Kunlun Shrine Chapter 9 Plan B
The fat man's expression was relieved, I think he can't blame him for this, it's good that he hasn't burst his bladder after holding it for so long. I saw the fat man squeezing his eyes at me, the two of us can't understand this way of communication, outsiders can't understand it, only I can understand, he asked me what to do now since I was discovered. I stretched out my finger and pointed to it, signaling the fat man to climb to the top of the red pillar, and then climb up a little more, waiting for my signal to burst out.
Then I shifted my angle behind the pillar, and the Guilty Eater was already tracking the scent. I hid behind the pillar and could see clearly, this guy was covered in blood, his face looked like a cat's head, or even closer to a leopard, and his body was slightly closer to a human form, except that he could not walk upright.
I spied it on and thought it looked very much like the muskrat common in Tibet, but it didn't look like a black kitten like an ordinary muskrat, not only much larger, but also white all over. Legend has it that some beasts live for a long time and their hair turns white like humans.
But at this time, I don't want to think about it anymore, the white ghost-like Sin-Eater Balu has come to the bottom of the red pillar where the fat man is, and carefully sniffs the urine stains from the fat man, because the fat man pees through his pants, so the smell on his body is heavier, and the Sin Eater Balu feels that the smell above is stronger, so he wants to look up.
I thought that if this guy looked up and saw the fat man above, then our plan to surprise and sneak attack would fail, so I leaned out from behind the pillar and coldly shouted to Eater Balu, "Hey...... Haven't you ever seen open defecation? β
The white-haired sin eater Balu was startled by the sudden sound, and turned his head suddenly, his two eyes were like two lightning lights in the moonlight, and I said to my heart, "Your eyes are bright enough, see if there is such a thing." Raising his hand, he raised the wolf's eye flashlight, and a strong beam of light shot straight into the eyes of Sin-Eater Baru. The wolf's eye can not only be used for illumination and aiming, but it also has one of the biggest characteristics, which can make the naked eye blind in an instant when it is close to the frontal illumination.
Some animals' eyes are very sensitive to light sources, and because of this, they can see their surroundings clearly in the dark, and the more they are caught up in the beam of the wolf's eye, the more strongly they react. The sin eater was illuminated, and he immediately lost his eyesight, and let out a strange cry like an old mountain owl.
I saw that I could not miss the opportunity, so I shouted to the fat man on the pillar: "What are you waiting for? Hurry up ** bombing. β
The fat man listened to my signal, and jumped down from above with his eyes closed, and smashed it firmly on the sin eater Balu, if ordinary people were hit by this, they would have to let the fat man smash it out of his mouth and spit out his intestines, but this beastly sin eater Balu didn't care, he struggled to get up, the fat man shouted: "Commander Hu, our trick doesn't work, this guy is really ......strong" Before the words fell, he had been thrown off, and the fat man rolled twice on the spot, dodging the claws of the sin eater Balu's blind pounce.
We wanted to take advantage of the temporary loss of sight in both of its eyes to escape, but the location was not good, and the exit to the Temple of the Protector was blocked by it, and if we wanted to get out of the Guge Royal City, we had to go down the mountain from this way. Another exit of the reincarnation temple is a broken wall that is eaten by wind and rain, more than ten meters high, absolutely unable to go down in a hurry, if we continue to attack, but there is no weapon, we don't care about fighting with stones like the five heroes of Langya Mountain, but we are afraid that we can't solve it like that, and when its eyes recover, we will lose the opportunity.
I glanced around a few times, and with a plan in my mind, I waved to the fat man, pointed to the black iron door in the secret cave, and closed the iron door to block it out first.
The two of them didn't dare to make a sound, and rubbed lightly in the direction of the secret cave, but we ignored one point, the hungry ghost who eats sin, although his eyes are not lightly shaken by the strong light of the wolf's eyes, this guy's sense of smell is still sensitive, and the smell of urine on the fat man's body has simply become our locator.
At this time, the sin eater Balu had recovered from the panic of the blind man just now, and it seemed that when it saw the living person, it was furious like thunder, and came at the fat man. Seeing that the situation was not good, the fat man and I spread our legs and ran, but my body covered the moonlight, and it was pitch black in front of me, and I tripped over the broken wall, and stretched out my hand on the ground to support it, trying to get up and continue running, but I felt something furry under my right hand, and when I grabbed it, it turned out to be a black muskrat.
