They set out at six o'clock in the morning, and the light of the morning sun was soft and moving, staining the white snow with a faint yellow. And when it comes to the handover zone, it is four o'clock in the afternoon, because it is close to the New Year, there are very few tourists, and the snow-capped mountains are relatively large, and the chance of meeting between tourists is also very small.

The place of handover, there are only the two of them.

Rehaman pointed to the west and said, "This is it, do you want to go forward?" He confirmed to the young man that he had also taken people to the west a few times, the terrain was too bad, it was really a layer of skin, although the young man's money was very good, but it was not a good thing to have a life to earn and spend money, if he could compromise and take a more normal tourist road, he would be very happy.

The young man looked in the direction of his finger, but his expression did not fluctuate.

This came as a surprise to Rehamman, for many of those who were going to venture west were shocked at the first glance.

Because the west side is a large gully landform, from this position, the bottom is white, I don't know how far away, the snow-capped mountain opposite the ravine, I don't know how far away, in the eyes, it is like floating in the clouds.

As the old saying goes, looking at the mountains and running dead horses, looking not far away, in fact, people who know a little about mountain roads can see that this ravine is very vast and shocking, after all, such a scene of thousands of miles of ice is still difficult to see.

The young man seemed to be accustomed to seeing it, looking at the snow-capped mountains in the distance as if floating in the clouds, and did not say a word, and after a while, he stepped out of the first step, as if he were leading the way.

This ravine was revisited four times, three of which were returned halfway, because the tourists could not support it, so he gave up first, and only the fourth time, he walked through this ravine and reached a farther place.

That time he led a paleontological expedition, which is said to be to go deep into the Kunlun Mountains to find paleontological fossils. Most of these archaeological teams are state personnel and give more generous money, so after eyeing this team, Rehaman took the initiative to talk to them and became their guide.

After spending more than a day walking through a ravine, they also entered a valley, and then a female member of the biological expedition team fell ill from the wind and cold, so they retreated.

In fact, the young man did not seem to need him to lead the way, and when he saw the mountain in the distance, he seemed to have set a goal for himself, and kept moving towards it, so much so that Rehaman finally followed him.

This is such a weirdo. Rehaman thought.

They waited from evening until it was completely dark, and did not stop to pitch their tents until the night was extremely heavy with the wind and snow, and by this time Rehamman's limbs were frozen and stiff. He didn't expect the young man to have such great perseverance, since he had walked for so long against the wind and snow at night, he took out food and water, thought about it, and handed the water bag to the young man.

The water bag is a unique sheepskin water bag, which can be especially insulated, otherwise in such weather, the water inside would have frozen into ice slag long ago.

Although Rehaman is greedy for money, but he is not a person who has no conscience for money, this young man is young, he feels soft-hearted, so late, he can't let him go to Hanxue, he will hand it over, the young man said thank you and drank silently in the tent, Rehaman shrunk in the sleeping bag and fell asleep, just when he was about to go on a date with the goddess of the snow mountain, the young man suddenly asked him: "Is there really no one in the snow mountain?" ”

Rehaman was a little helpless, this question, he had already answered it once, he said: "There is really no one, I can swear." He looked at the young man's seemingly confused eyes, and couldn't help but say, "But maybe there is." ”

"Perhaps?" The young man was not as cold as he thought, he had no expression, and his tone was light, but it was not easy to make people feel annoying.

"It can't be that there are people living in it, but there are people in it, and there are many dead people, and I have seen them before, most of them are tourists who have adventures on their own, buried under the ice, and if you have the perseverance to walk for three days, you can see those people." ”

The young man shook his head, apparently dissatisfied with Rehamman's answer, and the two stopped talking.

Rehaman wondered, did he want to prove that there were living people living in it?

It's absolutely impossible.

But then, Rehaman suddenly remembered a very old legend.

Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a group of guests who came from afar and moved into the vast snow-capped mountains and never came out again.

Of course, the snow-capped mountains cannot be survived, there are no animals in it, there is no food, and people cannot survive in it, so the guests who came from afar eventually died in the depths of the snow-capped mountains. Their behavior...... It's like a moth to a fire, as if deliberately sending it to death, no one knows why, but this behavior left a deep impression on the people at the time, so it was passed on by word of mouth, leaving countless kinds of endings made up by posterity.

More realistic people say: The people inside are dead. People who compare literature and art say: they have opened up new worlds. The more superstitious people say that they are performing some kind of mysterious ritual.

Of course, this legend is no longer known to many people except for people like Rehaman who were born and raised in the area, and even the current inhabitants of Golmud only know about jade.

Jade, jade, jade! It was as if Golmud had nothing to do except jade.

