Xixia dead book

Chapter 171 The KGB and the CIA (8)
Listening to their analysis, Liang Yuan became a little impatient, and said with a smile: "You guys make this thing too amazing, are you an ancient mine? Hehe." Liang Yuan laughed.

"You can still laugh, this ancient landmine has now blown up our fierce donkey." Tang Feng said with a straight face.

"Then hurry up and fix it, don't we have a spare tire?" Liang Yuan said nonchalantly.

"Damn, my eldest lady, you can order people around! Why don't you cultivate yourself?" Tang Feng shouted dissatisfied.

"Nonsense, how can I ask a girl to change the tire!" Liang Yuan said confidently.

Tang Feng had no choice but shook his head, and was about to get the spare tire, but Han Jiang held him back, "What's the use of changing it now? We don't know how many traps there are around here? After you change the tire, you will be caught again." Poke a hole, and we'll stop eating."

"Then what should we do?"

"Find a safe way out first."

"Pathfinder?"

"Think about it, why are those wolves all right? Besides, we've been talking for a long time, but we forgot about the rut that suddenly appeared at the bottom of the wolf depression!"

It was only after Han Jiang's reminder that Tang Feng remembered, "Yes! We can find a safe road along the rut." After that, the two asked Liang Yuan to stay and guard the car, while Tang Feng and Han Jiang followed the original road. The road looked for the rut again.

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Tang Feng and Han Jiang walked towards Langwa along the way they came. After walking for a long time, they found the rut in the sand, but with years of experience, Han Jiang saw that the rut that appeared later was walking in the sand. Stopping and stopping, they seemed to be hesitant. When they walked more than ten meters along the rut in the direction of Langwa, the rut on the sand showed a branch, "Obviously, that car is going south like us. After a while, it turned to the west again." Han Jiang judged.

"Not only that, but the sudden appearance of the ruts at the bottom of the Wolf Hole indicated that the driver also found the horse nails around the Wolf Hollow, and he was also looking for a safe way out." Tang Feng said.

Han Jiang nodded, "It seems that this car has left the danger zone."

"Not only this car, but also the car that has been showing up before is gone now, which means they have left Langwa safely. We should be able to leave Langwa safely by following this rut," Tang Feng said. . ,

"But have you ever thought that if those wolves were controlled by someone, that person wanted to lead us into a dangerous area, why the two cars in front weren't fooled?"

"I can only say that you are stupid!" Tang Feng laughed.

"Fart! Am I stupid? At most we are too focused on those wolves." Han Jiang said.

Tang Feng and Han Jiang walked along the branch that extended to the west. Soon, they reached the edge of Langgou. Walking in the northwest direction, another rut appeared on the ground at this time, "That car appeared again."

"The two ruts on the ground both extend to the northwest. It seems that we can get out of the encirclement of the ancients there." Han Jiang folded his hips and looked around.

"The encirclement of the ancients! So you agree with my inference?"

"That's right, this place must be an encirclement circle set up by the party members for Genghis Khan's army." Han Jiang walked in front, and suddenly stopped, "Look, what is that?"

Standing on a small sand dune, Han Jiang found that a large piece of sand suddenly sunken under the small sand dune. This is obviously not the unevenness formed by ordinary sand dunes. Tang Feng also noticed this big hole, and he jumped into the sand pit Looking carefully at the edge, "It looks like a tomb."

"The pit? I don't think so." Han Jiang also lay down on the edge of the pit.

"Oh? Then what do you think this is?"

"I think it's probably a horse trap."

"Trapped into a horse pit?" Tang Feng stared at the big pit, and just as he was dazed, Han Jiang jumped into the big pit and planed it twice with his hands, and a few dry and cracked thin wooden boards appeared in the yellow sand.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the thin wooden plank that originally covered the horse pit. This wooden plank must not be able to withstand the heavy pressure of the horse." Han Jiang deduced.

"Then there will be the bones of the Mongols in this pit?" Tang Feng dubiously dug away the yellow sand in the pit with both hands, and soon, rows of rotten wooden stakes were exposed.

