Xixia dead book

Chapter 237 The Finale of Death (27)
"Yeah! This is very strange. But..." Tang Feng scraped away the sand next to the skeleton, and more and more porcelain pieces were revealed, "This should be a Ge Kiln octagonal plate, what a beautiful Ge Kiln. It's a pity that it's broken."

"Is this a tomb? Ge Kiln porcelain was buried with them?" Yelena asked puzzled.

Tang Feng immediately denied Yelena's idea, "No, it's impossible, no one will build the tomb at the gate of the city, and we haven't seen any trace of the tomb."

"Tang Feng, look at this again." Makarov found a waist knife from under another corpse.

"A typical Mongolian knife is exactly the same as the one we saw in Qianhu Town." Tang Feng quickly judged the attributes of the waist knife.

"It seems that these are two Mongols, most likely soldiers of Kublai Khan's army, who died at the gate of the city." Han Jiang deduced.

"That's what I thought just now, but then I thought about it, Basiba even collected the bones of party members and built a mandala, so how could the bones of Mongolian soldiers be discarded in the wilderness? Besides, no other soldiers were found nearby. How can the skeletons of the dead sergeants be just these two, and this brother kiln small pan?" Tang Feng refuted Han Jiang's deduction with a series of rhetorical questions.

"Let's take a look at this incomparable golden gate!" Liang Yuan's voice came from beside Tang Feng. Liang Yuan seemed to be attracted by something magical, and she had already walked slowly towards the golden gate.

3
It was already dark, and Han Jiang lit two torches with the wood he found in the forest. Under the shadow of the fire, the silhouettes of the five people appeared extremely slender, swaying on the golden gate. Mysterious and noble, weird and shocking, it makes people yearn for and fear.

Tang Feng came close to the golden gate, and stretched out his hands involuntarily. When his fingertips touched the gate, it was like an electric current flowed through Tang Feng's body, numb and weird.The gate is indeed made of gold, but it is different from the gold he has seen before. It is very hard. "This... This is the gate made of gold. It is impossible to tell what is wrapped inside."

Han Jiang also rubbed his hands slowly on the golden gate, smooth and cold, "This is the incomparable gate that Misha saw..."

Only Makarov remained calm despite being shocked, "This golden door seems to have some special ingredients added, otherwise it would not be so strong."

"Special ingredients?" Everyone was puzzled.

"I think it's some kind of alloy!" Makarov speculated.

"Alloy?" Tang Feng said, trying to push the door open with both hands, but there was no movement at the door, "Don't worry about the alloy, just push the door open."

The scene of Misha pushing through this incomparable door appeared in front of everyone's eyes. They were different, but they were all shocking.Liang Yuan and Makarov held torches, and Tang Feng, Han Jiang, and Yelena lined up in front of the golden gate. The three tried their best to push the gate open, but the gate remained motionless.

Tang Feng felt strange. Misha clearly wrote in his letter to Liang Yunjie that he "opened that incomparable door", but now he couldn't push the door open. Could it be that someone tampered with behind the door?Thinking of this, Tang Feng's mind went blank. He tried again to push the golden gate, but he tried his best, but he couldn't push the golden gate open. At this moment, Yelena said loudly: " Han Jiang, Tang Feng, stop pushing, what is in the crack of the door?"

It was only then that Tang Feng noticed that some yellow-brown substances had grown in the cracks of the golden gate, which were obviously not gold. Tang Feng found that the gaps in the door were full of these yellow-brown substances from top to bottom, and Yelena called again: " And inside the door shaft!"

Tang Feng hurriedly walked to the door hinge on one side to check. Sure enough, there were more yellow-brown substances in the door hinge. Tang Feng reached out his hand to touch the yellow-brown substance suspiciously, then pulled out the dagger, and swiped from the door hinge. He cut off a piece of yellow-brown substance, held it in his hand and observed, "It looks like some kind of metal..."

Tang Feng felt that this yellow-brown substance seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before, but Han Jiang recognized this kind of thing, "We have seen this thing in Qianhu Town before."

Han Jiang's words awakened Tang Feng, "Yes, we saw it at the gate of Qianhu Town. This is what it looks like after the molten iron has solidified! Could it be... Could it be that this golden gate was also sealed by the molten iron?"

"No wonder we can't push it no matter how hard we push it?!" Han Jiang looked up at the golden gate in amazement. The cracks and hinges of the gate were completely sealed by molten iron.

"No, what's going on here? How could the golden gate be sealed by molten iron?" Tang Feng couldn't believe this fact.

Makarov patted Tang Feng, "I think this is the last choice for the gangsters in the city!"

"The last choice of the party members? Do you mean that the party members did it themselves before the city was destroyed?" A tragic scene suddenly appeared in front of Tang Feng's eyes. In the past, some necessities could be obtained from the outside world through the poorly guarded trails of the Mongol army, but this time the Qixue army blocked all the access to the Wild Wolf Valley and was approaching the city. The party leader in Mi City made a difficult decision , he ordered people to pour molten iron from two large furnaces on the exquisite golden gate, and summoned the clansmen to swear to live and die together in Mi City.

