I was stunned for a moment, and before I could react, the broken tree that had been soaked in water for a long time and had long since decayed could not bear the weight of the three of us, and it snapped and broke, and the three of us were once again swept away by the raging river.

The light ahead was getting brighter and closer, as if it were within reach, but I was also aware that the speed of the water was accelerating, and I could hear the roar of the current.

As we got closer to the light, I slowly saw the rising mist, the light was transmitted from the mist, I saw the light, but it was not close to us, I finally heard the deafening sound of the water, this is the sound of the river pouring down against the surface of the river below, by the time I realized it was too late, there was a waterfall in front of us, and the sound of the water was not low.

When my body fell down like a free fall, I heard the cry of Tian Ji venting his fear ringing in my ears, and he and Gong Jue hugged me almost completely, and Gong Jue's screaming body almost pierced my eardrums.

The process of falling was long and frightening, until the moment we hit the river, my whole person was still awake, with a snap, my body was submerged in the river, and there was the pain of impact, but it was not as violent as I imagined, and Tian Ji and Gong Jue shook out of me.

I swam out of the river and saw the two of them emerge safe and sound, I gasped in horror, and the palace lord looked up at the waterfall we fell into, how could there be a drop of more than two hundred meters, and it seemed that the whole person was a little numb in shock.

Tian Ji floated on the surface of the water, Gong Jue and I thought he was injured, and quickly swam over, and found that Tian Ji was staring at the empty and godless eyes, and there was actually a line of tears in the corners of his eyes, as if he was evil, squirming his mouth and repeating a sentence.

"Don't play, don't play, Lao Tzu won't play with you anymore......"

Gong Jue and I couldn't hold back laughing, Tian Ji actually cried, not scared to cry, but tortured and cried, he was afraid of heights, and fell from a high place one after another directly made him collapse.

We drifted downstream along the river, and gradually the water began to slow down, these underground rivers should be the origin of a river outside the Kunlun Mountains, the channel slowly became narrower, and we saw snow-capped peaks and no warm sunlight.

We finally climbed ashore, but it was not clear what place it was, judging from the mountain terrain and the flow of the river, we were swept by the river and drifted all the way east, and we should have left the no man's land of the Kunlun Mountains.

The whole body was soaked in ice water, the three of us shivered in the cold wind, and walked aimlessly with hunger and cold, Tian Ji finally came to his senses, but his sad expression was gloomy along the way, and his backpack full of jade and jewelry was still left in Kunlun Jinque, which was undoubtedly more painful for him than death.

The only thing that comforted him was that he still had some jade artifacts on his body that had not been lost, and now even if he shivered with cold, he still used his hands to protect his chest, looking like he was obsessed with money.

At night, the temperature plummeted, we were frozen and almost unconscious, even our consciousness was a little blurred, we all knew very well what it meant to fall in the ice and snow, even if we gritted our teeth and insisted on moving forward with stiff feet, I still saw the front palace lord fall to the ground, and then Tian Ji, I tried to pull them up, I had no strength at all, and I fainted in front of me.

The dream is very warm, and I can even smell the sweet smell of butter milk tea, and the mouth-watering aroma of roast lamb shank, I really hope that this dream will never wake up, just let me sleep like this, but the tempting fragrance makes me a little restless, slowly open my eyes, see the bonfire in front of me, and when I get up, I find that the wet clothes have become comfortable and warm leather jackets, and a thick animal skin blanket covers it.

My last memory is that he and Gongjue and Tian Ji fell in the ice and snow, and now they are squatting beside me, looking at me anxiously, and their faces are relieved and relaxed when they see me open their eyes.

"You've finally woken up." The palace lord let out a long sigh of relief.

"What is this place?" I looked around and it was a herdsman's tent.

"I don't know, we just ......woke up," Tian Ji said nervously, touching his body nervously. It's broken, the jade gems I put on my clothes are gone. ”

I immediately turned over, the clothes on my body had been changed, when I left Kunlun Jinque, I had been carrying a satchel containing bronze balls and notes, the bronze ball was not trivial, far more important than any jade jewelry, I don't know how many times more important, and that photo, that may be the only clue to unlock my father's identity and the secret of Kunlun Jinque.

We hurriedly walked out of the tent, and found that it was already night, and there were more than a dozen people standing around a blazing bonfire outside the tent, and there was a person sitting on a stone opposite us, looking around this place was far away from the Kunlun Mountains, and a brightly colored and fragrant sheep was roasting on the bonfire, but now I had no appetite at all.

"What is this place?" I asked the people around me.

The men in the firelight saw us come out of the tent, but they didn't speak, and the voice came from opposite us: "You have been asleep for three days, and if we come a little later, you three will probably not wake up." ”

It was a woman's voice, I took a step forward, and in the firelight, a woman with a fur hat looked down at what was in her hand, and I took a look, and was surprised to find that it was the bronze ball we brought out from the Kunlun Golden Gate.

"It's my stuff, give it back to me." I reached out and said loudly.

"Do you know what this is?" The woman ignored me, but put the bronze ball in the palm of her hand and asked me with a meaningful smile.

In the firelight, I could see her face clearly, her demeanor was excellent, her willow eyebrows and apricot eyes were smiling, it was difficult for me to see her age from her face, and her eyes were full of elegant calmness and calmness.

The three of us stared at each other blankly, in fact we had been trying to figure out what the bronze ball was for.

"You know?" I asked the woman rhetorically.

She smiled like a flower, her eyes fell on the bronze ball and stared silently for a long time, and then handed it to the person next to her, her eyes suddenly became deep: "Why didn't Han Jin come out with you?" ”

We were stunned, she actually asked Han Jin, I thought it was our luck, and we were found by the herdsmen to pick up a life, but now I realize that this may not have much to do with luck.

