Chapter 225: Countdown
Shirley Yang and I in the “human-shaped execution pit” side to watch the ritual scenes recorded around, the more you look at the more shocking, those ancient carvings, although the composition is simple, but bring people the psychological impact, but no less than in person, there are living people in front of the living cuts alive stripped, murals in a stroke seem to be Blood dripping.
But more than the murder ceremony murals for cruel and merciless, is the reality we must face, iron general rules without any room for manoeuvre, want to hold a ghost cave ceremony, you need at least one person as a victim, there is no victim’s soul, as if there is no air, the candle can not burn.
Mural in the simple lines of the human figure, can be clearly distinguished from the “sacrifice” and “priest”, the whole process of sacrificing “snake bone”, are completed by two priests, they are dressed in foreign clothes, head mask, first of all, will be the “snake bone”, the “snake bone”, the “snake bone”, the “snake bone”, the “snake bone”, the “snake bone”, the “snake bone”, the “snake bone”. The whole process of sacrificing the “Serpent’s Bone” was carried out by two priests, dressed in different clothes and wearing masks, who first fixed a slave to the wall, peeled off the skin of the slave from the top of his head with a sharp instrument, and then placed him in the stone trough on the ground to kill him before he was completely dead, and then one of the “priests”, with the dead sacrifice in his arms, entered into the place where the altar had two pools of water, which was the most important place for the sacrificing of the Serpent’s Bone. No matter what kind of ceremony is to be performed, the dead and the “phoenix guts” must be sunk into the two pools at the same time, which seems to be to maintain a certain balance of power.
The killing ceremony scene is too cruel, I watched it twice, I feel sick all over, seems to smell in the nose of the heavy stench of blood, the heart feels disgusting and horror, I asked Shirley Yang in addition, there is no other way? If you say in order to survive, between the partners to kill each other, whether it is from the moral point of view, or from the conscience to consider, are in any case unacceptable, partner partner, to put it bluntly is to eat together with the brother partner, are in a pot of food to eat, who can be to whom to go down to the black hand? Aim the gun at their comrades, that even if they survive, they will fall into a situation of doom, can get rid of the curse of the ghost hole, but never get rid of the curse of their own conscience.
Shirley Yang obviously also produced a very heavy psychological burden, I comforted her and said: “At present is not a dead end, we think of other ways, there must be a way.” Although I said this on my lips, in fact, I had no idea in my heart at all, I just didn’t want to face this cruel problem for the time being, it was also good to delay for a moment.
The stone troughs and walls where the skinning and killing ceremony was held, are intolerable to watch more, we returned to the hall with two pools, only to see Ah Xiang was doing beside Uncle Ming pressing the broken hand and sobbing softly, Uncle Ming’s eyes were lifeless, his head hung down leaning against the wall while Fatty squatted down on the floor and was watching an odd crystal bowl, he saw Shirley Yang and I come back and greeted us to go over there to look at it with him.
This transparent crystal bowl I came in when I have seen, but did not attract my attention, now see seems to have odd, to the front of a look, strange: “This is some like a timekeeping and other artifacts.”
The crystal bowl of the bowl body is like a small water tank, above and the jade mountain body connected, but all in one, can not see where the interface, I do not know when, a thin strand of dark green crystal sand from the top of the leakage, the bottom of the bowl has accumulated a full layer, I flowed out of the “crystal sand” upward to look at the place, and the interface with the mountain body, there is a black I followed the flow of “crystal sand” upward to see, and the interface with the mountain, there is a black mural of evil spirits, the face is vague and unrecognizable, but I feel very much toward the tunnel “big black sky strikes the thunder mountain”, this is constantly injected into the crystal bowl of sand, is an ancient timer? What is the purpose of placing it here? A not-so-good thought arose in my heart, but as vague and hazy as that black shadow, despite the chaos in my mind, I still felt that this thing that counts time is not a good thing.
