1

Tang Feng walked to the end of the causeway, here is a large green meadow, the edge of the meadow is a towering tree, there are cedars, yews, and many trees he does not know, everything is so quiet, there is not the slightest danger.

His feet walked from the white sand to the soft grass, Tang Feng seemed to be electrocuted in an instant, and that strange feeling hit his whole body again. Everyone walked cautiously through the grass and came to the edge of the forest, Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang, Han Jiang took the lead in the forest, and Tang Feng pulled Liang Yuan to follow the forest.

"This ...... It's amazing! Are we still in the desert? Liang Yuan asked curiously.

Tang Feng pinched Han Jiang vigorously and asked, "Are you sure?" ”

Han Jiang gritted his teeth in pain and scolded: "You have to be sure to pinch yourself!" actually pinched Lao Tzu! ”

"I can now be sure that we are not dreaming, and this is not a mirage!"

Tang Feng's words eased the tense atmosphere of everyone, he couldn't see anything terrible about this oasis, everyone walked forward for a while, Tang Feng suddenly found that the grass under his feet was gone, replaced by a layer of lichen, Tang Feng couldn't help but be surprised, "The plants here are too strange, many of them shouldn't appear here, and there are many that I haven't seen at all!" ”

Makarov looked up at the forest and exclaimed, "Yes, there are a lot of plants here that shouldn't be here, and there are many plants that I haven't seen before." ”

Tang Feng thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps...... Perhaps this is because of the special geographical and climatic environment of the Wild Wolf Valley, a stable small environment has been formed here, and this stable small environment is isolated from the world, and it is likely to retain many ancient plants that we have never seen, thus creating this magical oasis, and Yuan Hao discovered this oasis and decided to build Micheng here. ”

"But I can't see anything dangerous here?" Liang Yuan looked around curiously at the dense forest around her.

"Maybe danger will come soon, so it's better to be careful!" Tang Feng admonished Liang Yuan.

"Tang Feng, your words suddenly reminded me of a terrible thing!" Yelena suddenly said with a nervous face.

Everyone stopped and turned to Yelena, "Oh, what's the terrible thing? ”

Yelena looked around, Yelena's eyes looked like something terrible was about to come out of the dense forest, "Tang Feng said that the unique small environment here is isolated from the world, and many ancient plants that have disappeared will be preserved, I ...... It occurred to me that if the unique environment here can preserve many ancient plants that have disappeared, will there also be many ancient animals that have disappeared?! ”

Yelena's voice was not loud, but it made everyone present feel creepy, and everyone's mind came to the huge and terrifying unidentified skeleton by the sea of the dead. Could it be that the monster still lives in this oasis?

Tang Feng stared at the frightened eyes, looking at the dense forest around him, silent, "Don't see any animals?" ”

"What is the name of that monster on the stele of the Cowardly Xue Army?" Han Jiang suddenly remembered the awkward name.

"Kui Jiao!" Tang Feng said.

"Judging from the meaning of the inscription, they have already invaded Micheng, I think Kublai Khan's army should have wiped out Kui Jiao, otherwise, how could they attack Micheng?" Han Jiang reasoned.

"Wiped out the Kui Tree? But the inscription doesn't explicitly mention the end of those monsters! It is only said that the Phags-pa is rationalized by the Buddha. Tang Feng was also recalling the words about Kui on the stele of the cowardly Xue Jun.

"I'm just inferring from common sense that Kui Xuan is vicious and abnormal, which we have seen in Qianhu Town, if Kublai Khan's army can't destroy Kui Xuan, how can it attack Micheng? The so-called 'Buddha reason' on the inscription is just a nice talk, I think this 'turn into it' is the meaning of annihilation, could it be that Phag-pa is really a god-man, can educate the beast? ”

When I saw the inscription, I was puzzled by this sentence. But that's what the inscription says, if you eliminate Kui Jiao, you will directly say that you have destroyed Kui Jiao, so I think there must be something strange in this! ”

Tang Feng said this, leaning back on a huge tree trunk, suddenly, a black thing fell on his shoulder, it was a spider, Tang Feng hurriedly bounced the spider down, but Makarov picked up the spider from the ground, "This is another kind of spider that we have never seen before, from this small insect can prove that Yelena's worries are not unreasonable, this oasis not only retains ancient plants, but also animals from ancient times." ”

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, judging from the inscription, the people of the Yuan Dynasty have never seen Kui See, which shows that at that time, Kui Seep was also a rare animal, then, Kui Seep is likely to be an animal left here in ancient times, this spider is probably an insect left over from ancient times, since insects can survive here to this day, then, other larger animals ......"

Tang Feng didn't continue, but everyone understood what Tang Feng meant, what would be waiting for them in this peaceful and beautiful oasis?

2

Everyone went deep into the dense forest, and Tang Feng found that the lichen under his feet was getting thicker and thicker, and there were many fallen leaves and huge dead trees that fell to the ground, and there was no road to pass through in the dense forest.

Tang Feng was extremely careful with every step, and kept looking around, for fear that the terrible beast would suddenly rush out of the dense forest, Tang Feng's attention was focused on it, but he relaxed his feet, Tang Feng was lying in front of him a dead wood with a diameter of more than two meters, this dead wood had fallen for many years, the trunk was covered with moss, Tang Feng raised his legs and stepped over the dead wood, but when his left leg just fell, he suddenly felt that his feet were soft, and he didn't know what he stepped on, and suddenly his body lost his balance, and the whole person fell down!

Liang Yuan screamed behind Tang Feng, everyone was shocked, why did Tang Feng suddenly disappear, everyone hurriedly ran to the dead wood, but saw that on the other side of the dead wood, the thick lichen was stepped on by Tang Feng, and an unfathomable crack appeared below!

