Chapter 316: The Caucasus Mountain Collapse (2)
We headed southwest, struggling down the near-vertical mountain wall, until we reached a pair of side-by-side holes.
The entrance to the cave was on a large stone wall facing northeast, and the two caves were three meters high from the ground, five meters apart from each other, and eight meters in diameter.
"This is the place, the place where the eyes of the Bush are located. Many big people came from all over the world to use the power of the ambush to divinate good fortune and evil, which was very effective. If you want to look for something in the Caucasus Mountains, you can ask them about it. Shalo said.
I was silent, but looked up.
The entrance to the cave was imposing, not like two eyes, but like two large mouths side by side.
In myths and legends around the world, there are demonic images of "Hell Two-Mouthed Monsters", which eat people twice as fast as common demons, and the same is true of their ferocity.
"You go up and have a look." Shalo instructed the other man.
The man took the order, ran a few steps forward, took advantage of the momentum, jumped up, climbed the natural crack in the stone wall with both hands, and soon stepped into the hole.
"Don't worry, it's fairest to kill only those who deserve to be killed." Shalo said.
Ten minutes later, the man reappeared at the entrance of the cave and waved downward: "Mr. Shalo, everything is normal in the cave, there is no danger. ”
Charlo was the second to hole, and I was the third.
The three of us entered the hole on the right, which was a straight hole, with no twists and turns, straight ahead.
After walking about a hundred steps, there was a sudden bright light in front of me.
This is in the deep belly of the mountain, and it is impossible for the sun to shine in, not to mention that it is snowy outside, and the clouds are so thick that you can't see the sun.
After walking for a while, I saw where the light came from, which turned out to be a milky white stone wall, shaped like a flat eye, emitting a faint white light.
In front of the stone wall, there is a small flat stone platform, which is equivalent to an altar, but there are no offerings on it, but a dozen iron hooks embedded in it, like a meat selling board outside a butcher shop.
"Here, anyone can make their wish come true, just if your heart is pious enough." Shalo said.
"That's not what I want." I say.
"What do you want?" Another screamed.
"I'm going to enter that place, the strange place where Jian Rong's soul is imprisoned." I say.
"What you ask for, you must pay for it. Since you have a request, you need to know, how much are you willing to pay in exchange for that answer? The other pointed to the altar.
When I walked near the altar, I saw a small scale hanging on the right side of the altar and a weighing pan at one end, which really looked like a meat shop.
Both the scales and the weighing pan were a black, dirty black color, presumably the result of years of blood that had seeped deep into the wood.
"Sacrifice your life to feed tigers, cut meat to feed eagles, those ancient wise men have shown us the way." The man said with a strange smile.
I looked at him, and under the white light, his face was as white as paper, like hell.
"According to you, what shall I give?" I asked.
The man looked me up and down, and suddenly pointed to my heart: "There, I saw your heart beating, and Fu Tuo must be interested in it." The heart of the living is the most nutritious, and if you take it while it is hot, you will be able to please the people. ”
There was an unspeakable evil in the cave, and the man was silent, but as soon as he entered the cave, he became a different person, treacherous and evil, like a demon clown.
"Trade my life for an answer, huh?" I asked quietly.
The white stone wall suddenly trembled, and I looked up at the stone wall, and its color instantly turned black. It is equivalent to saying that a white eye becomes a black eye, and that trembling is a rotational switch between black and white eyes.
A gust of wind blew, and the iron hooks on the rectangular altar trembled slightly, making a clattering sound like grinding teeth and sucking blood.
"Will you change it?" The man asked.
If the news is about Gu Qingcheng, I will change it without hesitation, exchange my life for her safety, this deal, no regrets.
If the news is about someone else, such as Jian Rong, such as Meng Qiao...... I may change, but it's a little regrettable that my life ended this way.
"Let's start with what the news is." I said lightly.
"Set your sacrifice on the altar first, and wait until the Buddha thinks that your heart is pious enough before discussing the rest." The man said.
"Why don't you make a show for me first?" I said coldly.
The whole time, Shalo didn't speak, just stood there with his hands folded, listening to the conversation between me and the man, completely out of the way.
"If you are disrespectful to the ambush, you will bring death." The man had run out of words, but he still wouldn't shut up.
When I was in Dunhuang, I heard more than once that "if you do not respect the gods, you will be killed", but respect and disrespect, sincerity and insincerity, all lie in the heart rather than in action, let alone how others accuse.
Now, I just want to calm down and observe the stone wall, and I don't want to listen to the man's noise anymore.
The horizontal width of the "eye" is four meters, and the height is one meter, if it is placed on a certain face, it must be similar to the ancients' "lying silkworm eyebrows, red phoenix eyes".
According to Shalo, the Fu Pack was crushed at the foot of the Caucasus Mountain, and its body size must have been at least dozens of kilometers long, more than ten kilometers wide, and hundreds of meters high. That being the case, its eyes are not too small, and it cannot be only a few meters wide.
"Whose eyes is it?" I asked.
No one answered me, but the "eyes" trembled silently.
I turned to Shalo: "Mr. Shalo, what do you mean by bringing me here without making a sound?" Did you think of me as an offering for the pack? ”
It's unpredictable, I have to think so.
"You look at that eye, you get close to it, you embrace it, it pierces your heart and tells you the most primitive answer." Shalo said, then turned to the man, "Go, let Mr. Long see what is going on in your heart." ”
Without hesitation, the man strode over to the stone wall, stretched out his arms, pressed forward, and embraced the giant eye with all his might.
I know that many of the cult's rituals are strange and bloody, but they are not seen by outsiders and have not been spread.
