Xixia dead book

Chapter 235 The Finale of Death (25)
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Han Jiang was still lying on top of the giant python, stabbing the giant python violently, Yelena had no choice but to rush forward and dragged Han Jiang down, the dagger in Han Jiang's hand cut a long gash in the python's abdomen for the last time, The black thing was exposed.

"It's a person!" Liang Yuan exclaimed.

Everyone was shocked, and saw that the man's head was bloody and bloody, only the black clothes on his body hadn't been dissolved by the stomach acid of the giant python. Makarov leaned forward and observed, "It's the general's man, this guy seems to have died. After staying in the belly of the giant python for a while, the skin on the head has begun to rot."

"The general's people? Did the general's people also enter the oasis?" Tang Feng asked in surprise.

Makarov pondered for a moment, then shook his head, "No, I guess these snakes are the group of snakes that attacked us and the man in black in the mandala just now."

"In other words, the man in black in the belly of the giant python should have been swallowed in the mandala, and then these snakes followed us here!" Tang Feng said.

Makarov nodded, "I think it should be so. The smell on our bodies is special here. Tang Feng, if, as you said, these snakes were put here by Basiba back then, then they have been here for hundreds of years. They are the guardians here, how can they allow us to enter here?"

"Is it true that no one has set foot here for hundreds of years? I can't believe it." Yelena said.

"Yes, someone, don't forget Misha, Ma Changguo, and that mysterious female scientific research team member." Makarov said.

"Yes, what you said, old Ma, I remembered and understood why Ma Changguo shouted 'Oasis of Death' in horror when he was dying. He and his people have been here, so they must have encountered Everything we encountered, the ground fissures everywhere, thousands of snakes and giant pythons, maybe there are some beasts that we haven't seen yet!" Tang Feng recalled what Stephen said before he died.

"Well, those bones under the ground may be people from Ma Changguo, or other trekkers over the past few hundred years!" Makarov thought for a while, and then said: "The people of Machangguo should have lost all of them here. , he escaped from the oasis and Wolf Valley alone by chance, and didn't dare to stay any longer, so he hurriedly started his escape. I think his mind was already in a state of collapse at that time, so he chose to give up. Here he lost confidence in finding Micheng, although he knew he was very close to Micheng."

"It seems that this oasis is really scary! So much so that a desperado like Ma Changguo has lost his confidence here." Tang Feng said this, and suddenly thought of something, "Then what about Misha and the mysterious female scientific expedition team member?" ?”

"This..." Makarov hesitated, "I think they may be the only people who have set foot in Mi City in hundreds of years, but... just I don't know where Misha went?"

"That incomparable gate!" Tang Feng remembered the letter Misha wrote to Liang Yunjie, "I think that should be the gate of Mi City, he must have entered Mi City. As for the female scientific expedition team member, or It is unknown if anyone else has found Mi Cheng."

"Tang Feng, don't you find it strange? The well-equipped Ma Changguo failed to find Micheng, but Misha was able to find Micheng?!" Makarov frowned.

"Okay, you guys, don't care about me!" Han Jiang's voice came from beside Tang Feng. This was the first time Tang Feng heard that the tough guy Han Jiang needed others to care. It seems that Han Jiang was frightened by the giant python just now. Not light.

"How do you need us to care about you?" Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang who was covered in dirt with concern.

"Water, I need to take a shower!" Han Jiang cried out in pain.

"Just bear with it, where does the water come from here?"

"Then bear with the stench too!"

Tang Feng rolled his eyes and said: "Don't threaten us, there is perfume here, you can't smell us, why don't you use this 3-dollar bottle of perfume to keep you smelling good."

"Spray me, I can't take it anymore! Damn, I've never met such a smelly snake!"

Tang Feng had no choice but to spray some perfume on Han Jiang first. Everyone had perfume to protect their bodies, and the snakes receded one after another, and everyone was finally able to move on again.

