Unlike the previous ones found in Borobudur, the frescoes here have been brightly coloured, and are about 5 meters high, encircling the entire stone chamber and about 60 meters in length.

I gently wiped the dust off the mural with the only intact sleeve of my left hand, and was surprised to find that the mural underneath was brightly colored as if it had just been painted.

Hyde said that because it is in the Himalayas, it is cold and dry, microorganisms and insects are scarce, and people used natural pigments extracted from various minerals in ancient times, and the coloring is very good, so the picture scroll is well preserved and brightly colored, and it looks as if it has not been baptized by time.

If this is indeed the remnant of the ancient kingdom of Somer, then it is really hard to imagine that the inhabitants of the ancient country who lived thousands of years ago could have carved such a grand tunnel in the Himalayas, the top of the world, and mastered the ability to create art with great skill.

In terms of content, the murals here describe the follow-up content of the Borobudur murals, but the brushstrokes, compositional styles, and painting colors of the two murals are different, which gives reason to believe that they were not created in the same period, and the murals in Borobudur are much older.

The mural is divided into many scenes, each of which tells a different story, and the scenes should be connected in chronological order, and we quickly find the first mural and look down from it.

At the beginning of the scene, there is a scene in the cave, a group of tribesmen armed with rudimentary spears and clubs, fighting all kinds of strange and ferocious monsters at the mouth of the cave, and in the cave, another part of the tribe members finally found the treasure that radiated light, one of them held the treasure high on the top, and the rest of the tribesmen knelt on the ground.

Most of the figures depicted in the frescoes are sketchy and lack discernible detail, but the figure holding up the treasure is depicted in great detail, with a female characteristic, with a strange headdress, strange patterns depicted on her body, and some kind of animal fur tied around her hands and feet—details that seem to suggest that she should be the leader of the tribe.

Then, a pair of huge eyes appeared in the depths of the cave, and people scattered in all directions, except for the person holding the treasure standing calmly.

It turned out to be an unimaginably large pure black serpent, similar in appearance to the giant snake we had seen in the ice cave where countless children's corpses had been frozen, but the body was much larger!

The body of the black serpent is not depicted in its entirety, but only an unimaginably large triangular head and a part of the snake's body connected to it - if the proportions in the mural are correct, the black serpent is unimaginably large, because the tribal leader standing in front of the serpent is not even as big as one of the serpent's eyes!

But the serpent did not attack the intruders, and the leader of the tribe held the treasure and waved his arms, as if he had entered into a negotiation with the serpent.

They finally came to an agreement - the tribesmen lifted their leader high and sent them into the mouth of the large snake, while the other tribesmen knelt around the huge snake head, facing the snake head......

What follows in the mural is incomprehensible: when the mouth of the snake opens again, the head and body of the tribal leader are separated, and she is actually eating her own body!

As the gnawing increased, the head of the tribal leader turned into a snake head, and slowly grew into the snake body of a black snake, and when she completely turned into a snake body, only a white skeleton was left on the ground, but this skeleton was missing the head.

But in the next scene, the tribal leader with a headdress and a strange pattern on her body actually appeared at the mouth of the cave again, and she raised the treasure in her hand, and the treasure emitted an infinite light, dispelling the layers of red fog, and the monsters that came out of the fog scattered and fled, being chased by the tribal warriors with spears in their hands.

Seeing this, the old knife had a question: "Hasn't this tribal leader turned into a black ruba snake?" How did you turn back into a human body? ”

"I don't look at the pictures carefully." I pointed it out to the old knife, "Although the ornaments on the two tribal leaders are the same, the pigments painted on the bodies are different, one is white paint, the other is brown paint, do you understand?" Therefore, the one holding the treasure to disperse the fog and monsters should already be the next tribal leader. ”

Shen Tangzhi also interjected: "Also, the pattern tattooed on the body of this female tribal leader after that is also different from that on the first female leader - her tattoo ...... It seems to be a snake pattern! ”

When I took a closer look, it turned out to be true! I didn't notice it because the pattern was so small.

I instantly thought of my dream, and the scroll, in which there was a woman with a tattoo on her body, could she be the leader of this mysterious tribe?

I looked at Shen Tangzhi with questioning eyes, and the answer in her eyes should be the same as mine.

