Chapter 2 Cave of the Cave
Sure enough, early the next morning, a snowstorm broke out in the mountains.
In order to prevent frostbite, the ears and nose were wrapped in leather.
The rain of snowflakes and arrows rushing across the sky covered everyone's sight, mixed with the cold wind, and the faces hurt like knives. It makes the speed of the crowd move more and more slowly. But fortunately, Uncle Applejack, a local guide, is experienced, and there are no dangers along the way.
Uncle Applejack is reluctant to venture into the mountains again at first, but resists the temptation to double the pay, and eventually agrees to continue leading the way. However, he said in advance that if the wind and snow were stronger, he would not go any further.
Fang Zhongjing is still old after all, although he is still stubborn in his mouth, he already needs to be supported to continue to move forward. The two generals, Ziqian and Midnight, naturally took on this responsibility.
Hu Ji and Tang Wuji, two people with strong martial arts, still walked steadily, while Xiao Yan was not as weak as Mr. Fang, but he also walked one foot deep and one foot shallow, and his mind was full of nostalgia for the humid and hot climate under the mountain.
After walking for a few hours, when everyone was about to be exhausted, an abruptly shaped mountain peak appeared in front of everyone, Xiao Yan gasped and stepped forward to discuss a few words with Uncle Ajie, and then said in surprise: "If you don't make a mistake, turn over the mountain peak in front, and the valley behind is where we are looking for!"
"Why if?" said Hu Ji as he pulled off the leather from his mouth and nose and said loudly.
"After this mountain, Uncle Ajie hasn't been to anything in front of us!In other words, every step we take now is an adventure!" Xiao Yan shouted loudly against the wind and snow, as if he had answered a little incorrectly.
Hu Ji didn't say much, he looked around, there were vast snowy peaks and cliffs, and every road was more dangerous than climbing over this dangerous peak. He looked at Zhongjing, who was panting, and said, "Everyone rest for a while, we'll have to turn over here later!"
For the first time, Xiao Yan saw remorse and fear in Old Mr. Fang's eyes.
After the repair, everyone regained their strength and began to march towards the peak.
The dangerous peaks and strange rocks on the snow-capped mountains were craggy, and everyone groped for a long time before they barely found a sheep intestine path close to the cliff in the wind and snow.
"I'll go ahead! Everyone follow!" Hu Ji took the lead and took the lead in clinging to the cliff all the way forward. Xiao Yan and Uncle Ajie followed. Tang Wuji and the three Tang Sect disciples seemed to be excellent in light skills, and followed calmly. Zi Qian's two generals tied Mr. Fang and himself firmly together with ropes, and the three of them carefully followed at the back of the line.
However, the distance of a few zhang is more and more thrilling and difficult because of the volley, and the trail becomes narrower and narrower the further you go, and later, there is only a dangerous path that is the width of the sole of your foot. The crowd clinged to the rocks on the cliff and walked carefully little by little, because on the other side was a bottomless cliff.
Every few steps Hu Ji took forward, he took a piece of rope from his shoulder and hung it on the cliff wall, just so that the people behind him could travel smoothly and speed up their footsteps when turning back.
After an inadvertent turn of his head, Hu Ji saw Xiao Yan with a runny nose and a bruised face, trembling with fright: "Hmm, are you afraid of heights?"
"It's... Be... Be... Yes......" Xiao Yan said tremblingly.
"Don't worry, keep three of your limbs clinging to the stone at the same time, take your time, and don't panic. Hu Ji's tone was very calm.
"Oh... Good ......" Xiao Yan sniffed, only to find that the snot had already frozen into ice skates.
"Look down and look at your feet. ”
"I... I... Don't dare to look at ......," Xiao Yan said tremblingly.
Hu Ji felt a little funny, although he didn't laugh out loud: "It's not looking at the high sky below, it's the path under our feet!"
Xiao Yan was stunned, and then hesitantly looked down at the road under his feet: "No... Nothing, huh?"
"Take a closer look!"
Xiao Yan held his breath and stared carefully at the path under his feet, and after a while, he saw the clue-
"Temple... Your Highness, this road ......."
"That's right," Hu Ji's voice had obvious mood fluctuations, "the edge of this trail is very smooth and flat, it is by no means natural, it should have been trimmed by stonemasons with knives and axes to be so narrow!"
"So, we're not wrong?"
