Chapter 35: Borobudur

Ten minutes later, everyone was safely on the ground below.

The first to go down had already found the body of the Alpine Collaboration who had fallen below, and the Alpine Collaborator had fallen into the pile of bones, and was pierced through the chest by two broken bones, and he was already dead and could not die again.

"Click......"

I crawled to the bottom, and the sound of bones grinding and shattering could be heard under my feet.

"Hey, these ...... It's all human bones...... Hereβ€”" Lobu gasped as he glanced at the bones beneath his feet.

Tenzin Kawa glared at Lobu, who curled his neck and swallowed the second half of his sentence raw.

We didn't feel much when we looked at it above, but when we got to the bottom, our feet stepped on the thousands of white human bones that were stacked on top of each other, and an invisible sense of terror slowly permeated everyone's body.

In front of us, an eight-story circular minaret stands majestically.

The style of this pagoda is very strange, neither like the common eight-treasure pagoda in our country, but also different from the Tibetan pagoda, the tower foundation is very high, there are four stairs and four gates, the tower type is the cylinder shape of the expansion, and the top of the top is like a huge prayer cylinder with an inverted buckle.

The building materials of the entire tower are all human thigh bones, and the gaps are filled with a gray-white marl-like substance, and the old knife knocked it with the butt of a gun, and found it extremely strong.

I looked up at the top of the tower and asked Tenzin Kava, "I have never seen this ancient pagoda in this form - Sir Tenzin Kava, I heard Lobu say that this is the Wheel Bone Tower, can you tell me about it?" ”

"The Wheel Bone Tower is a common name, and its official name is Borobudur – but it is also generally built only from animal bones, and this is the first time I have seen such a huge Borobudur made of human bones."

Tenzin Kawa said that most foreign scholars believe that Borobudur was first discovered in Indonesia in Southeast Asia, and that it was built between 750 and 850 A.D. by the Charentra rulers, who ruled the island of Java at the time.

Later, due to the eruption of the Java volcano, these stupas were buried in ash and hidden in the dense tropical jungle for nearly a thousand years, until they were cleared out in the early 19th century.

Then, Tenzin Kava's tone changed: "The name 'Borobudur' comes from the Sanskrit word 'Vihara Buddha Ur', which means 'temple on the top of the mountain' – if this ancient pagoda originated in Java, it would have been 'the temple on the island', not 'the temple on the top of the mountain'." On this earth, only the Himalayas can be called 'mountaintops', which are the top of the earth. ”

"Borobudur on the island of Java is also known as the Four Wonders of the Ancient Orient along with the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal in India, and the Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which is ridiculous!"

"Generations of people who have lived in the Himalayas know that there are many Borobudurs under the glaciers deep in the snow-capped mountains, and unlike the Borobudurs built of bricks and stones on the island of Java, the Borobudurs in the snow-capped mountains are all made of animal bones, and some of the animal bones are like the human bones on this ancient pagoda, which have become fossils, and even the most knowledgeable old people cannot recognize them, they are the bones of extinct ancient beasts, and their age is untraceable."

"Already fossilized?" When the old knife heard this, he went to touch the bones on the ancient tower.

I also touched the bones on the ancient pagoda with my hands, and sure enough, the texture was completely different from the bones, cold as rocks.

I wondered, "After all these years, there have been no explorers looking for Borobudur?" Only the carbon-14 detection method is needed to determine the age. ”

"Explorer? You mean the robbers who came specifically to steal antiquities? Absolutely. Tenzin Kava sneered, "But they're all dead - anyone who tries to destroy Borobudur will be cursed endlessly, and will die within a hundred meters of Borobudur!" ”

When he said the last sentence, Tenzin Kava's face was grim, and his face showed an extremely mocking expression.

The old knife subconsciously took the strong flashlight in his hand, shone around, looked at it for a while, and said to Tenzin Kava with slanted eyes: "So, are all these bones here all cursed people who died?" If nothing else, are these people all here exploring with bare butts? Except for the human bones that were like mountains on this ground, I didn't even see half a piece of cloth - even a wild man, in such a cold snowy mountain, at least he had to wear an animal skin, right? ”

Tenzin Kava didn't answer Lao Dao's rhetorical question, and his face looked like he could believe it or not.

"Look at this." This is Shen Tangzhi stepped forward and handed a human bone to my hand, she didn't come with us to see the bone tower before, but squatted on the ground to study those human bones.