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The five of them walked forward with difficulty for several hundred meters. The ground was full of dead wood and thorns, and there was no road at all. Tang Feng looked around nervously. The snakes seemed to have retreated completely. The dense forest here became silent again. The insects can't be seen anymore, will the beast suddenly appear?

Thinking of this, Tang Feng trembled violently, but the legendary cockroach did not appear. What made him even more puzzled was that since they entered the dense forest, Mi City, which was still faintly visible outside, was completely invisible at this moment. .

"This forest is not big, logically we should have almost walked out of the dense forest?" Liang Yuan also saw the clue.

"I'm afraid we're going in circles in the dense forest again!" Makarov said.

"It doesn't matter whether you turn around or not, as long as you can turn out!" Han Jiang stopped as soon as he finished speaking. At this moment, Han Jiang became extremely cautious, as if he hadn't recovered from the fright just now. Being bolder, he took another step forward, but Han Jiang suddenly shouted: "Yelena, wait, what do you think is that?"

"I saw it!" Yelena seemed to be mentally prepared.

Tang Feng followed, and found a stone-like thing faintly exposed among the dead wood and thorns not far in front.When Tang Feng and Han Jiang approached, Yelena had already wiped off the thick lichen and moss covering the stone. To Yelena's surprise, the volume of the stone exceeded her imagination, and what was just exposed was just an iceberg At one corner, Tang Feng noticed something unusual about this stone after only one glance, "This... this stone has a very smooth surface, obviously polished by hand, and it is probably another stele."

Everyone's eyes brightened, and they hurriedly helped Yelena remove the moss on the stone. Sure enough, what was revealed in front of everyone was a flat boulder. It was obvious that this was also a monument, a monument that had been pushed down!
Yelena observed the stele carefully, but was puzzled, "Tang Feng, there seems to be no writing on this stele!"

Tang Feng also squatted down and observed carefully. There was indeed no writing on the stele, but he firmly believed in his own judgment, this is an ancient stele, and he would never be wrong!Tang Feng stood up, took two steps back, and looked around. Suddenly, he found a slight bump on the ground on the right side of the stele, a bulge, like a small hill, but it was unnatural. Trees grew, only covered with thick lichens and moss. Tang Feng immediately realized the mystery underneath. He pulled out his dagger and quickly pushed aside the lichens and moss on the small hill. Soon, a stone was exposed underneath, a A well-shaped stone, "Look, this is a stone base. It should have been a stele base at the beginning. Look! There are patterns carved around the bottom of the stele base!"

Tang Feng leaned down and brushed away the soil under the pedestal with his hands. His eyes lit up suddenly, "Dragon! It's a dragon pattern, a dragon pattern! This is the symbol of an emperor."

"The stele of Qi Xuejun was erected by Kublai Khan's army. It is bare and has no patterns. There is a stele engraved with dragon patterns?!" Han Jiang shook his head, puzzled.

Tang Feng said with certainty, "That's right, this dragon pattern is a typical Xixia style, and this tablet should be a stone tablet from the Xixia period!"

"The stone tablet of Xixia? Why is there no writing on it?" Everyone was puzzled.

Tang Feng stood up, gestured to himself, and then explained: "If I'm not mistaken, the overturned stele was originally standing on this pedestal, and the pedestal is now on the right side of the stele. Judging from the direction, the front of the stele should be pressed down, and what you can see is only the back of the stele, of course there will be no writing!"

Only then did everyone suddenly realize that Tang Feng used a dagger to remove the soil on the side of the stele, and the exquisite pattern was revealed again, which was still the five-color auspicious cloud and dragon pattern. Tang Feng said without hesitation: "My judgment is correct, this is A stone tablet of Xixia, and it is exquisitely carved, obviously this tablet has a special meaning to Micheng and Xixia, otherwise it would not be time-consuming and laborious to carve such a beautiful stone tablet here."