"Tang Feng—" Liang Yuan shouted in horror, and the tremor caused a buzz in the dense forest.

"I ...... I'm here! ”

Tang Feng's faint voice came from under the dead wood, and everyone saw clearly that Tang Feng grabbed the trunk of the dead wood with his right hand, and at this moment, Tang Feng's entire body was hanging in the crack in the ground.

Han Jiang and Yelena worked hard together to finally pull Tang Feng up, and Tang Feng fell heavily on the thick lichen, panting heavily, exhausted.

Makarov lay down beside the crack in the ground in confusion, looking down, the crack was not wide, but the cold air below was unfathomable, and there seemed to be some white things faintly flashing, Makarov thought of those bones in his mind, and couldn't help muttering to himself: "How can there be such a crack here?" Odd! ”

"It's weird! Ordinary ground cracks only appear in karst terrain, and this is not karst terrain at all! Yelena also looked down into the ground.

"Isn't this the time to study the cracks, do you see those white things down there?" Han Jiang also saw those white things. "I'm afraid it's bones, human bones! Tang Feng, this kid has a big life, otherwise he would have been with those white bones by now! ”

"I'm still dying? I'm bad enough! Tang Feng seemed to have eased up, sat on the ground, and recalled the thrilling scene just now, "I'm afraid that no one has set foot in this oasis for hundreds of years, and the ground is full of thick lichens, fallen leaves and dead wood, who would have thought that he would step on the air with one foot." ”

"That's what worries me the most!" Han Jiang suddenly said: "This oasis has not been set foot in since Kublai Khan's army, and the lichen here is so thick that we can't see the danger under the lichen at all. ”

"It's like entering a minefield...... Makarov closed his eyes, as if he were in war-torn Afghanistan again.

"Yes, there is a minefield ahead of us! So everyone should be extra careful. I'm going ahead to find the way, and you all have to follow me, in a line, and don't go where I haven't walked! Han Jiang said in a commanding tone.

According to Han Jiang's order, everyone lined up, Han Jiang was in front, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan followed, Makarov and Yelena were behind, and the five of them continued to march towards the depths of the dense forest.

3

Han Jiang used a long branch to explore the way, and probed out five cracks in the ground one after another, but these five cracks were of different depths, and some cracks were not so deep, Makarov suddenly thought of something, "Maybe this is left by the earthquake!" ”

"That's the only way to explain it!" Han Jiang muttered.

The five of them walked in the dense forest for an hour, but they only advanced one or two thousand meters, along the way, all kinds of strange flowers and plants, as well as ancient trees and famous trees that they had never seen before, but they did not see any large animals, only some insects, small animals such as flying butterflies, Tang Feng was both curious and nervous, just when he was surprised, Han Jiang, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, Tang Feng came up, Han Jiang nodded at him, Tang Feng found that it was in front of them, A giant python covered in patterns is perched on dead wood.

The giant python also seemed to have found the target, and slowly moved towards Tang Feng and them, Han Jiang and Tang Feng slowly retreated, suddenly, Tang Feng's back was gently patted, Tang Feng turned to look, Liang Yuan was staring at him with a pair of frightened eyes, Liang Yuan trembled and pointed to the top of their heads with his right hand, Tang Feng knew that Liang Yuan was pointing, and he didn't dare to look up, so he had to roll his eyes and look at the top of his head, and another giant python slowly moved towards him from the moss-covered trunk, Tang Feng's back was cold, and he had goosebumps.

Everyone tiptoed back and forth, but they soon found that they were surrounded, surrounded by four giant pythons and thousands of snakes of different sizes, five people leaning together, and even Liang Yuan pulled out his pistol for self-defense, and a big battle was inevitable.

Fortunately, before they entered the Wild Wolf Valley, they had enough ammunition, and before the giant python and the snake group approached, Han Jiang took the lead in pulling the trigger, "Come on!" You damn guys! Han Jiang, who had been suppressed for a long time, shouted viciously while shooting at the snakes.

Tang Feng, Yelena and Makarov also began to shoot at the group of snakes, according to Han Jiang's command, five people formed an assault formation and attacked forward, Han Jiang and Yelena were in front, with * assault, Tang Feng, Liang Yuan and Makarov were against Han Jiang, Yelena, on alert in three different directions, using pistols to deal with all the snakes attacking them!

Han Jiang and Yelena swept all the way, the snakes in front of them flew with flesh and blood, and the two giant pythons in front of them also had to avoid their edges, at this moment, a long snake with a triangular head suddenly rushed down from the branch above Han Jiang's head, Tang Feng raised his head and shouted: "Be careful!" Crown! ”

Han Jiang didn't look up, he only raised the * and pulled the trigger, the snake fell in response, and suddenly the skin and flesh opened, Tang Feng exclaimed: "This snake is a poisonous snake, if you are bitten by it......"

Tang Feng didn't dare to say any more, Han Jiang was also scared for a while when he heard it, but he didn't have time to think about it at all, the bullets in the magazine had already been fired, and in the interval between Han Jiang and Yelena changing magazines, those snakes came up again, but there were more and more, dense, almost covering the entire forest.

4

Facing more and more snakes, Han Jiang and Yelena's scalps tingled, they had never seen such a spectacular snake formation, the two looked at each other, and had no other choice but to continue to shoot.

"We have to think of something else! Sooner or later, our bullets will run out! Tang Feng said loudly.

"What can you do?" Han Jiang almost squeezed out of his teeth.

"I haven't figured it out yet, what about you?" Tang Feng turned to Makarov and Liang Yuan.

