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The four of them stopped, Tang Feng's eyes widened, his heartbeat began to accelerate, looking at the dark front of the tunnel, what kind of sound is this? He couldn't describe the sound he heard at this time, the strange sound, the terrifying sound, the sound was getting louder and louder, it seemed to be rushing towards them, in the deep tunnel, that sound, was amplified exponentially, no one could tell, how much was that voice, how much was amplified echo!

"What could that be?" Tang Feng finally held back a sentence.

"Whatever it is, get ready to fight! Liang Yuan, you stand back. As he spoke, Han Jiang pulled out his Type 92 pistol, held the pistol in both hands, and looked at him with a firm gaze, approaching the front, but in his mind, it was a mess, he thought of the two skeletons that died in the white hall, and terrifying images flashed in front of his eyes. Flood? Beast? ……

Liang Yuan retreated to the back, Tang Feng was in the middle, Han Jiang was on the right, Makarov was on the left, three pistols, waiting for the battle, the voice was approaching, getting louder and louder, deafening, the four of them all felt that their eardrums were about to be broken, Liang Yuan covered his ears in pain, while Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Makarov endured the stimulation and were ready to kill the incoming enemy at any time, but when that thing really appeared in front of them, Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Makarov's arms began to tremble slightly, what a terrible thing, Wu Yangyang, The black pressure was pressing, almost filling half of the tunnel, chirping, moving forward quickly, rushing towards him, or Han Jiang was the first to react: "Bat!" Run back! ”

Yes, that's tens of thousands of bats, mighty, and in this deep tunnel, nothing can stop their way, bullets? "Bang! Bang! In the panic, Tang Feng rushed forward and fired two shots, but that was really a drop in the bucket for tens of thousands of bats, the bat army was still methodical and quickly moving forward, Han Jiang and Makarov gave up resistance, turned around and ran back, Tang Feng's psychological defense line also collapsed at this moment, he pulled up the overwhelmed Liang Yuan, ran all the way, several bats flew over their heads, Tang Feng looked back, the bat army was approaching, and he could clearly see the hideous teeth of those bats.

Fast! - Tang Feng pulled Liang Yuan to run desperately, he clearly knew that if they were caught up by the bat army, they would become a pile of white bones like the people in the shaft! Finally, at the moment when Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were about to collapse, they saw the beautiful white hall and ran back, they ran into the white hall, turned around, and hid in the smaller tunnel mouth next to them.

Tang Feng and Liang Yuan collapsed on the cave wall, panting heavily, and after a while, the two of them relieved themselves, "It seems that if you want to see the beautiful scenery, you also have to take risks." Tang Feng sighed.

"Yes! Sometimes it costs with your life. ”

"I now understand how those two skeletons died!"

"Ahh You're saying they've been attacked by bats as well. ”

"Most of the time, they were attacked by a swarm of bats, fell down the shaft and died, or they could be attacked by the bats and died."

"It's horrible! Fortunately, when we were resting in the white hall, this group of bats did not appear, otherwise, we would really ......" Speaking of this, Liang Yuan's scalp tingled for a while.

"I'm scared to think about it!" Tang Feng couldn't imagine what it would be like if these tens of thousands of bats rushed into the white hall while they were asleep.

In the dark, Liang Yuan opened his eyes wide, looked around, and asked Tang Feng, "Where are we now?" ”

"If I'm not mistaken, we're in that smaller tunnel right now."

"Isn't it still dangerous for us, and we need to get out of here."

"Yes! Han Jiang: They don't know where to go? Tang Feng looked around, it was pitch black, and when he touched it again, his flashlight was gone, no wonder there was no trace of light! Only then did he recall that he had been running all the way just now, and most of his flashlight had fallen into the tunnel, Liang Yuan heard the bad news and cried, and Tang Feng also despaired, because they understood that in this complex and huge underground cave, losing the light also meant death.

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Tang Feng wiped Liang Yuan's tears and comforted: "Don't cry, we still have hope, as long as we find Han Jiang and them, we have hope." ”

"But where did they go?"

"I think they should have run to this tunnel as well, there is no other way out, maybe they are looking for us as well."

"Well, let's move on, then."

Tang Feng and Liang Yuan supported each other, and walked forward in this tunnel in the dark, fortunately, the bat army did not follow, and after the two walked out of about a few dozen meters, Tang Feng felt that they walked out of the tunnel and came to a large space, this tunnel is so short? Tang Fenghu was suspicious, looking around in the dark, suddenly, he found a glimmer of light in the other direction, Tang Feng shouted to Liang Yuan: "Look, there is light!" ”

But as soon as the words fell, that bit of light suddenly disappeared, and it was pitch black all around, Tang Feng "chuckled" in his heart, what was that light? Flashlight? Or - the ghost fire underground?

That bit of light was fleeting, if it wasn't Han Jiang, what would it be? Tang Feng and Liang Yuan stood in place in a daze, and no one dared to move half a step...... In this way, the two stood for a long time, until the light appeared again, Tang Feng was bold and shouted in the direction of the light: "Who? ”

"Is it Tang Feng?" Tang Feng finally heard Han Jiang's voice and finally saw the light, and he hugged Liang Yuan tightly excitedly.

