1

Han Jiang looked up at the sky, the tall trees blocked the daylight, making the dense forest dim, Han Jiang thought in his heart, and said: "I estimate that it is only an hour before it gets dark, you see whether we will camp here tonight, or continue to walk." ”

"Who dares to spend the night here, not to mention that there is no fierce beast yet, just those giant python vipers come to attack us again, it is enough for us to suffer!" The answers were surprisingly unanimous.

Han Jiang crossed his waist, and his gaze turned to the front again, "But if we don't get out of this forest before dark, have you considered the consequences?" ”

Everyone fell silent, and Han Jiang said again: "Even if we walked out of the forest before dark and found Micheng, do you know where there are some terrible things waiting for us?" ”

"The unbeatable gate?!" Tang Feng laughed self-deprecatingly.

"I don't dare spend the night here anyway!" Liang Yuan muttered.

"You've got to think about it!" Han Jiang reminded everyone.

Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were determined to move forward, Yelena and Makarov hesitated for a while, and agreed to move forward, Han Jiang had no choice but to nod, "Then let's continue to move forward, I don't want to spend the night with these guys who were crushed to death by the stone tablet!" ”

So, the five of them continued to walk forward, and to their great surprise, after bypassing a few tall metasequoias, the ground covered with lichen and moss disappeared, and a tall city stood abruptly in front of them.

Everyone looked at the scene in amazement, the tall rammed earth wall seemed intact, and it had been standing here for thousands of years. Tang Feng stood on tiptoe, wanting to see the inside of the city, but the tall city walls blocked his view, and he could only see the roof of a large building.

"This seems to be a corner of Mi City!" After Han Jiang observed, he judged.

Tang Feng used the compass to determine the direction, "We are coming from the north, if the compass is not out of order, this section of the city wall we see now should be the northeast corner of Micheng." ”

"Northeast corner?" Han Jianghu looked suspiciously at the end of the north city wall, and then, at the end of the south city wall, Han Jiang was even more puzzled in his heart, "The north and south city walls can't see their heads!" How long are the walls of Mi Cheng? ”

"Maybe it's getting dark, and you'll know when you walk through it tomorrow!" Tang Feng Road.

Liang Yuan said: "Yelu Chucai's scroll says very clearly, Qianhu Town is only one-twelfth of Mi City, indicating that Mi City should be six to nine times the size of Qianhu Town. ”

"I think it's enough for Qianhu Town, is this Mi City really that big?" Tang Feng was a little skeptical about the authenticity of Yelu Chucai's account.

Han Jiang looked at the city wall and saw some famous halls, "Tang Feng, you found that there is no city tower on the city wall in the north, but there is a tall city tower on the city wall in the east. ”

Han Jiang said this, and everyone also noticed, "Yes, it stands to reason that such a big city should have a gate on every wall, or even more than one!" But...... However, from here, there is no trace of the castle gate on the north side, but perhaps the castle tower on the north side collapsed in the war. ”

Han Jiang pointed to the city tower on the east city wall, "It's getting dark, let's go into the city!" ”

So, the five of them walked towards the tower on the east city wall, and on the way, Han Jiang made a new discovery, "There is a wide trench under the city wall, could it be that there is still a moat in this city?" ”

Tang Feng also noticed the wide trench under the city wall, "Yes, Micheng must have a wide trench originally, as for whether it is a moat, can this ghost place attract water?" ”

Everyone continued to walk under the east city wall, and in the quiet sunset, the five people finally walked to the city tower of Mi City, and an incomparable gate stood quietly in front of everyone.

2

In the middle of the city wall on the east side, inside the tall city gate, an incomparable gate appeared in front of everyone, Tang Feng rubbed his eyes vigorously, he couldn't believe that all this was true, a real golden gate appeared in front of them! Although he had wondered countless times in his mind what Misha's incomparable gate looked like? But when Tang Feng really stood in front of this golden gate, he still couldn't connect the scene in front of him with the appearance imagined in his mind, everything was so abrupt, so incredible, as if he was in another world!

"Is this really a golden gate?" Yelena muttered to herself, incredulous.

"According to common sense, gold is relatively soft, and it is not suitable for strong city gates......" Makarov could not believe.

"Just walk over and take a look!" Tang Feng said, and walked towards the golden gate, but was pulled by Han Jiang, "You should not be careful, see if there are any new footprints on the ground." ”

Han Jiang's words reminded everyone who had been carried away by the golden gate, Tang Feng hurriedly checked the ground, except for their messy footprints, he didn't see any footprints or creatures, everything was so quiet, it seemed that no life had ever existed here, "It seems that we are the first people to walk in here after half a century." ”

After Tang Feng finished checking, he slowly walked into the city gate hole, a little closer to the incomparable golden gate, suddenly, Tang Feng stepped on a hard thing under his feet, he hurriedly looked down to check, it was another human bone, a human shin, "Why did there be a corpse bone here?" ”

"Could it be the female expedition member?" Han Jiang immediately thought of the mysterious female scientific expedition member.

