Xixia dead book

Chapter 192 The KGB and the CIA (29)
"Maybe they lack scholars like Misha. Don't forget that when Stephen recalled his last meeting with Ma Changguo, he mentioned that Ma Changguo yelled the word 'Oasis of Death' many times before he died."

"What does this mean?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"Now we know that Hanhaimi City is in the oasis of death, so the oasis of death that Ma Changguo can still remember at the moment of death can only be the oasis of death where Hanhaimi city is located, which also shows that Ma Changguo has reached the oasis of death , He was very impressed there, and something more terrible than the black dust storm happened there." Han Jiang just wanted to say something, Tang Feng continued: "If you think about it again, most of the scientific expedition team was in the black dust storm or He died here later, so how did Ma Changguo reach the oasis of death? Is it possible for him alone?"

"Maybe he was blown to the oasis of death by the black dust storm."

"Why him and not someone else?"

"Okay, stop arguing, you two, check these remains first, maybe you can find something from them." Liang Yuan's words temporarily ended the debate between Tang Feng and Han Jiang, but the subsequent discovery made him Both were shocked.

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The first thing Tang Feng was interested in about the remains was why the remains were divided into two groups?He first suspected that the thirteen bones in the reeds might be from Ma Changguo, but Han Jiang disagreed, and the two went to the reeds to examine the bones in detail, and none of the thirteen bones in the reeds could see their clothes. This brought trouble to judge their identities, Tang Feng was more convinced of his judgment, "After the black dust storm, the people from the scientific expedition team and the people from Ma Changguo came to the edge of this sea, maybe it happened After a fire broke out, the people of Ma Changguo killed the members of the scientific expedition team, so all the members of the scientific expedition team died on the sandy land on the north bank. Died by the sea."

"Your argument is full of loopholes. If they still have the strength to fight, why did the winning side, that is, the Ma Changguo side you said, not drink water and walk out of the desert? And you think the people of Ma Changguo have the power to kill Ke People from the expedition team? All the weapons we found belonged to the expedition team, and they were all on the north bank. If the people from Ma Changguo in the reeds killed the members of the expedition team on the north bank, why didn’t they take their weapons over? , why did not see weapons in the reeds?"

Han Jiang's words made Tang Feng speechless for a while, and after holding back for a long time, Tang Feng asked back, "Then what are you talking about?"

"I'll be able to answer your question right away." Han Jiang was lying in the reeds, fiddled with something in the wet soil?Suddenly a golden thing flashed in the soil, Tang Feng saw Han Jiang holding something in his hand, and got out from the reeds, Han Jiang washed the thing by Haizi, Tang Feng found that it was a golden A yellow button with a five-pointed star on it. "This should be the standard button on the Soviet uniform at that time."

"This..." Tang Feng's mind became even more confused.

"Boy, your inference is invalid now!" Han Jiang said with a bit of complacency.

"This shows that the bones of Reed Cong are not from Ma Changguo." Liang Yuan echoed.

"Not from Ma Changguo, maybe... maybe at the last moment of the scientific expedition team, the Chinese team and the Soviet team split, so they were in different places. The thirteen bones in the reeds may belong to the Soviet side Team members." Tang Feng put forward another hypothesis.

"Your assumption is still untenable. I thought of this possibility from the beginning, but I also found items belonging to the Soviet team next to the bones in the sand on the north bank, and although we don't have the ability to detect bones now, But based on my many years of criminal investigation experience, I can still see that no matter whether it is the bones in the reeds or the bones on the sand on the north bank, there are both Chinese and Soviet players, so your hypothesis still cannot be established." Han Jiang After speaking, he returned to the sandy field on the north bank. Sure enough, he found a few relics belonging to the Soviet team from the sandy field on the north bank.

"This really confuses me. They are not from Ma Changguo, nor are the Chinese and Soviet players splitting up. Then why are these corpses dumped in the reeds and on the sand on the north bank?" Tang Feng was completely dizzy.

Han Jiang frowned and thought for a while, "This is indeed a problem. It is not from Ma Changguo, so this situation can only show that the scientific expedition team has indeed split, but this split is not the split between the Chinese and Soviet members. , but for some special reason, the scientific expedition team split up at Haizi after encountering a black dust storm."

"Some kind of special reason?" Tang Feng fell into deep thought.

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Haizibian was terribly quiet, and suddenly, Liang Yuan yelled, "Oh my god! When Captain Han said that, I suddenly thought of..." Liang Yuan stared with big terrified eyes, as if hesitating to speak.

"What did you think of? You said it!" Tang Feng urged.

"I wondered if the scientific expedition team would end up lacking food, so that...cannibalism happened?"

"Ah—cannibalism?" Tang Feng cried out in shock.

