Xixia dead book

Chapter 194 The KGB and the CIA (31)
Han Jiang stared at the handsome handwriting for a while, "When writing the last paragraph, this woman seemed to be exhausted, so her handwriting became more and more illegible, so that the last stroke took a long time."

"That's right, the handwriting is getting more and more messy and weak, combined with the sentence in the last paragraph, it can be seen that this woman has reached the last moment, but have you ever thought about how she stuffed this booklet under the stone tablet went?"

Tang Feng's reminder made Han Jiang and Liang Yuan a little dizzy, yes, she was exhausted, how could she still have the strength to stuff the booklet neatly under the stone tablet?

"First of all, we need to find out why she stuffed the pamphlet under the stele. Is it necessary to know that she is already dying?" Tang Feng paused, then asked himself, "In her It seems that it is very necessary, because the words on the booklet are her secrets, and she doesn't want others to see them, so at the last moment of her life, she did not forget to hide this booklet."

"Secret? How many secrets are there? Why didn't I see it?" Liang Yuan was a little confused.

"As for how many secrets are hidden on it, we still don't fully understand it now, but I think that as we go deeper, the secrets on it will be revealed to us one by one. As far as the last handwriting is concerned, An important piece of information was revealed, even if she still had the strength to hide the booklet at the last moment, what happened after that? Her body was not found here! Where did she go?"

Tang Feng's words awakened Han Jiang and Liang Yuan, yes, this woman used all her strength to hide the booklet under the stone tablet, does she still have the strength to go elsewhere?Why can't I see her bones around, "Tang Feng, what you said reminded me of the tree with engraved characters in Populus euphratica. Why is that tree so far away from the camp? Now that I think about it, it’s possible that there was only one woman in the scientific expedition team, so he kept a distance from the other male team members. The same is true here. There are also bones of scientific expedition members in the sand on the north bank. This place is west of Haizi. This female team member wrote those words alone here, waiting for the god of death to come, but then her bones disappeared! There is only one explanation, This woman is probably not dead, something must have happened after she wrote the last paragraph!"

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"It's unbelievable. What happened here is already bizarre enough. What happened next?" Liang Yuan exclaimed incredulously.

"Bones can speak. There should have been a woman's skeleton next to this stele, but it didn't. This in itself explains the problem." Tang Feng said.

"Then where did this Russian woman go? If he was saved and could leave here, why didn't he take this pamphlet with him?" Liang Yuan asked Tang Feng.

"I can't answer your two questions now. In short, I have a strong hunch that this woman will definitely leave some clues for me. It depends on whether we can find them."

Tang Feng went around the stele and carefully inspected the nearby sandy ground. There were indeed no bones or even other items. "I don't think this woman left here by herself. Because several scientific expedition members were unwilling This kind of death has already left. If she wanted to leave, she would have left with those people long ago, but she didn't. She chose to welcome the death god. At the last moment, she was exhausted, but in the end she left here... "

"You want to say that someone helped him leave here?" Liang Yuan looked behind Shashan in surprise.

Tang Feng nodded with difficulty, "It's very possible."

"Who else? Who will take this woman out of here? Misha?" Liang Yuan asked.

"No! It can't be Misha. If my guess is correct, the person who took her out of here was Ma Changguo." Tang Feng said with certainty.

"Ma Changguo?! Why must you be Ma Changguo?"

"This is obvious. If the poison of Dabaiquan came from Ma Changguo, it means that he is very familiar with the terrain in this area, at least more familiar than the scientific expedition team. His men and horses should have also encountered a black dust storm, but he escaped from danger. Afterwards, it is easier to find a way out, he probably brought his people here, and saw that the members of the scientific expedition team were already dead or dying..."

Han Jiang interrupted Tang Feng, "But why did Ma Changguo take this Russian woman away?"

"Maybe all the scientific expedition team members who stayed in Dabaiquan were dead, and only this Russian woman was still alive, so Ma Changguo took this woman away." Tang Feng guessed.

"But I don't think it's that simple!" Han Jiang murmured.

"Captain Han, don't you suspect that this woman is a mole of the scientific expedition team?" Liang Yuan suddenly asked Han Jiang.

"A traitor?" Han Jiang was startled, "I haven't thought of this level yet. Was there really a traitor in the scientific expedition team back then?"

"I think it's useless for us to guess here, let's move on tomorrow morning!" Tang Feng suggested.

"Go on? Where should we go?" Liang Yuan looked troubled.

Tang Feng climbed to the top of the sand mountain, looking around, there is a long stretch of yellow sand, where should he go?Tang Feng judged the direction with a compass, "We will follow in the footsteps of this Russian woman."

"Follow the footsteps of the Russian woman? Half a century has passed, how can there be any trace of her?" Liang Yuan was at a loss.

Tang Feng explained: "If this Russian woman was really taken away by Ma Changguo, where would she go?"

"Death Oasis?!"

"Yes! I think it can only be like this. Then, they should go west, and I judge that the oasis of death and the city of Hanhaimi should be not far from Dabaiquan."

