【Bottle Evil】Tomb Raider

The illusion just now should not have lasted for a long time, but more than 20 years have passed in the illusion, so when I woke up, I felt like I had a very long dream, and I was very tired.

Looking around again, I realized that Poker Bottle had pulled me to the wooden boat in the center of the lake. It was the wooden coffin in the illusion, and it was the place where the person passed on to my memory died last.I haven't had time to look for it yet, so I first met Poker-Face's gaze.

Poker bottle is obviously worried about me, I haven't seen his face so serious before.He looked at me, and I looked at him, and I suddenly felt a burst of comfort in my heart, saying that I was lucky after all.

"It's a demonic obstacle, and it's tricked again." I patted Poker Bottle and grabbed my arm, "But it's okay, I still saw something."

"Tell me what you saw." Zhang Haike's voice suddenly came from behind me.

I turned around and saw that Zhang Haike had climbed into the wooden boat, the fat man was on the other side, and everyone looked at me with different expressions.

Looking at the place beyond the wooden boat, the water level of the lake has dropped a bit. At the same time, there is something faintly humming in the whole cave, making a sound like thunder in a rainy day, which makes me have a bad feeling.

"What's going on?" I looked at them, "What are you all looking at me for?"

The fat man said: "Nave you, did you suffer from hallucinations just now? What did you see? We just pointed to your information to solve the case."

"What?" I was surprised, and looked at Poker Ping, who nodded.

Zhang Haike told me that everyone had a long or short "faint" just now, and saw some fragmentary fragments. Some of them saw the scene of people holding a ceremony in the stone city, and some of them saw the scene of people in the village outside the cave. Life scenes, but they are all flashing pictures, like a fast-moving movie, and they all regain consciousness quickly. Several people merged into the wooden boat, and then found that only I had not woken up.

"What you saw must have a head and a tail, it's more complete." The fat man said again, "Why are you crying, if you have any touching stories, tell me quickly."

I didn't know where to start from and, besides, I still feel that this illusion has my own memory and imagination, and I can't fully believe it.

There was a sound of water on the side of the wooden boat, and brother Zhang climbed up like a water ghost, he wiped the water off his face, looked at me with a complicated expression, and suddenly asked: "Did you see a child. "

"Child?" I thought about it carefully, "Yes, he grew up and was killed by the people of Stone City."

I briefly talked about the illusions and speculations I saw.

Brother Xiao Zhang frowned, his eyes no longer had the usual teasing, he was very serious, and said: "I didn't see what you said, I only saw a child and a very vague shadow."

Brother Xiao Zhang told us that he also saw a child growing up in Stone City.Different from the boy I saw, this kid is guarding a real empty city, guarding those who have been turned into stones, but it seems that there is a person who occasionally teaches him to carve stones, occasionally gives him some food and drink, Most of the time he lives alone in the dark underground.

He often went to the round platform in the center of the city to see the statues carved on the stone pillars, and remained motionless. Only when the vague shadow appeared, the child would smile.But in the later part of the illusion, even the vague shadow disappeared, and the child was like a ghost, wandering in Stone City and this large cave.

When I heard this, a speculation suddenly popped up in my heart. Could it be that the story version Xiao Zhang saw was just complementary to what I saw?Is the person who stole the stone statue in my illusion the same vague shadow in Xiao Zhang's illusion?

"Has the child you saw grown up and been outside Stone City for many years?" I asked.

Brother Zhang showed a puzzled expression, his eyes turned dim, and he said: "No, he has been in the stone city from the beginning to the end. He believes that the stone people in the city are his relatives, and he is waiting for them to come back to life."

"How do you know what he thinks." The fat man questioned, "You are too subjective."

I also have some headaches. In fact, the emotions of the people in the illusion can indeed resonate with me. Brother Zhang may also have some kind of emotional resonance with the child in his illusion, so he knows.

I didn't expect that Brother Zhang continued: "Do you still remember those stone statues in the corridor in front? I saw that kid. He has been carving new stone statues according to some of them. Maybe it's because he misses someone. .”

I was taken aback, this was the illusion I just saw, and immediately asked: "Did he dig out the prototype of the stone statue he carved from someone else's grave!"

Little Brother Zhang shook his head, and said: "Those stone statues were already there, and there are two identical copies. He carved the third copy, which is the one we found later."

I felt my scalp tingling for a while. If Xiao Zhang’s illusion is another angle of the story, then there are at least three people in the whole thing: the man in my illusion who questioned the belief in Stone City, followed the man all the time. After the man died, he dug other people's graves and stole the stone statues he left behind, and there was also a child who carved a third stone statue based on the stone statues carved by the first two people in Xiao Zhang's illusion.

"Then what happened in the end?" I couldn't wait to ask, "What happened to the child you saw in the end?"

Little Brother Zhang turned his head to look at the stone man and statue on the wooden boat, and raised his hand, "I don't know, but I remember his appearance, it looks a bit like it."

He pointed to a stone statue carved by a stone man.

This is a bit weird. According to my fantasy, the stone man we see on the wooden boat at this moment should be a tomb robber. The stone statue in front of him is the stone statue of a man he was still carving before he died. How could it be like a child.

We all leaned together to look at the stone man and the stone statue in front of him. They seem to be sitting opposite each other at the moment. It seems that hundreds of thousands of years have passed like this. It was a peaceful smile, and the stone man still maintained the posture and state of carving it, with a focused expression, and the stone man's hand just covered the stone statue's heart.

The surface of the stone man is also covered with green moss, and there are some vines and small plants. The green branches and leaves grow along the palm of the stone man to the heart of the stone statue. The place is flourishing.These two "persons" have been dead for many years, but it just gives people an illusion, as if they will wake up at any time.

