【Bottle Evil】Tomb Raider

I didn't bother to care about the fat man, so I saw that the entire "square" was surrounded by stone houses, and this might be the center of Stone City.Generally speaking, it will be the place where the tribe performs sacrifices or holds other important activities.And those stone pillars standing on the square are as thick as two people hugging each other, some are tall and some are short, some are as tall as a person, and the tallest is more than ten meters by visual inspection.

We walked up and saw that there were many patterns carved on the ground of the round platform, and when we were among those stone pillars, we could see intricate stone carving patterns everywhere we looked, which made people dazzled for a while.

I took a closer look at the stone carvings on a stone pillar, which depicted a fairy tale: a boat sailing on the vast water, where the water and the sky meet seemed to be an island suspended in the air, surrounded by clouds and mist, There are also people with fluttering clothes.The picture continued to extend, and it seemed to depict the scene of the island, where the mountains and rivers matched each other, and there were some mythical beasts in the style of Shan Hai Jing. There were not many characters, some were fetching water, and some were hunting.Then, I saw a familiar element.

It was a human face, located at the highest point of the stone pillar. The expression on this human face was familiar to me. It was almost exactly the same as the face behind the stone wall we passed through at the beginning. It looked a little serious and a little sinister.

I immediately asked Poker Ping and Fatty to take a look. Unexpectedly, they also saw the same face on other stone pillars, but the other content depicted on the stone pillars was completely different.

On the stone pillar in front of the fat man, there are war scenes engraved. Although the two armies are fighting, although it is a static stone carving, it is full of momentum, as if you can feel the chilling spirit coming from the battlefield, and you can also hear the drums of war in your ears. Lei Lei.

In contrast, the stone pillars on the Poker Bottle side are very interesting, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a reproduction worship series.

The fat man pointed to the overlapping figures on it, and asked Poker Finger: "Brother, why did this stone pillar attract your attention?" Then he turned to look at me, "Why does Pingzi seem to be a little bit dissatisfied? "

"What are you looking at me for?" I thumped the fat man, "Can you do something serious first!"

The fat man avoided me, and said to Poker Bottle: "It's nothing to look at, go back to my place to get the goods, there are domestic and imported small pieces."

Poker-Face glanced at the fat man expressionlessly, pointed to the face on the top, and said, "It's on all the stone pillars."

Fatty and I also looked at the other stone pillars, and saw the same human face carved on the top of every stone pillar we could see.

"This may be their ancestors." The fat man said, "It's usually the ancestors who have this kind of treatment."

I nodded, and it occurred to me that it might also be a kind of totem worship, a god in a belief system.

The three of them looked around a few stone pillars again. The patterns carved on the stone pillars were very different. Some looked like a beautiful world of bliss, while others looked like a karmic fire hell. The exotic beasts have different styles and different depiction techniques, but without exception, there is a human face on the top of each stone pillar.

That face is neither sad nor happy, but it seems to contain all the emotions of people, the more you look at it, the more mysterious it becomes.

The eyes of several people shifted from the stone pillars to the ground, and seeing the carved pictures on the ground, it is more narrative, and it is a complete story.But looking at it, I took a breath.

The image carved on the ground, to be precise, should be a ritual.

We first saw a person lying flat on the ground. The face of that person was the same as the one on the stone pillar. Perhaps what was being told here was his story.Someone next to him handed him what looked like a seed of some kind of plant, and the man swallowed the seed, and then the man lay down again, but this time in a boat with water underneath, Water leads to another lithograph.

We also went "downstream" and saw that the stream flowed into a vast lake surrounded by mountains, and the boat stopped in the center of the lake.

Then the portrait on the stone carving changed. It looked like it was dancing. Although it still had no expression, its body movements were exaggerated. In short, it was dancing, or it might be performing some kind of ceremony.

It is worth noting that after the transformation, several lines extend from his surroundings. Looking along these lines, we find that these lines connect every stone pillar on the round platform.

"What do these mean?" Fatty wondered, "Traveled?"

I looked at the picture in front of me, and many pictures flashed in my mind. Finally, it was a kind of snake that once made my hair stand on end. I said, "Do you think it looks like a black-haired snake?"

The venom of the black-haired snake contains a wealth of information. Some people can read the secrets in it by absorbing their venom. I don't know whether it is lucky or unlucky. I am such a person.And the person in the picture before us seems to be able to see many things that he has not personally experienced, even including some mythical scenes, by taking something like a seed. It is more powerful than the venom of the black-haired snake.

But after I finished speaking, I regretted it. Fatty knew a little about snake venom, but I didn't tell Poker Ping.But they obviously understood what I meant, Poker-Face's expression changed, he looked at my arm, and said to me, "Because of that kind of snake?"

