The crevices we fell into were narrow and deep, and the lighting range of the flashlight was pitch black. Due to the limitation of visibility, I didn’t know what terrain was in the distance.

The big man reached into Liu Gong's breath with his hands, shook his hand and said, "It's over, it's over, I'm gone."

I crawled over and touched Liu Gong's carotid artery. I was indeed dead and my heart was gone. So I sighed and said to the big man, "Let's bury Liu Gong."

I took out the engineer shovel and wanted to dig a hole. Gawa stopped me from the side and pointed to the ground: "Word, fire."

When Gawa reminded me, I remembered that I was trying to dig a hole and buried the engineer who died in the valley. As a result, I dug out a devil-like ladybug. There were fourteen people in the team, and ten died within that thrilling few minutes. It seemed that the land here could not be dug casually. God knew what the hell was there.

I have an intuition that the weird bug is not as simple as a mysterious creature. After it burns two people, it splits from one into three. Is this just a coincidence? I can't figure it out no matter how I think about it.

But I couldn't just put my companion's body outside, so I could only take a compromise method. I used a flashlight to illuminate it. Gawa and the big man picked up some gravels nearby to cover Liu Gong's body, which was to build a simple stone tomb for him.

During this process, Luo Ning sat on the ground motionless, quietly staring at Liu Gong's stone tomb. Finally, he could no longer bear it. He cried out with a wow, and the sadness suppressed in his heart was released like a tide.

I wanted to persuade her, but I really didn't know what to say. When her crying sounded, my nose felt sore and my heart was like a knife. I remembered that last night, the squad was singing military songs in front of the campfire. The loud singing seemed to echo in my ears. However, today most of my comrades were sleeping under the large glacier of Kunlun Mountain forever.

I helped Luo Ning stand up and observed a silence for Liu Gong and his other comrades. At that time, no matter what occasion, I would quote Maoxuan. I took the lead and said, "The sky is white, and the military situation in the snow is even more urgent."

The other three people also responded in unison: "The wind spreads the red flag to pass the big hurdle. Only by sacrificed more ambitions and dared to change the sun and moon to a new sky."

Then everyone raised their right fists and swore: "I wish the great leader Chairman Mao a long life and a long life. I wish Chairman Mao's close comrades* good health and good health forever. Comrades, comrades, please feel free to go. Some people's death is lighter than feathers, some people's death is as heavy as Mount Tai, and death is more important for the interests of the people. You sacrifice for the interests of the people. We must inherit the will of the revolutionary martyrs, follow your footprints dyed red with blood, and carry the proletariat to the end. The final victory will always belong to our workers, peasants and soldiers."

At that time, I was still a recruit and had never attended a memorial service for my comrades. I don’t know what to say, but I just remember that others said this when they were meetings. In that case, there was no right or wrong.

After a long time, everyone calmed down from the pain and treated the wounds on their bodies. Fortunately, they were all slightly injured and did not affect their actions. They ate a few bites of compressed biscuits and gathered together to discuss what to do next. It is impossible to get out of the valley that was crushed by snowboards. I guess the entire valley may have been filled with an avalanche, so now I can only find another exit.

Gawa patted the empty bullet bag on his body, indicating that there were not many bullets. When we entered the mountain, we had to carry a lot of equipment, so the ammunition equipment was the minimum limit. Each person had only three rifle magazines. After all, it was not a combat mission, and there were no bandits in this area, so I was a little careless in advance. During the avalanche, I threw away some ammunition. Now each person has only about twenty bullets on average, and there are still two grenades in total. There should be no beasts underground, and there are no use if there are too many bullets, just be self-defense.

There is no dry food at all. I just ate everything I can eat. I must find a way to find an exit within two days, otherwise I will starve to death here. Fortunately, Luo Ning actually has a compass on her body.

The depth of the mountain gap was beyond imagination. After walking south for a while, it reached the end. The cracks in the earth flipped north, and it felt like it was walking below the large glacier.

We walked forward in the dark for more than ten hours. The more we walked, the lower the terrain became, and the underground space became larger and larger. Luoning measured it with a pressure gauge. The data of air pressure was converted into an altitude, which was only more than 400 meters, which was similar to Sichuan and far lower than the average altitude of more than 4,000 meters. If we continue like this, we may have to reach the center of the earth.

Finally, the terrain finally calmed down, and I heard the sound of water flowing in my ears, as if there was a big underground river not far away. Seeing that there was no more downhill roads, I looked around with a flashlight, trying to see if there was any way upwards. Suddenly, I found that the light shining from the flashlight produced a lot of faint reflections on the rock wall, as if it was reflected on countless pieces of mirrors.

Luo Ning exclaimed: "It's mica!"

The other three people heard what mica she said, but they didn't know what it was, but they were frightened when they heard him and thought that something was wrong. They hurriedly blocked Luo Ning behind him, took off the five- and six-type semi-automatic rifle from their backs as fast as possible, pulled the bolt off a few times, and prepared to shoot.

Luo Ningqi said: "What are you doing?"

While I was on guard, I asked Luo Ning: "What mother's male? Where is it?"

