Xixia dead book

Chapter 37: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (37)
Hei Yun shook his head again, "No! I can't say it. I've said enough just now, and the great lama doesn't allow me to talk about our affairs to outsiders." Hei Yun lowered his head, remained silent for a while, and said again, " Even if I want to tell you, I don't know much, the great lama...he seems to have countless secrets. I also have a lot of things I want to know, such as who are my parents? But...the great lama never wants to tell me I don't know why he is so opposed to my sister's marriage..."

"You mean that your sister died in love because the great lama objected to her marrying that boy?" Tang Feng asked in surprise.

"Well! Not only the great lama objected, but the boy's family also objected to this marriage." Hei Yun silently shed two lines of tears.

"In other words, your sister was forced to death by the great lama?" Tang Feng came to such a conclusion.

"No! No! You can't say that. The great lama brought us up, and he must be doing it for our own good. He must have his reasons for not agreeing to my sister's marriage." Hei Yun could not accept Tang Feng's conclusion at all.

"I think you have been brainwashed by the great lama, and you still protect him like this!" Tang Feng stared at the closed door of the Buddhist hall and said, and began to re-evaluate in his heart-what kind of weird person is this great lama?

Heiyun returned to the house to prepare a room for the three of them, leaving only Han Jiang, Tang Feng and Makarov on the platform.Tang Feng looked around and found that the group of people who escorted them had disappeared, "It seems that the group of people have gone back?"

Han Jiang glanced more carefully, and the group of people was indeed gone. He pulled Tang Feng aside and said in a low voice: "Now, apart from us, there are only the great lama and Heiyun here. If the great lama agreed to send us away, I'm thinking right now..."

"Hush! Do you want to escape?" Tang Feng said in shock.

"I don't want to think about it for the time being, just stay here and see the situation!"

"You think we can get out?"

"There must be a way to the outside here. I don't believe that these people can live a life of men farming and women weaving in this paradise without relying on the outside. Don't you notice the utensils they use?"

"appliance?"

"For example, the porcelain bowls we eat and many furnishings in the wooden house are not produced here. This shows that this is not a paradise isolated from the world, and there must be a way to the outside."

"That makes sense. But perhaps it's a difficult road?"

"No matter how difficult the road is, if they can walk, so can we!" Han Jiang said firmly.

"I think we should not act rashly now, and see how the great lama arranges for us to go out. If he breaks his promise, we will argue again."

"Well! That's what I mean too! ——What do you think of everything here? Especially these people?" Han Jiang turned to ask Tang Feng's opinion.

Tang Feng thought for a moment, and then expressed his opinion: "I can't tell. Originally, I heard the elder chanting a spell to drive away ghosts by the pit, so I judged that this was an old Western Xia custom; plus some other evidence, such as the pillar hall. I found out, so I began to believe that these people were the Dangxiang people who returned to the birthplace of the Dangxiang nation after the demise of Xixia. But the elder said that he didn’t know what Xixia or Dangxiang was. When I passed by their village, I also observed carefully After visiting their village, no other abnormalities were found. Although the villagers' dresses are a bit strange, they still have many similarities with the dresses of Tibetans in western Sichuan."

"You mean, these people may be a branch of Tibetans?"

"It's entirely possible. It may also be a branch of the Qiang nationality, because I have observed their buildings, which are very similar to the Qiang villages we have seen. They are also houses built with stones."

"Oh! It's still so complicated?"

"Yeah! It's really hard to judge. Even if the party members came here back then, hundreds of years later, they may have migrated to other places. For example, Muya in the Hengduan Mountains in southwestern Sichuan. Many scholars believe that the Muya there The talents are the party members who moved back to their hometown. It is also possible that they have been completely assimilated into the nearby Han, Tibetan, Qiang and many other ethnic groups."

"That is to say, the party members may have disappeared completely?"

"Well, the academic circle has long believed that the party members have disappeared. Even if the people here have the blood of the party members, they may not retain many customs of the party members."

