Chapter 227: Sacrifice
The “Phoenix Guts” was casually thrown into the cloud lake under the sky beam by Uncle Ming, I furiously pulled him down from the stone statue and raised my fists to fight, but before I could do so, I heard Shirley Yang shouting, “No good, time is running out.” After saying that, she looked up and gazed at the crystal vein above her head, Ah Xiang who was sitting on the ground and the fat man who had just taken refuge behind another stone figure in order to dodge the gun, including Uncle Ming who was pressed underneath by me, also raised their heads and looked up.
At this time the light in the cave produced a change, originally issued by the upper side of the ore in the fluorescent light, this time also suddenly turned dark, followed by the surrounding black down, although not so dark that it is invisible, but close to the silhouette of the people have appeared to be hazy fuzzy, I see their behavior, know that the head of the must have happened something, so hold down Uncle Ming, raised his eyes to see, from the ice wall like crystal veins, extends out of the countless scattered expansion of the crystals, are in order to Twisted angle down the halberd, a clump of like sharp ice vertebrae, in these bizarre crystals rushed, a huge black silhouette, in the depths of the fluttering and writhing, emitting gusts of muffled thunder-like movement, echoed repeatedly in the crystal wall, exuding ominous sounds, the black shadow of the emergence of the vast majority of cold fluorescent light are diluted away, the environment in the cave is becoming more and more dark.
The scene of black clouds pressing down on the city in general, making this altar space, which already seemed very flat and narrow, became even more depressing, listening to the sound of rumbling from above, that inexplicable sense of panic in the white tunnel reappeared in my mind, and I couldn’t help but wonder, “What in the world is that fucking thing?”
I was originally talking to myself, I did not expect to be held down by me Uncle Ming suddenly interface: “Hu old brother, this is …… an evil spirit sealed in the stone ah, it is going to come out of the stone, this time I am afraid that it is really finished, we can not live.”
I just remembered Uncle Ming thing, listen to him even have the face to talk to me, suddenly heart fire, thought this old Hong Kong farmers are fucking treacherous to the home, originally I was discussing with Shirley Yang, Fatty altar thing, although the situation is aggressive, but there is still some time to think of ways, the ritual of killing although very mysterious and ancient, but in the final analysis, nothing more than at the intersection of this strings and arcs, to change the balance between the yin and the yang! If there is no accident, in the remaining hour or so, maybe there is still a chance to find out the secret, is not destined to be a situation of death, this time into Tibet, no matter what kind of predicament, I have never given up the effort, because of Zhang Winchuan’s number of opportunities pointed out that the encounter with the water can be in the middle of the road, this trip to the west will have something, will be able to benefit from the river, time and time again, I do not have any doubt that the strict divine art pointed out that the ceremony in how to do, but in this ceremony, I do not know how to do, but in this ceremony, I do not know how to do. Doubt, but in this ceremony how can “meet the water and get in the way”, but in this case the water and what will be the way of life? I could not understand it for a while.
But I no longer have the opportunity to comprehend the true meaning of it, because this Hong Kong farmers even clever, in order to save his life, even tricked robbed the “Phoenix gall” to blackmail the crowd, the precious time we were not much have been wasted, is really too damned hateful, but also to keep him to do what, so raised his fist to beat him.
Uncle Ming saw me say hands on hands, immediately shocked body like sieve chaff, I treat the enemy, especially the inner ghost has always been winter like cruelty, not the slightest move, but my fist is not yet waiting to fall, but the expression of Uncle Ming suddenly changed, full of bewilderment, looked at me and said, “Hey …… where am I? Hu old brother …… What just happened? I have an old disease, sometimes split personality, is just done things, said the words are half remember, just now is not there a loss of temper?”
