1

The three of them discussed on the black rock for a long time, but they couldn't come to an accurate conclusion, and a strange feeling suddenly rose in Tang Feng's heart, which prompted him to begin to agree with Liang Yuan's inference just now, could it be that the woman wearing the mask was really the ghost of the queen who was not hidden? Otherwise, who would be on this deserted Gobi Desert, under the scorching sun, wearing such a suit, appearing here, Tang Feng sat on the boulder, and said slowly: "Maybe...... Maybe everything we just saw was just an illusion. ”

"Hallucinations? How can it be an illusion?! Han Jiang asked.

However, Tang Feng was not in a hurry to answer Han Jiang's question, he stood up, looked around the Gobi Desert again, and then pointed to what he thought was the direction of Qianhu Town, that is, the northeast direction, and said: "Our real problem is that we have run too far and have deviated from the original route!" ”

"Yes! The town of Sennohe is no longer visible. Liang Yuan put his hand on the pergola and said worriedly.

"What are you afraid of! Not with a compass and an electronic compass! Han Jiang didn't care.

"What the hell can you trust in the compass and the electronic compass?" Tang Feng took out the compass and wiped the sweat all over his head, "Damn, the compass is now in an extremely uncalm position, swinging everywhere!" ”

"Oh!" Han Jiang took the compass and looked at it, and sure enough, the compass failed here.

"Could it be that here, especially this rock, has a huge magnetic field that causes the compass to fail?" Liang Yuan said suddenly.

"Perhaps, the geological structure here is special." Tang Feng said, and took out the GPS receiver again, but the receiver was blank. "It's all out of order?"

Tang Feng felt a chill, this is the boundless Gobi Desert, if he loses his direction, it means that death has come!

Tang Feng's eyes became more and more frightened, his eyes widened, looking at Han Jiang and Liang Yuan, Han Jiang was at a loss, but at this moment, Tang Feng seemed to remember something, turned around and hurriedly walked down the stairs down the boulder, Han Jiang and Liang Yuan also followed, Tang Feng returned to the donkey, opened the car door, and found the photos of the jade interstitial screen from his backpack, he stared at the photos, stared at them for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "So that's the case." ”

"What did you find?" Han Jiang and Liang Yuan urged.

"You still remember that before we set off, we analyzed the route of the ancient map of Xixia and Misha, and the route map of Misha marked four place names, Jiulibao, Wolf Valley, Qianhu Town, and Yue'er Spring, and the ancient map of Xixia is also on the southeast route of Hanhai Micheng, marking four place names, I began to think that the four ancient place names of Xixia should correspond to the four place names on the route map of Misha, but I looked at it for a long time, except for ' The name 'Jiulipu' can be correct, the other three place names can not be matched, and the two routes are obviously deviated, from Jiulipu to the depths of the desert, Misha's route seems to be in the north of the ancient map route, we already know that Misha's route is closer to the route after the Yuan Dynasty, and the route of the ancient map should be the route of the early Western Xia. ”

Tang Feng explained a lot, Liang Yuan was confused and didn't understand, but Han Jiang understood what Tang Feng meant, "Do you want to say that this is a certain place name on the Western Xia road map?" ”

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, do you remember the name of the place I asked the innkeeper about?" ”

"Blackstone?!" Han Jiang's eyes lit up.

"That's right! It's Blackstone. I just checked the photo of the jade interstitial screen, before, in addition to the 'Nine Mile Fort', the other three marked I have not understood their corresponding locations, just now I carefully checked the ancient map of Western Xia, 'Black Stone' is the second southeast of Hanhai Mi City, that is, the third place name after entering the desert, so, where will this 'Black Stone' be? ”

"That's it...... It's here! Han Jiang said suspiciously.

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, when we came out of Senhe Town, we should have been heading southwest, so the route map of 'Black Stone' corresponding to Misha is located exactly southeast of Senhu Town, and the location should be similar to the mark on the ancient map." Tang Feng said affirmatively.

Han Jiang nodded slightly, "Well, unless we are all dizzy, your judgment is right, we have been heading southwest from Qianhu Town." ”

"Also, the staircase on this black rock is obviously artificially excavated, and I can almost conclude that the staircase should have been excavated in the Tangut period. Now I understand that this is the main road to Hanhai Mi City and even to the Mongolian Plateau in the Western Xia Dynasty, so the Dangxiang people used the creation of nature here, transformed it, and dug a stone ladder. Tang Feng's thoughts suddenly became clear.

