As soon as Shen Tangzhi said this, I instantly remembered the mysterious diary, in which there was indeed a record of extremely corrosive liquid.

The old knife who walked at the end first put forward a different opinion: "The face of that frozen corpse looks like it has been corroded by something, but the protagonist in that diary writes about his own encounter in the Gobi Desert, and we are now in the Himalayas, 108,000 miles away." ”

Hyde walked in front of the old knife, and he gestured a circle with both hands, reminding the old knife: "The snake of the world ......"

"You mean—"

"We know that there are legends of the Serpent of the World all over the world, which proves that the Serpent of the World will haunt all parts of the earth, and distance is not an issue, because the body of the Serpent of the World is said to be able to circle the whole world."

I agreed with Hyde's statement: "Hyde is right, if all of this is because of the serpent of the world, then it can be explained." ”

The old knife was still a little unconvinced: "Could it be that we are also in this big snake's lair now?" ”

"Based on the known clues, we have only deduced that there is something related to the Serpent of the World, and as for what the truth is, we don't know yet." Shen Tang's way.

Strange to say, a few of us were in this frozen cave, and the temperature felt much higher than on the snowy mountains outside, and the thermometer we carried showed that the temperature in the cave was minus 10 degrees, and before we came in, the thermometer showed minus 15 degrees.

Shen Tangzhi used a flashlight to shine on the frozen rock walls around him: "The passage in this cave is inclined downward, if we continue to go down, the temperature may be higher." ”

It is precisely because of this that Tenzin Kava and his party do not need to bring a tent at all, and the temperature in this cave is much more comfortable than in the tent.

The old knife suddenly thought of something, "oops", and said, "Oh, do we have to leave one person at the entrance of the cave?" If it snows outside in a moment, we'll be buried alive in the hole. ”

Shen Tangzhi behind me said: "Although we dug through the thick snow just now before entering the cave, but along the way, we can clearly feel the wind blowing from the depths in the cave, so there must be vents and exits ahead, so don't worry." ”

After about fifteen minutes of walking, the passage in the cave went down, and I roughly estimated that the inclination was about 15 degrees, that is, we walked about 1500 meters, and when we looked at the altitude meter, the real-time altitude showed that it was 5243 meters - we had descended more than 300 meters.

In front of the strong flashlight, the first fork in the road appeared.

"Over there?" I asked.

Shen Tangzhi and I each held a strong flashlight in our hands, shining at the fork in the road on both sides, the left side was still going straight down, the front was bottomless, and the slope on the right was significantly slowed, and the corner was seen not far away.

"Let's go this way."

Seeing that everyone had decided to do so, I took the lead and walked to the right - psychologically, I didn't want to go any further, because it was going deep into the belly of Dhaulagiri, which would cause me a lot of bad associations.

The passage on the right became much wider and could accommodate two people in parallel, so Shen Tangzhi stepped forward and walked side by side with me.

"There's something on the ice wall." As soon as we walked around that corner, Shen Tangzhi noticed something unusual.

When we looked, on top of the crystal ice wall, there was a bloody handprint!

In addition, there were a lot of draggy blood stains on the ground, and the direction in which the blood stains disappeared was in the depths of the zigzag passage.

I touched the bloody handprints with my hand, and I was able to erase them, which means that these blood stains are very fresh, and they are probably left by Tenzin Kawana's group.

The question is, what did they encounter?

Not only did I think of this question, of course Shen Tangzhi and the others thought of it, but while we were still thinking about it, the old knife guy suddenly opened his throat and shouted:

"Inside, face, still, have, people, live, with—"

I can't wait to shut this reckless guy in the mouth right away!

Before I could say anything about the old knife, I heard a sudden rustling sound from the depths of the cave, and a faint fishy smell came from the depths of the cave.

The old knife also said proudly: "It seems that there is someone." ”

"You've got a big head - fuck, run!"

Halfway through my words, I immediately stopped, only to see a black patch suddenly emerge from the place where the strong flashlight reached, and when we looked closely, we couldn't help but feel like a dead soul - it was a dense mass of countless black ruba snakes!

These black snakes crawled extremely fast, and almost in an instant, they were only about ten meters away from us!

We immediately turned around and fled, and the old knife asked me as he ran, "Aji, don't these black snakes listen to you?" Hurry up and show your supernatural powers! ”

"I showed a ghost's supernatural powers, and at that time it was- I didn't have time to explain it to you, don't talk nonsense, run yours!"