Han Jiang also said: "According to my judgment, Dabai Spring should be to the north of the Populus euphratica forest, so Hanhaimi City should indeed be to the west of Dabai Spring."

"Both of you want to continue going west?" Liang Yuan asked.

Tang Feng and Han Jiang looked at each other and nodded, Liang Yuan was in a hurry, "You are both crazy, even if what you said is right, but we have nothing to eat, drink, cars and equipment. Well, just the three of us can find Hanhai Micheng?"

"Water, we can bring the water from Dabai Spring. As for the food, let's insist on it. I think Hanhaimi City is only a day's walk away from here. There must be something to eat in the oasis of death."

The more Liang Yuan heard, the more she felt that Tang Feng's plan was crazy, but Han Jiang agreed with Tang Feng's idea, "Try again! Maybe we are already very close to Hanhaimi City."

"What if we get lost in the desert again?"

Liang Yuan's words silenced both of them, because no one knew whether they could get out of the desert.

【No.17 Illusory City】

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That night, the three of them camped beside the Dabai Spring, not daring to be company with those corpses, so the three of them had to sit around the stone tablet without a bonfire. Fortunately, it was not too cold in the desert at night in this season.

Most of the flashlights and batteries in the car were lost, only Han Jiang had a flashlight and a few batteries in his backpack. Tang Feng took Han Jiang’s flashlight and stared at the picture on the jade screen alone. The location of Dabai Spring was found on the map, but the several springs marked on the ancient map did not have this "Dabai Spring".

The more Tang Feng looked at it, the more uneasy he felt. How could there be no Dabaiquan?On the east side of Hanhai Mi City, he didn't see a marked spring, but there were several springs in the north. Logically, since there is a Xixia stone tablet here, there should be a mark on the ancient map!Tang Feng yawned, feeling hungry, but now he could only endure it, he slowly put down the photo in his hand, and slowly closed his eyes...

Tang Feng didn't know how long he had slept. He suddenly felt wet under the hot and dry sand. In the dark, he fumbled wildly on the sand beside him with his hands. It was water!Tang Feng felt icy water on his hands, what kind of water is this?Unlike the water in Haizi that was scorched by the scorching sun, the icy water seemed to come from the deep underground.

Tang Feng sat up in shock, and found that the water in the Dabai Spring had already risen to his body, most of the reeds in the east had been taken away by Haizi, and the bones on the sandy ground on the north bank had also been submerged by the rising spring water. what's going on?Tang Feng hurriedly went to find Han Jiang and Liang Yuan, Han Jiang had long since disappeared, but Liang Yuan was swept into the center of Haizi by the rising spring water...

"Help... help!" Liang Yuan screamed for help. Suddenly, the water became turbulent and swirled. Liang Yuan struggled desperately on the water surface, but it was all in vain. Tang Feng stretched out his arm, trying to grab Liang Yuan's hand, but before he could reach Liang Yuan's arm, the rapidly rising water had already surrounded her, and the water became more and more turbulent. Liang Yuan's cries for help were intermittent, and finally she was completely submerged in the whirlpool...

"No! Yuanyuan——" Tang Feng uttered a heart-piercing cry, and woke up. The surroundings were as dead silent. The water surface of Dabai Spring did not rise as it was seen during the day. It is a pool of stagnant water.Did I have another nightmare?This dream seems to be very short, not so clear, and the masked woman did not appear, what is going on?

Tang Feng's cry woke up Han Jiang and Liang Yuan, "What are you yelling again?" Han Jiang said angrily.

"I'm having a nightmare again, dreaming... dreaming that both you and Liang Yuan were swallowed by this Haizi."

"Swallowed? Haizi eats people?"

"No, it was the water in Haizi that suddenly rose up, dragging both of you into it."

"Damn, can you say something sweet, how could this pool of stagnant water rise? It even swept me and Liang Yuan away? Why didn't you get swept away?"

"I... I don't know, but it is vaguely like this scene in the dream, the water in the sea suddenly rises and becomes turbulent, and both of you are sucked into the whirlpool." Tang Feng tried his best to recall the scene in the dream.

"Is there any mystery in this water?" Liang Yuan murmured to herself, and actually walked to the shore of Haizi.

"Be careful!" Tang Feng shouted.

But the water in Dabai Spring did not change. Liang Yuan turned around and stared at Tang Feng blankly, "Why, do you really think the water will rise?"

"No! I don't know. Anyway, this is a strange Haizi."

"You think too much, so you keep having nightmares..."

Liang Yuan and Tang Feng were talking, when Han Jiang suddenly noticed something strange, "Liang Yuan, look at your feet!"

Liang Yuan was startled, and hurriedly looked down. Liang Yuan, who was standing on the shore just now, now the water in Haizi had covered her feet. Liang Yuan screamed in shock, and hurriedly ran to the high place in the sand. Liang Yuan plunged into Tang Feng's arms, not daring to look at that weird Haizi again.

