Xixia dead book

Chapter 248 The Finale of Death (38)
Han Jiang stopped and looked at Tang Feng. Tang Feng looked at the whole skeleton again, "From where the jade huang and the jade box appeared, this woman was holding these two things tightly when she was dying. Traces where the rope was tied."

Han Jiang and Yelena also checked carefully, and there was no trace of the rope, "Maybe it's because of the age, the rope has decayed long ago!"

Tang Feng shook his head, "If she is tied behind the rope, it will be complicated. Do you think there are other party members lying here besides her?"

Han Jiang, Yelena, and Makarov checked the bones in the underground palace separately, but found no more modern human bones, all of which were from 700 years ago, and belonged to the party members.Tang Feng went on to say: "So I think that when this female scientific expedition member was dying, no one restricted her freedom. She can move around freely here. As for the strange posture of her hands, it may just be her personal hobby. Maybe it represents some kind of symbol, or some kind of mystical religion, maybe it's nothing!"

"What's in the jade box?" Liang Yuan asked suddenly.

Only then did Han Jiang think of the jade box. Tang Feng took the jade box from Han Jiang. The jade box was not big. It also used high-quality Hetian mutton fat white jade with plain noodles, which was very elegant. When he opened the jade box, there was a An ancient scroll rolled together, Tang Feng gently took out the scroll, and slowly unfolded the yellowed scroll, only to see that there were only a few words on the short scroll, "It was written in Xixia script, and the translation is In this way——"Those who read this volume will be lucky and virtuous after thousands of years. From the north, there is a gate of life under the sixth tower, which can lead to the nether world. From the river of Ming, you can see the white marble bridge. There is a golden gate in front. Hold these two jade huang Once you can enter, avoid the water level of the Styx River. There is no hidden handwriting.'”

"What... what does this paper mean?" Han Jiang looked at Tang Feng half understanding.

Tang Feng read the paper again, and the more he looked at it, the more frowned he became, "This passage may explain Liang Yuan's previous doubts. The first thing that interests me is the person who wrote the paper. At the end of the paper, there is a signature 'No We are already familiar with the party surnames "Zang's own handwriting" and "No Zang", but who is this "No Zang"? The content of the paper is related to the secrets of Xixia, and the person who can write this paper is by no means an ordinary person, so this 'No Zang' must be a high-ranking noble with the surname of No Zang, who is familiar with the secret structure of Mi City, and even the person who participated in the design and supervision of Mi City! Then, only Yuan Hao's favorites, No Zang Pang and No Zang Queen And judging from the writing on this scroll, the handwriting is elegant, not like a man's handwriting, but more like a dignified and virtuous woman's handwriting, so I speculate that this scroll was written by the empress herself."

"But why did Empress Wuzang write this paper and tell the secret?" Han Jiang asked.

"It depends on the content of the paper. The first sentence, 'Those who read this paper will be lucky and virtuous in a thousand years' may seem useless, but it actually answers the question you just asked. The reason why Empress Wuzang wrote this The scroll, hidden in the jade box, is for those who are virtuous and lucky to see it after a thousand years. Judging from the quality of the jade used in the jade box, it is almost exactly the same as that of the two jade huang. Huang was probably carved at the same time as the jade box and the jade ring on the golden gate, or even out of the same piece of jade. The jade box was not only used to store the scroll, but also used to store the scroll. These two pieces of jade huang, so the fact that the queen’s paper is not hidden is actually a reminder to the person who gets the jade huang.”

"But why did she make this reminder? Did he hope that outsiders would find Mi Cheng?" Liang Yuan asked.

"No, of course she doesn't want outsiders to find Micheng, so when Micheng was built, she chose such a dangerous place and built such a complicated Micheng, but Yuan Hao's original intention was not to leave Micheng completely isolated from the world. , not known by others, he hid the treasures for future generations to find them, but this brought about a contradiction, on the one hand he did not want people to easily find Mi City and discover the treasures of Mi City, on the other hand he Let the descendants of Dangxiang find this place and take out these treasures..."

"So Yuanhao and Empress Wuzang left Yuhuang and this paper as a reminder." Liang Yuan seemed to understand.

"Not only the jade huang and this scroll, but also the jade screen, and many relics. The relics are all for the smartest and bravest descendants to find the treasures of Micheng, such as the strange one on the caisson of the Immortal Palace. Totems, all these kinds, are not rare."

"It seems that we are the lucky and virtuous people after a thousand years!" Han Jiang smiled, "Empress Wuzang predicted a thousand years ago that it would take a thousand years for anyone to come here!"

"Don't get too complacent, we haven't found the treasure yet? What's more, even if we find the treasure, the general will find it! I feel that they are not far away from us, very close, very close!" Tang Feng said rather said worriedly.

