Chapter 8 The words on the jade bricks
For the deaths of those left-behind team members, Qin Bing's reaction was relatively calm, no one spoke, just stood next to the corpse pile in a daze.
Except for a few team members and Lin Shanshan's red eyes, the rest of them just gritted their teeth and were silent, obviously holding back the fire.
"Brother Shen, how did they all die, can you see it?" Qin Bing asked me without looking back.
I shook my head and said calmly: "I really didn't see this, from entering the industry to now, it is the first time I have encountered such a strange way to die, but....... I chatted with Qiu Yan just now, and I felt that the death of these people had nothing to do with the monsters that those children had become. ”
"Are you sure?" Qin Bing turned his head and looked at me, frowning: "Could it be the hand of Mr. Old Sect?" ”
"It should be." I sighed: "The official gentleman you sent to stay behind should not be weak, and there are more than a dozen elites selected from the army here to accompany them, how can ordinary unjust evil ghosts kill them all?" ”
"That's ......." Qin Bing smiled bitterly: "It seems that we still fell for it......."
"Medium?"
I was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "Is this a fucking plan?" You have made such a big fuss, and the internal situation must have been full of turmoil, and you came to Sichuan to find me with great fanfare, and then you have to come to Yunnan to do things together, will the people of the old religion not know? ”
Qin Bing didn't speak, he looked at me with a frown, and he had a sense of wanting to say something.
"I knew it would be risky, but I still wanted people to stay here......." I sighed, didn't go any further, turned around and walked to the edge of the altar, and began to study the pyramid-shaped platform.
It is not so much a Dharma platform as it is a work of art that is extremely exquisite.
Every corner, every edge, is symmetrical to the point of perfection, and the lines that slowly extend upwards also have an indescribable beauty.
I bent down, gently swept away the fragments of the idol on the ground with my hands, and walked up the "stairs" made of white marble step by step.
I don't know why, but as I got closer and closer to the top of the platform, I suddenly had a delusion......
No, I should be hallucinating!
When I took the last step, I stepped on the penultimate "staircase", and when I looked down, I was enveloped in an extremely thick white mist in all directions.
The sky was shrouded in darkness, or time had passed imperceptibly, and it was already night.
But what puzzled me was that the darkness in the sky was pure, the clouds were not so thick, and the stars that I could see should be more than one or two, and the sky should be full of stars.
But there were only six stars I could see.
The six stars were arranged in sequence, like a small spoon, much like the shape of the Big Dipper, but there were only six of them.
"The Southern Dipper?"
I muttered that I knew I was in a hallucination, so I was not afraid, and calmly observed the scenes in the hallucination.
Among the six stars of the Southern Dipper, the first star is the Tianfu Star that I was still studying some time ago, also known as the first star of the Southern Dipper.
In the myths and legends that Master Miao told us....... The black-robed king seemed to live on that star...... The King of Heaven...... Tianfu Star ........
Just as I was looking at the star in a daze, it was very abrupt, Tianfu Star brightened without warning, and seemed to become larger, and the surrounding aperture also expanded several times.
It is no exaggeration to say that the star looked a quarter the size of a full moon at that time.
Then, a huge "light mist" suddenly poured down from Tianfu Star.
I don't know how to describe what I'm seeing, and I can't find the right words to describe it.
Whether it's the color or the shape of those light fogs, all I can say is that the scene is very much like a waterfall...... That's right!!
In a poem written by Li Bai, there is such a sentence.
"The flying stream went straight down to 3,000 feet, and it is suspected that the Milky Way fell for nine days."
This poem is a fitting description of what I have seen.
It's just that this time the light and fog falling from the sky are more like the real Milky Way.
There is no form, no substance, and it seems to be mixed together by various colors, the kind of colors that are incomprehensible, falling from the sky.
The light mist was endless, and the whole was like a tornado, thin at both ends and thick in the middle.......
At that moment, the white light emitted by Tianfu Star quietly dimmed.
When I looked up, I found that there was an obvious black shadow at the edge of Tianfu Star.
The color of the black shadow is very pure, it is pure black to the extreme, that kind of black, it seems to be able to swallow all colors, and it can also cover all the light.
After a while, the black shadow spread to the middle of Tianfu Star, like the Tengu eating the moon, silently "eating" Tianfu Star.
After a minute or so, Tianfu Star had been completely swallowed by that black shadow, except for a faint white light on the edge, the rest of the place was dark.
The star that was as white as day has turned into a black star.
The light and mist that poured down from the stars were also completely cut off, and there was no trace of them again.
"Shi'an!!"
Suddenly, Chen Qiuyan slapped me violently.
She didn't exert much force, but the slap made me dizzy, and my eyes turned black in an instant.
When I regained my ability to see again, I realized that I was kneeling on a white marble brick near the top.
Chen Qiuyan and Qin Bing were all standing beside me, except for the people who were watching the wind and guarding under the Dharma platform, the rest of the team members came up.
"What happened to you?" Chen Qiuyan squatted beside me, holding my hand tightly, her eyes full of worry: "Why did you suddenly kneel??" Isn't it dizzy and uncomfortable?? Did you get injured while fighting those monsters just now?? Or ......"
"I don't know." I frowned, gritted my teeth, and slowly stood up, feeling some weakness in my legs: "I seem to have fallen into a hallucination just now, did you see those things?" ”
Everyone looked at me for a while, looked at me in confusion, and shook their heads in unison.
"You knelt down with a plop just now, I thought something was wrong with you......" Qin Bing said in a low voice.
"How long have I been on my knees?" I asked.
"Less than ten seconds, right?" Qin Bing reminisced and said to me: "As soon as you knelt down, Qiu Yan came to pat you, and as soon as you patted you on the back, aren't you normal." ”
Hearing Qin Bing say this, I realized that everything I saw just now should be my hallucination.
If this is caused by Fatai, then it makes me a little depressed.
Why only let me see? Isn't it okay for other people to come up?
"You just fell into a hallucination?" Bai Xiaoping stared at me intently, and asked curiously, "What did you see?" ”
"There is a lot of white fog in the forest, there are six stars in the sky, and waterfalls......." I said, patting my forehead vigorously, feeling that my memory seemed to become blurred, and the scenes I saw in the hallucination just now have become some very blurry pictures, I don't know how to describe them to others, I can only roughly say: "There are black stars......
Hearing my narration, everyone seemed even more confused, even Chen Qiuyan looked at me in a daze, and kept patting me on the back, as if he wanted to help me calm down, and he was still comforting in his mouth, as long as he was fine.
"There are words on the ground!"
Lin Shanshan's cold words immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Following the direction she pointed, I saw a few lines of words carved with sharp weapons on the white marble brick I was kneeling on just now.
The font is horizontal and vertical, and the corners are extremely sharp, which I have seen elsewhere before.
"Sumerwin?" Bai Xiaoping frowned, walked over and squatted down, and touched the words with his hand.
She seemed to be able to understand, silently studying the words, and did not speak for a long time, and her expression changed from calm at the beginning to doubts little by little.
"What do these words mean?" I asked.
"It seems to be a sacrificial text, and it is also like a poem, I don't know how to say it......." Bai Xiaoping frowned.
"Translate it." Qin Bing said.
Bai Xiaoping hummed, gently stroking the concave Sumerian inscriptions, and read to us.
"Prosperity will decline, decline will eventually usher in glory, everything will pass away, everything will be reborn."
"The Lost Land of Abundance, the Lost City of Black Stars."
"In that dry galaxy, the king of black robes under the afterglow has opened his eyes and is waiting for you to fall asleep."