Chapter 230: Death Diary
Su Qiubai sat down on the spot and opened the diary.
The previous content is all about the daily trivialities of mountaineering, which may be valuable in the eyes of explorers, but in Su Qiubai's eyes, they are all useless things.
He flipped straight back, and finally got to the point.
"September 23rd, cloudy, north wind, light snow. Today is the third day that we have lost our way, the weather is getting colder and colder, but we can't judge whether the direction we are going in or out of the mountain, the positioning tools are all ineffective, and we can only continue to walk hard. ”
"September 25, cloudy. It's here again, I can't remember the first time I've been back to this place, and it's like we've been going around in circles, and it's like we've fallen under some curse, and we can't leave this place anyway. Komatsu's love is becoming more and more unstable, and I think he may be on the verge of collapse. ”
"September 26, cloudy. Everyone was reluctant to go any further, and all I saw on their faces was a look of despair, and I guess I must have done the same myself. Last night, there was a strange noise outside the tent all night, and we didn't dare to go out to check. Komatsu kept screaming that there was a ghost, that he must have been ill and hallucinating, and that he didn't know how long we could last. ”
The part of the diary ended here, and Su Qiubai turned back a page, but saw a few lines of messy handwriting: "It's coming!" It's here again! We won't be able to hide from it this time! There are ghosts in this place! There really are ghosts! ”
The words seemed to have been written in such a hurry that the hands of the writer must have trembled, and by the time the last sentence was written, the handwriting was already messy and illegible.
It seems that they must have encountered something terrible, Su Qiubai sighed, closed the diary, walked to Xie Zhongyuan's side, and handed the diary to him.
Xie Zhongyuan took the diary and flipped through it. When he saw behind him, the expression on his face changed and changed, and finally it turned into a frightened expression.
"Today is September 22, so it can be seen that the diary was not written this year." Su Qiubai reminded, meaning that those people were indeed not recently deceased.
Xie Zhongyuan looked at the diary in his hand blankly, and asked in a muffled voice: "What year is this year?" ”
"2014." Su Qiubai replied.
The diary in Xie Zhongyuan's hand fell to the ground with a "click", and after a long time, he said in a trembling voice: "I...... When I got separated from my teammates, it was...... ...... 2008"
Su Qiubai originally had doubts in his heart, when he met Xie Zhongyuan, he had just separated from his teammates, but at this time, all kinds of evidence showed that those people had been dead for some years. But he can also conclude that Xie Zhongyuan didn't lie to him, and he is definitely an ordinary living person, so what is going on with this qiē?
Xie Zhongyuan, who was on the side, knelt on the ground, grabbed his hair with both hands, and kept asking himself: "What the hell is going on......
Su Qiubai suddenly thought, could it be that there was something strange in this snowy mountain, and Xie Zhongyuan strayed into something like a space-time tunnel, so he directly traveled from 2008 to the present? And the same thing that killed his teammates because of this weird thing?
Thinking of this, Su Qiubai went to check on the corpses again, but now he made a new discovery.
The corpses all had their mouths wide open, and they looked terrified, as if they had been frightened to death.
This confirms Su Qiubai's conjecture, because what can scare a group of adults to death will never be something like a beast, and there must be something strange in this snowy mountain.
"Let's mourn and change, they have been exposed to the wilderness for so many years, and it is time to bury them." Su Qiubai stepped forward and reminded.
Xie Zhongyuan nodded, tried to restrain his chaotic feelings, and followed Su Qiubai to bury the bodies of several people.
They sorted out the relics of those people, and although the food had expired, it was impossible to spoil in this cold and snowy place, so they unceremoniously packed it all and took it away. In addition, there are a lot of batteries and fuel, Su Qiubai tried it, and it was still usable, so he took it away. They also took away some of the tools they used, and the rest were clothes and the like, originally Xie Zhongyuan also wanted to find some clothes to keep out the cold, who knew that those clothes had been buried in the snow for a long time, and they would break when they were touched, so they had to give up.
After taking care of it, the two left this ominous place.
"Brother Su, you say...... Is there really a ghost in this snowy mountain? Xie Zhongyuan asked, glancing around, as if someone was watching them.
"I'm not sure right now because I don't feel anything. But looking at their experiences, even if they are not ghosts, they are not good, so let's be careful. Su Qiubai replied.
Xie Zhongyuan didn't say anything, but he was muttering in his heart. Could this be avoided with care? If they really encountered something terrible, then he and Su Qiubai would probably not be able to escape now that they had set foot on the realm where the accident occurred. It seems that his life is going to be confessed in this snowy mountain after all.
