Although they had to change into dry clothes immediately when they were fished out of the ice cave, it was really inconvenient for the three of them to do it, and maybe the woman would be unhappy to beat people when she woke up, and scolded them for rubbing oil.

This kind of thankless work, no one wants to look left and right, Wu Xie simply wrapped her tightly with a blanket, and the two stoves were moved to her side, in the words of the fat man, such a strong fire, there is always a time for her to dry up.

It would take a while for Zhang Haixing to wake up, and she didn't know what she saw underneath.

However, Wu Xie was still keenly aware that Feng, who had been working hard to reduce his sense of existence, suddenly revealed a trace of impatience at the beginning, although it converged quickly, but it was still captured by Wu Xie who was watching in all directions.

In fact, after discovering the traces of another group of Germans in the bear cave of the snow mountain before, Wu Xie became suspicious of Feng in his heart, because Feng picked himself too cleanly, and there was almost no loophole in his words, as if he had expected what would happen, so he prepared a perfect explanation early.

If he had been innocent before, he would definitely believe Feng's statement, but now he clearly remembers a truth, and the absence of flaws is the biggest flaw in the incident itself.

Since Bai Ci jumped into the lake and lost his whereabouts, without the existence that threatened his life at this moment, Feng himself had less scruples.

Half of the star map was lost in the hands of the leader of the Quiet Company for some reason, and when Feng got it, only a part of it was left, but the remaining part was also very complicated, and he and Zhang Haixing had no clue after studying it for a long time.

Wu Xie believed that Feng must be more anxious than anyone else about the semi-predicament they were in at the moment.

Taking advantage of the kung fu of turning his back, Wu Xie vaguely whispered to the fat man to convey his discovery, asking the fat man to pay more attention to this old boy, and they had to figure out his ultimate goal as soon as possible.

Taking advantage of this time, Wu Xie and the others processed all the fish caught by the fat man, and used the scraped fish to pass through the gills with a fishing rod.

The fat man took down the three tiers of offering tables and chairs, and set them up as shelves on either side of the stove, and hung up the rods with three or so fish, a total of thirteen fish, and the rods of several sappers' shovels were hung to the brim.

The fat man controlled the heat, and when it was half-cooked, he sprinkled it with salt finely, and the brown oil juice secreted out, slowly flowing down the body of the fish with the knife, hanging on the tail of the fish, and finally dripping into the scorching charcoal fire below, crackling, and the tangy fragrance wafted throughout the room.

The fish here are fat, and the fat man also puts the cut fish oil into a pot and boils it out, and then puts it in a canning box, and then seals it with plastic when it cools and solidifies, and with the low temperature environment here, the fish oil can be stored for several months without a problem.

After about an hour, Zhang Haixing woke up slowly, most likely because of the smell of fish.

The sky outside was completely dark, the ice lake looked gray under the moonlight at night, and the mountain shadows were gray and dark, and they were very monotonous.

"I'm awake." The fat man grabbed the fish pieces with both hands, turned his head and saw Zhang Haixing sitting up from the blanket, so he beckoned her, "Hurry up and come over to eat when you wake up, the fat man's best grilled whole fish, there is no such shop after this village." ”

Zhang Haixing's eyes were confused for a few moments, and her mind quickly connected what happened before, she touched the clothes that were still a little damp on her body, looked out the window, and asked, "What time is it?" ”

Wu Xie glanced at his watch and replied to her, "It's not too late before nine o'clock." ”

Zhang Haixing didn't say anything more, got up and sat down silently, and the fat man Nunu motioned for her new rice bowl to be heated on the stove, and there was fish soup in it.

Feng looked at the faces of the fat evil two without a trace, and saw that neither of them had the intention of asking, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and then said to Zhang Haixing with concern: "Miss Zhang, the fish soup of alpine fish is rich in protein and amino acids, and Mr. Fat also added ginseng slices to it when he was boiling the soup, all of which replenish body energy, you have been in the ice water for too long before, you have to hurry up and make up for it." ”

Hearing this, the fat man on the side snorted, and said to Wu Xie in the half-baked old Changsha dialect: "This foreign grandson borrowing flowers to offer Buddha is quite a thief." ”

Wu Xie also hooked the corners of his mouth lightly, and also replied to him in the old Changsha dialect, "No matter what is underwater, there will always be someone who is in a hurry before us." ”

"Wu, fat, what are you two talking about?" Feng looked curious.

The fat man squinted at him, "You don't understand the serious issues between men." ”

Feng was puzzled: "But I'm also a man, why don't I understand." ”

The fat man laughed at him, "You are a native foreigner, you really think that you can understand all the profound Chinese culture by reading a few Chinese books, and you can't even understand the basic local customs, hurry up and finish eating, washing and sleeping." ”

Seeing that the topic was crooked again, Feng finally couldn't hold his breath anymore, he no longer talked to the fat man, and asked Zhang Haixing directly, "Are you under the lake, do you see the thing hooked by Wu's fishing hook?" ”

Zhang Haixing nodded, "I can see clearly, that thing is a statue." ”

"Statues?" The fat man pinched a long fish bone and picked his teeth, and said vaguely, "But no matter how you say this, the statue should be placed at the bottom of the water, no matter how long the fishing line is, it is impossible to grow to the bottom of the lake that hooks a hundred and ten meters. ”

Zhang Haixing looked at him dissatisfied, "Why are you talking so much nonsense." ”

The fat man pouted, "Yes, the fat man saved a white-eyed wolf, your old woman's face has not been ruined so far thanks to the fat man and me, and I don't know how to be grateful at all." ”

Zhang Haixing rolled her eyes, didn't want to pay attention to him, and continued: "The water under the trestle of the Lama Temple is not very deep, I dived to the bottom of the water and saw a large snake fish statue, and Wu Xie's fishing line hooked the snake's head. ”

"But the statue was not made of stone, but a grayish-white bone with a faint white glow, and the overall frame was a whole huge animal spine bone, on which a python was coiled, and the scales on the snake's body were really red scale armor."

"The vertebral bones of a giant animal?" Wu Xie was puzzled and repeated it in his mouth.

"How big, bigger than an African wild elephant?" The fat man interjected and said.

Zhang Haixing looked at him speechlessly, "With such an obvious feature, you really can't think of it in your mind?" ”

"Just kidding, liven up the atmosphere." The fat man said, "Look at you, all of them have a sad face, as if they have a grudge against the fat master and my cooking." ”

Zhang Haixing didn't want to listen to him play poor, put down the bowl, took out a small notebook from his backpack, and continued, "I heard the elders of the clan say before that some very ancient tribes will use the bones of large animals to carve the appearance of fierce beasts, pour sand and gravel into the bone cavity to increase the weight, and finally put the Zhenhe stone into the water source in their living area as a prayer for blessing, and the giant bone statue at the bottom of the lake is likely to have the same effect." ”

Wu Xie asked, "Since it is a Zhenhe stone, shouldn't it be firmly suppressed under the water, why did it suddenly float?" ”

"It's not floating." Zhang Haixing explained, "The place where I found the giant bone statue is a small sunken well-shaped crater, although the bone statue is heavy, but the crater will spew out a stream of hot gas every once in a while, and under the impetus of the hot steam, the bone statue is pushed out of the volcano like a piston of a needle tube, and when the temperature is lowered by the glacial lake, the bone statue will fall back again." ”

"I found five arm-thick chains around the base of the giant statue, pressed against the base of the statue." Zhang Haixing said.

"By the time I went down, the crater had already cooled down, so I couldn't see where the chains would eventually lead, but I guessed that it was connected to the crater below, so that the floating bones would not be displaced when they fell." (End of chapter)