Liang Yuan shook his head in despair, but Makarov was silent, at this moment, a snake slipped down on the trunk of a dead tree above Makarov's head, Tang Feng was just about to raise his gun to shoot, but he didn't want Makarov to react quickly, and raised his gun "Bang!" Bang! Two gunshots rang out, and the snake was cut into three pieces and landed at Tang Feng's feet, "Good marksmanship!" Tang Feng couldn't help but praise.

"It's trivial!" Makarov finally spoke, "It's really not the way to fight like this, I remember that when I was in the KGB school, I used to do research on snakes encountered in the wild, and the best way to deal with them is fire and smell!" ”

"Firelight? We don't have enough fire-burning materials right now! And it's easy to burn the whole forest on fire! Tang Feng said worriedly.

"Damn, your life is almost gone, you still care about environmental protection!" Han Jiang scolded.

"The fire is not the best way, in addition to the fear of burning the whole forest, it is also easy to expose itself, and the effect is not necessarily good!" Makarov said again.

"So what do you say you should do?" Tang Feng asked again.

"It's best to avoid snakes by smell! The KGB has studied many species of snakes, and there are several smells that most snakes cannot accept......"

Makarov was still talking, but Han Jiang interrupted him, "Old Ma, what you said is all nonsense, where do we get those smells you said now?" ”

"Yes! I also know that this approach is not realistic! Makarov said.

Unexpectedly, Liang Yuan suddenly shouted, "My perfume may work!" ”

"Perfume?!" Makarov was taken aback.

Tang Feng reprimanded: "Don't mess around, what is the use of perfume?" Perfume has to work, why is the snake still running on you, don't you wear perfume every day? ”

"yes, does perfume work?" Yelena sniffed her perfume suspiciously.

"No, I'm not talking about my usual perfume, but this bottle!" Liang Yuan said and took out a bottle full of beautifully packaged perfume from his backpack, "I'm talking about this bottle, don't underestimate this bottle of perfume, it was brought back from Paris by my father, and it is said to be worth more than 30,000 ......."

"More than 30,000? Just such a vial! Tang Feng exclaimed.

"I'm talking about more than $30,000!" Liang Yuan added.

"Dollar back?" Tang Feng was even more surprised.

"That's why I've never been willing to use it."

"And what else you can't afford to use? But no matter how expensive you are, it's useless, our little life is about to be explained here, you better use it quickly, don't waste such an expensive perfume! Tang Feng said angrily.

"Look at your hatred of the rich. This bottle of perfume was given to me by my dad when he heard that I was going to participate in your expedition, saying that this bottle of perfume is not only fragrant, but also can repel mosquitoes and insects in the wild, but I don't know if it works for snakes! ”

"Also repellent mosquitoes and insects? I bought a bottle of high-end toilet water for more than $30,000 with your daddy! Tang Feng couldn't help but laugh bitterly.

"Okay, Tang Feng, let's try Liang Yuan's perfume!"

Saying that, Makarov took Liang Yuan's high-end perfume, as soon as he opened the bottle cap, a strange fragrance came to his nose, Makarov dipped a little with his hand, applied it to his arm, smelled it in front of his nose, and immediately reveled in it, Makarov quickly applied the perfume to his arms and body, and the strange fragrance emitted by the perfume caused everyone to be surprised, "What kind of fragrance is this?" I've never smelled it. Yelena said.

"Yes. I've never heard of it either! Makarov said.

In order to test the snake-avoiding effect of perfume, Tang Feng hurriedly picked up a branch from the ground and smeared some perfume on the branch. ”

Liang Yuan's eyes flashed, and he nodded, "It's distressing, more than 30,000 knives!" ”

"Don't feel distressed, when it's over, I'll find Han Jiang for reimbursement!"

"Damn, you can figure it out! I can't protect myself now, I'm not a human being inside and out, and you still expect me to reimburse you for perfume! Otherwise, you can find Yelena and report it! Iryukin's side is easy to go to the account! Han Jiang still has the leisure to think about where to find reimbursement.

"Alright, don't be poor! I don't know if this perfume works! Liang Yuan shouted.

"I'll see it!" Makarov was already somewhat sure.

Tang Feng threw a perfume-covered branch at the group of snakes not far away, and the branch fell among the snakes, and the group of snakes immediately scattered and fled, quickly dispersed, and did not get close to the branch again.

"The experiment was a success! This perfume really does ward off snakes! Tang Feng announced loudly, and at the same time handed the perfume to Liang Yuan, the five people applied the perfume one after another, Han Jiang also applied the perfume to the branches, and used the branches to explore the way forward, this trick really worked, the snakes in front of them avoided one after another, and Han Jiang quickly walked in front of a dead wood with a strange shape.

5

Han Jiang stopped again, because there was a giant python lying on the trunk of the tree in front of him, motionless, at this time, the strange fragrance emitted by the perfume had spread in the forest, and it had been spread for several miles, and it had not dispersed for a long time, and the snakes avoided it, but this giant python was indifferent, and it didn't seem to be interested in the smell of perfume.

Han Jiang tried several times with a branch, but it didn't work, and in the end, Han Jiang simply threw the perfume-coated branch at the giant python on the dead wood, and the giant python's body moved slightly, but let the strange fragrance from the perfume spread around the dead wood, the giant python did not move.

"It's useless, this python seems to be injured." Yelena said suddenly.

Everyone took a closer look, and sure enough, there was a wound on the stomach of the giant python, which was bleeding outside, and the smell of blood quickly overshadowed the smell of perfume around the dead wood.

