【Bottle Evil】Tomb Raider

The crack extended to the invisible depths of the mountain. I don't know if I can get out, but I can only trust Brother Zhang's snake and the boy.There was a huge roar behind us, and the entire cave must have collapsed.

I don't know how long I squeezed in the crack, suddenly there was a light in front of me, and there was also the sound of water.Poker-Face poked his head, and it was indeed the exit, but it was just a cliff, and the sound of the water turned out to be a waterfall.

Fortunately, the drop was not too big, so we all jumped down and swam to the shore. I looked around and couldn't help but smile bitterly. The winding road turned around. This was actually one of the six waterfalls in Yucun. I looked not far away. , I can vaguely see the big banyan tree behind Lao Liu's house.

Poker bottle kept looking in the direction of the waterfall, I knew he was waiting for brother Zhang.

Later we went back to the entrance of the cave where we found Lao Liu at the beginning. Xiao Zhang was sitting on the sidelines in a daze. Seeing that our face had returned to normal, we asked him if he had caught up with the boy and rescued him, but he was smiling. He refused to say, only said some other details that he discovered later.

Back in the village, although I was very tired, I couldn't fall asleep, so I chatted with Poker Ping.

Combining the information we obtained before and after, and sorting out the whole thing, it should be similar to the content of the illusion of me and Xiao Zhang and our speculation, and the two illusions are indeed sequential in time.

The history of Stone City is like in a fantasy. People in this city live a life of indifference to the world, and believe that carving stones is a way to communicate with ancestors and gods, and the lake and the plants by the lake are really interesting. Plants There are hallucinogenic substances in it. After people take it, they will see some hallucinations, and it may be some kind of hint passed down, or the hallucinogenic ingredient itself will make people excited. People think that what they see is a god. Therefore, every once in a while, when someone is old or seriously ill, he will take the plant seeds, and at the last moment of his life, he will approach the gods and see what he desires most in his heart.Maybe many, many years later, people believed in this, but then a man appeared, and more importantly, he came into contact with the outside world, and the outside world happened to be in a period of earth-shaking changes. The tribe is huge and irresistible. Although many people have left Stone City, there are always some people who are unwilling to accept the change, so men are executed as aliens.

When the man was alive, there was a person who, although he never left Stone City, was on the side of the man. We couldn't know their relationship until the end, but I silently held the relationship between Fatty and me and me. The relationship between Poker-Face has been compared. If Fatty and I saw Poker-Face killed by the Zhang family, then the two of us would probably kill the entire Zhang family at all costs.

We speculate that this person has learned another huge secret in Stone City, which is the secret of the mechanism. When he activated the mechanism for the first time, a thick fog appeared, carrying the pollen of that plant, or some strange substance, making the whole Everyone in the city lost consciousness and died in hallucinations.As for why the people in the stone city didn't eat the seeds and grew stone-like corpses, it might be that the person did something to the corpses later.

However, after the fall of Stone City, he also lost the meaning of living, so he began to go outside the city to see the places where the man had been.While looking for clues and stone statues left by the man outside Stone City, he found the man's child and brought him back to Stone City to raise him.

(Here we still have a question, whether the boy is a man's child, or it is very likely that he just looks alike to attract his attention, because later on, if the boy's hesitation for a moment is because he himself does not Determine your identity.)

He taught the boy to carve stone statues, and silently re-carved the stone statues that the man had carved by himself. When the stone statues were all carved, his life was exhausted, and finally he chose to end his life by taking hallucinogenic seeds. life.What is worth pondering here is whether he saw hallucinations about that man at the end of his life.What he yearns for the most has long since ceased to exist, and his entire belief system has collapsed. In such a state of mind, will he still see hallucinations?If you don't believe in anything in your heart, will you still be deceived by illusions?But I am more inclined to have, maybe this will make people feel more relieved.

Besides, the boy we saw, that is, the child picked up by him, grew up and his only "relative" also left him, as if he wanted to copy the life of the person who raised him, the boy also began to Duplicated those stone statues and wiped them spotless, but the young man hadn't copied them completely before we encountered what happened to us this time.

A detail that has to be mentioned here is that Brother Zhang chased the boy all the way back to the corridor where we first discovered the stone statue.And Brother Zhang discovered the organ in the tunnel, which is the switch of the entire cave organ.That stone slab is the part that isolates Stone City from the outside world. Once the stone slab is moved, part of the mechanism of Stone City and the lake will collapse and collapse.

