1

I don't know how long it took, but the water in the cave slowly receded, but the remaining water still did not reach the knees of the three men. Tang Feng was swept the farthest by the flood, and at this moment, Tang Feng saw that the water had receded, so he pulled the rope around his waist and moved closer to Han Jiang and Makarov little by little.

Tang Feng walked to Han Jiang and Makarov, and found that although Makarov was fine, he was full of fatigue, after all, he was an old man.

"Old horse, you have to hold on!" Tang Feng gave Lao Ma two refreshing pills.

"Don't worry, I can't die yet!" Makarov waved his hand.

Han Jiang shone a flashlight in front for a long time, and said: "The stone wall is finally opened, we have to hurry forward, at least find a warm place, I don't want to wait here in wet clothes to die." ”

"Who said we're going to die!" Tang Feng shouted dissatisfiedly.

"Sensei nonsense! I just saw some stone carvings looming behind the stone wall. Han Jiang said.

"I saw it too."

"What could that be?"

"Who knows!"

"Could it be the so-called 'Upper Temple'?"

"Going to the temple? Don't you think that big platform outside is the ruins of the upper temple? ”

"But there's nothing, and here ......"

"Maybe it's a new discovery."

As he spoke, the three of them dripped muddy water and came to the stone wall again step by step, Makarov touched the stone wall and couldn't help but sigh, "How much energy does it take to lift this stone wall." ”

"Without relying on manpower, only the flood in nature has so much energy." Tang Feng Road.

"Is this also the masterpiece of the party members? I don't understand more and more now, the ruins of the lower temple, the pagoda are easy to understand, but the big Buddha here, the huge labyrinth inside, why is this? Why did the party build these things? Han Jiang was puzzled.

"Maybe it's all there is?" Tang Feng asked rhetorically.

"What do you mean? What does it mean to be there in the first place? ”

"The history of human beings is the process of understanding nature and transforming nature, but after understanding nature, human beings often take different ways to transform nature, some people change the heavens and the earth, recreate mountains and rivers, and some people use nature a little to achieve the purpose of transformation."

"What do you mean, there was originally this complicated labyrinth in this mountain, and it was later transformed by the party members?"

Tang Feng didn't answer Han Jiang's question, because he had already taken the lead through the stone wall and saw the scene in front of him that shocked him. Tang Feng noticed the change under his feet, the terrain behind the stone wall gradually rose, as the terrain elevated, the water level under his feet became lower and lower, and finally when Tang Feng was shocked by the vision and couldn't move his steps, the water level under his feet had dropped to his ankles.

2

Tang Feng, Han Jiang, and Makarov's flashlights gathered together, and they couldn't illuminate this huge mountain Xuangong, the first thing they saw was a bridge in front of them, and Tang Feng couldn't tell whether it was made of stones, wooden, or natural!

At the head of the bridge facing them, there are two huge stone-carved warrior statues, Tang Feng carefully observed these two stone-carved warrior statues, which are exactly the same as the stone-carved warrior statues on the pagoda of the lower temple, except that the stone-carved warrior statues here are larger.

Tang Feng squatted down and looked at the bridge deck, he was surprised to find that the bridge deck was not wooden, nor was it made of stones or bricks, black rocks, except for the two stone sculptures standing at the head of the bridge, there was almost no trace of artificial carving on this bridge, Tang Feng was secretly surprised, could it be that this bridge was really natural?

The natural stone bridge abruptly straddles the dark mountain stream, it is still pitch black all around, Tang Feng can't see the surrounding space, and the light pillar of the flashlight shoots out more than ten meters away, but it still stays on the bridge deck.

"How long is this stone bridge? What would be the place over there? Tang Feng's voice trembled a little.

"I'm more concerned about what's under the stone bridge?" Han Jiang Road.

"Under the stone bridge? It should be a river! Tang Feng said nonsense.

"I didn't hear the water!"

