Uncle Liu and I didn't know what the mountain ghost meant, Uncle Liu looked at Dorjee and saw that Dorjee was still moving forward, so he told us that it was okay and we could continue to walk.

It soon became clear that the white sheen was actually coming from a patch of ice, a large area of solid ice on a meadow near the Jizo Tomb Canyon.

This is unusual, considering that it is August, it is the height of summer, and there is no such ice in any case.

Uncle Liu and I glanced at each other, and then looked at the mountain ghost, and saw that the mountain ghost was still walking in the northwest direction.

Uncle Liu hesitated for a moment, but finally followed on horseback.

Eventually, the mountain ghost led us to a dirt cave more than ten miles from the Jizo tomb, which looked like it had been dug by man, with a smooth edge and no grass.

The mountain ghost turned sideways and lay down next to the entrance of the cave, and it closed its eyes as if it were resting.

I dismounted at the same time as Uncle Liu, and Uncle Liu looked into the cave and asked me, "Do you want to go in and have a look?" ”

I didn't respond, I just took the flashlight from my waist, turned on the flashlight switch, and threw the beam into the hole.

The cave was not deep, and the beam easily reached the bottom of the cave, and I saw that there was a human-like skeleton at the bottom of the cave, except that its sternum was unusually wide, the hand bones were long, and the leg bones were relatively short.

I searched the cave with a flashlight again, but there was nothing else in the cave except the bones.

Uncle Liu also saw the skeleton, and I heard him say two words to himself: "Mountain God." ”

And, when he said these two words, his tone was very determined.

I turned my head to look at Uncle Liu: "Mountain god? ”

Uncle Liu nodded at me: "Yes, it's the mountain god." The mountain god who died here should be the father of the mountain ghost. As the descendants of the mountain god, these mountain ghosts can sense what is happening to the mountain god from a long distance, and it probably senses that the mountain god is dead before rushing back from the snow-capped mountain. But the mountain god generally lives in the hinterland of the snow-capped mountains, and rarely appears in other places, so something must have attracted it here. Also, what the hell is going on with that ice just now? Why does ice appear in summer? ”

Speaking of ice again, I was reminded of the ice-sealed stone door in the depths of Area 4.

It just so happened that Uncle Liu was in front of me, so I described the time of the stone gate to Uncle Liu in detail.

After listening to my statement, Uncle Liu also frowned: "Shimen? I've never heard of it. ”

At this time, Dorjee suddenly raised his two paws in front of him and lay half of his body on the back of my horse, and it looked at me and made a "whining" sound from its mouth.

Of course, I didn't understand what Dorjee was "saying", but I immediately understood what it meant: "Dorjee, do you want to say that that stone gate is the place you have to go every year?" ”

Dorjee raised his paw and let out a soft bark of "whoop" from his mouth, as if to give me an affirmative answer.

I asked Dorjee again, "What's behind that door?" ”

Dorjee's mouth let out a series of "whining" sounds.

Now I was confused, what did it mean by this whining sound?

Probably seeing that I couldn't understand what it meant, Dorjee seemed to become anxious, and he got off the horse's back, jumping up and down, and constantly making the same "whining" sound as he had just been.

I looked at Uncle Liu, hoping that he would tell me what Dorjee wanted to express, but Uncle Liu asked me, "Can you figure out what Dorjee means?" ”

There was no way, we could only take Dorjee and go back to find a fairy who could understand animal language.

But when we returned to the place where we fought with the mountain ghosts before, the fairies were gone, and Uncle Liu said that it was probably Uncle Ke who took the fairies away.

Uncle Liu also said that Dorjee felt the breath of the mountain ghost and hurried to this side, he could only ride the only horse in the ranch that could catch up with Dorjee, and followed Dorjee, at that time, Uncle Ke actually followed, but his horse couldn't catch up with Dorjee, and was left far behind.

Recalling that when I saw Uncle Liu before, Uncle Liu and his horse were all panting, and you can imagine how fast Dorjee was at that time.

I've heard since I was a kid that the fastest horse in the world can travel thousands of miles a day, but this is the first time I've heard that there are not only horses in the world, but also dogs.

Sometimes I wonder if Dorjee might not be a dog at all, but something else.

When I returned to the ranch, Xian'er and Luo Fei were standing outside the tent where I lived and chatting, I first rushed into the tent to take a look, and saw that Liang Houzai had woken up before I put my mind at ease, and then I walked out of the tent, beckoned Dorjee to come over, and said to Xian'er: "I have something to ask Dorjee, what are you, help me translate." ”

Xian'er looked at Duoji, and then gave me a fierce look: "Let me be a translator for it, why?" ”

I said, "Dorjee knows what's inside the stone gate, and if we want to go in, we have to ask it about something." ”

Xian'er still looked reluctant: "Anyway, you don't plan to take me in, I'm idle, help you this kind of idleness." ”

I found that when Xian'er was talking, Luo Fei kept laughing next to him, so he deliberately made a sloppy look: "Look at your stinginess, Luo Fei laughed at you." ”

Without waiting for Xian'er to reply, Luo Fei spoke: "I'm laughing at Xian'er, I'm laughing at you, you don't want to think about it, if Xian'er doesn't want to help you, as soon as you speak, she turns around and leaves, will she talk to you so much?" ”

When I thought about it, with Xian'er's temperament, if you asked her to do what she didn't want to do, she didn't bother to pull her face with you, and just walked away. But I also wondered, how long Luo Fei and Xian'er had only been together, how did she feel as if she knew Xian'er better than me.

