Xixia dead book

Chapter 20: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (20)
4
With a "pop", a beam of light lit up in the dark and damp tunnel. Tang Feng pushed away the flashlight and walked alone in the tunnel. Beside him were piles of bones arranged neatly.Authentic human bones? !Tang Feng came to the end of the human bone tunnel again, where a mountain of bones blocked his way.

Tang Feng quietly looked at the rows of bones in front of him, he seemed to have forgotten his fear, who belonged to these bones?Where do they come from?And why are they piled up here?Thinking of this, he stretched out his hand unknowingly, and lightly touched the celestial cover of a skull, another one, and another, one after another, Tang Feng touched the distant soul...Suddenly, when Tang Feng's When his hand touched one of the skulls, the pile of bones in front of him was separated from the middle by some force, and that force led Tang Feng straight forward, into a deeper tunnel.Tang Feng's ear, face, and side are all white bones, only a narrow passage flashed in front of him.The mysterious force has been pushing Tang Feng forward, faster and faster, Tang Feng felt breathless, he couldn't open his eyes, but he tried his best to open his eyes, he had to see clearly ahead, what would be ahead?What could be more terrifying?

The mysterious power disappeared, Tang Feng came to the end of the tunnel, he staggered forward suddenly, finally stopped, he saw a person standing in the shadow in front of him.who is he?Tang Feng took a step forward involuntarily, and the man also took a step forward. Tang Feng saw the clothes on the man - it was Stephen!
"Stephen?!" Tang Feng shouted in surprise.However, when the man's head fully emerged from the shadows, Tang Feng was stunned, that—that was not Stephen's face, but a terrifying white skull!

Tang Feng stepped back, but the skeleton walked forward.Tang Feng retreated step by step, but he suddenly felt his back leaning against something.Tang Feng turned his head abruptly, and found that the tunnel behind him was closed again, and behind him—behind him were rows of uniform skeletons!Tang Feng had no way to retreat, he turned his head and looked at the skeleton in front of him that was walking towards him.The skeleton stretched out its terrifying right hand and grabbed Tang Feng's neck.Tang Feng's frightened eyes widened, his pupils dilated rapidly, he felt suffocated, he wanted to call for help, but he couldn't make a sound...

"No! Let me go!" Tang Feng shouted, waking up from his sleep.His shout woke up Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu, and Xu Renyu hurriedly asked Tang Feng, "What's wrong with you?"

Tang Feng wiped the fine sweat from his forehead and said, "I had a nightmare!"

"You are so immature! You still have nightmares!" Liang Yuan complained.

Tang Feng didn't refute Liang Yuan, he suddenly realized, "Han Jiang... why is Han Jiang missing?"

Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu also panicked. Just when the three of them were at a loss, they suddenly heard a strange voice. "Crack! - Crack! - Crack!" The sound was regular and rhythmic. Tang Feng carefully identified it, and he recognized it. It was the sound of wood hitting each other, as if it came from the gate.He sat up, turned on the flashlight, and looked towards the gate, only to see the half-hidden gate being pushed up by something outside the gate, and then shot back.Snapped! --Snapped! ——Pa, this sound is the sound of the door hitting the door frame.

"What's going on?" Xu Renyu whispered in surprise.

"I'll go and have a look." Tang Feng stood up and walked towards the gate of Qiang Village.But the strange thing is that as soon as Tang Feng took a step, the door slammed into the door frame and stopped moving, and the strange sound disappeared.Tang Feng was stunned behind the door. At this moment, Tang Feng suddenly felt an irresistible force pushing the door open.That force rushed towards him from the blown open door, and Tang Feng felt his body become extremely weak in front of this force.He backed up six or seven steps in a row, and finally, he sat down on the floor, and the flashlight in his hand rolled far away.

wind!That enormous force was a gust of wind.The gate of Qiang Village opened, and Tang Feng, who was sitting on the floor, felt a gust of wind pouring into his trousers. He stared at the door with eyes full of fear. " Boom! Boom! Boom!" There were solid and regular footsteps.

5
There was another gust of cold wind, and Tang Feng felt a bone-chilling chill. He supported his body and retreated. Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu behind him were even shivering and terrified.A tall and long shadow was reflected on the floor of the door, and then, with the sound of terrifying footsteps, a tall black shadow appeared at the door.Tang Feng frantically scratched the floor with his right hand, and finally caught the flashlight he had dropped. He raised the flashlight tremblingly, and shone it towards the door, while asking vaguely, "Who—"

"Stop taking pictures, it's me!" At the same time as this voice sounded, Tang Feng also saw clearly that the black shadow was actually Han Jiang.

"You don't sleep in the middle of the night, it's scary!" Tang Feng said angrily.

Han Jiang walked in, closed the door, and said, "I'm warning you. In a place like this, if the four of us fall asleep, if we are in danger, it will be over."

"Warning? Then what are you doing outside?"

"It's raining less outside, so I walked around the door. However, I didn't find anything except for a few strange birdsong!" Han Jiang explained.

Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu also recovered and complained about Han Jiang together.Finally, Han Jiang became impatient, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, okay, it's all my fault. Go to sleep now!"

