The slope of this area is slightly gentle, and there are several large craters on the slopes of the hill further up the small hot springs, which seem to have been smashed by small meteorites that have fallen from the sky and burned and split in the atmosphere.

These sinkholes are deep, foggy and bottomless, and the pale yellow sulphurous boiling water inside is churning.

As far as the eye can see, it seems to be in the sauna and bathhouse that can accommodate more than ten or twenty people in the north.

The air was hot and humid, the hot mist coiled in the air like thick smoke, and after a while, the clothes on Wu Xie's body were all damp, and his exposed face and hands were condensed into drops of water vapor.

The oxygen on the alpine snowfield was already thin, and after staying in the dense fog for a long time, Wu Xie felt a little stuffy and short of breath in his chest, and quickly turned around and walked a few steps back and forth, away from this boiling big steamer.

After walking out of the range of the hot spring eye, Wu Xie saw Zhang Haixing's figure flickering by in the mist, obviously she continued to go up to check the situation behind the hot spring.

There should be more such hot spring pits in the back, but the view is blocked by the mist.

Wu Xie held the jacket that was so hot that he took off before, and stood in place for a while, looking at the sunset like a red colored yarn on the edge of the snow line in the distance, his legs were so tired that he didn't want to go up anymore, and after sitting down in place and slowly breathing, he used the walkie-talkie to tell the fat man about the situation on his side, urging them to come up quickly.

The sky was getting dark, Wu Xie found a place with a flat slope and put down his backpack, waiting for the fat man to come up and camp directly.

The fat man and Feng actually climbed up soon after Wu Xie and the others left, but the two of them carried most of the equipment, so their speed was a little slower.

After a while, Wu Xie saw two black figures climbing up on the mountainside, and he hurriedly went over to help carry a bag of equipment.

The three of them slowly walked to the flat slope and found the place where Wu Xie had made a mark with his backpack.

The fat man looked around, and felt that this place was good, the leeward was still warm, and he felt the heat of the stone mountain under his feet through the thick soles of his shoes.

"That's it."

As soon as the fat man spoke and determined the place, Wu Xie and Feng began to set up the tent.

The fat man set up a pot on the side and began to boil water to prepare for dinner, and asked, "Where is Zhang Haixing?" ”

She went up. Wu Xie replied, and hurriedly took out the grilled dried fish from his backpack.

Feng Hammered the old waist that flashed carelessly when he went up the mountain, looked higher, and suddenly said strangely: "Wu, fat, have you noticed that the crack seems to be missing." ”

"It's blocked by the heat coming out of the hot springs, it's so dark now, I can't see it." Wu Xie looked up and found that the heavenly curse crack above that was originally like a sharp sword slashing was indeed gone.

He was a little uncertain and said, "Didn't Zhang Haixing go up, she shouldn't go too far alone, wait for her to come back and ask later." ”

Feng nodded, didn't say anything more, and the three of them were busy.

After a long time, Zhang Haixing came out of the dense fog, and her face was full of water vapor, as if she had just been fished out of the water.

The first time Wu Xie looked at her, he felt that her expression was wrong, and asked, "What's wrong?" Did you find anything on it? ”

Zhang Haixing sat by the fire, looking at the fish and meat in the pot gurgling with white soup, and was in a trance for a few seconds, before she seemed to react that Wu Xie was asking her a question, and replied: "There are many bones, several times more than we saw in Kang Balo from afar before, and almost all of the bones are in the stone crevices on it." ”

Wu Xie was stunned, "How can there be so many?" ”

Could it be that all the Kangbaluo people who escaped from the snow disaster finally gathered here, but in the end they still couldn't escape the fate of death?

The fat man glanced at Wu Xie's expression and helped him ask, "Are they all Kangbalo people who fled up the mountain?" ”

Zhang Haixing shook his head and denied it, "I don't think it should be a Kangbalo person, I observed carefully, all the white bones were discarded in place after being killed, and the clothes and weapons on these people were taken away after death, and there was no nameplate that could prove their identity, so I can't tell where they came from, I can only tell from the size and thickness of the bones that most of them are male, and the bone age is very young." ”

"And looking at the degree of decay of the bones, the time of their death has been a long time since now, about a year or more than a year, the bones are messy and incomplete, there are many knife wounds and bullet marks on the limbs and sternum, most of them are killed by one hit, the attack is very simple, the number of skulls that can be seen from the surface is roughly estimated, I am afraid that there must be one or two hundred dead."