While speaking, the three of them had already boarded the stone bridge, Tang Feng found that there were no guardrails on both sides of the stone bridge, it was really just a natural stone bridge, the three of them walked forward cautiously, walked more than 20 steps, Tang Feng suddenly found that the bridge deck was getting narrower and narrower, he stopped, and carefully observed, under the illumination of the flashlight beam, Tang Feng still did not see the end of the stone bridge, and the bridge deck in his position was already less than two meters wide, and the bridge deck in front of him was still narrowing.

"This stone bridge won't suddenly disappear while walking, will it?" Tang Feng's voice echoed loudly in the empty darkness.

Han Jiang shone the bridge deck in front of him with a flashlight, "Let's go further!" Han Jiang's voice also lost his confidence.

The three of them walked forward for more than 20 steps, the bridge deck was already about one meter narrow, Tang Feng used a flashlight to shine under the stone bridge, there was no sound of water, no light, except for the darkness, Tang Feng didn't see anything, "Is it really bottomless down here?" Tang Feng's voice was trembling.

"Beware of the ...... ahead" Han Jiang shone around with a flashlight, and the beam of light from the flashlight pierced into the thick black curtain, and was engulfed by this boundless darkness. But when he shone along the bridge deck, he was suddenly surprised to find that the bridge deck was so narrow that only one person could pass through the farthest point that the flashlight could reach.

Tang Feng and Makarov also saw the unusually narrow bridge deck in front of them, and they wanted to see what it looked like under this narrow bridge deck, but the light pillar of the flashlight could only shine there, "If the bridge deck behind is narrower, or if it is simply broken, it is not worth going any further?" Tang Feng said.

"Not worth it? If you don't go forward, do you have to go back? Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"Anyway, if you go twenty steps further, you can at least see what is behind the narrow deck." Makarov tract.

"I'm just afraid that after ten steps, the bridge deck we see will be narrower!" Tang Feng said worriedly.

"If you are timid, go to the back, and I will go to the front!" Han Jiang reprimanded.

"If you tell me to go to the front, I will go to the front, and if you tell me to stand in the back, I will stand behind. It's so shameless! Isn't it twenty steps? You see if I dare to go over! ”

Tang Feng was provoked by Han Jiang, and suddenly came to the fighting spirit, one step, two steps, three steps...... Until the seventeenth step, Tang Feng suddenly stopped.

"Why don't you leave?" Han Jiang asked in the back.

"You go ahead!" Tang Feng's voice was wrong.

"I'll just say you can't, let me go ahead!" Han Jiang walked behind Tang Feng, two steps away from Tang Feng, "You are moving!" Han Jiang saw that Tang Feng was motionless and blocked in front.

"You...... Look ahead! Tang Feng said and slowly turned sideways.

Han Jiang found that just in front of Tang Feng, the bridge deck was so narrow that only one person could pass sideways, and what was even more terrifying was that no one knew what was under the bridge, except for the bridge deck, the other spaces were all dark.

"Then you pull back and let me go ahead." Han Jiang ordered.

"I ...... I can't come back......" Tang Feng wanted to retreat, but he couldn't move.

3

Tang Feng's legs couldn't stop trembling, he couldn't turn around and retreat at all, he leaned sideways, so he had to move a small step forward, Tang Feng was almost close to the narrowest part of the stone bridge, he wanted to turn around, take a look at the bridge deck in front of him, but still couldn't turn, Tang Feng's heart was beating wildly, and he unconsciously shone a flashlight under his feet, as a result, before he could see anything clearly, the flashlight slipped down from his hand, Tang Feng was startled, almost lost his balance, and fell into the dark abyss.

Tang Feng kept his balance, and for a long time, he didn't hear the echo of the flashlight falling to the bottom, and his heart also fell into the dark abyss with the flashlight.

Han Jiang and Makarov were shocked when they saw that Tang Feng was suddenly dark, and the two hurriedly used their flashlights to shine on Tang Feng, and found that Tang Feng was still there, so they relaxed a little, "What's wrong with you?" Don't scare us? Han Jiang shouted.

"Scared...... Scaring you? Who the hell is scared of this...... Who? Tang Feng's voice dragged out of the crying voice.

"You stand still!" Han Jiang said, also turned sideways and moved two steps forward, and walked to Tang Feng's side, Han Jiang held a flashlight and shone it in front, "The front seems to be widening." Han Jiang said.

