Chapter 65 Chapter 19 Beyond the Accident

Xu Zhiwu said: "I have encountered it. But there is no definite evidence that they are here to find the golden eyes and silver beads." Niqiong thought for a while, and then said: "It's very easy to meet a few foreigners in Lhasa. But...according to my reliable information, there are also two groups of Germans who have come. They met in a Tibetan restaurant. The guy who arrived was on the first group, and on the other group, I went out to Lhasa to inquire a few times, but I didn’t receive any news. I don’t know if it’s what you said.” Speaking of this, he turned his head and said to me: "Xiao Luo, you have friends who are very magical. When I was in Lhasa, a little beggar who asked for money came to me and handed me a note written in Manchu. Written——Look at this..." He took out a dirty and crumpled note from his pocket as he spoke, unfolded it reluctantly, and handed it to me, "Do you know this?"

I shook my head in confusion. To me, there were twists and turns on them. I could recognize a few Chinese characters, which is not bad. How could I possibly know Manchu? Seeing this, Niqiong handed the note to Xu Zhiwu, Xu Zhiwu looked at it for a while and shook his head: "I don't know." He wanted to pass it to Lao Li again, but Lao Li waved his hand quickly: "I'm a vulgar person. I don't understand these things." Then Niqiong said again: "I know a little bit of Manchu... I also tried to interpret it. The general idea is that I must ensure Xiao Luo's safety. I can't take him to a dangerous place." , otherwise all the consequences will be at your own risk.”

No way, who is so boring, still come up with this trick!I'm speechless, I really hate this kind of peeping into your life, and acting dry in the name of caring, I waved my hand when I thought about it, and said, "Don't pay attention to him, I don't know Manchu Or friends who can write Manchu." Niqiong seemed to be scrupulous, and said solemnly: "Of course you don't have to worry about it. I'm just very surprised, who knows that I know Manchu—otherwise, why would he write Manchu instead of Tibetan or something else? Who is it... this is... Tenzin Zongji (Niqiong's wife) didn't even know that I could read Manchu... and he wrote Manchu to keep it secret, or..."

I thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't come up with a reason. Impatient with Niqiong's entanglement with this question, I said, "Let's talk about something else. In short, no matter what happens to me, I won't blame you." Niqiong didn't answer me directly. After thinking for a long time by himself, he went to ask Xu Zhiwu's opinion, and then he reluctantly agreed that I would continue to go on the road with them. Let's not gossip, after the agreement, Niqiong told us to clean up, and then took everyone to find the so-called "lock" leading to the world of immortality.

On the way, Niqiong asked Xu Zhiwu: "Didn't you say you already know how to unlock it?" Xu Zhiwu said indifferently: "Yes." Niqiong wanted to ask further questions, Xu Zhiwu hurriedly said: "I'm thinking about this, please don't interrupt." Niqiong had no choice but to shut up knowingly. I thought that the entrance that Niqiong said would be in the city of the Guge ruins, but I didn’t expect Niqiong to take us straight to the gate of the Guge ruins, but he didn’t go in. They chatted for a few words before leaving.After walking a few steps, I remembered, isn't this the way to the mummy cave?

So he quickly asked Niqiong, "What's going on here?" "Aren't you looking for a lock? This is the way to the entrance." Niqiong said. "But, but...but now we are walking towards the mummy cave." I stammered. I believe that anyone who has been to the mummy cave will understand why I don't want to step into the mummy cave again. As long as I am an individual, I will never want to go there again. "Xiao Luo, just follow Brother Niqiong." Xu Zhiwu muffled.Judging by his face, it seems that there are other things on his mind. ... After entering the mummy cave, the group of people became much more familiar. Except for Lao Li, everyone could look calmer on the surface.The last petroglyph has been completely covered with mud by the gatekeeper Tajie, and there is no trace of it.

Niqiong led us to go in without stopping. Judging from the twists and turns of the cave, the last time we saw the petroglyphs, we only reached the entrance of the cave at most, and the various bones and human flesh in the cave, It's just something to put on the threshold to scare people.The air in the hole is getting thinner and I'm starting to feel dizzy, and he doesn't stop. "Niqiong, how long do you have to go?" I couldn't help asking. "It's almost there." Niqiong replied without turning his head. Sure enough, after walking in for another 20 minutes, there were some faint lights in front of it.Everyone was startled when they saw the light, they all stopped, looked at Niqiong, and waited for him to speak.

