The next day, Qin Beiyang and Jiuse marched east on an armored train and continued to pursue Kolchak's White Guards.

The road is like a bamboo, crossing frozen Siberia, Qin Beiyang and Paul passing through Lake Baikal. The "North Sea", the deepest inland lake in the world, contains one-fifth of all the fresh water on the earth's surface, and is still covered with thick ice.

Countless figures are frozen on the ice, like eternal sculptures. Qin Beiyang was surprised to pounce and save people, but was pulled back by his comrades. It turned out that the winter was too cold, and the White Russians fled to China with their families, but they were frozen to death while crossing Lake Baikal. That winter, 250,000 zombies stood on the ice, falling victim to the war.

Suddenly, Nine Colors rushed to the shore of Lake Baikal and dragged out a dying man in the snow.

Qin Beiyang helped up that person - he was in his forties, his facial features were extraordinarily three-dimensional, his skin was pale, and he was different from ordinary Russians in terms of appearance and temperament. This person was actually wearing a navy uniform, and he seemed to have a high rank, and there were several bullet holes in his white clothes, which had been stained red by coagulated blood.

The man was dying.

His comrades-in-arms were urging him not to waste his time on dying people. Qin Beiyang didn't let go, the other party opened his eyes, his eyes were like eagle falcons, and he seemed to want to speak?

Qin Beiyang put his ear to his mouth and heard a few indistinct strings of musical scales: "Pzhevalsky...... Katerina...... Andreyevna ...... Wolfna......"

What a mess, last words? Although the names of the Russians are long and verbose, and they can almost run trains, Qin Beiyang still memorizes these four names - the first is a man, and the last three are women.

This White Russian military officer in a naval uniform died in Qin Beiyang's arms. He was left on the shores of Lake Baikal, covered in snow or devoured by hungry wolves......

Siberia, continue eastward, through the wilderness of minus thirty degrees.

The comrades-in-arms set up camp and chatted over the bonfire. Qin Beiyang heard a legend that when the White Russian Provisional Government fled, it took away 500 tons of gold reserves of the Tsarist Empire, and no one knew where the gold would end up.

He remembered the last words of a man in a navy uniform in the snow and ice on the shores of Lake Baikal.

Suddenly, Qin Beiyang had a sharp pain in his chest again, so much so that he rolled on the ground, and Jiu Se looked at him anxiously, but he didn't dare to approach him, so as not to deepen his pain.

Paul Kochagin accompanied him to the military doctor, who could not give an accurate diagnosis, and there were no X-ray machines in the field hospital.

The cancer has returned......

Qin Beiyang has long been indifferent, his life should have been gone half a year ago, and now he will earn it by living one more day.

Passing through the Buryat steppe, the Transbaikal Forest, and over the Trans-Khingan Mountains, the Amur River, China's Heilongjiang River, was once all Chinese territory under the Nebuchu Treaty. Before and after the burning of the Old Summer Palace, Russia seized a large area of land north of the Heilongjiang River and east of the Ussuri River from the Qing court.

The Motherland is not far away.

Crossing the borders of the Qing Dynasty, the snow in the Outer Khing'an Mountains is frighteningly thick. The squad was forced to form a long line. Snow reflects sunlight and is the most likely to damage the cornea, and many Red Army soldiers suffered from eye diseases and severe temporary blindness - this is snow blindness, and it is necessary to avoid the reflection of snow.

Nine colors ahead, Qin Beiyang and Paul each put on sunglasses, the two horses took the lead, walked through the barren hillside, and suddenly a huge tiger appeared.

"Siberian Tiger!"

Paul Kochagin shouted. Qin Beiyang remembered that in the underground palace of Emperor Guangxu, the eighth palace of the "Nine Palaces of Beast Making", he saw a tiger as a victim of the tomb beast. According to "Water Margin", it was a white-fronted insect that was killed by Wu Erlang, but at this moment it is a real king of the forest.

