Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms: Chapter 41
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Nepal.
Mount Everest, 6,500 meters on the snow line.
A mountaineering team camped on the leeward side of the glacier. Several team members sat around the smokeless stove to rest, check the shooting equipment, and heat the dehydrated beef for marching to replenish their physical strength.
Not far away, the young guide walked out of the tent and walked to the edge of the glacier cliff.
He wears a traditional hood, only reveals a pair of deep eyes, from the bridge of the nose, the entire face is covered by a yellow bandage, leaving only a gap in the mouth.
He is only medium in height, but his size is extremely rare. There is a kind of fierce and sturdy peculiar to ethnic minorities living near the plateau snow line. The walking on the ice field is steady and solid, like a silent and powerful snow leopard.
He walked to the edge of the cliff, looked at the towering mountain top that was surrounded by wind and snow all year round in the distance, and leaned forward.
"I said he will come out," said a mountaineer by the fire, adjusting his camera, without looking up: "Salute to the mountain every five hundred meters. I don’t know if it’s a Sherpa tradition. I heard they call Mount Everest their mother..."
"Da Liu!" The captain scolded: "Say a few words!"
Da Liu smiled indifferently.
Not far away, a female team member bit her lip, took a can of beef, got up and walked towards the boy.
"Hey, that...Aga, would you like to eat something? It will take a lot of energy to return on the next journey--"
The guide stood silent for a moment, then turned his head and glanced at her.
His entire face is behind the bandage, but his brows are deep, his eyes are very bright, and he has an eagle-like look on a snowy field.
The female team member was startled and saw that he shook his head, sat cross-legged on the ice and snow, and took a bite out of his arms.
"Aga..."
"I don't eat your food." The boy's voice was hoarse, "Thank you."
The female team member was a bit embarrassed, but seeing that the dry food in his hand was dark, like dry beef products and a bit like rubber, I couldn't help but wonder: "What are you? Is it Nepalese traditional food? "
"No," the boy said without looking up, "it's snake meat."
"——Snake Meat?!"
Several team members turned their heads in surprise, but the young man bit the dried meat like no one, and swallowed almost without seeing how he chewed.
The female team member was full of shock and curiosity, and wanted to ask questions, but saw the young man facing the distant mountain, as if no one around him existed.
After hesitating for a while, she still patted Paixue and sat down beside him, followed his example to the mountain, and leaned down religiously for a long while before smiling, "This is how you pray. Right?"
The boy stopped swallowing and stared at her with a strange look.
"I...I heard that Mount Everest is as sacred as a mother to you, so..."
"No." said the boy, "my mother's bones are buried in the center of that mountain."
His voice is very low, but everyone is shocked. At this moment, Liu who had previously debugged the camera suddenly exclaimed: "Look! What is that!"
Everyone raised their heads in doubt, only to see a light and shadow passing over the snow peak not far away, dazzling like a rainbow in the white world, hovering in the sky for a few seconds, dragging a long tail light I rushed to the back of Xuefeng!
At that moment, no one could believe their eyes, and even the mature and prudent captain stood up suddenly, and said in astonishment: "What is that, is it a bird?! Big Liu, take a photo of it--"
"Yes, yes, I took it!" Liu quickly flipped through the camera just now, and then he suddenly stopped, making a light and unbelievable sound:
"This—it's impossible..."
He tremblingly handed the camera to the captain: "This is a peacock..."
The captain was stunned. Everyone gathered around to look at the pictures taken just now in a hurry, shocked and unable to speak.
"It's impossible, how could a peacock live on a snowy mountain... This is definitely not a peacock, this is the greatest discovery in the history of ecological scientific research..." The captain was so excited that he didn't know what to say, suddenly among the crowd He stretched out a hand and snatched the camera lightly and could not refuse.
Everyone turned their heads, and saw the guide flipped through the next album, and then pressed the delete key.
"What, what are you doing!" Liu was the first to jump up like a bee stung, and pounced on him to beat him: "What are you doing! Give it back to me!"
The young guide dodges easily, throws the camera to him, and says: "We must go down the mountain immediately."
Everyone was shocked by this incident. Liu threw himself on the snow with a bang. He got up and blushed and was about to rush over, but was hurriedly blocked by the captain: "Wait! Guide, why are we going down the mountain? We are going to go now. Xuefeng went to check, you may not understand, this is an unprecedented ecological discovery in the history of mankind, if you have faith taboos—"
"Not faith. Can't go."
The captain said in amazement: "Why?!"
Everyone stared at the guide, but he saw his eyes firmly and without wavering.
