Chapter 16 The Pyramid of the East

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It was a tense and calm night, when the dark curtain fell, the five of them were in the middle of this empty dead city, and the huge fear quickly surrounded everyone, Han Jiang arranged for Tang Feng, Yelena and himself to take turns to be on duty at night, but for the whole night, no one really fell asleep.

Tang Feng almost opened his eyes and ushered in the dawn, after dawn, the temperature rose sharply, Tang Feng felt that the surface temperature at this time was at least above forty degrees, and maybe even close to fifty degrees. Although the drinking water everyone brought was sufficient, it was only enough for three days, which meant that they had to finish everything in Mi City within three days and withdraw from Wolf Valley, otherwise they would face the danger of cutting off the water.

Maybe it was to save physical strength, maybe it was to not alarm the souls that were still floating in Mi City, everyone was silent, packed up, and without Tang Feng's guidance, the five of them walked towards the palace area at the west end of the square.

Ascending the huge stairs, Tang Feng counted silently, a total of thirty-two steps, when he was the first to climb the thirty-second steps, the display in front of him was an incomparably shocking, four huge circular pillars fell in front of him, the diameter of the column was two meters, nearly twenty meters high, the base is two traditional party wrestlers back to back, struggling to support the scene of the column, the carving of the party wrestlers is extremely exquisite, the muscle lines on the body are clearly visible, it can be described as vivid.

Han Jiang and the others were also shocked by this scene, "What a pity! It is rare to see such a beautifully carved column. ”

"Yes! Judging from the appearance of the collapse, the column has been shattered into several pieces, and it must have been deliberately knocked down, and I think it may have been destroyed in the last battle of Mi City. ”

"This is also Huabiao, right?" Liang Yuan asked.

"Yes, this is also Huabiao, which is of the same nature as our South Que and North Que, indicating that the building behind this is a royal-level building, you look at the back."

Tang Feng pointed to the back, and everyone saw that behind the pillars were piles of collapsed ruins, "These large and small ruins are the palaces of the past, and if detailed archaeological excavations can be carried out here, many relics will definitely be unearthed." ”

"Tang Feng, I've been thinking about a question for the past two days, you said that at the last moment of Mi City, the city has run out of ammunition and food, and there is no food to eat, will there be a legendary treasure here?" Makarov suddenly asked such a question.

Tang Feng smiled, "Old Ma, don't worry, being hungry doesn't mean that you are poor here, because at the last moment of Micheng, Micheng was surrounded by Kublai Khan's army, even if you have mountains of treasures, you can't exchange them for food, which can be proved from the scattered jewels we found in the Golden City Gate and the Water Gate, in addition, the Timid Xue Army Tablet also said that the wealth and luxury of Micheng made it difficult for the soldiers to control, and even Ba Si Pa could not restrain it. ”

"Tang Feng, even if you have a point, but how much treasure will be left after the looting of the cowardly Xue army?" Makarov asked again.

When Tang Feng heard this, he chuckled in his heart, but he quickly said: "I think there are two explanations for the treasure, one refers to the wealth of Micheng, and the treasure that the cowardly Xue army can see when he enters Micheng; The other refers to the treasures that Yuan Hao pre-hid in Micheng back then, these treasures are obviously cowardly Xue Army's invasion of Micheng, and it is difficult to find, I think the treasures of Micheng should refer to the second kind. ”

"In other words, in addition to what the cowardly Xue Jun could see back then, there is also a treasure that Yuan Hao hid somewhere in advance?!" Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

"Yes, and this batch of treasures must be very amazing, far beyond what those cowardly Xue soldiers who invaded the city saw back then, of course, in addition to this batch of treasures, Mi City itself is a treasure, and its historical and artistic value may not be calculable at all." Tang Feng further explained.

"So, where will Yuan Hao bury that batch of treasures?" Han Jiang asked.

"It must be a very important and very secluded place, I think maybe it's right under our feet."

"At our feet?" Tang Feng's words surprised everyone.

