1

With the collapse of that circle of walls, the long-lost sunlight shone into this long-sealed hall from the doors and windows of the Immortal Palace, and at some point, with a gust of wind, all the doors of the Immortal Hall were blown open by the wind, and the heavy curtains that fell with dust were all blown up by the strong wind, and some were simply carried away by the wind and rolled to the outside of the main hall, Tang Feng finally saw the whole picture of the Immortal Palace...... The wind took away the dust of history, and the immortal temple reappeared, and suddenly it was brilliant and dazzling, not like the world!

Just when everyone was shocked, the ground under their feet changed, and a huge force came from the depths of the ground, as if it was about to overturn the entire hall, Han Jiang was the first to react and shouted loudly: "Stand back, quickly step back!" ”

Tang Feng hurriedly grabbed Liang Yuan, held on to the wall, and retreated, when his feet just retreated to the porphyry ground of the main hall, the wide passage that was originally full of dense corpses and bones fell throughout, and the ash and gravel rolled up huge dust, Tang Feng hugged Liang Yuan tightly, and when the dust cleared, the original passage was gone, and a wide staircase appeared in front of everyone, and extended downward, the staircase seemed to have no end, until the dark underground.

Five people face the stairway all the way to the dark world, shocked, frightened, wandering, hesitating, what will be below? Ferocious monsters, or endless treasures? They don't know, but each of them knows that this is Micheng's last secret.

Tang Feng carefully observed the wide staircase, which was five or six meters wide, basically the same as the width of the original passage above, and the two sides of the staircase were the big bluestones on both sides of the passage just now, but he didn't expect that these big bluestones had been extending to the bottom of the stairs, and there was no end in sight.

The rubble that had just collapsed and the bones of those party warriors were scattered on the wide staircase, Tang Feng thought that such a wide staircase was completely different from the small holes they had seen before, this might be the royal style of King Hao! This is the last moment.

Everyone glanced at each other, Tang Feng looked at Liang Yuan, Liang Yuan's attitude seemed to have changed, Liang Yuan, who was frightened just now, was the first to raise his legs and walk down the stairs, and then, Makarov and Yelena also walked down, Tang Feng was just about to step down, but was grabbed by Han Jiang, Tang Feng looked back at Han Jiang in surprise, Han Jiang lowered his voice, and whispered: "Don't you think Liang Yuan is a little strange?" ”

Tang Feng heard Han Jiang ask this, and his body was slightly for a while, "No...... I don't think there's anything wrong, do I? What did you find? ”

"Liang Yuan seems to be afraid of something?"

Tang Feng smiled, "What's so strange about this, of course she's scared when she comes to such a terrible place as a girl!" ”

"In short, my intuition tells me that Liang Yuan must not be as simple as she said during the period of disappearance, something must have happened to her!" Han Jiang muttered quietly.

"Didn't she faint from her injuries? The bruises and scars on her body ......"

Han Jiang interrupted Tang Feng's words and said, "By the way, didn't you find out?" The necklace that Liang Yuan has been hanging on her chest is gone! ”

"Necklace?" Tang Feng thought about it for a while, yes, it's the middle of summer, everyone wears less clothes, Liang Yuan used to wear the necklace with her mother's photo wherever she went, and yesterday I saw Liang Yuan wearing the necklace around her neck, but I really didn't see the necklace just now, however, Tang Feng felt that Han Jiang was making a fuss, he waved his hand and said, "You think too much, maybe that necklace was lost during the time she was missing." ”

Han Jiang wanted to say something, Tang Feng had already walked down the stairs, Han Jiang shook his head, and had to follow everyone to the bottom of the stairs, when the dawn of the morning shone through the mist of thousand-year-old history, directly into the Immortal Palace, and shone on Yuan Hao's huge god lord, Tang Feng, Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, Yelena and Makarov disappeared under the dark stairs.

2

The five of them were soon engulfed in darkness, and the five flashlights were like five faint fireflies, surrounded by boundless darkness. Before entering Micheng, Han Jiang specially cut a piece of pine wood in the dense forest and used it as a torch, and when Han Jiang lit the torch he brought, it finally illuminated the space they were in, a square underground palace.

On the other side of the underground palace, that is, there is a ticket door on the west side, and inside the ticket door is a not long road, Tang Feng pulled Liang Yuan, walked in front, passed through the road, and a shocking scene appeared in front of them, only to see that this is a huge natural space, surrounded by unpolished rocks, and on the unpolished rocks on the west side, a golden gate suddenly appeared, Tang Feng couldn't help but muttered in surprise: "Another golden gate?" ”

"There must be something rich hidden behind this, otherwise there would be no golden gate!" Han Jiang became excited, as if victory was within reach.

Tang Feng took two steps forward, and suddenly heard the sound of running water, and he fixed his eyes to see that there was a white marble bridge standing on the road leading to the golden gate to the west.

Tang Feng walked on the stone bridge and heard the sound of running water under the bridge, he was secretly surprised, there was water down here? He leaned out and looked under the bridge, it was dark under the bridge, and he couldn't see the water, Tang Feng used a flashlight to shine downward, until he reached the bare red rock, and still didn't see the water.

Han Jiang had already walked across the white marble bridge and walked straight towards the golden gate, Tang Feng had no intention of checking this stone bridge that should not appear here, and followed Han Jiang to this golden gate.