"Could this be the python that once fought with us in the sea of death?" Han Jiang carefully recalled the terrible fight.

"It's not just the injury, do you notice, this python's stomach ......," Yelena prompted.

"Belly?" Han Jiang looked at the belly of the giant python opposite suspiciously, and Tang Feng first saw the clue, "There is something in the stomach of this giant python, I am afraid that it has just swallowed something indigestible, plus there are injuries on its body, so although this giant python is not used to the smell of perfume, it can't move." ”

"But this python is blocking our way, what should we do?" Liang Yuan asked.

"No wonder I am! You follow me. ”

Han Jiang walked over to the giant python with a *, as soon as Han Jiang took a step, the giant python raised its head at Han Jiang and put on an offensive posture, Han Jiang took another step, and the giant python launched an attack on Han Jiang, Han Jiang roared: "Go to death!" ", and then pulled the trigger.

"Da da-" * The bullets shot out all hit the giant python, the giant python's body retreated backwards, Han Jiang thought that the giant python was dead now, so he boldly approached the giant python, but he never expected that after the giant python retreated for a while, it actually rushed up in the rain of bullets, Han Jiang was so shocked that he hurriedly retreated, but it was too late, Han Jiang only felt that his eyes were dark, and a pungent fishy smell surrounded him, and when he reacted, the * in his hand had already fallen, and the giant python was lying on him.

Tang Feng and Yelena hurriedly rushed up, but they were facing the giant python that had been entangled with Han Jiang, there was nothing to do, Tang Feng didn't dare to shoot rashly, he looked at Yelena, Yelena was not sure, at this time, Makarov shouted loudly from behind: "Han Jiang, use a dagger!" ”

Han Jiang suddenly came to his senses, the pungent fishy smell and the mucus all over his body made Han Jiang dizzy, and he fought with the giant python as much as possible to keep himself from being entangled by the giant python; While pulling out the dagger, he stabbed at the soft abdomen of the giant python, blood mixed with black mucus flowed out of the giant python's body, Han Jiang didn't care about this, and kept stabbing the giant python in the abdomen, the giant python let out a low wail, and then turned over from Han Jiang's body, Han Jiang was like crazy, and rode on the giant python in turn, and continued to stab the giant python.

"Han, it's dead!" Yelena shouted at Han Jiang, but Han Jiang still frantically inserted the dagger into the python's body.

Just when Yelena was at a loss, Tang Feng suddenly shouted, "Look, what is that?" Everyone looked at it intently, and saw that the abdomen of the giant python, which had been pierced by Han Jiang, revealed a black thing.

6

Han Jiang was still lying on the giant python, stabbing the giant python, Yelena had to pounce on it and drag the crazy Han Jiang down, the dagger in Han Jiang's hand made a long cut in the belly of the giant python for the last time, and the black thing was exposed.

"People, it's a person!" Liang Yuan exclaimed.

Everyone was shocked, only to see that the man's head was already bloody and fleshy, only the black clothes on his body had not been dissolved by the stomach acid of the giant python, Makarov leaned forward to observe, "It's the general's person, this guy seems to have been in the belly of the giant python for a while, and the skin on the head has begun to rot." ”

"The general's man? Could it be that the general's men also entered the oasis? Tang Feng exclaimed.

Makarov pondered for a moment and shook his head, "No, I guess these snakes are the same group of snakes that attacked us and the men in black in the mandala just now. ”

"In other words, the man in black in the belly of the python should have been swallowed in the mandala, and then these snakes followed us here!" Tang Feng said.

Makarov nodded, "I think it should be so, the smell on our bodies is special here, Tang Feng, if as you said, these snakes were put here by Bas-pa back then, then they have been the guardians of this place for hundreds of years, how can they allow us to enter here?" ”

"Is it really untouched for hundreds of years? I can't believe it. Yelena said.

"Yes, someone, don't forget Misha, Ma Changguo, and that mysterious female scientific expedition member." Makarov said.

"Yes, Lao Ma, you said this, I remembered it, and I also understood, why Ma Changguo shouted in horror when he was dying, 'Oasis of Death', he and his people have been here, and they must have encountered everything we encountered, ubiquitous cracks in the ground, thousands of snakes and pythons, maybe there are some fierce beasts we haven't seen yet!" Tang Feng remembered what Stephen said before he died.

"Well, those white bones under the cracks in the ground may be Ma Changguo's people, or other people who have been involved in it for hundreds of years!" Makarov thought for a while, and then said: "The people of Ma Changguo should have lost all their losses here, he escaped from the oasis alone, and also escaped from the Wolf Valley, and did not dare to stay any longer, and hurriedly began his escape. I think he was already in a state of psychological collapse at that time, so he chose to give up, and he lost the confidence to find Mi Cheng here, even though he knew that he was very close to Mi Cheng. ”

"It seems that this oasis is really terrifying! So much so that outlaws like Ma Changguo also collapsed here. When Tang Feng said this, he suddenly thought of something, "What about Misha and the mysterious female scientific expedition team?" ”

"This ......," Makarov hesitated, "I think they're probably the only ones who have set foot in Mi City in hundreds of years, but they're just ...... It's just that I don't know where exactly Misha went? ”

"The incomparable door!" Tang Feng remembered the letter Misha wrote to Liang Yunjie, "I think it should be the gate of Micheng, he must have entered Micheng." As for the female scientific expedition team member, or someone else who has found Mi Cheng, it is unknown. ”

"Tang Feng, don't you think it's strange? The well-equipped Ma Changguo failed to find Mi Cheng, but Misha was able to find Mi Cheng?! Makarov's brow furrowed.

