Chapter 208: Black Tiger Xuantan
"Evil Luohai City" is also known as "Ten Towns of Fear and Strength", it and "Gate of Disaster" are place names that only exist in the ancient legends of Kunlun Mountain, which have never been recorded in the annals, but the legend is hidden in the deepest part of Kunlun Mountain, did they really ever exist? The ancient city in the mural of the "Tomb of the King" may depict the "Evil Luohai City", but what is the connection between the lair of the northern demons and the "bottomless ghost cave" deep in the sand sea of Xinjiang? Is it possible to find a huge "eyeball" altar there? We don't know much for sure yet.
Even to plan for the worst, in the legend, the ancient and evil "Evil Luohai City" is the same as the "Exquisite Ancient City", in one night, the mysterious suddenly disappeared, so the powerful "Demon Kingdom" is in a collapse, what disasters or changes happened there, it is still unknown.
I suddenly remembered what Zhang Yingchuan said: "In the end, there is a beginning, and when you meet the water, you can get the middle way." "The middle way refers to the golden mean, the right way, can also be understood as the road of safety and security, avalanche pressure, in a desperate situation, but the willows are bright, found a more mysterious passage, this long and narrow slope, leading to the deepest part of the Longding Glacier, where there should be a lake or a dark river, there must be a road where there is water, thinking of this, suddenly added some confidence.
Everyone rested in this gentle slope for about half an hour, because they were worried that the demon tower was not safe nearby, they set off to continue down, this frozen soil tunnel with soil steps was built in all directions, dense as a spider web, we did not dare to walk the poor road, only down the main road in the middle, from time to time we could see a charm, imprints, including some "eyeball" patterns.
Shirley Yang said to me, "If the Reincarnation Sect only wants to dig through the Gate of Calamity, then there is no need to keep digging the tunnel into the nine-story demon building. And looking at the conditions in this underground tunnel, they are not built in the same period, maybe hundreds or even thousands of years, which may be related to their belief that the abyss is the source of power. But have you ever wondered why the people of the Reincarnation Sect are digging up the Demon Tower? ”
I thought for a while and said, "This thing is really strange, the demon tower dedicated to the evil god is inviolable, could it be that the Reincarnation Sect wants to take out something important from it?" Aside from the Glacier Crystal Corps, what else would be in the tower? ”
We discussed as we went. But he never came up with a reason, so he had to do it, and after extending diagonally down for a while, it met the vertical ice abyss. Although the ice wall is slightly sloping, this angle is no different from going straight up and straight down to us. There is no way to go down.
The bottom of the ice abyss can already be seen here. The pale blue fluorescence of countless stars in the deepest part converged into a shimmering river, meandering under the glacier, because of the slight slope of this ice wall, so when we first tracked the "Snow Maitreya", everyone looked down at the mouth of the frozen soil tunnel. It's like looking at Tianhe upside down, and I can't help but admire: "It's so beautiful, it's like the Milky Way." "There may be crystals down there, or jellyfish in the river and fluorescents, that's why there is such a fantastic spectacle.
There are remnants of broken wood at the mouth of the tunnel, hundreds of years ago, there was probably a wooden bridge that could lead to the bottom, but after a long time, it collapsed and collapsed, and the wood probably fell into the river below, I visually measured the height, this is already the lowest part of the glacier, and it is about 30 meters away from the fluorescent river, this height can be directly dropped with a long rope.
I told everyone that since there is living water, there must be a way out, and we can use the mountain to go down......
Uncle Ming objected, this ice wall is smoother than the mirror surface, although it is not high at more than thirty meters, but it can also break people if it falls, it is better to find if there is any other way, it is too dangerous to slide down the ice wall with a rope.
The fat man looked down, and he also felt dizzy, and hurriedly agreed with Uncle Ming, be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, there are so many branch routes in the tunnel behind, there must be other exits, of course, I don't care, fat man, even if it is flattened, it is a big deal that he will be a good man in twenty years, but we are now helping the old and the young, and we are more concerned about Uncle Ming's safety.
I reminded the fat man and said, Commander Wang, don't stand in the wrong line, don't take shortcuts, you have to drill those tunnels, what if you get lost in them and can't turn out? We don't need to take care of Uncle Ming's affairs, so according to the previous agreement, the nine-story demon tower has also been dug up, and the glacier crystal corpse has also been found, and we will go our separate ways in the future, if we can stay alive, after returning to Beijing, we will settle the account problem again, Uncle Ming, you will prepare your antique toys when you go home, and we will not be polite at that time.
I'm just saying this to scare and scare Uncle Ming, Uncle Ming is really worried that we will leave him and Ah Xiang here, after thinking about it, it is possible to get out of this glacier with the three captains who touch the gold, and this operation has lost all the troops, and the old capital has been lost, maybe in this "" disaster gate, you can find something more valuable, of course, these things must be survived as a precondition, so it means that you must not be separated, so that the chance of surviving the disaster will become greater.
When I saw that Uncle Ming was done, I started to prepare the rope, and I used the long rope with the mountaineering pickaxe, and descended first, on both sides of the river valley under the ice abyss, there are a lot of scattered black rotten wood on the banks of the river, there are a large number of iceberg crystal stone veins, flashing the light blue fluorescence in the river, no need to use any light source, there will be a certain range of visibility.
I looked around, and saw that there was no danger, so I signaled the people above to come down, and when the fat man was the last to slide down with a loud shout, I had already delayed a great time, from digging the wooden tower, fighting the wolves, until I came to the depths of the ice abyss, and everyone rested for less than half an hour, and then they were inevitably hungry and hungry.