None of them spoke, standing side by side in front of the golden gate, Tang Feng stretched out his hand and touched the golden gate, the cold gate emitted a dazzling light, Tang Feng felt that this gate seemed to be different from the gate in the east of Micheng, the surface was so smooth, "This gate has never been opened for thousands of years, and no one has even come here, you see, the surface of the gate is so smooth and flat......"

As soon as Tang Feng said half of his words, his fingers touched a groove between the door knockers, Tang Feng took a step back in surprise, looked at it intently, and saw that there were two jade knockers on the plain gold door, which were matched with the golden gate, which could be described as ingenious, and a groove appeared on the golden door between the two jade door knockers, which was exactly in the middle of the door crack, which was very strange!

Han Jiang also noticed this groove, "Why is there a piece of concave here?" It seems that this was intentionally made like this when making the gate! ”

Tang Feng nodded, but he didn't understand what was going on? He took another half step back, carefully looked at the golden gate, and found nothing abnormal in other places, Tang Feng stepped forward and pushed the door, but he couldn't push the door, the gate was tightly sealed, and there was not even a little crack in the door, Tang Feng stretched out his hand suspiciously, rubbing back and forth on the smooth door, when his fingers slid into the groove, Tang Feng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly took out the lost and recovered jade Huang, "You see, this groove looks like a rectangular groove, but if you look closely, you find that it is not a rectangle, but a rectangle with a curvature, Much like the shape of a jade juan! ”

"You...... Are you saying that Jade Huang is the key to opening this door? Makarov exclaimed.

"Yes, the shape, size, size! Moreover, this piece of jade and the two jade door knockers next to it, the materials are almost identical, they are all good Hetian mutton fat white jade, and even ...... Even I suspect that this jade and the two knockers come from the same piece of jade. Tang Feng remembered the nightmare that had been haunting him again.

"Is there such a coincidence in the world? That means that when this gate was made, a jade ring and a jade huang were carved in the same piece of jade! Han Jiang was also stunned.

"I think that's how it should be!" Under the astonished gaze of everyone, Tang Feng slowly put the piece of jade into the groove of the golden gate with trembling hands.

In the deep underground palace, there was a dead silence, everyone held their breath and stared at the golden gate that had been inserted into Yuhuang, time passed minute by minute, there was no change in the golden gate, Tang Feng couldn't help but be a little anxious, he looked at Han Jiang, Han Jiang nodded at him, Tang Feng stretched out two thumbs and pressed down, the groove actually sank further, and then, the groove changed, and it automatically turned three hundred and sixty degrees, and rotated with Yuhuang, and the original opening rushed down the Yuhuang into an opening to rush up.

Tang Feng hurriedly withdrew his hands and stepped back, everyone stood a meter away from the gate, waiting quietly, waiting for the world behind the gate, but another five minutes passed, the golden gate did not move at all, there was no movement, everyone couldn't help but be alert, Tang Feng took a step forward, wanted to reach out to push the door, but Liang Yuan shouted behind him: "Be careful-"

Tang Feng looked back at Liang Yuan, "It's okay, you all stand back, I'll come!" ”

Saying that, Tang Feng stretched out his hands without hesitation and pushed the golden gate hard, a wonderful feeling that Tang Feng had never felt spread throughout his body, he exerted a lot of strength, but he did not feel any resistance, Tang Feng only felt that the golden light appeared in front of him, and the golden gate in front of him opened quietly.

3

Tang Feng stood in front of the golden gate that had been opened in a daze, not knowing whether to enter or retreat, he instinctively looked inside with a flashlight, inside was a huge dark space, in the hurried light, Tang Feng did not find exciting treasures, only deeper darkness.

"It seems that Jade Huang is the key to open the underground palace." Han Jiang said, holding a torch and walking into the world behind the golden gate, in front of them was a corridor about the same width as the front, the corridor was not long, there seemed to be several rooms on both sides, and the other end of the corridor was connected to a huge dark space, at this time, it was impossible to see the situation of that dark space.

Han Jiang held a torch and illuminated the corridor, and everyone saw that there were four openings in the stone walls on both sides of the corridor, which were pitch black and could not be seen inside, "This layout is very similar to the ear chamber or side chamber of a large mausoleum." Tang Feng quickly judged.

"Then there should be burial goods in there?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"Just go in and see!" Saying that, Tang Feng had already walked into the first stone house with a flashlight, and Han Jiang also followed, to everyone's disappointment, there were no burial goods in this stone house, only some black substances piled up in the corner, Tang Feng walked over suspiciously, squatted down and picked up some black substances in his hands to observe, "This seems to be carbonized corn." ”

"Well, it's corn, could it be that this room is filled with food for Yuan Hao to enjoy in another world?" Han Jiang guessed.

"Then he should put some good stuff here, too!" Tang Feng threw away the carbonized corn in his hand and walked out of the stone house; In the second stone house, they also found no treasure, only a small number of rusted weapons; "Hehe, I now understand archaeology, so this setting is a granary on one side and an arsenal on the other, which is in line with tradition." Han Jiang was quite confident in his judgment.

"Hope you're right!" Tang Feng still found carbonized grain and rusty weapons in the third and fourth stone houses, and it seemed that everything was in response to Han Jiang's inference.

Walking out of the corridor, they entered a huge space, when Han Jiang used torches to illuminate this dark space, everyone saw that this was a huge stone hall close to a square, the entire hall was made of hard granite, majestic and magnificent.

