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  Surroundings are vast snowy plains, terrain drops greatly, one second ago still downhill, the next moment to climb up, underground snow is very thick, my feet are stiff and painful, two frozen purple-red hands almost numb.

  But I could only move forward, the important food and firepower were all in the hands of the Germans, I had no room for resistance, but he didn't treat me badly, at least not like passerby A, who deducted my rations. Just like that, the two of us walked through the snowy wilderness for a whole day, until we reached a relatively flat area, I was about to speak up and say it's time to find a place to rest, when the German suddenly stood still in his tracks, motionless.

  I felt something was off, but I didn't ask. After a while, the German turned around with a puzzled expression and muttered to himself: "Here, I think I've been before." My heart skipped a beat as I quickly scanned my surroundings - all around were steep ice mountains, and in the distance, there was a misty veil with a faint black mountain peak visible.

  I knew that wasn't a mountain peak, but rather an optical illusion created by the icebergs in the fog. These icebergs were completely unremarkable and no different from any other place I had walked before, so where did this sense of familiarity come from?

  As I thought of this, I couldn't help but start calculating the time. As soon as I did, my heart skipped a beat, because according to our original plan, following the branch vein westward, it would take about five or six days to reach the location of that gate. But now that I've calculated the time, I realized that I've already been walking in this vast Kunlun Mountains for eight days.

  Excluding the time we spent on Mount Nyima Snow Mountain, it seems that the location of the Tianyuan Coffin is probably nearby.

  The more I think about it, the more excited I become. A lot of questions pop up in my mind. Is Third Uncle still there? Is Chen Wenjin also inside? How is Fatso doing? How are Second Uncle and them?

  I was excited for a moment, and when I blinked, I found a pair of green eyes staring at me coldly, with a chill in them.

  The German said: "Wu Xie, what are you thinking?" Although he was asking me, but it was in a affirmative tone.

  My heart skipped a beat, and my mind spun rapidly for an instant. As soon as I opened my mouth, I retorted: "What are you thinking of again?"

  The German guy raised the corner of his mouth, licked his lips and sneered: "Don't play tricks, if you don't cooperate, I'll blow you up, and I can still move forward." The smile on my face couldn't hold on anymore, I pouted, put on a bitter melon face, and complained: "Do you have to? I just wanted to do something private, why did you have to ask so clearly, are you checking my household registration?" The German guy stared at me and asked back: "Private matter?"

  I gave him a white eye and said, "What do you think I want? Hey, what's wrong with you? The sky is almost dark, if we don't find a place to rest soon, we'll be sleeping in the wind tonight?"

  The German frowned, seemingly taken aback by me, with a slightly bewildered expression. I seized the opportunity and added some effort, blowing air onto my frostbitten hands, exhaling a layer of white mist. My gaze was fixed on my own hands, but my ears were still listening to the German's movements. After a while, the German seemed to relax and asked, "According to your plan, how much longer do we need to walk?"

  "My face didn't flush and I wasn't out of breath as I replied: 'Eight days, what's up?'"

  The German waved his hand, indicating that he didn't want to say more, and said lightly: "Let's go." I followed the German, who had lived in the snowy mountains for sixty years and learned many survival skills. With him leading the way, we could always find a place to rest quickly.

  I stared at his tall back, looking at the equipment bag on his back, and began to make plans in my heart.

  If nothing unexpected happens, the Tianyuan coffin should be around here. What will the Germans do to me once they find the place? The most likely outcome is that they'll directly get rid of me. After all, I'm not capable of communicating with them across borders, and I'm not capable of becoming their cooperative partner. Once they find the place, it's most cost-effective to just shoot this burden (me) dead.

  If I keep following him like this, who knows when I'll find the Heavenly Tomb Coffin. At that time, my death won't be far away either.

  For now, the only way is to leave this person before finding the Tianyuan coffin, and tonight may be the only chance.

  After following the Germans for a short while, he indeed found an ice crack that was over two meters wide and three meters deep. In such places, it was impossible to find any mountain rocks or cave entrances as everything on the surface was covered in ice.

  This crevasse was over four meters high off the ground, with a smooth ice wall below and nothing around to climb on. The German and I stood at the bottom for a while, then tried throwing an ice axe first - one hook, but it didn't catch as the ice surface was too slippery. Just as I was thinking about how to get up, the German said to me: "Let's make a human wall, I'll go up first."

  What can I say at this time? At that moment, I made a horse stance, with both hands supporting the ice wall. The German stepped on my thigh first, and then one foot trampled on my shoulder. I only felt my body sink, and my shoulder seemed to fall off, the pain was severe.

  The German shouted: "Just a little more, stand up."

  Damn it, do you think you're Chinese or something? Grandma's, what have you been eating for the past 60 years, you're as heavy as Tian Pengyuan. I gritted my teeth and slowly got up from the ice wall, not long after, I just felt a looseness on my shoulder, looks like the German guy climbed up.