"This is no ordinary wooden stake. Back then, these were sharpened sharp knives. As long as someone fell into this pit, they would be pierced by these wooden stakes."

Hearing what Han Jiang said, Tang Feng couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart as he looked at the dry, cracked and decayed wooden piles. "Here, don't be in a daze, take a look, come and recognize the words on it."

"There are still words on it?" Tang Feng took a piece of thin wood that had been broken in two pieces from Han Jiang, and sure enough, he wrote some strange characters with ink pen on the thin wood. Tang Feng stared at these Strange words, long silence.

"You are talking! Is it Xixia?" Han Jiang urged.

"It's not Xixia." Tang Feng murmured.

"That said, our previous inferences were all wrong. But I don't think those words look like Chinese characters!"

"Well, it's not Chinese characters. If I'm not mistaken, these characters are Basiba script." Tang Feng suddenly spoke a script that Han Jiang had never heard of.

"Ba... Basiba script? What is Basiba script?" Han Jiang was at a loss.

"The Basiba script is a kind of script created by Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, and it is an official script of the Yuan Dynasty." Tang Feng explained.

"How could there be Basiba inscriptions on the wooden board in the horse pit?" Han Jiang was still puzzled.

"This is exactly the problem. First of all, the Phagspa script appeared only in the era of Kublai Khan, which was about the middle of the thirteenth century, while the Mongolian battle against Xixia took place in the era of Genghis Khan, at the beginning of the thirteenth century. It has been about half a century, so it does not match the age we presumed to set the horse nails and the horse traps; secondly, we assume that these horse nails and the horse traps were set by the party members, but this board But Basiba script appeared, which is also contrary to our previous inference, I...I can't figure it out now." Tang Feng felt a little confused.

"Then you recognize the text on it and see what it means?"

"Fortunately, I have learned some Phagpa scripts, but the several Phagpa scripts on this board are just for marking the direction," Tang Feng read out the meaning of those Phagpa scripts, " West...North...No.17..."

"Maybe it's just a few words that people from the Yuan Dynasty came here and wrote here indiscriminately."

Tang Feng shook his head, "Although these words are meaningless, they just prove that our previous deduction is wrong. 'Northwest No. 17', I speculate that it is a mark made on the wooden board in advance when setting up the horse trap."

"No. 17 in the northwest?! Then it was set up by the Mongols during Kublai Khan's time." Han Jiang couldn't believe this conclusion.

Tang Feng was silent for a moment, "It may not have been set up in Kublai Khan's period at the earliest, but it should be in Kublai Khan's period at the latest."

Han Jiang nodded, "Yes, then these horse traps and horse nails may have existed very early, such as the Xixia period, and they were used until the Kublai Khan period of the Yuan Dynasty."

"There is such a possibility, but I can't understand that in the time of Kublai Khan, decades have passed since the Mongols destroyed Xixia, and the Yuan Dynasty has already ruled the world. What kind of enemy is there that needs the Yuan Dynasty army to face the enemy?" Tang Feng shook Head, can't figure out what's going on with all this.

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Tang Feng and Han Jiang searched around the horse trap for a while, and they found some horse traps and horse nails one after another. Tang Feng was thinking about Liang Yuan, so he said to Han Jiang, "It seems that we follow these two The road ruts can safely walk out of the ambush circle set by the ancients, Liang Yuan is still waiting for us, let's go back quickly."

Han Jiang nodded, and the two returned the same way, "But you said that the ambush set up by the ancients seems to be useless. We found so many horse pits and horse nails, but we didn't find a single skeleton Ah!" Han Jiang wondered.

"Yeah! Even those collapsed horse pits seem to have collapsed because of the age." Tang Feng was very confused.

The two quickly returned to the car, but Liang Yuan was nowhere to be seen. Tang Feng's heart sank immediately, "Liang Yuan had an accident!"

"Who knows where this eldest lady has gone!" Han Jiang seemed to be calm.

As soon as Han Jiang finished speaking, there was a heart-piercing cry for help from the ground, "Help—" It was Liang Yuan's voice, and Tang Feng trembled all over. Standing in the long yellow sand, he quickly judged the voice. Source, "Liang Yuan is nearby."

