Xixia dead book

Chapter 90 The Lost 1964 (27)
Tang Feng recognized at a glance that this was the flashlight he lost when he and Liang Yuan ran away last night.He had to admit: "Yes, we entered the Winter Palace by accident last night, sorry for causing you trouble..."

Before Tang Feng finished speaking, Ji Moshen waved his hand, and sat down on a chair in relief, and then said to Tang Feng: "Today at three o'clock in the morning, the security guard of the Winter Palace called me and said that it was winter night. There are thieves in the palace, and I was asked to check whether there are any lost cultural relics. When I arrived, I found that all the young male colleagues had arrived, as well as people from the police station. We were busy for several hours before the opening of the museum. I just finished checking. I found this flashlight next to the pillar of the 1812 War Gallery. When I saw the flashlight, it turned out to be mine. At that time, I thought that the so-called 'thief' at night was you two. A colleague who knows this flashlight picked it up, but I can’t tell.”

"I'm really sorry that I almost got you in trouble! But please believe that we didn't intend to go in." Tang Feng explained.

"Then why do you want to enter the Winter Palace? I warned you not to go out yesterday." Tymoshen looked very unhappy.

"Because..." Tang Feng hesitated, wondering if he should tell Ji Moshen what happened at night.However, Liang Yuan said bluntly: "Because of the ghost!"

"What? A ghost?" Timoshin was startled.

"Because we heard a strange noise coming from outside the office last night, so I went out to find out, but walked into the door along the large corridor outside, and I found out that there was a It turned out to be the exhibition hall of the Winter Palace, and it was all my fault, Tang Feng came in to find me." Liang Yuan told the truth.

"Strange noise?" Tymoshin was confused, but suddenly he widened his eyes and said in surprise: "No! That door is locked at night! And there is an alarm device on that door. If someone If someone breaks in illegally through that door, the alarm device will call the police."

"But the door was indeed unlocked last night, and the alarm device didn't call the police, otherwise we wouldn't be able to go in, please trust us." Tang Feng explained.

Tymoshin shook his head and said, "I want to believe you, but the situation you described surprised me too much. Just now I came through that door with my colleague. The door was locked, and my colleague just opened the door with the key. .”

"I don't know, but the door did open last night with a push." ​​Tang Feng felt that it was hard to argue now.

"Okay! Okay! Even if the door was unlocked last night and the alarm didn't go off, what did you see after entering the Winter Palace?" Tymoshen asked.

"I saw a ghost! The ghost of the queen is not hidden!" Liang Yuan said faintly.At this moment, Ji Moshen was so shocked that he stared at Liang Yuan for a long time, not knowing what to say.

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Liang Yuan regained her composure at this moment, and she was no longer as frightened as before. She vividly described to Ji Moshen their shocking encounters in the Winter Palace, especially the encounter with the ghost of the Queen in the China Pavilion. After Shen finished listening, he was stunned for a long time before asking: "You... what you said is true?"

"It's absolutely true!" Liang Yuan said swearingly.

"That's not right! It's true that you broke into the Winter Palace, but you made up what happened to the ghost later, right?" Tymoshen refused to believe it.

Tang Feng said seriously: "We did see that ghost."

"Then let me ask you, what does that ghost look like?" Tymoshin asked.

"We didn't see the appearance of the ghost clearly. We only saw the ghost wearing a white robe, with disheveled hair and light..." Tang Feng tried his best to describe the scene he saw last night.

"Hehe, Tang Feng, you have watched too many horror movies. I have heard some legends about the ghosts of the Winter Palace in the past few years, but those are just legends, and no one has ever seen them. Fortunately, you just now I met you on the first day I came here. And you said it was... what is the ghost that hides the queen?"

"Because we found that the Lushana Buddha's head in the showcase was missing, that is, the Buddha's head that you said contained the queen's skull in it." Tang Feng argued.

Unexpectedly, after hearing Tang Feng's words, Timo Shen laughed. After laughing, he said slowly: "Tang Feng, I really suspect that the two of you went sleepwalking last night. I just checked, and the Lushena you mentioned The head of the Buddha is now firmly placed in the display case of the China Pavilion. How can you say that the head of the Buddha is missing? You must know that every display case in the Winter Palace has an alarm device connected to the monitoring room. If any display case is damaged, the monitoring The alarm device in the display room will go off immediately, so it is almost impossible for someone to touch the cultural relics in the display cabinet without permission and without triggering the alarm device."

Tang Feng was at a loss for words for a while, but Liang Yuan pouted and said, "Anyway, we are telling the truth. Even if we sleepwalk, it is impossible for the two of us to sleepwalk together, let alone open the locked door."

Seeing that he couldn't convince Timo Shen of his own words, Tang Feng had no choice but to say to Timo Shen, "It seems that I can't convince you of our words, so we can only leave here. We will only cause unnecessary trouble if we continue to stay here. Misunderstanding." After speaking, Tang Feng got up and wanted to leave.

