Chapter 30: A Visitor in the Snow
It wasn't until Jude Kaw took over the business of the German chieftain that a group of people suddenly came to him and talked to him about something, which was a big secret.
Jude Coe had seen it with his own eyes, so he didn't hesitate to believe that for many people, immortality is a very tempting thing.
After Jude Kao's death, one of them took advantage of the chaos to withdraw, and the mysterious leader of the Quiet Company took over a lot of money-throwing giant pit projects that were divided by the original company, and then successfully continued the projects of Jude Kao's time, and going to the Snow Mountain to find the mysterious heavenly stone is one of the most respected.
According to Zhang Qixun's analysis, it should be said that the mysterious leader came to the man with long fingers and the snow-capped mountain of Motuo from the beginning.
Feng said that the Quiet Company had already poached a lot of people from his company before acquiring Jude Kao's industry, and they were the advance team of this investigation, and if the situation went well, the company would send more people here to explore the secrets.
At the end of the information, there are a few pictures, the first of which is a huge square ugly stone of dark blue color, which is full of pitted holes, as if the heart has been hollowed out by termites, and it is terrifying to see.
The marker on the side indicates that this is the same stone that the German received in the first place. The second picture is a bronze sculpture with a human head and a snake body, like a mermaid in a foreign fairy tale, the upper body of the sculpture is a woman, and the lower body is purely in the form of a giant python.
The snake man was wrapped around a bronze pillar like a tree trunk, with two long fangs, covered with scales all over his body, including both cheeks, and his eyes were seductive and vicious.
If you look closely with a magnifying glass, you will find that the snake man actually has two pairs of eyes, the second pair of eyes are hidden in the pupils of the first pair, and many strange rune-like spiral patterns are crowded together, staring at it for a long time, it will make people feel dizzy, and there is an indescribable depression in their hearts.
Zhang Qixun looked at it, a little distracted, and always felt that the face of the human head was very familiar, he must have seen this face somewhere.
Where have you seen it? Zhang Qixun pondered carefully in his heart, and one face after another flashed in his mind like a movie, his memory storage method is a bit special, it is staged, as if he is playing a TV series, and when he recalls the past, it is a film rewind.
Soon, he found the familiar source of the face on the statue. It was the face of the Queen Mother of the West—the face of the fake Queen Mother of the West on the throne outside the Jade Lair.
Why is such a face here? Doubts rose in Zhang Qixun's heart, and he asked the Germans,
"Where did you get the statue in this picture?" Li Ande and Feng glanced at each other, and they both saw confusion in each other's eyes.
Zhang Qixun said bluntly: "Don't try to fool me, I can tell from your eyes whether it is a lie or not, if your reasons are good enough, I don't mind entering the snow mountain with you." Li Ande was a little pleased, he didn't expect a picture to make the long-fingered man change his mind, in his opinion, this picture is an ancient Medusa in the form of the East, except for the material, there is really nothing special.
"Does Mr. Bai think there's anything special about this thing?" Li Ande was the first to speak,
"This is a small bronze statue, only the size of a palm, which our team members brought out from the mountains during their last snow-capped expedition, at first it was broken, and we asked the best craftsmen to repair and fill it in, so that it is what it is now, and our leader can't put it down, and because of this, our actions are much earlier."
"Unfortunately, the surviving team member seems to have been cursed in some way, and when we found him, he was already insane, and he had a malignant tumor in the occipital and frontal lobes of his brain that compressed nerves and memory, and even if he was given the most advanced treatment, he didn't last long." Li Ande thought to himself, maybe this thing is really a cursed Medusa, capable of plundering people's wisdom, and the leader wants them to take out something from the snowy mountains that is a hundred times more mysterious than the snake man's statue.
Indeed, the tail of the snake sculpture in the photograph has obvious traces of remodeling, and the top of the copper tree to which it clings looks like a part is missing.
Zhang Qixun thought silently in his heart, the symbol of this thing was too strong, maybe one of the German teams really stumbled upon something near the bronze gate, or maybe those people found just a trap set up there by the Zhang family.
