Chapter 667 Mystery in the Snow Mountains (Part 1)
Walking in the endless desert, Tuoba Huaisu asked Huayue beside him: "I don't understand, you are already the queen of Dashi, why do you want to return to the Tang Dynasty?"
Huayue glanced at Tuoba Huaisu and said, "I don't understand either. You are already a Zoroastrian saint, so why bother to pursue a legend that goes against the teachings."
Tuoba Huaisu laughed, changed the topic, and asked Huayue: "If, in addition to the era we live in now, there really is another world hundreds or even thousands of years later, if you have the chance, would you Are you willing to stay here, or are you willing to try to go to another world?"
Huayue said without hesitation: "I will stay here."
Tuoba Huaisu: "You answered too quickly, shouldn't you think about it again?"
Huayue: "My family is here."
After Tuoba Huaisu heard this sentence, he stopped talking.
The group started from the North Courtyard and headed northeast.
After crossing the desert and walking across the grassland, it took a full ten days to finally reach the foot of a snow-capped mountain.
Tuoba Huaisu got off his horse, pointed to the top of the snow mountain and said, "Shen Qian is right there."
Huayue frowned: "How did Shen Qian die?"
Tuoba Huaisu: "Strictly speaking, I don't know whether she is dead."
Hua Yue said blankly: "What do you mean by this?"
Tuoba Huaisu: "She took a Zoroastrian poison, then entered a cave in the snowy mountains, and finally slept there. However, there was something... strange about her body. My master and I studied It’s been a long time and I still don’t understand it.”
Huayue: "Let me guess, the poison was given to her by the holy witch Qing."
Tuoba Huaisu nodded and said: "That poison is made from kalan flowers. If the dose is small, it is a hallucinogen. If the dose is large, it can kill people."
Huayue: "Kalanhua? When you lit up the cigarette in Liangcheng and caused Erlang to hallucinate, was that Kalanhua?"
Tuoba Huaisu: "Yes."
Huayue: "You just said that there was something strange about Shen Qian's body?"
Tuoba Huaisu: "I can't describe the specific situation. You will understand it when you see it."
Huayue took the thick robe and windshield, no longer asked, followed the Zoroastrian believers, and began to climb up the mountain road.
After nearly an hour of climbing, amid the biting cold wind, Huayue finally came to a path with obvious traces of artificial excavation.
Tuoba Huaisu faced the cold wind and said loudly: "A hundred meters ahead is the entrance to the cave."
Huayue nodded, and after walking a few steps, she suddenly stopped.
Under the puzzled gazes of others, Huayue knelt down and pushed aside the snow on the ground, revealing a corpse.
When Tuoba Huaisu saw this, he was startled for a moment, then walked over quickly, opened the body, checked it over, and said in a deep voice: "They are Zoroastrian people, something happened on the mountain!"
Huayue glanced at the wounds on the corpse and said, "The fight happened not long ago. If we rush over now, it might still be too late."
Tuoba Huaisu said hello to the left and right, and walked towards the mountain at a faster speed.
After walking another hundred meters, a cave entrance, half buried in the ground and half exposed in the snow, appeared on the mountain.
Following the Zoroastrian, Huayue squatted at one end of the cave entrance, jumped down, and entered the cave.
Tuoba Huaisu looked around, his voice full of anxiety: "There were supposed to be guards here, but now I don't know where they have gone, and I don't know what happened to my master now."
Huayue: "The more times this happens, the more careful you must be."
Tuoba Huaisu nodded, followed the rock wall, and walked into the cave.
The further you go inward, the more the road slopes downwards, and the more spacious the cave becomes.
Hua Yue saw that there were many forks in the cave, so he said to Tuoba Huaisu: "The terrain here is complicated, and intruders may not be able to find the right path at once."
Tuoba Huaisu walked forward for a while, and found that there was no sign of the enemy along the way. He couldn't help but quicken his pace, and finally came to a tunnel deep underground.
