When Luo Zihang and the others returned to the stone wall with the remains of the fire ladybug, they happened to see Professor Wei taking the floating sculpture out of the stone, and a completely irregular pit of book size and shape appeared in the original place where the floating corpse was originally located.

"You're back just in time." Professor Wei beckoned to Luo Zihang and the others happily, "Come and take a look at this floating sculpture, it should be part of a certain floating fresco, which records some kind of sacrificial ritual of the nobles in the ancient snow area." ”

"Professor, don't worry about the floating, we're in big trouble!"

Ah Cheng ran up to Professor Wei and quickly recounted what had just happened to them, then looked at Professor Wei and Azati and asked, "Do you know what that bug is?" ”

Professor Wei shook his head blankly, he was an archaeologist, not a biologist, and besides, even a biologist would not be able to understand such a strange existence as the fire ladybug.

In addition, although Professor Wei is well-informed and has participated in the excavation of some large tombs in his life, before "Zhou Shijie", the son of destiny, became his student, he really did not encounter any strange incidents.

If the plot had developed normally, Professor Wei would have lost too many students in this internship, could not withstand the blow, and felt guilty, so he voluntarily resigned from his position as a university professor shortly after returning home......

Just when Professor Wei was confused about the translucent corpse of the fire ladybug, Azati on the side seemed to remember something, and his face showed an expression of disbelief.

"This is the Messenger of the Underworld!" "When I was a child, I heard the elders say that when people die, messengers from the underworld will appear next to their corpses, incinerate their corpses with blue demonic fire, and lead their souls to the underworld...... I always thought it was just a legend! ”

As he spoke, Azati immediately fell to the ground and muttered in Tibetan not knowing what he was saying.

"You should be talking about phosphorus fire...... Professor Wei pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "There was a similar legend in the Central Plains of ancient China, and now it has been scientifically proven that it is just a natural flame of phosphorus in the human body, which is a scientific phenomenon." ”

"And how do you explain this shovel? If it weren't for the flames of the underworld, how could it be possible to burn all the iron in an instant? Azati didn't know anything about science or science, he straightened up and pointed to the deformed shovel that he had brought back with him.

"Uh...... This ......" Professor Wei was choked up.

He didn't believe that there were any messengers from the underworld, but the news brought by Luo Zihang and them couldn't be faked, and the strange ladybugs and burned and deformed sapper shovels were in front of him.

In Professor Wei's mind, this should be some strange creature that has not yet been discovered, he is not a biologist, and he cannot give a reasonable explanation to Azati, and as a scholar, he cannot say that "this is just a coincidence".

"Maybe in your legends, someone did see this bug, but it is definitely not a messenger of the underworld."

As a staunch materialist, Professor Wei chose to dispel superstition from other angles, even though he could not explain the principle that fire ladybugs can cause fire.

"If it was some kind of underworld messenger, how could it be killed so easily?" He shook the ladybug remains in his hand, pursed his lips and guessed: "This should just be a relatively special creature, which has evolved the ability to ignite air, just like the electric eel and electric ray that have evolved the ability to discharge electricity, but the ancients didn't understand these and regarded it as a miracle." ”

Having said that, Professor Wei actually knows that things are not so simple, because the size of fish such as electric eels and electric rays is there, and the amount of electricity released is still within the understandable range.

But the fire ladybug is such a small bug, but it can release a flame that is enough to burn molten metal, which is not in line with the law of conservation of energy at all......

However, in this situation, it is absolutely unacceptable to mess with oneself, especially Azati, an uneducated local, in case something strange happens in the future, the damage caused by a panicked teammate is unimaginable, so Professor Wei must first find a reason to stabilize him.

In this era, the name of a university professor is still very convincing, and after listening to Professor Wei's explanation, Azati got up from the ground in disbelief.

"Fish that discharge? Is there still this fish in the world? I haven't read, don't lie to me. ”

"There really is this kind of fish," the squad leader on the side confirmed: "Although I haven't seen it either, there are indeed such fish abroad, and I heard that they can turn over a big bull!" ”

Seeing that the border guards all said this, Azati finally stopped being so flustered, but still looked at the fire ladybug in Professor Wei's hand with awe from time to time.

