1

The sunrise on the snow-capped mountains is extraordinarily magnificent! Tang Feng and Han Jiang, as well as Xu Renyu, stayed awake all night, and before dawn, the three of them wrapped their bodies in sleeping bags and sat up, Tang Feng only felt a splitting headache and weak limbs, but he didn't know why, when he saw the rising red sun, he was inexplicably excited!

"I've seen the sunrise on Mount Tai and Huangshan before, and I've never seen the sunrise on such a high snow-capped mountain, maybe this is the chance in this life!" Tang Feng said excitedly.

"Hehe, that's good! I'm afraid that's just once in my life. It's a shame that my camera was buried in that damn avalanche yesterday and I don't know where it was, but it's okay, my baby is still there! Xu Renyu complained and took out his pipe, and actually smoked it leisurely.

"Forget it, maybe we will have the opportunity to watch the sunrise on the snowy mountain, look at this sun, today should be a good day, it will help us to act!" Tang Feng Road.

"The more the sun shines, the more you have to be careful of avalanches!" Han Jiang leaned his back against the cliff wall, raised his head to the sun, and stared at the necklace-like thing raised high in his hand.

Han Jiang's words are not unreasonable, Tang Feng and Xu Renyu are worried in their hearts, once the temperature rises and turns snow, it is easy to cause an avalanche. What is Han Jiang holding in his hand? Tang Feng noticed the "necklace" in Han Jiang's hand.

"Isn't this the great lama's string of human bone prayer beads, how can it be in your hands?" Tang Feng recognized that the thing in Han Jiang's hand was the Great Lama's human bone rosary.

"When the men in black attacked us, I went to pull the big lama to lie down, but he refused to dodge, although he was shot several times, he still chanted, at that time, his string of human bone rosaries fell, I picked him up, and kept it in my bag, and I found this thing when I was sorting out the backpack just now." Han Jiang explained.

"I see, does the black cloud know?"

Han Jiang shook his head and said, "I haven't told her, I'm afraid that she will be sad, and I'll return it to her when I go back this time!" ”

"Huh? What is it? Tang Feng suddenly found that there was a square empty copper coin on the human bone rosary in Han Jiang's hand.

"A copper coin." Han Jiang replied suspiciously.

"So it's on the rosary?" Tang Feng asked.

"Yes, from the time I got this rosary, I found that there was a copper coin tied to the rosary, it seems that this copper coin has a history, but I haven't bothered to take a closer look, do you now see which dynasty and which generation this copper coin is?"

"Tianqing treasure money?" Tang Feng read out a few words on the copper coin softly, and then said to Han Jiang: "The few words on this copper coin are in Western Xia script, which proves that this is the coin of Western Xia, as far as I know, there have always been very few coins in Western Xia, which are precious!" ”

"However, it is not surprising that the Great Lama owns this Western Xia coin, it may have been handed down by his ancestors." Han Jiang guessed.

"I guess so! If I'm not mistaken, the coin of this era is supposed to have been struck by the sixth emperor of Western Xia, Huanzong Chunyou, and it makes perfect sense that the ancestors of the great lama handed down this coin. ”

When several people were talking, Makarov woke up, Han Jiang put away the human bone rosary, and jokingly said: "Old Ma, you are really good!" None of us fell asleep, but you slept soundly, worthy of an old agent! ”

Makarov rubbed his sleepy eyes, remembering the events of last night, he was the same as the last time he was in the tunnel of the seven-colored Jinhai, and it was the distant past that brought him to sleep, which was a good solution to insomnia! Makarov was thinking wildly, when suddenly, from the distant valley, there was another wolf howl, which looked particularly terrible in the depths of this snow-capped mountain.

The four of them stared nervously at their surroundings with wide eyes, and they found nothing but white! "At such a high altitude here, how can there be wolves?" Tang Feng exclaimed.

"Yes! I didn't hear a wolf howl all day yesterday, why did I hear it again early this morning, it's really unlucky! Xu Renyu snuffed out his pipe and complained.

Han Jiang listened for a while, and comforted everyone: "Judging from my experience, this group of wolves is quite far away from us, don't worry, hurry up and eat something and get ready to go on the road." ”

In this way, the four of them, accompanied by the terrible wolf howl, nibbled on some dry food, and then set out on the road again.

2

God forbid, the weather was fine all morning, and there was no such terrible avalanche as yesterday on Glacier 2, except for the occasional sporadic snow falling.

Near noon, the four of them finally came to the end of the glacier, this is a steep ridge, over the ridge, and a large snow slope, everyone can not see the situation under the snow slope, can only see the peak of the snow mountain in the distance, under the refraction of the sun, it is extraordinarily magnificent, they seem to have entered a pure white fairyland that has never been disturbed by people, they are so close to the blue sky, everything around is white, spotless.