But just when Tang Feng was amazed by the magnificence of this underground palace, Liang Yuan suddenly exclaimed, "Look at it! See...... Look at the ground, what is that? ”

Tang Feng shone the flashlight to the ground, and a scene that he would never forget appeared, first a complete skeleton appeared in front of him, with the movement of the flashlight, another one, and then, it was still a complete skeleton, the flashlight in Tang Feng's hand moved slowly, and his mouth kept opening wide. His pupils were also rapidly dilating in horror, and he was not just frightened by the bones, but because he found that these skeletons, without exception, were all intact and lying on the ground in an orderly manner!

Han Jiang was also surprised, he walked forward and lit up the entire stone hall with torches, the scene of the stone hall made everyone feel frightened and shocked! Hundreds of skeletons were neatly arranged on the cold ground like this, Tang Feng felt every pore on his body open, and the cold moisture from the ground quickly penetrated into his body, making him tremble. His heart was obviously frightened, but the pace under his feet was uncontrollable, Tang Feng dragged his heavy steps through the rows of neatly arranged skeletons, from the first row to the last row of the last row, a full eight hundred and forty skeletons, each of which was intact, "Could it be that this is the person who was buried for Yuan Hao?" Tang Feng had already thought about this question repeatedly in his heart, and finally shouted.

4

Tang Feng's voice echoed loudly in the deep underground palace, martyrdom?! Everyone looked at each other, and they were shocked by the word "martyrdom" shouted from Tang Feng's mouth, and it took a long time for Makarov to judge with his rich experience in criminal investigation: "Judging from the bones of these deceased, it doesn't look like they were killed or poisoned." ”

"This does not rule out the possibility of burial!" Tang Feng Road.

"Yes, I know that does not rule out the possibility of a burial. However, Yelena and I took a closer look at dozens of skeletons, basically all of them were women, children, and some belonged to the elderly, martyred? It doesn't seem to make sense! Makarov said.

"Yes, only the slave society would use a large number of living burials, and burial was no longer popular in Western Xia at that time, this is a historical common sense!" Liang Yuan also disagreed with Tang Feng.

"Then it's very likely to be a collective suicide!" Han Jiang said suddenly.

"Mass suicide?" The crowd was amazed.

"Have you forgotten that we have not found the bones of the Dangxiang people in Micheng, and later found some bones of the Dangxiang people in the pyramid and the main hall, but they are all bones belonging to young and middle-aged men, so where did the women and children in Micheng go?"

Han Jiang's words woke everyone up, and Tang Feng suddenly realized: "Yes! I didn't think about it at the time, thinking that the women and children had escaped! ”

In this way, the most reasonable explanation is that after decades of continuous war and blockade, the population of Micheng has decreased significantly, especially the population of young and middle-aged men has decreased sharply, so when Kublai Khan's army came to attack, the population of Micheng is estimated to be only two or three thousand, after a few battles, although the party is still brave and victorious with Kublai Khan's army, but Micheng can no longer support, at the critical moment when Kublai Khan's army invaded Micheng, more than 800 women, children and elderly people in Micheng, hid in this underground palace built for them by King Hao, and the last few hundred warriors of Micheng died on the battlefield in order to protect their wives and children, and also to keep the last secret of Micheng. ”

Han Jiang's words reminded everyone of the last moment of Micheng again, the warriors of the party were ready to burn the jade, but in order to prevent their wives and children from being bullied, let their wives and children enter the underground palace under the pyramid, and then close the door of the underground palace, what kind of life and death is this? ! How do you see death as home?! Thinking of this, Tang Feng's eyes appeared in front of the last tragic moment of the party members.

"No, you've made a fatal mistake in this inference!" Liang Yuan said suddenly.

"Oh! What's wrong? Han Jiang stared at Liang Yuan and asked.

"If you do what you say, then these women and children who enter the underground palace must have an exit, otherwise they will let their wives and children die in the underground palace, what is the difference between this and martyrdom?" Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

"This ......" Liang Yuan's words alerted everyone, "but we haven't seen any other roads along the way?" ”

When Tang Feng said this, he happened to be standing in front of the last row of bones, his eyes were staring at a complete skeleton in front of him, suddenly, he stopped in front of the last skeleton, and looked straight at this skeleton, Han Jiang They found that Tang Feng was a little strange, and also followed, Han Jiang looked at the skeleton in front of him, "This seems to be a woman's skeleton!" Lie flat down. ”

"You should be between 40 and 60 years old when you die." Yelena continued.

"A party woman......" Liang Yuan muttered.

Makarov squatted down and looked at the skeleton carefully, and after a long time, he shook his head and said, "No, this is not the skeleton of a party woman. ”

"Oh, what do you see?" Yelena asked with concern.

"Yelena, take a closer look!" Makarov didn't look up, still crouching next to the skeleton, seemingly staring intently at the skeleton in front of him.

"Take a closer look?" Yelena squatted down suspiciously, looking closely at the skeleton, and suddenly, Yelena's eyes widened suddenly, "This...... How is this possible? ”

"Yelena, what do you see?" Han Jiang asked urgently.

Yelena gestured at this corpse for a while, and exclaimed: "This corpse is obviously not of the Asian race, but the Caucasian race!" ”

"So this woman is a European living in Micheng, or someone from West Asia?" Han Jiang speculated wildly.

"No, it would be more accurate to say that this skeleton is not so old, only ...... Only half a century! Yelena's voice trembled.

"Half a century?" Han Jiang's mind suddenly flashed the looming female scientific expedition member.

"If I'm not mistaken, this woman is the only female member of the expedition team back then." Makarov finally stood up, but it was as if he was stuck in a distant memory.

