The mouth on the skull was far larger than a normal person, and I looked at it for a long time, thinking that it might be a mask, why should I wrap it in this wild man's fur and throw it in the hell behind this iron gate? The fat man and I couldn't figure it out, and we didn't know if the fur was worth it if it was artificially processed.

We gasped for breath for a while, and felt that we were almost able to move, and when we saw that there were more and more small muskrats jumping around the corners, we didn't dare to keep any longer, and quickly left this place where the bones were piling up slowly, because as soon as I looked at the terrain behind the door, it was already clear that this iron gate was not used to block the sin eater Balu at all, but to prevent the criminals who fell from it from not dying, and would run out of the door.

The fat man used the wild man's fur to re-wrap the strange mask, and put it under the tuck, I crawled out of the secret cave with one after the other, the bright moon outside here was in the sky, it was the middle of the night, and the ground of the reincarnation temple was dripping with blood, all of which were the remaining stumps of Adong who were gnawed, relatively intact, that is, his two divided families, white thighs, and a few bones in the upper body, there was basically nothing left, which was really miserable.

I discussed with the fat man, no matter what he said, it was all the way, don't let him be bruised here, but if it is too troublesome to dig a pit and bury it, just throw the remaining bits and pieces of him into the secret cave.

The two of us threw Adong's stump into the black iron door, and then put the silver-eyed Buddha statue back, stealing this kind of thing, we must be punished, let's let it stay in the secret room, and then closed the iron door again, blocked it with the remnants of bricks and rotten wood, and then returned the same way.

On the way back, the fat man still sighed blindly, and was quite sympathetic to Adong's tragic fate: "I found a truth, not everyone can be a hero, Commander Hu is still reasonable, the more critical the moment, the more you have to dare to play bastard." ”

I said to the fat man: "You can't always play bastard, the blind man has a very good saying, people live in the world, there are many unjustified disasters, the dangers of the rivers and lakes, not the only turmoil, in the face of all kinds of dangers of different natures, we must adopt different countermeasures, from the ancient road, the siege of the city is the bottom, the attack of the heart is the top, we will strengthen the ideological propaganda offensive in the future, and strive to psychologically disintegrate the enemy's ......"

We were walking and talking, and we were talking without a word, but suddenly we heard a series of footsteps behind us, as if someone was following us, I became alert, so I immediately stopped talking, and looked back behind me, the silent mountains and forests, shadowed by the moonlight, fell on the earth in pitch black, the silhouette was like a fierce beast, the desolate plateau was howling in the wind, the wind was rising, maybe it was just an illusion.

Although I didn't find anything abnormal, but I always felt that something was wrong, so I and the fat man quickened the pace, hurried back to the fortress where the expedition camped, while no one noticed, we got back into the sleeping bag and slept with our heads covered, the next morning, Uncle Ming asked us if we saw Ah Dong's rotten boy, I and the fat man shook our heads like rattles, I didn't see it, I said Ah Dong may have felt that it was too hard to carry the oxygen cylinder, and he couldn't stand the sin, so he deserted in advance.

The fat man pretended to be even more evil: "Adong? Isn't he in Beijing? How did it end up here? Uncle Ming, are you old and confused? Lack of oxygen, right? Hurry up and intubate. ”

Uncle Ming had no choice but to ask Peter Huang to look around, and in the end, when he saw no result, he didn't ask anymore that he was a follower anyway, whether he was dead or alive had nothing to do with the overall situation.

The guide told us that today is not leaving, in the second half of last night, the wind blew in the middle of the night, it seems that there must be a heavy rain today, there are too many yaks in our team, the yaks on the plateau are not afraid of wolves, nor are they afraid of Tibetan horses and bears, but they are most afraid of thunder, they encounter thunder and lightning on the road, they will definitely run away and jump around, so they have to delay for one more day, and then set off tomorrow Senge Zangbo.

We thought about it, anyway, the approximate location of Karamir in Kunlun Mountain has been mastered, even if we arrive in Karamir, we can't enter the mountain for the time being, because the equipment and materials have not yet arrived, and when everything is ready, it is almost across the Tibetan plateau, the road is long, and we don't have to fight for this day or two, so we stayed in the ruins of the fortress, and sure enough, it was not noon, and the dark clouds in the sky were getting thicker, and finally it rained.

Everyone drank butter tea in the ancient castle and waited, due to the rain, the air pressure was lower, Ah Xiang felt difficult to breathe, and stayed in the back room to sleep, and the rest of the people discussed the next plan of action, and then the fat man told Uncle Ming and others about his magnificent inverted career, and frightened those people into a daze.

I took the opportunity to summon the lama and shirley Yang to the stone house where I slept, and took out the wild man's fur and the papier-mâché mask to show them the two of them, and briefly told them what happened last night, but when I told them about Adong's death, it was best not to tell Uncle Ming, so as not to cause misunderstanding, he might think that I and the fat man had killed Adong for money, so don't make trouble yourself.