"But why did the party members dig a stone ladder?" Liang Yuan asked.

"Maybe it's for the lookout, to play the role of a watchtower, or maybe it's ......," Tang Feng thought for a while, "Maybe it's some religious purpose, think about it, the merchants, herdsmen, troops, and nobles who used to pass here were when they trudged the desolate Gobi Desert, tired, sleepy, hungry and thirsty, and suddenly saw such a huge and magical black boulder, what kind of mood would they have?" ”

"Like a landmark?" Han Jiang interjected.

"Yes, you can understand it that way, landmarks, signs, all of them have given this black boulder a special symbolic meaning."

"Like gods, miracles?" Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

"Well, you can also understand it this way, I think at that time, all the people who passed by would worship this black boulder on the top, prostrate themselves on the ground, and pray for the protection of the gods to protect them from the desert Gobi Desert. After that, they will carefully drink and rest under the boulders before respectfully leaving the place and getting back on the road. At this time, it seemed that a picture of an ancient merchant travel slowly unfolded in front of Tang Feng's eyes.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Tang Feng's words fell, Liang Yuan suddenly shouted, "What's the matter, what I just said is right, this boulder is a miracle, so ...... So we saw the queen of the Hidden Treasure, she appeared! The fierce chase we had just made angered the Empress of Muzang, so she lit the Gobi Blaze and kept us out! ”

Liang Yuan's words made Tang Feng's heart tremble, and he saw that Liang Yuan's clear and bright eyes seemed to be burning with two scorching flames at the moment.

2

Han Jiang scoffed at Liang Yuan's words, "My eldest lady, you have watched too many Hollywood blockbusters." Why didn't the queen get angry and manifest herself, so why didn't she burn us to death! ”

"Say it again, say it again, and soon hellfire will fall on you!" Liang Yuan pointed at Han Jiang matter-of-factly.

"Mom, I'm so scared, just now the Gobi fire, after a while, it changed to hellfire again, and there are so many fires that don't hide the queen!" How could Liang Yuan easily scare Han Jiang.

"If you don't believe it, forget it, we'll see!" Liang Yuan closed her mouth angrily.

But at this moment, Tang Feng suddenly found that at some point, a large dark cloud floated from the sky, shrouding the sky above the black stone, obscuring the sun, Tang Feng looked up in surprise and looked at the dark cloud, "This...... How is this possible? Is it going to rain in the desert? ”

Han Jiang was also surprised, "Yes, it was still blue just now, why did you ...... it for so long?"

"That's all because you angered the gods of the Queen!" Liang Yuan said in a serious whisper.

Han Jiang didn't care about Liang Yuan's words, he stared at the dark clouds above his head for a long time, neither raindrops fell, nor did the clouds have the intention of leaving, "What a weird place!" Han Jiang muttered to himself.

"I want to go further down, there will be more and more weird places!" Tang Feng Road.

Han Jiang came back to his senses and joked to Tang Feng, "I said Tang Feng, you have to take care of your eldest lady, I am an atheist, don't spread feudal superstition in the team." ”

"Team Han, you know, in the past, I was also an atheist, but now that we are in such a strange environment, let's not mention any atheism first." Tang Feng said, looking up at the dark clouds that were getting lower and lower.

A large area of dark clouds enveloped the entire Gobi Desert, Tang Feng looked at it, the sky, the dark clouds and the Gobi Desert have completely blended into one, and the dark clouds above the head are getting lower and lower, as if they are about to press on the black stone.

Han Jiang didn't say anything, the three of them were surrounded by indescribable fear, for a long time, Tang Feng put away the photo, and then said slowly: "Liang Yuan's words are not unreasonable, in some other parts of the world, similar events have happened, such as some valleys, when people walk by, you can hear the sound of ancient people shouting horses and neighing, and see some ancient scenes, because there is a huge magnetite vein in that valley, so the rocks in the valley have the function of audio and video recording, so that hundreds of years later, In the special weather environment, people who walk into the valley can hear and see the scene of the year. ”

"Yes, our compass and electronic compass failed just now, which means that there are magnetic anomalies here, as well as the special environment here, and the strange weather, which may not all cause ......" Liang Yuan said this, and suddenly, shouted again, "Mom! We're not going to time travel! ”

"Time travel? Are you saying that we went back to antiquity, back to Western Xia? Tang Feng looked at Liang Yuan in surprise, and then looked around, this strange environment and weather made everyone have to doubt their previous judgment, Tang Feng looked at the scenery around the black stone, and couldn't tell for a while that they were in the twenty-first century? Or did you go back to Western Xia?

