Ancient Sword II: The Tracking of the Fierce Mountain

Chapter 190: Crater Lake

The light moves up the stairs, the blue-gray steps are full of smiling baby heads.I don't know what the designer's intentions are, or the skull itself is relatively hard?Except for the top of the child's head, which was left to itself, the rest of the ladder was compressed into a square shape, and the gaps were stuffed with bones from an unknown part of the human body.

"Such an act is truly unheard of." Xie Yi shook his head in disgust.

"How many children do you have?" Looking at the bone steps that kept climbing, Le Wuyi was a little startled, and then thought of those stone carving women, "Meow meow, their actions, could it be..."

Coming with heads in their hands is like adding these babies to the stairway.

Xia Yi rubbed the space between his brows, thinking about it for a moment, still puzzled: "Since ancient times, in the tombs, I only heard that virgin boys and girls were refined into medicine, or made into human piles, but I have never heard of them being used...to build roads. "

It is extremely cruel and bloody, and it is not known which tribe's custom it is.

"A Ye," Xie Yi couldn't help covering Shen Ye's arm, "Do you think this appeared before the fall of Liuyue City...or after?"

Such a custom was definitely not done by the Lieshan clan.But what I thought was the ruins of Liuyue City, but there are such weird things, which makes people think too much.

It is said that the stacked cave is very dangerous. Whether Liuyue City crashed on the ancient tomb, or someone built a new mausoleum on the wreckage of Liuyue City, it is not good news.

When Shen Ye thought of that possibility, his expression was not very good-looking.He rubbed the center of his eyebrows: "Let's talk about it later."

If it is really overlapping points, it must be dealt with at that time.

"Then what should we do next? Do you want to go up?" Le Wuyi pointed at the group of babies who kept laughing at them, but couldn't bear to look away for a moment.

The four looked at each other, and the answer was self-evident.

So Shen Ye and Xie Yi were in a group, and Le Wuyi and Xia Yi were in a group, stepping up the bone steps one after the other.

The surface of these skulls is very smooth, walking on them, although it will not be like walking on thin ice, but it cannot be careless.

Wherever the halo went, there were layers of dead babies' heads.Thinking about it this way, I might as well feel comfortable walking in the dark.At least, you don't have to see these weird smiling faces.

The stairs gradually went deeper into the mountain, and the mountain walls on both sides were polished very flat, and occasionally extinguished lamps could be seen embedded in it.

Xia Yi stepped forward to check, shook his head at Shen Ye and the others and said, "The lamp oil has been burned out."

"It doesn't matter," Shen Ye said, "It's not important in the first place."

The four continued to move forward. Although it was dark along the way, they did not encounter any danger.

Maybe it's because of the steps under your feet?

Thinking of the kneeling corpses I saw earlier, maybe this bone step may not necessarily be a solemn sacrificial path in the eyes of a certain tribe.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, there was a sudden chill in the dull air.

The four of them looked up and saw a few snowflakes hovering at the end of the bone steps.Gray sky, piled up snow, is this the exit?

Shen Ye took the lead in stepping out of the tunnel, stepping on soft snow.The sky is still scattered with snowflakes, and what you see in front of you is actually an extremely wide basin.

This basin looks like a volcanic cone, surrounded by steep cliffs, and many pinnacles rise and fall.The entire basin is covered with snow and ice, and it is extremely cold.And its bottom is relatively flat.

Xie Yi, Xia Yi and Le Wuyi came to Shen Ye one by one, and the white air they exhaled floated in the air.

"Unexpectedly, it went straight to the top of the mountain." Xie Yi said softly, "Is this the top of Yuheng Snow Mountain?"

"Maybe." Shen Ye said.

The surrounding cliffs are towering, blocking everyone's sight.But as far as the eye can see, there are no other higher peaks.Perhaps, this is not necessarily Yuheng Snow Mountain.

After falling off the cliff, there is such a shortcut leading directly to the top of the mountain.

Le Wuyi looked around and found that there was no sign of Liu and Huang's family. He couldn't help but said, "I don't know what happened to those people..."

There were no traces of people left on the snow, and the group obviously hadn't come up yet.

"Don't worry," Xia Yi comforted, "Time is not urgent, we can just look for clues."

There is only a reminder in the ancient books that "the road appeared on July [-]th, and it was put to death in the sea of ​​fire and then reborn". It said the time, but it didn't say what the road was.

Le Wuyi nodded: "It's true."

At this moment, Xie Yi stretched out his hand, pointed to the center of the basin and said, "What is that?"

The four of them took a closer look and found that the flat snow had an obvious depression in the center.Because the distance is a bit far, I can't see what is buried in it.

"Go and have a look." Shen Ye made a final decision.

On the white and dust-free snow, four rows of shallow footprints were printed.

The four of them came to the center of the basin, only to find that there were actually three sunken pools.The three pools vary in shape, but can be roughly classified as circular.They are very close to each other, almost forming a triangle shape.If it weren't for the obvious snow lines protruding between the pools, one would think it was a lake.

On the top of the snow-covered mountain, the three pools are not frozen.But the water in the pool cannot be said to be so clear, it is the unique emerald green color of the volcanic lake - the saline-alkali deposit of the volcanic lake, if there is strong sunlight, it is easy to breed algae.Obviously, the algae in the three water pools in front of us are very lush, green, and look very sticky.

But the strange thing is that such a volcanic lake can only be seen near the equator, and Yuheng Snow Mountain obviously does not meet this condition.

"It's really strange," Xia Yi rubbed his chin, "Why can algae grow in the volcanic lake here?"

"It's really weird." Xie Yi nodded.

The two looked puzzled, obviously lost in deep thought.

Le Wuyi scratched his head unbearably: "At this time, shouldn't we pay attention to the issue of this volcano?"

Volcanic cone and volcanic lake, there is a volcano under their feet.Although it is covered with ice and snow all year round, extinct volcanoes sometimes erupt...well, wait...

"The road appeared on July [-]th, and he was put to death in the sea of ​​flames and then reborn..." Le Wuyi became more and more frightened as he spoke, "Meow, it refers to a volcano, right? Will there be a volcanic eruption?"

The sound of "pa--" was Shen Ye's unbearable slap on Le Wuyi's head: "Shut up."

Le Wuyi covered his head, realized that he had a crow's mouth, and said with a smile: "Hey, I'm talking nonsense, nonsense..."

Xia Yi rubbed the top of his hair for him, and said in a helpless tone, "I thought you already knew it was an extinct volcano."

Le Wuyi looked at Xia Yize with grievance.When did I know?

Xia Yi rubbed again: "It's my fault, I should remind you."

Le Wuyi was full of emotion.

Looking at the puppy-like Le Wuyi, Shen Ye felt his hands were itchy again.

Xie Yi coughed and brought the topic back: "If this is indeed a volcanic lake, then is it possible that the surface of the lake is frozen under our feet? If Liuyue City is submerged in water, such a layer of ice..."

Xie Yi's voice gradually weakened, because the three of Shen Ye turned their gazes over, all with slightly surprised expressions.

"..." Although it was only a possibility, Xie Yi still felt helpless when he saw the stunned expressions of the three of them, "You...haven't thought of it?"

What answered him was the eyes of the three who looked away in embarrassment.

Xie Yi: "..."

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