In other words, there was once a large-scale chaotic armed conflict on this mountain.

"One or two hundred people, I'm obedient, why are there so many?" The fat man shook his eyebrows and wondered, "Those people gathered here, did they form the Six Great Sects to attack the Bright Peak on this snow-capped mountain?" It was none other than the legendary Bronze Cult that killed them! ”

Zhang Haixing glared at him speechlessly, "What kind of nonsense are you talking about, you are still poor at this time." ”

The fat man pursed his lips, ignored her, and said to Wu Xie: "Those bones, Bao Buqi entered the snow mountain a long time ago, and came here with the same purpose as us to look for things, but they were found and stopped, this place is so close to Kangbalo, and the people who attacked it are very likely to be Kangbalo, who can kill so many people at one time, it seems that they were fighting an ambush at that time." ”

Wu Xie thought for a moment and looked at Zhang Haixing, "If it is a one-hit kill, with such a neat killing method, it seems that in addition to your Zhang family, it is estimated that there are only Kangbalo people who have guarded here for generations." ”

From this point of view, it is not difficult to deduce the identity of those white bones, they are nothing more than coveting things in the depths of the snowy mountains, whether it is the golden ball treasure in the mysterious canyon, or the bronze gate for the purpose of their trip, those people are definitely not innocent.

Zhang Haixing didn't know what she was thinking, she had been restless since just now, and Wu Xie's words didn't hear into her ears.

Wu Xie raised his voice again and asked, "In your opinion, will the people who died on it be the Wang family, or the people from the Quiet Company?" ”

Zhang Haixing came back to her senses and shook her head, "It's hard to say, I can only say that it's possible." ”

Feng hurriedly waved his hand and denied it very resolutely: "It will definitely not be our people, the people sent by the headquarters have never set foot in this place before, you have also seen it, that ice lake is the biggest obstacle for us to come here, we don't even know how to go the follow-up route before the star map is cracked, the headquarters will not risk stuffing so many people here and sacrificing in vain, every member of our team is very precious." ”

Zhang Haixing also said: "I haven't been into the snow mountain here before, but my brother has been in it a few times, and he knows the shortcut to find Kangbalo, but he always went to them to talk about cooperation, and I haven't heard him say that such a thing has happened to Kangbalo." ”

The fat man picked up the pot, asked Wu Xie to add some charcoal to the stove, and said, "According to my analysis, the eight achievements are the hands of the Kangbalo people, and those bastards secretly ran to the mountains and didn't know what to do, but the people of Kangbalo found out, and the two sides did not understand the language, so if they didn't agree with each other, wouldn't they fight." ”

"Either the Khamballorians set up an ambush here in advance, killed all the trespassers here, stripped them naked, collected their weapons, and left the remaining corpses exposed to the wild to feed the vultures."

Zhang Haixing agreed, "Those bones do have traces of pecking, of course, there may be tooth marks. ”

She wasn't good at it, and could only tell that the flesh on the bones had been eaten before it weathered.

"You mean, sky burial?" Feng said, "According to what I know of the Tibetan Tantric funeral customs, if the body is eaten by a vulture, it means that the deceased has left the world and ascended to the western heavens. ”

"If the Kangballo people killed these invaders, they would not have dumped the bodies here, the people who invaded their homes were unforgivable enemies, and they would not choose to use sky burial to forgive the enemies, but would treat these corpses with very cruel torture."

Wu Xie and the fat man glanced at each other, their faces were a little solemn, and he saw that Feng had something else to say, so he took the opportunity to ask, "What do you mean?" ”

"I don't know if you've heard of Kawanaga, a kind of snow monster turned from a dead soul." Feng Shen said.

