1

Tang Feng, Liang Yuan and Han Jiang walked slowly along the stream at the bottom of the canyon, on both sides of the canyon, the walls stood thousands of miles, the mountain peaks were hidden in the clouds and mist, the fog under last night had not yet dispersed, shrouded the entire canyon, five meters away, there was no one to see, I don't know how far to go, the air was dripping with raindrops, the road was even more muddy, there was no road at all in some places, only the water flowed.

Liang Yuan complained: "It's raining again, it's really unlucky." ”

Han Jiang didn't complain, but seemed thoughtful, Tang Feng asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

"I wonder where this stream will lead? Tang Feng, have you noticed, now the stream is much wider than just now, and the water is deeper than just now. Han Jiang said.

"Isn't that normal, the further down the stream, the wider the water and the deeper the water." Tang Feng replied.

"I feel like it's a lot lower here, we should be at the bottom of the canyon, maybe we're almost out of the mountains." Liang Yuan interjected.

I hope so,...... There is no way here again, alas! You have to get into the water. Saying that, Tang Feng took the lead in flowing into the stream, but as soon as he got out of the water, his body was stumbling, so he hung and fell, Tang Feng cursed: "Damn! I can't think of it much deeper than just now. ”

"I can't imagine that you look polite and polite, and you can curse people, hehe!" Liang Yuan, who followed Tang Feng into the water, grinned.

Tang Feng blushed and said, "Don't always stare at me!" The captain only swears a lot! When he is in a hurry, he will scold his mother! ”

"Hey! You two bicker, don't talk to me! Whatever. Han Jiang said, also flowed into the water, Tang Feng in front, Liang Yuan in the middle, Han Jiang in the back, the three of them walked in a row, slowly flowing the stream forward, gusts of rain and fog rose in front, visibility was worse, two or three meters away, it was a white expanse, Han Jiang was worried about Liang Yuan, walked to Liang Yuan's side, the two followed behind Tang Feng, and repeatedly told Tang Feng to be careful, "Shhh!" What do you hear from that? Han Jiang suddenly heard the sound of rushing water in front of him, and the three of them looked at each other in the heavy rain and fog.

"Isn't it the sound of water?" Tang Feng didn't care about continuing to move forward, and suddenly, Han Jiang shouted, "Be careful, there is a waterfall ahead!" ”

Han Jiang's reminder was too late, just as Han Jiang shouted "Be careful", the soles of Tang Feng's feet slipped and slid to the ground, the originally calm stream suddenly became turbulent, Tang Feng was swept forward by the turbulent water, Tang Feng's eyes widened suddenly, because he could already see the waterfall in front of him, Tang Feng struggled desperately in the water, trying to stand up, but his strength was too small compared to the turbulent water, Tang Feng watched himself being carried away by the turbulent water, The waterfall ahead is getting closer......

Han Jiang told Liang Yuan to stand still, and he rushed forward desperately, and at the moment when Tang Feng was pushed down the waterfall by the current, he firmly grasped Tang Feng's left arm with his strong and powerful hand, and with his other hand, he grabbed a boulder in the water.

Tang Feng's body was suspended in mid-air, he glanced down, and suddenly felt dizzy in his mind, the clouds below were foggy, and he couldn't see how deep it was at all! Maybe that's what lies down – the abyss!

"Hold on!" Han Jiang yelled at Tang Feng.

"I ...... I can't hold on anymore! Tang Feng felt that his left arm had become numb.

"With the other hand, grasp something, branches, stones, anything......"

Tang Feng waved his right hand desperately in the air, he wanted to catch something, and that might be his lifeline.

2

"Ahh ——" Tang Feng screamed, as soon as Han Jiang closed his eyes, his heart sank suddenly, Liang Yuan cried even more, even Tang Feng thought that he had fallen into the abyss, and when Han Jiang opened his eyes again, he found that Tang Feng grabbed a thorn from the shore with his right hand, and the thorn pierced Tang Feng's skin, and the red blood slowly dripped down Tang Feng's right hand.

Han Jiang pressed his foot against the big rock, freed up his other hand, and grabbed Tang Feng's left arm with both hands, "Let's both work together." Han Jiang shouted.

Tang Feng nodded at Han Jiang, so the two of them worked hard, one pulled up, the other desperately climbed up, and five minutes later, Han Jiang finally pulled Tang Feng up. Exhausted, they both lay down on the grass on the shore.

"Thank you for saving my life again." Tang Feng stared at the misty sky and gasped.

"Say thank you! If it were me who fell, I think you would do your best. ”

The two of them lay on the grass for twenty minutes before they recovered, Tang Feng glanced at Liang Yuan, who was already stupid, and said, "Look stupid!" If you have to come with us, if it is you, your little life will be explained here, and when the time comes, your father will be so sad! ”

"You say that about me again, I was worried about you just now!" Liang Yuan shouted at Tang Feng with a crying voice.

"You two don't quarrel, what's the use of talking about this now, since you're here, no one can leave anyone behind!" Han Jiang roared loudly, and after the roar, Han Jiang muttered in a low voice: "I'm the one who is unlucky, not to mention the danger, I have to take care of you, and in addition, I have to be a peacemaker for you!" Be united! Do you understand? ”

Han Jiang accentuated his tone as he spoke, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan looked at each other and said nothing more. Han Jiang lit a bonfire, dried his and Tang Feng's clothes, and treated the wounds on Tang Feng's hands, and after all this, it was close to noon, and the fog in the valley began to gradually disperse.

