"He said that if we don't lie, we don't need to dig deeper, but if we don't have the people here to lead the way, it shouldn't be easy for us to find a freezing-free lake alone." Kate was a little worried.

I don't like the cold weather here, and Xiaoling is an ordinary person now.

"I didn't have much hope, remember what the old man said? Our destination is the top of the mountain, and we may find some clues on the way. ”

"Then Xiaoling, you can sleep well first, I'll take care of it."

"Hmm."

The other side.

"If they want to go up the mountain, I'll let them go up, and if something really happens to them on the mountain, it doesn't matter to us." Denis said to Will.

"That's fine, then that's all we said, we'll give you instructions when we need to meet."

"Are you going to leave now? It's dark outside, and I'll see you leave tomorrow. Denis asked Will, who stood up.

"It's fine. I'll go again when they're gone. ”

Early the next morning. The weather was fine.

"It's rare that today is a good day, it seems that the sky is helping the two of you." Denis saw that the two were dressed and said goodbye to him.

"Yes, we also want to thank you for giving us these climbing tools." Ling carried the rope and ice drill that Denis's men had brought on her back.

"Auntie, thank you for your breakfast, now I feel much more energetic, by the way, I see that you are also an old man here, I don't know if you know where there is an unfrozen lake on this mountain?" Kate takes advantage of the gap between Ling and Denis to take a break to her and pull an older woman to let off her charm.

"Don't freeze the lake, you know, you go up from here to the top of the mountain, do you see that black place on the mountain? It's a hole, and you just have to walk through the hole and up a little bit to get there, and I used to go up there when I was a child. The woman was overjoyed by Kate's fascination, and pulled Kate to point to a place on the snowy mountain that was darker than the surrounding area.

"Thank you so much." Kate was heartily happy and kissed the woman on the cheek.

When he returned to Ling's side, he saw that Ling was about to look for him.

"I went to make it easier. Shall we go now? Kate asked.

"Mayor, let's go."

"Be careful on the road."

The two waved goodbye to Denis.

It wasn't until she couldn't see the third area that Kate excitedly showed off to Ling.

"I asked where the ice-free lake was."

Ling knew that Kate was not as simple as going for convenience.

"You asked?"

"Who am I, just exude my charm casually, and I can capture the hearts of countless people."

"Let's talk about it quickly, it also saves us from taking the wrong road, this is a high mountain area, and physical strength is still more important to us."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. Do you see that part of the mountain that is darker than the surrounding area? Kate pointed to the place.

Hearing Kate say this, Ling looked at the place where Kate was fingering, she hadn't paid attention to it before, and when Kate said it, she realized that the white snow-capped mountains were only in the middle and upper positions, and there was a dark place. However, that height should be two-thirds of the way from the top of the mountain.

"Is that there?"

"It's the entrance to the ice-free lake. I heard from a woman who was cooking and she said that she could walk a little further up through the hole. Anyway, we don't know where we're going now, so we might as well go there and have a look. ”

"It's fine."

"By the way, I remember, Xiao Honghong changed my key, I'll see if I can open the door directly over there." Kate stared intently at the place and tried to open the door beside her, but the door didn't open after two attempts.

Ling shook her head and continued walking.

"I said Xiaoling, don't sigh, wait for me! Xiaohong is also yes, why not make the key more convenient! Xiaoling waited for me. ”

The road at the bottom of the mountain was relatively easy to walk, and when the two looked back, they were already a long way from the bottom of the mountain, but they were still a long way from the black place.

"Xiaoling, are you tired, do you want to take a break?"

"Let's go a little longer. It's rare that the weather is so good now, I'm afraid that it will change later. ”

"Listen to Xiaoling."

The two walked for another half day.

"No, Xiaoling, Dad, I can't walk anymore, where we are now, I can't see the black place, let's rest first, and then confirm that I haven't made a mistake."

Kate was already lying on the snow in place, gasping for air.

"Then take a break and drink some hot milk." Ling untied the kettle on her body and took a few sips.

"At our rate, we can't go up after dark." Kate's kettle was filled with something 'special' that she had brought from the museum, and after taking a sip, she felt a little more refreshed.

"That's no way, if we can't get there when it's dark, we'll go back to the main building first, and come back after we've rested, and then we can use the door to come directly." Ling looked around.

There was a vast white expanse around it, and there was nothing to see except snow.

"Xiaoling, I want to pee!"

Ling choked on a mouthful.

"I'll turn around, you hurry up and solve it!"

"No, I can't pee out next to you, you untie this first, and I'll walk to the side."

Ling had no choice but to open the rope connected to the two of them and let Kate walk away a little.

Kate stood up and took two steps to the side, when she suddenly stepped on something hard under her feet, gurgled and fell into the snow.

Ling heard the sound and hurriedly waded through the snow to Kate's side and pulled him up.

"Such a big person is so careless!"

"I didn't, I stepped on something." Kate looked back at her footprints.

"Maybe it's a stone." Ling said, also looking at Kate's last footprints.

"Doesn't seem right, look!" Kate swept the snow around the footprints to the side with her feet, revealing a frozen, purple hand.

"Dig him out." Ling took off her small snow shovel and began digging into the snow around that hand.

Fortunately, the snow around was still loose and easy to dig, and after a while, all the people buried in the snow were dug up.

"Do you think he could be the one the old man told us that he was one of the people who wanted to find Bingxin before us?"

Kate asked, seeing the man's outfit.

I saw that the person who was dug up was wearing a professional mountaineering suit, a hat and goggles, and there were no obvious external injuries on his body, and the time of death was uncertain.

"It's possible."

"Then you say that he was buried by his companions during his lifetime? Or after death? ”

"It's hard to say for sure."

Ling rummaged through the corpse to see if she could find any clues.

"I said Xiaoling, what do you hear?" Kate asked.

"Voice?"

"yes, I heard something when we last stopped, and now it's a little louder than it was then."

Hearing Kate say this, Ling closed her eyes and felt the sounds around her, but she didn't hear anything.

"What kind of sound do you hear?" Ling asked.

"I can't tell, it's similar to the sound of us stepping on snow, but it doesn't seem to be." Kate couldn't tell.

"Forget it, when I'm auditory hallucinators. Shall we keep walking? Kate asked.

Ling didn't find anything useful on the corpse, and there was no clue to his identity.

"Keep walking. By the way, you don't pee anymore? ”

"If you don't say it, I'll forget. You turn around! ”

"Okay."

Kate said that one hand was inconvenient, but she still solved it.

"I said Xiaoling, I really heard something. Listen to it again! Kate was sure it wasn't her own ear problem.

"No, I know what that sounds are!"