Xixia dead book

Chapter 188 The KGB and the CIA (25)
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Tang Feng was standing in the middle of two giant mounds and looking at it. Suddenly, the sky changed. In the originally peaceful Devil City, a gust of wind blew up from nowhere and rolled up the yellow sand all over the sky, fascinating everyone's eyes for a while.

After the gust of wind passed, the sky was covered by dark clouds again, "What a weird weather!" Liang Yuan murmured.

"It should be said to be a weird place!" Han Jiang said.

"Why do you say that? Just now I saw that the Devil City is peaceful and picturesque, with the desert and the solitary smoke, and the beautiful scenery of the long river and the sunset. I want to stay here for a while longer." Liang Yuan seems to be very intoxicated by this place.

"It's because it was so quiet and beautiful just now that this place is so weird. You forgot that Koznov and the joint scientific expedition team were stuck in this area, and the scientific expedition team was even wiped out." Han Jiangdao .

"Yes, I can be sure that this place is very close to Hanhaimi City. Koznov and the scientific expedition team have also arrived here, but why didn't they continue to move forward? There must be dangers that we don't know yet. Wait for us." Tang Feng also said.

The three jumped into the car, Han Jiang backed up, and Liang Yuan asked, "Then what should we do now? Should we keep going, or..."

Tang Feng interrupted Liang Yuan, "I suddenly have a very bad premonition."

"What bad premonition?" Liang Yuan asked.

"The front looks flat, but the danger may come soon." Tang Feng said calmly.

"I think it's still early, why don't we try to go forward for a while and see the situation before we talk about it." Han Jiang suggested. Tang Feng heard that Han Jiang's tone was very different from the past. This time he was in a negotiating tone, but Not an imperative tone.

Tang Feng didn't make a statement, and Han Jiang didn't start the car right away. Han Jiang seemed to be waiting for Tang Feng's statement, but Tang Feng stared blankly at the broken windshield of the donkey and didn't say a word. Han Jiang didn't understand him. What are you looking at, through the broken windshield, can you see the city of Hanhaimi?

"Yeah, go ahead and explore the way." Liang Yuan supported Han Jiang's idea.

Tang Feng still didn't make a statement, Han Jiang slowly started the car, and the donkey passed between two huge mounds and drove into an unknown area, "Perhaps no one has stepped into this land for 700 years! " Tang Feng thought silently.

Han Jiang's speed was very slow. He looked around cautiously. The sky became more gloomy, and the surrounding scenery did not show a slight change. Looking around, there was still endless yellow sand.

The only thing that changed was the wind, another gust of wind that creaked the windows of the donkey's car.Han Jiang's speed was getting slower and slower. Tang Feng knew that he was hesitating. Before driving for a long time, Liang Yuan, who was still very confident just now, retreated, "Today's weather is too bad, we'd better wait for the weather to come back tomorrow." Bar."

Liang Yuan's words gave Han Jiang a step, and Han Jiang stopped the car, "The weather here changes too fast, and it's hard to guarantee a clear sky tomorrow."

"Maybe it has something to do with this devil city." Tang Feng finally spoke.

"What do you mean?" Han Jiang asked back.

"I just said that this place is created by nature. The weather here changes so rapidly, which is probably related to the terrain here. The terrain here forms a microclimate environment here, which is weird and changeable." Tang Feng explained.

"That is to say, this is only happening here, but not in other places?" Liang Yuan asked.

"But I don't know how big the area affected by this microclimate environment is. Have you noticed that since we entered the desert Gobi, the more we went northwest, the more changeable the weather was?" Tang Feng said.

"That's true. Starting from Qianhu Town, we have been accompanied by strong winds, sandstorms, and changeable weather. But I think this place is the most weird. Did you hear any sounds?" Han Jiang asked suddenly.