"Yesterday we already knew the general distribution of Micheng, the eastern part of Micheng is the civilian area, the commercial area, the handicraft area, the aristocratic residential area and the administrative area, and the palace and other large buildings are in the western half of Micheng, obviously this is the most important area of Micheng, so I think the treasure must also be buried somewhere in the west." When Tang Feng said this, his eyes kept staring at the hall that had not collapsed yesterday, and at this time, Tang Feng saw clearly that this hall was located on the three-story Sumeru platform, and they had climbed the thirty-second steps, and there were three floors of Sumeru under this hall, so it was taller and grander than all the collapsed buildings in the Micheng palace area; Of course, what shocked Tang Feng was not only this, compared with the surrounding palace buildings that had collapsed, this hall seemed more mysterious, Tang Feng thought, what is the force that supports the hall to stand here for thousands of years without falling?

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Tang Feng was thinking nonsense, while he had already stepped past those fallen columns, not far behind the four pillars was a pile of collapsed building ruins, Tang Feng looked in front of this ruin, and quickly made a judgment, "This is exactly located on the central axis of the palace area, and it is the most advanced building in the palace area, so I speculate that this should be a gate, the gate of the entire palace area." ”

Tang Feng quickly confirmed his judgment, because he found piles of ruins on both sides of this ruin that were slightly higher than the ground, which should be the walls of the palace in the past. They continued to walk forward, about twenty meters away from the first ruin pile, there was another ruin pile at the same position of the central axis, Tang Feng originally thought that this should be the ruins of a palace, but he observed on this ruin pile for a while, and then reversed his previous judgment, "This is still a gate, the shape is similar to the one in front, and there is also a ring of walls around it." ”

Everyone continued to move forward, walked more than 20 meters, and another pile of ruins appeared on the central axis, Tang Feng quickly judged that this was still a gate ruins, and three gates appeared on the central axis in a row, which made everyone puzzled.

"What does this mean? How did a door and a fence pop out again? Han Jiang asked puzzled.

"It's strange that ancient Chinese architecture generally has a door in front of an important building, and it is surrounded by a wall, and the more walls there are, the more doors there are, which means that the more important the building in it. Three gates, three walls, if you count the city wall of Mi City itself, it is equivalent to four gates, four city walls, what kind of momentum this is, it is conceivable that the building level is high, it should be the most important building in the entire Mi City. ”

"It's the hall that hasn't collapsed, right?"

Tang Feng didn't answer Han Jiang's words, because he would soon get the answer himself, Tang Feng took the lead in walking into the last door, the front suddenly opened up, it was a huge square square, Tang Feng saw the hall clearly, the face was thirteen rooms wide, and Tang Feng couldn't see it clearly, but from the tall roof, the depth would not be less than seven, the width was thirteen, and the depth was seven, this was the largest hall Tang Feng had ever seen.

There are about sixty meters long between the third gate and the main hall, Tang Feng walked to the front of the main hall, climbed the three-story Sumeru seat, and suddenly felt that this hall was a little strange, where was it strange? Tang Feng was still confused for a while, but when Tang Feng's hand touched the pillars under the eaves of the main hall, he immediately understood the special features of this hall.

Tang Feng took two steps back, his eyes widened, he looked at the pillar in front of him and the entire hall in surprise, and exclaimed, "This ...... It turned out to be copper. ”

"Brass, what copper?" Han Jiang didn't understand what Tang Feng meant.

"I mean this pillar, no, it's ...... It's the whole hall, it's ...... It's copper! Tang Feng's voice began to tremble as he spoke.

"The Bronze Palace? Such a large bronze hall is unheard of! Han Jiang was also surprised.

Everyone was stunned, Tang Feng suddenly remembered something, looked up, and saw that above the eaves of the main hall, there was a huge plaque hanging, the plaque is not a common rectangle, but a square, no need to ask, this is also made of copper, Tang Feng slowly read out the four big characters in Xixia on the plaque - "No...... Rotten...... It...... Temple...... Sure enough, it's an immortal temple! ”

"Immortal Palace, I see!" Liang Yuan suddenly said: "It is precisely because this hall is made of bronze that it has survived the disaster and has been standing for thousands of years, and the Immortal Palace is worthy of its name!" ”

"It escaped the fire, look here." Yelena found black marks of fire on the row of pillars under the eaves of the Hall of Immortality, "This place was once burned by fire. ”

Tang Feng also noticed that there were traces of fire around the Immortal Palace, "This is the trace left by that fire, judging from the current situation of Mi City, that fire must be very big, but it ......"

