Xiaozi and Gesangmei Duo walked slowly for more than ten minutes in this empty ice city. Compared with some ancient cities that can be seen now and are called cultural heritage, the ice city seems to be more planned, and everything is organized.
In an orderly manner, the translucent buildings were divided into several pieces by the wide streets. Gradually, they came to a large open space along the streets.
This place is very much like a square, and all the buildings seem to be redundant. Only in the center of the square stands a three-story disc-shaped base. On the base is a stone statue with a green-black luster. The light cannot illuminate it.
It was far away, but when Mustache's eyes focused on the stone statue not far away, he had a feeling that seemed sudden and inevitable.
He had never seen the figures on the two metal objects with his own eyes, but his premonition told him that the stone statue was the same as the figure on the metal object. The stone statue was more than five meters high, like an ancient god of war, tall and tall, and other
Details were ignored, and what Mustache saw was the exaggerated left hand of the stone statue.
This left hand extended from the body of the stone statue, as if to grasp everything in front of it. When the distance was close enough, Mustache saw the ring-shaped six fingers on his left hand. There may be no trace of the past of this ice city.
People know it, but Mustache can feel that this stone statue is worshiped by the people in the entire ice city, and many people can gather around the empty square.
"It's hard to imagine, buddy, if there were people living in this ice city, what would they eat? What would they wear?" The camera in Gesangmedo's hand did not stop, taking pictures one by one.
Under the first base of the stone statue, Xiao Hu saw some chisel marks left on the ice. The ice here seemed to have never melted, and these marks were completely preserved. When Xiao Hu stared at these marks
After a while, he felt a little surprised.
He was no stranger to these traces. This was something even more ancient than the ancient Qiang note-taking talisman. It contained some primitive pictographic symbols and some weird lines whose meaning no one could identify. This was probably the ancient Qiang symbol.
Up to now, more than 60% of the symbols in the oldest records have completely lost the possibility of deciphering. Mustache has gone back and forth many times about the information about the ancient Qiang people, but he was unable to decipher this ancient record.
Thorough interpretation of symbols.
He looked at it for a long time, recalled it for a long time, and connected the intermittent sentences together according to the meaning of the recognizable symbols.
"We are about to leave. When you fall, no one can survive in the Holy City. We have persisted for a long time, but we are unable to change. Without your guidance, the earth and sky are dark. Please forgive your devout believers. Nothing.
People can disturb your sleep, but the guardian of the Holy City will always guard this place."
After reading this, Mustache confirmed that the aborigines of Ice City had migrated away, but they did not know where they had gone. Obviously, this stone statue with an exaggerated left hand and six fingers was the god they worshiped and believed in.
This problem is difficult to explain. In the vast Tibetan area, there are not many types of religions. Due to terrain reasons, Islam and Christianity from Central Asia and Europe have not been introduced into Tibetan areas. Except for the native Bon religion in Tibet,
The most influential religion is probably Tibetan Buddhism. However, this stone statue of a god that is worshiped and believed in is obviously not Bon, let alone Buddhism.
When Mustache slowly walked up to the third floor of the base, he was only one step away from the stone statue. At the foot of the stone statue, Mustache saw more than a dozen indescribable corpses. This was the only one he had seen in the Ice City so far.
There were traces of human beings. Bodies lay prone at the feet of the stone statues. They were all cut in half to death. The blood was completely frozen on the ice and had long since lost the bright red color that the blood should have.
This is probably a kind of bloody and cruel life sacrifice, using the blood of living people to worship the gods they believe in, and this may be the last life sacrifice of the Ice City Aboriginal people before leaving. The extremely low temperature conceals some normal things.
Changes, these corpses that have been cut in half are like zombies covered with frost. Even people like Mustache can't tell how long they have been dead.
"I really feel a little sick." Gesangmei Duo couldn't stand this kind of bloody scene. Although it was a long time ago, she refused to stay here any longer. Mustache looked at his watch.
I have been working continuously for a long time.
"Let's take a rest." Mustache looked forward through the light. The ice city is very large. After slowly walking through the altar-like square, the buildings became sparse, but became very tall.
A row of buildings like medieval churches stretched into the distance. At the entrances of these buildings, there were two square pillars more than three meters high. The two people stopped here and boiled a little warm water.
Kelsang Medo couldn't help but began to ask Xiaozi's motive for coming to Tibet. She was very smart. From the time Xiaozi had a secret conversation with Rinpoche in the Gazha Monastery, she had already noticed something strange. By this time, she was completely
You can understand that your employer is definitely not an ordinary person.
