Lieshan

At six o'clock in the morning, a burst of chaotic barking from the sled dogs woke up the sleeping people.

"Why do I feel like I heard a wolf howling last night?" Mao Xian rubbed his head sleepily

"Well," Chu Min pointed to the sled dog who was pretending to be cold, "this guy was singing last night."

The guide set up the dog to greet everyone to set off, and said that there are still more than two hours to reach the outer edge of the glacier, and they will not be responsible for the next journey.According to the agreement, they will come to pick up people back to Bergen a day later.

This relatively short journey is soon over, and the ice field north of Bergen has revealed its mysterious corner.The guide slapped his whip loudly in the air, and several dog teams dragged their master away into the distance.

At this time, the ground is not full of soft snow, but under the thin snow layer is thick solid ice, and when the snow is blown away, there is a light blue ice layer.At the beginning the ground was flat, then gradually the ice exposed the snow layer, and finally only the complete ice surface remained.The strong wind howled, blowing all the thin snow into oblivion.

A chasm-like graben appeared in front of everyone.

After a few steps, Chu Chu ran forward and lay down on the edge of the moat to look down, but the visibility was only more than ten meters downward, and the depth was shrouded in a white mist, and he couldn't see anything clearly, and he couldn't even know the depth. .

"We have to use the climbing rope to climb down." Qi Huaiyuan squatted down and checked the ice surface. "Megan, you and I will go down, and the two of you will guard it."

"Huh?" Chu Min was still lying on the edge, and he turned his head suddenly when he heard the words, "I followed from all the way, and you want me to watch from above?"

"Someone has to be on guard."

"Then you don't need everyone to stay," Chu Min chose to sell his teammates without hesitation, "Yaoya, you stay!"

Although the woolen yarn that was ruthlessly abandoned still wanted to struggle, it was quickly talked about by Chu Minyi in a long speech, and he agreed to stay on it and let the wind go.

Although it is impossible for anyone to come here in the wilderness...

Qi Huaiyuan looked at Chu Chu with disgust, as if he felt that he had brought a bottle of oil, but he didn't say anything, tied the rope on his body, and went down to explore the way first.The depth of the mists-shrouded graben could not be seen at all, and the three of them descended for nearly four and ten minutes, but still did not reach the bottom.

There was a pungent sulfur smell in the air.

"The rope is not long enough." Qi Huaiyuan frowned, apparently not expecting this glacier canyon to be so deep.

"How much is left?" Megan narrowed his eyes and looked down, but couldn't see anything clearly.

Qi Huaiyuan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, a few strands of golden light flashed in his amber eyes, and his sharp vision seemed to see through the thick fog: "Hurry up, there are still less than 30 meters left."

"Climb down directly." Megan shrugged, held the dagger with his left hand and plunged into the ice, untied the rope around his waist with his right hand, and then pulled out another dagger, descending alternately.

Chu Chu took a look at this operation, then considered his own strength and the feasibility of implementing it, and felt a little overwhelmed.Although he likes outdoor sports very much, he has never tried such a dangerous thing...

Fourth Master Chu was hesitating, his eyes were on Patriarch Qi who was looking up.It seems that Patriarch Qi's expressionless face is full of murderous urges...

Qi Huaiyuan exhaled full of hostility, walked up the rope a few meters, and stopped beside Chu Min: "Come up."

"What?" Chu Min was confused.

"Let, you, come on, come on."

Chu Min was stunned for a while before realizing: "Are you carrying me?"

Let Patriarch Qi carry it? ?Holding this evil spirit from behind? ?This difficulty is too high!

Qi Huaiyuan waited aside, although he didn't speak, the expression on his face was about to collapse.

Chu Min felt that if he dawdled any longer, he might really be thrown down. Finally, he still felt that he had to save his life to admire the miracle, and he couldn't die so young...

"Oh-qi, I can't climb anymore! Ah! I'm going to fall!" Megan wailed upon seeing this.

"It's news that the field rock climbing champion fell to his death."

Megan immediately wilted again when she heard the words, sniffling her nose and crawling down reluctantly.

At this moment, Chu Min felt his whole body was stiff, and Qi Huaiyuan's hair could almost touch the tip of his nose, so that he could only try his best to tilt his head back.

"Do you want to murder me and drag me down to die together?" Qi Huaiyuan couldn't help asking in a deep voice, feeling that the people behind him had been pulling their weight back.The right hand showing the golden swastika was firmly inserted into the ice surface, and ice shards splashed all over the place.

Chu Min was silent, so he could only close his eyes and focus on Patriarch Qi's back.

Megan was so jealous he wanted to put his head in his little beauty's ear and breathe.It's a pity that these pornographic ideas are destined to fail to come true...

Just when Chu Min wanted to let go and fall to his death, he finally reached the bottom.

A strong smell of sulfur permeates the bottom of the canyon, and the transpiration of water mist makes the visibility less than ten meters, and only the sound of water flow can be heard vaguely. There should be a river passing through this canyon.

Chu Chu took out a flashlight to take a picture, and there was indeed a river at the bottom of the canyon. The emerald green water flowed slowly, without any waves, only a few places where bubbles would pop out from time to time.As the so-called still water flows deep, the river looks calm, but it may not be simple, and judging from the sulfur smell in the air and the bubbles, the nearby geological activities should be quite active.

