the last priest

Snow mountaineering is not like outdoor sports. It is an extremely energy-consuming thing. At present, everyone is still carrying heavy equipment. When stepping on the ground, the boots under their feet keep making "creak, creak" sounds. ╞ Chinese? ╡

Because this vast expanse of whiteness emits more than half of the heat from the sun, even in such a state of motion, the lips are frozen purple.Fortunately, none of them were too delicate, and all of them were humming and trying to climb up.

Chao Zi and Zhuo Xiong, a pair of scouts with rich snow experience, predicted the route ahead, because the ground was covered with snow, and it was impossible to see that there was a protruding rock. This kind of place is easy to cause landslides and artificial ground Small scale avalanches.

The trekking pole is the only way to rely on the road. Chaozi plunged into the snow in front of him. After feeling that it was flat ground, he took a step. "Ah!" As soon as he waved it, he disappeared into the snow in an instant. Cha Wenbin behind him didn't have time to pull it away, leaving only the broken snowflakes that Chaozi brought up still flying in the air.

A few people hurriedly gathered around to have a look, good guy, there is a big black hole in the snow that hangs straight down into the ground, presumably Chaozi missed his foot just now, and his whole body was swallowed up by this snow-covered hole .

Cha Wenbin hurriedly crawled to the entrance of the cave, and shouted to the bottom: "How are you, Chaozi?"

There was no echo from below, and after receiving the spotlight handed over by Lao Wang, it was so dark that it was impossible to see what was going on.He was so anxious that he wanted to go down to have a look, unloaded the burden and put it aside, but Zhuo Xiong reacted quickly and stopped him: "Brother Wen Bin, don't worry, I will first check if there are any holes around, so as not to make a mess all of a sudden. Drop one down."

Lao Wang nodded and said yes, Zhuo Xiong took a trekking pole and looked around, and Cha Wenbin over there had already prepared the climbing rope.Fortunately, there were no other collapses around. Cha Wenbin found a cedar tree, tied the rope and prepared to go down.

When Zhuo Xiong was arguing with Zha Wenbin about who should go down first, he heard a groan of "Ouch, Ouch" from below, and Zha Wenbin hurriedly asked, "How are you, Chaozi, did you break it?" .”

Hearing the yelling from below, he immediately yelled: "I fell back just now, but I just feel hard to breathe, my butt hurts, ouch..." The kid yelled again from below.

Cha Wenbin quickly grabbed the rope and shouted: "Don't worry, don't worry, I'll come down right away."

The hole was about 20 meters deep, and Cha Wenbin, who was only worried about Chaozi's safety, had no time to take into account the surrounding situation, and arrived below in a short while.Chaozi was lying on a pair of dead pine leaves and moaning, it seemed that this kid was really frank.Then Zhuo Xiong also came down. He has experience in field rescue and knows a little about emergency treatment.

After checking with He Yichao again, fortunately, he was wearing thick clothes with pine branches underneath, that is to say, he had stumbled, so he applied some medicine, and after drinking a few sips of water, Chaozi slowly regained his vitality.

As soon as the kid opened his mouth, he said, "Damn it, which bastard dug a hole in this damn place, and caused grandpa to almost fall to his death. I think it's probably a wild boar trap set by the farmers above. I didn't expect to plot me!" Now, I have to talk to them after a while."

Zhuo Xiong laughed and said, "Your wild boar trap will dig so deep? If you walk carelessly, it's not bad if you didn't fall to your death."

Seeing that the kid is all right, Cha Wenbin then remembered to look at the cave, it doesn't matter if he doesn't look at it, he really frightened himself when he looked up, why would he be frightened?dead!

Dead people scare Cha Wenbin, but have you ever seen a frozen dead person?

The cave is surrounded by ice. If you don’t walk around, it’s like a mirror. Inside this mirror, Zha Wenbin suddenly found several smiling faces. The smiles are stiff, and there are more than one!

Just within their line of sight, at the bottom of the cave, there are four smiling faces. This kind of smile is the kind of superficial smile we say, the smile is very unnatural. The boss of pedaling looked at them.Some people could see more clearly from a little distance from the ice surface, especially there was a child-like person sticking his palms outwards firmly on the ice.From their point of view, it looks like a little boy locked outside the glass door is beating the glass, ready to come in at any time.

Not only Zha Wenbin saw it, but all three of them saw it now. No living person can live in the ice, so it goes without saying that it must be four dead people.

"God, Brother Wenbin, what's the situation here, what's going on here..." Chaozi's scalp became numb when he saw those things, thinking that he fell down and was surrounded by such a group of friends, it felt really good in his heart uncomfortable.