"Okay, you guys, don't care about me!" Han Jiang's voice came from Tang Feng's side, this was the first time Tang Feng heard that the tough guy Han Jiang needed to be cared about, it seemed that Han Jiang was frightened by the giant python just now.

"How do you need us to care about you?" Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang who was covered in filth with a concerned expression.

"Water, I need to take a shower!" Han Jiang shouted in pain.

"Just bear with it, where is the water here?"

"Then bear with the stench!"

Tang Feng rolled his eyes and said, "Don't threaten us, there is perfume, you can't stink us, or you will use this more than 30,000 dollars a bottle of perfume to smear it, and keep your fragrant body." ”

"Squirt me, I can't stand it anymore! Damn, I've never encountered such a stinky snake! ”

Tang Feng had no choice but to spray some perfume on Han Jiang first, everyone had perfume to protect their bodies, those snakes retreated one after another, and everyone was finally able to move forward again.

7

The five of them walked forward with difficulty for a few hundred meters, the ground was full of dead trees and thorns, there was no road at all, Tang Feng looked around nervously, the snakes seemed to have completely retreated, the dense forest here became silent again, and even the small insects could not be seen, would that fierce beast suddenly appear?

Thinking of this, Tang Feng's body trembled suddenly, but the legendary Kui Jiao did not appear, and what made him even more puzzled was that since they entered the dense forest, Mi Cheng, which was still faintly visible outside, was completely invisible at this moment.

"This forest is not big, so we should be almost out of the dense forest?" Liang Yuan also saw the clues.

"I'm afraid we're going to go round in the jungle again!" Makarov tract.

"It doesn't matter if you turn in a circle or not, you can turn out!" As soon as Han Jiang's words fell, he stopped, at this moment Han Jiang became extremely cautious, and it seemed that he had not recovered from the fright just now, Yelena was a little bolder than him, and took another step forward, but Han Jiang suddenly shouted: "Yelena, wait, what do you see it is?" ”

"I saw it!" Yelena seemed to be mentally prepared.

Tang Feng followed, and found that in a piece of dead wood and thorns not far ahead, something in the shape of a stone was faintly exposed. When Tang Feng and Han Jiang approached, Yelena had already wiped off the thick lichen and moss covering the stone, to Yelena's surprise, the volume of this stone exceeded her imagination, and what was just revealed was only the tip of the iceberg, Tang Feng only glanced at it, and felt that this stone was unusual, "This...... The surface of the stone is very flat, it is obvious that it has been polished by hand, and it is likely that it is another stele. ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, and they hurriedly helped Yelena to remove the moss from the stones, and sure enough, what was revealed in front of everyone's eyes was a flat boulder, and it was obvious that this was also a monument, a monument that had been knocked down!

Yelena carefully observed this stele, but was puzzled, "Tang Feng, there doesn't seem to be any text on this stele!" ”

Tang Feng also squatted down, and when he looked closely, there was indeed no text on the stele, but he firmly believed in his judgment, this is an ancient stele, and it will never be wrong! Tang Feng stood up, took two steps back, and looked around, suddenly, he found that the ground was slightly raised on the right side of the stele, bulging a piece, like a small mountain bag, but it was very unnatural, there were no trees growing on the mountain bag, only thick lichen and moss covered, Tang Feng immediately realized the mystery below, he pulled out the dagger, and quickly removed the lichen and moss on the small mountain bag, and soon, a stone was also exposed underneath, a stone with a regular shape, "You see, this is a stone pedestal, It was supposed to be a monument in the first place, and voila! There is a circle under the stele pedestal that is also carved with patterns! ”

Tang Feng leaned down and used his hand to wipe away the soil under the stele, his eyes lit up suddenly, "Dragon!" It's a dragon pattern, a dragon pattern! This is the hallmark of the emperor. ”

"The stele of the cowardly Xue army was erected by Kublai Khan's army, it is bare, there is no pattern, and there is actually a stele engraved with a dragon pattern here?!" Han Jiang shook his head, puzzled.

Tang Feng said with great certainty, "That's right, this dragon pattern is a typical Western Xia style, and this tablet should be a stone tablet from the Western Xia period!" ”

"The stone tablet of Western Xia? Why is there no text on it? The crowd was puzzled.

Tang Feng stood up, gestured to himself, and then explained: "If I'm not mistaken, this knocked down stele was originally erected on this stele pedestal, and the stele pedestal is now on the right side of the stele, from this direction, the front of the stele should be pressed underneath, what you see is only the back of the stele, of course there will be no words!" ”

Everyone suddenly realized, Tang Feng used a dagger to remove the soil on the side of the stele, and there were exquisite patterns revealed, still colorful auspicious cloud dragon patterns, Tang Feng said without hesitation: "My judgment is right, this is a stone tablet of Western Xia, and the carving is exquisite, obviously this tablet has a special significance to Mi City, to Western Xia, otherwise it would not be time-consuming and laborious to carve such a beautiful stone tablet here." ”

"Yes, there are no carved patterns on the stele of the cowardly Xue army, and except for the side with the inscription, the rest of the place is very rough!" Han Jiang Road.

"Although this stele is not as big as the stele of the cowardly Xue army, but it is so beautifully carved, so I say that it is of great significance to Micheng and Western Xia, of course, it is also of great use to us, if you want to see the inscription, everyone will turn the stele over together!" Tang Feng looked at everyone with some excitement.

"Turn the monument over?" Han Jiang hesitated a little, "Just a few of us?" ”

"And me!" Liang Yuan volunteered.

"I haven't forgotten you, now in this ghost place, I don't treat you as a lady anymore, you have to be a soldier!" Han Jiang joked.

