Blocking our view is a majestic snow-capped peak. There was not much snow in the sky, but the wind was howling, as if the peak of the mountain was a white beast, standing above the sky, looking down at everything in the world.

At the top of the snowy peak, a row of large red palace buildings appeared in front of us. From a distance, it looks like a temple. In the white world, the pale luster of the palace is incomparably vivid, and no dazzling ruby can compare with it. The palace is as majestic as the cap is, and it is obviously far away from us, but I actually feel as if someone in the palace is calling our name, let's, hurry, hurry up.

It was a dreamlike beauty, as if I was about to fly up from the ground, and then step on the snowflakes in mid-air, through the wind, towards the temple gate.

"Phantom Snow Forbidden City"

Without any corroboration, we made our judgment and were convinced.

By the time I reacted, the fat man and I were almost on our knees. Now I finally understand why Brother Jiu is lying there as if he hasn't moved for a long time.

When I think about what we people have done before, I suddenly feel a great mockery. If those of us can simply walk the road behind us straight, then many things can be avoided completely.

If all of this was deliberately done by the builders of the Phantom Snow Forbidden City, we, the so-called modern people of the 21st century, would have completely lost.

After silently looking up at the Phantom Snow Forbidden City for ten minutes, the fat man finally spoke.

"I've made a fortune, this time the special mother must have made it." The flesh on the fat man's face jumped up with excitement, "I've never heard of such a temple Lao Tzu, damn it, how many good things should be in there, hehe." Let's go, Yuan Jie, let's go up quickly. ”

The one who responds to the fat man is not me.

"That's right, you have to go up and have a look." Brother Jiu finally moved, "You see that palace is like a new one, inside, maybe there are still people living in it, it is impossible for immortals to live." ”

I was going to act immediately, but the conversation between the two people around me calmed me down a bit. I grabbed the fat man. "You wait a minute."

The fat man looked at me, "What are you waiting for?" Now there is not much snow. Do we have to wait until it gets dark? ”

"Then at least find a way first." I pointed to it and said, "Look, this mountain is all covered with snow, we can't fly up, can we?" ”

The fat man frowned, as if he was unwilling to stay like this. But after thinking about it, he finally calmed down.

The snow-capped mountains are right there. The Phantom Snow Forbidden City is also there. But if there is no road, with the current conditions of the three of us, we will definitely not be able to go up. The snow-capped mountain on which the Forbidden City leans is steep and steep, and you can see black rocks in some places, but there is a snowy slope hundreds of meters high below, and there are no ropes hanging from it. People simply can't get by.

At this time, Brother Jiu made a suggestion. "Two, I think it would be otherwise, now we only see one side of this snow-capped mountain, and we can try to go around from the bottom to the other side of the mountain. You might find a place to put your feet there. ”

I think Brother Jiu's proposal is good, because I heard Tuheti say that due to the influence of the wind, the north and south sides of the West Kunlun Mountains are somewhat surprised. Maybe the snow behind this mountain will be a little better.

But the fat man did not agree to do so. "That's just a possibility, but it's not realistic for us anymore. To go around the back of the mountain, the ghost knows how long it will take. The dry food we brought with us will not last long, and even if we find our way there, we may not survive, and we are all scattered now, so we must leave the corresponding food for the return trip. ”

As he spoke, the fat man patted his backpack.

Listening to his analysis, I think the fat man should have completely calmed down.

Brother Jiu sighed, "Otherwise, what should we do?" ”

I laughed, "Brother Jiu, it seems that you are the oldest person here, we should be asking about this." ”

Brother Jiu waved his hand at me, "Young Master of the Yuan family, don't be sarcastic about me, if you want to be in other places, I can lead the way wherever I go, this is the first time I have come back to this snowy mountain, and most of my experience will not be useful." ”

The fat man suddenly turned around, "Eh, don't say I can't remember, Brother Jiu, I asked you to come down to find our little brother just now, why did you come out by yourself?" ”

Brother Jiu's face was a little ugly, he glanced at me secretly, and said after a long time: "Hey, I'm mainly worried that if Ah Shui fights with Master Yuan, the situation will be a little difficult to clean up." I couldn't help either side, and I couldn't help either, so I thought, I might as well take the opportunity to sneak away. It's a big deal to go back and send back all the money your father gave. Uh, besides, I didn't see that little brother when I came down. ”

"What? You didn't see him? How could that be, wasn't he there all the time? "I looked at Brother Jiu a little strangely, wondering if this dog day was lying, but he admitted that he had slipped away, so there was no need to do this again.

"I don't know what to do." Brother Jiu shook his head.

The fat man was afraid that I would think about it again, so he hurriedly said: "Okay, let's not think about this, let's go back to the cave to eat something first, and then the three of us will walk up the mountain together to try, if you can go, you can go, you really can't go, let's go back and make plans." ”

Neither of us objected, so the three of us walked back to the corridor, sat down on the side, lit the stove and ate something hot. The fat man asked me to sleep first, and he watched. I shook my head and asked him if he was still feeling unwell.

