Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 472 Siguniang Mountain (32)

472 Chapter 472 Siguniang Mountain (32)
While stopping at the lake, Zhang Qiling had carefully observed the internal environment of the cave and discovered that in this typical natural glacier ice cave, only the few ice stone bridges and frozen black hair balls were artificially built and placed here. , the key clues to leaving here are most likely hidden in these two places.

At this time, I heard the girl murmuring: "Natural ice is different, clean and translucent. You said that there is an area of ​​several hundred square meters at least here. Since I left a reminder before, it stands to reason. There should also be a reminder here."

Zhang Qiling quietly glanced at the girl and saw that she was looking at the surrounding environment and sorting out her thoughts, and then continued to say with a serious face: "The ice lake is really empty over there. Brother, you see there is only ice here. Those black hair balls frozen in the ice shell are incompatible with the beautiful scenery here. The entrance to the cave must be hidden in a very hidden layer of ice, but is the mechanism that opens the passage right in front of us? Maybe those black hair balls Is it a clue to give us a hint?"

After saying that, the girl tilted her head and looked up at Zhang Qiling, but Zhang Qiling's eyes had already returned to the lake.

Seeing that he had no reaction, the girl seemed to know something about it, so she asked him softly: "Brother, have you already thought of it?" But after the words fell for a while, Zhang Qiling still didn't respond, so the two of them The individual falls into a state of complete stillness.

At this time, Zhang Rishan and his party had climbed down from the Bingshi Bridge. He came to the two of us. It seemed that he wanted to ask Zhang Qiling something, but he probably just wanted to ask, "Clan leader, what should we do next?" Before he could speak, Zhang Qiling saw from the corner of his eye that the girl was afraid that he would be disturbed. She had stretched out her little hand to gesture to Zhang Rishan, telling him to be quiet. Zhang Rishan looked at the two people again and then nodded. He lowered his head and walked away without saying a word.

After waiting for a moment, Zhang Qiling looked at the girl who had been looking at him stupidly waiting for his reaction, meaning to ask her to follow him. Then the two of them walked towards the area where the frozen black hair balls gathered, and soon they were Standing in front of a frozen hair ball.

The outer ice shell of the black hair ball is very transparent, and the thickness of the ice shell can be clearly seen. It seems to be several centimeters thick. There are bouquet-like ice crystals condensed on the surface of the ice shell, and there are also some long pointed ice crystals. Bamboo shoots are scattered on the ground around it.

Zhang Qiling briefly looked at the frozen hair ball and then looked up at the stone bridge above, as if he was looking for something. After looking at it for a few times, he suddenly looked back at the frozen black hair ball and whispered to the girl: " Let’s go.” He was about to walk into the pile of hair balls.

Upon seeing this, the girl's two little hands immediately grabbed his arm. She opened her mouth for a moment and turned to look at the girl looking at him with a horrified look on her face.

The girl glanced at the frozen hair ball and said in a weak voice: "Isn't it frozen solid?"

Although it was not obvious, Zhang Qiqi felt that the girl was pulling him in the opposite direction of where he was going. Looking at her cute little appearance, he knew clearly that the clues might be there, but he was also afraid of those hairballs. The whole body refuses to enter the frozen black hair. It's so cute.

After Zhang Qiling's eyelids drooped for a moment, he still maintained a calm and calm look. He pulled the girl up and burrowed into the gap of the frozen egg. The little girl panicked and grabbed his arm and leaned against him. After a while, her arms tightly hooked around his waist and hung on his waist.

Zhang Qiling walked through the frozen eggs while looking at the stone steps above from time to time.

The black hair balls range from tall to short, fat or thin. The height of the hair balls is basically over 1 meters. Coupled with the ice shell, the frozen hair balls are high and low like a formation of stones.

The two people avoided the ice bamboo shoots on the ground and walked through the frozen black hair. The ice bamboo shoots that were really blocking the way had to be chopped off. It was not until he and the girl suddenly stopped that the girl asked him: "Do you always look at the stone?" Bridge, is there any connection between the stone bridge and this place?"

Zhang Qiling pulled the girl from the waist to him, held her little face, and asked her to look up from where he was standing. The little girl let out a long "uh" in confusion and said: "Oh , where the intersection points of several stone bridges facing vertically downward are clues, right?"

Zhang Qiling gently touched her little head to show that she was right. He didn't need to explain more clearly. The girl had already started to look at the intersection by herself, looking for the object below the corresponding intersection, a distinctive black hair ball. Already standing in front of the two people.

This ice ball, including the ice shell outside, is taller than Zhang Qiling. The black hair ball inside the ice shell is tall and strong. There are some black metal wrapped in the black hair. The part that can be seen most clearly is an arm-like shape. A thick metal rectangular ring, the rings are set together. It should be a thick chain. You really can't see it unless you come in and take a closer look.

I asked my brother, "What do you mean? You want to move that chain, it's frozen solid."

My brother didn't answer, so I looked at the position of the chain again, twisted my body and looked at him with my head held high, and said, "If you pull the chain, you have to break the ice shell of this black hair ball."

Zhang Qiling just continued to look at her with a faint look. The girl rolled her eyes and said "Oh": "You let me do it."