I didn't even notice that I subconsciously reached out to touch the branches and leaves above, and a strange voice suddenly exploded behind us.

Several people suddenly turned their heads to look, and saw someone floating beside a stone pillar not far from the wooden boat.

"Don't touch them," said the man.

In the dim light, we couldn't see his appearance clearly, and the voice was just a teenager. The young man seemed to be staring at us, and his eyes seemed to have some invisible power.

Zhang Haike and Brother Zhang looked at each other, and I saw their bodies move slightly, so I immediately stretched out my hand to block it.

"Don't be impulsive." I told them, "Don't be tough, talk to him."

I wanted to say that I might know who he was, but before I could speak, the lake water began to stir again, and at the same time, the thunder-like sound suddenly became louder, and the whole cave began to vibrate again.

"Let's go." The boy suddenly raised his finger and pointed in a direction by the lake shore, "You can go out there by walking straight."

"What about you?" I grabbed the edge of the wooden boat and tried my best to see his face, but his face happened to be in the dark at the junction of Ming'an, only a vague outline.

The young man moved slightly, "I still have one thing to do, you guys go, it's too late, my..." He suddenly paused, "Someone told me that when the lake seeps, it will be destroyed." It's time."

"Did your father say that?" I pointed to the stone statue and stone man, "Are you his child?"

The boy obviously paused, and I knew I had guessed right.The man in my fantasy has been wandering outside the stone city for nearly ten years, and it is not difficult to imagine that he will marry and have children. After the man died, the person who went to find him might have known clues about the man’s relatives in the first place, and then Or he recognized him by chance, so he took the man's child back to Stone City to take care of him, raised him, and taught him to carve stone statues like his father.And the child in brother Zhang's illusion is exactly the boy in front of us at this moment.

This can explain why Brother Zhang looks like a man when he sees a boy's face.

So I especially wanted to get a closer look at the boy's face.

The teenager didn't admit or deny it, but said it had nothing to do with us.

The fat man advised me, "Let's go, this hole is about to collapse, so don't tell stories at this time, let's catch this kid and take him out for questioning!" Then he winked at Zhang Haike, and the two jumped into the water together , and went straight in the direction of the boy.

The boy was obviously a little surprised, and he also rolled over into the water. At that moment, I saw his face, but it was only a blink of an eye, and I wasn't sure if it looked like a man.

Brother Zhang suddenly asked, "Is he the one who attacked you in the city?"

I just remembered that there is still this section, but I am not sure, but it seems that it can only be him.Thinking of this, my heart skipped a beat, and I said wait, why did he attack us?If they thought we had violated this place and attacked us, why did they point out the escape route for us just now?

"Is there a trap?" I looked at the surrounding mountain walls, and some stones began to fall from it, and I became anxious all of a sudden.

Brother Xiao Zhang was very calm, and pointed to his neckline. I was surprised to find that there were green scales flashing - it was Brother Zhang's snake.

"You can go out that way." Brother Zhang said, "The snake also came back from there."

Only then did I know that Xiao Zhang's snake really went out to explore the way, and it was the same way as the boy showed us.

The fat man on the lake over there yelled: "Little brat is smarter than a fish, I can't find it, let's get out!"

My heart was in a state of confusion, and I still couldn't figure out why the boy attacked us in the first place, and now he decided to let us live, where is he planning to go?

At this time, Poker Face suddenly reached out to my waist and abdomen, I was wondering, Poker Face asked, "Where is the Qiongqi Stone Statue?"

I suddenly realized that the stone statue was not with me, so I yelled at the fat man, "Fatty! Where is Old Liu's stone statue!"

The fat man swam back, not knowing why, and said: "It's long gone, lost halfway."

I immediately determined that the stone statue must be in the hands of that boy!When he attacked us in the first place, it was because of the statue.Although the fat man got the stone statue from Lao Liu's house, it wasn't Lao Liu's at first. I felt the same trembling as in the illusion. The stone statue must have been carved by a man, and it was left outside, not someone who was dug found one.

Old Liu might have come here because he had heard some legends about Stone City, or maybe he happened to get the stone statue of Qiongqi. In short, the young man had some accidental encounter with him and found the stone statue.

So what the young man is going to do at this moment can be imagined.

The mountain wall oscillated more violently, and more gravel fell down. When a stone was falling towards us, Poker Bottle took me into the water and pulled me to swim in the direction the boy pointed. Look back at other people.Fatty and Zhang Haike were also on their way here. Brother Zhang spit out a few pieces of iron from his mouth and smashed a few stones that hit us. Then he suddenly turned over and went into the water, swimming towards the direction where the boy disappeared. past.

It was only then that I noticed that brother Zhang was as flexible as a fish in the water, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"What should I do?" I looked at Poker Bottle and said anxiously, "What is he going to do, should we call him back?"

Poker bottle's expression darkened, and he said, "He's sure, let's go!"

A few people hurried ashore. In the direction the boy pointed, there was a crack in the mountain. It didn't look like it was artificially built, but we couldn't be sure.

Squeezing in one after another, I looked back for the last time. A huge vortex had formed on the surface of the lake, and the lake water was spinning and sinking. The stone statues also fell into the water together.There are countless plant vines growing on them, and they have been entangled together, falling together and sinking to the bottom of the lake.

The last thing left in the lake were a few stone pillars, and I vaguely saw that those stone pillars formed a face without sadness or joy, which was exactly the same as the face that appeared repeatedly in Stone City.I always feel that this face seems to have traveled through a long time, silently watching everything in Stone City.I have a doubt, is this face a totem belonging to Stone City from the beginning?Or whether it existed long before Stone City existed, we have no way of knowing.

I turned my head, filled with emotion in my heart.