Wu Xie instantly understood what he meant, but he was still a little puzzled, "You want to say that those corpses were ...... on the snow field?" Kawanaga, also known as the spirit killed? ”

Feng Gang was about to nod, but the fat man sneered, "I said Comrade dung, do you want to listen to what you are talking about, you want to make up ghost stories, the fat man can give you nonsense for three days and three nights without repeating, Comrade Zhang Haixing just said, the fatal wounds on those bones are all knife wounds and gunshot wounds, even if there are spirits here, is it possible that they will shoot bullets without a teacher?" That's awesome. ”

Feng's face turned red, and he didn't know whether he was smoked by the heat or angered by the fat man, he defended: "You misunderstood what I meant, what I want to say is that Kawanaga's attack method is not a physical attack, but a kind of parasitism, because they are made by the soul, so they can burrow into the body of a living person and eat the soul of a person, and eat the body of a person to become nourishment." ”

"It is recorded in detail in the Biography of His Holiness Tsongkhapa that Kawanaga appears in large numbers every time, not one, but in groups, and because of the nature of their spirits, they are afraid of sunlight and salt, so they only appear at night."

Listening to what he said about having a nose and eyes, and looking like something was going on, the fat man couldn't help but be suspicious, "Then you can tell me, what is the meat on those corpses gnawed away, and what kind of thing are you talking about?" ”

Feng nodded, "Yes, Kawanaga likes to eat fresh corpse meat, and it is also recorded in the book that these spirits do not have a fixed shape, and will imitate the appearance of their prey, they have entities, but they are as changeable as water. ”

Wu Xie pondered Feng's words carefully, and suddenly thought of something, and he was shocked in his heart! It's over!

According to Feng, Kawanaga would appear at night, and at this moment, they were most likely crouching on the nest of this monster foraging!

Zhang Haixing obviously thought of this as well, and immediately stood up and circled around, turning back and asking Feng, "Is there any other way to restrain this monster in the book, except for sunlight and salt?" ”

They didn't have much salt with them, and they used up all of it when they grilled the fish, and if that kind of monster appeared in large numbers to attack them, the little bit of salt that was left would not be enough at all.

Feng pondered for a moment and hesitated, "I don't know if the firelight is useful to them, but the light will always make those ghosts a little jealous. ”

Seeing that the little sunlight left was about to disappear behind the mountains, Wu Xie and the others did not dare to delay any longer, so they immediately took action, turned out all the charcoal and fuel in their backpacks, dismantled one tent, and then placed a circle of charcoal evenly around the other tent, and lit it before it was completely dark.

The fat man moved the stove and pot into the tent, and the four of them quickly finished their dinner around the stove, wrapped their whole bodies tightly, prepared a pinch of salt by their sides, and turned their backs to the hot stove, and waited for it.

The surrounding temperature was already as high as if it was summer, and in this basically confined space, the wind could not blow in, and the fat man was so hot that sweat was dripping down, and his eyes were stuck and couldn't be opened.

Just this moment of effort, he suddenly felt as if there was a gentle person sitting next to him, no, there were people sitting next to him all the time, Feng on the left, and Wu Xie on the right.

But I don't know why, his heart is always bursting at this moment, as if something very bad is about to happen.

The fat man immediately looked to the right with his peripheral vision, and saw that the person on the right was indeed Wu Xie, and he was still holding a rifle in his arms, so he breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and wanted to say something to him, but the clinker was this turn, but his neck stiffened directly in place.

He saw Wu Xie's shadow, but this shadow was very strange, it was in the direction of the burning furnace behind him, and it was firmly attached to the ground.

Wu Xie was motionless, but the shadow was slowly shortening, little by little, leaning on Wu Xie's back.

After the calf thing, the ghost thing had already come at some point, and the flames didn't do anything to it.

There is only one last trick left for today's plan, seeing Wu Xie squinting his eyes, the fat man held his breath and condensed, and slowly reached out to grab the salt bag on the ground.

With the long-term tacit understanding between the two, the paper bag was torn at the moment when Wu Xie suddenly lowered his head and fell down, and all the salt powder in it flew on Wu Xie's neck.

All they could hear was the scorching sound of water dripping into the oil pot, and the black shadow shrank into a single piece and burrowed into the gap at their feet.

Before the two could breathe a sigh of relief, a series of gunshots suddenly exploded in their ears.

The person who shot was Zhang Haixing, and the fire outside the tent had been completely covered by a black shadow, and it was pitch black. (End of chapter)