Xixia dead book

Chapter 59: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (59)
The rotation of the stone wall finally stopped, Xu Renyu, who was about to go to bed, jumped out of his sleeping bag in fright, and Makarov came over in surprise, and the four entered the secret room sideways from both sides of the stone wall.This is a small secret room, which has been sealed for a long time, so that the air here is full of damp and corrupt smell.

Tang Feng covered his mouth and nose with his hands, but Han Jiang didn't care. He couldn't wait to light the candle, and let the candle light illuminate the whole secret room.In the candlelight, Tang Feng slowly let go of his hand. Although the air here still irritated his nose, what he saw with his eyes was enough to make him forget the irritation.

In the center of the small secret room, four human-shaped stone statues appeared again, exactly the same as the two at the door of the stone room, with bare breasts, ferocious faces, and raised hands.The four stone statues together support a thick stone slab. On the big stone slab, a row of stone incense burners and candlesticks are carved vividly.Han Jiang wondered, "What is this for?"

"It's like a sacrificial altar, except that it's not made of wood, but made of stone slabs and these four stone statues. Maybe it should be called a god's table." Tang Feng speculated.

"For sacrificial offerings? Didn't you see any ancestral tablets or Buddha statues?" Xu Renyu interjected.

"In the early days, the nomads generally did not worship any specific religion, and they were not like the Han people who enshrined ancestral tablets. The gods they worshiped were the mountains, rivers, mountains, plants and trees here. They believed that everything has a spirit." Tang Feng explained .

"Tang Feng, I'm afraid it's not like what you said. Look, it's on the stone wall behind the divine case!" Makarov suddenly pointed to the stone wall behind the divine case.

Everyone looked together, and there was a faint pattern on the stone wall behind the divine case.Tang Feng shined with the flashlight for a long time, and then he got a glimpse of the whole picture of the pattern - a ferocious male wolf and a pregnant female wolf. There was a baby in swaddling clothes, sucking the milk of a she-wolf!
"Dangxiang people really worship wolves!" Xu Renyu exclaimed.

Makarov turned to Tang Feng and asked, "Tang Feng, does this picture record the story you told us about 'Yuan Hao, eagles and wolves don't eat'!"

"I think so. It seems that the party members believed deeply in the legend of the she-wolf saving Yuan Hao, so they actually carved such a pattern here!" Tang Feng was deeply shocked by the picture in front of him.

"Then the infant child under the she-wolf is Yuan Hao?" Han Jiang asked back.

"Well! Besides King Hao, who else would it be?" Tang Feng stretched out his hand and lightly touched the child under the she-wolf, and a strange feeling quickly spread throughout his body.

"Okay, don't stare at that picture! Let's see what else is here?" Han Jiang came to the divine case and checked it carefully. Although the secret room was well sealed, there was still a thick layer on the divine case. thick dusty soil.Han Jiang found that there was a slightly raised spot on the divine case. He trembled in his heart, and immediately thought of the jade screen they were looking for so hard. This...is it, is it...

Han Jiang was thinking, Tang Feng also came to the divine case, he also noticed the slightly raised place on the divine case, he and Han Jiang looked at each other, Han Jiang nodded, Tang Feng stretched out his hands, and gently brushed away the dust that covered it. The dust of 800 years was slowly wiped away, and another peerless treasure was rediscovered. Tang Feng, Han Jiang, Xu Renyu and Makarov witnessed this exciting moment together.

Tang Feng slowly picked up the jade screen on the divine table with trembling hands.After thousands of years of vicissitudes, the jade screen has been mottled and unclear, but this does not conceal its noble lineage. It is naturally beautiful and famous. It is an elf formed by the movement of the earth's crust for millions of years. scour.By chance, it was discovered and enshrined in the emperor's house; later, it was engraved with exquisite patterns and characters, and began to carry the secrets and rise and fall of a dynasty. Since then, it has witnessed countless blood and killings, Witnessed scenes of joys and sorrows and the ups and downs of the country; in the end, it was forced to come here, to this stone room, confined in the endless darkness...

It has been 800 years, and no one has ever stepped into this stone room. Its body is covered with thick dust. After 800 years, a young man picked it up again, and it showed its youth again.But then, what fate awaits it?
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Han Jiang looked at this jade screen for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Why can't I see anything on it?"

"Because it's so old! Do you still remember our jade screen? After Kozlov discovered this jade screen, he must have done some technical cleaning, but when we first saw it, the text on it It’s still not very clear, but it was Professor Luo who washed it with a special potion, so that the Xixia characters on it could be seen again. Therefore, we also need to take this jade screen back. Please ask Professor Luo to clean it up, so that we can see its true appearance! "Tang Feng explained.

"This piece is not fake, right? Tang Feng, you have to look carefully, let's work hard not to bring back a fake thing!" Xu Renyu reminded from the side.

