Wu Xie stuffed the soles of his shoes with tampons and asked Zhang Haixing in a low voice, "You didn't make it clear just now, why can't we walk along the shore of the lake?" ”

"And you said that terrible things will happen here after the sun goes down, what is it? How do you know, Zhang Haike never mentioned this to me before leaving. ”

Zhang Haixing had a cold face and said solemnly: "Wenbu Gongga Lake is a holy lake in the eyes of the Kangbalo people, but after a long period of research, our Zhang family found out that this is completely a man-eating demon lake. ”

The fat man didn't quite believe her words, and interjected, "What magic lake? There are two strange fish called the Magic Lake? Bai Ci, the Kangbalo people, doesn't know about it, but you, the Zhang family, know it very well? It's not like you're fooling around, is it? ”

Zhang Haixing sneered and raised her chin to Zhang Qixun, "You should ask him to see if what he said is the same as what I said." ”

The fat man didn't believe her evil, so he moved two steps to Zhang Qixun, who was under low pressure, and greeted him in a small voice, "Hey, buddy, you also heard what the old woman said, is what she said true?" You can't be bluffing us, is it? ”

"The people of Kangbaluo don't cross the lake after the sun goes down." Zhang Qi searched.

The fat man's eyes were confused, "Huh? ”

Seeing his confused appearance, Zhang Qixun paused and added: "But I have heard the old people of the clan mention it before, saying that every night, the ice surface of the entire holy lake and around the shore of the lake will be foggy, like a white cloth falling from the sky to cover the entire area. As soon as one tries to approach the lake, one hears a terrible cry from the fog, but when the sun rises the next morning, the fog disappears very suddenly. ”

"Didn't anyone try to walk in and see it at that time?" Wu Xie asked.

"Yes." Zhang Qixun suddenly smiled weirdly and lowered his voice, "But none of them made it out alive." ”

Wu Xie was shocked by his sudden change in tone, and always felt that his words contained some meaningful meaning, and when he turned his head and saw that the expressions on everyone's faces were a little panicked, he tried to explain this phenomenon with scientific evidence.

"It is surrounded by mountains, and there is no wind to blow away the water vapor that the sun evaporates into the air during the day, and at night the temperature plummets, and the temperature in the air is lower than under the ice surface, and the water vapor will condense into a large number of tiny ice crystals, so this kind of fog is also called ice crystal fog."

Zhang Haixing nodded, agreeing with his statement, "We have also considered this situation, but what about those who disappeared in the fog?" And what about the screams. ”

The fat man got up and patted off the broken snow on his pants, and sighed, "Isn't this thing better explained, such a big fog, you can't see your fingers, people are walking in the dark on it, and if you don't see it, you must have fallen into the lake, and as long as you don't be stupid, you must shout for help, and then it is estimated that it will be eaten by the big monster fish that heard the movement." ”

Everyone looked at each other in unison, and they were somewhat persuaded by his reasonable reason.

"Don't talk nonsense, it's important to hurry up." Zhang Haixing urged, "If we don't want to have an accident tonight, we will either pass through the canyon in front of us, or we will have to withdraw from the group burial ice ......."

Before the words fell, her voice suddenly disappeared, and when Wu Xie and the others looked at her in confusion, they found that she was looking at the place behind them with a look of astonishment.

Zhang Haixing exclaimed: "Why is the entrance of the cave missing!" ”

Wu Xie and the others were shocked, and hurriedly turned their heads to look, but saw that the hole that had been blown open suddenly turned into a solid ice wall, and everyone's faces changed greatly.

"Damn, what's going on with this special mother? What about the road? Where is the big gap that we came out of when we came? ”

The fat man rubbed his eyes, twisted his eyebrows and stared at it, only to find that it was really not him who was dazzled, but that the hole that had been violently blown open by the Germans had really disappeared!

The original gap was now completely integrated with the frozen mountain wall, and there was no trace of fragmentation before.

However, the broken ice and frozen stones on the ground were still there, which meant that the wall of ice that had filled the gap suddenly appeared here, as if the plants were growing silently, and no one present noticed the abnormality.

