Book 1: The Cave of Snow Ridge Chapter 53: Ghost Monuments

We marched about a hundred meters deep into the crevasse, and soon recognized that our location was an ice cave under the light of the wolf's eye flashlights.

I saw that the ice cave was surrounded by ice on all sides, and the originally light blue and light blue ice surface layer was immediately refracted into a white patch under the light pillar of the wolf's eye flashlight.

I habitually visually inspect the area of the ice cave, but the height of the ice cave is difficult to visually detect, because it is a crack that extends beyond the illumination range of the wolf's eye flashlight, and the whole gap presents a crooked, irregular, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom of the shape of the "V" upside down.

And the width of the underside of our walk is about one and a half meters, just enough for two people to walk side by side.

Almost 100 meters away, the scene in front of them made everyone dumbfounded, because the ice cave gradually became clear from the narrow gap, with the naked eye to visually measure the area, enough to accommodate hundreds of people at the same time so wide, and the top of the cave is all some straight and crystal clear ice picks, the ice picks are like spotlights under the illumination of our seven wolf eye flashlights, the entire ice cave is illuminated, like a crystal palace, the ice cave is clear under the refraction of the ice pick, I saw the ice cave in the ice cave, which was full of holes, densely covered with the entire ice cave.

The ice cave road is even more bizarre, I and the fat man couldn't help but run to one of the caves, with a wolf's eye flashlight to find that the ice cave road is curved and twisted, and there are big and small, the big one is just enough for an adult to get into and crawl, and the small one is so small that only a three-year-old baby can drill in.

Strangely, the whole ice cave felt familiar to me, vaguely as if I had been here before, and after I told the fat man, the fat man explained, "Ngawang, don't think about it, this is a sense of déjà vu", and people will have this feeling. ”

I disagreed, "It's not a sense of déjà vu. ”

"Do you know what déjà vu is?" The fat man had a disgusted expression on his face, and when he was about to speak, I directly interrupted him and said, "Sight is also called "hallucinatory memory", which refers to the sense of déjà vu that has not been experienced in a certain time or place, and there is also a scientific term called the hippocampal effect.

This is the result of the interaction of the perceptual and memory systems in the human brain. For example, let's say the first time you come to a place, or the first time you do something you haven't done before, and you suddenly feel like you've been to this place before, or if this thing has been done before. ”

After I finished speaking, I glanced at the fat man with a helpless look with a "how about it, master, I'm well-read".

The fat man squinted at me, and unwillingly squeezed out "grass!" from his mouth. ", and then said helplessly, "I said, can you not let you tell me everything, so you can leave a little for me to say, I'm also an intellectual, okay." ”

I said, "Don't make a fuss! Then he asked the fat man seriously, "You say, could this be my memory of when I was seven years old?" ”

The fat man's eyes rolled, thoughtfully, and after a while, he said informally, "The ghost knows you." ”

I was about to take a mouthful when I was interrupted by Uncle Jiu, who had been observing the ice cave, "Nephew, come over here." ”

"Oh!" The ghost and I said in unison.

Uncle Nine patted his head, pointed at me, and said to the ghost, "My name is Wu Nian, I didn't call you." ”

"What?" I staggered over to it.

Uncle Nine glanced at me, then looked at the surrounding ice caves, and then said in an inquiring tone, "How's the research of time-sharing orientation doing?" ”

I smiled slightly, no longer as speechless as the last time I looked for a black bear in Gurong Village, but patted my chest and said confidently, "It's all nothing." ”

"Oh! Really? Uncle Nine looked skeptical, and then continued, "Draw out the time-sharing directional gossip picture and take a look first." ”

I confidently rubbed two under my nose with my index finger, and then found a flat ice surface, and while carving the gossip with the scimitar in my hand, I silently recited in my heart "Heaven and earth yin and yang, the five elements are divided into yin and yang, yin and yang distinguish the hour, the hour looks at the gossip, and the gossip determines the north and south." ”

After drawing the time-sharing directional gossip diagram, Uncle Nine checked it, and judging from his expression, it showed that his old man was very satisfied with my performance this time, but he didn't say anything.