Tang Feng and Han Jiang ran towards the south almost at the same time, and within a few steps, they found Liang Yuan sitting in a big pit in the south, crying and shouting. Tang Feng was relieved when Han Jiang rescued Liang Yuan. Looking down the pit, "This is a horse trap that has not collapsed and can still be used."

"Stuck in a horse pit?" Liang Yuan had stopped crying at this moment.

"Yeah, who told you to turn around? You got stuck in the horse pit. Fortunately, a lot of sand has accumulated underneath, otherwise you would have been pierced by those wooden stakes and arrows right now!" Tang Feng complained. .

"I saw that you guys hadn't come back, so I walked around the area. Who would have thought that there would be a pit here." Liang Yuan looked aggrieved.

"It seems that there are still many horse traps that are still intact here." Tang Feng looked around and murmured.

"Tang Feng, have you noticed that the collapsed horse pits we discovered just now are all in the northwest direction, and the two cars also left this ancient ambush circle from the northwest direction."

"You mean to say that the ambush here was once attacked by the ancients, and they came from the northwest?"

Han Jiang nodded.

"That's what I thought at first, but I really can't think of anyone other than Genghis Khan who will destroy Xixia from the northwest." Tang Feng shook his head, unable to figure out what was going on.

"Okay, let's fix the car and hurry! We are getting farther and farther away from those two cars." Han Jiang reminded.

"Well, I feel more and more now that those two cars must be our old friends."

Tang Feng and Han Jiang changed the tires and started on the road again. When they drove out of the ambush circle of the ancients following the ruts on the ground, the sun had already set to the west.

[Section [-] Qianhu Town]

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Han Jiang speeded up the car. He hoped to reach Qianhu Town before dark, but no one knew what would happen along the way. Tang Feng took out the letter left by Misha, hoping to get some clues, " In the second part of the letter, Misha recalled some experiences of the scientific expedition team after entering the desert. Misha almost briefly mentioned the experiences in Jiulibao and Langwa. I camped nearby, everything was normal, and then I recalled some contacts with Mr. Liang, and he neither mentioned those horse nails in his letter, nor did he find any traces of wolves."

"This shows that the scientific expedition team is relatively smooth at this stage." Han Jiang said.

"However, regarding Qianhu Town, Misha talked about it alone...Liang, you may not have any impression of the place called Qianhu Town. When the scientific expedition team arrived at Qianhu Town, the superior ordered us not to go in. Camping, but after dark, I still couldn't hide my curiosity, and entered this deserted town alone. I still can't forget that horrible night, and I still can't solve many mysteries in that town. The next day (Actually, it’s the third day), I suggested to my superiors that I want to visit Qianhu Town, but I was rejected by the leaders. They also criticized me. I think you must have not slept well that night. Everyone seems to be scared I'm afraid of that deserted town." Tang Feng slowly read out Misha's letter.

"That's all?" Han Jiang asked back.

"Well, that's all. It seems that Qianhu Town is a place that Misha is afraid of. Everyone is afraid, so the scientific expedition team did not dare to enter Qianhu Town." Tang Feng said.

"Hmph, maybe this is Misha's own speculation. Maybe the scientific expedition team didn't enter Qianhu Town in order to find Hanhaimi City as soon as possible."

"Anyway, Misha went in and said it was a night that frightened him."

"Nonsense, anyone who goes to a deserted town at night will feel scared!" Han Jiang joked.

"Have you noticed the sentence in the brackets?" Tang Feng stared at Misha's letter and asked suddenly.

"You mean the phrase 'actually it's the third day'?" Han Jiang paused, then deduced: "It means that Misha didn't suggest to his superiors to go to Qianhu Town for investigation, but only after a day later. give suggestions."

"Do you think this is reasonable? Why didn't Misha make a suggestion right away? Why did the scientific expedition team stay outside Qianhu Town the next day and not move on?" Tang Feng stared at Han Jiang and pursed his dry lips.

