Chapter 255: Death by a Knife
The corpse we see is not decomposed, but is made in a foreign method that is similar to that of a mummy. This method of treatment is very complicated, first the deceased must be placed in a specific posture and placed in a sarcophagus. Fill it with salt and let it sit for about four months, waiting for the salt to completely inhale into all parts of the body.
That layer of white hair may have been corpse before it was processed, and it was necropsized. After being restrained by something, those white hairs gradually solidified and hardened. The part of the corpse's face was coated with a layer of molten gold patent leather. It looks like a golden body, but only a head. Such a complex method is only suitable for people of extremely high status.
The big head was stupid when he heard what I said, he didn't expect the production process of this corpse to be so complicated. I smiled and said, "Let's get the snow mountain mummy out and see what else is inside." "But as soon as we started to move, we found that we couldn't move it, and the coffin and the ice below were frozen together, and it was extremely strong. I shone into the depths with a wolf's eye flashlight, and there seemed to be a lot of things under the ice.
The big head saw a thigh and said, "Mingqi, Mingqi must be below." So he took out the watering can again, sprayed the snow melt on the ice, and waited for a while, and it was almost there. So an iron pickaxe struck down. Unexpectedly, following the ice pierced through the ice, a black shadow suddenly flew out, with a screaming sound that pierced the eardrums, and jumped straight into the sky from the deepest part of the cirque.
Thankfully, the big head was quick-eyed, pushing me away the moment the flames erupted, and his crooked mouth dragged our gear backwards. All three of us huddled into the corners of the ice cave, not yet understanding what was happening. It turned out that there was a hole under the coffin, and a trap inside. In this way, it seems that what flew out of it was either a bow or a poisoned arrow.
The sharp whistling sound of the bow and crossbow breaking through the air just now sounded thrilling in the cramped and cramped ice circh. The big head wanted to go over and have a look, but I stopped him, not knowing if this trap was a serial set. I can't do anything right now, just wait and see what else happens.
After about twenty minutes, we looked at each other and none of us were hurt. Only crooked mouth just now stumbled and in a panic just now, his head was hit by the ice wall, but fortunately there was no major problem.
The golden-faced ancient corpse in the ice cave suddenly and quickly **. It was very strange for a few of us, and when we passed, the ancient corpse in the coffin had turned into a black thing. A few of us were so frightened that we didn't want to dig any deeper. Suddenly I heard a commotion from the yaks above. Crooked mouth said: "It can't be that the Tibetan horse bear is here again."
I thought about it, but it was very likely that the Tibetan horse bear took advantage of the darkness to touch it, but why didn't anyone shoot? Isn't Liu Yidao on it? I was still thinking about it, and I climbed up with a crooked mouth and a big head. I'd like to see more of the coffin in this cirque. But now I didn't think much about it, and then climbed onto the ice.
As soon as I went up, I saw his big head and crooked mouth, and he was rushing to rescue Liu Yidao. When I took a closer look, my heart suddenly sank, and Liu Yidao's face was stuck with ten bronze nails. Probably he was leaning down to look down at the time, only to be shot in the face by a crossbow that flew up. The nose and eyes are slowly inserted with steel nails. And those steel nails are obviously corrosive, and some of the skin on Liu Yidao's face is gone. We can already see the dark tongue in the innermost part, which is very scary.
Liu Yidao fell to the ground, motionless, and shook his head at me with a crooked mouth, it seemed that he died on the spot.
When I saw Liu Yidao die so miserably, I also felt gloomy, so I took a blanket and covered the body.
I glanced at the big head and asked him to take out Liu Yidao's sleeping bag from the tent. Although I have no feelings with Liu Yidao, I have gone through a period of time together after all. Seeing the corpse with less and less skin, we also felt a little uncomfortable in our hearts.
We weren't too sad, but now the three of us didn't know what to do. Consult with him and see if there is anything you can do. This glacier area seems to be full of dangers, and if we continue to stay here, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no other dangers.
Crooked mouth and said: "Qiangzi, look around, I'm afraid I can't leave if I want to go now." Look at how thick the clouds are in the sky, it looks like it's going to snow, maybe there's really a cold wave coming. The snowy mountain weather is getting too fast for anyone to predict. Although it is the middle of September, the weather on the snowy mountains cannot be speculated with reason, and the weather has changed. If it's really snowing heavily. There really isn't anything we can do. ”
I looked around and saw that although there was no heavy snow covering the mountains, the topography of the glaciers in this area was very complex, and it was probably an open-air basin in ancient times. Later, after the Himalayan orogeny, the altitude rose and the temperature decreased, coupled with heavy snow for many years, this open-air altar became an ice curtain above the snow line, coupled with occasional avalanches, making the glacier thicker and thicker, and the terrain here became more and more complex.
In summer, the ice curtain from the snow line will melt, and the thickness of the ice will be reduced a lot, so Liu Yidao will step on an ice cirque. And now above the ice curtain, many criss-crossing ice crevasses, ice leaks, and ice cirques have been exposed.
When I came in, it was fine to say that it was snowing, but now when there is a cold wave in the mountains, it will fall all over the world. In less than two or three hours, the glacier will be covered, but the vulnerable areas under the ice will not yet freeze. If a few of us move and then fall, it's over. Basically, we're not able to move an inch on this ice curtain right now.
And those Tibetan bears are also following us, in case of a situation, such as them attacking us, it is not an easy thing to deal with. Now, if you want to go back and walk through these ice curtains, you have to wait for a while longer for the glacier to freeze completely.
I was talking to Crooked Mouth, and I felt a chill on my face, and the snow was already falling while I spoke. I have a tacit understanding with the big head and the crooked mouth now, and this bit of snow can't help us. But after all, the situation is special now, although we have the determination to break the boat, but we still have to prepare well in case something really happens.
By the time we were done, it was nearly midnight, and the snow was beginning to fall heavily, and the angry cries of distant animals were faint and faint in the snow. We put Liu Yidao's body next to the camp, covered it with a blanket, and the big head and crooked mouth were responsible for digging some ice bricks and piling them on the edge of the tent to block the wind and prevent the wolves from sneaking up.
Pick up the picks up when I and Crooked Mouth go down to the cirque again, and let the big head let the wind on it. We also hope to find some clues in the cirque, to see if we can find the location of the crater of Garenbu Peak, but hopefully we can have results before tomorrow, to see whether to move forward or go back, anyway, our supplies are still enough.
However, in this ice cave where the golden body of one of the ten witches of the Miao people is placed, the appearance of the bow and crossbow is still unexpected by us. After a crooked inspection, the quality of this must be an ancient mechanism, the quality of the project is really passable, I don't know how many years have passed, and it can still be used. Beneath the ancient corpse was a sealed space with a large number of scriptures inside.
And in the deepest part of the ice cave, behind a huge ice wall, there is a larger ice cave, and we find a hidden ice chamber inside, which seems to be used to store the burial utensils of the sect master. In the center is a three-story spiritual pagoda, symbolizing the heavens, the earth, and the earth.
My heart throbbed, probably because I remembered the big ball. Crooked Mouth placed some lights around it, and I used a shovel to pry open the door at the base of the tower. There are more than a dozen red painted boxes in the pagoda, and the boxes are inlaid with treasures such as red and white coral, marble, and agate. On the upper floor there is a set of scriptures bordered with gold wire, as well as a small openwork statue of Liao Po.
We saw the carved lacquer painting on the highest part of the spiritual pagoda, which was very similar to what I saw in the place of Liao Po's huge jade body, using a strange beast to represent the bearing coordinates, and in the middle there was a great god who floated on the phoenix.