Then I took the compass given by Uncle Nine, found the direction, and determined the route.

As he was about to set off, the ghost suddenly shouted, "Wait," and saw him holding a compass in one hand and a map in the other, his expression became serious, and he said to everyone, "I can't go any further." ”

The ghost suddenly became nervous, making everyone nervous, "What's wrong?" The fat man asked first.

The ghost said, "According to the map, the realm of Niperl is ahead. ”

"I'll go! What the hell are you doing, boss, I thought it was a big deal, it's just this. The fat man said with a wave of his hand, "Cut!" "A voice is a sign of ignoring the boundary.

Because the last time I was attacked by the tomb monkey in the cave at the collapse of the Nanzhao Tomb, I was also bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, and this time there were many of us, and no one knew what was going on in the ice cave.

Before entering, Uncle Nine and I tied a climbing rope to our bodies to ensure safety.

The ice cave is also full of holes, and if it weren't for the time-sharing orientation technique, I'm afraid it would be difficult to get out of it until I die.

After getting out of the ice cave, I pulled the climbing rope three times to indicate that I was safe to get out of the cave, and then the fat people and their side could follow our rope out of the ice cave.

After everyone came out, I found that the ghost reluctantly followed, after all, he was outnumbered, and the truth was often on the side of the majority, even if it was wrong, but as long as there were more wrong people and the proportion was out of balance, then it could be right, this is the law of the crowd.

I counted the number of men and the equipment, and when I had made sure that it was complete, I continued to march according to the route we had laid down before, and as I marched, I looked around and saw a spectacle in front of me.

I saw a huge temple on the cliff wall of a mountain in front of me, or rather the temple was embedded in the cliff.

The hall did not appear in front of me at once, but with the movement of my pace more and more clearly, until I walked a distance of nearly 100 meters, the whole hall was basically revealed, this hall that appeared out of thin air surprised me, I thought it was dazzling, so I rubbed my eyes and fixed my eyes to see, there is indeed a huge hall embedded in the cliff wall, only to see it looming under the scattered snowflakes.

I stopped the crowd and excitedly pointed ahead and shouted, "Look at that!" ”

Everyone looked at it, and they were all stunned, and the fat man couldn't hold back his excitement and blurted out, "I'll go!" Fat man, I'm not dreaming, am I? He looked ahead with a look of surprise on his face.

I saw that the elusive palace is quite similar to the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the difference is that the Potala Palace is built in two colors, the White Palace and the Red Palace, and the palace on the cliff wall is painted with white gray, which is consistent with the color of the snow-capped mountain cliff.

The whole hall is like a chameleon hiding itself on the cliff wall, making it difficult to distinguish at a glance, and if I hadn't discovered it with my sharp eyes, maybe everyone would have ignored its existence.

It can be seen that the palace is very old, it is a historic site, it is built according to the mountain, the group of buildings overlaps, the palace is saggy, the momentum is magnificent, it is dozens of meters high, and it is nearly 100 meters wide, its magnificence can I describe it in a few words, it is simply a ghostly workmanship, a thing made in heaven.

I thought to myself, could this be a ghost monument in the mouth of the mountain? I was still thinking about whether or not to go and find out, when I heard a rumbling sound in the distance, which sounded like an ice avalanche, and then the wind blew in all directions, and the snow on the mountain front began to scatter and drift from time to time.

The ghost, who was familiar with the snow-capped mountains, immediately shouted to everyone, "Run, it's a continuous avalanche." ”

As soon as the ghost's words fell, there was an earth-shattering "bang" from the top of the front behind us, and we saw the raging snow rushing from the front behind us.

Seeing this, I took the lead and rushed in the direction of the monument, and when we reached the foot of the monument, we ran along the stone staircase like a ladder to the gate of the monument.

Halfway through the run, I noticed that the strange thing was that the monument seemed to be there and nothing, and it was clear that we were indeed stepping on the stone stairs under our feet, but what we saw with our eyes was vague and not very real.