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Tang Feng's words made everyone look at the golden gate behind him by coincidence, but there was no one outside the gate, and Tang Feng said slowly: "I was even more shocked by the sentence above and below the paper. The gate can lead to the underworld, and the white marble stone bridge can be seen from the Minghe River. It is not difficult to see from this sentence that "the underworld" refers to the dark river under the white marble bridge, and "the sixth tower on the first floor from the north" should refer to the pyramid. The sixth Lama Pagoda on the north side of the first floor platform!"

When Tang Feng said this, he thought carefully about the lama pagodas they passed by, the sixth lama pagoda on the north side of the first floor?Tang Feng didn't have any special impressions in his mind. At that time, he passed by in a hurry and didn't check every Lama pagoda carefully. However, thinking of this moment, Tang Feng's thoughts suddenly became clear, "The sixth Lama pagoda on the first floor of the pyramid north ? Isn’t this the secret that those party warriors are desperately guarding?”

"That's right! The bones of those party warriors appeared densely on the steps leading to the first platform of the pyramid, just to protect this important secret!" Makarov also figured it out.

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes! At the last moment of Mi City, hundreds of party warriors used their flesh and blood to block the two passages leading to the Gate of Life and the Hall of Immortality in order to protect the most important secret of Mi City .”

"So we have reason to believe that Kublai Khan's army did not discover the most important secret of Mi City!" Han Jiang said.

"Yes, just a little bit, a group of cowardly soldiers has already broken into the Palace of Immortality, this is the blessing of Changshengtian!" Tang Feng became inexplicably excited when he said this.

"But...but how did this female scientific expedition team member enter the underground palace?" Han Jiang asked.

"She must have found this jade box first, entered through the gate of life, and then opened the golden gate with the jade huang in the jade box, and came here!" Tang Feng said.

"This brings up three more questions." Yelena said suddenly: "First, since this female scientific expedition member entered here according to the instructions of Queen Wuzang, why didn't she get out, and ended up sleeping here? Second, this female How did the scientific expedition team enter here alone when the scientific expedition team was killed? Is she the only one? Third, the other jade huang, that is, the jade huang that Tang Feng found in the Populus euphratica forest was originally hidden Is it the other one in the jade box? If so, how did it end up in the Populus euphratica forest?"

Listening to these questions, Tang Feng frowned. After a while, he slowly said: "I think the answer to the first question may be on the test paper, 'Don't let the water level of the Styx River be avoided.'"

"Don't worry about the water level of the Styx River? What does this mean?" Everyone was puzzled.

"This sentence made me think of the Sea of ​​Rebirth again. I suspect that this underground river is connected to the Sea of ​​Rebirth. Everyone knows the habits of the Sea of ​​Rebirth. One end of the gate of life is on the pyramid, and the other end may be on the Baiyu Bridge. On the cliff below, I just stood on the bridge and looked down. I couldn’t see the Styx, but I could only hear the sound of water. This means that the water level is low now. The exit was submerged, so Empress Wuzang said in the paper, "Don't let the water level of the Styx River"! In this way, people can't use this life gate. The main passage to the underground palace is the passage we found in the Immortal Palace. The life gate is only in It is used in emergency situations, and if the water level just catches up with the soaring water level, the gate of life will become a 'gate of death'!"

"So, the prompt on the test paper is not only a well-intentioned prompt, but also a hidden murderous intention?" Liang Yuan said.

"The secrets of Mi City only belong to those who can understand it. This female scientific research team member didn't understand the true meaning of the test paper, so she rushed into the underground palace, and the way back was finally blocked by the soaring water level," Tang Feng said. .

"It's a cruel reality. In the end, she chose the same posture as these gangsters, lying upright in the deep underground palace with these more than 800 skeletons, welcoming the arrival of death! I can imagine that when her life is about to end , how desperate is she?" Liang Yuan seemed to feel sorry for the female scientific research team member.

"So, what about these party members? They fled underground, and the top of the Hall of Immortality was sealed. Could it be that they also died here after running out of ammunition and food because of the skyrocketing water level?" Makarov asked suddenly.

"This..." Makarov's words made everyone think of a terrible thing. Han Jiang said in horror: "Will these people kill each other in the end, or even cannibalism?"

Tang Feng shook his head, "No, we saw that there is still some grain left in the granary. Although it is not much, they will not kill each other. As for the party members who fled into the underground palace, have they come out again? I think There should be, and Uncle Wei Ming is the proof. Uncle Wei Ming once told me that their ancestors were the descendants of the party members who escaped from Micheng! Moreover, even if the water level rises sharply, the water level will recede sometimes. I think that when the water level recedes, there must be brave party members who walked out from the Shengmen."

"Since some people have gone out, why didn't these people go out?" Makarov asked.

