Volume 3 Snow Mountain Ice Palace Chapter 286 The Disappearing Ice Palace
Poplar had no choice but to put down the man's body.
But he heard the sound of footsteps, and the iron bull ran over.
"Did the man catch up? you just fired the gun?" asked Poplar.
"I didn't shoot it!" Iron Bull's reply surprised Poplar, "I chased the man to a bend in the mountain, and first heard two gunshots. When I went around the bend, I saw the man fall to the ground, and it seemed that someone had shot him before I could catch up with him. There was a glacier nearby, and I searched for a long time, but I couldn't find where the man who shot him was hiding. ”
As he spoke, he looked at the two bodies lying on the ground and asked, "Are these two dead too?"
Bai Yang shook his head with a wry smile and said, "You're right, let's take every precaution, someone still went to the Snow God Palace while we were sleeping at night!"
Tie Niu was shocked and asked again: "Then have you figured out the identities of these people?"
"No!" Poplar shook his head with a wry smile, "one of them was already dead when the snowman left, and the other was too badly injured to be very clear-headed, he just said...... The Snow God Palace collapsed, and everyone died, but why the Snow God Palace stepped on it, he couldn't explain clearly!"
"Then they must have smashed the stone box, Wang Jiutang warned that once the stone box was smashed, the entire ice palace would collapse! These people either didn't see this warning, or they just didn't take this warning seriously!" Tie Niu said.
Poplar shook his head and said, "No, the man said, they didn't smash the stone box!"
"Then why did the Snow God Palace collapse?" Iron Bull asked.
"I don't know, but he couldn't make it clear!" replied Poplar.
"Then let's go to the Snow God Palace and have a look!" said Tie Niu.
Poplar thought that if the Snow God Palace really collapsed, it would be in vain to go to the Snow God Palace to see it now.
But it's always reassuring not to go and see, and thinking that Young Xuehu didn't go with him, and they couldn't pass through the stalactite forest where the transparent snake was hidden, so he thought about it and said: "I definitely want to go and see, but there is still that kind of poisonous and poisonous snow-capped transparent snake in that underground palace, we have to take a little precaution before we can go!"
"What precautions?" Iron Bull asked again.
"Transparent snakes are afraid of fire, let's at least prepare a few special torches!"
Tie Niu scratched his scalp and said, "I still have a torch in my backpack that is useless! I think we might as well shout loudly, if we can attract Yuxuehu, it will be much more effective than torches or something!"
"It's okay, but there's not much hope! After all, the snow mountain is so big, who knows where Xue Amber is now!"
"It's always okay to try!" said Iron Bull, shouting as he let out his voice.
After calling for a long time, his voice was almost hoarse, and there was no trace of Youxue Amber.
"I don't think it's better to scream! If Yuyuki is nearby, Yuyukihu should have appeared when I was fighting the snowman just now!"
Tie Niu had no choice but to shut up, and the two of them searched the two men in black again, but could not find anything that could prove the identity of the men in black.
And those two people didn't even have backpacks on them, it is estimated that when the ice palace collapsed, although these people desperately escaped, the backpacks and other things were left in the ice palace.
Bai Yang considered going down the mountain to prepare a special torch, and he would not be able to go up the mountain again until the day after tomorrow at the earliest, and he and the Iron Bull each had a special torch in their backpacks, so they simply went to the Snow God Palace today to have a look, in case they encountered a transparent snake, with two torches, they should be able to get out.
As soon as he thought about it, he left the corpses of the two black-clothed men with Tie Niu, walked through the ice lake to the bottom of the glacier, and found the ice crack he had walked through.
Just about to enter inside, he suddenly heard two calls of "swooping", Poplar Iron Bull was overjoyed, Fang looked back, there were already two white shadows flying vertically, and directly pounced into Poplar Iron Bull's arms.
I haven't seen each other for more than half a month, it seems that not only the poplar iron cow misses these two little cuties, but the two young snow amber and the two fluffy little heads go straight into the arms of the poplar iron cow, which also shows extra affection.
With the company of the two young snow ambers, Poplar Tieniu's heart suddenly became much more steady.
The two of them each held a young snow amber and went into the ice crack until they reached the end to another horizontal ice crevasse.
There was a rope ladder hanging in the crack in the ice, and one end of the rope ladder was firmly fixed with several ice drills.
It seems that the black-clad masked men were not only numerous, but also had a lot of equipment, so they hung up the rope ladder instead of using the rope directly.
