The Tibetan bear is slightly different from other bears, because the face of this bear looks a little like a horse, and it looks very ugly and vicious, so it is called so. The Tibetan bear that fell from above our heads, waving its paws in the shadow of the moon, turned its head and hit the rocks protruding from the mountain wall.

The Tibetan bone ditch itself is a large crack in the Gaqing slope, and the cliffs on both sides are steep and narrow, so that the Tibetan horse bear stumbles on the rocks on this side, and then changes the angle of falling, and crashes into the thorny dead trees growing on the cliff on the other side. The force of the fall of the weight of the thousand jun was so strong that it immediately broke the trunk of the dead tree, and the stomach of the Tibetan horse bear was also cut open by the hard branch, and before it could land, it was already disemboweled, with a lot of dead trees and gravel, and a large black pile fell with a bang.

The people below were so stunned that they forgot to dodge.

At this critical moment, someone shouted: "Hide back, keep your back against the wall, don't move." The fat man, the first junior high, and Peter Huang finally reacted, grabbed Uncle Ming's three mouths, and several porters who were so shocked that their legs and feet were weak, and avoided under the ancient trees on the edge of the mountain wall.

Almost at the same time, the body of the Tibetan horse bear also smashed to the ground at the bottom of the ditch. Shirley Yang and I were still far away, and we both felt a strong wind blowing in our faces, and the bear body was like a bombshell, shaking the ground nearby. Look at the Tibetan horse bear again, it has been smashed into a bear meat cake, and the flesh is blurred.

Immediately after that, a lot of loose gravel fell in the sky one after another, as the guide Chu Yi said earlier, the small stones that fell from a height of thousands of meters, even if they were only the size of a fingernail, were enough to crush people to death. Everyone leaned close to the mountain rock behind a few ancient trees, and did not dare to move, at this time there was nowhere to avoid, but to pray for the blessing of the Bodhisattva.

Fortunately, the place where the Tibetan horse bear jumped off the cliff was a little far away from us, there were no casualties, and everyone didn't know what was going on. Or has that sacrifice begun again? But even the Reincarnation Sect had already perished hundreds of years ago and no longer existed in the world, this Tibetan horse bear......

At this time, the debris falling from the sky gradually decreased, but fortunately, the yak and the horse did not run away in fright, and they all stared at each other in a daze.

Just when we thought that this was the end of the qiē, we suddenly saw the fat man pointing to the high place and saying, "My dear mother, kamikaze daredevil...... Not again! ”

Before I could look up, another beast with horns on its head fell down, and the horns on its head were just stuck into the back of a horse, and with the force of the fall, both of our horses broke their bones and died. At this time, I saw clearly that what had just fallen was a Kunlun white-necked longhorn sheep.

More than a dozen identical longhorn sheep fell from the top of the ditch, and the rest of the horses were frightened, and several horses neighed and broke the reins, jumped over the yaks' backs, and ran forward along the winding Tibetan bone ditch.

The yak, which was the most unresponsive, also became sexual at this time, and followed the horse and ran forward with its head down. The trampling of cows and horses, and the neighing of cattle, faded down the ravine, leaving only a dull echo of rumbling.

The first year of junior high and the others were going to drink some wine after eating, and then unload the yak, so some materials were still on the back of the yak, and they didn't have time to unload them, the most important of which was the ginger juice. There is no way to chisel ice without ginger juice, and although we have explosives in case of emergency, using explosives on a glacier is tantamount to death.

In addition, yaks are very valuable to Tibetans, and the first family is relatively wealthy in the local area, only three yaks and more than 20 sheep, and if ten yaks are lost at a time, it will be a huge loss.

When we saw that there were no more wild beasts falling overhead, we ignored the danger and divided into two teams, and the guide and I, plus the fat man, grabbed our weapons and immediately set out to chase the herd, while the rest of the men packed up their things and followed behind.