Thinking about it, Rehaman told the young man about the legend, and when he had finished speaking, he was suddenly stunned, because he found that the young man's dark eyes emitted a bright light, like stars.

The next day, they continued their journey, and Rehaman thought that he should at least do his job as a tour guide and introduce the surrounding scenery, but helplessly, there was nothing but snow here, and there was really nothing to introduce.

The further down you go, the deeper the snow gets, and later, you can't pull it out when you step on it, and the clothes and pants outside, even if they are water-proof materials, after a long time, there is a kind of moist cold feeling, and the pants are worn on the legs, which is useless.

The perseverance of the young man is simply amazing, he does not say a word, he is indomitable, not like he is exploring, but more like he is performing some kind of ritual, solemn and rigorous. Reharman felt that he had really taken on a drudgery this time, this young man was so stubborn, and he had no intention of stopping at all.

In fact, the weather is already very bad now, the skin and flesh wrapped in the thick clothes are hurting, and the young man's face is also showing a kind of pale, obviously not having a good time, although from beginning to end, he did not rub his hands, but Rehaman knows that this young man is also cold.

At this moment, Reharman finally felt that something was wrong...... This is not an ordinary tourist, he must have some kind of purpose, and no one will use his life to complete a tour.

The next day, they walked out of the ravine, and in front of the ravine was a ravine, and the canyon was completely roadless, and the trend went all the way up, to the mountainside, and then down, and they couldn't see where the road ahead was.

The young man did not want to stop, and Rehaman had to persuade him, but his persuasion was of no avail, and at last the young man said to him, "Go back." ”

He's talking about you going back, not us going back.

Rehaman felt that his scalp had exploded, and this person still had to go on? Did he want to die?

The young man paid him the rest of the money, and he found that the cash in the young man's wallet was not as much as he had guessed, only a bank card, which was properly inserted in the wallet, and there was nothing else, but the young man put the wallet very solemnly and slowly into his trouser pocket, and by the way, he zipped the trouser pocket.

Rehaman took the money, looked at his series of actions, and knew that he couldn't be persuaded anymore, he was not a conscienceless person after all, so he said: "I've been there before, I'll give you another ride, and when I get to the place, I'll really go back." ”

The young man nodded.

Next, it was the young man who led the way, and Rehaman seemed to accompany them, and as they reached the depths of the canyon, the snow grew smaller, the snow condensed into ice, and a black figure appeared under the ice.

The young man didn't see the black shadow of the human form, stepped over the black shadow and continued to move forward, then climbed up the mountainside, and then went down the mountain, the further he went, the more dazed the young man's eyes became, he was very purposeful all the way, obviously looking for something, but the young man obviously did not know the specific direction of this thing, he walked in the sea of snow, which made people feel like looking for a needle in a haystack.

But even though they were confused, the young people still didn't stop.

Eventually, Rehaman stopped in front of an ice cliff in a canyon and said, "I can only go here, and I haven't been there before." After a pause, he added, "Go back." The young man shook his head, unloaded the equipment bag, and took out some equipment from it, and when Rehaman saw it, his eyelids suddenly jumped, it was an ice chisel and a rope, it seemed that the young man was preparing to go down to the bottom of the ice cliff.

Rehaman persuaded a few more words, but the young man did not listen, he could only sigh and walk back, during which Rehaman turned back several times, the young man squatted in front of the ice cliff and fiddled with the ice chisel and rope, the sunlight shot into the canyon from the open ice cliff, shining on the young man's body, and the farther he went, he could only see a vague light and shadow.

On the way back, Rehaman had been thinking about the strange young man, and when he came to one of the places, he suddenly looked into the slit next to him.

He remembered that the young man had been walking like he had been walking forward, and only when he passed by here did he seem to glance into the slit, could there be something special in it? The young man was so peculiar that the place he had noticed had a mystery, and Rehaman could not restrain his curiosity, and went towards the slit.

It was a slit between the faults, about two meters wide, and it was not enough to see in the vast snowfield. When Rehamman walked in, he found nothing, only a raised, covered stone.

There is really nothing strange about the stone, Rehaman was a little discouraged, kicked the stone, and the snow on it was shaken off a little, Rehaman looked at it, and was stunned for a moment, it was a rough stone.

And so was what had happened, and when Rehaman had finished speaking, he said to me regretfully, "I have never seen the young man come back, and if he does, he will surely pass by us, at least for a night's rest...... Of course, it is also possible that he thinks I am more expensive here, so he stays in another hotel...... But......" he paused, stared me in the eye, and said, "He went into a very deep place, very deep, and I am afraid it will be difficult to come back." ”