Fatty said to us: “From the moment I came in, I found that this thing began to flow into the crystal sand, to my antiquities appreciation and aesthetic interest, this thing has a few strange skills, and can be in Panjiayuan to ask for a good price, why don’t we …… move back to the collection as a souvenir collection collection. ”
I have deep doubts in my heart, I shook my head at the fat man, and nodded, not to be denied, Shirley Yang suddenly opened his mouth at this time and said: “Maybe we entered the altar, inadvertently touched what organs, this crystal bowl began to count down, if we have not completed the ceremony before the sand injection is full, then … … …” said the man, casting his gaze towards the black shadowed mass of evil spirits mural.
I suddenly realized, yes, this underground altar is the core of the evil Luo Hai people’s sanctuary, since it can not be casually in and out, if a certain time is still late to hold the ceremony, the tunnel “big black sky strikes the thunder mountain” will be put into the altar from the white tunnel, we do not know, what is that black shadow thing, it seems to be some kind of evil substance that exists in the crystal stone. It seems to be some kind of evil substance that exists in the crystal stone and is the “watcher” of the altar. So how much time do we have left?
Judging by the speed of the sand injection and the size of the crystal mantle, we have no more than two and a half to three hours left, and we must complete the cruel skinning “killing ceremony” within this time.
In the face of the death countdown, our heartbeat began to accelerate, it seems that the outflow is not “crystal sand”, but the soul in the continuous influx of shells, Shirley Yang said that there is still time, but stay in the altar within the Jade Mountain, staring at the flow of sand to see, can only steeply increase the pressure of the heart, let’s retreat to the outside of the first! Let’s retreat to the outside of the stone stem on the sky beam and discuss how to cope with this matter.
Fatty and I also have this intention, so with Ah Xiang and Uncle Ming, all the people temporarily left the evil altar cave, sitting in the sky beam near the stone statue, each thinking about their own affairs of the heart, fell into a long silence.
Finally, I opened my mouth first, along the way, I kept contacting about “ghost cave”, “snake bone”, “imaginary space” and various religious legends that I had never heard of before, which made me feel very happy about the “bottomless ghost cave”. “Bottomless Ghost Cave” gradually had a rough concept, I told Shirley Yang about my concept.
The Ghost Cave Clan of the Essence of the Jedi called the bottomless pit buried with snake bones the “Ghost Cave”, but the “Evil Luo Hai People” didn’t have such a name, they directly called it the “Snake Bones”, which were the corpses from the Void Space, never the corpses from the Void Space. They directly call it “Snake Bone”, it is some corpses from the imaginary space, which should never exist in our present world, the abyss-like cave is the memory in the brain of the corpses, and the “Evil Luo Hai People” believe that the world is a cycle of life and death, after the destruction of the world, another world will be born, and the cycle is continuous and all the worlds are one and one, and “Snake Bone” is not called that in the “Evil Luo Hai People”. “The Serpent’s Bone will be resurrected in that world, and by sacrificing their lives to it, they hope that the Evil Lohai people will be able to survive in the other world as well.
If from another perspective to understand the legend of the ghost cave, will find that these legends and the ancient Chinese secret art of feng shui, there is a striking similarity, feng shui is not the root of the “dragon sand cave water direction”, in the final analysis is the pursuit of “unity of man and nature”, what is the “unity of man and nature”? What is the “unity of heaven and man”? “Heaven” means heaven and earth, the world, “people” means human beings, including all kinds of living beings, life, in the “unity of heaven and man” concept, they are not independent of each other, but one, is a whole, according to Shirley. In the concept of “the unity of heaven and man”, all of them do not exist independently, but are one and the same, a whole, according to the words of Shirley Yang, which is just like the “cosmic holography” in the later times.
“In the theory of “unity of heaven and man”, it is proposed that although the yin and yang are divided into two poles, but since they are one, there is also a point of fusion, and this area is the “Dragon Dan” of the Ancestral Dragon’s veins, which is buried deep underground in the Kunlun Mountains, and is the total source of anger. “, is the total gathering of life, look up and you can see the head of the crystal veins, some all black, and some of the light crystal, a dragon vein’s life expectancy to the end, another new dragon vein has begun to appear, this is the so-called life and death of the peeling change, the world, I am afraid that only the top of the dragon of the Kyalamir under the bell of the rare geological phenomenon, here is the “yin” and “yang”. Here is the place where “yin” and “yang” mix and blend, that’s why the evil Luo sea people will build the altar in the critical position of the intersection of this arc, although the ancients are primitive and ignorant, but perhaps their understanding of all natural things is far more profound than modern people.