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After a long while, Tang Feng shook his head vigorously, "No! Liang Yuan, you must have read too much through novels, I don't believe that we have returned to ancient times, we are still in the twenty-first century, I still believe in science, if the woman wearing the mask is really not the queen, then it can only be the result of the combination of magnetic field, environment and weather. ”

"Magnetic field...... Environment...... The weather ......" Han Jiang was also puzzled, "So, what we saw just now was the Empress of Wuzang nearly a thousand years ago?" ”

"I don't know, but there is another possibility, that is, we have hallucinations under special geological and weather conditions!" Tang Feng Road.

"Hallucinations? Wouldn't that really be a person? Although Han Jiang's heart also began to doubt his original point of view, he still forced himself back, "Whether it is an illusion, or the reproduction of the scene back then, or what Liang Yuan said about the manifestation of the Empress Wuzang, Tang Feng, do you think that the Empress Wuzang and her old man need to wear a mask like that to come out to see us?" ”

Han Jiang's words made Tang Feng and Liang Yuan speechless, and Han Jiang asked again: "Tang Feng, is there a record in history that the Empress is not wearing a mask?" It's like...... Like Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem in Western history. ”

Tang Feng thought for a long time and shook his head, "I haven't heard of it." ”

"Yes! If there isn't, why did we see the masked queen of the Tsuzang? ”

Han Jiang's question, Tang Feng couldn't answer, Han Jiang looked up at the sky again, the sky still didn't mean to get better, "Okay, don't think about it so much, let's get out of here quickly!" ”

"But where do we go now? Go back to Qianhu Town, or go directly to the next target - Yue'er Spring? Tang Feng asked Han Jiang rhetorically.

"Since we are already far away from Qianhu Town, I don't think there is any need to return to Qianhu Town, but ......" Han Jiang also hesitated, "But how far is this from Yue'er Spring?" There is also the direction of Yue'er Spring! ”

"If you want to go to Yue'er Spring from here, I don't know how far it is from Yue'er Spring, and I can only make a rough judgment about the direction." As he spoke, Tang Feng pointed in the direction he thought, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be this direction - due north and west." ”

The three of them agreed, Han Jiang drove around the black stone again, he still didn't give up, who would be the mysterious fifth person who lurked in Qianhu Town and killed Zhao Yong? Seo In-woo? Mummy? Or is there no ghost of the Queen?

But he turned around and didn't find anything abnormal, Han Jiang stopped the car again, he thought of Zhao Yong again, Zhao Yong's body was still in the city gate building of Qianhu Town, "Brother, wait for me, I will take you back." ”

Han Jiang almost popped out of his teeth word by word, but even he didn't know if he would be able to come back safely.

4

Han Jiang didn't think much about it, restarted the donkey, and moved in the direction indicated by Tang Feng, when the car left the black stone, Liang Yuan kept staring at the huge black stone that was gradually moving away behind him, Tang Feng turned around, and found that Liang Yuan was staring at the black stone, and said with a wry smile, "You won't see the woman wearing the mask again?" ”

Liang Yuan shook her head in disappointment, "No! She really disappeared. ”

"Tang Feng, I still have a question that I don't understand, since this is such a good landmark, pointing out the direction for business travelers in the desert, why was it abandoned later?" Han Jiang, who was driving, asked.

"This ......" Tang Feng hesitated slightly, the donkey drove up a dirt slope, and the car continued to move in the direction of due north and west, this is no longer the Gobi Desert around Heishi just now.

Tang Feng didn't continue to answer Han Jiang's question just now, but turned his gaze to the car window, "What's wrong, what are you looking at?" Han Jiang asked.

"The answer you want may be right outside the window." Tang Feng suddenly said lightly.

"Outside the window?" Han Jiang slowed down.

"See? This small basin next to us was supposed to be a big sea back then, but it dried up later, and it looks like it dried up many years ago. Tang Feng pointed to a large area of dry Gobi outside the car window.

"So the Blackstone was abandoned because of the water problem." Han Jiang Road.

"Water source may be only one aspect, through the information we have now, the road to Hanhai Mi City was diverted in the late Western Xia or early Yuan Dynasty, water source is one factor, and war may be another fatal factor."