Shirley Yang was a little angry after hearing this: "You guys are too bold, you dare to go to the ancient city in the middle of the night to make a prank with your bare hands, you have been a lieutenant for a few years, but you don't have a steady look, what if there is really some accident?" ”

I said to Shirley Yang: "Heroes don't take on the courage of the years, reminiscing about the past and the eventful years, last night, including the previous events, have become a small wave in the long river of history, let's not dwell on the past that has become an objective existence, you look at the words on this mask, can you recognize it?" This is the only thing in the temple of reincarnation that has words, and there are many similarities between the reincarnation sect and the demon kingdom belief, maybe there will be some valuable information in it. ”

Shirley Yang said helplessly: "You are so eloquent, you shouldn't be a soldier, you should be a lawyer, or be a politician." After speaking, he took the mask and looked at it, and said strangely: "This is the Bible written in Portuguese." ”

In addition to being good at "dragon hunting", I also have a knack for pretending not to hear if someone asks me questions that I don't want to answer, so I asked Shirley Young, "Do you still know Portuguese?" I said how this word is written like a bunch of grapes. ”

Shirley Yang shook his head and said, "I can only understand a little, but I am familiar with the Bible, and this is sure that the Bible will not be wrong." ”

With the assistance of the lama, it can finally be concluded that this mask is an image of the devil of the reincarnation sect, and such a terrifying mask made with the Bible may be related to the previous religious conflict in Tibet, the fur of the Himalayan savages is a treasure loved by the ancient Tibetan nobles, and it is said that it has a thermal insulation effect, and if the corpse is wrapped in it, it can also be embalmed. When the royal officials and nobles hunted, they liked to drape it on their backs to make a cloak, which could hide the smell of human beings in the wind; It is also said that it is this kind of fur that can wrap the soul and make it never liberated.

Shirley Young wanted to see what was in the mask, so he peeled back the dry pages of the mask layer by layer, and found that there were many zigzag lines drawn in the pages of these Bible books—a map, waterways, mountains, and castle towers, but I don't know where.

Since there is no basis for this, it can only be speculated based on the terrain in the map, which may be in the land of Dapeng Bird, the map of the ancient Zhangxiong Dynasty, or the map of the Phoenix Shrine in Kunlun Mountain, because the extinct Guge Dynasty has a deep connection with these two landlords, and it is likely to retain the information of these two ancient ruins. A foreigner secretly copied it out, ready to go treasure hunting, or do something else, but before he could take it out, he was thrown into hell and fed to Malu. And the Bible that stole the map was made into the face of a demon, wrapped in savage fur, and thrown into hell. But the details are beyond our ability to deduce, and in any case this almost unrecognizable map has some value.

Shirley Young was busy repairing the drawings, so I turned around and went out to pour butter tea outside. At this time, the rain outside was much lighter, but the thunder rumbled, and it seemed that more rain was brewing, and it was dark and dreary as if it was night, and it seemed that it was difficult to say whether the weather would clear tomorrow. The fat man in the outhouse was sitting by the fire and was talking about it, and Uncle Ming, Peter Huang, Han Shuna, and Tashi, a guide named Jixiang, all opened their mouths wide and listened attentively.

I only heard the fat man foaming at the mouth and said: "Fat man, I unloaded the old zongzi in the big coffin into eight pieces, buried my head on the side of the road, buried my arms and thighs in the east mountain and the west mountain respectively, and left a part of my body in the middle, so I kicked into the river." ”

The fat man said to Peter Huang, "Do you know what Prince Silamak is?" Just in time for the old man to come to our China, the streets are full of waist drum corps to welcome him, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has to let me meet him, damn it, I don't have the effort, it's messy! I avoided going to the countryside, and found a murderous house that is said to have died of seventeen people, and the fat man has this temper, I don't believe in that, what kind of murderous house, I live in it, and I began to count the Ming utensils that I touched back from the old zongzi at night, and I just counted them, **! You know what? ”

Uncle Ming shook his head and said, "Is there a mistake!" If you don't tell us, how can we guess? How many artifacts did you take? ”

The fat man said, "It's gone! As soon as I was halfway through the order, the door was slammed open, and one after another the thunderbolts outside, and the door opened by itself, and something rolled in from the outside, which was the human head I buried by the river. ”

Uncle Ming and the others were bored and listened to the fat man talk about the mountain, although they knew that he was talking nonsense, but at this time, the thunder outside was tight, and the abandoned castle was gloomy and dark, and they couldn't help but get nervous.

I thought it was funny in my heart, thinking that you are really good, fat man, you can do it, it is better to scare Uncle Ming out of heart disease, and we will have an excuse not to take these burdens to Karamir to find the "dragon top".

I walked to the teapot, and just picked up the bowl to pour some tea, when I suddenly heard a woman's exclamation from inside, like Ah Xiang, isn't she sleeping? At this moment all the people in the room stood up, and even the Iron Rod Lama and Shirley Yang came out.

Everyone was worried that something had happened to Ah Xiang, and they wanted to go in to see her, but they saw Ah Xiang running out barefoot and throwing herself into Uncle Ming's arms, Uncle Ming hurriedly comforted her: "Don't be afraid, good girl, what happened?" ”

Ah Xiang looked around at the people in the room with a pair of big godless eyes, and said to Uncle Ming: "Godfather, I'm so scared, I saw Ah Dong walking around this room with blood all over his body. ”

Others didn't think so, but the fat man and I who knew about Adong's death all felt a chill behind our backs, and then the Iron Rod Lama stepped forward and said, "He has a bardo body, and he must hurry up to the bardo to die, otherwise he will kill the living people here." ”

In Tantra, it is believed that after a person dies, until the period before reincarnation, his state is called bardo, and the lama asked Ah Xiang, can you see where the yin body is now?

Ah Xiang raised her finger tremblingly, and everyone subconsciously took a step back, but saw her finger pointing straight at the iron rod lama.