We found a spacious cave room, and eight people sat in a circle on the floor (me, Shen Tangzhi, and Lao Dao all had one more "copy"), and everyone held hands and closed their eyes.

Sure enough, as soon as we closed our eyes, we heard all kinds of terrible sounds in our ears, and even I heard it a little creepy.

I warn everyone, "Don't open your eyes as if none of those voices exist!" Find a way to put yourself to sleep - count the sheep, recite the six-character mantra, you have to force yourself to sleep anyway......"

The crowd answered and fell silent.

But in less than ten seconds, the voice of the old knife suddenly came again: "Did you hear any strange noises?" It's like the hiss of a poisonous snake spitting out letters......"

I didn't care which old knife said it, so I opened my mouth to stop it: "Don't speak! ”

But as soon as I finished speaking, I felt something fall on my neck—it was like a thick rope, cold, and smelled fishy...... It's clearly a snake!

Almost at the same time, Shen Tangzhi also screamed: "There seems to be a snake!" ”

As soon as Shen Tang's words fell, there was a rustling sound around us, the sound of snake scales rubbing against each other, and the sound of snake letters snorting and "sizzling", all of which suddenly came like a tide......

In terms of momentum alone, the number of snakes is incalculable.

The old knife suddenly said: "Aji, there are already snakes crawling on my legs!" There are so many snakes! If you don't care, you'll be bitten to death by a snake! ”

Others also said:

"I've got that too!"

"The snake crawled on me......"

Next to me were Hyde and Shen Tangzhi, there was already a slight tremor on the arms of these two people, and at this time, the poisonous snake that fell on my neck had begun to wrap its cold body around my neck, I held back the cold fear rising from my back, and clenched the palms of the two of them hard:

"Everyone held each other's hands hard and there must be no movement. Remember, it's only our consciousness that enters this alien dimension, and our bodies are still in the Tower of Babel! It's all an illusion! ”

Having said that, the poisonous snake around my neck has been tightly wrapped around my neck, and the horror of the cold-blooded animal's body in contact with my own skin is absolutely unimaginable if I have not experienced it.

And, since we close our eyes and lose our vision, all the whole person's attention is focused on other senses, and the terrible sounds of the snakes and the touch of the poisonous snakes will be even more unbearable......

After only a while, the old knife said again: "Aji, I can't stand it anymore...... Hurry up and figure it out! If it goes on like this, let alone sleeping, it is impossible to sit on the ground peacefully! ”

It turns out that this guy is so afraid of snakes!

Originally, I didn't see him have such a great fear of snakes, maybe this adventure saw a lot of black ruba snakes, large and small, as well as abnormal snake people, which caused the old knife to leave a psychological shadow.

Because this alien space was created through the content of Lao Dao's thoughts, the most fearful things in his heart would definitely appear at the most critical moment.

Although I had long expected that I would encounter difficulties in the process of breaking the confinement of the other dimension, I could never have imagined that the final appearance would be a swarm of snakes.

Human beings' fear of snakes is almost innate, and this sense of terror is indeed the most difficult to overcome.

When I was about to say something to cheer me on, I felt that the snake around my neck had already burrowed into my chest, and suddenly there was a wave of heat from my chest, and the heat disappeared in an instant, and even the snake disappeared!

Everyone also exclaimed: "Hey, the snakes seem to have disappeared suddenly!" ”

I knew right away - the viper had touched the blood jade that hung on my chest!

I didn't expect that the blood jade, which was not in an entity state, could also play such a big role, this strange thing was really unfathomable.

Without the snakes, we quickly fell asleep.

……

Almost as soon as I fell asleep, a very palpable sense of realism came over me, and when I opened my eyes again, I found that everyone had returned to the ancient tower.

It was still the same room, but the walls were empty, and there was no magical stone door at all, and the six of us were lying on the ground in all directions.

After me, the old knife and the others also woke up one by one, but Poche still fell straight to the ground, and when we looked closer, we saw that Poche's face was full of horror, his mouth was crooked, his face was blue, and he was dead.

