Xixia dead book

Chapter 139 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (24)
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Han Jiang checked and found no hidden weapon mechanism, and said disappointedly: "Such an awesome gate is not worthy of a hidden weapon mechanism, it's too weak!"

"You seem to be willing to use some hidden weapons." Tang Feng smiled.

"I advise you to be more careful, there is no one outside the door, and even more careful inside the door!" Han Jiang urged.

Tang Feng didn't listen to Han Jiang at all, and peeked in through the crack of the door. The inside was dark and there was no light.A question suddenly appeared in his heart: "You said, if we went the wrong way at the beginning, then the person who harmed us should have entered here before us, but why is there no movement inside?"

"Maybe it's not where the mysterious man was looking for." Han Jiang speculated wildly.

"You mean we stumbled upon this mysterious palace in the mountains by mistake?"

"I don't know. You can only find out what's going on when you go in! How do we open this door?"

Tang Feng shined the torch into the crack of the door again, and the beam of light pierced through the thousand-year-old darkness of Xuan Palace, and some statues and walls made of huge stones could be seen faintly.

Tang Feng pushed the golden lacquered door in front of him hard, and the door was sunken in, but the rusty iron lock outside the door was still sticking to its post and functioning.Tang Feng did not push the door open, but observed the situation behind the door again, and then said confidently: "There is no natural stone behind this door, as long as the iron lock is broken, the door can be opened."

"This is easy to handle, we are good at it!" As he said, Han Jiang took out another paper clip, straightened it, and stuck it into the keyhole.But this time Han Jiang stumbled. He fiddled with the keyhole with a paper clip for a long time, but he couldn't open the door lock: "Damn it! Brother is going to fall on this today."

Tang Feng deliberately stood aside and watched the joke: "Hurry up, you can't even open the locks of the ancients!"

"Nonsense! How do I know? I have opened all kinds of locks, but I have never opened an ancient lock. No matter how complicated the safe is, as long as I give me time, there is nothing I can't open!"

"Okay! Then we will give you time."

Tang Feng watched Han Jiang fiddling for another five or six minutes, but he still couldn't unlock the door.

"The lock structure of the ancients is very simple, can you open it?" Tang Feng urged.

"Damn! Who designed this lock? It's not the right way at all!"

"Don't make excuses, if it doesn't work, replace it!"

"Then you come!" Han Jiang roared angrily.

"I'll come if I come!" Tang Feng pulled Han Jiang away.

Han Jiang never knew that Tang Feng had lockpicking skills, so he wanted to see how Tang Feng could open this Xixia lock.But there was a scene that surprised Han Jiang. Tang Feng pulled out his Type [-] pistol and shot directly at the lock on the gate.A flash of sparks broke the lock.

Han Jiang didn't expect Tang Feng to make this move, and was taken aback by the sparks from the bullet: "You are a scholar after all, and you actually destroy cultural relics?"

"This lock is rusted to death, it is impossible for you to fiddle with it." Tang Feng said.

"Nonsense! I can do it with a gun!" Han Jiang was so angry that his nose was about to smoke.

"It's a pity that you didn't expect it, or you are simply stupid! As for destroying cultural relics, this is also an urgent matter. If it is normal, you will use a saw to cut it bit by bit."

After Tang Feng finished speaking, he stretched out his arms and pushed hard on the golden lacquered door in front of him. With a "squeak", the gate opened, and Tang Feng was surprised that the hinge of the gate was still so intact after hundreds of years.

The three of them walked into a dark world again, with tension and excitement accompanied by the accelerating heartbeat of everyone.Tang Feng was the first to discover the grooves for oil lamps and candles on the stone wall built by the boulders: "Look at these grooves, they are exactly the same as the wolf-head grooves we saw in the black head stone room."

"It seems that this was indeed built in the Xixia period." Han Jiang took out the candles he was carrying, and placed lighted candles in those grooves one by one. Soon, the entire megalithic palace was illuminated.

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Under the faint candlelight, Tang Feng looked around, and he found that this was a somewhat strange and irregular stone room, or it should be called "Stone Palace".The stone hall has a space of about 300 meters. There is a gate on both sides of the stone hall, but on the other side is a wide corridor, and on the other side is a dark hole.

Here, they can only rely on the only tool - the compass to identify the direction.

According to the compass, the gate they opened just now is the west gate of the Stone Palace.Opposite the West Gate, there is another gate to the east.In terms of appearance, this gate is no different from the gold-lacquered wooden gate on the west. It is almost exactly the same in size, size, and style. It can almost be concluded that the two gates were manufactured at the same time.

Tang Feng first walked to the back of the east gate, and pushed the door. The door was very tight, unlike the west gate just now, which revealed a big crack when pushed.He looked out through the small crack in the door, it was pitch black, he couldn't see anything, and he couldn't see the lock of the east gate clearly.It seems that this door has never been opened.Then he walked along the stone wall to the south, where there was a dark hole.He shined a flashlight into the cave, and the dark corridor was endless.

