Chapter 197: The Secret Land of Snow

Other people would be fine, first year kind of wine does not leave his mouth, wielding a knife to slaughter wolves even without frowning hard man, how can they also be scared like this? But look at their posture, not in the chaos of the horizontal and vertical fall, all rushed in one direction, face down on the ground, the whole body a burst of shivering, I feel even more strange, is not excessive panic, but in the worship of what? But from their hike up the hillside of the exit of the Hidden Bone Gully, less than a minute, such a short period of time, what can happen?

I thought in my mind, speed up the pace, just stepped out of the narrow deep ditch, will be immediately stunned on the spot, only to see the north of the sky, lit up a foggy white light, the light flickering sway, this strange light just around the silver top of the snowy peaks, for a moment seems to have produced as if the sun and moon embrace each other, and together and the same waving of the sacred light, which I heard a long time ago, the Kunlun Mountains, a thousand years of ah, only the top of the Buddha’s light of ah, only the disciples of destiny can see. This is what I heard a long time ago, that the light of the Buddha in the Kunlun Mountains appears once in a thousand years.

I was also taken in by this sacred scene, although not a Buddhist believer, but also want to should hurry to kneel on the ground to worship, this time the back of the people come up one after another, not yet wait for them to see clearly, the magical light has disappeared in the night, Uncle Ming and other people see the half-eye, all the feet hanging down the chest, too late to repent.

Shirley Yang also glimpsed a glance, told the crowd that you do not regret, this is not a thousand years of Buddha’s light, just now that is just a synchronous discharge phenomenon produced in the clouds, snowy mountains under the cloud is too thick, in the night will produce this phenomenon, a thousand years only once the Buddha’s light, which is so easy to come across.

But “First Day” and others firmly believe that it is the Buddha’s holy scene, see people, will be auspicious, First Day told us that this small Buddha light in the Loramir is very common, but the real thousand years of the big Buddha light, only in his distant hometown in Yunnan Kawa Bog snow mountain tops, is said to be only about a thousand years ago appeared for a few seconds, was painted in the “ten phases of self-realization map”, which is the first time to see the Buddha’s light. Ten Phases of Self-existence”, passed down, a living Buddha predicted that in the last ten years, it will appear again, near the time, many pilgrims will not far away from thousands of miles to go to worship under the sacred mountain.

Just worshipped the Buddha’s light, the footmen all seem to be cheerful, shouting to the cattle and horses gathered together, check the supplies and equipment, fortunately, and for the loss of how much, so continue to move forward, such as after dawn to find a place of gentle slopes camp, rest for a day and a night, to feed the spirit of strength, ready to enter the Shenluogou glacier.

This period of time, those wolves have never been traces, but they do not know where they are spying on us, so a moment do not dare to take it lightly, especially we continue to move forward in the mountains after two days, is about to enter a more dangerous and mysterious territory – Shenluogou.

God Luo ditch glacier is the world’s unique low altitude ancient glacier, the lowest place elevation is only two thousand eight, the glacier from the two big snow mountain through, extends to the lower side of the primitive forest in about a few kilometers away, the glacier under the dense primitive forests, the ancient trees, the growth of uncountable exotic flowers and grasses, has a high mountain cold desert zone, rich in animal and plant resources.

Into the forest of Shenluogou, plateau oxygen deficiency cold problem can be solved, but we encountered a new problem also came, this place there is no road, yaks and horses are impossible to go down from the glacier, and there is also over a big ice can.

It seemed that the only way to set up the supply camp was here. The original plan was to leave only two footmen to guard the supplies, and the rest of us would go into the glacier with heavy loads, but the encounters with the wolves created a potential threat, and the fewer people left behind might not be able to protect the camp and the animals.

I also do not want to let the first and other locals to follow into the mountains, because the front do not know what other dangers, really do not want to involve others, but the first insisted on going to help, digging the demon country’s demon tower is the accumulation of merit, if successful, the first is not going to send his third youngest son to the temple to be a lama to practice, saw the treasure top of the Buddha’s light, more added to his confidence, we discussed for a long time, and in the end, we had to stay four footmen to guard the cattle and horses, they all have shotguns and are good at hunting wolves, and after leaving some explosive detonators for them, four people should be enough.

The rest of the eight people form a team, inside wearing a diving suit, outside cover assault suit, wearing a mountaineering helmet and other protective gear, distribution of weapons and ammunition, two sports rifles were given to the fat man and Shirley Yang use, I and Peter Wong with a shotgun, the first with a hunting rifle, M1911 in addition to AXA, manpower a, back on the necessary supplies and equipment, the whole point is completed, they will start to leave.

Shenluogou glacier gateway, is commonly known to locals as the “big ice can”, go down, is very easy, are between forty degrees and sixty degrees of ice slopes, grasp the rope, as if the slide down is, but back when I’m afraid to take some effort.

The first one brought us to a location, this big ice can, looks very gentle, seems not difficult to go down, in fact, inside there are many fragile ice cracks and ice holes, the human body weight a pressure on it, will be outside the thin ice shell will be broken, fall to the bottom of the fall to death, only the first one year with the monks into the Shenluogou when the collection of medicinal herbs, found a narrow area, is relatively speaking, relatively speaking, safer.

We set up three long ropes hanging down to the bottom of the ice canyon, by the first one to take the lead, the first to slip down, the rest of the people in turn, very smooth to reach the ice canyon under the Shenluo ditch.

I went down and raised the binoculars to the far out to see, the sea of forests and snowy mountains, endless, this glacier should belong to the composite type, the main body is the ancient glaciers, which also has a lot of area is the avalanche of various periods of the formation of the modern glaciers, the size of all, all surrounded by the forest separation, the ice funnel, ice holes, ice ditches and large ice waterfalls, countless, in the lower elevation of the forest, melting the ice water convergence of the stream, God knows that the demon tower is buried in the Where.