The three of them had empty stomachs, Han Jiang walked around the neighborhood, and with only a Swiss army knife he carried with him, he caught a little squirrel that went down the mountain to drink water, Han Jiang skillfully cleaned up the squirrel and roasted it on the bonfire, Han Jiang roasted the squirrel while smiling and said to Tang Feng: "Your dream has come true now, and the game is there, come, you taste a piece first." ”

Saying that, Han Jiang cut off a piece of squirrel meat and handed it to Tang Feng, Tang Feng tasted it, frowned and said, "It doesn't taste good!" ”

"Come on, some of them are good to eat, and I haven't asked you to eat raw yet!" Han Jiang said with a smile.

As soon as Tang Feng heard Han Jiang say the word "raw food", he thought of the snake that Zhao Yong forced him to eat raw, and his stomach tumbled again.

Although the taste was not good, Han Jiang and Tang Feng still swallowed the squirrel meat, only to see Liang Yuan silently watching them, but not taking a bite, Han Jiang saw this and asked with concern: "Why don't you eat it?" ”

Liang Yuan frowned and shook his head, "I never eat these small animals, you guys are too cruel." ”

When Han Jiang heard this, he shook his head helplessly. Tang Feng became a nerd temper again, and sneered at Liang Yuan: "At first glance, you are the eldest lady of a rich family, you don't eat chicken, you don't eat duck!" It's a small animal, it's too cruel, you're not really hungry yet, and when you're hungry, you'll eat everything, snakes, frogs, little geckos......"

"That's it! Come on! Don't say it, it's too disgusting......" Liang Yuan interrupted Tang Feng's words and shouted.

"Shhhh Don't talk! Han Jiang suddenly made a silent gesture to Tang Feng and Liang Yuan.

"How do you ......," Tang Feng asked Han Jiang in a low voice.

"Someone!"

"Anyone?"

"Listen, there's movement in the upper reaches of the stream......"

The three of them were silent and listened carefully, and sure enough, from the upper reaches of the stream, there was a faint sound of broken branches and messy footsteps, mixed with the sound of people talking.

3

Han Jiang waved his hand at Tang Feng and Liang Yuan, signaling them to hide in the nearby grass, while he pulled out the Type 84 miniature pistol and retreated to the grass, watching the upstream of the stream vigilantly.

"Could the people who came down from the mountains be the people on the plane?" Tang Feng attached to Han Jiang's ear and reminded in a low voice.

"That's what I thought, too. …… If I heard me right, it's two people! ”

"Two people? Makarov and Yelena? ”

"What if it's not someone on the plane?" Liang Yuan suddenly asked in horror.

Tang Feng looked back at Liang Yuan, he didn't answer Liang Yuan's question, because he didn't dare to think about it, in this deserted mountain, in addition to the passengers on the plane, who else would there be? Tang Feng's eyes widened, looking ahead, the fog in the valley in front of him had not yet dissipated, the two footsteps had become clearer and clearer, his heart was beating with those two steps, but he still didn't see the true faces of the two people, and after waiting anxiously for five minutes, Tang Feng finally saw clearly that the two people who came out of the fog were actually Xu Renyu and Stephen.

The two of them walked down the road that Tang Feng and his party had just walked on, and almost at the same time that Tang Feng and Han Jiang found them, Xu Renyu and Stephen also found them, and Xu Renyu shouted as soon as he saw Tang Feng and Han Jiang: "I said that you must have followed this road, and Stephen still doesn't believe it." ”

"Why didn't you two wait for help and come here?" Han Jiang scolded harshly.

Xu Renyu was so speechless by Han Jiang's scolding that he couldn't speak, but Stephen rolled his eyes at Han Jiang and replied tepidly: "Officer Han, we are not your prisoners, you can go down the mountain, why can't we come down." ”

Now it was Han Jiang's turn to speak, and Tang Feng hurriedly interjected: "We don't care about you, we are worried about the safety of the two of you coming down like this, the environment here is complicated, deserted, and accidents are easy to happen, you still stay in the mountains and wait for rescue to be safer." ”

"Stay in the mountains? Waiting for help? Stephen looked up at the sky and said, "All the communication between the mountain and the outside world has been cut off, and you expect someone to find us in this kind of ghost weather?" Stop dreaming, stay in the mountains, you will either freeze to death, starve to death, or become a dinner for wild beasts! If you don't want to die, you have to go out by yourself. ”

"Not bad! The weather was very bad, and it was difficult for rescuers to find us, so a few of us went down the mountain to find help from the outside world. Han Jiangchong Stephen explained.

Stephen was stunned for a moment and said, "That's our fault for you, I thought you all ran away?" ”

"All gone? What do you mean? Han Jiang was puzzled.

"The Russian father and daughter are gone!" Xu Renyu interjected.

"What? Makarov and Yelena are also gone? Tang Feng stared at Stephen and Xu Renyu in front of him in surprise.

Xu Renyu nodded and said, "When we woke up, we found that there was no one next to your bonfire, I thought that the five of you went down the mountain together, Stephen said that you definitely didn't go down the mountain together, sure enough, Stephen was right, you didn't go all the way." ”

"I said earlier that the Russian father and daughter were not simple." Han Jiang muttered quietly.

