Xixia dead book

Chapter 183 The KGB and the CIA (20)
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After a while, Tang Feng shook his head vigorously, "No! Liang Yuan, you must have read too many time-travel novels. I don't believe that we have returned to ancient times. We are still in the 21st century. I still believe in science. If that person wears a mask If the woman really didn't hide the queen, then it can only be the result of the magnetic field, the environment and the weather working together."

"Magnetic field...environment...weather..." Han Jiang was also puzzled, "So, what we saw just now was Empress Wuzang from nearly a thousand years ago?"

"I don't know, but there is another possibility that we have hallucinations under special geological and weather conditions!" Tang Feng said.

"Illusion? Could it be that it's not really a person?" Although Han Jiang began to doubt his original point of view, he still forcibly pulled himself back. What Yuan said is that Empress Wuzang has appeared, Tang Feng, do you think that the old lady who is Empress Wuzang needs to wear a mask like that to come out to see us?"

Han Jiang's words left Tang Feng and Liang Yuan speechless, and Han Jiang asked again: "Tang Feng, is there any record in history that there is no hidden queen wearing a mask? It's like... just like Western history Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem."

Tang Feng thought for a long time, then shook his head, "I've never heard of it."

"Yeah! Since there is no one, why did we see the masked Empress Wuzang?"

Tang Feng couldn't answer Han Jiang's question, and Han Jiang looked up at the sky again, but the sky still didn't look better, "Okay, don't think so much, let's get out of here quickly!"

"But where should we go now? Go back to Qianhu Town, or go directly to the next target - Yueerquan?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang.

"Since we are far away from Qianhu Town, I think there is no need to return to Qianhu Town, but..." Han Jiang also hesitated, "But how far is it from Yue'er Spring? There is also the direction of Yue'er Spring !"

"If you want to go to Yueerquan from here, I don't know how far it is from Yueerquan, so I can only make a rough judgment on the direction." As he said, Tang Feng pointed to the direction he thought, "If my judgment is not wrong If so, it should be in this direction—due north by west.”

The three agreed that Han Jiang drove around the black stone again, and he still didn't give up. Who would be the mysterious fifth person lurking in Qianhu Town and killing Zhao Yong?Xu Renyu?Mummy?Still not hiding the ghost of the queen?

But he turned around and found nothing unusual, Han Jiang stopped the car again, he thought of Zhao Yong again, Zhao Yong's body was still in the gate building of Qianhu Town, "Brother, wait for me , I will take you back."

Han Jiang uttered such a sentence almost word by word, but even he didn't know if he could come back safely.

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Han Jiang stopped thinking about it, restarted the donkey, and headed in the direction indicated by Tang Feng. When the car left the black stone, Liang Yuan kept staring at the huge black stone that was fading away behind him. When Tang Feng turned around, he found that Liang Yuan was staring at the black stone. Looking at Heishi, he smiled wryly, "Did you see that masked woman again?"

Liang Yuan shook her head in disappointment, "No! She really disappeared."

"Tang Feng, I still have one question that I still don't understand. Since this is such a good landmark, pointing the direction for business travelers in the desert, why was it abandoned later?" asked Han Jiang who was driving.

"This..." Tang Feng hesitated for a moment, and the donkey drove up a dirt slope, and the car continued to drive north and west. This place is no longer the Gobi that was surrounded by the flat river around Heishi just now.

Tang Feng did not continue to answer Han Jiang's question just now, but turned his gaze out of the car window, "What's the matter, what are you looking at?" Han Jiang asked.

"The answer you want may be right outside the window." Tang Feng said lightly suddenly.

"Outside the window?" Han Jiang slowed down the car.

"Did you see it? The small basin next to us should have been a big lake back then, but it dried up later, and it seems that it dried up many years ago." Tang Feng pointed to a large dry Gobi outside the car window.

"So the black stone was abandoned because of the water source problem," Han Jiang said.

"Water source may be only one aspect. According to the information we have now, the road leading to Hanhai Micheng was diverted once in the late Western Xia Dynasty or the early Yuan Dynasty. Water source is one factor, and the war may be another fatal factor."