Shirley Yang said to me, "I must find a safe place to rest for the night, so that Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang can recover their strength, otherwise if we continue to walk, we will really be tired." ”
I nodded in agreement, so everyone looked for a place to camp nearby, and first looked down at the edge of the underground river, where the water was very gentle, and the water was very clear, and there were many freshwater jellyfish in the water, and the light blue fluorescence was emitted by them. However, although this creature looks beautiful, it is actually very dangerous, and if it is gathered in large numbers, it emits bioelectricity that can paralyze large animals instantly, and Shirley Young warned everyone to stay away from the river as much as possible. Be careful not to touch the river.
The valley seemed to have no end, and as we walked in the direction of the current, a cave was soon discovered under the cliffs covered with crystals, and because it was deep underground, something could fall on it. No one can stand it, and the cave at the bottom of the cliff naturally becomes the most ideal camping place.
If the cave looks at the fire vent, it is relatively spacious and fast, as if there are traces of artificial chiseling. However, it is difficult to confirm the age, so turn on the flashlight. Look inside from outside the cave. Pieces of crystal light flickered, and there were a large number of transparent crystals in the cave as on the outside, but it seemed to be extremely tortuous and deep, standing on the outside, it was impossible to see the depth inside.
This cave doesn't look like a place where wild beasts haunt it. But for the sake of safety, I still took the fat man to go out to reconnoitre, and walked less than five or six steps into the cave, which was a turn, and the space behind it was about the size of a room of about twenty square meters, and if there was no danger, it was indeed very suitable for camping.
I and the fat man held the "wolf eyes" in the cave everywhere in the indiscriminate photos, there are some old stone platforms on the ground, there are some white cow heads piled up in the corner, there is a black humanoid wooden statue more than a foot high on the stone platform, my heart moved, here is eighty percent of the place where the reincarnation sect is sacrificed, this black little wooden figure, this form, seems to be the same as the "Black Tiger Xuantan" mentioned by the Iron Rod Lama.
I asked the fat man to call Ah Xiang and the others in, and let Ah Xiang see if there was anything unclean in this cave.
Since everything was safe, and the people were very tired, there might not be a more suitable place to look any further, so they rested in the cave and raised a fire to heat up their food.
There are some natural holes on the innermost stone wall of this crystal cave, the size of a fist, but even children can't get into it, so it should be safer to plug these holes with stones to prevent snakes from getting in.
Everyone gathered around the fire to eat, but Uncle Ming sighed and couldn't swallow, so Ah Xiang took out his ancestral "Thirteen Whiskered Porcelain Cat", shook his head incessantly, picked up a stone, and smashed the porcelain cat to pieces at once.
The fat man looked at it pitifully, and said to Uncle Ming: "If you don't want it anymore, you give it to me, this big cat is also hundreds of years old, right?" It's a good thing too, what a pity it smashed, if you want to smash things, when I broke the four olds, I smashed more than you, but now, don't you regret it a little? ”
I said to Uncle Ming: "I remember that not long ago you worshiped this porcelain cat, it is said that this thing is very effective, and its whiskers have not been broken, but why did we break so many hands in the demon tower?" Could it be that you didn't look at the yellow calendar and made a rush?"
Uncle Ming sighed and told the truth: "People like me who have been running for so many years believe in these things the most, and they are most afraid of those bad signs. The more angry he became, as if he couldn't get along with himself, he waved his hand and pushed the broken porcelain cat to the wall.
It was a coincidence, the porcelain cat's body was broken, but the cat's head was still very intact, rolled to the wall, just facing Uncle Ming, under the firelight, the pair of cats were bright, as if they had become alive, which made Uncle Ming even more uncomfortable, and muttered a scolding: "The old porcelain cats are almost fine, I let you stare at me." As he spoke, he picked up the stone again, and tried to go over and smash the cat's head with the porcelain cat.
I want to stop Uncle Ming, why is this so bothered, can I get angry with an object? But before I could speak, Uncle Ming's body suddenly froze and stood there motionless.
He had his back to us, I didn't know what he saw, and as soon as I waved, the fat man had already loaded his gun, and Shinley Yang pulled Ah Xiang into a corner a little farther away.
I stood up and saw Uncle Ming staring at the cat's head with his eyes, so I asked Uncle Ming what was going on? Uncle Ming trembled and said, "Brother Hu, there is a snake there, look over there." "When Uncle Ming was in Nanyang, he was bitten by a poisonous snake, so he was very afraid of poisonous snakes.
I thought to myself that I had checked it just now, where would there be snakes, and besides, what was she afraid of, and then I looked in the direction that Uncle Ming pointed to, and it turned out that next to the cat's head of the porcelain cat, there was a hole that I had blocked with a stone before, and the stone shook slightly, as if there was something in it that was about to arch out of it.
I protected Uncle Ming behind me and pulled out the sapper shovel, whether it was a snake or a mouse that came out of it, a shovel was flattened, and Shinley Yang and the others also raised their flashlights and shone here from behind.
The stone moved a few more times, and finally fell to the ground, and I picked up the sapper shovel and patted it, but halfway down, it stopped, not a snake, but a green branch of a plant, and in an instant a red flower the size of a sea bowl bloomed.
How do flowers grow here? Before I could figure out what was going on, I heard Ah Xiang suddenly scream behind me, and I was so engrossed in trying to see what was going on, I was so frightened by her scream that I almost threw the sapper shovel on the ground. I never thought that if a woman was scared to the extreme. It will make such a movement.
Shinley Yang hurriedly asked Ah Xiang what was going on, did she see anything...... Something?