5

After a short silence, Han Jiang shook his head and said, "No! That's impossible! How did she get into the Underground Palace? The passage inside the Temple of Immortality has never been opened, and we are the first people to enter here in seven hundred years! ”

"Nope! We're not! Someone has already entered here before us! Tang Feng suddenly spoke.

"But...... But she also didn't open the golden door to Yuhuang? Jade Huang in our hands? The more Han Jiang spoke, the more excited he became.

"You're wrong again, she has Jade Huang!" Tang Feng's words made everyone even more surprised, everyone moved their eyes to Tang Feng, Tang Feng's expression was solemn, he pointed to the abdomen of this corpse, don't you think this corpse is a little awkward?

"It's awkward! Looking at her posture, although she was lying flat before she died, her two hands seemed to be consciously hidden under her! When Han Jiang said this, his eyes suddenly widened, and he exclaimed, "Could it be ...... Could it be that this woman was tied up before she died? ”

"You flip it over and take a look, don't you know?" Tang Feng looked calm.

Han Jiang looked at Tang Feng and didn't understand what he meant, but his huge curiosity prompted him, even if Tang Feng didn't say it, he had to turn it over and take a look, Han Jiang carefully removed the ribs and pelvis of the corpse, and when he removed the pelvic bone on the left side of the corpse, a piece of white jade and jade that exuded a moving luster was revealed in front of everyone.

Han Jiang looked at this jade huang in surprise, and then looked at Tang Feng, "This ...... How can there be a jade that is exactly like yours? ”

"Yes! It's really exactly the same. Liang Yuan was also surprised.

"Maybe the answer is on that side." Tang Feng pointed to the pelvis on the right side of the corpse bone, Han Jiang trembled and removed the pelvis on the right side, and a beautiful jade box appeared in front of everyone, Han Jiang was about to get the jade box, but was stopped by Tang Feng, "Wait!" ”

Han Jiang stopped and looked at Tang Feng, who once again looked at the whole picture of the corpse, "Judging from the location where the jade huang and the jade box appeared, this woman was clutching these two things when she was dying, and there was no trace of a rope tied. ”

Han Jiang and Yelena also carefully distinguished, and indeed they couldn't see any traces of the rope, "Maybe it's because of the age, the rope has long been decayed!" ”

Tang Feng shook his head, "If she is tied with a rope, it will be complicated, do you see that in addition to her, is there anyone lying here who is not from the party?" ”

Han Jiang, Yelena, and Makarov separately checked the bones in the underground palace again, and found no more bones of modern people, all of them were bones from 700 years ago, and they were all bones belonging to the party members. Tang Feng continued: "So I think that when this female scientific expedition member was dying, no one restricted her freedom, she could move here freely, as for the strange posture of her hands, it may be just her personal habit, maybe it represents some kind of symbol, or some kind of mysterious religion, maybe it's nothing!" ”

"What's inside the jade box?" Liang Yuan asked suddenly.

Han Jiang then remembered the jade box, Tang Feng took the jade box from Han Jiang's hand, the jade box is not big, the same use of high-quality Hetian mutton fat white jade, plain noodles, very elegant, open the jade box, there is an ancient scroll rolled together, Tang Feng gently took out the scroll, and slowly unfolded the yellow scroll, only to see that there are only a few words on the short scroll, "It is written in Western Xia script, and the translation is like this-'Those who see this scroll will be fortunate and virtuous after a thousand years, and there is a life gate under the sixth tower on the first floor in the north, which can lead to the netherworld, Out of the Styx you can see the white marble bridge, there is a golden gate in front, hold any of the two jade can enter, avoid the water level of the Styx. I didn't hide my own handwriting. ’”

"This ...... What does this roll mean? Han Jiang looked at Tang Feng as if he didn't understand.

Tang Feng looked at the volume again, and the more he looked at his brows, the more entangled he became, "This passage may be able to explain Liang Yuan's previous question, the first thing that interests me is the person who wrote this volume, at the end of the volume, there is a signature 'no hidden', 'no hidden' The party surname we are already familiar with, but who is this unhidden?" The content of the scroll is related to the secrets of Western Xia, and the person who can write this scroll is by no means an ordinary person, so this 'Wu Zang' must be a high-ranking nobleman with the surname Wu Zang, and he is familiar with the secret structure of Mi Cheng, and he is even the person who participated in the design and supervision of Mi Cheng! Then, only Yuan Hao's favored ministers did not hide Pang and did not hide the queen; Judging from the words on this scroll, the handwriting is beautiful, not like a man's handwriting, but more like the writing of a dignified and virtuous woman, so I speculate that this scroll was not written by the Empress herself. ”

"But why did Empress Muzang write this volume and tell the secret matter?" Han Jiang asked.

"This has to be seen from the content of the volume, the first sentence 'those who see this volume will be fortunate and virtuous people after a thousand years,' seems useless, but in fact answers the question you just asked, the reason why the queen wrote this scroll and hid it in the jade box is to let the virtuous and fortunate people see it after a thousand years. Judging from the jade quality used in the jade box, it is almost exactly the same as the jade quality of the two pieces of jade, I think that these two pieces of jade are likely to be carved and chiseled at the same time as the jade box and the jade ring on the golden gate, or even from the same piece of jade, and the jade box was not only used to store this volume, but its greater role was to put these two pieces of jade, so the scroll of the queen was actually a hint to the person who got the jade. ”

But why did she do that? Could it be that he wants outsiders to find Mi Cheng? Liang Yuan asked.