Along the zigzag bone ditch, the ground was trampled by cattle and horses, and many dry bones were turned out of the soil. These bones have long since decayed, and only occasionally you can see a trace of ghostly fire-like phosphorescence flashing, you can imagine the terrifying scene of ghostly fire everywhere in this ditch at night in this ditch. The weeds on both sides are more than half a person tall, and some dead trees and broken vines are mixed in between, which makes it even more bleak and cold.

We had traveled a long way, but there was no movement in front of or behind, and we could not hear the sound of the cattle and horses running, nor could we see the light of the illumination of the group behind us, so we had to stop and take a few breaths. Chu Yi took out the leather bag he had filled with wine, and the three of them drank a few large sips to strengthen their courage, and the fat man took out his cigarette and made a circle.

I asked Chu Yi Tibetan horse bear and those longhorned sheep jumped off the cliff to commit suicide, what hasn't happened for so many years, why did we catch up.

Chu Yi shook his head and said: "I haven't been in the Tibetan bone ditch for nearly ten years, and no one else has been here, except for the legends of ancient times, no one has witnessed it with their own eyes, and I don't understand why we suddenly encountered this kind of strange thing as soon as we came." ”

The three of them discussed a few words, and then followed the trend of the deep ditch, looking for yaks and horses, and then knew that they could not catch up in a short time, and they were afraid that the group of people behind them was too far away, and in case there was any change, they had to slow down.

The roadside in front of us was denser with weeds, and the guide suddenly became vigilant and pointed to the wild grass on the side of the road to me and the fat man. There was a strange smell among the grass, like the decay of a corpse mixed with the stench of a wild beast, and the smell was a little choking.

The fat man was holding a sporting rifle, and I was holding a Remington shotgun, and at first I had his usual shotgun, and I was ready to cut through the mess of grass to see what was inside.

But before we could get closer, a she-wolf suddenly burst out of the grass, jumped in mid-air, and pounced on us. Standing at the front, Chu Yi moved faster, did not shoot, pulled out the Tibetan knife, slashed the head, and with a "brush" sound, the she-wolf took the tip of the nose as the middle line, split the wolf's head into two halves, and died on the spot.

The fat man and I couldn't help but applaud, good knife, fast and accurate.

Chu Yi laughed, the captain of the Karamir wolf fighting team back then was not casually made, this wolf wanted to ambush us, and it should be unlucky today.

Chu Yi suddenly stopped talking, picked up the shotgun, and saw what he meant, there were other wolves behind the grass. We raised our guns and tore away the large mass of grass, revealing a large hole in the mountain wall behind the grass, which contained countless hairy things. The hazy moonlight will go in, it turns out to be a large litter of wolf cubs, all of them are scared together and shivering, maybe the she-wolf was also frightened by the herd that had just escaped, and saw that someone passed by, in order to protect these wolf cubs, she pounced out and wanted to hurt people. It's a wolf's den.

At the beginning of the year, the barley wine has always been in the mouth, and at this time, the wine was vigorous, and the murderous intent suddenly rose, and he took out the Tibetan knife again to go into the hole to stab all those wolf cubs to death.

When the she-wolf attacked just now, the fat man didn't have time to show his face, but at this time, he wanted to rush to the limelight, stopped Chu Yi and said: "Good steel is used on the blade, and good wine is placed on the state banquet." Is it so much trouble to clean up these little wolf cubs? You all look at the fat man, me. As he spoke, he took out a group of three detonators from his bosom, lit the fuse with the cigarette in his mouth, and threw it into the wolf's den with a shake of his hand.

We all flashed to the side, and it wasn't long before we heard an explosion in the wolf's den, and a puff of smoke came out.

When the smoke cleared, we went into the wolf's den for a final sweep and made up for the dead to make up for it. The cave was staggeringly large, and there were many fragments of bronze artifacts, which seemed to be a place of worship hidden in the bone ditch, but because it was later occupied by these wolves, many things and markings were destroyed and could no longer be recognized. We found a large number of animal remains in this cave, some of which had not yet been gnawed, and then it suddenly dawned on us that the special terrain of this bone ditch was used by these wolves. Because wolves are not adapted to running in high-altitude mountains, it is difficult to catch up with their prey, so they try their best to drive the prey to the top of the ditch on the Gaqing slope. The wolves that were driven from the grasslands to the mountains basically disappeared and were cornered, and it was unthinkable that they would survive on the remains of this ancient sacrificial ditch.

