【Bottle Evil】Tomb Raider

The boy seemed to have disappeared for a long time, and no one in Stone City knew where he had gone. When the boy came back, his appearance had changed, and the boy had grown into a mature man. During this period, there were at least ten years, but There was still a gentle smile on the man's face.

The man brought back many stories from the outside world. Not only children surrounded him to listen to him, but some adults were also attracted by his stories.

But the man was no longer valued by the most powerful people in Stone City. They didn't even allow him to approach the round platform, and they didn't even allow him to participate in the most important ceremony of communicating with the gods.In fact, this is also what the man began to dissuade the tribe from doing. He told the tribe that the lake is a magical lake, and eating the plants on the shore of the lake will only make people hallucinate. The medium of communication between the gods, but the incarnation of the devil.But no one is willing to believe him, but more and more people regard him as a terrifying existence.

But the man secretly did another thing. He dived down the waterway, went to the bottom of the lake to salvage the stone men, and moved them into a secret tunnel.He was different from others, he was full of reverence for the dead people, so he carved the stone statues of these dead people.

Since the man came back, the superficial calm of Stone City has gradually been broken, and more and more young people began to explore the outside world, some came back, and some never came back.

All those left know that the place where they have lived for generations has changed, and the outside world is unknown and has great temptations at the same time.But it's like a well-known secret, they still live the same life as before, carving stones, performing rituals, waiting for answers from ancestors and gods.

They have not waited for the answer from their ancestors and gods, but they have waited for their demise.

After a heavy rain that lasted for more than a month, many people in Stone City became seriously ill. In the illusion, I couldn't tell what the disease was, but it looked like some kind of highly contagious disease.The man began to try to persuade the tribe to go outside for treatment, but no one listened, and finally he was arrested.His people, those who remained, believed that the disaster was brought back by men.

What happened next was obviously very frightening to the owner of the memory I read, that is, the man.Thunder and lightning flashed in the illusion, and Stone City became dilapidated, getting closer to what we saw later.The man was tied to the wooden boat, a pair of wrinkled hands grabbed his chin, stuffed the maddening seeds down his throat, and at the same time a dagger pierced the man's heart.

The wooden boat carried the whimpering man to the center of the lake, and the blood on the shimmering lake looked very bright.This is obviously no longer a ritual to communicate with the gods, but more like punishing a person who betrayed his ancestors and gods.

However, when everyone was waiting for the man to turn into a stone man, a thick fog suddenly rose on the lake, and the thick fog quickly spread to the lake shore.People noticed something strange and ran back to Stone City, but the dense fog kept chasing after it, and in a blink of an eye, it flooded the whole city.

People roared and screamed in the fog, and they saw the faces of many dead clansmen in the fog, as if those dead souls had come to them with the thick fog.

I saw that the people in the stone city became crazy, exactly the same as the last part depicted on the stone pillar, some of them were crying, some were laughing, and then almost at the same time, they fell silent, turned into stones, and became today The appearance we saw in Stone City.

In the illusion, I also felt a chill in my heart. The man had obviously been left in the lake and would die soon.Then the scene in the stone city I see now cannot be from the memory of the man when he was alive.

Could it be that I have not only read the memory of the man during his lifetime, but at this moment I am watching all this from the perspective of an undead, or that I have also become an undead just like them.

This illusion is definitely not a comfortable illusion, but I have a feeling that I can't extricate myself from it, as if there is something in this illusion that I don't want to leave, although I can't climb anything with this stone city relative.

The illusion that followed was more like a patchwork of many scenes.The people in Stone City were forever frozen in the thick fog, and when the thick fog cleared, the city was completely silent.But apparently there was one person alive, the one who continued to pass on the memory to me after the man died.

I felt a certain sound gradually heard in my ears, and after careful identification, it turned out to be the sound of a chisel colliding with a stone when carving a stone statue.

My eyes were also blurred, and when I focused again, I saw a stone statue. The stone statue was not finished, only the face was more detailed. I was taken aback, and I saw the man's face.

This stone statue reminds me of the stone statue in the deep mountains of Medog. It is the stone statue of Poyouping, who carved himself according to the shadow of Poyouping.Is that man not dead?He is also like a stuffed oil bottle, carving a stone statue for himself?

The thought made my hair stand on end, but then I saw hands brushing gently over the statue's face, very carefully, not like a hard stone, but like something soft and fragile.This feeling is more familiar to me.

I began to suspect that all the memories I saw just now came from another person. This person preserved all the memories about the man. I don’t know who this person is, but he must have something to do with the man. a special relationship.So I looked at it from his perspective, and what I saw was all the things that the man went through in Stone City, and after the man died, he started to carve the statue of the man, maybe as a memorial.

Then, the owner of memory left Stone City.I think of the years when the man left, but there is no relevant picture, and the person who must have been passed down to my memory did not leave with the man at that time.I guess he left this time, maybe because he wanted to go outside to see where the man had been.

The scene in front of me turned to a small village, "I" was used to communicating with people outside, and then by chance, "I" saw a small stone statue.I felt strong emotional fluctuations in the illusion, and my intuition told me that this stone statue was related to a man.

Sure enough, "I" took the stone statue in my hand and looked at it repeatedly. I was almost sure that this stone statue was made by a man, and it was very likely that the man carved it for someone while he was outside the city.Then what "I" communicated with the people in the village, I couldn't tell in the illusion, but what "I" did next shocked me.

"I" became a grave robber, of course not a grave robber in the general sense. "I" dug up almost all the graves in the nearby villages, because some of the tombs contained stone statues carved by men.

Shuttle between the contiguous cemeteries and lonely tombs, "I" is like a ghost, digging up layers of soil, prying open the coffin lid, and don't care if the corpse is rotting or has already turned into a corpse. The bones are just to find the stone statue that the man once carved.

I suddenly realized that the various stone statues I saw in the tunnel before were all stone statues carved by men for burials when they were outside the stone city, and the people who passed them on to my memories Digging up one by one is to retrieve these stone statues.

This kind of behavior is really heinous, but this man took the stone statues back to the dark underground of Stone City, and carved them like them.

This is probably why most of the stone statues we have seen before are two of the same style, with slightly different carving styles.

This kind of obsession is almost crazy. It is actually hard for others to imagine how he "copied" one stone statue after another after the man and the whole clan had died or left. .

It is amazing that when I was carving these stone statues, I felt the emotion that can be described as tenderness in the illusion.If there is someone special to you that you will never see again, but in some way, you can get close to him infinitely, even if it is only to get close to the traces he left, then it must be satisfying.

I began to doubt the authenticity of this illusion, not that it could not have happened in reality, but that this illusion was too tailor-made for me.It makes me have to believe that it actually happened, which in itself is somewhat logically contradictory.

In that man's short life, there was a person who had been watching him silently, and even after his death, he was continuing his life in some way.

The reason why I thought this way was because I suddenly thought that if I die, if someone else can read my memory, then most of what he sees may be stuffed oil bottles.

The "I" in the illusion finally did something I didn't expect. "I" took a wooden boat and came to the middle of the lake. There was already a wooden boat there, with a wooden coffin on it, and the stone statue carved by "I" before. .

"I" also ate the seeds of that hallucinogenic plant, and then continued to carve the stone statue to complete the last part of the stone statue.

A lot of clips flashed before my eyes, and I didn't have time to distinguish them. Death came very peacefully, just like waking up from an illusion.

I rubbed my eyes vigorously and wiped my face, only to realize that my face was covered with tears, crying like an idiot.