Old Dao and Hyde also understood the meaning of the tattoo on the female leader's body, and they both looked at me at the same time, but I was reluctant to discuss these things in front of Tenzin Kava and the others, and it was better not to let them know these secrets.

So I digressed and said, "Have you found human skulls around Borobudur?" ”

They all shook their heads, and I looked at Tenzin Kava's guards and the Sherpa guides, and they all shook their heads to indicate that they hadn't found them.

"What do you mean......" Tenzin Kawa understood what I was going to say, "all those Black Ruba snakes we encountered were all transformed from humans?" Did the gnawing marks on the bones of the human bodies under Borobudur actually be the ones who ate themselves in order to turn into a black ruba snake? ”

Everyone was shocked, and Qi Qi gasped.

I also had hairs standing on my back, but I still nodded, pointed to the murals, and said, "If we believe what is on these murals, then this is the only interpretation." Because we found human tooth marks on those bones, and among the thousands of bones, there was not a single skull, which is very abnormal. ”

Sherlock Holmes famously said: Eliminate all that is impossible, and even if it is no longer possible, that is the truth.

Although it would be absurd and creepy to believe, all the clues we have seen so far point to this explanation, and all suspicion is weak in the face of the facts.

And I further thought that in the diary that Shen Tangzhi and Hyde gave me, it was written that the scientific expedition team had encountered a terrible thing, which led to the almost annihilation of the entire "front team", and what was even more terrifying was that in order to cover up this "secret", "I" and Wenya Hedin in the diary actually began to deliberately design to kill those who knew about it.

The horror may have something to do with a huge snake, as Shaowu said, who said he never believed that "such a huge snake could survive in the desert".

The "secret" that the protagonist and Wen Ya Heding will cover up at the cost of human life, is it ......

When I thought of this, I suddenly looked at the mural, and the color of the fog was bright red!

In the diary, the protagonists also entered a red fog after encountering the black storm, and encountered strange things in the red fog.

If the two are connected......

"It turns out that those frozen corpses are really waiting to be resurrected!"

The old knife's words pulled my divergent thoughts back, and I realized that they had already begun to look at the contents of the subsequent murals.

Shen Tangzhi walked up to me and asked me in a low voice, "What did you think of just now?" ”

I also whispered, "This is not the place to talk. ”

Shen Tangzhi nodded lightly with imperceptible amplitude, and walked with me to the other wall of the stone chamber to see the follow-up murals.

After obtaining the treasure, the tribe easily defeated the monster that emerged from the red mist, and after the victory, they collected the dead tribesmen, tied them with ropes in the shape of babies in the mother's womb, and then the tribe leader opened the box containing the treasure again, and the corpses were shrouded in the light of the treasure.

In the multicolored light, these dead tribe members also turned into black snakes, but their size was much smaller than the black snakes transformed into by the tribal leader.

In terms of proportions, it is similar to the ordinary black ruba snake we encountered, and the black snake transformed by the tribal leader is similar in size to the giant snake that is locked in the ice cave and the frozen corpse of the guardian.

After that, all the tribesmen stood on top of the huge serpent, and the serpent traveled between the mountains and clouds, coiling upwards, and finally entered a blue field, and everyone danced with joy, as if to signify a peaceful and happy ending.

Tenzin Kawa pointed to the last mural and said to me, "That's where we're looking – the land of heaven and sea." ”

Then he turned to everyone and said, "Everyone has seen that these murals, which depict that magical country, the ancient kingdom of Somol, which in legend once aided our Sherpa ancestors, is real!" And now we have the key to the kingdom of God - the red ancient jade in Mr. Yoshimitsu's hand is an omnipotent treasure in the mural! Have you seen Baoyu's power, even if it is a messenger sealed in the snow marrow, its soul cannot resist Baoyu's power. ”

Lao Dao and I silently watched Tenzin Kava give a demagogic speech, and then Tenzin Kava pointed at me and said, "I believe that the destination is not far from us, as long as we cooperate, we will definitely be able to reach the land of heaven and sea!" ”

I stepped forward and said coldly, "I'm sorry, I refuse." ”

"What did you say?" Tenzin Kava had an expression of disbelief on his face.

I repeated, "I said, I don't want to play with you anymore." You, and the two Northern Irishmen, it dawned on me that you all seemed to be doing the same thing, which was to force me on this journey...... Sir Tenzin Kava, can you tell me honestly what your relationship is with K? ”

“K？ Who is K? Tenzin Kawa looked puzzled, but I still caught his look of astonishment.