"Really......?" Tang Feng couldn't believe it.

"Really! You take two more steps and you're gone! "Han Jiang is not sure that the bridge deck will be widened.

Han Jiang's words were still effective in quenching his thirst, Tang Feng finally regained his courage, took a few steps forward sideways, and the bridge deck under his feet was indeed wider than just now.

Han Jiang and Makarov also followed, and at this time, a gust of wind came from nowhere, and Tang Feng was full of excitement, and finally recovered from the extreme panic just now.

"It looks like we've come through the narrowest stretch." Han Jiang took a few more steps forward, and the light pillar of the flashlight could already shine on the bridge deck in front of him.

"The bridge deck ahead has not only widened, but also has a downhill shape, and it looks like we have come to this side of the bridge!" Makarov said excitedly.

Han Jiang took out a spare flashlight from his bag and handed it to Tang Feng, "If you fall again, it will be gone!" After speaking, Han Jiang took the lead and strode forward. It didn't take long for two more stone-carved samurai statues to appear in front of the three of them.

Two stone-carved warrior statues stood at the head of the bridge, one on the left and one on the right, exactly like the warriors on the other side of the bridge, the three of them swept the front with flashlights, and several irregular holes appeared in front, Tang Feng deduced: "We must choose the right direction, since we have opened the stone wall and passed through the stone bridge, we can walk here, then there will definitely be a way to the outside." ”

"Maybe it's the way to where we're going." Han Jiang Road.

"But which way should we go? It looks like these roads have not been dug by hand, and they seem to have been formed naturally. Makarov said.

"I'm really afraid of falling into a maze array again...... Han Jiang still palpitated when he remembered the previous maze of intertwined Yongdao.

While Han Jiang and Makarov were thinking about which way to go, Tang Feng turned around and stared at the stone-carved warrior statues on both sides of the bridge. Han Jiang turned his head, "Tang Feng, what are you looking at?" Let's find a way to go! ”

"You see, the samurai statue on the left is not the same as the other three." Tang Feng said suddenly.

Han Jiang and Makarov were shocked, could it be that it was like the samurai statue in the northeast corner of the Buddha Hall of the Lower Temple? ! But Han Jiang stared at the two warrior statues for a long time, and he didn't see it, "What's the difference?" ”

"Yes! What's the difference? Makarov didn't see it either.

"This samurai statue is not as obvious as the samurai statue in the northeast corner of the lower temple pagoda, do you notice the eyes of this samurai statue?" Tang Feng pointed to the samurai statue on the left.

"Eyes again?" Han Jiang now has a headache when he sees his eyes.

Sure enough, Han Jiang and Makarov found that the eyes of the samurai statue on the right were wide and looking straight ahead, while the eyes of the samurai on the left side were very strange, although the eyes were still in the middle of the eye socket, they always gave people the feeling that they were staring at the front left.

"What's going on? The eyes of this samurai statue are very strange, but if you look closely, the eyes of this samurai are obviously in the middle of the eye socket like the samurai statue on the right! Han Jiang was puzzled.

"This is where the craftsmen of the Western Xia are superb, the eyeballs are also engraved in the middle of the eye sockets, but with a little subcalculation, the thickness of the eyeballs is carved, which gives people a special feeling." Tang Feng explained.

Han Jiang stared at the samurai statue for a while, and sure enough, the eyes of the samurai statue on the left were of different thicknesses, giving people the feeling that the samurai was looking at the front left. "It must have been a purpose for the craftsmen to work so hard to carve the samurai like this, right?" Han Jiang speculated.

"That's why I let you think about the difference between the Buddha statues on the left."

"Are you sure there is nothing wrong with the two statues on the other side of the bridge?"

"I've looked closely, and only the eyes of the samurai statue on the left are special. I think that if the eyes of the samurai statue are carved like this, there must be something to be pointed out, and people who are not careful or do not know the inside story will not find out. Tang Feng said.

"Then we should go to the left!" As he spoke, Han Jiang used a flashlight to shine in front of the left, and sure enough, a passage extending forward appeared.

