Chapter 36 Chapter Seven: Ice Falls

This seems to be the waterfall Yuan Yuanyuan mentioned, but now it's an ice waterfall.I am not surprised that there are caves behind the waterfall. It seems that in many stories, there are mysterious places behind the waterfall.The key now is how we get in. The ice layer is not thin, it is hard and thick. If we use a hammer to hit it, it may be useless for a day, and there is no time now, and an avalanche is about to happen. The big civet ran to our side, and it stopped obediently in front of the ice waterfall, refusing to leave.I don't understand its behavior, and it refuses to leave after driving it away many times. Is it because I saved it once, so it wants to die with me?This is too exaggerated, there is no possibility.It stared at the ice waterfall. I looked at it for a while and felt very confused, but now I don't have time to deal with such boring confusion.

"If you can go in, you can avoid the avalanche." Xu Qianer said, hitting the ice with his hand. "How can I get in, don't tell me to use explosives." I almost lost my desire to speak, "Avalanche is about to happen, is it really going to die here, is there still time to write a suicide note?" "Regret now? I said that when a wild cat comes to the door, disaster will follow. Don't you believe it? Forget it, it's time, take out the things." Yuan Yuanyuan stretched out her hand to me as she said. "What? I didn't bring a hammer." I shrugged my shoulders, but at this moment I felt a shock in my feet. My God, the avalanche is here.

"That arrow, don't tell me you don't have it." Yuan Yuanyuan's expression was very calm, not worried about the imminent avalanche at all. "You...you..." I was tongue-tied, and after talking for a long time, there was only one word "you". Can not forget. I understand Yuan Yuanyuan's thoughts, such a hard and thick ice layer, if you use a golden arrow, it must be easy to penetrate.However, my golden arrow was hidden in an extremely hidden place on my body. Even if I was in danger in the Huoyan Mountain, I didn't dare to take it out.The arrow used at that time was another one, although it was never known whose arrow it was.The avalanche is not a joke, we can be submerged in just a second, if we don't shoot the arrow at this moment, I'm afraid there will be no chance!

I gritted my mind, and let the golden arrow come out this time to take a breath! Here, let me talk about a past event when I was young.My home is in a place surrounded by mountains in Guangxi. There is a big mountain when I go out. I often went up to play when I was a child.When I was ten years old, I accidentally fell into a trap set by my father. A long gash was cut on my left hand, and the blood flowed continuously.At that time, I was still young, and I couldn't climb out of the trap, so I could only sit in the trap and wait.Before that, my father had already told me about the family heirloom, but he only showed me the bow and crossbow, but he never took out the arrow.

This time, he suddenly took out a golden arrow in front of me. I liked it so much that I even forgot the pain in my arm.However, a strange scene happened next.While saying that the arrow should not be displayed in front of people, my father poured my blood on the golden arrow.The arrow softened after being stained with blood, and then my father kneaded the golden arrow into a small hard lump, and then stuffed it into my arm. In fact, even I can't believe this scene, until now, I feel like I'm dreaming.Sometimes I even suspected that I had hallucinations due to excessive blood loss.My father did not send me to the hospital after that, but he stitched me up himself, took good care of me, and repeatedly asked not to mention it to others.If something life-threatening happens, these two things can be taken out to save lives.But I still don't understand, how can a bow and an arrow save lives if their function is nothing more than destruction?

In short, in my life, my father is always so mysterious, and it seems that he always has many secrets to tell me. Now, let's turn back to reality.The avalanche had already swept across the sky, and the other two didn't have the slightest fear, but all stared at me.I ignored my father's instructions, and according to the method my father taught me at that time, I squeezed my left arm and poured all my strength into it, and a golden sphere burst out from my hand together with blood!After the golden arrow came out of the body, it quickly returned to its original form, and then rushed towards the ice layer.I made the worst plan, but the golden arrow crushed the ice waterfall in an instant, revealing a big hole.

Without time to think about it, the three of us and the big civet jumped into the cave behind the waterfall.And at the same time, the avalanche flooded exactly where we were standing.I don't know how long the waterfall has been frozen. If it wasn't for the tight time just now, I must have ventilated the place well to avoid inhaling poisonous gas.But after rushing in, they found that after the ice waterfall, the air in the cave seemed to be constantly tumbling, as if the wind was blowing. "Turn on the flashlight!" I yelled, not out of fear, but because the avalanche outside shook the ground, and I couldn't hear it without shouting.In addition, because the destructive power of the avalanche is too strong, we are not completely safe now, we have to drill deeper, otherwise this place will also collapse.The last reason is selfish - I was anxious to find the golden arrow shot from my body, for fear that the big civet cat was a greedy cat and would take my golden arrow away.

Yuan Yuanyuan and Xu Qian'er quickly turned on the flashlight, and I anxiously wanted to get up, but I didn't know that the ground was too slippery, but I fell again heavily, the pain was so painful that my teeth were almost crushed.Fortunately, the golden arrow was right in front of me. Enduring the pain in my arm, I wiped the blood off the arrow. Surprised that it had not been corroded, I hid it on my body.My wound was bleeding all the time, and the pain tended to magnify when the temperature was too low, so I had no choice but to grit my teeth and persevere. The strange thing is that Yuan Yuanyuan and Xu Qian'er were only surprised, and did not ask about the origin of the golden arrow.I have prepared many lines in my mind to deal with them, who knows they didn't fart.The big civet blinked its green eyes at me, then quickly ran into the darkness and disappeared in a blink of an eye.Since there is an animal like a big civet here, I think there won't be any dangerous things in the space inside, otherwise it wouldn't have survived until now.It's just that I'm still curious, why does it have to go behind the Ice Falls, what's in it that deserves it to do so?