The curse of the ghost cave, whether it is through the eyes of the infected virus, or from the evil spirit of the resentment, want to eliminate it the most direct and effective way, is to be cursed by a sacrificial body, and “phoenix gallbladder” according to the opposite position, put into the two pools within the dragon Dan, cut off the connection, the altar in the mural has recorded, this channel Not once was closed, closed the channel, the ghost cave and shadow evil Luo Hai City, including the marks on our bodies, although will not disappear, but they have become a reality, there is no harm, until a new sacrificial ceremony, but the altar can not be destroyed, otherwise it will have a great impact on the pattern of the mountains and rivers, and what the results will be difficult to estimate.
I looked at the time, without realizing it, I had already discussed with Shirley Yang for an hour, and thought of quite a few possibilities, but the final result was still no different from the previous conclusion, there was not a single victim, and all of them had to die in the altar.
Fatty listened to the side for half a day, but couldn’t intervene, although he didn’t completely figure out what was going on, but at least he understood a general idea, so he said, “Isn’t it simple to have a sacrificial victim? This is not ready-made it, the amount of small is not a gentleman, no poison is not a husband ……” said looked at Uncle Ming, the meaning is already very obvious, the potential lines do not have to say I can understand: to die, no one than the old Hong Kong farmers are more appropriate, anyway, he asked for it, said eight hundred and sixty times do not let him follow us, but to follow us. Anyway, he brought it on himself by telling us eight hundred and sixty times not to let him follow us, and now he’s hit his head on the head, plus he’s much older than us, the curse of the ghost cave is whoever is older dies first, so he’s not much different from the dead now, so we don’t need to carry forward the spirit of humanitarianism of the revolution, according to old Hu’s words, that’s called to give up his body and go to hell for the sake of saving the world, and it has come to a positive result, which is to be welcomed and congratulated.
When Ah Xiang heard this, scared face is white, even can not even cry out, tightly embraced Shirley Yang begged: “Sister Yang please do not kill my godfather, only godfather in this world to control me, I no longer have other relatives.”
Shirley Yang advised her not to worry, and then said to me, “This can’t be done, you know I’m a believer, I’d rather die myself than do something against humanity, although Uncle Ming probably won’t live to see this time tomorrow, if we do it to kill him, how can we face our conscience, the Lord teaches us that… …”
I said to Shirley Yang: “Your Lord said some painless nonsense, I do not want to listen to his words, but you are right, we are forced to live, is to do some morally indefensible things, not to mention other things, alone the rules of the line of the Golden Toupee, you count it, can be committed we have committed, can be said that morality of this layer of windowpaper, long ago pierced, but stabbed into the There is still a difference between stabbing in a finger and drilling a whole person through the window, this kind of black hearted thing I still can’t do it, I can’t do it.”
Shirley Yang saw me say so, then relieved, said, “If I have to die a person, I ……”
I know Shirley Yang always feel that in the event of going to the desert ghost cave, dragged many people down, there is some guilt in her heart, she is a very capricious person, at this time, I am afraid that she intends to die in the altar in order to let us be able to live, and so did not wait for her to finish, then hurriedly interrupted her words, the group looked at me, thinking that I thought of what idea, my heart is in turmoil, looking at Uncle Ming’s expression of godlessness, the heart can not help but Surfaced a hint of killing, but the rational side and forcefully restrain themselves this idea, a variety of contradictory ideas, intricately entangled together, the brain are open pot, feel like a headache to crack, and then look at the watch, the time line of death in the shortening of the urgency of the time line, to see the fat man is the “phoenix gallbladder” thrown throw throw throw in the hands of play, then snatched it over: “Phoenix gallbladder”, “I’m going to play with it, I’m going to play with it,” he said, “I don’t know what to say. I saw the fat man is the “phoenix gall bladder” a throw a throw in the hands to play, then snatched over: “careful to fall to the bottom of the sky beam to go, under the deep water, the beads if not, we can really who can not live, this is a toy this?”
