Chapter 3: The Mystery of the Nalinggrad Gorge

(Update delivered, continued tomorrow)

Back to the hotel from He Tao's house, we rested for the night. The fat man went out early the next morning, saying that he was going to run some errands. But judging by the involuntary lewd smile of the fat man before he went out, I seemed to already know what he was going to do. So he waved his hand and asked him to go early and return early.

While the fat man was away, I quickly looked up on the Internet about the so-called hell gate that the fat man said last night.

After turning on the computer, I stopped in the search box, and finally typed in the words "hell gate" and hit enter.

Originally, I thought that the gates of hell were just a name deliberately given by the fat man to create an atmosphere. I didn't expect that there would be such a place in the search results. And this place is in Qinghai Province. Here are some of the results I searched for. Since these search results are already very clear, I won't explain much here.

The Valley of Death in China's Kunlun Mountains (Nalinggrad Gorge), known as the "Gate of Hell" of Kunlun Mountains, is located in the Kunlun Mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It starts from Buruntai in Qinghai in the east and reaches Shashan in the west. It is 105 kilometers long and 3,200 to 4,000 meters above sea level.

Here's a brief introduction to this Death Valley. But behind this introduction, I saw a few related news. Of course, all this news happened in the 90s of the last century. But even though it's been so long, the information it brings is still very important to me.

In the nineties of the last century, a scientific expedition team of a geological bureau entered the canyon in one summer in order to unravel the mystery of the canyon. At the same time, the expedition team smashed the canyon and encountered a ranch owner who had entered the canyon in search of horses. In view of the strange phenomenon in the Nalinggrad Gorge, the expedition advised the rancher to leave immediately. But the rancher insisted on just going in to look for the horse that he had sneaked into the canyon, and did not linger too long, and then went into the canyon alone. The expedition continued their investigation, and a few days later, they noticed that the herdsman's horse had reappeared nearby, but they had not seen the herdsman who was supposed to be together. In order to see what was going on, the expedition team followed the horse's footsteps, and found the corpse of the shepherd facing the sky not far away, and his face was completely blackened. Also, for some reason, he fell in a position of holding a gun and preparing to shoot.

I was a little stunned when I saw this, and my brain digested the information. And it was at this time that the fat man returned.

I looked at the time displayed on the computer. From the time the fat man went out to the time he came back, it was only half an hour.

"Fast gunslinger?" I looked at the fat man.

The fat man waved his hand to let me fart less, and then sat down on the sofa by himself: "What the hell do you think I went out early in the morning to find a girl?" ”

I shrugged, "Or else?" ”

"I'm too lazy to tell you - yo, I'm very smart, but I'm looking up information on the Internet by myself?" The fat man saw what was displayed on the computer at a glance. immediately came over: "Come on, come on, fat man, I'll take a look." ”

The fat man squeezed me off the stool and slid the mouse to look at it. But after reading it for a while, the fat man closed the page.

"It's too official, it's boring." The fat man reached for a bottle of water, unscrewed it and took a few sips.

"You won't tell me what you know, why don't you want me to look it up myself?" I asked him rhetorically.

The fat man glanced at me and snorted in a long voice, "You really want to know?" ”

"Nonsense." I rolled my eyes.

The fat man sat up straight: "Actually, this gate of hell is not so mysterious. The so-called mystery of the Nalingler Gorge is nothing more than the fact that the creatures inside are vulnerable to lightning. In the past, it was backward in science and technology, and there was no way to explain it. But now it's different, technology is so developed, this fan is no longer a fan. Saying that, the fat man got up and sat back on the sofa, and continued: "To put it bluntly, the altitude is too high, and the surrounding magnetic field is too strong. In short, the factors that can lead the thunder down this canyon are all there. ”

Hearing the fat man say this, I immediately thought of the most critical part of the ancient tomb: "You mean, if the ancient tomb is built in this canyon, then thunder and lightning are the best anti-theft mechanism for this tomb?" ”

The fat man nodded: "That's right." But that was before. Now that we know the cause of this phenomenon, we just need to—" said the fat man, holding up a finger on his head, "just bring lightning protection equipment." ”

When I heard the fat man say that I wanted to bring lightning protection equipment, I suddenly thought of a cartoon called Teletubbies that I watched when I was a child.

"Well, now that I'm here, I'll tell you something else." The fat man said, "Do you know whose tomb belongs to this canyon?" ”

I shook my head, and my heart said I don't know.

"Queen Mother of the West." The fat man said word by word.

"Queen Mother of the West?" I was stunned for a moment, "The one that planted a large peach orchard in the heavenly court?" ”

I originally wanted to make a joke, but I didn't expect the fat man to nod seriously: "That's right, it's her." ”

"Damn, the Queen Mother is a myth and legend, you don't lie to me."

"How can I say it's lying to you?" The fat man straightened his face: "I also told you just now that the canyon is easy to be split, so you can't radiate your thoughts?" ”

I looked at the fat man, let me think about it, and I understood in an instant. "You're saying the Queen Mother of the West is real. She's just a mortal, but she's just using the canyon to easily provoke thunder and lightning, which is why she's been mythologized? ”

The fat man nodded: "The child can be taught." After a pause, he said, "But legend has it that although the Queen Mother of the West has a human form, she is actually very different from a human. ”

I immediately thought of the six-handed female corpse in the Ximatang Ancient Tomb: "What, she is also six-handed?" ”

The fat man rolled his eyes: "People are the Queen Mother, not the Thousand-Armed Guanyin." The fat man thought for a while, and then said, "I remember that the Queen Mother of the West had a leopard's tail and a pair of tiger teeth. And according to the records, the Queen Mother of the West was particularly fond of roaring. Howl twice when you're fine. It's like you, Guangxi Sanjie Liu, you like to howl twice. ”

I patted the fat man: "You're the howl, Liu Sanjie is singing, you know?" ”

The fat man waved his hand, indicating that he was too lazy to fight with me. Then I got up and went to pack my things.

"What for?" I asked him, "Aren't we going to leave the day after tomorrow?" ”

The fat man said while collecting his things: "It's the day after tomorrow, it's going to Nalingele." But before that, fat man, I need to take you to Baibai Mountain. ”

"Worship the mountain?" I was stunned, "What do you mean?" ”

"Each tomb is guarded by one of the eight elements, you think it's so easy to get in?" The fat man looked at me after putting away his things: "Ali is waiting for us at the airport now, we have to go and meet the guardian of the Mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West." ”

"Why don't you go? I don't know much about these things, so it's useless to go. ”

"The thief is the biggest one in the outer eight lines, you are the one in the thief, only if you go to them, they may sell your face." The fat man stood in the doorway and tilted his head towards me: "Let's go." ”

I hesitated for a moment and asked the fat man, "Then can you tell me first, which line of those people are from?" ”