Chapter 208: Black Tiger Xuan Altar

The “Wicked Luo Hai City”, also known as the “Fearful and Powerful Ten Cities”, it and the “Gate of Disaster”, are the names of places that only existed in the ancient legends of the Kunlun Mountains, and have never been recorded in the history books, but only hidden in the legends! In the deepest part of the Kunlun Mountains, they really once existed? The ancient city in the mural of “King Xian’s Tomb” may be depicted as “Wicked Lohai City”, but what is the connection between this northern demon’s lair and “Bottomless Ghost Cave” in the depths of Xinjiang’s sandy sea? What kind of connection is there? Can we find the huge “eyeball” altar there? We are not sure yet.

We even have to prepare for the worst, in the legend, that the ancient evil “evil Luo sea city” is also the same as the “Jingjie Ancient City”, in one night, mysteriously suddenly disappeared, so the strong “magic country” was destroyed. So the powerful “Magic Kingdom” has been devastated, and it is still unknown what kind of disaster or change has happened there.

I suddenly remembered what Zhang Yingchuan said: “The end is the beginning, and when you meet water, you get the Middle Way.” The middle way refers to the middle way, the right way, it can also be understood as the road to safety and preservation, the avalanche pressed on the top of the mountain, in a desperate situation, but then the darkness, found a more mysterious passage, this long narrow slope, leading to the deepest part of the dragon top glacier, there should be a lake or a dark river there, if there is water, there must be a road, thinking of this, suddenly added some confidence.

People in this gentle slope rested for about half an hour, because of the fear of the demon tower near the insecurity, it moved to continue down, the construction of tundra tunnels with earth steps, in the underground, as dense as a spider’s web, we do not dare to go off the road, only along the middle of the main road down, from time to time to see some of the incantations, marks, which is not lacking in some of the “eyeballs” of the The pattern of the “eyeballs”.

Shirley Yang said to me: “If the Reincarnation Sect only wants to dig through the door of disaster, then there is no need to keep digging the tunnel into the nine-layer demon tower, and look at the condition of this underground tunnel, are not the same period of time to build, may be repaired hundreds, or even thousands of years, which may be related to their belief that the abyss is the source of power, but have you ever thought about it, Reincarnation Sect of people, why do you want to dig through the demon tower? want to dig up the Demon Tower?”

I thought about it and said, “This is really strange, a demon tower dedicated to an evil god is inviolable, could it be that the Reincarnation Sect wants to take out something important from inside? Aside from the Glacial Crystal Corpse, what else would be in that tower?”

We discussed as we walked, but we never worked out a solution, so we just had to do it, and after extending downward diagonally for a while, it connected with the vertical ice abyss, and although the ice wall was slightly inclined, in our eyes, this angle was no different from going straight up and down, and there was no way to go down at all.

Here can already see the bottom of the ice abyss, the deepest countless stars of light blue fluorescence, converging into a shimmering river, meandering under the glacier, due to the ice wall slightly inclined, so we first tracked the “Snow Mile” when we looked down at the entrance of the tundra tunnel, as if looking down on the heavenly river, can not resist! “It’s so beautiful, it’s like the Milky Way.”

There may be crystals below, or the river has a jellyfish type of fluorescent body, so there will be such a fantastic spectacle.

Tunnel mouth some crumbling wood remains, hundreds of years ago, probably there is a wooden bridge can lead to the bottom, but the age, it collapsed and crumbled, the wood probably fell to the river below, I eyeballed the height, this is already the very bottom of the glacier, from the fluorescence of the flickering river, about more than thirty meters away, this height, you can use a long rope to fall directly down.

I said to the crowd that since there is living water, there is bound to be a way out, we can use the climbing rope to go …… down.

Uncle Ming, however, objected, this ice wall is smoother than the mirror surface, more than thirty meters, although it is not high, but the fall can also be broken, or to find out if there is another way, using a rope to slide down the ice wall is too dangerous.