After coming out of the wolf's den, the fat man and the first year of junior high had a heated discussion. In this way, the unlucky Tibetan horse bear must have been wrapped in it in a daze when the hungry wolves were chasing the longhorned sheep. When the Tibetan bear was facing a desperate situation, it went crazy, and a dozen hungry wolves may not be able to move it, but it was when it was desperate, and the Tibetan bear probably wanted to avoid contact with the wolves far away, but it fell into a deep ditch and fell into a bear meat pie.

I also wanted to interject and talk to them, but it occurred to me that the hungry wolves that were fighting on the Gaqing slope were numerous, but they would definitely go back to the Tibetan bone ditch from the direction we came from. Because according to the first year of the first year, the front of this Tibetan bone ditch is connected to the Shenluo Ancient Glacier, and the glacier in that area is steep, and only this road can enter it, so it is impossible for the wolves to come back and drag those longhorned sheep who fell to death, and it is impossible to come from the direction in front.

The yaks and horses that ran to the front should not be attacked by the wolves, but those behind were unprepared. I used to deal with the evil wolves in Tibet, those guys are elusive, they are too cunning, if Uncle Ming and they are attacked, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no casualties. I told the fat man and the first year of the year, and the three of them immediately turned around and walked back, after all, human life is at stake, and they can't take care of those yaks for the time being.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they walked out of the short distance, they saw the lights flickering, and Shirley Yang and others had already followed, it turned out that they heard the explosion here, and thought that we were in some danger, so they rushed over to respond.

I saw two groups of people converge in one place, and I put my heart down. At this time, he saw that Chu Yi had already raised the gun, and several vicious wolves appeared in the direction where his muzzle was pointing. Those guys just stayed out of range of their weapons and didn't move forward. At night, only their green eyes and vague figures could be faintly seen.

The people with weapons all raised their guns and were ready to shoot, but I hurriedly stopped them: "These wolves are trying to test our firepower, we only have two sporting rifles that can shoot at long-distance targets, don't shoot lightly, wait for them to get closer, and then fire them in unison." "Anyway, we have a lot of guns, and the wolves in the mountains are only a few dozen at most, as long as you take precautions in advance, you don't have to be afraid of them.

At this moment, a white shadow suddenly appeared in the distance, and the hair trembled in the night wind. My heart sank, and I immediately remembered the night in the ruined temple of the Great Phoenix Temple, and the scene of the fierce battle with the wolves was vivid, as if it happened yesterday. Fuck, it's not that enemies don't meet, I can't imagine that after ten years, in the depths of the Kunlun Mountains at the junction of Tibet, Qingdao and Singapore, I met the white-haired wolf king again, it is still alive, we slaughtered so many wolf cubs just now, and the hatred between the two sides is getting deeper and deeper.

I whispered to the fat man, "Are you sure you're shooting here?" Capture the thief first and defeat the wolf king, these wolves will not pose a threat to us, and it is best to kill it with one shot. ”

The fat man smiled: "Pediatrics! Commander Hu, just wait to peel this white-haired wolf tube. As he spoke, he raised the sporting rifle in his hand, and slammed his finger on the trigger as he aimed.

I was happy that if I could solve it here, it would be a piece of my heart, but just as the fat man's sporting rifle was moving with the target and was about to fire, the white wolf had already ducked into the dead end of the shot, and several other wolves also disappeared into the darkness. The fat man scolded and had to put the gun down.

The wolves knew that they were rushing through the narrow ditch and hitting the muzzle of their guns, so they quietly retreated. I know in my heart that they must hate us so much that they leave now only as a temporary retreat, and they will not hesitate to attack at the first opportunity.

