Along the way, we have encountered a lot of monsters and strange things that have been recorded in Xu Xusheng's diary, and I can't help but wonder if the expedition that Xu Xusheng participated in back then, what they were looking for is also related to the ruins of the "Land of Heaven and Sea"?

But they are looking for it in the Gobi Desert, and we are now in the boundless Himalayan snow-capped mountains, and the two are thousands of miles away, is there a connection?

As if seeing my doubts, Shen Tangzhi approached me and reminded me in a low voice: "The snake of the world." ”

It dawned on me — yes, if that's the case, it makes sense.

Legend has it that the serpent of the world can circle the world when it bites head to tail, so it is not surprising that its traces appear anywhere in the world.

After spitting out the black water, Lobu was fine, except for a little weakness, and after a short rest, he was able to move with the support of Yali and Poche.

Lao Dao and I tried to open the jade box, but found that this jade box was actually a whole piece of jade, which was completely integrated, and there was no trace of assembling at all.

But when we shake the jade box, we can clearly feel what is inside, and if we use a strong flashlight, we can faintly see through the green jade, and see clearly that it is a small object with a width of two fingers and a shield.

But since it can't be opened, we can't be ruthless for the time being to cut a whole piece of azure jade dew, so we can only ignore it for now, I handed over the jade box to the old knife, and continued to be kept by him, the old knife took it with a smile, stuffed the jade box into the mountaineering suit, and hid it closely.

By this time it was eight o'clock in the evening, and the temperature inside the glacier had begun to drop significantly, and one sleeve of my mountaineering suit was still torn to pieces by the enchanted Hyde at Borobudur, and my whole arm was exposed, and by midnight the temperature had plummeted, I was afraid that I would really freeze to death.

At this time, I couldn't care about disrespecting the corpse, so I had to find a way to get from Farrado, who had become a corpse - I was afraid of getting poison from his shirt, so I had to cut off one of his trouser legs and tie a rope around my arm, which was kind of a sleeve.

We had no choice but to cut off another piece of his mountaineering suit and cover his face to give him a layer of rest.

We must get out of here as soon as possible now, or by midnight we will have no tents and continue to stay under the glacier, if not frozen into popsicles, enough to eat a pot.

Tenzin Kawa also understands this and strictly orders everyone to hurry up. We were lucky, after a kilometre of hilometres, several more bifurcating glacial crevasses appeared, we burrowed into a straight line to the west, and at 11 o'clock in the evening, we finally saw brown rocks.

But by this time, the cold wind was already howling like a monster on the ice sheet above, and in the ice crevasses below, due to the effect of the passing wind, the cold wind could not help but not weaken, but became more violent.

The cold midnight wind blew on our faces like a sharp blade, making us almost suspect that our skin was full of holes, and although we were wearing mountaineering clothes, we still felt the cold wind pouring into our clothes.

What made us even more devastating was that after a while, the wind began to mix with fine ice slag and snowflakes.

The old knife shrunk his neck and shone a flashlight on the long ice crack behind him, only to see that the pillar of light was a little silvery white, and the snow was obviously starting to get bigger.

"No, Aji, it looks like the snow is going to fall heavily, and we might have spent the night under the ice crevice, but now it doesn't seem to work." The old knife said.

Tenzin Kawa turned to Lobu and asked, "Lobu, you are the most experienced among us, what do you think?" ”

Lobu and Yali were already paying attention to the wind, he glanced at Yali, who nodded at her, he coughed twice, and said, "Ahem, Mr. Yang is right, there may be a snowstorm in the middle of the night, and it is too dangerous for us to continue to stay under the ice crevices." ”

Everyone's faces turned unpleasant when they heard the word "blizzard" - we had already experienced a blizzard on Dhaulagiri and understood how terrible it was, but at that time we had tents for shelter and the terrain was near the ridge, so we just had to remember to shovel the snow off the tents on time and not be buried alive.

But now we are in the crevices of the ice, and when the snow falls, we will not have a place to move, and we will surely freeze to death in the snowdrifts.