Shen Tangzhi pointed out to me the strange marks on human bones: "These are all tooth marks, and they are not beasts, they are human tooth marks. I looked around, and I could basically conclude that all the human bones here had tooth marks, but the thigh bones on the bone tower were clean. ”

As soon as Shen Tangzhi's words came out, several Sherpa guides around him were all terrified, and they subconsciously moved their feet, not wanting to stand on these bones anymore, but the ground at the bottom of the cave was full of human bones, and there was no way to escape, and the faces of several guides became very ugly, especially Lobu.

I looked at the human arm bone in my hand, and when I looked closely, sure enough, there were traces of gnawing teeth on it, especially the articular cartilage at both ends of the bone, and the gnawing marks were the most obvious.

At the very least, this proves that the people who built this huge Borobudur probably had a cannibalistic practice, and it is not known whether these bones came from their relatives or enemies.

The bearded Hyde, who had not spoken, came up to me at this time and said, "MR Ji, let's leave quickly, I don't know why, after coming down here, I feel a little uncomfortable......"

The temperature here is not very low, but Hyde is still trembling slightly, we look at his face, it is faintly black, and the mark of the small black snake on his forehead has inadvertently become larger.

"No, let's go into this Borobudur and get something, and without it, we keep going." Tenzin Kawa immediately vetoed Hyde's request, because the old knife deliberately blocked his view, and he did not find the small black snake mark on Hyde's forehead.

Tenzin Kawa ordered his guard to step forward, and the guard answered, removed the M4 carbine from his shoulder, pulled the bolt in his hand, and walked up the steps of the bone tower.

The rest of us were on guard, but nothing happened until the guard reached the end of the steps and began to push the door of the bone tower with his hands.

The guard pushed the door hard, but found that it could not be opened, turned to us and spoke a word in Sherpa to us, and Jia Jie on the side translated for us: "There is something behind the door, and the door cannot be opened." ”

"If you smash it open, you'll have to do it." The old knife was eager to try, and he and Jiajie took the ice axe together, and they were about to go up.

Seeing that I couldn't hold the old knife, I told Shen Tangzhi to take care of Hyde, took an ice axe, and followed him up the steps of the bone tower, and came up with me, as well as the red-bore face of the bear-like Gillila, and the other leader of the mountain guides, Yale-lein, who was still carrying his double-barreled shotgun.

There are four gates of the bone tower, and when I went up, Lao Dao and Jia Jie had already smashed them with ice axes, but I found that there were some patterns carved on the door, faintly like a mural.

I immediately told them to wait and let me look at the mural on the gate first.

The frescoes on all four sides are similar in style to those of prehistoric frescoes - the composition is simple, the style is realistic, only various lines are used, and it even looks like some kind of very primitive hieroglyphs.

However, although the murals are simple and simple, the objects and movements in the paintings are clear and vivid, full of tension, indicating that the people who left these murals have a keen sense of observation and extraordinary skills.

After reading all the murals on the trial gate, I realized that the murals were actually coherent and told a story as wonderful as a myth.

In the center of the first mural depicts the survival of an ancient tribe, followed by several high mountains, indicating that this is supposed to be a tribe living on high mountains. On both sides of the picture, layers of cloud-like objects are depicted, as if some kind of thick fog is spreading towards the tribal breeding ground.

On the second side of the mural, the sun and moon were obscured by a thick fog, and all kinds of beasts appeared on the earth, and the warriors of the tribe were fighting with the beasts with torches, and somewhere in the distance on the high mountain, it emitted a brilliant light, as if there was some treasure hidden.

In the third mural, the tribesmen enter a cave with a large door closed in the depths of the cave.

In the fourth fresco, the door has been opened, and inside there is a square treasure that flashes with light, and in the darkness behind the treasure, a pair of huge eyes are revealed.

Coherently understood, there was about a tribe living in the mountains, one day suddenly a thick fog rose on the earth, the thick fog covered the sky, blocked the sun, and in the darkness, countless fierce beasts appeared, the warriors of the tribe could not resist such a large number of fierce beasts, and when they were desperate, they suddenly found that somewhere in the high mountains, there was a faint light shooting out.

The people of the tribe went to look for it, and found a huge cavern, and into the depths of the cave, there was a gate, and when the gate was opened, they finally found the treasure, but the treasure was guarded by a monster of great size......

This is the end of the content on the mural, and the next story is unknown.

The brushstrokes of the mural are very simple, but they are enough to depict the content in detail, but although I understand the content of the story, I don't quite understand the meaning.

