Chapter 17 [The ship stranded on the top of the mountain! 】
Before I could turn around, a woman's voice sounded in my mind: "I have only lived for two hundred years, and it has only been less than a hundred and fifty years since I became spiritually intelligent. I still know very little. I have never seen any senior snakes."
Not much at all, I just heard that there were senior snakes who practiced for thousands of years and finally ascended to the immortal world. As for the two roads to immortality, I heard that both of them collapsed in ancient times."
"Broken!? Is there really a way to become an immortal?" I asked, and then passed Jin Snake's words to Xiao Xu and the others.
"You ask why it broke?" Xiaoxu also said excitedly.
Before I could ask, the woman's voice immediately sounded: "I don't know why. Many of our snake ancestors have lived for a long time just to one day be able to embark on the road to immortality, so this road to immortality should be real.
But one of my peers once told me that an old man he knew lamented before his death, 'The sound of the fairy is insignificant and does not treat me, but I work hard all my life, and the road is like a spring dream without a trace'."
Although I don’t quite understand the exact meaning of this sentence, but from the literal meaning, it seems to be saying that the immortal way is like a spring dream, and everything is false. I turned to look at Xiaoxu: "Listen to what it means, become an immortal
The road still doesn’t exist after all.”
"Hey, Xiaoxu, why are you so concerned about the road to immortality recently?" Da Zhuang sat aside and said, "Do you really believe in such nonsense?"
Xiaoxu glanced at the two of us and murmured: "You don't understand. Let it go. Its snake is only two hundred years old. Even if it practices well, it won't be able to cause a thunder disaster."
"Are you sure you have nothing to ask?" I asked again, Xiaoxu shook his head and said nothing more.
Da Zhuang thought of something and ran over and said, "You ask how it came here from the ancient well?"
Still before I could ask, the giant snake said directly: "There is a passage at the bottom of the ancient well that leads directly to the holy pool in the backyard of the temple."
I said what the woman said to Da Zhuang, and then stood up from the head of the big snake: "I will spare your life for today. If I hear that you have done something wrong, I will dig you three feet into the ground and kill you in the wilderness!"
The golden snake didn't say anything, and hurriedly coiled up and slowly crawled towards the door of the palace. Suddenly, my forehead felt warm, and the Heavenly Eye opened automatically! At the moment when the Heavenly Eye opened, I clearly saw a thinly dressed man with a thin body.
The bruised girl was limping slowly towards the entrance of the hall.
In just this moment, the Heavenly Eye closed immediately. Just as the Golden Snake was approaching the palace door, the woman's voice sounded in my mind again. In fact, listening to the voice, this woman was really not that old: "Gongga
There is a piece of scorched earth on the south slope of the mountain, maybe you can go there and have a look."
I was startled. Could it be that it was telling us a big secret? In any case, its last words still made me feel weak. I hurriedly shouted to the giant snake: "I will give you the horse outside."
Bar!"
After the snake left, I hurriedly told the two of them. They were also very surprised. Although they didn't know what they would find, I thought it would be of some use to us. The three of them hit it off immediately and decided to go together the next day.
Liang went to Shannan first to take a look. He led the remaining four horses into the backyard, and the three of them immediately closed the palace door and went to sleep.
Early the next morning, I woke up a few people and rode to Shannan. This time I did not take Tashi with me. I was not a real expedition and mountaineering team. He knew many things, which was detrimental to us.
Gongga Temple is at the foot of Gongga Mountain. The six people rode horses around to the south of the mountain, and then slowly climbed up the mountain. When they were still nearly 700 to 800 meters away from the snow line, the slope of the mountain was already too steep for the horses to carry them.
People climbed up again. In desperation, a few people had to tie their horses to the tree first, and then climbed up on foot.
"Long live, Gongga Mountain is so big, where can we find that land?" Da Zhuang asked as he climbed.
I walked around a huge boulder and pulled Xizi over: "The snake didn't say where exactly it was, but I think it shouldn't be difficult to find. The area of the scorched earth is not small."
As he was talking, Shui Yueqing in front suddenly shouted: "Look, there is a large piece of exposed rock five or six hundred meters above the snow line. Could it be there?"
I looked up and saw that the height of the entire Gongga Mountain is over 7,500 meters, and the snow line height is about 4,500 to 4,700 meters, which means that the entire 3,000 meters above the mountain is covered with snow! And under the long-term glaciation,
, the entire Gongga Mountain has developed into a cone-shaped and angular peak, and is surrounded by cliffs of 60°~70°. Of course, such steep cliffs appear at least one thousand meters above the snow line.
The place Shui Yueqing pointed to was just below the cliff, where the slope of the mountain was slightly gentler, but still extremely steep. The strange thing was that it was also above the snow line, but there was no snow in the area of nearly 100 meters.
The dark rock bottom is in sharp contrast with the white snow!
"It's probably there!" I don't know why, but I felt an inexplicable excitement in my heart. The same person who felt the same as me was Long Xiaoxu, with an unconcealable smile on his beautiful face.
Zuo Yan urged: "Let's go quickly. It will take a long time to climb up. We didn't even bring anything to eat when we came out. We have to fight quickly."