The fat man recklessly followed me, and I fell to the ground, tripping him over and stumbling. I grabbed the fat man by the collar and struggled to get up from the ground, only to see two cold lights flickering behind me, and the eyes of the sin eater were already restored, I raised my hand and threw the little muskrat at it, and it reached out and grabbed it, grabbed it with five fingers, and immediately pinched the muskrat to death, threw it into its mouth and chewed it.
I don't think this guy who knows if it's a zombie or a beast probably has a habit of not eating living things, but must be killed before eating. Although the ruins of this royal city seem to be full of the silence of death, there are many creatures that operate at night or in the shadows, including muskrats, snow spiders, etc., if you press a snow spider just now, you may have been poisoned. I don't know the depth of the cave behind the black iron gate, but that is the only way to retreat, so I can only calm down and hide in it first.
The fat man and I retreated to the inside of the iron door, not caring what the space behind the door looked like, so we hurriedly closed the iron door with our backhands. When the fat man saw the structure of the iron door, he immediately cried out loudly, this door was opened from the outside, and there was no latch inside at all, and it was impossible to use his body to resist the door, so he could only pull it back, and he couldn't use his strength.
As he spoke, the iron door was pulled open by a huge force outside the door, and the fat man and I used all our strength to fall through the two doors. The fat man said to me: "This trick is not easy to use, Commander Hu, is there an emergency backup plan?" β
I said to the fat man: "Plan B also has it, since we can't escape and can't stop it, then let's go play bastard with it and fight to the death." β
The fat man said: "You said earlier, just now when it can't see, you should do it, then now I can let it in, let's go out, cut off the head only as a wind hat, go out and fight with it......"
I hurriedly stopped the fat man: "When did you become so sincere?" Won't I just say that? We have to retain our vitality, and we can't go toe-to-toe with this kind of thing. "I kicked the two iron chains on the ground with my foot, which I dragged in from the outside when I ran in just now, these two iron chains were originally locked with the silver-eyed Buddha statue outside the door, and they were used to fix the iron door.
But I didn't even think of closing the iron gate from the inside through guΓ² to block the sin eater outside, which was a ready-made clamp. I'll tell the fat man that we'll leave a crack in the door for a while, and whatever part of the guy comes in, you just have to wrap the chain around your waist and fall back desperately, leaving no room for mercy, and clip it to death.
The sin eater outside the door didn't give us much time to make a detailed deployment, its claws reached into the crack in the door, and it had already broken a large crack in the door, and its head and an arm were sticking in.
The timing was just right, and the fat man and I shouted at the same time: "Ula! "Use all your brute force, highlight the muscles and bones, and pull the iron chain, so that the iron door is quickly tightened. The creaking sound of snapping muscles and bones came out, and the sin eater Balu was in pain, and he wanted to struggle but couldn't do it, his neck was stuck, and even if he couldn't exert great strength, he still didn't give up, one hand kept scratching the iron door, and the other half of the arm that reached into the door grabbed us out of thin air.
In order to exert enough strength, the fat man picked up the silver-eyed Buddha statue and wrapped the iron chain around his waist, but this shortened the distance, and the claws of the sin eater Balu had reached the fat man's stomach, and he was only a few millimeters away from the danger of disemboweling. I hurriedly pulled out my lighter and lit it to set it on fire. The sin eater Balu was burned by the fire and the pain was unbearable, but he couldn't move, and could only wail in despair.
The fat man and I have been desperate since we were children, and at this time it unconsciously stimulated the primitive fighting spirit. Treat the enemy as harshly as winter, and the more they scream in pain, the more we will fight. It was not until the fuel for the lighter had run out of fuel and roasted the sin-eater that its head and half of its shoulder, which had reached into the door, were almost caught in half, and it was too dead to die.
The fat man and I had just exhausted all our strength, and at such an altitude it was dangerous to do so, and I felt like it was starting to get hard to breathe. The two of them could not move a single step, and lay down on the spot, panting hard.
