Chapter 11: A Strange Diagram
"Damn, you're moving too fast!" I complained, and seeing that he had pulled a piece of paper out of the envelope, I asked him what was written in the letter.
The doctor didn't answer, his eyes just looked at the piece of paper, and his expression changed from curiosity to suspicion, which made me a little confused.
Although I was taboo about what Zhang Lingjin sent, I still couldn't resist the drive of curiosity, and seeing that Lin Qiaoer also showed the same expression as the doctor after reading the letter, I couldn't help it anymore and leaned over to look at it.
Soon, I also became suspicious, the letter sent by Zhang Lingjin did not mention a word, only a picture, an extremely strange picture.
How to say, the first time I saw this picture, I thought it was a mistake when the other party loaded the letter, because the picture was completely a large pool of black graffiti, as if I accidentally knocked over the inkstone when writing calligraphy, and the ink flowed on the paper to form ink.
I thought to myself, what is this? What does Zhang Lingjin mean by sending me such a picture?
Lin Qiaoer said that it could be a mistake, and the doctor immediately said that it was impossible, if there were a lot of contents in the envelope, it might be confused, and if there was only one copy, it would be clear at a glance when it was stuffed in, and it would be impossible to make a mistake.
The three of them were a little confused all of a sudden, and they all stared at the picture carefully, trying to find some subtle clues from it.
Looking at it, I felt that something was wrong, and the shape of the graffiti on the paper made me feel a little familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere.
I looked at this strange picture intently, and at the same time kept searching in my mind, but unfortunately I remembered it for a long time, and there was no clue at all.
At this moment, Lin Qiao'er suddenly pointed to the picture with a surprised face and said, "Ah, look at it, this shape ...... Isn't it a bit like a human? ”
"Somewhat like people?"
The doctor and I were stunned, and we were a little farther away, and when we went to see it again, the back of the spine was cold.
Lin Qiao'er is right, or her description is reserved, the shape of this picture is not like a person, but like a slightly curled up skinned person, with very obvious features of the head and limbs.
Now I finally know why I feel familiar when I look at this picture, shit, this is exactly the same as the outline of the demon lake in my nightmare! It's just that because of the lack of the black giant mountains surrounding the demon lake, the demon lake looks a little abrupt, so I didn't recognize it right away.
Holy, is that place in the nightmare real? Zhang Lingjin knew that place, so he specially drew a picture and sent it to me? But how did she know that the Demon Lake had something to do with me?
Looking at this somewhat hideous picture, I suddenly felt that this picture was not drawn with pencil, but dyed with blood, and I felt an inexplicable fear in my heart, and I wanted to burn this picture immediately.
The picture was indeed drawn in pencil, and the gray-black outline of the human skin was all drawn in pencil, and there were many symbols on the edges of the human skin, but I couldn't understand what they represented.
The three of them stared at the diagram for a long time, but could not find any clues other than the symbols, so they gave up and turned their attention to the strange box of dirt.
It has been more than ten minutes since we opened the box, if it was an ordinary thing with a peculiar smell staying in the air, the smell should have volatilized, at least the smell would have become lighter, but the smell of these mud has not faded at all, Lin Qiaoer hurriedly opened the window to ventilate.
In fact, the smell of earth is not very bad, but it is too strong and a little pungent, just like perfume, and spraying too much can make people feel uncomfortable.
The doctor wanted to grab some dirt to take a closer look, I stopped him, I don't know why, I had an instinctive aversion to the dirt in the box, and I had a gut feeling in my heart, this dirt, very dangerous!
I told them what I felt in my heart, and told them that it was better not to touch this thing, it had been three times, and the three times it was not a good place related to Zhang Lingjin, and we didn't know the origin of this soil, in case there was a poison or some kind of curse, it would be over.
The doctor frowned slightly, and after thinking about it, he agreed with me, and we sealed the lid of the box and hid it along with the dirt. As for that letter, I have a hunch that I might be able to use it in the future.
Originally, because of the good mood of the doctor's arrival, because of the letter and the box of dirt, it became a little bad, and after the cold wind blew away the smell in the house, we continued to get together to make a fire, as for dinner, such a cold day, it was a good time to eat hot pot.
