Immediately afterwards, the German sent a cipher message to the outside of the mountain again, repeating it three times.
Zhang Haike frowned slightly, stood up, walked to the side, took the earphones to listen, and recorded the telegrams he heard on paper.
"The signal is disconnected. It seems that the guy has withdrawn." Zhang Haiyuan said.
Zhang Haike nodded and wrote the translated words below the code.
[The advance team failed, the gatekeeper lost his whereabouts, and the bell-reminder and others may have become suspicious of me. In order to avoid uncontrollable changes in the future, the plan is advanced. You need to make a quick decision. I will contact you after I find the location of the Zan Shen Gate.
Restoring contact]
The last few strings of codes that followed were a little strange, and Zhang Haike couldn't decipher them for a while. It seemed that Feng had vigilantly changed the pattern of the cipher text while typing.
Combining the previous messages sent by Feng, it seems that this string of codes represents very important content.
"The gatekeeper is missing? Gatekeeper?" Zhang Haiyuan became a little worried, "Did something happen to Bai Ci?"
Zhang Haike shook his head, "The accident happened to Kang Baluo. The letter falcon summoned Dan and he rushed back in advance, but there has been no news. I'm afraid the situation there is not optimistic either."
He looked down at the words on the paper and murmured, "I always have a hunch that the last line of code may be related to the sudden disappearance of Kang Baluo and Bai Ci."
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A calm night passed, and the broken ice surface was completely frozen, and everything was quiet.
Wu Xie stood by the window and waited eagerly, but Bai Ci still showed no sign of coming back.
Zhang Haixing had decided not to wait any longer, and asked everyone to pack their equipment. He took one last look at the map and said, "Let's go."
There were no words to say along the way. The scenery along the way was so beautiful, it was like a fairyland in the snow country. The mountains and snowy mountains were majestic and magnificent, just like the tops of vast clouds.
I kept walking along the route outlined by Wu Xie. After going around several hills, I saw a large valley in front of me.
Even though they had already prepared in their hearts that Combalo might be in trouble, the scene in front of them was still unexpected.
In fact, they did not see Kangbalo, but the village did not exist. They saw the tops of a few ancient Tibetan-style buildings in the snowfield.
A huge avalanche completely buried this ancient and mysterious ethnic group in the deep snow, and Kangbalo fell asleep under the snow forever.
Mountain birds are flying away, clouds cover the sun, and there is only monotonous black and white between the vast sky and the earth, and the bleak and lonely gray at the intersection of black and white.
"How could this happen?" Wu Xie couldn't believe it.
Feng looked around and suddenly pointed to a particularly abrupt black rock protruding from the mountain on one side. He said: "It's an avalanche. There was a very large avalanche that buried the entire valley underneath."
Wu Xie opened his eyes wide and looked at the black rock that had its entire surface peeled off. "How could there be such a huge avalanche? It was like the entire snow on the mountain had been shaken off and spread on the ground.
In this valley."
Feng's eyes flashed, and then he said: "This is a natural disaster. The mountain has become hot. There must have been some change in the geological structure of the mountain. The mountain has become hot and melted the snow on it."
"I actually wanted to tell you before that the reason why the glacial lake did not freeze completely in the severe cold was because there were volcanic magma pools deep inside the mountains near the lake shore. Miss Zhang also saw the small volcano blocked by the giant bone statue underwater.
Wellhead, there must be more than one similar volcanic well at the bottom of the lake."
Wu Xie murmured to himself, "The original Kang Balo has become like this, what about Bai Ci, where will he go?"
"He's probably already reached that place before us," the fat man said.
Wu Xie frowned and was about to ask him why he said that, but saw the fat man holding a telescope and looking intently at the rocks in the distance.
The fat man said: "This land belongs to the Kangbalo people. Assuming there are people who survived the avalanche, such a big change happened inside the mountain. They must know the reason better than us. If Bai Ci comes too,
If he passes here, he will definitely follow the footsteps of his tribe. So we have to go to that place."
"Moreover, I saw a lot of people's bones on that mountain, all over the mountains and plains."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Haixing snatched the telescope from the fat man's hand and looked in that direction. As she watched, her face gradually became ugly.
In the end, she ignored the fat man's thoughts and said directly: "That mountain is exactly where the map indicates. Let's rush there as soon as possible."
