It's midnight, but the lights are still on in the K2 camp, and the group of people in the tent next door are still playing poker with great interest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wrapped himself in his sleeping bag and looked boredly in the soft light of a lamp with a worn-out copy of The Neurowanderer, which he had read for the tenth time.

His girlfriend, Lynn, sat on the other side of the tent, trimming her nails with interest.

"It's really boring, maybe it was a mistake for us to come to this mountaineering."

Roth sighed, threw the science fiction in his hand aside, stared at Lynn's pale and beautiful face, and asked, "How about we go down the mountain now?" ”

Lian shook her head and looked at him seriously, "We've been waiting for so long, why can't we wait a few more days?" To climb this mountain, we need to wait for a good time, otherwise we are likely to die on the mountain, and the most dangerous mountain in the world is not for jokes. ”

"Wait, I've been waiting for three months! If you have this kind of time, you will already reach the summit of Mount Everest, and it is a waste of time to come here. He yelled almost in frustration.

Soon there was a faint scolding voice from the tent next door: "If your voice causes an avalanche, we will kill you!" Idiot. ”

"Fuck off." Lot scolded loudly, then crawled out of his sleeping bag, quickly put on his winter suit, and took Len's hand: "Let's go, we'll get out of here now." ”

"Let it go!" Lian's hand hurt as he tugged at him, and she screamed in annoyance, "Are you crazy? ”

Roth didn't care so much and pulled her up roughly.

An inexplicable anger drove his body to act strangely, and he didn't know why, and he didn't want to know.

"We can't just go on like this, we need to contact the guide at the bottom of the mountain!" Lynn said aggrievedly, but Roth didn't waver at all: "Put on a winter suit, I can take you out of here." ”

"No kidding......" Before Lian could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by a loud roar outside the tent.

The sound of a beast's roar was distinct in the silent camp, as if it were coming from not far away.

Rot's anger was replaced by confusion, and he glanced at Lian, who was also confused, and muttered to himself in a low voice, "What's going on?" ”

Then, they heard frenzied and suppressed screams coming from outside. Roth could recognize the mixed screams coming from the climbers in the other two tents.

"What happened?" Lynn quickly put on her winter suit, and the two of them looked at the door of the tent in confusion.

Could it be an avalanche?

Roth suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility, but quickly dismissed the idea: if it was an avalanche, he and Lynn would have died long ago, and it was impossible for him to be so close that he would not be affected.

"What the hell is going on?"

Hearing Liane's trembling and frightened voice, another nameless fire rose from Lot's heart, and he dragged Lian out of the tent without saying a word. It was still pitch black outside, except for their tent, the other two tents were torn apart, and there were a lot of hiking equipment scattered on the ground, and there were sprays of blood.

"Ahhh Lynn suddenly screamed in horror, took two steps back and sat on the ground.

Roth frowned and looked in the direction of her gaze, and a strong and pure fear instantly flowed through his body: on the snow not far away, several inhuman-shaped corpses that had been torn were thrown, and the brutal death was unbearable to witness, but he still judged by the playing cards scattered next to the corpses that these people were those teammates who were still playing cards in the tent next to them just now.

Heavy footsteps sounded from the other side, and Roth slowly turned his head, finally realizing that his anger was nothing compared to the guy in front of him.

A large, rotten figure strode towards them, grunting indistinctly and horribly, as if swallowing something.

Lynn was almost paralyzed in fright, and Roth tried to pull her out of here, but found that he couldn't move a bit.

Is it too much fear, or is it a sluggish reaction due to altitude sickness? He sensed that his feet felt like they were weighing a thousand pounds, and he couldn't take a single step at all, so he could only stand there and watch the incarnation of death get closer and closer.

The approaching big guy raised his hand and threw a bloody object in front of Rot, which immediately spurted scarlet blood as it fell to the ground, blurring his vision.

He let out a suppressed roar, took the first step with all his strength, and pulled up his girlfriend, who was splashed with blood: "Run!" ”

In the extreme cold, Roth could feel the blood that had just sprayed on his face freeze into ice ballast, and before he could even take a second step, a huge black shadow had already overshadowed his vision.

Slowly raising his head and meeting the face of death, even a professional explorer like him, who had escaped death countless times, couldn't help but scream loudly.

The figure kept approaching, and he had been exhausted by extreme fear, and his legs went limp, and he slumped next to Lian, who had passed out.

The moment he saw the other party clearly, he had completely collapsed.

White snow continued to fall, covering the entire camp, and the wind howled fiercely, playing a mournful song for the climbers here.

……

The next morning, wrapped in the appearance of a rice dumpling, standing at the foot of the mountain at an altitude of 3,000 meters, looking up at Zhang Luo, who was towering into the clouds and snow-capped mountains in the distance, said casually: "It turned out to be K2, I thought it was Mount Everest." ”

"K2 is more difficult to climb and is suitable for hiding." Frankenstein, who was also wearing a heavy hazmat suit, explained.

-- Chogori Peak, commonly known as K2 in mountaineering circles, is the second highest mountain in the world at 8,611 meters above sea level, and is also one of the most difficult mountains to climb over 8,000 meters.

The success rate of the winter climb to the mountain is almost zero, but even now that it is close to December, there are still "warriors" who are not afraid to die - or crazy "warriors" who are preparing to climb the mountain in the climbing camp.

But even those professional mountaineers who have conquered the mountain do not know that in the depths of K2 hides a temple built by robots. And the purpose of Zhang Luo and Frankenstein this time is to go to that temple to visit the mechanical monk who lives in seclusion in it-Zen Yatta.