"Yes! The old man who flew the plane was definitely not an ordinary person. Stephen suddenly said in a strange way.

"Then what are you doing in China?" Han Jiang's words changed and approached Stephen.

Stephen was stunned again, and was stunned for a while before Stephen said slowly: "It seems that you are also interested in me." ”

"Yes, I'm interested in all the people around me, especially after the plane crash." Han Jiang stared at Stephen and said.

"Alright! If you are interested, I can tell you that I came to China this time for my father, my father is a devout Buddhist, he has always wanted to invite a Buddha statue from China to go back, he is too old to walk, so this time I came here to fulfill my father's wish. Stephen said calmly.

Han Jiang didn't hear any flaws in Stephen and Xu Renyu's words, and the five of them sat around the campfire again, Stephen and Xu Renyu tasted Han Jiang's roast squirrel, and Xu Renyu gave some of the food he brought in his bag to Liang Yuan.

4

The five of them rested and prepared to continue their journey. Tang Feng looked at the waterfall under his feet and said embarrassedly: "There is a waterfall in front, and there is no way to go on both sides of the stream, how can we go down?" Unless there is a climbing tool like a rope. ”

"Don't think about climbing tools, let's see if there are any roads on the mountains on both sides." Han Jiang frowned and looked at the mountains on both sides.

Everyone looked up the hill together, "This place is inaccessible, where is the way from?" Tang Feng muttered.

"Look, what's that?" Han Jiang suddenly pointed to a dense forest on the mountain beam on the left and shouted.

Tang Feng looked in the direction of Han Jiang's finger and was surprised to find that there was a flat ground halfway up the mountain beam on the left, and in the lush greenery, some strange gray was faintly revealed, and there seemed to be a wisp of cooking smoke rising from there, "There seems to be a house there!" Maybe a hunter's house. Tang Feng guessed.

"I hope that there are people to live there and someone to lead the way, and we will soon be able to get out of the mountains." Han Jiang said.

Everyone looked at each other suspiciously, and then began to march towards the halfway up the mountain, along the way, Tang Feng vigilantly observed the surroundings, everyone tried to keep the sound to a minimum, and half an hour later, when they climbed halfway up the mountain, everyone was stunned...... What appeared in front of them was not a hunter's house, but a group of grand buildings made entirely of gray stones, the outer walls of the whole building were covered by many vines, and it seemed that no one had lived in it for a long time, and in this inaccessible mountain, it looked particularly eerie, and the smoke of the cooking stove that was faintly visible at the bottom of the mountain just now was gone.

"What is this?" Liang Yuan was stunned.

After observing for a few minutes, Tang Feng said with great certainty: "Qiang Village! One set is large-scale, but ...... But it seems that the Qiang village has been abandoned for a long time. ”

"Qiang Village?"

"Yes, Qiangzhai! The ancient dwelling of the Qiang people, this is a very typical Qiang village, built by the mountain, magnificent, the main building has four floors, on both sides of the main building, there is a watchtower, that is, the two square towers like big chimneys. Tang Feng said and pointed to everyone.

Han Jiang nodded, "But in the inaccessible mountains, how can there be such a large-scale Qiang Village?" ”

"Maybe it was left by the ancients, and then it was abandoned! Judging from the shape of this Qiang village, this Qiang village is not an ordinary Qiang village, but an official village that has been carefully designed and built with complete regulations. Tang Feng speculated.

"Guanzhai? Is it the former residence of the Toast in the southwest? Stephen asked suddenly.

Tang Feng nodded and said: "Yes, starting from the Yuan Dynasty, the central court set up Tusi in the ethnic areas in the southwest, and the local tribal leaders led the tribes, and can be hereditary, the Ming and Qing dynasties followed the Tusi system, starting from the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court implemented the policy of 'changing the land and returning to the stream', and the officials sent by the imperial court gradually replaced the hereditary Tusi, however, these Tusi are still very strong in the southwest region, and the imperial court's ' The implementation of "changing the land and returning to the stream" was not smooth, until the Republic of China, there were still many toasts in the southwest region, and the toast system continued until New China, and finally died out. The shape of this Qiang village in front of us is regular, the construction is exquisite, it is still well preserved after many years, and then look at the location of the Qiang village, the stream under the mountain, the amount of water is not big now, if in summer, the stream is rushing, there is a waterfall below, the cliff, the Qiang people like to build the Qiang village on the edge of such a roadless cliff, condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so I judge that this was once an official village of the Qiang Tusi. ”

"Then when was this Qiang village built? And when was it deserted? Xu Renyu asked curiously.

Tang Feng shook his head, "I don't know, maybe only by going inside can I see the clues." ”

Everyone continued to walk towards Qiang Village, and suddenly, a stone in the grass attracted Tang Feng's attention, Tang Feng pointed to the stone, and said to everyone: "Look, this stone seems to have been polished artificially. ”

"Oh!" Everyone was shocked, Tang Feng wiped the dust on the surface of the stone, and found nothing abnormal, he observed for a long time, and said: "I can be sure that this is a stone tablet, which was originally supposed to stand nearby, but it was pushed to become a broken tablet." ”

"There should be text under the monument?" Xu Renyu asked Tang Feng.

Tang Feng nodded and said, "There should be, but this side doesn't look like it has words, maybe the side with words is pressed underneath." ”

As he spoke, Tang Feng leaned down and turned over the broken monument with his arms, and everyone gathered around to observe it carefully, but what was disappointing was that the other side of the remnant monument was still blank, and there was no trace of artificial engraving.