I grunted coldly, stopped and stopped hitting him, in my heart I can’t help but admire Uncle Ming, the old greaseball saw the opportunity very quickly, the ability to act stupid and pretend to be stupid is much stronger than me and Fatty, it’s really a pity not to go to act in the movie, it’s not possible for me to really kill him, a beating will not help, and at this time there’s no time to pay attention to him, I looked up to see what was going on up there, the black silhouette in the crystal was getting clearer and clearer, the shadow was shaking slightly, and the air was filled with a sound of the shadow, and the air was filled with a sound of the shadow. The shadow was trembling slightly, and the sound of muffled thunder coming out of the air was even more ear-piercing, it really looked like some kind of demon trapped in the stone, and it seemed to be struggling to climb out of it.
I don t pay attention to Uncle Ming pretending to be crazy at the moment, greeted Fatty over, “Leave it to you, but education and education will be enough, don t make a human life …… and, if he approaches the phoenix gall half a step again, no need to say anything, directly shoot to finish him.”
Fatty gritted his teeth and glared as he sat on Uncle Ming’s butt and pressed him underneath, cursing while having his fingers poking Uncle Ming’s ribs, “The experience of history, the lessons of the past, time and time again, tells us that whoever fucking dares to cut himself off from the people, whoever the fuck is a dead end.” One curse and a scrape on his ribs.
I heard Uncle Ming due to the pain and itching and let out a ghostly howl of misery, which only felt a mouthful of bad gas, not to give him a lesson, in the future it is inevitable to add to the chaos, and so do not care about the fat man how to save Uncle Ming’s erroneous stance, hurriedly ran to Shirley Yang and said: “Although we do not know that the big black sky strikes the mountain of thunder is actually what, but once that thing above really detached from the crystals, it is by no means with our current ability to cope with, but looking at the movement from above, we may still have the last tiny bit of time, I’ll go down to retrieve the phoenix gall first.”
I said so, but this vast sea of clouds under the stone smoke is what kind of, only heard the fat man said, but can be learned, the complexity of the terrain under the unimaginable, are mirror-like prismatic crystals, can not distinguish the front and back, a dragon’s eye like beads fall, the result can be imagined, is by no means a few moments on the retrieval of back, and even the possibility of whether or not can be found is very low, and the time is really too tight, but not too tight. It is really too tight, but if you don’t go to find it, you don’t even have a one percent chance.
Shirley Yang just saw that the crystal vein above her head had changed, she immediately ran back to the belly of the Jade Mountain, looked at the situation of the crystal sand, and then ran back to the Heavenly Beam to help up Ah Xiang who was sitting on the ground and crying, and when she heard what I said, she immediately stopped me and said: ”It’s too late, the time has already come to an end, it’s too late, the crystal mantle has already been filled up by the fine sand, and it’s not a good idea to find it back, what about it? What’s the point of retrieving it? Do you really want to kill Uncle Ming?”
I just want to find the “Phoenix Guts” as soon as possible, despite Shirley Yang’s persuasion, insisted on jumping down from the sky beam, but suddenly an unbelievable scene appeared in my eyes, I was busy saying to Shirley Yang: “Quickly look at the stone smoke down below, it seems to have changed. ”
Under the hazy trance fluorescence, those white smoke which is only second to the crystal dust, is reducing the height little by little, as if the black silhouette overhead is getting bigger by one point, these stone smokes are getting thinner by one layer, we didn’t notice when this change happened, but now the thickness of the cloud lake, is already half a meter lower than before, and it’s still decreasing, becoming gradually thinner.
In this thickness gradually reduced in the clouds, half of the dark round object emerged in which, that is just “phoenix gallbladder” fell down position, and that thing is not something else, is the matter of the “phoenix gallbladder”, this is a little too hard to believe, is it really so coincidental? Is it really such a coincidence? It just so happens that Uncle Ming threw down the place, there is a crystal stone, and “phoenix gall bladder” even fell on it did not roll to the depths? I can not believe that we have such good luck, but the facts are in front of us, can not help but believe.