"Well, it seems that it is. ”
With this news urging, Xiao Yan's fear suddenly decreased a lot, and his movements became more sensitive.
In just a few feet of road, everyone climbed for nearly half an hour. Towards the end, the wind and snow gradually stopped, and everyone's hearts were a lot lighter.
"Between the two peaks, there is a small peak shaped like an eagle's beak, and the surrounding valley is where we are going-"
Everyone finally crossed this dangerous peak, but what they got in exchange for down-to-earth was not joy, but silence.
On the right, there is the towering Kunlun Peak;
On the left, there is a bottomless cliff;
Although there are mountain peaks in front and behind, it is not a valley at all, but a high snow-capped plain.
There is nothing like a pinnacle. Not even a single abrupt stone.
All of this tells the people that they have gone wrong and that they have to go back the way they came and start over.
"I know! I know that you little ghost can't be trusted!" The hot-tempered General Ziqian was the first to attack, and pointed at Xiao Yan's nose viciously and scolded: "Why the are you burning that picture! If you don't burn it, we're already here now!"
Old Mr. Fang was also so angry that his face turned purple, and he and Tang Wuji and his party were silent and did not speak.
Uncle Applejack was grunting again, but no one cared what he said.
Hu Ji stood in place, motionless, with a hint of despair in his calm eyes.
"I don't know...... I don't know......" Xiao Yan covered his head and muttered in despair.
"What do you remember? You are simply talking nonsense for the sake of your own life! I'm afraid the real scriptures are not thousands of miles away, right?" Ziqian angrily grabbed Xiao Yan's collar.
Xiao Yan pushed him away, turned around and left. He couldn't figure out what had gone wrong.
Could it be that he was mistaken, or was the picture fake?
"You dare to push me!" General Ziqian drew his sword with blood-red eyes: "I slaughtered you!
"Ziqian!" Hu Ji hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, but unexpectedly, he stepped on the air, and the whole person suddenly rolled down the hillside.
"Your Highness!" General Midnight was shocked, and in a hurry, he rushed over and grabbed one of Hu Ji's legs.
Zi Qian was so frightened that he dropped the sword in his hand, shouted, and flew over and grabbed Midnight's leg.
But that didn't stop the trio from sliding.
At the critical moment, Elder Tang Wuji finally made a move, only to see her sleeve robe wave, and a cold light shot out like a meteor, and when the cold light brushed Ziqian's ankle, it was like a spirit snake spitting out a letter, and a few people turned around and tied it tightly - it turned out to be a dart with a thin rope!
Elder Tang let out a low snort, and the three disciples beside him hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the thin rope back, pulling the three people who had fallen back from the edge of the cliff little by little.
The three of them sat on the side in shock, and were about to speak, when they suddenly saw Uncle Ajie shouting in horror.
Before everyone had time to question, they heard a rumbling sound that resounded through the valley: I don't know if the movement of everyone was too loud, the snow that had accumulated on the peak on the right for many years broke apart with a roar, and the snow waves roared towards everyone and swept over!
"Run! hide behind the cliff when you arrived-" Hu Ji shouted, pulled up Xiao Yan and rushed to the back of the mountain.
General Ziqian didn't care about picking up his sword, so he hurriedly set up Fang Zhongjing with General Midnight, and also ran behind the mountain.
Boom –
As soon as they had climbed the rope behind the mountain to stabilize their figures, they saw the overwhelming waves of snow whistling past their position, like a waterfall, with a huge vibration, rushing out of the cliff on the side and rushing straight down to the bottom of the mountain, for a long time.
Everyone's heartbeat accelerated to the extreme, even characters like Hu Ji and Tang Wuji, who had seen the world, were in a cold sweat at this time.
If you slow it down, I'm afraid you can let the people under the mountain collect the corpse directly.
The avalanche subsided, revealing sparse dirt and stones. Everyone gasped for a while, and then Zi Qian dared to help Mr. Fang to climb out first, he just wanted to scold again, but he was suddenly stunned.
"Ziqian, how can you ......" The midnight that followed was also stunned as soon as he spoke.
One by one, everyone returned to their original hillside, and everyone fell silent.
The avalanche roared by, taking away not only the snow layer on the peak on the right, but also the snow that had been deposited between the two small peaks in front and behind for thousands of years, and also swept down, revealing a valley hidden in a radius of more than ten zhang.
The white plains I saw earlier were not on the ground at all.