At this time, Dorjee had already run over, and when he saw Luo Fei, he liked to be very happy, and as soon as he ran over, he kept rubbing Luo Fei's hand with his head, asking Luo Fei to scratch his head.

Luo Fei scratched his head for it, and said to me: "If you have anything to say, ask quickly, and in a while it will be time for Dorjee to eat." ”

By the way, speaking of which, there is one thing that has to be said. Although Dorjee is a good dog, most of the time it likes to cling to people, but when it is eating, no one should disturb it, it is very protective of food, when it is eating, as long as someone walks within one meter of it, it will show its sharp teeth.

As for whether Dorjee will bite at this time, I don't know, and I don't plan to know.

I hurriedly gave Xian'er a urging look, and Xian'er made a very reluctant look, sighed and said to me, "Okay, if there is any problem, you can ask it quickly." ”

As she spoke, Dorjee called out to her.

Immediately after that, Xian'er was annoyed, she suddenly turned her head and waited for Dorjee viciously: "Who do you say is the fox!" ”

Fortunately, Uncle Liu hurriedly came over and asked Dorjee not to make trouble, Dorjee still listened to Uncle Liu's words, it glanced at Xian'er, and came to me with small steps.

The question I'm about to ask is a cliché: "What's behind the stone gate?" ”

I couldn't understand Dorjee's words, but Dorjee could easily understand my words, sitting on the ground, looking at me very seriously, and at the same time constantly emitting that familiar "whining" sound from his mouth.

Xian'er is also cooperative, and whenever Dorjee stops, she will translate to me what Dorjee's previous words mean.

Dorjee said that the thing imprisoned behind the stone gate is called the "Night Demon", which is a demon in ancient times, and these Tibetan mastiffs with Jairian blood are specially guarded by the stone gate.

Jairus, the one in the nine sons of the dragon. This is kind of big news for me, although Master and I both think that the myths are most likely not true, but some of the things we have experienced over the years seem to be deliberately proving to me the truth of those myths.

I thought about it, but I still didn't ask about Jair, but just asked Dorjee, when it went to the stone gate, was the stone gate also frozen, and was there a cave under the stone gate?

Dorjee said that in the past, the temperature near the stone gate was very low, and there was thick ice nearby, but the stone gate was not frozen, and there were no holes under the stone gate. Now there is an anomaly in the stone gate, and it is possible that the thing that suppressed the night demon is broken.

I asked Dorjee what was the thing that suppressed the Daredevil.

Dorjee said that it was a magic weapon that looked like a bone, the two ends of the magic weapon were very round, and there was a very sharp thorn at the top of the round head, and its ancestors told his grandfather's grandfather that the magic weapon was put in by the disciples of Siddhartha Gautama, and this saying has also been passed down from generation to generation in their community.

Dorjee's "words" shocked me again, Siddhartha, this name may be a little unfamiliar to many people, but if I say his other name, I think most people should know who he is. That name is Shakyamuni. He is the present Buddha in Buddhism, the Buddha.

If Dorjee's words are true, then it means that Shakyamuni's disciples have come here thousands of miles away and put a demon-slaying pestle into the stone gate deep in Area 4. That's right, the magic weapon in Dorjee's mouth that looks similar to a bone should be a demon-slaying pestle.

And the time when the demon slaying pestle was put in was at least three thousand years ago, which was even older than the time when the Soul Village was established.

I asked Dorjee what the night demon in his mouth was, and how true the legend about the magic weapon was.

Dorjee said that he didn't know what a night demon was, and when he was taken into the stone gate by his father when he was a child, his father told him that there was a youkai buried under the soil, and that monster was the night demon, but it had never seen a night demon before.

As for the second question I asked, Dorjee couldn't answer it, and Xian'er said that it couldn't understand the meaning of the word "authenticity".

I asked it again if the legend of the artifact was true.

Dorjee also said he didn't know.

I frowned and asked Dorjee what it did every year when it entered the stone gate.

Dorjee asked me why I was frowning and if it didn't answer well. I said I was just on my mind, and I asked the question again.

Dorjee said that it entered the stone gate every year to see if the magic weapon was still there, and if the magic weapon was still there, it would be fine, and if the magic weapon was gone, it would rush to a place called Xiao Tianshan to find a person named Mindu, and said that this was also what its father told it.