The four of them cautiously moved towards the bottom of the snow slope, they walked for about two hours, although they still couldn't see the situation under the snow slope, they didn't know what was waiting for them in front, but it seemed that everything was going well, Han Jiang was still walking in front, Tang Feng was close behind, but Tang Feng's physical strength gradually ran out, and he faltered, and he was getting farther and farther away from Han Jiang who was walking in front, and he was getting farther and farther away...... Just when Han Jiang's figure was about to disappear from Tang Feng's sight, suddenly, he heard Han Jiang shouting in front of him: "Be careful!" Cliffs ahead! ”

"Cliffs?" Tang Feng suddenly woke up, he, Xu Renyu, and Makarov hurried a few steps to Han Jiang's side, Tang Feng was bold, leaned over and looked at the cliff, there would be a cliff with thousands of walls here? Just one glance already frightened Tang Feng, because he didn't see where the bottom of the cliff was?

Tang Feng sat in the snow in despair and said in frustration, "How can there be such a high cliff here? All our previous efforts have been in vain! ”

"How can it be in vain? We still have this, but luckily it wasn't buried by an avalanche yesterday! As he spoke, Han Jiang took out a bundle of mountaineering ropes, as well as safety belts, descent and other equipment.

Tang Feng looked at these pieces of equipment and asked Han Jiang rhetorically, "What are you going to do?" Do you want us to absolute? ”

"Is there any other way?"

"But we don't know what's going on down there, how high is this cliff? Do we have enough rope? Is there a place where I can anchor along the way? What will happen to us after we go down? We don't know anything! ”

Han Jiang was stunned by Tang Feng's series of questions, yes! We didn't know anything, this is not your average cliff with branches and shrubs in between, this is a snowy mountain, with nothing but snow blocks and hard rocks that can fall at any moment!

"I'm starting to believe now, no human beings have ever set foot here since ancient times, you think, such a harsh environment, such a difficult path, it is impossible for the ancients without modern equipment to enter, this is the mysterious C area, it is mysterious, because no one has ever set foot here, but its mystery is only that, there will be no black-headed stone room here, because the ancients can't enter at all!" Xu Renyu suddenly said his latest speculation.

Xu Renyu's speculation is fatal, it is enough to shake the hearts of the army, Han Jiang stared at Xu Renyu and frowned, but he didn't say anything, because at this moment, only he had to bear this responsibility, Han Jiang was silent and began to prepare the equipment for the abseiling, looking at Han Jiang's resolute eyes and skillful movements, Tang Feng and Makarov were deeply moved, and they also joined Han Jiang's preparations.

Han Jiang first did a simple abseiling, and after observing the situation under the cliff and the surroundings, he went up and introduced to everyone: "We are lucky, although there are no branches and bushes here, but we saw that there is a protruding cliff about eighty meters from the cliff, which can be used as a descent station for us. ”

The four of them threw away all the things they didn't need, then put on their seat belts, and after checking each other, Han Jiang set up an anchor point on a huge rock on the cliff and slid down the cliff first, and a quarter of an hour later, after making sure that Han Jiang had safely reached the first descent station, Tang Feng, Makarov, and Xu Renyu descended in turn.

Everyone came to the first descent station safely, Han Jiang re-set the anchor point, he suddenly found that Tang Feng and Xu Renyu actually slid down with gloves, and said angrily: "Didn't I tell you before? No gloves are allowed when abseiling, I know it's cold, but it's nothing compared to your lives. ”

Tang Feng and Xu Renyu then remembered that it was easy to slip while wearing gloves, and hurriedly took off their gloves, Han Jiang yelled at them, and then took the lead in sliding down, everyone lay on the edge of the cliff, watching Han Jiang's figure gradually disappear from sight, everyone's hearts were all pinched, ten minutes passed, twenty minutes passed, half an hour passed, Han Jiang still did not react, Tang Feng was very anxious, he just wanted to rush to the cliff to shout Han Jiang, but Makarov covered his mouth, and at the same time whispered to him: "Don't shout, The snow here is fragile and can fall at any time! ”

Tang Feng held back, swallowed the words back into his stomach, and continued to wait anxiously, after more than ten minutes, they finally heard Han Jiang's voice under the cliff, and the three of them descended in turn according to the action just now, and about twenty minutes later, they came to a protruding rock again, Tang Feng thought that this was probably the second descent station, but this was not a very long distance, why did Han Jiang take so long?

3

When Tang Feng saw Han Jiang again, Han Jiang was lying on the snow, took off his helmet, rubbed his head vigorously and was distracted, Tang Feng asked with concern, "What happened to you just now?" ”

"Hit by a big piece of snow! It almost knocked me out, but it happened that the cliff was recessed, so I hid in the recess and waited for a long time to make sure that the snow had fallen before I landed here! ”

When Tang Feng heard this, he was not afraid, if just now because of his loud shouting, another snow fell and hit Han Jiang, Han Jiang would be more than lucky.

Everyone followed the previous method and used two rappelling rescents, and then their feet landed on relatively solid ground, to be precise, on solid ice.

Tang Feng observed the surroundings and asked Han Jiang: "We have come to the bottom of the cliff, this should be the mysterious C area, right?" ”

"I don't know, but I think it should be!" Han Jiang was also observing his surroundings, but he didn't notice anything.