"No, of course she doesn't want outsiders to find Micheng, so when she built Micheng, she chose such a dangerous place to build such a complex Micheng, but Yuan Hao's original intention was not to let Micheng be completely isolated from the world and not known, he hid the treasures in order to let future generations find these treasures, but this brings a contradiction, on the one hand, I don't want people to easily find Micheng and find the treasures of Micheng, on the other hand, I want the descendants of the party to find this place and take out these treasures......"

"So Yuan Hao and Empress Wuzang left Yuhuang and this scroll as a hint." Liang Yuan seemed to understand.

"Not only the jade Huang and this scroll, but also the jade interstitial, as well as many relics, the ruins are all pointing the way for the wisest and bravest descendants to find the treasures of Micheng, such as the strange totem on the caisson of the Immortal Palace, all of which are not a few."

"It seems that we are the lucky and virtuous people after a thousand years!" Han Jiang smiled, "Empress Wuzang actually expected a thousand years ago that she would have to wait for a thousand years before anyone could come here!" ”

"Don't get too complacent, we haven't found the treasure yet? What's more, even if we find the treasure, the general will find it! I feel like they're not far from us, close, close! Tang Feng said worriedly.

6

Tang Feng's words made everyone look at the golden gate behind him, there was no figure outside the door, Tang Feng said slowly: "The next sentence on the scroll shocked me even more, 'There is a life gate under the sixth tower on the first floor of the north, which can lead to the netherworld, and the white marble bridge can be seen out of the Styx,' It is not difficult to see from this sentence that the 'netherworld' refers to the dark river under the white marble bridge, and the 'sixth tower on the first floor of the north' should refer to the sixth lama tower on the north side of the first floor platform of the pyramid!" ”

Tang Feng said this, carefully thinking about the lama pagodas they walked through, the sixth lama pagoda on the north side of the first floor? Tang Feng didn't have a special impression in his mind, he hurried by at that time, and he didn't carefully inspect each lama pagoda at all, but when he thought of this, Tang Feng's train of thought suddenly became clear, "The sixth lama pagoda on the first floor of the north of the pyramid?" Isn't this the secret that those party warriors are desperately defending? ”

"Yes! The bones of those party warriors are densely packed on the stairs leading to the first platform of the pyramid to protect this great secret! Makarov also figured it out.

Tang Feng nodded, "That's right!" In the last moments of Mi City, in order to protect the most important secrets of Mi City, hundreds of party warriors used their flesh and blood to block the two passages leading to the Gate of Life and the Hall of Immortality. ”

"So we have reason to believe that Kublai Khan's army did not discover the most important secret of Micheng back then!" Han Jiang said.

"Yes, just a little bit, there is a team of cowardly Xue Jun who has broken into the Immortal Palace, this is the blessing of the Immortal Heaven!" When Tang Feng said this, he became inexplicably excited.

"But...... But how did this female scientific expedition team member enter the underground palace? Han Jiang asked.

"She must have found this jade box first, entered through the Shengmen, and then opened the golden gate with the jade Huang in the jade box, and came here!" Tang Feng said.

"This brings up three more problems." Yelena suddenly said: "First, since this female scientific expedition member entered here according to the instructions of the Empress Wuzang, why didn't she go out and finally sleep here?" Second, how did this female member of the scientific expedition enter here alone when the scientific expedition team was killed? Is she the only one? Third, is the other piece of jade, that is, the piece of jade that Tang Feng found in the poplar forest, another piece that was originally hidden in the jade box? If so, how did it get into the poplar forest? ”

Tang Feng listened to these questions, his brows tightened, and after a long while, he said slowly: "I think the answer to the first question may be on the scroll, 'Don't avoid the water level of the Styx.'" ’”

"Don't the water level of the River Styx? What does that mean? The crowd was puzzled.

This sentence reminded me of the Sea of Death, and I suspect that this underground river is connected to the Sea of Death. Everyone is already clear about the habits of the sea of death, one end of the Shengmen is on the pyramid, and the other end may be on the cliff under the white marble bridge, I just stood on the bridge and looked down, I couldn't see the Styx, I could only hear the sound of water, which means that now is the time when the water level is low, once the water level of the Styx River skyrockets, I estimate that the outlet will be flooded, so the queen said in the volume, 'Don't avoid the water level of the Styx'! In this way, people will not be able to use this birth gate, the main passage to the underground palace is still the passage we found in the Immortal Palace, the birth gate is only used in emergency situations, if it is just in time for the water level to skyrocket, the birth gate will become the 'death door'! ”

"In this way, the hint on the scroll is both a well-intentioned hint and a hidden murderous motive?" Liang Yuan said.

"The secret of Mi Cheng only belongs to those who can read it, and this female scientific expedition member did not understand the true meaning of the scroll, so she rashly entered the underground palace, and was finally blocked by the soaring water level." Tang Feng Road.

"What a cruel reality, she finally chose the same posture as these party members, lying straight and straight in the deep underground palace with these more than 800 skeletons, welcoming the arrival of death! Can I imagine how desperate she was at the end of her life? Liang Yuan seemed to feel sorry for this female scientific expedition member.

"So, what about these party members? They fled underground, the Temple of Immortality was sealed, could it be that they died here after the water level skyrocketed and they ran out of ammunition and food? Makarov asked suddenly.