Tenzin Kava shines upwards with a flashlight – the ice crevasse has reached its end, and in front of us is a mountain rock, about a hundred meters from the top of the glacier.

"Lobb, and your English friend, how is it, can you climb up?" Tenzin Kawa asked.

Lobu first said that he had to fight, and Hyde had been supported by the other three of us in turn all the way, but he also had some strength, and since the two wounded were all right, we acted immediately.

It's still the same way as when you crossed the ice lake, everyone is tied to the same safety rope, and a second safety rope is tied to the pitons along the way, so that the safety will be greatly increased.

But halfway through the climb, we realized that the most difficult problem was actually the wind, when the blizzard had begun to take shape, the wind had increased again, and with large snowflakes and fine Xiaoice, all of us needed to spend more effort to keep our bodies balanced to ensure that we were not blown away by the wind.

"Aji, you guy is climbing harder, if it goes on like this, Lao Tzu will be dried into a frozen corpse."

The voice of the old knife came intermittently from the wind, and he couldn't stop shivering.

I turned around and said, "I wanted to climb faster, but it stopped—" and I turned my head and shouted up, "Porche, what's going on?" Why did it stop? ”

Poche didn't answer me, and after a while I climbed straight to Poche's position—there was a raised rock on it, about a square meter of rest, but there were already three people there.

One of them saw a man sitting on the rock face with his back against the mountain wall, and I had a hint of foreboding in my heart and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lob...... He's not going to be able to do it......"

The one who answered me was Yale-in, who was untying the knots from Lobu's harness.

I hurriedly turned on the flashlight hanging on my chest, and saw Lobu lying upright on the rock face, his face covered with white ice crystals, only a faint white breath exhaled from his mouth, gradually exhaling more and less in, and entering the dying, Yali put his ear close to Lobu's mouth, wanting to hear his last words.

Poche said: "When I climbed this rock, I found that Lob was already sitting on it, and he couldn't even lift his hands......

I suddenly realized that Lobu had just returned to the light, but in order not to fall on the way and bring danger to the others, he gritted his teeth and tried his last strength to climb this protruding rock, but he finally ran out of oil, and once he sat down, he could not get back up again.

Before we entered the Himalayas, we had heard some stories about snow-capped mountains, many of whom suddenly found one of their teammates lying in the snow and not moving in the process, and finally died silently on the icy ridge.

By this time, Yali had untied the ropes from Lobu's body, and then placed Lobu's body in a proper position.

With tears in her eyes, Yale-in-China told us that Lobu's last words were to hope that everyone would make it out alive.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but be moved, Lobu died not heroically, and along the way, he even behaved very timidly, and had the idea of retreating several times, but at the last moment of his life, Lobu burned the last fire of life, just to try his best to reduce the negative impact of his death and not cause us trouble.

I once heard people say that it is only when one faces death that one can see whether one is great or small.

To be honest, I was amazed by Lobu's sudden change.

Yali and Poche walked towards Lobu's body, folded their hands, and recited a mantra in Sanskrit, Nepal is a country of Buddhism, almost everyone is a Buddhist, and it is normal to know how to memorize some Sanskrit scriptures.

I also clasped my hands together and said in my heart, "Forget your worries in this life and ascend to bliss," and sincerely wish Lobu to rest in peace and be reborn in another world.

Everyone was depressed when they learned of Lobu's death, but in order to survive, we did not linger, but continued to climb upwards.

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, we finally climbed to the top of the cliff.

Yali and Popher went up first, followed by me and Old Knife, and as we climbed to the top of the cliff, we all collapsed on the cold snow, each with a look of excitement and sadness on their faces.

We finally survived the catastrophe and escaped the catastrophe, but when I thought of Lobu who died in the middle of the cliff, there was a deep sadness in my heart, and I now feel like a Buddha bead waiting to be pierced by the invisible thread of fate, the last Buddha bead that was strung together was Lobu, and the next person who was pierced into the bead string, who could have guessed it?

Hyde was also pulled up by us, and the next one will be Shen Tangzhi, but I suddenly found that there seems to be one more person who is still under the cliff!