"Tang Feng, where are you going?" Ji Moshen asked.

Tang Feng didn't know how to answer, because he didn't know where else to go in Petersburg?Ji Moshen held Tang Feng back and said, "Tang Feng, you can't go anywhere now. I don't care who is chasing you. Now, the Winter Palace has stepped up its guard, and the police outside have also stepped up their police force. If you go out now, you will be easily caught. If the police catch me, I will also be implicated, so whether it is for you or me, it is safest for you to stay here now."

Tang Feng looked back at Ji Moshen, and felt that what Ji Moshen said was reasonable, so he no longer insisted on leaving.Finally, Timo Shen warned Tang Feng again: "No matter what you hear, and no matter whether the door is locked or not, you must never go to the Winter Palace again. If there is another trouble, it will not be so easy to solve."

Tang Feng nodded: "Okay, I remember."

"I still have something to go out now. I will bring you some food in the afternoon. You can stay here well. If you are bored, just read my books here. I think these books are of interest to you." Said After finishing, Tymoshen left the office in a hurry.

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Tymoshen left the office, walked through the corridors of the Winter Palace, and came straight to the China Pavilion on the third floor. He stood at the door of the China Pavilion and hesitated for a moment before stepping into the China Pavilion. There were no other tourists in the huge exhibition hall, only him , He stood in the center of the exhibition hall and looked around. This is a place he is familiar with, but he didn't realize that today's place is any different from usual?But the experience Tang Feng and Liang Yuan just described to him still kept popping up in his mind.

"A ghost? A woman in the tower? No queen hidden?..." Timoshen's mind was filled with horrifying scenes.He saw the suffocatingly beautiful head of Lushana Buddha again. At this moment, the head of Lushana Buddha was still placed quietly in the middle of the showcase as usual. Smiling, watching everyone who passed in front of her.

Tymoshin strode forward, he threw himself on the showcase, and knelt devoutly in front of Lusana Buddha, face to face, staring at the Buddha statue in the showcase for a long time, Timoshin was conquered by Lusana Buddha I was overwhelmed by her unique oriental beauty. "Ghost?" Tymoshin mumbled the word out of his mouth. Immediately, he slumped on the floor and smiled slightly: "How could such a beautiful Buddha be a ghost? You have waited for thousands of years in the pagoda just for Today's rebirth, let the world admire your beauty."

After a long time, when the number of tourists in the exhibition hall gradually increased, Tymoshin stood up in front of Lushena Buddha. When he stepped out of the China Pavilion, he turned around and glanced at the Lushena Buddha again, with a twinkle in his eyes. There was a tinge of fear and uneasiness.

Tymoshen came to the monitoring room on the first floor and found a security guard he was familiar with: "Sergey, can you show me the surveillance video near the China Pavilion last night?"

"There, there is no surveillance video in the nearby exhibition hall, only two alarm devices in the corridor." Sergey replied.

Timoshen heard this, and cursed: "Damn it! Why is there no surveillance video?"

"As you know, the Winter Palace itself is an important cultural heritage. Most of the exhibition halls are for the protection of cultural relics. It is inconvenient to install surveillance video. Our focus of defense is mainly on the periphery, nearby squares, streets, and some near the Winter Palace. There are relatively few surveillance cameras on the outer walls and inside the Winter Palace, and only a few important passages are installed." Sergey explained.

"On an important passage?...Then show me the surveillance video on the grand staircase leading from the second floor to the third floor. I remember there seems to be one there."

"Yes, there is indeed one, I'll look for it for you." Sergey asked Timoshen while adjusting the surveillance video on the grand staircase last night, "How is it? Are there any cultural relics missing from your place?"

"No! I just want to see the surveillance video."

"But the intruder triggered the alarm on the second floor last night. Do you suspect that the intruder reached the third floor?"

"I don't know, I'm just a little worried."

"From my point of view, what happened last night doesn't look like the work of some thieves. After all, no cultural relics were lost. It might just be a tourist who didn't leave after the museum was closed. But the strange thing is that we searched all the exhibition halls, but we didn't catch that one." Illegal intruders, just now the police officers at the police station thought that our alarm device had malfunctioned, which made their trip useless, and now the gang of policemen have gone back."

"Does the police really think so?"

"Yes, because this kind of thing happened to us before, I encountered it once when I was on duty here, but every time this kind of thing happened, neither cultural relics were lost nor any illegal intruders were caught. The police came to the conclusion that there was a problem with our alarm device, and in the end it was ignored, and there was no major problem afterwards."

"Oh!... I remembered, a few years ago, I was called in the middle of the night, and it was the same situation as last night." Tymoshen tried hard to recall, but he could no longer remember the details of the past.

The surveillance video on the grand staircase was called out. Sergey adjusted the video time to 02:30 in the morning, and said to Tymoshin: "Our people have already appeared here at this time. If we can find anything, it should be at 02:30 a.m. Before [-]." So Sergey started to rewind the tape forward.