After Tang Feng finished analyzing, he found that they had sailed into a sea of sand, rolling deserts, all the way to the horizon, and then looking back, the black stone had disappeared into the horizon, but the sky was still overcast.

Tang Feng didn't know how many sand mountains they had climbed, the same scenery outside the window made him drowsy, Han Jiang suddenly slapped him suddenly, "You're good, you're going to fall asleep." ”

"Nonsense, you drive, I'm only responsible for piloting, now I don't have anything to do, why don't I sleep?" Tang Feng is full of words.

"You're in charge of piloting, but you're looking in the right direction? It's been more than an hour since we left Blackstone, and we haven't seen the shadow of Yue'er Spring! ”

Tang Feng checked the compass and electronic compass again, "The direction is correct, it is the direction I judged - due north and west......"

Tang Feng was talking, suddenly, he felt that the body shook violently, and the donkey stopped moving! "It's over, the donkey is tired!" Tang Feng exclaimed.

Liang Yuan also became nervous, "If it's going to be bad in this place, it's going to stop eating completely, and you can't go to the village or the store...... Don't have an accident, don't be bad, God bless, Buddha bless, Master Guan bless, you all have to bless the donkey to be fine. ”

Han Jiang pretended to be calm and launched the donkey again, but the donkey didn't react, Han Jiang slapped the steering wheel suddenly, "Damn!" ”

"Try again! We should be almost at Yue'er Spring. ”

Han Jiang tried again, several times in a row, the donkey couldn't start at all, just when Han Jiang was desperate, the donkey miraculously started again, but no matter how hard Han Jiang tried, the donkey motor roared, setting off a thick layer of yellow sand, and still couldn't take a step forward.

"Mom! How do I think the donkey seems to sink down again......" Liang Yuan, who was sitting in the back, first felt the body sink down.

Tang Feng also felt it, Han Jiang didn't dare to start the car again, so he had to extinguish it, and said angrily, "Damn, this is sinking." ”

"What should we do?" Liang Yuan asked.

"Two shovels in the back, eldest lady, you also do some work, you and Tang Feng one by one, go down to dig sand!"

"Digging sand?!" Liang Yuan, who has always been pampered, has never done this, but now he has no choice but to take a shovel and get out of the car to excavate.

Tang Feng jumped out of the car and found that they were at the top of a sand mountain, which is the so-called "desert plowback", the desert plowback is the easiest place to get stuck in the car, so be extra careful, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were busy for nearly twenty minutes, while Han Jiang sat in the cab smoking a cigarette and commanded them, "Okay, it's almost over, you two will push the cart behind, I'm going to start." ”

Liang Yuan pouted, the boss was unwilling, but he couldn't, and Tang Feng obediently stood behind the donkey, Han Jiang restarted the donkey, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan pushed fiercely in the back, and the sand raised by the rear wheel poured Tang Feng and Liang Yuan all over the body, but fortunately, the donkey rushed down the back of the plow, Han Jiang stopped the car, and when Tang Feng and Liang Yuan caught up with the car, Han Jiang stepped on the accelerator and rushed to the next tall sand mountain.

5

The sand mountain in front of them was tall and big, but fortunately, Han Jiang was skilled in driving and successfully climbed over this sand mountain, and a large flat sand land appeared in front of them, "Maybe we are almost there." Tang Feng looked at the sky, dark clouds were still shrouded overhead, but at this time, it was no longer like when he was in Blackstone, giving people the feeling of dark clouds pressing down.

"It's getting dark, I think Yue'er Spring should be in this area." Han Jiang stared out the window, and he found that the environment here was no longer as bad as before, and there were only some low sand mountains in front of him.

The donkey climbed over a low sand mountain, and suddenly some trees appeared in front of it, "Trees! That's got a tree! Tang Feng and Liang Yuan, who had never seen a tree since they entered the desert, both exclaimed.

Tang Feng rubbed his eyes vigorously, but there were no flowers, it was a tree, and just a few kilometers in front of them, on the desolate Gobi Desert, a small forest composed of seventy or eighty trees appeared.

"It can't be a hallucination, or a mirage, right? Those trees...... How is it so weird! Han Jiang drove towards the woods suspiciously.

"Nope! It's not an illusion, it's not a mirage, I've seen it clearly, it's poplar, poplar forest, this coincides with Makarov's memories, have you forgotten? Tang Feng was pleasantly surprised.

