The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 300 Silver Piece

Guozha Co is a typical alpine lake. We advance from the southwest position. The terrain along the way is high and low, with plateaus and low valleys. Due to the altitude, there is still a lot of snow and the wind is very harsh.From where we are standing at the moment, we can overlook Guo Zhacuo.

Of course, we didn’t want to cross it, but went around the northwest of the lake to reach the high-altitude no-man’s land. It was already a little late at this point, so we didn’t move on, but chose to camp on the spot.Zhou Xuanye and I set up a tent together, doing coolies, while Tan Ren sat on the ground, looking at Guo Zhacuo in the distance, pursing his lips tightly, revealing his proud side profile, seemingly thinking about life, the truth I know he's just being lazy.

In Tan Ren's words, these miscellaneous tasks are not what he should do.Through my many trips and observations, every time I have to do chores, Tan Ren will put on a deep and serious look, as if I am thinking, and signal the people around me not to disturb him.

Zhou Xuanye has been his senior brother for so many years and has not assassinated him yet. He really has a good temper.

Forget it, the boss is all about the money, it doesn't matter if the boss is lazy, as long as the money is paid on time.

After we finished setting up the tent, Tan Ren also finished thinking about life, put away the deep side face that had been posing at us for a long time, and sat in front of the tent, chewing compressed biscuits.It was dark here, and it was still bright after eating. Although my muscles were sore and weak, I couldn't sleep, so I sat in the position where Tan Ren was posing.

This location has an excellent view, overlooking the entire Guozha Co and the surrounding undulating terrain, white snow and blue lakes, blending together, it looks absolutely beautiful.I couldn't help thinking of Team Zeng's words.Since they were going to enter the snow-capped mountains, they must have passed through Guo Zhacuo. He didn't even pay attention to such a beautiful lake, so how beautiful is the very, very beautiful lake in the depths of the snow-capped mountains that he said?
Even after seven years, even with his memory damaged, he can't forget it?
Zhou Xuanye also sat beside him, sighed, and said, "It's beautiful." Then he asked me again, "Can you take it?"

I said, "No problem, I don't feel anything."

The altitude here is already more than 5000 meters. The average person will experience altitude sickness when they reach an altitude of about 2700. However, except for a few people, this altitude sickness is generally very small and will not be noticed. This kind of reaction will be more obvious. As for the place with an altitude of about [-], it is a bit challenging for ordinary people.However, this thing varies from person to person. Some people have good physical adaptation and psychological quality, and basically it will not be affected.

I'm a highly reactive type. Fortunately, I came to XZ a month earlier and did some adaptive exercises, so I really don't feel anything at the moment.

Zhou Xuanye said after hearing the words: "It seems that the previous training is still effective."

I nodded, looked at the lake in the distance, and suddenly became curious: "I heard that the water in this lake is half salty and half fresh. I don't know if it's true."

Zhou Xuanye smiled and said, "This is still false."

"Why is that?"

Zhou Xuanye motioned me to stand up, and finally pointed at Guo Zhacuo and said, "It is fresh in the north and salty in the south. Have you seen that? It melted, formed ice trenches, and diluted the water in the north, so this pattern was formed."

"Brother Zhou, you know a lot, you're amazing."

"It's not me, it's just that I googled it beforehand." Speaking of this, he suddenly said: "When I checked the information, I also saw a saying that the mineral content in this lake is very high, so you can wash it in it. Take a bath, and you won’t get any skin diseases in the future, why don’t you try it.”

I said: "Don't be ridiculous, the temperature now is probably only three or four degrees, go down and take a bath, don't freeze to death."

We were chatting, but Tan Ren was different. This girl had already dragged off her shoes, socks and gloves, and went down to wash in an ice ditch not far away where the snow had melted.Cleanliness is sometimes admirable.However, Tan Ren stretched his foot in and soaked it for a long time, then suddenly pulled his foot out, and his facial expression wrinkled, as if he stepped on something in the water.

I stood on a high place and shouted: "Boss, what's wrong with you?"

He didn't answer me, and bent down to touch in the water. After a while, he found something. It was a little far away. I couldn't see what it was, but judging by the shape and color, it didn't look like a stone, but it looked like something. fragments.Tan Ren observed it against the afterglow of the sky, looking very serious.