The first time I met the Black Ruba snakes, I was also blessed with a soul, and suddenly I remembered my dream very clearly, and retold the mysterious ode sung by the maiden of the sea in its entirety.

But now, as I searched my head, I still couldn't piece together a complete memory.

I can't sing that carol, and of course I can't take those terrible black ruba snakes.

We were quickly back at the fork in the road we had at the beginning, and now the question was – where should we run away?

As soon as I turned around, the group of black ruba snakes was only less than five meters away from me and Shen Tangzhi, as if they could bite us both with a sudden leap.

I shouted, "Don't go back, let's run down, those snakes are faster than us, you can't escape with your feet, just slide down!" ”

The passage of this cave is sloping, if we run back, I will go uphill, in that case, we will never be able to escape the mouth of the snakes, but fortunately, the ground of the cave is also condensed with solid and smooth ice, we can slide down like a slide, taking advantage of our weight is heavier than the black ruba, the acceleration of gravity, will let us win this race of life and death.

The old knife realized in an instant, and after he rushed to the fork in the road, he jumped up suddenly, his feet forward, and he was the first to slide down.

Immediately afterwards, Hyde, Shen Tangzhi and I also concocted the same method and sat up the "slide" with the old knife.

Behind me, the snakes hissed and poured down, and when I shone my flashlight back, I felt my scalp tingle!

I saw that the snakes were tangled into a ball, like countless black pasta that was countless times thicker, and was poured into this cave, forming a "sea of snakes" behind me, overwhelmingly oppressive.

After about five minutes of sliding down, there was a turn in the passage, and when we made the corner, we were thrown high and just landed, and there was another turn......

If I hadn't eaten breakfast, I would have vomited.

After about twenty or thirty times of being thrown high and flying low, the cave became wider and wider, and turned back into a straight, and then a bright light appeared in front of it......

Several of us were amazed - in the belly of the Dhaulagiri Peak, which is so high, there is a light?!

What an incredible thing!

But Shen Tangzhi suddenly warned loudly: "No, that's not natural light!" That's glow-in-the-dark ore on a rock face – there could be a cliff ahead! Stop the slide! Otherwise, we'll all fall to our deaths! ”

"With an ice axe!" I yelled, and as I desperately pulled out the ice axe stuck in the card slot of my backpack.

Old Knife and Hyde are doing the same thing as me.

But Shen Tangzhi suddenly panicked: "My ice axe is gone!" ”

It may be that the dozens of turns just now shook the ice axe that Shen Tangzhi tied to his backpack down.

She was about three meters behind me to the left, and I quickly smashed the ice axe into the ice while shouting: "Shen Tangzhi, hurry up and hold on to me!" ”

I don't know how long the ice had been formed, it was as strong as steel, I fought with all my strength, and the tip of the ice axe only made a long white mark on the surface of the ice, so I had to spread my limbs as much as possible to make my body rub against the ice as much as possible, and to achieve the purpose of slowing down.

In this way, Shen Tangzhi finally caught up with me, but in the confusion we suddenly collided together, I only felt my face crashing into Shen Tangzhi's arms, through the thick ski suit, I could still feel the obvious two soft meats, tightly wrapped around my face.

We rolled into a ball, but Shen Tangzhi was extremely flexible, she climbed my body like a tree, quickly adjusted her posture, climbed to my chest, and then clamped me with her limbs like an octopus.

"Slow down with an ice axe!"

While Shen Tangzhi was speaking, the hot breath exhaled from his mouth sprayed into my ears, and I faintly smelled a sweet breath, which instantly made the roots of my ears a little hot.

But at present, of course, it is not the time to worry about these, I stuffed the flashlight into Shen Tang's hand, and smashed the ice axe with both hands again and again, and finally heard a "pop", the solid surface of the ice was focused on being pierced by me!

I pressed the ice axe down so hard that the ice exploded in my face like a blade, and I couldn't take care of it.

But a few of us slowed down, but the black ruba snake group behind did not slow down, we were soon caught up, the black pressure snake group surged up, only to feel up and down, all the contact was slippery snake body, a strong fishy smell filled the nasal cavity!

I could feel that there were several black ruba snakes biting at my hiking suit – fortunately it was thick enough that they couldn't bite through it for a while.

After a few seconds, the slide finally stopped, and my body was already hanging in mid-air, thanks to the ice axe stuck in a crack in the ice.

The snakes that slid down with us didn't have ice axes, and with a "hissing" sound, they crossed over my head and fell like dumplings.