4
Tang Feng tried his best to keep his mind calm, he thought over and over again, and suddenly said: "Ke Misha's letter said that he opened this incomparable door!"

"Tang Feng, show me the letter Misha wrote to Liang." Makarov said.

Therefore, Tang Feng read Liang Yunjie's letter to Makarov again, and Makarov frowned after reading it, "I think there are two possibilities, one is Micheng and there are other gates. , but I can’t imagine how many such golden gates will exist in Mi City; another possibility... Judging from Misha’s words before and after, he seems to have been severely frightened and stimulated, causing him to experience short-term amnesia , so he did not explain in the letter what happened after he pushed the golden gate, and the previous experience was also vague. I suspect that Misha in the letter only refers to him entering Mi City, or simply his Hallucination."

"Illusion? I can also believe that there are other incomparable gates in Mi City." Tang Feng said.

"Even if there are other gates, wouldn't they be sealed by molten iron?" Makarov reminded Tang Feng.

"That's right, if the party members decide to live and die with Micheng before Micheng is destroyed, then all the gates will definitely be sealed with molten iron." Liang Yuan said.

"Then it's Misha's hallucination?" Tang Feng muttered to himself, as if lost in thought.

"Tang Feng, have you forgotten? What is said on the Xue Jun stele!" Han Jiang suddenly reminded Tang Feng.

Tang Feng was taken aback suddenly, what did the cowardly Xue Jun stele say? "'A dozen or so soldiers of the emperor's division, Jian and strong, found a secret door to enter, and the city of Mi was broken!''Secret door'?! Kublai Khan's army entered through the secret door of Mi city."

"Secret door? Obviously it won't be the door in front of us! So where is this 'secret door'?" Han Jiang asked back.

"This 'secret door' shows two points. First, no matter how many gates there are in Mi City, Kublai Khan's army did not break through. Why didn't they break through? I think the golden gate in front of us has already explained everything. Party members At the last moment, he vowed to live and die with Mi City, so he poured molten iron into the gate, so they couldn't get out, and the cowardly Xue army couldn't get in, so in the end Kublai Khan's army entered Mi City through the secret door; second, Apart from this gate, there is at least one secret door in Mi City."

"It also indirectly explained that the city walls and gates of Mi City should be intact! Look at how strong the rammed-earth city wall is!" Han Jiang poked the rammed-earth city wall next to the city gate several times with his dagger. , Such a sharp military dagger poked it up, leaving only a few white dots on the rammed earth wall. In the end, when Han Jiang made the fifth stab, his military dagger was simply bounced back.

Everyone was amazed when they saw this scene, Tang Feng couldn't help sighing: "It seems that the party members really put a lot of effort into this Mi city, the city walls and gates are so tall and strong, no wonder Kublai Khan's army was able to follow The secret door broke into Mi City."

"According to what you say, what Misha said in the letter is really a hallucination?!" Liang Yuan muttered to herself.

"The only way to ask Misha!" Tang Feng said, suddenly felt a strange luster in the sand under the gate, he squatted down, carefully brushed off the dust, some small golden debris It was exposed, and as the yellow sand was slowly brushed away, more and more golden crumbs were exposed. Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, Yelena and Makarov also noticed these golden crumbs mixed in the yellow sand. Helping Tang Feng to wipe away a thin layer of sand on the ground, everyone present was shocked when finally the golden crumbs shining with golden light appeared in front of everyone.

5
After a long time, Han Jiang murmured out a sentence, "What is this?"

"Gold powder!" Tang Feng dropped two words, grabbed the torch from Liang Yuan's hand, and walked up to the golden gate. With the light of the torch, he carefully saw that the golden gate was not as smooth as he imagined. The traces of Dao knife chopping and ax cutting are deeply engraved on this ancient gate.

Tang Feng looked at it for a while, then turned around and said: "I know what happened to those two bones. The old horse is right. The reason why this golden gate is so strong is that apart from gold, the party members must have added other substances to it." , making it a kind of alloy, which is extremely strong! Dangxiang people built such a golden gate not only for beauty, but also for practicality. The already strong gate was sealed with molten iron to make it completely complete. Therefore, when Kublai Khan's army approached the city, they could not enter the city from here. We can imagine how excited and excited those cowardly soldiers were when they saw such a golden gate for the first time. Fanaticism? If it wasn't for Ba Siba's restraint, I'm afraid those soldiers would rush up to cut the gold on the gate before they entered Mi City. When the army succeeds in sneak attacking through the secret door and captures Mi City, I can Imagine that the army, suppressed by panic and bloody slaughter for a long time, has completely lost its mind. Ba Siba and Liu Bingzhong can no longer restrain the army. It was released by Ba Siba, not only to cut off the thoughts of party members, but also because Ba Siba felt that he had lost control of the army, so..."

"That's why Ba Siba and Liu Bingzhong secretly sent people to set fires everywhere, not only to eliminate the party members' thoughts, but also to eliminate the greed of Xue Jun!" Makarov took Tang Feng's words and said.