"That's right, there are no carved patterns on the stele of Qi Xuejun, and except for the side with the inscription, the other places are very rough!" Han Jiang said.

"Although this stele is not as big as the stele of Qi Xuejun, it is so exquisitely carved, so I say it is of great significance to Micheng and Xixia, and of course it is of great use to us. If you want to see the inscriptions on the stele, everyone should take the stele Turn it over!" Tang Feng looked at everyone excitedly.

"Turn over the stele?" Han Jiang hesitated, "Just a few of us?"

"And me!" Liang Yuan volunteered.

"I haven't forgotten you. In this damn place, I don't think of you as a lady anymore. You have to be a soldier!" Han Jiang joked.

"Originally!" Liang Yuan was quite unconvinced.

So, everyone started to turn over the stele. Five people stood on one side of the stele and worked hard together. It took a lot of effort to lift the stele slightly. "I can't see that the stele is not big, but it's so heavy!" Tang Feng barked After grinning, she had to put down the stele together with everyone. The five of them looked at each other, gasping for breath. Suddenly, Liang Yuan yelled, "You are so stupid! There are so many tree trunks here. , I don’t know how to use a tree trunk as a crowbar!”

When Han Jiang heard it, he said angrily, "Miss, you think I don't know how to use it. I didn't know that this stone is so heavy."

So, everyone separated, found five tree trunks, and used them as crowbars. First, the stele was lifted slightly, and then the crowbar was put down. Using force together, the stele finally came up, but when the stele was hanging in the air, Liang Yuan "Ah—" screamed, and then the crowbar in her hand was broken!
"Hold it!" At the critical moment, Makarov yelled. Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Yelena also tried their best together, and they finally prevented the stone tablet hanging in midair from falling again. Liang Yuan regained her composure and hurried up. In front of them, with more force with both hands, the five people finally turned over the heavy stone tablet.

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The stele that had been lying down for many years was rediscovered, and a huge cloud of smoke and dust was raised. In the smoke and dust, Tang Feng asked Liang Yuan loudly, "What was your name just now? It scared us all, and I almost gave up!"

"Because... because I saw bones under the stele!" Liang Yuan was still in shock.

"Bones? The bones under the stele?!" Everyone was shocked.

After the smoke and dust dissipated, everyone took a closer look. Sure enough, under the stele that had just been lifted up, there was a pile of messy bones mixed in the moist soil.

"This... how come there are bones under here?" Tang Feng looked at the scene in front of him in surprise.

"It seems that these unlucky ghosts were killed by the stone tablet!" Han Jiang naturally thought of this.

"He was killed by the stele?" Makarov did not rush to judge, but squatted down to carefully identify the bones. Although the bones were a bit messy, it could still be seen that the bones belonged to four people. "Four skeletons, if these People were killed by stone tablets, so the hit rate is too high!"

Yelena immediately understood what Makarov meant, "You mean someone deliberately knocked down the stele and killed these four people!"

Makarov nodded, "Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for four people to be hit by an accidentally fallen stone tablet at the same time!"

"Perhaps they were not killed by stone tablets?" Tang Feng suggested another possibility.

Makarov waved his hand, "No, they were crushed to death by the stele. I checked the four skeletons. The ribs were broken in many places, and other bones were also broken. It is conceivable that they were all crushed by heavy objects. oppression, crushing the bones, crushing the internal organs and causing death.”

"What a strange murder scene!" Liang Yuan couldn't help sighing.

"Here's something even stranger!" Han Jiang suddenly picked up a rusty pistol from the soil among the four skeletons, "American-made Colt M1917 revolver."

"It seems that these guys are not ancient people!" Tang Feng said.

"Based on the skeleton, they are indeed not ancient people. They are all male. They should be between 20 and 30 years old when they died. They are of Mongolian race." Yelena judged professionally.

"From the analysis of the surrounding soil and relics, they should have died decades ago." Makarov said, picking up another string of zippers that had completely rusted and decayed from the soil, "This should be a leather jacket. zipper!"