Shen Tangzhi's inference is completely correct, at the end of this passage, it is indeed a cliff!

After a few seconds, there was nothing above me - all the snakes had fallen off the cliff.

I looked around in mid-air, and there was a very empty space around me, similar to the cave halls that are common in karst landscapes!

The walls of the cave hall emitted a hazy white light, but the brightness only allowed me to see the existence of the rock wall, and I couldn't see anything in the empty cave hall.

There were only three or two black ruba snakes, and they were still biting my mountaineering clothes, Shen Tangzhi did not panic, first put away the flashlight, and then directly pinched the seven inches of the black ruba snake with his hand, forced it to open its mouth, and then threw it under the cliff.

There were also snakes that saw Shen Tangzhi's hand approaching and wanted to bite her, but when they lost their mouths, they fell off the cliff directly.

When Shen Tangzhi grabbed the last Black Ruba snake, I stopped: "Don't lose it yet, it may be useful." ”

Shen Tang's old trick was repeated, and he used my body as a tree to climb, first climbed to the top of the cliff, and then pulled me up.

The old knife guy was also hanging on the edge of the cliff, and I pulled him up, and he said with a dark face: "The beard may have fallen." ”

Shen Tangzhi and I were shocked when we heard this, and hurriedly lay on the edge of the ice cliff and shone down with a strong flashlight, but we saw that it was dark and dark below, and it was bottomless.

"There it is!"

It was still Shen Tang's sharp eyes, and he could see at a glance that there was a small platform several meters wide about ** meters below the cliff, and Hyde was lying on his back, unconscious, and the most terrifying thing was that there were two black ruba snakes, which were coiled on Hyde's body!

We shouted at him, but Hyde didn't respond, and the two snakes immediately arched their heads and screamed in the direction of the lamppost.

"Hurry up and prepare the cable!"

On the edge of the cliff, there is a deep ice crack, as if the ice suddenly broke here, it is this ice crack that saved our lives just now, and on the side of the ice crack, there is still an ice axe, it seems that Hyde is not holding the ice axe tightly, so he is falling.

The old knife felt for the ice pick, hit it in the cracked ice, and then fastened one end of the rope, and I tied a rope to myself as a safety belt, and the end of the rope passed through the safety rope placed by the old knife, and tied two figure-eight knots.

While doing all this, I asked Shen Tangzhi to throw away the black ruba snake in his hand - originally I asked her to keep the snake because she was afraid that someone would be bitten by the snake and could use the snake gall bladder to detoxify, but now Hyde has two black ruba snakes on his body, and the snake gall bladder of the snake that bit him has the best effect.

Time was pressing, so I hurried to lower down.

When they reached the platform, the two Black Ruba snakes were crawling through Hyde's neck into their clothes!

I pulled out the tactical dagger strapped to my leg, took three steps and made two steps, grabbed the tail of a black ruba snake and pulled it out of Hyde's clothes, then stepped on the snake's head with one foot and cut off the snake's head with one dagger!

The other snake, also concocted in the same way, was quickly resolved.

At this time, the old knife also came down, and the two of us untied Hyde's mountaineering suit and hurriedly checked Hyde's injury, only to see that an inch above the navel was covered with a pool of blood, which had turned black.

When the clothes were lifted, there were two deep tooth marks, and the blood that came out was already pure black.

"Old knife, take a snake gall."

And I didn't say a word, I directly used my mouth to help Hyde suck poisonous blood, and after sucking more than ten mouthfuls in a row, finally, bright red blood gushed out of the wound.

Among the men I slammed into Hyde, the Englishman finally woke up.

Dressed in a hiking suit and protective gear, he didn't have any external injuries on his body, except for a few abrasions on his face, and after swallowing the hot snake gall, Hyde's dark face gradually returned to blood.

"Yoshimitsu, there's a hole here, too."

Seeing that Hyde was fine, the flashlight in Shen Tangzhi's hand turned, and he suddenly made a new discovery.

The hole was sealed in a thin layer of ice, and the old knife swung an ice axe to break through it.

But as soon as we entered it, we took a flashlight to shine it, but we all said "ah", and then we were chilled!

I saw that the four walls of the cave were covered with thick ice, and in the ice, there were countless dead people dressed in ancient clothes, all of them children, all of whom were tied with crimson ropes, making the corpses look like fetuses.

The flashlight penetrated the ice, and I saw that in the depths of the ice, there were densely packed with children's corpses, and I didn't know that there were thousands or hundreds!