Chapter 73: The Sea of Flowers on the Other Side (2nd Watch)
It was the same petroglyph, but it was very different.
The petroglyphs I saw before were two groups of people fighting each other with their domesticated beasts, and the lines were very simple, similar to the stick figures of children.
However, this petroglyph depicts a giant whose head has been cut off, and then used bronze chains to penetrate the seven orifices and hang in mid-air.
Different from the stick lines of the previous paintings, the brushstrokes of this painting are very delicate and delicate, not only the rust and runes on the bronze chains are clearly delineated, but even the hair on the man's head is meticulously drawn.
If I hadn't been in a cave, I would have suspected that I had arrived at a game show and seen a promotional image of a game.
But that's not the point. What scares me the most is that the giant's face is all too familiar to me, because when I look in the mirror, I can see that he looks exactly like me, except for the fact that he is bigger. In addition to being more rugged and having unkempt hair, it's a completely different me.
At this moment, flames burned from the giant's skull, burning the bronze chains red. He was struggling desperately, trying to break free from the bronze chains, get out of the petroglyphs, and rush towards me.
But the barbed spikes at the top of the bronze chains hooked not only his pupils, but also his lips, tongue, nostrils, and ear piercings, and each time he struggled, the spikes pierced deeper into the wound, and the blood dripped down the seven orifices of the skull, dripping to the ground, turning into a raging flame and burning on the ground.
"Ji Zang, you are me, I am you, I am your power, as long as you absorb me, you can have the ability to resurrect people." The giant's head said to me.
Fake, right?! It's not a mythical world, how can such a thing as resurrecting people exist? I was a little excited, but I couldn't believe it.
At this moment, a hand pressed on my shoulder: "Ji Zang, don't be fooled. ”
I turned my head and it was my father who beckoned me, and I suddenly came to my senses, looked at the petroglyph that had summoned me again, and saw that it had completely changed.
It was a quaint petroglyph, and the picture was indeed a giant's head pierced by seven chains, suspended in mid-air, but the giant's head was extremely abstract, and it could only be seen that it did have human facial features, but as for the appearance, it was not clear at all.
Now that the petroglyphs have been restored, there are naturally no flames, no struggles, and no sounds, and what I saw and heard just now was like a dream.
"Whose head is that? Why is it suspended by seven chains? I couldn't help but be curious, and asked.
"You'll know later, it's not the time yet." The father shook his head and did not answer directly.
I'd like to follow-up. But when I saw the Great Elder walking in front of me turn around and glance at us, I was so frightened that I quickly closed my mouth and didn't dare to ask again.
The next road was very calm, and after walking for more than ten minutes, we came to a cave hall with a diameter of nearly 100 meters, and the torches on the rock walls around the hall had already been lit by the Ji family, and the fire was swaying in the whole hall.
It's just that the top of the cave doesn't know how high it is, and the light of the torch can't reach it at all, and when I look up, it looks like a black hole overhead, devouring the light from the torch.
The floor of the cave hall is very flat, and the rock floor is carved with simple and obscure symbols, which fills the whole hall with a solemn feeling.
I calculated in my mind, from the time we entered the cave to the current cave hall, we had walked for twenty or thirty minutes, and the diameter of this cave hall was so large, if we calculated it this way, the mountain we were in now was completely hollow. We may be in the middle of the mountain.
After all the torches in the hall were lit, the Great Elder came over and looked at me, but asked in his mouth, "Hongfan, how is Ji Zang's state?" ”
"He was affected twice just now. Take at least half an hour of rest. The father replied.
"Okay, then let's rest in place, just wait for the others." The Great Elder said.
Others? Who else is coming? I thought to myself that I had been pinned to the ground by my father, who helped me to sit cross-legged. Then he pressed his palm on the top of my head.
Suddenly, a cool sensation poured over my head and into my limbs, making me feel like I was fluttering, and I was lost in this wonderful feeling.
After some time, my father withdrew his hand. I woke up immediately, and I felt extremely comfortable, and even my left arm, which had been aching faintly, seemed to have recovered at this moment, and no longer sting.
Father's face was sweating. Obviously a little weak, my heart suddenly felt a little blocked: my father loved me, even if I didn't live together all these years, his love for me has not changed.
Just as I was moved, the voice of the Great Elder over there came: "Ji Zang." You come here. ”
Almost subconsciously, I got up and came to the Great Elder.
"Ji Zang, you sit here, you just need to relax and cooperate with us."
"Okay." I submissively sat down on the raised rock platform. I looked at the Ji family elders who were standing in a circle around me with some curiosity.
After the Great Elder watched me sit down and gestured, the clan elders closed their eyes and recited an obscure incantation.
The incantation came to my ears like a lullaby. It made my eyelids feel like lead, and I couldn't lift them up soon.
No way! I'm still attending the ceremony, so don't sleep at this time! I said to myself, forcing myself to open my eyes, only to be stunned by the sight in front of me.
I remember sitting on a rocky platform in the cave hall. But now I am in a vast prairie, surrounded by grass and flowers, and the breeze blows, and the grass and flowers rise and fall like waves.
Since I was a child, my family was not abundant, and I had never traveled to the grassland at all, but when I saw such a beautiful scenery, I threw away all the thoughts in my mind for a while, stretched out my arms, embraced the breeze, and ran on the grassland.
I ran fast. Like a wild horse, free, unrestrained, and tireless.
I don't know how far I ran, but suddenly I came to a sea of flowers. It was full of red flowers, like a sea of red, and I looked at the flowers in front of me, and it felt a little familiar, but I couldn't remember what its name was.
What kind of flower is this? It looks familiar! And I feel like it's very important to me. My mind was full of questions.
A voice suddenly came from his ear: "This is the flower of the other side." ”
I looked back. Behind him, I don't know when there was an old man in white with a dusty temperament, his long beard floated with the breeze, like a fairy in a TV series.
"Who are you?" I felt that the old man in front of me was very familiar, but I couldn't remember who he was.
"Ji Zang, it's time to destroy this other side flower." The old man said. Out of nowhere, he took out a human arm, which was all red, and there was a bright flower growing on it.
Seeing the arm he took out, I suddenly realized something, looked down, and found that my left arm was cut off by someone at the elbow at some point, and at this moment it was still flowing blood, and the blood dripped on the grassland, and immediately the peanut roots on the other side sprouted, and then bloomed bewitching flowers.
When I looked back, I saw that the grassland, which had grown with grass and wild flowers, had somehow turned into a sea of red flowers on the other side, which was nurtured and grown by the blood I shed.
"Idiot, don't wake up yet, and continue to be lost. Your soul is about to be devoured. The Great Elder shouted sharply.
I suddenly felt a spirit, and then looked around, and all those red flowers on the other side suddenly turned into flames, burning wantonly on the grassland. The grass and wildflowers soon enveloped in flames and turned to ashes, and where the flames went, red flowers began to grow wildly.
In an instant, it dawned on me that these flowers were the culprits that devoured my soul, and that if I allowed them to take over the entire grassland, I would lose myself and become a corpse demon or a shell of an evil god.
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