Everyone's attention temporarily shifted from the golden gate to the white bones in front of the door, Yelena squatted down, made a rough identification, and quickly made a preliminary judgment, "The skeleton in front of the door is basically well preserved, it is the bones of two ancient men, one is about twenty years old, and the other is between thirty and forty years old, Mongolian race, so these two bones are unlikely to belong to the mysterious female scientific expedition member." ”

"It's not a female scientific expedition member, is it still Ma Changguo's person?" Tang Feng asked suspiciously.

"Obviously, these two male bones can't be from Ma Changguo, because the age of their death is at least six hundred years ago, look at this!" As he spoke, Makarov picked up a small piece of porcelain from the sand beside the skeleton, "Tang Feng, look at what this is?" ”

Tang Feng's heart trembled, with his cultural relics cultivation, with just one glance, he could immediately see the approximate age of a thing, even if it was just a piece of porcelain, when Tang Feng saw that piece of porcelain, his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed: "This piece of porcelain really surprised me, this ...... This is the porcelain of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty. ”

"Brother kiln? How did the priceless Gokiln porcelain end up here? "Han Jiang has also heard of the name of the kiln.

"Yes! It's weird. However......" Tang Feng picked up the sand next to the skeleton, and more and more porcelain pieces were revealed, "This should be a small eight-sided plate of the brother kiln, what a beautiful brother kiln opening piece, but unfortunately it is broken." ”

"Is this a tomb? Brother kiln porcelain is their burial companion? Yelena asked, puzzled.

Tang Feng immediately rejected Yelena's idea, "No, it's impossible, no one will build the tomb at the city gate, and we don't see any traces of the tomb." ”

"Tang Feng, you can take a look at this again." Makarov found a waist knife from under another skeleton.

"A typical Mongolian knife, exactly the same as the one we saw in Qianhu Town." Tang Feng quickly judged the attributes of the waist knife.

"It seems that these are two Mongols, most likely soldiers of Kublai Khan's army, who died at the gate of the city." Han Jiang inferred.

"I thought the same thing just now, but when I think about it, how could the bones of the Mongol soldiers be discarded in the wilderness after collecting the bones of the Dangxiang people and building a mandala? Besides, the bones of other soldiers who died in battle were not found in this vicinity, why are there only these two corpses, and how can this brother kiln small plate be explained? Tang Feng refuted Han Jiang's inference with a series of rhetorical questions.

"Let's take a look at this incomparable golden gate!" Liang Yuan's voice came from Tang Feng's side, Liang Yuan seemed to be attracted by something magical, and had slowly walked towards the golden gate.

3

It was already dark, Han Jiang lit two torches with the wood he found in the forest, and the figures of the five people were extremely slender under the shadow of the firelight, swaying on the golden gate, at this moment, this golden gate seemed mysterious and noble, weird and shocking, making people yearn for it, and make people fearful.

Tang Feng came to the front of the golden gate, and couldn't help but stretch out his hands, when his fingertips touched the gate, it seemed that there was an electric current flowing through Tang Feng's body, numb, weird. The gate was indeed made of gold, but it was different from the gold he had ever seen, it was very hard, "this...... This is a gate made of gold, and it is impossible to see what is still wrapped inside. ”

Han Jiang also rubbed his hands slowly on the golden gate, smooth and cold, "This is the incomparable gate that Misha has seen......"

Only Makarov remained calm in shock, "This golden gate seems to have some special ingredient added to it, otherwise it would not be so strong." ”

"Special ingredients?" The crowd was puzzled.

"I guess it's some kind of alloy or something!" Makarov speculated.

"Alloy?" Tang Feng said, with both hands, trying to push open the door, but the door didn't move, "Don't worry about the alloy yet, push open this door." ”

Everyone's eyes were filled with the image of Misha pushing open this incomparable door, different, but shocking enough. Liang Yuan and Makarov held torches, Tang Feng, Han Jiang, and Yelena lined up in front of the golden gate, and the three of them worked hard together, trying to push the gate open, but the gate still didn't move.