Fatty said with dissatisfaction: “Why have you suddenly become soft today? In fact, I see that Uncle Ming is now alive is also a living sin, demented and wilful, I look at the heart is not down to bear, we take the opportunity today, hurry up to send him early into the fruit is, A Xiang sister you do not want to give up your godfather, you do not allow him to die is to drag your godfather’s legs delayed him ah, over the village is not the store, if the death of the world tomorrow is not considered to be the salvation of the people and die, that can not be the fruit, but also may be off in the next life to give birth to a What is it, and …… and there is the most important one reason, you all don’t forget, Uncle Ming has been concussed, stupid, that is, don’t know anything, instead of ……”
Ah Xiang was the theory of the fat man, said speechless, was about to continue to cry, but suddenly heard has not been sitting there unresponsive Uncle Ming softly moaned: “Aiyo …… really hurt ah, this old life of mine is still alive?”
Ah Xiang see Uncle Ming’s consciousness recovered, surprise, Uncle Ming looks very weak, eyes scattered, said just fell down to the bottom of the clouds on the crystal stone, the mountaineering helmet hang off, head on something hard, on this will not know anything, and asked what this is the place?
Ah Xiang to the situation just now to him, Uncle Ming stroked the top of Ah Xiang’s head, a long sigh: “Alas, this bitter child, Hu old brother it? I …… have something to say to him.”
I look at Uncle Ming that can not come up for air, know that his life is only in a moment, is it looking for me to explain something? So I half squatted in front of Uncle Ming and said to him, “If you have anything to say, just say it.”
Uncle Ming requested Shirley Yang and Fatty to evade for a while, they knew that Uncle Ming probably wanted to talk about Ah Xiang’s marriage, the two of them had to step back a few steps, Uncle Ming said to me with old tears in his eyes, “In fact, ever since I heard the name of this Thunder Striking Mountain, I have already prepared myself mentally, and this time it seems that I hit and injured my internal organs, this is the will of God, everything is the will of God, since no one can die, and No one can leave alive …… then also resigned …… to fate, but A Xiang this child, I can not rest assured ah, you must promise me, take care of her in the future.” Said straining to grab A Xiang’s hand, want to make her hand let me hold.
I see uncle Ming is a person will die, its words are good, the bird will die, its song is also sad, heart suddenly feel a burst of sour, so hold Ah Xiang’s hand, mouth promised: “these things you can rest assured, although I do not necessarily marry her, but I will like to treat my own sister as always take care of her, I ate dry, will never give her to drink dilute.”
Uncle Ming’s eyes revealed a look of relief, want to hold my other hand, the parting of life and death, my heart is also quite touched, just want to reach over the other hand to shake with him, in a trance to see Uncle Ming’s eyes have a trace of imperceptible strange light, I suddenly thought of the other hand is holding the “phoenix gall bladder”, the brain as slippery A bolt of lightning slipped through my head: “Fuck you, this play is real enough, but want to fool Master Hu is still almost fire!”
After all, my reaction is still a little slow half a beat, so less than a second’s time, Uncle Ming grabbed the “phoenix gall bladder”, body rolled away from the ground, I still have a hand and Ah Xiang holding together, I hurriedly threw off her hand, and wanted to pounce on Uncle Ming’s legs to pull him, but this is not far from the edge of the sky beams, under the maze of mirrors and crystal stones, and in some places there are also water. But this place is not far from the edge of the sky beam, under the labyrinth of mirrors and crystal stones, and in some places there is also water, the “phoenix gall bladder”, which affects the lives and deaths of all the people, is likely to fall down during the fight, I am afraid to throw myself into the fight, I dare not exert my strength, and I didn’t pounce on him.
Uncle Ming is like an old monkey, bounced from the ground, stepped on the stone ounce in front of the stone statue, dabbing two times climbed up to the top of the stone man, raised the “phoenix gallbladder”, said: “Who dares to move me I will throw the beads, the big deal is that we both die together, Hu Chai Fatty, you two bad life, clever want to let me! Lei Xianming for you to die, simply dreaming, I have not seen what scenes, not every time to the end, who do not want to kill me.”