The tiger pounced on it with great vigour. In broad daylight, Jiuse can't transform, it's just a hunting dog, otherwise it's not a tiger, even if the dinosaurs come, it's fine. The horses were all shocked. Qin Beiyang didn't want to sacrifice the black horse, so he shot at the tiger, but it was violently bumped on the horse and he couldn't aim at all.

The tiger bit the horse's neck. Qin Beiyang's lungs were burning, extremely weak, and he was torn off from his war horse, almost powerless to fight back.

Paul fell from his horse and his rifle fell into the snow more than a meter deep. The Tang knife behind Qin Beiyang was frozen, and he couldn't pull out the scabbard at all, and the same was true for the crossbow. The Red Army team behind them had not yet caught up, and they and Jiuse could only run down the mountain, stepping into the void with one foot.

Free Fall ......

Falling into hell out of nowhere, he no longer fears falling from the crater of the North Pole last time.

Fall to hard ground. Severe pain in flesh and bones. Qin Beiyang gasped, lit a match, and briefly illuminated Jiuse and Bao'er, and the Ukrainians were shocked: "Are we still alive?" ”

"Of course."

They fell into a hole in the ice, frozen to the point where they could barely stick to their fingers, but the cut was so smooth that it was clearly made by hand. The matches quickly burned out, and Paul had a flashlight on his body, heading deeper into the ice cave. This area is all permafrost, and the soil is harder than iron, so how much labor does it take to dig such ice holes?

The nine-colored glass-colored eyeballs also lit up, and they rushed forward happily, all of which told Qin Beiyang that this was an ancient tomb.

Yes, there are some artefacts on the ground, bows and arrows, wooden sticks, stone tools, which look quite primitive.

What is surprising is that Qin Beiyang found ivory, a very large number of ivory, piled up in the center of the ice cave, estimated to be hundreds of pairs. In this icy and snowy outer Khing'an Mountains, how can there be elephants that only exist in the tropics?

But this ivory is special, longer than ordinary tusks, and the front is highly curved, like a huge hook.

Moments later, they spotted the humans.

Eternal humanity.

Qin Beiyang, Bao'er, and Jiu Se were all stunned, and they saw dozens of naked people, still in the ice, lifelike, their eyes open, staring at the three intruders.

These people are all indigenous to Siberia in appearance, and they look a little like Mongolians. They are men and women, old and young, confined in the ice, I don't know how many years have passed?

"Qin's Tomb Craftsman's Jian" said that in ancient times, the Sushen tribe in the north had a rare "ice burial" custom. This time, I saw with my own eyes, the ancients used primitive tools to dig through the frozen soil and put the corpse in the ice, which did not rot for thousands of years, just like the mummy of Odin in the Arctic. As for why naked? Everyone comes to this world naked, and it is only natural that they should leave naked.

Paul's flashlight could only illuminate a small patch, and he slowly shifted direction, revealing a large patch of black hair, like a fallen vine in a forest. He fell to the ground in fright, and Qin Beiyang also saw the behemoth.

Nine Colors transforms into a young Kirin Town Tomb Beast, protects them with its antlers, and spits out a glass fireball that illuminates the entire ice cave.

Qin Beiyang rubbed his eyes, only to see that it was an elephant.

Standing in the depths of an ice cave, as tall as three Qin Beiyang and as big as twenty Siberian tigers, a pair of fan-like ears, a long thick snout that falls to the ground, and two sharp and curved tusks – completely different from the Asian elephant and African elephant in the photo, it is covered with tan fur, like the fur of a large brown bear.

"Mammoth!"

Qin Beiyang had read about this ancient creature at Kyoto No. 3 High School, which was extinct 10,000 years ago—in a way, it was also a forgotten ancient beast.

Like the ancients who were "buried in ice", this mammoth is in a frozen state, so it retains its skin and flesh intact, and even every hair is fresh.

Qin Beiyang glanced back at the people in the ice, who were using frozen mammoths to make tomb beasts for themselves.

Absolutely!

Now we understand the origin of the ivory, so many tusks are hidden in the tomb, indicating that the ancients hunted countless mammoths, which led to the extinction of this species - is this how the mythical beast was also extinct from the world?