Tang Feng felt strange, Misha obviously wrote in his letter to Liang Yunjie that he "pushed open that incomparable door", but at this time, he couldn't open this door, could someone have done something behind the door? Thinking of this, Tang Feng's mind was blank, he tried to push open the golden gate again, but he tried his best, and he couldn't push open a crack in the golden gate, at this moment, Yelena said loudly: "Han Jiang, Tang Feng, don't push, what are you looking at the crack in the door?" ”

Tang Feng noticed that some yellow-brown substances were born in the cracks of the golden gate, which was obviously not gold, Tang Feng found that the cracks in the door were full of these yellow-brown substances from top to bottom, and Yelena shouted again: "There is also the inside of the door shaft!" ”

Tang Feng hurriedly walked to the door shaft on one side to check, and sure enough, there was more of this yellow-brown substance in the door shaft, Tang Feng reached out and touched this yellow-brown substance in confusion, and then pulled out the dagger, cut off a piece of yellow-brown material from the door shaft, and took it in his hand to look at it, "It looks like some kind of metal ......"

Tang Feng felt that this yellow-brown substance was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it, but Han Jiang recognized this kind of thing, "We have also seen this thing in Qianhu Town." ”

Han Jiang's words woke up Tang Feng, "Yes, we have seen it at the city gate of Qianhu Town, this is what the molten iron looks like after it solidifies!" Don't...... Could it be that this golden gate was also sealed by molten iron? ”

"No wonder we can't push no matter how much we push?!" Han Jiang raised his head and looked at this golden gate in amazement, the crack and shaft of the door had been completely sealed by molten iron.

"No, what's going on? How could the golden gate be sealed by molten iron? Tang Feng couldn't believe this fact.

Makarov patted Tang Feng, "I think this is the last choice of the party members in the city!" ”

"The final choice of the party members? Do you mean that the party members did it themselves before the city was broken? After years of siege, Micheng has long run out of ammunition and food, and in the past, it was possible to get some necessities from the outside world through the poorly defended trails of the Mongol army, but this time the cowardly Xue army blocked all the passages into the Wild Wolf Valley, and the troops had come to the city, and the party leader in Micheng made a difficult decision, he ordered people to pour two furnaces of molten iron on the exquisite golden gate, and gathered the clansmen to swear to live and die together in Micheng.

4

Tang Feng tried his best to keep his brain calm, he thought about it again and again, and suddenly said: "But Misha's letter said that he pushed open this incomparable door!" ”

"Tang Feng, you can show me Misha's letter to Liang again." Makarov said.

So, Tang Feng read Liang Yunjie's letter to Makarov again, and Makarov frowned after reading it, "I think there are two possibilities, one is that Micheng has other gates, but I don't dare to imagine that there will be several such golden gates in Micheng; Another possibility...... Judging from Misha's language, he seems to have been violently frightened and stimulated at the time, causing him to have a brief amnesia, so he did not explain what happened after he pushed open the golden gate in the letter, and the previous experience was also vague, I suspect that Misha only refers to him in the letter in general, referring to him entering Mi City, or simply his hallucination. ”

"Hallucinations? I can also believe that there are other unparalleled gates in Micheng. Tang Feng said.

"Even if there were other gates, wouldn't they be sealed by molten iron?" Makarov reminded Don.

"Yes, if the party decides to live and die in Micheng before the city is broken, then all the gates will definitely be blocked with molten iron." Liang Yuan said.

"So it's Misha's hallucination?" Tang Feng muttered to himself, as if he was in deep thought.

"Tang Feng, have you forgotten? What does it say on the stele of the cowardly Xue army! Han Jiang suddenly reminded Tang Feng.

Tang Feng was startled, what did the cowardly Xue Jun Tablet say? "'More than ten soldiers of the emperor's simple and sturdy soldiers entered the secret door, and the city was broken!' 'Secret door'?! Kublai Khan's army entered through the secret gate of Micheng. ”

"Secret door? Obviously it won't be the door in front of us! So where will this 'secret door' be? Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"This 'secret gate' illustrates two points, one, no matter how many gates there are in Micheng, Kublai Khan's army has not broken through them, why has they not broken through? I think the golden gate in front of us has explained everything, the party people at the last moment, swore to live and die with Micheng, so they poured the gate with molten iron, they couldn't get out, and the cowardly Xue army couldn't attack it, so in the end, Kublai Khan's army attacked Micheng from the secret gate; Second, in addition to this gate, Mi City has at least one secret door. ”

It also indirectly shows that the walls and gates of Micheng should be intact! Look how strong this rammed-earth wall is! As he spoke, Han Jiang stabbed the rammed earth city wall next to the city gate a few times with a dagger, and the sharp military dagger poked up, leaving only a few small white dots on the rammed earth city wall, and in the end, when Han Jiang poked the fifth blow, his military dagger was simply bounced back.

