Chapter 110: How to Choose
Those black shadows were scattered on the ground, like big spiders, lying quietly in place.
Through the gaze of those black holes, our shadows were beaten against the stone walls, superimposed on the bodies of those demons.
The cold chains, with the scorching sand fog enveloping the world, as I stood in the light, saw them not far away.
Through the light, I didn't rush to talk to them, but turned my head sideways, looked at the statues around me, and saw my own shadow, which appeared beside Tuber.
The chains in its hands linked the entire space, as well as the headless figures covered in sand mist overhead.
The sand mist eventually turned into a flowing gas, which was absorbed by them and disappeared little by little.
By this time, the door had been closed, and the quicksand had stopped, but when I shone towards them, I found that there were many hollowed-outs on the door behind them.
The doorway, which was originally an inverted triangle, was blocked by a door panel that had slipped down from above, but it was engraved with strange inscriptions, like a totem in a coffin.
And here it is completely a huge coffin, bringing death in, just as we had guessed before.
The door in the coffin is a place where only the soul can pass through, and the form of the soul is both a thorough understanding of death.
Only by understanding the meaning of death can the soul exist and leave through this closed triangular door.
The corpses above their heads are the craftsmen who built the coffin, and the carvings on the doors are the ones they use to imprison souls that should not be gone, and to filter out souls who understand the meaning of death.
The karmic fire of the world will forge the common denominator in people and imprint the proof that they have come to this world on their bodies.
As for the screening of souls, it is through these commonalities to find out the differences in people, so as to identify the departure and retention of souls.
Like the flowers of the year, they bloom the same color, but in different forms, although people exist to live, but the methods are very different.
The light shone through the door, penetrating the darkness inside, piercing through the sand, and countless particles flew and jumped, forming into heavy individuals to fill the space.
The darkness was disappearing, and we were all backing away, and through the hollow in the door, we saw that the sand outside was piling up more and more, and soon it was about to seep through the hollow.
In the light, the hollowed-out patterns are rendered by the sand into another color, which is the soul, something that buries the soul.
I watched them walk towards me, and watched the power that kept coming in under the lights, and the space outside the door was completely filled,
They finally made it through the darkness and seeped through the hollow in the door, but in the light of the flashlight, their color was blood-red.
Watching those blood-red quicksand flow down from the door, little by little they were assembled into a whole hollow pattern, like a branded wound on the door, blood could not help but penetrate from the soul.
The scorching flames, blown by the wind, are filling the cage of death, and the demons here are gradually awakening.
The first clump of sand paused in place as it hit the ground, before it began to spread out in all directions, covering the vicinity of the doorway.
As the blood sand poured out more and more, I finally saw all the hollowed-out spots on the door, which were a pair of closed eyes.
In the texture of the eyes, the blood sand spread out until it flowed to the ground, and this time, there was no sand fog from the previous one.
It's getting colder and colder, and I feel my bones shivering, and this coldness doesn't come from the tactile nerves in my body, but from myself, from the natural perception deep inside.
I don't know what we see, what we hear, what we feel, and I don't know if we're alone.
It's like those rays of light in the skulls, small and helpless, and after losing everything, they can only support each other.
The world is infinitely magnified, and in this huge space, we lose control, so we have fear, so that we are left with fear, and there is no other thought in our hearts.
I don't want to go on like this, I don't want to be assimilated by everything around me, but no matter how I close my eyes and keep backing away, avoiding it all, I can always feel a burst of cold, robbing my other consciousness.
Where are our differences, what are our similarities, if these are really that important, we should let go and become individuals who stay alone in the universe.
In the face of the fear that only we are left in this world, or in this world, if we want to be the smallest race, we must make a choice.
The red eyes were closed on the door, but the blood and sand kept gushing out of the eyes, as if the difficulties in the heart made it dare to cry only when the eyes were closed. At the same time, the hollow places on the surrounding stone walls also flowed out of blood and sand one after another, and the area became larger and larger.
There was a distance away from the door, which was blank, and there were a few strips of stone, which we found when we entered.
The blood sand flowed through the door to the clearing, and here, we all reacted, this is definitely not a foolproof solution, although the area here is large, but the sand outside seems to be endless, sooner or later it will bury this place.
We searched around with flashlights, and as we swept through the sand again, I noticed that the first skull to be wrapped shone as the sand swept across the clearing.
Blood-red sand flowed into the skull, and through the tiny gaps, the sand moved, no, maybe not the sand moved, it was the skull, it was moving.
"Look, those skeletons, they seem to be coming to life!" I exclaimed.
"What a joke!" Li Sansi also nervously moved the flashlight over, but as soon as he glanced at it, he scolded, turned around and signaled to everyone, "Back off, quickly back down, be careful of those sands, there may be something weird in it!" β
Before he could finish his sentence, Ham looked over as well, and when he saw the skeleton, he turned around and kicked away a few people who were nearby.
We found out that there was a problem with the skeleton, and we all kicked the skeleton to the side one after another, but we didn't dare to kick it directly into the sand.
The speed of the blood sand slowed down a lot after encountering those skulls, which may be the reason why some of it flowed into the skulls!
I couldn't be clearer about this kind of scene, but I am also soberly aware that the current situation is very bad.
This is not Yunnan, it is not those insects, they are souls, they are witnesses of death, and they are here to allow the evil spirits here to obtain painful bodies.
Their minds will be enveloped in the scorching karmic fire, and the bright red world is about to reappear, which is also to better let us see the truth.
