Shirley Yang is very sure that the big beehive ancient city where we are is not the real Evil Luohai City, but a bottomless ghost cave, and let me and the fat man look at the back of Uncle Ming's father and daughter's neck.

I thought to myself, the difference between the ancient city and the ghost cave is too big, right? However, the time-frozen Evil Luohai City and the bottomless, cursed ghost cave are both beyond common sense, so I didn't feel too surprised.

I went over to open the collar on the back of Uncle Ming's neck, and sure enough, I saw a shallow round red mark on the back of his neck, like a red rash oozing out from the inside out, but it was still very blurry, if I didn't look at it intentionally, it would be difficult to find, I looked at the back of Ah Xiang's neck again, it was exactly the same as Uncle Ming.

This is the mark of being cursed by the bottomless ghost cave, although it is only in the early stage and it is not very obvious, but within a month or two, it will gradually become obvious, giving birth to a mark that looks like a whirlpool and an eyeball. People who are cursed by this vicious curse are the same as us, and at the age of forty, the heme in the blood will gradually decrease, and the blood in the blood vessels will slowly turn into yellow mud, torturing people to hell to the hungry ghosts.

But Uncle Ming and the others have been with us for more than a month, and it is impossible for them to go to the black desert of Taklamakan in Xinjiang alone.

Uncle Ming was confused and didn't know what we were talking about, but when he heard words like "curse" and "ghost cave", he immediately had a sense of foreboding and hurriedly asked me what was going on. I didn't have time to pay attention to him for a while, so I asked the fat man to talk to him briefly, so that he could be mentally prepared. The fat man gloated with a wicked smile and hugged Uncle Ming's shoulders: "This time we are grasshoppers tied to a rope, we can't walk us, we can't run away from you, and we can't be separated if we want to." How do I sing in boiling eggs for my loved ones? Oh, by the way, it's not a family, it's a family, and guess what, it's like this......"

The fat man added fuel and vinegar to Uncle Ming and told Uncle Ming a bottomless ghost hole. I pulled Shirley Young aside and asked her how she found out about these things, and why everyone had been deceived by Ah Xiang's eyes.

Shirley Young took me to the last few human skin murals and showed me the ritual of offering sacrifices to the bones of the snake god——— where the bones of the snake god were buried, the ghost cave we saw at the foot of the Zagrama mountain in the Black Desert.

These skin murals do not clearly indicate that the bones of the snake god are in the Western Regions, but it is not difficult to make such a judgment when combined with the long poem of the world's enemy Jewel King. In the far north of the Kunlun Mountains, there is a cave of Sangha Nanyun that contains treasures, which contain five treasure boxes, each of which is used to place the bones of the snake god. The two miracles of the snake god, one is that the body is so rotten that only the skeleton remains, but its brain still retains the power of "realm transformation"; The other is the giant eye on the head of the serpent, which can make its soul immortal, at the end of heaven, earth and time. Like a phoenix, it will be reborn from the bones, and this giant eye can also be used as a passage to the door of the "Realm Transfiguration", which is the sixth type of eye described in the Buddhist scriptures, the "Unbounded Demon Pupil".

If it is explained scientifically, I am afraid that this "transfiguration of the environment" is the imaginary space that experts from the Special Phenomena and Case Research Center in Kansas have been studying. In myths and legends, the phoenix gall is the eye of the snake god, but no one has seen it with their own eyes, whether there is really a snake bone in the imaginary space, it is impossible to confirm, maybe the snake bone is just some kind of symbolic thing.

In the final ritual depiction of the human skin mural, the ancestor of the demon kingdom took the eye of the snake bone and mastered the secrets in it, and then traveled to Karamir in the Kunlun Mountains to establish a huge religious theocracy. Whenever there is a ghost mother in the country who has a ghost eye, the passage of the eye is opened, and a complicated ceremony is held to sacrifice the captured slaves to the snake bones. Slaves who had seen the "transfiguration" with the naked eye would be nailed with the mark of their eyeballs and then kept in captivity like animals until their blood clotted to death. The people of the Demon Kingdom believe that the blood is absorbed by the "Realm Transfiguration", and then the believers eat their flesh. Only those who adhere to such beliefs are considered by them to be pure men and women, who will attain happiness, joy, and power in this life, and will also receive incomparable supernatural powers in the next life, which is exactly the same as the true meaning of the religion of reincarnation in the next life.