The reason why the evil sect is "evil" is because its behavior is completely out of the normal track of human society, and it is anti-common sense, anti-human, and anti-moral, so it has become a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats it.
"What will happen?" I took three steps back and stood side by side with Shalo.
"It doesn't matter to us what happens." Shalo's face was like a clay sculpture of wood.
"Is he your sacrifice?" I asked unceremoniously.
"Can't you?" Shalo asked rhetorically.
I gasped, I couldn't agree with Shalo's way of doing things. Not only did he suck the essence of his companion, but he also offered another companion as a sacrifice to the strange eye. After doing these two things, he did not have the slightest guilt, and remained calm, as if he had killed two chickens and two dogs.
"It's hard to do big things." He said again.
"You're not doing big things, you're killing innocents. They are not ants, but our kind. "I corrected him.
"In my eyes, the incompetent, the ignorant, and the inactive are all ants, and living will only waste social resources, so it is better to die directly, and it can also add fertilizer to plants and feed animals." Shalo said.
His remarks are similar to those of the Nazi leaders in Germany when they ordered the murder of Jews.
"It looks like we can't work together anymore." I sighed and said with deep regret.
I wanted to find Gu Tingcheng and Jian Rong, but I couldn't cooperate with the cult murderers in order to achieve this goal.
"Don't move, look at that eye, look at that eye—" Sallo whispered.
I turned around, and my black eyes changed color again, the color of a blazing fire.
The air was immediately filled with the smell of burnt meat, and I tried to rescue the man, but was pulled by Shalo.
"Don't try to snatch food from the mouths of the bushes, as that will only anger the beasts and cause the Caucasus Mountains to collapse. I have received the old prophecy that 'the hidden king of terror will break through the earth, and three hundred years after three hundred years, the land will be swamps, and the beasts and birds will become fish and shrimp.' 'Mr. Long, that's the real destruction of the earth, and you and I don't want to be the initiator, do we? Shalo's voice trembled.
The prophecy he quoted came from "The Centuries", and when the prophecy of "1999 King of Terror fell from the sky" miscalculated, the prophecy of "King of Terror breaking the ground" once again became the focus of human attention. If Fu Tuo is the prophesied "king of terror", then our actions will be very subtle.
I watched as the man was charred by the stone wall, curled up in a ball, and never said a word.
The fiery red eyes lit up, and the whole cave was illuminated.
Shalo took a few steps forward and bowed with his palms together: "I wonder if the demolition of that temple will bring great disaster?" Is the head of our country being held hostage related to the temple? These are all major national affairs, which have nothing to do with me personally, but only the peace of the people. Please advise me, what should I do next? ”
In the past, I thought that the sound of the stone wall would only appear in science fiction and mythological movies, but this time, the giant eye-shaped stone wall really said: "Yes." ”
The sound of the stone wall is neither male nor female, neither old nor young, and it is more harsh than the sound of electronic synthesis, as if two flints are stacked on top of each other and rubbed hard, and the two syllables are like "can" and "why, Buddha, river, fire".
"Then I'll do it right away." Shalo bowed deeply.
This weird conversation lasted only a minute, but to me, it felt like an hour.
"Woman...... The woman ...... "The giant eye spoke again, and made such a sound.
I suddenly thought of something and stepped over to Shalo's side: "What is the voice you heard?" What is the language of the country? ”
Different countries speak different languages, I hear Chinese, and I talk to Miyankov, Madame Bing, Julie, and Shalo in English.
I gasped again at Shalo's answer, as his answer was "the lingua franca of the great northern powers."
My guess was right, this giant eye has the ability to deceive people, and can communicate in different languages for different groups of people.
"What did it just say? It's a woman, right? I asked.
Shalo nodded: "Yes, it says it needs a woman." ”
"Woman...... Woman...... Person. The giant eye spoke slowly again.
"I'll go handle it, and I'll go right away." Shalo nodded, turned and rushed out.
I was the only one left in the cave, and the fire in the giant eye had diminished, leaving only a faint glimmer.
I exhaled slowly, calmed my trembling mood, and walked to the altar, solemnly facing the stone wall.
"I don't know who you are, but within the scope of my knowledge, the ancient beasts are all extinct. Just like the extinction of the dinosaurs, it was the inevitable result of ecological evolution and natural selection. There are no mythical beasts in modern society, and the so-called mythical beasts that have been discovered so far, without exception, are all people with ulterior motives pretending to be gods and ghosts. If you really are a divine beast, then show your mana and let me be subdued by your mastery. I said out loud.
I have my own views on the opposing ideological systems of atheism and theism and materialism and idealism.
I don't favor one or the other, and I don't believe in one or the other, but divide the world into the known and the unknown.
In the face of the known world, I believe in atheism and materialism; Faced with the unknown world, I believe in theism and idealism.
When exploring these two worlds, I use scientific knowledge for the former; For the latter, metaphysical theories are used.
"What you want, I'll give it to you." The appearance of the giant eyes changed again, and Gu Qingcheng's back appeared in his eyes.
There is no doubt that just looking at the back of the smoky gray windbreaker, I am sure that she must be Gu Qingcheng.
It was as if I had been struck in the chest with a hammer, and the pain was so great that I couldn't resist it.
"How so?" I put my hands on my chest and bent over in pain.
"What you want, I'll give it to you." The voice said again.
On the stone wall, Gu Tingcheng turned around slowly, his hair was flying, and his posture was beautiful, like a fairy.
"Is that her?" The voice asked.
"Of course it's her, who else but her can make me so concerned?" My heart thundered in reply.