Han Jiang thought for a long time, and said to Tang Feng: "It seems that there is only one person who can help us solve the mystery."

"You mean... the Great Lama?" Tang Feng quickly thought of this.

"Yes! Great Lama! From the moment I saw the Great Lama, I felt that we could get what we wanted from the Great Lama!" Han Jiang replied.

"Yes! I feel the same way."

After Tang Feng chatted with Han Jiang, he looked at Makarov who hadn't said much, walked over and asked, "Old Ma, what are you thinking?"

"I didn't think about anything."

"Think about it? In such a mysterious place, you have encountered so many things, and you didn't think about anything? You don't look like a veteran!"

"Hehe, you don't know that. It takes a smart brain to defeat your enemy, but when I served in the army, I developed a habit. When you can't figure out the problem you are facing, you simply don't think about it. Just do the things in front of you step by step. This is also my way of survival!"

"It's a very practical way to survive."

"As you said, along the way, in addition to being hunted down, we also encountered puzzles one after another. Now, all kinds of question marks are filling my brain, which has exceeded the limit I can bear. I am old , far worse than when I was young, so I don’t think about anything now.”

"Then you have to think about what to do next?"

"Don't think about it. Didn't the big lama show us the way? Live here in peace, eat well, rest well, and when the little girl recovers, he will send us out of here. It's not good, We can just enjoy a rare vacation here."

"You can think about it!" Tang Feng was speechless by Makarov, and turned to look at the big snow mountain in the distance. The big snow mountain was still so peaceful and majestic, just like when they first saw the snow mountain yesterday morning, The peaks of the snow-capped mountains are hidden in the clouds and mist, not showing their true appearance.Looking at it, Tang Feng suddenly had a feeling of being in the clouds.

The three of them enjoyed the rare afternoon sunshine on the platform. As the sun set in the west, the black cloud prepared a sumptuous dinner for them.During the meal, they didn't see the big lama, Tang Feng asked Hei Yun: "Won't the big lama come to eat together?"

"The great lama has already eaten."

"Have you eaten?" Tang Feng was suspicious again.After dinner, Hei Yun led the three of them to their respective rooms, and said to them: "That girl lives in my room, and I will take care of her." Finally, Hei Yun warned them, "In this wooden house, You can go anywhere in it, but you can’t enter that Buddhist hall. You must remember my words, and don’t enter the Buddhist hall.” The three of them glanced at the Buddhist hall at the same time, the mysterious Buddhist hall, the enigmatic Lama!

Before going to bed, Tang Feng went to Heiyun's room to look at Liang Yuan. Although Liang Yuan hadn't woken up yet, her face was bloody again.Only then did Tang Feng feel a little relieved and returned to his room.In this mountain cabin, everything is like going back to ancient times. There is no electric light, no entertainment, what can you do at night?Lying on the bed and sleeping, his brain was entangled in countless puzzles. After tossing and turning for a long time, Tang Feng fell into a deep sleep.

[No.16 The Mysterious Basement of the Winter Palace]

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Under the night, the wooden house on the cliff was dead silent.Suddenly, a rear window of the wooden house opened, and a black figure jumped out from the rear window.Hei Ying stood up and covered the rear window, patted the dust off his body, picked up his backpack, and walked towards the gravel road in front of the wooden house.

The gravel road leads to the dark forest. The black shadow walks on the gravel road, looks back at the wooden house, and then at the terrifying black forest in front of him. After watching for a long time, he seems to hesitate.When the black shadow hesitated and just took a step forward, there was a mournful howl of wolves in the forest.The black shadow stopped again, he hesitated, wandering side to side on the gravel road.A few minutes later, the black figure seemed to have made up his mind, leaving the gravel road and walking into the thorns beside the cliff.

