The snow-capped mountain that Ji Yunlong verified is located near Kailash, the famous sacred mountain in Tibet, and also belongs to the Gangdis Mountain, which is a famous Buddhist holy place, including the sacred "Shiva Temple" in India, which is said to have been built in the shape of this mountain. And the mountain they were going to was two days away from the sacred mountain.

In 1962, during the self-defense counterattack against India, a reconnaissance team once visited a mountain that was not marked on the map. And a veteran who participated in this battle back then was still in Ji Yunlong's unit, and his identity was just a doorkeeper in the communication room. In the past, when they came across unintelligible maps, they would consult this master, because no one was more familiar with the terrain of Tibet than him, and every mountain here had left the footprints of his youth. And when the uncle saw the parchment handed over by Ji Yunlong, he took off his glasses with a slight tremble, and a line of turbid tears flowed down.

At the foot of that unknown mountain, where the life of a comrade-in-arms had been left behind, the old man trembled and circled with his pen on a high-resolution military map, a mountain that has not yet been named, and which no one has ever visited. And where this mountain is located is the legendary Sunba Jingxue, which is known as the origin of Tibetan civilization.

When he learned that the purpose of their trip was Kailash, his face was not at all the same as the hippie smile he had in the past, because the mountain was also known as "the center of the world" in his mind.

Kailash means "mountain of the gods" in Tibetan and "Shiva's paradise" in Sanskrit, and is said to be the most famous mountain in Buddhism, Mount Meru. Indians call the mountain kailash and also consider it to be the center of the world. Shiva, the most powerful and highest-ranking of the three main gods in Hinduism, lives here. The Indus Valley and the upper reaches of the Ganges River in India originate here, so a large number of Indian pilgrims can be seen near Kailash every year.

Ji Yunlong, who was sitting in the car, explained the destination of the trip to them: "Kailash has always been a place of fascination for pilgrims and explorers, but no one has yet been able to climb this sacred mountain, or to say that no one has dared to touch the center of the world. ”

"Why?" Zhuo Xiong asked, knowing that many snow-capped mountains in Tibet are the object of challenge for mountaineers, and this Kailash is not the highest altitude and difficulty.

Ji Yunlong shrugged his shoulders and said, "Because in the past forty years alone, there have been many earthquakes of magnitude 6 or higher near this mountain, a mountain that may avalanche at any time, who dares to climb it?" ”

"That's the gods admonishing the offender." Za Brown said disappreciatively, in his heart, the sacred snow-capped mountain has always been a solemn and inviolable object.

For religious believers, the education of the army has always been to avoid conflict and try to respect their customs, so Ji Yunlong did not refute but said to Cha Wenbin: "Mr. Cha, do you know where the drop of water you want to take is located?" ”。

Cha Wenbin shook his head and said, "I don't know, but there is such a record, so I want to try it." ”

"Can a drop of water really save a vegetative person?" Ji Yunlong seemed to be very interested in this.

"According to our Taoism, a vegetative person is because some of the three souls and seven souls are lost, and if the lost soul can be found, this person can wake up."

Because it was a plateau, Cha Wenbin was a little uncomfortable, and he felt very difficult after saying a few words. One of the members of the team was a medical soldier, and after he fed Cha Wenbin some medicine, Cha Wenbin leaned back on his seat and began to fall asleep.

Along the way, Zhuo Xiong and Ji Yunlong chatted about being soldiers in the past, and when those soldiers heard that they were seniors, they all put their ears up to listen to him talk about the things he encountered in Tibet before, what wolves, corpse silkworms, everything sounded so thrilling, and he couldn't secretly admire this veteran.

Zhuo Xiong casually picked up a handful of Bayi bars and fiddled with them a few times in his hand and said, "Aren't they all changed to ninety-five, why do you still use this?" ”

Ji Yunlong said with a smile: "The climate here is harsh, and I can't serve those precious things, but it's still easy to use, and the guns still sound at dozens of degrees below zero." He saw through Zhuo Xiong's mind, a veteran is still a soldier in his bones, and he has a special feeling for a soldier with a gun, and a soldier without a gun cannot be called a soldier.

