I patted the snow drops off my eyes, and for a while I didn't know where I was, I just felt that there was a stone tip on my back, and Ye Cheng was under me, screaming there.

I settled down, subconsciously to see what Ye Cheng was afraid of, and looked down carefully, and found that we were now leaning on a steep rocky slope, five or six meters away from the bottom of the slope, and the rope in my waist was hanging on a rock corner, so we didn't roll down directly, the bottom of the slope was full of snow and stones that had just slid down with us, and inside the snowdrift, several black slender claws were exposed.

I felt a suffocation, unconsciously pressed my back against the stone behind me, and looked along the claws, looming in the snowdrift, coiled with a black sè, bucket-sized thing, the link-like body was full of scales, some hidden in the snow, some exposed in the snow, I thought it was a hibernating snake, and when I looked closely, it looked like a centipede.

The thing was clinging to the stone, not moving, not knowing whether it was dead or alive, not seeing the head and tail, and not knowing how long it was.

I wondered in my heart, this is above the snow line, there are very few living creatures, what kind of creature is this, looking at those centipede-like claws and its size, my heart instinctively uncomfortable.

Pan Zi insisted on going down, Ye Cheng kept screaming, and the fat man also saw what was below, and smashed a ball of snow on the back of Ye Cheng's head, and scolded softly: "You fucking give me a soft sound, you want to wake it up?!" ”

I looked around, it was supposed to be a small closed valley, filled with avalanches, but because the stones were so messy that they produced a lot of bubbles, the fat man walked up to it and trampled the fragile layer of snow, causing a chain reaction, and the layer of snow collapsed all at once. We brought it all to him.

The snow on it is still collapsing, and many times after such a landslide, the snow around it will collect like quicksand and rebury the collapsed place, which is extremely fast. Many alpine expeditions are attrition in such a situation, and the entire team disappears in a matter of seconds.

Fortunately, this time the snow on the side was quite strong, probably because we were tied together with ropes and pulled down one by one, and the snow around us rolled flat, and there was no relationship between the whole piece collapsing.

It's leeward, and it's noticeably lighter, not as cold as it was just now. I was able to take a few breaths, sit up carefully, and move a few steps down, although it is very steep, but the surface of the slope is full of gravel, some are the size of the head of the liberation truck, some are only the size of a ping-pong ball, it is easy to climb, and it is not difficult to go up and down.

Panzi and the stuffy oil bottle had already untied the rope, because they were not far from the bottom, the two of them made a noise, jumped down with the snow, and after landing on the ground, they rolled with cushioning force and rolled to the bottom of the slope.

The two of them crept up, one after the other, and touched the black thing. All of a sudden, our hearts rose to our throats.

After taking a few steps, both the stuffy oil bottle and Pan Zi straightened their waists and relaxed significantly, Pan Zi looked at the stuffy oil bottle, shrugged his shoulders, and made a gesture for us to come down.

We are strange, the fat man untied the rope and rolled down, the stuffy oil bottle has swept away the snow on the stone carving ground, it turned out to be a stone lying on the stone cliff stone dragon, carved with black sè stone, the cliff stone carving is very expressive, if it is hidden in the snow, it really can't be seen.

We went down one after another, Chen Pi Ah Si saw the stone carving, the person's face obviously changed, he stood unsteadily, beckoned Monk Hua to help him, went straight to the front of the cliff stone carving, touched it,

This dragon is different from other dragons, under its body, there are countless feet carved like centipedes, which are obviously not carved from the Central Plains, but should be the dragon alienated by the nearby nomads.

The fat man asked me: "Why is this dragon so ugly, like a worm, it looks evil, much uglier than the dragon in the Forbidden City, shouldn't it be broken?" ”

Monk Hua said: "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, this is a hundred-legged dragon, not a dragon, and the dragon carvings in the early days of the Eastern Xia Kingdom are all like this." In the early days of China, it is not surprising that ancient Chinese dragons had very different forms, and some dragons had pig noses. ”

The evolution of the Chinese dragon is very long, at the beginning of the dragon is crawling, just find a beast head and put it on the snake is the dragon, at that time each tribe has its own dragon totem, each tribe evolved separately, and in the end the form of the dragon is also different. Later, the Han culture spread, the Yixia culture was integrated, and the image of the Han dragon began to mix with the dragons of various ethnic minorities, and finally the dragon gradually unified into the current Panlong.

This hundred-legged dragon is a mixture of a dragon and a centipede, but I don't know why, seeing so many arthropod feet under an ordinary dragon not only can't give people a sense of might, but makes people feel very uncomfortable and a little weird.