4

Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Makarov agreed to follow the instructions of the samurai statue on the left and take the passage in front of the left. Tang Feng took the lead in drilling into this Yongdao, which was almost exactly the same as the previous maze of complicated Yongdao, and there were not many traces of artificial polishing, but Tang Feng clearly smelled the breath that the ancients had walked.

Tang Feng's sense of smell, Han Jiang and Makarov will not have, they followed Tang Feng through this corridor, but the three of them were worried in their hearts, not knowing where this corridor would lead them?

After more than ten minutes, Tang Feng regained the confidence he had gained when he fell into the abyss on the stone bridge, because a dark red gate had appeared in front of them.

The three of them stopped twenty paces away from the gate, "I finally didn't get lost!" Han Jiang let out a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, Tang Feng saw the secret of the samurai statue." Makarov also lamented.

"Don't be happy, you don't know what is behind the door?" Tang Feng tried his best to keep himself calm, but his heart still beat wildly.

Tang Feng walked straight towards the dark red gate. "Watch out for hidden weapons!" Han Jiang reminded in the back.

"That's it! Don't be afraid, even if the ancients left a secret weapon, it would have failed for so many years! Tang Feng looked quite sure, "I read a lot of tomb robbery novels, do you really think that there are hidden arrows in the ancient tomb to hurt people?" Besides, is this an ancient tomb? This isn't an ancient tomb either! Tang Feng said that he had come to the dark red gate.

Han Jiang and Makarov cautiously followed, Han Jiang also nervously pulled out his gun, and at this moment Tang Feng came to his senses, "Look at you nervous, isn't this just a door?" ”

"Be prepared,...... Besides, why do I think this door is so similar to the gate of the underground palace inside the mausoleum? Han Jiang said.

Tang Feng touched the door in front of him with his hand, a thick layer of dust made the original bright red gate turn dark red, Tang Feng wiped off the dust, he found that the door was actually smeared with a layer of cinnabar on the outside, and Tang Feng also found a little golden substance on the door panel.

Tang Feng put these golden substances under the flashlight to observe, his eyes widened suddenly, and he exclaimed, "What a noble gate." ”

"What is this?"

"Golden lacquer!"

"What?"

"This is a gold-lacquered gate, I can't imagine what this gate looked like when it was first built, and the cinnabar was coated with a layer of gold lacquer, if it weren't for the gold paint peeling off over the years, then in this dark corridor, what a magnificent gate in front of us!" Tang Feng sighed.

"This door turned out to be golden?" Han Jiang couldn't believe it.

"Well, that's it, you think about how brilliant and noble this gate is!"

Makarov didn't understand too much, "Tang Feng, you mean this is a golden door?" ”

"It's not Kinmen, but it's pretty much the same!"

"Oh! God, what's inside this door? Makarov exclaimed.

"I don't know, but this must have been an important place in Western Xia back then." Tang Feng reasoned.

"Don't rush in first, you have to check carefully to make sure there is no danger before entering." Han Jiang hadn't forgotten the stubble of the hidden weapon.

The three of them took two steps back, and looked at the noble gold-lacquered gate in front of them again, Tang Feng found that the stone walls on both sides of the gate were made of huge stones, and the originally unpolished rock walls stopped abruptly on both sides of the gate. Tang Feng didn't dare to think about it anymore, but he was sure that there must be something else inside the door, and Tang Feng couldn't wait to push open this magical door.

5

Han Jiang checked it and didn't see any hidden weapon mechanism, so he said with disappointment, "Such an awesome gate is not worthy of a hidden weapon mechanism?" It's so bad! ”

"You seem to be willing to have some hidden weapons?" Tang Feng said with a smile.

"I advise you to be careful, there is no outside the door, and you have to be more careful inside the door!" Han Jiang admonished.

Tang Feng didn't listen to Han Jiang at all, he grabbed the crack in the door, and looked inside, there was a black hole inside, and there was no light, Tang Feng suddenly had a question in his heart, "You said that if we took the wrong path at the beginning, then the people who hurt us should enter here before us, but why is there no movement in it at all?" ”

"Maybe it's not the place the mysterious man was looking for." Han Jiang speculated wildly.