In several countries near the Demon Kingdom, countless people have been reduced to snake bone sacrifices, but most of the shamans in the Demon Kingdom are good at driving wild beasts and insects, and it is difficult for each country to fight the enemy. It wasn't until King Gesar and Guru Padmasambhava joined hands and sent warriors to infiltrate the Demon Domain and take away the reincarnated jewel Phoenix Guts by tricks, and soon after, the main city of the Demon Kingdom, Evil Luohai City, was mysteriously destroyed, and the forces of the two sides immediately reversed, and the coalition forces (called "Xiongshi" in the long poem) swept away the demon's lair. The deeds of the king of the Orbs of the enemy have been sung in the mouths of rappers on the snowy plateau to this day.

It is likely that the phoenix gall flowed into the Central Plains in that turbulent era, and if King Wen of Zhou divined this thing as an immortal thing, it can also be said to be reasonable.

So far, the ins and outs of Phoenix Guts have basically been figured out, but what is the Evil Luohai City where we are located? Where have all the people here? Why is time frozen in the city for a moment?

Shirley Yang said, "Only they know where the inhabitants of Evil Luohai City have gone. Lao Hu, I remember you mentioned to me in the Nine-Story Demon Tower, that glacier crystal corpse seems to be missing something, and the people of the Reincarnation Sect have worked tirelessly to dig up the Demon Tower and the door of disaster, what is this for? But the situation was chaotic at the time, and we didn't have time to think about it again, and now that we recall, the glacier crystal corpse has no eyes and no brains. ”

I only vaguely remember that the skin and flesh of the glacier crystal corpse were all transparent, and only the internal organs were dark red, like bright red agate. The Reincarnation Sect originally took out its mind, including the demon pupil, and put it behind the Gate of Calamity? The Reincarnation Sect could not find a place where the snake bones were buried, but it could set up a passage, or a mirror image ———.

Shirley Young said it wasn't until he saw the final ritual part of the human skin mural that he understood. The Reincarnation Sect wanted to continue the sacrifice of its ancestors and opened an ancient city that had disappeared from the world. This city is the memory of the ghost mother before her death, for example, in the slaughterhouse, the newly decapitated yak, the cooked beef, and the undried bloody handprints on the door, maybe not at the same time, these are all fragments that left a deep impression in the eyes of the ghost mother, a city of memory constructed by the demon pupil in the "imaginary space".

Even the Iron Rod Lama admits that Ah Xiang has the sensitive eyes of a beast, which makes us have a kind of blind dependence and trust on her, and she cannot distinguish this ancient city whose memories are built in the "imaginary space". Although it is only the ghost eye that uses the energy of the ghost cave to create a mirror city that comes out of zào, it is also objectively real, just like the bottomless ghost cave in the black desert, and anyone who sees it will become a sacrifice of snake bones. You can leave at any time, but when you are dying, you still belong here, and you can't escape or get rid of it to the ends of the earth. The ghost cave is a never-ending nightmare!

At this time, Uncle Ming was slammed by the fat man, bluffed his soul, and came over to confirm with me, I briefly told him Shirley Yang's words. Uncle Ming said to me with a sad face: "Brother Hu, I really didn't expect it to be like this, I worked hard like a cow and a horse, and worked hard like a dog all my life, and I didn't think that I would be like a dog when I died, and I became a sacrifice of snake bones." Alas, I'll forget it, poor Ah Xiang is so old, I can't live with her biological parents, and I can't close my eyes when I die. ”

I said to everyone: "Although Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang were swept in, and this city is not the real Evil Luohai City, but everything has its two sides, if we don't come here, we won't be able to see these human skin murals that record the truth of the Demon Kingdom, which shows that we still shouldn't die." And then what, and then ......"

Shirley Yang said that as long as you find the real ruins of Evil Luohai City, perform the opposite ritual in the deepest altar, and use the phoenix gall to close the "Realm Transfiguration", this curse will also end. I don't believe that there is any curse in the world, I think this curse of the ghost cave is probably a virus that is transmitted through the eyes, a virus that only exists in that "imaginary space", and cutting off the connection between them is the most direct and effective way.

When Uncle Ming heard that there was still salvation, he immediately came to his senses, and hurriedly asked how to find the real ruins of Evil Luohai City, this is the most important thing, whether he can save his life or not, it all depends on this.

I also woke up at this moment, a breakthrough in one link brought about the whole life, and immediately beckoned everyone to go up quickly and return to the green rock on the edge of the city. So everyone picked up their things and hurried back the way they came.