Tang Feng looked up and looked at the cliff they had descended from just now, as well as the snowy peaks high above, even he couldn't believe that he had such great potential in his body, and he could successfully climb over the snow-capped mountains and glaciers, and next, in this mysterious C area, what would greet him?

Tang Feng, Han Jiang, Xu Renyu and Makarov took a break, sorted out the necessary equipment, and set off, Tang Feng looked around, and found that there were three cliffs around them, only a small snow slope in front of them, and the four of them climbed the small snow slope, and the front suddenly opened up, showing in front of them was a large snow field surrounded by mountains, to be precise, it should be a large mountain col surrounded by snow peaks.

"I'm sure now that this is the mysterious C section we're looking for." Han Jiang muttered in a low voice.

"Yes! The environment here is similar to what the satellite photos show, the mysterious Area C, has anyone been here for thousands of years? This...... It's so quiet. Tang Feng was shocked by the tranquility here.

Makarov opened his mouth exaggeratedly, took a deep breath, and said: "The air here is really good, and, do you feel it?" The elevation seems to have dropped a lot here, and my alpine sickness is completely gone! ”

Several other people also felt that the altitude here had decreased significantly, and Tang Feng said: "Not only has the alpine reaction disappeared, but the temperature here also seems to have risen, although there is still a world of ice and snow around it, it is not so cold." ”

"It's not surprising that the environment here is relatively closed, and it is easy to form a relatively independent small environment." Xu Renyu speculated.

"What does the temperature rise mean? Have you thought of it? Tang Feng asked.

"You think of the legend that the Great Lama said." Han Jiang also thought of it.

"Yes, in that legend, when the Dangxiang people were attacked by a snowstorm and were about to be buried in the ice field, they found the Blackhead Stone Chamber, which was as warm as spring." Tang Feng explained.

Xu Renyu said: "This doesn't mean anything, only by finding the black-headed stone chamber can we prove the authenticity of that legend!" ”

As the four of them spoke, they walked down the snow slope and walked more than 100 meters on the snow field, Tang Feng suddenly remembered something: "In addition to wanting to find the blackhead stone chamber now, I also want to see where the No. 1 glacier in the photo leads?" Is it possible to get through here too? ”

"Don't think nonsense, let's quickly find the black-headed stone room, get the jade interstitial, and then leave this hellish place quickly, who knows when there will be another snowstorm here, then we won't be able to get out." Xu Renyu said worriedly.

Everyone stopped talking, continued to move forward, and walked out of dozens of meters, Tang Feng reminded others: "Everyone should pay attention to the ground, satellite photos show that there are artificial building remains on the surface of Area C, the heavy snow two days ago, it is likely that all the building remains have been buried, but if there are really architectural remains, even if they are buried by snow, they will leave clues on the surface, so everyone must pay attention." ”

Tang Feng's reminder made everyone's attention focus on their feet, suddenly, Tang Feng found some strange traces on the snow, everyone gathered around the snow, Han Jiang gestured with his hand on the strange traces on the snow, and speculated: "This looks like a paw print, it may be left by some kind of animal." ”

"Animals? Animals visiting such a high place? Can you tell what kind of animal it is? Tang Feng asked.

"Judging from this paw print, it is not a bird or something, it can only be left by a relatively large mammal, but because this paw print was left at least a few days ago, and the heavy snow in the previous two days covered this paw print, I really can't see what animal left it, maybe it was a snow leopard, or it could be a wolf!" Han Jiang judged.

"Wolves? The wolves have been here, too? It's unbelievable that they also jumped off a cliff! Xu Renyu said.

"Many alpine animals can fly up and down walls, such as the precious snow leopard." Han Jiang explained.

"Snow leopard? Never mind! I wish it had been left behind by the wolves, and the wolves were better than the leopards! Xu Renyu shook his head helplessly.

"If we really encounter these animals, they won't be easy to deal with......" Han Jiang was saying this, Tang Feng suddenly interrupted him again, pointed to the snow in front of him and exclaimed: "They don't necessarily come in through the cornices, look here, there are such paw prints!" ”

4

Everyone looked in the direction of Tang Feng's finger, and on the snow not far away, all the way to the north, a series of similar paw prints appeared, Han Jiang pointed to the snow under his feet, and said: "This place was originally full of such paw prints, by no means left by one animal, it should be a group of such animals, but as I just said, the heavy snow two days ago covered the paw prints, so some of the paw prints can still be recognized, and some are no longer recognizable." ”

"In other words, the last time this group of animals came here was at least a few days ago, what kind of animal could it be?" Makarov's judgment was always cautious.

"Okay, we don't have to guess, follow these paw prints to find it, and we will definitely get something!" Tang Feng said to everyone.

