I asked him what it was, but he still said, "I can't say anything specific." ”

At this time, I heard Li Huaishan shouting on the top of the mountain: "What's the situation over there, Huang Yuzhong is okay?" ”

I pushed Huang Yuzhong's shoulder: "Go on, don't stop." ”

Huang Yuzhong grabbed my arm: "If you don't, please believe me, there is really something wrong with this place." ”

I hooked his neck and said in a low voice, "It's because there's a problem here that I'm going to find out, and if you want to leave now, I won't stop you." ”

After saying that, I let go of Huang Yuzhong and climbed towards the top of the mountain.

Huang Yuzhong stood in place for a moment, but finally followed.

You may ask if I believed Huang Yuzhong's words so easily, and my answer was only two words: yes.

Although I don't have a deep understanding, I can still see that he didn't lie just now.

Moreover, the reason why the old Huang family in the Northeast can become one of the six great families is that the huge name is not obtained for nothing, and it is not impossible for Huang Yuzhong to see some abnormalities that I can't see.

On the road behind, I have been carefully staring at Huang Yuzhong, for fear that something will happen to him again, to be honest, I did this selfishly, after all, he is the Huang family, and I took him to Kunlun Mountain, in case he has a bad day, I am afraid that I will not be able to explain to the second master when I go back.

As for Huang Yuzhong's life or death, it doesn't have much to do with me. Of course I hope he's okay, but if he does die in the snow, I won't waste time and grieve for him.

Fortunately, there was no more trouble after Huang Yuzhong, there was nothing wrong all the way, and that night, we finally came to the foot of Xiaoxi Peak.

Compared with the mountains in the distance, Xiao Xifeng's figure is indeed a little thin, but when I walked up to it, I found that it was a behemoth beyond imagination, looking up at it, like an ant looking up at a giant towering in the sky.

At that time, we were located on the south side of Xiaoxi Peak, and Jiang Qu's words were half right, the southern slope of this mountain is indeed extremely steep, almost straight up, standing at the foot of the mountain, you can see the ice hanging on the shaking slope, plus the mountain is too high, the wind around the mountain is too strong, even the most professional rock climbers, I am afraid it is difficult to climb.

However, Jiang Qu said that if you want to enter the inner mountain, Xiaoxi Peak is the only way to go, and I don't agree with this sentence, because on both sides of the mountain, there are relatively gentle roads to walk, and you can take a detour.

It just so happened that Jiang Qu led the horse to my side, so I casually asked, "If you bypass the road next to the mountain, you should be able to enter the inner mountain, right?" ”

Jiang Qu smiled and shook his head: "The people of the Three Youth Association have set up a formation in this area, and if they take a detour, they will not be able to enter the inner mountain." Follow me. ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the left side of the mountain wall.

He was traveling in an "S" shape and told me to follow, and I followed him, and made two rounds, until I finally came to a large rock next to the mountain, and where the stone and the mountain were connected, there was a round hole about two meters in diameter.

Just now I was standing in the distance and looking this way, but I only saw the stones, not the hole.

Jiang Qu pointed to the place where I was standing just now and said, "If you walk in a straight line, you won't be able to see the entrance to the cave." ”

I glanced inside the cave entrance, and there was only pitch black in my real vision, but in the line of sight of the quicksand of the Qi Sea, I could see that there was a sloping stone staircase inside the cave.

Probably to show that he was familiar with the road, when Jiang Qu was talking to me, Zhang Dayou passed between the two of us and went directly into the hole.

Not long after he went down, the cave was lit up with a flickering fire, and the slope and length of the stone steps seemed to be carefully arranged, and the firelight could only illuminate the lower half of the stone steps, but could not spill out of the cave entrance, so that even if there were people in the secret passage, the people outside could not see it.

Until Zhang Dayou's shout came from the entrance of the cave: "Come in, it's very warm inside." I beckoned the others to follow suit.

It is not so much a secret passage as a tomb road, after going down the stone steps, I found that there are large areas of reliefs on the stone walls on both sides of the passage, and every ten meters on the ground, there is a half-meter-high gilded lamp slave, Zhang Dayou lit one of them, and the fire came out from there.

All the reliefs are all seated statues of Lu Wu, this kind of sacred beast recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, which is said to be the guardian god of Kunlun Mountain. The human face, the body of the tiger, the nine tails, every detail in the relief is depicted in great detail, even the fluff on the tail is displayed.

From these reliefs, I can smell a unique smell of Guangxu year, but the smell on the lamp slave comes from the Song Dynasty.

In fact, the word lamp slave did not exist before, it was the third uncle of the southern faction who invented this word when he wrote "Notes on Tomb Robbery".

This is also a kind of model that shines into reality.

The lamp slave in front of him is portrayed as the image of the waiter holding the copper lamp, the lamp holder is sitting cross-legged on the ground, the lamp is in his arms, and the smoke formed after the wick is lit has smoked the chest of the lamp holder into charcoal black.