"How did you know Han Jin?" Gong Jue asked.

"The three of you fainted by the river, although it left the no-man's land of the Kunlun Mountains, it was still inaccessible, you shouldn't think that it was an accident to be rescued." The woman smiled faintly.

"You...... Are you also the owner of the money? I asked tentatively, frowning.

The woman nodded and did not deny it, and asked again in an accentuated voice: "What about Han Jin?" ”

"Stay in Kunlun Jinque and chat with the Yellow Emperor." Tian Ji said lightly.

"Han Jin took more than thirty people to Kunlun Jinque with you, but I didn't expect that in the end, only the three of you could come out alive." The woman didn't seem to care, looking at the three of us. "And I found the bronze ball, I really didn't see the horror of the afterlife."

"The bronze ball is for you, what about our own things?" Tian Ji asked urgently.

The woman nodded to the person next to her, and a person took my satchel and Tian Ji's changed clothes and threw them in front of us, and with a bang, Tian Ji squatted on the ground in a daze, and the jade that he had worked so hard to bring out in the clothes that he had turned over was all shattered.

"Thief, your mother, Lao Tzu almost put his life on the ground to bring something out, and it's useless to fall like this." Tian Ji suddenly became angry, twisted the man's collar, and quickly pinched out the water with his fist.

The people around raised the muzzle of the black hole and pointed it at us without saying a word, and the person who was lifted by Tian Ji pushed him away with an indifferent face, not caring at all.

"Come, shoot at Lao Tzu." Tian Ji was furious, patted his chest and scolded. "Everything is like this, and I don't want to live anymore."

The woman stood up, waved her hand lightly, and the people around immediately put down the gun, walked over to us, and handed a bag to Tian Ji, who hesitated for a moment and looked disdainful, the woman smiled faintly and opened the bag in front of us, the golden light was dazzling in the firelight, it was a bag of gold bars, not to mention more than 20 of them.

"Meaninglessly, it's your reward for finding the bronze ball."

Tian Ji glanced at it, took it and weighed it in his hand a few times, still muttering in his mouth: "The jade jewelry that accompanied the Yellow Emperor is worth more than these gold bars." ”

The woman's gaze fell on me, and she handed something over, and in the firelight I saw a boxy piece of paper with patterned lines at the four corners.

"You can bring back the bronze ball from Kunlun Jinque, he must be very satisfied, keep this piece of paper for a long time, there are still many things to do in the future, when he wants to see you, he will naturally send someone to find you, this piece of paper is a token."

The woman said that I left with the others, and when I left, she also left us a donkey and three air tickets, and when the woman went away, I quickly picked up the satchel from the ground, and the notebook inside was still there, and the notes were all wet when they fell into the water, and the photos were still sandwiched inside, and it seemed that this note had not been touched.

Tian Ji put away the gold bars and was in a much better mood, the fragrance of roast sheep was mouth-watering, and he tore off a piece of mutton and took a bite: "It seems that I won't see the gold owner for a while, eat first and then talk about it, anyway, it seems that he will find us next time, it is not too late for the gentleman to take revenge for ten years, since he has found someone, he is not afraid of him running." ”

"These people throw thousand-year-old jade like a stone, if they are really for money, they will never do this, they don't want anything but bronze balls." The palace lord sat by the campfire and said calmly. "It looks like the value of this bronze ball is incalculable."

"There's one more important thing." I said calmly as I folded the piece of paper that the woman had given me.

"What's the matter?" Tian Ji asked.

We were not rescued by luck, the road we took when we entered the Kunlun Golden Gate was not the same as the way we came out of the river, and the fact that this woman was able to find us in time only showed that she knew where we would be if we left the Kunlun Golden Gate.

"You mean, this woman knows the way out of Kunlun Jinque!" The field chicken reacted and swallowed the mutton in its mouth.

"That's true, and this woman still counted the time, and the time we came out is not much different, only those who have come out of Kunlun Jinque will know where the river is." The palace lord suddenly realized. "Could it be that this woman has been to Kunlun Jinque?"

I quickly took out the photo and carefully wiped the water on it, but I didn't see this woman in the photo, and judging from her age, this woman should not have appeared in this photo forty years ago.

"Although this woman has never been to Kunlun Jinque, the person who asked the woman to come here and wait for us must have been." Tian Ji said.

"The gold master, the gold master!" The palace lord looked up and was very excited. "The gold lord has been to Kunlun Jinque, so he will know the road to Kunlun Jinque, and the gold owner must be in this photo."

"If that's the case, it's simple, just go back and ask Ye Jiuqing, he must know the person in the photo, three ice corpses have been found in the Ice Palace, and in addition to Ye Jiuqing and Gong Yu and my father, the gold lord is one of the remaining six people."

As I spoke, I folded each corner of the paper the woman gave me in half, and when all the pattern lines coincided together, a complete pattern appeared on the folded paper.

It was a vivid beast head, and I quickly recognized it as a majestic unicorn, and the most bizarre thing was that there was a puffed up eye between the unicorn's forehead.

Three-eyed unicorn!

The corners of my mouth squirmed, and I slowly stood up, this pattern finally made the vague memory in my mind clear, when my father was shot, I once saw a tattoo on the wrist of the gold owner, but unfortunately I didn't see it clearly, only remembered the vague lines and general appearance, I have been trying to remember what the tattoo was for ten years.

Now I finally remembered that the tattoo on the wrist of the gold owner was this three-eyed unicorn.