"Ahh

When he tried to lift his head and look at Angu in front of him, he suddenly felt his whole body begin to fall sharply, and he knew that the slope below had become steeper, and his newly opened mouth had to be closed due to the speed of the wind, and the whole person fell straight down.

The moment he fell, he felt his body rise again, and then he actually broke away from the ice path.

In mid-air, the torture technique tried to turn his head to look, and found that even Jiuqi and Modui Bridge behind him also flew up, and what was even more terrifying was that the snowflakes floating in the air turned into snow balls one by one because of the strong wind, and smashed on their bodies mercilessly.

When Xingshu's body slammed into the ice path again, he felt that his heart was beating, his head was also dizzy, his eyes suddenly turned black, and his whole person lost consciousness.

"Bang-" After a muffled sound, the torture technique in a trance realized that his body had stopped, and then heard two muffled sounds in a row, although his mind became not very clear, but he also knew that even Jiuqi and Moduqiao had landed safely.

Angu stood up from the ice pit suddenly, looked around, and then slowly walked to Xingju, knelt down, touched Xingshu's chest with his hand, slapped his face again and said, "It's okay, you're still alive, get up slowly, don't be too anxious, we're safe." ”

After saying that, Angu went to check Lian Jiuqi and Modui Bridge again, and after making sure that everyone was okay, he sat on the ground, gasping for breath, and then laughed stupidly, and said something that made Xingshu and the others afraid: "I didn't expect it to be so exciting to slide in the ice tunnel." ”

Torture, Lian Jiuqi, and Mo Dui Qiao raised their heads at the same time to look at Angu, and Torture asked, "What?" You haven't slipped before? ”

Instead, Angu looked at them with strange eyes: "Isn't this nonsense? If the people in the tribe are not in a hurry, they will not slide back through the ice road, it is too dangerous! ”

"Holy!" "If I had any bullets, I swear, I'd kill you with one shot!" ”

Lian Jiuqi sat there, shook his head and said, "Next time before you propose, I must ask you if you have done that, otherwise, I will not listen to your suggestion again!" ”

Angu raised his hand to signal them not to speak, and then slowly walked to the edge of the ice pit himself, looking up at it, listening carefully.

Xingshu got up, walked to Angu's side, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's weird, it seems like there's really no one." Angu frowned, wiping the snowflakes and frost from his face with his hands, "It's impossible, even if it's the hunting period, they can't all leave the tribe, let's go up and have a look." ”

Angu picked up the ice axe, and with the help of torture, slowly climbed out of the ice pit that was more than four meters deep, and after all four of them climbed up, Angu squatted down and motioned for them to move slowly along the house, because the snowstorm was so great that the visibility became almost zero, and even those who were close at hand, if they didn't get close, couldn't tell who it was.

Angu walked for a while, and the torture technique that followed him grabbed him and said, "We're going in the wrong direction, you see, the Sanctuary is over there." ”

Torture pointed to the flickering ice tower towering in the wind and snow, but Angu shook his head and said, "I'm going back to see my master!" ”

After Angu finished speaking, he grabbed the wrist of the torture technique and said in a pleading tone: "My master is the only one in the tribe who is good to me, I have to go and see if he is okay." ”

Xingshu nodded, turned to look at Lian Jiuqi and Mo Duanqiao, and said, "Let's accompany Angu to find his master first, and then go to the Holy Hall to find the Sealing Sword." ”

Lian Jiuqi pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that the night will be long and dreamy, so you accompany Angu to find his master, and Dusk Bridge and I will go to the Holy Hall to find the Sealed Soul Knife!" ”

"It's fine." Torture thought it was a good idea, "After you find it, you will stay near the Sanctuary and wait for us?" ”

"No way!" Ink Twilight Bridge shook his head and looked up at the wind and snow in the sky, "The wind and snow are too big, there is no place for the Templar Ice Tower, we will be frozen to death, or we will meet near that reservoir." ”

Torture gave a thumbs up: "Okay, see you later, you guys pay attention to safety!" ”

Ink Twilight Bridge and even Jiuqi gave a thumbs up, then turned and walked in the direction of the Sanctuary, and soon disappeared into the cold wind and snow.