"Poplar forest? I think it's all a strange tree. Han Jiang also confirmed at this time that he had really come to the forest.

"Haven't you heard that Populus euphratica lives for a thousand years, dies for a thousand years, and stands for a thousand years?" Tang Feng jumped out of the car in a hurry.

"So poplar has a lifespan of 3,000 years!" Han Jiang also jumped out of the car and walked into the poplar forest, but how he looked at it and felt that these poplars were strangely shaped, and some of the tree trunks were already bare, as if they had been dead for many years, but they were still standing upright.

"This is where the expedition team camped the night before the accident?!" Liang Yuan looked a little excited, "That's also where grandpa used to be." ”

"Yes, this is it. But the yellow sand has obliterated everything, just as those beings have never been here! Tang Feng was also very excited.

"Okay, you two don't be so lyrical, I think of Makarov, he was the scientific expedition team back then, no, not only the scientific expedition team, but the only one alive among all the parties involved that year, unless...... Unless there are people we don't know, so I thought it would be nice if the old horse could come here. Han Jiang's eyes appeared in front of Makarov's appearance, and Yelena's beautiful face also appeared.

"Ha, the old horse should have said everything, even if he came here, what could he do? I think you're missing Yelena! Tang Feng said with a smile.

"Fart! When the old horse revisits his hometown, he may be able to think of some clues! Han Jiang retorted.

"Don't forget, this is the sad place of the old horse! I don't think he can think of anything other than bringing back his old tears. ”

"Okay, I won't fight with you, it's getting late, let's camp in the poplar forest tonight."

"And set up a fart camp! The tent has long been blown away by the sandstorm! Tang Feng said angrily.

Han Jiang looked around at the small poplar forest, looked at Liang Yuan again, and ordered: "I think so, tonight Liang Yuan sleeps in the car, and Tang Feng and I sleep in the poplar forest." ”

"Sleeping on the ground?"

"You forgot, the tent is gone, we don't have two moisture-proof mats and two sleeping bags, just for the two of us."

"I don't have a problem sleeping in a sleeping bag, but sleeping in this hellish place, I'm afraid, the dozens of unjust souls of the scientific expedition team haven't seen anyone for so many years, and I've finally caught a few alive at this time."

"I'm afraid of a fart! You have experienced so many dry corpses in Qianhu Town, and you are afraid of dozens of unjust souls here, you are going to meet the unjust souls of the scientific expedition team, you just ask them, how did they have an accident back then? What did you find later? Save us any more trouble! Han Jiang joked.

"If I see them, I don't dare to ask, if I want to ask you, I'll accompany you tonight, you can't run away anyway!" Tang Feng took out the moisture-proof mat and sleeping bag, and put down his sleeping bag next to Han Jiang's sleeping bag.

"Don't you think I'm snoring at night?"

"No!"

"Okay, let's still be like yesterday, I am in the first half of the night, and you are on duty in the second half of the night."

Han Jiang arranged it, and the three of them remembered that they hadn't eaten all day, and the donkey's fuel tank was almost out of gas, the three of them gobbled it up, and hurriedly ate some of the food they carried, Tang Feng got into the sleeping bag, Han Jiang went to cheer the donkey, Tang Feng sorted out his thoughts, and took out the photo of the ancient map and Misha's letter.

6

Tang Feng took a closer look at the photos of the ancient map with a flashlight, and in addition to the "black stone" identified today, Tang Feng still didn't know where to point to several other marks on the ancient map.

Tang Feng paid special attention to the sign under the "Black Stone", that is, the sign closest to Hanhai Mi City, but Tang Feng was brainstormed and didn't understand what those two Western Xia characters meant? What does that mean? According to the literal translation, the two Tangut characters, the first one is clearly a "south" character, but the second Tangut script he doesn't know, before leaving, Tang Feng consulted a lot of information, but because of the urgency of time, he has not understood what this word means. Because he didn't know the second word, Tang Feng couldn't judge the nature of the first "south" character, which was to mark the direction? Or is it originally part of a place name? Tang Feng really couldn't figure it out, thinking about it, Professor Luo's appearance appeared in front of Tang Feng's eyes, if only he could ask Professor Luo in person at this moment, it's a pity...... I don't know if there will be any opportunities to ask for advice in person in the future!