Tang Feng seemed to think of something, and Liang Yuan urged, "But what?" ”

"I was thinking that if the fire was big enough and burned long enough, even the strongest copper walls could melt it down, but we saw that this immortal temple only left traces of fire on the eaves of the corridor, and the buildings inside were very well preserved, and there were no traces of fire at all, what does this mean?"

"Shows that the bronze hall is strong?" Liang Yuan didn't understand what Tang Feng meant.

"No, I said that no matter how strong the bronze hall is, it can be destroyed by fire!"

"The palace area was basically burned down, the fire must have been very big, so the copper hall was not burned, there is only one explanation, the burning time was not long, so the copper hall only left some traces of fire, and was not completely dissolved by the fire." Makarov understood what Tang Feng meant.

"It must be so, although the fire was fierce, it didn't burn for long, and when the fire reached the Hall of Immortals, it was extinguished." Tang Feng reasoned.

"How could it be such a coincidence that the fire burned just enough to reach the bronze hall and then went out?" Han Jiang didn't believe it.

"But that's what happened!" Tang Feng thought for a while, and then continued: "There are two possibilities for this situation, one is that at the beginning of the construction of this bronze hall, some special means were used to make the fire unable to burn the main hall, and the other is that the fire was extinguished by external conditions. ”

"External conditions? Are you saying someone put out the fire? Liang Yuan asked.

"I can't rule it out, but it's more likely that there was a heavy rain." Tang Feng Road.

"It's raining heavily? In the desert? I can also believe that someone put out the fire. Liang Yuan looked up at the blazing sunlight at this time.

"People? The party members were either killed in battle or committed suicide, or they fled in chaos, so how could there be anyone in Mi City? Tang Feng shook his head and said. Just as Tang Feng was speaking, Yelena had already curiously pushed the door of the Immortal Palace.

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Yelena tried her best to push the door of the Hall of Immortality, but the gate was not pushed, Han Jiang stepped forward to help Yelena push, and the two of them couldn't push open the door of the Hall of Immortality.

Makarov also wanted to go up to help them push, but Tang Feng shouted, "Wait, don't push yet!" Tang Feng walked to the gate of the Immortal Palace, and suddenly felt that he had become very small, he stretched out his hands and tried it, but the gate did not move at all; He wanted to look inside through the crack in the door, but the door was closed, and he couldn't even see the crack in the door, Tang Feng turned to the window next to him, and wanted to look in through the window, but there was only darkness in front of him, and he took out a flashlight to shine, but he still couldn't see anything, only darkness inside.

Tang Feng was suspicious in his heart, "Forget it, let's go to other places first, and then come back to open the door of the Immortal Palace." ”

So, everyone went around from under the eaves to the back of the bronze hall, and there were many collapsed palace ruins behind it, which stretched endlessly to the mountain. Tang Feng was hesitating whether to pass through these ruins or bypass the ruins, suddenly, he was stabbed in the eyes by the golden light flashing on the mountain, Tang Feng instinctively closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, the golden light was gone, the mountain was still the same mountain, but the doubts in Tang Feng's heart were getting heavier and heavier. The appearance of this mountain is extremely ordinary, but it suddenly appeared in Mi City, and it continued to glow with golden light, the trees on the mountain are not too tall, and the length is not regular, Tang Feng stared at the crooked trees on the mountain, and always felt that this hill must have some fame.

Not only did Tang Feng see the golden light, but everyone else also saw the faintly flickering golden light on the hill, and everyone wanted to climb the hill to see what was there? Tang Feng then chose to bypass the ruins of those palaces and go around the path next to the palace to the mountain.

But Tang Feng misestimated the road, the road next to the palace did not lead them to the hill, but went down the high platform of the palace area, all the way to the area south of the palace area, "Where is this?" Liang Yuan looked at the ruins and ruins that kept appearing in front of him, and asked nervously.

"There is an area on both sides of the palace area and the hill behind it that we have not been to, and now we are on the south side of the palace area, which looks badly damaged, but I think the original building here must be of a very high grade, otherwise it would not appear next to the palace area." Tang Feng reasoned.

"It looks like a temple!" Makarov found a Buddha statue with only half of his face left in a pile of rubble.