"The stone wall outside here has not been polished." Tang Feng judged.

"Well, it's basically the same as the tunnel we walked before." Han Jiang affirmed Tang Feng's judgment.

"Could this be another passage leading to the bridge?" Makarov guessed.

"It's very possible! But..." Tang Feng hesitated to speak.

"But what?" Han Jiang asked.

"I suddenly thought of the left eye of the Buddha." Tang Feng replied softly.

"You mean, this is the passage leading to the left eye of the Buddha?" Han Jiang was a little surprised.

Tang Feng didn't answer, and carefully checked the situation at the entrance of the cave.Same as the situation outside the west gate just now, there are stone walls built of huge stones on both sides of the cave entrance, but there is no golden lacquered gate here.Thinking of this, Tang Feng said: "It seems that there used to be a gate here, the same golden lacquer gate as the West Gate and East Gate."

"Oh! How do you know?" Makarov asked.

"First of all, the entrance of this hole is the same shape as the west gate we came in; secondly, there are doors on the east and west sides, so the south side shouldn't be so open, right? Of course I need more direct evidence." Tang Feng said for a while Pointing to the groove on the side of the hole, "Look, this should be the place where the door hinge was originally placed!"

Sure enough, Han Jiang and Makarov also found the groove for the door shaft on the other side of the cave entrance.Tang Feng lay on the ground again, and searched bit by bit with the flashlight.

"What are you looking for?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"I'm looking for gold lacquer, or traces of cinnabar."

But to Tang Feng's disappointment, he searched for a long time, but couldn't find any trace of gold paint or cinnabar.Is it so open from the beginning, without a door?Impossible, the huge stone wall of the groove and the entrance of the cave all indicate that there should have been a gate here.

Tang Feng fell into deep thought, but Makarov suddenly said: "Suppose we have gone the wrong way from the beginning, and the right way is the left eye of the Buddha, and the path leading to the left eye leads here. Will some gates be destroyed by that mysterious person first?"

Makarov's words startled Tang Feng.Han Jiang was very calm: "I have been observing whether there is a mark left by the mysterious person, but unfortunately, there is no."

"If there is, it will confirm my inference." Makarov said.

"No!" Tang Feng yelled suddenly, "I think there was a golden lacquered gate like the west gate and east gate, but it was definitely not destroyed by that mysterious person."

"Oh! How can I see that?"

"It's very simple. If it was destroyed recently, there should be traces. Even if he destroyed the entire gate, there should be traces. And this place is very clean, obviously it cannot be done by that mysterious person." Tang Feng judged road.

Makarov nodded: "You are right, but what about the door here?"

"There are only two possibilities. Either there was no door in the first place, or it was destroyed a long time ago. I personally prefer the latter."

"Well, that's probably the case." Han Jiang nodded, "Someone should have come in a long time ago, so there is nothing left in this stone hall."

"Then isn't our trip in vain?" Makarov looked disappointed.

The three fell into a moment of silence.Tang Feng walked back to the center of the stone hall, looked up and saw exquisite lotus flowers carved on the top of the stone hall: "Could this be the legendary Shang Temple?"

"It seems to be true now." Han Jiang said.

"What is the purpose of this huge project, and what was originally stored here?"

"Maybe it's a mountain of gold and silver jewelry, maybe it's a Buddhist classic, who knows? You have to ask the first person who enters here." Han Jiang curled his lips and walked a few steps north. Wide corridor.

"Have you noticed this corridor?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang suddenly.

"I see, it looks like an unfinished corridor, so there is no need to build a gate." Han Jiang replied.

"Maybe... this tunnel is not as simple as we thought." Tang Feng suddenly said this.

[No.13 gold-clad bronze door]

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Han Jiang looked at the wide corridor to the north.It seems that the excavation of the tunnel has not been completed, it is only less than ten meters deep, and there are still many gravels piled up in the tunnel, and there are even two rusty iron shovels.

"Didn't you notice? This corridor is wider than the one we walked through." Tang Feng reminded Han Jiang from the side.

"Isn't it easy to say that this corridor is based on this?"

"No! What's more important is the gravel!"

"Gravel?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

Tang Feng led Han Jiang and Makarov, and the three walked into this wide corridor until they reached the end of the corridor.The three cautiously moved forward a few more steps, and Tang Feng's toes touched an oval gravel.He shone around with a flashlight, and the carefully polished stone walls were almost the same as the walls in the stone hall; looking ahead, it was not the stone walls that blocked their way, but piles of rubble.

Tang Feng picked up a stone from the ground, looked at it carefully, and said: "These stones do not look like ordinary gravel, but round or oval stones that have been carefully polished."

Han Jiang nodded: "It seems to have been polished, but this still cannot change the fact that this is a dead end."

"For us, it is a dead end, but for this corridor, it is not a dead end. Judging from the surrounding situation, the corridor still extends forward, but we are now blocked by these stones."

"You mean this corridor is not finished, and the stone is still extending?" Han Jiang said in surprise.

"What's behind these rocks?" Makarov asked.