Tang Feng thought wildly, put away the photos of the ancient map, and opened Misha's letter, the sketch Tang Feng had already been familiar with his chest, Tang Feng fell on Misha's letter, from beginning to end, Tang Feng read the letter again, in the part describing Yue'er Spring, Misha wrote, "I still remember that terrible place, that terrible strange sound, and the black dust storm that made everyone collapse, I don't want to recall it more, because that was the biggest pain in my life, it completely changed my life and life path." ”

Just such a short two lines, Tang Feng has read it several times, Han Jiang and Liang Yuan have also read it, these two lines of text do not reveal anything more valuable than Makarov's memories, and even less detailed than Makarov's memories, so although Misha said Yue'er Quan very terrible, but when Tang Feng read these two lines, he did not feel any special shock and fear, Tang Fengxin said, "Misha! You don't want to recall this sentence more, how much it will cost us, just say it, and tell everything back then, otherwise there won't be so many things, and there won't be so many people dead! ”

However, everything can not be assumed, the past has become history, Tang Feng looked at the poplar tree above his head, and then listened attentively, there was no strange sound, Tang Feng suddenly felt that being able to spend a night in the poplar forest was also a rare experience in this life. Thinking of this, Tang Feng felt that his eyelids began to fight, after all, he didn't sleep well last night, and he had been on the road for another day, even frightened, Tang Feng was already exhausted, and he had to be on duty in the second half of the night, he saw that Han Jiang was still refueling, regardless of him, Tang Feng was ready to sleep, but when he folded the three pages of the letter, he suddenly found that there was something strange on the letterhead.

The letter paper was facing the strong flashlight, Tang Feng stared at the back of the letter paper and was suddenly stunned, at this time, Han Jiang suddenly shouted, "If you want to sleep, go to sleep quickly, don't waste the battery anymore." ”

Tang Feng didn't take a stubble, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, and re-opened the letter, he found that on the back of the second page of the letter, there seemed to be words faintly, Tang Feng couldn't believe his eyes, and turned the letterhead over for comparison, no, it was not the traces of the handwriting on the front, there were indeed words on the back, but Tang Feng couldn't see the handwriting on the back of the letter.

7

Tang Feng was stunned for a long time, and Han Jiang shouted again, "What are you doing there, don't use the flashlight to turn off the flashlight!" ”

Flashlight? Han Jiang's words reminded Tang Feng, Tang Feng hurriedly used a flashlight to shine from the front of the letterhead, with the strong light of the flashlight, the handwriting on the back of the letterhead gradually became clear, Tang Feng shouted excitedly, "Come and see, there are still words on the back of Misha's letterhead!" ”

Han Jiang had just filled the donkey's fuel tank, and when he heard this, he hurriedly rushed over with Liang Yuan, and Tang Feng read out the handwriting on the back of the letter word by word-

Dear Liang, allow me to tell you something important in this way, this is a special cipher, I learned it from a KGB agent, because I have to avoid some dangers and checks, and I can't be sure if your side is safe, so I have to tell you something important in this way.

What I'm going to tell you is that the strange things that happened the night before the expedition team's accident, the terrible places, the terrible strange noises, and the black dust storm, these are all the reasons for the collapse of the expedition team, but I always think it was also a terrible man-made disaster, and I think you should also feel it. On the last day in the poplar forest, the two large buckets of drinking water we carried were unexpectedly released, which was our last drinking water, and we were in a place where there was no water source at all, and it had a beautiful but ironic name - Yue'er Spring.

That night, because I was tired, I went to bed early, but in the middle of the night, I was awakened by a strange noise, I have always slept very lightly, as long as there is a little sound, I will wake up, I woke up, I was surprised to find a person standing in front of my bed, it was a Chinese, I still remember clearly, that person was wearing a khaki Zhongshan suit, wearing glasses, I was very surprised, because several people in our tent are experts and scholars in our country, without our permission, How could someone else enter our tent in the middle of the night? Especially a Chinese?

I instinctively thought that the man had gone to the wrong tent, but the man made a gesture to me and motioned for me to come out, but I didn't know what was going on, and with the strange noise, I thought something was wrong, so I followed the man out of the tent. There was also a Chinese standing in the poplar forest, the man was wearing a leather jacket and sunglasses, leaning against a poplar tree, these two people went straight to the point and bluntly proposed to me that I would cooperate with them, put aside the scientific expedition team, act alone, and find the treasure of Hanhai Mi City!