But at the beginning, we didn't understand the boy's purpose of activating this switch, was it to destroy the stone, and if so, why didn't he activate it earlier, and why it was activated just when we broke in.Judging from the brief contact before, he has no malice towards us.The only possibility is that the boy himself did not know that it was a switch that could destroy the entire city. Here we speculate that this switch was left by the gravedigger. He probably hoped that the boy could leave Stone City one day. In order to prevent others from entering by mistake, he would use stone slabs to seal the passage, and then before he knew it, the stone city could disappear forever deep in the mountain, or be buried in the lake.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that the boy used the stone slab to stop us from moving forward and to get back the strange stone statue carved by the man brought by the fat man.Later, when we saw that we had a large number of people, we opened the stone slab again, trying to wait for us to disperse after entering the city before doing anything.By mistake, the mechanism was activated, and what happened next happened.

Although Xiao Zhang did not disclose it, I guess that the young man must have returned to the cave where the stone statues carved by the man and the gravedigger were displayed, and put the strange stone statue carved by the man where it should be. It's also in the same line as the gravedigger, maybe it's his own son.

Where did the boy go in the end, and whether he is still alive? Little Brother Zhang doesn’t say whether he is alive or not. Thinking of the same mysterious Zhang family, I asked Poker Ping some stories about Little Brother Zhang’s life experience.

Boyouping doesn't know much, and some of them have been told by others.This little brother Zhang was also an orphan since he was a child. Later, he was adopted by the Zhang family, and he went through a period of "distribution" in Nanyang. After returning, he went to southern Xinjiang to meet the patriarch Poyouping. That is another story.

I thought of the complicated look that Brother Zhang showed in the cave after learning about the illusion, and the caring look in his eyes when we mentioned time and the destruction of a tribe before. I don’t know if he is In the people involved in this matter, I saw some shadows of the Zhang family and myself.

He has also been working for the Zhang family, and the Zhang family is also undergoing a process of collapse of the belief system. What does the Zhang family like him rely on to persist.

It can be deduced from this that when we had that kind of plant hallucination in Stone City, Brother Zhang probably saw an unprecedentedly powerful Zhang family?What Poker-Face told me was that when Brother Zhang entered the Zhang family, the Zhang family was already in decline, so he himself had never experienced the prosperity of the Zhang family. Is this the obsession in Brother Zhang's heart?

I guess this evil and crazy little Zhang brother will never tell me.

Thinking about it, I took out my phone and sent a WeChat message to Zhang Haike, asking him what he saw in the hallucination, let's share.Unexpectedly, Zhang Haike didn't sleep either, but only replied me with a few words: In short, I didn't bring your face.

I smiled, and then turned my head to look at Poker Bottle, who had been sitting next to me, listening to me babbling and analyzing the cause and effect. He still owed me an answer.

I held back for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking: "You haven't told me what you saw in the hallucination when you were in Stone City."

Poker's only problem is that he tends to lose his memory. He wonders if he has seen something that he has forgotten.

He also turned his head to look at me, and it took a long time before he said lightly, "I didn't see anything."

I was very surprised, and at the same time my heart was half cold. Could it be that Poker Fing had the same state of mind as the gravedigger, that he no longer believed in anything and was desperate for everything?

I have always been a person with deep obsessions, unsolvable mysteries, people I will never see again, and many things that will never be undone, which have pushed me to the ground for more than ten years.The feeling of powerlessness has been with me for so many years, but I also know in my heart that this in itself may not be a completely bad thing. If I had given up a long time ago, it would not be the same as now we are sitting in the village soaking our feet in the sun days, although the price behind this is great.

Obsession itself has two sides, and the story of Stone City finally falls on these two words.

But facing Poker Bottle, this person always has a lot of things in his heart that I can't imagine.It is always difficult for people to lie to themselves. Poker-face can't see hallucinations. Does it really mean that he has no expectations for his future life at all?

I don't know the expression on my face, it will not be very good anyway, so that Poker Ping showed some doubts, he leaned up and kissed me a few times, seeing that I didn't respond, he backed away a little, carefully Looking at me, frowning slightly, he asked, "What are you thinking about?"

I was about to think about how to explain my complicated mood to him, but I heard Poker Face continue: "It's not completely absent."

I was taken aback, my nerves tensed up, and I was a little upset, "Speaking out of breath!"

Poker-Face smiled, and said, "I just saw a few, what it looks like here."

"Is it a hallucination?"

"No." Poker bottle shook his head, "Being with you is not an illusion."

I suddenly understood the meaning of Poker Ping, and I couldn't help but also laughed.

It turns out that in Poker Ping's heart, the two of us being together is not an illusion, nor is it an obsession.

This is the situation, this moment.

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