Tang Feng and Liang Yuan heard an indescribable sound, was it the wind?It didn’t seem to be the case, Tang Feng listened attentively, suddenly, he was stunned, it was music, it was the weird music that was sometimes cheerful and sometimes sad that he heard in his dream, Liang Yuan and Han Jiang also heard it, this melodious music It came from nowhere, illusory, mixed with strong wind, and gradually surrounded them.

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Tang Feng felt a little dizzy, and the weird music continued to come. Now the wind was a little weaker than before, but the music was closer. Tang Feng suddenly shouted at Han Jiang: "Hurry up, let's go!" What are you waiting for?"

Han Jiang, who was confused by the weird music, reacted this time, stepped on the accelerator, turned the car, and rushed towards the two giant mounds, but Han Jiang just accelerated, but slammed on the brakes again, and a sound With the screeching sound of brakes, the car stopped 20 meters away from the giant mound. Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were hit by Han Jiang's sudden brakes and staggered.

"Captain Han, you're going to kill me!" Liang Yuan, who was sitting in the back row, shouted.

"Miss, it's not me who wants to kill you, but that person who wants to kill us..." Han Jiang's voice was trembling.

Tang Feng didn't wait for Han Jiang's reminder, he had already seen a terrifying scene through the broken windshield, that—that masked woman appeared on the giant mound on the right again.

Liang Yuan saw it too, but Liang Yuan didn't seem nervous, but Han Jiang and Tang Feng were surprised, "Why is she here again?" Han Jiang seldom trembled out of fear.

"Could it be... Could it be that she really didn't hide the queen?" Tang Feng shook his head, "But...but she has been dead for nearly a thousand years!" Tang Feng murmured to himself.

"I... I'm starting to wonder which one is a dream? Which one is real?" Han Jiang stared forward with his eyes wide open, his hands firmly on the steering wheel.

Tang Feng also had a feeling of being both real and illusory in his heart. He pinched himself hard, the pain should be real!He saw the masked woman standing quietly on the giant mound like this, confronting them for 5 minutes, the weird music kept coming, Tang Feng wondered how she got up there?I don't know when she appeared here?Tang Feng stared at the woman wearing the mask with staring red eyes. He wanted to determine from her body, face, no, it should be the mask, whether she was the woman he saw in his dream, but Tang Feng did not find out from this A smile appeared on the woman's mask.

When Tang Feng was surprised, the woman in the mask slowly raised her right hand again. This time, Han Jiang, who had experienced the test of yesterday and the nightmare, reacted super fast. Han Jiang didn't wait for the woman to raise her right hand, and then turned to the woman. After that, he reversed the car quickly, then slammed the steering wheel, and ran all the way to the east of Devil City.

Han Jiang neither dared to run into the rolling sand dunes to the east nor the Devil City. He was afraid of getting lost in the rolling sand dunes, and in the Devil City he was afraid that a woman wearing a mask would appear on a certain hill again. Han Jiang Carefully choosing to go both ways at the edge of the sand dunes and Devil City, sometimes driving into the sand dunes, and sometimes rushing into the Devil City, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan looked back and saw that the place where they parked just now was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.

Han Jiang didn't know how long he had been running wildly. When he regained his composure, Devil City had already been left behind by him. However, there were endless sand dunes in front of him, and he didn't know where to drive next.

Seeing that there were no pursuers behind, Han Jiang slowed down the car, but the weather showed no signs of improving at this time, the sky was even gloomy, and the strong wind seemed to be stronger than before, but the weird music seemed to be inaudible now.

The strong wind was constantly mixed with yellow sand and gravel and was blowing against the window of the donkey. Han Jiang wanted to speed up to leave this ghost place, but he didn't know where to drive. Suddenly, a palm-sized gravel hit The window of the rear seat was smashed, the glass was not smashed, but it was falling apart and crumbling, Liang Yuan screamed.

Han Jiang simply stopped the car. Seeing that the strong wind was getting stronger, he shouted to Tang Feng, "I think this is another sandstorm. Let's hide under the car."