I was amazed by their suggestion, I had never thought of taking any of the treasures for myself, and I asked why they had chosen me. They said that because they had investigated the situation of the expedition team and knew that I was a young scholar who had studied Chinese history, especially the Tangut script and history, they offered to recruit me. I rejected them on the spot, the guy in sunglasses seemed to be very annoyed, I saw that he had a gun at his waist, I was very scared at that time, I wanted to shout but didn't dare to shout, I thought that there were people on duty at night in the camp, but I didn't see it, could it be that they were all bribed? At this moment, Makarov came out of the tent, but he was far away from me, and I did not dare to greet him, but the man in the tunic was polite to me, saying that it was okay if he did not want to cooperate, but please do not tell me about tonight, and I agreed.

The next day, the water was run out, and the three Chinese officers on duty at night disappeared, and I hesitated for a long time, but I never dared to tell what happened at night, because the guy in sunglasses threatened me, and more importantly, we were a joint scientific expedition team, and this was in China, and I lacked confidence in the Chinese comrades at that time, and I didn't know which of them was reliable and which was problematic, so ......

The purpose of my writing this letter is to hope that you can investigate these two people in China, if it is because of my cowardice that the scientific expedition team was killed, I will not be at peace in this life, but I hope this is not the case! I can only provide you with this information, because I can't even be sure if those two guys are from the expedition team, and you know, we look at you as much as you look at us, and it's always easy to get confused. The two men claimed to be from the expedition team, and they were dressed the same as us, but the next day, I searched for the two people in the expedition team, but I never saw them, and I didn't remember them before, so I really couldn't confirm the true identities of the two people.

Best wishes!

Your Misha

8

After reading the letter written by Mishami, Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were all shocked, and after a long time, Tang Feng muttered: "Misha finally spoke." ”

"yes, it's basically the same as Makarov's previous memories!" Han Jiang said in shock.

"I can't imagine how shocked my grandfather would have been when he read this letter decades later!" Liang Yuan shook her head, unable to believe it.

"This letter contains so much information and is so important to us." Tang Feng Road.

"Yes! It's important for everyone, and because of that, Misha specifically uses cipherography! When Han Jiang said this, he suddenly thought of something, "Speaking of ciphering, Misha said at the beginning of the letter that he learned it from a KGB agent, and this understatement is also worth chewing!" ”

"Yes, we already know that Misha was later under the close protection of the KGB for a long time, and the lost 1964, Brenin, Isakov, Stephkin, maybe one of them taught Misha the secret writing, just like Misha once said in the Winter Palace that he learned the technique of blocking signals from KGB agents." Tang Feng immediately thought of many past events.

Han Jiang shook his head, "The KGB is tightly organized, and agents are required not to have too close contact with the objects of surveillance and protection. ”

"That's why it's even more suspicious." Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang as if he was in deep thought, and waited for a while before continuing: "Looking at the second paragraph, Misha revealed that the most important information is here-Yue'er Spring did not have a single water source at the beginning, and the drinking water they carried was released, which made him suspect that the death of the scientific expedition team was also a man-made disaster. ”

"But I seem to remember that Makarov once said that a Chinese geologist in the expedition team at that time said that he had visited this area before and remembered that there was a water source here!" Han Jiang recalled.

"The water source of that moon spring may have just dried up before that!" Tang Feng reasoned.

"Isn't there no water in the desert right now?" Liang Yuan sighed.

Tang Feng waved his hand and continued: "Okay, let's ignore the water source for now, and then look at Misha's letter, the next three, four, and five records are basically consistent with Makarov's recollections, but there are still many details that Lao Ma has not mentioned. For example, some of the circumstances of those two people, Makarov, when recalling, only said that he saw Misha and Comrade * seem to have an argument. ”

"The old horse's vigilance is also bad enough!" Liang Yuan pursed his lips and said.

"It's like Misha said in the letter, 'You know, we look at you as you look at us, it's always easy to get confused.'" Westerners look at us, can't tell what we look like, often think that Chinese, Japanese, Koreans all look the same, we look at them too! This is not surprising, not to mention that at that time Lao Ma was just a young soldier who had just joined the army, and he was far from the KGB general! Tang Feng explained.

"Misha mentioned those two guys in the letter, one wears a tunic and glasses, and the other wears a leather jacket and sunglasses, and I don't think these two are from the scientific expedition team!" Han Jiang said affirmatively.