The four of them followed the mysterious paw prints looming on the snow, looking forward, Tang Feng has been looking at the compass, judging the direction, GPS, electronic compass, all buried by the avalanche, now he can only use this most primitive tool to identify the direction, the direction shown by the compass is the north, indicating that the paw prints have been extending to the north, where will these mysterious paw prints take them? Tang Feng thought to himself, and another scene suddenly appeared in his mind.

This time, Tang Feng walked to the front of the team, following the paw prints on the snow, they walked out of about a kilometer away, in front of everyone, there were two tall and steep snow peaks, Tang Feng secretly called himself surprised, he was about to go down the snow peak, this paw print was still extending forward, he couldn't help muttering: "It seems that there is no road ahead......"

"Try it again!" Han Jiang encouraged. Immediately, Han Jiang added: "However, be careful! Ahead, perhaps, is the nest of this animal! As he spoke, Han Jiang's right hand reached into his arms, ready to pull out his pistol at any time in case of an emergency.

There was a snow slope in front of him, the terrain gradually rose, Tang Feng stood under the snow slope, he couldn't see the situation on the snow slope, but those strange paw prints under his feet still loomed on the snow slope, and kept extending to the snow slope, Tang Feng felt that his heartbeat accelerated inexplicably, but curiosity still drove him up the snow slope.

A quarter of an hour later, Tang Feng was already standing at the highest point of this snowy slope, and the paw prints under his feet were still stretching forward...... However, at the moment he could not pay attention to the paw prints, because an even more shocking sight appeared in front of him, and at his feet, a longer, wider, and more spectacular glacier than Glacier No. 2 appeared in front of him.

Han Jiang, Xu Renyu and Makarov also saw this glacier, Han Jiang was shocked, and muttered to himself: "This ...... Could this be the No. 1 glacier that you can't see clearly in the satellite photos? ”

"Yes! It should be the No. 1 glacier, it is really unimaginable, it seems that two snow-capped mountains are blocking our way, between the snow-capped mountains, there is such a hidden pass, we are now standing on the pass, and under our feet is the No. 1 glacier that leads to nowhere on the satellite photos. Tang Feng said excitedly.

"It turns out that the shadowed part that is not clear in the satellite photos is this pass, and now we can go down from here without having to climb the cliff and climb over the No. 2 glacier that is so difficult." Makarov was also a little excited.

Xu Renyu lit his pipe, spit out a cloud of smoke, and said with a sneer: "Why are you so excited, why can't I be happy when I see this pass and the No. 1 glacier, you look at this glacier, the slope is gentle, wide, and flat, and the altitude is not high, well, I show here that the altitude of the pass we are standing on now is less than four thousand meters above sea level, which is much lower than the altitude of the No. 2 glacier we walked, in short, we shouldn't have taken the No. 2 glacier, and almost lost our lives there." ”

Xu Renyu's words made Han Jiang's face ugly, although the choice of No. 2 Glacier was passed by everyone collectively, but he was the first to lead, and he also had leadership responsibility, so it was really his own major mistake to put everyone in danger, and Han Jiang fell into self-blame that he had never had.

5

Everyone also fell into an awkward silence at the same time, and in the end, Tang Feng came out to play a round: "The choice of No. 2 glacier was passed by everyone collectively, and besides, the direction of No. 1 glacier could not be seen clearly in the satellite photos at that time, so there is nothing to say now." ”

"Yes! Although everyone encountered some dangers, fortunately, everyone is safe and sound now. Makarov also played a round.

"Alright! I admit that as the captain, I have a leadership responsibility in choosing the route, and if I had walked on Glacier 1, we would have been able to get here without encountering the fragile ice towers of Glacier 2, the ubiquitous ice crevasses, the terrible avalanches, the steep cliffs, and the violent altitude sickness. However, now is not the time to do a review, if necessary, when I go back, I will review it to the head of the headquarters, and now, our task has not been completed, I hope you will not slack off and continue to ......"

Before Han Jiang finished speaking, Xu Renyu patted him on the shoulder, squeezed out a smile and said, "What I said just now, don't take it to heart, don't worry, we will do our best to complete the task." ”

"That's good! Judging from the current situation here, it is very likely that the black-headed stone chamber is near here, and judging from the surrounding environment, no one has been here recently, because there is no trace of anyone on the snow except for the paw prints left by those unknown animals, so we are only one last step away from victory. Han Jiang encouraged everyone's morale.

Tang Feng also agreed: "Not bad! The more I looked at it, the more I felt that this was the place we were looking for, and now our priority was to find the remains of the buildings on the ground in the satellite photos. ”

Xu Renyu patted the snow on his boots and said: "This is not easy, the remains of buildings on the ground shown in the satellite photos are very unclear, even if there are really artificial architectural remains here, they are covered by heavy snow for two days, and it is difficult to find." Before leaving, I specially put on a metal detector, and who expected it to be buried by the avalanche yesterday. ”

"Let's do our best, everybody! However, you have to hurry, it is almost dark. Tang Feng actually didn't know the bottom in his heart.