After Jiang Qu led the horse in, he let the horse rest at the entrance of the secret passage, and he came to me with his hands behind his back, pointed to the lamp slave on the ground and said to me: "This secret passage has been in the Song Dynasty as early as the Song Dynasty, and there were people who came to repair it during the Guangxu period. ”

I said, "This was originally a cemetery, right?" ”

Jiang Qu nodded: "At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was a large tomb behind the secret passage, and the tomb sank into the mountain during the Guangxu period, and the warlocks rebuilt the tomb road to let it lead to the top of the mountain. ”

I smiled, "Are you also a person in the industry, you know a lot of things." ”

Jiang Qu also rushed at me: "I haven't washed my hands for a long time." I don't miss the days when I pinned my head to my waist every day. ”

He had no mental power, and he didn't know what he did in his early years.

After a whole day of trekking, both men and horses became very tired, and when Jiang Qu talked to me, his face was also tired, and I didn't dare to waste his rest time, and I was not embarrassed to talk deeply.

Even though the temperature in the secret passage was higher than outside, Li Huaishan and the others still couldn't bear it, in order to keep warm, several of them gathered next to the lit lamp slave, relying on the heat on others' bodies and the flames in the lamp mouth to provide themselves with a little warmth.

I was the only one who left the crowd and sat under the stone steps to keep vigil and watch the snow fly all night.

I had never noticed that I could see the snowflakes in the air in the dark night.

At dawn the next day, Jiang Qu said goodbye to us, and left with Basang and six horses, before leaving, he said that when we came out of the inner mountain, he and Basang would still wait for us here, I asked him how he knew when we came out, and he said, inferring such a thing is a piece of cake for Ke Zongbi.

As soon as I heard him mention Ke Zongbi, I remembered that Ke Zongbi once said that it is impossible for the bone destroyer to have a successor after the second master, and my heart suddenly felt a little awkward.

Seeing Jiang Qu and Basang disappear from sight, the four of us packed our bags and continued to go deeper along the secret passage.

Before, Huang Yuzhong had been muffled and didn't speak, but now Huang Yuzhong occasionally opened his mouth, but Zhang Dayou fell into silence again, and I found that the way he looked at me now became very strange, it was not jealousy, but a deep unwillingness.

I didn't bother to deal with him, so I sealed my inner breath by myself, and practiced the Concentration Technique while going deeper.

After walking along the secret passage for about half an hour, there was already a slope under my feet, and the secret passage began to spread towards the top of the mountain.

It's strange to say, since the slope of the secret passage, Li Huaishan shouted cold, I couldn't detect the temperature difference, as soon as I heard him say cold, I subconsciously looked at Zhang Dayou and Huang Yuzhong, but found that the two of them were also wrapped in tight clothes, looking like they were about to be frozen.

There is no wind in the secret passage, and the snow can't drift in, so no matter how cold it is, it's warmer than outside, but when Huang Yuzhong was riding a horse in the snow, he didn't freeze like he is now.

I felt that something was wrong, and immediately dissipated my mind, opened my mouth and took a big breath, the chill entered my lips, and the tip of my tongue was frozen to a faint pain.

Huang Yuzhong wrapped his neck around his neckline, shrunk his head and came to me, and said with trembling lips: "The tomb in front of you is all frozen. ”

I frowned and looked ahead, in the real field of vision, I could only see the darkness that could not be pierced by the firelight, but in the field of vision of the quicksand of the Qi Sea, I could see that the reliefs on the walls on both sides seemed to be blurred by something.

Li Huaishan immediately took out a flashlight and shot it forward, and the stone wall in front of him reflected a sharp luster.

It's really icing!

Huang Yuzhong glanced at the reflective place, shivered and said, "That place is a slope, if water seeps in, it will definitely flow to the entrance, but we walked all the way, and there was no ice on the ground at all." But if there is no seepage in this place, how did the ice come from? ”

What he said was exactly what I had in mind.

I also took out my flashlight and jerked up my pace.

After walking a short distance, I found that only the stone walls on both sides were covered with thick ice, but the ground was clean, and the walls under the ice had become dark, as if they had been roasted by fire.

I shook my flashlight and let the light move all the way along the ice, and when the white beam moved to three or four meters in front of me, a large melt appeared in the illuminated area, which should have just dissolved, and there were slowly flowing water droplets at the edge.

Huang Yuzhong immediately leaned over, wiped a handful in the melt, and said, "The stone wall here was first burned by fire, and then sealed by ice for an extreme period of time, you see. ”

As he spoke, he showed me the side of his open palm, and I turned the light through it, and I saw that his palm turned black.

What stuck to his hands was the ash left behind after the stone wall was burned out.

He was right, these stone walls were frozen in a very short time after being roasted by fire, otherwise the walls that had been burned to powder would not have remained so intact.

(End of chapter)