Xiaochuan didn't have such worries at all. After finally seeing the snow all over the mountain, she was so excited that she was like a red shadow, floating here and there on the snow quilt. Xizi had some kung fu and was the strongest among the three girls, but
Even so, when everyone climbed another five or six hundred meters, the alluring twin peaks couldn't help but begin to rise and fall violently.
"We are about to reach the snow line, shall we take a rest?" Shui Yueqing gasped while holding on to a fir tree.
"Have a rest, it's harder to climb up there." Zuo Yan sat down and took a piece of grass in his mouth.
I found a place with a wide view and sat down, but the shadow of the snake woman kept appearing in my mind. That woman was not like the rumored snake spirit, she seemed not so sinister and vicious. Alas, snakes hibernate.
To resist the cold winter, I wonder how it is doing now?
However, it's strange to say that I didn't open my heavenly eye last night, so why did it open by itself? Just when I felt extremely puzzled, a soft voice suddenly came from my mind: "Mr. Qian, stop thinking about it.
, I opened it for you. Although she is a snake spirit, she is a good girl. Seeing you treating her so cruelly, I always feel that something is wrong, so I let you take a look."
"Khan, that's it. But isn't there nothing we can do about it? I don't want to be so cruel to it, but it just refuses to tell the truth." I said in my heart.
Yaomei's fairy-like voice sounded again: "Who doesn't have something to hide? However, the scars on her body were indeed caused by lightning strikes."
"Really? But Long Xiaoxu said that her snake age is not enough to cause thunder disaster." I was stunned and asked hurriedly.
"I don't know about this. It's possible that she was also affected." Qin Yaomei said.
The two chatted for a while, and soon Da Zhuang shouted from the front, and everyone had to climb up the mountain again. Fortunately, they were wearing thick enough clothes when they came out, otherwise they would have been crawling in the snow.
No one can bear the beating.
The snow that had just crossed the snow line was not too thick. It took everyone nearly an hour to climb along a glacier to the snow-free clearing.
As soon as they entered the open space, everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. The area of almost a hundred meters in radius had all turned into pitch black scorched rocks. The ground was full of sharp stones, and the pits were more serious than the surface of the moon.
many.
"What's going on?" Da Zhuang touched the sharp stones on the ground and mumbled about the props.
Shui Yueqing looked at the broken mark on a huge stone and couldn't help but said in surprise: "This couldn't have been struck by lightning, right?"
"It's very similar!" I picked up a stone and looked at it: "The entire Gongga Mountain is basically composed of granite. This kind of rock is very hard. Under natural conditions, it is impossible to be blown to pieces unless it is struck by lightning.
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Xizi asked in confusion: "Are you wrong? Why was it struck by lightning here when there were no other places? How many thunders would it take to strike such a large area?"
"This must have taken a long time to form." Da Zhuang said, and then looked at Shui Yueqing and me: "Is there any magnet underneath that can attract thunder and lightning?"
"Look at the place in the center where the explosion was the most powerful!" Long Xiaoxu suddenly pointed to the center of the open space and said.
Everyone hurriedly walked over. The rocks here had been blown into a mess, and a large crater with a diameter of twenty meters had appeared in the center. The most terrifying thing was that the ground was like cracked skin, with many cracks of different lengths and widths.
cracks!
"There should be a large magnet below!" Long Xiaoxu said.
I used my flashlight to shine into the crack, but it was not deep, just over thirty centimeters. Da Zhuang said a little puzzled: "Isn't this just an open space struck by lightning? What's there to see? I think 80% of us will be covered by it."
That snake spirit was deceived! Damn it, after all the effort, I should have killed it last night!"
Long Xiaoxu was still unwilling to give up, and encouraged everyone: "It took a lot of effort to get here. Let's search carefully, maybe we will find something." The five people couldn't help Long Xiaoxu's face, so they had to search slowly again.
Got up.
In fact, this place is just an open space that was struck by lightning and turned into ruins. There is nothing to find. To be honest, I feel like I have been deceived at this moment. Fortunately, there is no thunder now, otherwise everyone would really be killed here. Thinking of this, I
Suddenly I was stunned. Could it be that the snake itself was injured here?
Just after I had some doubts, Xizi stood on the edge of the central pit and suddenly shouted: "Come and take a look, there seems to be something shining down here!"
When everyone heard this, they hurriedly ran over. The luminous object Xizi mentioned was under a relatively wide crack. I followed the flashlight light and looked down. The crack was not too deep, only more than 20 centimeters, but there seemed to be something underneath.
It's a very small hole, and the luminous object is very deep in the hole.
"That's not the light, but the reflected flashlight." I couldn't help but get excited. It was definitely not a magnet fragment, but I used all the flashlights and couldn't see clearly what it was from various angles. Suddenly I thought of Xiao Chuan.
I hurriedly pulled the little girl over and said, "Xiao Chuan, do your uncle a favor and go down and see what it is?" The three girls glared at me with dissatisfaction, but there was nothing they could do, so they had to acquiesce.
Xiaochuan nodded, and not long after the red figure went down, he floated up, his big eyes widened, and he made exaggerated gestures: "There is a big, big, big boat inside." After saying this, he crossed his little hands.
Together, they looked at everyone in a daze.
"What!? Boat!!!" The six adults exclaimed even more exaggeratedly than she did.