Chapter 80: Relief Notes
I have experience that this strange white light can turn people into monsters, or corpses, or living dead, but I didn't expect that the source of the white light would be the ruins of this ancient city located underground.
I didn't have time to think about it, the white light that was more than ten times stronger than the last time overwhelmed us, and my eyes were pierced by the strong light, and it lasted for several seconds before the light faded a little, but it still illuminated the entire ruins as if it were day.
My eyes gradually adjusted to the intensity of the light, and when I opened my eyes, the whole picture of the surrounding ruins suddenly fell into my eyes. Surprised, shocked, I can't describe the mood at this moment, there is no doubt that the whole picture of the ruins revealed at this time is more shocking than the tip of the iceberg seen with a flashlight. I felt as if I had entered a super-developed but deserted modern city, which was even more shocking than being in a megacity like Shenzhen and Shanghai.
The entire ruins are illuminated, and we have a clear view of the panorama in front of us. I saw that the ground paved with special black stone squares was densely carved with many strange lines and patterns, connected into a whole, and the place we were in did not seem to be part of the urban planning, because only this round stone platform was independent, and a large open space was deliberately isolated around.
There is a deep circular hole with a diameter of more than 20 meters in the center of the stone platform not far from us, and it is from that place that the howling yin wind and the majestic black gas are blowing. The terrible cracks that burst from the black stone ground also extended from the deep hole, and it seemed that there was something huge underground.
We were completely enveloped in white light, but strangely enough, this time the curse on the arm did not react at all, and the old man and the Taoist priest were also illuminated by the white light, but they also did nothing.
I didn't have time to be surprised, a thick black gas was not dissolved by the white light under the coercion of the yin wind, and it hit the unprepared Taoist priest at once, and I saw that the black light of the Ba Wu Divine Statue in his hand flashed, and the black gas dissipated in an instant, but a small crack also appeared on the statue.
The faces of the two of them changed at the same time, and the old man immediately said: "Oops, this is the source of black qi, but looking at this situation, the hole seems to lead to hell, and the black qi here is not as good as the outside, don't touch it, you will die if you touch it." ”
Compared to the black gas gushing out of the ground, these white lights looked like they were artificially created to block the black gas. Most of the strange birds above were swept away by the white light, and the rest were all smart, hovering outside the light curtain, eyeing us in the ruins.
I saw that my scalp was numb, and I asked the old man what to do now, but I found that he looked ugly and did not reply to me at all.
We cautiously came to the edge of the deep cave, and although we had tried our best to avoid the black gas gushing out, there were still several small black gases hitting us. The Taoist priest and the old man's hand have more and more cracks, but I don't feel it at all, the old man gave me the pendant is a good thing, it has been emitting a ghostly light to block the black gas for me, and it itself has not changed much.
The cave was surrounded by a stone platform about half a meter high, carved with patterns, and I felt a chill down my spine when I looked down at the cave. I saw that the cave was bottomless, and at the entrance of the cave near the top, there was a huge stone slab depicting yin and yang fish covering the entire deep hole, but the stone slab had cracked out a lot of huge holes at the moment, and through those holes, you could see the inky black abyss under the deep hole, boundless, and the white light could not shine into it at all, and the darkness swallowed everything.
After seeing the situation under the deep cave, the Taoist priest gasped, his face suddenly changed, and the old man's condition was not much better.
The two looked at each other, and saw that the old man had untied his backpack and pulled out a rather old roll of ragged linen from it. The rag was wrapped in a roll, very long, and covered with strange graffiti-like patterns, and it was not a simple thing at first glance.
While unfolding the strip of cloth, the old man sighed and said: "I really didn't expect that the Eye of Hell recorded by Wuzang is real, alas, the little Taoist priest, it's all here, don't hide it anymore if you have any means." ”
Listening to the old man's words, the Taoist priest also sighed, and then out of nowhere he felt a fist-sized copper bell, and his face was painful.
I didn't know what the old man's eyes of hell were, or what they were going to do, but they looked solemn, and I didn't dare to ask more, so I went to see the reliefs on the stone platforms around the cave.
At first glance, I was taken aback by the fact that these stone platforms were carved with a series of narrative paintings, and the patterns between each stone platforms were connected, and the description was the same thing. There are many tadpole-like words on top of the relief, which are supposed to be narrations of events, but this kind of text is so abstract that I don't recognize it at all, so I can only look for clues from the patterns of the reliefs.
The style of these reliefs is the same as the murals I saw in the city before, I went around the pit, roughly read all the reliefs, and photographed them, and found that the content of the relief paintings is about the pit.
There are a total of forty-nine pieces of stone platform, which has been broken into thirteen pieces by the destruction of the ground crack, and the content of the relief is quite straightforward, and all the reliefs can be roughly divided into three parts.
The first part, the first to the thirteenth, records the life scene of a city buried deep underground, in which there are many things that resemble airplanes and cars, and the sun that connects the city on three wheels, hanging over the city, which looks quite incredible. The inhabitants of the city lived in harmony and prosperity until one day an evil eye appeared that cracked the earth.
The second part, the fourteenth to the thirty-fifth, is missing ten pieces due to the severe fragmentation of the stone platform in this part, and records the great disaster that the appearance of the Evil Eye brought to the entire city. This part has a lot of content, it takes a lot of space to organize it, and it is closely related to the next shocking secret, which will be described in detail later, so I can only briefly describe it here: the coming of the end.
The third part, that is, the remaining stone carvings, is not much missing, the content of this part is quite critical, if it weren't for my interest in reliefs, I have seen the content of the first step, I am afraid that everything will end here. Of course, that's what I learned later.
The last few reliefs describe the aftermath of the catastrophe, when a group of people united to build an altar out of black stone outside the Evil Eye, and finally under the leadership of a different person, the altar was activated, and the Evil Eye and the cracked passage were sealed.