"Tang Feng, did you misjudge?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng suspiciously.

Tang Feng also began to waver a little, he stared at the remnants of the monument on the ground, and muttered in his mouth: "Could it be that this is a wordless monument?" ”

Tang Feng squatted on the ground, still looking at the remnant of the monument, Han Jiang stood up, observed the surroundings, and found that they were standing on the flat ground in front of the Qiang Village, everyone scattered, and searched for a long time in the nearby grass, but did not see the rest of the remnant monument, "It seems that we have to go in and find out." Han Jiang muttered to himself. Tang Feng was silent, he stared at the labyrinth-like Qiang Village in front of him again, his heart was shrouded in suspicion, and Han Jiang subconsciously touched the Type 84 miniature pistol on his waist......

5

Tang Feng and his entourage came to the Qiang Village, Tang Feng looked up at the Qiang Village in front of him, and introduced to everyone: "Generally, the first floor of the Qiang Village does not live in people, mainly used to raise livestock, the second floor is the main living area, and it is also the place to worship the ancestral tablets, the third floor is also the living area, but it is generally used to store food and other items, the fourth floor is generally a platform, and it is also the main place for lighting, you see this Qiang Village is very perfect, the windows on each floor are different, the windows on the first floor are called 'ground windows', and the windows on the second and third floors are called ' Flower window', the small window next to the flower window is called 'bucket window', the window with a peculiar shape on the four-layer platform, like a sheep's horn, so it is called 'sheep's horn window', there is a kind of 'rising window' on the platform, which is what we commonly call the skylight, and the lighting of the central part of the Qiang village depends on this rising window. ”

"What does the watchtower over there in Qiangzhai do?"

"Qiang village is different from the general dwellings, that is, it has a strong military defense function, in ancient times, these frontier areas are not peaceful, in order to prevent the enemy's attack, Qiang village has built a watchtower, watchtower and the platform of the fourth floor, the most important role is to look out for the enemy, defend against the enemy's attack."

Han Jiang looked up at the watchtowers on the east and west sides, the watchtowers built entirely of stones towered into the clouds, what kind of magic work is this, it can make the ancient Qiang people use simple tools to build such a tall watchtower, suddenly, Han Jiang's eyes were shaken by a bright light, Han Jiang exclaimed: "Tang Feng, look, there seems to be someone on the watchtower on the east side?" ”

Tang Feng was also shocked in his heart, and hurriedly looked at the watchtower on the east side, but he didn't see anything, Tang Feng looked at the top of the watchtower covered by clouds and mist, shook his head and said: "Impossible, in this inaccessible deep mountain, it is impossible for anyone to still live in this Qiang village, and the watchtower is full of wooden stairs and planks, so many years of wind and rain, it has long been decayed, and it is impossible for anyone to climb to the top of the watchtower." ”

Han Jiang walked quickly to the gate of Qiangzhai on the second floor, pushed sideways, "squeak", the heavy wooden door wrapped in iron sheets automatically opened, and the hall on the second floor was pitch black, only a dazzling ray of sunlight shining directly down from the hole in the middle of the roof, shining on the central pillar that supported the entire Qiangzhai. Tang Feng followed behind Han Jiang and came to the center of the hall on the second floor, stared up at the hole in the roof, looked at it for a long time, and then, his eyes slowly moved down the thick central pillar.

"That hole is what you just said about the 'Rising Window'?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng.

"Hmmm! Very clever design. Tang Feng's gaze slowly moved to the bottom of the central pillar, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to the bottom of the pillar and said to everyone: "Look, there seem to be words under this pillar." ”

By the light shining from the rising window, everyone found that there was indeed a row of words engraved under the central column, Tang Feng leaned down to take a closer look, this was a row of Chinese characters, Tang Feng slowly read out the row of words: "In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, long live His Majesty the Emperor." ”

"What does this mean? How are kanji? Liang Yuan asked puzzled.

Tang Feng pondered for a long time, and speculated: "I think this should be the exact age of this Qiang village building, it is said that after the fall of the Western Xia, there was a party of people, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Mengyuan regime, fled back to the place where the party people originated, that is, in the mountains of northwest Sichuan, the entire Yuan Dynasty, they did not dare to show their heads, so it was not until the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, that is, a few decades after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, that this group of party members knew that the Yuan Dynasty had perished, and the outside world only understood the existence of this group of people, It was probably at this time that the Ming Dynasty canonized the leader of this group of remnants of the party as 'Tusi', and they built this large-scale Qiang village. ”

"Is this history, or is it your speculation?" Xu Renyu asked Tang Feng.

"It is both history and speculation, because this secret history has long been lost in the long river of history." After Tang Feng finished speaking, he looked at the central pillar and muttered, "We actually found such an ancient Qiang village!" ”

Han Jiang turned on the flashlight and looked around, and there were seven closed doors around the hall.

"Where do these doors lead?" Han Jiang asked in a low voice.

"We'll only know if it's opened." Tang Feng said thoughtfully.

As soon as Tang Feng's words fell, from the first door on their left, there was a sudden crisp sound of "pop", and everyone immediately became alert......