After walking for a few hours, Su Qiubai felt more and more strange, and there was finally an aura around him that made him feel uneasy, although he couldn't tell what it was, he also knew that he had fallen into a trap.
Sure enough, after walking a short distance, the place where they had left to bury the corpse appeared in front of them again.
Seeing this, Xie Zhongyuan almost knelt on the ground with weak feet, shaking like chaff.
"Ghost ...... There really are ghosts! It's a ghost hitting the wall! Xie Zhongyuan pointed to the tent in front of him and shouted.
"If you shout so loudly, no ghost will be called by you." Su Qiubai said lightly, as if he didn't take this qiē to heart.
Xie Zhongyuan tried his best to restrain his feelings, and whispered in a trembling voice: "Brother Su, what can I do about this?" It seems that we have the same thing as them, are we going to die here too? ”
Su Qiubai couldn't help but glance at him when he saw his unproductive appearance, but after thinking about it, he was just an ordinary person, and it was inevitable to be afraid of this kind of thing, so he didn't say anything to him, but just said: "It's just right to meet you, I'm afraid I won't meet it." ”
Xie Zhongyuan was a little puzzled when he heard this, and looked at Su Qiubai in disbelief, guessing that he wouldn't be like Xiao Song, he would be scared crazy, right?
Su Qiubai ignored him, but walked to the camp and sat down, while taking out the Xuankong Gold Plate from his backpack, pinching the sword technique in his hand, closing his eyes and urging the True Qi, integrating the divine sense with the Xuankong Gold Plate, and exploring the surrounding situation.
Xie Zhongyuan was already dumbfounded on the side, could it be that this guy is still a master who knows spells? Thinking of this, hope suddenly ignited in his heart again, and he didn't dare to disturb Su Qiubai, so he stood quietly and watched, for fear of affecting his "practice".
With the help of the power of the Xuankong Golden Plate, Su Qiubai sensed a strange aura around them, and they seemed to be trapped in an independent space.
Su Qiubai quickly understood that he had accidentally strayed into an ancient formation, although this formation had been laid for an unknown number of years, its power had not diminished at all, and even he, an ancient martial artist whose cultivation was not shallow, did not notice it, and unconsciously walked into the trap.
This array covers a huge range, with Su Qiubai's divine sense, it is impossible to detect its edge, this huge formation origin can even be traced back to ancient times, and it has long been lost, there are only sporadic records in ancient books, but it is not enough for Su Qiubai to crack this array.
As far as he knows, this kind of formation is generally composed of many sub-arrays, and different sub-arrays have different effects, but the main formation is generally used for guarding, so it is not difficult to think that the existence of this formation should be to protect the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum. At the moment, the eye of the array they are trapped in should be used for siege, which is somewhat similar to the so-called ghost hitting the wall, as for what is the thing that scared the expedition to death, Su Qiubai has no clue for the time being.
Thinking of this, Su Qiubai suddenly had a surprise, it was really a nowhere to find the iron shoes, it took no effort to get it, and the information he got from the jade pendant only recorded that Shennong Ding was hidden in the Kunlun Mountains, but the specific location was not recorded, and at this moment, he actually found a sub-array, indicating that he was not far from the emperor's mausoleum, as long as he found a way to break this array, he could find the real way to the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum.
Xie Zhongyuan watched from the side for a long time, and when he saw the expression on Su Qiubai's face, he was surprised and happy for a while, and couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Brother Su, have you thought of a solution?" ”
Su Qiubai came back to his senses at this time, but shook his head honestly and said, "Not yet, but I already have some clues, at least, I know why we are trapped here." ”
Xie Zhongyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Really?" What is the reason? ”
Su Qiubai didn't bother to explain it to him carefully, but said, "You don't understand it." Then he fell into deep thought again.
Xie Zhongyuan knew that "masters" like them always had strange tempers, so it was better not to talk too much, so as not to make him unhappy and throw himself in this ice and snow.
Su Qiubai didn't notice Xie Zhongyuan's careful thoughts, he was just thinking that if he wanted to completely crack this ancient formation, he would have to find out all the sub-formations and crack them one by one. Not to mention how big a project it is, even if it is an easy task, he is unwilling to do it, because if he does that, the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum will lose its strongest protection, and if it is destroyed by future generations, then he will be the culprit. What he did on this trip was just a thing of Shennong Ding, and he did not covet other treasures in the emperor's tomb, and his move was already considered a tomb robbery, and it was against heaven to say it.
Thinking of this, he decided not to destroy this ancient array as much as possible, but to find a way to avoid the protection of the ancient array and find the location of the emperor's tomb, although this is not less than the effort of breaking the formation, but it can make him feel a lot more at ease.