The fat man also wondered when he recalled it, "I don't feel anything, and when I open my eyes, I still have a special spirit." It may be that Lao Tzu ate a lot of wild birds in the village when he was a child, and he accidentally ate a bird and had antibodies in his body. ”

I smiled and sighed, and I could only sigh in my heart that the fat man's life was great.

After resting for a while, we set off towards the Phantom Snow Forbidden City. Before leaving the corridor, I looked back and imagined that peanuts would suddenly appear. But at the end, there was no movement at all. In desperation, I could only leave two packets of compressed biscuits on the ground.

The snow on the road was up to our knees, and now we don't have a probe rod in our hands, so we have to be extra careful when walking. After a distance of a few hundred meters. We started climbing the snowy mountain.

Surprisingly, there was a lot less snow on the uphill road, and it wasn't as difficult to walk as we thought. The most favorable condition is that after we climbed for more than half an hour, the snow actually stopped, and the sun was shining overhead.

"Ha Luha, Miss, God has finally taken care of us this time." The fat man laughed.

I also think it's a blessing in disguise if this good weather continues. Maybe in another seven or eight hours, we'll be able to climb to the gate of the Phantom Snow Forbidden City.

Brother Jiu took a breath, leaned on the hoe used for mountaineering and said, "Two, don't you think it's a little strange that we are going well." ”

"What's so strange?"

The ninth brother looked around, and then said, "When you came, you all knew the way. The snow is covered with ice, and it's much higher than before. The temperature is also lower. Why can't we step on the ice under our feet now? ”

His words reminded me. Karakoram can be described as a snow-capped mountain range, but more accurately, it is a gathering place of glaciers. Especially at our current altitude, a mountain that you see is probably half the height of the ice accumulation. So the situation we're in now seems a little unreasonable.

But the fat man quickly overturned our claims.

"There's a special case to everything, isn't there? If you look at the temple above, its extent is basically the same as the size of the mountain. To be able to support such a building means that this mountain must not be an iceberg. The people who built the Phantom Snow Forbidden City in the first place would not be so stupid, they must have carefully selected to build the mausoleum on it. Some mountains have high salt content, so they are not prone to freezing. Maybe there's a salt mine under our feet, anyway. There is absolutely nothing to doubt about not being able to step on the ice. ”

After saying that, the fat man waved the hoe in his hand and continued to climb up.

"Hey, I can't see it, this Brother Cao is quite insightful." Brother Jiu said to me as he crawled.

I smiled, and said in my heart that I couldn't trust that guy completely, maybe it was all his fault. the salt mines? Lao Tzu would rather believe that there is a volcano down there.

Although the situation is more favorable for us, this is more than 7,000 meters above sea level, and even if there is nothing to stand in the way, the thin air and bitter cold will still make it difficult for us to walk. After climbing for nearly two hours, looking back, I found that we had only gone up a little more than a hundred meters. This speed is too different from my prediction, and I don't know what the road is, and the more I go up, the more strange I feel in my heart.

It's so quiet.

Sometimes I can't even hear the wind, and in the open and clear vision, occasionally when I look up, I feel that the Phantom Snow Forbidden City is a little red and a little demonic.

Contrary to the nervousness in my head, the road under my feet turned out to be getting better and better. Not only did we not even step on a single piece of ice, but on the contrary, I felt the feeling of a straw mat coming from under the soles of my shoes.

"Do you think the rocks under our feet are a little soft?" I asked.

Both of them stopped, apparently the fat man and the ninth brother had already discovered this. Stepping on ice is considered unlucky, stepping on a stone, that's a normal situation, but stepping on something soft in this place makes people very confused.

"Anyway, the snow isn't thick now, so let's just dig it out and take a look." After saying that, the fat man bent down and used his hoe to shave the snow.

It didn't matter what was going on behind me when this guy moved, the snow was almost all on my face.

"Why don't you go the other way? Uh-huh! "As soon as I opened my mouth, the snow flew into my mouth.

The ninth brother on the side smiled at me, but laughing and laughing, the ninth brother suddenly screamed, and then shouted at me: "What is that thing on your face!?" ”

I shouted to him for a moment, and when I felt it, I felt that I had a cloud of snow on my head, and it was cold. I reached out and grabbed the snow, and suddenly I felt that something was wrong.

When you look at it, you say, "Ugh! I screamed, and almost fell off the steep slope.

What I grasped in my hand was an eyeball with a bit of flesh sticking to it, and gray pupils staring at me coldly.

When I reacted, I threw the eyeball to the ground. Only then did I realize that it didn't seem to be a human eye, it was almost twice as big as a human eye. And it is particularly round.

"Dead fat man, what the hell did you dig up" As I spoke, I saw the snow pit that the fat man had dug out, and immediately the whole person was stiff and stunned there.

The pit was not small, it was full of all sorts of feathers, entrails, carrion, and severed limbs of animals. These things seem to be piled up thickly, and they seem to have been formed not long ago.

