the last priest

From the map, it should be located in the northeast corner of our country. 1 Chaozi and Zhuo Xiong took turns driving in 1 middle swastika. Except for refueling time, they even had meals on the road. Lao Wang kept refusing to disclose any information, and he only knew there when he got there.

The car had already got off the highway, and after walking for a while, the national road gradually became a country road, and then there was no road at all, let alone people.Fortunately, the performance of this car is good. It is not a big problem to cross a small river or go up a small hurdle, but Cha Wenbin is a little motion sick and feels uncomfortable.

Opening the window, I took a breath. The wind outside was so cold that I woke up shivering all over my stomach.

The car kept going until it was really impossible to go forward, Lao Wang informed everyone to get out of the car and walk. It was already midnight in the morning, the sun had already come out, and the people in the sun felt a little warm.According to Lao Wang, as long as you turn over the mountain in front of you, there will be a stockade. If you want to drink hot at night, you must hurry up and arrive before dark.

Looking at the snow-capped deep mountain, Chaozi thought to himself, the old man, you are fooling me. Could there be people living there?Besides, there might not even be a lonely ghost in this place, could there be someone?

The snow in the north is different from that in the south. The snow over there is dry snow. Because the temperature is low, even if it gets on your body, it will not melt and wet your clothes because of the body temperature. Instead, you only need to shake it gently like beating dust can be removed.

However, the snow here seems to have fallen years ago, and the foot of the mountain is not bad, with sporadic piles after piles, but from the halfway up the mountain, there is a vast expanse of whiteness, like a mirror, and there is no way to see. .

Right now the equipment is complete, everything that should be in the car, even the goggles to prevent snow blindness, one person jumped into a heavy bag and started to the top of the mountain.

Chao Zi and Zhuo Xiong stayed on the snowy plateau, and their fleshy faces were naturally strong, so there shouldn't be any major problems with their physical strength.Zha Wenbin said that although he was not as good as the three brothers, at least he had practiced Taoism for so many years, and he could barely keep up with him.Lao Wang was in a terrible situation. He was old. The mountain road was rugged, and there was a layer of thin ice in many places. Even if he was wearing hiking shoes, he didn't dare to be careless, and his speed was naturally slowed down.

But this time he was the legitimate team leader, so he gritted his teeth and persisted. After more than two hours, he managed to climb halfway up the mountain.Da Da’er didn’t rest all the way, and if he climbed up, he would reach the snow line. The mountain is steep, but that’s not to say, it’s just one word: high!

To say that Qifeng Mountain is half in the clouds, this mountain is all in the clouds, because it has a name called: Tongtian Peak!

In ancient times, emperors often climbed Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to heaven. In the eyes of princes and nobles, Mount Tai was so high that it was so close to the sky that it was closer to the gods in the sky.In order to show their admiration for God and the piety of offering sacrifices and praying activities, emperors often climb mountains to worship heaven and earth on special days.

Tongtian Peak, as the name suggests, goes straight to the sky!The mountains in the north are not as steep as those in the south, but they are big.A mountain range is endless, spreading tens to hundreds of kilometers, or even thousands of kilometers long.Because there are deciduous trees here, and the soil at the foot of the mountain is extremely fertile, so there are many unknown stories hidden in these rolling mountains.

Cha Wenbin has seen the mountain here long ago, two words: boldness!

Where there are mountains and waters, there must be dragons, where there are dragons, there will be Qi, and where there is Qi, a dynasty can be born.As the dragon head of this oriental dragon in China, every inch of land here is filled with aura while breathing.

After resting for a while, looking up at the top of the mountain, the road ahead will not be so easy.Everyone holds a trekking pole in their hands, the most important thing is to test the thickness of the snow.Fortunately, human activities here are not very frequent, so half of the pine trees are still exposed all over the mountain.The leader was Chaozi, holding those tree trunks with one hand and holding a trekking pole with the other, walking one step at a time and one at a time, and the people behind followed the traces he had walked.

Walking in snow is no different than on flat ground, each step requires more effort, and the speed of walking naturally slows down again.At this glance, I can see that there is nothing but white or white in the past. I really don't know when it will be the end.

Chaozi led the way silently. He couldn't stop. Once he stopped, he would lose his temper, and the team lost spirit.With steam in his mouth, he stepped on it, huh?No, there is a situation under your feet.