I pinched my leg hard, not in a dream, Shirley Yang also saw a clear, but this time the clouds continue to fall a very thin layer, we see what is under the clouds, can not help but a burst of wild bars in the heart, only to see a dry black arm, is motionless to hold up the “phoenix gallbladder”, from the cloud exposed half of the arm, has completely lost Half of the arm, has completely lost water, the remaining dried hair skin wrapped around the skeleton, skin showing black purple.
I subconsciously reach out to the bag to touch the black donkey hooves, which remembered that those things were lost on the road, but then saw the cloud revealed more and more shocking things, some of the places exposed a person’s head, and the place of the emergence of an arm and a thigh, without exception are naked, dry black purple, densely packed can not be counted in the end there are many, the white smoke of the stone is more and more dense down, the rate of thinning Started to become slower down, I and Shirley Yang see here, the heart has already understood, these dry corpses are the year after the sacrificial ceremony was thrown around the Jade Mountain, year by year, too many corpses, even piled up into a mountain, and the dead perhaps due to the special dehydration treatment, or because of the role of the geographic environment, thousands of years of non-corrosive, the cloud layer thinner and this is gradually revealed, the fat man and Uncle Ming them! The place where Fatty and Uncle Ming fell down is near the entrance of the tunnel, but they only saw countless light and strange crystals, obviously the dried corpses that were used as sacrifices were thrown on both sides of the jade mountain.
I saw that the “phoenix gall” fell in the hands of a corpse high above, really surprised, immediately jumped down from the sky beam, intending to step on the mountain of corpses to retrieve the beads, less than a meter deep under the sky beam, already piled up with dry corpses, a step on a sink, the lower side of the hollowed out corpses, I stepped on them have been to the lower part of the slippery down, I can not even care about looking at the dry corpses, eyes firmly staring at the jade mountain. I do not care to look at those dry corpses, eyes firmly staring at the “phoenix gall”, lest it rolled down from the top of the mountain of corpses, in case it fell into the crevice of the pile of corpses, it would be a hundred times more difficult to find than to fall into the crystallized stone.
Stepping on a large number of dry corpses exposed clouds, my heart is also a little nervous, and did not pay attention to the situation underfoot, a foot stepped on the brain of a dry corpse, even the head stepped down, dry corpse brain and dry and hard and very slippery, footsteps on the top of the slippery, and suddenly lost his center of gravity, on the ground to fall, pouncing on the body of a woman dry corpse.
Female corpse shriveled face, two black eye sockets look great, I ate a shock, cursed bad luck, pressed the chaotic pile of dry corpses want to get up to continue to get the “phoenix gall bladder”, but my eyes can not leave the female corpse, because I suddenly thought, no. These dry corpses are not sacrifices, they are not sacrifices, they are very slippery, suddenly lost weight, fell on the ground, fell on a woman dry corpse! These dry corpses are not sacrifices, their skin has not been stripped, just now only staring at the “phoenix gall bladder”, there is nothing else in the eyes, because of this fall, a little distracted, which noticed this detail, and this pile of dry corpses, every one of them, regardless of men and women, young and old, have a common characteristic, of course, is not undressed, but the clothes are probably already rotten and gray. The clothes had probably rotted to dust, and all the dry bodies had their eyes plucked out.
The thunder overhead is tightening, like a burst of life-threatening spell, I know that the time left for us is already not much, fortunately, after the crystal sand flow, “big black sky strike thunder mountain” still need some time to completely appear, which is equivalent to the god of death also left us a ray of life, we now have to do is to race with death.
See the female corpse face those two deep black hole, although I also feel puzzled, so many dry corpses and altar and have what kind of relationship? Although I vaguely feel that something is not right here, but the idea of crawling over to get the “phoenix gall” back has completely occupied most of my mind at this moment, and there is no time to think carefully about what these dry corpses have a name, and do not care about the disgusting crawling in the mountain of corpses, the only thing on my mind is the “phoenix gall”, which is a type of gall in the corpse, and it is a kind of gall that can be found in the body of the corpse. Guts”, this is a kind of psychological pressure toward the full load of the situation, resulting in extreme emotions, already a little out of control of their own behavior.