Tang Feng picked up the Buddha statue and carefully identified it, "Yes, it's the style of Western Xia." ”

"There's still one here!" Liang Yuan also found a Buddha statue under the rubble.

Tang Feng picked up the pile of rubble, and a pile of complete exquisite Buddha statues appeared in front of everyone, "This is really a temple!" Tang Feng became excited, and he found more Buddha statues under the rubble nearby, and Makarov also found several scriptures in a broken Buddha statue.

Tang Feng spread out these nearly 1,000-year-old scriptures and said excitedly: "These few volumes alone are already very rich, including Western Xia, Sanskrit, and Chinese characters. Didn't you ask me about the riches of Mi Cheng? These Buddha statues and scriptures are the wealth of Micheng, which ...... It's a treasure trove of history and culture! ”

"I suddenly had the feeling that Koznov had discovered Blackwater." Makarov muttered suddenly.

"Yes, Koznov has shocked the world when he found tens of thousands of Western Xia documents and Buddha statues in Blackwater City, and Mi City is more important than Heishui City, even if you don't care about the treasures that Yuan Hao pre-hid back then, just these documents and cultural relics in Mi City may already surpass Koznov's discovery in Blackwater City!" The more Tang Feng spoke, the more excited he became.

"That'...... So we're already famous! Han Jiang had a feeling that happiness had come too suddenly.

"You can understand that, but it's not time for us to be happy!" Tang Feng said, walking towards another ruin not far away, this was a ruin pile that was significantly higher than the surrounding ruins, where Tang Feng quickly found Buddha statues and scattered documents, but what interested him more was that he could see everything around him standing on this ruin.

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Tang Feng stood on the tall pile of ruins, looking around, to the north was the towering palace and the hill, to the east was the ruins of the official office that had been inspected yesterday, and to the south all the way to the city wall, which should have been the scope of this temple, but now it is all in ruins, but it is this west...... Tang Feng was pleasantly surprised to find that there was still a row of buildings on the west side of the city wall that had not been burned down and was very well preserved.

Tang Feng jumped off the pile of ruins and said to everyone: "This area is twice as large as the palace area, you can imagine how majestic this temple was back then, there is still a well-preserved building under the west city wall, let's go over and take a look first." ”

The five of them walked through the pile of ruins, and after a quarter of an hour, they walked to the building with difficulty, which looked like a group of independent buildings, and was blocked by a pond between them and the temple, and the water in the pond had long dried up, so Tang Feng and the others easily jumped off the pond and climbed up from the other side of the pond, at this time, Han Jiang felt something strange, "Tang Feng, you found that without this narrow pond, it almost blocked the communication between this group of buildings and the temple, and now there is no water, When there was water here, the group of buildings under the walls was closed off and could not communicate with the outside world unless there was a bridge over the pond. ”

"I also found out that this group of buildings is indeed very peculiar, and it is impossible to see whether there is a bridge or not, but I think there must have been a specific purpose in the design and construction of this way." Tang Feng said.

"What's even more amazing is that this is the only place in the city where there are trees except for the hills, and it looks like these trees should be very old, much taller than the trees on the hills!" Liang Yuan pointed to the two tall ginkgo trees in front of him and said.

Tang Feng looked up, this building was completely hidden in the green trees, it seemed so quiet and peaceful in this city of death, and the five people slowly walked to the gate of this group of buildings, because of the terrain, this group of buildings is in a narrow and long multi-entry shape, but this does not deprive this group of buildings of extraordinary momentum.

The three-bay door is not large, but the large eaves of the Xixia style show that the gate is still very imposing, and the door panel is a little decayed, but it is still standing in the gate, Tang Feng gently pushed the door, and the door squeaked and opened!

The five people walked into the gate with complicated feelings, and behind the gate was a closed second gate, and a courtyard was formed between the gate and the second gate, and some trees were planted in the yard, but what interested Tang Feng was a few boulders in the yard, and the experienced Tang Feng quickly judged the role of these boulders, "Wells, there are two wells here." ”

Tang Feng rushed to the front of the boulder, these boulders are the railings around the well, looking down the well, Tang Feng was dizzy, and the bottom of the well was bottomless!

"What a strange well...... Bottomless! Liang Yuan exclaimed.

