The Ancient City Chapter 30 Ancient Prophecy
The fat man didn't understand and asked, "What is not human?" What is not human? It's not a human, is it still a monster? ”
I said, "No, that's not what I said." We've been together for almost a month, getting along day and night, don't you know who is who? This kid prophet is pure nonsense, the ancients were ignorant and backward, we haven't seen anything, these ghost-drawn symbol-like graphics can still be seen seriously? ”
I said this with my mouth, but I didn't think so in my heart, at this time I have to be more careful, many things in this world are simply unpredictable, whether this prophet's ancient prophecy should be dealt with a few of us, damn it, that only God knows. Thinking of this, I touched the hooves of a black donkey in my hand, just in case.
I asked Shirley Young again, "Are you mistaken?" Originally, there were five human figures drawn on it, but after a long time, some of them may have been peeled off, and only four people remained, is it possible? ”
Shirley Young pointed to the carving on the stone box for us to see: "This stone box is well preserved, there are no traces of peeling, this is obviously four people." You see, this symbol for people is very simple, a circle on the top is the head, and a few thin lines are the limbs of the body, isn't this exactly four people? ”
I looked closely, and indeed, as Shirley Young said, she showed me the first few drawings carved into the stone box. The patterns are so simple that I can see them at a glance. The first picture is of a child pointing to the sky, and there are many people on the ground who are hiding in all directions, and those who are dodging are probably ordinary people or something.
The second and third pictures are carved with a tornado, which blew down a lot of houses, and the people who had taken refuge before escaped the natural disaster safely, and they gathered around the child to worship, it seems that the child can predict natural disasters**.
The fourth picture on the stone box depicts a child standing next to two adults and an old man kneeling on the ground, the lines of these figures are extremely simple, and the old man is just under the circle representing the head, drawing a handful of beards with a few strokes, although the composition is simple, it is easier for people to understand.
The two adults in the picture are obviously a lot taller than ordinary people, and the carving process is also very delicate, not as grassy as depicting ordinary people, these two people may be the ancestors of ancient legends, the old man kneeling on the ground is obviously their servant, and the remains of the old man in the stone room should be him.
It seems that Shirley Young is completely right, the owner of this stone box is a young child with prophetic powers, and I have been looking at it all the way, and the stone paintings are all showing the merits of this child's prophet.
When I saw the last one, my neck was really a little cold, in this stone painting, the old and the young sat next to the stone box, and there were four people standing in the tomb, the figures of these four people could not be more ordinary, so simple that they could not be simpler, whether they were tall, short, fat and thin, or men, women and children, they could not be seen, one of these four people was opening the stone box.
This is the last stone painting on the stone box, and there is no more behind it, what secrets are hidden in this stone box? The most important thing is that the stone box has no signs of being opened, and it is still covered with cowhide paint.
I looked back at the other four people, Shirley Yang was holding Professor Chen, who was smirking stupidly, Ye Yixin was in a coma, his chest was lying together, the rhythm was very fast, there was no medicine to treat her, and the fat man sat on the ground and looked at her helplessly and shook his head.
That's right, it's definitely five people, and if this prophecy is really accurate, then why are there four people on the stone painting when we have five people? My mind was spinning as I thought about what might happen, but I didn't have a clue.
Could it be that one of the five is really not a human, but is controlled by ghosts and demons, and even as the fat man said, Shirley Yang is the reincarnation of the Absolute Queen? I think these are nonsense, very ridiculous, and I don't believe in any reincarnation at all.
So is this error in this ancient prophecy? I asked Shirley Yang what dynasty the prophet was.
Shirley Yang said: "According to the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", the ancestors of the ancient Western Regions should be the 16th century BC, in the Central Plains is the Xia and Shang period, which is the first civilization period of the ancient Western Regions, about a thousand years earlier than the age of the 36 countries of the Western Regions. ”
I calculated, secretly surprised, I can't imagine that it is so long, then I can't take these prophecies engraved on the stone box seriously, there are no other prophetic stone paintings on it, maybe the prophet was confused at that time, and there was one less person to draw, and no matter how accurate the calculation was, it was inevitable that there would be errors, not to mention this kind of prophecy that had passed through thousands of years.