The fat man looked down, also feel dizzy, and hastened to praise with Uncle Ming, be careful, after the tunnel has so many branches of the route, there must be other exits, of course, the fat master I do not care, even if the fall flat, the big deal is that twenty years later is a good man, but we are now supporting the old and the young, we have to be more for the sake of Uncle Ming, their safety.

I reminded the fat man, Wang Commander, you do not want to stand on the wrong side, put the shortcut not to go, have to go to drill those tunnels, once lost in the inside can not come out how to do? Uncle Ming their business we do not need to care, anyway, according to the previous agreement, the nine layers of the demon tower also dug open, the glacier crystal corpse also found, we will go our own way, if we can stay alive, back to Beijing, and then we will settle the accounts, Uncle Ming you go home to your antiques and play equipment are ready, then we will not be polite.

I said this just to scare Uncle Ming, Uncle Ming really worried that we will leave him and Ah Xiang here regardless, after thinking about it, or to follow the three officers may be out of this glacier, and this action loss of troops, the old money are lost, perhaps in the “disaster door” below, can find with more valuable things, of course! Of course, these things to survive as a prerequisite, so said absolutely can not be separated, so that the chances of surviving the disaster will become greater.

I see to take Uncle Ming fixed, then hands to prepare the rope, on the long rope with the mountaineering pickaxe, when the first descending, under the ice abyss on both sides of the river valley, surrounded by a number of scattered black rotting wood, the river bank exists a large number of iceberg crystal stone veins, flashing reflecting the river light blue fluorescent light, do not need to use any light source, there will be a certain range of visibility.

I looked around, see no danger, send a signal to let the upper side of the people followed down, wait until the fat man last yells and slides down, has been delayed quite a lot of time, from digging wooden tower, with the wolves fighting, until come to the depths of the ice abyss, between the group only rested for less than half an hour, this time inevitably are hungry and hungry.

Shirley Yang said to me, “We must find a safe place to rest for the night, so that Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang can regain their strength, otherwise if we continue walking, we will really be exhausted.”

I nodded my head in agreement, so the crowd searched for a location nearby where they could set up camp, first they went to the edge of the underground river and looked down, the river here is very gentle and the water is extremely clear, there are quite a few freshwater jellyfish in the water, the light blue fluorescent light are all emitted from them, however, although this kind of creatures may look beautiful, but in reality, they are very dangerous, if they gather in large numbers, the bioelectricity that they emit can instantly paralyze a large animal, the Shirley Yang cautioned the crowd to stay as far away from the riverbank as possible, making sure not to touch the water.

This river valley seems to have no end, along the direction of the water flow to go over, soon after the cliffs covered with crystal stone, found a cave, due to the depth of the underground, the upper side if something falls to, smashed to who who can not stand, the cave at the bottom of the wall, naturally became the most ideal place to camp.

Cave entrance is relatively spacious and neat, like there are traces of artificial excavation, but the age is long, it is difficult to confirm, hit up the flashlight, from the cave outside to look in, a piece of crystal light flashing, the cave and outside, there are a large number of transparent crystals, but which seems to be extremely deep and winding, standing outside, can not see the depths of the inside.

This cave does not seem to have any beast infested place, but for security reasons, I still took the fat man first into the reconnaissance, deep into the cave are less than five or six steps, is a turn, the space after about a room size of twenty square meters, if there is no danger, this is indeed very suitable for camping.

Fatty and I hold up the “wolf eye” in the cave everywhere in the light, the ground some old stone platform, corner piled up some white cow head, stone platform has a foot high black humanoid wooden statue, my heart moved, here eighty percent of the reincarnation of the Sect of the place of worship, this black wooden man, this form, seems to be with the iron rod lama mentioned the cult of the “black tiger XuanTan”. This form seems to be the same as the “Black Tiger Altar” that Iron Lama mentioned.