"I don't know, maybe there is still a stone wall behind, then this corridor is really a dead end. If so, then these stones are just discarded building materials." Tang Feng deduced.

"But I don't see it. If there is a stone wall behind this pile of stones, why do we need to dig north? The shape of the north side is different from that of the east, south and west sides. It must have been deliberately done at the beginning." Han Jiang also Perceive the mystery behind the stone.

"I thought so too, so there must be a lot behind this pile of rocks."

Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang while talking, and asked for instructions: "What do you think we should do now?"

"What do you mean?"

"Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains!"

"Are you crazy? Do you know how many of these rocks are there? Now you can't see how many rocks are behind!"

Tang Feng's stubbornness came up, and Han Jiang couldn't stop it.Tang Feng rolled up his sleeves, raised his arms and began to move the stones in front of him. He stacked the stones one by one along the stone wall of the corridor.Soon, two stone walls formed on both sides of the corridor.

Han Jiang and Makarov had no choice but to help Tang Feng move together.Tang Feng climbed to the top of the stone pile, and quickly opened a hole from above.After moving for a while, he stood on top of the stone pile, and suddenly shouted excitedly to Han Jiang and Makarov: "This...the back is not a rock, you can already see the back."

"What's behind?" Han Jiang asked from below.

Tang Feng was on the stone pile, and there was no reply for a long time...

"What did you see?" Han Jiang asked again.

"I can't see clearly, it seems...it seems to be another door..." Tang Feng said hesitantly.

"Gate?!" Han Jiang and Makarov were surprised.

"Don't worry so much, move the stone away first." Tang Feng shouted.

Fortunately, the pile of rocks was not too much, and it took the three of them more than half an hour to remove most of the rocks.Although the rocks underneath hadn't been cleaned up, they had already seen a miracle—a real golden gate appeared in front of them.

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"What is this?" Han Jiang was stunned.

"The real Golden Gate!" Makarov was too shocked to close his mouth.

Tang Feng was quite calm. Wearing gloves, he brushed off the dust on the golden gate. After careful observation, he found that the golden skin had peeled off in some places on the gate, revealing a green patina.He smiled: "This is not a real Golden Gate."

"what is that?"

"Gold-clad bronze door. The outside is covered with a layer of gold, and the inside is made of copper."

"That's awesome!" Han Jiang said.

"Yes! It is much more noble than the other gold-lacquered wooden doors!" Tang Feng looked at the gold-clad copper door in front of him, and couldn't help but exclaimed, "I can't imagine that there is such a noble door in this deep corridor. If I read it right, this is a large and exquisitely crafted copper gate, covered with a layer of gold skin, and painted on the gold skin. It’s just that so many years have passed, it’s hard for us to see the gate now. The whole picture. However, we can still imagine how shining and dazzling this gold-clad bronze door was in this deep passage.”

"Why is such a noble gold-clad bronze gate built here?" Makarov asked.

"I'm going to ask Yuan Hao about it. But let's just imagine, this gate is so noble, so there must be something more amazing and important behind the gate." Tang Feng couldn't hide the excitement in his heart.

"But why are there so many stones piled up in front of this gate?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"It's like the door-sealing stones in front of the mausoleum's underground palace, and it also highlights the importance of the space behind the gate." Tang Feng said.

"Then what are you waiting for, quickly remove all the remaining stones!" Han Jiang shouted excitedly.

"Wait... I suddenly thought of a question. If someone came in a long time ago, why didn't this gold-clad bronze door be opened?" Tang Feng suddenly thought of this key question.

"What the hell? Maybe they didn't find out that there is such an amazing gate behind the stone! Let's open this gate and everything will be clear." Han Jiang couldn't hide his excitement.

I don't know whether it's excitement or fear, maybe it's the expectation of the unknown world behind the gate, the three of them accelerated the speed of moving the stones.

There are also some rocks at the bottom.When Tang Feng lifted a huge stone, his whole body froze suddenly, his eyes fixed on the place under the stone.Han Jiang was startled when he saw Tang Feng's appearance.He shone the flashlight at the place Tang Feng was staring at, then trembled all over, squatted down quickly, and moved two pieces of rubble, and a white bone appeared in front of them.

Han Jiang stood up slowly: "It's a white bone! A human rib!"

"No! It's one." Tang Feng said slowly.

"One?" Everyone was shocked.

Tang Feng didn't answer Han Jiang's words, he bent down and quickly removed the stone beside the bone.As each piece of rubble was removed, more and more bones appeared before their eyes.

Tang Feng was still trying to move the stone, but Han Jiang stopped him: "Wait a minute."

Tang Feng didn't know what Han Jiang meant, but he stopped.I saw Han Jiang took out a brush and several evidence bags from his bag, then squatted down carefully, and used the brush to clean off the dust on the bones bit by bit.

Seeing that Han Jiang was so serious, Tang Feng couldn't help laughing and said, "Hey! You're so serious, and you still expect to get fingerprints on this bone?"

(End of this chapter)