Han Jiang said: "It's not surprising, when we came in from the water gate, Tang Feng said that the ditch outside the city and the pond inside the water gate are estimated to have dried up long ago, so there is only one way to solve the drinking water of the people in the city - dig a well, and it must be a deep well, a very deep well." ”

"So, there are these two deep wells!" Tang Feng nodded.

Tang Feng walked to the second gate, the second gate was also pushed open, behind the second gate was a courtyard, and a large hall with a wide face of five rooms appeared in the courtyard, and there was no plaque hanging on the main hall, Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang, no one knew what it would be? "This may be the largest temple left in Mi City outside of the Immortal Palace."

Tang Feng was still hesitating, Han Jiang had already pushed the door of this hall, the door of this hall was not locked, Tang Feng followed Han Jiang and walked in, in an instant, he felt that he was in the Western Heaven Elysium, the entire hall except for the place where they stood, almost all of them were occupied by Buddha statues, from the main Buddha in the middle to the Bodhisattvas on both sides, Arhats, layer upon layer, there were hundreds of Buddha statues of all kinds.

Tang Feng couldn't help but sigh when he saw all this, "What a treasure trove of Buddhist art." ”

"Alright, don't sigh! It seems that this is also a temple. Han Jiang urged Tang Feng to hurry up and go back, Tang Feng still wanted to take a second look, but he had been pulled by Han Jiang through these Buddha statues, detoured to the back of the hall, and there was a door behind him, the door panel was gone, open, Tang Feng came to this door, and saw a long corridor extending to the back courtyard, and there was a kind of tree that Tang Feng did not know on both sides of the road, which made Tang Feng even more surprised that this kind of tree was still blooming with gorgeous flowers.

The five people looked left and right, curiously walking along the Yongdao, as if entering a bizarre fairy tale world, until the end of the Yongdao, they found that there were three more halls here, distributed in the shape of a zigzag among the flowers.

When Tang Feng went to push these halls, the strange feeling struck again, and it became stronger and stronger, but he pushed open the door, and there was no one inside, but except for the Buddha statue, there were some simple furnishings, everything looked like the owner had just left, but the ground and the thick dust on the Buddha statue told Tang Feng that there could be no one here.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what else would be found in this strange group of buildings, and suddenly, Liang Yuan found something in the dust under a table, she picked up something, and shouted in surprise: "Look, this is a comb." ”

Tang Feng took the comb, a copper comb with exquisite twig patterns on it, Tang Feng put down the comb and looked around the room again, "This is like a woman's room." ”

"Oh! I understand. Liang Yuan nodded thoughtfully.

"What do you understand?"

"There are things for women here, and there are Buddhist halls, which means that this was originally a nunnery!" Liang Yuan reasoned.

"Nunnery?!" The crowd was amazed.

"Yes! That's why there is a long and narrow pond outside, which separates it from the magnificent temple next to it. Liang Yuan's inference seemed to make sense, and Tang Feng had to nod yes.

Tang Feng stood in this courtyard for a while before leaving with a little reluctance, behind the courtyard was a moon gate, and behind the moon gate was a courtyard overgrown with weeds, "like a garden!" Liang Yuan said.

Tang Feng didn't say anything, he walked around the narrow garden, and came to the last door, which had a rusty lock and thick iron chains. Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang, "It seems that this place was also a forbidden area for people to enter in the past!" ”

Han Jiang didn't care so much, he pulled out his pistol, and shot two shots at the rusty big lock, the thick chain fell in response, and the rusty big lock was also broken, Han Jiang opened the back door, and a long staircase appeared in front of everyone.

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Han Jiang took the lead in ascending the long staircase, and after about thirty steps, they came to a tall platform, and on the inside of the platform was the mountain of the hill, "We have climbed the hill. Tang Feng stared at the mountain in front of him, and suddenly felt that the soil of the hill in front of him was a little strange, but he couldn't say that there was anything wrong.

"Look! There's a lama pagoda here! Yelena found a fallen lama pagoda in a pile of bushes near the mountain, Tang Feng walked over and looked at it, "If this lama pagoda is erected, it will be more than two meters high. ”

"How can there be a lama pagoda in this place?" Liang Yuan asked puzzled.