Professor Wei did not continue to "popularize science", but took out a small box from his backpack that was intended to store archaeological materials, and put the remains of the fire ladybug in it.

"I'm going to take this back to school and ask the professors in the biology department to help me study it, and if I can figure out how it causes fire, maybe I can make a few new inventions from it."

Although Professor Wei said this to continue to relax the mood of the people, there is nothing wrong with his own words, after all, many of today's technologies are inspired by animals in nature.

Seeing that Professor Wei had put away the fire ladybugs, although he knew that there was little hope, Luo Zihang still proposed: "Why don't we leave, anyway, the floating worm has already been taken down, in case there are a few more such insects, I can't take pictures of them every time." ”

The others were suddenly a little moved, after all, no matter how scientific Professor Wei's analysis was, they didn't have a very good way to deal with this weird bug, and they were in the snowy mountains, and the guns on the border guards couldn't be used, so it was actually a very good choice to run away as soon as possible.

And Professor Wei is actually a little hesitant......

From a rational point of view, there is nothing wrong with Luo Zihang's proposal, and in his archaeological experience, in such a potentially life-threatening situation, evacuating first is also the most correct choice.

But......

Professor Wei looked at the freshly dug up piece of the floating sculpture in his hand, which was only a corner of a narrative mural, and it was impossible to figure out what was going on here, driven by his desire to explore and learn, he wanted to continue digging.

Of course, he could choose to go back and come back when he was ready to deal with the fire ladybugs, but with just a shattered wreckage, God knows when they will find their weaknesses, and it will take time to deploy supplies and the like.

The most important thing is that after a while, the climate of Kunlun Mountain will become even worse, and it is absolutely impossible to come over at that time, and you must wait for at least half a year to come back when the weather gradually warms up.

"We knocked on the stone wall for a long time before, and there were no such ladybugs coming, so as long as we don't dig the soil and don't go near the place where you found these bugs, there should be no problem......

Under the influence of the "desire to explore", Professor Wei made an extremely unwise choice, and in order to appease everyone, he also gave a plan that seemed to be very dangerous-

"Look at that stone wall, where we dug up, there are obviously other floating fragments, so we don't need to venture to find other clues, just speed up and dig out those floating fragments."

Luo Zihang sighed helplessly, things really developed like this, and this stone wall was most likely the crack that was shaken out by the avalanche in the original work.

And the others were as confused as they were, their lips were trembling with worry, but they didn't mean to refute Professor Wei......

That's it, according to the development of the original plot, I know a little more, and if there are some moths in the process of going back, I will be even more unprepared.

Thinking like this, Luo Zihang also gave up the idea of continuing to interfere in the plot, and honestly followed Professor Wei and his senior brothers and sisters, and gently "scraped" it on the stone wall with a small shovel and a small brush.

The border guards in charge of the guards were vigilantly facing the direction of the fire ladybugs, so as to prevent other fire ladybugs from being attracted by the movement here.

Luo Zihang knocked on the stone wall with the small shovel in his hand first, and there was nothing unusual in the sound, as if the back was not empty......

Am I guessing wrong?

Luo Zihang frowned, and his hand holding the brush pretended to brush on the stone wall casually, but his attention was on the border guards not far away.

If the path to the cave is not behind this rock wall, then something will inevitably happen next, and they will have to pull out their guns and shoot them to cause an avalanche, as in the original book.

It's just that Luo Zihang's vigilance didn't play any role, because he complicated things, behind the stone wall is the cave leading to the nine-story demon tower, yes, the knocking sound is not abnormal, that is because the stone wall is too thick.

But after Professor Wei and several graduate students dug up a large piece of floating skull, the section of the stone wall they dug up was like a cracked ice, accompanied by a "kaka" sound, and quickly spread several cracks.

"Hurry back!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Professor Wei didn't care about the piece that had just been dug up, so he pulled the two graduate students around him and retreated back.

The others also moved away from the stone wall after being reminded by him.

A few seconds later, the stone wall collapsed under Professor Wei's heart-wrenching gaze, burying the large piece of floating that had not had time to be moved.