"This ......" Makarov's words reminded everyone of a terrible thing, and Han Jiang said in horror: "Will these people end up killing each other, or even cannibalism?" ”

Tang Feng shook his head, "No, we see that there is still surplus grain in the granary, although it is not much, but they are not going to kill each other, as for the party members who fled into the underground palace, have they come out of here again?" I think there should be, Uncle Wei Ming is the proof, Uncle Wei Ming once told me that their ancestors are the descendants of the party members who escaped from Micheng! In addition, even if the water level rises sharply, there are times when the water level recedes, and I think that when the water level recedes, there must be brave party members who walked out of Shengmen. ”

"If someone has gone out, why haven't these people gone out?" Makarov asked.

"Perhaps their loved ones died in the war, and they did not have the courage to rebuild their homes, so they chose to end their lives here; And the brave people who went out were also for various reasons, maybe because their numbers were too small, their strength was too small, maybe because of the deterioration of the environment, in short, they did not rebuild the seriously damaged Micheng, but chose to go out of Micheng, out of the Wild Wolf Valley, return to the most primitive state of their nation, and re-graze for a living; But in order to keep the secrets of their ancestors, they did not choose to go to a place with abundant water and grass, but they stayed in this desert, and made up many true or false legends and stories to increase the mystery and horror of Micheng, these terrible legends and stories, passed down from generation to generation, so that outsiders dare not set foot in it. Tang Feng's eyes seemed to show a historical picture of Micheng after it was seriously damaged.

7

Han Jiang once again looked up at this magnificent underground palace, and was deeply impressed by this wonderful design, "From the perspective of this Shengmen, all the buildings in Mi City are well-designed and perfect, when they built this underground palace, they took into account the existence of the underground dark river, and mastered the habits of the underground dark river, and built the underground palace in the place where the water level of the underground dark river is the highest, so that even if the water level of the underground dark river soars and floods the Shengmen, it will not flood the underground palace." ”

"Yes, the wisdom of the ancients is often beyond our imagination!" Tang Feng paused, and then said: "As for Yelena, the other two questions you mentioned, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to explain them clearly, the second question, how did this female scientific expedition team member get here after the scientific expedition team was killed?" This question began to be thought about when I saw this corpse, but I couldn't figure out anything, all we knew about this female expedition member was the ruins found in the poplar forest and her lost notebook next to the Great White Spring! On the side of the Great White Spring, the scientific expedition team has run out of water and food, but this female scientific expedition member miraculously left the Great White Spring after writing in the diary, and has been finding Micheng, and also entered the underground palace, her own strength alone is obviously not enough, there must be other people, I have always suspected that Ma Changguo took her away by the Great White Spring. ”

"However, Ma Changguo shouldn't have entered Micheng!" Yelena said.

Tang Feng nodded, "Well, I also think that Ma Changguo only walked to the Oasis of Death and did not enter Micheng, however, this does not contradict my inference, the poison in the Great White Spring was released by Ma Changguo, and his subordinates are all bandits, rabble, he needs scholars with professional knowledge to help him find Micheng." ”

"So Ma Changguo took away the female scientific expedition team members by the Dabai Spring, so what happened later?" Yelena asked.

"Later, then we don't know, but considering the changeable and terrible oasis of death, Ma Changguo was greatly stimulated and died unforgettable, I estimate that in the oasis, they had an accident, and after thinking about it like this, I immediately thought of ......"

"The toppled stele!" Yelena understood what Tang Feng meant.

"Yes, now maybe we can connect this series of discoveries together, their group is likely to camp in the dense forest, at night, this female scientific expedition member knocked down the stone tablet and killed several of Ma Changguo's surviving subordinates, and then I don't know what happened, Ma Changguo ran away, and the female scientific expedition team found Micheng, but obviously, there is a problem here, such a heavy stone tablet, it is difficult to knock down with a woman's strength, there must be someone else who is helping him!" Tang Feng deduced step by step, and suddenly, he thought of something, "That's right, Misha!" Misha should have been to Mi Cheng as well. ”

"But Misha didn't die in Mi City!"

"How did Misha escape from Mi Cheng? How did the female expedition team member die here? After that, I am afraid that everything that happened to them can only be lost forever! Tang Feng shook his head and sighed.

"So, what about Jade Juan? Are the jade huang you found and the jade in the hands of the female scientific expedition team members a pair? Yelena asked again.

"It should be a pair, because the scroll says, 'There is a golden gate in front of you, and you can enter with any of these two jade Huang!' There should be two pieces of jade in the jade box, the question is that when the female scientific expedition team members found the jade box, was there one piece of jade huang or two pieces of jade in it? ”

"But why did one of the jade pieces appear in the poplar forest?"

"This ...... This is even stranger, since I saw the woman wearing the mask, I have been having a dream, a terrible nightmare, the woman in the mask in the dream is the queen of the Hidden Treasure, she gave me the jade in the dream, and then I found this jade in the poplar forest! Tang Feng tried his best to recall everything in the dream.

"How could Jade Huang be lost and regained?" Han Jiang asked.

"This is also something I don't understand, but ......" Tang Feng hesitated for a moment, and then said: "But we didn't know that Yu Huang was the key to open the door of the underground palace in the past, and now that we think about it, Yu Huang was lost and recovered, I'm afraid that someone wants to seize this key, judging from the signs in the Immortal Palace, someone has already come here, and they are likely to be around here!" ”

Tang Feng's words made everyone nervous, everyone looked at each other, Han Jiang even took out a gun, but they looked towards Jinmen, and no one came in.

8

Everyone carefully inspected this magnificent underground palace again, and Tang Feng found burnt ashes in the corner, which indicated that someone had lit a fire here. When Tang Feng walked to the stone wall on the west side of the underground palace, he found that a black hole appeared on the stone wall, and the cave looked like a corridor.