Tang Feng stared at the Lama Pagoda for a long time, and then suddenly muttered, "There is definitely more to this Lama Pagoda here. ”

"What do you mean?" Han Jiang stared at Tang Feng.

But Tang Feng didn't answer Han Jiang's question, and muttered again: "There is a problem with this mountain. ”

"What's wrong with the mountain?" Everyone was staring at Tang Feng.

"Don't ask me yet, let's walk along the edge of this platform and see if there is such a lama pagoda in front of you!" Tang Feng instructed everyone.

Everyone didn't understand what Tang Feng meant, so they had to continue to move forward according to what Tang Feng said, and sure enough, every time they walked out of a section, they could find the Lama Tower in the dense bushes, some fell to the ground, and some were still standing in place, Tang Feng looked thoughtfully at the Lama Tower that was cleaned up like this, and finally stopped in front of the ninth Lama Tower, which happened to be the turn of the platform, standing here, you could see the magnificent palace in the east, everyone was looking at Tang Feng, expecting Tang Feng to give an answer.

Tang Feng smiled and said, "Didn't you find any rules?" ”

"Regularity? The rule is that every once in a while, such a lama pagoda will be found. Han Jiang said.

"Yes, that's just one of the many patterns that have been revealed."

"What else? I didn't see anything. Han Jiang looked at the Lama Pagoda not far away and said helplessly.

"I roughly estimated that the distance between the two lama pagodas is about 30 meters, which means that the side length of one side of this hill is about 270 meters long, and according to my previous observations, this hill is basically a square, so I guess its circumference is about 1,0080 meters." Tang Feng estimated the circumference of the hill.

"How big is this mountain?" Liang Yuan was surprised, but she was still puzzled, "What can this length mean?" ”

"The length doesn't say much more than the circumference of the mountain, but what I'm going to tell you next is enough to shock you!" As he spoke, Tang Feng grabbed a handful of dirt from the mountain, "Pay attention to the color of this soil. ”

"Color?" Everyone was puzzled, and Han Jiang said first: "Isn't this red clay?" ”

"Yes, it's red-colored dirt. Don't you think it's strange? How can there be red-colored dirt here? Tang Feng asked Han Jiang rhetorically.

Han Jiang thought about it, and then he reacted, "Yes, the general red soil appears in the southern ......."

Without waiting for Han Jiang to finish speaking, Tang Feng turned to the south side of the hill and took a piece of dirt from there, "Look at the color of this soil again!" ”

"This ...... How is this dirt cyan? Yelena saw the clue.

"It's really strange that the blue soil usually comes from humid areas, such as some rice paddies in the south." Han Jiang added.

"The question is, if you look at this mountain again, is it too regular?" Tang Feng stood in the southeast corner of the platform and suddenly pointed to the mountain in front of him and asked.

Everyone noticed that there seemed to be an obvious ridge on the mountain in front of Tang Feng, "What's going on?" And the color of the soil on both sides of this ridge has changed. Liang Yuan stared at the scene in front of her in amazement.

"Look at the plants and trees on this mountain, how are they different from the ones we saw in that courtyard just now?" Tang Feng asked again.

Liang Yuan looked back at the lush green area under the mountain, and then looked at the vegetation on the mountain, and found a problem, "Although the vegetation on the mountain looks very dense, it seems that they are all short and do not grow much, and they are mainly shrubs and low plants, are these plants congenitally malnourished?" ”

"Not bad! These plants are malnourished. Let me tell you what's going on! There is only one answer to all the strange phenomena you have just discovered, and that is because this mountain is a man-made mountain! Tang Feng confidently stated his inference, and everyone was stunned.

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Tang Feng threw away the soil in his hand and explained to everyone: "Why do I say that this is a man-made mountain, first of all, the location of this mountain is very peculiar and abrupt, this is the strong feeling I had when I saw this hill for the first time outside the city wall; Secondly, the shape of the mountain is very peculiar, or rather regular, with a relatively standard square at the bottom, and then shrinking inward until the top, a very standard cone, which reminds me of ...... Pyramids, also in the shape of cones, came to mind. ”

"Pyramids?!" The crowd was even more stunned.