Since he had not yet experienced the feeling of climbing the peak, Zhang Luo did not choose to fly directly up the mountain simply and rudely, but changed into heavy cold-proof clothing, planning to try to climb the mountain in a "normal" way. Of course, there are some other reasons why I didn't choose to fly:

There may be an "anti-aircraft cannon" similar to the Mirror of Destruction nearby, and if you go straight up, you may become a live target for exorcists or monsters. In the current chaotic situation, Zhang Luo does not intend to continue to die.

"Strange."

Looking at the empty mountaineering camp, Frankenstein's eyes narrowed above his mask, and his long black hair swayed in the wind.

-- In normal times, even in winter, when it is difficult to climb, there should be people at the camp, but today there is no one, and the situation is really wrong.

Walking into a black tent, feeling the residual warmth inside, looking down at the sleeping bags and household garbage thrown inside, Zhang Luo folded his arms and commented: "People seem to have just left." ”

"Hmm." Frankenstein nodded.

It seems that the people here left the camp in a hurry for some reason - if it was a normal evacuation, they probably wouldn't have left their sleeping bags behind.

I was thinking with great interest about what was going on that would cause the climber to flee in a hurry. Zhang Luo heard the sound of chaotic footsteps coming from outside the tent.

He and Frankenstein looked at each other, and when they stepped out of the empty tent, they saw several guys dressed in white, cursing something, walking up. Unlike Zhang Luo's outfits, this group of people was not wearing mountaineering uniforms, but snow camouflage combat uniforms.

"This place is really going to freeze to death...... the soldier who walked in front of him cursed, and then saw the two people who had just come out of the tent, so he frowned and asked in English, "You are mountaineers?" ”

"Yes." Zhang Luo's face did not change and his heart did not beat, and at the same time carefully observed the group of people in front of him.

The soldiers all carry large nail guns behind their backs, and it looks like they chose this weapon to avoid an avalanche caused by the sound of gunfire. Although I don't know how effective they are, it can still be seen from the cobweb-like scars on the face of the bearded man who hit the head that these people must have experienced a lot of battles.

"Why don't you go down and wait here to die?" The bearded man lowered his voice and said "reminder".

"We were about to leave, but ......" Zhang Luo narrowed his eyes and suddenly said, "Are you mercenaries?" ”

- Ordinary soldiers will not be sent to this ghost place where birds don't lay eggs, and the special forces against heretical creatures will not use their unruly equipment, and these guys can only be mercenaries who have collected money and rushed over.

Hearing Zhang Luo's words, the six soldiers behind the bearded man raised their nail guns at the same time and aimed at him, the bearded man still stood in place and did not move, but asked with a gloomy face: "Who is it?" ”

"Our purpose should be the same." Zhang Luo showed a sincere smile on his face: "Do you want to act together?" ”

"What are they for?" Frankenstein, who had been silent, sent a message with the Eye of the Executioner.

"I don't know." Zhang Luo responded quietly, but his eyes never took his eyes off the bearded face, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"I can't trust you." The bearded soldier's voice smacked of danger: "You think you'll leave alive? ”

"Ha, I'm more worried about your lives." Zhang Luo pretended to be melancholy and sighed, and said nonchalantly: "Since you don't want to act together, then let's go first, goodbye." ”

After speaking, under the watchful eyes of those soldiers full of murderous intent, Zhang Luo took Frankenstein's arm and turned around and left, without even looking back.

It wasn't until he left the camp, throwing the mercenaries out of view, that Frankenstein finally asked, "Why do you have to go up the mountain to find Zenyata?" ”

"Stalking them, of course, I already have a rough idea of what these people are investigating." Zhang Luo said as he took out Pandora from the storage space, asked the "Hell Queen" where the soldiers were, and then followed quickly.

"Investigate what?" Frankenstein asked.

After she asked, Zhang Luo smiled confidently and said his inference: "If my inference is correct, there should be a 'snowman' on this mountain." ”

"How do you know?" The girl's eyes widened slightly, which was already the highest form of surprise she could express.

"I saw a guy with half of the cover of Unsolved Mysteries of the World out of his hiking backpack." Zhang Luo said.

"You've got something wrong with your brain." Frankenstein's eyes were filled with undisguised contempt.

"There are other signs besides this." Zhang Luo explained: "If those guys are here to kill people, they shouldn't use nail guns, this kind of weapon is okay for hunting, but it's not so easy to use in war." ”

However, Frankenstein apparently disagreed, saying: "The evidence is not accurate. ”

"Ha, just go up with those guys and have a look, it's more convenient to have them lead the way." Zhang Luo said and continued to climb the hillside.

He and Frankenstein naturally climbed the mountain more than twice as fast as those mercenaries, and soon saw those figures in snow camouflage uniforms on the snow not far away.

The sound of the howling wind drowned out the sound of hiking boots stepping on the snow, this time was not suitable for climbing Chogori Peak, and as soon as they reached an altitude of about five thousand meters, those mercenaries who had made a difficult trek were already out of breath and looked like they were kidney-deficient.

"They're probably here to find Zenyata too." Frankenstein sent a message to Zhang Luo.

"No, how can these barbarians worship Buddha." Zhang Luo shook his head decisively: "Believe me, there must be a monster on this mountain." ”

Speaking of unknown creatures in the Himalayas, the most famous is probably the legendary "Bigfoot", also known as the "Snowman", this heretical creature is said to be tall, human-like, but covered with long hair, they are agile and powerful, and there are often records of attacks on humans.

Although it is often found in human accounts, there is no documentation of the "snowman" in the database of the Strange Tale Research Society, and this monster can be considered an unconfirmed "unknown creature" even among heretical creatures.

No one has been able to prove that they exist, no one can be sure that they don't exist, and even to heretical creatures, the "Yeti" is nothing more than an ethereal legend. But now......

The icy cold wind was mixed with some pungent breath.

"I smell blood." Zhang Luo whispered. (To be continued.) )