Tang Ren was walking on knee-deep snow, grumbling, the roasted sweet potato in his hand had already frozen into a lump of ice. Qin Feng suddenly squatted down and pulled apart the red pine branches, revealing a bloody bear paw print on the snow, with half a piece of brocade remnant sandwiched between the paw prints.
"This, this is not an animal..." Qin Feng picked up the fabric with pliers, "It's the silk craft of the Qing Palace Construction Office!"
The mountain keeper, Lao Jin, came over smoking a dry pipe and pointed the pipe towards Tianchi: "In the month of May, a group of people also came to look for 'Dragon's Pearl'. They carried a carved wooden box into the mountain and never came out again." He spread out his hands covered with frostbite, and in his palm lay a jade button with "Made in the Ministry of Internal Affairs" engraved on the back.
The sudden sound of gunfire startled the flying birds, and when Tang Ren threw himself into the snow pit, he hit a hard object - a half-frozen arm stretched out from the snow, with the yellowed "Shengjing Yutu" clenched between his fingers.
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When Tang Ren found the wild hot spring by following the smell of sulfur, his cotton pants were already covered with ice. Qin Feng noticed the graffiti on the rock wall: next to the crooked unicorn, "The 31st Year of the Guangxu Reign" was written in Manchu and Chinese.
"The location of this hot spring eye..." Su Chen unfolded the map, "It corresponds to the eye of the dragon in the picture." He suddenly stepped on a loose board, and a skeleton floated up from the place where the boiling water gushed out. A Japanese pocket watch was wrapped in a sheepskin jacket, and the Q badge was embedded in the cover.
Tang Ren took out a copper box from a tree branch. One of the double dragon whiskers on the box was missing: "Why does this dragon face look like Empress Dowager Cixi?" He pried open the copper box and found half a tiger talisman inside, with dried blood stains on the crack.
Lao Jin suddenly pointed at the mist: "Look! Something is moving in the mist!" In the haze, several figures in armor passed by in a sedan chair, with corners of bright yellow clothes visible through the gaps in the curtains.
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In the dilapidated mountain god temple, Qin Feng counted the offerings on the altar: the frozen pears and sticky bean buns were all fresh. Tang Ren kicked over the incense burner, and a finger bone with tooth marks rolled out from the ashes.
"There's something wrong with this statue!" Su Chen's flashlight illuminated the mottled colored sculpture. The sword-wielding guardian deity held a Japanese saber in his hand, and half of the Type 38 rifle barrel was exposed under the lotus seat.
Old Jin suddenly knelt down and kowtowed: "This is a sacrificial altar from the pseudo-Manchu period! My grandfather said that the Kwantung Army here..." Before he finished speaking, the secret passage under the altar suddenly opened, and a fishy wind wrapped in paper money rushed out. Tang Ren grabbed a handful of paper money and looked at it carefully. Each one was printed with the Xuantong reign.
The bronze bolt of the secret passage had two lock holes arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper. When Qin Feng inserted the tiger talisman into the Tianquan position, a muffled sound of gears turning came from inside the door.
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In the freezing cold, Tang Ren's snot froze into the icicles as soon as it flowed out. Qin Feng's flashlight swept across the ice wall and suddenly froze - a whole team of armed Japanese soldiers was trapped in the ice layer, and the leading officer was holding a jade box with a coiled dragon carved on it.
"This, this is a thank-you gift from Puyi to the Kwantung Army!" Su Chen chiseled a piece of ice crystal, "Historical records show that in 1932 there was a batch of cultural relics..."
The ice suddenly cracked, and the jade box in the frozen corpse's hand fell. Tang Ren tore off the corpse's belt while rescuing it, and a micro-roll of plastic fell out of the belt buckle. The sunlight shone through the cover of Lao Jin's pocket watch, revealing a map of the underground palace, marked with "Dragon Qi Convergence Place".
"Watch your step!" Qin Feng pulled Tang Ren away, and the ice surface where he was standing collapsed, revealing a bronze altar suspended in the air. Nine bronze statues with animal heads surrounded the jade altar, and the shape of the groove in the middle was exactly the same as the fragment from the Forbidden City.
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Tang Ren just put the fragment into the groove, and the whole ice cave shook violently. Lao Jin suddenly took out a dagger and pointed it at Su Chen: "I'm sorry, Q organization wants the complete dragon vein!"
Qin Feng knocked over the bronze incense burner, and the incense ash blinded him. Tang Ren covered Old Jin's face with sticky bean curd. During the fight, the altar mechanism was activated, and the beast head spewed poisonous smoke. As everyone fled to the cave entrance, the sound of gunfire triggered an avalanche.
At the critical moment, Su Chen pulled the gate knife next to the fake soldier's corpse. The rusted iron fence fell down with a bang, and the snow waves rolled over the fence. The shocked people found that Sinuo's origami crane mark was engraved on the handle of the gate knife.
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As Tang Ren climbed along the lava tunnel to the edge of Tianchi Lake, his cotton shoes were steaming. A red lacquer coffin floated in the ice hole in the middle of the lake, with a picture of a two-headed snake swallowing the sun painted on the coffin lid.
"This is a volcanic barrier lake, the water is hot enough to cook an egg!" Before Lao Jin finished speaking, the coffin suddenly caught fire. In the flames, gilded words appeared: "Ai Xin Jue Luo Zai Xuan hid here."
Qin Feng picked up the coffin fragments with an ice pick, and the charred interlayer revealed the jade book wrapped in tin paper. When Tang Ren tore off the tin paper, the volcano suddenly erupted with steam, and the full text on the jade book appeared under the high temperature: "Where the dragon returns, there is the world."
Lao Jin suddenly died, and his pocket watch exploded in the high temperature, and the fragments of the dial formed a picture of the Shenyang Palace. Sinuo's paper crane fell from the steam, with blood-red arrows on its wings, pointing directly at Beiling.
(The case of "Changbai Mountain Mystery Cave" has reached its climax, and the shocking secret treasure of the last royal family is about to be revealed)