There is a steep cliff beside him, and there are thorns without a road under his feet. The black shadow is one foot deep and one step shallower, and he is struggling to move forward among the thorns on the cliff.Before he had gone far, the black shadow staggered and almost tripped over the rocks under his feet.Hei Ying stood up straight, and suddenly, he found a strong man standing on the edge of the cliff in front of him, facing him.The black shadow couldn't help but took a step back. The night covered his inner panic. He rubbed his eyes, unable to believe the scene in front of him. Who is this?What does he want to do?
Soi Ying boldly moved forward half a step, and saw the man's face clearly through the moonlight, Soi Ying's eyes widened in shock—ah!The person opposite is actually Han Jiang!
Yes, it was Han Jiang who blocked the way of Heiying.Han Jiang sneered twice under the moonlight: "Old Ma, it's so late and you don't sleep, where are you going?"

The black shadow trembled all over, and quickly stepped back.Unexpectedly, another person appeared behind him, blocking his way.Heiying recognized the person behind him—it was Tang Feng!Tang Feng turned on the flashlight, and the beam of the flashlight shone directly on the black shadow's face, and he also saw the black shadow's face clearly - Makarov!Seeing that there was no way out, Makarov had no choice but to beg Tang Feng for forgiveness: "Tang! Considering you are amazing, the things are here."

"I should have expected you to have problems! But...it was Han Jiang who told me that you would do something tonight, so I doubted you. I asked you what you were thinking during the day, but you didn't want to say anything. In fact, you It’s been figured out a long time ago!” Tang Feng sneered, walked to Makarov’s side, and opened his backpack, which contained the familiar red sandalwood box, opened the box, and the exquisite jade screen shone faintly in the moonlight green light.good!It was the jade screen that Liang Yuan brought!Tang Feng closed the box and put it in his bag.

"How do you know that I will steal the jade screen tonight?" Makarov asked inexplicably.

"Hehe, you and Yelena's identities, skills and eyes, especially the eyes of the two of you... Although I don't know who you are, you have been eyeing our bags since the plane made an emergency landing. Yesterday... yesterday morning we When we walked out of the cave along the underground river, all of our backpacks were handed over to you, and you secretly looked through our backpacks while we were not paying attention. Am I right? Old horse.” Han Jiang also walked to the horse Karov said in front of him.

"Yes, it still hasn't escaped your eyes. When Yelena and I saw the little girl on the plane, I suspected that you had what we wanted in your bag. Yesterday morning, the opportunity finally came, and I found that The jade screen is exactly what we were looking for, but yesterday we didn't have a chance..."

"The opportunity came tonight, hehe... If you leave now, you won't be afraid of being eaten by the wolves here? Are you afraid of stepping on the edge of this cliff and falling into the abyss of eternal doom?" Tang Feng interrupted Makarov if.

"Ha! Ha!" Makarov laughed loudly when he heard the words. After laughing, he said to Tang Feng, "Tang, you underestimate me! Since I came here, I don't know what fear is, even if I really encounter it. I will also bury my fear deeply in my heart. In my career, I have experienced countless dangers. I have already died several times. Many of my colleagues and comrades-in-arms have already left I am lucky to have survived to this day!" Makarov slowly regained his former composure.

Han Jiang took two steps forward, approached Makarov, and said coldly, "Old Ma, I think it is necessary for us to get to know each other again."

Makarov nodded at Han Jiang and Tang Feng, and said: "Yes, I also think it is necessary now! I have to admit that so far, Yelena and I's trip to China has been completed. It's terrible! I don't need to hide anything from you anymore."

"Okay! Then let me ask you, who are you and Yelena?" Han Jiang asked.

Makarov looked at Tang Feng and Han Jiang, and said calmly: "I worked in the KGB for a long time before I retired. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, I retired with the rank of major general. As for Yelena, she is the ace female agent of the Federal Security Bureau." !"

"Oh! KGB?!" Tang Feng and Han Jiang simultaneously thought of the seven top-secret KGB letters they deciphered.

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Tang Feng thought for a moment, and then asked Makarov: "Unexpectedly, you are still a general, Major General Makarov. So Yelena is not your daughter?"