Zhang Qiling raised his eyelids slightly, then turned the little girl's body back so that she faced the frozen black hair ball with chains.

Although the girl had a lot of fear about this thing, with Zhang Qiling standing behind her, her courage suddenly increased.

She took a few deep breaths, then gathered spiritual power in the palm of her hand, turned her wrist, raised her little hand, and slapped the frozen hair ball in front of her.

It seemed like he just slapped his hands lightly like a child playing house, but the ice cubes made a "click-click" sound in an instant, and fine cracks began to appear on the originally smooth and translucent ice shell. The girl's palm spread outward in a circle, and soon sparkling explosions appeared on the ice shell.The girl retracted her palm, and Zhang Qiling immediately pulled her to hide behind another black hair ball. The ice shell of the black hair ball, which was beaten into explosive ice crystals, began to shatter after several consecutive "pops" and ice shards were everywhere. splash.

In the blink of an eye, there was a "bang" sound as the ice shell completely exploded, and with the sound of ice shards falling, a terrifying-looking black hair ball completely shed its shell, and the black iron chain It's also exposed a little more.

Soon, ice slag stopped falling nearby, and the blasted ice shell did not affect other ice. Zhang Qiling led the girl towards the special black hair ball again.

The girl huddled behind him, and they looked at the black fur ball. They found that this ball was a little different from the one they saw before. What they saw before was a human body wrapped in a black fur shell, but the body had rotted and dried up, and this one was Although the body is wrapped in thick black hairy fungus as thick as a fringed blanket, the outlines of the head, body, arms and legs are clearly visible, and it looks like a complete human form.

The girl pressed close to him and frowned and said: "This hairy man can be considered tall and burly, so the corpse is still very fresh. The temperature here is at most a little lower than 0℃. Ordinary corpses will decompose even if they are frozen for two weeks." Bad, it can be stored for a year at most, and the temperature must be lower than this, so the corpse must have undergone some kind of antiseptic measures, so this group of frozen-haired people may be the first batch of immortality experimenters at that time. .

Both black hair fungi and corpse poison can control human nerves. The corpses in the hair balls outside are all mummies after all. The nerves of the corpses have long since decayed, but this hairy man's corpse is so fresh, the nerves and other things should still be there. , then, he doesn’t know this or that. "

Zhang Qiling guessed that the girl meant whether this thing would suddenly "come to life". Although he didn't want to scare her, he still said it truthfully: "Yes."

The girl looked up at herself, frowned slightly, pursed her mouth, and seemed to be saying to him, "Then let him go" in her heart, but she didn't say it out loud, but was thinking, because she understood that she should not let the hairy man go. How could her brother get the iron chain if he let it go, so he just made a sound that didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

At this moment, Bai Hao's voice was heard not far away. He said: "Get up, there is no one on the bridge anymore."

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Qiling immediately blocked the girl behind him. He reached out and held the black metal chain in his hand. People around him didn't dare to relax when they saw us making any move, and they remained vigilant.

He held the chain tightly with both hands, straightened his front legs, lunged with his hind legs, and gradually squatted down. Based on the principle of exerting upward force, his body weight fell backwards, and he used force to pull the chain.

The first few strokes of the chain didn't move at all, but the tendons on my brother's arms, neck, and temples were all popping out. It was obviously very difficult, after all, the other end of the chain was frozen somewhere.

I said to him sincerely: "Brother, let me help you."

He looked at me, and I patted my chest and said, "Don't worry, Xiaoxun is sensible."

I stood in front of him and said to him: "Don't exert force yet, it will be fine soon."

After I finished speaking, I squatted down on one knee and put my hand on the exposed crack of the chain. I closed my eyes and used my own ability to feel the position of the chain. I could sense my brother, so he was holding the I can also sense the chain.

In fact, there is thick ice under our feet. The ice layer seems to be less than one meter deep. The chain is frozen in the ice layer. However, the chain is slightly tilted and extends into the ice lake, so the chain The depth of the freeze is only a few dozen centimeters, and our side is the shallowest. I only need to give it a slap like I just burst the frozen black hair, and my brother can easily pull it.

However, we are all on top of the ice, so we have to control our strength, otherwise the ice will crack too much, so I started to accumulate strength, and slowly touched the chain with my hand. My palm suddenly opened and injected spiritual power into the chain. Then he held down the chain and slapped it down, and the ice under his palm immediately began to crack, and a series of cracking sounds were heard exploding under the ice.

The cracks extended from our position to the center of the ice lake. The cracks were like a tree with lush branches growing on the ice.

The popping sound gradually stopped. I stood up and turned to look at my brother. Although he didn't praise me, his expression seemed much more relaxed. I knew he was very satisfied with my help.

I returned behind him, and he repositioned himself to pull the chain. This time, with just one click, the ice close to the ground cracked like lightning cracks, making it much easier to pull than expected.

The chain got looser and looser, and it felt a little longer. The chain behind it was still swaying in the cracks in the ice with splashes of water.

Until I heard a loud "bang" at the bottom of the lake, my feet began to shake, and the ice on the lake cracked into many irregular pieces along the cracks in the chain. My brother dropped the chain, pulled me up, and walked quickly towards a safe area.

(End of this chapter)