"It's okay." Niqiong looked at everyone calmly, and said, "I ordered people to come in and light the lamp. Because of the things inside... I'm afraid that if you encounter it suddenly in the dark, you will be frightened." Niqiong spoke very lightly, afraid of being intimidated by us——we all gasped when we reached the two rows of oil lamps that were lit continuously with holes. It's all human heads and skeletons! Lao Li and I turned pale immediately, looked at each other, stepped back a few steps at the same time, suppressed the urge to turn around and run.

Niqiong and Xu Zhiwu were taken aback by our actions, and kept asking what was going on, what was going on.Only then did they know that we had already seen this kind of lamp on Jambako Mountain.At that time, there was an iron chain under the head and skull lamp, and an undead zombie was tied to one end of the iron chain. After hearing what we said, Niqiong didn't seem surprised, and calmly corrected a mistake: "Don't worry, there is no such thing in the cave for the time being, and it's not a zombie. It's a dead body." "Recover the corpse?" I looked at Lao Li and Xu Zhiwu, they also looked confused. "What is this?"

"It's used to protect the crystal... Don't ask too many questions, I don't know." Niqiong was a little impatient with our ignorance, and said angrily, "Now hurry up and discuss what is in front of you. I have been to this cave many times. ...But it is limited to being here many times, and there is no gain." Xu Zhiwu asked him: "These lamps with human heads and skeletons are not your masterpieces, are they?" Niqiong sneered and said, "I want to have such a great ability to get so many skeletons. Then I need to take the risk and release the golden eyes and silver beads to attract capable people?"