The light was near, Han Jiang and Makarov appeared in front of them, and Han Jiang asked with concern, "Why don't you two turn on the flashlight?" ”

"When I was chased by a bat just now, the flashlight ran away." Tang Feng said dejectedly.

"I've been looking for you too, but it's good that we ran into each other again, otherwise ......" Han Jiang didn't say any more.

"Yes! If I couldn't touch you, Liang Yuan and I would be finished, and I thought you must have run into this tunnel, so I walked over in the dark. ”

"Alright! I've got a spare flashlight with me, so you can take it. ”

Tang Feng turned on the flashlight and looked around here, it was like a crossroads, in addition to the tunnel that he walked through in the dark, there were three holes, one of which seemed to have collapsed, leaving only two holes, one left and one right. Tang Feng asked, "Which way should we go now?" ”

Han Jiang introduced: "We have explored these two holes just now, the hole on the left is relatively straight, and it seems to lead to a far place, and the hole on the right is winding inside, and in some places, there are caves, so I tend to take the hole on the left." ”

"That's all it has to be now."

The four of them got into the tunnel on the left, and Liang Yuan looked at the tunnel curiously, and asked worriedly, "We won't go the wrong way again this time, right?" ”

"Who knows? Leave it to fate! Makarov popped up another Chinese idiom.

The four of them walked hundreds of meters, the tunnel to the end, a small hall, the ground is uneven, full of gravel and damp mud, looking up, there is no spectacular stalactites on the top of the hall, but a "stone pipe" as thick as steel bars.

Liang Yuan curiously pointed to those "stone pipes" and asked, "What is that, it looks amazing?" ”

After Tang Feng observed, he explained: "This kind of 'stone tube' is called 'goose tube', and the official name is 'wheat straw-like stalactite', which is the prototype of stalactites, that is, the state when stalactites are not fully formed!" ”

"So, this 'goose management hall' is relatively young, isn't it?" Han Jiang asked.

"Think of it as well, we all have to be careful below, the geological structure here may be very unstable." Tang Feng paused, and pointed to an upward ramp directly in front of him: "This is a 'zigzag staircase', climb directly, the slope is too big, everyone follow the 'zigzag', it will be more convenient." ”

Everyone stepped on the gravel and mud in a zigzag pattern, and after climbing the "zigzag staircase", everyone's eyes widened again......

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Four people climbed the "zigzag staircase", and it is a magnificent cave hall, although this hall is full of collapsed rocks, and the shape is also very irregular, but these can not hide the beauty here, this is a colorful hall, the rock wall, densely covered with light yellow gypsum blocks, a stone waterfall that has not yet formed, covered with red and orange flow stones, white aragonite bundles, growing on the rock wall, like small white flowers blooming on the rock wall, as well as different forms of cave beads, collapsed giant stalagmites, There are also incredible multicolored lights, like jewels, shining brightly, dotting the entire hall.

The four of them were amazed, they were conquered by the incredible beauty in front of them, and they could only move forward slowly, because every step has a different beauty, and every step is a new world! There was a dripping sound in front of him, this was the water droplets dripping from the stalactites on the top of the cave, the sound of falling into the water, Tang Feng pointed the flashlight at the front in confusion, he was shocked by the scene in front of him again, in front of him was an underground lake with a wide water surface, a calm lake surface, glowing with a faint blue light, when Tang Feng walked in, the lake showed a beautiful green like jade, Could it be a discolored lake?

Tang Feng squatted down and shone the flashlight into the distance, in the deep cave, there was no end to the lake, how big is this lake? Where is its margin? Just when Tang Feng was thinking wildly, Liang Yuan's exclamation came from behind him: "This is really a colorful world, so beautiful!" ”

"Yes! It's breathtakingly beautiful. Tang Feng continued.

"I've never seen anything like it." The well-informed Makarov could not help but admire it from the bottom of his heart.

"Look, what's that yellow thing on the rock wall?" Liang Yuan asked curiously, pointing to the light yellow plaster dense on the rock wall.

Tang Feng walked to the rock wall, observed for a moment, and said, "This is sulfur, sulfur in its natural state." ”

"No wonder I smell sulfur as soon as I walk into this hall." As he spoke, Makarov sniffed twice more at the smell of sulfur in the air.

"Brimstone?" Liang Yuan seemed to think of something, and suddenly exclaimed: "In the hall, if there is so much sulfur, wouldn't it burn?" ”

Liang Yuan's words made everyone's eyes appear a terrifying scene of the entire colorful hall falling into a sea of fire and burning, "Impossible! Han Jiang stood up and said, "You see, there is no trace of fire here at all. ”

"Yes! If it had been burned down, we wouldn't have seen such a beautiful view. Sulfur in nature doesn't burn easily, and besides, you feel that the air is much thinner than it was just now, even though there is so much space here. ”

Tang Feng's reminder, everyone felt it, the air here was indeed thinner than before, "How can this be?" Liang Yuan asked with some panic.