"Brother, what I want to say is that only after you tell me something, can I complete my work better, can't I?" Gesang Medo held the hot water and secretly sneaked through the rising steam.
Looking at the mustache, she never understood this employer. He looked a little thin, but like a snow leopard on a snow-capped mountain, every muscle seemed to be full of explosive power.
Especially the look in his eyes was just like the look in Mustache's eyes when he faced Rinpoche Rinpoche. Kelsang Medo felt that Mustache's eyes were as deep as the deep sea, and nothing could be seen at all.
"If you have fewer problems, you are doing your duty."
"Alas..." Gesang Meiduo curled her lips helplessly. From the tone of her mustache, she knew that she would not get any answer.
The two sat side by side and fell into silence. Gesangmedo wrapped her clothes tightly and covered her head with a hat. Although the temperature here was very low, after less than ten minutes, she tilted her head and involuntarily
Leaning on Mustache's shoulder, he actually fell asleep.
When Kelsang Medo leaned on Mustache's shoulder, he frowned slightly and reached out to push Kelsang Medo away, but the dim light of the carbide lamp illuminated half of Kelsang Medo's face and mustache.
Seeing this face, the outstretched hand paused. There seemed to be a natural aura about Gesangmei Duo, which was very sweet. This unique aura was irresistible and had an invisible affinity.
Gesangmei Duo slept for a few hours, and when she woke up rubbing her eyes, it was already the morning of the next day. Mustache had packed his things, and he planned to at least walk through the entire Ice City.
I don’t know how many tall buildings there are in the three rows. Xiaohu walked straight in, but Gesangmedo stopped for a moment beside two pillars more than three meters high. She raised the carbide lamp, and for a moment, it seemed that
He screamed in surprise as if he had discovered something.
"Dude! Look!"
Mustache had already walked out a few meters away. When he heard Kelsang Medo's cry, he had to turn around and come back. He looked in the direction of Kelsang Medo's finger. Kelsang Medo was afraid that he could not see clearly, so he turned on the light again.
He raised it a little higher and wiped it back and forth on the pillar with his gloves. The ice pillar was very thick and already opaque, but as Gesang Meiduo wiped it, something embedded in the pillar reflected the light and became crystal clear.
of light.
"It's crystal, pure crystal!" Kelsang Medo carefully identified it and said, "I don't know if I can see it correctly, but it looks very much like the crystal produced in Kaze Lake in Nyenchen Tanglha Mountain. Huh?"
Up here..."
Pure crystal is like a piece of glass. When you touch it carefully with your hand, you can feel slight scratches. These scratches are not obvious. If the light is not strong, they will almost be visible to the naked eye.
It's hard to tell. These scratches are curved lines, and they seem to be intertwined into a very abstract picture, which caught the attention of Mustache.
This crystal was very large, and then Xiaozi discovered that the lower part of the crystal was frozen in the ice, and the continuation of the scratches could not be seen. Xiaowu took out a very sharp dagger and scraped off the ice covering the crystal.
Kelsang Medo thought he wanted to take away the crystal, so he started planning to distribute the money from selling the crystal afterwards, and happily came over to help, using his own hidden knife to pry the crystal.
If it hadn't been for Gesang Meiduo's discovery, Mustache might not have paid attention to these two pillars at all, but during the process of shaving the ice, he always had a strange feeling in his heart. He couldn't help but stop holding the dagger in his hand.
, slowly walked around the two three-meter-high pillars.
He didn't know why, but he always felt that these two thick square pillars were like two coffins being erected.
"Brother, hurry up..."
In the dark environment, the mustache's ears are more useful than the eyes. Before Kelsang Medo could finish speaking, he grabbed her and quickly took a few steps back. Then, the hair on his head
The dome made a few very slight noises, and then there was a roar, and a large sheet of white snow poured down like a waterfall.
The falling snow immediately buried the two pillars, and before Mustache could think about it, a bright light shone straight down from above.
This snow should be the snow covering the ice city, and the sudden light was the kind of sunlight that was not strong. Mustache looked up and immediately found that the ice above his head had cracked, revealing a very narrow gap.
, the sunlight shines in through the gaps.
Everything happened suddenly and strangely. In a very short period of time, the light beam of sunlight suddenly burst out like a flash of lightning in the dark ice city.
The bursting light was shining on the top of the two pillars. This light seemed to have a very high temperature. The snow covering the pillars melted instantly. The two square pillars were frozen very solid, but they could not withstand the high temperature.
When the snow melted and exposed the pillars, the upper parts of the two pillars also began to melt.
Mustache suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart. This was the ability to predict danger. He clearly felt that something was about to happen.