"Are you saying that we stumbled into this mountain palace by mistake?"

"I don't know, I can't figure out what's going on until I go in! How do you think we open this door? ”

Tang Feng used a flashlight to shine into the crack of the door again, and the pillar of light pierced the darkness of the Xuangong that had been sealed for thousands of years, and Tang Feng vaguely saw some statues, as well as the walls built of huge stones.

Tang Feng pushed the gold-lacquered door in front of him, and the door was sunken in, but the rusty iron lock outside the door was still sticking to his post and playing a role, Tang Feng did not push the door open, he observed the situation behind the door again, and then said very confidently: "There is no running stone behind this door, it is this iron lock, as long as this iron lock is broken, the door can be opened." ”

"It's easy to do, let's do it!" As he spoke, Han Jiang took out another paper clip, straightened it, and stabbed it into the keyhole, but this time Han Jiang made a big mistake, he used the paper clip to tinker in the lock hole for a long time, and he couldn't open the door lock, "Damn!" Brother is going to be planted here today. ”

Tang Feng stood aside, deliberately looking at Han Jiang's joke, "You should hurry up, you can't even break the lock of the ancients?" ”

"Nonsense! How do I know, I've opened any lock, but I haven't opened an ancient lock, no matter how complicated the safe, as long as I give me time, there is nothing I can't open! ”

"Good! Then we'll give you time. ”

Tang Feng watched Han Jiang tinker for another five or six minutes, but still didn't open the lock on the door.

"The lock structure of the ancients is very simple, can you still open it?" Tang Feng urged.

"Damn! Who designed this lock? It's not the right way at all! ”

"Don't make excuses, if it doesn't work, let's change people!"

"Then you come!" Han Jiang yelled angrily.

"I'll come, I'll come!" Tang Feng picked up Han Jiang.

Han Jiang never knew that Tang Feng had the skill of unlocking, he wanted to see how Tang Feng opened the lock of Western Xia, but a scene that surprised Han Jiang appeared: he saw Tang Feng pull out his 92-style pistol and shoot it directly at the lock on the door, a burst of sparks flashed, and the lock was broken.

Han Jiang didn't expect Tang Feng to make this move, but he was startled by the sparks that popped out of the bullets, "You are also a scholar, and you actually destroy cultural relics?" ”

"This lock is rusty, you can't break it." Tang Feng Road.

"Nonsense! Shoot me with a gun, too! Han Jiang was so angry that his nose was about to smoke.

"It's a pity that you didn't think of it, or you were just stupid! As for the destruction of cultural relics, this is also an urgent matter, and if it is usual, it is also sawed off little by little. ”

After Tang Feng finished speaking, he stretched out his arms and pushed the gold-lacquered door in front of him, "squeak", the door opened, Tang Feng was surprised that the door shaft of this gate was still so intact hundreds of years later.

The three of them walked into another dark world, nervous and excited with the ever-accelerating heartbeat, Tang Feng took the lead in discovering the grooves on the stone wall of the boulder to place the oil lamps and candles, "You look at these grooves, they are exactly the same as the wolf's head-shaped grooves we saw in the blackhead stone room. ”

"It seems that this was indeed built during the Tangut period." Han Jiang took out the candles he was carrying, and put the lit candles on those grooves one by one, and soon, the entire megalithic palace was illuminated.

6

Under the faint candlelight, Tang Feng looked around, and he found that it was a somewhat strange, irregular stone room, or "stone hall". The stone hall has a space of about two or three hundred meters, and there is a gate on each side of the stone hall, but on the other side is a wide corridor, and on one side is a black hole.

Tang Feng found that not only did there be no mobile phone signal here, but even GPS could not receive any signal, so they had to rely on the only tool - a compass to identify the direction.

According to the instructions of the compass, the gate they had just opened was the west gate of the stone hall, opposite the west gate, and there was another gate on the east side, which was no different from the gold-lacquered wooden door on the west side, and the size, size, and style were almost identical, and it was almost certain that the two gates were made at the same time.

