Xixia dead book

Chapter 247 The Finale of Death (37)
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The five people were quickly swallowed by the darkness, and the five flashlights were like five weak fireflies, surrounded by boundless darkness.Before entering Mi City, Han Jiang cut a piece of pine wood in the dense forest and used it as a torch. When Han Jiang lit the torch, it finally illuminated the space they were in, a square underground palace.

On the other side of the underground palace, that is, on the west side, there is a coupon door. Inside the coupon door is a not-so-long corridor. Tang Feng pulled Liang Yuan and walked in front. Through the corridor, a shocking scene appeared before them. In front of him, he saw that this was a huge natural space, surrounded by unpolished rocks, and on the unpolished rocks to the west, there was a golden gate, Tang Feng couldn't help muttering in surprise Said to himself: "Another golden gate?"

"There must be rich things hidden behind this, otherwise a golden gate would not be used!" Han Jiang became excited, as if victory was within easy reach.

Tang Feng took two steps forward, and suddenly heard the sound of running water. He took a closer look and found that there was a white marble bridge standing on the corridor leading to the golden gate to the west.

Tang Feng stepped onto the stone bridge and heard the sound of running water under the bridge. He was secretly surprised that there was water under it?He leaned out and looked under the bridge. It was pitch black under the bridge and no water flow could be seen. Tang Feng shone down with a flashlight until it reached the exposed red rocks, but still did not see any water.

Han Jiang had already passed the white marble bridge, and walked straight to the golden gate. Tang Feng didn't care to check the stone bridge that shouldn't be here, and followed Han Jiang to the golden gate.

Everyone stood side by side in front of the golden gate without speaking. Tang Feng stretched out his hand and touched the golden gate. The cold gate exuded a dazzling light. Tang Feng felt that this gate seemed different from the one on the east side of Mi City. The surface is so smooth, "This door has never been opened for thousands of years, and no one has even come here. Look, the surface of the door is so smooth and flat..."

Tang Feng had just finished speaking halfway, when his finger touched a groove between the door knockers, Tang Feng took a step back in surprise, and looked intently, only to see two jade knockers on the plain golden gate, which matched the golden door knocker. The pairing of the two jade gates together is ingenious, but there is a groove on the golden gate between the two jade gate rings. This groove is located in the middle of the door gap, which is very strange!
Han Jiang also noticed this groove, "Why is there a piece of depression here? It seems that this was intentionally made like this when making the gate!"

Tang Feng nodded, but he didn't understand what was going on?He took another half step back and looked at the golden gate carefully. He found nothing unusual elsewhere. Tang Feng stepped forward and pushed the gate, but it couldn't be pushed. Suspiciously stretched out his hand, rubbing back and forth on the smooth door, when his fingers slipped into the groove, Tang Feng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly took out the lost and recovered jade huang, "Look, this groove looks rough. It's a rectangular groove, but upon closer inspection, it's not a rectangle, but a curved one, much like a jade huang!"

"You...you mean that Yuhuang is the key to open this door?" Makarov asked in surprise.

"Yes, the shape, size, and size are all right! Moreover, the material of this jade huang is almost the same as that of the two jade door knockers next to it. They are all high-quality Hetian mutton fat white jade. The jade huang and the two door knockers come from the same piece of jade." Tang Feng recalled the nightmare that had been haunting him.

"Is there such a coincidence in the world? That means that when the gate was made, the jade ring and the jade huang were carved out of the same piece of jade!" Han Jiang was also dumbfounded.

"I think it should be like this!" Under the amazed eyes of everyone, Tang Feng slowly put the piece of jade into the groove of the golden gate with trembling hands.

In the deep underground palace, there was deathly silence. Everyone held their breath and stared at the golden gate that had been inserted into Yuhuang. Jiang, Han Jiang nodded at him, Tang Feng stretched out two thumbs and pressed down hard, the groove sank further, and then, the groove changed, and it turned 360 degrees automatically, turning around with Yuhuang , Yu Huang who opened her mouth to rush down turned to open her mouth to rush up.

Tang Feng quickly pulled his hands back and stepped back. Everyone stood still one meter away from the gate, waiting quietly, waiting for the world behind the gate, but another 5 minutes passed, and the golden gate remained motionless. Any movement, everyone can't help but be vigilant, Tang Feng took a step forward, and wanted to reach out to push the door, but Liang Yuan shouted from behind: "Be careful——"

Tang Feng looked back at Liang Yuan, "It's okay, you all back off, I'll come!"

As he said that, Tang Feng stretched out his hands without hesitation, and pushed the golden gate hard. A strange feeling that Tang Feng had never felt spread throughout his body. He exerted a lot of strength, but he didn't feel any resistance. Tang Feng only felt a golden light flash in front of his eyes, and the golden gate in front of him opened quietly.

