Chapter 53: The Dragon Pillar Mechanism
The tired Queen somehow forgot about the passage of time and the invasion of death behind her, and inexplicably walked to the opposite of him and sat on the rickety bench, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, are you still coming out at such an old age?"
He raised his head in surprise and looked at her with bright eyes and bright teeth, and said indifferently: "The gatekeepers are regardless of age. ”
"Tick!"
Three different hands overlapped and made a dull sound, she was suddenly startled, and suddenly stood up like a dream and left, "Grandpa, I still have something to do, go first." ”
With a "boom", an endless force struck the huge clock in front of her, and suddenly the clock quickly reversed, turned and moved forward quickly, and finally returned to its normal frequency and rotated slowly.
On the way to the clock's reverse flow and fast progress, the scenery here changes rapidly, as if countless strange people and strange things have come here in different practices and quickly disappeared.
Queen is like a time passer, watching the bustling flow of people appear and disappear in front of this mysterious old man in the mirage, and countless Shura with long knives up and down, blood spraying on this "clear and pure high platform".
She stood there in a daze, and became the puppet female corpse who didn't know the danger. Suddenly, a large knife made of white fine iron made of one foot three inches long and two inches eight minutes wide rushed out of the "mirage" and stabbed directly into her abdomen. With a "bang", the strength brought by the big knife breaking through the phantom knocked her several feet away, and she fell directly to the smooth ground. I want to get up and see what's going on in front of me. But her whole body was sore and weak, and she was left to collapse, and her whole body collapsed so that she couldn't stand up at all.
The old man gently blocked his right hand, and a huge figure like a drop of water walked out of the "mirage" with a big knife with a peach wood carved green dragon handle, and walked towards her like a shura.
She was injured by the strength of the force, curled up on the ground and wept continuously, the phantom right hand dragged the big knife towards her slowly, the sound of "snort" brought the smell of gunpowder smoke to fill this suddenly darkened "clear high platform".
When the phantom came up to her, he grabbed her by the shoulders and tried to lift her, but she sank down weakly. She looked helplessly at the phantom that gradually became clear in the darkness, and asked blankly, "What do you want?"
The phantom smiled and said, "Since you ask for the multicolored stone, are you still afraid of death?" Since you dare to enter the underground king city, why don't you stand up and continue to walk forward at this time?"
"Da Da Da!" her heart suddenly broke, looking desperately at the deep black eyes that he looked down at her, "I didn't want to enter this place, and I didn't want the multicolored stone, but after entering inexplicably, there was no way out." I don't even know why I keep showing up in unfamiliar spaces......"
Before she could finish her sentence, the phantom suddenly put the big knife in his hand against her heart, and said viciously, "Believe it or not, I will kill you now." ”
The sharp blade of the broadsword pierced her red dress and cut the skin of her heart, and the bright red blood spread on the red gauze skirt, arousing the bloodthirsty desires of countless transparent spirits here. She felt a hint of pain and sneered, "Then you kill me now." ”
"You want to die so much? Just because you want to die, so you keep risking death, keep looking for death?" the knife in his hand pierced deeper into her skin.
She coughed twice, felt the pain of a tear in the wound above her ribs, and hurriedly endured the pain in her throat, and whispered, "No one wants to die." As if you want to kill me at this moment, am I looking for death?" As she spoke, a familiar scene suddenly flashed in her mind, and she said with a smile: "You have also killed me in a dream before? ”
He removed the blade of his right hand from her heart, tossed it aside, bent down and picked her up, picked up the broadsword again, and walked into the "mirage". "If you sit idly by, you will be slaughtered, and then no one will be able to get the multicolored stones. You and I will die in this underground royal city. ”
She was in physical and mental pain, and she was even more dazed, and she closed her eyes when she glanced at the purple-robed old man next to the phantom. For many years, she remained silent, hiding in a small dark room where the phantom was, unwilling to talk to him—she couldn't figure it out, she didn't know why, and she didn't know where the way out was, until she forgot about the "multicolored stone".
The forbidden area of the underground royal city sounds so mysterious, but in fact, it is a "cage" with no end and no way out, imprisoning countless evil spirits. The black dragon and the red carp did not dare to enter because there were many mechanisms inside, and there were a large army of evil spirits. It is said that this is the hiding place of the evil king thousands of years ago - but how true is the rumor?
"Boom, boom!"
In the endless darkness, Queen hid in a sealed coffin and felt the ground shake, and tentatively pushed open the lid of the coffin. I only felt that there were countless dusts in the few rays of sunlight that came in, which made people afraid that they had survived in such an environment for several years. Is this the "mirage" in the forbidden area of the underground royal city? No, it's not, this is just the last test link to get the colorful stone.