Zhang Haixing quickly ran to the ice wall and knocked on it, trying to find traces of the existence of the mechanism, and after a long time to no avail, he immediately returned to Zhang Qixun's side, and said calmly: "Although I don't know what is going on, I am very sure that this should not be some mechanism, but some force beyond natural cognition is preventing us from retreating, that is, we have no way out." ”

The fat man was very puzzled, "Why is there no way out, wouldn't it be good to just blow it up?" It's impossible for the passage inside to become solid. ”

Zhang Haixing didn't answer his words, turned around and picked up the equipment, and raised her chin at Zhang Qixun, "There's no time, let's go quickly." After saying that, he stepped on the ice first.

"Put away all the spears and replace them with pistols." Zhang Qixun whispered to the two Wu Xie in the back.

Rifles are far less convenient than pistols in close-quarters combat, which are more effective at short-range kills, more flexible, and can be operated with one hand in a crisis situation.

And with the physique of that thing in the water, if there are some scales or something on the body, it is completely enough to resist bullets, and holding a pistol is to strengthen courage, and secondly, it is also just in case, when encountering an attack, it is convenient to complete the shooting in the narrow space between the beast's mouth and the ice sheet, which can be delayed for a while.

Zhang Qixun plugged Feng's mouth with rolled gauze in advance, warned him not to shout indiscriminately later, and then grabbed him to follow Zhang Haixing in front.

The fat man looked at their backs, and was also shocked by his own thoughts, muttering, "It won't really become solid, will it......?"

"Let's go, time waits for no one." Wu Xie patted the fat man on the shoulder.

The two took the gun they carried on their chests, folded it and put it in their backpacks, and changed the pistol to pin it to their waists

The group lined up and walked lightly onto the ice sheet.

Zhang Haixing walked in the front, and she looked very cautiously under the ice when she took every step, and only continued to walk forward after confirming that there was no black shadow.

Zhang Qixun dragged Feng to the second position, almost following Zhang Haixing's footsteps.

All the way to the place close to the center of the lake, the ice here is relatively thin, and it can't bear the weight of five people at once.

After the ice under her feet made a crunch sound, Zhang Haixing had no choice but to go around and bypass the unfrozen water in the middle of the lake from the left.

Zhang Haixing turned around and gestured to the few people behind to express his thoughts, and everyone had no objections.

The next stretch of ice was a difficult walk, the ice near the middle of the lake was very weak, and if you stepped on it, you could see white cracks spreading rapidly from under your feet.

Zhang Haixing was angry and depressed, there was not much time left for them, she didn't want to take too far a detour, in order to hurry, she could only try to move forward step by step.

In this way, one step at a time, as if stepping on a thin biscuit, although the sound was slight, it was like a countdown in such a quiet environment, and everyone didn't even dare to pant loudly.

Just when they thought that everything was going well and that they could finally enter the canyon ahead before dark, something happened suddenly—

Zhang Haixing, who had been walking in front, didn't know what she saw, and suddenly screamed excitedly, and then ran forward.

Zhang Qixun, who was following behind, hurriedly stretched out his hand to grab her, but she shook her arm hard to break free, and in the blink of an eye, Zhang Haixing had already run ten meters away.

Zhang Qixun felt bad, and immediately turned his head to remind Wu Xie and the others behind him to pay attention, but saw that the two of them had begun to look in a trance, and neither of them realized that Zhang Qixun had stopped due to an unexpected situation and continued to walk forward.

Zhang Qixun hurriedly let go of Feng's hand, turned around and grabbed the two, but after this delay, Feng suddenly turned so blue that he exclaimed in German, "It's on fire, it's on fire!" After shouting, he ran in the direction of Zhang Haixing.

From the moment he saw the expressions of Wu Xie and the others, he had already reacted that they had fallen into the illusion, and like the Germans who accompanied him when he first entered the snowy mountain, under the influence of the illusion, it was an instinctive reaction to escape.

But fortunately, Wu Xie and the others still have their own subjective consciousness, and they were able to frown when they heard Feng's shouting and thought it was noise, and they didn't run out of control like Zhang Haixing and Feng.

The Mapenim in the lake had been disturbed by the noise of the bombing of the mountain not long ago, and the slightest commotion on the ice sheet would immediately arouse their alarm, seeing that there were already black shadows gradually swimming up and chasing Zhang Haixing and the two, Zhang Qixun immediately took Wu Xie and the fat man and ran straight to the nearest lake shore.

At this time, where can you still take care of the strange fish in the lake, of course, it is important to escape.

