Xixia dead book

Chapter 222 The Finale of Death (12)
"Ah—" Liang Yuan looked up at the ray of sky above her head in amazement, "Then...there was water passing through such a high position back then?"

Tang Feng amused Liang Yuan's words, "Let me tell you what's going on. Many years ago, this huge rock was about as high as the surrounding sand mountains, but because of the continuous impact of strong flowing water, this canyon It got deeper and deeper, and gradually formed such a deep canyon.”

"Then if there is also raging water now..."

Tang Feng understood what Liang Yuan was going to say, and glared at her, Liang Yuan swallowed back the words that came to her lips.

Everyone fell into silence again. As they walked, Tang Feng suddenly discovered that something was wrong with Futu Gorge. What was wrong?Tang Feng looked around, and suddenly found that the original red rock walls on both sides of them gradually changed. The color of the rock walls became lighter and lighter, and finally turned completely white. Has the wall changed?"

"Not only has the rock wall changed, but the ground under our feet has also changed."

Everyone followed Han Jiang's gaze and looked forward. Sure enough, not far ahead, the originally solid ground turned into sand, and it was white sand. "What a strange sand!" Tang Feng murmured.

"The canyon has also become wider, more than ten meters wide. This is a width that has never been seen before." Yelena pointed to the rock walls on both sides.

"But there seems to be a rock wall in front, and I can't see where the canyon leads to?" Liang Yuan asked puzzled.

Han Jiang came to the edge of the sand and looked ahead. He could only see a huge white rock wall at the end of the canyon, but... Han Jiang stopped for a long time and said, "No, there should be a passage under that rock wall."

"Go over and have a look and you'll know!" Tang Feng said, he walked forward and pulled the camel, but when he walked into the white sand, within ten steps, he felt that his feet touched the camel. A hard thing, looking down, in the thin white sand, revealing a piece of white human bone, no, not just a piece, but a pile of scattered bones!

Tang Feng was shocked and wanted to retreat, but was surprised to find that he could no longer move his feet. His feet were sinking into the fine white sand step by step, and the camel behind him was also sinking. "Don't go forward, I will Got stuck."

Everyone was horrified, Tang Feng tried all his strength in a panic, trying to pull himself out of the white sand, but not only was it useless, but it made him sink deeper and deeper... Makarov was well-informed, he shouted from behind Said: "Tang Feng, don't move, this is quicksand, the more you struggle, the deeper you sink."

Han Jiang wanted to go forward to pull Tang Feng, but was grabbed by Makarov, "Don't pull him, or you will fall into it, just like those bones."

At this time, as the sunlight changed, a ray of sunlight shot into the depths of the canyon, and more and more skeletons emerged from the white quicksand, including human bones and horses, as well as some undecayed saddles and weapons. what's inside...

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Tang Feng and the camel sank deeper and deeper, and Han Jiang also felt that one of his feet was about to sink in. Fortunately, he reacted in time and quickly withdrew, saying in horror: "It seems that these bones are from Genghis Khan's army back then. corpse."

"Yes, they got stuck in the deadly quicksand! They never came out." Makarov said.

At this moment, Tang Feng stopped struggling, but his body was still slowly sinking. Liang Yuan cried out anxiously, "What can I do... Hurry up and save Tang Feng..."

Yelena held Liang Yuan tightly, for fear that Liang Yuan would lose control of her emotions and rush into the quicksand.Makarov yelled at Tang Feng: "Adjust your breathing, climb up slowly, lean your body forward, come out with your legs a little, and then dump your body on the quicksand."

According to Makarov's instructions, Tang Feng carefully pulled out his legs little by little, and finally fell his body completely on the quicksand. Time passed by, until Tang Feng gently pulled out the last foot from the quicksand , The whole person was completely lying on the quicksand, and everyone's hanging hearts fell back.

Looking at the camel again, most of its huge body has sunk into the quicksand. The camel raised its head and looked at the white rock wall in front of the canyon unwillingly. , The ground under the feet of everyone rushed to tremble, but no matter how hard the camel exerted, everything was in vain in the end.

The other camel also neighed sadly, as if it wanted to rescue its companion, but there was nothing it could do. Amid the desperate neighing of the two camels, Liang Yuan shouted, "What should we do?"

Makarov remained calm, at least on the outside, and shouted to the crowd: "Give up on the camel, unload all our belongings from the camel, and climb onto the quicksand just like Tang Feng!"

"Advance like a lizard?" Han Jiang's mind suddenly flashed the scene of him fighting the sand lizard.

"Yes, like reptiles!" Makarov said with certainty.

Yelena and Han Jiang hurriedly unloaded all the things on the camel, and Makarov pulled Liang Yuan carefully into the quicksand.Every step must be very careful, Makarov quickly climbed to the side of the dying camel, unloaded all the bags on the camel, then dragged the bag, and slowly leaned towards Tang Feng.