Tang Feng looked around again and found that in the hall, except for the "zigzag staircase" when he came, and the underground lake in front of him, there were no other exits around the hall, and he couldn't help but panic. At this time, before Tang Feng could speak, Makarov was the first to exclaim: "Why is there no exit here?" No wonder the air is so thin. ”

Tang Feng said: "Don't jump to conclusions, this hall is different from the halls we passed through before, it can be seen that although it is colorful here, the geological structure is fragile and complex, not as simple as the halls we have seen before, there are holes in the holes, there are holes in the holes, you see, the shape of the whole hall is very irregular, the plane is like a gourd, we are now in the front of the whole hall, that is, the lower part of the gourd, maybe we look back, we will find a new exit." ”

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As soon as Tang Feng's words fell, a stalactite on the top of the colorful hall that was already crumbling suddenly fell next to Liang Yuan, Liang Yuan's screams shook the entire hall buzzing, Han Jiang and Makarov, I don't know what the situation was, they all pulled out their pistols and looked around vigilantly, but nothing happened around them.

"Alright, alright! Nothing, just a stalactite fell. Tang Feng comforted Liang Yuan, who was too frightened.

Liang Yuan finally recovered, the four of them did not dare to stay here for a long time, Tang Feng led everyone to the back of the colorful hall, that is, the upper part of the "gourd", the space here is much smaller than just now, everyone is holding a flashlight, shining around, looking for a possible exit, but, they saw nothing but the beautiful rock wall, Tang Feng said disappointedly: "Is there really no way out here?" If that happens, we'll have to go back. ”

"Have you thought of another way out?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"What?" Tang Feng immediately thought of what Han Jiang meant, "You mean the underground lake?" ”

"Hehe, count yourself smart!"

"There's no edge to the underground lake, what's over there? Maybe there is nothing, there is no way out at all, God forbid, we must not go into the water again. ”

"Yes! I don't want to go into the water anymore, I feel like I'm going to catch a cold now, but, who knows what will happen? Han Jiang looked helpless.

Everyone circled around the upper part of the "gourd" for most of the day, and finally, came to the narrowest "gourd mouth" position of the entire "gourd", the flashlight in Tang Feng's hand was aimed at the front, and a beam of light shot into a narrow passage. "Look, there's a road here." Tang Feng exclaimed.

Everyone looked at it together, and only then did they find that at the location of the "gourd mouth", a deep passage was suddenly revealed. "From here?" Han Jiang asked.

"Give it a try! Where else can we go from here? Tang Feng spread his hands helplessly.

"Okay, this time, I'm in front, Tang Feng, you protect Liang Yuan and follow at the end, Lao Ma is behind." After Han Jiang finished the order, he took the lead in walking into the narrow and dark passage, and after walking seven or eight meters, this passage was so narrow that it could only allow one person to pass through, and in front of him, there was still no end in sight.

Tang Feng thought of the Namor Grand Canyon again, and couldn't help but sigh: "We escaped from the Grand Canyon on the ground, and this is another underground canyon. ”

"And the canyon is so narrow!" Makarov complained.

This underground canyon twists and turns, and soon they turned in the canyon, and I don't know how long they walked, the air in the canyon became thinner and thinner, but the underground canyon seemed to have no end...... The four of them came to an upward "staircase", climbed the stairs, and went up again, and then went up, the top was finally a little more open, but these two "stairs" also tired the four of them enough, especially Liang Yuan, who was panting more than anyone else, Makarov looked at Liang Yuan's red little face, and said with a smile: "Little girl, there is still a lack of exercise!" ”

In the past, the arrogant Liang Yuan had to refute Makarov, but this Liang Yuan leaned against the rock wall, only gasping for breath, Tang Feng saw that Liang Yuan seemed to be a little wrong, so he stepped forward and touched Liang Yuan's head, this touch startled Tang Feng, and exclaimed: "Liang Yuan, what's wrong with you?" My head is so hot! ”

"It's nothing, it's just boring...... Still, I can hold on. "Liang Yuan is indeed much stronger than before.

Tang Feng was startled, Han Jiang noticed that Liang Yuan was not the same as just now, listless, and looked sick, Han Jiang also touched Liang Yuan's head, observed it again, and said: "Don't make a fuss, she has a fever, it's no wonder, a little girl, in such a cold underground, walking for so long, cold and hungry, and soaking in the water for so long, not sick, but abnormal, for today's plan, we can only go out quickly and treat Liang Yuan." Tang Feng, you take care of her more, everyone hold on a little longer, I think we are about to go out. Han Jiang said what he didn't believe in and encouraged everyone, the only evidence to support his point of view was that they were indeed going up this way, maybe close to the ground, but it didn't take long for a downward "staircase" to appear in front of Han Jiang again......

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Han Jiang shook his head helplessly in the face of this downward "staircase", there was no other way out, he had to obediently "go down the stairs", just like that, the four of them were in the narrow "underground canyon", up and down, turning around, just when everyone was numb, the front suddenly opened up, what would be waiting for them? A more spectacular view, or an exit from the darkness? No, before everyone had time to get excited, they were disappointed to find that there was neither a spectacular view here, nor an exit from the darkness, and the surrounding cave walls were unusual. There is only one passage narrower than the "underground canyon".

"What is this? Ground cracks? It's so narrow, I think it can only allow one person to pass sideways. Tang Feng said helplessly.

"Even if it's a crack in the ground, we're going to get there." Han Jiang said firmly.