I lay on the ground, I smell that there is no rancid smell here, if this secret cave is really the hell of the reincarnation sect, then we should leave quickly, God knows if there is anything else here, but how to lose my strength, if I move rashly in the case of uneven breathing, I am afraid that there will be a violent altitude sickness, so I have to turn on the flashlight with one hand and shine it around.
The space inside the black iron gate, the ground is full of white bones, there are human and animal ones, there are many caves in the wall, some large and some small, the small ones can allow small animals such as muskrats to crawl, and the big ones are big enough to get into a Tibetan bear, but the positions are very high, and it is difficult for ordinary people to climb up. Directly above the head was a cavern, the entrance of which was very regular and circular, like a shaft, and it was probably the palace that led to the top of the hill, and anyone who offended the royal power would be thrown down from the top by the guards.
I was looking at the terrain, but I heard the fat man next to me say to me, "Commander Hu, look at what kind of skin this is?" β
I wondered, "What skin?" Whose skin? Glancing, the fat man pulled out a large chunk of black fur from underneath him. I took it and looked at it, it didn't look like the skin of a Tibetan horse bear, it didn't look like a human skin, there was too much hair, maybe it was a wild man's skin.
With a shake of his hand, from the fur, a piece of human-like skull fell out, like a half-shaped skull, but the bone layer was amazingly thick, it was impossible for anyone to have such thick bones, pinched with his hand, it was very soft, and it didn't look like a bone. The more I looked at it, the more strange it became, and I used a flashlight to shine it up, and saw that there seemed to be a lot of words densely packed on this skull, although it was not the kind of strange words in the dragon bone heavenly book, but we still couldn't recognize a word.
The mouth of the skull was far larger than that of a normal person, and I looked at it for a long time, thinking that this might be a mask, why should I wrap it in this wild man's fur and throw it in the hell behind this iron gate? The fat man and I couldn't figure it out. Look at the traces of human processing of the fur, and I don't know if it's worth it.
We caught our breath for a while, and when we saw that there were more and more muskrats scurrying around in the corner, we didn't dare to stay any longer, and quickly left the place where the bones had accumulated. This iron gate is not used to stop the sin eater Balu at all, but to prevent the criminals who fall from it from not dying and will run out of the door. A few large holes in the sloping top are for the kind of sin-eating beasts to enter and exit, and if two more climbs in, it will be difficult to deal with.
The fat man rewrapped the strange mask with the savage's fur, tucked it under his armpit, and crawled out of the cave with me. At this time, the bright moon outside was in the sky, and it was the middle of the night, and the ground of the reincarnation temple was dripping with blood, all of which were the remaining stumps of Ah Dong who had been gnawed, which was really miserable.
I discussed with the fat man, no matter what he said, it was all the way, don't let him be bruised here, but if it is too troublesome to dig a pit and bury it, just throw the remaining bits and pieces of him into the secret cave.
The two of us threw Adong's stump into the black iron door, and then put the silver-eyed Buddha statue back as well. Stealing such a thing will definitely be punished, so let it stay in the secret room. Then he closed the iron door again, and blocked it with the remnants of bricks and wood, and then returned the way he came.
On the way back, the fat man still sighed blindly, sympathizing with Adong's tragic fate: "I found a truth, not everyone can be a hero. Commander Hu, you still have a point, the more critical the moment, the more you have to dare to play bastards. β
I said to the fat man: "You can't always play bastard, the blind man has a very good saying, people live in the world, there are many disasters without vain, the dangers of the rivers and lakes, not the only turmoil, in the face of all kinds of dangers of different natures, we have to take different countermeasures." In the future, we will step up our ideological propaganda offensive and strive to psychologically disintegrate the enemy's ......."
As we walked, we were talking as we were talking, when we suddenly heard a series of footsteps behind us, as if someone was following us, and I became alert, so I immediately stopped talking and looked back behind me. The silent mountains and forests, shadows illuminated by the moonlight, fell on the earth in pitch black, and the silhouette resembled a fierce beast with a hideous face. The wind howls on the desolate plateau, and the wind is blowing, perhaps just now it is just an illusion.
Although we didn't notice anything unusual, we always felt that something was not right, so the fat man and I quickened our pace and hurried back to the fortress where the expedition was camping, and while no one was noticing, we slept back in our sleeping bags and covered our heads.