He continued to look at the third image, which was a stone statue, mutilated, as if a small section had been cut from some huge stone statue, covered with very intricate patterns, with broken edges, cracks, and distorted shapes, and it looked more like the tentacles of a sea monster.
"What is this?" He asked, pointing to the picture.
"The remains of the devil." Feng suddenly lowered his voice, and his expression became nervous. Zhang Qixun looked at him with a smile,
"Why, one of your teams fought the demon for three hundred rounds?" Feng touched his nose in a daze,
"I don't know the origin of this thing, it's given to us from above, you know, our leader is too mysterious, to be honest, I haven't seen the real appearance of the leader until now, I only know that he is rich, Very, Very is rich!" Zhang Qi didn't raise his eyes,
"I'm not short of money."
"Okay." Feng didn't expect that this would not tempt him, so he had no choice but to compromise,
"So what do you want? You've seen our profile, when will you be able to give us the notes. ”
"I can show you the notes, but I want to know the latest situation of the White Bell, and it is better to record it." In front of them, Zhang Jixun took out the first volume of Naruhito's record from his bosom and put it on the table.
He had to make these Germans think that they really had chips in their hands that they could blackmail themselves, so that the future plan could go more smoothly, and while the overseas Zhang family's eyes were still on Wu Xie in Hangzhou, he had to hurry up and arrange everything in Motuo.
Li Ande looked at his hand with some surprise, and then looked at the Tibetan robe on his body that was not thick, the house was full of charcoal, Zhang Qixun was only wearing a single coat, he was very sure that there was nothing in the arms of this person before, and where did the scroll in front of him come from?
Zhang Qixun likes to look at these foreigners who have never seen the world, he joked: "Doesn't Mr. Li claim to be a Chinese expert, there is a Taoist technique that is more magical than magic in the ancient Oriental mysterious civilization, called five ghost handling, I can transfer a thing from one place to another without physical contact." Li Ande's face was a little inferior, after Zhang Qixun revealed this hand, he was also a little more jealous of this person in his heart, no wonder the person he arranged before did not find any clues to the scroll in the house.
Then he laughed,
"If we had known that Mr. Bai had practiced this kind of magical kung fu, we would have come to visit you a long time ago, and as for Miss Bai's video, I would have been able to give you an answer within three days."
"Okay." Zhang Qixun also hooked the corners of his mouth, but there was not much smile in his eyes. Feng on the other side had already pounced on the record, and Li Ande was still thinking about something else.
"Mr. Bai, what about another oil painting?" Zhang Qixun said: "The oil painting is a thing in the temple, and I have no right to show it to you." The scroll that Zhang Qixun took out was only a small part of the book before the little brother arrived at the holy lake, but this small part was enough to make the Germans crazy yearning for it.
It was enough for the Germans to make sure that Zhang Qixun could indeed lead them to that place.
On the afternoon of the second day, they went together to find the Grand Lama Deren. Li Ande was very empathetic and donated a lot of incense money to the lama monastery, and then got the opportunity to observe the oil painting from a distance of two meters.
Li Ande's goal was the sacred lake on the oil painting, and after obtaining Naruhito's permission, he took a photo of the oil painting, and then said goodbye to Zhang Qixun, saying that a video of Aning's daily life would be sent soon.
As soon as they left, Naruhito immediately put away the precious painting. Naruhito looked at Zhang Qixun and sighed, "The reason why some isolated places are isolated from the world is because disturbing that place will cause many unpredictable things. "The Germans are cunning and greedy, and they look very good at talking now, and they don't mind what means they use in order to accomplish something.
Zhang Qixun pinched his chopsticks and ruthlessly punctured the bubbles floating on the surface of the butter tea in the bowl one by one, and then took a shallow sip.
"Then get it out of the way before they disturb the world." Naruhito looked at Zhang Qixun's gaze lovingly and serenely,
"People are often deceived by what they are obsessed with." Zhang Qixun said indifferently: "Yesterday is fate, it has become a certainty, tomorrow is luck, everything is possible." "The past is irretrievable, and the future can change.
The Zhang family has only been obsessed with the future for thousands of years, and what Zhang Qixun cares about is how to use the present to change the future.
Naruhito smiled lightly,
"That distinguished guest also said the same thing, the cause of the past is the fruit of today."