Just now, I suddenly thought about one thing - if I looked at the whole incident from K's point of view, many doubts would be explained.

I'm beginning to suspect that I've been caught up in a well-conceived and long-term conspiracy since the events of Blackwater.

Although K's figure disappeared from my world at the time of the discovery of the Blackwater incident, after I obtained the Blood Jade "Yin Netherworld Blood Book", K suddenly reappeared, and through various channels, desperately transmitted messages to me, suggesting that I should find and discover the secret of the Blood Jade.

The series of events discovered before, with a high degree of probability, is nothing more than the layout of K.

He understood that if he was to act as an "absolute villain" and force me to take the blood jade to the snow-capped mountains to find the secret of the "Extreme Sky Sea", it would not work, because I was not a pawn in his hands - despite the curse of the Snake Pattern on my body.

So, K used my friend as a breakthrough - Shen Tangzhi and Hyde were tricked by K, thinking that they could help me unravel the curse of the Tattoo on my body, and found a large number of clues in England - these clues are likely carefully prepared by K, because up to now, Alfie Brown, who has provided two important clues to the Serpent of the World and the Mystic Scroll. Dr. D. Findlay is still a mystery, and I suspect we may never find him.

But that wasn't enough, so K "created" an organization that was the opposite of him.

This organization has been revealing its head since the appearance of the fake Yu Wei, and it has stolen my blood jade from the beginning.

K, on the other hand, appeared as a "helper" to me, and he conveyed "great kindness" through Shen Tangzhi - we were all confused by K, thinking that K's motive for helping us was to fight against the mysterious organization behind the fake Yu Wei.

But what if we think about it differently: whether it's fake Yu Wei, Tenzin Kava, or the two Northern Irishmen, all of them are actors who are arranged by K to play a big show in front of us?

K was even so considerate as to help us set up a mountaineering team through Tenzin Kava, and let the sacrifice of the fake Yu Wei lure out two so-called Northern Irishmen to send the blood jade to Tenzin Kava - in fact, it was sent back to me, because the next expedition could not be carried out without this piece of blood jade.

And Shen Tang and I were all four of us, and we even cooperated with the performance all the way, and even felt that all the situation was won back by myself with desperate efforts......

It was only in the end that I found out that everything was a script.

And the script is extremely simple: only the beginning and the end are written, and everything in between can be played by us, the protagonists, at will—this is the genius of K, and even I, as an insider, can't help but praise it for being wonderful.

However, I'm going to pull up the script now, and I'm not going to play the cards according to common sense anymore.

"I don't understand what you're talking about." Tenzin Kava's gaze gradually darkened, "If you choose to quit because you are afraid, as a friend who has experienced danger together, I can understand your feelings, but if that is the case, please return that piece of treasure to me." ”

"You didn't wake up?" The old knife pulled the bolt.

Although he and Shen Tangzhi still don't know why I suddenly made such a decision, he has already expressed his support for me with his actions.

But just as we were confronted, there was a loud bang from outside the cave, and the ground under our feet shook slightly, and then a familiar and terrible scream reached the ears of all of us!

Everyone's faces changed drastically!

"Hold the grass, is it a ......" the old knife said, his nose sniffed hard in the air, and his brows suddenly wrinkled into the word "Chuan": "Do you smell it?" ”

A fishy smell was already coming with the sound of vibration......

There is no need to look back, we all understand that it is the huge black snake guarding the frozen corpse of the ice cave chasing after us!

"Didn't you say that the hell wasn't locked up? How did it get released? ”

"How the fuck do I know? What else to see, let's go! ”

I pulled an old knife, took Hyde's arm from Shen Tang's hand, and ran away with the old knife to set up Hyde.

Tenzin Kawa didn't care to confront me anymore and fled for his life in the depths of the cave with his people.

But we only ran more than 100 meters away, and the cave passage came to an end, and a mess of rocks blocked the passage, which collapsed and became a dead end!

Behind us, the serpent's body and the loud thud of the wall slamming closer and closer, and the air smelled of blood and fish......

Several Sherpa guides were already on the verge of collapse with wide-eyed despair, while the two Northern Irishmen prayed incessantly to God, their heads trembling and their crosses on their chests......