But before they ran far, the ice under the feet of Zhang Qixun and the three of them shook violently, and the ice cracked, and Zhang Qixun jumped forward with Wu Xie and the others at the last moment, narrowly avoiding the huge beast head that pounced on them.

Fortunately, due to this hasty jump, the three of them did not stand firm and fell into a ball, but the pain of hitting the ice accidentally woke up Wu Xie and the fat man, who were half-in the illusion.

The moment the two of them woke up, they saw a wide and long crimson dorsal fin inserted on the ice in front of them, a huge beast head lying across the ice, like a fish and not a fish, covered with a bronze head like a dragon's horn on its forehead, and the big eyes of the lantern were like dark cold beads, bursting out with a shining and sharp light, which was breathtaking.

This fish beast was much smaller than the black shadow that patrolled the shore before, and because it was in a hurry to hit the ice, it stuck its dorsal fin and head in the ice hole, and its long tail soaked in the water was covered with scales like a python, several times thicker than the python's tail, and it kept beating the ice from the bottom up in an attempt to get out of trouble.

The impact of this tail was measured in tons, and cracks soon appeared in the originally thick and hard ice.

The biting cold air that surged up made Zhang Qixun and the three of them shiver, although they dodged the fatal blow, but the overwhelming splash still drenched their bodies.

More black shadows slowly converged under the ice, and the Mabonim in front of him was about to break through the ice, Zhang Qixun gritted his teeth and got up, grabbed one with one hand and dragged it to the shore.

"Run!"

Boom –

Another huge wave swept in, the sound was like thunder, the ice under the feet of Zhang Qixun and the three began to break in large chunks, the heavy ice floe shook violently with the water waves, and it would be overturned at any time, and people couldn't even stand on it, let alone run, and they fell into the broken ice crevasse as soon as they lifted their feet.

As soon as Zhang Qixun fished Wu Xie out of the crack in the ice, a thunderous roar suddenly exploded in the ears of the three people, and their eardrums buzzed and trembled, as if a fully loaded truck was speeding over and hitting their backs hard.

Wu Xie only felt that his eyes were instantly dizzy and black, and his mixed body muscles were paralyzed and stiff, and he couldn't control it, and his heart was shaking wildly, as if he was about to burst out of his chest in the next second.

The ice collapsed, Wu Xie watched the three of them being knocked apart and falling into the ice cave, the biting extreme cold instantly wrapped his whole body, he tried hard to move his limbs, but his whole body was numb as if he was tied by a rope, stiff and unable to move.

"Innocent!"

There were countless black and white spots flickering in front of him, and his forehead hit somewhere when it fell, and the pain was incomparable, and he vaguely heard someone calling him.

Wu Xie held his breath and desperately let his hands swing and wanted to float up, but the cotton clothes on his body were as heavy as lead after soaking in water, and he continued to sink.

He felt someone paddling towards him, and groped for a hand over his face, and then immediately stopped him by the waist and hugged him, helping him to surface.

As soon as he was about to open his eyes, a fishy-sweet liquid splashed on his face, and the blood mist blurred his eyes instantly.

But the smell was so familiar to him, it was blood!

Who was hurt?

There was an endless panic in his heart for no reason, and before he had time to think about it, Wu Xie felt that someone was pushing him onto the ice floe with great strength.

Wooden fish? It must be a wooden fish.

The wooden fish is injured!

"Run! Fast! ”

Zhang Qixun pushed him, and immediately turned around and swam to the fat man who fell into the ice lake for the second time and was sandwiched between the two large ice sheets.

The fat man was swept down the ice by the water column as soon as he pounced forward with his crisis instinct, dodged the second impact, and his body was also pushed far away by the aftermath of the water waves, and he and Wu Xie Zhang Qixun were scattered.

Although he was also shocked by the loud roar, the fat man gritted his teeth and opened his stinging eyes, and in the blurred blood light, he saw the hideous and terrifying beast's head open its bloody mouth, and its sharp fangs bitten directly at him.

The fat man was in a hurry, holding his breath and shrinking his body violently, falling straight down three or four meters, and the sound of sharp teeth on the top of his head chopping the ice made him chill.

He hurriedly dived deeper before the giant fish could spot him, and immediately swung his limbs wildly and swam towards the distant ice after rounding the range of the giant fish. (End of chapter)