Chapter 195: The Hidden Bone Gully

Shirley Yang and I looked at each other, both want to look for answers from the other face, but she and I, it is difficult to imagine the truth hidden behind this ancient legend, wild animals commit suicide in groups of phenomena around the world, especially the sea creatures, but almost never heard of, a variety of different populations of animals mixed together to commit suicide, and in the worship of the mountains and great lakes of Tibet, and how the “Sea of Disaster” such an inauspicious word named after this mountainous region! How could the mountainous region be named after such an inauspicious word as “Sea of Disaster”? It’s all a bit strange.

Wizard first explained, hidden bone ditch legend, that is how many generations ago the old people said, whenever the curved moon like eyebrow, the beasts in the mountains will look at the moon, from the heights of the ditch jumped to death, to their deaths, to quell the wrath of the gods, there are also legends like this, all the animals who jumped into the deep ditch and died, can be out of the animal road, reincarnated as a human being.

But so far still alive in the world, but no one has seen a beast jumping off the cliff there, also do not know those ancient legends are true or false, but in the hidden bone ditch, you can still see a lot of beasts of the remains of the bones, to the night there will be a ghostly fire flashes, and there is a complex topography, with the Shenlugou ancient glacier connected, you want to find four snowy mountains surrounded by the place, in the Shenlugou glacier, to the place, about still need more than five days of travel.

God Luo ditch of the complex terrain, for the world rare, the northern Tibetan plateau, this is a sparsely populated, harsh living environment, almost all of the Karamir near no man’s land, most of the areas are difficult to get to the human traces, “first” himself, up to only into the God Luo ditch to collect medicines, and then he has not been there, the Karamir there are snow-capped and ancient glaciers, but surrounded by four snow-capped peaks, and the ancient glaciers. But by the four snowy peaks surrounded by glaciers, only Shenluogou glacier, the first one can do, but also just lead us to the place.

Expedition team in the pass rested for more than half an hour, almost the departure, physical exhaustion breathing difficulties, are riding on horseback, guide first will be shotgun and Tibetan knife re-banded on the body, and took out a leather bag full of barley wine, gulp gulp dunked a few big mouths, and then will be a whip in the air three times in the air, in order to tell the god of the mountain, and then said to the crowd: “to enter the Tibetan bone gully, the first over the Ga Qingpo and go.” Said, one hand shook the transept, one hand carry this leather whip, lead the way into the mountain first.

The rest of the horses and men are with him behind, in the mountains turn around, finally to Ga Qing slope (also known as Ga Qing high), although there is a slope in the name of the place, but and high mountains compared to, is not inferior to how much, here is too high altitude, the clouds cover the fog locks, the first one of a group of kangba men do not feel how, Uncle Ming is a bit unable to hold on to the previous mainlanders come to the plateau, can not adapt to the plateau reflection, stay on the plateau towards the over sixty days! In the past, mainlanders who came to the plateau could not adapt to the plateau reflection, and stayed on the plateau for more than sixty days, and would die, because the air pressure would make the heart gradually become bigger, and the long time would be beyond the body’s load, and later could reduce the situation through medical means, but still has a great danger.

I used to always feel a little strange, according to Uncle Ming this kind of person, his money has long been enough to spend, how still willing to throw the old bones into the Kunlun Mountains, put his life on the line to find that glacier crystal corpse, and later learned from Han Shuna mouth, the original Uncle Ming’s family foundation, only that set of mansions left in Beijing and a few of those curiosities, the family property is all of his two sons in Hong Kong, gambling lost, and also owes a large sum of debt, the family wants to take advantage of the legs and feet are still in good shape, and the heart is still in good shape. Uncle Ming wants to take advantage of the legs and feet can still move, and then wrestle a big, or else in the future to die, his two sons and goddaughter will have to drink the northwest wind to go, know these things, I know Uncle Ming also produced a few sympathy.

I was worried that if we went higher, Uncle Ming and Ah Heung might have an accident, so I caught up with “Chor Yee” in front of me and asked him how much farther he had to go before entering the Hidden Bone Gully.

The first year suddenly stopped, waved to me, pointing diagonally downward to indicate that I look there, I followed the direction he pointed to, the surrounding clouds are being blown away by the mountain winds, on the ground cracked open a deep ravine, from a high place overlooking the deep ravine, the only thing that can be seen is a misty, inexplicable, not to mention jumping down from here, just look at the heart of the fear, if the clouds on the top of the mountain is a little thicker, people who do not know the terrain here, will certainly continue to walk forward and fall into the mountain. Will certainly continue to go forward, fell into the deep ravine fell to pieces.

This is the next side of the “hidden bone ditch”, where we are, is the legend of countless beasts jumped down where the death, the locals call this place for the “supine beast platform”.

The first hand loaded barley wine leather pockets to me, let me also drink a few mouths, drive away the cold mountain wind, said to me: “I will call you all Ji how, all Ji in the Tibetan language is the meaning of gold steel brave, only real warriors dare to look down on the Tibetan bone ditch from the Cease to Beast platform, all Ji brother, you are a good job.”

I drank two mouthfuls of wine, grinned at the first year, thought you don’t know, just looked at that a few eyes, my legs and stomach is really a little cramp, now detour down, can still catch up in the dark before out of the Tibetan valley ditch, we were about to urge the yak over, at this time the mountain winds rise again, the thicker clouds overhead slowly move away, an awe-inspiring 10,000-foot snowy peaks from the sea of clouds revealed, this is like in the sky of the silver snowy peaks, one feels that the Within reach, no wonder the locals say: “To Ga Qing high, reach out and grab the sky.”