The secret of the underground palace is still extending, Tang Feng took the torch from Han Jiang's hand, and was the first to walk into this dark corridor, the inside of the corridor is wider than the door hole outside, all made of polished and smooth giant granite barriers, when the torch in Tang Feng's hand shines at the end of the corridor, he was stunned, and a stone door appeared in front of him, to be precise, it should be a gate made entirely of jade!

Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, Yelena and Makarov were also deeply shocked by this jade door, and Tang Feng muttered in his mouth: "It's actually a gate made of Hetian jade." ”

Tang Feng seemed to be attracted by a huge magic power, walked to the jade gate, his hands caressed the cold and smooth jade door, and inadvertently, the jade gate actually opened......

Everyone was surprised, and Han Jiang took a closer look, "There doesn't seem to be a lock on this jade door at all!" ”

"Because it's a jade door, it's not needed at all, jade is fragile, and this door is not used to block people who try to get close to it, it's just to show the grandeur and majesty of it!" Tang Feng muttered, having entered the world behind the Jade Gate.

The dark space behind the jade gate is too big, the torch can only illuminate a small space at the door, Han Jiang found a groove on the stone wall next to him where the candles are placed, so he took out the candles he carried, lit up the grooves one by one, as they walked forward, Han Jiang lit more and more candles, until they stopped, hundreds of candles illuminated the entire palace, and everyone saw that this was a huge rectangular underground palace, more brilliant than the previous palace they saw, The palace is a tall building supported by hundreds of giant stone pillars, each stone pillar is shining with dazzling golden light, and at the end of the palace, directly opposite the position of the jade gate, is a semi-circular square, at the end of the square is a high platform, on the high platform is placed a throne made of white jade, the edges and corners of the throne are wrapped in gold, the light from the gold and jade reflect each other, under the light of the fire, shining!

The five people were all shocked by this spectacular underground palace, Tang Feng half-opened his mouth, looked up, the top of each column, and the stone wall were carved with exquisite Buddha statues, pasted with gold and color paintings, so that he suddenly had a feeling of being in the Western Heaven Elysium.

After ten minutes, Tang Feng walked out of the initial shock, he suddenly found that on both sides of the main hall, that is, on both sides of the passage where they walked from the jade gate to the semicircular square under the high platform, there were actually two pools with a large area, Tang Feng turned around curiously, walked to the pool on the east side, and before he looked down, a huge cold air approached Tang Feng's face door, Tang Feng retreated, Han Jiang and they surrounded them, and they were all forced to retreat by this huge cold air, "This ...... Why is this pool so cold? Han Jiang asked puzzled.

"Yes, even if it's underground, it shouldn't be so cold!" Yelena said.

Makarov also frowned, "But the water is not frozen!" ”

Tang Feng mustered up his courage and once again lay on the edge of the pool, the huge cold made him tremble, he poked out his neck and looked down, the deep water was pitch black, it seemed to be bottomless!

The unbearable cold continued to hit from below, Tang Feng trembled violently, and he wanted to look underwater, but was dragged back by Han Jiang and Liang Yuan, "You don't want to die!" Liang Yuan said distressedly.

"It's fine!" Tang Feng said that it was okay, but his face was pale, his limbs were weak, and he sat on the ground, and after a while, he stood up with the support of Han Jiang and Liang Yuan. The people walked towards the high platform at the end of the palace, but they searched all over the high platform, and found nothing but the white jade throne, and Makarov could not help but wonder, "Is this the treasure we have worked so hard to find?" This is Mi Cheng's ultimate secret? Is this what countless people are looking for at the cost of their lives? ”

Coming to the end of the underground palace, but not finding the so-called treasure, Makarov thought of his murdered son, and his belief in insisting on his path collapsed in an instant, and he could not accept the whole reality, Yelena had to comfort him incessantly.

Liang Yuan and Han Jiang were also difficult to accept, but Tang Feng still kept a cool head, he was almost recovered, and walked around the semicircular square alone, saying as he walked: "You don't have to doubt, the treasure of Mi Cheng must be here, but Yuan Hao is not willing to let us find it easily!" ”

"Oh! Are you so sure? Han Jiang asked.

"Have you forgotten the tablet enshrined in the Temple of Immortality?" Tang Feng's voice echoed in the huge underground palace.

"Tablet?" Han Jiang immediately understood what Tang Feng meant, "What do you mean, this is the mausoleum of Yuan Hao and Empress Wuzang!" ”

"Yes, for thousands of years, people have believed that Yuan Hao was buried in the tomb of the Xixia King under Helan Mountain, but in fact, no one can accurately say which royal tomb is Yuan Hao's mausoleum, I think this is where Yuan Hao's mausoleum is located!" Tang Feng is very confident.

"But wasn't the bones of the Empress Wuzang sealed in the Buddha statue by Forgiveness and found in the Black City?" Liang Yuan asked suddenly.

"Then why aren't the skulls and skeletons in the Buddha statue owned by one person?" After Tang Feng asked rhetorically, he continued: "I think the ultimate secret is here." ”

After Tang Feng said this, he walked to the south side of the semi-circular hall, he illuminated the stone wall in front of him with a torch, looked at it carefully, and knocked on the stone wall with his hand from time to time, but each stone wall seemed to fit tightly...... It wasn't until Tang Feng found that two rectangular grooves appeared on one of the stone walls, Tang Feng was shocked, and when he looked at it again, two rectangular grooves also appeared on the stone wall next to him, Tang Feng was not in a hurry to make a judgment, he kept checking the entire stone wall, only four rectangular grooves appeared on the two stone walls in the middle.