Although this is not a dangerous area for avalanches, there are some places where you can’t make too much noise, as it will wake up the silver snow mountain gods, so our guide, Chor Yee, advised us to turn off the safeties of our weapons, and not to shoot until we have confirmation of our safety, and to use cold weapons to greet wild animals if they attacked us.

We entered the forest along the glacier, while walking and refer to the terrain, study the possible location of the demon tower, reincarnation sect until a few hundred years ago, but also often sent people to hold sacrifices, may leave some relics, according to the book of reincarnation of the mystical scripture, the specific location, should be in the glacier surrounded by four snowy mountains, there is the so-called phoenix shrine in the tantric feng shui.

So in the forest went about two days time, this day continue to move forward, the road first gave us some of the legend of this Shenluogou, and his experience when he came here to collect medicine, in the Buddhist legend, this is a former inland sea, the bottom of the sea there is a huge conch, changed into a demon, magic power, because of it, the nearby living beings suffer from the poison, until the Buddha with the Buddha law of the ocean will be uplifted to land Mountains, only to make it subdued, the conch demon god willing to turn to the Buddha, and finally became the protector of Buddhism, and it became a Buddha, leaving the conch shells, was transformed into this ancient Shenluogou glacier.

This legend is not contained in any scripture, may be just a former fabricated, but this is in line with the characteristics of the ordinary Buddhist legend, Buddhism is the most inclusive religion, no matter what the demons, as long as they are willing to put down the butcher’s cleaver, can become a Buddha on the ground, so in the legend of the Buddhist scriptures absorb a lot of demonic god as a protector of all over the world.

Speaking walk to a large icefall before, the first one let the crowd first stop moving forward, pointing to the icefall said: “the front of that piece of ice Ban, just or in the lower part of the icefall, the icefall on the main peak of a snowy mountain, I in more than a dozen years ago in the upper side of the eighty-eight flavors of pearl Ganoderma lucidum grass was found on the icefall to climb up to pick, but here the terrain of the absolute danger, not only eighty-eight flavors of pearl Ganoderma lucidum grass did not pick down, but also You want to find four snowy mountains around the place, then this is the front, because I went up to collect medicine when I saw with my own eyes, there are just four huge snowy peaks surrounded by the Karamir snowy mountains, east of a, west of a, linked together but not easy to find, I see that I know, this is only a one, but inside the basin, I have not dared to go in, because the legend says that this is the center of the sea of calamity, we have to be more careful when we go in, so we have to be more careful when we go in, so we have to be more careful when we go in. center, we have to be doubly careful when we go in.”

I also see that the weather here is not more than idle, not feng shui situation, just look at this big snow mountain millions of tons of snow, let the human heart chills, good in the glacier sandwiched between the forest belt is very wide, bypassing the ice waterfalls, from the forest through and into, as long as nothing too big accident, will not cause avalanches.

The end of the forest is a high and low undulating glacier, elevation rises steeply, glaciers above the snow line, looks like in thousands of tens of thousands of years ago, this is not an alpine glacial lake is a block of alpine basins, around the real is a similar size of four towering snow peaks, this is the spine of heaven and earth’s “Dragon’s Peak”, for the evil god of the evil pagoda is likely to be frozen in the This glacier.

The people see finally have landed, are invigorated, can’t wait to rush forward, want to drum up momentum, before dark to find the nine layer demon tower, here the ice slippery abnormal, are with the mirror surface like, Peter Huang has always been in the south, this kind of icy place has never been, it is very difficult to adapt to, walk a little fast even slipped a few heels, fell his tailbone to crack, had to let the fat man and the beginning of the first frame to carry him to go.

Just to continue to move forward again, I a little number of wrong, missing a Han Shuna, this glacier is full of ice crevasses and ice buckets, ice funnels, if you really fall in can be a problem, ice buckets okay half, fell into the ice funnel to fish all the way up to the fish, and there is no footprints on the ice, want to follow the road back to find it is also not easy, but in the lower part of the mountain of the big snow, but also do not dare to call out her name, even if it is the Aroma is not the penetrating ability to see under the ice layer. .

The people had to leave Peter Wong in place to watch, the rest of the people spread out in formation, according to the way back to the line, and then change the angle, straight to change the direction of the two only to find a was stepped through the ice bucket (this bucket is not the other bucket, geography, refers to the glacier in the gap between the hollows, the shape of like a basin such as a bucket), I used a wolf-eye flashlight to the inside of the light, Han Suk Na is falling inside, unconscious, we whispered her name also did not have any Reflection, according to my eyesight, this ice bucket is seven or eight meters deep.

Who does not know why she will deviate from the route through here, Uncle Ming see his wife fell below the life and death of the unknown, anxious and chaotic, I persuade him not to worry, this is not too deep, are wearing a full set of protective gear, the most is to fall down when the shock of excessive fainting, go down to pull her up on the line, will not be a big deal.

I pack up the rope ready to go down, Shirley Yang to the inside first threw a cold fireworks, in order to see the terrain clearly, lest you step through the ice cracks connected to this, did not expect to fall down the cold fireworks, illuminated the four walls of the ice cellar, the people look down, are “ah” a sound, frozen in the ice wall of the many dressed in ancient clothes and crowns of the dead, are kept standing and bowing their heads. Maintained a standing head posture, in a circle, as if these ancient corpses are still alive, is staring down at the unconscious Han Shuna, what we see, just the outermost layer, in the depths of the ice layer still do not know how many frozen corpses.