"It was meant to be!" Liang Yuan was quite unconvinced.

So, everyone began to turn over the stele, and the five people stood on the side of the stele, working together, and wasted the strength of the stele before lifting the stele slightly, "I can't see it, this stele is not big, it is so heavy!" After Tang Feng grinned and popped out of his mouth, he had to put down the stele again with everyone, and the five people looked at each other, just panting, and suddenly, Liang Yuan shouted, "You guys are really stupid!" There are so many tree trunks here, I don't know how to use them as crowbars! ”

When Han Jiang heard this, he said angrily: "Miss, you think I don't know how to use it, how did I know that this stone is so heavy." ”

So, everyone separated, found five tree trunks, used them as crowbars, first lifted the stele slightly, and then put the crowbar down, and together with force, the stele finally got up, but when the stele was hanging in mid-air, Liang Yuan exclaimed "Ah-", and then the crowbar in her hand was broken!

"Hold on!" At the critical moment, Makarov yelled, Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Yelena also worked together, and finally didn't let the stone tablet hanging in mid-air fall again, Liang Yuan came to his senses, hurriedly stepped forward, and with more force with both hands, the five people finally turned over the heavy stone tablet.

8

The stele that had been lying down for many years saw the light of day again, kicking up a huge amount of smoke and dust, and in the smoke, Tang Feng asked Liang Yuan loudly, "What did you call just now, it scared us all, I almost gave up!" ”

"Because...... for I saw that there were bones under the stele! Liang Yuan was still shocked.

"White bones? White bones under the stele?! The crowd was amazed.

When the smoke cleared, everyone took a closer look, and sure enough, under the stone monument that had just been lifted, there was a pile of messy bones in the damp soil.

"This ...... How can there be white bones underneath this? Tang Feng looked at the scene in front of him in surprise.

"It seems that these unlucky ghosts were stoned to death by the stone tablet!" Han Jiang naturally thought of this layer.

"The stele was stoned to death?" Makarov did not rush to judge, but squatted down again to carefully identify, although these bones were already a little messy, but it could still be seen that these white bones belonged to four people, "Four skeletons, if these people were stoned to death by the stele, then this hit rate is too high!" ”

Yelena immediately understood what Makarov meant, "You mean that someone deliberately knocked down the stone monument and killed these four people!" ”

Makarov nodded, "Otherwise, it is impossible for four people to be hit by the accidentally fallen stone monument at the same time!" ”

"Maybe they weren't stoned to death by a stone tablet?" Tang Feng suggested another possibility.

Makarov waved his hand, "No, they were killed by the stele, I have checked, four skeletons, ribs are broken in many places, and other bones are also broken, it is conceivable that they were all pressed by heavy objects, crushed the bones, and crushed the internal organs and died." ”

"What a strange murder scene!" Liang Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

"Something weirder is here!" Han Jiang suddenly picked up a rusty pistol from the dirt in the four skeletons, "American-made Colt M1917*." ”

"It seems that these guys are not ancients!" Tang Feng Road.

"Judging from the skeleton, they are indeed not ancient people, they are all male, and their age at the time of death should be between 20 and 30 years old,." Yelena judged very professionally.

"From the analysis of the surrounding soil and relics, the age of their death should be decades ago." Makarov said, picking up another string of zippers from the soil that had been completely rusted and rotten, "This should be the zipper on a leather jacket!" ”

Tang Feng immediately understood everything, "That means that these guys are most likely Ma Changguo's subordinates." ”

"Wouldn't it be a member of the expedition who was separated?" Liang Yuan asked.

"This ......" Tang Feng hesitated, he looked at Han Jiang, Han Jiang looked at Makarov again, Makarov shook his head, "It is unlikely to be a member of the scientific expedition, as far as I know, the scientific expedition team did not use this kind of gun at that time, and in addition, judging from the situation of these four people, they are not very members of the scientific expedition team." ”

"Ma Changguo's people?" Tang Feng fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he said: "So, this brings up another question, how did the stone tablet fall?" Or who deliberately toppled the stele? ”

"According to what we have known before, the biggest possibility is Misha, or the mysterious female scientific expedition team, or other scattered scientific expedition members, because they are the only ones who have come here!" Han Jiang inferred.

"I can't imagine that Misha and Ma Changguo walked into the oasis together, and after all kinds of terrible encounters, they also fought to the death!" Liang Yuan sighed.

"Judging from the results, it seems that Ma Changguo lost!" Yelena said.

"I'm thinking about a question, how did that mysterious female scientific expedition member leave there by the Great White Spring?" Tang Feng suddenly mentioned the discovery by the Dabai Spring, "According to our original inference, it is likely that Ma Changguo rescued the female scientific expedition member. ”

"They may have reached some kind of compromise, or they may have been coerced by Ma Changguo, and of course there is a possibility......" Han Jiang did not continue.

"There are moles in the expedition team!" Makarov blurted out.

"Do you suspect that female expedition member?"

"Nope! I can't say well, anyway, they later entered the oasis and there was a conflict, and Ma Changguo's side seemed to have failed! Makarov said in a concluding tone.

"Let me take a look at this monument!" Tang Feng said, walked to the stele, and used a dagger to remove the soil that adhered to the front of the stele, and lines of beautiful Western Xia characters appeared in front of his eyes......

9

Tang Feng slowly read out the title of the inscription, "The ...... of the Micheng Monument" Next, the text of the stele is ......