Looking at the narrow, damp and endless cracks in the ground, everyone was discouraged, and no one knew what they would encounter once they entered. Han Jiang took out the rope cut in the shaft from his backpack, tied it around his waist, and then said to everyone: "Everyone tie this rope around their waists, I will go in first, if there is any accident, you have to hold it for me!" Now we have grasshoppers on a rope, don't cry and mourn your face, outside, we can't see what is inside this crack in the ground, maybe, the crack in the ground is not long, drill out and see, there is no hole over there. ”

"Maybe we drilled in the cracks of the ground for a long time, and finally we couldn't walk." Tang Feng said.

"There's no way, just come out! Don't be discouraged. "Han Jiang always gives people a look of confidence, but after this catastrophe, now everyone knows in their hearts that Han Jiang also has times when he is afraid, and sometimes his confidence is only done for others to see.

Everyone tied the ropes around their waists, and followed Han Jiang into the crack in the ground that could only allow one person to pass sideways, the air inside became thinner and thinner, and in the dead silence of the ground, only the heartbeat and rapid breathing of a few people could be heard! After the four of them struggled to walk more than 100 meters inside, they did not see the other caves that Han Jiang expected, nor did they encounter the dead end that Tang Feng was worried about, the dark cracks in the ground, there was no end, and there was no exit, and everyone was about to suffocate......

Suddenly, Han Jiang, who was walking in front, did not move, and just when everyone was surprised, Han Jiang's urn voice came from the front: "There is a boulder blocking the way here." ”

When everyone heard this, their hearts sank, and Tang Feng complained: "I said it's a dead end!" It's too bad, I've come so far, I have to go back again. ”

"Nope! It's not a dead end, there is another crack in this boulder, which is wider than the crack in the ground, and people can go through, but people have to lie down in it and move over slowly. ”

"Dizzy! There is still such a way. ”

By the time Tang Feng, Liang Yuan, and Makarov came to this crack, Han Jiang had already climbed into the crack and moved his body with difficulty inside. Several people looked stupid, and now there is no other way, Tang Feng, Liang Yuan and Makarov have no choice but to drill into this crack, support the rock with their arms, and move their bodies inside.

The four of them moved dozens of meters, they were already out of breath and sweating profusely, and Han Jiang was still encouraging everyone in front: "Hold on, there is still air flow here, which means that there must be a road ahead." ”

After everyone moved more than twenty meters, Tang Feng felt that the rock under him seemed to be leaning forward, he could no longer see Han Jiang's figure, but he knew from the rope around his waist that Han Jiang must have stopped in front, no one spoke, everyone fell on the rock, panting, suddenly, a gust of wind blew, Tang Feng heard the sound of running water.

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All four of them heard "Wow! The sound of running water, the rope around Tang Feng's waist moved slightly, Tang Feng immediately came to his senses, he knew that Han Jiang began to move forward cautiously again, the rock was more and more inclined, and the ground crack was no longer as narrow as just now, Tang Feng used the flashlight tied to his arm to shine forward, but he couldn't see Han Jiang's figure, he reminded Han Jiang loudly and worriedly: "Han Jiang!" You have to be careful, what's ahead? I hear the sound of running water? ”

Han Jiang didn't answer, in the narrow rock crevice, there was only Tang Feng's echo, and suddenly, Tang Feng felt that the rope on his waist was dragged heavily, and his body was dragged by a powerful force, sliding forward, not good! Tang Feng secretly complained to himself, Han Jiang must have suffered an accident in front, Tang Feng stretched out his hands and desperately grabbed on the rocks under him, hoping to catch a life-saving straw, but the power was too strong, Tang Feng's body was still dragged forward, Tang Feng understood that if he was dragged down again, with the strength of Liang Yuan and Lao Ma behind him, it would be impossible to drag himself and Han Jiang, only by holding on, coupled with the strength of Liang Yuan and Lao Ma, it was possible to drag Han Jiang up! However, now he has lost his center of gravity and is being dragged into the unknown abyss by that nameless force......

At the moment when Tang Feng was about to slide into the abyss, his hand touched a crack in the rock, which was really a life-saving straw, Tang Feng's hands grabbed the rock crack hard, turned his head and shouted at Liang Yuan and Makarov behind him: "There was an accident in Han Jiang, there is a crack here, you must seize this gap!" ”

Liang Yuan and Makarov clung to this stone crack, in front, the unknown powerful force was still dragging the three of them, Tang Feng's fingers oozed a little blood, his hands had begun to go numb, Liang Yuan and Makarov saw it in their eyes, anxious, but they were helpless, they could only do their best to delay the time of falling forward.

Tang Feng knew that he couldn't hold on any longer, not only did his arms go numb, but his mind also began to trance, he closed his eyes and quietly waited for the moment when death came, and in front of his eyes, the scene of Qi Ning jumping from the top of the building appeared, followed by the deep wound on Liang Yunjie's body, as well as the bottomless deep hole in Qiang Village, and the corpse of Nan Nan Zhou on the heavenly burial platform, no! I can't die yet, Tang Feng thought of this, and suddenly opened his eyes, his bloodshot eyes stared at the rock wall in front of him, what is going on with all this? Who is it? Who has allowed himself to be caught in this terrible maelstrom? Tang Feng struggled and persisted, he wanted to call Han Jiang again, but he couldn't shout anymore, and suddenly, a distant era appeared in front of his eyes, that terrible night, nightmare, terrible nightmare! There is also the boy in white, the massacre city, and the blood curse,...... One nightmare after another, all the nightmares of his life, at this moment, actually appeared in front of him, Tang Feng's entire body was completely numb, and he was slowly losing consciousness, and he closed his eyes again......