Niqiong was usually very polite and polite, but after entering the cave, he became very irritable, and he seldom answered nicely when asked.Fortunately, no one took it to heart.Without looking at him, he led us to snake forward under the illumination of the skull lights on both sides. There was a strange but familiar smell in the air, not the stink of mummified corpses or anything else, but...but a very familiar herbal smell.I clearly remember where I seem to have asked about the smell, but I just can't remember.So he asked Lao Li in a low voice if he was familiar with the smell. Lao Li was obviously trying to identify it, he sniffed it vigorously, and said: "It seems to be Tibetan incense, and it seems to have a sulfur smell..." Before he finished speaking, Niqiong suddenly interrupted him, saying: "This Both the lamp oil and the wick were specially made by the cave builders. Not to mention you, even I have never seen it.” That being said, I do find the smell very familiar.Niqiong unceremoniously denied my thoughts: "You can't see it in other places, because this lamp and lamp oil are used to restrain some kind of monster... We must hurry up, if the lamp goes out, we haven't seen it yet." If we go out, no one among us will be able to get out of the cave completely with our bodies." Xu Zhiwu didn't believe it, and said, "What monster? It's not that serious, is it?" Niqiong sneered and stopped talking.After walking two more steps, he told us to pay close attention to the sides of the cave wall, saying that there were still petroglyphs.Niqiong knew the cave well, so he asked to see the petroglyphs, and sure enough, the petroglyphs appeared in front of us soon.It's just that the petroglyphs this time are somewhat different from the last one. The lines of the petroglyphs last time were smooth and cheerful, concise and vivid.But this time, the lines were distorted, obscure, and extremely abstract. It took me a long time to see something similar to a crown, as if it should be a person wearing a crown, but the face was clearly not a human, but a dinosaur. Such a monster with a wide mouth - it seems so.However, if you look at it for a long time, vertigo is also possible. I have yet to look at it carefully.Niqiong kept urging that there was not much time, and he wanted to rush us to see the most important place.So I had no choice but to glance at the other pictures, feeling that the lines were all painfully distorted, and the content could not be understood for a while. I followed Niqiong and turned a few more turns, there were still skull lights on both sides, and the strange smell gradually became less strong. While walking, Niqiong suddenly let out a "Huh" in astonishment. "What's going on?" Xu Zhiwu asked quickly. Niqiong pointed to a large pile of fresh soil on the ground, his face was very ugly, and he couldn't say a word. Then I felt a little bit in my heart, could someone come in before us?What vital things have you dug away?But…… My face was as pale as a dish, and I asked, "Isn't all of this a secret? Niqiong, why does anyone else know besides you?" Niqiong shook his head, bit his lips tightly, and said nothing, instead of going straight forward, he lifted his foot across the pile of dirt and went into the slant.We had to follow in. Across the mud pile, there is another fairly spacious cave inside. There is nothing on both sides of the cave wall, but the light coming in from nowhere, vaguely illuminates people's outlines, and their faces are unclear.Niqiong was still leading the way and was walking when he suddenly tripped and fell to the ground. Everyone was shocked, thinking that he had been plotted against, they asked him what was the matter repeatedly, and wanted to retreat in confusion, and wanted to help Niqiong up, the scene suddenly became a mess.Fortunately, Niqiong quickly reacted, and said in a deep voice: "It's okay, everyone, don't worry!" As soon as we saw that he was fine, we had confidence in our hearts and stopped panicking. Xu Zhiwu hurriedly asked him if he fell. , and asked if he could get up, and if he wanted someone to help him. In the dimness, I couldn't see Niqiong's expression clearly, but he said calmly: "Dead man." In case we didn't understand, he added, "A dead man tripped me up." dead?Xu Zhiwu came to his senses first, rushed forward to have a look, and quickly called Lao Li and me: "Xiao Luo, Li Zeng, come and see...how can they be Germans! How is it possible! How is it possible!" He stared at that In the sentence of a corpse, he even said several "how is it possible". Lao Li and I went to have a look and were stunned, how is it really possible!The person lying on the ground was the young man who was talking to Xu Zhiwu in German in the middle of the road when Xu Zhiwu was about to run the red light in Lhasa. A trail of blood turned to the depths of the cave... This... all of us were confused, Niqiong looked at Xu Zhiwu, Xu Zhiwu looked at me and Lao Li... "What should I do?" I was completely out of ideas. After all, Xu Zhiwu was someone who had seen big scenes, so he calmed down quickly, wrapped a piece of cloth in his hands, and turned the young German's body over. As soon as it turned over, Xu Zhiwu gave a strange cry and immediately jumped away.Pointing at the corpse, he tremblingly said, "You...you...look..." Needless to say, we all saw it: a huge hole on the back of the corpse, with broken bones and pieces of meat scattered in it, and irregular jagged bite marks on the edge of the hole—I’m pretty sure it was a bite mark, and it was a huge hole with well-developed masseter muscles. The mouth animal bit at the waist, tearing off most of the bite marks on his back! "In the cave...in the cave..." I wanted to say that there were beasts of at least the level of ligers and tigers in the cave, but my whole body was trembling, and even my teeth were chattering, and I couldn't even utter a complete word. Everyone was frightened and stupid, staying there not knowing whether to run or escape. I just felt weak in my hands and feet, and the horrible experience on Mount Jambaque came to me one after another.I told myself to leave quickly, to stay away from the wrong place, but I couldn't lift half of my strength.I didn't even have the strength to think, it was completely blank.I only know one thing, and that's that it's over again. ... After a while, someone finally spoke, it was Niqiong.He said with difficulty: "It seems that the golden eyes and silver beads are really ominous things, which have already attracted monsters... We... none of us will be spared..." It was hard for me to get rid of the shadow of zombies or corpses on Jambaque Mountain, and now I have encountered such a thing!I regret it, I regret it completely, I should have listened to the little girl who sang Xiangba Tibetan opera if I knew it earlier, and don't interfere...Damn it, why am I so curious, I have to follow Xu Zhiwu to see what happened! I regretted and feared at the same time, and completely lost my usual calmness. At this moment, a sound like a heavy wooden door being opened suddenly came from the depths of the cave. When I heard it, I thought it was a ferocious beast. Everyone was so terrified that their faces were pale, their livers were torn apart, and they wanted to run, but they couldn't move their legs. Xu Zhiwu asked Niqiong tremblingly: "How...how...how..." Although Niqiong was panicked, he was slightly better than the other three of us.He could barely utter a complete sentence, although his voice was trembling: "Now we... can only... run along the bloodstains... I don't think we can escape. Why don't we go and see." Just listen Content, people who don't know will think that he is not afraid at all.But looking at his face, he was completely pale, and the fear he showed was not inferior to ours.Besides, his voice trembled when he spoke.He was so frightened that he still insisted on going in again?Did he dare to see the power of the faceless?I thought my ears were frightened and I heard wrong. Xu Zhiwu trembled, and asked in disbelief: "Go in?...Now?" Niqiong hesitated again, and said weakly: "Now..." He paused, thought for a while, and then said, "Otherwise, we can wait until we go back to get some weapons and equipment." As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately woke up, and without waiting for Niqiong to speak, they immediately turned around and ran out, and the sound of Zaza's door stopped abruptly.