tang Feng and Yelena again, they found nothing.

Disappointed, the three returned to the temporary camp at the foot of the mountain, waiting for news of Zhao Yong's search for other areas.At nightfall, teams of people came back to report, but none of the fourteen areas were found, only the sixth area that Zhao Yong personally searched for.This area is close to the fifth area, and Han Jiang believes that it is the area most likely to be discovered besides the fifth area.

During dinner, Zhao Yong rushed back with three special forces members, and reported to Han Jiang disappointedly: "I searched three times, but I didn't find anything of value."

When Han Jiang heard this, he slumped down on the chair in disappointment.Had Stechkin evaporated?Can't see people alive, can't see dead bodies? ! "No! It's impossible!" Han Jiang suddenly jumped up from his chair again.

"It's true...it's true that nothing was found!" Zhao Yong was frightened by Han Jiang's roar.

Han Jiang waved his hand and signaled Zhao Yong to back down, but before Zhao Yong could go out, Han Jiang stopped him suddenly: "Strengthen the vigilance at night. At dawn tomorrow, let the team go out and continue the search. If you are good at organizing, climb to the Search on the cliff!"

When Zhao Yong heard that his head was getting bigger, but he couldn't disobey Han Jiang's order, he was at a loss for a while.At this time, Tang Feng suddenly said quietly: "I don't think there is any need to search anymore."

"Why?" Han Jiang, Zhao Yong, and Yelena all stared at Tang Feng.

"It doesn't matter whether Stechkin is dead or alive...Look at this..." Tang Feng looked around at everyone when he said this.Everyone gathered around and found that Tang Feng had put the two broken jade screens back together.Tang Feng pointed to the jade screen, "One of these two pieces of jade screen was broken into 18 yuan, and the other was broken into 13 yuan, but neither is missing. Maybe they can still be used together."

Han Jiang examined it carefully, then nodded, "The next step is to see Professor Luo's ability."

[No.20 Section Han Jiang's Speculation]

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Zhao Yong led people to search for another day, but Stechkin's body was still not found.Han Jiang decided not to waste any more time, let Zhao Yong lead a team to stay, and returned to the headquarters with Tang Feng, Yelena, Makarov, and Xu Renyu.

Han Jiang reassigned the task based on the new clues, and handed over two broken jade screens to Professor Luo.Facing the two jade screens that were broken into more than ten pieces, Professor Luo frowned.After a long time, Professor Luo said to Han Jiang: "I can only try to see if I can splice these two jade screens together, and then decipher the text on it and the map behind it."

"Then I will trouble you! Please try your best to repair these two jade screens." Han Jiang begged.

"Don't worry, I will do my best. Fortunately, the fragments are not missing, and they can still be repaired, but I dare not give you a guarantee of what will be repaired in the end." Professor Luo has always been rigorous in his work, and he will never pack things that are not sure ticket.But Han Jiang and Tang Feng also knew that when it came to this point, Professor Luo was probably quite sure.

Han Jiang assigned work to Yelena and Makarov again: "Elena, after you return to China, I hope you can thoroughly check the files of Bultenko, Stechkin, and Breinin."

"You are giving us a job, like our leader. You know, Ilyukin has to obey me obediently with us." Yelena said angrily.

"How dare, how dare I give you a job, I'm not discussing with you, please help?" Han Jiang hurriedly changed into the most enthusiastic smile in history, almost amused Tang Feng.

"That's about the same. Let me tell you, I have checked the files of Stechkin and Brenin before, and they are not different from what I have learned. I can't tell from the files that they have any hidden secrets." Yelena road.

(End of this chapter)