On both sides of the greenstone, on one side is the city of Evil Luohai shrouded in twilight, but that is the memory of the ghost mother; On the other side of the greenstone, there is a clear and transparent wind-eroded lake, where a large group of white-bearded fish and the dense wind-eroded caves at the bottom of the lake are clearly visible.

Legend has it that the city is located behind the Gate of Calamity, and the original form of the city should be exactly the same as the ancient city in the memory, all of which were built using natural huge wind erosion rocks. At this time, everyone looked at the beehive-like hole at the bottom of the lake, and they all understood that because the demon kingdom worshiped the abyss and caves, the caves under the city were dug too deep, and the real Evil Luohai City had sunk into the ground and was flooded. Thousands of years of vicissitudes have turned into this mirror-like wind-eroded lake. As for the legend that the inhabitants of the city turned into fish, it should be nonsense, saying that they all died when the earth fell into calamity and fed the fish. Legend has it that Jiaoyu likes to play with pearls the most, and the reason why those fierce black and white markings Jiao keeps attacking the fish in the lake is probably to occupy the beads at the bottom of the lake, and maybe the people of the reincarnation sect put the eyes of the ghost mother at the bottom of the lake.

Of course, until we see it, it's all speculation, but one thing is for sure, if you want to find the deeper altar, you will have to venture down from the largest wind tunnel in the middle.

Standing on the green rock and looking down, the largest wind tunnel at the bottom of the wind erosion lake is pitch black, I don't know how deep it is, compared to the shadow city made of memory fragments, it is not difficult to see that the largest cave at the bottom of the lake is smashed out by the huge stone eye located at the top of the hive. When the city of Evil Luohai collapsed, the boulder weighing thousands of catties pierced the top wall of the main city and went straight through. Even if the structure we saw in the city just now, even if it collapsed underneath, the stone eye would not sink too deep, and the lake did not form a strong undercurrent or whirlpool, but only penetrated through the cracks in the ruins of the city, which showed that the lake was not too deep. But if you want to enter temples and altars deeper than the beehive, you have to go through the wind-eroded caverns that can collapse at any time, and those who can say that they will have to pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers.

At this time, the mark on the back of Uncle Ming's neck is much deeper than just now, it seems that the time left for us is very limited, at his age, unless he escapes far away to the other side of the ocean like Professor Chen, he may not survive for two or three days if he stays near the ruins of the ancient city.

Uncle Ming was in tears, nagging us that if we didn't go down, we would die, and if we went down, we would hit our heads on the muzzle. Although the fish in the lake do not hurt people, but the two black and white markinged Jiao may suddenly jump down at any time, their violent and ferocious beasts, once they hit underwater, it is definitely not human power can resist, and who can guarantee that there is no more dangerous thing in the depths of the ground, the more I think about it, the more I feel weak.

Fat Man and Shirley Yang and I were busy preparing for the water, and we didn't have time to experience Uncle Ming's complicated feelings, except for keeping the necessary weapons and explosives, lighting equipment, fuel, medicine, and cold jackets, the rest of the things were discarded. According to our judgment, because the original site has been flooded, the brain of the glacier crystal corpse must have been buried under the Shadow City by the Reincarnation Sect, and its eyes should be directly below the real ruins of the Evil Luohai City, but the most likely thing is that it has been swallowed into the stomach of the Fish King. Of course, none of this matters, just follow the ruins and dive into the altar deep underground. But it is still unknown whether the altar of the Demon Kingdom can still be preserved underground after such a long period of time.

I said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: "Before we went to Tibet, I asked my senior brother to teach a lesson, and only when you encounter water can you get the middle way. ”

The fat man said, "Fragrant flowers are not necessarily beautiful, and capable people may not say anything, so I will not say anything, and when you find a place, you will look at me." I don't care about the ghost cave and the demon cave, anyway, we can't go back empty-handed, what pearl agate must be chiseled down and brought back, Sensei said more, let's go, go into the water. After saying that, he pressed the respirator and diving goggles on his mouth, and jumped straight into the wind-eroded lake, causing a large splash of white pearls, startling the fish in the lake to flee everywhere.

Shirley Yang said to me, "If I hadn't gone to the desert in Xinjiang, I wouldn't have caused so many things." I know that you and the fat man are very generous, I won't say sorry or grateful, but I still have to advise you, be cautious, and at the last moment, don't be careless. ”

I nodded to Shirley Yang, and she also jumped into the lake from the green rock, and I said a few words to Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang behind me, so that they would wait here, and we would come back to pick them up when we were done, and then jumped off the rock.

The fish formation in the lake was still moving slowly near the crystal wall, and it did not disperse because three people fell into the water one after another.