"Perhaps their relatives died in the war. They didn't have the courage to rebuild their homes, so they chose to end their lives here; and the brave people who went out also had various reasons, perhaps because they were too few in number. The strength is too small, perhaps because of the deterioration of the environment. In short, they did not rebuild the severely damaged city of Mi, but chose to go out of the city of Mi, out of the Wild Wolf Valley, return to the most primitive state of their nation, and re-graze for a living; However, in order to keep the secrets of their ancestors, they did not choose to go to places with rich water and grass, but stayed in this desert all the time. They also made up many legends, true or false, to increase the mystery and horror of Mi City. Legends and stories have been passed down from generation to generation, so that outsiders dare not set foot in." Tang Feng seemed to have a historical picture of Mi City after it was severely damaged.

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Han Jiang once again looked up at the magnificent underground palace and was deeply impressed by the wonderful design, "From the point of view of this Shengmen, all the buildings in Mi City are well-designed and perfect. When they built this underground palace, Considering the existence of the underground river, and mastering the habits of the underground river, the underground palace was built at the place where the water level of the underground river was the highest, so that even if the water level of the underground river rose sharply and flooded the gate, the underground palace would not be flooded. .”

"Yes, the wisdom of the ancients often exceeds our imagination!" Tang Feng paused, and then said: "As for Yelena, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to explain the other two questions you mentioned. The second question , How did this female scientific expedition member come here after the scientific expedition team was killed? I started to think about this question when I saw this skeleton, but I couldn't figure it out. What we know about this female scientific research team All of the expedition team members are the relics found in the Populus euphratica forest and her lost notebook next to Dabai Spring! By the Dabai Spring, the scientific expedition team has run out of water and food, but after this female scientific expedition team member wrote the last words in the diary, Miraculously left Dabaiquan, found Micheng, and entered the underground palace. Her own strength is obviously not enough. There must be others. I have always suspected that Ma Changguo took it away by Dabaiquan she."

"But Ma Changguo probably didn't enter Mi City!" Yelena said.

Tang Feng nodded, "Well, I also think that Ma Changguo only went to the oasis of death and did not enter Micheng, but this does not contradict my inference. The poison in Dabaiquan was released by Ma Changguo, and his men They are all bandits and mobs, and he needs scholars with professional knowledge to help him find Mi City."

"So Ma Changguo took away the female scientific expedition team members by the Dabai Spring, and then what happened?" Yelena asked.

"Later, we didn't know about it later, but considering the changeability and horror of the oasis of death, Ma Changguo was greatly stimulated and unforgettable. I guess something happened to them in the oasis. After thinking this way, I will Immediately came to mind…”

"That stone tablet that was pushed down!" Yelena understood what Tang Feng meant.

"Yes, now maybe we can connect this series of discoveries together. The group of them was probably camping in the dense forest. At night, this female scientific expedition team pushed down the stone tablet and killed several surviving men of Ma Changguo. , I don’t know what happened later, Ma Changguo ran away, and the female scientific expedition team found Micheng, but obviously, there was a problem, such a thick stone tablet, it was difficult for a woman to push it down. Who else is helping him!" Tang Feng deduced step by step, and suddenly, he thought of something, "By the way, Misha! Misha should have been to Micheng too."

"But Misha didn't die in Mi City!"

"How did Misha escape from Mi City? How did the female scientific expedition team members die here? I'm afraid everything they encountered after that can only be forever lost!" Tang Feng shook his head and sighed.

"So, what about Yuhuang? Is the Yuhuang you found a pair with the jade Huang in the hands of the female scientific expedition team?" Yelena asked again.

"It should be a pair, because the test paper says 'There is a golden gate in front of you, you can enter with any of these two jade huangs!' There should be two jade huangs in the jade box. The problem is that when the female scientific expedition team found the jade box, Is there one jade huang inside, or two jade huang?"

"But why did one piece of jade appear in the Populus euphratica forest?"

"This... This is even more strange. Ever since I saw the woman wearing the mask, I have been having a dream, a terrible nightmare. The woman wearing the mask in the dream is the Empress Wuzang. I found my jade huang, and then I found this jade huang in the Populus euphratica forest!" Tang Feng tried his best to recall everything in the dream.

"How can Yuhuang be lost and recovered?" Han Jiang asked.

"I don't understand this too, but..." Tang Feng hesitated for a moment, and then said: "But we didn't know that Yuhuang was the key to open the gate of the underground palace. Looking back now, if Yuhuang was lost and recovered, I am afraid that someone If you want to seize this key, from the signs in the Immortal Palace, someone has already come here, and they are probably nearby!"

Tang Feng's words made everyone nervous. Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Han Jiang even pulled out his gun, but they looked towards the golden gate and no one came in.

(End of this chapter)