Volume 3 The Silver City of the Dome Chapter 5 The Jade Skull
I took the map handed over by Liam and carefully discerned it, and it seemed that the location of the eyes we saw in the ghost lake confirmed the location of the snow-capped mountains of the Dome Silver City.
I said, "Then how can I find the Dome Silver City?" β
Liam sighed, shook his head and said, "We have just entered the Snow Mountain, and we have lost more than half of the people, and now it seems that it is difficult to find the Qionglong Silver City, whether we can get out of the Snow Mountain." β
We found shelter from the wind, and I asked, "What happened to you last night?" β
As soon as Liam heard me ask about yesterday, his face returned to nervousness, and he said, "My God, I swear this is the most bizarre thing I've ever encountered in my life." β
I wondered, "What is this bizarre thing?" β
Liam said, "Do you believe there are dragons in this world?" β
This stopped me upside down, you said no, there are many legends about the dragon in Youshui River for generations, but you say yes, anyway, I haven't seen it.
But there were many things I hadn't seen, and then it was decades later, and we went to Japan, and when we arrived in Osaka, a Japanese friend told us that we must go to Zuiryuji Temple.
When I asked why, he said that there was a specimen of a real dragon there, which was bought by the Japanese at a port in Fujian in our country and sent back to Japan when Guangxu was in the fourth year of Guangxu.
But at this time, of course, I didn't know yet, and I asked, "You... What do you see as a dragon?? β
Liam nodded and said, "After we entered the mountain yesterday, the wind and snow were so great that our Indian guides were lost, and we finally found a place with a little leeward of the depression to set up camp.
Everything went well, we lit a campfire, drank hot tea and coffee, ate some dry food, this high altitude place, it would have been extremely difficult to fall asleep, but fortunately we have been to Tibet many times, and yesterday we were too tired from walking during the day, so we quickly fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, I was suddenly woken up by a shout, I opened my eyes and saw that the tent had collapsed, we were wrapped in the tent, I thought it was an avalanche, jumped out of the sleeping bag and got out of the tent.
As soon as I rushed into the snow, the gunshots rang out, and I knew that we had been attacked, which made me feel very strange, the only thing we met in the mountain pass was you, and I thought it was you at first... You are. β
Liam smiled sheepishly and continued, "I pulled out my pistol, took my flashlight, and ran towards the place where the gunfire sounded. I saw two of our team members shooting into the snow. I asked aloud what was going on, and the two men seemed to be frightened by something, and were already in a state of madness, and they didn't hear me shouting at all.
At this moment, suddenly a behemoth monster rushed out of the snow, this monster is like a snake-like torso, the claws are short and strong, the body should be more than ten meters, the action is extremely fast, only a flash, it came to a team member, a bite down, directly the poor guy's front, he was swallowed into the air, I watched in horror this guy is still struggling in the air, hands and feet dance, the monster swung his head, and threw him down from the air, falling into the far snow, The man struggled a few times before moving.
The other team member was already at a loss by that scene.,I haven't reacted yet.,The monster has disappeared into the snow again.,Suddenly the monster rushed out of another place in the snow.,Again.,Dragged a team member into the snow.,When the monster reappeared.,Thatγγγ My God... The team member was only half of his body left.
I had forgotten to shoot, and I stood there stupidly, watching the people and horses around me completely messed up by this monster, and I was already in despair. Thinking that today we may all have to die in this snowy mountain.
Unexpectedly, after a while, it is estimated that the monster has finished venting, and suddenly disappeared into the snow, and disappeared, I don't know how long I have been standing in the snow at this time, I only feel that my body has been completely stiff, I only feel that it is dark in front of me, and I fell in the snow, but fortunately, at this time, a member of the team ran over tremblingly and helped me up.
We didn't dare to stay anywhere, we couldn't even bring more equipment and supplies, so a few people ran up the mountain with the help of a few people. We didn't stop until we were in the middle of the rocks we encountered. β
I asked, "Then why are you shooting at us in the midst of that rock?" β
Liam smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The first time I saw you, I guess you hid all your spears, and today I didn't feel that things were a bit serious until I saw through the telescope behind the rocks that you were all carrying the latest Lee Enfield rifles, and at that time I had roughly judged that you and we both had the same purpose."