The four of them came down from the snow slope again, and just when everyone didn't know where to search next, Han Jiang suddenly found that another string of strange paw prints appeared on the snow slope, and at the same time, others also found this string of paw prints, Tang Feng observed for a long time, and said, "Another string of paw prints?" Judging from the paw prints themselves, and the paw prints we found just now, they should be left by the same animal, from the direction, the two strings of paw prints are extended from the pass, but this string of paw prints and the paw prints just now are bifurcated here, the string of paw prints just now extends to the vicinity of the cliff, this string of paw prints seems to extend to the west, we might as well follow this string of paw prints, look west, maybe there will be something to find. ”

Xu Renyu listened to Tang Feng's suggestion and said with a smile: "We are now being led by the nose by this unknown animal!" ”

"There's nothing wrong with being led by an animal! My experience has taught me that many of the places that humans can't reach, where they haven't been discovered, animals come and go freely! Han Jiang said, leading everyone to follow the newly discovered paw prints to the west.

The four of them walked west for a short while, Han Jiang's foot was tripped by something, one stumbled, Han Jiang almost fell, Tang Feng held him, looked back at the ground, a little black faintly appeared in the thick snow...... "There seems to be something there!" Tang Feng said.

"Yes, something very hard, something like a rock and something tripped me up." Han Jiang stared at the place where he had tripped just now and said.

When several people came to the "rock", Tang Feng leaned down and brushed away the snow on the "rock", and a square "stone" appeared in front of everyone, Tang Feng was pleasantly surprised, because he saw that this was obviously done artificially, otherwise there would not be such a shape of "rock"; He couldn't wait to take off his gloves and pick up the "rock" with his bare hands, and as soon as he picked up the "rock", he whispered, "No! It's not a rock! This thing is much lighter than stone. ”

Tang Feng continued to clean the snow on the "rock", slowly, slowly, as the snow on the surface of the "rock" was cleared by Tang Feng little by little, this "rock" revealed exquisite patterns, and everyone stared at the "rock" in Tang Feng's hand in surprise.

6

Since entering the Snow Mountain, Tang Feng's professional knowledge has nowhere to be displayed, and now, he can finally display his professional knowledge, he only glanced at it, and judged with certainty: "This is a complete square brick with a lotus pattern of Baoxiang flowers, which is often used in the palace architecture of the Tang and Song dynasties." ”

"Tang and Song periods? That means that the Western Xia court will also use this kind of brick? Han Jiang asked Tang Feng rhetorically.

Tang Feng nodded, and just wanted to say something, Xu Renyu suddenly exclaimed exaggeratedly: "In this way, I always thought that the party members would not come to such a remote and desolate place, it must be wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong, I underestimated the party members too much, I underestimated them too much!" ”

"Huh! Doctor, you've changed pretty fast! Are you so sure that this patterned brick is related to the blackhead stone chamber? Tang Feng said with a smile.

"Isn't that a clear deal? Ancient things have appeared here, as well as architectural remains on satellite photos, probably here, and the legend of the party people, everything fits. Xu Renyu said with great certainty.

"Yes! The appearance of this pattern brick is already very illustrative, you know, in the Tang and Song dynasties, such exquisite pattern bricks, not ordinary people can enjoy, most of the emperor's palaces, mausoleums, or royal temples and other religious sacrificial buildings, only worthy of using such a high specification of pattern bricks. In such a desolate and inaccessible place, ancient patterned bricks appeared, and there is only one explanation, which was fired for some special purpose. Tang Feng further inferred.

"Let's see if there are any bricks like this in the neighborhood." Han Jiang ordered.

Tang Feng took a piece of the brick and shouted to the others: "You don't have to look for it, I can tell you now for sure that here, under our feet, there was once an ancient building, its building specifications are extremely high, although it has been destroyed, but on the satellite photos, you can still see its ruins, which shows its grandeur back then." ”

"And is this building a black-headed stone room?" Makarov asked Don.

Tang Feng shook his head and said: "I can't be sure about this, but according to the legend of the party and our previous judgment, the black-headed stone room should not be an artificial building, but a stone room similar to a cave." ”

"So, we have to continue to search, everyone scattered to the west to search, we must hurry, it is almost dark!" Han Jiang ordered.

The four of them lined up, keeping a certain distance from each other, and pulled the net to the west, and this time, it was Makarov's turn to be the first to discover the situation. He found an arch-shaped hole in the rock wall on the west side, but the hole was very small, and the inside of the hole was pitch black and deep, and it was impossible to see how deep the hole was.

"Come here, I've found a hole." Makarov called out to everyone, and after a while, Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu all gathered around.

Although they had been mentally prepared, when the four of them found this mysterious cave in Area C, they were still stunned, they couldn't believe that such a small hole could be the black-headed stone chamber they were looking for.

"With such a small hole, it's hard for people to get into, could it be a black-headed stone room?" Xu Renyu couldn't believe it.

Tang Feng stared at the hole in front of him, and suddenly, he spoke: "No! The hole is not only small but you see, it is buried with snow and some gravel underneath. ”

"There's nothing more to say, that's it!" Han Jiang made up his mind, took the lead in front of the cave entrance, and began to clear the snow and gravel from the cave entrance.