The fat man snorted coldly, "You are the leader of a team, and you don't even know how to look at the situation before giving random orders. The snow is so weak that if you step on it and you can't walk three meters, you will have to fall into the snow hole."
Inside, I encountered a deep snow cave, several stories high. If I fell in, it would be gone, and even if I tried to fish it out, I couldn’t fish it out.”
Anger appeared on Zhang Haixing's face. Although the fat man was telling the truth, Zhang Haixing secretly made a note to him for his repeated contradictions.
She is also too eager to have an attack at the critical moment, but that may not happen in the future.
They could not move forward along the canyon. The snow here was deeper than anywhere else. Their feet were buried in the thick snow, making it difficult to move. The snow in the canyon could not bear the weight of people at all.
The fat man tied the rope around his waist and took a few tentative steps forward. There was a clicking sound under his feet, and large tracts of snow began to fall down, revealing huge gaps and holes underneath, which were bottomless.
Wu Xie and the others pulled on the rope that suddenly tightened. The fat man was hanging on the edge of the gap, and they pulled him up hard.
The fat man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with lingering fear, and cursed a few times, "Look, everything down there is a trap. It's impossible to go directly from here."
Zhang Haixing looked up again at the huge black rock, then looked at the towering canyon ahead, and said: "It's not that there is no way, but it's just a bit difficult. Come with me."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After saying this, Zhang Haixing took the lead to walk to the root of the canyon on the Black Rock side, and Wu Xie and others quickly followed.
Zhang Haixing, who was walking in the front, had a rope tied around his waist, and the other end was held by Wu Xie and the others. They slowly slowed down and finally reached the edge of the valley.
Then, under the command of Zhang Haixing, he took out the mountaineering equipment from his backpack. Fatty had originally lost it in the ice lake, but now that Bai Ci was away, Fatty just needed his equipment.
It was Zhang Haixing who led the way. They climbed up the steep rock. The pickaxes in their hands were firmly dug into the solid ice. After climbing up for a while, they began to crawl sideways towards the mountain peak where the target was located.
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The journey was extremely difficult, and when they were tired, they could only find a way to hang themselves on the ice cliff to rest for a while.
Beneath them were dangerous crevices in the snow and ice. If anyone fell into them, they would be instantly swallowed up. They clung to them fearfully, not daring to relax even a moment.
After climbing intermittently for almost three hours, towards evening, the sky began to slowly start to glow with flaming clouds, and they finally arrived at the foot of the huge black rock mountain.
The mountain is very huge. From a distance, you can see a huge crack running across the mountain. This crack was once covered by the snow on the mountain, and now it is finally visible to the sky again.
Now standing at the foot of the mountain, they could already feel the heat coming towards their faces before they even got really close.
The temperature of these geothermal heat was so exaggerated that they soon took off their outer clothes because of the heat. The snow on the side of the mountain near the mountain had all melted, and there were dripping streams and small waterfalls everywhere.
Wu Xie stretched out his hand and tried it in the stream. The warm water washed over his skin, and the soreness in his arm muscles seemed to flow away with the water. Soon he felt the urge to throw off his shoes and socks and soak in hot water.
impulse.
The fat man had already taken off his shoes and stuffed his feet into the puddle. He was so comfortable that he screamed, "This place is like a natural hot spring. It's so relaxing and relieves fatigue."
After saying that, he called to the others, "You guys should take a dip as well. I didn't even wipe myself with hot water when I fished it out from the ice water hole before. It might be the source of the disease in the future. It's not a chance."
Lost, just at this moment, the coldness that penetrated into the body was driven away."
Although Wu Xie also had the idea of lying down and taking a bath, that was not what was important at the moment.
He turned to Zhang Haixing and said: "Let's find a place to camp here tonight. It's getting late. There are so many bones on it. We don't know what dangers there are on this black mountain. According to the map, we may be afraid later.
We have to enter that dark crevice, and it would be unwise to rush forward now."
Zhang Haixing also took this into consideration, and immediately waved his hand to everyone to set up camp, and then said to Wu Xie: "Come with me, let's go to the front to explore the road first."