"Yes, don't forget the tombs of the Western Xia kings at the foot of Helan Mountain. Although the mausoleum tower of the Western Xia Dynasty is not standard, it is called the 'Oriental Pyramid', which shows that the Dangxiang people were keen to build this kind of conical building. ”

"You mean this mountain is also a mausoleum?" Han Jiang exclaimed.

"No, I can't be sure yet, and this shape is still a little different from the Western Xia Tomb, but I can't rule out this possibility, I can only say that we found an Oriental Pyramid that is larger than the Western Xia Tomb, and much larger!" Tang Feng said firmly.

"Pyramid of the East?! But the pyramids of Egypt and the Maya were made of huge stones, right? Liang Yuan asked Tang Feng.

This is going to talk about the following two points, the first two points are to look at the mountain from a large place, from the subtle view, you can also see that this is an artificially built mountain, the appearance of the Lama Pagoda and the deliberate arrangement of the arrangement, it shows that the mountain was built when it was planned. I just asked you to find the Lama Tower, on this side found a total of nine Lama Towers, which shows that there should be thirty-six Lama Towers around this mountain, and I am also sure that there are more than thirty-six Lama Towers on the mountain, it is likely that there are Lama Towers in the middle of the mountain and close to the top of the mountain, and there are probably thirty-six each, that is, a total of one hundred and eight Lama Towers, this architectural style is also the original creation of the Party Xiang people, today there is a one hundred and eight towers built in the Xixia period in Qingtongxia, Ningxia, Although the two are not identical in the arrangement of the towers, it is likely that the number one hundred and eight has some kind of meaning. ”

"But the appearance of the Lama Pagoda doesn't confirm that this mountain is completely artificial? After all, to build such a mountain out of thin air, the amount of work is difficult to calculate! Yelena still couldn't understand.

"Yes, the Lama Pagoda does not completely identify that it is an artificial mountain, but the appearance of different colors of soil is 100% certain that it is an artificial mountain built by the party. In traditional Chinese culture, there has always been a tradition of five-color soil representing the country's community, cyan clay represents the east, red clay represents the south, white clay represents the west, black clay represents the north, and yellow clay represents the center. There will be no five colors of soil in a place at the same time, but it is precisely on this mountain that the five-colored soil appears, and we have seen that the red soil is located exactly in the south of the mountain, and the cyan soil is located in the east of the mountain, I think those colors of soil must also be distributed in such a location, which says everything, this hill is likely to have been built at the beginning of the construction of Micheng, it has a special significance for Yuan Hao and Western Xia, on the one hand, the five-colored soil is used to represent the national community; On the other hand, the party members who believed in Buddhism built stupas on the mountain to pray for the eternal stability of the dynasty and the eternal prosperity of the country. ”

After listening to Tang Feng's explanation, Liang Yuan nodded as if he didn't understand, and shook his head again, "This five-colored soil is the idea of Confucianism, and Buddhism came from India, why did it appear on this hill at the same time?" ”

"This just reflects the fact that the once backward and weak party and ethnic groups are inclusive, absorbing the strengths of others, absorbing the essence of Confucianism from the Song Dynasty, and absorbing Buddhist ideas from the Western Regions and Tibet, which made the party members stronger later." Tang Feng sighed.

"You have talked about such a big thing, I only care about one question, since this mountain is an artificially built mountain, then, what is the purpose of the party members who worked hard to build such an artificial mountain? I remember that you said at first that it was the royal garden of Micheng, but now it seems that this inference cannot be established! Han Jiang hadn't forgotten Tang Feng's guess yesterday.

"Yesterday's inference was just my speculation, and now it seems that of course it can't be established, Yuan Hao would never spend time and time building such a hill, just for his own pleasure; Moreover, the five-colored soil on this is artificial rammed earth, and the texture is compact, so the vegetation on the mountain grows slowly, is malnourished, and it is impossible to plant tall trees, which is not suitable for building a royal garden at all! Tang Feng thought for a while, and then said: "As for why the party members built such an oriental pyramid back then? I can't say it yet, but I think it must have a special role. ”

"Then keep going up the hill, and maybe you'll find something." Makarov proposed.

Tang Feng nodded, and everyone made a detour to the south of the mountain, and in the middle of the south side of the mountain, a staircase hidden in the weeds and bushes was revealed.