But we couldn't catch up, so we had to keep up with the whole team, looking for the yaks that had run away. After a long trek in the Tibetan bone ditch, everyone felt tired and tired, and finally found the yaks on a hillside at the mouth of the ditch, where they were grazing grass.

The guide, Chu Yi, and the five porters were overjoyed to see that the yaks were safe and sound, forgot their fatigue, and hurried up the hill. We walked slowly behind, and when I got up the hill, I froze, and the scene in front of me seemed to be more bizarre than a Tibetan bear falling from the sky, and there were six people next to the yak, it was the first and other people, they all seemed to be greatly frightened, and they were falling to the ground, and their whole bodies were trembling.

It's okay for others, how can a tough guy like Chu Yi, who wields a knife and slaughters a wolf without even frowning, be scared like this? But looking at their posture, they are not falling sideways in the chaos, they are all facing in one direction, lying face down on the ground, and their whole bodies tremble for a while, I think it is even more strange, it is not that they are panicking, but what are they worshipping? But it was less than a minute from the time they ascended to the hillside at the exit of the Bone Gully, so what could happen in such a short time?

I thought to myself, quickened my pace, and as soon as I stepped out of the narrow deep ditch, I was immediately stunned on the spot. I saw a foggy white light in the northern sky, and the light flickered and swayed. This strange light just surrounds the silver top of the snow peak, and in an instant it seems to produce a divine light like the sun and the moon embracing each other, and the same light, which I have heard about a long time ago, the jade top Buddha light that appears once in a thousand years in the Kunlun Mountains, only those who are destined can see it.

I was also so impressed by this sacred sight that even though I was not religious, I wanted to kneel on the ground and pay homage. At this time, the people behind came up one after another, and before they could see clearly, the magical light had disappeared into the night, and Uncle Ming and the others only saw half of their eyes, and they all beat their chests and regretted it.

Shirley Yang also glanced at it, and told everyone, don't regret it, this is not a thousand-year-old Buddha light at all, just now it was just a synchronous discharge phenomenon in the clouds, the clouds under the snow-capped mountains are too thick, and this phenomenon will occur at night, and the Buddha's light that only appears once in a thousand years, how can it be so easy to encounter.

But the first and others firmly believe that it is the Buddha's light and holy scene, and everyone who sees it will be auspicious. This kind of small Buddha light is very common in Karamir, but the real thousand-year-old Buddha light only exists on the top of the snow-capped mountain in Kawabog, Yunnan, in his distant hometown of Yunnan, and is said to have appeared only for a few seconds about a thousand years ago, and has been painted in the "Ten Phases of Freedom Picture"1 and has been handed down. There is a prophecy of the Living Buddha that it will appear again in the next ten years, when many pilgrims will travel thousands of miles to worship at the foot of the sacred mountain.

After worshipping the Buddha's light just now, the porters all looked elated, shouting to gather the cattle and horses, check the materials and equipment, but fortunately did not lose much, so they continued to move forward. After dawn, I found a gentle hillside and camped, rested for a day and a night, and recuperated enough mental strength, and prepared to enter the Shenluogou Glacier.

Those vicious wolves have never been seen, but they are watching us from nowhere, so they dare not take it lightly for a moment, especially when we are about to enter an even more dangerous and mysterious area -- Shenluogou.

Shenluogou Glacier is a unique low-altitude ancient glacier in the world, with the lowest elevation of only 2,008. The glacier runs between the two snowy mountains and extends for about kilometers into the primeval forest below. The dense primeval forest under the glacier is full of ancient trees, countless exotic flowers and plants grow, and it has rich animal and plant resources in the alpine and cold desert zone.

Entering the forest of Shenluogou, the problem of lack of oxygen and cold on the plateau can be solved, but new problems also arise, such places have no roads at all, yaks and horses cannot go down from the glacier, and there is a big ice barrier.