Liang Yuan, Tang Feng and Xu Renyu lay down again, and after a quarter of an hour, Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu fell asleep again.But Tang Feng was still thinking about that dream just now, a strange nightmare!Half an hour later, Tang Feng still hadn't fallen asleep.As soon as he turned over, he was kicked lightly by Han Jiang who was sitting next to him.Han Jiang whispered next to Tang Feng's ear: "Have you not fallen asleep yet? Come over and have a chat with me if you are not asleep!"

With that said, Han Jiang got up again and tiptoed towards the gate.Tang Feng didn't understand what he meant, so he had to follow Han Jiang out of the gate and came outside.Han Jiang patted Tang Feng's shoulder and said, "I just wanted to talk to you alone, but I didn't expect you to sleep so soundly!"

"Nonsense, I've been walking all day, and I didn't sleep much last night, who is not sleepy!"

"Okay, stop complaining, I came to you just to ask you the most critical question."

"The most critical question? What question?"

"Is this the Blackhead Stone Chamber we are looking for?" Han Jiang asked the question he was most concerned about.

Tang Feng pondered for a moment and replied: "I don't think so. Although we found a stone tablet in Xixia script here, according to a few poems on the jade screen, I think the legendary 'black-headed stone chamber' should be It is a building with the nature of god worship in the early days of the Dangxiang Qiang people in the northwest of Sichuan. It may also be a cave. It is much older, and it should be before the Dangxiang Qiang people migrated north. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Tubo people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau At that time, the weak Dangxiang Qiang people began to migrate to the north, that is to say, the age of the "black head stone chamber" should be before the Sui and Tang Dynasties. As for the Qiang village here, the age of its construction is already very clear, and it should be in the Ming Dynasty at the earliest. In the early years. There is a difference of hundreds of years in time, so I don't think this is the so-called 'black-headed stone room'."

"Is this just a Qiang village?"

"Of course this is not an ordinary Qiang village. The remains of the Western Xia cultural stele alone are enough to explain the relationship between this Qiang village and the Dangxiang survivors. The builders here are Dangxiang survivors who migrated back to Northwest Sichuan after the fall of Xixia. Doesn't it match up with Professor Luo's speculation?"

"In other words, even if this is not the Blackhead Stone Chamber, we are already close to our goal?"

"I think so, but I feel that the Black-headed Stone Chamber will not be found so easily by us!" Tang Feng said this, paused, and then said, "By the way, if you didn't mention the Black-headed Stone Chamber, I almost forgot Yes, on the remnant stele we saw at the end of the tunnel, the words 'Blackhead Stone Chamber' appeared in the first column, and appeared once in the back."

"Oh! Why didn't you say that then?"

"Because of Dr. Xu, he is not one of us, is he?"

"Yes! You did the right thing. There are some things he can't know. But now he already knows a little bit, and we can't leave him now. This is also a difficult thing for me. I don't know what will happen next. What?" Han Jiangchang sighed.

"Okay, don't think so much, we will do as you said tomorrow. Our top priority is not to get out of here as soon as possible." Tang Feng comforted Han Jiang instead.

While the two were talking, it rained heavily again, and Han Jiang and Tang Feng returned to the hall.Throughout the second half of the night, Tang Feng and Han Jiang took turns guarding until dawn broke in the east.

6
Early the next morning, when everyone woke up, the rain had stopped outside the Qiang Village, and the sun that had never appeared was shining in front of the Qiang Village.Tang Feng walked outside the gate of the Qiang Village, and found that the stream in the valley had soared overnight, and the waterfall that nearly killed Tang Feng yesterday formed a spectacular group of waterfalls, cascading from a high place Down below, there was a loud noise.

Tang Feng returned to the Qiang village and saw that Han Jiang and others were ready, "What? According to your plan, go to the first door to see?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang.

"The plan I made will generally not change." Han Jiang said firmly.

"Have you seen that cat?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang suddenly.

Han Jiang was surprised by Tang Feng's strange question. He was taken aback for a moment, and said, "I haven't seen that black cat since the last time I saw it in that human bone tunnel. Why, what did you find?"

Tang Feng shook his head, "No, I just asked casually." After speaking, Tang Feng also put on his backpack and got ready.

This time, Han Jiang walked in front, and the four of them opened the first wooden door on the left. It was the same as what they saw yesterday. An old wooden spiral staircase led all the way down.Han Jiang turned on the flashlight, walked around the spiral staircase about three or four times, and came to a closed cabin.Han Jiang scanned the hut with a flashlight, and there were two identical small doors in the hut.Han Jiang wondered: "This spiral staircase seems to be here."

Tang Feng was also very strange: "This is the first floor of the Qiang village. It seems that this spiral staircase leads to here, and the spiral staircase we walked yesterday turned around many times. It should lead to the underground of the Qiang village. It's the difference between the two stairs."

"That's why the people who built the Qiang village built two spiral staircases," Xu Renyu said.

"There is still a hole, or a shaft!" Liang Yuan's words reminded everyone of Stephen.