Tang Feng walked behind the east gate first, he pushed the door, the door was very tight, not like the west gate just now, a big crack in the door was exposed when he pushed it. Tang Feng looked out through the small crack in the door, it was pitch black, he couldn't see anything, and he couldn't see the lock of the south gate clearly. "Looks like no one has ever opened this door?" Tang Feng thought to himself.

Tang Feng walked along the stone wall to the south again, there is a dark cave here, Tang Feng used a flashlight to shine into the cave, and the dark Yongdao could not see the end, "The stone wall outside has not been polished." Tang Feng judged.

"Well, it's basically the same as the road we took before." Han Jiang Road.

"Could this be another passage to the bridge?" Makarov guessed.

"It's very likely! However......" Tang Feng wanted to speak and stopped.

"But what?" Han Jiang asked.

"I suddenly thought of the left eye of the Buddha." Tang Feng said softly.

"You mean this is the passage to the left eye of the Buddha?" Han Jiang was a little surprised.

Tang Feng didn't answer, and carefully checked the situation at the entrance of the cave, just like the situation outside the west gate just now, there were huge stone walls on both sides of the entrance, but there was no gold-lacquered gate here, thinking of this, Tang Feng said: "It seems that there was once a gate here, the same gold-lacquered gate as the West Gate and the East Gate." ”

"Oh! How so? Makarov asked.

"First of all, this cave is in the same shape as the west gate we entered, and secondly, there are doors on the east and west sides, and the south side shouldn't be so open, right? Of course, I need more direct evidence. Tang Feng said and pointed to the groove on the side of the hole, "Look, this should be the location where the door shaft was originally placed!" ”。

Sure enough, Han Jiang and Makarov also found the groove on the other side of the cave entrance where the door shaft was placed, and Tang Feng crawled on the ground again and searched little by little with a flashlight, "What are you looking for?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"I'm looking for gold paint, or traces of cinnabar."

But to Tang Feng's disappointment, he searched for a long time, but he didn't find a trace of gold paint and cinnabar. Could it have been this open from the beginning, with no doors? No, the grooves and the boulder walls at the entrance of the cave suggest that there should have been a gate here.

Tang Feng fell into deep thought, but Makarov suddenly said: "Assuming that we have taken the wrong path from the beginning, the correct path is the left eye of the Buddha, and the road of the left eye leads here, will the original gate here be destroyed by that mysterious person?" ”

Makarov's words shocked Tang Feng, but Han Jiang was very calm, "I have been observing here just now if there is a mark left by that mysterious person, but unfortunately there is no here." ”

"If there is, then it confirms my inference." Makarov tract.

"No!" Tang Feng suddenly shouted, "I think there was originally a golden-lacquered gate here that was the same as the West Gate and the East Gate, but it was by no means destroyed by that mysterious person. ”

"Oh! How so? ”

"It's very simple, if it was recently destroyed, there should be traces, even if he destroyed the entire gate, there should be traces. And we see that it is clean, obviously, it can't be the mysterious man's doing. Tang Feng judged.

Makarov nodded, "You have a point, but what about the door here?" ”

"There are only two possibilities, either there was no door here in the first place, or it was destroyed a long time ago, and I personally prefer the latter."

"Well, there's a good chance it is." Han Jiang nodded, "There should have been someone coming in a long time ago, so there was nothing left in this stone hall." ”

"Aren't we going to make a trip for nothing?" Makarov looked disappointed.

The three of them fell silent for a while, Tang Feng walked back to the center of the stone hall, and looked up to see that the top of the stone hall was carved with exquisite lotus flowers, "Could this be the legendary temple?" ”

"Now it seems that it is." Han Jiang Road.

"What is this huge project for, and what exactly is stored here?"

"Maybe it's a mountain of gold and silver jewelry, maybe it's a Buddhist scripture, who knows? You'll have to ask the first person to enter here. Han Jiang pursed his lips and walked a few steps north, and in front of him was the wide road.

"Have you noticed this passage?" Tang Feng suddenly asked Han Jiang.

"See, it's like an unfinished road, so there's no need to build a gate here." Han Jiang replied.

"Perhaps...... Maybe it's not as simple as we think. Tang Feng suddenly came out of his mouth