Different from the ice and snow outside the cave, the corridor here looks unusually warm, and there is a faint fragrance floating in the air.
Tuoba Huaisu said to Huayue: "We're almost there."
After walking forward for a while, the group finally came to a huge underground cave.
This cave is a hundred meters high and covers an area of nearly thirty acres. There are all kinds of rare and exotic grasses growing on the ground, and there are many strange ores on the rock walls.
But the most shocking thing is that in the center of the cave, there is a frozen lake, and around the lake, there is a circle of gaps where geothermal steam is constantly rising.
Huayue exclaimed: "There is ice and snow here, as well as molten heat, but it is a rare place of ice and fire."
Tuoba Huaisu avoided the geothermal steam and walked along the fragile and cracked stone path towards the glacial lake in the center.
Huayue was a little surprised: "Shen Qian's body is in the ice lake?"
Tuoba Huaisu: "When passing through geothermal heat, be careful of the red flowers growing on the edges."
Hua Yue looked as he was told and saw countless red flowers at the junction of geothermal heat and glacial lake, emitting a faint red light in the darkness, moving without wind.
Tuoba Huaisu: "Those are the kalan flowers I mentioned before, and they are also commonly known as hell flowers. The fragrance of the flowers can make people hallucinate."
Huayue covered her mouth and nose with her robe and followed Tuoba Huaisu to the ice lake.
Following the frozen surface of the ice lake, the group continued to move forward, and finally arrived at the center of the lake, a mausoleum covering an area of less than 100 square meters.
There are several stone statues whose appearance has long been lost, plus some ancient monuments. Apart from this, nothing else can be seen.
Hua Yue looked around, and when she was confused, Tuoba Huaisu waved her hand and motioned for her to come over.
Huayue walked to the center of the mausoleum, followed the direction of Tuoba Huaisu's finger, and looked under the ice. She couldn't help but be so shocked by what she saw that she almost screamed.
I saw a coffin made of crystal sunk in the ice beneath the center of the mausoleum.
A female corpse was lying quietly in it, and there were countless things like tree roots growing around her body.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Huayue looked at the female corpse, her eyes widened, and she murmured: "This is impossible."
In the ice coffin, Shen Qian's body has experienced hundreds of years of silence, and now it looks like it has not decayed at all, as if it was asleep.
Tuoba Huaisu: "There are witchcraft books in Zoroastrianism, which record many stories of sealing the dead in ice and snow to protect the body from decay for hundreds of years. The Zoroastrian saint witch Qing at that time should have used a similar method to preserve Shen Qian His body was buried here again."
Huayue: "But why? Why did Wu Qing do this?"
Tuoba Huaisu: "Do you still remember that Shen Qian once said that she wanted to go back to the past to save the country of Yanqi, and save her husband and children. However, she also knew that if she wanted to save the past, if she stayed in the present , then we can only wait for death, and the only way is to seal this body and live in the world she once lived in."
Hua Yue understood everything in an instant: "You want to say that Shen Qian wants to use the method of freezing to preserve her body, return to the era she once lived, and then find a way to return to before the destruction of the Yanqi Kingdom?"
Tuoba Huaisu: "If the truth is like this, then many things can be explained...such as the prophecy, and different worlds..."
Huayue was stunned for a while, then looked at Shen Qian in the ice coffin and asked hesitantly: "Can a person really wake up after being sealed in ice and snow for a thousand years?"
Tuoba Huaisu: "I didn't believe it at first, but Wu Qing did find a way. At least Shen Qian's body has not rotted at all and looks like a living person. This is an indisputable fact..."
Before he finished speaking, a gloomy voice suddenly came from the other end of the cave: "So it's here."
Huayue and Tuoba Huaisu followed the sound and saw an ugly woman walking into the cave with a group of warriors.
And that ugly woman turned out to be Tuoba Huaisu's senior sister, the traitor to Zoroastrianism, Ayimu.