It's still the old place I came to with the Taoist priest last time, the authentic Sichuan-style hot pot, a few chopsticks went down, the chill on our bodies was gone, and we were so spicy that we were sweating.
While eating, I talked to the doctor about the letter sent by Zhang Lingjin today, and asked him what he thought?
The doctor is not a particularly spicy person, Si Swenwen's face was spicy to the color of pig liver at this time, and his head was covered with sweat, he kept wiping it, and rinsed his mouth with beer, and it took a long time to ease up.
He took a deep breath to relieve the numbness in his mouth, and said to me: "Judging from your experience these few times and the letter she sent you, the relationship between this Zhang Lingjin and you is definitely not ordinary, and now it can be affirmed that the letter that led you to Fengyang before was sent by Zhang Lingjin, and she did this just to promote your trip to Fengyang." ”
I nodded and asked, "Well, but why would she do that?" ”
The doctor took another sip of beer and continued: "Extrapolating back from the changes that occurred after your trip to Fengyang, there are two possibilities: first, she knows that you have a curse on you, and she also knows that there are underground ruins and earth eyes under the ghost school, and of course, she knows that you are the key to solving the disaster of Fengyang, so she used that strange letter to lead you to Fengyang and ask you to help solve the disaster of the Earth Eye. ”
"Second, she doesn't know what you have, but it is possible to know the origin of your family and Doom, for some purpose, she needs to design an introduction to revive the curse on your body, and that introduction is the eye of the earth in the underground ruins of Fengyang."
I didn't quite understand it, so I asked, "Is there any difference between the two?" Whatever the reason, leading me to Fengyang would evolve into the consequence of a curse eruption. ”
The doctor shook his head with a smile and said: "Of course there is a difference, if it is the former, you were led to Fengyang just to solve the disaster, you also said, the stone platform of the underground ruins altar is engraved with a relief that predicts the future, and it is you who finally sealed the eye of the earth on the relief, maybe this Zhang Lingjin has been to Fengyang, and the person who found that the person who sealed the eye of the earth can only be you in the prophecy, without a choice, in order to save more people, she had to pull you into the water, this situation cannot be regarded as harming you!" ”
"And if it's the second one, hehe, then you'll have to be really careful! Knowing the relationship between your ancestors and the source of doom, and deliberately designing for your doom to explode, what will be the result? ”
"What?" I asked subconsciously.
The doctor suddenly restrained his smile, his expression became solemn, and he didn't explain to me directly, but asked, "After the Fengyang curse broke out, what happened to you after?" ”
This sentence instantly woke me up, and I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, the doctor was right, after the curse broke out, I was forced to go to my hometown to find a way to suppress the curse, thus triggering an expedition to another forbidden place. Regardless of whether there is a human factor in this, everything seems to have been predestined in the dark, and even after the curse of my hometown has been suppressed, I am still swept into another forbidden place.
That is to say, since the Fengyang curse was triggered, I have been involuntarily trapped in one forbidden place after another, whether I want to or not, in the end, there will always be various coincidences that make me step into the forbidden land where the eye of the earth is located.
When I was in the ancient town, Uncle Chen of the Zhengqian faction told me that there was some unknown connection between the curse of Doom and the Eye of the Earth, and the Eye of the Earth would continue to drag the people possessed by the curse of Doom to the forbidden places one by one, which was like a fate that had already been doomed, and the accident in Fengyang Town was the beginning of fate, and once it was opened, there was no possibility of stopping.
If Zhang Lingjin really wants me to fall into fate, so as to achieve some kind of purpose for her, then this purpose is self-evident.
"Eyes of the Earth! Her goal is the Eye of the Earth, and she needs the traits of the Doom in you to help her keep finding the Eye of the Earth! The doctor said.
I don't need the doctor to say it, I have already thought that if Zhang Lingjin's attempt to lead me to Fengyang is really the second type, then what she is trying must be something we can't imagine, because it involves more than one earth eye, and her goal is very likely to find out all the earth eyes.
