Immediately afterwards, the German sent another cipher to the outside of the mountain, which was repeated three times.

Zhang Haike frowned slightly, got up and walked to the side, took the headphones to listen, and recorded the code he heard on paper.

"The signal is disconnected, it looks like that guy has withdrawn." Zhang Haiyuan said.

Zhang Haike nodded and wrote the translated words under the code.

[The advance team failed, the gatekeeper lost his whereabouts, and the bell solver may have been suspicious of me, in order to avoid uncontrollable changes in the future, the plan is advanced, you need to fight quickly, I will restore contact with you after finding the location of the Zanshenmen]

The last few strings of code followed were a little strange, and Zhang Haike couldn't decipher them for a while, and it seemed that Feng was alert to change the law of ciphertext when he was tapping.

Combined with the information sent by Feng above, it seems that this string of codes represents a very important content.

"The gatekeeper is missing? Gatekeepers? Zhang Haiyuan was a little worried, "Could it be that something happened to Bai Ci?" ”

Zhang Haike shook his head, "It was Kang Balo who had an accident, summoned by the letter falcon, and Dan had already rushed back in advance, but there has been no news coming, and I'm afraid the situation there is not optimistic." ”

He looked down at the words on the paper and muttered, "I always have a hunch that this last line of code is likely to be related to the sudden disappearance of Kang Balo and Bai Ci. ”

——

After a waveless night, the broken ice has been completely frozen, and everything is quiet.

Wu Xie stood by the window and looked forward to it, but Bai Ci still showed no sign of returning.

Zhang Haixing had already decided not to wait any longer, beckoned everyone to pack up their equipment, took one last look at the map, and said, "Let's go." ”

There are no words along the way, and the scenery along the way is breathtaking, like a snowy wonderland, with magnificent peaks and snowy mountains, like the top of the vast clouds.

Walking all the way according to the route outlined by Wu Xie, after bypassing a few mountains, a large valley appeared in front of him.

Even though they already had the preset in their hearts that Kang Balo might suffer, the scene in front of them still surprised them.

In fact, they didn't see Khamballo, but the village didn't exist, and they saw the occasional Tibetan style building on top of a few ancient Tibetan-style buildings in the middle of the snowfield.

A massive avalanche completely buried this ancient and mysterious ethnic group in the deep snow, and Kangballo fell asleep under the snow forever.

The mountain birds fly away, the clouds do not cover the sun, and only monotonous black and white, and the bleak and lonely gray at the junction of black and white are left between the vast world and the world.

"How so?" Wu Xie was simply unbelievable.

Feng looked around, and suddenly pointed to the particularly abrupt black rock that appeared on the side of the mountain, and he said, "It's an avalanche, there was a super-large avalanche that buried the entire valley underneath. ”

Wu Xie's eyes widened, looking at the black mountain rock that had been completely peeled off the surface, "How could there be an avalanche of such a huge scale?" It's as if the snow on the whole mountain has been shaken off and spread in this valley. ”

Feng's eyes flashed, and then he said: "This is a natural disaster, the mountain has become hot, there must have been some change in the geological structure of that mountain, the mountain has become hot, and the snow on it has melted." ”

"I actually wanted to tell you before that the reason why the ice lake did not freeze all of it in the extreme cold was because there was a volcanic magma pool deep inside the mountain near the shore of the lake, and Miss Zhang had also seen the mouth of a small volcanic well blocked by a giant bone statue underwater, and there must be more than one similar volcanic well at the bottom of the lake."

Wu Xie muttered to himself, "The original Kang Balo has become like this, what about Bai Ci, where will he go?" ”

"He's probably already there before us." The fat man said.

Wu Xie frowned, and just wanted to ask him why he said this, but he saw the fat man holding a telescope, looking intently at the rocks in the distance.

The fat man said: "This territory belongs to the Kangbaluo people, assuming that there are people who survived the avalanche, and such a big change has happened in the mountain, they must know better than us what the reason is, if Bai Ci has also been here, then he will definitely follow the footsteps of the people." So we have to go to that place as well. ”

"Moreover, I saw the bones of many people on that mountain, and it was all over the mountain."

When Zhang Haixing heard this, she snatched the telescope in the fat man's hand and looked in that direction, looking at it, her face gradually became difficult to see.