Tang Feng immediately understood everything, "That means these guys are probably Ma Changguo's subordinates."

"Could it be the lost scientific expedition team members?" Liang Yuan asked.

"This..." Tang Feng hesitated. He looked at Han Jiang, and Han Jiang looked at Makarov. The team did not use this kind of gun at the time, and in addition, judging from all aspects of the four people, they were not very members of the scientific expedition team."

"People from Ma Changguo?" Tang Feng fell into deep thought. After a long time, he said, "Then, this brings up another question. How did the stele fall? Or who deliberately pushed the stele down?"

"According to what we have learned before, the biggest possibility is Misha, or the mysterious female scientific expedition team member, or other scattered scientific expedition team members, because they are the only ones who have come here!" Han Jiang deduced .

"I can't imagine that Misha and Ma Changguo walked into the oasis together. After all kinds of terrible encounters, they fought a desperate fight!" Liang Yuan sighed.

"From the results, it seems that Ma Changguo lost!" Yelena said.

"I'm thinking about a question. How did that mysterious female scientific expedition member get away from the Dabai Spring?" Tang Feng suddenly mentioned the discovery by the Dabai Spring. The female scientific expedition team member."

"They may have reached a compromise, or they may have been coerced by Ma Changguo. Of course, there is another possibility..." Han Jiang did not continue.

"There are traitors in the expedition team!" Makarov blurted out.

"Do you suspect that female scientific expedition member?"

"No! I can't tell. Anyway, they entered the oasis and had conflicts. Ma Changguo's side seems to have failed!" Makarov said in a concluding tone.

"Let me take a look at this stele!" Tang Feng said, walked up to the stele, and used a dagger to remove the dirt sticking to the front of the stele, and the lines of beautiful Xixia characters were revealed in front of his eyes...

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Tang Feng slowly read out the title of the inscription, "The Stele of Jianmi City..." Next, is the text of the stele...

When I was young, I fell into trouble among the people, traveled all over the world, traveled this far and wild land, saw valleys in the vast sea, and saw great swamps in the valleys. The weather is unpredictable and the weather is unpredictable. There is also an oasis in the middle of the big lake. The oasis will not disappear even when the water rises. He will be of great use in the future.

In the future, I will rise in Helan, defeat Song and Liao several times, be powerful in Shuomo, and the great cause of the party will flourish.However, the country has only been established for a few years now, and most people in the country are already arrogant and extravagant. I am afraid that disasters will happen in the long run, and I must be prepared for danger in times of peace.

One day, I was hunting in the north, looking at the landscape of the mountains and rivers in the north, I said to my ministers: "Our country has the Khitan in the east, the Song Dynasty in the south, Tubo in the south, and Uighur in the west. There are important towns guarding them, so there is no need to worry about the three sides! Only in the north, there are no important towns. If a strong enemy comes here, I will be attacked by the enemy, and I will feel really uneasy!" Wuzang Huaipang said: "There is no strong enemy in the north. There are vast seas and deserts, which can be barriers!" I said: "I look at the northern land, although there are vast seas and deserts, but the north of the desert has a royal aura. When I was young, I traveled to the northern lands, and I know the people in the northern lands very well. , brave and good at fighting, I fear that after a hundred years, it will be a serious problem for our party!" The officials were speechless.

Another day, my horse lost its way and strayed into a valley. I suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu. I was wading through quicksand and crossing a big lake. Trapped in the oasis, but in the dark, the longevity god protects and protects the oasis.In the oasis, there are rare birds and beasts, exotic flowers and plants, needless to say, but the danger is the same as before, and there is even a fierce beast named "Kaili", which is really difficult to deal with.At night, I was sleepy and dared not sleep. Suddenly, I saw a hermit from another world come in the fog and said to me, "This place is extremely dangerous. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It will be another great land for my family."

(End of this chapter)