Poker bottle is asking about the scar on my arm. After reading the snake venom, people will fall into great pain, and some people may have self-harm.Of course, I didn't do this to myself. Poker-finger had never asked me before, and I thought he didn't care. Who would have thought that he would catch me right now.

Poker bottle stared at me, "You are a snake whisperer."

I had no choice but to smile at him, "You are a spirit awakener."

The fat man clapped his hands to attract our attention, "Okay, okay, you two are really good for each other, don't use this pair of codes, and look at the next picture, the fat man is a little confused."

I looked towards the fat man, and I was a little surprised after seeing it.In this stone carving picture, the person who was dancing and dancing turned into a stone.

Although he maintained his human form, it was not difficult to see from his outline and the details of his body that he was no longer a human, but a stone.

So after eating that kind of seed and seeing some fantastic illusions, people will turn into stones?

I suddenly thought of those people in the stone house. Could it be that they all died like this?This also seems to explain why they have a stone-like coating on them, making them look like they have turned into stone.

I brought up my idea, but Poker-Face didn't think so. He thought that what we just saw was not the real situation, but a belief in people's hearts. They believed that by eating that magical seed, they could understand Past and future, learn about the secrets of this world.The human face that appears many times is the god or ancestor they believed in, recording history and guiding future generations through stone carvings.

We continued to look into the distance along these stone carvings, and sure enough, we saw more portraits of people eating seeds.After they all ate the seeds, they took a boat to a lake, but they were not connected to the stone pillar.The portraits on it are not uniform. After eating the seeds, they have different emotions, anger, sorrow and joy on their faces, more like the stone statues we saw in the corridor ahead.

But their ending was without exception, they were all turned into stone.

"It seems that those seed-like things are the key." I looked at the two of them, "Eating seems to make people hallucinate. After the hallucinations, a layer of stone-like things will grow on people's bodies, enveloping people. , and people die.”

The fat man nodded in agreement, "This is a fucking illusion of death, we must not eat anything in this hole."

Poker-face was still looking at the stone carvings, thoughtful.

But I couldn't figure it out, so I said, "If you eat it, you will die, why do you want to eat it?"

Poker-Face raised his head and said to us, "This is their farewell ceremony for the dead."

"The king?" the fat man asked, "What if it's not the king? What about bronze?"

"Don't interrupt." I looked at Poker Bottle, "You mean they didn't die because they ate the seeds, but they were already dead? They were fed the seeds again?"

Then cheat?I rely on the picture of a group of zongzi dancing square dance in my mind.

The fat man clicked his tongue and said: "I understand what the little brother means. It may not be dead, it may be people who are dying. Didn't you see that they were all lying down at the beginning? Maybe they are dying. At the moment, give them a bite, and give them a final high, just like returning to the light, and they will say goodbye after the high is over."

It seemed to make sense, I looked at the fat man, "Do you have any basis?"

Fatty's eyes suddenly became extraordinarily bright, he smiled, and said: "Did you forget that we also had hallucinations just now, it's probably because there are some hallucinogenic ingredients in the seeds left in those rice dumplings, let's inhale them, It's just a hallucination."

I thought of the third uncle in my hallucination, and I was shocked. Could it be that the fat man really hit the mark, we are actually very similar to the people on the stone carvings.If man is dying, what will he see?Probably his deepest obsession at the moment.

Everyone has more or less thoughts in their hearts. At the last moment of life, if there is any way to realize it, even in an illusion, it is a blessing to think about it.

The tribe in this stone city may have obtained some kind of strange substance from a long time ago, it may be a certain kind of plant, people who eat it will fall into hallucinations, and then the body will have a reaction similar to petrification, although people will die, But before he died, he could see what he most wanted to see.

So those stone statues were crying and laughing, which may be the emotions they felt in the final hallucination.

I don’t know if it’s because we’re in indirect contact, or because Poker’s precious blood isn’t immune to hallucinations as he said, but it can be immune to further “damage”. He fed me and Fatty blood, and we haven’t changed. Become a stone man.

However, I have experienced all the hallucinations. The fat man saw the three of us fighting side by side in the fight. I actually wanted to laugh a little. This fat man really has a wicked heart.But Fatty's heart is young and always hot.

And I saw the third uncle, the whereabouts of the third uncle is indeed my biggest obsession at present, I want to find him, even though I know in my heart that the hope is slim.

What about Zhang Haike?Where's Xiao Zhang?What will they all see.

Also, what about the stuffy oil bottle?I was extremely curious, since Pokerfing also said that he was not immune to hallucinations, even though he should be the first to wake up, he must have seen something.

Does Poker Bottle have any obsessions in his heart?

I couldn't help looking at Poker Bottle, and asked, "What did you see in the hallucination just now?"

Asking this sentence made my heart beat fast for no reason.Promising, Wu Xie, I said to myself, I looked into his eyes, "Can you tell me."

But Poker-Face didn't answer me, and there was an emotion in his eyes that I had never seen before.