In the end, she ignored the fat man's thoughts, and said directly: "That mountain is the location guided by the map, let's rush over it as soon as possible." ”

The fat man snorted coldly, "It's just that you're still the leader, you don't know how to look at the situation and give orders randomly, this snow is like this, you can't walk three meters away from stepping on it, your special mother has to fall into the snow hole, and when you encounter a deep snow cave, several stories high, the shadow is gone, and you can't get it out if you want to." ”

Anger appeared on Zhang Haixing's face, although the fat man was telling the truth, but for the fat man's repeated confrontations, Zhang Haixing still secretly made a note for him.

It's also that she is too anxious, and she can't have a seizure at the critical moment now, but it may not be after that.

They couldn't make their way down the canyon, where the snow was deeper than anywhere else, and their feet were buried in a thick layer of snow, and they struggled to walk, and the snow in the canyon simply couldn't carry the weight of a person.

The fat man tied the rope around his waist and took a few tentative steps forward, and there was a clattering sound under his feet, and large swaths of snow began to fall, revealing huge gaps and holes below, bottomless.

Wu Xie and the three of them dragged the rope that suddenly tightened, and the fat man hung dangerously on the edge of the gap, and was pulled up by them.

The fat man wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with palpitations, and scolded his mother a few times, "Look, the whole mother is a trap at the bottom, and it is impossible to go directly from here." ”

Zhang Haixing looked up at the huge black rock again, looked at the towering canyon in front of him, and said, "It's not that there is no road, but it's a little difficult, you come with me." ”

After saying this, Zhang Haixing took the lead in walking towards the root of the canyon on the other side of the black rock, and Wu Xie and the others hurriedly followed.

Zhang Haixing, who was walking in the front, had a rope tied to her waist, and the other end was held in the hands of Wu Xie and the three of them, and they carefully slowed down their pace, and finally came to the edge of the valley.

Later, under the command of Zhang Haixing, he took out the mountaineering equipment in his backpack, the fat man was originally lost in the ice lake, but now Bai Ci is not there, and his equipment is just used by the fat man.

It was Zhang Haixing who led the way, and they climbed up the steep rock, the pickaxe in their hands firmly into the solid ice, and after climbing up for a while, they began to crawl sideways towards the peak where the target was.

The journey was extremely difficult, and when they were tired, they could only find a way to hang themselves on the ice cliff to rest for a while.

Underneath them is a deadly snow nest and ice crevice, and people who fall into it will be swallowed up instantly, and they climb on it in fear, and they dare not relax for half a minute.

After climbing on and off for almost three hours, as evening approached, the sky began to slowly start to burn and burn, and they finally reached the foot of the huge black rocky mountain.

The mountain is so large that a huge crack can be seen in the distance, which was once covered by snow all over the mountain, and now it has finally come to light.

Now standing at the foot of the mountain, before they really got closer, they could already feel a rush of heat in their faces.

The temperature of the geothermal heat was exaggerated, and soon they took off their clothes from the outside, and the snow on the side of the mountain near the mountain had melted, and there were ticking streams and waterfalls everywhere.

Wu Xie stretched out his hand and tried it in the stream, the warm water washed over his skin, and the soreness of his arm muscles seemed to flow away with the water, and soon he had an urge to throw off his shoes and socks and soak in hot water.

The fat man had already taken off his shoes and stuffed his feet into the puddle, and he was so comfortable that he shouted, "This place is simply a natural hot spring field, Zhente Niang is comfortable and tired." ”

As he spoke, he beckoned to the others, "You guys also hurry up and take a soak, before you fished out of the ice water hole, you didn't wipe your body with hot water, and if you don't do it well in the future, you will fall into the root of the disease, you can't miss the opportunity, just at this time, the cold air that has penetrated into your body has been driven away." ”

Although Wu Xie also has the idea of lying down and soaking like this, it is not this that is important at the moment.

He turned his head to Zhang Haixing and said: "Let's find a place to camp here tonight, it's not early, there are so many white bones on it, we don't know what danger there is on this black mountain, according to the map, we may have to enter that dark crack later, it is not wise to rush now." ”

Zhang Haixing also took this into consideration, and immediately waved his hand to signal everyone to set up camp, and then said to Wu Xie: "You come with me, let's go to the front to explore the road first." ”

Wu Xie had no objection and explained a few words to the fat man, and then he and Zhang Haixing only brought some simple equipment and continued to move forward, passing through the hot and cold intersection of a large number of hanging ice cubes, and they finally climbed the bare rock black mountain.