"If he succeeds, then I don't exist." Zhang Qixun's eyes were also soothed a lot, in this quiet space full of light sandalwood, looking at the quiet color of the Tianshan Mountains under the dusk of the distant mountains, the busy heart also fell silent.
"Can you show me your face?" Naruhito said. Zhang Qixun put down the tea bowl and raised his hand to wipe his face from top to bottom, the materialization ability is equivalent to reproducing a layer of human skin mask that cannot be removed from his original face, without the system's action, he can now change his face at will, which is actually a very terrifying thing.
For some reason, in front of Naruhito, Zhang Jixun basically didn't think about hiding himself, as if Naruhito was just an old friend who knew him well and could confide in secrets.
Seeing that he changed his appearance casually, Naruhito did not show any surprised expression, obviously he had known that Zhang Qixun had this ability, or he had seen Zhang Menyu's ability.
"Some people say I look a lot like him." Zhang Qi searched. Naruhito walked over with the candle lamp in hand, carefully examining his bright face, and under the glow of the candlelight, the dusty face revealed a bit of holiness.
"It's not like it." Derendao,
"You have been in contact with the world, more warm than him, if you want to describe it with touchable things, he is more like a dark cloud and rain, soaking people's hearts, will take away all the heat around him, but he is still rain, will not change." Zhang Qixun was a little surprised by Naruhito's description,
"What about me?" Naruhito laughed slowly,
"You are the early morning after the rain and the first sunny day, the nectar on the green leaves and white lotus, the thin sun melts and wakes up the fog, unpredictable, but it will not be too lonely." This description made Zhang Qixun a little uncomfortable, and his heart was a little complicated, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, so he had to quickly put Wu Xie's face full of affinity again, and the anti-atmosphere was full of marks.
There was still some time before the evening break, and Naruhito began to reminisce about the time when he met Zhang Menyu.
"I don't know when he entered the snow-capped mountain, but he suddenly appeared at the gate of the temple at the beginning of winter and came here to look for the original Naruren Lama." At that time, he had just been elected by the Panchen Lama as the Great Lama.
When the man came to the gate of the mountain temple, the little lama invited him to enter the temple gate, but he refused, and the little lama had no choice but to invite the big lama.
Because of that experience in his early years, the great lama was particularly concerned about the visitors to the snow-capped mountains. Therefore, when the little lama explained the matter of the person who came in the snow, the great lama always remembered the agreement and went out of the temple to meet him.
The Great Lama still remembers the face of the younger brother vividly, even after many years. However, when he saw Zhang Menyu's unfamiliar face, he was still in a trance, he had already practiced for many years to be unmoved and not surprised by things, but that glance was really amazing.
The man stood quietly next to a long-leaved pine tree at the entrance of the temple, with silver frost leaves and falling snow behind him, and the moment he turned his face to look at this side, only two lines of poetry came to the great lama's mind.
The jade bones are shocking, and the cold branches are scorching. The person's appearance is full of color, as if he is a peerless person who has come out of an ancient painting, or a mountain spirit who comes out to play on a snowy day.
The Grand Lama looked at him, and at first thought that the snow had fallen and his hair was white, but when the man removed the hood of the cloak that he was wearing on his head, and his hair was covered with silver threads.
The Great Lama was shocked to realize that this person was so young that he somehow had early hair, but when he looked closely, he found that the person was originally full of silver hair.
Even though the appearance is very different, but the cold and detached temperament is somewhat similar, the great lama tried to find a familiar look from that face, but to no avail, only felt that his eyes were extremely lonely.
The great lama said in his heart that this is another person who is a god and a monster. The man humbly informed his name and his intentions, and after learning from the Grand Lama's mouth that Naruhito had died for many years, the man was silent for a long time before he said slowly, "Can you allow me to enter the temple for a look?" "The first time Zhang Menyu came to Jila Monastery, wherever the great lama went, he followed, aimlessly, leisurely walking.
It wasn't until he saw the stone sculpture in the patio of the back mountain that his footsteps suddenly stopped. Zhang Menyu asked the Grand Lama who this person was and why he looked so sad.