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When the surveillance video fell to [-]:[-], Timoshin suddenly shouted: "Stop! Stop!"

Sergey was taken aback by Timoshin's shout, and quickly stopped the belt that was still falling forward, and asked Timoshin in surprise, "What's wrong? What did you see?"

"Start at [-]:[-] and play later." Tymoshen said with a frown.

The surveillance video started playing back at normal speed from 20:[-]. Tymoshen stared nervously at the screen. What appeared on the screen was the grand staircase leading from the second floor to the third floor. The grand staircase was covered with a red carpet. Two lamps The wall lamp emitted a faint light in the dark palace, and shone on the red carpet of the grand staircase. Tymoshin felt a strange atmosphere. When the time approached [-]:[-], Tymoshin opened his eyes wide and died. Staring at the grand staircase on the screen, but when the time reached [-]:[-], the time seemed to stand still... There was a snowflake on the monitoring screen, and Tymoshin's eyes suddenly lost their focus. About [-] seconds later, the screen The Internet returned to normal, and Sergey asked in amazement: "If you hadn't reminded me, I must have overlooked this detail, but what can this explain?"

"I don't think this explains anything. Maybe your machines really need to be overhauled." Tymoshin rubbed his swollen temples and said conversingly.

"Okay, let's look forward." Sergey continued to rewind the tape. Tymoshen was always worried that Tang Feng and Liang Yuan would appear on the surveillance video, which would be troublesome, so he sat down, Check the surveillance footage with Sergey.Fortunately for Ji Moshen, he did not find Tang Feng and Liang Yuan in the surveillance video.

"Is there no surveillance video on the other stairs leading from the second floor to the third floor?" Tymoshin asked.

Sergey shook his head: "Not all of them are installed. Except for this one, there is another one that is broken. It has been half a month and has not been repaired."

Ji Moshen secretly speculated that if what Tang Feng said was true, then they must have walked down another staircase.Tymoshen regained his composure for a while, and was about to leave, but for some reason, those terrifying scenes reappeared in his mind—ghosts?The woman in the tower?Didn't hide the queen?Surveillance video on the grand staircase... Tymoshen stopped, turned around, and asked Sergey quietly, "Have you heard of the ghost of the Winter Palace?"

"The ghost of the Winter Palace? I heard it from an old colleague before, but I have never encountered it. Hehe, why do you ask this? Do you think that last night..." Sergey suddenly opened his eyes wide and stared at Timo Shen, dare not say any more.

"I just suddenly thought of the legend of the ghost of the Winter Palace. There is no other meaning." After speaking, Tymoshen left the monitoring room.

Sergey hadn't reacted to what Timoshin said just now. After Timoshin walked away, another colleague said to him: "I think that Timoshin's brain is broken because of his research, and he suspects that it is The ghost set off the alarm?"

Sergey turned his head to look at the colleague, then at the monitoring screen in front of him, and shook his head helplessly.

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Tang Feng and Liang Yuan spent a boring day in Ji Moshen's office. Tang Feng kept flipping through Ji Moshen's books, especially those in Chinese. Tang Feng had to admire Ji Moshen's reading volume. A foreigner knows so much about Chinese history and culture.

After flipping through Ji Moshen's book, Tang Feng picked up the thin document on the table.He flipped through the files, and once again silently stared at the close-up of the Buddha statue in the black-and-white photo, the dignified and beautiful Lushena Buddha, could this really be the remains of the empress?

Just when Tang Feng was thinking wildly, Ji Moshen returned to the office with some food. Seeing that Tang Feng was still staring at the document, Ji Moshen smiled and said, "Are you still thinking about that ghost?"

"I don't want to think about ghosts, but ghosts haunt me." Tang Feng said something like a spell.

"Okay, don't think about it, I went to the monitoring room to check the surveillance video, and I didn't find any ghosts at all. You two are lucky that they didn't appear in the surveillance video." Timoshen said.

"That's quite lucky! But, what happened last night is still unclear?" Liang Yuan asked suspiciously.

"Miss Liang, you have to know that there are many things in this world that cannot be explained at all. I went to the China Pavilion to check the Buddha statue, and she is still intact and placed in the original showcase."

"This... this is simply unbelievable." Tang Feng felt his brain becoming more and more confused.

Timoshen picked up the document in front of Tang Feng, flipped through it, then threw the document on the table, pointed to the photo of the pagoda in the document, and said to Tang Feng: "This great tower is indeed great. , because it opened the door of Xixia art, what a pity...it's a pity that damn Kozlov, he destroyed this great tower, he opened this treasure house of Xixia art in a barbaric way, damn Kozlov Husband, just a rough, uneducated adventurer."

As Tymoshin said, he knocked on the table hard. Tang Feng looked at Tymoshin in surprise. He rarely heard Russian scholars comment on Kozlov in this way. In the past, domestic scholars often used However, Tang Feng never expected that a Russian scholar like Tymoshin would disdain Kozlov so much.

(End of this chapter)