I asked Shirley Yang if he could tell from the prophecy of the stone paintings outside the stone box what would happen when we opened the stone box. Will there be any danger?
Shirley Yang shook his head and said: "There are no extra hints, but we are trapped in this palm-sized place, there is no way to go to the sky, there is no door to enter the ground, and we can only open the stone box to take a look, since the prophet foresaw that we would come here unintentionally, maybe he will guide us how to get out." ”
The fat man waited anxiously, walked over with a big grin, pushed me and Shirley Yang aside, and said, "You two have been studying for a long time, and nothing has come out. Look at me, isn't it just a broken box, and it's not locked...... By the way, didn't he prophesy that one of the four would reach out and open the stone box? Let's call this board with him, Lao Hu, come over and stretch out the handle, let's do it together. As he spoke, he began to pull the lid of the stone box.
Almost at the same time, Ye Yixin, who was unconscious, suddenly convulsed, kicked his legs, and remained motionless.
We could no longer pay attention to the stone box, so we hurried over to see her, and when we checked our pulse, there was no sign of life at all. She already had acute dehydration, ran all the way, and tossed in the ghost cave of Zagrama Mountain, her life was in danger at any time, and it was not easy to persist in living until now, but we didn't expect her to run out of oil at this time and die so suddenly.
The three of them were relatively speechless for a while, and Shirley Yang hugged Ye Yixin's body and shed tears. I sighed, and just as I wanted to comfort her, I saw Professor Chen, who had been crazy and grinning, get up from the ground, walk to the stone box, and pull open the lid as soon as he stretched out his hand.
The three of us were dumbfounded, this qiē was exactly the same as the prophet's prophecy on the stone box, when we came in, there were five people, one of whom died suddenly, and then one of us opened the stone box with his own hands. Some people often describe Zhuge Liang as like a god and clever in his calculations, I think Mr. Kong Ming is not so accurate, and accurate predictions are terrible.
Shirley Yang was afraid that the delirious Professor Chen would cause some more trouble, so he hurriedly pulled his sleeve and let him sit on the ground to rest. The relationship between them was like that between an uncle and a niece, and when Shirley Yang saw that Professor Chen was crazy and stupid, his heart was sour, and he couldn't help crying again.
I know that Shirley Yang is a very competitive person, never show weakness in front of anyone, today in front of me and the fat man, two times in a row, it is really sad to the extreme, today she is under too much pressure, I don't know how to persuade her, so I have to let her sit next to Professor Chen and sob.
The fat man and I walked over to the stone box that the professor had opened to see what was inside. The two doors of the stone box were on the front, and the leather paint on the seal had fallen off. I saw that there were two small stone doors inside, and the stone doors were also pasted with cowhide paint, and there were three stone paintings carved on them, and I broke out in a cold sweat when I saw these three paintings, and I couldn't speak for a long time.
The fat man looked at it twice, but he didn't understand, so he asked me, "What is on this painting?" Lao Hu, you can't be frightened by the stone paintings, right? ”
I took a deep breath, tried to keep myself calm, and said to the fat man, "This painting is also a prophet's prophecy......"
The fat man hurriedly asked, "What is the content of the prophecy?" Did you say how we can get out of this place? ”
I forcibly suppressed the wild beating in my heart and whispered to the fat man, "The prophecy says that one of the four people who opened the second layer of the stone box is an evil ghost......"
The first depicts four people standing in front of an open crate, three of whom are still featureless, and are still in the same ordinary human form as before. However, one of them, with an eye on its head, two snake teeth drawn in the circle representing the head, plus limbs, is clearly the ultimate guardian spirit in the fourth layer of the Black Tower, which is more appropriate to be a demon than a god.
This figure is only carved a few more strokes, and it makes my scalp tingle, me, Fat Man, Professor Chen, Shirley Yang, now there are only these four survivors, who are these four people?
The second and third stone paintings are juxtaposed, showing two different results, one of which is that three people and a demon with long eyes on their heads open the stone box together, and the evil spirit will suddenly attack and remove the internal organs of the other three.
In the second case, the demon falls to the ground, its head separated, and it has been killed. The three of them opened the second stone box, and a passage appeared in the burial chamber, and it was possible to escape and ascend to heaven.