Luo Ning said: "It's not an animal. I mean it's surrounded by crystals. Mica and crystal usually grow in the same strata. Ah, there are indeed crystals."

Although Luoning is mainly responsible for map surveying and mapping, he often works with a geological exploration team and knows a lot about geological and mineral knowledge. The crystals appearing around us like glass flakes are a kind of monoclinic crystal system that can only appear in ancient biquatic rock formations. The underground accumulation in Hebei is very large, but the mica here is extremely dark in color and has a large hexagonal column shape. The quality is far greater than that produced in Lingshou County, Hebei, mainland China. Judging from the depth of the mica color, our location is unimaginable.

Luo Ning was attracted by the rare large mica around her. She looked at this and that one. I picked up a small piece and looked at it, but I couldn't see anything worth wondering about.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the big man shouting to Gawa: "What are you doing, Lamucuo? Get up quickly."

I shone the flashlight and saw Ga Wa kowtowing on the ground in the way of a Tibetan, and her whole body was lying on the ground. What was this kid doing? Who did you kowtow to? I took a look at him again and couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning.

There was a "gold"-shaped wooden tower made of thousands of giant trees. There were countless red flashes on the tower. With the faint flashes, the base of the wooden tower was nearly two hundred meters wide and was built with mud and stone. Thousand-year-old cypress wood made the tower body, which was divided into nine layers. Each layer was filled with dry bones in strange ancient costumes, both men, women, and young and old. The wood of each big tree was carved with Tibetan secret texts. Is this a grave? The scale is so huge, who built it underground?

I went over and pulled Gawa who was kowtowing on the ground: "Although our party and our army respected ethnic policies, you, Gawa, are also Tibetans, but when you are wearing military uniforms, you are a member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Since you are a communist, don't play with that idealistic Ligelen, and you are not allowed to engage in religious superstition."

The big man smiled beside him and said, "Okay, Lao Hu, this little word is a scheming, and he has the potential to be an instructor."

Luo Ning kept watching Mica. When he heard the three of us quarrel, he also came to watch it.

I shook my hand at the big man and told him not to interrupt, and continued to ask Gawa: "What kind of tower is this? Do you know the words written on it?"

Gawa kept shaking his head.

I said, "I don't know you, why are you kowtowing? Seeing so many corpses, I scared you silly?"

Gawa's face was full of panic, and he said in a not-so-fluent Chinese: "Hu, this Ga Xiong, let you talk about it, just let it go, Larrados, nine...nine-story demon building."

I didn't understand the first half of his sentence, but I could clearly hear the next four words. What is the nine-story demon building? What is it for? Isn't it just burying people dead?

Before Gawa could speak, Luo Ning ran back from the edge of the tower and made a gesture of not making any noise to us. She pointed to the tower behind her and whispered to us, "Don't make any noise to alarm them."

Seeing that she looked solemn, I knew that there might be something in trouble, but I didn't know what she was referring to, so I lowered my voice and asked, "What did you disturb me? The dead people in the tower?"

Luo Ning said nervously: "No, it's the kind of ladybugs with fire, they all sleep on dead bodies, and there are so many that they can't count them."

After hearing Luo Ning's words, I realized that the dense red flashes on the wooden tower were all emitted from the transparent ladybug.

Although I have some fearless spirit of revolutionary soldiers, when I think of that strange ladybug, I feel panic. This kind of creature that transcends common sense is too difficult to deal with, and the tragic scene in the valley may leave me with a strong sense of fear.

I made a gesture, and the four of them quietly retreated to the future. Before they could take a few steps, Gawa suddenly stepped on the air under his feet and fell into a ditch.

This ditch is very hidden and parallel to the route we were traveling, so we didn't notice it when we came. Although the ditch was only more than one meter deep, Gawa was still sobbing that it was so sad that I jumped down to help him. I saw Gawa covering his feet, his face full of pain.

At this time, Luo Ning and the big man also went down to the ditch respectively. When they shone with a flashlight, they found that Ga Wa's scream was spurted by a sharp bone spur, and a transparent hole was strung with a foot of the shoelace, and blood was flowing like a stream. The ditch was covered with layers of various animal bones, and the number was too large to estimate. It seemed that this ditch should be a burial pit for animals such as cows, horses, sheep, and dogs.

In order not to disturb the ladybugs in the nearby wooden tower, the big man covered Gawa's mouth with his hands and prevented him from screaming, I pulled out the bones inserted into his feet. Luo Ning sprinkled the Yunnan white medicine from his portable first aid kit on his wound, and took out a white bandage to bandage him to stop the bleeding.

My hands were covered with blood from Ga Wa's legs, and I smeared a few randomly on my military uniform. A thought suddenly flashed through my mind. The cattle and horse burial pit was very strange. It was not square and round, but dug into a long trench shape. The long trench directly leads to the wooden tower where the corpse was placed. This shape is exactly similar to the layout called "death" mentioned in "Feng Shui Secret Technique". If it is really the same, then there should be a burial ditch of the same size in parallel positions.