Ji Yunlong smiled: "You know the rules, so I didn't prepare for you this time." ”

Zhuo Xiong nodded, he understood that as long as he took off the clothes, then the familiar Bayi bar would become unfamiliar to him, Zhuo Xiong handed the gun in his hand to the soldier next to him, and said to Ji Yunlong: "I have forgotten how to use it." ”

The convoy stopped and stopped, and there were supplies to replenish at the military stations along the way, and by the time they actually arrived at Kailash, it was already seven days later.

A huge mountain made of rocks appeared in front of them, and Zha Brown, who had just gotten out of the car, immediately knelt on the ground and began to worship. The mountain is pyramid-like and has symmetrical walls, which are very different from the surrounding peaks, especially on the south side of the mountain, where a huge ice trough and a horizontal rock formation from the summit form the most sacred motif in Buddhism: the swastika!

Although Cha Wenbin is a Taoist, he had to be impressed by its momentum in the face of such a mountain range, and couldn't help but sigh: "What a sacred mountain!" ”

This was not their final destination, and they would have to walk west for two more days from here, because there would be no road further west. Most of the roads here were built by the Tibetan troops after the liberation, and to go west, you had to climb over this sacred mountain.

If you want to build a road in Tibet, you must blast the mountain, you have to move the sacred mountain, not to mention that the people in the Tibetan area will not agree, and the frequent earthquakes here throughout the year are doomed to make this road unrepairable. So, when you get here, the road is broken, and what it looks like in the inside, no one has been there for decades.

There were a total of ten of them on this trip, and Ji Yunlong brought six soldiers, one of whom was a medical soldier. Cha Wenbin, Zha Brown and Zhuo Xiong were equipped with food, a military satellite phone and navigation. Except for Cha Wenbin, all of these people have experience in the plateau, and as long as they don't encounter special circumstances, the destination of this trip should be reachable.

After a few days of turbulence, Cha Wenbin also began to adapt to the cruel environment of the plateau area, and after distributing the salutes, everyone began to march west according to the team's preparations. Because this mountain is visited all year round, and the worshippers choose to circle around this mountain, it is said that as long as you can make more than ten circles, your soul will definitely ascend to Elysium after death.

The worshippers left them a tiny path through which they went around to the west side of the mountain. And looking ahead, everyone began to be dumbfounded, this side began to be shrouded in a wind and snow for some reason, you must know that the east side of the mountain is still clear at the moment. The hazy sight and grey sky seemed to cast a shadow over their trip from the start, but the climate in Tibet was so unpredictable that they were used to it.

Only Cha Wenbin was alone for a while, and a strange feeling arose inexplicably in his heart, he took out the compass to see the feng shui of this place, but was urged by the soldiers behind: "This is Tibet, the set of things in our Central Plains doesn't work, you just go, let's just look at the point." ”

In the wind and snow, the vision is very bad, and the snow under your feet is one foot deep and one foot shallow, and you walk very slowly. The group walked for about three hours, and when they didn't see the wind and snow, Ji Yunlong said: "I have to find a place to shelter, the wind and snow are too big, and we will continue when it stops." ”

They found an abandoned temple, a stone temple not uncommon in Tibet, with only half a wall to withstand the wind and snow of frontal attacks, and a dilapidated inner courtyard that showed that no one had visited it for a long time.

The two warriors were ordered to collect some firewood, and if there was not a fire in the snowy night in Tibet, they would be in great trouble at night: they would either freeze to death or be attacked by wolves!

Their luck seemed to be good, and the two of them found the wood they needed in the northwest corner of the courtyard: a pile of planks that were still somewhat exposed to the ground. After the two of them dragged and dragged each other, they only heard a "boom", and the ground around them suddenly collapsed, and the frightened screams quickly brought the others over, and a large black hole appeared in the ground, and the two warriors were rubbing their knees and arms in the hole.

"The dungeon?" This is Cha Wenbin's primary reaction, but is it also popular to build underground palaces in Tibetan temples? Soon, the answer was revealed, and a combed wooden door was tightly closed beneath the exposed pit......