It seems that only supplies will be camped here, and the original plan was to leave only two porters to guard the supplies, and the rest of the people will carry their loads into the glacier, but the encounter with the wolves has formed a potential threat, and there are fewer people left behind to protect the camp and livestock.

I also don't want the locals to follow the first year into the mountain, because I don't know what danger there will be in front of me, and I really don't want to involve others, but the first year of the first year insists on helping, digging the demon tower of the demon country is a matter of accumulating merit, if it succeeds, the first day of the first year does not plan to send his youngest son to the temple to practice as a lama, and seeing the light of the Buddha on the top of the treasure has increased his confidence. We consulted for a long time, and in the end we had to leave five porters to guard the cattle and horses, each of whom had a shotgun and was good at fighting wolves, and left them some explosives and detonators.

The remaining eight people formed a team, wearing diving suits inside, jackets on the outside, mountaineering helmets and other protective gear, and distributed weapons and ammunition. Two sporting rifles were for Fat Man and Shirley Young, and Peter Wong and I used shotguns. In the first day of the new year, the shotgun was used, and the M1911 was equipped with the necessary materials and equipment on his back, except for Ah Xiang, and he set off on the hour.

The gateway of the Shenluogou Glacier is what the locals commonly call the big ice ridge, it is very easy to go down, it is an ice slope between 40 degrees and 60 degrees, just hold the rope, just like a slide, but I am afraid it will take some effort to come back.

The first one took us to a convenient downhill location. This large ice ridge looks very gentle, but in fact, there are many fragile ice crevasses and ice holes in it, and when a person's weight is pressed up, the thin ice shell will be crushed, and the thin ice shell will fall to the bottom and die. Only when I went into Shenluogou with the monks to collect medicine in the first year of junior high school, I found a narrow area that was relatively safe.

We set up three long ropes to hang down to the bottom of the ice ridge, starting with the first day of the first month, and the first to slip down, and the rest of the people went down in turn, and arrived at the Shenluo ditch under the ice ridge very smoothly.

After I went down, I raised my binoculars and looked into the distance, the forest sea and snow-capped mountains, endless. This glacier is supposed to be a composite type, mainly ancient glaciers, but there are also modern glaciers formed by avalanches in various periods. The entire glacier is separated by forests, ice spills, ice caves, ice gullies, and large ice waterfalls, and in the lower forests, the melted ice water gathers into streams, and God knows where the demon tower is buried.

Although this is not all avalanche danger areas, there are some places that can't make much noise, which will wake up the silver snow-capped mountain gods, so the guide Chu Yijian yì everyone, close all the weapons safety, no one should shoot until the safety is confirmed, if there is a wild beast attack, let's use cold weapons to greet it.

We follow the glacier into the forest, referencing the terrain as we go. Until hundreds of years ago, the Samsara sect often sent people to hold sacrifices, and perhaps some relics were left. According to the Sutra of Reincarnation, the specific location should be in the glacier surrounded by four snow-capped mountains, which is the so-called Phoenix Shrine in Tantric Feng Shui.

After walking in the forest for about two days, we continued to move forward on this day, and on the way, the first year of the first year told us some legends of this Shenluogou, as well as his experience of collecting medicine here. According to Buddhist legend, this was once an inland ocean, and there was a huge conch at the bottom of the sea, which transformed into a demon and a magic power, and the nearby creatures were poisoned until the Buddha used Buddhism to raise the sea into a land mountain, and then subdued it. The conch demon god was willing to convert to Buddhism, and finally became the protector god of Buddhism, and after it became a Buddha, the conch shell left behind turned into this ancient Shenluogou glacier.

This legend is not contained in any scriptures, and may have been invented by previous people, but it is in keeping with the characteristics of ordinary Buddhist legends. Buddhism is the most inclusive religion, no matter what demons and monsters, as long as they are willing to put down the butcher's knife, they can become Buddhas on the ground, so in the Buddhist scriptures and legends, many demon gods from all over the world are absorbed as protectors.