Makarov hadn't heard anyone call him "General" for many years, so he sneered slightly and said, "General? Huh! I've retired a long time ago. Yelena, yes, she is indeed not my biological daughter, she She was my student, but now I see her as my own daughter."

"What is the purpose of your trip? Also for this jade screen?" Han Jiang asked.

"Yes, this is the task of me and Yelena." Makarov replied.

"How did you follow us?"

"Yelena and I met you. It was both a coincidence and an arrangement of fate. More than three months ago, the Winter Palace in Petersburg lost a precious work of art, which is this Xixia jade screen. This jade screen is very important. , So, the headquarters appointed Yelena and I to come to China to track down the whereabouts of Yuchaping. We left our footprints from Beijing to Hong Kong. The auction in Beijing, we were one step late, otherwise I would stop the auction. Then we went to Hong Kong, which was also a step late, and we witnessed the bloody fight in Hong Kong." Makarov explained.

"Hong Kong? You were there that time?" Tang Feng recalled the terrifying nightmare in Hong Kong more than a month ago.

Makarov nodded: "That's right. When we first arrived in Hong Kong, we witnessed the bloody scramble. Yelena and I were surprised because we didn't expect so many people to be interested in Jade Screening! Afterwards, about Jade The news about the screen seems to have disappeared. But just when we were at a loss, we got an important piece of information that there might be another piece of jade screen in China, here. So, we judged that we got this piece The people who use the jade screen will definitely come here to find another jade screen, so..."

"So here you are."

"But I never imagined that you would be the ones who got this jade screen! Well, I've said everything I need to say, what to do with me, you can figure it out. Push me directly off the cliff? Or give me a knife first? In my opinion, you should just push me off the cliff, so clean and neat, without leaving any traces, and save my old bones from suffering again!" Makarov made an impassioned statement with a dignified sense of justice. look.

"What? Who do you take us for?" Han Jiang said angrily.

"Who? When I first saw you, I really believed your nonsense, the Chinese police and university teachers who came to travel? Hehe, now it seems that you are just a group of people who also want to get the secret of Yuchaping. You and There is no difference between those gangsters!"

"Fart! Let me tell you the truth. Anyway, you are already in my hands, and I am not afraid of you leaking the secret. We are looking for the jade screen for the country, and the secret behind the jade screen is also for those who died because of the jade screen. Unjust soul. 'Old K', have you heard of it?——Now you should understand!"

Makarov looked at Han Jiang's serious face, and understood a little bit. He frowned and recalled: "'Old K'! When I went to the Moscow headquarters, I seemed to have heard of it."

"Well, since you know our real identities, you should know what we should do and what we won't do. You tried to steal the jade screen, but the villain sued us first and suspected us, I Do you still doubt you? Qiang village! Sky burial tower! Namo Grand Canyon! Even the plane crash, you can explain to me all the bizarre encounters we have had along the way!" Han Jiang gritted his teeth and said as he approached Makarov.

"You doubt me? Why do you doubt me? The mission of Yelena and I is to retrieve the jade screen, and we have nothing to do with other matters." Makarov argued.

"Retrieve? The jade screen belongs to China." Tang Feng interjected.

Makarov turned to Tang Feng and said: "It is a Chinese work of art, but it arrived in Russia very early. For more than 100 years, this jade screen has always belonged to the Winter Palace. It was only stolen from the Winter Palace not long ago." .”

"Yes, we also know that this jade screen was returned from Russia, but the crux of the problem is not here. I advise you to tell the truth! How much do you know about the whole thing? How much do you really know about the jade screen? ?” Han Jiang continued to question Makarov.

"I can't say that this is our secret. But... I can tell you that we know that there is more than one piece of jade screen. As for the others, we know very little. Even if we know, it is a secret that cannot be revealed."

"You don't know this, and you can't say that. Well, let me ask you, where did Yelena go? You should know this!" Han Jiang stretched out his veined iron arm and grabbed Maka. Rove's chest.

(End of this chapter)