We didn't know what to say, so the fat man took a deep breath, then bent down, found a random spot, and began to shave snow again. Brother Jiu and I also reacted in the same way. Soon, the snow was cleared out of more than 10 square meters under our feet.

At the same time, we find ourselves standing in a sea of animal corpses.

It was like a graveyard for animals, and the corpses were crowded together, and the gloom was even more chilling than the cold air around it. Under visual inspection. The scope of the sea of corpses is definitely more than just the bottom of our feet, and the fat man and the ninth brother continue to dig up. The corpse in front of me kept spreading upwards. Dig to the back of the worst. None of them dared to continue.

Suddenly, the glamorous Phantom Snow Forbidden City took off its gorgeous veil and revealed its hideous and terrifying true face before our eyes.

"Damn, is this mountain all made up of corpses?" As he spoke, the fat man picked up his hoe and began to dig under his feet. He wanted to dig up the layers of the animals' piles to see how deep they were underneath.

But after digging up the half-meter-high layer of corpses. But the fat man did not dare to continue wielding the hoe.

"Ice." Brother Jiu said with some shock.

That's right, it's the hard, smooth ice that appears beneath the layer of corpses. All three of us lifted our eyes to the crimson overhead. At this moment, that strange feeling permeates our clothes. It spreads all the way to the bottom of our hearts. The cold wind blew and I couldn't help but shiver a little.

The fragments of these animals must have been piled up not long ago, and this snow-capped mountain is not like the fat man said, without any ice. Like all the mountains on Chogory, it was created by glaciers. These corpses seem to be paving the way for us to reach the Forbidden City of Phantom Snow. Other than that, we simply couldn't have gotten this far.

"No matter, let's keep walking." The fat man said suddenly, then patted me, and looked at Brother Jiu again.

"That's the only way, if you turn back, this trip will be really in vain." Brother Jiu said.

I nodded at the fat man. So, the three of them continued to walk up. This time we are faster, no matter whether the corpses under our feet are animals or people, since there are people paving the way, then we don't mind shouting "one will make ten thousand bones dry".

The three of them had a very tacit understanding not to say anything, only caring about how long it would take to reach the blood-red forbidden city.

No matter how numbing the sensation was from under my feet, I kept reminding myself along the way: "The Forbidden City of Phantom Snow is already in front of me, and if I can't even get there, I'll really be just a waste." ”

Despite our ruthlessness, such a high altitude still overdraws our physical strength. At first, everyone was a little scared, but then we were so tired that we couldn't do it, so we lay down on top of the layer of broken corpses to rest and replenish.

When it got dark, we turned on the miner's lamp and continued walking. When it was dawn, he gritted his teeth, waved his already stiff arms and crawled. Whenever I feel like I'm exhausted, I can hear Peanut urging me to "go, go!" ”

At noon the next day, almost a full day, we finally stood in front of the red temple. At this time, I was already on the fat man's back, and the ninth brother crawled over like a dying loach. His feet stepped on the stiff slate, and the fat man fell to his knees with a pop.

He did not faint, but on the contrary, he raised his arms and shouted to the gate of the mausoleum:

"Lao Tzu will never wear briefs again!!"

"Ha Lu, haha," Brother Jiu and I were lying on the ground, both looking up to the sky and laughing. The emotional fat man is climbing all the way, and he is pulling the egg~ It hurts.

Looking around, this is not the highest place in Chogori Peak, and it is not even within the range of Chogori Peak. But here, at an altitude of nearly 8,000 meters, it should be the pinnacle that tomb robbers can reach.

I really wanted to take a picture at this time, but when I took out my phone, the screen was already frozen open.

Our goal was the Phantom Snow Forbidden City, but when we arrived at the stone platform at the entrance of the Spirit Palace, I was hardly in the mood to look at it squarely. Brother Jiu lit the stove, filled half a pot of snow in a small pot, threw the dried meat and noodles directly into it, and then, like beggars, the three of us gathered around the stove, shaking and waiting for food.

The fat man was crying at this time. "Relying on your grandma, how easy am I, for the rations of the family, how many times have I come back to life and died. Every time my mother called home, my mother scolded me for not being a thing, saying that I was doing everything I lacked morality. Where is my mother's suffering? ”

Brother Jiu also began to touch his tears, "Brother, I understand this feeling, just like my wife, damn it, as soon as I came home, she only knew that she would reach out to me and ask for money, and she would either ask me for this or that all day long, until now, she has never asked me what I do." Woo, she doesn't know what to do, I really like her, if Lao Tzu goes to the ancient tomb one day, I don't know if the lady will go to someone else immediately. Hiss but that's enough, man, you can't carry anything, brother, don't cry, we'll all be chattering smoothly in the future. ”

I said in my heart that these two people are not for the frozen donkey, if there is a bottle of beer, look at the heat of the two of them, they must have to worship the handle.

After the things were cooked, the three of us ate with our bellies open, and we didn't care about the rest of the business. As soon as we finished eating, everyone became even more tired, and it was only then that we finally took a serious look at the magnificent palace in front of us. (To be continued......)