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  If she is Chen Wenjin, then her current situation and San Shu's are the same, both have become corpses. Then, what she is looking for, will it also be what San Shu wants to find?

  Could it be... Third Uncle has also gone to Tianyin Coffin Wine?

  However... in the depths of Mount Bana, Zhang Qiling said before he died, "They're back." Apparently, it's not just one person, but a group of people. Is this group of people the archaeological team from back then?

  Who else is still alive in the archaeological team that year? The life and death of San Shu and Chen Wenjin are the biggest mysteries, apart from this, it seems that all relevant people have died, so... who does "they" refer to?

  I feel like I've been dragged into another puzzle, things have become a mess, and with an itchy scalp, I asked: "What did she say?"

  Xiu Xiu said: "She said 'Everything is a secret hidden there, perhaps that's the last hope.'"

  "Is the last hope... in Kunlun Mountains?" I asked.

  Xiuxiu took out the torn map, shaking her head and saying: "She didn't say, but I think that since she couldn't find the Ghost Seal here with me, she might go look for you, but now it seems like she's most likely to go look for that little brother."

  I shook my head and sighed, saying: "Can't be found, in this world... no one can find him."

  Xiu Xiu looked at me with a strange expression and said, "Do you know where he is?" Jie Yu Hua also stared at me thoughtfully. I stood up and said, "I only know that he went to a place, but where that place is, what's there, I have no idea." What was hidden behind the bronze door, life or death, I had no clue, not even... that ten-year promise, I didn't know if it existed. If after ten years, I opened the bronze door and saw the corpse of Tong Yao, what would I do?

  Xiu Xiu closed her notebook and asked curiously: "Where?"

  I paused for a moment, saying: "The ultimate place." Xiǎoyǔ Huā rolled her eyes and said: "No wonder you're Wu San Sheng's nephew." Xiù Xiù's eyes turned around and she said: "You also know what happened. This matter involves my grandmother and that ghost seal. If we don't investigate, I feel uneasy day and night thinking about that woman secretly watching us. I think if we can find the last ghost seal, maybe the whole thing will come to light. What about you? What are you going to do now?"

  I shook my head and said, "Ghosts and all that, I'm not interested. I just want to find Third Uncle."

  "What do you mean?"

  "I said: 'Follow you, go to Tianyuan Coffin Wine.'"

  Xiu Xiu wanted to say something, but Jieyu Hua said: "You'd better think carefully, as for that place, we now know nothing about it. A tomb built on Kunlun Mountain is definitely not a good thing. Your two golden partners are no longer by your side, if anything happens... I won't save you."

  I glanced at him and said lightly, "Is the equipment ready?" Xie Yu Hua made a 'tsk' sound with her mouth and said, "More and more like a young master's demeanor." I smiled and said, "Can't compare to Master Jie Yu." Xiuxiu let out a helpless sigh and said, "You two are like sworn enemies or something. The equipment is ready, but there's still one group of people who haven't arrived yet, we have to wait a bit longer."

  I don't care who Xiu Xiu contacted, all I know is that this time the place we're going to concerns San Shu and Pangzi's life and death. I must find 'her', whether it's Gui Xiang or the ultimate secret, it has nothing to do with me anymore. All I hope for is that the people around me are safe and happy.

  On the way back, passerby A was chewing on a blade of grass with his mouth, hugging his hands, and the only exposed corner of his mouth and chin had no arc, my gaze only stayed on him for an instant, but saw him suddenly turn his face towards me, walking over slowly, I thought he wanted to say something to me, but unexpectedly just brushed past me from the side, asking the Honeysuckle flower behind me: "Rookie?" with a hint of teasing in his voice.

  The flower of language seems to be considering how to respond, after a while, it said blandly: "It's an old hand."

  I turned around and glared at the two of them fiercely. What's wrong with you old rookies? I have a young brother backing me up, we can take you down instantly. Thinking about this, my back straightened again. Although Oil Bottle isn't here, I still can't lose face in front of this King of Deception, otherwise ten years later, I won't even have the face to team up with him again.