"Because our prior agreement was not like this. I will take you here, turn around, and go down the mountain, and this will be over. Your commission will be paid here. Going up again is not in the pre-arranged scope, I don’t accept ."
"We can increase the price!" The captain said excitedly: "I will give you twice, no, five times! Ten times! We have enough oxygen to go to the back of Xuefeng!"
"It's not about oxygen. If you see that peacock again, you--" The boy pointed to the female team member and said, "Except for her, you are all going to die."
His tone was so indifferent, even calming the excited crowd. For a long while, the female team member pointed to herself and asked with trembling lips: "Why, why, why?"
"Because you just prayed to my mother's bones." The boy said coldly, "I once sweared that anyone who sincerely prays to my mother on the snow mountain, I will protect them from dying on the ice. ...I don't care about other people."
The boy walked around them, walked to the tent, and picked up his gear bag.
The players looked at each other, and then looked at the captain with questioning gazes. It seemed that all this was very absurd. Some people asked each other with their eyes, do you want to follow the female team's appearance just now?
Without the help of this young man, it would be difficult for them to go back the same way. Moreover, this is not a guide who was randomly found-Sherpas are born Himalayan sons, and they can climb the five on foot since childhood. Grazing on a plateau of 6,000 meters, and those who have climbed the snow line more than 8,000 meters will be honored as "the tiger of the snow mountain." The first person to receive this title was Tensin Norgay, who climbed Mount Everest three times with different British mountaineering teams in the 1950s. To commemorate this person, there is even a mountain named after him on Pluto. .
Among the Sherpas, there is another kind of people called "Sada".
No one knows the criteria for the selection of "Sada", but in this mysterious clan, "Sada" has great status and power, and can command all Sherpas in a climbing team. If the team There is the "Tiger of the Snow Mountain", and Shada's orders must also be obeyed.
——This boy named Agha is the "Sada" of the Sherpa generation.
The captain hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help being excited and excited about the huge discovery, and caught up with the young guide who had already carried the equipment bag on his back: "Twenty times, how about? As long as you take us to the back of Xuefeng, I will not only It pays you twenty times the reward, and it doesn’t matter to you if anyone on the team dies..."
The boy turned to him with his bandaged face, no expression in his eyes:
"No."
The captain still wanted to continue to persuade, but at this moment, suddenly there was a loud scream above their heads, and the young man's expression changed drastically, and he looked back at Xuefeng!
——I saw a huge peacock flying out of the summit of Xuefeng. In the shocking eyes of everyone, it spread its colorful and magnificent tail feathers, its head and neck hung high, staring coldly at the human beings under its feet.
The boy lost his voice: "Shut up--"
But it was too late.
A mocking smile appeared in the peacock's eyes, and he uttered a deafening scream to the sky!
——The sky and the earth were silent, followed by a sour creaking sound from the snow cover above their heads!
"Snow, avalanche..." Someone tremblingly made a sound, and then backed away, screaming in horror: "Find cover!—the avalanche is coming!"
I saw a blizzard of snow and fog above the far head. It was silent at first, but then the thunderous sound quickly moved from far to near, engulfing more and more huge snow waves and ice blocks, to everyone The top of the head is smashed!
In front of the tent, the young man yelled, arching his whole body and rushing up against the avalanche like an arrow from the string.
The captain couldn't believe his eyes--above the ice sheet at an altitude of 6,500 meters, there were still people who could rush out several feet in an instant like clouds and fog!
However, in the next second, a scene that shocked him even more happened. The boy jumped up into the air, broke free from his jacket and exposed his tight bunt. With his backhand, he drew two scimitars from his back, and swooped down towards the peacock!
"Maha——"
The peacock turned into a human in an instant, holding a single knife, "Dang!" A volley blocked this groundbreaking blow!
"Don't get in the way of my business," Maha's beautiful face in the wind and snow did not show the slightest expression, and said: "--otherwise I will kill you."
The boy sternly said: "This is obviously what I want to tell you!"
With a violent force, he forced Maha back a few steps below the snow peak!
At this moment, the earthquake swept across with an avalanche, and set off a magnificent wave between the sky and the earth.
The boy gritted his teeth and turned around, his body shape turned into a giant roc bird in mid-air, with gold wings spread out to cover the sky and sun, "Boom!" A loud noise caught the tens of thousands of tons with his back and galloped down. Snow!
The next second, it uttered a long howl, and the giant claw grabbed a string of mountaineers on the snow and swooped down the snowy mountain!
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Darkness.
Drowsy.
As if there were invisible jagged teeth pulling back and forth in the mind, the female team members slowly opened their scattered eyes, and it took a long time to barely recover from the intense pain of the internal organs.