It was already dark, the four of them didn't care about the darkness, turned on the flashlight, and worked in full swing for ten minutes, as the snow and gravel at the entrance of the cave were cleared one by one, the entrance of the cave was getting bigger and bigger, Tang Feng was on the left side of the door, Han Jiang was on the right side of the door, suddenly, the hands of the two people touched a cold and hard thing almost at the same time, Tang Feng hurriedly dusted off the snow on the thing, and soon, under the light of the flashlight, a hideous-looking, bare-chested and breast-bare humanoid stone monster appeared in front of him.

It was pitch black all around, Xu Renyu and Makarov, including Tang Feng, were surprised to see such a "monster" under the flashlight, and Xu Renyu was even so frightened that he took half a step back! At this time, the "monster" on Han Jiang's side was also revealed, exactly the same as the "monster" on Tang Feng's side, just like that!

When he saw this "monster" for the first time, Tang Feng was also "groaning" in his heart, and he was really startled by this "monster", but he quickly calmed down, because he looked at it, and suddenly felt that the "monster" in front of him was not so terrible, but had a kind of déjà vu intimacy.

Tang Feng was staring at the "monster" in a daze, and Han Jiang's voice came from the other end: "Tang Feng, what kind of 'monster' is this?" ”

"Everything is right, this is the legendary black-headed stone room!" Tang Feng said slowly.

"Why are you sure this is the Blackhead Stone Room now?"

Tang Feng explained: "If the patterned bricks just discovered are not sure that this is the blackhead stone chamber, then these two' The appearance of the monster will definitely be determined, because this kind of humanoid stone statue is unique to the Western Xia, I have seen this kind of humanoid stone statue in the tomb of the Xixia king, at that time, this kind of stone statue gave me a deep impression, because it is different from the stone carvings in other parts of China, and the stone carvings of all dynasties in Chinese history are not the same, this is the unique stone carving art of the Western Xia, we can see them here, no need to ask this hole is the black head stone room, and these two stone statues should be carved by the party members back then, standing outside the stone room door, for the purpose of warding off evil and exorcism。 ”

"Like the ancient Chinese door gods?" Makarov asked.

"Almost!" Tang Feng said with a smile.

"Leave them alone, speed up and clear the snow from here." Han Jiang urged.

After a while, a huge hole appeared in front of everyone, looking at the dark and deep hole, for some reason, Makarov suddenly felt that his feet seemed to be disobedient to his command, and he involuntarily walked into the black-headed stone room first. A few months ago, his son was the first to break into the basement of the Winter Palace where the jade insert was stored, and then he encountered an accident, and today, he was the first to break into this black-headed stone room that no one has entered for hundreds of years, what awaits him?

7

It was cold and snowy outside, and the blackhead stone was indoors, but it was as warm as spring, and Tang Feng couldn't help but unzip the down jacket. In the stone room, the light emitted by the four flashlights is far from enough to illuminate the entire stone room, Tang Feng shone to the cave wall, and found that every other distance on the stone wall of the stone room, there is a protruding stone carving, Tang Feng carefully looked at the protruding stone carving, it was actually a wolf head with a bloody mouth, Tang Feng was surprised, carefully observed, the wolf head carved and chiseled lifelike, different, but one thing is the same, all the stone carved wolf heads have a bloody mouth, vigilantly looking ahead.

"Another wolf?!" Xu Renyu muttered to himself.

At this time, Han Jiang also saw these wolf head stone carvings on the stone wall, he pointed to the bloody mouth of the "wolf head", and asked Tang Feng: "This is the place used by the ancients to place oil lamps or candles, right?" ”

"It should be!" Tang Feng also thought of the practical function of these "wolf heads".

"That's right! I was lucky enough to have some candles on hand. As he spoke, Han Jiang took out a large bundle of candles from his backpack, lit them up one by one, and placed them in the mouth of the blood basin of the "wolf's head".

Only then can we observe the whole picture of the stone chamber, the whole stone chamber system is transformed by using the natural cave, the momentum is magnificent, the volume is huge, the area is about hundreds of square meters, the stone chamber cave wall has obvious traces of artificial polishing, in the stone chamber, the original rock is used, four huge stone pillars are chiseled out, which are used to support the whole stone chamber.

"These four stone pillars are just right, no more, no less, just enough to support the entire stone room, it seems that we have underestimated the wisdom of the party members before!" Tang Feng exclaimed.

However, when Tang Feng and the others looked around the entire stone room, they found that there was nothing in the room except for the four pillars, neither the jade interstitial screen they had dreamed of, nor even the human-shaped stone carvings and patterned bricks found outside the stone room, and the entire stone room was empty.

"Has someone ransacked this place before us?" Xu Renyu said disappointedly.

"Impossible, outside the stone room, except for the paw prints of that animal, there is no trace of people, and it is impossible for that group of men in black to get ahead of us!" Han Jiang's brain was making a quick judgment.