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Tang Feng stood blankly in front of the opened golden gate, not knowing whether to enter or retreat, he instinctively looked inside with a flashlight, and there was a huge dark space inside, in the passing light, Tang Feng There is no exciting treasure to be found, only a deeper darkness.

"It seems that Yuhuang is the key to open the underground palace." Han Jiang said, holding a torch, he walked into the world behind the golden gate. In front of them was a corridor that was almost as wide as the front. The corridor was not long, and there seemed to be several The other end of the room and the corridor is connected to a huge dark space. At this time, it is still impossible to see the situation of that dark space.

Holding the torch, Han Jiang illuminated the corridor, and then everyone saw that there were four openings on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor, which were so dark that they couldn't see the inside, "This layout is very similar to the ear chamber or side chamber of a large mausoleum. " Tang Feng quickly judged.

"Then there should be funerary objects in here?" Han Jiang asked back.

"You'll know when you go in and have a look!" As he said, Tang Feng walked into the first stone house with a flashlight, and Han Jiang also followed in. To everyone's disappointment, there were no funeral objects in this stone house. There were only some black substances piled up in the corner. Tang Feng walked over suspiciously, squatted down and picked up some black substances and observed them in his hands, "This seems to be carbonized corn."

"Well, it's corn. Could it be that the food in this room is for Yuan Hao to enjoy in another world?" Han Jiang guessed.

"Then he should put some good things here!" Tang Feng threw away the carbonized corn in his hands and walked out of the stone house; in the second stone house, they also found no treasure, only a few rusty weapons; "Hehe, I understand archeology now. This way of setting up a granary on one side and an arsenal on the other is in line with tradition." Han Jiang is quite confident in his judgment.

"I hope you are right!" What Tang Feng found in the third and fourth stone houses were still carbonized grains and rusty weapons, which seemed to support Han Jiang's deduction.

Walking out of the corridor, they entered a huge space. When Han Jiang lit up the dark space with a torch, everyone saw that it was a huge stone hall close to a square, and the whole hall was made of hard granite. , majestic and majestic.

But when Tang Feng was amazed by the magnificence of the underground palace, Liang Yuan suddenly exclaimed, "Look quickly! Look... look at the ground, what is that?"

Tang Feng shone the flashlight on the ground, and there appeared a scene he would never forget. First, a complete skeleton appeared in front of his eyes, and as the flashlight moved, another, and then, a complete skeleton, Tang Feng The flashlight in Feng's hand moved slowly, and his mouth kept opening.The pupils were also dilated rapidly in horror, and it wasn't just the bones that frightened him, but because he found that these bones were all complete without exception, lying on the ground in an orderly manner!

Han Jiang was also quite surprised. He walked forward and lit up the entire stone hall with a torch. Everyone was terrified and shocked by the sight of the stone hall!Hundreds of skeletons were neatly arranged on the cold ground. Tang Feng felt that every pore on his body was opened, and the cold moisture from the ground quickly penetrated into his body, making him shudder.He clearly felt fear in his heart, but he couldn't control the steps under his feet. Tang Feng dragged his heavy steps and walked through rows of neatly arranged skeletons. From the first row to the last row, there were 840 skeletons in total. All the tools were intact, "Could this be the person who was buried for Yuan Hao?" Tang Feng had already thought about this question repeatedly in his heart, and finally shouted out.

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Tang Feng's voice echoed hugely in the deep underground palace, buried? !Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, shocked by the word "burial" from Tang Feng's mouth. After a long time, Makarov judged based on his rich criminal investigation experience: "Judging from the bones of these deceased, it doesn't look like they were killed. die, or be poisoned to death."

"This does not rule out the possibility of being buried!" Tang Feng said.

"Yes, I know this does not rule out the possibility of burial. However, Yelena and I have carefully looked at dozens of skeletons. Most of them are women, children, and some belong to the elderly. Burial? It seems unreasonable!" Ma Kaluo Husband Road.

"That's right, only the slave society would use a large number of living burials. It was not popular in Xixia at that time. This is common sense in history!" Liang Yuan also disagreed with Tang Feng.

"That's very likely to be a collective suicide!" Han Jiang said suddenly.

"Collective suicide?" Everyone was shocked.

"Have you forgotten that we have never found the bones of the Party members in the city of Mi, and later found some bones of the party members in the pyramids and halls, but they were all the bones of young and middle-aged men. Then, the women and children in the city of Mi have gone where?"

Han Jiang's words awakened everyone, and Tang Feng suddenly realized: "Yes! I didn't think about it at the time, thinking that women and children escaped!"