"That's right! I think that's the truth. What we saw before us can explain all this. When the fire broke out in the city and Ba Siba ordered the army to withdraw from the city, there were still soldiers of the fearful Xue army thinking about the wealth of Mi city. Reluctant to give up, I can imagine that thousands of cowardly soldiers crowded into this city gate that night. They tried to tear down this golden gate, smash it and transport the gold away, but when they found out that it was all in vain , the crazy cowardly soldiers of the Xue army used knives, swords, axes, and daggers to chop, chop, and scrape on the golden gate, scraping off a little gold powder and golden skin from the gate, regardless of Ba Siba and Liu Bingzhong. No matter how you order to retreat, there is no way to stop these crazy soldiers..." The scene of that night appeared before Tang Feng's eyes again, "Some soldiers are holding Ge Kiln plates, Jun Kiln bottles, and agates that were snatched from the city. Necklaces, Hetian jade pendants... But they kept scraping the gold powder from the golden gate with their knives. Finally, Ba Siba couldn't bear it anymore, drew his knives and hacked to death a few soldiers who didn't obey orders, and only then did he restrain the crazy I'm afraid of Xue Jun."

Everyone listened to Tang Feng's words and kept nodding. Sure enough, as Tang Feng expected, Han Jiang and Yelena found several waist knives and daggers in the city gate, as well as some scattered beads. wind speculation.

Everyone was busy working until late at night. Han Jiang looked at the surrounding environment, curled his lips and said, "It seems that this is our camping place for tonight."

"I think this place is pretty good. It's full of gold powder, backed by the golden gate, and inside the city gate, sheltered from the wind and rain, so let's do it!" Liang Yuan seemed quite satisfied with this place.

Tang Feng was not in the mood to rest. He didn't know whether he was excited by the new discovery or worried about the unknown world of tomorrow. He stepped back and forth in the gate tower, staring at the golden gate for a while, as if he wanted to penetrate the gate. Through the heavy gate, one can see the world inside; after a while, he walked out of the city gate and looked at the surrounding dense forest, as if he was worried that the dangerous clams would break out suddenly at some point.

【No.15 The City of the Dead】

1
Strange to say, Tang Feng thought that after going through so many terrible things, he would have nightmares again tonight, but when he woke up the next morning, he found that he had slept deeply all night without any nightmares or encounters. Dangerous, this is probably the night Tang Feng slept the most soundly since he entered the desert.

The only thing that made Tang Feng a little upset was that at some point, it started to fog again. The fog was not as thick as the thick fog the day before yesterday, but it was enough to cover the entire oasis and Mi city.

Micheng seems to be unwilling to allow people to see its true face easily. Yesterday, when Tang Feng and the others came to the city, it was already dusk and the light was dim, and the whole of Micheng could not be seen. This morning, the white fog obscured Micheng again. A veil of mystery has been put on, which makes people sigh.

After the five people got up, they discussed it and decided to walk around the city wall of Mi City first, looking for the so-called "secret door".So, everyone packed up their luggage and started on the road. Tang Feng walked out of the city gate. Just as a ray of sunlight pierced through the white mist and shone on him and the city wall, Tang Feng stopped and looked back. His thoughts suddenly became clear. "Have you noticed that this city gate faces east?"

"What does this mean?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"The east is towards the sun. When we came here yesterday, we didn't find any gates on the north wall. How many gates do you think Mi City will have?" Tang Feng asked everyone.

Liang Yuan took the lead and said: "It stands to reason that such a large city should have gates on at least four sides, but...but there are no gates on the north side, but there are gates on the east side. Ancient Chinese buildings pay attention to symmetry, and they are all It faces south and its back is north, so I speculate that there should be a city gate on each side of the southeast and west."

"Three city gates?" Han Jiang pondered for a while, and said, "Liang Yuan is right. Generally speaking, the south gate of ancient Chinese cities is the most important. There must be a south gate in Mi City. Ancient buildings pay attention to symmetry, so there is also a gate on the west side. There should be one gate, so there are three gates."

Tang Feng listened, smiled without saying a word, and walked south along the tall city wall. Liang Yuan hurriedly followed Tang Feng and asked, "You asked us, but you said it?"

"We'll find out right away!"

Han Jiang also caught up, "Yes, how many gates do you think Micheng has?"

"Do you think the party members can have so much gold to build city gates?" Tang Feng asked back.

"What do you mean... Mi City is just the gate to the east?" Han Jiang asked in surprise.

Tang Feng didn't answer Han Jiang directly, but mentioned Yelu Chucai's paper, "Have you forgotten that Yelu Chucai said that he built Qianhu Town by imitating Mi City?"

Han Jiang was taken aback, not understanding Tang Feng's meaning, "But the gate of Qianhu Town is on the south side?"

It was Liang Yuan who understood Tang Feng's meaning, "Tang Feng meant that Mi City has only one gate like Qianhu Town?!"

Tang Feng finally nodded, and Han Jiang asked inexplicably, "But the gate of Qianhu Town opened to the south, how could Mi City open the gate to the east? Besides, Yelu Chucai said that he imitated Mi City, but he also There is no need to imitate Mi City, Qianhu Town is small, so one city gate is enough, and Mi City is so tall and majestic, how can there be only one city gate?"

(End of this chapter)