There was no other way, the three got out of the car and used the body of the donkey as a cover to hide on the leeward side.

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The sandstorm lasted for more than half an hour before it gradually calmed down. The Gobi Desert, which was restless just now, quickly calmed down again. The haze in the sky also disappeared, and the hot sun appeared again.

The three of them leaned helplessly on the body of the donkey, "Thanks to the donkey!" Han Jiang exclaimed.

"You know the brat donkey here!" Tang Feng murmured.

"It's your car that needs to be overhauled when you go back." Han Jiang said.

"Go back? Didn't you keep saying that the donkey can't go back? Let's see what we do now?"

Han Jiang stood up, looked around, and there were continuous sand dunes all around, "I think we'd better go back to Populus euphratica forest tonight, and make plans tomorrow."

Liang Yuan agreed, but Tang Feng hesitated, "Go back to Populus euphratica?"

"What? Are you afraid that the masked woman will find you?" Liang Yuan asked back.

"It's not impossible. Yesterday we encountered a masked woman in Blackstone. We can understand that encounter as an illusion or a time travel. But today we saw it again in Devil City. The distance between the two places is tens of kilometers. ...How to explain this?" Tang Feng asked back.

Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were speechless, and Tang Feng continued: "Also, from Heishi to Devil City, we have to go through Yue'er Spring. We all dreamed of this masked woman last night, and the dreams were all so Clearly, could it be...could it be impossible for this woman to really appear in the Populus euphratica forest last night?"

"Tang Feng, you think too much. If this masked woman appeared in the Populus euphratica forest last night, why didn't she gently raise her right hand and burn us all to death?" Han Jiang shook his head and said.

"Why did she kill us? Maybe... Maybe she is just guarding something, she doesn't want our lives!" Tang Feng retorted.

"Okay, Tang Feng, I won't argue with you. You said that if we don't go back to the Populus euphratica forest tonight, where can we set up camp?" Han Jiang pointed to the surrounding sand dunes.

Tang Feng looked around helplessly, and had no choice but to nod, "Okay, I agree to go back to Populus euphratica. But now we are lost, how do we go back?"

"This is not a problem for me. I estimated it. According to our current position, the Populus euphratica forest in Yueerquan should be in the south of us." Han Jiang made a preliminary judgment with an electronic compass and compass.

So, the three of them got into the car again. Han Jiangda's direction was not wrong, but they still bumped into the desert for more than two hours before returning to Populus euphratica forest before dark.

The three of them were exhausted, they had eaten something, they didn't even use their sleeping bags, and they all slept in the car with their clothes on.

【No.14 Black Dust Storm】

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In the middle of the night, there was another strange sound from a distant place. At first it was still rustling, then the sound of the wind, slowly, slowly, the sound of the wind was wrapped with music, and the music seemed to float from the depths of the desert. Come, it seemed to come from the deep underground. Under Tang Feng's closed eyes, this music stirred Tang Feng's nerves. Finally, Tang Feng slowly opened his eyes. It was still the same joy as he heard yesterday. The sound, the beautiful flute, the melodious pipa, the rhythmic drums, and the singing of women...

Tang Feng looked sideways at Han Jiang next to him, who was still sound asleep. Liang Yuan in the back seat also fell into a deep sleep, but he was completely sleepless. Tang Feng opened the car door and walked out. He wanted to find out what the music sound was. Where do you come from?Suddenly, the tone of the music changed. Although Tang Feng was mentally prepared, he was still shocked, because the music suddenly became very sad. Then, the sad music began to become weird, and the weird music became more and more strange. It got louder and stronger, Tang Feng's heart was beating wildly, but he still had the courage to listen carefully, he wanted to hear what kind of music it was?Where did it come from?
Tang Feng walked to the center of Populus euphratica forest, closed his eyes, and listened to the music quietly. After 3 minutes, Tang Feng was quite sure that this was a kind of music he had never heard before, and the direction of the music was still in the To the west of Populus euphratica forest.