What's even more unbelievable is that there is not a single piece of snow, and the goose feathers and snow floating around it can't fall on this monument, and the snow seems to be deliberately avoiding this monument.

This reminds me of the old site of the Gutian Conference in my country, the whole conference house is full of woods behind the house, but the roof is not a single fallen leaf, and everyone who has been there knows that it is not artificially cleaned up, but the fallen leaves will not fall on the roof.

In addition to the snow that avoids this monument, even the heavy snow rolling in the avalanche avoids it, so I slowed down my running pace and changed it to a walk, admiring the architecture of this monument by the way.

The staircase that enters the monument is like two huge arms from the left and right sides of the monument gate, both sides of the staircase are all some words and a small sculpture, the text looks crooked, and the circle is twisted, I can't see what the font is, and the sculptures are all dressed in robes, bare-chested breasts, sitting cross-legged, hands on the top of the cross-legged, it is also the abdomen, and each sculpture has a "swastika" on the chest, so I judge that it should be a Buddha statue.

Just as I was looking at it, the fat man said proudly, "I don't understand." I glanced at him, and before he could speak, the fat man took the lead, "These are Buddha statues, the text is Sanskrit, Sanskrit is the original text of Buddhism, and Chinese Buddhism was introduced from ancient India." ”

When the fat man said this, he pointed to the chest of the Buddha statue and continued, "This "swastika" shows that this should be the Yongzhong Bon religion in Tibet, and the swastika is the origin of Yongzhong, I heard my father say that Yongzhong Bon originated from the ancient Xiangxiong Buddhism, and the ancient Xiangxiong Buddhism originated from the ancient Zhangxiong Dynasty more than 10,000 years ago. ”

The fat man said as he took in all the sculptures along the staircase, and then added, "And each of these sculptures is the Buddha-figures of the ancient Zhang-zhung Buddhism." ”

After the fat man finished speaking, he looked at me with a "what, you don't understand this, right?"

I clapped my hands in acknowledgment of him, and then asked, "Then this must be the ancient site of the ancient Zhangxiong Buddhism, right?" ”

"That's right! The children can be taught. The fat man replied with a smug face, and then patted the sculpture with his hand, but a strange scene happened, only to see the fat man's hand slapping the sculpture directly through the sculpture, and almost fell.

"Huh! What the hell is alive? The fat man was surprised, with an expression of disbelief, and continued to pat the sculpture with his hand, but he couldn't shoot anything, and everyone was stunned by this scene, which was no longer logical.

No wonder Shanzi said that this is a ghost monument, it seems that it is really evil, everyone found a sculpture to try to see if they can touch it, but the result is the same, it is real with the naked eye, but it can not be touched, this strange and bizarre monument makes everyone curious, and continues to walk towards the gate of the monument.

The gate is almost more than ten meters high, five or six meters wide, the material is granite, the strange thing is that the sculpture directly above the big stone gate I recognized at a glance that it is the statue of the demon man, I am too impressed, last time in the ancient tomb town tomb beast in the cave there is also a stone gate like this, the stone door is also above the sculpture of the demon man.

Seeing this, I asked Uncle Nine to take a look and consulted Uncle Nine about the ins and outs, but Uncle Nine couldn't say why, including the fat man who studied Buddhism was also a monk like Zhanger, and he was confused.

The fat man first touched the stone gate with his hand, and exclaimed, "This stone door can be touched." ”

Now I was completely fascinated by this ghostly monument, and I thought that I would have to explore it anyway and see if it was still magical.

Since this hall is a historic site, I estimate that the stone gate should not have been opened for many years, so I called the fat man, the ghost and the ninth uncle, and all the men went to push the stone door together, but unexpectedly the stone door was easily pushed open, and it was not as heavy as I imagined.

When we entered the main hall, I was stunned by the spaciousness of the main hall, which was several hundred square meters, and the first thing we did was to touch what we saw with our hands.

