The mountain crevice we fell into was narrow and deep. It was pitch black outside the lighting range of the flashlight. Due to the limited visibility, we had no idea what the terrain was in the distance.
The big man felt Liu Gong's breath with his hand, shook his hand and said: It's over, it's over, I have no breath left.
I crawled over and touched Liu Gong's carotid artery. He was indeed dead and his heartbeat was gone. So I sighed and said to the big man: Let's bury Liu Gong.
I took out the engineering shovel and wanted to dig a hole, but Gawa stopped me and pointed to the ground: bugs, fire.
Gawa's reminder made me remember that in the valley, I wanted to dig a hole to bury the engineer who fell to death. In the end, I dug up a devil-like ladybug. There were fourteen people in the team, and in those thrilling minutes,
Ten people died inside. It seems that the land here cannot be dug casually. God knows what other ghosts are down there.
I have an intuition that that weird bug is not just a mysterious creature. After it burned two people, it split from one into three. Is this just a coincidence? No matter how hard I think about it, I can't figure it out.
But we couldn't just leave the corpse of our companion outside, so we had to adopt a compromise approach. I used a flashlight to illuminate it, while Gawa and the big man picked up some gravel nearby and covered it with Liu Gong's corpse as a gift to him.
A simple stone tomb was built.
During this process, Luo Ning sat motionless on the ground, quietly staring at Liu Gong's stone tomb. Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore and burst out crying. The sadness in his heart was like a bursting tide.
Released.
I wanted to persuade her, but I really didn’t know what to say. I was touched by her cries, and my nose was sore and my heart was as sharp as a knife. I thought of last night, when the team gathered in front of the campfire and sang military songs, that loud and clear song.
The singing seems to still be echoing in my ears, but today most of my comrades are buried under the large glaciers of Kunlun Mountain forever.
I helped Luo Ning stand up, and together we observed a moment of silence for Liu Gong and other comrades. At that time, no matter what the occasion, Mao Xuan would be quoted, and I took the lead in reading: The sky is white, and the march in the snow is even more urgent.
The other three people also echoed: Head up the mountain and down the mountain, the wind spreads the red flag to pass the big pass. Only by sacrificing a lot of ambition can we dare to let the sun and the moon change the sky.
Then everyone raised their right fists and swore: I wish the great leader a long life without borders, and my close comrades-in-arms with good health and eternal health. Comrades and comrades, please feel free to go. Some people's death is lighter than a feather, and some people's death is as heavy as a Mount Tai.
Dying for the interests of the people is more important than Mount Tai. You are sacrificing for the interests of the people. We must inherit the legacy of the revolutionary martyrs, follow your footsteps stained red with blood, carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the end, and achieve final victory forever.
Belongs to our workers, peasants and soldiers.
I was still a new recruit at the time and had never attended a memorial service for a comrade in arms. I didn’t know what to say. I just remembered that others would say the same thing in meetings. In that case, there was no difference between what was appropriate and what was inappropriate.
After a long time, everyone calmed down from the pain and took care of the wounds on their bodies. Fortunately, they were all minor injuries and did not affect their movements. They ate a few bites of compressed biscuits and gathered together to discuss what to do next.
It is impossible to get out of the valley pressed by snowboards. I estimate that the entire valley may have been filled by avalanches, and now we can only find another exit.
Gawa patted the empty bullet bag on her body, indicating that there were not many bullets left. Since we had to carry a lot of equipment when we entered the mountains, the ammunition was at the minimum. Each person only had three rifle magazines. After all, it was not a combat mission.
, there are no bandits in this area, so I was a bit careless in thinking ahead. I threw away part of the ammunition during the avalanche, and now each person only has an average of about 20 bullets left, and a total of two grenades. There should be no wild beasts underground.
, it’s useless to have too many bullets, just enough for self-defense.
There is no dry food left at all. I have eaten all the edible food just now. I must find a way to find an exit within two days, otherwise I will starve to death underground. Fortunately for Luo Ning, there is still a
compass.
