Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 843 Avalanche Peril: The Abyss Dragon Appears

Su Nan frowned slightly at the incredibly gruesome and bloody scene, enduring the burning, tearing sensation, and walked with difficulty to Gao Dongxu, who was playing with a compass he had picked up from the snow next to a corpse.

"The avalanche zone ahead is still dangerous, but these people have already traversed it once. If we're careful, we should be able to get through—"

Gao Dongxu smiled as he looked at Su Nan's beautiful, rosy face and said, "Have your two men lead the way, and you stay by my side."

"This—" Su Nan frowned slightly, looking embarrassed. The next moment, she felt Gao Dongxu gently stroking her cheek. She couldn't help but shyly reach out and push Gao Dongxu's hand away, saying coquettishly, "Can't you be serious for once—"

"Hehe, I want to take some naca pills again..." Gao Dongxu chuckled, looking at Su Nan with burning eyes as he whispered.

"Get lost—" Su Nan blushed and involuntarily took a step back. She knew that her conscience, which had been severely damaged, was still aching.

The conscience that she used to be so proud of did indeed fascinate Gao Dongxu, but at the same time, it also became the target of her suffering, a typical case of pain and pleasure at the same time.

"Take out your ropes, connect them together, and tie them to your bodies—" Ignoring Gao Dongxu, Su Nan turned around and shouted to the crowd.

Without hesitation, everyone quickly followed Su Nan's instructions, tying the rope around their waists and linking the two ends together to form a chain. Then, two members of the Wang family, carrying Luoyang shovels found among the scattered equipment, began to move forward along the safe path previously cleared by the team.

You don't know how difficult it is until you try it. Although others have already traversed it, the snow in the avalanche zone is so thick and soft that every step submerges your knees, making it extremely strenuous to walk.

They thought they could easily cross the avalanche zone along the safe route that the caravan that had encountered the wolf pack the night before had made to escape. However, when they were halfway through the avalanche zone, something still happened.

Moreover, the ones involved were Wang Yueban and Wang Kaixuan, uncle and nephew. Upon hearing their exclamations, everyone was stunned. Those in front turned around, and those behind looked forward, only to see their shadows vanish in a flash.

Wu Xie and Hu Bayi noticed the rope on the ground suddenly tug, their expressions changed, and they shouted, "Oh no! They've both fallen into a snow pit!"

Before they could finish speaking, the snow beneath their feet suddenly collapsed, pulling them both into the snow. Then, the snow beneath the feet of Yang Xueli and Hei Xiazi, who were closest to them, also collapsed.

Seeing everyone being dragged into the snow one by one by the two fat men like a bunch of grapes, Su Nan's face changed drastically as she screamed, "Untie the ropes—control the horses—"

Hearing her cry, Gao Dongxu and the women knew it was too late to untie the ropes. They all drew their sharp daggers and cut the ropes, quickly retreating to avoid the collapsed area.

Gao Dongxu pulled Su Nan back quickly to a safe area, and the collapse soon stopped, revealing a huge snow pit.

As for Fatty Wang and his nephew, Wu Xie, Hu Bayi, Yang Xueli, and Hei Xiazi, they fell into a snow pit and rolled around in it for an unknown amount of time before finally stopping.

Standing at the edge of the snow pit, Gao Dongxu frowned as he looked at it and shouted, "Give me two ropes, I'll go down and take a look—"

Erpang, Fusheng, Fugui, and the others quickly took out new ropes, tied them together, threw one end to Gao Dongxu, tied it around his waist, picked up another rope, took out an ice axe, and slowly climbed down the bottomless snow pit.

Wu Xie, trapped in the snow pit, felt as if his body had fallen apart. His eyes were filled with snow and he couldn't open them at all. He could only hear Hei Xiazi shouting, "Don't move! He's at the very back. I've already secured him with my dagger. Wait for him to slowly climb up!"

However, at that moment, Wang Yueban shouted from the bottom, "Wait, wait! There's something down there—Holy crap, what is that? So many claws..."

"Don't move—" At this moment, Gao Dongxu also quickly descended, shouting as he threw another rope to Hei Xiazi so that he could tie it to his body.

"Young Master Gao, there are quite a few corpses down there... and a huge centipede—" Wang Yueban's voice changed, as if he was truly terrified.

"Wait, don't move, I'm coming down—" Gao Dongxu frowned slightly and descended even faster.

At this moment, Wu Xie also brushed the snow off his eyes. For a moment, he didn't know where he was. He only felt a sharp rock pressing against his back, and Wang Yueban was right below him, shouting.

Wu Xie steadied himself and subconsciously looked to see what Wang Yueban was afraid of. Looking down carefully, he found that they were now leaning against a steep, rocky slope, about five or six meters from the bottom. The rope around their waists was caught on a rock corner, which prevented them from rolling down directly. The bottom of the slope was full of snow and rocks that had slid down with them. Several long, thin black claws were sticking out from the snowdrifts.

Looking at those claws, Wu Xie felt a sense of suffocation and unconsciously pressed his back against the rock behind him. Following the claws, he could vaguely see a black thing, about the thickness of a water bucket, coiled in the snow. Its segmented body was covered with scales, some hidden in the snow and some exposed. At first glance, I thought it was a hibernating snake, but upon closer inspection, it looked like a centipede.

The thing was clinging to the rock, motionless. It was unclear whether it was dead or alive; its head and tail were not visible, nor was its length known.