  I straightened my back and returned to Karma, since I didn't need to worry about equipment, I was too lazy to care. I originally wanted to go online to check the terrain of the Kunlun Mountains and find some relevant information, but I couldn't even find a computer, so I simply relaxed and played for a few days.

  The next day, I followed the tourists and walked to Qinghai Lake with my luggage. Xiu Xiu also relaxed a lot that day and wasn't as awkward with me. For a while, it felt like we were back to when we first met. We took photos around Qinghai Lake, rode horses on the grassland, and occasionally saw Tibetan boys herding cattle and sheep.

  The air and environment here are all natural, even trains can't get in directly. The sky is high and vast, the grassland stretches endlessly, connecting with the sky. When you're tired of playing, lie down on the grass, quietly watching the sky, wandering or thinking, there's a kind of relaxation that's never been felt before.

  By the third day, Kama had another batch of people coming in, a total of five, all tall and burly men with full equipment on their backs, which was quite eye-catching. Immediately, there were surrounding tourists discussing: "I guess they're going mountain climbing, all dressed in mountaineering gear."

  "Those things are expensive and only rich people can afford them. Let's just take a look at the grassland honestly."

  After meeting up with this group of people, we started preparing to enter the mountain. Originally, if we were going to enter Mount Kunlun from Golmud's entrance, it would be best, but the half map in our hands showed that the end point was north of Mount Kunlun and required us to head west along the Ge'ermu River, cross over the snow-capped mountains, and then enter a branch of Mount Kunlun.

  This is a very long route, calculated by human footsteps, and it takes at least half a month to go back and forth. Therefore, the things that need to be prepared are more than usual, and when those five big men came, almost every person's equipment was twice as much, obviously they were well-prepared.

  Stretching across the west of Jiecha are several snow-capped mountains, from west to east, called 'Duoshen', 'Nima', 'Kawagbo' and 'Sangba'. These snow-capped mountains are located in the same mountain range. The one we need to cross is Nima Snow Mountain, also known as Sun Snow Mountain, with an elevation of over 4,000 meters. Of course, we're not going to climb the mountain, no need to climb up to the 4,000-meter peak, just need to get through this snow-capped mountain.

  When winter comes, locals go into the mountains to hunt, because in winter those prey hide in deep caves and don't run around. Experienced hunters can tell where there are caves and what's hiding inside by looking at the tracks in the snow, then dig out the entrance and catch a whole group of prey. But when summer comes, people going into the mountains actually decrease, one reason is that the highland sun is strong in summer and it's easy to get snow blindness, another reason is that the forest in summer is not peaceful, there are some ferocious prey.

  We are now in the summer to enter the mountain, no good guide, in the snowy mountains may get lost, Linghua didn't spend much time finding a young guide named Sangba, very young, wearing a Tibetan robe, with a curved knife at his waist.

  I asked Xiaohua, "At such a young age, can you handle it?"

  Xie Yu Hua said, "No way, I found a few old guides, they said that in the summer, entering the mountain can only take us to the snow forest at the foot of the mountain for sightseeing. To go further is too dangerous, no one dares to take on this task."

  "What about him?"

  "He's mom is seriously ill and needs money urgently." While speaking, he opened his mobile phone. I took a glance and was shocked to see that he was still playing Tetris, this guy's brain is really something else!

  The next morning, after a night's rest in Kama, our party of nine set out for Mount Nyainqentanglha under the leadership of Sangba. The road was all flat and at first we could see some tourists but later there were no signs of human beings anywhere.

  Sangba said that the terrain here is very undulating, and the snow-capped mountains seem not far away. However, as we walked, it was a constant up and down, and in fact, we had to walk for quite a distance. As he expected, we left Kama and trekked across the grasslands for three hours before finally arriving at the foot of the Nima Snow Mountain.

  From a distance, the snow-capped mountains seemed to stretch on forever, shrouded in a hazy mist. As I drew closer, I had to crane my neck just to see the sky. At first glance, it was all rocky terrain, then came the snowy hues, and beyond that, everything became indistinct.