"Oh! How so? ”

"One is Misha's own account, he didn't see those two guys again the next day, and he had no impression of them before; Second, as far as I know, the Chinese side has very high standards for the selection of personnel to participate in the scientific expedition, and in the political background at that time, the forces behind those who had the idea of monopolizing the treasure must not be underestimated, and it is by no means a personal whim. ”

After listening to Han Jiang's analysis, Tang Feng continued: "You just say that this is Ma Changguo's person, don't you." ”

"That's right! That's what I thought, Stephen said to us before he died, the person who followed the expedition team and waited for the opportunity to act was Ma Changguo, and it was Ma Changguo who released the water of the expedition team, so I have every reason to believe that it was Ma Changguo who tried to win over Misha, and even one of those two guys was Ma Changguo. Han Jiang talked eloquently.

"Tunics? Or a leather jacket? Tang Feng asked Han Jiang.

Han Jiang thought for a while, "I think it should be that leather jacket with sunglasses, with a gun, and a ruthless heart, this is Ma Changguo in his early years." ”

Tang Feng also nodded, "But did you notice, why did they choose Misha?" You must know that there are dozens of people in the scientific expedition team, and there are experts in various fields, especially the situation on the side of the Soviets, how can Ma Changguo grasp it? ”

Didn't Misha say it in the letter? They investigated the situation of the scientific expedition team in advance, and knew that Misha was a young scholar who studied Chinese history, especially the Tangut script and history, so they proposed to join the group! ”

"But how can they investigate the situation of the expedition team? You just said that the organization of the scientific expedition team was very strict and kept secret! Ma Changguo, a secret agent hiding in Tibet, how much can he know about the internal situation of the scientific expedition team? How did he know that Misha was a young scholar in the Soviet Union who was engaged in the study of Western Xia history? ”

Tang Feng's words made Han Jiang speechless for a while, and after a while, Han Jiang slowly held back a sentence from his mouth, "Ke...... Test...... Team...... Yes...... Inside...... Traitor! ”

9

Han Jiang's words made the three of them silent, and after a while, Liang Yuan asked Han Jiang rhetorically: "But all the people in the scientific expedition team are dead?" ”

Tang Feng and Han Jiang turned their gaze to Liang Yuan at the same time, and Liang Yuan was looked at by them, "You guys...... What do you mean? Do you suspect that my grandfather is a mole? ”

"No, your grandfather is also a victim." Han Jiang Road.

"Then you suspect Makarov?" Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

"The old horse is not only a victim, but he is almost made of steel!" Tang Feng Road.

"Who do you mean? It's not Misha! ”

"Of course it won't be Misha, the mole may have died in the desert with the expedition team a long time ago. Judging from Misha's letter, the man with glasses and a tunic was not insignificant, and this man seemed to know the camp well, and he knew exactly which tent Misha lived in. Han Jiang said.

"There is also a very high possibility, which is the problem on the side of the Soviets." Tang Feng reasoned.

"Well, we don't know the situation over there, there can be such a big problem within the KGB, and the scientific expedition team is more likely to have an accident!" Han Jiang seemed to affirm Tang Feng's inference again.

"Let's ignore this mole for a while, continue to look down, the sixth paragraph Misha said a very serious fact of the scientific expedition team that year, that is, although it is called a joint scientific expedition team, in fact, the two sides do not understand each other and do not trust each other." Tang Feng continued to analyze.

"It's not surprising that Misha and the Soviet Union originally wanted to unilaterally come to the scientific expedition, the so-called joint scientific expedition team seems to be strong, but in fact it is a temporary patchwork, everyone does not understand each other, and they do not trust each other, which is likely to be a reason for the annihilation of the scientific expedition team later." Han Jiang Road.

Tang Feng nodded, "In the last paragraph, Misha proposed to let Old Man Liang help him investigate the whereabouts of those two guys in China, obviously, Old Man Liang is impossible to complete this task. ”

The letter that Tang Feng stumbled upon helped them solve many mysteries, and also tossed them until late at night, Liang Yuan had fallen asleep, Han Jiang leaned on the body of the car while napping, while watching the night, Tang Feng lay in his sleeping bag, but he couldn't sleep for a long time, half a century ago, right here, in this poplar forest under him, how many bizarre and terrifying things happened, and finally led to the almost annihilation of the scientific expedition team! And how many unsolved mysteries are there in Hanhai Mi City, which is getting closer and closer, so many people are haunted by her!