Suddenly, a voice came from Tang Feng's ears - "I'm still alive, there's a big waterfall down here!" It was Han Jiang's voice, "I stepped on a rock, now that it's safe, you can move down slowly." Han Jiang's voice came again, and when they heard Han Jiang's words, Liang Yuan and Makarov breathed a sigh of relief, and their hanging hearts finally returned to their places, and Tang Feng, the hands that had completely lost their intuition, finally let go of the cracks in the stone at this time.

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The gentle breeze woke up the unconscious Tang Feng, he, Liang Yuan, and Makarov carefully moved to the edge of the crack, this is not a dead end, at this moment, they can finally breathe the fresh air that they have not seen for a long time, and the three of them lie on the rock wall, greedily sucking the fresh air here.

After relieving themselves, the three of them slowly crawled to the outside of the crack in the ground, stepped on the rocks, and heard "Wow!" in their ears. The sound of the water flow was deafening, Han Jiang had climbed to the platform under the crack in the ground, Tang Feng, Liang Yuan and Makarov also stepped on Han Jiang's footprints and came to the platform, and the four of them saw clearly that they were behind a huge waterfall, and the flowing water that flowed down from a high place fell in a deep pool in front of the platform, splashing a little splash, and rushing straight to everyone's faces, no one dodged, and they were enjoying this rare fresh moment.

"It's amazing that there is such a spectacular waterfall in the cave!" Liang Yuan exclaimed.

Tang Feng nodded, and also admired: "It's really amazing, especially this water, where does the water come from?" And it's supposed to be dry season, and the amount of water is still so large, if it's summer, I can't imagine what it would be like! ”

"I don't care about that, I care about what the curtain looks like." Han Jiang said, unconsciously took two steps forward, and more splashes of water splashed on him, but the water curtain in front of him was tightly closed, and there was no gap, which could give him a glimpse of the world on the other side of the water curtain.

"This waterfall reminds me of the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave in China's four famous novels "Journey to the West." Everyone looked at Makarov together, but they didn't expect that this old Russian man had read the four famous Chinese novels.

Tang Feng said with a smile: "I think this waterfall is much more magical than the water curtain cave in "Journey to the West", the water curtain cave is a hole behind the waterfall, and this waterfall is actually in the cave. ”

"It's amazing, but let's hurry up and get in front of the water curtain, the world must be more exciting there." Saying that, Han Jiang walked towards the end of the platform, and he couldn't go directly through the Water Curtain Cave, so he had to try it from the side to see if there was a way.

Han Jiang led everyone from the rock cliff on the side of the platform, around the deep pool, walked for most of the circle, and finally came to the front of the waterfall, several flashlights shone towards the waterfall together, near the rock wall at the top of the hall, in a huge hole, there are streams of clear water pouring down, "It turns out that the water flows out of that hole?" Tang Feng muttered to himself.

"Where does the water in this cave come from? Could it be ......" Han Jiang wanted to speak and stopped, even he didn't dare to believe his own judgment.

"It's the underground lake where we used to swim, and the water there, no matter how much it flows through the complex cavern, eventually flows from here and into the pool, which is probably the most spectacular waterfall in the whole cave." Tang Feng said his inference, and he knew that this was also Han Jiang's judgment.

Han Jiang completely agreed with Tang Feng's inference, and roughly judged that from the entrance of the cave to the deep pool, the drop of the waterfall in this cave was as high as forty or fifty meters, which was an astonishing number! However, before Han Jiang and Tang Feng had time to think about it, Liang Yuan, who was standing on the side of the deep pool, suddenly let out another scream, which scared everyone a lot, Tang Feng walked over and jokingly said, "My eldest lady, what's wrong?" Don't always make a fuss. ”

"Look there, there's a man...... Person! Liang Yuan pointed to the water on the edge of the deep pool and shouted in horror.

8

Tang Feng squatted on the edge of the pool to check, it was indeed a person, a dead man, the dead body was floating on the water with its back up and face down, from the dress of that person, Tang Feng could conclude that this was one of the two black-clothed people they killed in the underground lake.

"It seems that our assumptions are correct, and this man is one of the people who fell from the underground lake waterfall." Han Jiang's voice came from behind him.

"Yes! Now it can be confirmed that the cave is completely connected, but we don't know yet, how long did this guy get from the underground lake to get here? ”

After that, Tang Feng and Han Jiang turned the body over together, lifted the mask on the man's diving suit, and a stream of blood, accompanied by a white *, flowed out, Liang Yuan next to him was nauseated, Tang Feng and Han Jiang carefully identified that this was a blonde, blue-eyed, burly foreigner, rummaging all over his body, there was nothing to prove his identity, just when Han Jiang was about to give up, Tang Feng suddenly pointed to the man's neck and exclaimed: "Look, there is a tattoo here!" ”

Han Jiang looked along the direction of Tang Feng's finger, and saw that at the man's neck, at the root of the right back ear, there was a black tattoo, very small, very inconspicuous, the tattoo pattern was a howling wolf, and there was an eagle standing on the wolf.