Unable to dispose of Poche's body on the Tower of Babel, Tenzin Kawa had to carry his body to the wall according to the Sherpa custom of Buddhism, and then chanted the mantra several times, which was considered a simple funeral for him.

After that, we continued to climb up the steps of the Tower of Babel - the method I proposed was that everyone had to keep their eyes closed during the climb, but they could open their eyes when they were resting on a certain floor.

We climbed the Tower of Babel for three days in a row, and when everyone was close to the limit of their physical strength, we finally reached the top of the tower.

The top of the tower was the same as the usual tower floor, empty, except for one more gate, but when we walked out of the gate, everyone gasped.

At the exit of the Tower of Babel, a stone beam was connected so slender that it could only accommodate one person, and the stone beam extended forward in the air and disappeared into the clouds.

We don't know how high we are from the ground, and the altitude gauge we were carrying failed after entering the Tower of Babel, and it hasn't returned to normal until now.

But it took us more than three days just to climb this Babel Tower, and we must have been at a very high place, only to hear the cold wind hunting in our ears, and the wind was so loud that even two people had to shout in each other's ears when they spoke, and around us, there were white clouds......

We made eye contact with each other: we all agreed that we were all here, and no one would be afraid to back down.

The width of the stone beam is only two palms wide, and when you walk up, you immediately feel like you are walking a high-altitude tightrope, and when you look down, the clouds are ethereal, which makes people feel like they are on the edge of an abyss.

Although none of the five of us have any fear of heights, the stone beams under our feet are so narrow that it seems to break in the next second, and it is in such an extremely high place where people can't stop being dizzy just by looking down, coupled with the extreme cold wind that blows from time to time, our bodies shake more than once......

Every step we take, we are sweating, and the thrilling places cannot be counted.

It didn't take long for everyone to sweat profusely and panting, and it turned out to be much more tiring than climbing the tower.

After walking a little further, we have found that the clouds under our feet have slowly begun to turn blue, and they have also become thicker, the further we go, the deeper the blue becomes, and finally, more than ten meters below the stone beam, there is this thick blue mist.

It was also at this time that we saw the end of the stone beam.

At the end of the beam was an open stone platform, on which stood several statue-like objects, which were guarding a square boulder.

When we stepped on the stone platform, we saw that this was actually a burial altar!

The four gray-black metal statues are arched at the four corners of the burial platform in four directions, east, west, north and south, and those statues are very similar to the meteorite statues we see in the temple of Somol, but they are more than twice the size of the latter, and the material is also meteorite - it seems that the statues in the temple of Somol can only be regarded as imitations in a sense, and what we see in front of us is the original.

A large white sarcophagus guarded in the middle by a statue.

The sarcophagus was white and crystalline, and Shen Tangzhi touched it with his hand: "This is the real white marble...... Such a huge whole piece of white marble is spectacular. ”

Shen Tangzhi said, we generally see white marble, in fact, and the real white marble is not the same kind of jade, the real white marble is generally produced in the riverbed, translucent, but also with crystal clear water color, this kind of real white marble has always produced very little, especially such a huge whole piece of jade, it is unheard of, it seems to be an ancient treasure undoubtedly.

The entire sarcophagus is nearly two stories high and more than thirty meters wide, and we have to look up to see it all.

The sarcophagus is engraved with strange words, exactly the same as in the ancient tower, and the text is engraved with dense small crosses below, we are not knowing why, and suddenly found that the white marble sarcophagus is slowly emerging new lettering!

It was still the strange text like a cuneiform composed of geometric figures, and below the text, a cross appeared, and I was counting the final number of crosses, when the old knife on one side suddenly shouted!

Because the wind was too loud, I couldn't hear what the old knife said, but it was enough to attract my attention, I looked, only to see the right foot of the white marble sarcophagus, there is a crystal box, in which you can faintly see an ancient book!

And Tenzin Kava had already approached the crystal box, and was about to reach out to open the crystal box - the old knife shouted, probably because of this.

And I also remembered that Tenzin Kava had told us before that he came to find the treasures of the Tangut royal family, and he claimed to be a descendant of the Tangut royal family who fled westward, and broke into the ruins of the land of the sky and sea with us, just to retrieve a royal secret book for our ancestors.