Soon, we carved a way through the skeletons and retreated to Tubo's side, and as my back to the stone wall and the red sand of blood, I looked sideways at the others.
Now, all of us are faced with a choice, choosing between life and death, or being chosen by them.
Searching for all the possibilities that would give us survival, our flashlights flickered around, but all around us were bare stone walls, and then there were statues with very small slopes.
Is this a coffin? Did they all make a choice? Finally, he looked at the blood sand again, and suddenly thought in his heart...... If I rush over and block the entrance with myself, will it be because I saw the skull before and understood the state of people's souls after death, and pass through the karmic fire of these worlds?
They make the evil spirits in the cage feel pain, and if we can accept them, will we be able to avoid the pain?
Because we're different from them! Perhaps we will never be able to experience those pains, let alone understand the meaning.
I shook my head and smiled bitterly, my own thoughts were really naΓ―ve, had I forgotten what happened in Yunnan, those red caterpillars that could resurrect the dead, how could we touch them.
Red quicksand flowed in from outside the door, quickly covering the ground, and inside the skeletons, the sand flowed endlessly through the cracks.
The light on those skulls was getting brighter and brighter, and the originally faint points of light had now turned blood red.
"There's no way!" Li Sansi said calmly, put down the flashlight, he has never been a person who is easy to accept despair, but in this situation, how unfavorable it is for us, you can also imagine.
In his originally determined gaze, there was also a slight hesitation at this time, as if he was thinking about something, or nothing, just looking at the blood sand, staring at the arrival of despair.
But in the end, he shone his flashlight on the top of his head, and the headless people, although they had chains hanging down from their bodies, could not be caught by our height.
The flashlights were concentrated again, and the masked man was the first to extinguish his own light, it was not despair, and there was no despair.
Under the mask, he couldn't see his expression clearly, I only knew that he was very calm, and even this calmness made me suddenly feel very kind.
Oh, yes! What is despair, if it is a group of people who do not understand despair to die, it is like crying in a coffin.
It's a natural thing, like going home, eating, celebrating a birthday, buying a present, getting angry, being in a daze, looking up at the sky.
It's not despair, it's a life experience, and it seems like we have a lot of time right now.
In the face of death, no one can accept it calmly, and no one is willing to accept it, even if you can't refuse, you must try it, and look forward to a miracle.
After the loss and silence just now, all we have left is time, the time when the blood and sand cover the whole field.
And this kind of time, we are eager to be constantly extended, even if we can't find a way out, we don't want to die quietly in this empty place.
If there is no hope, there will be no despair, but in between, we have to keep ourselves busy, and we deceive ourselves and ignore this despair.
Li Sansi didn't want to stop and face this kind of death, he didn't find what he wanted, and he couldn't die here.
I could feel that he was so longing, this longing, even erupted here, like those overwhelming blood sands, completely engulfing him, as if as long as the time was extended a little bit, even if he died a few minutes later, there would be a miracle to get what he wanted.
Li Sansi looked coldly at the red sand that was getting closer and closer under the light, his eyes became firm again, and beckoned Ham to walk forward
Ham quickly followed, threw me another gun, and said, "Don't let these things come close!" After that, he walked forward with Li Sansi and dealt with the other skulls.
I understood what he meant, and I knew what I could do now, but I really couldn't be like them, because I didn't come here for anything, and I had no reason to persist at all, the only thing I wanted was to take them out alive, but looking around, thinking about myself, I felt powerless, thinking that I would just give up like this, and there was no need to struggle meaninglessly in despair.
There is a lot of space here, and even our flashlights can't shine it clearly, so there are a lot of skulls, and some places are very irregular.
I stared blankly at the gun in my hand, not knowing what to do next, and at this moment, the masked man walked over and patted me on the shoulder, "If you regret it, in fact, God has arranged a chance for you to regress at any time, just to see if you have a way to find out." β
"What do you mean, do you have a way to leave?" I was a little excited, but the next second, I saw him shake his head and point to the skull here, "Do you know how these people died?" β
I was a little puzzled and didn't understand the purpose of his question, but I still replied, "My head has been cut off, can I still live?" β
"It's not that they need to live, it's because they believe in their choice, and even if it's wrong, they're sticking to it, and that's why."
"What is the answer to death, there are many layers of meaning, some people see it as the end, some people see it as a return, and some people see it as a way to open another door, once those people had a disagreement about this, but fortunately no one gave up their choice, even if it was possible to give up, they didn't do that, because they ......" Speaking of this, he looked at Li Sansi again, "They believe in their own cognition, and these are exactly what you are missing now!" β
When I heard these last words, my body suddenly felt cold, and these words could have come out of his mouth, could it be that the Prophet had a connection with this person.
Or is it that the drawing was arranged by him.
I calmed myself down, and then I asked, "Have you seen the Prophet Ho, and has he told you about me?" β
But he did not answer, and said, "Prophet, all that he knows is incomplete, just as he ......," and he pointed to Tubo on the stone wall, "Do you know what it sees?" It sees our soul, but only the soul, and if we don't have it, it won't be able to control us. β
"Man is a complex creature, and he needs to understand it from a comprehensive perspective in order to understand it thoroughly, and the necessary condition for making these things is to be the same object and the same idea, that is to say, to be able to understand us, only the combination of man and soul, open all our eyes, can see."
I nodded hesitantly at his specious words, but in an instant, a strange friction sound suddenly exploded overhead, and in an instant, everyone's flashlights were concentrated again and shone overhead.