When Tang Feng heard this, he quickly took out the jade screen in his backpack, and compared the two jade screens. The length and width were exactly the same, and the two pieces fit together perfectly!
"It shouldn't be wrong! This is the second piece of the four jade screens, look here again!" As he said, Tang Feng turned to the side of the second jade screen and pressed his thumb on the jade screen. The middle position on the side of the screen rubbed a few times, and slowly, a small character shining with golden light appeared in front of everyone.Tang Feng pointed to the small characters and explained: "Look, this is a Chinese character, which is the word '高'. Professor Luo once said that there is probably a Chinese character engraved on the side of each jade screen. The character "白" was engraved on it, so Professor Luo named the first jade screen as "白". Professor Luo also speculated based on the character "白" that the other jade screens should be in the The words 'Gao', 'Da' and 'Xia' are engraved on the sides in turn, that is to say, on the sides of the four jade screens, the official title of the Xixia Dynasty is engraved 'Baigao Daxia'. Yuan Hao is making these The reason why these words are engraved on the side of each jade screen when inserting screens is to show the order of these jade screens. The newly discovered jade screen is engraved with a 'Gao', this fully fulfills Professor Luo's inference, and also proves that this is the second jade screen, we can officially name this jade screen as 'Gao', the jade screen with inlaid jewels and lotus patterns."

Han Jiang took over the two jade screens, and sure enough, the two jade screens fit together seamlessly, with almost no deviation. He had to marvel at the superb jade-making craftsmanship of the party members, and he even lamented Professor Luo's profound knowledge and accurate inferences.After watching it, Han Jiang handed the jade screen to Tang Feng, and said excitedly: "It should be fine, you put it away quickly, we are going to leave, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time!"

Tang Feng nodded, took the jade screen, and wanted to put the two jade screens together into the red sandalwood box, but he felt his hands were still trembling.At this moment, there was a "bang" gunshot, and a bullet almost brushed the back of Tang Feng's hand and flew over, hitting the solid rock wall, hitting sparks!
Tang Feng's hand holding Jade Chaping trembled suddenly, almost throwing Jade Chaping on the divine table.The four of them suddenly turned their heads and looked at the door of the secret room together. What Han Jiang was most worried about appeared—several men in black with M4A1 assault rifles appeared at the door of the secret room with loaded guns.

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Seeing the man in black, Han Jiang and Makarov instinctively and quickly drew out their guns. Xu Renyu was a little slower, but he also took out his guns.The man in black didn't shoot again, and Han Jiang didn't fight back immediately. The two teams held guns at each other, stalemate.

The two leading men in black put down their pistols and took off their hoods. Only then did Tang Feng, Han Jiang, Xu Renyu, and Makarov see clearly that the two leading men in black were a man and a woman, and the woman had blond hair. It was a beautiful blonde, and the man was--Stephen!

Stephen shook his head and joked to Tang Feng: "Don't be nervous, Tang Feng, don't break the treasure in your hand!"

Tang Feng was so shocked that he couldn't speak. After a while, Tang Feng asked slightly tremblingly: "Stephen...why is it you?"

"Stephen, you... are not dead?" Xu Renyu was even more shocked.

"Why can't it be me? Of course I'm not dead!" Stephen sneered.

"I should have thought it was you!" Han Jiang said bitterly.

Stephen suddenly let out a frightening laugh, laughed, and said: "Han Jiang, you don't have to regret it, have you ever thought that it doesn't matter whether I die or not, even if I really die, there will be other people came to hunt you down."

"What do you mean? Is the plane crash related to you? Also, in Qiangzhai, didn't you fall into that hole?" Xu Renyu felt that he had been greatly deceived, and asked Stephen a series of questions.

Stephen sneered and said: "Dr. Xu, don't get excited, I can explain all this to you. In fact, it was fate to meet you on the plane. The purpose of my trip is only to find the jade plug in the black head stone chamber screen, but fate arranged for me to meet you, Tang Feng, Han Jiang, Yelena, Makarov, and you, my Dr. Xu! Thinking about it now, because we all have a common purpose, so we will We met together. Tang Feng and Han Jiang are old acquaintances, and I have known Makarov and Yelena for a long time. Only you were involved for no reason. You are unlucky! That sudden air crash disrupted All my plans have caused me to lose contact with my people, so I had no choice but to come together with you.

"On the night when the plane made an emergency landing, I was thinking, since you all appeared together, it would be better to take all of you together to avoid future troubles! But I am weak alone, so I thought of Qiang Village, but I didn't expect that Tang Feng and Han Jiang would actually I really came to that Qiang village. That Qiang village has been controlled by us before, and I know it well, but when I arrived at the Qiang village, I found that our people were not there. I had no choice but to act alone and disappear first. Get up, and use that cat to lure you into the Tunnel of Bone."

"Cat?" Tang Feng thought of that strange black cat again.

"That's not an ordinary cat, but a high-tech smart cat, one of its eyes is an infrared camera. With just a few batteries, I can remotely control that cat and lead you into the eerie human skeleton typical."

