Animal World, Glacier Town, Glacier Cemetery.

The snow was falling, and I walked behind Nick, wrapped in a thick cotton suit, a huge square with snow almost up to my knees.

I glanced back, and in this huge snow-covered square, there were only two trails of footprints left by Nick and I, one behind the other.

Odd!

I mentally estimated that Judy and the orangutan must have passed in this direction, and the time was only fifteen minutes faster than us......

Even at the rate of heavy snow and landfilling, it is impossible not to leave a trace!

I raised this question.

Nick turned his head, he pondered for a moment, and said, "You, you know, one of the most incredible places in Animal City is here." ”

"Why?"

"There are many legends about the glacial cemetery, but one of the most famous is ...... It is said that the ancestors of all our animals gained wisdom from this place. ”

Nick's expression was a little complicated: "Can you imagine?" The original hairy and blood-drinking carnivores and timid herbivores lived in peace, and even we began to replace our protein needs with insect processed products, all because we had the wisdom to do so...... It's all due to this strange ...... Cemetery. ”

I looked at Nick in shock: "You believe this is true?" ”

Or do you have a better explanation? A primitive, savage beast...... In the same period, collectives evolved into intelligent beings, think about this...... Think about those footprints again...... Well, let's hurry up, remember! Don't be too surprised by what's going on here, as long as it's not those troublesome guys, what we're going to do now is, find Judy, and bring that orangutan back as well, and that's it. ”

I thought about it, as a local, in the environment in which Nick grew up, he might have been familiar with the legends of the glacial graveyard.

But what he said set off a huge wave in my heart.

I pondered and asked, "Who are those troublesome guys you are talking about?" ”

"It's a bunch of self-proclaimed high priests, savage, rude, who don't know how long they've lived," Nick walked ahead without looking back, "I hope they haven't woken up yet......"

Passing through this huge square, in front of us is a huge, majestic, towering iceberg.

Looking up, in the goose feather snow, I could vaguely see the lower part of the iceberg, the bare mountain, not a little angry, a steep, lonely trail around the mountain, all the way up......

I squinted and looked up the path, and about halfway up the mountain, the outline of a half-black hole was faintly visible......

……

"Let's go......"

When Nick arrived, he was talking a lot less than before, and I was so cold that my teeth chattered, and I didn't take the initiative to speak, and followed him up the hill.

……

The trail is narrow, less than a meter wide, and has an empty cliff on one side.

The wind swept the snow and drilled into my neckline, I tightened my collar, glanced out, and couldn't help but lean back against the mountain road.

"If you're scared......"

Nick's voice came intermittently in the wind, "I'll just go up myself." ”

……

"Nope! …… I'll go with you. ”

I gritted my teeth.

This glacier cemetery, and this mountain, are obviously the most important clues in the case, and I estimated in my heart that if the key to solving the case is on the top of this mountain, at this rate, we may not have enough time.

"Okay, there's only one way up the mountain, the tracker says, they're right up here, are you sure there's no problem?"

"Let's go faster," I nodded, "I'm a little worried about Officer Judy." ”

Nick smiled and turned his head to quicken his pace.

I hurried to follow.

……

After walking for more than an hour, a building appeared in front of us......

"It's not a fucking ......"

I looked at the strange and familiar building in front of me, and for a moment I was both excited and a little daunted.

Mehta!

No matter the appearance or size, it is almost exactly the same as the Meta in Dagou Village!

"Huh?"

I noticed a difference, just above the main entrance on the first floor of the Meta, there was a large plaque with a golden inscription written in the center of the plaque, and this golden inscription was one of the golden inscriptions I had seen on the stone carvings on the platform before.

"Snake!"

I read it softly.

"Huh? What did you say? Nick suddenly looked at me.

I thought about it, shook my head, and said, "Nothing." ”

Nick looked at this Meta and said with a complicated expression: "Whatever you see for a while, don't make a fuss, if Judy and the orangutan are not here, we will move on, remember?" ”

I could sense the uneasiness in Nick's tone, so I nodded and followed him inside.

In my heart, I was thinking about the meaning of the word "snake".

……

The first floor of Meta was empty, and there was nothing but a small plaque in the center, which had four golden inscriptions written on it, and I didn't know the other three except for the last snake character.

"Do you recognize the words on it?" I asked in a low voice.

Nick looked around carefully on the first floor, let out a long breath, and replied to me in a low voice: "The words written on this are the earliest animal city characters, and it just so happens that I have some research on these ancient characters, and it is written about the Xuanshui Black Snake, which is one of the several high priests." ”

"Xuanshui Black Snake ......" I silently wrote down these words in my mind.

"Let's go, the exit is on the second floor."

Nick dragged me up to the second floor.

In front of the first and second floors, there was also a huge door, and Nick pulled a pistol from his waist, made a silent gesture to me, and slowly pushed open the door to the second floor......

When I saw him as if he was facing a great enemy, I couldn't help but draw out the pig-killing knife that had been hanging on my waist and hold it in my hand.

……

"Giggle......

As the door opened, a thin layer of ice shattered over the shaft.

"Huh...... Hasn't anyone walked here before? I asked softly.

"Shh Nick's expression was nervous.

I closed my mouth in amusement and peered through the crack in the door.

"Ah......h

I hurriedly covered my mouth with my hand.

Nick looked at me with a frown, and I winked apologetically at him.

There was a huge block of ice across the door, and in the ice lay a monstrous creature, the head of which I could see from my vantage point.

The triangular head has diamond-shaped black scales with a cold sheen, two bulges at the back of the head, something that resembles a sarcoma, and two stout bodies connected to the back of the head......

What a Xuanshui black snake, this is clearly a fat relic in ancient legends! …… And it is a fat remnant that has already turned into a Jiao......

[A friend said that this book is good-looking, but isn't the route to Zootopia a bit off track...... Ahem, it seems to be explained here, a few days ago I watched the stars on the night, and I felt something, so I threw three copper coins, pinched my fingers and arranged the hexagram, and the hexagram was the same person 94, so the army was dangerous, the curve saved the country, and the brain was opened, and the elements of popular animated movies were integrated to seek Henry...... And the Animal City unit is actually burying the thread from the beginning, and here it is necessary to test the eyesight of the readers, whether they have seen the clues from it, and follow the previous article...... This section does not count towards the word count. 】