After Tang Feng's analysis, he found that they drove into a sea of ​​sand, rolling desert, all the way to the horizon, and looking back, the black stone had disappeared on the horizon, but the sky was still cloudy.

Tang Feng didn't know how many sand mountains they had climbed. The uniform scenery outside the window made him drowsy. Han Jiang suddenly slapped him, "It's good for you, you are about to fall asleep."

"Nonsense, you drive, I'm only in charge of piloting, I don't have anything to do now, why don't I sleep?" Tang Feng was plausible.

"You are in charge of the navigation, so why don't you check the direction you are pointing? It has been more than an hour since we left Blackstone, and we haven't seen the shadow of Yueerquan yet!"

Tang Feng checked the compass and the electronic compass again, "The direction is correct, it is the direction I judged—north by west..."

While Tang Feng was talking, suddenly, he felt the car body shaking violently, and the donkey stopped moving! "It's over, the donkey is exhausted!" Tang Feng exclaimed.

Liang Yuan also became nervous, "If it's going to be bad in this place, we'll have to stop the food completely, don't go to the village, don't go to the store... Don't make any accidents, don't be bad, God bless, Buddha bless, Master Guan bless, you all have to Bless the ass, it's okay."

Han Jiang pretended to be calm, and started the donkey again, but the donkey didn't respond, Han Jiang slammed the steering wheel, "Damn it!"

"Try again! We should be almost at Yueerquan."

Han Jiang tried again, several times in a row, the donkey couldn't start at all, just when Han Jiang was desperate, the donkey miraculously started again, but no matter how hard Han Jiang tried, the donkey's motor roared, setting off a thick Yellow sand, still can't move forward.

"Mom! Why do I feel like the donkey is sinking further..." Liang Yuan, who was sitting in the back, felt the body sinking first.

Tang Feng also felt it, Han Jiang didn't dare to start the car again, so he had to turn off the car, and said angrily, "Damn it, it's sunk."

"What should we do?" Liang Yuan asked.

"The two shovels in the back, Miss, you should do some work too, you and Tang Feng each have one, go down and dig sand!"

"Dig sand?!" Liang Yuan, who has always been pampered, has never done this before, but now she has no choice but to get out of the car with a shovel and dig.

Tang Feng jumped out of the car and found that they happened to be on the top of a sand mountain, which is the so-called "desert plowback". The desert plowback is the easiest place for cars to get stuck, so be extra careful. Tang Feng and Liang Yuan had been busy for almost At 10 minutes, Han Jiang was sitting in the cab smoking a cigarette and commanding them, "Okay, it's almost done, you two push the cart behind, I'm going to start it."

Liang Yuan pouted, the boss didn't want to, but there was nothing he could do, so she and Tang Feng obediently stood behind the donkey, Han Jiang started the donkey again, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan pushed hard behind, and the sand kicked up by the rear wheels flooded the donkey. Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were all dressed up, but fortunately the donkey rushed down the back of the plow, Han Jiang stopped the car, and when Tang Feng and Liang Yuan caught up with the car, Han Jiang stepped on the accelerator and went down a tall sand mountain rush away.

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The sand mountain in front of them was tall and big. Fortunately, Han Jiang was skilled in driving and successfully climbed over the sand mountain. A large flat sandy land appeared in front of them. "Maybe we are almost there." Tang Feng looked Looking at the sky, dark clouds are still covering the top of the head, but at this time, it is not like it was in Heishi, giving people the feeling of being overwhelmed by dark clouds.

"It's getting dark soon, I think Yueerquan should be in this area." Han Jiang stared out of the window, and he found that the environment here is no longer as bad as before, and there are only some low sand hills in front.

The donkey turned over a low sand hill, and some trees suddenly appeared in front of it, "Trees! There are trees!" Tang Feng and Liang Yuan, who had never seen a tree since entering the desert, exclaimed.

Tang Feng rubbed his eyes vigorously, but his eyes were not dazzled. They were trees. Just a few kilometers in front of them, on the desolate Gobi Desert, there appeared a grove consisting of seventy to eighty trees.