At this time, the old knives who had been waiting for a long time finally smashed open the door of the bone tower, inside was a hall as high as ten meters, surrounded by eight giant pillars piled up of human bones, in the center was a rectangular deep groove that was concave, the length and width were about 3 times 5 meters, and the four corners of the groove were nailed with an iron chain as thick as an arm, hanging into the groove.

A few of us gathered around and shone down with a strong flashlight, but we saw that the groove was actually a bottomless cave, and a cold wind came out of the hole, which made several of us shrink our necks, and the four thick iron chains were wrapped around a huge white translucent ice cube, hanging the ice cube in the air.

Seeing that we had found something and everyone else had gone into the bone tower, Tenzin Kawa only glanced down and said, "The thing is in the ice, you all come here and pull the ice up!" ”

"No, Lord Sir!" Lobu suddenly knelt down towards Tenzin Kawa and kowtowed repeatedly, "We have entered the Wheel Bone Tower, which is already a great disrespect, if we destroy the treasures inside, we will definitely die without a place to bury!" ”

"Shut up! Have you forgotten the oath we once made? I remember you as well! I fear nothing to recover our Sherpa past, to find our Sherpa rootsβ€”and you, Lob, are you going to break your oath and be a shameful betrayer? ”

Tenzin Kawa kicked Lobu away, strode forward, also grabbed an iron chain, and said coldly: "Pull it for me!" ”

With the exception of Lobu, Shen Tangzhi, and Hyde, all of us began to pull the chains hard.

Everyone worked together, and the iron chain "clanged", and the ice under it was gradually pulled up.

Lob sat slumped on the ground, looking like the end was coming, his face full of panic.

As soon as the ice cubes were pulled up, the air in the entire bone tower hall suddenly dropped by many degrees, and if you looked at it closely, the color of the ice cubes was slightly blue, and the steamer generally emitted a white mist, and the cold air was overwhelming.

On the iron chain tied to the ice cubes, a layer of frost spread rapidly visible to the naked eye, we quickly let go of the chain, Gililla let go a little slowly, and the palms of his hands were suddenly covered with a layer of hoarfrost, he screamed "ah", his hands shook, and a pair of palms fell directly and smashed to the ground and shattered into pieces of meat!

The people around him retreated in panic, only to see that Gililla only had two wrists left, and blood was spurting wildly from the broken wrist, and he rolled on the ground in pain, howling loudly.

The closest to Gililla were Jia Jie and another guard, who hurriedly stepped forward to try to help Gililla hold down the wound, but were thrown away by Gililla - Gililla's body is like a bear, and her strength is already extraordinary, and at this time, under the severe pain, her strength is even more amazing!

Jia Jie and the two retreated one after another, and the guard actually leaned his back against the ice!

Before we could even warn, the guard froze, his whole body quickly covered in cold hoarfrost, and he was frozen into icicles on the spot!

I yelled, "Everyone, don't move! Don't go near that ice! ”

Everyone was shocked, and Qi Qi took a few steps back.

Tenzin Kawa stood still and said coldly: "Since this is the case, let Gilila become a Buddha." ”

Before I could react to the meaning of "becoming a Buddha", I saw Jiajie and Si Ke step forward again and dragged up the howling Gililla on the ground, and actually wanted to move him to the cold ice, and at this time Gililla had lost too much blood and had no strength, so she had to be at the mercy of others.

I exclaimed, "What are you going to do?!" ”

Tenzin Kava stretched out his hand in front of me: "I'm going to take out the contents of this snow pith." ”

I said angrily, "You let Gililla take her life in exchange? ”

Tenzin Kava sneered, and nodded solemnly: "That's right." In the snow marrow lies the soul of the messenger, which must be awakened by exchanging the body with the blood of a person. ”

I was stunned that what Tenzin Kava wanted was probably a sealed evil spirit!

I've heard the snow pith say, or the dead Larry, told me on the road, that the snow pith is the condensation of 10,000 years of ice and snow, with extremely low temperatures, and a small piece of snow pith the size of a palm can condense a vat of hot water into ice, which is very miraculous - but now it seems that this snow pith is not a good thing!

How terrifying will the evil spirits in the snow marrow be?

This time, the old knife suddenly stabbed me: "Aji, there seems to be something in the ice!" ”

I looked closely, and sure enough, under the entanglement of the thick black iron chains, there was a faint black shadow moving slowly in the slightly blue ice, as if it was imprisoned by this piece of ice.

But then I remembered that we had seen a dark shadow in the cave above, and it was that black shadow that led us to Larry, who had become a traveling ghost!

At this moment, the black shadow in the cold ice is almost the same as the black shadow in my impression!