After a night, the surface of the lake was refrozen with a layer of ice, but it was not strong and there was a risk of falling at any time if someone stepped on it.
The team came together to explain the situation to each other. Zhang Haixing and Zhang Haixing were also slightly injured, but it was not serious and did not affect their actions.
In order to avoid a long night and many dreams, after sorting out the remaining equipment, they planned to continue moving along the glacial lake.
There was a lot of chaos last night, and the ice slabs had floated on the lake to a place not far from the canyon behind.
But Feng was frightened by the battle in the lake yesterday and was unwilling to walk on the ice again. Zhang Haixing was also very afraid and did not want to take any more risks.
After some discussion, the team, led by Zhang Haixing, went straight to the lake shore, stepping on the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
It took half a day to finally reach the canyon. The river here seemed to be much steeper than the lake. There was still water surging under the ice. In some places, the ice broke, revealing the rapid water flow below. The ice here is more unstable.
The river bank here is very narrow, and everyone has their backs almost pressed against the frozen stone wall, moving sideways like crabs. Zhang Haixing walks at the front, reminding them from time to time which stone they should step on.
After advancing for more than twenty meters with such difficulty, Zhang Haixing, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.
Wu Xie asked her, "Why don't you leave?"
"There is no way ahead." Zhang Haixing said without looking back.
After a few seconds, she was seen making a squatting action, then tentatively and cautiously lying on the ice, crawling forward a little bit like a turtle clinging to the ice.
After she got out of her blocked sight, Wu Xie saw that there was a deep, vertically flattened gorge in front of him. There was no place to stay on either side of the bank.
Seeing that Zhang Haixing had crawled forward for a while in that posture, Wu Xie turned around to remind Fatty and the others, and then imitated Zhang Haixing's movements and lay down on the ice.
It was this action that allowed them to see the wonders beneath the ice.
Just two meters in front of the deep stream, there is a section of ice cap hanging under a section of ice covered with hexagonal bronze bells like those at the exit of the Zhang family ancient building, extending tens of meters forward.
Seeing those bells, Zhang Haixing's breathing paused subconsciously, and he silently gestured to Wu Xie and others behind him to indicate that the front was extremely dangerous, and then he cautiously climbed up while holding his breath.
It was a short distance, and it took them more than forty minutes to climb it.
When they passed a row of fences under the water at the end of the bell array, everyone let out a sigh of relief.
"Look, the corpses of the Germans." The fat man pointed to the many corpses blocked by the wooden fence and said in a low voice, "The fat man roughly counted them. There must be twenty or thirty corpses anyway. I guess the batch of Germans in front of us They’ve all been left here.”
All the corpses in the water were rotten, but they were not rotten, but the skin was broken by the rapid water. The white bodies were lumped into a big ball like brains, and the hands and feet were squeezed together. They no longer looked like adults. However, It can still be seen from the hair that they are all foreigners, and there is a lot of equipment soaked next to the corpse.
"It's weird." The fat man murmured, "These Germans are quite interesting. At this time of the year, why are you still leisurely swimming in the winter? They are all floating here naked, it's really eye-catching."
"Is this a special ceremony you need to hold when you go on a mission?" he asked Feng, whose hands and feet were weak.
Feng looked confused, "I don't know, maybe they are... too happy?"
Zhang Haixing on the side listened to the two people talking nonsense and snorted, "Winter swimming is a fart, have you forgotten the array of bronze bells we just passed by?"
The fat man was about to get angry when he heard Zhang Zhuxun next to him say, "When you and Feng suddenly ran away while crossing the lake last evening, was it because you were hallucinating?"
Zhang Haixing's face looked a little ugly, "The area where these bells are arranged must be wider than what we just saw. When we crossed the lake yesterday, there was an ice sheet blocking our view. The bells made a sound as we moved around. The sound was very slight, plus we were distracted. It’s all placed on Maponim, who will appear and patrol around at any time, and he will be hit without paying attention.”
"The reason why these Germans took off their clothes and drowned here must have been hallucinated by the bell. It's just that we were lucky and the hallucination was not deep. After being attacked by Maponim and falling into the water, we immediately I woke up due to the stimulation of freezing."
After speaking, she looked at Zhang Zhuxun and continued: "Since the German team is here, there should be no more crisis in Kangbalo, and we can move forward directly as planned."
Zhang Zhuoxun's face was still solemn, and he shook his head firmly, "No, Maponim's strange movements indicate that something must have happened to Kangbaloli. I will not tell you the route until I am 100% sure that they are safe. .”
Zhang Haixing's face suddenly turned cold, and he remained sullen without saying a word.
Wu Xie was extremely surprised. He looked at Zhang Zhuxun, who was leaning towards the edge of the ice cap, and asked, "Do you know the missing route behind that map?"
Feng's breathing stagnated, and he stared blankly and said: "How is that possible? How do you know, I have never shown you the star map!"
Zhang Zhuxun put his hands flat on the ice and chuckled, "The star map locates the location of the bronze door decades ago. Even if it is cracked, it will only be a rough idea. What's more, you have been studying for so many years, but you still can't I still only understand the surface of it. To me, it doesn’t mean much whether it exists or not.”
Feng was speechless, because what Zhang Zhuxun said was basically correct, and he did participate under the guise of a star map.
Zhang Zhuoxun motioned to Wu Xie and the others to walk farther away. Although Wu Xie and the others didn't know what he was going to do, they still stayed away.
Immediately afterwards, a slight cracking sound was heard from the ice surface, and the bell was shaken to make a tiny ringing sound, but Zhang Zhuxun was not affected.
Wu Xie and the others were far away and did not hear the sound of the bell ringing.
At the same time, the piece of ice under Zhang Zhuxun's palm was shaken to the point that a spider web-like gap broke open. He continued to press it down, and the ice surface at that place completely cracked, and the broken ice cubes fell in. in the water.
Zhang Zhuoxun cleared out a large ice cave, fished out two German backpacks, walked to Wu Xie and the others with the backpacks, and dropped them off.
The fat man made a "huh" sound, poured out everything in the backpack, and checked it. There were indeed a lot of powerful weapons and supplies inside, but he didn't find anything special.
Feng watched the fat man's brutal movements as quietly as a chicken, not daring to say a word. He knew that he had basically lost the value of his existence, and his goal had not yet been achieved. He had to eat quail when it was time to eat quail.
"I don't care what you want to do if you insist on following me. Clamp your tail and don't try to touch my bottom line."
Zhang Zhuoxun grabbed a handful of residual snow under the stone wall and wiped his hands. He stood up, stared at Feng coldly, then turned and walked deeper into the canyon.
The fat man grinned, and in line with the principle of not picking up things without owners, he transferred all the equipment that could still be used in the dead man's backpack to his own backpack.
After doing this, he raised his hand and gestured to Feng's neck in warning, and then called Wu Xie, "Tianzhen, let's go too." (End of Chapter)
