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Chapter 25: A Sea of ??Corpses Paves the Road

What blocked our view was a towering snow peak. The snow in the sky was not heavy, but the wind was howling, as if the mountain was a white giant beast standing in the sky, looking down at all things in the world.

At the top of the snow peak, a row of wide red palace buildings appeared in front of us. Looking from a distance, it seemed like a temple. In the white world, the light luster of the palace was extremely bright, and no dazzling ruby ​​could be compared with it. The size of the cap is, the majestic palace is. It is obviously far from us, but I actually felt that someone in the palace was calling our name, let us, hurry up, pass a little faster.

It was a kind of dreamlike beauty, as if I was about to fly slowly from the ground, then step on the snowflakes in the air, crossing the strong wind, and heading towards the palace gate of the temple.

"Fantasy Snow Forbidden City"

Without any evidence, we immediately made a judgment and believed it.

When I realized it, Fatty and I were almost kneeling on the ground. Now I finally understood why Brother Jiu lay there and seemed to have not moved for a long time.

When I think back to what we did before, I suddenly felt a great ridicule. If we could just walk the corridor behind us straight, then many things could be avoided.

If all this was done deliberately by the builders of the Huanxue Forbidden City, we so-called modern people in the 21st century would have completely lost.

After silently looking up at Huanxue Forbidden City for ten minutes, the fat man finally spoke.

"I'm getting rich, this time I must have made a fortune." The fat man's face jumped up excitedly, "I haven't heard of this temple with such a specification. Damn, how many good things should be there... Haha. Come on, Yuan Jie, let's go up quickly."

I was not the one who responded to the fat man.

"Yes, you must go up and take a look." Brother Jiu finally moved, "You see that palace is like new. There may be people living inside, and it is impossible for gods to live in it."

I originally planned to act immediately, but the conversation between the two people around me made me calmer a little. I grabbed the fat man. "You wait a moment."

The fat man looked at me, "What are you waiting for? It's not heavy now. Do we have to wait for darkness?"

"Then you have to find a way first," I pointed to it and said, "Look, this mountain is covered with snow, so we can't fly up?"

The fat man frowned, as if he was unwilling to stay there. But after thinking about it, he finally calmed down.

The snow mountain is there. The Huanxue Forbidden City is there. But if there is no road, it is absolutely impossible to get up with the current conditions of the three of us. The snow mountain leaning against the Huanxue Forbidden City is steep and steep. In some places, you can see black rocks, but there are snow slopes hundreds of meters high below, and there are no ropes hanging from it. People can't get through it at all.

At this time, Brother Jiu made a suggestion. "Two, I think this is not the case. Now we only see one side of this snow-capped mountain. We can try to go around from below to the other side of the mountain. Maybe we can find the place where we can get down there."

I think Jiu Ge’s proposal is good, because I heard from Tuhe and others that due to the wind, there is some surprise on the north and south sides of the West Kunlun Mountains. Maybe the snow behind this mountain can be slightly better.

But the fat man disagreed with doing this. "That's just a possibility, but it's no longer realistic for us. I don't know how much time it takes to go around the back of the mountain. The dry food we carry can't last long. Even if we find the way there, we may not be able to survive. We are all scattered now and we must leave the corresponding food for the return journey."

As he said that, the fat man even patted his backpack.

After hearing his analysis, I think the fat man should have completely calmed down.

Brother Jiu sighed, "What should we do if that is the case?"

I laughed, "Brother Jiu, it seems you are the oldest person here. We should be asking this."

Brother Jiu waved at me, "Young Master Yuan family, don't make fun of me. If you want to go anywhere else, I can lead the way. This is the first time I have come back to this snow mountain. Most of my experiences are useless."

The fat man suddenly turned around, "Hey, I can't remember it if I don't say it, Brother Jiu, I just asked you to come down to find our young man, why did you come out by yourself?"

Brother Jiu looked a little ugly, and he glanced at me secretly. After a long time, he said, "Hey, I'm mainly worried that if Ah Shui fights with Mr. Yuan, the situation will be a little difficult to deal with. I'm not easy to help both sides, nor will it help, so I thought, it's better to take the opportunity to get rid of the people. At worst, I can just turn around and send back all the money given by your father. Well, let's talk about it, I didn't see that guy when I came down."

"What? You didn't see him? How could that be? Didn't he always stick there?" I looked at Brother Jiu with some surprise, wondering if this dog was lying, but he admitted that he had left and there was no need to do this again.

"I don't know this." Brother Jiu shook his head.

The fat man was afraid that I would think about it again, so he quickly said, "Okay, let's not think about these things. Let's go back to the cave and eat something, and then the three of us walked up the mountain together to try it. If we can, we can leave. If we really can't leave, let's make plans again."