I so. So I decided to drive you away, who knew that as soon as we came into contact, your marksmanship was obviously not what ordinary people should have, which greatly surprised us. β
Speaking of which, the next thing is a high-altitude conflict that everyone experiences together.
Liam asked curiously, "I'm curious to know, how do you know the secret of this snowy mountain?" Did you find the map or what? β
I hid the secret about the dzi, starting with the ghost lake, and then how to find out that the location of the eye is the location of this snow-capped mountain, and briefly explained it to Liam, and this guy was also amazed.
I looked at the sky and said, "It's not early, we have to take advantage of the fact that the wind is a little lighter now, and quickly find the entrance, otherwise when the sky gets dark, the wind will be strong again." β
Liam also felt that it made sense, nodded and was about to stand up.
On Tuesday, Mao suddenly said: "Since it is talking about cooperation, my brothers still settle accounts, not to mention that we only started to cooperate halfway, then we have to make the cooperation clear first, and find how to divide things." β
On Tuesday, Mao looked at this matter more closely, and he didn't have a word yet, so he set the rules first.
Liam said, "I only have one thing, and everything else belongs to you." β
I thought to myself: "I didn't expect to meet another ghost and eight immortals here?" β
I asked, "What are you looking for?" β
Liam hesitated, then pulled out a yellowed torn book from his bag, flipped to a page, showed it to me, and said, "All I need is this." β
I took the book and looked at the page with a skull drawn on it, and the strangest thing was that there was an eye socket in the middle of the skull. There is also a symbol on the forehead that we can't read, and the skull is marked next to it in Tibetan.
I was taken aback and said, "This, is this Erlang God?" β
Liam shook his head and smiled: "This is not the Erlang God in your mythology, although the Erlang God is also three-eyed, but it is a myth and legend after all, this matter is a long story, my father is a doctor, he used to work for the East India Company, and later after the East India Company closed, he opened a clinic in Mumbai."
Decades ago, when he was young, a monastery brought a lama from Tibet to India to give lectures, and this lama had a serious heart condition, but fortunately my father rescued him in time.
After going back and forth, the two became good friends, and one day when they were chatting, they talked about the kingdom of Zhangzhung, which aroused my father's great interest, and the lama told my father everything he knew about myths and truths.
Before the lama returned to Tibet, he gave my father a book about the kingdom of Zhangzhung, which was actually a book of songs, but there was an interesting story about it, which was this very strange skull.
It is said that in the Dome Silver City, there is a skull, this skull also has some origin, legend has it that this is the skull of a king of the Zhangzhung Kingdom called Mu Chi, this king is said to have three eyes, he experienced an incident in his old age, a son of an enemy of his youth came to assassinate him.
The man quietly infiltrated the Dome Silver City, when Mu Chi was lying on the bed sleeping, this assassin held a copper hammer and hit Mu Chi's head, originally thought that one blow would kill, who knows, Mu Chi's head actually made a crisp sound, as if knocking on the rock.
Mu Chi sat up in fright, he looked at the assassin and said, "Because I have been taking a magic medicine on the snowy mountain for a long time, my skull has become like jade, how can you kill me?" β
Later, after Mu Chi asked about the identity of the assassin, he actually let the assassin go.
Later, after Mu Chi's death, Mu Chi's son succeeded to the throne and placed his father's skull in a secret place in the Dome Silver City to keep it as a memorial.
My father was very fond of collecting interesting oriental objects, so he wanted to find this skull. Who knows that he has been looking for decades, before and after many times in Tibet, but did not find this Dome Silver City, and then my father told me the secret before his death, I have also come to Tibet many times, but still a few years ago by chance, I actually bought the specific location of this Dome Silver City from a lama in Lhasa, so I had this trip to the Snow Mountain.