"Maybe someone has been here for a long time, not the men in black, it's someone else." Makarov was also disappointed.

"Is this possible? No, I still can't believe it. Han Jiang shook his head, and his heart was at a loss.

"I agree with Lao Ma's opinion, there is a complete possibility, you think about it, outside the stone room, there was originally a monumental building of a large scale, but we can no longer see it today, only some broken bricks and tiles remain, and the stone room does not have a solid gate, if there are important treasures here, how can there be no gate, so I judge, this is the black-headed stone room, but it may have been looted in history, and the group also burned down the monumental building outside the stone room, That's what we see today! Seo's inference seems reasonable.

Tang Feng didn't have an idea for a while, he searched the entire stone room, but still found nothing, when he and Xu Renyu came to the corner of the stone room, they smelled a fishy smell, Tang Feng looked at this corner vigilantly, and concluded: "This is probably a nest of the mysterious paw print owner!" ”

"Wouldn't it be dangerous for us to stay here, and I was going to spend the night here tonight?" Xu Renyu said.

"If the owner of that paw print is indeed a snow leopard or something, then it is indeed dangerous for us to stay here, but we can't leave yet, and the mission is not completed yet!" Tang Feng said firmly.

"Not done yet? We came to the mysterious C area with great difficulty, and found the legendary black-headed stone chamber, but there is nothing here, our task is to find the jade interstitial, and now the task should be completed, and the following things here will be left to the archaeologists to do! Xu Renyu persuaded Tang Feng.

"It's because we worked so hard to find this place that we can't easily leave." Tang Feng said as he walked to the center of the stone room.

Standing in the center of the stone room, Tang Feng fell into deep thought, was the stone room looted by someone? Or is there nothing in the first place? No! You can't jump to conclusions, and you can't rush to end this expedition! Either way, there will be traces here.

Han Jiang, Lao Ma and Xu Renyu gathered around, and Tang Feng thought for a long time before he said his thoughts to everyone: "Everyone! First of all, I want to correct a misunderstanding for you, you may have always thought that the black-headed stone room we are looking for must contain many rare treasures, but in fact, I have never thought so, the legend that the Great Lama told us only said that the second jade insert is hidden here, and does not say that there are any other treasures here, so there is no 'looted' as you just said. ”

"Even if there are no rare treasures, what about the jade interstitial screen that the Great Lama said? I haven't seen it here. Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"I don't know about this, but I think that since the group of men in black didn't come here before us, and what the Great Lama said is true, then, it is very likely that the jade insert screen is stored here, but we haven't found it yet." Tang Feng explained, while slowly coming to a stone wall, the crack above the stone wall, is dripping water down the stone wall, the water droplets soaked the entire stone wall, Tang Feng stopped in front of this stone wall for a long time, he stared at the stone wall in front of him, and his eyes slowly began to blur......

"What's wrong with me......" Tang Feng was secretly surprised in his heart, maybe he was too tired and hadn't had a good rest for a few days, maybe it was because the temperature difference between inside and outside the stone room was too big, and he couldn't adapt to it for a while...... Tang Feng warned himself over and over again in his heart, to persevere, to hold on, he fell on the stone wall with one hand, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, slowly, slowly, his eyes became clear again, he was suddenly surprised to find that on the stone wall in front of him, there seemed to be words, yes, there were words, and it was the dead party text!

8

"There's writing on this stone wall!" Tang Feng finally screamed excitedly.

"Text?!" The eyes of Han Jiang and the others all focused on the stone wall.

"Get me some snow!" Tang Feng suddenly came to such a sentence without thinking.

Han Jiang didn't understand what he meant, but he still brought a large ball of snow to Tang Feng from outside the stone room, Tang Feng evenly smeared the snow on the stone wall, and the white snowflakes melted into crystal water droplets little by little in Tang Feng's hot palm, and the words on the stone wall slowly revealed its true face under the soaking of water droplets.

"It's Tangut script, Tangut script!" Tang Feng excitedly recognized some of the words on the stone wall: "'Weitian Ritual Method...... Eight years,...... Year of spring and May'. At the beginning, these should be the time when this tablet was engraved, and the last two words of "Heavenly Rite Law" have been illegible, but there is no doubt that it should be the word "Yanqi", because "Heavenly Rite Law Yanqi" is the name of the era used by Yuan Hao, the founding emperor of Western Xia, after being called emperor, which can also conclude that the text on the stone wall was engraved in the era of King Hao. ”

"Such a long era? Rare! Xu Renyu said.

"Yes, many of the era names used in the Western Xia are strange, different from the Central Plains Dynasty, let's look down further, 'Bai Gao Daxia State Shiwen Yingwu Xingfa Jianli Renxiao Emperor sent the minister of the state to hide the false Pang, sacrifice with animals, and dare to announce it to the Immortal Heaven.' "Shiwen Yingwu Xingfa Jianli Renxiao Emperor" is Yuan Hao, this sentence clearly shows that Yuan Hao in the eighth year after his accession to the throne, sent Wu Zang Pang to pay tribute to the ancestors of the party people. ”

"But if I'm not mistaken, during the time of Yuan Hao, the territory of Western Xia did not reach here at all, and the territory of Western Xia never reached here in history." Xu Renyu's question made Tang Feng unable to answer.