I hurriedly pulled the sleeve of the old knife, and said in a low voice: "Old knife, look at the bottom, are there still four people?" ”

The old knife didn't raise his head: "You see the dazzle, right?" There are only Shen Tangzhi, Tenzin Kawa and Jiajie left, a total of three people, and I don't need to watch it...... Hey, don't talk to me—"

But I did see four figures below: "There are really four people climbing up!" ”

"What the hell, you must be asking with your eyes-" The old knife was halfway through his words, and suddenly the whole person froze, "Hold, oh grass, it's evil, it seems that there are really four people!" Isn't Lob dead? Climbed up with it again? Hey—"

I saw that the old knife was about to shout when he spoke, so I quickly covered his mouth: "Be quiet, you can't see the surrounding situation clearly in the dark light, your voice may cause an avalanche, do you know?" Stop talking, get your guns ready! I felt something was wrong. ”

"Pull me."

Shen Tangzhi reached the edge of the cliff and stretched out his hand to me, I pulled her up, the latter was Tenzin Kava, I put my finger on my mouth, made a silent motion, and then pointed behind him.

As soon as Tenzin Kawa turned around, he was immediately stunned, because behind him, in addition to Jiajie, there was another figure, who was climbing the rock wall behind Jiajie with his head down, although I held up a flashlight to shine down, but there was just a small rock protrusion covering the person, and only the head and half of the back could be seen.

Tenzin Kava was still calm, and after a moment's pause, he immediately turned around, pointed to the safety rope on his body, and shook his head at me.

It dawned on me that Tenzin Kava was saying that the last figure was definitely not one of ours, because that person had no safety rope attached to him.

But in the next second, the figure climbed up from behind the rock protrusion, and the old knife next to me and Shen Tangzhi's mouth suddenly let out an "ah", because we all saw that the person's mountaineering suit was missing a large piece of clothing, and the mountaineering pants on the lower body only had one cuff!

The boss blurted out: "Farado! ”

The weirdo who followed was not Lob as we guessed, but Farrado!

Hearing the old knife call his name, the man raised his head, revealing a triangular pointed face, and opened his mouth, "hissing" out a forked blood-red long tongue!

We have now finally confirmed that judging from that outfit, this person is definitely Farado, but Farado's face should have been corroded into a black hole by the venom of the giant black ruba snake, but now it has clearly turned into a snake face! 、

"Climb fast!"

The old knife shouted, and the M4 carbine in his hand fired a triple shot, directly hitting Farrado's head, piercing three bloody holes in his snake face.

But in the next second, the blood hole healed automatically!

The old knife scolded: "Grass, this Irishman has become a fine!" ”

"It's Northern Ireland." Hyde corrected.

"Damn, does it matter? - Aggie, what do you do with this?! ”

"Save some bullets, he's gone."

After seeing that Farrado had eaten the boss's bullet, he stopped approaching Jiajie, climbed directly to the cliff on the right, and then burrowed into a crack in the rock.

At this point, I could see Farrado's whole body clearly, and I saw that not only did his face turn into a snake face, but his hands and feet also turned into webbed toes that resembled four-legged snakes, and he was vaguely dragging a tail behind him.

At this time, Tenzin Kawa also climbed to the top of the cliff, and together with me, he began to pull the safety rope violently, and pulled up Gyalje, who was still hanging on the cliff wall.

Jia Jie was directly facing Farador who had become a half-human, half-snake monster below just now, Rao was as bold as him, and now his chest was rising and falling violently, breathing heavily.

Tenzin Kawa asked me, "How did Farador become like this?" ”

I thought for a moment and replied, "It may have something to do with the venom of the giant black ruba snake...... Let's find a shelter from the wind first, and if we stay here, we'll all freeze. ”

Thankfully, the blizzard was much weaker than the one we had encountered before, and we made our way up the hill and soon reached the ridge, where we braved the snow and climbed over the ridge, and after reaching the western slope, the leeward side, we finally took refuge in a col at half past three in the morning, led by Porche and Yale-in-China.