Zhou Xuanye and I looked at each other, and immediately ran down without saying a word. There are not many things that can arouse Tan Ren's interest. What is that thing?
Soon, the two of us ran to the side of Binggouzi, and saw what Tan Ren was holding in his hand, which looked like a piece of iron, a very thin piece, about half the size of an adult's palm, with some lines on it, obviously It can be seen that it is made by artificial hands, not a natural formation.At the edge of it, there is a green thing the size of a bean inlaid, which Zhou Xuanye said should be turquoise.

Tan Ren said: "It's a fragment of some kind of silverware, it should be a long time ago."

I said: "Is there any antiques in this ice ditch? Last time I read the news, it was said that a lot of antiques were found in a ditch in a mountainous area. They were all caused by the collapse of ancient tombs on the mountain and were washed down by the river. Hey... Could it be that this also rushed out of the ancient tomb?"

Tan Ren glanced at me contemptuously, and said in a deep voice: "XZ has practiced sky burials in ancient times, and later Sinicization has ground burials, but there are very few of them. If you want to encounter ancient tombs here, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack." Then, Looking at the silver piece in his hand again, he took out a small condenser lens from his pocket to check the patterns on it, and felt like an archaeologist in an instant.

I saw that he was very attentive, and I couldn't help but wonder, I know Tan Ren likes things like jade and stones, when did he become interested in these?
After a while, he suddenly frowned and said, "See if there is such a thing in the water."

Although I don't know much about the antique market, I also know that such shards that can't be seen from the broken prototype are worthless, so I said, "Boss, why are you looking for this?"

Tan Ren ignored me, handed the spotlight to Zhou Xuanye, motioned him to look at the silver piece, and said, "The pattern on it is very similar to what we saw in the tunnel of Yumen Secret Palace, it is hibiscus wood." I was a little uneasy when I heard this. How could there be patterns of hibiscus wood on the silver piece that Binggouzi accidentally picked up?

This, this is too coincidental, right?
After reading it, Zhou Xuanye nodded in agreement and said it was the pattern of hibiscus wood. At that moment, Zhou Xuanye and I also took off our shoes and socks, and the three of us entered the cold ice ditch and groped through the water.Soon, we found three more fragments, all of which were crescent-shaped. Zhou Xuanye judged that these fragments should be one, and they might be some kind of Tibetan accessories, but why did they appear in this ice ditch? It really makes us feel unbelievable.

The upper reaches of the ice ditch is the highland Guozha Co, which flows down the highlands, and the low temperature makes both sides full of ice floes and snow.

Could it be that this thing rushed down from above?

We immediately groped upstream, and sure enough, we found more.

More than two hours later, we arrived at the outskirts of Guo Zhacuo. My feet were already frozen. Slightly swollen and sore like ice sticks.

When we got here, we couldn't go any further to salvage, because if we went any further, we would go down to the lake.

Obviously, as we guessed, these things were indeed washed down from Guozhacuo Lake. At this time, we have salvaged more than ten fragments one after another. These fragments have various weird patterns, including Both pieces have traces of hibiscus wood.

I even came up with a bold guess, could it be that the very, very beautiful lake that Team Zeng said was actually Guo Zhacuo?He had been insane for a while, could it be because his memory made a mistake, so he remembered the wrong location of the lake?
Perhaps, the mysterious residents in the snow-capped mountains are actually very close to this lake?

No, if it was very close, someone would have discovered it long ago, otherwise this place wouldn't be called no man's land.

What the hell is going on with these things?

At this moment, Zhou Xuanye, who was still persevering in the water, suddenly found another thing. This time, the thing he found was not a fragment, but when I saw it, my doubts deepened.

It was a pendant, a modern pendant. Under the black rope, there was a golden zodiac sign. In addition, there was also a rectangular silver piece inlaid with agate, turquoise and other things. , is relatively well preserved, but the texture and shape, at first glance, belong to the same group as some of the fragments we picked up before.

But, how is it worn on this pendant, which is obviously a modern craft?

(End of this chapter)