Chapter 37: Approaching the Truth
"Om!"
A loud Buddha sound sounded, and the entire bat swarm was shocked.
"Well!" "What!" "Horn!" Catβs meow! "Huh!"
The six-character mantra is spit out word by word, and every Sanskrit sound is a shock to the bats.
The calls of the bats began to become muffled, and some of the bats began to fly around. On the contrary, Chi Hua and An An's minds were clear, and the tearing pain disappeared.
I saw that the Kampot Lama was more than three meters tall, sitting cross-legged, hands folded, angry eyes, mouth spitting out mantras, and his body was shrouded in Buddha light, like the reincarnation of the Dharma Protector Vajra.
"Boom!" The six-character mantra was sung faster and faster, and the Sanskrit sound became louder and louder, until finally the magnificent Sanskrit sound echoed throughout the cave.
The sound waves of the bat swarm have been completely suppressed by the Sanskrit sound, and the bat swarm has been completely chaotic and rambling around under the reverberation of the Sanskrit sound, and many bats are crackling down.
An An took the opportunity to ignite the raging flames again. Only a small fraction of the bats in the cave flew away, and most of the rest were burned to death in the flames.
I don't know what kind of danger I will face next, I don't care about the dead bats all over the ground, everyone slumps in place to rest. Chi Hua took out a large handful of crystal nuclei for everyone to take the opportunity to recover their abilities.
Ma Qingqiu, who had never used the ability, was the first to recover, "Senior brother, what do you say so many bats usually eat?" How can there be so many little insects in the cave for them to eat? β
Ma Qingqiu reminded him, and Chi Hua suddenly thought of something, and stood up from the ground.
"If we're almost rested, let's go, we'll be at the mouth of the cave soon."
Ma Qingqiu looked at Chi Hua in surprise, "Senior brother, you won't also awaken the ability to foresee, right?" β
Chi Hua laughed, "It's not that you just reminded you, the biological chain in this cave is definitely not able to sustain the food needs of such a large bat colony, and we haven't found bat feces along the way, so there will definitely be an exit not too far from the other side." β
Seeing that the exit was in sight, several people in high spirits set off again.
Perhaps because of the presence of the bat colony, there was no danger in the rest of the trip, except for seeing a few more corpses that had been sucked dry by bats.
After turning another corner in the cave, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, and a beam of light shone into the cave from the outside.
I remember that it was just dark outside when a few people entered the cave, but I didn't expect to walk in the cave all night.
Chi Hua took a few steps to the entrance of the cave, and the scene in front of him completely shocked Chi Hua.
In front of you is a huge basin surrounded by ice peaks on all sides. The entrance of the cave is still nearly 30 meters above the ground, and the iceberg meltwater flowing from the cave flows down the mountain to form a waterfall, and under the waterfall is a small pool of clear water, which flows down a small river towards the depth of the basin.
In the basin is a meadow with abundant pastures, with various wild flowers such as rhododendrons, gastrodia, rhodiola, and reishi lucidum growing all over the place, a few marmots poking their heads out of the meadows, and a few black-necked cranes strolling proudly by the river.
In the distance is a large area of lush coniferous forest, where several white-lipped deer flash away.
Perhaps this is the paradise, the last pure land in the world.
It's just that the owner here is not a human, but a snowman.
In the middle of the basin are tall wooden houses. The wooden house is very simple, with no treatment or decoration on the outside, but is made of natural wood and bark and tied together.
These snowmen can build wooden houses, I am afraid that they can no longer be simply classified as animals, perhaps they are really in the intermediate stage of evolution from apes to humans.
These wooden houses formed a village, and forty or fifty tall snowmen could be seen outside the wooden houses.
The shortest of these snowmen was four or five meters, and Chi Hua even saw more than a dozen snowmen seven or eight meters tall.
The most striking thing in the basin is a tall square stone temple building in the middle of the Yeti village.
The whole building is more than 30 meters high, the whole body is made of gray-white rocks, there is no door in the front of the hall facing the entrance of the cave, and there are eight huge stone pillars with intervals of three meters standing side by side in the front, and the stone pillars are paved with three long stone steps in front of the stone pillars.
The appearance of the whole hall has not been carved or embellished in any way, and the stone pillars in front of the door are eroded and covered with small pits, and the whole hall exudes the atmosphere of ancient and distant years.
Everyone was extremely excited, and the Kampot Lama even knelt down excitedly, kowtowed to the sky, and chanted words in his mouth.
"This is what the climbers call a temple, but who built it?" A question immediately rose in Chi Hua's heart.
Although the architectural form of the temple is simple, the rocks that make up the walls are polished into perfectly rectangular stones, and the stone pillars in front of the door are also polished into cylindrical shapes, Chi Hua suspects that the snowmen do not have the ability to build stone temples at all, after all, the construction technology of the wooden houses and temples they built at will is several or even dozens of centuries behind the snowmen.
If that power really exists, it must be in this temple.
