Xixia dead book

Chapter 19: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (19)
At the bottom of the walls on both sides of the tunnel was a neat row of skulls, and on top of the skulls were neatly stacked layers of white bones against the walls.The bones piled up higher and higher until it was close to the top of the ticket. At the highest position of the top of the tunnel, that is, on top of everyone's heads, there was still a row of skulls hanging.Tang Feng didn't understand how these skulls were fixed on the top of the voucher.He raised his head and observed carefully. When his eyes were almost attached to the empty eye sockets of the skull on the top of his head, he finally found that there was a thick, yellow and rusty iron nail on the top of the skull. , firmly nailing these skulls to the masonry on the top of the voucher.Seeing this, Tang Feng suddenly felt dizzy.

"It's really scary! There are so many bones, and...and they were deliberately put like this!" Liang Yuan said in horror.

Xu Renyu said suspiciously: "I've seen a church of human bones in Europe before, but I didn't expect there to be such a tunnel of human bones in the mountains of China!"

"What's going on?" Han Jiang was also confused.

Tang Feng tried his best to restrain his beating heart, his brain was running at high speed, but everything in front of him was far beyond his knowledge reserve, but Tang Feng still gave his own explanation: "There are two possibilities One possibility is that these bones are the bones of the owner of the Qiang village, and this tunnel is similar to a tomb; the other possibility is that these bones are the bones of the enemy. inmates as a deterrent. Personally, I prefer the second explanation."

"Why?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

Tang Feng lowered his voice and said: "As far as I know, whether it is Qiang people or Dangxiang people, this kind of burial custom is generally not the case, and your guess just now in the water prison and the bones on the slope tunnel are in line with the second guess. "

Han Jiang nodded slightly, and then walked forward alone, ahead of the crowd. Tang Feng followed Han Jiang, walking slowly in this eerie and long tunnel.After Han Jiang walked about eighty steps, he finally stopped. Tang Feng followed, and was surprised to find that the road ahead was blocked, and what blocked this tunnel was actually a mountain of bones!

The four people were deeply shocked by the scene in front of them. After a while, Tang Feng said slowly: "So many bones have blocked the tunnel ahead! It seems that we should go back."

Han Jiang didn't seem to be reconciled. He stepped forward and used a flashlight to carefully examine the mountain of bones in front of him. The road ahead was indeed blocked.Han Jiang had no choice but to back away, but when his flashlight accidentally shone on the ground, he suddenly found several stones of different sizes placed in disorder on a pile of white bones.Everyone's attention was attracted by the white bones in front of them, and no one noticed the broken stones under their feet. Han Jiang pointed to those broken stones and asked Tang Feng, "What is this?"

It was only then that Tang Feng noticed the broken stones under his feet. He leaned down to carefully examine these stones hidden among the bones. Slowly, slowly, Tang Feng found the Those familiar and unfamiliar words...

[Section [-] Bloody Qiang Village]

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Tang Feng carefully identified the characters on the stones. After 5 minutes, he couldn't hide his excitement, and said to everyone: "This is the Xixia script. It's incredible. In this mountain in the northwest of Sichuan, there will be Xixia script." Stele!"

"Xixia characters? There will be Xixia characters here?" Han Jiang was surprised and delighted, but he couldn't believe it.

"Yes, I won't admit my mistake. This is a fragment of the Western Xia Wen stele that has been broken." Tang Feng said with certainty.

"Remnant stele? The wordless ruined stele we saw outside Qiang Village, is it on this stele?" Liang Yuan asked.

Tang Feng nodded and said: "It should be, it's just...but I don't understand how the ruined stele got out of the Qiang village!"

"You can also think so, how did these few ruined steles get into this deep tunnel!" Han Jiang suddenly interjected.

Tang Feng was startled when he heard this, and then said: "Yes, there is such a possibility, the monument may have been outside!"

"Don't worry about where the stele is? Tell me, what is carved on this stele?" Liang Yuan urged.

Tang Feng put together several fragments of steles, carefully identified them, and turned over all the Xixia characters that he could remember in his mind, and compared them one by one with the Xixia characters that appeared on the fragments of steles.Sometimes his eyes showed excitement, and sometimes he shook his head and sighed. Han Jiang and Liang Yuan got impatient and urged Tang Feng again.Only then did Tang Feng point to the incomplete stele, and explained: "Although there are several incomplete steles here, this stele is still incomplete, so I can't see all the inscriptions. There are still some words, I don't know. I’m sure, but I’ve discovered some important information just from the Xixia characters I’ve identified on this remnant stele.”

"Oh! Talk about it!"

