There is a devil on the mountain.

The nine colors of the tomb beast in the town continued to precur as usual, and Qin Beiyang led the ghost god up, and there was a stone step path that seemed to be artificially excavated. Ivanov hummed all the way, and it was better that he would not lose his breath until he found Katya.

Turning the slopes of the mountain covered with snow all year round, it is really frozen for thousands of miles. Fortunately, the bright moon hangs high, and there are nine colors spitting out glass fireballs for illumination, otherwise going up the mountain in the dark is tantamount to suicide.

Halfway up the mountain, there is a large terrace that seems to have been born out of nowhere. Qin Beiyang hid behind the rocks, with several artificially piled stones protruding in front of him, like an altar, surrounded by many torches.

Surrounded by the altar were a dozen black figures, noticeably taller than ordinary people, wearing furry coats and broad-shouldered hunchbacks. The arms are scary. When these guys turn their faces and show their furry faces, they are what Ivanov calls "devils" - you can say like people, apes, or even ghosts.

Qin Beiyang's breathing was suddenly short, and he saw that those "devils" were at least two meters tall, but their heads were smaller than ordinary people, the top of their heads was slightly pointed, with lush brown hair, no clothes on, and their bodies were natural fur, and they emitted a pungent stench. The ice and snow should have been clean and refreshing, but unexpectedly, he was almost disgusted by the smell of rotting corpses.

The "devils" gathered on the altar of the Goddess Peak, grabbing a few snow-white human legs and human arms in their hands—some of them were also wearing riding boots, apparently Ivanov's White Russian subordinates. The moonlight and fire illuminated the blood and stumps on the altar, these evil Russian robbers had been dismembered by the devils, lit on fire and grilled, and the stench and smell of meat wafted to Qin Beiyang's nose at the same time, and his stomach churned uncomfortably again.

The legendary gods on Kunlun Mountain are this group of man-eating beasts?

Suddenly, a term passed through Qin Beiyang's mind - Himalayan snowman.

Shennu Peak is located in the western part of the Kunlun Mountains, on the border between Xinjiang and Tibet, and close to the Himalayas. A year ago, Qin Beiyang was trapped in the Arctic ice sea, and a group of people talked about strange things, Li Longsheng said that the Himalayan snowman, a mysterious creature between humans and apes, haunted the Himalayas, and the kings of British India and Nepal had sent people to track them down many times, but no real objects had been captured.

The appearance of these devils in front of him is exactly the same as the snowman described by Li Longsheng - they can use fire, at least not completely savages, and have reached the threshold of some kind of evolution. When Qin Beiyang was studying in Kyoto, Japan, he heard that Neanderthals in the Ice Age had been discovered in Europe, and the image was very different from that of modern humans, and they were eliminated in the competition with our ancestors Homo sapiens, which is the so-called natural selection.

Could the Himalayan Yeti be the last remnant of Neanderthals?

Suddenly, a living person appeared on the altar.

Living human beings, who are desperately struggling, crying, screaming, begging, it is a woman's voice, and it is in Russian.

Katerina Andreyevna Wolfna.

Qin Beiyang read her full name in his heart. Her clothes had been stripped and pressed naked against the altar, and the moonlight illuminated her icy skin, and her twenty-nine-year-old body, not yet fat and bloated like many Russian women, rarely maintained its graceful lines. But she was bruised and purple, and would rather be killed immediately now than endure the stench of the devils.

The snowman wants to make this beautiful woman the sumptiest dinner.

Just as Qin Beiyang took out his cross bow and made Jiu Se prepare to spit out the glass fireball, a second woman appeared on the altar.

Under the altar, the thick snow was broken, and a woman in her thirties came out, also exposing her snow-white nakedness, not afraid of the cold.

The lower half of her body was not human.

Qin Beiyang saw that she had two snow leopard legs and claws, a beautiful leopard tail exposed behind her buttocks, long unkempt brown hair, and a polished and carved Hetian jade, called Yusheng in ancient books.