The fat man listened to Monk Hua's introduction and said with a smile: "Brother Scar, I can't see that you are quite good, then this stone should be something from the Eastern Xia Kingdom?" ”

Monk Hua looked at the stone carving, then looked up at the top of the hillside, and wondered: "That's right, it's just that where did this stone for carving the dragon come from?" ”

At this time, it was already dark, we each turned on the flashlight, and used the flashlight to sweep all the snow off the stone, and found that this stone was almost a huge flat plate five meters high and three meters wide, leaning against the rocky slope on the side, the stone was extremely flat, and it was black, which was obviously different from the other stones here.

I looked at the marks on the fracture of the stone and said, "It may have collapsed from above, the fourth grandfather is right, the place we are going to is still on it." You see the asymmetry of the shape of this dragon, this is a double dragon playing with pearls, such a stone carving should have one side, generally carved on the stone door, one on each side. ”

Chen Pi Ah Si coughed, and said weakly: "Fart, I don't know much about it, I pout, what kind of stone gate, this is the sealing stone in the tomb." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the dragon's mouth, and Monk Hua immediately went over, put his hand into the dragon's mouth, and pulled it out, and pulled out a black wrist-thick iron chain for him, and the fat man looked at it and said, "Oh, it's over, the dragon's intestines have been pulled out for you." ”

Chen Pia said: "This is the horse chain used to pull the stone when the tomb is sealed, and this side is the inward side. ”

I blushed when I told him, and looked left and right: "Ah, sure enough, I was wrong, but how could the sealing stone appear here?" ”

Monk Hua pulled the iron chain hard, the stone did not move, Chen Pi Asi also flashed a trace of doubt on his face, shook his head, looked up at the top, I sighed in my heart, I knew what he was worried about, if this sealing stone collapsed from above, it means that the tomb above is very badly damaged, even if we find it, can we still go in?

The wind and snow were raging overhead, and it was almost dark at night, and I looked at my watch, not knowing how long the blizzard was going to be.

The discovery of this stone sculpture has increased our confidence in finding the Heavenly Palace, but I don't know whether to be happy or depressed. Monk Hua took a picture of the stone carving, Chen Pia Si jīng God recovered, let us take care of our own things first, take a rest when we should rest, here is just sheltered from the wind, what to wait for the wind to stop.

We sorted out the equipment, and Monk Hua went to take care of the wounded soldier. I was rummaging through something, and he came running over and told me that it was a bit of a problem, and Junko was basically unresponsive.

We put Junko down and shook his head, and he could only let out a dull 'Eun', confused, and knew at a glance that it was hypothermia.

"We've got to make a fire, or he won't last long." Panzi came over and said, "I can't wake up when I fall asleep." ”

I looked around, and there was no firewood at all, so I lit a fire, and I was afraid that I would burn the plow. However, a lot of equipment is required to go up the snowy mountain, and without a plow, I am afraid that the road below will not be able to go down.

Monk Hua looked at Chen Pi Ah Si, obviously not daring to make his own decisions, the latter's face was very yīn 矜, I don't know if it was frozen or what, frowned, and said, "Don't let him die for the time being, I still have something to ask him." ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, Monk Hua unloaded the things on the plow, and was about to pull out the wooden strips as firewood, but now the plow is also soaked in snow, I don't know if it will be lit up, and when I was worried, I suddenly smelled a smell of sulfur.

I don't know where this smell came from, my brain jumped, and asked Monk Hua not to move first, and stood up and smelled it carefully. The others also smelled it at the same time, and they all stopped what they were doing, and the fat man took a sharp breath and said, "Comrades, it seems to smell of hot springs!" ”

Chen Pi Ah Si gave Ye Cheng and Lang Feng an eye, and asked them to go out to look for it, the fat man picked up his backpack and said that he was going, but all three of them were stopped by Pan Zi, and the fat man asked: "What are you doing", Pan Zi pointed to the stuffy oil bottle with his chin and said: "What are you panicking about, don't forget that we have a master." ”

At this time, the stuffy oil bottle had already leaned over, touched the stones one by one with his two long fingers, and suddenly frowned, "En? With a sigh, he turned to the hundred-legged dragon sealing stone on the side.

We came to the Panlong Stone, there was no smell here just now, and the smell of sulfur was obvious now. The stuffy oil bottle touched the faucet, looked at the back of the stone, put his hand on the faucet, pressed it, and said, "Strange, the back of the faucet is empty." ”