Snowy mountains in the daylight and white clouds, very visual and mind blowing, the first and the five footmen are used to seeing, while we do not often see the snowy mountains of the mainlanders, is to see the eyes straight, wandering for a while, until the other clouds drifted over to the snowy peaks cover, which is only step by step a turn back to leave.

At the entrance of the Tibetan bone ditch I looked at the time, due to the speed of travel estimate is wrong, it is too late in the dark before crossing this deep ditch, it seems that can only be outside the ditch camp for the night, and so on the next day dawn and then set off.

But the entrance to the elevation of four thousand five or more, just now over the Ga Qing slope, some physical strength is not good, produced a strong plateau reflection, although the medicine, also did not see any improvement, must find a lower altitude place for them to rest for the night, that only into the Tibetan bone ditch.

Wizard said, haunted and beast suicide such things are very long ago legend, to be honest, I do not believe, but we go in at night is still dangerous, although there will not be threatened by avalanches, but both sides of the cliffs on both sides of the place if there is a loose, even if a small piece of the fall, if it just falls on the head, even if the head buttoned with a pot of iron, it will be smashed through, this is one, and the other is that the inside once died! Thousands of wild beasts, phosphorus fire often appear, yaks and horses are easy to be frightened, yak kind of guys, although usually look very simple and honest, they once started to go wild, the Tibetan Valley Gully is so narrow, we will trample it to death.

I looked at Uncle Ming’s family of three who climbed on the horse’s back, and found it more difficult, in the end it was Shirley Yang who thought of a way to make the yaks all in the front, and the rest of the men and horses in the back, and go down from here, there are quite a number of dead trees in the Tibetan Bone Gully, and camping behind the trees will minimize the danger factor, and discussed some details, and finally decided to go into the gully for camping.

And so around into the altitude of less than three thousand Tibetan bone ditch, those who have difficulty breathing, finally get a chance to catch their breath, the reason why this place is called the ditch and not called the valley, because the terrain is too narrow, on both sides are such as a knife cut axe cut the wall, look up and look back, there is only a line of the sky, ditch is full of messy rocks and weeds, between which there are really countless remnants of the bones, the most is some cow horns and goat horns, these things for thousands of years of imperishable.

It is said that the Shenluo ditch which is connected with this place is completely different from the environment here, there is a large amount of primitive forest there, all kinds of treasured plant species are numerous, the mountain is especially rich in medicinal herbs, so it also has the nickname of medicinal mountain.

Walked about a quarter of the way, the night has fallen, but we still have not found a suitable camping area, yaks walk all day, after dark has begun to be a little irritable, in order to be safe, had to find a few dead trees near the concentration of the place to stop, set up a tent, burying pots and boiling water.

Because this hidden bone ditch is east to west, so you can see the moon in the night sky, the cold moon like a hook, because here is too deep, so the moonlight seems very hazy, only dry cow dung burning fire can give us light.

People sitting around the fire to eat and drink, the bold guide “first” to tell the folklore of Tibet, I hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of food, then left the campfire, sitting alone not far from a broken stump to smoke.

Just smoked not yet two mouths, the cigarette was approached by Shirley Yang snatched to step on the extinguished: “Smoking on the plateau, the body is very harmful, do not smoke, I have something to discuss with you.”

I would have liked to say to Shirley Yang, how you and fascist like robbing, but then dismissed the idea, since the Tibetan bone ditch, there is a strange feeling, Shirley Yang must have felt some unusual signs, so come to find me to discuss, this is related to the safety of everyone’s life, or first do not joke, to say that the main thing is important.

Shirley Yang is really for this matter, this ditch in a large number of beasts bones caused her attention, those cow horns, sheep horns, bear head and other bones, it looks like the most recent age, there are two or three hundred years, if it is really like the legend, why in recent years, no longer have beasts jumped into the ditch to commit suicide?

I thought about it, said to Shirley Yang, the legends passed down in ancient times, may only retain some of the shadow of the truth, and can not be regarded as the real thing, those who jumped off the cliff in search of death of beasts, may be surrounded by wolves to, may also be because of the temptation of some natural phenomena, those things, although unthinkable, but it is true that exists in the world, but I think at least in this place does not exist.

My grandfather left me half a volume of the remnants of the book, is the end of the Qing dynasty gold masters, which also mentioned the Tibetan “nine layers of the demon floor” of the structural layout, I think in the past years, there must have been a gold lieutenant pouring over the nine layers of the demon floor, like that kind of demon tower form of the tomb, there must be two of the same size of the dragon martyrdom ditch accompanied by, maybe we are in the “Hidden Bone Gully”, is one of them, the devil’s remaining reincarnation of the clan, may also have been here to hold unknown sacrifices.

I kicked the half of the dead tree stump beside me, there is a very vague three-eyed human head ghost face on it, at least it was left a few hundred years ago, it is almost weathered away, I have seen several similar totem markings since I entered the Hidden Bone Gully, this should be considered as good news for us, it means that we are not far away from the Phoenix God’s Palace.

I was studying the layout of this sacrificial ditch with Shirley Yang, as well as the possible location of the demon tower, when I suddenly heard a shout from the people gathered around the fire, the sound was full of panic and confusion, I hurriedly turned my head around, the scene in front of me was unbelievable to believe that it was real, in the shadow of the hazy moon, a Tibetan Horse Bear of unparalleled size was falling down from a thousand meters in the air with its teeth and claws wide open.