"From this point of view, the most reasonable explanation is that after decades of continuous wars and blockades, the population of Mi City has decreased significantly, especially the population of young and middle-aged men. Therefore, when Kublai Khan's army came to attack, the population of Mi City was estimated to be There were only 3000 to 800 people left. After several battles, although the party members were still fighting bravely and had victories with Kublai Khan's army, Mi City could no longer support it. At the critical moment when Kublai Khan's army invaded Mi City More than [-] women, children, and old people in Micheng hid in this underground palace built for them by King Hao, while the last few hundred warriors in Micheng wanted to protect their wives and children, and also to keep the last secret of Micheng , all died on the battlefield."

Han Jiang's words made everyone think of the last moment of Mi City. The warriors of Dangxiang were ready to burn everything, but in order not to bully their wives and children, they let them enter the underground palace under the pyramid, and then closed the gate of the underground palace. What kind of life and death is this? !How do you treat death like home? !Thinking of this, the last tragic moment of the party members appeared before Tang Feng's eyes.

"No, there is a fatal mistake in your inference!" Liang Yuan said suddenly.

"Oh! What's wrong?" Han Jiang stared at Liang Yuan and asked.

"If it's according to what you said, then these women and children entering the underground palace must have an exit. Otherwise, their wives and children will die in the underground palace. How is this different from being buried?" Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

"This..." Liang Yuan's words made everyone alert, "But we haven't seen any other roads along the way?"

When Tang Feng said this, he happened to be standing in front of the last row of bones. His eyes were fixed on the complete bones in front of him. Suddenly, he stopped in front of the last bone and looked straight at the With the skeleton in a daze, Han Jiang and the others noticed something strange about Tang Feng, so they also followed. Han Jiang looked at the skeleton in front of him, "This seems to be a woman's skeleton! It's lying flat."

"The age at the time of death should be between 40 and 60 years old." Yelena continued.

"A party woman..." Liang Yuan murmured.

Makarov squatted down and carefully observed the skeleton. After a long time, he shook his head and said, "No, this is not the skeleton of a party woman."

"Oh, what did you see?" Yelena asked with concern.

"Elena, take a closer look!" Makarov didn't raise his head, he was still squatting next to the corpse, and seemed to be staring at the corpse in front of him very intently.

"Look carefully?" Yelena squatted down suspiciously to observe the skeleton carefully. Suddenly, Yelena's eyes widened suddenly, "This...how is this possible?"

"Yelena, what did you see?" Han Jiang asked eagerly.

Yelena gestured on the corpse for a while, and said in surprise: "This corpse is obviously not of Asian Mongoloid race, but of Caucasian race!"

"That means this woman is a European living in Micheng, or someone from West Asia?" Han Jiang guessed wildly.

"No, to be more precise, the age of this bone is not that old, only... only half a century!" Yelena's voice trembled a little.

"Half a century?" The looming female scientific expedition team member suddenly flashed in Han Jiang's mind.

"If I'm not mistaken, this woman is the only female member of the expedition team back then." Makarov finally stood up, but seemed to be trapped in a distant memory.

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After a short silence, Han Jiang shook his head and said, "No! This is impossible! How did she enter the underground palace? The passage in the Immortal Palace has never been opened. We are the first people to enter here in 700 years!"

"No! We are not! Someone has already entered here before us!" Tang Feng said suddenly.

"But...but she didn't have the jade huang to open the golden gate? Is the jade huang in our hands?" Han Jiang became more and more excited as he spoke.

"You are wrong again, she has Yuhuang!" Tang Feng's words made everyone even more astonished. Everyone turned their eyes to Tang Feng. Tang Feng looked solemn, and he pointed to the abdomen of the corpse. Is it awkward to have a corpse?

"It's a bit awkward! Seeing her posture, she was lying flat before she died, but her hands seemed to be hidden under her body consciously!" When Han Jiang said this, his eyes widened suddenly, and he said in surprise: "Could it be... ...Could it be that this woman was tied behind her back before she died?"

"Turn it over and take a look, don't you know?" Tang Feng looked very calm.

Han Jiang looked at Tang Feng, and didn't understand what he meant, but his great curiosity prompted him. Even if Tang Feng didn't say anything, he would turn over to have a look. Han Jiang carefully removed the ribs and pelvis of the corpse. , when he removed the pelvis on the left side of the corpse, a piece of white jade with a moving luster was revealed in front of everyone.

Han Jiang looked at this jade huang in surprise, and then at Tang Feng, "This...how can there be a jade huang exactly like yours?"

"Yes! It's exactly the same." Liang Yuan was also surprised.

"The answer may be on that side." Tang Feng pointed to the pelvis on the right side of the corpse. Han Jiang tremblingly removed the pelvis on the right side. A beautiful jade box appeared in front of everyone. Han Jiang was just going to get the jade box box, but was stopped by Tang Feng, "Wait!"

(End of this chapter)