After the crew landed, the first thing they did was to find water and resources to survive.The timber needed for shelter is a good raw material for the towering trees on the desert island, and the vines that cling to the rock wall can be used as ropes after drying, whether it is to help transport wood, make fishing nets for marine fish, or build wooden houses.After securing the resources for survival, the crew moved further towards the center of the island, and gradually discovered the traces of people who once lived here, which is a large and small village.The local indigenous inhabitants lived a simple and simple life, and a large number of stone and earthen utensils can be seen.These are readily available resources; Unfortunately, most of the mud houses have collapsed, and only a few are still in existence after a long period of time."
Captain Pearson, here's a discovery!""
There's that too!""
There's that too!"
Shipwrecked sailors search for the secrets of this uninhabited island while ensuring sufficient resources for survival.In the dilapidated houses, an earthen statue is enshrined.The upper body has seemingly undeveloped bat wings, an octopus-like face with tentacles, and a body covered with scales, while the lower body is a humanoid body.The figure of the statue squatted on a tablet like a large tombstone, with vague but strangely distorted text, and even the ship's most knowledgeable first mate had no understanding of this ancient script.In addition to this strange statue, there is an imprint in every house, and that imprint is like a city, and there is a figure entrenched in the city.Mills sensed that the figure must have something to do with the statues, so he asked the captain, "Captain Pearson, these statues and this sigil should both tell the same object, are you right?"
”Pearson nodded and responded, "Based on my previous experience with those archaeological teams, primitive villages do not worship more than one god or totem, which may be two different ways to show the absolute loyalty of the original inhabitants to the object of worship.You see, the statue is supposed to be used for daily sacrifices, worship and prayers, and the imprint on the wall should represent that the village is sheltered by this "god". ”Pearson's explanation cleared everyone's doubts.When Pearson was young, he often went out to sea with those archaeological team members; His father disappeared during a maritime archaeological team, and Pearson wanted to find his father's traces and follow in his father's footsteps in this way, but the ocean was so vast and vast, and after all these years, Pearson still failed to find his father, who had been missing for many years, and he also understood that every adventure was a job of pinning his head to his waist, and the kind father in his memory may have been buried in the belly of the shark.Pearson looked around, except for the primitive villagers' settlements, there was a huge stone tablet about every hundred meters, and there were still some carved words on the stone tablet, and these vague text structures should be the same as those on the statue."
Why did this primitive civilization spend so much effort to carry and carve these stone tablets?
They did not have the help of science to lighten the heavy stone tablets, each of which obviously took a long time and manpower to carry and carve.Maybe it's a custom?
Like the pharaohs along the Nile, each pharaoh died and moved into the pyramids that cost the whole country to build.Could there be bones buried under these steles?
If there were bones, there would have been a lot of funerary goods.These funerary goods could be fetched back to the continent for a lot of money, and they could even buy a real ship. ”Pearson thought so, and ordered the nearest stone monument to be torn down and the dirt underneath was dug up.Unfortunately, there was nothing left under the stele except wriggling worms and solid earth, and it was clear that the stele was not used as a tombstone.Pearson then abandoned the idea of digging up other stone monuments and gathered men to continue advancing towards the center of the island."
Mills!"
Pearson called out to a cheerful Mills, who was more amusing to him as a young boy than the daily days of the dreary drift on the sea."
What's wrong, Daddy?"
Mills asked Pearson.Pilson, who is experienced in archaeology, looked at his naughty child with a solemn expression and said, "Child, the civilization here is a bit weird, it gives me a bad premonition, you remember to be in the middle of the queue, this is a relatively safe position, if something happens, don't panic too much, we are an experienced team, able to deal with most of the dangers." ”"Yes, yes, the experienced team is stranded."
Mills stuck out his tongue and teased his dad mischievously.Pearson straightened his face, grimacing, and said, "Remember, child, that only cautious adventurers survive, and that reckless people are turned into food for wild beasts. ”"Okay, okay, be careful," Mills replied disapprovingly, rolling the elf's eyes to look around with a mysterious look.The procession slowly advanced to an altar where countless twisted bones were entangled with each other, forming a tower about six meters high.The skeletons that formed the ancient pagoda not only have human skeletons, but also animal skeletons are mixed in with them, but what is incredible is that these skeletons give people a sense of naturalness, all the bones are connected to each other, but there is no trace of artificial splicing.If it weren't for the awe of life, I'm afraid that this is a monster with multiple heads and torso, but this speculation is very close to the truth of the abandonment."
Captain Pearson, what the hell is going on..."
The ship's first mate asked Captain Pearson.Even the most experienced crew members have no clue about this scene, and some of them are almost unable to stand and fall to the ground.A mood called fear spreads silently through the crowd."
I believe that this should be a sacrifice or a ritual of prayer to the gods, but it may have been attacked in a way that we could not understand, and all the creatures on the island fled here, and then...Dead alive ...No, maybe not dead, but turned into this bone tower. ”Pearson slowly spoke his speculation, and at this time Mills had already hid behind Pearson, not daring to look directly at the bone tower that reflected the evil aura in the moonlight, Pearson touched Mills's head with his hand, trying to calm his nervousness in this way."
Don't worry too much, aren't they just some bones, we've been at sea for so many years, and there are still few bones to see?"
The first mate spread his hands and said, but only Pearson noticed that the first mate's hand was also trembling slightly, obviously he said this to calm everyone's emotions, worthy of the experienced crew, know how to control the atmosphere at this time, the first mate continued, "Don't let fear dominate your sanity, friends. ”Pearson looked carefully at the clues around him, shook his head, as if he didn't believe his guess, and seemed to have a different kind of doubt in his heart.The first mate looked at the hesitant Pearson and asked softly, "Why don't we go back to the shore first?"