By this point, the temperature of the rocks under my hands had gradually begun to get a little hot, as if they had been sprayed by a scorching firearm.

"It looks like it's really a volcano down here, or an active volcano that has been moving a while ago." Wu Xie said worriedly, "That crack is bottomless, I don't know if it will directly penetrate the ground close to the volcanic magma, then we will be in danger." ”

Zhang Haixing's expression was not very optimistic, "Even if it is not a volcano, it is a mountain with particularly rich geothermal heat, and there must be a lava pool at the bottom of the mountain, and suddenly there was a geological change, which heated the mountain from the inside." ”

"Are you sure the map is not wrong?" She looked at Wu Xie.

Wu Xie said firmly: "There will be no mistake, I remember that Wang Zanghai once recorded in the Snake Eyebrow Copper Fish, 'The hell karmic fire will burn everything that opens the door, so that there is no white head in Gangri Mountain', the geothermal heat here is so rich, and there is a lava pool, which does not correspond to the sentence in the Snake Eyebrow Copper Fish." ”

Even if he cooperated with these Zhang family, Wu Xie still maintained the vigilance he should have in his heart, so he deliberately replaced the "Changbai Mountain" in that sentence with the Tibetan "Gangri", that is, the Snow Mountain.

Unexpectedly, after hearing his words, Zhang Haixing just frowned, didn't say anything to refute, and continued to climb up.

Wu Xie looked at her back from behind, thinking of what the fat man had told him that Zhang Haixing was pretending to be able to talk.

The fat man was tied up at the time, Zhang Haixing asked him in Tibetan, but the fat man said nonsense about the Galai words that he memorized by rote, there are very few people in the world who understand this, the fat man originally planned to fool the past casually, but he didn't expect Zhang Haixing not only did not tell others that she didn't understand, but also explained it with evidence.

She didn't directly say that she didn't understand the fat man's nonsense, but pretended to understand the meaning of the words, which was enough to put on a well-rooted Zhang family.

In other words, this Zhang Haixing who came with them all the way is problematic, it is likely to be fake, and she doesn't want the rest of the Zhang family to know that she doesn't know Menba.

There is another force in the Zhang family's team that has mixed in disguise, and the purpose is obvious, these ill-intentioned guys are all coming towards the bronze gate.

In this way, Wu Xie's previous speculation is correct, the fake Zhang Haixing has replaced the real Zhang Haixing a long time ago, so what about the real Miss Zhang, will it be the person who appeared in Motuo with the crescent moon a year ago?

Assuming that she is, then it is likely that she has already encountered an accident, but Wu Xie faintly feels that there must be some key clues here that he did not dig out, or maybe Zhang Haike and they deliberately concealed themselves.

Having said that, did Zhang Haike know that their girl had been replaced?

Wu Xie couldn't help but touch his face, the Zhang family can be called the ancestors of the camouflage world in terms of disguise acting, they have the ability to be proud, and they also have enough insight into everything.

Thinking of this, Wu Xie couldn't help but laugh, interesting, so interesting.

After doing it for a long time, it turned out that everyone was acting, and this hodgepodge was really exciting, so where will the finale stage be built?

"What are you rubbing?"

Zhang Haixing, who had already walked far away, saw that he didn't follow, so she turned around and called him impatiently.

Wu Xie tightened the wrapping belt, grabbed the rock with both hands and continued to climb up.

Going up the mountainside, the black rocks were rocky and irregular, but it made it easier for them to climb up.

After walking up for a while, there was still a long way to go from the crack, and the fat man called them on the walkie-talkie to stop them from coming down, and he and Feng were also walking up to it.

"The smell of sulfur is getting stronger." Zhang Haixing grabbed a big rock and stood up straight, looked up with a telescope, and said, "Let's climb up a little further, there is a hot spring pool that is bigger than the puddle below, and we will camp here tonight." ”

After climbing up for more than half an hour, I finally arrived at the place, and as far as the eye could see, there were countless small hot spring eyes, which were constantly bubbling hot water out. (End of chapter)