Han Jiang asked Tang Feng puzzled: "What's so special about such an inconspicuous tattoo?" ”

Tang Feng lowered his voice and whispered to Han Jiang: "Do you remember the killer who stabbed Liang Yunjie to death in Guangzhou?" We later scooped up the man's body in the Pearl River and found one such tattoo ......"

Without waiting for Tang Feng to finish speaking, Han Jiang immediately remembered, "It's also such a wolf, and there is an eagle?" ”

"Yes, I still remember it clearly, the wolf was like this, howling with his head up, and the eagle standing on the wolf, looking unruly!"

"It seems that all this is strung together, and the murderer of Liang Yunjie is the same group of men in black who are chasing and killing us." Han Jiang nodded slightly, slightly understanding. At some point, Makarov stood behind them silently, and also saw the tattoo on the man's neck, just at this glance, Makarov's eyes suddenly widened, and he exclaimed: "How can this happen!" ”

Tang Feng and Han Jiang looked back, Makarov looked frightened, and took two steps back nervously, since they met Makarov, no matter how dangerous the situation was, they had never seen Makarov so frightened, Tang Feng thought to himself, "There must be something here?" So, he asked, "Old horse, have you seen this tattoo?" What does he stand for? ”

"Nope! No! I haven't seen this mark. Although Makarov tried his best to keep himself calm, Tang Feng and Han Jiang could see that he must know something, but no matter how Tang Feng and Han Jiang asked, Makarov was adamant that he had never seen this mark.

Tang Feng was inconvenient to ask any further, he stood up, walked forward for a while, bypassed a collapsed giant stalagmite, Tang Feng used a flashlight to shine towards the hall in front of him, and everyone realized that this was the main body of the entire hall,—— a hall as spacious as five football fields.

Different from the cave hall experienced in the past, there are not many beautiful and dazzling physical wonders in this hall, and even the stalactites in the cave are very few, and the four walls are all very flat limestone, but these cannot affect the value of this hall, because at this moment, in front of everyone's eyes, a neatly arranged square stone pillar, from top to bottom, like optimus columns, supports the entire hall, "What a magnificent pillar hall!" Tang Feng muttered.

9

The four of them wandered through this glorious pillared hall, and Makarov said: "It reminds me of the temple of Luxor on the banks of the Nile in Egypt, which is also a stone pillar that supports the huge temple!" ”

Makarov's words made Tang Feng firm his judgment, he pointed to a stone pillar, and said to everyone: "I can now be 100% sure that these stone pillars are all hand-carved, and there are still traces of the craftsmen carving on them, and I can also conclude that the age of the excavation is at least hundreds of years old." ”

"You mean the whole hall was dug out by the ancients?" Han Jiang exclaimed.

"Nope! Not the whole hall, but the ancients used the original karst cave, expanded and repaired, the ancients were good at taking local materials, you pay attention to observe, this hall is not very tall, but the area is very large, indicating that the ancients expanded the original area of the hall according to their own needs. ”

"Why did the ancients dig such a huge pillar hall?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.

Tang Feng shook his head, "I don't know yet, maybe as Lao Ma said, this is a temple!" ”

"You are, how can it be that the temple buildings of ancient Egypt have escaped to the big caves of China." Han Jiang was dismissive.

"I'm not interested in the use of this hall yet, but the author of this remarkable building!" Tang Feng Road.

"Yes! I was also thinking about this question, in ancient times, when tools were backward, digging such a grand building in the mountains must have been a huge project, requiring a lot of manpower and material resources, but I have never heard of this in history. Han Jiang said suspiciously.

"Don't talk about you, I'm a good reader of poetry, but I've never heard of this project." Tang Feng paused, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he lowered his voice and said to Han Jiang: "Could this be the 'Black-headed Stone Room' we are looking for?" ”

Han Jiang pulled Tang Feng aside, "I'm getting more and more inclined to your speculation now, this place is indeed very similar, the age of construction, geographical location, and historical records are getting closer and closer to the 'Blackhead Stone Chamber' we are looking for, but I still can't easily draw conclusions until I see definite evidence." ”

"Evidence? The evidence will be there soon. ”

"But here, there are only these pillars, and no words have been found on them, where does the evidence come from, what I need is strong evidence, the most direct evidence!"

"Strong evidence! The most direct evidence! Don't worry, I'll find it for you. Tang Feng pointed his flashlight at a few stone pillars in the corner of the hall, "Look! Here comes the evidence you want. In Tang Feng's words, it was difficult to hide his excitement.

Han Jiang followed Tang Feng to the corner of the hall, and couldn't help but gasp, because there were hundreds of dusty porcelain jars densely and neatly placed here, "This is the evidence you said?" Han Jiang pointed to the porcelain jar and asked Tang Feng.