The two burial ditches parallel to each other, forming the graves of the wooden tower structure, forming the momentum of two dragons sucking beads. According to this, the ditch next to them should be some of the objects used by the owner of the tomb during his lifetime. I just don’t know whether these two burial ditches were artificial or natural, so it seems that the latter is more likely.

The nearby rivers are flowing very loudly. Judging from the sound of the rivers rushing, there is an underground river in the northwest, that is, behind the nine-story demon building, because the dragon cannot do without water.

If it was really what I expected, then the map of the underground world would have been in my mind long ago, but I needed to find another burial ditch to confirm my inference.

The big man pushed my shoulder and said, "Old Hu, what's going on?"

I was so shocked that I came back to my senses just now when I pushed him. I asked Luo Ning: "Mr. Luo, can you estimate our current location? Probably where on the map?"

Luo Ning used a compass to calculate the map, pondered for a moment and said, "We kept walking northward for more than ten hours underground. According to our speed, we have already passed the large glacier above our heads and should be about to leave Kunlun Mountain."

I said what I just thought. If you walk back at this time, you can only go back to the cracks covered by avalanches. If I guess correctly, we should walk along the underground river and have a way out. But if you do this, you have to risk walking through the bottom of the nine-story demon building. This is a plan to survive in death.

The four of them thought that although doing this was full of danger, it was worth taking a risk. However, I decided to find another burial ditch next to me to confirm it.

Before the action, I asked Gawa, what is the nine-story demon building?

Gawa spoke Chinese very hard. After talking for a long time, I finally understood part of it. In his hometown, Xuewei, there is also a ruin that is exactly the same as this nine-story demon building. According to legend, this "nine-story demon building" is a funeral form of the tombs of the kings of the ancient demon kings. When the demon king was destroyed, the tomb had been destroyed by the hero King Gesar. Only a pile of rotten wood shelves were left on the Tibetan Plateau, as well as the narrative poems passed down from the herdsmen, singing the unparalleled martial merits of King Gesar for generations.

When Tibetan herders pass through these ruins, they all have to worship and chant epics. This is not to fear the tombs of the king of the demon king, but to express their respect for King Gesar. Gawa also said some religious matters, but I can't understand it. It is unknown whether the ghost-like insect is the resting soul in the tomb.

I left Luo Ning and three others in my original place, and moved forward by myself. More than a hundred meters away from the cattle and horse burial ditch, there was indeed another burial ditch, which was filled with ancient leather boots, ancient Tibetan wood chips, ancient Mongolian wood tablets, painted wood chips and gold ornaments, wooden plates, wooden wings, wooden birds and beasts, bronze ware, grain and a large number of silk and other burial items.

It seems that my inference is correct. The underground river behind the nine-story demon building must be connected with the outside world, so I sneaked back to the animal burial ditch to call on the other three people to take action.

I took the lead, and the big man was holding a gun behind me, followed by Ga Wa. The piercing on his feet was not light, and Luo Ning helped him walk behind.

The nine-story demon building is very large in scale, and the underground void was originally extremely vast, but the tower and the large mica on both sides almost blocked the road to the north, and there were only very narrow places on both sides that could barely pass through.

We passed by the wooden tower with fear and saw the ladybugs flashing with flames in the tower. We felt that our hearts were about to jump out of our throats. During the two hundred meters below the tower, the distance between each step seemed so far.

After finally rubbing through the nine-story demon building, I walked forward less than two hundred steps, and suddenly my feet became soft, as if I had stepped on some huge animal. I shone with a flashlight. Under my feet was a huge reptile that I had never seen before. It spitted a long tongue, and its skin was very similar to the color of the ground. It looked a bit like a giant lizard, and its appearance was very similar to a crocodile, but it was not as rough as a lizard. Its front kiss was not as sharp as a lizard, and it was rounder. Its tongue was like a snake, red and long, with a fork in front, and its skin was pitch black and covered with large white round balls. From the appearance alone, it could basically be said to be a super-large frog with a long tail.

I am not afraid of heaven or earth in my life, but I am more afraid of such disgusting things. I was so scared that I suddenly shrank behind the big man. The big man also saw this strange animal. His feelings might be similar to mine, and he was also shocked. Perhaps the only partner that soldiers could rely on was a rifle. He raised his gun and shot it out of instinctive reaction. The reptile twisted a few times and died.

At this time, Luo Ning, who was walking at the end, walked over, looked at the dead animals on the ground, and sighed and said to us: "This is a salamander living underground. He eats insects and ephemerals to make a living, and does not hurt people."

I don't feel sorry for killing an animal. What I am worried about is whether the big man fired rashly and would wake up the bugs in the tower. Damn, if a person is unlucky, he will stuff his teeth if he drinks a sip of cold water. The ladybugs in the "Nine-story Demon Building" were obviously alarmed by the gunfire, and countless blue fireballs like bright lights lit up.

The entire underground space was reflected in blue by the flames, and the wooden tower was ignited. The fire became bigger and bigger. Hundreds of fireballs rushed towards us. With such a big fire, we couldn't feel a trace of heat. Instead, we felt the cold and our teeth were trembling.
Chapter completed!