I let the fat man called Ah Xiang and other people in, let Ah Xiang look at the cave, there is no unclean things, Ah Xiang into the cave to see once, no, dead, alive, there is no, the black small wooden man is also nothing.

Since everything was safe, and the people were already very tired, looking further, there may not be a more suitable place than here, so they rested in the cave and raised a fire to heat up the food and drink.

In the innermost stone wall of this crystal cave, there are still some small natural holes, the size of a fist, but even a child can’t drill into them, and using stones to plug all these holes to prevent snakes from drilling in, then it should be relatively safe.

The people around the fire to eat, only Uncle Ming sighing, can not eat, let Ah Xiang take out his ancestral “thirteen whiskers flower porcelain cat” to, can not stop shaking his head, pick up a stone, a porcelain cat smashed into pieces.

Fatty and then look at the side of the pity, said to Uncle Ming: “If you do not want, you give me ah, this big cat also has a few hundred years of history, right? Well it is also a thing, smashed how unfortunate, to say smashed things, the time of the Four Olds, I smashed more than you, but now it is, not also a little regret.”

I said to Uncle Ming: “remember not long ago you also worshiped this flower porcelain cat, it is said that this thing is very spiritual, its whiskers are not broken, but why we in the tower of the demon folded a lot of manpower? Could it be that we didn’t read the yellow calendar and committed a crime?”

Uncle Ming long sighed, said the truth: “like me this kind of running so many years boat people, the most believe is these things, but also the most afraid of those inauspicious omen, the older, the more this courage on the contrary, in order to figure out a colorful, this ancestor handed down the porcelain cat, was I use glue to the whiskers are sticking to death, break all break.” The more he said the more angry, as if a bit with himself, waved his hand to the broken porcelain cat to the wall.

Coincidentally, the porcelain cat body broken, but the cat head is still very intact, rolled to the wall, just face to face with Uncle Ming, the firelight reflection, the cat’s eyes glowing, seemingly colorful, as if becoming alive, which makes Uncle Ming more uncomfortable, muttered curses: “The old porcelain cat is fast becoming a spirit, I’m going to let you stare at me.” Said the words and picked up the stone, want to walk over to smash the flower porcelain cat’s cat head.

I want to stop Uncle Ming, this is why the pain, guilty of getting angry with an object? But before I could say anything, Uncle Ming’s body suddenly froze and stood there motionless.

His back was turned to us, I don’t know what he saw, I beckoned, Fatty had already cocked his gun, Shirley Yang pulled Ah Xiang to a slightly far corner.

I stood up and saw Uncle Ming staring straight at the cat head, so I asked Uncle Ming what was going on. Uncle Ming said with trepidation, “Old man Hu, there are snakes there, look over there.” Uncle Ming had been bitten by a poisonous snake when he was in the South Seas, so he was very afraid of poisonous snakes.

I thought to myself that I had just checked, where would there be snakes, besides, what is there to be afraid of, according to the direction that Uncle Ming pointed to, it turned out that next to the cat’s head of that porcelain cat, there was a hole that was blocked by me with a stone earlier, the stone shook slightly, it seemed that there was something inside that was going to arch out from it.

I will protect Uncle Ming behind me, pulled out the military shovel, no matter what is drilled from the inside is a snake, or rats, a shovel shot flat again, Shirley Yang and others also raised the flashlight, from the back to shine here.

The stone moved a few more times, finally fell to the ground, I wheeled up the engineering shovel to shoot, but fell halfway, hard to stop, not a snake, but a green plant branches and vines, a split second to open a sea bowl size red flowers.

How can flowers grow here? I haven’t figured out what’s going on yet, only to hear Ah Xiang suddenly shrieked in the back, I was concentrating on trying to see what was going on, and was so scared by her shriek that I almost threw the engineer’s shovel on the ground, I never thought that if a woman was scared to death, she would make such a commotion.

Shirley Yang busy asked A Xiang what happened? Is it seeing something …… something?