"No wonder when I saw that cat for the first time, I felt that the cat's eyes were a bit strange!" Han Jiang recalled the scene when he saw the cat for the first time.

"Hehe, Han Jiang, it's too late for you to remember now! At that time, you walked into that tunnel of human bones obediently!" Stephen laughed sinisterly.

"Then you pushed down the boulder on the watchtower, maybe it was blown up with explosives, trying to trap us in that tunnel of human bones!" Han Jiang said angrily.

"I have a smarter way - lead the thunder! It's a pity that it was a bit late when the thunder and fire hit the watchtower, so you escaped by chance! I had to endure another night in the Qiang village, and the next day it was not dawn , My people have returned to Qiang Village, and you all know what happened next, so I don’t need to talk about it!” Stephen said.

"Why did you kill Zhou Nannan?" Tang Feng asked.

"Because she is so disobedient! After Qiangzhai was destroyed, I left you and took command of my troops again. At this time, I needed someone to join you again, so I thought of Zhou Nannan. It's a pity that she is too disobedient." She was obedient, so I called her to the sky burial platform... Ha ha!" Stephen sneered.

"I have one more important question, who are you?" Tang Feng asked Stephen sharply.

Stephen sneered twice, and said: "On the celestial burial platform of Langmusi, it seems that I have told you that we are here for the jade screen, and we are interested in the jade screen. Actually, I thought about it later Thinking that we can meet together on the plane, in addition to lamenting the arrangement of fate, we should also lament the arrangement of jade screen, which attracted us to come here together."

"Of course I know that you are here for Jade Chaping, and I am asking about your origins and identities!" Tang Feng said angrily.

"Well... Actually, there is nothing to hide, but now is not the time to tell you, you will naturally know when the time comes. If you are willing to cooperate and cooperate with us, maybe we can still become friends." Stephen is very confident talking.

Tang Feng wanted to say something more, but Han Jiang pulled him back. Han Jiang asked Stephen: "So, Liang Yunjie was also killed by you? You did everything?"

"Not bad! It's all us. However, our record is not good, it can even be said to be very bad! Your ability and of course your luck surprised me, so after Qiangzhai, I have to take you seriously. But good Luck still seems to be with you, but I am also a person who does not believe in evil, such good luck will not always be with you, today, your good luck should come to an end!" Stephen took a step forward and picked up his hand again. The pistol was aimed at Tang Feng.Tang Feng was only two meters away from Stephen's muzzle, and in front of him was an American-made SW99 pistol.Tang Feng thought in his heart that if there was a fight, he had a certain chance of winning, but no matter how he calculated, he felt that his chances of winning were really not great!
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At this time, Stephen held up his gun and said to Tang Feng: "Tang Feng, don't play tricks, put down the jade screen in your hand! Put it down slowly, otherwise, none of you will ever go out from here again. Be your tomb! Look at how wonderful this place is. A ready-made tomb. In ancient China, only emperors could enjoy the treatment. If you sleep here peacefully, I will seal the door for you. Don’t worry, this way No one will disturb you anymore, you will sleep in the depths of this snow-capped mountain, how romantic, how unbelievable...ha...haha..."

Tang Feng interrupted Stephen's wild laughter, and said angrily: "Enough! You got complacent too early! You are eight people, and we are four people; you have guns, and we have guns, we are at a disadvantage, but if we really fight, whoever wins ,do not know yet!"

Unexpectedly, after Tang Feng finished speaking, Stephen laughed wildly again. The laughter even shook some dust on the roof of the stone room. After laughing, he said again: "Tang Feng, don't you feel guilty when you say these words? Don't Too naive, just rely on you? I want to walk out of here with Yu Jiaping, it’s a dream, unless a miracle happens! As I said just now, as long as you cooperate, I don’t want to hurt you. If I want your life, I can do it just now It ended up with you, but I didn't do it because I believe you will cooperate with me."

"Are you so confident? Do you think we will surrender to you?" Han Jiang sneered after hearing Stephen's words.

A sly smile appeared on Stephen's face: "Han Jiang, I believe you are not a person who will give in easily, but I believe I still have a way to make you submit."

Han Jiang didn't understand the meaning of Stephen's words. When he was surprised, Stephen said to the blonde beside him: "Let our friends listen to their familiar voice."

The blonde took out a walkie-talkie and gave some instructions in English. After a while, a female voice came from the other end of the walkie-talkie: "Let me go! You bastards..."

The blonde quickly turned off the walkie-talkie, but Han Jiang, Tang Feng and Makarov could all recognize Yelena's voice just by saying this!Makarov cried out, "Yelena..."

"Yelena really fell into your hands! What did you do to her?" Han Jiang asked Stephen angrily.

"Okay! My friends, you must have recognized whose voice this is. Don't worry, Yelena is fine, she is not far from here, very close to us... Now, you must have thought about it Considering your current situation, I believe that when we communicate next, there will be less gunpowder and more pleasant cooperation." Stephen said and took another step forward.

(End of this chapter)