The depth of the mountain gap is beyond imagination. After walking south for a while, it reaches the end. The crack in the earth turns to the north. It feels like walking under a large glacier.
We walked forward in the darkness for more than ten hours. As we walked, the terrain became lower and lower, and the underground space became larger and larger. Luo Ning measured it with a barometer. The air pressure data was converted into an altitude of only 400 meters.
It is about the same as Sichuan and far lower than the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters. If we continue like this, we may reach the center of the earth.
Finally, the terrain calmed down, and I heard the sound of rushing water. It seemed that there was a large underground river not far away. Seeing that there was no longer a way downhill, I looked around with a flashlight to see if there was a way up. Suddenly, the flashlight appeared
The light that shines out produces many weak reflections on the rock wall, just like shining on countless mirror fragments.
Luo Ning exclaimed: It's mica
The other three heard what she said about mica and didn't know what it was, but they were frightened by his tone and thought there was some emergency. They hurriedly blocked Luo Ning behind them and took off five pieces of mica from their backs as quickly as possible.
Type 6 semi-automatic rifle, clicked the bolt several times, ready to shoot.
Luo Ningqi said: What are you doing?
While I was on guard with my gun, I asked Luo Ning: Where is the male of this female?
Luo Ning said: It's not animals, I mean there are crystals all around. Mica and crystals usually grow in the same stratum, but there are also crystals.
Although Luo Ning is mainly responsible for map surveying, he often works with the geological exploration team and knows a lot about geology and minerals. The crystals like glass flakes that appear around us are monoclinic crystals.
It can only appear in ancient dual-material rock formations. Hebei has a large amount of underground reserves, but the mica here is extremely dark in color and is in the shape of a large hexagonal column. The quality is far superior to that produced in Lingshou County, Hebei, in the mainland. From the depth of the mica color,
Looking at it from a certain point, the depth we are in is already unimaginable.
Luo Ning was attracted by the rare large mica around him. He looked at this piece and then that piece. I picked up a small piece and looked at it, but I couldn't see anything worthy of surprise.
At this time, I suddenly heard the big man shouting to Gawa: "Lamtso, what are you doing? Get up quickly."
I shined a light with my flashlight and saw Gawa kowtowing in the Tibetan way, with her whole body lying on the ground. What was this kid doing? Who was he kowtowing to? I looked in front of him again and couldn't help but take a breath of air.
There is a wooden tower made of thousands of giant trees standing underground. There are countless red flashes dotted on the tower. Looking through those weak flashes, the base of the wooden tower is nearly two hundred meters wide and made of clay.
The tower is made of rammed stone and built with thousand-year-old cypress wood. It is divided into nine floors. Each floor is filled with dried bones wearing strange ancient costumes. There are men, women and children. The wooden body of each big tree is covered with carvings.
Tibetan secrets, is this a tomb so huge? Who built it underground?
I went over and pulled up the Gawa who was kowtowing on the ground: Although our party and the army respect ethnic policies, and you, a Gawa, are also Tibetan, when you wear a military uniform, you are a member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Since you are, you don't want to
It is not allowed to engage in such idealistic practices as religious superstition.
The big man next to him smiled and said: OK, Lao Hu, this guy is so smart, he has the potential to be an instructor.
Luo Ning had been looking at the mica, and when he heard the three of us arguing, he came over and watched closely.
I waved my hand to the big man to stop him from interrupting, and continued to ask Gawa: What kind of tower is this? Do you recognize the words written on it?
Gawa kept shaking her head.
I said: This kid, I don’t know why you are kowtowing. Seeing so many corpses scared you silly.
Gawa had a look of panic on her face and said in not very fluent Chinese: Hu, Gaxiong, oh, I asked you to say oh, but you will pull oh, Larla Doss Floor Demon Tower.
I didn't understand the first half of his sentence, but I could hear the last four words clearly. What is the purpose of the nine-story demon building? Isn't it just to bury dead people?
