The sight was so terrifying that we all took a step backwards.

Especially Hyde, who had just regained his senses, almost fainted again.

The old knife hurriedly grabbed Hyde and muttered, "What the hell is this?" Where did so many children's corpses come from? ”

I shook my head, and now I was extremely confused.

On the side of Dhaulagiri Peak, known as the "Devil's Peak" in the Himalayas, there is a cave that can lead to the depths of the mountain's belly, and in the cave, we not only encountered a group of Black Ruba snakes, but also saw thousands of child corpses.

These children's corpses were bound with red ropes and turned into babies, frozen in the ice, and I don't know how many years.

Hyde, who finally came to his senses, was the first to speak: "When I was at the University of St. Christie, I once read a book about the Sherpas, and it seems to be a traditional practice of the Sherpas to tie the rope of a child who died in this way...... It is generally stored in a stone cave or tree cavity in a mountain cliff, and corpse wax is formed over time. ”

Shen Tangzhi and I had already walked in front of the ice wall, she sighed on the ice, wiped it with her gloves, and then the strong flashlight shone into the ice, and after looking at it for a while, she suddenly said, "Jiguang, you come and see here." ”

I followed the direction of Shen Tangzhi's finger and saw a frozen corpse very close to the surface of the ice wall - it was a little girl, wearing a red braid, wearing a pair of jade earrings, wearing a flower tube skirt and a pink long-sleeved shirt, covered with a white wool shoulder called "Pardo", and slightly pouting her chubby mouth, as if she was asleep.

"Look at her forehead." Shen Tang's prompt.

The little girl has a small black snake tattooed on her forehead!

"It's serpentine again......"

Carefully discerning the other child corpses frozen in the ice wall, it was found that the corpse's forehead was all tattooed with the same black snake-like pattern.

The first thing that came to my mind was the stria on my back, followed by the black ruba snake, and there must be some connection between them, but we don't know yet.

"What are you looking at?"

Just as I was thinking about it, Hyde and the old knife also came over, and I was about to point out the black pattern on the forehead of the frozen corpse to them, but when I turned around, I was stunned!

I saw that a small black snake also appeared on Hyde's forehead!

Shen Tangzhi and I also discovered the black pattern that suddenly appeared on Hyde's forehead at the same time, and when I made eye contact, we both saw shock and surprise in the other party's eyes!

At the same time, we thought - is the appearance of this black snake pattern related to being bitten by a black ruba snake?

But immediately there was another question - why did the two fake Yu Wei, who were also bitten by the Black Ruba snake at that time, have no black snake marks on their foreheads?

There must be some key detail that we haven't noticed yet, causing the same reaction to being bitten by the Black Ruba snake but having a different reaction, so what did Hyde do otherwise?

I didn't see the answer in Shen Tang's eyes, and I didn't think of it either...... Most importantly, what does the Black Snake Mark represent? This is directly related to the fate of Hyde.

Judging by the dense frozen corpses inside the ice wall, the results are likely not to be promising.

At this time, the old knife also found the black snake pattern on Hyde's forehead, but under the prompting of my eyes, he swallowed it back into his stomach.

Hyde, who did not know that he had been marked by death, was still talking to us about the funeral customs of the Sherpas, and he said that the Sherpas believed that the soul of a child is the purest of all, and that as long as the body of a child is preserved, one day, the soul will return to the body, and that person will be resurrected, just like a hibernating snake that has shed its dead skin and is reborn.

In other words, the frozen corpses of the thousands of children in front of us are actually people who are waiting for the resurrection.

"Damn, after you said that, why am I getting more here? Will these frozen corpses really come back to life? ”

The old knife shrank his neck, and the strong flashlight in his hand shone around, and when he shone the flashlight on the top of the ice cave, suddenly the whole person froze, as if he had been immobilized by a spell.

"How are you-" Shen Tangzhi was suspicious, looked up, and stopped at half a sentence.

I finally realized that something was wrong, and as soon as I raised my head, my whole body froze in place!

About 5 or 6 meters above our heads, in the middle of the aperture of the flashlight, a pair of giant eyes reflected blood-red light!

It turned out to be a giant snake head!