It was an out-of-print strange book called "The Golden Wheel Buddha's Peak Great Virtue Blazing Light Nine Yao Holy Star Secret Books", which recorded the cultivation method of the mysterious Star Yao Divination Technique.

At this time, Tenzin Kawa probably thought that the crystal box contained the secret book of the Western Xia royal family, so he made the first move!

As soon as Shen Tangzhi and Hyde and I saw the vision on the white marble sarcophagus, we were already attracted to attention, only the old knife had been staring at Tenzin Kava, and at this time I found that Tenzin Kava was going to make a small move, so I immediately rushed over, but it was too late to stop Tenzin Kava.

However, the moment Tenzin Kava's hand touched the crystal box, we felt the ground shake under our feet!

Looking back in horror, I found that the stone beam, which was our back road, was broken inch by inch and fell to the bottom of the sky piece by piece.

Only the circular stone platform we are on is left, and I don't know what the magical principle is, but it is still floating in the sky.

We breathe a sigh of relief - although the way back is gone, as long as people are still there, we can always find a way to live.

When he turned his head to look at Tenzin Kava again, he saw that he happened to open the crystal box, and was using his hand to take the ancient book in the box, when a huge black claw suddenly poked out from the white marble surface of the sarcophagus!

Before we could utter an exclamation, Tenzin Kava had been dragged into the sarcophagus!

No, only Tenzin Kawa's body was dragged in, as if it had disappeared out of thin air in an instant, leaving only a pile of clothes and backpacks on the ground.

With this happening, all of us instantly took a few steps back, away from the white marble sarcophagus.

But for a while, there was nothing unusual about the white marble sarcophagus, perhaps...... As long as you don't touch that ancient book, you won't be attacked?

And my eyes fell again on the newly displayed inscription on the sarcophagus, and suddenly there was one more in the dense cross, and I counted it again, and the total number was 22 crosses.

My heart moved, and I leaned into Shen Tangzhi's ear and asked loudly, "How many people died along the way?" ”

Shen Tangzhi thought for a moment and replied: "When we formed the expedition, there were 23 people, and then the fat manager who joined BC, and two Northern Irishmen, John and Farrado - a total of 26 people, and now there are 5 people alive, and 21 people have died...... What do you suddenly ask about this? ”

"In other words, counting Tenzin Kava, we've already sacrificed 22 people along the way?"

"yes, what's wrong?"

"You count the number of new crosses on this sarcophagus......"

“1、2…… 22？！ ”

I nodded: "I finally understand the meaning of the strange words on the note that K handed me through Zhang Hui." ”

In K's note, there are key words about Roanouk Island, including "Walter Expedition", "Irrejo Archaeological Group", and a varying number of cross-shaped markers underneath them.

It was only then that I realized what those doji marks really meant, referring to the number of deaths.

And the two [expedition teams] and [archaeological teams] also refer to other points - two expedition teams, one refers to us and Tenzin Kava, and the other team is the team of Dr. Findlay, False Yu Wei, and the Northern Irish, and the cross mark refers to the number of deaths, no more, no less, exactly 22 people, and this calculation law must be the journey to climb the peak of Dozilari.

Also, is it necessary to sacrifice so many lives in order to achieve the trigger condition for something?

Just thinking like this, all the words on the sarcophagus suddenly slowly disappeared, and soon disappeared.

The old knife was shocked: "Damn, is this thing a stone?" Why do I feel more like a living creature the more I look at it?! ”

Since it had not occurred to me to connect the cross on the sarcophagus with the contents of K's note, it would be useless to think about it now. Even though 22 crosses representing death have been displayed, I would like to try to save Tenzin Kava.

I tried to get close to the sarcophagus until my fingers touched the surface of the sarcophagus and nothing happened.

However, no matter what method we used, we could not open the sarcophagus, or even inflict the slightest damage on this strange sarcophagus, because the sarcophagus turned back into a single stone, and it was so hard that our ice axe could do nothing but smash a few sparks.

We had to choose the second option - I would take out the ancient book in the crystal box.