Chapter 216 Evil Sea City
Shirley Yang is confident that the ancient city of "big hive" where we are located is not the real "evil Luohai City", but the "bottomless ghost cave", and let Fatty and I look at the back of our necks of Uncle Ming and my daughter.
I thought to myself that the difference between the "ancient city" and the "ghost cave" is too big, right? However, the "evil Luohai City" that solidifies time and the "ghost cave" that are bottomless and cursed are both existences that are beyond common sense and cannot be understood with ordinary thinking, so I am not overly surprised.
I went over and opened the collar of Uncle Ming’s back neck, and indeed saw a shallow round red mark on the back of his neck, and it was not inside his skin, like a circle of rashes that oozed out from the inside out, but it was still very blurry. If I hadn’t been to look at it intentionally, it would be impossible to find out. I looked at A Xiang’s neck again, exactly like Uncle Ming.
This is the mark of being cursed by the "bottomless ghost cave". Although it is only the early stage and is not very obvious, it will gradually become obvious within one or two months, and a birthmark that looks like a vortex and eyeball is born. People who are subjected to this vicious curse will gradually disappear when they are about forty years old, and the blood in the blood vessels will slowly turn into yellow mud, torture people into hungry ghosts in hell.
But Uncle Ming and others have been with us for more than a month. It is impossible for them to go to the Black Desert in Taklamakan, Xinjiang alone. Could it be that their father and daughter really got infected with this terrifying curse because they saw this ancient city of "beehive"?
Uncle Ming was confused and didn't know what we were saying, but when he heard words like "curse" and "ghost cave", he immediately noticed an ominous premonition and asked me what happened. I had a lot of things to ask Shirley Yang. I didn't have time to pay attention to him, so I asked the fat man to briefly talk to him, so he made him mentally prepared. The fat man gloated and smiled wickedly, and hugged Uncle Ming's shoulder: "This time we are grasshoppers tied to the rope. We can't leave us or run away. We can't separate you. I can't split up even if I want to split up. How can I sing it in a hot chicken for my relatives? Oh, by the way, this is not a family, it's better than a family. Guess what, it's like this..."
The fat man talked about the "bottomless ghost cave" story to Uncle Ming while adding fuel to the fire. I pulled Shirley Yang aside and asked her how she discovered these things and why everyone was deceived by A Xiang's eyes?
Shirley Yang took me to the last few human skin murals and saw the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the "Bone of the Snake God". It turned out that the place where the Snake God buried his bones was the "ghost cave" we saw at the foot of the Zagrama Mountain in the Black Desert.
These human skin murals do not clearly point out that the "Bone of the Snake God" is in Xinjiang, but combined with the long poem "The King of the World's Enemy Pearls", it is not difficult to make such a judgment. In the far north of Kunlun Mountain, there is a treasure-hidden Seng Genangyun Cave, which contains five treasure boxes, which are used to place the bones of the "Snake God". The two miracles of the Snake God are that although the body is rotten and only the skeleton is left, its brain still retains the power of "Walking Realm Illusion". In addition, the giant eye on the snake's head can make its soul immortal. At the end of heaven, earth and time, it will be reborn from the corpse like a phoenix, and this giant eye can also serve as a channel to the "Walking Realm Illusion", which is the seventh eye "Borderless Demon Eye" described in Buddhist scriptures.
If we use scientific phenomena to explain it, I am afraid that this "moving environment transformation" is the "image space" that experts from the Special Phenomenon and Case Studies Center of Kentucky in the United States have been studying. In mythology and legend, the "phoenix gall" is the eyes of the snake god, but no one has seen it with his own eyes. Whether there is really snake bone in that "image space" is really a snake bone, that is impossible to confirm. Perhaps the "snake bone" is just something symbolic.
In the final ritual depiction of the human skin mural, the ancestors of the Demon Kingdom took away the eyes of the "snake bones" and mastered the secrets. Then they went to Karamir, Kunlun Mountain, and established a huge religious divine power. Whenever there was a ghost mother with "ghost eyes" in the country, they would open the passage in their eyes and hold complicated rituals to sacrifice the "snake bones". Any slaves who had seen the "spiritual transformation" with their naked eyes would be nailed to the eyeballs.
The mark of the man is then kept in captivity like a livestock until their blood coagulates and dies. The demonic people believe that the blood is absorbed by the "performing environment", and then the believers eat their flesh. Only those who firmly abide by such beliefs are considered to be the male and female believers who practice pure cultivation. They will gain happiness, joy and rights in this life, and will also gain incomparable supernatural powers in the next life, which is exactly the same as the true meaning of the "Reincarnation Sect" doctrine in the later generations.
In several countries near the Demon Kingdom, countless people have become "snake bones" sacrifices, but most of the priests in the Demon Kingdom mastered this evil technique, especially good at driving wild beasts and insects. It was difficult for countries to fight against the enemy. Until King Gesar and Master Padmasambhava joined hands to send warriors to sneak into the Demon Realm and take away the reincarnated pearl "Phoenix Gallbladder" with tricks. In addition, not long after that, the mysterious destruction of the main city of the Demon Kingdom, "Evil Luohai City", and the power of both sides immediately reversed. The coalition forces (called "Horse Army" in the long poem) swept the demon's nest and the deeds of the king of the enemy, the king of the Bowl, have been sang to this day in the mouth of the rappers of the snowy plateau.