Everyone was amazed when they saw this scene, and Tang Feng couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that the party members have really put a lot of effort into this Mi City, the city walls and city gates are so tall and strong, no wonder Kublai Khan's army had to attack Mi City from the secret gate." ”

"According to what you say, what Misha said in the letter is really a hallucination?!" Liang Yuan muttered to himself.

"That's just the only way to ask Misha!" Tang Feng said, suddenly felt a strange luster shining in the sand under the gate, he squatted down, carefully brushed off the dust on it, some fine golden debris slowly revealed, as the yellow sand was slowly brushed away, more and more golden debris were exposed, Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, Yelena and Makarov also noticed these golden debris mixed in the yellow sand, and they all helped Tang Feng to blow away a thin layer of sand on the ground, and when the golden debris that was shining with golden light finally appeared in front of everyone, Everyone present was shocked.

5

After a long time, Han Jiang muttered a sentence from his mouth, "What is this?" ”

"Gold dust!" Tang Feng dropped two words, snatched the torch in Liang Yuan's hand, and walked to the golden gate, he took advantage of the light of the torch to carefully see that the golden gate was not as smooth as he imagined, and the traces of knives and axes were deeply engraved on this ancient gate.

Tang Feng looked at it for a while, then turned around and said, "I know what happened to those two corpses. Lao Ma is right, the reason why this golden gate is extremely strong, in addition to gold, the party must also add other substances to it, making it an alloy, strong and abnormal! The party built such a golden gate not only for aesthetics, but also for practicality. The already strong gate was blocked with molten iron, making it completely a copper wall, so that when Kublai Khan's army approached the city, it was impossible to attack the city from here. We can imagine how excited and fanatical those cowardly sergeants were when they saw such a golden gate for the first time. If it weren't for the restraint of Paspa, I'm afraid that before they could attack Mi City, those soldiers would have been eager to come up and cut the gold on the gate. When the army succeeded in the sneak attack from the secret gate and captured Micheng, I can imagine that the army that had been suppressed by panic and bloody killing for a long time completely lost its mind, and Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong could no longer restrain the army, and the cowardly Xue army must have been crazy in Mi City, and I even boldly speculated that the fire that rose in Mi Cheng that night was set by Ba Sipa, not only to break the thoughts of the party members, but also because Ba Si Pa had already felt that he had lost control of the army, so he ......"

"So Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong secretly sent people to set fire to each other, which not only eliminated the thoughts of the party members, but also eliminated the greed of the cowardly Xue Jun!" Makarov took Tang Feng's words and said.

"Not bad! I guess that's just the way it is. The scene we see in front of us can explain all this, when the fire in the city, Ba Si Pa ordered the army to withdraw from the city, there are still cowardly Xue soldiers who are reluctant to give up on the wealth of Mi City, I can imagine that night thousands of cowardly Xue soldiers crowded into this city gate, they tried to tear down this golden gate, break it and transport the gold away, but when they found that all this was in vain, the crazy cowardly Xue soldiers used knives, swords, axes, and daggers to chop and chop and scrape on the golden gate, Scraping a little gold dust from the gate as much as possible, no matter how Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong ordered the retreat, they couldn't stop these crazy soldiers......" Tang Feng's eyes resurfaced the scene of that night, "Some soldiers are holding the Ge kiln plates, Jun kiln bottles, agate necklaces, and Hetian jade pendants that were snatched from the city...... But he kept scraping gold dust from the golden gate with his knife, and finally, Ba Si Pa couldn't bear it anymore and pulled out his knife to hack to death a few soldiers who did not obey orders, which restrained the crazy cowardly Xue army. ”

Everyone listened to Tang Feng's words and kept nodding, and as Tang Feng expected, Han Jiang and Yelena found a few waist knives and daggers in the city gate cave, as well as some scattered beads, all of which confirmed Tang Feng's speculation.

Everyone was busy until late at night, Han Jiang looked at the surrounding environment, pouted and said, "It seems that this is our campsite tonight." ”

"I think this place is very good, full of gold dust, backed by the golden gate, and in this city gate hole, sheltered from the wind and rain, so be it!" Liang Yuan seemed quite satisfied with this.

Tang Feng was not in the mood to rest, he didn't know whether he was excited by new discoveries, or uneasy about the unknown world tomorrow, he walked back and forth in the city gate tower, staring at the golden gate for a while, as if he wanted to penetrate this heavy gate and see the world inside; After a while, he walked out of the city gate and looked at the surrounding dense forest, as if he was worried that the dangerous Kui Jiao would suddenly break out at some point.