"This is..."
She struggled to get up, and saw that the surrounding snowy field was incomparably messy, and the black boulders and ice cubes turned up all over the floor, looking from a distance like the huge mouths of countless giant beasts.
"Captain...Da Liu..." She looked around in a panic, trembling and shouting: "Where are you? Where are you? Captain, Liu...!"
One hand covered her mouth from behind, and the female team member turned her head in horror, and saw the young guide stand up from the snow, the bandages spread out, revealing a handsome, stiff, blood-stained profile.
He only wears short shots, his naked body parts are extremely delicate, holding a sharp machete in each hand, and stomping the ice scum on his feet.
"You..." The female team member gasped in fear, and asked in tears after a long while: "Who are you...Who are you? What happened just now?"
The boy raised his head and looked forward.
A graceful and long figure is slowly walking down the glacier. His face is as beautiful as ice sculptures and snow. The long hair covered with broken snow is scattered on his side. Under the white robe, his feet are bare|naked. Carefully stepped on the snow.
"—My name is Garuda..."
The young man squinted his eyes, and his scimitar gave out a dazzling cold light:
"The one in front is my elder brother who is less than a thousand years in the second term."
"Galuda." Maha stood still on the snow, turned his head and smiled slightly: "I haven't seen you for many years, would you welcome me in this way?"
Obviously, it is a very ordinary action. It is done by him, but there is a kind of evil mixed with beauty, innocence and temptation. Garuda stared at him for a moment, then sneered: "I haven't seen you for many years, would you visit me this way?"
The two brothers looked at each other in the wind and snow, and there was no excitement on each other's faces when they met again after a long absence. For a long while, Garuda held up his arms and looked up and down his elder brother: "I heard that in order to escape from the Demon Forbidden Grotto, you were beaten severely by your father, then injured your mother, and finally ran to the **** of blood. I have ruled the king...Why, I suddenly came to disturb my sanctuary. Isn’t it because I miss my brother?"
"Don't be so ruthless, I'm here to send you a cohabitation application." Maha's expression was innocent: "Mind if I live in this mountain for a few years, dear brother?"
Garuda looked at him in surprise, but Maha's expression showed no clue except for his innocence.
It's so rare that he looks like this. Garuda hesitated for a moment, but still refused: "No, I don't want to find human remains in the snow-capped mountains where my mother's bones are buried every day. Let's go."
This rejection did not surprise Maha at all.
His arm slowly moved from behind to front of him, as expected he was holding a sharp knife, but the smile on his face deepened: "--So, do you want me to drive you out, brother?" /
The cold wind suddenly tightened, swishing across the snow like a sharp blade, and at the same time lifted the corners of their clothes.
Galuda squinted his eyes, his eyes gleamed with cold light, and his father-like face was as cold and merciless as a knife cut in the snow.
"...That's it." He suddenly said, staring at Maha carefully: "Brother, you are getting older."
Maha's complexion changed.
"It's no wonder that even your mother shut you in the Demon Forbidden Grotto, and your godhead was smashed by the sky thunder--" Garuda let down his voice, seeming to feel a little weird: "Now you must Cannibalism is needed to absorb energy, otherwise it will quickly decay over time like six things, age, and eventually enter the cycle of death, right?"
Maha's smile finally disappeared from his face.
He stared at his brother fiercely, and Garuda got a positive answer from this expression.
Gardello frowned, as if feeling a little ironic.
"If your father locked you in the Demon Forbidden Grottoes, and you are suspected of opportunistic revenge because of the conflicts between father and son in the early years, then your mother should have set up a mechanism to protect you. After all, the phoenix in ancient legends is really a **** Sex, has the role of'replacement of the Godhead'... Wait, how did you escape? It is said that you hurt your mother seriously?"
Maha angrily said: "Shut up!"
But Garuda regarded his ferocious expression as nothing: "So what are you going to do now, do you think of a way to eat a lot of people every day, or enter the hinterland of the snow mountain to guard the bones of the phoenix, and use the remaining divinity on the bones? Come to delay exhaustion?" He felt funny and raised his eyebrows: "I still suggest you go back to find your father, obediently admit a mistake, and go back to the grotto to shut it up by yourself—"
That kind of scene must be very interesting, Garuda raised a corner of his mouth: "At least being confined underground in the inner city of the human world is better than in the heart of the Himalayas. The only similarity is you. Don't think of it in this life..."
"Shut up!" Maha interrupted him violently: "I went back! The grotto has been destroyed by Zhou Hui!"