She kept hinting to herself in her heart that she would have a reason to continue to live and not go to the point of no return with blood on her hands. Sometimes the existence of reason is a mistake, and in the face of some people and things, there is no need for reason at all. Isn't it a relief to vent pleasure and bring about self-destruction? But she kept telling herself that she was going to take the Heshi Bi and leave Lingyun City in the eternal realm. Although he was sad in this coffin for several years, he was monitored by a phantom like Shura. Those hateful faces and sinister hearts made her unwilling to take a second look at the world-this is the underground royal city transformed by the undead, how can she look at the world? In addition to the endless darkness and despicability, what a ridiculous existence!
No one is perfect, tolerance is not a relief, and forgetting is not a new life. She forgot that she was one of the descendants of the Qimen Shushu, and she forgot that before she came to the earth of this universe, she had been a lowly saint of the Holy Realm—or, just a reincarnation.
A mechanism suddenly opened in the forbidden land, and the sound shook the sky. Its opening made the dark place suddenly rise like the original clear light of the "Clear High Platform".
"Boom", the coffin lid opened, she stretched out her bare feet and stepped directly on the ground shaking like the sky swirling, with the sound of the sound, I was surprised to find that it was actually twelve copper pillars carved with dragon patterns rising near the coffin placement area of the forbidden area, the dragon head on each copper pillar protruded from the column head, lifelike, and the round eyes that were angry and stared at contained different emotions. There is gentleness, there is treachery, there is indifference, there is passion, there is cunning, there is cruelty, there is sarcasm, there is ridicule......
In fact, no matter what kind of dragon it is, it is not an interpretation of life. Many people behave differently at different times, especially some pitiful appearances that have shameless and despicable abusive roots. When people fail to fulfill others and become a stumbling block to the limited lives of others, they only take a shortcut to death. Everyone's life is limited, and everyone should be allowed to go to the life they want, which is human nature, and this is the so-called love and fulfillment. Different understandings and life experiences and even nature are destined to have different life pursuits, and they cannot demand and imprison anyone according to any self-requirements. Because, we are all human beings, it's as simple as that.
When the dragon pillar rises in the form of a low center and high on both sides, and then sinks in the form of a wave, and then rises, the proud dragon head will automatically retract into the copper pillar. The bronze horse on the chessboard that had originally taken the Queen against the Red Carp had somehow fallen from the sky, and it had a full suit of armor and a black spear on its back that propel the copper tripod forward.
"Choke!"
The spear hit the Nine Dragons Pillar, and a flash of white sparks emerged. The voice is crisp and crisp, and the tone is high and harsh. As the spear in the black knight's hand struck on the rising bronze pillars in turn, the rhythm varied, coherently forming the sound of an ancient harp.
Sparks flew everywhere, and Queen retreated again and again, but the black knight was like a madman, constantly hitting the dragon pillar, and the dragon pattern gave birth to a red inscription, as if some new force in his body was about to burst.
"Tsk!"
From behind the Queen came the sound of rats, their voices sometimes joyful and sometimes mournful, as if they were intermittently tired.
She looked back in a panic to see a mechanical rat made of fine iron emerging from the dark soil, and this mouse was very large, more than twice her size. It had three pairs of whiskers on its long, pointed mouth, and a black spinning knife wheel at the tip of its nose, which as soon as the knife wheel moved, the three pairs of thin, black whiskers flew like drills in the ground, breaking through the dirt and forming a new channel.
Strange to say, the rat kept burrowing upwards, and the ground where Queen was standing kept rising, as if the distant mud was filling the platform beneath her feet, making it climb higher. More and more rats scurried out of the dirt, constantly stirring the soil in the dark, raising the platform where Queen was directly to its original position of Jiuding. I don't know when this Jiuding returned to its original position, and those shattered steps reappeared for some reason-could it be that the undead reunited? But it was clear that the steps were all reduced to nothing when the oil splashed and flew, and the roar and the hideous and terrifying white spirits were the illusion of nothingness? But these terrifying memories were extremely profound, I don't know who was controlling this model-like underground royal city? Anyway, Queen already felt completely indifferent.
Life and death are fateful, and wealth is in the sky. Life is impermanent, and how can we get out of the predicament of ghosts? When we are powerless and helpless, how can anyone around us not be in a predicament? Once people have figured it out and seen it, they will perceive that there are countless incredible and shocking things happening in the invisible places.
Queen walked up to the ends of the first two bronze tripods of Jiuding, and red lanterns floated out of the four "human" shaped tripods below, and each lantern was lit with candles - these orange candles resembled bats, which could not be more appropriate in this dark underground royal city. It also represents the ascension of "Fulu" in the dark world.