We didn't object, so the three of us walked back to the corridor, sat next to it, lit the stove and ate something hot. The fat man asked me to sleep for a while, and he looked at it. I shook my head and asked him if he was feeling uncomfortable now.

The fat man thought about it and was also surprised, "I don't feel anything, and when I opened my eyes, I felt very energetic. Maybe I ate a lot of wild birds in the village when I was a child. I accidentally ate a stenobi bird with antibodies in my body."

I smiled and sighed, and I could only admire the fat man's life.

After a while of rest, we set out towards Huanxue Forbidden City. Before leaving the corridor, I looked back and imagined that peanuts would suddenly appear. But in the end, there was no movement inside. Helplessly, I could only leave two packs of compressed biscuits on the ground.

The snow on the road reached our knees. Now we don’t have any poles in our hands, so we must be extra careful when walking. After a distance of hundreds of meters, we started climbing the snow-capped mountain.

Surprisingly, there was a lot less snow on the uphill road, and I didn’t feel able to get off my feet as we thought. The most favorable condition was that after we climbed for more than half an hour, the snow stopped and the sun was above our heads.

"Haha, Miss, God is finally taking care of us this time." The fat man laughed.

I also think this is a blessing in disgrace. If such good weather can continue, we may be able to climb to the gate of the Huanxue Forbidden City in seven or eight hours.

Brother Jiu took a breath and said with a hoe for climbing, "Two, do you think we are a little strange when we are going well."

"What's strange?"

Brother Jiu looked around and then said, "You all know the road when we came. The snow layer is full of ice, which is much higher than before. The temperature is also lower. Why can't we step on the ice layer under our feet now?"

His words reminded me that Karakoram can be said to be a snow-capped mountain range, but to be more precise, it is a gathering place for glaciers. Especially at our current altitude, half of the mountain you see may be accumulated by ice layers. So the situation we are facing now seems a bit unreasonable.

But the fat man quickly overturned our statement.

"There is an exception in everything, right? Look at the temple above, its scope is basically the same as the size of this mountain. To be able to support such a building, it means that this mountain will definitely not be an iceberg. The people who built the Huanxue Forbidden City were not so stupid. They must have carefully selected it to build the Mausoleum Palace on it. Some mountains have a high salt content, so such places are not easy to freeze. Maybe there is a salt mine under our feet... In short, no matter what, there is absolutely nothing to doubt that you can't step on the ice."

After saying that, the fat man waved the hoe in his hand and continued to climb up.

"Hi, I can't tell, Brother Cao is quite insightful." Brother Jiu said to me while crawling.

I smiled and thought to myself that I couldn't believe all of that guy, maybe it was all his nonsense. Damn the salt mine? I would rather believe that there is a volcano below.

Although the situation is more beneficial to us, it is a place with an altitude of more than 7,000 meters. Even if there is nothing to stop it, the thin air and the severe cold will still make us difficult. After climbing for nearly two hours, looking back, I found that we only went up by more than 100 meters. This speed is too different from what I expected, and for some reason, the more I go up, the more strange I feel in my heart.

Too quiet.

Sometimes I can’t even hear the sound of the wind. In my broad and bright vision, occasionally when I look up, I feel that the Forbidden City of Huanxue is a bit weird.

Contrary to the tension in my mind, the road under my feet was getting easier and easier. Not only did we not even step on a piece of ice, but on the contrary, I also felt like a straw mat was coming from the soles of my shoes.

"Do you think the stones under our feet are a little soft?" I asked immediately.

Both of them stopped. It was obvious that Fatty and Brother Jiu had discovered this. If we step on ice, we would be unlucky. If we step on stones, it would be a normal situation, but if we step on soft things here, it would be very confusing.

"Anyway, the snow is not thick now, so let's dig it open and take a look." After saying that, the fat man bent down and used a hoe to dig the snow.

When this guy was moving, he didn't care what I was behind, and almost all the snow fell on my face.

"Can you change the direction? Well...bah!" As soon as I opened my mouth, the snow flew into my mouth.

Brother Jiu laughed at me, but as he smiled, Brother Jiu suddenly screamed and shouted at me: "What's on your face??"

I was stunned to shout at him. After feeling it for a moment, I felt a ball of snow on my forehead, which was cold. I reached out to grab the snow, and I suddenly felt something was wrong.

When I saw it in front of me, I saw it, "Uh!" I screamed strangely and almost spent it on the steep slope.

What I caught was an eyeball in my hand, with a little flesh sticking to it, and my gray pupils were staring at me coldly.

After I realized that I threw the eyeball on the ground. Then I realized that it seemed that it was not a human eye, it was almost twice as big as a human eye. It was particularly round.

"Fatty, what did you dig something..." As I spoke, I saw the snow pit dug out by the fat man, and I immediately stood there stiffly.

The pit was not small, full of all kinds of feathers, internal organs, carrion, and broken limbs of animals. These things seemed to be piled up very thickly, and seemed to have been formed not long ago.