The brothers looked at each other for a moment, and Garuda said regretfully: "Oh, it seems that my father's heart to make you die has not changed."
The wind and snow became denser, and the distant glaciers exposed large black rocks after the avalanche. Thousands of miles of snowfields were in a mess, and the wind swept across the large overturned frozen rock, whistling sharp whistles, and rushing towards the sky.
Maha's beautiful face was full of haze, and he whispered for a while: "There is another way, maybe you can try it."
He clenched the ice skates, leaning in front of him, showing a dangerous offensive posture:
"——Anyway, it is my brother, if I take away your godhead..."
There was a sudden stop of the air, like countless strings tensed suddenly!
The back of Garuda's hand holding the double knives burst into blue veins, staring at his brother closely, and then coldly said: "You can try it."
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Chu He feels as if he is walking in the endless dark night.
I can't see my fingers around, and the ground is full of damp mud. He walked a few steps before falling down, then holding on to his scarred hand, gritted his teeth, staggered up, and continued to move forward.
Where is the goal and in what direction is the road?
He didn't know anything, he just felt that his knee was so numb as he fell and climbed up again and again, and finally he lost consciousness.
In the end, when he almost couldn't hold it, a figure very similar to himself appeared vaguely in the far dark front, which turned out to be Maha.
——Maha! My kid who was taken away, come back to me soon!
Chu He did not know where to rise a force, gritted his teeth and ran forward, but then fell heavily to the ground again. Almost even his internal organs fell into countless **** fragments. He vomited a mouthful of blood in the severe pain, and struggling to get up after exhausting his whole body, but he saw Maha go away in the darkness, no matter how he shouted, Do not look back.
A burning anxiety rose in Chu He's heart.
Don't go there, come back! Maha!
At this moment, another familiar figure suddenly appeared in the darkness. It was Garuda.
——Galuda!
Chu He felt tight in his heart for an instant, and immediately called the second son's name hoarsely. But Garuda only looked back at him, his eyes were very dazed, as if he didn't know him, he turned and chased in the direction where Maha had left.
Don't go, Garuda!
Don't go to the depths of darkness, come back soon!
Maha and Jialouluo disappeared into the boundless darkness. Chu He couldn't stand at all. The severe pain of torn apart his internal organs made him cry of despair.
He knelt down trembling, but a dim yellow light suddenly lit up in front of his eyes.
He looked up in amazement, and saw Zhou Hui holding a lamp, standing in front of him silently, as if waiting for him.
——Yes, Zhou Hui, I still have Zhou Hui in the end...
Chu He stood up, panting violently, desperately, staggering forward, and trying his best to shout weak and helpless to Zhou Hui.
But at this moment, another pair of iron-like hands grabbed him from behind.
The hands were so hard that they couldn't break free, they were tightly imprisoned and prevented him from moving forward. Chu He desperately tried to break free, anxious and desperate in his heart, but immediately afterwards, his hands seemed to be inserted into his bone marrow and blood vessels, and the slightest struggle caused a piercing pain.
At last Zhou Hui seemed to be impatient. He turned to the darkness with the lamp in his hand.
——Don’t go, Zhou Hui! do not leave me!
However, the call didn't work, Zhou Hui turned a deaf ear, and walked into the distance like Maha Garuda. The dim and warm light finally slowly disappeared from Chu He's sight.
Chu He cried out in pain, and tears fell from his face in a series, crying hoarsely not like a human voice. He finally turned his head to see who was holding him, but the next moment, he saw the face of Sakyamuni behind him.
"Why, why..."
Chu He opened his eyes wide in horror, subconsciously panting violently and shaking his head, his face covered with tears was embarrassed: "Let go of me, Sakyamuni...Let go of me——!"
However, Sakyamuni is condescending, his face is solemn and majestic, and his eyes faintly reveal a sneer that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.
"——Ah!"
The next moment, Chu He suddenly woke up from his nightmare.
His pupils shrank violently, and he stared at the ceiling for several seconds, his expression blank.
...After a little bit of consciousness returned, he found himself lying on the big bed in the bedroom with the doors and windows closed and the curtains drawn. The room was dim, and his whole body was almost soaked in cold sweat.
His rapid breathing subsided slowly, and he barely turned his head to look at his hand.
The left arm has been taken back, the muscles are still very weak and pale, and a hideous bloodstain is formed at the break. It won't be long before this bloodstain will disappear, but the wounded trace will soak deep into the blood, and it will be difficult to disappear for thousands of years.
His gaze moved upwards, his eyes widened slightly in amazement——
On the left wrist, a black iron chain was suddenly locked, and the other end was locked tightly on the head of the bed made of stainless steel.