"Senior brother, let's go down!" Ma Qingqiu couldn't help but rush down.
Chi Hua grabbed Ma Qingqiu, "Don't worry, wait a little longer!" β
"Let's rush down, take what's inside and run!"
Chi Hua shook his head firmly, "It's definitely not that simple!" We can't deal with these snowmen just by showing up. The people of the Lan Holy War Army had already entered before us, but they had not yet appeared, and Xiao Ru and Cuicui were nowhere to be found. β
Several people finally decided that Yan Ying sneaked in first, and the others waited at the entrance of the cave.
While waiting, a few bored people quietly looked at the basin below, looking at this paradise-like existence.
But because of the intrusion of outsiders like Chi Hua and them, the last pure land in the world may not exist soon.
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Chi Hua waited for a day at the entrance of the cave, and also watched the daily life of the snowman for a day.
They watched as the little snowman four or five meters tall frolicked and played on the meadow, and even two of them chased them to the edge of the waterhole. But the snowmen seem to be afraid of water, and they don't jump into the water.
They watched as the female snowman handled her prey, skinning and cutting the meat with stone tools, and they had even begun to use flames to roast the meat over the fire.
They saw a male snowman cutting down trees at the edge of the forest, and ten tall snowmen patrolling around the stone hall. These snowmen even had simple weapons in their hands, huge sticks made of bone, and axes made of stone.
While waiting, they even killed a snowman returning from outside and two snowmen who were about to go out hunting through the cave.
Chi Hua now firmly believes that the snowman tribe in front of him is the primitive tribal form of human beings.
It was finally dark.
A huge fire was lit in the clearing in front of the village, and the trees had been cut down by the male snowman during the day.
When the fire was lit, all the snowmen in the village came out.
The meat of the beast was roasted on the fire, and the snowman roared and jumped around the fire, not like some kind of ritual or dance, but the snowman enjoyed it.
Chi Hua roughly counted the number, and couldn't help but gasp, there were one hundred and twenty or thirty snowmen around the fire in his eyes alone.
Although it is impossible to accurately measure the strength of the snowman, the height of about seven meters is basically equivalent to the strength of a human second-order evolutionary, and the snowman with this height in front of him accounts for more than half.
At least more than seventy snowmen with second-order strength, what a terrifying force this is!
If you have an army of snowmen in your hands, I'm afraid you can put an end to the whole situation of the end times, right?
Chi Hua subconsciously shook his head, this was obviously impossible. Not only is it impossible, but perhaps I should think more about how to evade the pursuit of these powerful snowmen when I capture it if that power really exists.
"Brother Hua, look, there!" An An showed Chi Hua with her finger.
At first, Chi Hua didn't see anything unusual, and looked carefully at the position of An An's finger again, and Chi Hua finally found Xiao Ru's figure.
In a group of giants, Xiaoru, the little girl, didn't even reach the height of the snowman's knees, and she couldn't see it at all if she didn't look down.
The little girl was not only not injured at all, but was eating without heart and lungs, and she looked very happy. I was worried about her in vain.
Chi Hua looked around again, but did not see Cuicui's shadow. But if you think about it, in the eyes of the snowman, Cuicui is a bird, and it will say that those two words are no different from the bird's call to the snowman, right? It's a blessing that the snowman didn't roast it on the fire.
"Let's go, let's go down!" Xiaoru is already safe, and Chi Hua is not ready to continue waiting.
Ma Qingqiu rubbed his palms with excitement on his face, he had been itching in his heart for a day, curious about what kind of secrets were hidden in the stone hall?
Chi Hua grabbed Ma Qingqiu's arm again, "You are the worst in this situation, if there is any accident, don't care about me, run away immediately, run to the cave, if you fall into the hands of the snowman, I can't save you." β
Ma Qingqiu nodded in frustration.
Chi Hua looked at the others again, especially An An, it was obvious that his words were addressed to everyone.
There has never been a power in the world that is easy to obtain, and no one can predict what kind of danger is hidden in the temple? Even the strength of these snowmen outside is more than ten times the strength of Chi Hua's small team.
There are several thick vines that grow right near the cave, and the snowman climbs these vines to get in and out of the cave every day, and several people follow the vines down the vines.
"Follow me." As soon as Chi Hua landed, the voice of the swallow warbler sounded in his ears.
The bird's nest warbler, who had been wandering around the basin for a day, had already found a route.
Several people followed the swallow warbler closely and circled around the side of the village in a small arc.
A few people sneaked around in the dark, flying fast, and soon approached the outskirts of the village.
Because there was no invasion by foreign enemies, no snowman guards or patrols, the whole village was completely undefended. But with the exception of the temple, ten snowmen over eight meters tall have been guarding the temple all the time, unmoved by the bustle in front of the fire.
Chi Hua and the others slowly sneaked into the village, bypassing the snowmen who were cheering around the fire, and gradually approached the gate of the temple little by little.
Chi Hua's heart beat violently, one step further, one step further, the secret is in front of him, and the real thought is in front of him......