All are entities, only to see the most conspicuous in the hall is that the hall is facing the stone door in front of the seat of a ingenious workmanship, the sculpture of the magic axe, the sculpture is more than 20 meters, the sculpture is the masked demon man, and on both sides of the demon man in turn is the treasure solemn, the Buddha statue of mercy and solemnity, each Buddha statue is a long face and apricot eyes, straight nose and thick lips, hanging curtains and big ears, the body of the law phase gold body, feeling clear and clear glass.

In the middle of the main hall are hundreds of cushions neatly arranged in a nine-grid palace pattern, and the fat man explained that this is a Buddhist hall, which is specially used to spread Buddhism.

Curious, I approached the bottom of the sculpture and found some Tibetan texts, which were carved on a stone tablet. Everyone also came to watch, and everyone stared at the inscription, but in fact, no one understood it, because everyone's expression was blank.

The ghost suddenly pointed to the sculpture of the demon man and said, "This is a brief description of the statue. I was born and raised in Tibet, and I can read Tibetan. The ghost said and helped us translate the inscription "In ancient times, when Mount Everest was still called "Mother Earth", the demons and monsters in this area were chaotic, and the people were not able to make a living, and the elders at that time were helpless, so they could only watch the lives of the people of Mount Everest, and then a mysterious man came, no one knew the name of this person, everyone called him the demon man, and it was his appearance that led the local Dharma Protector Lama * Ma to annihilate the demons of the troubled times.

After that, the demon people left Mount Everest, and the local religion built this temple in the place where the demon fought at that time in order to commemorate the demon people, which is now this monument. I don't know how long it was, but according to legend, someone saw the demon man come back once and brought a magical stone. ”

In this way, the statue next to the demon man should be the Dharma Protector Lama*ma who participated in the war together at that time, and the magical stone he brought should be the "Nuwa Stone".

The fat man, who had never left the inscription, said, "There are still words down here," and the ghost read the Tibetan text at the bottom of the inscription again, saying, "It is written that in the future, as long as the descendants of those who participated in the war that year, they will come back to this monument from generation to generation to clean the incense burner, and show that they will protect this monument forever, and they must not tell the world about the monument." ”

It dawned on me when I heard the ghost say this, no wonder I just came in and touched this hall with my hand, since it was spotless, at first I thought it was the magic of this ghost monument, so it seems that someone should have cleaned it.

At this moment, a young man walked out of a wooden door on the side of the hall, and saw that the young man had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and was wearing a red cloth, and he recognized it as the Dalai Lama* Lama at a glance.

Seeing this, the fat man hurriedly took out the "swastika" necklace on his body, and whispered to the little lama who didn't know what to say, and then the little lama made a Buddhist salute to the fat man and the rest of us, and then led us into the door where he came out.

On the way, I secretly asked the fat man, "Fat man, what did you just tell him?" ”

"I told him that we were lay communicators of the ancient Zhangxiong Dharma, and that we had come to Mount Everest to experience the suffering of the world, and that we had accidentally lost our way." The fat man shook his swastika necklace as he spoke, adding, "This is an authentic ancient Xiangxiong Dharma necklace." ”

I admire the fat man's eloquence so much that I can't do it, it's just beyond my reach.

After coming out of the side door of the hall, I found that the hall was really hidden in the building, and there was a courtyard with a huge space, and it should be more than enough to accommodate a troop company at the same time.

The courtyard is surrounded by some overlapping floors, and the floors are erected on four extremely thick pillars, all of which are ingeniously carved with some reliefs of the beast suppression figures, presumably they should be the achievements of the demon people at that time, and they are all entities.

The little lama led us all the way to the rest room in the attic on the west side, and told us not to move around in the middle of the night, let alone leave the temple, otherwise we would bear the consequences.

It sounded weird, but I didn't ask much why, because I wanted to ask, and as I walked to the west attic to a staircase, I saw a figure standing faintly at the end of a passage next to the attic, watching us.

I subconsciously turned my head over, only to see a woman in a snow-white dress, with 3,000 ink hair dancing lightly in the wind.

But the moment I turned my head, the woman in white also disappeared into the darkness.