So the prophet gave us hints to choose our own destiny? This question is inevitably too difficult, the fat man and I are two legs of one person, and no one can do without it; Professor Chan is kind and treats me even more. Shirley Young saved my life, and I can't do anything about any of the three of them.
If I didn't know the truth of the prophet's prophecy, I might not have been afraid, but this prophet who has been dead for thousands of years, and his prophecies are so accurate that people can't say anything, so one of us is really a demon?
Whether he is possessed by evil spirits or a devil who has been disguised as an ordinary person, this is already a ready-made fact, and I now have to face this fact, the second stone box will definitely be opened, and if we don't get rid of the hidden evil spirits, we will all have to die here and be buried.
Who is ...... What about the demons? It can't be me, I looked at the fat man, the eyes are the most direct channel to observe a person, the eyes are difficult to disguise, his eyes are familiar to me, and they are the same as before, they don't care about anything, that look seems to say: Lao Tzu is the first in the world, whoever is not convinced will beat him. Of course, it can't be fat, so since it's not the two of us, is it ......
I peeked behind me, Shirley Yang and Professor Chen, Shirley Yang was also looking at me, I didn't dare to make eye contact with her, and quickly pretended to look away.
Shirley Yang saw that the fat man and I had been muttering after looking at the open stone box, so he asked, "Old Hu, what's in the stone box?" ”
I squeezed my eyes at the fat man, and the fat man understood, and quickly pretended to sit on the ground to rest, just enough to block the open stone box from Shirley Yang.
I'll have to find a way to stabilize them and come up with a countermeasure before I do it. I said to Shirley Young, "There's nothing in the stone box, it's empty." ”
Shirley Yang stopped talking after asking, and sat aside and took out the kettle, wanting Professor Chen to take two sips. Professor Chen was completely insane, he didn't know anyone, and with a wave of his hand, he knocked the kettle on the ground, stomped his feet and laughed. This was the only small half pot of water we had left, and Shirley Young hurried to pick it up, and the small half pot of water spilled more than half.
The fat man asked me in my ear, "What should I do?" Do you want to ...... both of them?"
I stopped him: "Don't, don't act rashly until you figure it out, or you won't regret it." By the way, our suspicions can be ruled out, right? ”
The fat man said, "Of course, we don't know what's going on with the two of us?" I think that American girl is the most suspicious. ”
I said, "I think we still have to go through the motions, or we will start working in a while, so as not to let Miss Yang and Professor Chen pick on us." ”
The fat man said: "Fuck, there is power in the barrel of a gun, what is ignored, just let go of the two of them, review and review one by one, if you can't get tried, you will be punished, and if you can't be tried again, you will ......" waved down with one palm and made a slashing gesture.
As soon as I heard the fat man say that power came out of the barrel of a gun, I suddenly remembered a plan, that evil ghost must have escaped from the country of refinement, no matter how it disguised, it had never experienced the Cultural Revolution, these demons and monsters did not engage in political studies, did not read newspaper news, they disguised themselves as adults, and did not necessarily understand things on the outside world.
So I said to the fat man, "You just said that there is power in the barrel of a gun, and this is enough to prove that you are not a demon." Now you test me, and I'll prove myself, and then I'll ask both of them. ”
The fat man scratched his head: "Then you can recite the chairman's poem." ”
Without even thinking about it, I said: "An international tragedy song, Hurricane fell from the sky for me." ”
The fat man said, "That's right, you're not a ghost. ”
Shirley Yang was so smart, seeing that the fat man and I kept whispering and discussing, he understood that there might be something wrong, and immediately stood up and walked over to us: "What are you two talking about?" And behind your back! ”
The fat man and I jumped up from the ground and shouted, "Stop, we're welcome to come again!" ”
Shirley Yang was stunned and asked, "What's wrong with you?" What nerves do you have? ”
The fat man said: "It's nothing, I just want to hear you sing a song, you sing "Mr. Lin's Order to Pass Down" to listen." ”
Shirley Yang was even more puzzled, what kind of occasion is this, so many companions have just died, and they are in a desperate situation, how can they have the heart to sing, let alone sing "Mr. Lin's Order to Pass Down", it is simply unintelligible.
I also feel in my heart that the song that the fat man asked her to sing is a bit off, let an American girl sing this song, she definitely doesn't know, but what can she test? Who is the president of the United States now? I'm not even fucking sure.