The "Phoenix Gallbladder" may have flowed into the Central Plains in that turbulent era. If King Wen of Zhou performed this thing as an "extinct" thing, it would have been completely reasonable. So far, the ins and outs of the "Phoenix Gallbladder" have basically been clarified, but what is the "Evil Luohai City" where we are? Where have the people here gone? Why did the time in the city solidify for a moment?
Shirley Yang said: "The only ones who know where the residents of the Evil Luohai City went. Lao Hu, I remember you mentioned to me in the Nine-story Demon Tower that the glacier crystal corpse seemed to be missing. The people of the Crystal Reincarnation Sect worked tirelessly to dig out the demon tower and the door of disaster. What are these for? But the situation was chaotic at the time, and we didn't have time to think about it. Now when we recalled, the glacier crystal corpse had no eyes or brain."
At that time, I only remembered vaguely that the skin and flesh of the glacier crystal corpse were transparent, and only the five gates and six internal organs were dark red, like bright red agate, which seemed to be missing a part. The Cang Reincarnation Sect took out her mind, including the demonic eyes, and put it behind the door of disaster? The Cang Reincarnation Sect could not find the place where the snake bones were buried, but could set up a passage, or a mirror.
Shirley Yang said that he had been seeing the last part of the human skin mural before he understood the truth that the Reincarnation Sect wanted to continue the sacrifices of his ancestors and opened an ancient city that had disappeared from the world. This city was the memory of the ghost mother during her lifetime. For example, in the slaughterhouse, the yaks that had just been beheaded, the cooked beef, and the bloody handprints on the door might not have occurred at the same time. These were fragments that left a deep impression in the ghost mother's eyes, and a memory city constructed in the "image space" through the demon's pupils.
The iron rod lama admits that A Xiang has eyes as sensitive as wild animals, which makes us blindly depend on and trust her. It can see reality and illusion, but after all, she is only a little more sensitive than human eyes, and she cannot distinguish this ancient city built in the "image space" through impression. Although it is just a mirror city created by the ghost eye using the energy of the ghost cave, it is also objectively real, just like the bottomless "ghost cave" in the black desert. Those who see him will become sacrifices for "snake bones" and can leave at any time, but when you are dying, you still belong here, and you can't escape or get rid of it. The ghost cave is an endless nightmare.
At this time, Uncle Ming was so frightened by the fat man that he was so scared that he was out of possession. He came over and confirmed with me. I briefly told Shirley Yang's words to him. Uncle Ming said to me with a sad face: "Brother Hu, I really didn't expect it to be like this. I worked hard like a cow and horse, and worked hard all my life like a dog. I didn't expect to be like a dog before dying, and became a sacrifice for snake bones. Oh, I'll forget it. Poor A Xiang is so old. I can't close my eyes even if I die."
I said to everyone: "Although Ming Shu and Axiang were brought in, and this city is not a real evil Luohai City, things have their own two sides. If we don't have this, we will not be able to see these human skin murals that record the truth of the Demon Kingdom's rituals. This means that we should not die, then, then..."
Shirley Yang said that as long as you find the real ruins of "Evil Luohai City", hold the opposite ritual in the deepest altar, and use the "phoenix gall" to close the "moving world transformation", the curse will end as well. I don't believe in any curse in the world. I think this kind of curse in the ghost cave is likely to be a virus infected through the eyes, a virus that only exists with that "image space", and cuts off the connection between them, which is the most direct and effective way.
When Uncle Ming heard that he was still saved, he immediately became energetic and asked how he could find the real ruins of "Evil Luohai City"? This is the top priority. Whether he can save his life lies in this.
I also woke up at this moment. One breakthrough brought about the whole life. I immediately asked everyone to go up and go back to the greenstone on the edge of the city. So everyone picked up things and hurriedly returned on the same route. On both sides of the greenstone, one was the "Evil Luohai City" shrouded in the twilight, but that was the memory of the ghost mother. On the other side of the greenstone, there was a clear and transparent "wind-eroded lake". The large group of white-bearded fish in the lake and the dense wind-eroded caves at the bottom of the lake were clearly visible.
The legendary "Evil Luohai City" is located behind the "Gate of Disaster". The real "Evil Luohai City" is exactly the same as the ancient city in my memory. It is all built with natural huge wind-eroded rocks. At this time, everyone looked at the caves like a wind nest at the bottom of the lake and understood that because the Demon Kingdom worshipped abyss and caves, the caves under the city were dug too deep. The real "Evil Luohai City" has sunk into the ground and was flooded. Thousands of years of change of the world has become the mirror-like "Wind-eroded Lake". As for the legend that the residents in the city have turned into fish, it should be nonsense. It is said that they all died and fed the fish when they were in disaster. Legend has it that the dragon fish like to play with pearls the most. The reason why those ferocious black and white spotted dragons kept attacking the fish in the lake was probably to occupy the beads at the bottom of the lake. Perhaps the people of the Cangkeng Sect put the eyes of the ghost mother at the bottom of the lake.
Chapter completed!