Wu Xie had no objections and explained a few words to the fat man. Then he and Zhang Haixing continued moving forward with only some simple equipment, passing through the hot and cold intersection zone with a large number of hanging ices, and finally climbed up the bare rock.
Montenegro.
At this point, the temperature of the rock climbing under my hands has gradually begun to feel a little hot, as if it had been sprayed by a hot firearm.
"It seems that there is a possibility that the bottom here is really a volcano, or an active volcano that has experienced unusual movements not long ago." Wu Xie said worriedly, "The crack is bottomless. I don't know if it will directly penetrate to the volcano.
Under the magma, we would be in danger."
Zhang Haixing's expression was not very optimistic. "Even if it is not a volcano, it is still a mountain with extremely rich geothermal energy. There must be a lava pool at the foot of the mountain. A sudden geological change has heated the mountain from the inside."
"Are you sure there's nothing wrong with the map?" She looked at Wu Xie.
Wu Xie said firmly: "There will be no mistake. I remember Wang Zanghai once recorded in Snake Eyebrows Bronze Fish, 'The karma fire of hell will burn everything who opens the door, leaving no white heads in Gangri Mountain.' The geothermal heat here is so abundant, and there are
The lava pool does not correspond to the sentence in Snake Eyebrow Bronze Fish."
Even though he was cooperating with these Zhang family members, Wu Xie still maintained the due vigilance in his heart, so he deliberately replaced "Changbai Mountain" in that sentence with "Gangri" in Tibetan, which means snow mountain.
As expected, after hearing his words, Zhang Haixing just frowned and continued to climb up without saying anything to refute.
Wu Xie looked at her back from behind, thinking that Fatty once told him that Zhang Haixing pretended to know how to speak.
The fat man was tied up at the time. What Zhang Haixing asked him was in Tibetan, but what the fat man said was the Ga Lai dialect that he had memorized by rote. There are very few people in the world who understand this. The fat man originally planned to fool him casually.
In the past, I didn't expect that Zhang Haixing not only didn't tell others that she didn't understand, but also explained it in a well-founded way.
She did not directly state that she did not understand the fat man's nonsense. Instead, she pretended to understand and relayed the meaning of Galai's words. This kind of behavior was already strange enough for a Zhang family with upright and upright roots.
In other words, there is something wrong with the Zhang Haixing who followed them all the way. She is probably fake, and she does not want the rest of the Zhang family to know that she does not speak Monba.
Another force in the Zhang family's team pretended to sneak in. The purpose was obvious. These guys with evil intentions were all aiming at the Bronze Gate.
In this way, Wu Xie's previous speculation was correct. The fake Zhang Haixing had replaced the real Zhang Haixing a long time ago. Then the real girl Zhang would be the one who appeared in Medog holding Yue Ya a year ago.
?
Assuming she is, then it is very likely that something unexpected happened to her, but Wu Xie had a vague feeling that there must be some key clues here that he had not dug out, or maybe Zhang Haike and the others had deliberately concealed them.
Speaking of which, do Zhang Haike and the others know that their girl has been replaced?
Wu Xie couldn't help but touch his face. The Zhang family can be called the ancestors of the disguise world when it comes to disguise acting. They are proud of their ability and have enough insight into everything.
Thinking of this, Wu Xie couldn't help but laugh. It was interesting, so interesting.
After working on it for a long time, it turns out that everyone is acting, and this hodgepodge is really exciting. So where will the stage for the finale be set up?
"What are you dawdling about?"
Zhang Haixing, who had already walked far away, saw that he had not followed, so she turned around and called him impatiently.
Wu Xie tightened the straps, grabbed the rock with both hands and continued to climb up.
Going up the mountainside, there were rugged rocks all the way, and the black rocks had no rules at all, but this made it easier for them to climb up.
After walking up for a while, they were still far away from the crack. The fat man called them on the intercom and told them not to come down. He and Feng were also walking up.
"The smell of sulfur is getting stronger and stronger." Zhang Haixing grabbed a big stone and stood up straight, looked up with a telescope, and said, "Let's climb up a little further. The heat is permeating there, and it's better than the puddles below.
There is a bigger hot spring pool, so we will camp here tonight."
After climbing up for more than half an hour, I finally arrived at the place. Looking around, there are countless small hot springs here, and hot water is constantly flowing out.