Torture followed Angu through the snow with difficulty, and after walking for a while, Torture suddenly remembered something, grabbed Angu again, and asked, "Didn't you say that the witch doctor's residence is not far from the Holy Temple?" Why are we getting farther and farther away from the church? ”

Angu pointed ahead: "It's just in front, at this time, what am I lying to you about, I'm not far away, that refers to when there is no wind and snow, at this time the wind and snow are so big, it takes five times as long as usual to walk over." ”

Torture tried to look ahead, but could only make out a few large igloos in front of him, so he had to pat Angu on the shoulder and let him continue to lead the way.

When Angu walked up to one of the igloos, he banged the door that was almost blocked by snow, calling out to the people inside, but there was no movement in the room. The torture technique motioned for Angu to get out of the way, and then hit the door with his body, and after hitting it more than ten times, he finally knocked the door open, and the torture technique lost its center of gravity because it was too hard, and the whole person fell in.

While struggling to get up from the ground, he turned on the headlamp and shoulder lamp to illuminate the strange igloo he was in, only to find that most of the entire igloo was neatly placed with skulls that looked strange but not human, and countless dried herbs were hanging on the roof, and there were animal skin cushions on the ground in the corner, like a bed.

"Torture, come and help me!" Angu lifted the door that had been knocked open, trying to block the door to block the wind and snow that was constantly blowing in, and the torture technique immediately stepped forward to help, and lifted the door with Anko.

Angu moved another table and stuck the door in the doorway again, then turned on the flashlight, and while looking for it in the room, he shouted, "Master, I'm Angu, I'm back!" Where are you? Master? ”

No one answered, and the torture technique, who had rested for a while, stepped forward and said with a flashlight: "Don't shout, this room is not big, you can see at a glance that there is no one here, and there is no trace of a fight, which means that the tribe has not been attacked, and the people in the tribe have not left in a panic." ”

Angu thought for a moment, and ran to the corner of the room, trying to push the huge iron cabinet.

The torturer stepped forward and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Angu said: "There are tunnels below, and most of the houses in the tribe are connected with each other, and in the event of a sudden attack, the old and weak women and children can hide in the tunnels, so that the soldiers can kill the enemy with peace of mind." ”

Torture pushed down the iron cabinet, and found that the weight of the cabinet far exceeded his expectations, and the iron cabinet turned out to be molded at one time, not pieced together, and it was impossible for this tribe to have welding technology, but where did this tribe get this kind of pig iron cabinet made of molds?

After observing the torture technique for a while, he moved the cabinet out of the corner of the wall with Anko, removing a gap large enough for him to stand in, and then he squeezed in again, and pushed the cabinet directly to the ground.

Angu immediately lay on the ground, groped in the corner of the wall, grabbed an iron chain out of the gap, and dragged the iron chain with the torture technique, and after the iron plate with the iron chain was removed, the entrance to the tunnel appeared in front of the two of them.

Angu immediately rushed to the entrance of the tunnel, and just as he was about to shout below, a crossbow arrow shot out directly, grazing Angu's forehead and stabbing directly into the top of the igloo, so frightened that Angu sat on the ground.

Torture motioned for Angu to take his time, and he stood a little far away from the entrance of the tunnel, and did not move forward, but he clearly heard the man in the tunnel reloading the crossbow with arrows.

"Master, I'm Angu! It's me! Angu stood at the entrance of the tunnel and shouted, "Don't shoot arrows, it's me, it's me!" ”

Angu shouted in the tribal language, and after a while, Xingshu heard someone in the tunnel say something in the same language, and Angu immediately responded happily, and then, an old man with unkempt hair and a crossbow in his hand came out, but the moment the old man saw the torture, he raised the crossbow again, and the torture immediately dodged and hid behind the iron cabinet.

The torture technique noticed that Master Angu's body was not very strong, nor was it too tall, and it was very different from the figure of the nomads.

Angu pressed the crossbow in his master's hand: "Master, he is not an enemy, this foreigner saved my life." ”

Angu's master watched the torture slowly come out of the iron cabinet, and with hostility in his eyes, he put the crossbow on the ground for a long time, and climbed out with the help of Angu.