If she doesn't speak, she is a peerless beauty who has captivated the city and the country. But when she opened her mouth, a pair of tiger canine teeth were revealed, terrifying, and the scream almost pierced the eardrums. He bet the entire Kunlun Mountains would hear the call tonight.

The "tigress" in the family that the Chinese say is from this one on the Kunlun Mountain, right?

After traveling to the Arctic underground world and seeing the Odin God and Divine Beast Museum, Qin Beiyang's half-human and half-beast monsters are no longer rare, or the threshold has been greatly raised.

Katya on the altar had fainted. The Himalayan snowmen no longer clamored, and they dedicated their naked White Russian beauties to a half-human, half-beast woman.

Although she is a monster, the woman's face is very charming, and it is a purely Chinese appearance.

Qin Beiyang suppressed the urge to move, and he had a hunch: half-man and half-beast would not be a bad thing.

Sure enough, the "Half-Beast Daughter" did not hurt Katya, but held it in her arms, just like a mother holding her daughter and her sister holding her sister, as if she used her body temperature to dispel the cold.

The monster's expression, for a moment, revealed a bit of kindness and sacredness, and it actually had the demeanor of a mother's world. Looking at the ice and snow night on Kunlun Mountain, Qin Beiyang suddenly remembered a passage from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"-

"In the south of the West Sea, on the shore of quicksand, after the red water, before the black water, there is a big mountain, called the hill of Kunlun. There is a god, a human face and a tiger body, there is a text and a tail, all white, and it is dealt with. There is an abyss of weak water under it, and there is a mountain of fire outside it. Some people have hoopoes, tiger teeth, leopard tails, holes, and the name is the Queen Mother of the West. This mountain has everything. ”

Hoopoe, tiger teeth, leopard tail, hole......

Queen Mother of the West.

This is the mythical Queen Mother of the West, Taoists call the White Jade Turtle Tai Jiu Ling Taizhen Golden Mother Yuanjun, referred to as the Queen Mother, also known as the Golden Mother, and the common people are commonly known as the Queen Mother of the West Heaven.

The earliest recorded Queen Mother of the West in ancient Chinese books is the half-human, half-beast female monster in front of her, Kunlun Mountain in front of the black water on the shore of quicksand.

The Queen Mother of the West in "Zhuangzi" "does not know the beginning, does not know the end". In the Han Dynasty, the Queen Mother of the West changed from a monster to a dignified, graceful and luxurious royal goddess. "Naturalist" records: The Queen Mother of the West visited Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty on the night of Qixi Festival, and brought seven immortal peaches to share with the emperor.

More than 2,000 years later, in the clear starry sky of Kunlun Mountain, Qin Beiyang saw three small birds, with bright blue-green feathers, flying to the shoulders of the half-human, half-beast Queen Mother of the West, each holding a large peach - each peach was bigger and heavier than the bird itself.

The Queen Mother's peach meeting?

Kneeling respectfully beside the altar are Himalayan snowmen, perhaps the real grandchildren?

The last two sentences of Li Shangyin's "Untitled" "It is difficult to say goodbye when we meet" is "There is no way to go to Pengshan, and the blue bird is diligent to visit." "The blue birds in Li Yishan's pen are the three little birds who came to Xiantao for the Queen Mother of the West.

The Queen Mother of the West plucked the peach, her eyes were gentle, and she stuffed it into Katya's mouth full of love. At first, she was at a loss, but perhaps she was hungry, and the peach was extremely fat and sweet, so she couldn't help but take a bite.

Seeing Wolfna eating peaches in the arms of the Queen Mother of the West, Qin Beiyang was terrified. What does the half-human, half-beast Queen Mother of the West want to do?

Qin Beiyang remembered that "dream".

Two years ago, when I disappeared for a hundred days, in the cloud-shrouded "Heavenly Academy", on the eve of graduation, I met seven maids under the account of the Queen Mother of the West: Dong Shuangcheng, Wang Zideng, Guo Mixiang, Ji Weirong, Xu Feiqiong, Jia Linghua, Duan Anxiang......

Is Katya going to become the eighth maid?