  I was rubbing my shoulders, waiting for him to throw the rope and pull me up. But after a long time, there was no movement. I felt a thrill in my heart - could this old devil have fallen into the wolf's den and been swallowed whole? I thought wildly, but didn't make a sound. I figured that old devil must be probing the environment of the ice crevice, so I waited quietly below. After about four or five minutes, the German didn't even fart.

  I felt something was off, just as I was thinking of calling out, but before I could open my mouth, I saw the German's equipment bag next to him. Since it was almost dark now, he wasn't worried that I would run away, so when he went up, he put his equipment on the ground. After all, that equipment bag was very heavy and I couldn't bear it.

  Seeing that big black bag, I'd like to slap myself in the face. Isn't this a great opportunity? What's the point of shouting? Running is the real deal!

  I never knew I reacted so quickly, almost as soon as I thought of it, my hand had already reached out and grabbed the shoulder strap of the equipment bag. I threw off the tool pack on my back and put on the German's equipment, and my legs that were trembling with fatigue just now suddenly became energetic like they had taken stimulants, running was especially effortless, I even felt like I was about to catch up with some Olympic champion.

  I had only run a few steps when I heard a muffled cry behind me, the cry was dull and obviously came from the German in the ice crevice. My heart skipped a beat, could it be that my guess was true? Was there a wolf's den in the ice crevice?

  I ran while looking back, not knowing whether the German was dead or alive, but as long as he didn't catch up with me, that was the most important thing. As a result of this look back, I was suddenly stunned, and saw a human-shaped object emitting blue light stumbling after me, at the same time, the human-shaped object let out a series of miserable cries.

  Is he German? How come he's glowing?

  As I was stunned, the German who was chasing me suddenly tripped and fell to the ground, stretching out his hand towards me and wailing: "Save me, save me..." My whole body went cold, what's going on?

  I didn't move, his hand was still stretched out to me, and finally he couldn't bear it and went to grab his own face. As soon as he grabbed it, countless fireflies-like things flew up from his face and danced in the night sky. At the same time, the German's exposed face was also covered with flesh maggots.

  That face was as if it had been bitten to pieces by something small, strangely without blood, only the chewed-up flesh spread all over the face like minced meat. At the same time, those more than ten blue light spots that were scattered by the Germans suddenly flew towards me quickly.

  My scalp is numb, if it's covered with them, what can I do? Not to mention whether they are poisonous or not, this face will be ruined at least. Although I'm not very handsome, I still hope to use it to marry a wife.

  I was so scared that I ran away immediately, the German's miserable cries were still continuing behind me. I couldn't bear it and wanted to go save him, but when I turned my head back, I saw more and more blue light spots flying towards me, as if they had bitten the German to boredom and wanted to try a different flavor, the taste of Chinese people.

  Those things flew up and were quite strange, in a short while several of them pounced on me, but fortunately I was wearing thick clothes, before they could bite down, I shooed them away with my hands. Looking back at the increasingly numerous, almost densely packed blue light spots, I almost shouted, "Don't... don't, Huaxia Dragon Vein emerged from Kunlun, Light Grandfather, you are in Kunlun, I am also in Kunlun, we are one family."

  I ran in a panic, although I wanted to save the German, but also felt helpless. Suddenly, the German's voice stopped abruptly, and my heart skipped a beat - was he dead? For a moment, I couldn't describe what I felt, it was a mix of feeling lucky and having a sense of tragic fate. Subconsciously, I turned my head to look back, and instantly my legs went soft - damn, all these things were chasing me alone!

  At this time, I saw clearly that the blue light spots chasing me were actually a kind of glowing insect. The specific appearance was not clear, but there was a pair of crimson pincers in its mouth that were disproportionate to its body shape and particularly eye-catching.

  I was so scared that I quickly turned back, lowered my head and ran wildly, but not long after, a severe pain came from the exposed nape of my neck, apparently I had been bitten by that bug. The feeling was extremely uncomfortable, although it was just a small wound, the pain it transmitted was like being cut with a knife. No wonder the German guy screamed so miserably earlier.

  At this time, my ears had already heard a buzzing sound, like tens of thousands of bees flying towards me. I turned my head and saw that the main force of those things was less than ten meters away from me, and it would only take a few seconds to fly over. My face had already been bitten several times, but what was even more pitiful was my hand, which was originally covered in frostbite, and now it was bitten again. I felt like crying.

  It's not a solution to keep running like this, I turned my head back and saw that there was a downhill slope in front of me. At this time, the night was too dark, and I couldn't see what was below. I ran hastily and didn't even have time to turn on my flashlight. At this moment, relying on the faint blue light of the insects, I could only see that it was a place with a not-too-steep slope. All the way down was thick snow, and what was at the bottom, I had no idea.

  I gritted my teeth, let out a loud cry, and violently tore off the equipment on my body. I hugged it to my chest, used the equipment bag to protect my head and face, and then rolled down.