When I was a child, I fell into trouble among the people, traveled all over the world, traveled to this far-away and wild place, saw the valley in the Hanhai, and saw Daze in the valley, Daze was erratic, boundless when it was big, the hours were hidden invisible, cloudy and sunny, and the weather was thousands; There is an oasis in the Daze, the water rises and there is no oasis, it is very impressive, rare birds and beasts, strange flowers and plants are densely covered with oases, just like a world away, at this time, I feel that this place is extraordinary, and he will be of great use one day.

In the future, I rose in Helan, defeated Song Liao several times, shocked the desert, and the great cause of the party was in full swing. However, it has only been a few years since the founding of the country, and many of the people of the country have become arrogant and extravagant, and I am afraid that there will be disasters and chaos in the long run.

On one day, I hunted in the north, looked at the mountains and rivers in the north, and said to the ministers: "There are Khitan in the east of our country, the Great Song Dynasty and Tibet in the south, and the Uighurs in the west. Only in the north, there is no important town, if a strong enemy comes through this, I will suffer from the enemy on my belly and back, and I am really uneasy! "There is no strong enemy in the north, and there is a Hanhai desert barrier, which can be a barrier!" I said: "I look at the north, although there is the Hanhai desert barrier, but the north of the desert, there is a king's spirit, I was a child who traveled to the north, I know that the people of the north of the desert, brave and good at fighting, I am afraid that after a hundred years, for my party's henchmen!" The ministers were speechless.

Another day, I lost my horse, strayed into the valley, suddenly had a sense of déjà vu, and waded through quicksand, crossed Daze, Shaoqing, fog sleepy, lightning and thunder, yin wind roared, Daze water rose, I was trapped in the oasis alone, but in the dark immortal heaven protection, the water can not be without the oasis. In the oasis, rare birds and beasts, strange flowers and plants needless to say, but the danger is not different from before, there is a fierce beast, called "Kui Jiao", it is really difficult to deal with. At night, I was so sleepy that I didn't dare to sleep, and suddenly I saw a hermit from outside the world coming in the fog, and I said: "This place is extremely dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can be another place for my family." ”

The morning fog dispersed, I did not see the hermit, I knelt on the ground, suddenly felt that the hermit was like my ancestors, and felt like the first emperor, I worshiped the ground again, when the water receded, I came out of the oasis, and the ministers said: "I will build a city here, and send brave and good warriors to guard it." "So for three years there was Mi City. In the following year, the black city was built, the two cities guarded the east and west of the north, the city was heavy, the black city was supplemented, I was a little at ease, so I made this monument to remember.

The emperor of the white and high Xia Kingdom is named Yuan Hao's imperial pen

Tang Feng read the entire inscription and was shocked, "This inscription turned out to be written by Yuan Hao himself!" This may be the only handwritten article by Yuan Hao found so far. ”

"Another inscription popped up, what does this inscription say?" Han Jiang didn't seem to have understood.

"In short, Yuan Hao wrote this article to explain the reason for his construction of Mi City, which is basically similar to our previous speculation, so this inscription is called 'Ejian Mi City Monument'." Tang Feng looked at the inscription again, and then said, "But this inscription still reveals some important information. At the beginning of the first paragraph, Yuan Hao mentioned an experience when he was a child in the people, he said that he had come here when he was a child, and his description of the Wild Wolf Valley and the Sea of Death is completely consistent with what happened to us, which shows that long before the establishment of the Western Xia Kingdom, the Wild Wolf Valley was like this. At the end of the first paragraph, Yuan Hao said that he had a hunch that this place would come in handy in the future. ”

"That's a bit of a brag, he was just a kid at the time, and he knew it could be of great use?" Liang Yuan muttered.

Don't care if he brags or not, and then look at the second and third paragraphs, Yuan Hao briefly said the history of his leadership of the party to establish the Western Xia, and then he changed his words, mentioning that after the establishment of the Western Xia country, the wind of arrogance was flourishing, and he felt very worried. At this time, Yuan Hao went to the Northland to hunt, where is the Northland? I think Yuan Hao here is referring to the northern frontier region of Western Xia. After observing the mountains and rivers of the northern frontier, there was a conversation between Yuan Hao and the minister, which can explain the direct reason why Yuan Hao built Mi City, he said that the east, south, and west of Western Xia were strong enemies, but there were important towns on all three sides, so he thought it was not a matter of concern, and the northern frontier was not guarded by important towns, so Yuan Hao thought that this place was the most dangerous, if there was a strong enemy attacking from here, Western Xia would suffer from the enemy, which made him very uneasy. However, the ministers did not think so, and did not hide that Pang Pang said that there was no strong enemy in the north, and there was the Gobi Desert to block it, which could be used as a northern barrier in Western Xia. Yuan Hao refuted that he did not hide the false Pang and mentioned two points, one is that he sees that the north is kingly, which is a bit false, and the second point Yuan Hao said that he had traveled to the north when he was a child and saw the locals brave and good at fighting, so he was worried that after a hundred years, these brave and warlike tribes would become a big problem in Western Xia! ”

Makarov interrupted Tang Feng and asked, "The people of Mobei that Yuan Hao is talking about here are referring to the Mongols, right?" ”

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, at that time, Mobei was in a fragmented and very backward situation, and various tribes often killed each other, and it was not a threat to Western Xia at all, but Yuan Hao had a premonition that the Khitan, Song Dynasty, Tubo, and Uighurs were not terrible, and it was these people from Mobei who would really become a big disaster in Western Xia in the future. ”

"That's too mysterious! More than 100 years ago, Yuan Hao could have predicted that the Mongols would rise up and destroy the Western Xia? Han Jiang shook his head, unable to believe it.