"I once read in a book that such a thing happened in foreign countries. A mountaineering team was trapped on the mountain due to an avalanche without food. When the rescuers found them, everyone else died. Only one person survived, and this person persisted until the end by eating the flesh of his companions."

Liang Yuan's words made Tang Feng feel a little disgusted, but her words were not impossible. Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang, and Han Jiang murmured: "This extreme possibility cannot be ruled out, but...but this possibility is still too much." Extreme."

"If according to Yuanyuan's speculation, then the bones in the reeds were eaten? So no clothes were found in the reeds," Tang Feng said.

Han Jiang shook his head, "I thought about it, and I think Liang Yuan's assumption is too extreme, and it's still impossible. If the bones in the reeds were eaten by his companions, then their bones should be very messy, but we Most of the bones found in the reeds are intact, and similarly, most of the bones on the sandy ground to the north here are also intact, so Liang Yuan's hypothesis is difficult to establish. As for why no clothes were found in the reeds, I think it is very difficult. Probably due to the dampness in the reeds, the clothes rotted and were not preserved."

"Then how do you explain the division of the scientific expedition team?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang back.

Han Jiang patted his forehead and seemed to have the answer. He pointed to the reeds not far away, "If you want to deduce why the scientific expedition team split, I think the most important thing is to observe from the scene and see the reeds. What is the difference between the bones in the grave and the bones in the sands of the North Shore?"

"What's the difference? The bones in the reeds didn't leave any clothes or other items!" Tang Feng said.

"This is not the biggest difference. As I have just explained, the reeds are wet, so the clothes were not preserved. As for other items, they were probably buried in the wet soil. We didn't have time to look carefully."

"The biggest difference I see is the different postures and positions of the bones on both sides. Most of the bones in the reeds are very close to the shore, and they either fell on the shore or fell not far from the shore; Most of the bones on the sand are far from the shore, and most of them are lying down on the sand, and none of the bones fell on the shore." Liang Yuan analyzed it seriously.

After hearing this, Han Jiang smiled, "Tang Feng, you are really inferior to Yuanyuan now. Liang Yuan's observation is very good, indeed, why is there such a difference? I think this is the reason why the scientific expedition team split in the end .”

"You don't need to say it, I already understand what you mean." Tang Feng was quite upset after being laughed at by Han Jiang, and eager to prove himself again, he rushed to say: "What you mean is the one that caused the scientific expedition team to split in the end." Is it a source of water?!"

"Yes! After the scientific expedition team encountered a terrible black dust storm, what else is more important than water? To some extent, in the desert, water is more important than cannibalism! But Tang Feng, what you said is not complete That’s right, it’s not just the water source that split the scientific expedition team, but their attitude towards the water source, which is this Haizi.”

Tang Feng thought about Han Jiang's analysis, "I understand, there is plenty of water in Haizi, which is enough for dozens of members of the scientific expedition team to drink, but the water quality here is very special. There was a disagreement, so some people, those in the reeds, had the courage to try the water in Haizi, while the other people, those on the sandy land on the north bank, did not drink the water in Haizi.”

"It should be like this, but this will create a new problem, why did the players who drank the water die?" Han Jiang asked in confusion.

"Judging from the situation of the corpses in the reeds lying on the side of the case, these team members are likely to be poisoned and fell on the shore immediately after drinking water, so they assume this posture. By analogy, those who did not drink water It was only after seeing the drinking water team members fell to the ground that they dared not try the water in Haizi again until they died of thirst. However, we all drank the water in Haizi and have been fine until now. How to explain it? I think this is the fatal loophole in your reasoning." Tang Feng became proud.

"This is indeed a big question, and I can't answer it now." Han Jiang admitted that there were serious loopholes in his inference.

Liang Yuan didn't take it seriously, "I think Team Han's deduction is the most in line with the facts. As for why the team members died after drinking water, but we were fine after drinking it, it needs scientific testing. Maybe... Maybe it's because Has the water quality in Haizi changed over the years?"

"Don't be funny! How is it possible? It used to be poisonous, but now the water is not poisonous. In this case, unless the factors that produce the poison no longer occur, and there is a large amount of water in Haizi, this supplement must be clean, and according to In my opinion, neither of these two conditions seems to be met here." Tang Feng retorted.

What Liang Yuan wanted to say, Han Jiang waved his hand, "Yes, Tang Feng, what you said is very reasonable. Only when these two conditions are met can Liang Yuan's hypothesis appear. And these two points, one, we don't know now The factors that produced the poison back then, and second, we can’t see that there is a large amount of supplementary water in this dead-like Haizi.”

After Han Jiang finished speaking, he walked straight to the west side of Haizi, where Tang Feng had never been.