Cha Wenbin just stood there and looked around, and said, "I don't know, they all look like dead people, but they look too alive, as if they were instantly put into the ice while they were alive , it’s the first time I’ve seen such a weird thing in my life.”

Seeing that no one came up for a long time, Lao Wang shouted loudly: "Hey, what's going on down there?"

After hearing this, Zha Wenbin replied: "It's all right, don't worry, I'll take a look at the situation first, and I'll go up immediately." After speaking, he said to Zhuo Xiong: "You take Chaozi up first, and I'll come later."

Although Zhuo Xiong also vaguely felt a little uneasy, staying in the bitingly cold cellar is not a pleasant thing, not to mention there are a group of inexplicable people staring at you, just thinking about it, you don't want to stay for a minute longer.He set up Chaozi and helped him to the side of the rope, and asked, "Can you climb by yourself?"

Chaozi laughed dryly: "You underestimate me too much. It's okay. I'll go up first, brother Wenbin. You should hurry up too. Don't look at that stuff, be careful."

"En." After Zha Wenbin responded, Chaozi pulled a rope, saw that it was very strong, and climbed up with his hands and feet, and Zhuo Xiong asked in this gap: "Brother Wenbin, who do you think these are?" Ah, it looks so pitiful."

Except for the child, these people are a little shorter than modern people, but they are very strong, and the clothes they wear are made of animal fur. It seems that the workmanship is not very fine, and they are wrapped in original ecological leather. outside.The hair of these people was grown, the beards were not shaved, and the soles of their feet were bare instead of shoes. No matter how they looked at them, Zha Wenbin felt that they were people of a certain age, and they were not too young.It's just that the people inside the ice are so well preserved that the exact time can't be seen from the outside, as if they were alive.

Cha Wenbin shook his head and said, "I don't see it, don't worry about it, it's important to go up the mountain first, go to the village and find a few fellow villagers and ask them, they should know about such a big hole."

Chaozi shouted when he was not far from the moving mouth: "Come up quickly, there are more corpses in this cave than cow hair, all along the way, don't stay here."

Hearing what Chaozi said, Cha Wenbin's already dispelled curiosity was rekindled. While urging Zhuo Xiong, he put his face on the ice and observed carefully.

The spotlight provided by Lao Wang is really good. A strong light instantly penetrated the ice layer and illuminated the inside. A word suddenly popped up in Zha Wenbin's mind: "Amber!"

This amber is a precious natural relic. It is said that the tree will secrete a jelly, which just wraps a passing bug. Because the bug fell into this jelly, it is convenient for space isolation and will never be lost. will rot.With the continuous change of geological movement, the colloid gradually solidified and hardened, forming transparent minerals close to stone, but the billions of young bugs were still alive inside.This kind of natural amber is very valuable, and it is a precious treasure in the past dynasties.

Now the people in this cave are frozen inside one by one, isn't it just like amber?But so many corpses are arranged here in a regular manner, and it is definitely not formed naturally, it must be deliberately done by someone.

So what is the reason for this?When Cha Wenbin was puzzled, he suddenly thought that if the ancestors here used a funeral ceremony that had never been seen in the Central Plains, they put the dead into a well-made square container, and then Move it outside, because the temperature here is low all the year round, it will condense into ice soon, and then transported here to be piled up, so as to preserve the corpse and achieve burial.Of course, all this is just his guess. He named this burial method ice burial, but why do the people here have different facial expressions instead of the sleeping state that normal people show after death?And there are rich body movements, which obviously cannot be explained.

Cha Wenbin, who closed his eyes, felt the surroundings with his heart. He didn't find any sign of a soul, nor did he feel like a ghost. He was as calm as his own sweet potato cellar.That being the case, one thing more is worse than one thing less. Seeing that Zhuo Xiong was also on the top, Cha Wenbin tied the rope around his waist and shouted: "Pull me up!"

Several people above pulled the rope together, and Zha Wenbin was slowly lifted up, and faces with different expressions began to appear in front of his eyes: peaceful, terrified, sad, happy, and sleeping. In short, you can find all kinds of human expressions here, and without exception, all of them are men!

When he was halfway there, he caught a glimpse of a man who was not wearing animal skins and was also frozen in it. Just a glance, but it surprised Cha Wenbin: there was a red mark on the man's chest!

Cha Wenbin couldn't be more familiar with that trace, because another brother who was with him day and night had exactly the same tattoo on Zhuo Xiong's chest: Red Yinglong!