I took out the black donkey's hooves and coaxed and said to Shirley Yang: "Don't ask so much first, you take a bite of this, and then take it for Professor Chen to nibble, just do as I say, it will only be good for you, and there will be no harm to you." ”
Shirley Yang was a little angry: "Even you are nervous? This donkey's hooves are used to exorcise evil spirits, I don't eat it, you take it away. ”
The more she didn't eat, the more suspicious she became, and I winked at the fat man, who couldn't help but say, and went over and pushed Shirley Young to the ground, untied her belt, and tied her to four horses and all hooves. Shirley Yang was so angry that his face turned blue and white for a while, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Hu Bayi, do you want to kill me when you see that I have exposed your inverted deeds...... You two are going to let me go. ”
Professor Chen watched happily from the sidelines, laughing, saliva running down the corners of his mouth. I glanced at Professor Chen, and I was very sad in my heart, an elderly man with a lot of knowledge ended up like this, but I can't rule out his suspicions, and I will wait to find out about Shirley Yang before I pay attention to it.
I hardened my heart and said to Shirley Young, "Are you the Queen of Perfection?" ”
Shirley Yang said angrily: "Dead old Hu, what nonsense are you talking about! ”
I said coldly: "I think you are like being possessed by that monster queen, or she is reincarnated, otherwise how can you see the situation in the ghost cave in your dreams, and you are an American girl, how do you know the lip code of our inverted fight?" ”
The fat man had long seen that Shirley Yang was a little unpleasant, and at this time he finally seized the opportunity, pulled out the dagger, and slammed it into the ground: "Lao Hu, you handed her over to me, she knows that the two of us are fighting upside down, this thing is not strange, this monster will definitely read minds, and it is useless to ask her, cut her face twice and ask again, see if she moves." "Let's do it.
I watched Shirley Young try to hold back the tears that swirled in his eyes, staring at me instead of the fat man's dagger, and my heart softened, and I remembered how I could poison her after being saved by her in the valley of Zagrama, and I had told her that I owed her a life.
I hurriedly stopped the fat man: "Wait, let's explain to her our policy towards the captives first, if she still resists to the end, it's not too late to give her a trick." ”
The fat man said: "Actually, I can't bear to spend such a beautiful girl's face, but this monster is scheming, let's be careful to be tempted by her beauty." ”
The more Shirley Yang listened, the more angry she became, and she almost turned her back on her breath, she couldn't hold back any longer, and burst into tears, only to hear her choke up and say, "I don't know why I dreamed of the situation in the ghost cave; I know your lip dictionary because my grandfather also did this business before he went abroad, and I listened to him tell me about it, and I wanted to find a chance to talk to you about this in the future...... I've said everything I need to say, you two guys are going to kill or chop, just do it, I'm ...... I'm looking at the wrong person. ”
The fat man snorted coldly and said, "Rhetoric, pretending to be innocent enough, you can make it up." Lao Hu, how do you make a statement? ”
I took out the black donkey's hooves and put them on Shirley Yang's mouth: "You take a bite, as long as you take a bite, I will let you go immediately." ”
Shirley Young said, "You ...... Kill me, or I won't be able to spare you in the future, and I won't let you go. ”
When I saw that she did not gnaw at the hooves of the black donkey, I took the dagger from the fat man's hand, and then a voice in my heart asked myself, if she was really a demon, would I be able to do it? The answer is clearly no. But if we don't kill the evil ghost among the four of us, we all have to die in this little tomb, damn it, just die together.
While I was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, Professor Chen stood up with a smirk and went crazy again. I was afraid that he would open the second stone box, so I reached out and grabbed him.
Professor Chen laughed and shouted, "Flowers, they are so beautiful, red and green, I found them...... Hehehe. ”
I looked at him crazy and listened to what he said, where have I seen this kind of madman? No, not to have seen it, but to hear of it, the surviving British explorer...... The jumbled thoughts in my mind were suddenly pulled out by an invisible hand, a very small thread, but still caught by me.
Corpse incense konjac? …… Have we not escaped the illusion trap it creates? The corpse incense konjac, the devil's flower from hell, is still within its control, and it is tempting us to kill each other......