The snake's mouth was spewing white gas, and the snake letter, which was thicker than the hiking rope around my waist, stretched and shrunk - it was a live snake!

Only then did I realize that the top of this ice cave was not closed, a huge piece of solid ice formed a protruding platform, and the giant snake was prostrate on the platform, and it was estimated that behind the platform, it led to another cave.

The giant snake was as black as ink, its scales were shiny, its triangular head was as huge as a millstone, and its body was as thick as a wine barrel.

The serpent may have intended to ambush us, but the old knife inadvertently used a flashlight to shine a random light and stumbled upon the serpent.

Maybe it was frightened by the strong flashlight, and the eyes of the giant snake were instantly dazzled by the light, but in addition to sight, snakes have a strong sense of smell, and even some snakes have the ability to detect thermal imaging.

I took a sharp breath to force myself to compose, and then pulled the old knife and Shen Tangzhi's clothes with my hand, motioning for them to slowly exit the ice cave.

The four of us trembled and moved out of the ice cave, and the old knife had to hold a strong flashlight in his hand, so that the pillar of light kept shining into the eyes of the black giant snake.

Beyond the ice cave, there was a rope that led to the passage we had slid down earlier.

When we finally retreated to the mouth of the ice cave, I whispered, "Climb back up!" ”

Then we turned around at the same time and rushed to the rope, but the rope was only fixed in the ice crevice by the ice pick, not to mention the four of us, even two of us climbing at the same time, we might not be able to bear it.

Fortunately, the four of us still knew each other well, trusted each other, and did not rush to escape, although each other's eyes were full of fear, but did not fight for the rope, but stopped in front of the rope at the same time.

After a quick eye contact, we all tacitly let the best old knife among us climb up first.

The old knife also understood that it was a time of life and death, so he took a deep breath, grabbed the rope with both hands and jumped up, and quickly climbed up along the rope.

At this time, I don't care about the operation such as tying a safety rope, and I can only rely on physical strength, and if I make a slight mistake, I will fall into a huge cave with no bottom under my feet.

** At a distance of meters, it only took about ten seconds for the old knife to climb to the top, and then he turned over and went to the entrance of the cave above.

At this time, we could already hear the sound of squirming in the ice cave behind us, and the huge black snake had probably recovered and sighted, and was now looking for our whereabouts.

The old knife grabbed the rope with both hands, beckoned downward, and I immediately began to climb.

Holding my breath, I desperately pulled the rope up and climbed up, and it took about fifteen seconds to climb to the mouth of the cave above, and the whole person was almost out of strength.

The old knife continued to beckon, but at this time, there was a situation: Shen Tangzhi and Haide actually gave in!

Shen Tangzhi wanted to let Hyde go first, but Hyde refused to live or die, and just pushed Shen Tangzhi to the edge of the rope.

I understand that the black serpent may appear behind them at any time, and in this case, the next chance to climb up may well be the only hope of survival.

I don't know if Hyde is in infatuation, or if he has noticed something, and knows that the danger after being bitten by the Black Ruba snake has not passed, so he insists on letting Shen Tangzhi go first.

But the reason why I chose to climb up the second one was because I could no longer remain silent in anticipation of the fact that there was probably not enough time, and shouted downwards: "Hold on to the rope together, and I will pull you up with the old knife!" ”

Although I could lower my voice, I still alarmed the giant snake in the ice cave, and when Shen Tangzhi and Haide reached out and grabbed the rope at the same time, they only heard a heavy sound coming from the ice cave!

Lao Dao and I didn't hesitate any longer, grabbed the rope with both hands, and began to pull up desperately!

Luckily, we were wearing professional climbing shoes with steel ice teeth embedded in the soles, which provided enough friction to allow the two of us to slide into the abyss below.

The roaring sound stopped in a blink of an eye, and then, a huge black snake head suddenly burst out of the ice cave, and the blood basin opened its mouth violently, and it bit Shen Tangzhi and Haide who were in mid-air with one bite!

"Old knife, throw it out!"

At the same time, we threw the rope away from the direction of the snake's mouth, only to hear Shen Tangzhi scream in mid-air, the black giant snake just grazed the edge, missed by Shen Tangzhi's side, and threw itself into the air, which frightened me into a cold sweat in an instant, and secretly exclaimed that it was dangerous.