The sound of the music seemed to be getting closer. Tang Feng nervously watched the west side of the Populus euphratica forest, but he couldn't see anything in the dark night. He touched his body and took out the dagger. With a frantically beating heart, he adjusted his breathing. Finally, he mustered up the courage to walk westward to Populus euphratica forest step by step.

Coming to the edge of the Populus euphratica forest, Tang Feng touched the strangely shaped Populus euphratica tree again. He leaned on the Populus euphratica tree and silently watched the rolling sand dunes to the west. At this moment, the music seemed to disappear... Tang Feng was surprised, There was a sudden bang behind him, and another bright flame lit up the night sky and illuminated the entire Populus euphratica forest. Tang Feng was so frightened that he hurriedly turned around to watch, and he saw the masked woman again.

Just like what I saw in the past two days, the masked woman was wearing a gorgeous robe, a tall hat, and the dress of a noble woman from the party. The strange mask still shone with a metallic luster and exuded a strange atmosphere.Tang Feng wondered how this woman appeared behind him?But he still can't let him think too much, the woman in the mask is already walking towards Tang Feng with noble steps, graceful and luxurious, and the strange music is coming from the depths of the desert again, getting more and more As it got closer, it became louder and louder, as if a huge band was coming from the desert.

Tang Feng's body began to tremble violently instinctively, and his whole body was surrounded by a terrifying and strange atmosphere. He wanted to retreat, but there was the Populus euphratica tree behind him, and there was no way out!At this time, the woman wearing the mask was already standing in front of Tang Feng, a strange smile appeared on the woman's mask, and then the woman wearing the mask spoke again, "We meet again."

"You...you didn't hide the queen?" Tang Feng took courage and finally asked the question he had always wanted to ask.

The woman in the mask hesitated for a while, then said: "I am not hiding, I am not an empress, neither the name nor the identity of an empress, let alone the dignity of an empress, I have never been an empress for a day."

"No, although you were never a queen when King Hao was here, after your son Liang Zuo came to the throne, you are the supreme empress dowager." Tang Feng felt better now.

"Empress Dowager? Have you ever seen an Empress Dowager with a different head?" The woman's voice suddenly rose.

"Different head? You..." Tang Feng immediately thought of the "stealing face" that the woman said in the dream last night, "Your face, your noble head..."

As Tang Feng said, he tried his best to see clearly what was behind the metal mask, but he could only see the two empty eye sockets. Is there really nothing behind the mask?

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The masked woman was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "When I was 16 years old, my elder brother decided to marry me into the Ye Li family, the most powerful party member at that time. This was a political marriage, and I was not happy. Unexpectedly, later The Yeli family's great meritorious deeds aroused King Hao's suspicion, and the good days of the Yeli family were coming to an end. In the end, the Yeli family ransacked all the families, but I was lucky to survive because King Hao fell in love with me, and he Put me in the monastery in Helan Mountain, where I spent the best time with King Hao, I don’t need fame, I just need King Hao, I just want to be his wife and bear children for him... "

"But he is King Hao after all!"

"Yes, I didn't understand it at the time. Later, when I was pregnant with my child, I found that everything had changed. The various factions in the court were ready to move. My brother Wuzang Yuanpang was an ambitious man. He wanted to become a The Prime Minister, who is under one person and over ten thousand people, wanted to make the Wuzang family the most prominent family in Xixia, Queen Yeli was abolished, and I was pregnant with King Hao's child again, which gave him hope, and King Hao fell in love again Prince Lilinge's concubine, this makes me extremely sad, but my brother told me that his chance has come, the opportunity of the Wuzang family has come!"

"Later, your elder brother provoked the crown prince Li Lingge to kill his father and king, and then he killed Li Lingge in the name of treason, and you gave birth to Liang Zuo, and the Wuzang family has been distinguished since then."

"Yes, but this is not what I want, all I want is my King Hao."

(End of this chapter)