6

Tang Feng made a gesture, signaling Liang Yuan, Xu Renyu and Stephen to stay next to the pot village in the hall on the second floor, and he pulled out his pistol, and Han Jiang came to the first door on the left, Tang Feng found that the door was not locked, and it was very quiet in the door, and there was no sound at all, at this time, Han Jiang stretched out his arm at Tang Feng and swung it horizontally twice, Tang Feng understood that this was the sign language used by the special forces, before coming, Han Jiang had taught him various sign languages used by the special forces, and the meaning of this action was "enter".

Tang Feng made a "understood" sign language at Han Jiang, Han Jiang counted down three times with a gesture, Tang Feng kicked open the door, Han Jiang rushed in with a gun, Tang Feng followed, but when they rushed into the door, there was no one inside, only a black cat, sitting on the revolving wooden staircase leading downstairs, it was the voice made by this guy just now.

"How can there be a cat here?" Tang Feng let out a long breath.

Han Jiang remained vigilant and whispered, "I look at this cat very strangely. ”

"Cat eyes? What's so strange? ”

"I don't know, where does this staircase lead?"

"It should lead to the first floor, and possibly to the watchtower."

"Come down with me, if you don't want to be a target, you'd better turn off your flashlight." Han Jiang's reminder made Tang Feng break out in a cold sweat, and he hurriedly turned off the flashlight.

In the dark, the two of them walked lightly down the stairs in the dark, but they walked less than ten steps, and suddenly, there was a "bang!" from behind them. "Oh no, the door is shut." Tang Feng reacted quickly this time, quickly turned on the flashlight, and shot towards the gate, the gate was closed, and the black cat was gone.

Tang Feng's heart was raised to his throat, he looked back at Han Jiang, Han Jiang's face sank like water, without saying a word, and when he returned to the door, he concocted it as he did when he entered the door, one, two, three, the door opened, and in the living room, everything was as usual, but Liang Yuan, Xu Renyu and Stephen were gone.

"What about them?" Tang Feng exclaimed.

Han Jiang opened the safety of the pistol and looked around vigilantly, the door of Qiangzhai was closed, all the doors around were closed, Han Jiang held the gun and walked to the edge of the pot village where Liang Yuan and the others were standing just now, and suddenly, from the second door on the left hand, there was a sullen voice: "Tang Feng, I'm here, come and save us-"

Tang Feng and Han Jiang reacted immediately, this was Liang Yuan's cry for help, Han Jiang rushed to the door with an arrow step, he used all his strength to slam into the door, but the thick wooden door didn't move at all, Han Jiang was bounced back by the wooden door because he used too much force.

Han Jiang was surprised in his heart, with his own strength, he couldn't hit the wooden door in front of him? He tried to bang on the door again, but Tang Feng stopped him: "Wait a minute, look here, there is a wooden door buckle." ”

Only then did Han Jiang notice that there was a protruding wooden door buckle on the side of the wooden door, and at this time, Liang Yuan's cry for help came from inside the door: "Dr. Xu and I are locked in the door, and we can't open this door." ”

Han Jiang stared at the wooden door buckle and said suspiciously: "It seems that this door buckle is blocking the door, so that Liang Yuan and they can't push this door open." But we should be able to open it from the outside! ”

Tang Feng was also puzzled, but he quickly thought of something, Tang Feng reached out and fiddled with the wooden door buckle, the door buckle was pressed down, Tang Feng saw this, and shouted at Liang Yuan inside the door: "You try again, push this door!" ”

"Squeak" was another screech, the door opened, Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu rushed out in a panic, Liang Yuan hit his head in Tang Feng's arms, Tang Feng stared at Liang Yuan's eyes full of fear, and asked, "How can you be locked inside?" ”

"You ...... After you enter that gate, Dr. Xu and ...... Stephen went to push the other doors, and I followed the doctor in, and I ...... Can't get out! Liang Yuan said intermittently.

Han Jiang and Tang Feng looked at the space behind the door, and the two couldn't help but be secretly surprised, it turned out that behind the second door, it was exactly the same as the scene inside the first door on the left, it was also a wooden spiral staircase, and the wooden ladder had been winding down, and they didn't know where it led. Looking at the door again, as Tang Feng expected, there was indeed a door buckle on the inside of the door frame, and it was this door buckle that made Han Jiang try his best and failed to push the door open.

7

"Strange doors? Why do you want to get two door buckles inside and out? Han Jiang wondered.

"There is nothing strange, this is a reflection of the wisdom of the ancients who built the Qiang village, the heavy wooden door, the inside and outside two door buckles, if the enemy attacks from the outside, close the gate, you can increase a line of defense, stop the enemy, if the enemy attacks from the Qiang village gate, you can retreat to the stairs behind the door, close the door, take the opportunity to escape, this is what an ingenious design." Tang Feng sighed.

"But who just buttoned the inside and outside door buckles?"

Han Jiang's question surprised Tang Feng, he fiddled with the wooden door buckle twice, and explained: "Maybe it's because of the age, the door buckle is loose, and the heavy wooden door is closed, because the vibration shook both door buckles down." ”

Han Jiang listened to Tang Feng's explanation and didn't say anything more, he glanced at the spiral staircase inside the door again, turned around, and asked Xu Renyu, "What about Stephen?" I told you to stand still, and why did you run around? ”

"I don't know what that gesture means!" Xu Renyu muttered. Then, Xu Renyu pointed to the first door on his right hand and said, "I saw Stephen enter that door, maybe...... Maybe he's locked up in there right now. ”

Everyone came to the first door on the right hand, this door was exactly opposite the first door on the left hand, Han Jiang just wanted to push the door in, but Liang Yuan exclaimed: "There is no door buckle outside this door?" ”

Everyone was shocked, there was no door buckle outside the door, and Stephen didn't come out for such a long time, could it be ...... Everyone didn't dare to think about it anymore, and pushed open the wooden door together.

