Because the rope was hung on a nearby stone, they followed the force and did not fall to the bottom of the pit. They were still about four or five meters away from the bottom of the pit.
Because of this, the bottom of the pit is full of fallen snow and gravel.
And among the snowdrifts and gravel, several dark and sharp claws were exposed.
Looking along the claws, a black thing about the thickness of a bucket was looming in the snowdrift. Its link-shaped body was covered with scales, some hidden in the snow and some exposed outside the snow.
It looks like a hibernating snake, but if you look closely, it looks like a centipede.
This thing was clinging to the stone and motionless. I didn't know whether it was dead or alive. I couldn't see its head and tail, and I didn't know how long it was.
This was already above the snow line, and there were very few living creatures. What kind of creature was it? Looking at those centipede-like claws and its size, everyone felt instinctively uncomfortable.
Ye Cheng, the timidest one, kept shouting somewhere.
Chen Pi's face darkened and he cursed, "Damn it, stop screaming!"
If it is really a centipede, it may live in groups, and there may be many others nearby.
Although they now have guns in their hands, Chen Pi Ah Si still feels a little uneasy.
Ji Yi looked around. It should be a small closed valley filled with avalanches, but because the stones here were piled too messy, a lot of bubbles were produced.
Ye Cheng sat on it and stepped on the fragile snow layer, causing a chain reaction and the snow layer suddenly collapsed.
As a result, everyone was brought down by him.
The snow above is still collapsing down. Many times after such a landslide, the surrounding snow will gather together like quicksand and rebury the collapsed area. This process is extremely fast.
Many high-mountain expedition teams suffer from attrition under such circumstances, and the entire team disappears in a matter of seconds.
This is the leeward side, the wind is obviously much lighter, and it is not as cold as before.
Although it is very steep here, the surface of the slope is covered with gravel. Some are as big as the front of a Jiefang truck, and some are only as big as a table tennis ball. It is easy to climb and it is not difficult to go up or down.
The little brother untied the rope, leaving the edge of the black thing, and slid to the bottom of the snow pit.
At the same time, Ji Yi had already seen clearly what was underneath.
It turns out that it is a stone dragon lying on a stone cliff. It is carved from black stone. The stone carving is very lifelike. If it were hidden in the snow and the sky was dark, it would be hard to see it.
The others went down and after seeing clearly, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Pi Asi arranged for people to clean up the snow on the stone sculpture, and the overall appearance of the stone sculpture emerged in front of everyone.
"this……"
Seeing this complete stone carving, Chen Pi's face changed, and he obviously felt different.
This dragon is different from other dragons. Under its body, there are countless centipede-like feet carved on it. It is obviously not a carving from the Central Plains, but should be an alienated dragon from the nearby nomads.
The fat man scratched his head and said, "Why is this dragon so ugly? It looks like a worm and looks extremely evil. It is much uglier than the dragon on the Forbidden City. It must have been damaged."
Chen Pi Asi said, "This is a hundred-legged dragon, not a dragon. The early dragon sculptures of the Eastern Xia Kingdom all looked like this. In the early days of China, ancient Chinese dragons had very different shapes, and some dragons had pig noses.
Well, that’s not surprising.”
If you see this stone carving of a hundred-legged dragon, it means that they have entered the territory of the ancient Eastern Xia Kingdom!
Dongxia Kingdom is said to be the kingdom that protected the Yunding Heavenly Palace in ancient times!
Including the characters on the bronze fish with snake eyebrows, they are also ancient Eastern Xia characters.
The evolution of dragons in our country is very long. In the beginning, dragons were crawling. Just find a beast head and put it on a snake to become a dragon. At that time, each tribe had its own dragon totem, and each tribe evolved separately. In the end, the dragon form
They are also different.
Later, with the spread of Han culture and the great integration of Yi and Xia cultures, the image of the Han dragon began to mix with the dragons of various ethnic minorities. In the end, the dragons gradually unified into the Panlong that they are now.
This centipede dragon is a mixture of a dragon and a centipede, but I don’t know why. Looking at an ordinary dragon with so many arthropod legs under its body, not only does it not give people a majestic feeling, but it makes people feel very uncomfortable.
It's comfortable and makes people feel a little weird.
Lao Hu looked at the stone carving and said in surprise, "Old Lin, the stone of this stone carving seems to be different from the stone on this snow mountain! The shape of this dragon is asymmetrical. This is two dragons playing with a pearl. Such a stone carving should have one side.
, usually carved on the stone door, one on each side."
This stone is almost a huge flat plate five meters high and three meters wide. It is leaning on a rocky slope on one side. The stone is extremely smooth and black, which is obviously different from other stones here.
Ji Yi nodded and said, "This should be a sealing stone, used to seal the tomb passage."
Hearing this, Chen Pi Asi looked at Lin Yi deeply and said, "Brother Lin, you are very knowledgeable. Even Feng Shi knows about it."
Lin Yi smiled and said, "Brother Chen, don't you know that too? Look at the dragon's mouth above the sealing stone. There is an iron chain. It should be the horse chain used to pull the sealing stone when the tomb is sealed.
This side is the inward side. Looking at the extent of the damage, the tomb passage of Yunding Tiangong should have been visually destroyed."
"Yeah."
After hearing this, the fat man nodded repeatedly and said, "When you said that, I remembered that when we were at the Xisha Undersea Tomb, didn't we see the pattern of an avalanche burying the mountain road? I think this tomb passage is probably like that
It was damaged during the time. However, if that is the case, even if we find the ancient tomb, we may not be able to enter it."
Fatty's words silenced everyone.
Especially the guide Shunzi, who didn't dare to breathe.
I bet these people are tomb robbers!
He said what's going on, why do they bring guns!
Lao Hu looked at the others, their faces turned blue from the cold, frowned and said, "Old Lin, I think we should leave this centipede alone for now. Finding a place to spend the night is the most important thing!"
When it comes to staying overnight, everyone is at a loss.
overnight?
I'm afraid I'm going to freeze to death here tonight.
Not only was there no shelter, there was no firewood, and it was not yet ten o'clock in the evening, and it was already unbearably cold.
So what to spend the rest of the night with?
Fatty Lao Hu was fine, especially the people in Chen Pi's fourth group, all of them looked gloomy.
"It doesn't matter, it's quite sheltered from the wind. We can buy a few igloos to live in, and we also brought solid fuel for heating."
Lin Yiyun said calmly.
snow House?
Solid fuel?
Can you keep warm?
Chen Pi Ah Si looked deeply at Ji Yi.
Facing the current predicament, he has no better way. Who would have thought that Ji Yi still has something to keep warm!