"That can't be a hallucination, or a mirage, right? Those trees...why are they so weird!" Han Jiang drove towards the forest suspiciously.

"No! It's not a hallucination, let alone a mirage. I've seen it clearly. It's Populus euphratica, Populus euphratica forest. This matches Makarov's memory. Have you forgotten?" Tang Feng was pleasantly surprised.

"Pullar euphratica forest? I think it's all a strange tree." Han Jiang also confirmed that he had really come to the forest.

"Haven't you heard that Populus euphratica lives for 1000 years, dies for 1000 years, and stands for 1000 years?" Tang Feng jumped out of the car impatiently.

"So Populus euphratica has a lifespan of 3000 years!" Han Jiang also jumped out of the car and walked into the Populus euphratica forest. However, he felt that the Populus euphratica had strange shapes and some trunks were bare, as if they had been dead for many years, but they still stood upright. Where.

"This is the place where the scientific expedition team camped the night before the accident?!" Liang Yuan looked a little excited, "That's also the place where grandpa once visited."

"Yes, it's here. But the yellow sand has obliterated everything, as if those lives had never been here!" Tang Feng was also very excited.

"Okay, you two, stop being so lyrical. I thought of Makarov. He was part of the scientific expedition team, no, not just the scientific expedition team. He is the only one who is still alive among all the parties involved, unless... ... Unless there are people we don't know, so I think it would be great if the old horse can come here." Makarov's appearance appeared in front of Han Jiang's eyes, and Yelena's beautiful face also appeared.

"Ha, the old horse has already said what he should say. Even if he comes here, what can he do? I think you miss Yelena!" Tang Feng laughed.

"Fart! Old Ma revisits his old place, maybe he can think of some clues again!" Han Jiang retorted.

"Don't forget, this is the old horse's sad place! I don't think he can think of anything except to bring back his old tears."

"Okay, I won't argue with you anymore, it's getting late, we will camp in the Populus euphratica forest tonight."

"Still setting up camp! The tent was blown away by the sandstorm!" Tang Feng said angrily.

Han Jiang looked around the small Populus euphratica forest, then looked at Liang Yuan, and said, "Let's see, Liang Yuan sleeps in the car tonight, and Tang Feng and I will sleep in the Populus euphratica forest."

"Sleeping on the floor?"

"You forgot, the tent is gone, we still have two moisture-proof mats and two sleeping bags, just for the two of us."

"I have no problem sleeping with sleeping bags, but I'm afraid to sleep in this horrible place. The dozens of ghosts of the scientific expedition team haven't seen anyone for so many years, and now they finally caught a few alive."

"Scared! You have experienced so many mummy corpses in Qianhu Town, and you are afraid that there are dozens of innocent souls here. If you are about to meet the innocent souls of the scientific expedition team, you just ask them, what happened to them back then? What did you find? Save us trouble!" Han Jiang joked.

"If I see them, I don't dare to ask. If I want to ask you, I will accompany you tonight. You can't run away anyway!" Tang Feng took out the moisture-proof pad and sleeping bag, and put his sleeping bag against Han Jiang put down his sleeping bag.

"You don't think I'm snoring at night now?"

"I don't think so!"

"Okay, let's still be like yesterday, I am on duty in the first half of the night, and you are on duty in the second half of the night."

After Han Jiang arranged it, the three of them remembered that they hadn't eaten all day, and the fuel tank of the donkey was almost out of gas. The three of them wolfed down and hurriedly ate some of the food they brought, and Tang Feng got into the sleeping bag. Han Jiang went to cheer for the donkey, Tang Feng sorted out his thoughts, and took out the photo of the ancient map and the letter from Misha.

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Tang Feng checked the photo of the ancient map carefully again with a flashlight. Except for the "Black Stone" identified today, Tang Feng still didn't know where the other marks on the ancient map pointed.