Light shines through a stained window, and there is no spiral staircase, but a complete room, empty and unfurnished.

"Where's Stephen?" Tang Feng also questioned Xu Renyu in a low voice.

Xu Renyu touched his head and said suspiciously: "I obviously saw him enter this door just now, and Liang Yuan also saw it." ”

Tang Feng still thought that the light in the house was not enough, so he turned on the flashlight and shone on the four walls of the house, but he didn't find anything except the wall skin that had fallen off in disrepair, Tang Feng's footsteps slowly moved to the side of the flower window, and suddenly, Han Jiang yelled at Tang Feng: "Pay attention to your step!" ”

Tang Feng was so shocked that he took half a step back, looked down, and only then did he realize that a one-meter-square hole appeared on the floor near the flower window, and if it wasn't for Han Jiang's timely reminder, he would have fallen into it.

Everyone gathered around and looked down at the light emitted by the flashlight, the black hole one meter square was bottomless, and a damp and rotten breath diffused from the hole, "Could it be that Stephen fell?" Xu Renyu looked frightened.

"You mean Stephen fell into this hole?" Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

Xu Renyu nodded and said, "You see, the traces of the broken part of this wooden board are new. ”

"That means the floor has just snapped." Tang Feng Road.

"Steven-Finn!" Xu Renyu shouted at the entrance of the cave, but Stephen's voice was not heard in the cave, only a terrifying echo.

"How deep is this hole? Why did Stephen fall in so quickly...... That's it! By the way, there will be something scary in the cave, such as monsters! Liang Yuan stared at Tang Feng with a pair of terrified eyes.

"I think you've watched too many horror movies! How can there be monsters in this place! Tang Feng scoffed at Liang Yuan's wild conjecture, but when he looked down from the small hole again, he still felt a shudder.

8

Tang Feng once again swept the strange room with a flashlight, and said, "What I'm interested in is, why is this room built on a hole?" ”

After carefully examining the black hole, Han Jiang speculated, "It was not that this room was built on the entrance of the hole, but that this hole was intentionally built under the floor." I have taken a closer look, and this hole is built by hand with stones, which means that this hole was built when this huge Qiang village was built. ”

Liang Yuan was still shocked, and asked timidly: "This Qiang village is so mysterious, why did you build this hole under the room?" ”

"Yes! The other rooms may also be full of mechanisms, and this Qiang village is more like a labyrinth with many mechanisms. Xu Renyu sighed.

Tang Feng meditated for a moment and explained: "I estimate that this Qiang village was built like this, all out of the need for military defense, the Qiang village is originally different from ordinary dwellings, it is more like a military fortress, but the Qiang village we see pays more attention to military defense functions than other Qiang villages, the entire hall on the second floor is heavy, below, and several floors above, I don't know what it will be?" ”

"So, isn't it dangerous for us to be in here?" Liang Yuan exclaimed.

"Tang Feng, what you said is too much, even if it is a lot of organs, hundreds of years, it can still play a role, besides, this was also a residence at the beginning, so many organs, what if you hurt your own people? I see that this cave entrance is just an escape route, and as a result, Stephen ......" Han Jiang retorted Tang Feng and said.

Tang Feng didn't argue, he returned to the hall, and checked the other rooms on the second floor one by one, but didn't find anything unusual in the other rooms, the four of them returned to the pot in the center of the hall, Han Jiang shone the wooden board upstairs with a flashlight, and suddenly asked, "Huh?" It's strange, why didn't you see the stairs leading upstairs? ”

Tang Feng checked it and explained: "This is normal, there is no fixed staircase in the Qiang village, and movable wooden ladders are used to go up and down the stairs. ”

"Then how is there a fixed spiral staircase in the first two doors on the left?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"Those two spiral staircases are really weird! Generally speaking, the first floor of Qiang Village is a place for captive livestock and sundries, and there will be no such good ladders. In short, this abandoned Qiang village is full of mysteries. Tang Feng also couldn't explain the many strange phenomena in this Qiang village.

As soon as Tang Feng's words fell, he suddenly found that the black cat appeared next to the second door in his left hand again, Tang Feng pointed to the black cat squatting by the door, Han Jiang also noticed the black cat, he raised his legs high, landed lightly, and walked towards the black cat, but as soon as he approached the black cat, the black cat turned around and disappeared into the door in an instant.

"What a strange cat!" Han Jiang muttered softly.

"Maybe this cat will take us to the mystery." Saying that, Tang Feng actually chased after him and followed the cat into the door, Han Jiang didn't dare to leave Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu behind, so the three of them followed Tang Feng into the door.

The spiral staircase winded down, Tang Feng walked in front with a flashlight, Liang Yuan and Xu Renyu followed closely behind, Han Jiang looked back at the wooden door vigilantly, and still followed Tang Feng and them down.