Seeing that the prey in its mouth was about to slip away, the black giant snake was immediately furious, and at this time, Shen Tangzhi and Hyde just swung back from a distance, and the giant snake retracted its snake body, and instantly ejected out again, biting Shen Tangzhi.

I suddenly screamed in my heart, and roared with the old knife, and the whole person suddenly exerted force, pulling the rope back and pulling a big section!

I could only hear a muffled sound of gold and iron striking from an extremely far-reaching place, and the entire cave shook slightly!

I had already pulled the rope and retreated to the cave, I couldn't see the situation under the cliff at all, I only knew that the rope in my hand had not become lighter, and the old knife's face was red, and he pulled with me......

Finally, Shen Tangzhi's head poked out from the edge of the cliff, she grabbed the ice crack on the edge of the cliff, turned over and climbed up, and then reached out and pulled Hyde up.

After the two of them came up, they climbed a few steps into the cave, and then lay on their backs on the ground, while Lao Dao and I were even more exhausted and collapsed on the ground, and we could only watch Shen Tangzhi and Hyde escape with our eyes, and we didn't even have the strength to move a finger.

At the foot of the cliff, the black giant snake let out a loud roar of "hiss" angrily, and the ground under me also shook slightly, and the sound of gold and iron was faintly heard in my ears.

But now I don't care about the serpent, and if it can crawl into the cave where we are now, we'll just be dead.

However, the black snake never climbed up, and after a few minutes, the great cavern hall was quiet again.

At this time, Shen Tangzhi gasped and said, "That giant snake seems to have shrunk somewhere, and it can only poke out a small part of its body from that ice cave, so it didn't reach us...... It's really dangerous. ”

Hyde on the side turned pale and nodded in agreement.

No wonder I heard the faint sound of gold and iron, presumably the sound of the chains that held the serpent to it when it was torn off.

The place we are currently in, below is the bottomless abyss, and the ice cave where countless child corpses are buried is guarded by giant snakes, and of course we are not going to go again, and the only option in front of us is to go back the way we came, and then go and see where the other fork in the road leads.

After packing up ropes, ice picks, axes and other items, and seeing that it was almost seven o'clock, we felt hungry to death, so we found compressed biscuits and chocolates, and ate a little each, and then we continued to act.

When he walked back, the old knife said, "What the hell is this fucking place?" First encountered a group of black ruba snakes, then found a vast number of corpses of melon babies, and now a huge black snake - what is this big snake? ”

"Looks like an oversized black ruba." Shen Tangzhi said, and then added, "It is also very similar to the black python on Jiguang's back." ”

I heard Hyde talk about Sherpa customs again, but I disagreed, and I thought that the series of interconnected caves in which we were located belonged to the ancient kingdom of Somer.

Although there are few legends about the ancient kingdom of Somer, and most of them are of low credibility, such as the legend of the "Himalayan snowman", these legends can also prove the existence of the ancient kingdom of Somol from the side.

On the other hand, we may be unraveling an age-old mystery – why was the ancient kingdom of Somol so isolated in the depths of the precipitous Himalayas that future generations could only glimpse the leopard in legends, and could not even find any record in the history books?

Because the ancient kingdom of Somol is an underground kingdom!

The ancestors of the ancient kingdom of Somol probably created the eighth wonder of the world - they dug huge and complex caves deep into the Himalayas and established a state in them.

What an incredible creation!

Compared with the wonders of the world such as the Hanging Gardens and the Egyptian pyramids, it is not inferior in any way, and even surpasses.

The old knife asked me not to brag in a hurry, after all, we have only seen a few caves now, and there are not too many artificial traces, and as for the imprint of civilization, I have not seen it yet.

He said that the huge cave hall we saw, he would never believe that it was excavated by hand, it must have been a natural formation, like a karst landscape.

After saying that, he asked again, "Then again, who can lock such a terrifying giant snake in that ice cave?" ”

I was about to answer, when a black shadow flashed in front of me!

When I looked again, I saw that we had already stood before the original fork in the road, and the black shadow that had passed by had disappeared on the other side of the fork.

The blood stains on the ice walls and on the ground are still there.

It seems to indicate the danger and horror in the depths of the cave......