Angu hurriedly asked, "Master, what about the rest of the tribe?" Are they all in the tunnels? ”

Master Angu nodded: "There are more than ninety people left, all of them are old and weak, women and children, and the young and middle-aged people in the tribe have left along with the warriors of the Iron Eagle Tribe. ”

The torture technique next to him couldn't understand what they were talking about, so he had to lean against the iron cabinet and wait, waiting for Angu to find out the reason before repeating it to himself, and at the same time worried about the safety of Lian Jiuqi and Moduqiao.

Besides, Lian Jiuqi and Mo Dusk Bridge, who had already walked to the temple, approached the temple and shone it in with a flashlight, they didn't need to look carefully at all, and they saw the sealing knife placed in the center of the ice tower, and the blade was surrounded by a thick layer of ice, but it could still be recognized at a glance through the strong light of the flashlight, and its appearance was exactly the same as the sealing knife on the painting of the Ural Khan tribe.

Even Jiuqi and Mo Duqiao looked around in circles for a while, but neither of them moved to pick it up, because from experience, they knew that the simpler something was, the greater the danger brought by the environment around it.

Lian Jiuqi motioned for Murray Bridge to exit the Sanctuary and stand behind the icicles outside the Sanctuary, while reaching out and taking Ink Twilight's backpack and carrying it in front of him, so that if there was a frontal danger, the backpack could also help him resist some basic damage.

Lian Jiuqi paid attention to his feet, and did not recklessly step on the circular stairs under the knife stand, but walked slowly around, observing the Sanctuary four times, and finally Lian Jiuqi found a circle of black things at the top of the ice tower, and the color of that thing was obviously much darker than the color of the entire ice tower itself.

Lian Jiuqi raised his hand and looked at the edge of the ice tower, looked at it for a long time, and finally confirmed: "Dusk Bridge, it's miserable, there is an iron bell on top of the ice tower." ”

Mo Duqiao was shocked: "What? Iron Bell? ”

Mo Duqiao immediately raised his flashlight and looked at it, and after looking at it for a while, he nodded: "It's really an iron bell, that is to say, if we recklessly pick up the Sealing Sword, the moment we pick it up, the iron bell on it will fall down directly, and we will be locked inside." ”

"Yes." Lian Jiuqi frowned and said, "It's over, this kind of mechanism is basically incomprehensible, to put it simply, the weight of the stone platform under the knife frame can only be heavy, not light." ”

Mo Duqiao observed: "Yes, if it is only to bear the standard weight, the layer of ice on the outside of the blade has long exceeded the original weight of the blade, but the mechanism has not been activated, then it means that it can only be heavy, not light, so let's go find some ice cubes and press them on the stone platform under the knife holder." ”

"Nope." Lian Jiuqi shook his head and said, "The stone platform is too narrow, the surrounding area that allows us to put down the ice cubes is not large, and we don't know the weight of the Sealing Knife itself, according to the weight of the official knife in the Tang Dynasty, the average weight is about 4 catties, but I look at the volume of the Sealing Blade, it is estimated that it should be about 6 catties, but it is only an estimate." ”

Mo Duqiao asked, "What then?" ”

"I don't know." Lian Jiuqi shook his head and said, "Let me think about it again, let's go, let's find a place where we can shelter from the wind." ”

Murwilight looked around, pointing to the only igloo that could be seen clearly within visual distance, "Go there." ”

While the two of them hid in the igloo to avoid the wind and find a way, the witch doctor in the igloo not far away actually learned from Angu's retelling that this tribe had suffered a catastrophe just yesterday - the tribe was attacked by a mountain demon!