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Tang Feng stared at the calm water, lowered his voice, as if he didn't want to disturb the ghosts here, "It seems that my dreams are real."

"Don't be too judgmental, it's too early to draw conclusions!" Han Jiang said as he walked towards the shore.

"Hey, what are you doing? Be careful." Tang Feng warned.

However, Hanjiang had already reached the shore, and after more than ten minutes passed, Tang Feng found that Haizi did not appear the rapid rise he dreamed of, let alone the torrent vortex, but it was actually rising just now.

"Yuanyuan, did you move your feet just now?" Tang Feng asked Liang Yuan instead.

"I stood on the shore at the beginning, and then turned around. Even if I moved my feet, I was moving to a higher place, and it was impossible to move into the water."

"That means the water level of Dabai Spring did rise just now." Tang Feng stared at the water surface thoughtfully.

Han Jiang walked back from the shore and said: "The water level of Dabai Spring has indeed risen, but the rise is very slow, and it has stopped now."

"What is the reason?"

Han Jiang shook his head, "Who knows, maybe after dawn, the water level will drop again."

"Doesn't this just mean that there are springs under the Dabai Spring, and it's metabolism time at night." Liang Yuan said.

"Metabolism?" Both Tang Feng and Han Jiang were a little surprised by the word.

"Replace the old water with new water, so as to ensure that the spring water will not dry all year round and can still be drunk, and the water here is white, which is probably related to the minerals under the spring." Liang Yuan analyzed.

"But...but in that dream, the water in Haizi rose up quickly, as if there was a huge suction force, sucking everything around Haizi into the water."

"Okay, don't keep talking about your dreams, this sea is only this big, even if the water rises, it won't have much suction." Han Jiang lay down on the side of the stone tablet as if nothing had happened, "It's better to take the time to rest , we have to hurry tomorrow morning!"

Tang Feng and Liang Yuan went to a higher place before lying down to rest in peace, but Tang Feng stared at the gleaming water, but couldn't fall asleep again.

After being tossed so much at night, Han Jiang and Liang Yuan didn't wake up until the sun was shining the next day. When they woke up, the Dabai Spring seemed to be the same as yesterday, and the water level did not rise or fall significantly.But Tang Feng was gone.

Han Jiang looked around Haizi, but he couldn't see Tang Feng. He and Liang Yuan turned around to look at the sand mountain behind them at the same time. On another tall sand mountain in the distance, Han Jiang and Liang Yuan called Tang Feng to come down, but Tang Feng stood there in a daze, motionless.

Han Jiang and Liang Yuan also boarded the tall sand mountain in doubt, and they saw an incredible scene - on the west side of Dabai Spring, a piece of rich green appeared at the end of the horizon, and among the green, golden The big yellow roof and the gold-plated Tasha are shining among them, which is magnificent and different from the world!

"What... what is this?" Liang Yuan was amazed.

"Such a spectacular scene can only be the Hanhai Micheng!" Han Jiang murmured.

"Could it be a mirage?" Liang Yuan asked suddenly.

"A mirage?" Han Jiang looked into the distance again, shaking his head, "No, such a magnificent and real beauty, it will never be a mirage."

Han Jiang and Liang Yuan talked for a long time, Tang Feng remained silent until Tang Feng turned around and suddenly said to Han Jiang and Liang Yuan, "We can go!"

After finishing speaking, Tang Feng turned around and returned to the stone tablet of Dabaiquan. Liang Yuan asked from behind, "Departure? Heading for that city?"

"Yes! I have seen the compass, and the city is in the due west of Dabaiquan, which is completely in line with our judgment yesterday."

"But... But why didn't the members of the scientific expedition team find out? I believe that if they saw this city, they would never sit here and wait to die?" Liang Yuan asked back.

"Because they were blocked by the tall sand hills. Many things are like this. You only need to persevere, and victory is waving to you. If I didn't wake up in the early morning, if I didn't wake up, I couldn't fall asleep again. If it wasn't I climbed this tall sand mountain, who would have thought that Hanhaimi City is so close to us!" Tang Feng said confidently.

"Don't you think it all happened too fast?" Liang Yuan still couldn't believe it.

"No! We've suffered a lot. It's time for Hanhai Micheng to show up. Those scientific expedition team members sat here waiting to die, and finally became bones, and those who left the team probably found Hanhai. Micheng, and... and that Russian woman, she was taken away by Ma Changguo, and they were able to go to Hanhai Micheng, so success is sometimes just one step away." Tang Feng put his water bottle in Dabaiquan Filled in, while talking to himself.

"But none of them came back!" Liang Yuan raised her voice.

Tang Feng was startled, but soon Tang Feng turned his face, supported Liang Yuan's shoulder and said, "Yuanyuan, you must know that we have no other choice now, we can only find Hanhai Micheng."

Liang Yuan didn't say anything more, and the three of them silently prepared the only equipment they had, took three pots of spring water, and hurried on the road, heading towards that glorious city.

(End of this chapter)