In the middle of the valley there is a small peak, like an eagle's beak, lifelike, and it is facing the cliff face.
General Ziqian turned his head to look at Xiao Yan, who also looked surprised, opened his mouth, and couldn't say anything.
"If it weren't for this avalanche, I'm afraid we wouldn't have found the secret hidden in it, right?"
"It seems that this time it is really the king of heaven......" Hu Ji also stared at this small valley hidden under the embrace of the three peaks, and said in a low voice.
"I can't imagine that Kunlun still has such a blessed land, it's really amazing...... Tang Wuji was also shocked by this miracle.
Just as everyone was celebrating each other, Xiao Yan suddenly reacted and hurriedly said, "Where's Uncle Ajie?
Everyone was stunned for a moment, looked around, and did not find the figure of the Bai man. The situation was urgent, everyone was running for their lives, and no one cared about the safety of the country man.
So he was quietly swept away by the avalanche and fell into the abyss.
"Hey, he's just a rough man. Tang Wuji snorted coldly absently, and didn't take it to heart.
After a short silence of more than ten seconds, the crowd returned to the cheerful atmosphere of discovering the treasure.
Only Xiao Yan looked at the cliff with a dull gaze, as if he had lost his soul.
Hu Jidu looked at him silently, and a trace of complicated surprise flashed in his eyes.
After a short rest, the group slowly descended down the steep hillside into the valley. Xiao Yan tried not to think about the enthusiastic Bai man, and at the same time tried to recall the specific location of the hidden treasure.
But it's not that hard. The land covered with ice and snow all the year round was bare and free of weeds, and there was no dense vegetation or vines on the surrounding cliffs.
"Is this the place?" asked Hu Ji, looking at the dark cave.
Xiao Yan nodded and said, "There are no other suspicious places around here, it should be eight or nine." ”
Tang Wuji took out a fire fold from his waist, lit it, and threw it into the cave in the same way as a dart.
The flame flew far before it hit the cave wall, falling to the ground and bursting into a cloud of sparks.
"What, does Elder Tang think this naturally formed cave is dangerous?" said Old Mr. Fang.
"The cave is a natural formation. But since you have hidden something, you must have been tampered with, so you must be on guard. Tang Wuji said.
"Why don't you wait outside outside first, and I'll take Zi Qianzi and the two of them into the cave to check first?" asked Hu Ji.
Tang Wuji glanced at Hu Ji lightly and sneered, "Your Highness doesn't have to bother so much. You guys, go!"
"The subordinates obeyed. The three Tang Sect disciples lit the torches they had prepared earlier, and slowly entered the cave one by one.
"Just wait. Tang Wuji smiled indifferently and sat down cross-legged.
After a while, there was a buzzing sound from time to time.
Although Xiao Yan was a little puzzled, he saw that the rest of the people did not change their faces, and they looked like they had expected it, so it was difficult to ask questions.
After a long time, the fire in the cave came from far and near, and the two Tang Sect disciples walked out of the cave covered in dust: "Report to the hall master, the organs of the corridor and the ear chamber have been investigated, but the subordinates of the deepest tomb door dare not open it without authorization." ”
"Good. Tang Wuji nodded and stood up indifferently.
"Yongdao...... Ear chamber ...... It seems that there is still a tomb in here......" Old Mr. Fang smacked his lips and sighed.
Seeing that everyone looked like they were about to go in, Xiao Yan was suddenly surprised, he subconsciously raised his hand and wanted to grab Tang Wuji's clothes-
"Don't touch it, unless you want to bleed to death. Tang Wuji's voice was very calm.
Xiao Yan retracted his hand in embarrassment: "The junior has no other intentions, I just want to ask, why only two of the three people who came in just now?" Elder Tang, don't you ask?"
"If you don't come out, you will naturally die inside. Tang Wuji didn't look back.
"Die... Dead?" Xiao Yan was shocked, "That person is also a disciple of your Tang Sect, right? Belch... Felt ......"
"Grief, do you want to talk about this?" Tang Wuji sneered, "Death is dead, what is there to grieve." ”
She turned her head and said coldly, "Take care of your own business, nameless junior." As long as the old body is willing, he can pinch you to death at any time like an ant!"
After saying that, Tang Wuji took the lead in walking forward without looking back.
The two Tang Sect disciples followed behind her, both with indifferent expressions like the walking dead, as if this kind of thing was a matter of course for their Tang Sect disciples.