【Bottle Evil】Tomb Raider

"It's not right." Fatty pointed to the coffin on the lake, "Did we guess wrong, those two survived the catastrophe, and they should return to their mother's place! There is no living person here!"

Fatty and I wanted to go together. Zhang Haike and Little Brother Zhang looked at Fatty, but did not raise any objection. They have been walking in front of us. It is very likely that they saw the stone carvings on those stone pillars before us, and did the same thing as we did before. Same guess.

I kept staring at the wooden boat and the coffin on it, and the more I looked at it, the more I felt that the boat was slowly approaching.I know this is an illusion, but if you look closely, it's not the boat that's moving, but the lake!

Suddenly a gust of wind blew up on the lake. This gust of wind was not too strong, but it brought earth-shaking changes to the lake.The subtle light on the surface of the lake suddenly became dazzling, one by one light spots were flipping, like rolling waves in the air, surging towards us majesticly.The wind blew past our ears, and at the same time, the whole cave sounded like thousands of people crying.

The sound made my scalp tingle. I glanced at the lake surface again with the light, and there were huge ripples on the lake surface. The ripples gradually formed a vortex. The lake water swirled rapidly, and the sound of the water filled our eardrums. .

This gust of wind brought about a series of chain reactions. After the lake surface began to change, the mountain walls around us also began to shake.

The fat man yelled, "Is this fucking going to cause an earthquake!"

If it is really an earthquake, then we are afraid that there will be more disasters, but the ground under our feet has indeed begun to shake. The whole space we are in is like a drum washing machine that has been started. The lake water is turned, and the huge roar resounds throughout cave.

Not long after, the lake turned into a huge water dragon, rushing straight towards us.

There was no time to dodge, and in fact there was no room to dodge at all. The lake water took photos of us.

Several people were immediately dispersed, and the moment I was swallowed by the lake, Poker Bottle grabbed me tightly.He hugged me tightly, and I grabbed him with all my strength. The two of us were in the water like dumplings stuck together in a pot. We were washed over and over several times by the water. I was already dizzy and my lungs once again Oxygen deficiency, I feel like I'm going to explain it here.

I forgot to read the almanac when I went out recently, so I must avoid water.This lake is also really unusual. One second it was calm and without waves, and the next second it was stormy.The icy lake water really stimulated my nerves, and I can be sure that this moment is not an illusion.I don't know when I can stop, all I can do is continue to hold on to the bottle, at this moment he is really the only connection I have with the world.

When the air in my lungs was tight again, in the torrent, Poker Bottle grabbed something and fixed us down, and then our heads came out of the water very quickly.

I started to cough violently. One of Poker Bottle's two hands was holding something that we could fix, while the other hand was holding me, and it came over eagerly, pressing against my head, and asked: " How are you?"

I watched his bangs hang down after being washed by the water, but I couldn't laugh for a while, "He's not dead yet."

I adjusted my position, tried to make him less strenuous, turned to look for the fat man and the others, and vaguely saw the fat man hugging something not far away, breathing heavily.I couldn't find Brother Zhang and Zhang Haike for a while.

Looking around again, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

The lake water seems to have "disappeared" most of it, and there are many stone pillars exposed in the lake. The pillars we hugged with the fat man are the same as what we saw on the round platform in the center of Stone City before, but the thickness is different.

For a moment, I couldn't tell whether the water of the lake suddenly poured somewhere, or whether the stone pillars rose from the bottom of the lake.The latter seems more likely.

Just as I was about to shout to the fat man, I saw even more bizarre changes. The light source we rely on now mainly comes from the glowing plants on the shore of the lake, and those plants all burst open almost at the same time. The tassel-like part suddenly turned into a ball, swelled up, and then exploded like a balloon pierced by a needle, spraying out the same shimmering powder.

The wind brought the powder to us in the next instant, and I held my breath subconsciously, but when my eyes were shrouded in the shimmer of the powder, I saw that the entire cave became colorful.