Early the next morning, Uncle Ming asked if we had seen Adong's rotten boy, and the fat man and I shook our heads like rattles, but we didn't see it. I said that Ah Dong probably felt that it was too hard to carry the oxygen cylinder, and he couldn't stand the sin, so he deserted and ran away in advance.
The fat man pretended to be even more evil: "Adong? Isn't he in Beijing? How did it end up here? Uncle Ming, are you old and confused? Lack of oxygen, right? Hurry up and intubate. β
Uncle Ming had no choice but to ask Peter Huang to look around, and in the end when he saw no result, he didn't ask anymore, anyway, he was a follower, whether he was dead or alive, it didn't matter the overall situation at all.
The guide told us that we couldn't walk today, and in the second half of last night, the wind blew for most of the night, and it seems that there must be a heavy rain today. There are too many yaks in our team, and the yaks on the plateau are not afraid of wolves, nor are they afraid of Tibetan horses and bears, but they are most afraid of thunder, and when they encounter thunder and lightning on the road, they will definitely run away and jump around, so they have to delay for one more day, and then set off back to Senge Zangbo tomorrow.
When we think about it, anyway, the approximate location of Karamir in Kunlun Mountain has been mastered, and even if we arrive in Karamir, we will not be able to enter the mountain for the time being, because the equipment and materials have not yet arrived, and it will take half a month to wait for QiΔ to be ready. Moreover, from the Ali area to the Kunlun Mountains, it is almost across the Tibetan plateau, and the journey is long, so there is no need to fight for this day or two, so it stays in the ruins of the fortress. Sure enough, before noon, the dark clouds in the sky gradually thickened, and finally it began to rain.
Everyone was drinking butter tea and waiting in the castle, due to the rain, the air pressure was lower, Ah Xiang felt difficult to breathe, and stayed in the back room to sleep, while the rest of the people discussed the next plan of action. Then the fat man told Uncle Ming and others about his magnificent inverted career, and frightened those people into a daze.
I took the opportunity to summon the lama and shirley Yang to the stone house where I slept, and showed them both the fur of the savage and the papier-mΓ’chΓ© mask, and gave them a brief account of what had happened last night. But when I told them about Adong's death, it was best not to tell Uncle Ming, so as not to cause misunderstanding, he might think that it was me and the fat man who murdered Adong for money, don't make trouble yourself.
Shirley Yang was a little angry after hearing this: "You guys are too bold, you dare to go to the ruins of the ancient city in the middle of the night to make a prank with your bare hands, you have been a lieutenant for a few years, but you don't have a steady appearance, what if something really happens?" β
I said to Shirley Yang: "The heroes don't mention the courage of the past, and the memories of the past are thick." Last night, including the previous events, has become a small wave in the long river of history, so let's not dwell on the past that has become an objective existence. If you look at the words on this mask, can you recognize it? This is the only thing with words in the Reincarnation Temple, and there are many similarities between the Reincarnation Sect and the Demon Kingdom Faith, and maybe there will be some valuable information in it. β
Shirley Yang said helplessly: "You are too eloquent, you shouldn't be a soldier, you should be a lawyer, or be a politician." After speaking, he took the mask and looked at it, and said strangely: "This is the Bible written in Portuguese." β
In addition to being good at finding dragons, I also have a knack for pretending not to hear if someone asks me questions I don't want to answer. So I asked Shirley Young, "Do you still know Portuguese?" I said how to write this word like a bunch of grapes. β
Shirley Yang shook his head and said, "I can only understand a little, but I am familiar with the Bible, and this is sure that the Bible will not be wrong." β
With the help of the lama, it can finally be concluded that this mask is an image of a reincarnation demon. The use of the Bible to make such a terrifying mask may be related to the conflict between religion and law in Tibet in the past. The fur of the Himalayan savages was a treasure loved by the ancient Tibetan aristocracy, and was said to have the effect of keeping warm, and if the body was wrapped in it, it could also be embalmed. When the nobles of the royal palace hunted, they liked to drape it on their backs as a cloak, which could hide the smell of human beings in the wind; It is also said that it is this kind of fur that can wrap the soul and make it never liberated.
Shirley Young wanted to see what was in the mask, so he peeled back the dry pages of the mask, layer by layer, and found that there were many zigzag lines drawn on the paper of these Bible scriptures, a map, waterways, mountains, and castle towers, but I don't know where.