But the more anxious I am, the more I can’t climb up, no matter it is the arm or leg, how to brace also can’t make the strength, hands and feet are caught in the layers of stacked dry corpse in the middle of the whole body is sweating, maybe with the black shadow of the top of the head, as soon as I see it will somehow feel a burst of panic, maybe it is really some kind of existence in the ore in the evil spirit, the brain in the thought, and hands and feet are supported by the stubs of a set of dry corpses trapped in the anxiously! In between, Shirley Yang jumped down from the sky beam and helped me up, I said to her, “These many dry corpses, they are not sacrifices, they have not been skinned.”
Shirley Yang said, “No, they have all had their eyelids cut off, and plucking out a pair of human eyes will complete the ritual of sacrificing to the ghost cave.”
Shirley Yang’s words were like an important reminder, I immediately took another look at the dry corpses at my feet, and it was true that their eyelids had been cut off from the brow bone onwards, I immediately came to my senses, I didn’t need to go into details, I had already understood what she meant, and the murals with the rituals of the killings were like a movie in my mind, the first of which was “peeling the skin”, the priest was holding down the human eyes. The first “skinning”, the priest held down the head of the sacrifice, with a sharp knife to start from the forehead of the execution, because I had heard that the skinning is also with a sharp knife from the head, so it is inevitable that preconceived notions, coupled with that the execution pit is too bloody, more than a few eyes want to vomit, so in a hurry, mistakenly thought that the mural in the action is to peel off the entire skin, in fact, from the view of these dry corpses piled up into the mountains, the action in the mural is to refer to the skinning of the whole human body, but in fact, from these dry corpses piled up into the mountains. The action in the mural refers to the peeling off of the skin of the eyes, with this premise, the content of the future is naturally welcome to endure, in the human-shaped stone groove to do, is to complete the removal of the sacrifice of the “eyes”, and the priests hold up the body into the altar of the mural, where the body was painted very blurred, we mistakenly thought that it was a full body of the body of the bleeding body, but now But now we think that the blurred body should be used to represent the life paid in the eyeballs, and the sacrifices of the plucked out eyes, after being brutally killed, were discarded near the altar, and over the years, have formed the present amazing scale.
As long as the sacrifice of a pair of human eyes assimilated by the ghost hole, can be lifted on the body of the curse, but we came in from the white tunnel, all the way are blindfolded, groping in the darkness, know that the loss of eyesight, into the boundless darkness of the panic and helplessness, if you gouge out your eyes, might as well be better than to die in this way to get over it, in addition to Shirley Yang, who would like to give up their own two eyes, but of course I was I can not let her do this, the big deal is to let Uncle Ming to make up for his sins, but to do so if Shirley Yang and certainly do not agree, but gouge out the eyes compared to skinning and slaughtering, already belongs to the half-price concessions, think of this spirit also for a lift.
These thoughts in the brain flashed, and the body did not stop because of these chaotic ideas, finally close to a dry body fell in the hands of the “phoenix gall bladder”, but too much haste, guilty of “wanting to speed is not enough” taboo, and finally an arrow leap out, wanting to A grab “phoenix gall”, unexpectedly this dry corpse piled up into the hill, due to a large number of dry corpses are thrown down from the sky beams, not intentionally piled up, corpse mountain internal many places are empty, a force exerted by the dry corpses built into the hill will fall apart, as the mountain collapsed and landslides, sparsely and clatteringly in the edge of the location of the collapse of a large quick, see that the dry corpse in the hands of the “Phoenix gall”, but hasty, committing the “desire for speed is not enough” taboo, and finally an arrow leap out, wanting to “phoenix gall”. See the dry corpse in the hands of the “phoenix gall bladder” is about to fall with a few nearby corpses rolled down.