"The text on the stele is arranged vertically from left to right. Although the first column is incomplete, I can probably see the meaning of this sentence. The translation is like this, 'The dynasty is overthrown, the party is in decline, and my people... Nai Changsheng Blessed by God, I returned to my homeland and set off from Helan Mountain...' probably meant this. The second column is missing a lot, and I only recognize the words 'Crossing the Snow Mountain'. The last two words in the third column are 'Grand Canyon', As for the two words before "Grand Canyon", I'm not sure, it may be that the name of this canyon is "Namo", and the two words before it mean "crossing" or "passing through". The fourth column to The approximate meaning of the sixth column is, "Nai Changsheng was blessed by heaven, so he has to return to his homeland, and stationed in the stronghold as a city..." After that, it describes the situation of the owner of this Qiang stronghold fighting against some nearby enemies, and then there is a long list of Ming Dynasty. The emperor canonize the chieftain's official position, and the others can't be seen." Tang Feng explained the inscription in detail.

"What does this mean?" Xu Renyu asked suddenly.

Tang Feng looked at Xu Renyu, wondering if he should express his judgment in front of him.Han Jiang gave Tang Feng a wink, Tang Feng understood, and said to Xu Renyu: "This tablet records some activities of the owner of the Qiang village after he founded the Qiang village and settled here. It is still of great value."

After listening to Tang Feng's explanation, Xu Renyu nodded thoughtfully. At this time, Liang Yuan suggested: "Since we can't go ahead, let's go back quickly!"

"So Stephen is dead!" Xu Renyu said disappointedly, looking at the pile of bones in front of him.

Han Jiang shook his head and said helplessly: "No way, the hole that Stephen fell into is probably connected to this tunnel, even very close to where we are now, but the passage ahead is completely blocked, I think Stephen is indeed It's been a lot of bad luck."

After Han Jiang finished speaking, no one spoke again. The four of them still stared at the orderly piles of bones in the tunnel with curious and terrified eyes, and then slowly backed away.

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The four of them exited the terrifying tunnel of human bones, climbed up the slope covered with bones, and returned to the tunnel they had come from.Tang Feng walked in the front, turned one turn, and another turn. Tang Feng concluded from memory that this should be the last turn in the tunnel.But when he turned this bend, the ground under his feet trembled suddenly, and some dust fell from the top of the tunnel ticket and landed on Tang Feng's head.Tang Feng brushed the dust off his head in surprise, then looked up at the top of his head, but found nothing unusual.He took a few steps forward quickly, and he had vaguely seen a glimmer of light on the watchtower, but at this moment, Tang Feng felt that the entire Qiang village seemed to shake, and almost at the same time, he heard a dull sound Menlei, Tang Feng didn't know what was going on, but his instinct told him - it's not suitable to stay here for a long time!
So, Tang Feng turned his head and greeted Han Jiang and Xu Renyu: "The Qiang village shook a bit just now, get out of here quickly!"

Han Jiang and Xu Renyu followed, and the four came to the bottom of the watchtower again. Tang Feng instinctively looked up to the top of the watchtower.At this time, the Qiang village shook slightly amidst the thunder, and then dozens of huge boulders of various sizes fell from the sky, hitting Tang Feng and others standing inside the watchtower from the top of the watchtower.

Tang Feng yelled "Not good!" and threw Liang Yuan who was still stupid in place, and the two rushed forward together, avoiding the boulder falling from the watchtower, but they were crushed by the gray stone.After a while, Liang Yuan woke up, shook her head, and looked back, Tang Feng, who was pressing on her, was still unconscious.Liang Yuan turned pale with shock, turned over, got up from the ground, lay on Tang Feng's body, and shook Tang Feng vigorously.Tang Feng was still unconscious, and Liang Yuan was terrified. She began to beat Tang Feng's chest vigorously, calling Tang Feng's name: "Tang Feng—don't scare me!"

Liang Yuan's voice dragged into tears, and seeing that tears were about to fall, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu, who had just stood up at the side, also surrounded her.Han Jiang checked Tang Feng's whole body and found no obvious trauma, so he felt relieved.Han Jiang picked up Tang Feng on his back, and said to Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu, "Go up first and then talk!" Then, the four of them returned to the Guozhuang in the lobby on the second floor.

Xu Renyu looked forward to seeing Stephen again at Guozhuang, but there was no Stephen here just like when they left.Xu Renyu was disappointed, only then did he realize that outside the Qiang village, there were already dark clouds and heavy rain.

About 10 minutes later, Tang Feng finally woke up slowly in Liang Yuan's arms.Seeing that Tang Feng had woken up, Liang Yuan wiped away her tears and said angrily, "You are too easy to fall, it took you so long to wake up."

Tang Feng looked around and found himself lying in Liang Yuan's arms, his face was slightly hot.Tang Feng tried his best to recall what happened just now, jumped up from Liang Yuan's arms and said, "My eldest lady, it seems that I saved you just now, and you are still so fierce to me!"

"You saved me, but you scared me a lot just now!"

Liang Yuan's words choked Tang Feng, and Han Jiang and Xu Renyu couldn't help laughing.Tang Feng glared at Liang Yuan, sat down by Guozhuang, and asked Han Jiang, "Did you see those boulders falling from the watchtower just now?"