There are also some small air holes on the ground, from time to time ejecting scorching water vapor.Although these vents may seem harmless, those who underestimate them will definitely be burned by the high temperature gas.

Qi Huaiyuan walked along the river for a while, his eyes suddenly focused, and he grabbed the flashlight and shone it.

A slightly curved white object protruded from the bottom of the water, pointing straight at the sky like a sharp sword.

"This is..." Megan looked at it carefully for a long time, "Why does it look like a bone? It looks like a rib of something."

However, Chu Min felt that it was unlikely. If it was really a bone, and the part above the water was only this long, then the total length would be at least ten meters.

"Even the ribs of a whale are only three meters long. If it were a bone, how big would it be? The environment has rules for the volume of living things. In terms of the current natural situation of the earth, the largest living things on the ground can only be elephants." That big, and the largest organism that the marine environment can accommodate is a whale. How could such a huge creature survive."

"Since it's a bone, who said it must be the present, it may be a prehistoric creature." Megan retorted.

"Then do you think its color looks like a fossil?"

"Then, it's also possible that it's not in the sea or on the ground, can it fly in the sky?"

"With such a large body, how much muscle strength and heart blood transfusion are needed to fly? How is this possible?"

Megan also seemed to think it was unlikely, so she didn't refute it.

"Dragon." Qi Huaiyuan said firmly after staring at the white curved cylinder for a long time.

Both Chu Min and Megan were stunned.

"Despair spreads its wings, the black dragon's eyes are looking at the Rainbow Bridge..." Chu Min murmured, "Desperate black dragon Nidhogg..."

Megan only knew that Qi Huaiyuan had come to Northern Europe to find a place, but he didn't know the specifics, and he didn't know the contents of the Binghai Scroll. Hearing this kind of statement at this time, he couldn't help feeling absurd.

Dragon?Isn't that something in myths and legends?Could it be that there is still a princess locked up here?

The conjecture could not be verified, so a few people had to search around here.Chu Shen looked around for a moment, and suddenly noticed that there seemed to be stone steps on the edge of the canyon, so he walked in and observed, and found that there seemed to be messy steps extending upwards beside the ice wall.

These steps are uneven, and the edges are not regular at all. They don't look like they were artificially excavated, but it seems too coincidental to say that they were formed naturally.

Qi Huaiyuan didn't waste any more time: "Go up and have a look."

The ice surface was very slippery. After climbing up with difficulty for a long time, a passage appeared on the side edge of the ice wall. The ice was carved into the shape of an arch, and a line of rune characters was carved on the top.

Chu Min leaned closer to study for a while, and roughly read it out: "Stealing...obtaining...authority, despairing...companion, companion?"

Qi Huaiyuan frowned when he heard this, and walked straight in.

"Eh? Hey, wait, slow down!" Chu Min hurriedly followed.

Megan curled her lips and entered the passage cautiously, unable to help but be overwhelmed by the sight in front of her.

Inside is a majestic ice palace. The blue ice reflects colorful light under the weak light from the outside world.Under the effect of light dispersion, all the scenes appear grotesque and dizzy, as if lost in this transparent and pure palace.

"Focus."

The cold voice pulled Megan back to reality.

Megan shook her head, as if she was annoyed that she almost fell asleep, and then put her elbow on Qi Huaiyuan's shoulder with emotion: "How I long to let your reason disappear for a while one day, so that I can Seeing your enthusiasm for being carried away by love."

"..." Qi Huaiyuan felt that this guy should be stuck here for the rest of his life just now, turned his head and found that the troublesome Chu family was still in a daze, so he stabbed the opponent's arm with the handle of the knife, "Stupid?"

Chu Min suddenly came back to his senses, rubbed his head in distress, and waved to indicate that he was fine.

It seemed that he saw something strange just now... Chu Min secretly recalled it, but he couldn't remember it clearly. He just vaguely felt that he saw a boundless fog, mixed with the roar of a group of unknown creatures.

Qi Huaiyuan ignored him and continued to walk towards the corner ahead.

Further forward is a room, the walls are densely engraved with runes, and there are many very abstract murals drawn.

"What do you mean?" Patriarch Qi naturally looked at someone with the role of "advisor".

"can't read……"

When Qi Huaiyuan heard the words, he gave Chu Chu a sideways look: "Don't you know a lot?"

"Please, this kind of script has long been extinct, and there are seven or eight offshoots. It's good if I know a few." Chu Min pointed to the runes on the wall, "You still expect me to translate them all for you? ? Do you think I'm Google Translate?"

Legend has it that Odin, the father of the gods, exchanged the wisdom and power given by the World Tree at the price of losing his right eye.The fountain of wisdom had taught him the runes, which were powerful when carved on any material.

There is a section of Odin's self-report in the Germanic oracle:

Nine nights hang from a tree where the wind is howling, stabbed by long hairs.

I was sacrificed to Odin, sacrificed to myself, on the tree that no one knew.

I look down and pick up Runas' text

Picking up and shouting, the wisdom that fell from the tree.