Tang Feng tried to explain: "Yes! According to the historical books and documents that we can see now, since the Dangxiang Qiang people moved away from their hometown, the power of the Dangxiang people has never reached here, even in the strongest period of Western Xia, after the Dangxiang Qiang people moved away, it has always been the sphere of influence of the Tubo people, Yuan Hao, the Dangxiang people and the Tubo nobles who rule here have always been at odds, and there are wars from time to time, in this case, how Yuan Hao can come here to worship his ancestors, this is really difficult to explain. But I think it is also possible that the Dangxiang people came here to worship their ancestors during the period when they had a good relationship with Tibet. ”

"Leave this alone for now, let's quickly translate all these words." Han Jiang urged Tang Feng.

Tang Feng continued to translate intermittently: "'At the beginning of the ancestors' construction, the white river and the black room were flooded...... The beast is in ambush...... As for my ancestors, I migrated to Shuofang,...... There were five states,...... Today's kid Yuan Hao, doing words, opening up the territory, Weizhen Shuo desert, far away people, the emperor of the Han family, is for Huang Tianzi, the kid practices Zuo, and proclaims to be the son of Qingtian...... The ancestral stone chamber is lost and nowhere to be found...... Naipan Luo is the leader, the horn is newly defeated, our party is a warrior, and the snow field is drunk...... Send an envoy to sacrifice cattle and sheep to the stone chamber to raise the light of the saints,...... The prosperity of the royal industry began with the emperor's ancestor...... The ancestors are blessed, the country is Yongchang, the children and grandchildren, and the blessings are the same. Feast! Finally, it is 'to the boy Bai Gao Daxia Guo Wu Shu Wei Ming Yuan Hao Dun Shou Statement', the last sentence is not only engraved in Western Xia script, but also engraved in Chinese characters. ”

"Finished?" Han Jiang saw that Tang Feng finished speaking and asked him rhetorically.

"The words on the stone wall are finished!"

"How is it intermittent?"

"Because the words on the stone wall were carved relatively shallowly, after so many years, the water has eroded, some of the words are no longer recognizable, and there are some Western Xia characters, I really don't know it, I have to consult Professor Luo, if I can now extend the whole stone wall and go back to study with Professor Luo, I may be able to recognize some words, but now we obviously don't have this condition!" Tang Feng spread out his hand and said.

"What do these words of gibberish text mean?" Han Jiang was confused.

"It mainly describes the migration of party members, the difficulty of starting a business, and the Yuan Hao period, the strength of Western Xia, in fact, this is all familiar, all dynasties, when the emperor sacrifices to his ancestors, he will say how difficult it was to start a business and so on. Also, as we already know, the black-headed stone chamber is explicitly mentioned in this sacrificial text, and it is said that this is the black-headed stone chamber. Tang Feng explained.

"What about the jade interstitial? Didn't mention the jade interstitial? Han Jiang asked anxiously.

"Nope! I didn't mention it, it's just a sacrificial text! Tang Feng said helplessly, and then, he added: "However, this sacrificial text still reveals an important information, which has never been recorded in our history books...... Naipan Luo is the leader, the horn is newly defeated, our party is a warrior, and the snow field is drunk...... Send an envoy to sacrifice cattle and sheep in the stone room, in order to raise the light of the saints, 'this shows that in the late reign of Yuan Hao, the party army has been fighting here, 'Pan Luozhi' and 'Jiao Guluo' are the big chiefs of the Tubo tribe in Qinghai, and the party people have always been at odds, Yuan Hao's grandfather Tuoba Jiqian was killed by Pan Luozhi with arrows, so the party people and 'Pan Luozhi', 'Jiao Guluo' enmity is as deep as the sea, according to the record of this sacrificial text, the party army killed 'Pan Luozhi', and was defeated' Jiao Gu', even killed all the way here, here, did not hide the Pang on behalf of Yuan Hao and all the party members to worship the ancestors, and pray for the protection of the ancestors. In this way, we can explain Dr. Xu's question just now, the Dangxiang people came here to worship their ancestors, not when they had a good relationship with Tubo, but they killed all the way, and the Dangxiang people deserve to be a brave and warlike nation! This discovery is a discovery that changed history! Tang Feng excitedly explained a big chase.

Han Jiang looked at Tang Feng in a daze, and when he finished speaking, Han Jiang asked sharply: "I don't care about any historical discoveries, what I asked is the jade interstitial!" Since you say that this is the black-headed stone room, what about the jade interstitial? ”

Oh, yes! What about jade interstitials? The black-headed stone chamber was found, and the sacrificial inscription on the stone wall was also cracked, but the second jade insert that everyone was looking for was nowhere to be found.