The five of them crawled slowly and with difficulty on the quicksand, among the terrifying skeletons, and climbed more than a hundred meters. Tang Feng, who was only crawling forward with his head down, suddenly bumped into a hard object, and he raised his head. At first glance, a human head emerged from the quicksand and was watching him with a smile!
[Section [-] Bleeding Totem]

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Tang Feng backed away in horror, but because his body was lying on the quicksand and he couldn't move, he instinctively rolled sideways and rolled to the other side, but when he looked up, there was another head in front of him, Tang Feng's My heart seemed to be grabbed by something suddenly, and I was terrified!But Tang Feng calmed down a little, and suddenly felt something was wrong, how could there be a head under the quicksand?Even if it was a real human head, it should have been turned into bones long ago?
Tang Feng had the courage to look closely. The "human head" in front of him had a nose and eyes, and was lifelike. However, it was not a real human head after all, but the head of a Buddha statue. The Buddha statue was painted with gold, but most of it fell off. In some places, the inner parts were even exposed. The clay tire, it seems that this is a very old thing, and after careful inspection, Tang Feng quickly judged that it was a Buddha statue from the Xixia period based on the artistic style of the Buddha statue.

"What is this? So scary?" Han Jiang and the others also bumped into these Buddha statues.

"It's a Buddha statue! A Buddha statue from the Xixia period." Tang Feng explained.

"Why did the Buddha statue run into the quicksand, where is his body?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

Tang Feng didn't know where the bodies of these Buddha statues went, but he carefully observed the Buddha statues in front of him, and found that there seemed to be something under the Buddha's head, which should be the body of the Buddha statues, but why did these Buddha statues sink into the quicksand? Woolen cloth?

At this time, when Liang Yuan heard that these "human heads" were Buddha statues, instead of being afraid, she became happy, "How is it? I'm not wrong, the reason why this canyon is called Futu Gorge must have something to do with the Buddha statues."

Tang Feng also lost his temper, "Even if what you said is right, then please explain why all these Buddha statues got into the quicksand?"

"How do I know, isn't this what you should study?"

Tang Feng did not argue with Liang Yuan, and continued to climb forward. He found that there were not so many bones here, but there were still several horse bones and human bones scattered among these various Buddha statues. Suddenly, Tang Feng found a The rusty saber was cut in the middle of a Buddha's head. The Buddha's head was split in half from the head, but it was not completely split. The saber was still in the middle of the Buddha's head. It was shocking!

Tang Feng couldn't help trembling when he saw this. What kind of hatred is this? Someone actually cut down the Buddha statue. Tang Feng found a pile of scattered bones next to the Buddha statue. He identified it as a horse and a corpse. A person's bones, among the scattered bones, still have traces of saddles, bows and arrows. Could this be the army of Genghis Khan?
Tang Feng continued to move forward thinking wildly, and climbed another five or sixty meters. Tang Feng felt that the white sand here was no longer as soft as before. He tried to stand up. Sure enough, the quicksand area had been shaken off here, and his feet were relatively hard. It's sandy.

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Everyone stood up and turned around to see that the camel caught in the quicksand was dying, with only its last breath left. It had no strength to move anymore and could only wait for death to come. Swallowing his neck, he glanced at his companion... The camel that was not caught in the quicksand was still neighing and stamping its hooves restlessly back and forth. Seeing this, Han Jiang took out his gun and wanted to end the suffering of that camel as soon as possible , but was held back by Makarov, "Don't shoot, in case you are alarmed..."

Han Jiang understood what Makarov meant, so he had to put away the gun again. He only heard the last neighing from the camel, and then lowered his head. Everything seemed to be calm again, and the other end did not neigh anymore. unwilling to leave.

"What a poor camel!" Liang Yuan's eyes were a little moist.

"Okay, let's see our way out!" Han Jiang looked up at the sky above his head. There was no sunlight entering the canyon, and the sun had already gone west.

"There seems to be words here..." Yelena seemed to have found something on the rock wall beside her.

Tang Feng walked over, and sure enough, a few black writings were vaguely exposed on the white rock wall, "It's Xixia script, but it's not very clear." Tang Feng recognized it for a long time, and finally read out the words written on the rock wall word by word. A few words: "Chi-Jian-Fu-Tu-Zen-Temple."

"Ha, there is indeed a temple here!" Liang Yuan was rather proud.

Tang Feng turned around and looked at the canyon here. Although it was much wider than the canyon in front, it was only a dozen meters wide. Building a temple in such a small space?Moreover, there are quicksands and strange wind noises. Who would live and practice here?Thinking about it, the ancient map behind the jade screen suddenly appeared in front of Tang Feng's eyes. He hurriedly dug out the photo to check, and sure enough, a name was marked not far from the south of Beique—Quick Sand Dark River, and then used The small characters indicate "Beware of the Futu Temple here".

"Futu Temple? Quicksand Dark River... It seems that this is the quicksand dark river marked on the ancient map. We are on the right route! It's just that there is a temple here..."