"Mountain Demon?" Torture was stunned for a moment, "Is there really such a thing as a mountain demon in the Altai Mountains?" Is it an animal? ”

Angu glanced at the master who was sitting next to him with some kind of medicine, and said, "It's a monster." ”

Of course, the torture technique didn't believe it: ", where are there any monsters in this world, I also witnessed zombies when I went to Xiangxi, and later found out that it wasn't at all, it was a person who took a drug and became a walking corpse." ”

Angu hurriedly said: "In a sense, aren't zombies also human? ”

The torture slowed down and asked, "What the hell is going on?" You make it clear. ”

Angu glanced at the master again, the master looked at the torture technique, nodded at him, and then Angu said: "At the beginning of the hunting period a few days ago, the warriors of the Iron Eagle Department left the tribe and went to the other side of the mountain range to explore the terrain and prey. ”

Torture asked, "Probe?" You were born and raised here, aren't you familiar with your surroundings? ”

Angu shook his head: "You don't understand, this is a snowy mountain, once a snowstorm hits, or an avalanche occurs, the terrain will change dramatically, and those prey in the mountains will also migrate according to the changes in the terrain, during the hunting period we mainly hunt beasts, basically bears and snow wolves, the size of snow wolves is larger than the steppe wolf, a wolf, enough for a family to eat for a long time, we generally do not hunt snow deer, because snow deer is the food of bears and snow wolves, once the number of snow deer decreases, Bears and snow wolves will starve to death in large numbers, and in the end, it will be us who are unlucky. ”

"Understood." Torture nodded, "You know how to maintain your own living environment better than people who live in cities. ”

Angu's face looked ugly: "But after the warriors of the Iron Eagle Department went out, they met the mountain demons, not far from the tribe, those mountain demons seemed to know that they would leave the tribe, and set up an ambush there, if it weren't for the golden eagle of the Iron Eagle tribe warriors who found the mountain demon ambushed in the snow, I'm afraid the number of casualties would have doubled......"

The warriors of the Iron Eagle Department are good at attacking from a distance, that is, they are good at riding and shooting, and it is a snow horse shooting, they call this kind of riding and archery "wind arrow", in other words, it is to find the upper hand, with the wind and the pull of the bow and arrow itself, to improve the speed and strength of the feather arrow, there was once a warrior of the Iron Eagle Department in a hundred meters away, with the wind arrow directly penetrated an adult snow bear.

After discovering the ambush of the mountain demon, the warriors of the Iron Eagle Department immediately deployed, first notifying the young and middle-aged people in the tribe who were preparing to go out to hunt to defend the tribe, and on the other hand, they began to divide the troops into three ways, the first way pretended to enter the ambush circle of the mountain demon, and the other two roads directly bypassed outside the ambush circle, sneaking up on the mountain demon preparing to ambush them.

"The anti-ambush went well, the first battle completely defeated the mountain demons, only a few of the mountain demons fled into the mountains, most of them were killed by the soldiers of the Iron Eagle Department, but something terrible happened, just that night, those soldiers of the Iron Eagle Department who participated in the battle began to die one by one, and when my master helped them heal, I learned that they were all poisoned, a kind of poison that even my master didn't know what it was." Angu said, pointing to the skulls around him, "You see, these skulls are the skulls of the mountain demons, and every time we kill the mountain demons, we cut off their heads as trophies, and some of them even make skull cups. ”

Hearing this, Xingshu subconsciously said, "How can you have the custom of Cypriots here?" ”

Angu nodded: "After I left the tribe, I also checked this point, and found that we have many customs that are the same as those of the Cypriots. ”

"The ancient Greek historian Herodotus once recorded in his book "History" that the Cypriots would remove the hair and scalp from the heads of the enemy, remove the flesh attached to the scalp with the ribs of the ox, rub the scalp with both hands to make it soft and become a handkerchief, cut off the part under the eyebrows, clean up the inside, and wrap the skin on the outside." Xingshu looked at the skull placed next to him, "The poor can be used as a skull cup to drink, and the rich will use gold to decorate the skull cup to entertain distinguished guests, but this custom later became the habit of some Xiongnu tribes, and even spread to some Khitan tribes later." ”

Angu said: "The mountain demon also has the habit of making the enemy's skull into a skull cup, and our people have searched it out of the mountain demon's body. ”

The torturer asked, "And then?" Are all the warriors of the Iron Eagle Department dead? ”

"Most of them died, they died miserably, constantly scratching their bodies with their hands, stripping naked and rolling in the snow." Angu sighed, "Although I wasn't at the scene, just listening to my master's narration, I can imagine how terrifying that scene was at that time. 2k reading network