An explosion of the Earth Eye is enough to destroy Shenzhou, and if all the Earth Eyes in this world are triggered, the consequences are simply unimaginable.
This assumption is really unimaginable, no wonder the doctor showed such a solemn expression just now, if Zhang Lingjin's ultimate purpose is consistent with our speculation, then she must be related to the Heavenly Witch Sect, because only the Heavenly Witch Sect will be crazy enough to dare to hit the idea of the Earth Eye, and it is also all the Earth Eyes that exist in this world.
The doctor took a deep breath and looked a little strange, "Reporter, you have to be careful, whether this Zhang Lingjin is a member of the Heavenly Witch Sect or not, judging from these encounters, you have indeed been connected with those terrible places in the dark, and what you will face in the future is very likely to be a Jedi who will die one by one." ”
These words made my mood gloomy for a moment, and I sighed dejectedly, in fact, I had already thought of what the doctor said when I fell into the town of the underworld, but I didn't want to admit it in my heart. Even if there is no such connection between the Earth Eye and the Doom Curse, I still have to look for it, all because of the words that the Lord left on the stone wall of the sinkhole: If you want to destroy the root of the curse, you need to seal the Earth Eye.
This is the words that the master left in the sinkhole to warn the descendants of the Zhang family, before I got the master's codex, I didn't know what the eye of the earth was, so I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence. But now, I know about the Coffin Project from the Codex, the Eye of the Earth, and the connection between the curse of Doom and the Eye of the Earth, and the meaning of this sentence is not difficult to understand.
I'm sure that if the curse is in a non-suppressive state, even if I don't go out after the hour and don't see the moon, after a long time, something terrible will still happen, and this is the characteristic of the curse of Doom. Thinking about the fact that such awesome characters as Grandpa and Grandpa all ended up being ominous because of the curse and disappeared inexplicably, I am even more impressed, even if a demon suddenly comes while I am asleep, I am afraid that it can kill me silently.
During this period of time, I studied the codex left by the master, and I saw a lot of records related to the curse of Doom, the reason why the curse of Doom is terrifying is actually because the curse of Doom can release a special breath, which is full of temptation for evil things, just like gold is to people, this breath is the breath of Doom.
When the source of doom is triggered, the curse will absorb the yin qi between heaven and earth all the time, and constantly transform into the source of doom breath, when the source of doom aura stored in the curse of doom accumulates to a certain extent, it will burst out, thus provoking countless terrible evil things.
There are different types of evil things that are attracted to it, it may be a ghost, it may be a spirit, it may be a zombie, and the most terrifying kind of evil thing is a strange creature from the nether.
The master recorded in the codex that although the current earth eye is in a closed state, but countless years ago, it is very likely to be the era of the life of the prehistoric gods, and the large-scale explosion of the earth eye led to the destruction of the prehistoric gods.
Because of the age, these nether beings do not have much to do with them, but when they are attracted, the consequences are absolutely catastrophic. This can be seen from the horror of the nether creature that was born a hundred years ago.
For these Nether creatures who don't know where they exist, the curse aura on my body is the best lure, and when the aura of doom accumulates to a certain extent and explodes, it may attract terrifying Nether creatures.
What the nether creatures are, the Taiye did not elaborate in the codex, but only speculated that the 'nightmare' in the Nine Demons and One Nightmare is likely to be a kind of nether creature.
This reminds me of my own nightmares, every dream is so real and terrifying, I almost can't wake up several times, maybe the master guessed right, the nightmare, it is a kind of nether creature.
The existence of Doom is like the sword of Damocles hanging above my head, if I want to live, I can only follow the method that the master said, constantly search for the forbidden land, and seal the earth eye, so as to eliminate the doom source breath contained in the curse of Doom.
As for why I had to seal the Earth Eye to eliminate the Qi of Doom, the Master didn't say it, and I have no way of knowing, but that time in Yeling, it was the Underworld in the Earth Eye that eliminated the aura of Doom for me, and the time in Suo Hadestown, it was Yuan Daojun and Wang Hanzhu who helped me suck away the aura of Doom.
In this way, it seems that as long as you reach the place where the eye of the earth is, there will be an opportunity to dispel the aura of doom.