Just as Tang Feng was talking, Yelena suddenly discovered something on the rock wall, "There seems to be more words behind this, and there are quite a few!"

Tang Feng hurriedly checked, and behind those big characters, there appeared a few lines of small characters, still in Xixia script, "Quick sand eats people, there are many ghosts and wild ghosts haunting this place. So I respected the order of King Hao, built a temple to suppress it, and saved all the souls of the dead."

"So it is!" Tang Feng murmured to himself after reading this passage.

"What the hell, soul, what do you mean?" Han Jiang asked impatiently.

"This inscription tells the reason for the construction of the Futu Temple, because there is quicksand here, and quicksand often eats people, and whenever the wind howls, the party members think that these ghosts swallowed by quicksand come out to cause trouble, so they Under Yuan Hao's order, a Futu Temple was built here to suppress these lonely and wild ghosts, and also to save these dead souls." Tang Feng explained.

"Then what about the bones we saw?" Han Jiang asked again.

"Judging from the relics of these bones, they should be the Mongolian army, but I don't know if they are the army of Genghis Khan, or the Mongolian army that later attacked Hanhai Micheng."

"Then these Buddha statues caught in the quicksand are the Buddha statues of Futu Temple?"

"I think so. The party members placed these Buddha statues in the quicksand. When the Mongolian cavalry broke into the valley, because of the dim light here, coupled with the tension, they could not distinguish the authenticity. They regarded these Buddha statues as enemies, so they went straight to These 'enemies' rushed, and most of them fell into the quicksand before they got close to the 'enemies'. Occasionally, a few cavalry rushed to the Buddha statue, and even swung their knives to chop it down, but the final result can be imagined. It was too late when they found out that only Buddha statues were cut, and even the people and horses were ruthlessly swallowed by quicksand." Another magnificent battle scene appeared before Tang Feng's eyes.

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Everyone packed up their luggage and continued to move forward. The stone wall in front was exactly as Han Jiang said. When they reached the end, they found that the canyon had turned here again. Everyone walked in a file. It started to get narrower, the sky overhead was getting darker, and it looked like night would soon be falling.

It was another turn. After turning the corner, the canyon widened suddenly, and the height of the rock walls on both sides gradually decreased. Tang Feng obviously felt his heartbeat began to speed up again. He had a premonition that they were about to walk out of this terrible canyon, but He wasn't sure what awaited them ahead, perhaps even more terrifying demons!

When the sun was setting, the group of people finally walked out of the Futu Gorge, and what they saw was a vast sand sea, a white sand sea. Although there was nothing more terrifying, everyone expressed their disappointment on their faces. Because this endless sea of ​​white sand is perhaps the scariest thing.

After they thought it over, they decided to camp at Taniguchi tonight, and go to conquer this sea of ​​sand after dawn tomorrow.Han Jiang arranged for Yelena, Tang Feng and himself to be on duty at night. Everyone was too tired, and no one was thinking wildly this night. They just wanted to seize the time and sleep for a while.

Tang Feng was in charge of the first half of the night. In the early morning, Han Jiang came to replace him, and he fell into a deep sleep. The sun was still scorching during the day, but the desert at night was very cold. When Tang Feng slept until dawn, he woke up from the cold. Feeling cold, he sat up. At this time, it was Yelena who was on duty. Tang Feng was just about to say hello to Yelena. Suddenly, he heard a heart-piercing scream. Yelena heard it too, and instinctively raised the gun , the others were also awakened.

"What's the situation?" Han Jiang rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked.

"It seems...it seems like a scream!" Tang Feng carefully recalled the voice just now.

"Did you hear me right? Not a beast?"

"It shouldn't be!"

"It's a human cry! And it came from the Futu Gorge." Yelena said affirmatively.

"Are you sure?" Han Jiang asked back.

"Of course, I heard you right." Yelena said with absolute certainty.

"Everyone get up and get ready to fight!" Han Jiang stood up and quickly packed his things.

The five of them packed up their bags, except for Liang Yuan, Tang Feng, Han Jiang, Yelena and Makarov all raised their guns and aimed at Taniguchi, but they guarded Taniguchi for almost half an hour, and no one came in. After coming out, Tang Feng listened attentively, "There seems to be no sound inside."

Tang Feng rubbed his numb arms, Han Jiang and Yelena also put down their guns, and only Makarov held his gun motionless, staring at the dark Taniguchi.

Yelena and Han Jiang persuaded Makarov to take a rest, but Makarov was unmoved, "Which damn guy is this, howling so loudly, I can't even sleep!" Han Jiang cursed .

Yelena suddenly said, "Did you notice any difference?"

"What's the difference?" Han Jiang and Tang Feng looked around.

"It seems...it seems to be foggy!" Liang Yuan said softly behind them.

"Yeah, why is it foggy again!" Yelena looked worriedly at the sandy sea behind her.

At this moment, the vast sand sea in the night has been shrouded in mist, and the white mist is rapidly advancing towards the mouth of the valley.

(End of this chapter)