7

The discoveries on the hill all confirmed Tang Feng's judgment, and he went up the stairs in the middle of the east side of the hill, and soon found another lama pagoda near the halfway point of the hill, and there was also more than one, and the order of the lower layers surrounded the hill. However, Tang Feng found something different on this row of lama towers, he wiped the body of the tower with his hands, and there were some silver-white things on his hands, "What is this?" Liang Yuan asked on the side.

"It's like silver!"

"Silver? We didn't find any silver on the lama pagoda below. Han Jiang exclaimed.

Tang Feng didn't answer Han Jiang, continued to speed up his pace, and climbed to the top of the mountain, the stairs became steeper and steeper, Tang Feng looked back and didn't feel dizzy, but fortunately Han Jiang grabbed him. In the end, when approaching the top of the mountain, everyone was already using their hands and feet together, at this moment, a dazzling golden light suddenly appeared in front of Tang Feng's eyes, Tang Feng trembled, and hurriedly looked up, only to see that a row of lama towers appeared among the trees and weeds above his head, which Tang Feng had expected, but the golden light on the lama tower was not expected by Tang Feng.

Sure enough, a row of lama pagodas appeared around the top of the mountain, Tang Feng straightened up, walked to the edge of the steep hilltop platform, brushed aside the weeds and bushes, and the golden lama pagodas appeared in front of him, he trembled and stretched out his hand, and gently wiped it on the lama tower, and his hands were covered with gold dust.

"It's gold!" Yelena exclaimed.

"It's not just on this tower, you look in the dirt here." Han Jiang used a dagger to cut off the weeds on the ground, and the dirt on the surface was full of gold.

"This ...... It's incredible! Liang Yuan was shocked.

"Yes, it's incredible, no wonder I was stabbed in the eyes by the golden light from the top of the mountain several times at the bottom of the mountain, it turned out that the entire top of the mountain was covered with gold leaf, and the thirty-six lama pagodas around the top of the mountain were also coated with gold mud, the second layer of the lama pagoda was coated with silver mud, and the bottom layer was made of five-color soil, although nearly a thousand years have passed, a lot of gold leaf has fallen off, but we can still imagine how luxurious and magnificent this oriental pyramid was!"

When Tang Feng said this, he couldn't help but look back, the entire Micheng and the surrounding oasis, and even the sea of rebirth and the desert in the distance, were all in full view, and he couldn't help but feel relaxed, "Just now you asked me why the party members spent time and effort to build this oriental pyramid?" I think the purpose is multifaceted, but at least one purpose can be clear, it is a good watchtower with a view of the surrounding scenery. ”

"But this is never the main purpose, if it is for the sake of lookout, it does not have to be so extravagant and grandiose." Han Jiang Road.

"Of course I know that this is not the main purpose, you look there, the south side ......" Tang Feng suddenly pointed to the south of Mi City, "As we deduced before, the entire Mi City is surrounded by the water surface of the Immortal Sea, which is like a natural moat, we enter Micheng from the northern line, there should also be a road on the southern route, you see that there is also a long causeway on the surface of the Immortal Sea in the south, it's just ...... It's just that the causeway is broken in the middle. ”

Everyone looked south, and sure enough, there was a long causeway on the vast water that led straight to the oasis, but a section of the long causeway was dug up in the middle, "This is obviously man-made, and it can only be dug up by the order of Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong." Han Jiang said.

Tang Feng nodded, "So there is no Skeleton Mandala on the south causeway, and the cowardly Xue Jun dug up the south causeway, but kept the north causeway, and built the Skeleton Mandala on the causeway." ”

Everyone's eyes turned to the long causeway to the north, where a cloud of fog was shrouded over the Skull Mandala, and Tang Feng said with some concern: "It seems that there is another fog there!" ”

"Don't worry, we can get out!" Han Jiang comforted Tang Feng.

"No, I haven't thought about going out yet. I'm thinking about the general! ”

"General? They may still be trapped in the Skull Mandala! Didn't you say that if they can't crack the mystery of the mandala, they won't be able to get out of the mandala? ”

"But the general's subordinates are hiding dragons and crouching tigers, who knows?" Tang Feng's words cast a shadow on everyone's hearts, and everyone stood silently on the top of the mountain for a while, and then began to walk down the mountain.