9

Tang Feng faced the groove on the stone wall, suspicious, he took two steps back, and then looked at the stone wall in front of him, he stood in front of the stone wall for a long time, Tang Feng seemed to think that the fire light from the torch was not bright enough, so he took out the flashlight and shone it on the stone wall, with the strong light of the flashlight, Tang Feng saw it clearly little by little - it turned out that in the middle of the whole stone wall, there were two groups of stone walls composed of four boulders, which had gaps with the entire stone wall, and the stone walls with two rectangular grooves were found just now, which were just arranged on the two groups of stone walls, Tang Feng exclaimed in surprise: "There is a gate here!" ”

Everyone gathered around, and under Tang Feng's guidance, everyone saw the traces of the stone wall door, "Yuan Hao really didn't want us to easily find the treasure, and saw the golden gate and the jade gate in front, when we were all expecting that there would be a more incredible gate here, but we came to an ordinary stone door, if you don't look carefully, many people may think that this is the end of the underground palace." Han Jiang said excitedly.

Yelena pushed the stone wall in front of her with both hands, and the stone door did not move, "But how do we open this stone door?" ”

Tang Feng's eyes were staring at the rectangular grooves on the stone door, and suddenly he shouted, "I know, look at those four rectangular grooves!" The size of the groove, shaped like a jade interstitial? ”

"What? Jade interstitial? The crowd was amazed.

Everyone can see that it is the shape of the jade interstitial, but after a short period of joy, it is a huge disappointment, "The four jade interstitial screens are lost!" How can we open this stone door? ”

As soon as Han Jiang's words fell, a voice suddenly came from behind everyone, "Let me open this stone door for you!" ”

The voice was blunt Chinese, everyone was shocked, looking back, only to see a group of people in black rushing into the jade gate, surrounded by many people in black, a tall and thin old man dressed in black walked towards everyone. Behind him stood Stephkin, but he didn't see the man wearing the cloak, maybe the man wearing the cloak in the Skull Mandala was this old man, he should be the general! Tang Feng was thinking wildly in his head, and instinctively took out his gun, Han Jiang and Yelena also took out their guns, but Makarov was unusually calm, he didn't pull out his gun, but took two steps forward, "Yuri, it's really you!" Tang Feng heard Makarov's old voice, and immediately understood the identity of the old man in front of him, he was Burtenko.

"Ivan, my old friend, how many years have we not seen each other?" Burtenko walked up to Makarov and stood still ten meters away from him.

"You...... You've hurt me so much! Makarov's voice was not loud, but it was full of anger.

"No, Ivan, Victor's incident was just an accident, not my intention, and if you want to join me now, it's not too late!" Burdenko was as confident as ever.

"Actually...... Actually, I should have thought that the 'general' was you! ”

"Oh! I know White told us all about it, this guy was never a dry agent material! Burtenko mentioned White.

"No, White told us a lot, but he didn't say anything about you, and he died, and I have been suspicious of you since Bunker 21. I'm so stupid, maybe like you said White, I'm not a dry agent material, I've been at the Forward Base for so many years, and I haven't found Bunker 21, and I haven't discovered your conspiracy. The more Makarov spoke, the more excited he became.

Burdenko laughed, "Ivan, you don't have to blame yourself too much, it was your luck that you didn't find out at the beginning, if you had discovered my secret at the beginning, I'm afraid you wouldn't have lived to this day!" ”

"Hmph, maybe! In fact, in retrospect, you still showed a lot of clues at the beginning, such as the tattoo, and you took me to the Wolf Valley. However, although I began to suspect you in bunker 21, I have never been able to convince myself that I personally collected the corpse for you in the first place, how could you not die? Wasn't there eighteen people on that helicopter? ”

"Hehe, Ivan, there are eighteen people in the helicopter, and I am also on that helicopter, but I have prepared a dead man, a dead man who has been charred!" Although many years have passed, Bultenko still seems to be very proud in retrospect.

"What? Charred dead people? Makarov's voice trembled.

"Yes, a death row prisoner I brought in to be about the same size as me, I burned him in bunker 21 to look like a corpse in an air crash, and he has been stored in bunker 21!"

Bultenko's words shocked Tang Feng's heart, he recalled the black powder he saw in the morgue of the No. 21 bunker, at the beginning, this tiny detail did not attract his attention, and then he realized that those black powders were actually evidence of Buldenko's theft!

Buldenko seemed to be willing to recall the incident, "I have been secretly training my cadets in Base 21, but one day, reliable information from Moscow told me that someone had reported me, and it seemed that the above was aware of my plan, so I had to make a decisive choice, and only then did I use the method of stealing the sky and the day, and the golden cicada came out of its shell!" I prepared the corpse in advance, and when the helicopter flew up the hill above the exit of bunker 21, I forced the pilot to lower the altitude and jumped off the helicopter at great risk, I did something on the helicopter, and when I landed, the helicopter crashed, I quickly entered the bunker and replaced me with the charred corpse, and I hid in the bunker and waited for you to leave! ”

"I see! But...... But why are you doing all this? Is it just to capture the treasure of Micheng? Makarov asked.

"Hmph, treasure, treasure I want to get, but I do all this not just to get the treasure, I do it all for my mother!"

"Mother?!" Everyone looked at Bultenko in shock, and in an instant, the entire underground palace fell into a terrible silence.