"Huh?! Is this behind the emptiness? ”

The sharp-eyed Ah Cheng saw the scene behind the stone wall before the smoke and dust completely dissipated, and hurriedly exclaimed.

"No wonder...... I said, "Why is this stone wall so fragile?" Professor Wei waved his arm to dispel the dust in front of him, and looked thoughtfully at the crack that suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Professor, shall we go in and have a look?" Senior Tang stretched his neck and looked in, "It doesn't seem to be very deep, you can vaguely see the bottom." ”

Professor Wei pondered for a moment, his smart IQ actually reoccupied the high ground, he shook his head, and said, "The fire ladybug flew out of the ground before, and it is not good to say that it is their nest below, and it is too dangerous to rush in." ”

Just when Luo Zihang was surprised that the main plot had really changed, he suddenly shuddered, and subconsciously turned his head to look up......

The mountain peaks above seemed to be shaking, or rather, the snow on the peaks, which were flowing down like a river.

Luo Zihang smiled bitterly, things are really not that simple.

"We don't want to go in now," Seeing that Professor Wei and the others were still watching from the edge of the crack, Luo Zihang pointed above and reminded in a loud voice: "The collapse of the stone wall just now has caused an avalanche, if you don't want to be buried alive, it's better to get into it quickly." ”

In just a few words, the snow river "flowing" above has formed a turbulent snow wave, and some of the snow foam has already fallen on their bodies first, and it seems that goose feathers are falling in the valley at this time.

At the same time, there was a rumbling sound from above, and it was rapidly getting louder.

"Get in!"

Professor Wei grabbed the nearest senior Tang beside him, pushed him into the crack, and then roared as he quickly waved at the others.

At this time, no one would be stupid to rub around, and there was no time for Professor Wei to be humble, everyone jumped in after Senior Tang like dumplings.

When all the students, including Luo Zihang, and Azati jumped into the crack, Professor Wei followed and jumped in, and finally the four border guards.

The crack is very steep underneath, before Senior Tang said that he could vaguely see the ground, in fact, it was just a small section of the slope, and the people who rushed into the crack in the panic couldn't stand firm at all, and more than a dozen people rolled into a ball, and in a series of collisions and "ouch" sounds, they rolled all the way to the bottom of the cave.

And the crack at the entrance had already been buried by the snow at this time, and there were even a lot of snow blocks and snow foam, which flew down from the crack with them and smashed on Luo Zihang and others.

"Are you all okay?"

Luo Zihang was the first to recover from the dizziness, he struggled to stand up, and took out the flashlight from his backpack......

This is a point that he is more fortunate for, in the original book, the protagonist and others in order to race against the avalanche, but most of the equipment on their bodies were thrown away, although there were flashlights, but some of the first aid supplies in the backpack were gone.

There was a snort all around, and no one else seemed to have recovered from the thrill of the "orbital rappel".

By the light of the flashlight, Luo Zihang checked the situation of everyone, and in the original book, someone fell to his death.

But this time the situation is much better than Li, I don't know if it's because there are enough people to cushion each other, or the backpack on the body blocks some impacts, in short, no one among them died, and the worst ones are just a few broken bones, there are first-aid supplies in the backpack, and there will be no danger to life for the time being.

It's just that the biggest problem now is how to leave......

Luo Zihang knew that they would have to walk for more than ten hours, and swim in the underground river, until the earthquake shook the exit out before they could see the light of day again.

But other people didn't know, and it was very likely that this was the old nest of the fire ladybug, so everyone was a little desperate for a while.

"It's all my ......" Professor Wei grabbed his thinning hair and muttered to himself, "I should have listened to Xiao Zhou at that time and left with you." ”

In the face of such a predicament, the spirit of the border guards was more tenacious, and the squad leader stood up to cheer everyone up: "Aren't they all saying that there is no endless road?" We even escaped from the avalanche, and we are afraid that we will not find our way out? ”

"That's right!" Luo Zihang patted the backpack and echoed: "Our backpack is still there, and the dry food in it alone can support it for several days, and things are not as bad as imagined." ”

With the encouragement of the two, the others also cheered up, and after making two simple stretchers for the two people with limited mobility, everyone regrouped and walked deeper into the rift.

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