Since there is no longer any basis, it can only be speculated based on the terrain in the map, this may be in the land of Dapeng Bird, the map of the ancient Zhangxiong Dynasty, or it may be the map of the Phoenix Shrine in Kunlun Mountain, because the extinct Guge Dynasty has a deep connection with these two places, and it is likely to retain the information of these two ancient ruins. Some foreigners secretly copied it out, ready to go treasure hunting, or do something else, but before they could bring it out, they were thrown into hell and fed to Baru, and the Bible that was stolen and mapped was made into the face of a demon, wrapped in savage fur, and thrown into hell together. But the details of it are beyond our ability to deduce, and in short, this almost unrecognizable map has a certain value.
Shirley Young was busy repairing the drawings, so I turned around and went out to pour butter tea outside. At this time, the rain outside was much lighter, but the thunder rumbled, and it seemed that more rain was still brewing, and it was dark and dreary as if it was night, and it seemed that it was difficult to say whether the weather would clear tomorrow. The fat man in the outhouse, sitting by the fire, was getting up, and Uncle Ming, Peter Huang, Han Shuna, and Tashi, a guide named Jixiang, all opened their mouths wide and listened attentively beside them.
I only heard the fat man foaming at the mouth and said: "Fat man, I unloaded the old zongzi in the big coffin into eight pieces, buried my head on the side of the road, buried my arms and thighs in Dongshan and Xishan respectively, and left a section of my body in the middle, so I kicked it into the river." β
The fat man said to Peter Huang, what kind of prince are you, just in time for the old man to come to our China, the streets are full of waist drum corps to welcome him, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has to let me go to meet him, I don't have time, I am too chaotic, so I avoided the countryside, and found a murderous house where it is said that seventeen people have died. The fat man has this temper, he doesn't believe in that, what kind of murderous house and yin house, take care of it. In the evening, I began to count the Ming utensils that I touched back from the old zongzi, and I just counted them, and guess what?
Uncle Ming shook his head and said, "Is there a mistake, you don't tell us, how can you let us guess?" How many artifacts did you take? β
The fat man said, "I have mentioned it, and I have returned the weapon, and as soon as I have ordered it, the door of the house will be slammed open, and the thunderbolts outside will open one after another, and something will roll in from the outside, which is the human head that I buried by the river." β
Uncle Ming and the others were bored and listened to the fat man Kan Dashan, although he knew that he was talking nonsense, but at this time, the thunder outside was tight, and the abandoned castle was gloomy and dark, and they couldn't help but get nervous.
I thought it was funny in my heart, and I thought to myself, fat man, you are really good, you can do it, it is better to scare Uncle Ming out of heart disease, and we will have an excuse not to go to Karamir to find the dragon top without these burdens.
I walked to the teapot, just picked up the bowl and wanted to pour some tea to drink, when I suddenly heard a woman's exclamation from inside, it seemed to be Ah Xiang, wasn't she sleeping? At this moment all the people in the room stood up, and even the Iron Rod Lama and Shirley Yang came out.
Everyone was worried that something had happened to Ah Xiang, and they wanted to go in to see her, but they saw Ah Xiang running out barefoot and throwing herself into Uncle Ming's arms. Uncle Ming hurriedly comforted her: "Don't be afraid, good girl, what happened?" β
Ah Xiang stared at a pair of big godless eyes, looked around at everyone in the room, and said to Uncle Ming: "Godfather, I'm so scared, I saw Ah Dong walking around this room with blood all over his body. β
Others didn't think anything of it, but the fat man and I who knew about Ah Dong's death all felt a chill behind them. At this time, the Iron Rod Lama stepped forward and said, "He has a bardo body, and he must hurry up to die in the bardo, otherwise he will kill the living people here with us." β
The Iron Rod Lama said that the bardo body is not a resentful soul, but a resentful soul. In Tantra, it is believed that after a person's death, until the period before reincarnation, the state is called bardo.
The lama asked Ah Xiang if he could see where the bardo was now.
Ah Xiang raised her finger tremblingly, and everyone subconsciously took a step back, but saw that her finger pointed straight at the Iron Rod Lama.