"Fatty, you fucking keep your voice down, trying to wake it up?!" Wu Xie hissed in a trembling voice, his face grim.

"Damn, what a huge centipede! If it were alive, that would be hilarious..." Wu Xie was speechless when he heard Wang Kaixuan still joking.

They truly are uncle and nephew; both are scourges.

Looking at those centipede-like claws and their size, Wu Xie felt an instinctive unease and worry.

At this moment, Gao Dongxu landed next to Wu Xie. Upon seeing Gao Dongxu, Wu Xie breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a strong sense of security.

With Gao Dongxu around, even a real monster couldn't cause any trouble, and it was hard to say who the prey was. Gao Dongxu continued to descend, arriving next to Wang Kaixuan. After observing the surroundings, he discovered that this was a closed valley filled with avalanches. However, because the rocks were piled up too haphazardly, a large number of air bubbles were generated. When the fat uncle and nephew walked on top of it, they broke the fragile snow layer, triggering a chain reaction, and the snow layer collapsed.

The snow above continued to fall, and often after such a landslide, the surrounding snow would converge like quicksand, burying the collapsed area again. This process was extremely rapid, and many high-altitude expeditions perished in such situations. The entire team could disappear in seconds.

Although the slope is very steep, the surface of the slope is covered with loose stones, some as big as the front of a Liberation truck, and some only the size of a ping-pong ball, making it easy to climb, whether going up or down.

After Gao Dongxu inserted his ice axe into the steep slope, he easily pulled up Wang Yueban and Wang Kaixuan, who were hanging in the air, and let them climb up the slope. He then continued to descend until he reached the bottom of the slope.

Looking at the five frozen corpses on the slope, Gao Dongxu went forward to examine them. Two were foreigners and three were Chinese. They died with their eyes wide open, their faces still bearing expressions of pain.

Gao Dongxu rummaged around and pulled out five daggers and three pistols, indicating that many members of the team that went into the mountains had brought their weapons with them.

After entering the space, Gao Dongxu walked to the stone carving, swept away the snow, and a stone dragon lying prone on the cliff appeared before him. Carved from black stone, the cliff carving was very lifelike and vivid. If it were hidden in the snow, you really couldn't tell it was a stone carving.

The stone dragon was completely different from any other dragon Gao Dongxu had ever seen; beneath its body were carved countless legs that resembled those of a centipede.

I finally saw what a centipede looked like.

Looking at the grotesque and enormous centipede, Gao Dongxu honestly felt a bit disgusted.

"Young Master Gao—what's that down there?" At this moment, Wang Yueban, who was lying on the slope, poked his head out and asked curiously.

“It’s a stone carving, depicting a centipede, also known as a centipede—” Gao Dongxu looked at the ugly and sinister-looking centipede.

"No wonder it had so many claws, it's a centipede, it's disgusting..." Wang Yueban complained.

Ignoring Wang Pangzi's complaints, Gao Dongxu swept all the snow off the rock and discovered that it was a huge flat plate, about five meters high and three meters wide, leaning against a rocky slope. The rock was extremely flat and black, clearly different from the other rocks here.

Looking at the marks on the broken stone, Gao Dongxu quickly identified the boulder as the sealing stone in the tomb passage.

Holding a flashlight, he carefully examined the insect's head and saw a pull ring in its mouth. Without hesitation, he reached into the insect's mouth, pulled out a black iron chain about the thickness of his wrist.

As expected, it was a sealing stone, which made Gao Dongxu frown slightly. If this sealing stone also collapsed from above, it meant that the tomb passage of the Cloud Palace was severely damaged. Now he was a little worried about whether those mechanisms, hidden weapons and traps would still work.

It's worth noting that neither novels nor films and television dramas describe the mechanisms, hidden weapons, and traps of the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds very often; instead, they focus more on attacks from monsters like tomb guardian beasts, human-faced owls, and centipedes.

It seems I was a bit too optimistic about the traps and mechanisms in the Heavenly Palace.

Fortunately, they were on the right track.

Gao Dongxu put the sealing stone into his spatial storage, looked around again, and after finding nothing, he gathered his strength, touched the rock wall with his feet, and jumped onto the slope.

"Let's go. There's a sealing stone down there, which means we're not going the wrong way." Gao Dongxu said to the others and then started climbing.

The others followed closely behind, pulling and crawling, and in less than ten minutes, they saw the light of day again. After a short rest, they continued on their way.

Three hours later, they finally emerged from the avalanche zone and began climbing the snow slope. As they climbed, it got dark.

"Sniff, sniff-"

Sitting on the snow sled, Gao Dongxu held Su Nan, who was unable to break free and was being held by him with shameless persistence, her hands warmed by his conscience. Suddenly, he took a deep sniff in the wind.

"The smell of sulfur."

"spa--"

With her pretty face flushed, Su Nan's beautiful eyes lit up and she exclaimed, then looked at Gao Dongxu and said coquettishly, "You really have a dog's nose."

Upon hearing the words "hot spring," everyone began to sniff around and, sure enough, detected the smell of sulfur.

"Everyone, spread out and search. We'll camp at the hot springs tonight—" Gao Dongxu released Su Nan, stood up, and gave the order loudly.

With a flushed face, Su Nan quickly straightened her misaligned underwear, thermal underwear, sweater, and windbreaker, and zipped up her down jacket.

(End of this chapter)