"It's impossible to go out the same way now, what should we do?" I was troubled, but before I finished speaking, the wound on my arm was frozen, which shocked me.Before they could reply, I hurriedly put down my sleeves so as not to ruin my arms. "Why do you go back? After coming in, we must find that thing!" Xu Qianer smiled strangely. "Uncle Xu, you found something, don't mess around." Yuan Yuanyuan said worriedly. "Okay, okay, I'm kidding again, go find something, and get out." I was so confused by them that I didn't want to hear any more.But if the ice layer was shattered for the first time, it meant that Fan Li and the others didn't come in. In this way, something happened to them somewhere else.

When their flashlights shone on the ground, it was covered with thick ice. Although we were dressed thickly now, we couldn't stand it anymore.However, I found that there are many white lines in the ice layer, which are thick.Although the ice is white, I always feel uneasy, as if those things will endanger our lives.At the beginning, all 17 Chinese and Japanese climbers disappeared in an instant, and the search and rescue team could not find even a single hair. We had to be careful, although this is not where they disappeared. We were about to walk in cautiously, but there was a stench coming from the opposite wind. When Xu Qianer smelled it, the expression on his face trembled a little.

Xu Qianer said that the smell came from the big civet. It usually emits fragrance, but when it encounters dangerous things, the opening in the sachet can secrete oily civet fragrance, which acts as an animal pheromone.In fact, this kind of secretion is very foul-smelling. When they find an enemy, they will spray out this foul-smelling substance to confuse the enemy. Then take the opportunity to escape to the tree and hide. After I heard this, my footsteps hesitated.Since there is danger ahead, why does the big civet venture in?What danger lies ahead? "Look, with his appearance, how did the old man choose this brat?" Seeing my reaction, Xu Qianer was very contemptuous. "Don't talk about it, uncle, he has his own measure." Yuan Yuanyuan excused me. I was a little unconvinced, since I was a child, I was frightened by something in the mountains when I was hunting, and I have never been afraid of any ghosts since then.Even if the King of Hades is blocking the way ahead, I will still go ahead.In order to prove that I was not afraid, I deliberately walked in front, but the road was too slippery, and I almost fell down and made a fool of myself.However, I am still confused, who is the "he" they are talking about, why did they choose me, or Fan Li and Xu Shaode? I also had a flashlight, but I lost it when I rushed into the waterfall. Fortunately, they have prepared several, so don't worry.Now they are taking care of them, so I don't bother to use them, so that I can free up my hands to do things.The road ahead has always been a downward trend. If you go fast, you may just roll down.This place is like a crystal palace. The ice refracts the light of the flashlight, and illusory colorful lights appear around it. I always feel like I am dreaming.Not only that, our figures were reflected on the ice, which made me so nervous that I thought I was walking on the runway. In the small town at the foot of the mountain, when we were asking for directions, we once heard such a story from the villagers.In 1720 AD, that is, the fifty-ninth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, two staff members of Jiang Chenxi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou at that time, Du Changding and Songfeng from Guangxi wrote the book "Tibet Journey".It is written in the book that they set off from Kunming in early December of the lunar calendar in 1720, and arrived at Adunzi (today's Deqin) six months later.During the period, I wrote about a white snow mountain. The original words are as follows: "The snow mountain is 200 miles long (this statement is correct, because the exact distance from Benzilan to Deqin is indeed 100 kilometers, which is 200 miles) , the mountain is not very high, there are trees, but no grass grows, and there is no human habitation. The water is not drinkable, and you will be panting after drinking it, and it will even hurt your life. There are white pythons that can move clouds and mist, rain and snow, and you will get sick if you touch it." In this passage, I am most concerned about the latter sentence. At first I sniffed it, but now the white line in the ice cube makes me feel uneasy.If they had not been to Meili Snow Mountain, they would not be able to write such detailed information (there are many descriptions in the book, which are omitted here).However, according to the villagers, the two people were terrified on the mountain and went crazy when they came down. It took the village witch doctor more than a month to cure them.And these two people, after regaining consciousness, immediately fled from this Meili Snow Mountain.This situation is the same as Hiroshi Nakamura, but the time is separated by hundreds of years, so I don't know if there is any connection. The villagers here are very simple, and their words seldom exaggerate, I am convinced of this.Now that I have seen something inside the ice cube, I just hope that the white line will stay inside forever and never run out.The wind in front of me suddenly increased, and my clothes got into the ice and snow, and I felt that my stomach had become solid when I opened my mouth.The cave only turned a few turns, and the rest went straight down. The space is quite large, and at least five people can walk side by side.However, when we turned the fifth turn in the cave, a few drops of blood appeared on the ground, which seemed to belong to the big civet.There is still an aftertaste here. I never thought that the big civet could release both fragrance and stench. The power of nature is indeed powerful. However, after walking a few meters around the corner, an abyss suddenly appeared, with no way out.The three of us suddenly worried, since there is no road, where can the big civet go? There has never been a fork in the road here.There is a strong airflow rushing up from the bottom of the abyss, and the wind in the cave spreads from here. Because the airflow is so violent, we can't open our mouths at all, and can only communicate with our eyes and movements. Suddenly, I noticed that Yuan Yuanyuan was pointing to the opposite side of the abyss. She seemed to be very surprised, her eyes were so wide that they were about to pop out.Although there is a passage on the opposite side of the abyss, the distance between the two sides is ten meters.In the light of Xu Qianer and Yuan Yuanyuan's flashlights, I vaguely saw something flying towards the opposite side as if flying through the clouds, and then instantly merged into the darkness.