I felt that the whole person entered another space at once, the surrounding light became more dazzling, and the karst cave where I was in a trance had also undergone earth-shaking changes. I saw the lake disappear, and the sun poured down in large swaths. I don't know if it was the chirping of insects or the chirping of birds, and then I saw a city.

It is very similar to the stone city we passed by before, but it is more lively, with green vines growing from the mountain wall and flowers of various colors blooming on it.The people in the stone city were all "resurrected", they shuttled in the stone city, busy with each other.

This feeling is very familiar to me, very similar to the illusion brought to me by the snake venom.It may be the plant powder just now, which contains some memories about the city and the cave.

My ears gradually quieted down, the shouts of the fat man and the turbulence of the lake disappeared, and I felt that I had entered the world of illusion.I don't know how many years ago, this place was isolated from the world, like a paradise of peach blossoms. Although there is no peach forest, it looks peaceful and comfortable.

The scene I saw next included not only the illusion brought by the plant powder, but also many of my imaginations, but they were combined to finally piece together a "truth" in my mind.

Different from the Snake Venom Phantom, here, time is not at the same speed as the outside world. I am more like reading someone's memory. This memory is sorted out, with emotions, detailed and subtle.I will record everything I see next from the perspective of the person who has this memory, or what.

This memory seems to have started when a person was a child. Everything around in the illusion is relatively blurred, but the figure of a child is very clear. I guess this memory is from this child.

The child seems to be an orphan, I don't see him having any adult-like parent-child interactions, and most of the time he's alone, including figuring out how to carve stone statues by himself.People in Stone City carve stone statues every day, as usual as eating and sleeping, which is exactly the same as the legend Pok You Ping told before.And this child often sits alone on the cliff beside the stone city, watching the sun rise and the moon set in the valley in the distance, and with his very small hands, he carves pieces of stone that are even taller than him.

The child obviously had a certain talent. Gradually, the child grew up and became a teenager, and his stone carving skills became more and more exquisite.People in the stone city noticed him and the stone statues he carved, and people began to pay attention to him, and enshrined the stone statues he carved on the round platform in the center of the stone city, the place used to communicate with the gods.

From then on, the boy began to concentrate on one "work", which was to carve the stone pillars on the round platform in the center of the Stone City.Judging from the results of our previous investigation at the stone pillars, the stone pillars are used to record the history of Stone City and a lot of core information. The young man can carve the stone pillars, which shows that he already has a very high status in Stone City, and even people often come to ask He is like worshiping.

In the illusion, I can feel that the boy likes his "job" very much and always has a smile on his face.

However, the good times didn't last long. The more the boy carved, the more he showed a kind of contradiction, especially after he experienced certain rituals in Stone City again and again.

This kind of ceremony is basically consistent with the record on the stone pillar. Every once in a while, a person will be released from the stone city. This person is usually an old man who is dying, and occasionally there are young people and children.This person would be placed in a wooden boat, swallow a seed of a certain plant, and the wooden boat would float down the waterway to a large lake, and the others would follow along the way.When the wooden boat reaches the middle of the lake, the people on the boat will suddenly become almost crazy. In short, they behave strangely, as if talking to someone, and sometimes shouting something in their mouths.Such a process won't last long, and the person will die quickly, the skin will become shriveled, and a layer of gray-black substance will grow on it, which will freeze the person's expression and movements at the last moment of life.

The people who watched the whole process from the side did not have any panic or surprise at all, but kowtowed towards the direction of the lake, as if thanking for something, and then sent people to take back the wooden boat and the body of the stone man on the wooden boat.

The stone man was finally sunk into the lake.I thought about whether the white bones I saw in the lake before were the corpses of their ancestors soaked in the lake for a long time, or some special reaction occurred, the stone layer outside the corpse fell off, and then turned into bones.

According to the records on the stone pillars, people in Stone City regard this ceremony as a way to communicate with gods and ancestors. Although the final death of people is horrific, people still firmly believe that enlightenment can be obtained through this method.So this kind of ceremony has been going on.

Until the first person who objected to this appeared, and this person was the grown-up teenager.

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