【No.16 Mysterious Female Scientific Expedition Team】

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Han Jiang did not walk along the bank, but walked higher and higher, towards the direction of the sand hill on the east side. Suddenly, Han Jiang staggered, as if tripped by something, and fell on the sand hill. Feng and Liang Yuan hurriedly followed.

"Tang Feng, come and see, what is this!" Before Tang Feng arrived, Han Jiang yelled.

Tang Feng felt that Han Jiang was approaching, and Han Jiang had already turned around, panting and slumped on the sand, and a stone appeared in the sand beside him. To be precise, it should be a polished stone.

Based on Tang Feng's experience, he immediately noticed that the stone was abnormal. In the vast sea of ​​sand, a stone with traces of artificial polishing suddenly appeared. The fine sand on the block, their eyes widened in amazement, because more and more parts of the rocks under their feet were exposed, and the size was getting bigger and bigger...

"It's a stone tablet!" Tang Feng has already identified a stone tablet that is not too big, but not too small.

"Stone tablet?" Han Jiang stood up abruptly, "Is there any writing on it?"

"Yes! And it's written in Xixia language." Tang Feng couldn't hide his excitement.

"Oh! What is written?"

Tang Feng gently brushed off the dust on the stone tablet with trembling hands, and slowly read three words from his mouth, "Da-bai-quan!"

"Dabai Spring?! This Haizi is called Dabaiquan, no wonder the water here is white." Han Jiang seemed to understand the water quality of Haizi.

After a while of silence, Han Jiang urged again: "Go on!"

"What continue?" Tang Feng looked innocent.

"Keep reading!"

"Gone!"

"What? There are only three characters on such a big tablet?"

"Well, there are only three characters, three big characters. There is also a line of small characters at the bottom that is the year name - Tianshu Lifa Yanzuo was established on July 24th in the eighth year." Tang Feng read the small characters at the bottom again.

"It's just Braille, I'm happy for nothing, and the co-authoring is a notice tablet!" Han Jiang looked frustrated.

Tang Feng is still pondering over this stele, "Although there are only three characters, it still has some value. First, it tells us that this Haizi has been white since ancient times. Second, the word 'big' means that it must have been very large in the Xixia period. , combined with the location of the stele, the water in this lake in Xixia was much more than it is now, and the waterline should be at the position where the stele fell to the ground."

"So big? No wonder it's called Dabaiquan!" Liang Yuan exclaimed.

"Not only that, this stele also tells us that this is a spring, so there should be a spring under the water, which ensures that this Haizi will not dry up in the vast sea of ​​sand for a thousand years!" Tang Feng deduced.

"There is a spring under this vast sandy sea?" Liang Yuan was surprised.

"It's not surprising that the Crescent Spring in Dunhuang is a spring in the desert. The Badain Jaran Desert used to be a vast lake in the Han Dynasty and was called 'Juyan Sea'. Later, the climate deteriorated and the water source dried up, gradually turning into a Today's desert Gobi has been destroyed, but there are still some lakes left in the sand sea. The reason why these lakes can not dry up for thousands of years is mostly because they can be supplemented by springs." Tang Feng explained.

"It's really a magical desert." Liang Yuan exclaimed.

"Of course, the surprise that this monument brings to me is not limited to these three points. The most important thing is that it tells us the time when the monument was erected. It was erected on July 24, the eighth year of Yanzuo's reign. If I remember correctly , this time is the year of Yuan Hao in the later period of his reign, and this time immediately reminds me of Hanhaimi City. According to the Dalai Lama, Yuan Hao built Hanhaimi City in this period, which further shows that this monument is likely to be It was erected by Yuan Hao's order. Don't underestimate this monument. Although this monument is not big, it was not easy to erect such a monument in the vast sea of ​​sand at that time. Think about it, why did Yuan Hao erect it here? This monument?" Tang Feng looked around at Han Jiang and Liang Yuan.

Han Jiang's eyes brightened, "It seems that the nature of this place is similar to that of the Black Stone. It was probably located near a road at that time. This monument was erected to mark the source of water for passers-by."

"Yes! It's just...it's just that we have lost our GPS now, so we can't judge the exact location, and we can't figure out which route this Dabai Spring is on." Tang Feng said while fiddling with the compass.

"But isn't this water poisonous? Why did Yuan Hao mark the water source?" Liang Yuan asked suddenly.

"I just explained that in Xixia, the water here was not a problem. If the water was poisonous, this notice tablet would definitely tell everyone not to use the water here, but I didn't see such words on the tablet." Tang Feng said.

"Perhaps on the reverse side of the stele?"

Liang Yuan's words surprised Tang Feng, yes, there is another side, why was he so arbitrary, so the three of them turned over the "Dabaiquan stele" together, but Tang Feng didn't find it behind the stele. A single word, but a green leather booklet was found in the sand that was originally pressed by the stone tablet.

(End of this chapter)