"Maybe it's a bit of an exaggeration, but Yuan Hao is worthy of being a generation of heroes, and he still has a more accurate judgment of the future situation, he and the Khitan, Song Dynasty, Tubo, and Uighurs have all fought against each other, and almost none of them have been defeated, so he knows that these strong enemies are not his opponents, and they will not be in the future, and those tribes living in the Mobei grassland, although they are still very weak, but they must not be guarded against, so this is the more direct reason why Yuan Hao built Micheng.

So, in the fourth paragraph, Yuan Hao wrote a more bizarre story, one day he once again strayed into the Wolf Valley, after encountering all the terrible things, Yuan Hao came to this oasis, he was surprised to find that no matter how the water of the sea rises, it will not flood the oasis, Yuan Hao thought that this was the blessing of Changshengtian, he saw all kinds of rare birds and beasts in the oasis, strange flowers and plants, obviously, Yuan Hao saw the oasis back then was more prosperous than what we see today, there are more rare birds and beasts and strange flowers and plants, the most important information comes from the following sentence - There is also a fierce beast, called 'Kui Jiao', which is really difficult to deal with. This shows that when Yuan Hao had not yet built Mi City, a fierce beast like Kui Jiao lived in this oasis, so this produced a contradiction. Tang Feng said this, looking at each one with strange eyes.

10

Liang Yuan quickly understood the contradiction Tang Feng said, "If the party members want to build a city, they must tame Kui Jiao, otherwise they will not be able to build a city!" ”

"Yes, judging from the records on the stele of the Cowardly Xue Army, as well as our discovery in Qianhu Town, the Dangxiang people later tamed the fierce beast Kui Jiao, so that they successfully built Micheng, as for what method they used, it is unknown." Tang Feng really couldn't think of what method the party members used to tame Kui Jiao, "In addition, the history of this stele is earlier than the cowardly Xue Jun stele, so I estimate that Liu Bingzhong's name for this fierce beast on the cowardly Xue Jun stele should also come from this stele." ”

"It's very likely, Phags-pa and Liu Bingzhong must have seen this tablet as well, and I even suspected at first that it was toppled by Kublai Khan's army." Liang Yuan said.

"At first, I also thought that the stele was pushed down by the cowardly Xue army, which is also a common occurrence in the change of dynasties, but later discoveries allowed me to overturn this assumption, the cowardly Xue army did not knock down this stele, from the stele pedestal, this stele has been standing here from beginning to end, and has never moved, and decades ago, for some purpose, the stele was overturned." After Tang Feng deduced the history of this stele, he pointed to the stele and said: "It's far away, and then look at the records on the inscription, Yuan Hao is also very afraid of this fierce beast, after nightfall, he doesn't dare to sleep, for fear that Kui Spine will suddenly attack him, at this time, maybe it is foggy in the forest, and there is a master who walks out of the fog and says to Yuan Hao: 'This place is extremely dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can be another place for my family. This sentence is completely consistent with our previous inference, in addition to the meaning of defending the northern frontier, Yuan Hao built Mi City, there is also a layer of meaning, just when the party and the nation suffered a catastrophe, Mi Cheng can still be like the land of the year, let the party people make a comeback! ”

"It's a pity that although the party members here have persisted for decades after the fall of Western Xia, they still haven't been able to make a comeback!" Makarov muttered.

"There is also a very important word, have you noticed, is the word 'I' in this sentence, this master's words reveal that he seems to be a family with Yuan Hao, so in the last first paragraph, after the dawn, Yuan Hao recalled that he thought that the master was very much like his grandfather Jiqian, and he felt like his father Deming."

"These are all tricks of ancient emperors to deceive people, often pretending that some major decisions are guided by ancestors or gods." Han Jiang disagreed.

I do not rule out that this inscription has this element in it, but it is undeniable that the ancients believed in it very much. When Yuan Hao walked out of the oasis and told his ministers about these things and wanted to build Mi City, no one objected! Tang Feng said.

Liang Yuan suddenly thought of something, "That means that Mi Cheng is not only strategically important from the beginning, but also has some divinity!" ”

"I think that's what the party thinks!" Tang Feng nodded, and said: "Three years later, Mi City was initially completed, and the end of the inscription specifically mentioned that another famous ancient city is Heicheng, and said, 'The two cities are divided into the east and west of the north, Mi City is the most important, and the Black City is supplemented,' This sentence indicates that Yuan Hao not only built Mi City at that time, but also built another city, which is the Black City that we have known for a long time, these two cities are in the north frontier east and west, each other is the horns, it seems that Yuan Hao at that time in order to guard against the enemy in the north, established a complete set of defense system, And it's not just a city. However, the last sentence makes me a little puzzled, 'Mi Cheng is important, Heicheng is supplemented', Yuan Hao's meaning is obviously based on Mi City, and Hei Cheng assists Mi Cheng and exists, but we know that Hei Cheng has always been the military town of Western Xia in the north, the location of the Heishui Military Division, and Mi Cheng is hidden and difficult to find in history, which is really incomprehensible. ”

"Don't think about it so much, this tablet reveals two pieces of information to me, one, it's going to be dark soon, we can't stay here for a long time, otherwise we will meet Kui Xuan......" Han Jiang said halfway, looked around at everyone, and didn't continue.

"What about the second message?" Tang Feng asked rhetorically.

"Two, this monument stands here, and it has never been moved in the past thousand years, then I think Mi Cheng is already very close to us!"

Tang Feng listened to Han Jiang's words and slapped his head suddenly, "I watched it for a long time, but I didn't expect this, yes, the appearance of this tablet shows that this place should be very close to Micheng!" ”

Everyone looked ahead in unison, and the tall trees obscured their view, and they didn't see anything except these tall trees, but everyone knew in their hearts that they were very, very close to Micheng.