The snow here is dry snow, and it can reach the calf even if you step on it on ordinary ground, but this time you stepped on the upper of your shoe.Chaozi tried to push hard a few times, but it was very hard, so he fiddled with it out of curiosity.

The snow on the upper layer was quickly swept away, gradually revealing a piece of granite with obvious grinding marks on the surface. Based on the experience of the two years spent in the archaeological team, he recognized something here at a glance.

"Hey, come and have a look, there's something here, I guess it's probably a monument." Chaozi turned around and shouted down.

New discoveries during a boring journey can always arouse people's curiosity, and even Cha Wenbin was not included this time. The depressive atmosphere for the past few days has already made him feel very uncomfortable, and now it has accelerated. The steps circled towards Chaozi.

The snow under the feet was quickly pulled away. As Chaozi said, this is a remnant stele. The material should be granite, but there is no such stone nearby, so it should be polished and transported from other places. come over.

Perhaps because the age has been vaguely long, the text on it is very blurred and not so easy to read.Lao Wang took out a magnifying glass from his bag, examined it carefully, waved his hand towards Zha Wenbin and said, "Wenbin, come over and take a look, the words engraved on it seem familiar to me anyway, look Is it a bit like..."

Cha Wenbin didn't pay much attention to it at first, but after hearing Lao Wang's words, he knelt down to have a look.It doesn't matter if you look at it, the eyebrows on the forehead are locked together immediately.

He moved his body closer, closed his eyes, stroked the remnant stele with his hands, and felt the different rhythms from his fingers with his heart. Slowly, a few fragmentary handwriting appeared in his mind, and he put these characters together. After getting together, Zha Wenbin said: "Yes, these characters again." After opening his eyes, Zha Wenbin looked at Lao Wang, he was quite natural, fiddled with his magnifying glass, Zha Wenbin did not change He asked sternly: "Old Wang, since I chose to come, you should know the truth. You don't need to tell us your identity, but what is the goal of this operation? How much information do you have? I hope that If you can answer truthfully, this is a basic explanation to my brother."

Lao Wang probably expected that Cha Wenbin would ask this question sooner or later, and he put his hands to his mouth and said in a huff: "Actually, I don't know very well. The information here is also given to me by the organization. Since the last time After Mount Qingcheng passed away, the organization told me that there was still a sacred tree, and locked the location in this area. It is said that people were sent to look for it a few years ago, but the information they brought back was either worthless, or Just disappeared. The only information I have is that there is a small village on the top, where a dozen families live, and I don’t know anything else like you.”

Chaozi looked at Lao Wang evilly, and laughed dryly: "Uncle Wang, I didn't expect that your throat is really deep, but if you sell us this time, then the guy you gave me in my waist will be nothing. It's going to catch fire."

Lao Wang's face turned white and red after hearing this. In fact, he really didn't want to come to find Zha Wenbin, but the organization recognized his ability in Qingcheng very much. This kind of thing has to be said by fate. You can find that door.

Zha Wenbin took out another brush from his bag, dipped it in cinnabar, and traced along the blurred handwriting. After a while, a series of strange patterns appeared.After a long sigh of relief, he said: "It really has something to do with it. Chaozi, Zhuo Xiong, you can see that this is the same type of writing as the ones we saw in Qifeng Mountain. It is because your father has studied it for so long and still has no clue. This It is a culture from ancient times, an era that died out, and now it is reappearing in the Northeast, which is hundreds of thousands of miles away, but it is a pity that it is covered by snow, otherwise we would have found something."

These characters resemble insects and paintings, and their structure is very complicated, not just pictographic characters. At this moment, Chaozi suddenly remembered that there was someone beside him, "Big brother, you should have been living in Qifeng Mountain all the time. Can you recognize these characters?"

Hengroulian was gnawing dry food, shaking his head like a rattle, and said vaguely: "I can't read."

Chaozi cast a glance and dropped two words: "Food!"

Zha Wenbin glanced at the top of the mountain, there was still a lot of road ahead, he couldn't delay any longer, and said: "Bury this well, make a mark, let's go up first, or it will be over when it gets dark."

The team moved. From a distance, it looked like a group of ants moving slowly on a white tablecloth, setting off for the top of the mountain!