The spiral staircase circled, circled, Tang Feng couldn't remember how many times they turned, every time he took a step, the spiral staircase would make a "squeak" sound, this sound made every pore on Tang Feng's body open, Tang Feng used a flashlight to shine under the stairs in front of him, and the cat that led them here disappeared mysteriously,

Tang Feng's feet finally walked down the wooden spiral staircase, and a tunnel with stones appeared in front of him, the tunnel was arched, the highest point was less than two meters, and the tunnel was covered with cobwebs, obviously, no one had been here for many years, Tang Feng took two steps forward, he suddenly felt a bright light above his head, Tang Feng looked up suddenly, and found that he was standing under a tall watchtower at this time, the bright light was the light reflected in the small window on the watchtower, Liang Yuan, Xu Renyu and Han Jiang came to Tang Feng's side, and looked at the top of their heads together, Liang Yuan asked Tang Feng curiously, "How did we get under this big chimney?" ”

Tang Feng looked at Liang Yuan helplessly, and said: "This is not a big chimney, it is the watchtower we see outside the Qiang village, the watchtower is generally the commanding height of the Qiang village, playing the role of lookout and defense, when we come in, look at this Qiang village outside, there are two watchtowers, one left and one right, located on both sides of the Qiang village, this is one of the watchtowers. I think if I can climb to the top of the watchtower and look out of that small window, I should be able to see the situation in a radius of dozens of miles nearby. ”

"But how do you climb up? There is no ladder in this watchtower! Xu Renyu observed the inside of the watchtower and wondered.

"Just like the situation in the hall on the second floor, the original ladder is not a fixed ladder, and after so many years, it is long gone." Tang Feng speculated.

"I'm more concerned about where this tunnel leads!" Han Jiang muttered to himself with a flashlight shining on the pitch-black tunnel in front of him.

The dense cobwebs, the thick dust that was raised, and the sudden bends made the bright light of the flashlight seem to have lost its effect in this dark tunnel, and Tang Feng, who was walking in front, didn't know what was waiting for them in front of them? Monster? Or is it a trap?

The timid Liang Yuan followed closely behind Tang Feng, and the little dust that suddenly shook off his head shocked Liang Yuan and grabbed Tang Feng's clothes, and a wall appeared in front of him, this is not the strength of the tunnel, just a turn, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan took the lead in turning over, Tang Feng suddenly found that the tunnel in front of him seemed to have become wider, and the road under his feet began to slope downward from here, extending to the depths of the tunnel that was getting more and more humid......

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Liang Yuan looked at the tunnel in front of her in surprise, and involuntarily took a step forward, suddenly, there was a strange "click" sound under her feet, which startled Liang Yuan hurriedly took half a step back, Tang Feng also heard the sound, he took a flashlight to Liang Yuan's feet, and the two saw a black "stick", Liang Yuan reached out and picked up the "stick" in confusion, and looked carefully, she slowly wiped off the black mud on a section of the "stick...... Suddenly, Liang Yuan's eyes widened, she screamed, and the "stick" in her hand also fell to the ground, because she saw it clearly - under the black silt, the exposed ground was a terrible white, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan both recognized, it was a bone, a human bone.

Liang Yuan's screams caused Han Jiang and Xu Renyu to catch up as well, "What's wrong?" Han Jiang asked nervously.

Liang Yuan was shocked and speechless, Tang Feng did not answer Han Jiang's question, but shone the flashlight towards his feet, at this time, everyone was horrified to find that on the ramp that extended to the depths of the tunnel, there were bones covered with silt, these bones were almost covered with the entire ramp, and, without exception, all the bones were face down, lying on the ground, with their heads in the direction of the spiral staircase at the entrance of the tunnel, it seemed that they were all in an instant, encountering great danger, in order to survive, They ran desperately towards the entrance of the tunnel, but—but almost that, they were all enclosed in this dark and damp tunnel, why did they come to this tunnel? And what is it that makes them so frightened and panicked?

Tang Feng was stunned by the scene in front of him, he remembered the underground palace of the emperor's mausoleum, a sloped tomb road, leading to the unfathomable underground palace, legend has it that some emperors closed the underground palace before the burial, and buried the craftsmen who repaired the tomb alive in the underground palace, those craftsmen at the last moment of their lives, the instinct to survive, prompted them to desperately run towards the entrance of the underground palace, maybe this scene in front of them!

"It's horrible, let's go back!" Liang Yuan first retreated.

Xu Renyu touched the fine sweat oozing from his forehead, looking at Han Jiang and Tang Feng, his heart was timid, but he didn't want to give up his efforts to find Stephen. Han Jiang and Tang Feng both understood what Xu Renyu meant, and they didn't want to give up, but ...... Han Jiang also hesitated, he glanced at the slope tunnel in front of him again, and said to everyone: "It's not early today, everyone is tired, we might as well go back to the hall on the second floor for a while to rest, and come here tomorrow to find out." ”

Xu Renyu agreed, Tang Feng didn't say anything, and the four of them were about to turn around and go back, but one thing suddenly jumped in front of the light pillar of Tang Feng's flashlight, and it was the cat again! Tang Feng saw the black cat again, the black cat was squatting on a pile of white bones in the slope tunnel, quietly watching Tang Feng, "No! We should go down and see, in case Stephen isn't dead......"

Saying that, Tang Feng didn't ask for the opinions of others, and walked straight up the slope tunnel, Liang Yuan saw Tang Feng go down, and he didn't know where he got the courage, so he dragged Tang Feng and walked down the tunnel. Tang Feng pulled Liang Yuan, carefully stepped on a skeleton, and walked down the ramp, the more down the air became, the more humid it became, and the more difficult it was to breathe.