"Let's see, where do these two small wooden doors lead to?" Han Jiang said, walked to a small door, and pushed it with his hands. The wooden door didn't move, and it seemed to be locked.So, Han Jiang turned to another small wooden door, pushed it hard, and the small door opened. Han Jiang walked into the small door vigilantly, followed by Tang Feng and the other three.There is a small space inside the small door, but when the four people looked up, Tang Feng couldn't help exclaiming: "We entered another watchtower."

Yes, they walked into another watchtower in Qiangzhai, but Tang Feng and the others were not worried that there would be huge stones falling from the sky here, because in this tall watchtower, they saw a larger rotating wooden ladder, The wooden ladder winds up and leads all the way to the top of the watchtower.

Han Jiang also exclaimed in amazement: "Unexpectedly, after so many years, the stairs here are still preserved."

"Yes! Then we can go up." After speaking, Tang Feng has already walked up the revolving wooden ladder in the watchtower impatiently.After turning four times on this huge revolving wooden ladder, Tang Feng walked to the top of the revolving staircase. After careful observation, he pointed to the wooden board above his head and said to the others: "The revolving staircase leads here, but the upper part There should be room. This watchtower is very high, it seems that we can't climb any further."

Han Jiang took a look here, and said: "It seems so, but you look here." After speaking, Han Jiang pointed to a wooden door that appeared on the wall, "There is another door here."

Han Jiang stepped forward and pushed open the door vigorously, and a ray of dazzling sunlight came in.Han Jiang remained vigilant and walked out of the door first.Outside the door is a large open-air platform. Tang Feng came to the platform and said to everyone: "This is the large platform on the top of the fourth floor that I told you yesterday. It seems that we skipped the third floor and came here."

Tang Feng inspected the large platform carefully. There was a row of five rooms connected to the back wall. The two rooms on the left and right sides were built with stone walls. Open, only supported by two pillars, facing the large open-air platform.Standing on the big platform, Tang Feng took a deep breath of the fresh air here. Looking around, he saw winding green hills and gurgling green water. He couldn't help but feel relaxed and happy and said, "With a little decoration here, it will be a very good leisure and vacation villa!"

"Hmph! Then you will move here to live here." Han Jiang checked on the fourth floor and found nothing unusual.But when he was standing in the middle of the big platform, he raised his head suddenly, and suddenly saw a white stone standing tall on the top of the back wall, which looked so dazzling under the direct sunlight.

7
"What's that?" Han Jiang asked, pointing to the white stone on the back wall.

"The stone is called Baishi, the god of the Qiang people, also known as the Baishi god. The Qiang people admire whiteness and have worshiped Baishi for a long time. It is said that in ancient times, the Qiang people were defeated repeatedly when they fought against the enemy. Later, in One cold night, Mou Xin, the leader of the Qiang nationality, got an order from the God of Baishi by chance. After ordering to do it, the enemy was defeated. Since then, the Qiang people have worshiped the Baishi God as a god! All the buildings of the Qiang people will place a white stone to pray for the blessing of the god. You see, there is also a white stone on each of the two watchtowers. " Tang Feng explained the origin of Baishi.

After finishing speaking, Tang Feng clasped his hands together and prayed secretly to Baishi. Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu also followed Tang Feng's example and prayed to Baishi God.Han Jiang moved his eyes to the watchtower again. He squinted his eyes and looked at the watchtower on the right. The top part of the watchtower on the right had collapsed. It seemed that this was the watchtower that almost hit them yesterday.Han Jiang turned to the watchtower on the left again, and the watchtower on the left was intact.Yes, Han Jiang saw that there was also a white stone on the top of the watchtower on the left. Is it the wind?Or...Han Jiang opened his eyes suddenly, and shouted: "There are people in the watchtower!"

Before Tang Feng and the others could react, Han Jiang threw the three of them to the ground, and immediately after that, there was a burst of gunshots, "Da! Da! Da!"In a panic, Han Jiang covered the crowd and retreated into the row of rooms near the back wall, and the gunfire stopped.

The air seemed to freeze, and the people on the watchtower did not shoot again. Both Han Jiang and Tang Feng understood that they were waiting for the "prey" to appear again.Now, on the large platform on the fourth floor, there is only the sound of the wind whistling through the mountains.

1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes... 10 minutes later, Han Jiang heard a rush of footsteps coming from the watchtower, he showed a trace of a sophisticated smile, and whispered: "One, two, three, four , five, six, good! There are six in total. Tang Feng, Liang Yuan, doctor, you all hide in the hidden corner of the room first, and the fight will start immediately. I can't take care of you, so you can do it yourself."

"Maybe I can help you." Tang Feng said.

"Yes! Maybe we can help you!" Although Xu Renyu was panicked, he quickly calmed down.

"No need. I can deal with the six guys alone. When I need you, I will call you." Han Jiang said firmly.

"But you only have six bullets in your gun." Tang Feng was worried.

"Even if I don't have a gun, I can still deal with these thieves! Of course, I still use a gun if I have a gun. There are six bullets, exactly one for each person." Tang Feng was about to say something, but Han Jiang interrupted him, "From now on , let's stop talking and communicate with sign language. You must watch Liang Yuan carefully and don't let her scream."

(End of this chapter)