We didn't know what to say. The fat man took a deep breath, then bent down, found a place to dig the snow again. Brother Jiu and I also responded the same way. Soon, the snow within a range of more than ten square meters under our feet was cleared out.

At the same time, we also found that we were standing in a sea of ​​animals.

This place seemed to be a cemetery of animals, with corpses crowded together, and the gloomy and even more trembling than the cold air around them. As expected, the range of the sea of ​​corpses was definitely not just below our feet. Fatty and Brother Jiu continued to dig up. The corpse in front of me continued to spread upwards. At the end of the digging, no one dared to continue.

Suddenly, the beautiful Fantasy Snow Forbidden City took off its gorgeous veil and showed its hideous and terrifying true face in front of us.

"Damn it, is this mountain full of corpses?" As he said that, the fat man picked up the hoe and started digging under his feet. He wanted to dig open the corpse layers accumulated by these animals to see how deep it was.

But after digging the half-meter-high corpse layer, the fat man didn't dare to continue waving his hoe.

"Ice layer." Brother Jiu said in horror.

That's right, the hard and smooth ice layer appeared under the corpse layer. The three of us raised our eyes and looked at the crimson above our heads. At this moment, that strange feeling penetrated our clothes and spread to the bottom of our hearts. When the cold wind blew, I couldn't help but tremble.

The broken animals of these animals should have been piled up not long ago. This snow-capped mountain is not as fat man said, without any ice. Like all the mountains on Qiaogoli Peak, it is made of glaciers. These broken animals seem to be a road paved to allow us to successfully reach the Snow Forbidden City of Fantasy. Apart from that, it is impossible for us to reach the present.

"Don't worry, let's keep going." The fat man suddenly said, then took a photo of me and looked at Brother Jiu again.

"That's all I can do. If I look back, this trip will be in vain." Brother Jiu said.

I nodded to the fat man too. So the three of us continued to move up. This time we were faster. No matter whether the corpses under our feet were animals or humans, since someone had paved the way, we didn't mind shouting "A general succeeded and ten thousand bones were undone."

The three of them had a very tacit understanding and didn't say anything, but they only cared about how long they would be able to reach the blood-red forbidden city.

No matter how tingling the feeling from under my feet, I kept reminding myself along the way: "The Forbidden City of Huanxue is already in front of me. If I can't even get there, it's really just a waste."

Although we were all cruel, such high altitude still caused our physical strength to be overdrawn. At first, everyone was a little afraid, but later they were so tired that they were so tired that we lay on the corpse layer to rest and replenish.

It was dark, and we turned on the mine lights and continued walking. It was dawn, and we gritted our teeth, waved our already stiff arms and continued to climb. Whenever I felt that I was exhausted, I seemed to hear the urging of peanuts behind me... "Go away, go quickly!"

At noon the next day, for nearly a whole day, we finally stood in front of the red temple. At this time, I was already on the fat man's back, and Brother Jiu crawled over like a dying loach. His feet stepped on the stiff stone slab, and the fat man knelt on the ground in a flash.

He didn't faint, but instead raised his arms high and shouted loudly towards the gate of the Ming Palace:

"I will never wear briefs again!!!"

"Hahaha..." Brother Jiu and I were lying on the ground and laughing to the sky. The fat man climbed all the way and it hurt.

Looking around, this is not the highest place in Qiaogoli Peak, and it is not even within the range of Qiaogoli Peak. However, here, an altitude of nearly 8,000 meters, should be the peak that tomb robbers can reach.

At this time, I really wanted to take pictures, but when I took out my phone, the screen was so cold that it was cracked.

Our goal is the Forbidden City of Huanxue, but when I arrived at the stone platform at the entrance of the Ling Palace, I was almost indifferent to looking at it. Brother Jiu lit the stove, filled half a pot of snow in a small pot, and threw the dried meat and noodles directly in. Then, the three of us were like beggars, surrounding the stove, shaking while waiting for food.

The fat man cried at this time. "Don't you, grandma, how easy it is for me, I'm going to die for the family's food. Every time my mother called home, I kept calling me a bad guy and saying that I'm doing all the unethical things. Where can I tell my mother about this hardship?"

Brother Jiu also started to touch her tears, "Brother, I understand this feeling, just like my wife. When I got home, she only knew to ask me for money. She either asked me for this or that all day. Until now, she never asked me what I did. Woo... Hiss, she didn't know, I really like her. If I traveled to the ancient tomb one day, I don't know if the woman would go to find someone immediately. Hiss... But that's enough, men, can't carry it. Brother, stop crying, we will definitely be talking smoothly afterwards."

I thought to myself that these two people were frozen donkeys? If they had a bottle of beer, they would definitely be willing to pay homage to each other when they were so enthusiastic.
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