Han Jiang and Xu Renyu also followed, and after walking about twenty meters, everyone came to the bottom of the slope tunnel, the original arch-shaped tunnel has become a dome-shaped square underground space here, Tang Feng roughly estimated this square space, about seventy or eighty square meters, what is this place? When Tang Feng was suspicious, Han Jiang suddenly leaned into his ear and reminded in a low voice: "Tang Feng, could this be the legendary 'black-headed stone room'?" ”

Hearing Han Jiang's words, Tang Feng was suddenly startled, "Black-headed stone room"? Could it be that this is the black-headed stone room, Tang Feng immediately thought of the black-headed stone room from the moment he walked into the tunnel, but he quickly denied this speculation, he didn't believe that he could find the black-headed stone room so easily by mistake, but Han Jiang's question at this time made him have to start thinking about this question again, is this wide underground space the legendary "black-headed stone room"?

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Tang Feng lowered his voice and replied to Han Jiang: "We must find sufficient evidence to prove this inference." ”

After Tang Feng finished speaking, he walked to the wall, he borrowed the strong light of the flashlight, carefully checked, a white, slightly yellowed water line, appeared around the wall, Tang Feng patted the wall in front of him, and said to everyone: "You see, there are traces of long-term water accumulation here, indicating that this place has been submerged in water for a long time before." ”

"No wonder it's so damp down there, there's so much silt on the slope tunnel!" Liang Yuan muttered.

Han Jiang suddenly thought of something, "Could this place have been a water prison?" The bones on the ramp were probably the same prisoners who had been held here, because something had happened here, such as the rising water level, so they tried desperately to escape, but they were finally flooded. ”

"I think you can make up a novel!" Xu Renyu sneered at Han Jiang.

Tang Feng said: "What Han Jiang said is reasonable, it is completely possible, but why did the water level suddenly rise?" ”

"Then you're going to go through that door." As he spoke, Han Jiang pointed to a hole that appeared on the side wall.

Tang Feng nodded, and went into the hole again, which was still a tunnel with an arched roof, but when Tang Feng gradually adapted to the light and smell in this tunnel, he was shocked again, because he broke into a human bone tunnel, and under the illumination of the flashlight, rows of orderly white bones appeared in front of everyone.

At the bottom of the walls on both sides of the tunnel is a row of neat skulls, the skulls are neatly stacked with layers of white bones against the wall, the white bones are piled higher and higher, until they are close to the top of the coupon stop accumulating, at the highest position of the top of the tunnel ticket, that is, on the top of everyone's heads, there is still a row of skulls, Tang Feng didn't understand how these skulls were fixed on the top of the coupon, he raised his head and looked carefully, when his eyes were almost attached to the empty eye socket of the skull on the top of his head, he finally found that on the skull at the top of the coupon, There was a thick, yellowed and rusted iron nail, which firmly nailed these skulls into the masonry on the top of the coupon, and seeing this, Tang Feng suddenly felt dizzy in front of his eyes.

"It's horrible! So many white bones, and ...... And it was deliberately put like this! Liang Yuan said in horror.

Xu Renyu said suspiciously: "I have seen a human bone church in Europe before, but I didn't expect that there is such a bone authentic in the mountains of China!" ”

"What the hell is going on?" Han Jiang was also confused.

Tang Feng tried his best to restrain his violently beating heart, his brain was running at high speed, but everything in front of him was far beyond his knowledge reserves, but Tang Feng still gave his own explanation: "There are two possibilities, one is that these bones are the bones of the owner of Qiang Village, and this tunnel is similar to a tomb; Another possibility is that these bones are the bones of the enemy, stacked here, showing the martial arts of the owner of the Qiang village, and also to deter the prisoners in the water prison; Personally, I prefer the second explanation. ”

"Why?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

Tang Feng lowered his voice and said: "As far as I know, whether it is the Qiang people or the party members, it is generally not such a burial custom, and the guess you just made in the water prison, as well as the bones on the slope tunnel, are in line with the second speculation. ”

Han Jiang nodded slightly, and then walked forward alone, walking in front of everyone, Tang Feng followed behind Han Jiang, slowly walking in this gloomy and long tunnel, Han Jiang walked about eighty steps, and finally stopped, Tang Feng followed, and was surprised to find that the road ahead was blocked, and what blocked this tunnel was actually a mountain of white bones!

The four of them were deeply shocked by the scene in front of them, and after a long while, Tang Feng said slowly: "So many white bones have blocked the tunnel ahead!" Looks like it's time for us to go back. ”

Han Jiang didn't seem to be reconciled, he stepped forward to carefully check the mountains of white bones in front of him with a flashlight, the road in front was indeed blocked, Han Jiang was helpless and retreated, but when his flashlight inadvertently shone on the ground, he suddenly found that on a pile of white bones, there were several stones of different sizes placed in a mess, everyone's attention was attracted by the white bones in front of them, no one noticed the few broken stones under their feet, Han Jiang pointed to those broken stones and asked Tang Feng: "What is this?" ”

Tang Feng noticed the broken stones under his feet, he leaned down to carefully examine these stones hidden in the white bones, slowly, slowly, Tang Feng found the familiar and unfamiliar words on these stones......