”But Pearson looked at the fragmentary footprints on the ground, which had been reduced to a pit of dirt, and carefully analyzed and deduced the situation.The footprints on the ground were moving in the same direction, and that was where the strange statue in the altar was."
What happened to make these lives die en masse overnight?"
Pearson thought.When they reached the back of the highest stone tablet behind the altar, they saw frescoes painted with blood.The colors of the murals are no longer bright, and at this time they take on a dark brown pattern.Behind the stele are four coherent frescoes.The first one shows a symbol of humanity dancing around a bonfire, a primitive joy of community life.The scene in the second painting is the same as in the previous painting, except that the location of the original campfire has been changed to a statue in the altar.The third clearly depicts the altar and the ritual of sacrifice, with an adult female tied behind her back, placed in the center of the altar, with a pair of evil eyes in the sky.The fourth is that there is only darkness left around it, and only the altar has light, and people run to the place of light, and those who have not time to run into the light are swallowed up by the darkness and turned into food for the existence of darkness.Pearson smoothed out his logic and made sure that his reasoning was correct, and explained, "I now understand what is happening on this island, where the original inhabitants lived carefree until they found the statue, and then as if they lost their minds, they continued to worship the existence behind the unspeakable statue.Instead of joy and happiness, devout faith brought madness, and people began to sacrifice living people to please the master behind the statue.In the end, it attracted the gaze of the evil god, and the life of the whole island was taken by the evil god. ”"Nope!
That's impossible!
I believe in the Lord, there can be no evil gods in this world!
”Some of the crew members, who had been terrified before, screamed loudly, as if they had lost their minds.What he came into contact with that day completely overthrew all belief in the Supreme and Almighty Creator, and everyone could feel the veil of evil on them, touching the defense line of everyone's soul.Mills, who was hiding behind Pearson, suddenly shouted, "It's moving, it's moving!!
”One looks in the direction of Mills' finger, and the light in the fourth portrait has been drowned out by all the darkness, and all the life in the painting is stacked and turned into a state that almost melts.Countless heads let out painful screams, some of them spitted out curses of resentment, and the joints between limbs were connected by external forces, and all the heads showed extreme pain.Their souls had been sealed in the frescoes and tormented forever, waiting endlessly for the next group of victims to join them and become dependents of the Great Creation.The cowardly had fainted by this time, and the panicked person broke away from the group's pointless run, while Pearson and the first mate looked at each other and tacitly led Mills and the rest of the crew who still had autonomy to run to the place where they had been stranded and logged in.There was also a lifeboat there.The reason why this lifeboat was not used before was that it could only seat four people, and there was not enough fresh water and food on the lifeboat, but it had been replenished with supplies for living in previous explorations.At the moment this lifeboat is hope, hope to leave this ominous island.Mills was carried on Pearson's back, his hands wrapped around Pearson's neck, and Pearson sped toward the coast."
You can't fight that evil!
You can't even look at it!
Run!
”Pearson yelled in a cold sweat on his head.At this time, the moon quietly hid in the clouds, and there was a tremor in the depths of the dense forest, and the stone tablets laid by the tribe lit up one after another, and then broke into darkness one by one.The darkness depicted in the mural shrouded the shores of the deserted island, gradually advancing towards the center of the island.Mills yelled, "Stop, stop!"
”At this time, the first mate only had fear in his heart, he wanted to escape from this desert island!
He's going to be the first to board that lifeboat!
So he didn't care about the darkness in the distance, but accelerated his progress.By the time he noticed the darkness wriggling towards him, it was too late.A dark green tentacle came out of the darkness, a tongue, and quickly curled up the body of the first mate, followed by a scream and chewing sound, and a severed hand flew out.With the weakening of the screams, it symbolizes the end of a life, no, maybe it is only the end of life, but not necessarily the end of the soul.The rest of the crew turned around and ran back to the altar in the middle of the island, and although the people in the frescoes had taken the form of terrible lumps of flesh in the place of the altar, there was light and hope in the original frescoes.Pearson ran to the middle of the altar, and below the bone tower, there was an undamaged altar.Some of the crew members chose to climb to the top of the bone tower, hoping to escape, while others were swept away by the dark green tongue in the process of climbing the tower, and became a delicious meal for the monsters.Pearson knelt down on his knees to the wicked statue, pulled out the knife he had with him, slashed his chest, and pulled out his internal organs in pain.Pearson trembled as he watched Mills, who was already frightened, say something that Mills will never forget, "Son, Father loves you forever." ”Then he prayed to the statue of evil."
O Lord of the Deep Sea, I offer my soul to you, and I pray that you will dispel the darkness everywhere, and I will serve at your feet until the day you wake up."
The evil statue's eyes flashed with red gemstones, but it didn't respond in any way.At this time, Pearson was desperate, and he had done everything he could to gain knowledge of the order of incantation chanting and rituals during the archaeological process, hoping that he could sacrifice himself in exchange for the power of the evil god and save Mills' life.I saw that the darkness had reached the altar, and the long tongue stained with blood had stretched out, and Pearson also watched Mills be swept away by the long tongue because of the heavy bleeding, and the barb on the tongue pierced Mills's back sharply.The pain that struck him in an instant was not something that the young Mills could bear, and the body's protective mechanisms caused Mills to fall into a coma.Before he fell unconscious, Mills only remembered the scene of his father kneeling in front of the statue, the marks on the stone wall, and the pain of burning fire.