As he spoke, he walked to a large icefall, and the first day of the new year asked everyone to stop moving forward, pointed to the icefall and said: "The ice hill in front of it is just below the icefall, and on the icefall is the main peak of a snow-capped mountain. More than ten years ago, I found an eighty-eight flavor pearl ganoderma grass on the top, so I climbed the icefall to pick it, but the terrain here is extremely dangerous, not only did the eighty-eight flavor pearl ganoderma grass not pick, but also almost fell to death. If you want to find a place surrounded by four snow-capped mountains, there is one in front of you, and I saw it with my own eyes when I went up to collect medicine, and there are just four giant snow-capped peaks around here. There are many snow-capped mountains in Karamir, one in the east and one in the west, but it is not easy to find those that are connected together, and this is the only one I have seen and known. But I haven't dared to enter this basin before, because legend has it that this is the center of the Sea of Calamity, so we should be extra careful when we go in. ”

I can also see that the weather here is not very leisurely, just looking at the tens of millions of tons of snow in this snowy mountain, it makes people feel cold. Fortunately, the forest belt between the glaciers is very wide, and if you go around the icefall and pass through the forest, as long as there are no big surprises, it will not cause an avalanche.

At the end of the forest is a glacier with a steep rise in elevation, above the snow line, and it seems that tens of thousands of years ago it was either an alpine glacial lake or an alpine basin. Sure enough, there are four towering snow peaks of similar size around it, this is the dragon top of the backbone of heaven and earth, and the demon tower dedicated to the evil god is likely to be frozen in this glacier.

Seeing that they had finally landed, everyone was in high spirits, and they couldn't wait to rush forward, wanting to find the nine-story demon tower before dark. The ice here is unusually slippery, like a mirror. Peter Huang has always been in the south, this kind of icy and snowy place has never been to it, walking a little faster and even sliding a few heels, falling so that his tail bone is about to crack, so he has to let the fat man and Chu Yi carry him away.

Just about to move on, I didn't have the right number at all, there was one less Han Shuna, this glacier was full of ice crevasses, ice cirques, and ice leaks, and if I really fell into it, it would be troublesome. The ice cirque is easy to do, but there is no way to fish up if you fall into the ice and leak it, and there are no footprints on the ice, so it is not easy to find it along the way. But under the Great Snow Mountain, she didn't dare to call her name, and even Ah Xiang didn't have the perspective to see the situation under the ice.

The rest of the people scattered in formation, checked back and forth according to the way they came, and then changed the angle and changed two directions before finding a broken ice cirque (this bucket is not another bucket, a geographical term, referring to the hollow gap in the glacier, the shape of which is like a basin like a bucket). I shone it in with a wolf's eye flashlight, this cirque is seven or eight meters deep, Han Shuna is falling inside, unconscious, and there is no response when we whisper her name.

No one knows why she deviated from the route and passed by here, Uncle Ming saw that his wife fell below and her life and death were unknown, so he was so anxious that he turned around. I reassured him not to worry, it wasn't too deep here, they were all wearing a full set of protective gear, at most, he was too frightened and fainted when he fell, just go down and pull her up, nothing will happen.

I packed up my rope and prepared to go down, and Shirley Young threw a cold spark into it so that I could see it clearly, so as not to step through the crack in the ice that connected it. Unexpectedly, the cold fireworks that fell illuminated the four walls of the ice cave, and everyone looked down and let out an "ah". There were many dead people in ancient clothes and crowns frozen in the ice wall, all of them maintained a posture of standing and bowing their heads, forming a circle, as if these ancient corpses were still alive, staring down at the unconscious Han Shuna.

All we saw was the outermost layer, and there were still many frozen corpses in the depths of the ice.

1 In Tibetan Buddhism, the Ten Phases of Freedom is a mystical symbol composed of seven Sanskrit letters plus ten symbols of the sun, moon, and circle. The five colors in the symbols symbolize the five basic elements of the universe: water, fire, wind, earth, and air, and the ten symbols symbolize the various parts of the human body and the various parts of the material world, with a complex dialectical relationship between them.