Tang Feng paid special attention to the sign under "Black Stone", that is, the sign closest to Hanhaimi City, but Tang Feng was too brainy to understand what the two Xixia characters meant?Where exactly?According to the literal translation, the first of the two Xixia scripts is clearly the word "South", but he doesn't know the second Xixia script. Before departure, Tang Feng checked a lot of information, but because of time constraints, he kept Did not understand what this word means.Just because he didn't know the second character, Tang Feng couldn't judge the nature of the first character "South". Is it to indicate the direction?Or was it originally part of a place name?Tang Feng really couldn't figure it out. After thinking about it, Professor Luo's appearance appeared in front of Tang Feng's eyes. It would be great if he could ask Professor Luo face-to-face at this moment. Unfortunately... I don't know if there will be a chance to ask Professor Luo face-to-face in the future!
Tang Feng thought wildly, put away the photo of the ancient map, and opened the letter from Misha. Tang Feng had already familiarized himself with the sketch. Tang Feng set his eyes on Misha's letter. From the beginning to the end, Tang Feng I read the letter again, and in the part describing Yueerquan, Misha wrote, "I still remember that terrible place, that terrible strange sound, and the black dust storm that made everyone collapse. I don’t want to recall any more, because it was the biggest pain in my life, and it completely changed my life and life path.”

Tang Feng has read it several times, and Han Jiang and Liang Yuan have already read it. These two lines did not reveal anything more valuable than Makarov’s memory, and even worse than Makarov’s memories. Luo Fu's memories are detailed, so although Misha said Yueerquan was terrible, Tang Feng didn't feel any special shock or fear when he read these two lines of text, Tang Feng said in his heart, "Misha! You don’t want to recall this sentence any more, it will cost us so much, just say it, tell all the things that happened back then, there won’t be so many things, and so many people won’t have to die!”

However, nothing can be assumed, the past has become history, Tang Feng looked at the Populus euphratica tree above his head, and then listened carefully, there was no strange sound, Tang Feng suddenly felt that being able to spend a night in the Populus euphratica forest is also a lifetime A rare experience.Thinking of this, Tang Feng felt his eyelids start to twitch. After all, he didn't sleep well last night, and after another day of driving, Tang Feng was already exhausted from being frightened. He had to be on duty in the second half of the night. Regardless of him, Tang Feng was about to go to bed, but when he folded the three pages of letter paper, he suddenly found something strange on the letter paper.

The letter paper was facing the bright flashlight, Tang Feng stared at the back of the letter paper and suddenly froze. At this moment, Han Jiang suddenly shouted, "If you want to sleep, go to sleep quickly, don't waste the battery anymore."

Tang Feng didn't object, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, and unfolded the letter paper again, he found that there seemed to be vague words on the back of the second page of letter paper, Tang Feng couldn't believe his eyes, and turned the letter paper over for comparison, No, it wasn't the traces of the writing on the front, but there were words on the back, but Tang Feng couldn't see the writing on the back of the letter paper clearly.

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Tang Feng was stunned for a while, then Han Jiang shouted again, "What are you doing there, don't turn off the flashlight!"

Flashlight?Han Jiang's words reminded Tang Feng instead. Tang Feng hurriedly used a flashlight to illuminate the front of the letter paper. With the strong light of the flashlight, the writing on the back of the letter paper gradually became clear. Tang Feng shouted excitedly, "Come and see, Mi! There are words on the back of Sha’s letter paper!”

Han Jiang had just filled up the donkey's fuel tank, and when he heard this, he hurried over with Liang Yuan, and Tang Feng read out the handwriting on the back of the letter paper word by word—

Dear Liang, please allow me to tell you something important in this way, this is a special steganography, I learned it from a KGB agent, because I have to avoid some dangers and checks, and I can't be sure Are you safe there, so I have to use this method to tell you something important.

What I want to tell you is the strange things that happened the night before the accident of the scientific expedition team, the terrible place, the terrible strange sound, and the black dust storm, these are the reasons that led to the destruction of the scientific expedition team, but I always think that it was also a terrible scene Man-made disasters, I think you should also be aware of this.On the last day in the Populus euphratica forest, the two buckets of drinking water we carried were turned off by someone. It was our last drinking water, and the place we were in was just a place where there was no water source. It has a beautiful but quite The ironic name - Yueerquan.

(End of this chapter)