I read the text that Wu Laohan, that is, the bearded man, wrote on that photo, word by word, and when I finished reading the last few sentences, the doubts in my heart couldn't help but pop up again.

"Old man, since you said that you have found out the truth about my father's death, what is this dark shadow that secretly follows my father? What do you mean when you say it's about me, too? At this time, don't sell it to me anymore! ”

The old man nodded slowly after hearing this, but after a while, he shook his head again: "It's not that I sell it to you, it's just that the identity of this black shadow has a lot to do with you, he is a very important person in your life, I still hope he can tell you in person!" You know everything when you get to the Ice Cave, and right now, he's waiting for you. ”

The old man's words sounded more and more mysterious to me: "People? You call him a man? You must know that none of your 17 people in the team discovered his existence back then, even if you only realized it later by observing the video! ”

The old man sighed for a long time when he heard this: "This matter involves the secret of the ghost mirror, you and I both know it, this secret cannot be expressed, only understood by heart, I will call him a person in the two-dimensional space for the time being!" ”

The old man has said everything about this, and I naturally understand that people in the two-dimensional space are not shadows? So what Wu Laohan means is that the black shadow that has been secretly following my father 30 years ago is my father's shadow. Because his father was cursed by the ghost mirror, his shadow became conscious, and that night in Kunlun Mountain, the shadow successfully replaced his father and changed his name to Lao Zhao from then on. In other words, the black shadow at that time can be understood as today's Lao Zhao! After figuring out this section, I couldn't help but glance at the old man, I wanted to tell him my understanding of the identity of the black shadow, but deep down I still felt that something was wrong, because the old man's last sentence was always a little weird, why did the old man say that he traveled to Inner Mongolia 30 years ago, and I also experienced it myself?

I was about to continue to ask the old man, but he opened his mouth first: "The reason why I am so sure that it was the black shadow that killed the wolf master back then, because I know that since we set off on Changbai Mountain, that black shadow has been following the wolf master, and he chased all the way to Inner Mongolia, Loulan, the South China Sea, and finally to Kunlun Mountain!" ”

While listening to the old man's words, I secretly wondered to myself, since the black shadow is the shadow of my father, then it is natural to follow all the way, because the shadow and the body are inseparable.

The old man paused and then said: "That night 30 years ago, in the stone room deep under the Kunlun Mountain, only me, Lord Wolf and another teammate wearing glasses were left, we all called him glasses, we guarded a sarcophagus for a long time, and finally I sled open the sarcophagus, I thought that the sarcophagus was filled with a ghost mirror, but I didn't expect that it came out of the coffin...... But it's a dark shadow! At that time, I didn't know that your father had been following something, and we thought we had run away from the dumplings when we ran into them. Many years later, when I discovered this secret from the video, and then recalled the situation back then, I speculated that the black thing that came out of the coffin was the black shadow that had been following the wolf master! ”

When the old man said this, his eyes couldn't help but narrow, he was recalling everything that happened under Kunlun Mountain 30 years ago.

"That night, we were indeed frightened by the things that came out of the sarcophagus, although I and the wolf master are both battle-hardened tomb robbers, he is a well-known captain who touches gold, and I am the two-finger cave exploration Faqiu spirit officer, but because of the ghost mirror, our team of 17 people has been killed and injured 14, in the end I am still afraid! The two of us ran outside the cemetery, and we didn't even have time to put on our glasses, the black thing chased us into the tomb, the wolf was in front of me and behind me, I felt that the black thing was getting closer and closer to me, suddenly my head was hot, the cat entered a fork on the side of the tomb, the target of the black thing was not me, but the wolf, it chased the wolf straight away. My cat hid in the fork for a while, and there was no movement in the tomb soon, then I remembered the glasses that were still left in the stone room, so I returned to the tomb alone, but found that the glasses were gone, I estimated that he had been lost in the maze when he was fleeing for his life, so I had to go back the same way, and when I returned to the ground, the wolf and the black thing were gone, I looked for the wolf at the bottom of the mountain all night, until the next morning I found the body of the wolf on a tree under the hillside! ”

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After listening to Wu Laohan's narration, I finally confirmed the inference that had already existed in my heart! 30 years ago, it was his shadow that caused my father's wolf to die, three years before my father's accident, the shadow used his psychological defense line to weaken this breakthrough, constantly interfering with his thinking activities and causing him to hallucinate, and then in the next 3 years, the shadow was even more eager to try, and finally succeeded in Kunlun Mountain, incarnated as Lao Zhao, but whether it is the wolf or Lao Zhao, they are essentially my father to me.

At this time, Wu Laohan patted me on the shoulder and said: "Okay, I told you so much, just to let you have a psychological preparation, at this moment, the truth of everything is waiting for you in the thousand-year-old ice cave, it's time for you to continue to hurry, take the ghost mirror to end everything!" ”

Looking at the old man's skinny body, I was a little uneasy: "What about you?" Do you want to go back with me? ”

The old man shook his head again and again: "I won't go to this old bone, and you have to solve your own housework!" The old man suddenly smiled at the corner of his mouth as he spoke, as if he had suddenly remembered something happy. Don't worry, there's no danger there, you're just going to put an end to this farce! ”

Wu Laohan used the word "farce" to describe the beginning and end of the whole thing, and Wu Laohan chatted here for almost two hours, and he has already said everything that can be said from him, and then I should be ready to continue on the road.

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I heard the old man say that it would take me half an hour to reach the thousand-year-old ice cave by going down the spiral staircase from here, and he told me to feel at ease and said that he would wait here for me to come back.

After saying goodbye to the old man, I left, and then walked down, I felt more and more cold, stepping on the frozen stone steps, I only felt the cold spreading from the soles of my feet to the whole body, and the military coat on my body felt insufficient!

Sure enough, it didn't take long to walk, the corridor suddenly turned, and the eyes suddenly opened up, and at the end of the stone steps was a huge open space!

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It's a lot of space, but it's only half a football field at most, but when I'm in this space, I feel so small. The whole space was surrounded by a circle of icicles hanging from above, and a thin layer of mist drifted on the ground, and a faint silver light emitted by the surrounding icicles shone brightly, like a fairyland, and I could see everything clearly in the surrounding environment without candle lighting.

There was a raised section in the center of the space that caught my full attention, and I couldn't help but walk slowly towards it, only to feel that my feet were like clouds and mist, and half of my body was submerged in it.

As I got closer, the whole picture of the bulging object appeared before my eyes one by one. I saw a circle of circular ponds rising from the ground, about one meter high from the ground, the pool wall is carved by exquisite stone pillars, the pool is filled with pool water, and continues to spread out along the pool wall, along the ravines on the ground do not know where to flow.

Above the pond, there is a huge ice sculpture of the dragon hanging in the air, the tail of the dragon goes straight into the icicles around the space, its claws wave back and forth, the head is lifelike, there is a tendency to take off and go, what makes me marvel is that from the mouth of the dragon gushes out of a clear spring, straight into the pool under the body, the dragon's eyes then look down at the pool, as if staring at the things in the pool, obviously this spring comes from the inside of the mountain, through the body of the dragon and then spit into the pool from the mouth. I approached the pool and couldn't help but look inside, the pool water is unfathomable, but there is a layer of heat floating on the water, it is hot when I touch it with my hand, it turns out to be a hot spring! The ice sculpture dragon flows hot springs in its body without melting, and the spring water falls into the pool without sound, which makes me more curious, and I can't help but exclaim: Is this the place where the thousand-year-old ice cave causes ice and cold? Where the ghost mirror has been hiding for thousands of years?