"I see, thanks to your reminder, everyone escaped!" Han Jiang said.

"What did you say just now?"

"I only heard a dull thunder just now, and then the huge stones on the top of the watchtower fell. I guess the watchtower was struck by lightning, causing the stones on the top of the watchtower to fall." Han Jiang analyzed.

"It's such a coincidence that we were struck by lightning while we were inside!"

"Come on, you should be thankful for your luck. Then I took a look at the tunnel. The tunnel was completely blocked by falling boulders. If we came out a step later, we would be trapped in it. There are boulders on one side and There are so many bones, when I think about it now, I still feel scared!" Han Jiang looked terrified.

It was completely dark, and the rain outside the Qiang Village was getting heavier and heavier. Han Jiang wanted to light a bonfire on the Guozhuang Village of the Qiang Village, but because of lack of firewood, the four of them had to share the food in Xu Renyu's bag. When it's dinner.And Xu Renyu lit his precious pipe again, intoxicated comfortably.

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The cold air came from the crack of the door. In order to save the battery, no one turned on the flashlight.In the dark Qiang village, four people sat silently around Guozhuang, Xu Renyu sighed and said, "I can't do anything, how can I survive this long cold night?"

"Sleep!" Han Jiang sneered.

"Sleeping in this ghost place? I can't sleep!" Xu Renyu said.

"That's right! I'm sure I won't dare to sleep tonight!" Liang Yuan echoed.

"I don't know what happened to Stephen? Did he really just fall to his death! There was no cry for help." Tang Feng murmured.

"Don't think about it! I think the hole is bottomless, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you fell into a tunnel. It's so deep, and the bottom of the hole doesn't know where it leads. Even if the hole Stephen fell into is connected to the tunnel, What will there be? Monsters? Mechanisms? Even if there is a little water, he is finished! Hey! Everyone escaped the air crash, but Stephen died in this Qiang village built by the ancients!" Xu Renyu sighed.

"And that Makarov and Yelena, if they also come down the mountain, I'm afraid..." Liang Yuan stared into a pair of big terrified eyes, and didn't continue talking.

Tang Feng looked at the silent Han Jiang and asked, "What are you thinking? Why don't you speak?"

Han Jiangdao: "I'm wondering where the spiral staircase in the first door on the left leads. The spiral staircase in the second door leads to the authentic water prison. Then, where does the staircase in the first door lead to?"

"What? You still want to go in and take a look?" Xu Renyu was surprised.

"Also, what about the black cat? After we followed the black cat into the last section of the human bone tunnel, we never saw it again." Han Jiang did not answer Xu Renyu's question, but continued to express his doubts.

"The cat must be stuck in the tunnel!" Xu Renyu said with certainty.

"Maybe... maybe the black cat can pass through the gaps between the bones and continue to advance into the tunnel." Tang Feng murmured suddenly.

Han Jiang nodded, "I am more inclined to Tang Feng's statement. The black cat's figure is likely to be able to pass through the gaps in those bones and continue walking into the tunnel."

"Go further in, what will it be?" Liang Yuan asked.

"It may be the deep hole Stephen fell into, or there may be nothing but a wall, who knows?" Han Jiang paused, and then said, "In short, it is very strange that a cat appears here. "

"Strange? Isn't it just a wild cat?" Liang Yuan was puzzled.

"Wild cats will not appear in this desolate mountain!" Han Jiang said.

Tang Feng was startled by Han Jiang's words, "Do you suspect that there are still people living here?"

"Ah—there are others here!" Liang Yuan jumped up from the floor in shock, looking around in horror, as if there were countless pairs of eyes staring at her.

Han Jiang waved his hand and signaled Liang Yuan to sit down. After Liang Yuan calmed down, Han Jiang said slowly: "There is no trace of human life here, and it is impossible to live in this isolated mountain." Han Jiang stretched out Lazy, he said again, "Everyone don't have to guess. Tomorrow, we will go down the spiral staircase in the first door on the left to have a look. If we find nothing, we will continue on our way as soon as the rain stops. Our goal is not It is not to solve the mystery here, but to get out of the mountain as soon as possible to rescue the passengers in distress. As for here, and Stephen, the truth will be revealed when the rescuers come and remove those bones. Now time is precious to us, everyone hurry up Take the time to rest, don't say you're afraid you won't be able to fall asleep, you have to sleep if you can't sleep, and you have to hurry tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, Han Jiang checked the gate of the Qiang Village and every door in the hall on the second floor one by one, and closed all the doors tightly. Then he lay down in peace, and Tang Feng, Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu also lay down.They said they couldn't fall asleep and didn't dare to sleep. As a result, Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu fell asleep as soon as they lay down.Tang Feng was still thinking about what happened during the day, but he couldn't figure it out at all, his brain was in a mess, Tang Feng simply stopped thinking about it, and soon fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)