I issued a shout, directly pounced on, in the grasp of the “phoenix gall” at the same time, I lost support with those dry corpses with the collapse of the edge of the corpse mountain rolled down, this is not too high from the crystal ore layer below, rolling down the depth of five or six meters, it has been to stop the momentum, I do not wait to get up from the ground, will first look at the hand of the “phoenix gall”, the “phoenix gall”. “Phoenix gall”, solid in the hand, this is a long breath, finally got back.
At this time around the white stone smoke has become extremely thin, the rest is also like a chaotic cloud drifting away, around the crystal vein fluorescence miserable, the terrain is almost completely symmetrical with the top of the head, as if it is a mirror out of the general, due to the nearby scattered countless falling dry corpses, to the ground are occupied, so it is not easy to be affected by the icy wall of the crystalline surface, I raised his head to look at the top of the head, it is really a reversal of the universe, the winds and clouds change color, pitch black The giant shadow is twisted and elongated, the whole are stretched out, and can not be seen is the shape of a person, as a black tattered black wind horse flag, slowly rotating in the crystal, look at the shape, but also like a great black eye sockets, which bulging more than, like the jade mountain to drip out of the water.
Shirley Yang stood at the edge of the corpse mountain, is desperately greeting the sky beam on the A Xiang and other people to quickly leave, the fat man pulling the A Xiang and Uncle Ming from the sky beam jumped down to the pile of corpses on the lower side, stumbling while running and shouting: “altar can’t stay, hurry up and run ah comrades …… ”
I could not see clearly what they saw, but I felt a chill in my heart, although I recovered the “phoenix guts”, but after all, it was a step too late, there may be no way to go back to the altar, I suddenly had an impulse to take the risk of rushing back, but what about the eyes? Whose eyes should I use? Pluck out Uncle Ming’s or use my own?
At this time suddenly heard the sound of water lapping against the stone wall, I hurriedly turned back to look, see not far away in a clump of crystal veins, there is a piece of not small underground water holes, inside the water are stained red with blood, that we had seen in the wind erosion lake white bearded old fish, we fell into the underground lake with it, this underground water veins although crisscrossed like a net, but really did not expect to see it again here.
White bearded old fish dying stranded at the water’s edge, although still alive, but death is just a matter of time, it is hissing and biting all over the body caused by the impact of wounds, the fish mouth one by one, constantly spitting out blood bubbles, with a mouthful of blood gushing out, but also from the mouth spit out two bead-like things, dripping down on the ground.
Although the two beads covered with blood, but I still see, that thing is the mother of the ghost “glacier crystal corpse” eyeballs, there is no more suitable sacrifice than it, really the sky is the limit, I immediately get up, want to go to the ground to take the eyeballs, but the crystal layer under the feet than the ice are slippery, four back and forth again slipped, the mother of the ghost that the two crystal The two crystal eyeballs of the ghost mother are also sliding into the water, although I am only one step away from them, but it is too late to stand up, in place to reach out and can not be reached, watching them roll to the water’s edge, once they fall in, everything will be over.
In a hurry, I can only take risks, I casually yanked out the mountaineering pickaxe, flat on the crystal layer pushed toward the front of the eye rolling direction, this is a desperate but not too far off, and finally in the pair of eyeballs rolled into the water before they blocked them down, my hanging heart has not yet landed, I saw that the two crystal eyes, but slowly to the side of the slope of the higher side of the rolling up, the opposite side of the two crystal ore in the cracks, a black and white patterned “mottled auger”, a black and white patterned “mottled auger”. In the crevice of the two crystal ores on the opposite side, a black and white patterned “mottled jiao”, from which a pair of bloody mouths were squeezed out, was staring at the greedy blood-red eyes, inhaling hard, swallowing the fishy and stinky air, and inhaling the pair of eyes into its stomach.