Tang Feng said with a smile: "This is my profession, when I look at these porcelain jars from afar, my heart is already eight or nine, and my judgment can basically be confirmed." ”

"Don't blow! Do you have such a god? ”

"Hehe, it's not me who blows, I can conclude at a glance that these porcelain jars are typical black and white porcelain from the Xixia imitation Cizhou kiln. Cizhou kiln is the Song and Yuan dynasties, a large kiln system in the northern region, black and white porcelain is the representative work of Cizhou kiln, it is strange to say, at that time, there are many kilns in the Central Plains, such as the celadon of Yaozhou kiln, the white porcelain of Dingyao, the shadow celadon of Jingdezhen kiln, etc., but the party of Xixia likes the black and white porcelain of Cizhou kiln, perhaps because this black and white porcelain can best reflect the rough and simple nature of the party and the nation. As a result, the party began to imitate a large number of black and white porcelain of Cizhou kiln, and over time, this black and white porcelain became the most famous and widely used porcelain in Western Xia. ”

"Oh! Hearing you say that, it's really like that! So what do you say, what are these porcelain jars for? ”

"What for? Hehe, if I'm not mistaken, these porcelain jars are urns! ”

"What? Urn! Han Jiang's eyes widened, looking at the hundreds of urns in front of him, as if he had seen hundreds of souls that had been sealed for a long time!

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"Are you serious, or are you kidding me?" Han Jiang still didn't believe Tang Feng's words.

"In ancient times, the Han people paid attention to burial, but other ethnic minorities still retain their ancient burial customs, such as the sky burial that we saw on the day of the burial, as well as cremation that is very common among the northern nomads, according to historical records and archaeological proof, in the Xixia society, most of the nobles built luxurious mausoleums and practiced burial, such as the Xixia Tomb under Helan Mountain in Ningxia today, and the general party people choose cremation, and the ashes after cremation are often stored in such a porcelain jar, which is easy to carry."

"Migrating with ashes?"

"Yes, that's a custom for a lot of nomads."

"It's really amazing, but if these porcelain jars are really from the party, how can they be stored here?"

"Hehe, doesn't that prove my reasoning? I am now seventy or eighty percent sure that the soul in these porcelain jars is the Dangxiang people who returned to the origin of the Dangxiang nation after the fall of the Western Xia Dynasty...... If you look at it again, there are still words on these porcelain jars. ”

"Words?" Han Jiang looked along the place where Tang Feng's flashlight was shining, and saw a row of strange characters that looked like Chinese characters, but were not Chinese characters, "You mean these strange words?" ”

"Not a strange word! This is the Tangut script. Tang Feng was a little proud at the moment.

Han Jiang suddenly realized: "Well, the remnant tablet we saw in the Qiangzhai tunnel, there is this kind of text on it, and there is also a jade interstitial screen, what do the words on it mean?" ”

"No-hidden-virtuous-rich!" Tang Feng translated the words on a porcelain jar word by word. He shone the light of the flashlight at another porcelain jar, "No-hidden-feather-forest!" ”

"What do you mean?" Han Jiang waited a little anxiously.

"It's all people's names.,It's not hidden is the surname of the party.,It's one of the eight families of the party.,Behind it is the name of the owner of the porcelain jar.,It can be seen from these names that the name of the later party item is gradually sinicized.,But it still retains the surname of the party item.,It's also a name that is a combination of Fan and Han."

"This 'didn't hide', I seem to have some impressions when I read the history books of Western Xia some time ago, but I can't remember it now......" Han Jiang tried to recall.

"Hehe, of course this 'Wuzang' is famous, the queen of the founding emperor of Western Xia, Wei Mingyuanhao, is the woman of the Wuzang family, her son later inherited the throne, her brother did not hide Pang to control the government for more than 20 years, and the Wuzang family once leaned towards the Western Xia." Tang Feng introduced.

"That's right! Right! It's this Wuzang family, are these porcelain jars all descendants of the Wuzang family? Could it be that they are the party members who have returned to the birthplace of the party nation? Han Jiang was shocked by this discovery.

At this time, Makarov's call came from the other end of the pillar hall: "Why are there so many porcelain jars here?" Han Jiang and Tang Feng hurried over and found that Liang Yuan and Makarov had found hundreds of black and white porcelain jars in the corner at the other end of the pillar hall, which were exactly the same as the ones they had found before. Subsequently, everyone found the same porcelain jar in several other places in the pillar hall, Tang Feng roughly estimated that all the porcelain jars in the pillar hall added up, there were more than 3,000, more than 3,000 porcelain jars, that is, more than 3,000 dead souls! The four of them looked at this grand pillar hall and the mysterious porcelain jar, and couldn't help but ponder, who built this grand pillar hall, and why did the souls in those porcelain jars sleep here? Is it really the party that disappeared from the history books?

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The deep underground world, thousands of souls who have passed away, the four of them are in it, both curious and afraid, Liang Yuan's body is no longer enough to support her to persist in this damp and cold underground world, Liang Yuan leaned on a stone pillar and shivered, Tang Feng saw this, supported Liang Yuan with pity, and asked with concern: "Liang Yuan, can you still hold on?" ”

Liang Yuan was already weak and speechless, but she still nodded stubbornly, but Han Jiang shook her head and said: "I don't think she can last long, don't explore the puzzles here yet, wait for us to go out, and then invite experts and scholars to study this mysterious pillar hall, now our first task is to go out." ”

To everyone's surprise, they walked along the pillar hall and didn't find any exit, Tang Feng said with a sense of understanding: "No wonder these party members sleep here, there is no exit here except for the crack in the ground and the water hole on the waterfall, so that no one will enter here and disturb their souls!" ”

"! According to your statement, of course it's good, but you don't want to think about it, there is no exit, how did those people get in? They can't have come in through cracks in the ground, right? Han Jiang asked Tang Feng rhetorically.