Before Gawa could say anything, Luo Ning ran back from the side of the tower, making a silent gesture to us. She pointed at the tower behind her and whispered to us, don't make any noise to alarm us.
they.
Seeing her serious expression, I knew she might be in trouble, but I didn't know what she was referring to, so I lowered my voice and asked: What kind of dead person in the tower was disturbed?
Luo Ning said extremely nervously: No, they are the kind of fire-bearing ladybugs that sleep on dead bodies. There are too many to count.
After listening to Luo Ning's words, I realized that the dense red flashes on the wooden tower turned out to be from the transparent ladybugs.
Although I have some of the fearless spirit of a revolutionary soldier, when I think of that weird ladybug, I feel panic. This kind of creature that exceeds common sense is too difficult to deal with. The tragic scene in the valley may leave me with
The feeling of fear was too strong.
I made a gesture, and the four of them quietly retreated back to the way they came. Before they had taken a few steps, Gawa suddenly stepped on the ground and fell into a ditch.
This ditch was very hidden and parallel to our route, so we didn’t notice it when we arrived. Although the ditch was only more than one meter deep, Gawa still groaned when he was thrown, and I quickly jumped down to help him.
He saw Gawa covering her feet with a painful expression on her face.
At this time, Luo Ning and the big man also went down to the ditch respectively. When they shined a flashlight, they found that Gawa's forehead was stabbed by a sharp white bone, and even the shoelaces were inserted into a transparent hole, and blood flowed profusely.
The ditch was filled with layers of white bones of various animals. The number was too large to be estimated. It seemed that the ditch should be a burial pit for animals such as cattle and dogs.
In order not to disturb the ladybugs in the nearby wooden tower, the big man covered Gawa's mouth with his hands to prevent him from screaming. I pulled out the bones embedded in his feet.
Yunnan Baiyao was sprinkled on his wound, and a white bandage was taken out to bandage it to stop the bleeding.
My hands were stained with the blood from Gawa's legs, and I wiped a few handfuls on my military uniform. Suddenly, an idea flashed through my mind. The burial pit for cattle and horses was dug very strangely. It was not square or round, but
Dig a long ditch shape, which leads directly to the wooden tower where the corpse is placed. This shape is exactly similar to a kind of layout mentioned in the secret technique of Feng Shui. If it is exactly the same, then it should be in parallel positions.
There is a burial trench of the same size.
The two burial trenches sandwich the wooden tower structure of the tomb parallel to each other, forming the force of two dragons sucking beads. Based on this, it can be inferred that the ditch next to it should be some utensils used by the owner of the tomb during his lifetime. But I don’t know what these two burial trenches are.
Artificial or naturally occurring, it seems the latter is more likely.
The sound of the river flowing nearby is very loud. Judging from the sound of the rapids, there is an underground river in the northwest, behind the nine-story demon tower, because dragons cannot live without water.
If this is really what I expected, then the map of this underground world has long been in my mind, but I just need to find another burial trench to confirm my inference.
The big man pushed me on the shoulder: Lao Hu, what's going on?
I was lost in thought just now, but I came back to my senses after being pushed by him. I asked Luo Ning: Luo Ning, can you estimate our current location? Where is it on the map?
Luo Ning used the compass to make calculations with reference to the map. He pondered for a moment and said: We have been walking northward underground for more than ten hours. According to our speed, we have already passed the large glacier above.
We should be leaving Kunlun Mountain soon.
I explained what I just thought. If we go back now, we can only go back to the mountain crevice covered by avalanches. If my estimate is correct, we should be able to find a way out by walking along the underground river. But so
To do this, you have to take the risk of passing under the nine-story demon building. This is a plan that seeks survival from death.
The four of us thought about it and decided that although it was full of dangers, it was worth the risk. However, I decided to go to another burial trench nearby to confirm it first.
Before taking action, I asked Gawa what exactly is a nine-story demon building?
Gawa struggled to speak Chinese. After talking for a long time, I finally understood part of it. In his hometown of Xuewei, there is also a ruins exactly like this nine-story monster building. According to legend, this nine-story monster building is from the ancient demon kingdom.