Han Jiang pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyes widened. Just as he was about to speak, Tang Feng continued: "There can only be one reasonable explanation. That night, including the whole of the next day, Misha was trapped in Qianhu Town That’s why Misha was so afraid of Qianhu Town, that’s why the scientific expedition team stayed outside Qianhu Town for a day the next day, and that’s why Misha said, ‘It’s actually the third day’!”

The more Tang Feng spoke, the more excited he became, and Han Jiang also felt a chill rising from behind, "Is...what trapped Misha in Qianhu Town? Could it be an enchantment array!"

"Ecstasy Array?!" Tang Feng murmured to himself.

"The next day, the scientific expedition team should also send people into the town to look for Misha, right?" Liang Yuan said suddenly.

Tang Feng was startled, "Yes, I think the scientific expedition team should have sent people around the town and in the town to look for Misha during the day the next day, but they definitely didn't find it!"

"In a small town, where can Misha hide?" Han Jiang asked doubtfully.

"It's not where he's hiding? It's because Misha was trapped in Qianhu Town! It must be like this." Tang Feng said firmly.

"I don't know what kind of uninhabited town this town is. It's so mysterious!" Liang Yuan exclaimed.

"You'll see you soon!"

After Han Jiang finished speaking, there was another tall sand dune in front of him. Han Jiang didn't slow down, and rushed straight to the sand dune, but when Han Jiang drove the donkey over the sand dune, he was dumbfounded, and a deep ditch appeared behind the sand dune.Han Jiang hurriedly slowed down, but it was too late, and the donkey fell headlong into the deep ditch.

Both Tang Feng and Liang Yuan screamed, and Han Jiang wanted to scream too, but he held back. Fortunately, Han Jiang had many years of driving experience in special forces, and the donkey rushed to the bottom of the ditch without overturning. Tang Feng and Liang Yuan jumped off In the car, he vomited for a while, and Han Jiang also felt his stomach turned upside down, and he felt nauseous for a while.

Han Jiang jumped out of the car, patted the hood and cursed, "Damn it, those two cars in front are really idiots, I fell down by following the rut."

"Stop yelling, I don't think the two cars know there will be a deep ditch here." Tang Feng stumbled and turned around to look, the sand dunes behind them pressed straight on top of their heads, like a solid city wall, and this A deep ditch is like a moat under the city wall, but where is the city wall in the desert?Even if there was a wall, the dust storms and yellow sand of the Badain Jaran Desert would quickly bury any once-glorious buildings.

Tang Feng observed for a while, and said to Han Jiang: "This is not a naturally formed deep ditch."

"Are you crazy? Are you saying this was dug by hand? Who would dig this in the desert?" Han Jiang didn't believe it.

"Look at the sand dune behind us. Although it has collapsed due to wind and sand erosion for hundreds of years, I still found traces of reeds in the sand dune." Tang Feng said, pointing to some black substances faintly exposed in the sand dune behind him.

"Reed? Is there a water source near here?" Han Jiang sensitively thought of the water source.

"Hundreds of years ago, there was likely to be a shuibaozi here, and there were reeds beside the shuibaozi, and the people who built this trench mixed reeds into the sand to prevent the sand from being blown away by the strong wind." Tang Feng explained.

Han Jiang and Liang Yuan also found traces of reeds mixed in the sand dunes at different locations. Tang Feng went on to say, "From the location and direction of the trench, this trench is of the same nature as the ambush circle near Langwa. Built to deal with enemies coming from the northwest."

"It seems that everything is to prevent powerful enemies from the northwest, but it can't explain the Basiba script that appeared in the horse pit! It's incredible." Han Jiang shook his head.

"Fortunately, after many years of strong winds, the trench is not very deep now, otherwise we would be trapped here today." Tang Feng pointed to a gentle slope in front of him, and said: "Look, someone has opened the trench for us. road."

Han Jiang also found a gentle slope in the front left, "This gentle slope is completely pushed out by the car, which means that the two cars in front also fell down and walked from here."

The three of them got back into the car, rushed out of the trench along the gentle slope that had been pressed out, followed the ruts on the sand, and continued to drive towards Qianhu Town.

(End of this chapter)