Tang Feng was speechless for a while, yes! There is no exit, so how do those people get in? Makarov was also confused, and at this time, Liang Yuan, who was lying in Tang Feng's arms, suddenly said intermittently: "Water...... Water...... Water ......" Tang Feng looked at Liang Yuan's pale lips and comforted her: "Liang Yuan, you hold on a little longer, and when we go out, there will be water to drink." ”

But Liang Yuan still trembled and stretched out his right hand slightly, pointing to the underground river under the waterfall, "River...... River ......"

Tang Feng looked back at Han Jiang: "Can you drink this water?" Why don't I try it first? ”

Han Jiang looked at the underground dark river in front of him, and then at Liang Yuan, suddenly, patted the back of his head, and exclaimed: "I understand, Liang Yuan didn't want to drink this river water, what she meant was that the ancestors who dug the pillar hall came in through this underground dark river!" Right! It must be so, this underground river must lead to the outside of the cave, you see, the air flow here is much better! This little girl is so smart. ”

After listening to Han Jiang's words, Liang Yuan finally nodded vigorously, Han Jiang immediately went into the water, tested the depth of the water, the water was not deep on the shore, and only then did he reach Han Jiang's ankle, so Han Jiang commanded: "Tang Feng, old horse, the three of us tie the rope around our waists so as not to get separated after entering the water, this time we are still like the previous times, I am still in front, old horse, you are at the end, Tang Feng, I am going to be fortunate to you, you carry Liang Yuan in the middle, everyone must take care of each other, no one can be left behind." ”

After the order, Han Jiang carried two big backpacks on his back and went into the water first, Tang Feng followed behind with Liang Yuan on his back, and Makarov finally touched the water.

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Soon, the four of them entered the cave of the underground dark river, the pillar hall, the waterfall gradually disappeared behind them, and it was pitch black all around, only the bright light from the flashlight indicated the direction of the way, Han Jiang walked in front, it seemed that everything was going well, he gradually regained the confidence he had lost several times in the black hole, and said: "I am now more and more convinced that this underground dark river leads to the outside of the cave, you see, there are no stalagmites and stone pillars in this river that we see in the underground lake, they are all very ordinary stones, and the water is not deep, We'll probably be out there soon......"

As soon as Han Jiang said this, suddenly, his body stumbled suddenly, and he almost fell into the river, Tang Feng asked behind him, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Han Jiang stood firm, looked at his feet, and replied: "It's nothing, you have to be careful when you come here, the water here is relatively deep, and the water is not up to my knees." ”

Everyone continued to walk forward, but Han Jiang was horrified to find that from the place just now, the underground river was getting deeper and deeper, and every time he took a step forward, the water level would rise by a point, knees, thighs, waist, Han Jiang's self-confidence that he had just regained began to lose little by little at this moment, but he was still bold and groped forward, until the river did not reach Han Jiang's chest, he finally stopped, and Tang Feng shouted loudly behind him: "What's going on?" How is the water getting deeper and deeper, and where does this underground river lead? ”

Han Jiang didn't know how to answer, he looked at the dark front in a daze, and the river "Wow!" Wow! ——" Flowing past his chest, from time to time there are a few small albino fish, around him, where does this underground river lead? Now, what should I do? …… Suddenly, a gust of wind came to his face, Han Jiang was full of excitement, he made up his mind, walked to the place close to the cave wall, where the river water is slightly shallow, Han Jiang unloaded his backpack, untied the rope tied to his waist, and then tied two large backpacks to the rope, turned around and shouted at Tang Feng and Makarov: "You just stand where you are, don't move!" I went to the front to find my way. ”

Tang Feng and Makarov had no choice but to watch Han Jiang swim into the river and slowly disappear in front of their eyes......

One minute, two minutes, three minutes, five minutes passed, Tang Feng still didn't see Han Jiang's figure, in the dark and silent cave, in addition to the sound of running water, there were only a few people's heartbeats and wheezing sounds, Liang Yuan was already on Tang Feng's back, in a semi-comatose state, suddenly, Liang Yuan said softly on Tang Feng's back, Liang Yuan seemed to wake up, and asked Tang Feng vaguely: "Where are we?" ”

Tang Feng hurriedly comforted Liang Yuan: "We're going to go out soon, hold on for a while." ”

After listening to Tang Feng's words, Liang Yuan fell into a coma again, "Coming out?" Tang Feng thought about what he had just said, and couldn't help laughing, this underground river is getting deeper and deeper, and he doesn't know where it will lead? Going out, what an unattainable idea! What happened to Han Jiang at this time?

"Tang Feng, old horse, I see the light, this river is leading to the outside, our judgment is not wrong." Han Jiang suddenly shouted excitedly in front of him, Tang Feng and Makarov heard a burst of surprise, and then heard Han Jiang's voice again: "You walk by the cave wall, the water is not deep there, don't forget those two bags." ”

Tang Feng and Makarov followed Han Jiang's instructions, slowly groped along the cave wall, Makarov picked up Han Jiang and Tang Feng's backpacks, Tang Feng carried Liang Yuan on his back, they followed the direction of the underground dark river, turned a corner, and after a long ten minutes, they finally saw the long-lost light again......