The burial form of the tombs of the kings and clans of the past dynasties. When the Demon Kingdom fell, the tomb had been destroyed by the heroic King Gesar. On the Tibetan Plateau, there were only a pile of rotten wooden shelves and narrative poems passed down from the mouths of herdsmen.
Generations have sung the praises of King Gesar for his unparalleled military exploits like the sun.
When Tibetan herdsmen pass by these ruins, they have to pay homage and sing epic poems. This is not because they are afraid of the tombs of the demon kings, but to express their respect for King Gesar. Gewa also talked about some religious things.
I just don’t understand it, and I don’t know if those bugs that look like will-o’-the-wisps are the undead resting in the tomb.
I left Luo Ning and the other three people where they were, and moved forward on my own. More than a hundred meters away from the cattle and horse burial ditch, there was indeed another burial ditch, which was filled with ancient leather boots, ancient Tibetan inscriptions, wood chips, and ancient ruins.
Mongolian inscriptions, painted wooden tablets, gold-decorated wooden plates, wooden wings, wooden birds and beasts, bronze vessels, grain and a large amount of silk and other funerary items.
It seemed that my deduction was correct. The underground river behind the nine-story demon building must be connected to the outside world, so I sneaked back into the animal burial ditch to call the other three people to take action.
I was the first to clear the way, and the big man was holding a gun behind me, followed by Gawa, whose feet were heavily wounded by thorns, and Luo Ning was behind to help him walk.
The nine-story demon tower is very large, and the underground cavity is originally extremely vast. However, the tower and the large mica on both sides have almost blocked the road to the north, and there are only very narrow areas on both sides that are barely passable.
We passed under the wooden tower with fear, and when we saw the ladybugs in the tower that were flickering with flames, we felt that our hearts were about to jump out of our throats. During the two hundred meters under the tower, every step seemed so far away.
I finally passed the nine-story monster building and walked forward less than two hundred steps. Suddenly my feet went soft, as if I had stepped on some huge animal. I shined a flashlight and saw that under my feet was an animal I had never seen before.
A huge reptile with a long tongue sticking out. Its skin color is very close to the color of the ground. It looks a bit like a monitor lizard and looks a lot like a crocodile, but it does not have such a rough skin, and its front snout is not as sharp as a lizard.
It is relatively round, with a snake-like tongue, red and long, with a fork in the front. The skin is dark all over and covered with large white round bumps. From the appearance alone, it can basically be said to be a large frog with a long tail.
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I have never been afraid of anything in my life, but I am more afraid of disgusting things like this. I was so scared that I shrank behind the big man. The big man also saw this strange animal. His feelings were probably similar to mine, and he was also scared.
After a jump, perhaps the only partner the soldier could rely on was his rifle. Out of instinctive reaction, he raised the gun and fired. The reptile twisted a few times and died.
At this time, Luo Ning, who was walking at the end, came over, looked at the dead animals on the ground, sighed and said to us: This is a salamander that lives underground. It makes a living by eating insects and mayflies and does not hurt anyone.
I don't feel bad about killing an animal. What I worry about is whether the big man's careless shooting will wake up the bugs in the tower. Damn it, if a person is unlucky, his teeth will be choked even if he drinks cold water.
The ladybugs in the demon floor were obviously alerted by the gunfire, and countless blue fireballs like bright lights lit up.
The entire underground space was reflected in blue by the fire, and the wooden tower was also ignited. The fire grew bigger and bigger, and hundreds of fireballs rushed towards us. However, we could not feel any heat from such a huge fire, but felt
The cold is overwhelming and my teeth are chattering.
Seeing that something was not going well, the big man took out the two grenades stuck in his armed belt and was about to pull the string and throw them to blow up the fireballs. I quickly held his hand and said, throw one and leave us a glorious bomb.
, I don’t want to let that will-o’-the-wisp burn to death. Book Alliance
Chapter completed!