It's just that an accident happened later, and a few people who barely escaped were too panicked, so they didn't care about taking the rope ladder away.
The poplar iron ox went down the rope ladder, only to see that the thin layer of ice that was originally covered on the blue brick ground below was smashed and scattered, and it was obvious that the equipment brought down by this group was not light.
"Poplar, you say...... Wouldn't this group have brought some machinery with them, would they?, or else how could the ground be so messy?" said Iron Bull.
Poplar frowned, but he couldn't say anything.
Seeing that there was also a rope ladder hanging in the crack in the ground, Poplar went down the rope ladder without saying a word. The Iron Bull followed. The two young snow amber flew directly in.
After that, the two of them hugged Youxue Hu, and according to the principle of "walking along and walking backwards", they found the slide down, and then followed the slide to the cave full of stalactites.
The first thing I saw was a corpse lying on the ground, also dressed in black, with a black scarf covering his face. When the face towel was lifted, the corpse's face turned blue, as if it had frozen to death.
But he certainly didn't freeze to death, and based on the experience of the Poplar Iron Bull, he must have been bitten to death by a transparent snake.
The strange thing was that there was actually a pair of equipment thrown by the man's side, and Poplar Iron Bull could see at a glance that it was a pair of flamethrowers. A few months ago, next to the terracotta pit, in order to deal with corpse insects, Poplar Iron Bull once saw two armed police soldiers use it.
"Flamethrowers? These people actually have flamethrowers! It seems that they already knew that there were transparent snakes in this stalactite forest, so they used the flamethrowers to drive away the transparent snakes!" Iron Bull said, turning his head to look at the poplars, "but why do they know about this situation? and...... How could an ordinary inverted fighter get his hands on a flamethrower? Poplar, do you think...... Could it be...... I always felt that they weren't good people! And with their status and financial resources, they could get even better equipment!"
Bai Yang actually had the same idea in his heart, but remembering Ding Sicheng's words before, he could only shake his head and said, "Without evidence, we can't talk nonsense! After all, ...... The two Chu bosses have indeed given a lot of funding to our country's archaeological cause!"
"I think the reason why they funded us was to get the elixir of immortality! Chu Changjiang also went to the Black Desert Celestial Elephant Country with us for this before, and now Chu Mingyu is like this again!" Tie Niu was indignant.
Bai Yang had a thought in his heart, feeling that although Chu Changjiang was full of interest in immortal medicine and immortal medicine list, compared to Chu Mingyu, Chu Changjiang acted much more openly.
Of course, this is just a feeling on his part, so naturally he won't say it to Tie Niu, but instead changed the topic and said with a wry smile: "Fortunately, we have two little cuties with us, otherwise these people would even use a flamethrower, and one of them would still die, and we can't block the attack of the transparent snake with just a few torches!"
Tie Niu nodded again and again, and couldn't help but bow his head and kiss the top of the hairy head of the young Xue Amber in his arms.
With Youxue Amber following, knowing that the transparent snake did not dare to appear, the two of them boldly walked through the stalactite forest and arrived at the edge of the cave.
Originally, after passing through the cave, you could directly enter the core hall of the Snow God Palace, but at a glance, Bai Yang couldn't help but be depressed. Tie Niu scolded directly.
The Snow God Palace, which was like a divine palace, was now gone, and in front of the Poplar Iron Bull, only large ice blocks were left piled up.
There was also a man in black pressed under the ice, the upper half of the man in black had already entered the cave, but the lower half of his body was smashed by the ice, and the red blood was solidified between the crystal clear ice blocks, which actually showed a tragic beauty.
And through the ice, you can also see two red and black shadows inside, and it should be that he barely escaped to the edge of the ice palace, but the result was still the man in black who was smashed into flesh by the collapsed ice palace.
As for how many more men in black are further inside, it's hard to speculate.
It is conceivable that the speed at which the Ice Palace collapsed was very fast, and the three people they met were able to barely escape, except that the skills of those three people were definitely faster than the other black-clothed people, and it was likely that when the Ice Palace collapsed, they were already standing close to the edge of the Ice Palace.
But who shot and killed the last man in black? Did he ever enter the Snow God Palace?
If this matter is really related to Chu Mingyu, then did Chu Mingyu and Jack go with this group of men in black?
If so, did they escape the ice palace? Could they have been crushed under the ice as well?
Questions piled up in Poplar's heart, but he couldn't speak out and discuss them with Tie Niu.
(See Chapter 287 "Unspeakable")