How to distinguish between reality and illusion?
If this stone chamber and the prophecies in the prophet's stone box are all illusions created by corpse-scented konjac, when did this illusion begin?
I think my brain is a bit unable to cope with such a complicated problem.
It would be great if Shiry Yang could help analyze it.
Fatty and I can't even hold up half as much as hers.
The fat man saw that I was distracted again, so he pushed me: "What's the matter, Old Hu, why are your eyes always so straight lately, this American girl, we can't deal with it anymore."
I asked the fat man to look at Professor Chen, leaned over and asked Shirey Yang: "You said that your grandpa was also a prostitute before he went to the United States.
You are baseless.
How can I believe you?"
Shiry Yang stared at me and said bitterly: "Stupid thief, do you believe it or not?
I have my grandfather's relics hanging around my neck.
You can tell just by looking at it."
Could it be that the "relic" was a gold-touching charm?
Sure enough, I saw two necklaces hanging around her neck.
I stretched out my hand and pulled it out.
One was a cross, and the other was indeed a gold-touching charm made of pangolin claws.
This thing is extremely secretive in the world, and not everyone has it, and even most tomb robbers have never seen this thing.
Objects are distinguished by people.
The value of this golden talisman itself is not valuable.
If it falls on the ground, the tatters may be too lazy to pick it up.
But for tomb robbers who have passed it down from generation to generation, this is a priceless treasure.
It symbolizes A qualification.
I picked up Shiry Yang's gold-touching talisman and looked at it carefully.
Comparing people to each other is hard, and comparing goods has to be thrown away.
Compared with this gold-touching talisman of hers, the two gold-touching talismans that Big Gold Tooth gave to me and the fat man were simply worth it.
Can’t have it anymore.
Shiry Yang's gold-touching talisman can be seen at a glance as an antiquities from the Later Han Dynasty.
The two seal characters "touching gold" on the talisman are vigorous and simple, full of ancient meaning.
They are made of the sharpest claws of pangolins, like black crystal.
It is also slightly transparent.
Although it has been aged for a long time, there is no trace of wear and tear.
There is a circle of gold thread locked at the base of the claws, and the whole body is engraved with flying tiger patterns to ward off evil spirits.
Comparing the two pieces that Fatty and I had with this one, we can tell whether they are genuine or not.
They are obviously artificially aged, and the material selection and craftsmanship cannot be compared.
Damn it, this grandson of Da Jinya is fooling us with fakes.
I wonder why it has never worked before.
I held Shiry Yang's golden charm in my hand and looked at it for a long time.
I couldn't put it down and couldn't bear to put it down.
I really didn't want to give it back to her.
Shiry Yang shouted: "Pay me back quickly, it's just that you want to kill me, but you want to make money together, but it won't work."
I hung the gold-touching talisman back on Shiry Yang's neck: "Since your grandpa is also a traitor, why do you call us stinky thieves one by one?
Didn't you even scold your grandpa for treating you like this?
Everything happens for a reason."
Then he told Shiry Yang exactly what the stone painting predicted on the stone box on the second floor, and finally said to her: "This may be an illusion of death caused by the corpse-scented konjac, but I can't confirm it for the time being.
I can’t let you go.”
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After hearing this, Shiry Yang's expression softened slightly: "Then think of something quickly.
Do you think it's comfortable to be tied up by you guys?
I'll let you have a taste of it later."
I stood up and walked back and forth in the room for a few steps, staring at the stone paintings on the second floor of the stone box.
I really didn't dare to act rashly.
If this prophecy was not an illusion, but true, then if I didn't kill anyone, I would open it without killing anyone.
On the second floor of the stone box, the evil spirit will appear soon and kill everyone else.
I feel that it is more uncomfortable than stepping on a landmine.
If you step on a landmine, you will be blown up to death.
Whether this prophecy is true or false is related to four lives.
It is really difficult to make a decision.
Professor Chen was crazy, and Shiry Yang was a bit suspicious, so I had to discuss it with Fatty.
I told him all my assumptions, knowing that he couldn't be of much help, but still hoping to find someone to share the pressure on my shoulders.
The fat man nodded after hearing this: "Oh, that's what the fuck is going on.
I understand.
You are worried that we are still in the illusion created by that dog-tailed flower.
You should have told me earlier.
It's such a big deal.
I'll solve it for you right away."
I wondered: "You can tell that this is no joke, but we can't play around.
If we make a wrong move, we will lose the whole game."
The fat man didn't say anything.
He raised his hand and gave me a slap in the face.
He slapped me quickly.
I was unprepared and was hit hard.
My face was burning with pain.
I was about to have an attack, but I heard the fat man ask: "How does it hurt or not?"
I rubbed my face and said, "Damn it, my son hit me and turned against you.
Does it still hurt?
I'll slap you and you will know if it hurts."
As soon as I finished speaking, I immediately thought, yes Yes, if we can feel pain, we are not in an illusion.
It seems that we are not controlled by the corpse-scented konjac.
I turned around and wanted to question Shiry Yang again.
At a glance, I saw that the stone paintings on the second layer of the stone box had changed.
I quickly went over to take a closer look, only to see that the three stone paintings slowly blurred and disappeared, leaving only There is a small blank stone box underneath.
The stone box has a lid and is sealed with cowhide paint to preserve the valuables inside for a long time.
Looking at the first layer of stone boxes, there is no change at all.
Each one is a prophet's prediction.
In the end, it is still a stone painting of four people opening the first layer of stone boxes.
What's going on?
Is it true or false?
I pulled the fat man over and asked him to see what was on the second layer of the stone box.
The fat man said, aren't they still the three stone paintings?
I raised my hand and slapped him: "Look again, are there any stone paintings?"
The fat man covered his face and said, "Hey, this is gone now.
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Damn it, it's really fucking hell.
Let me see what the hell is in here."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand and pulled open the second layer of the stone box.
I was shocked: "Your hands were too fast.
I only let you take a look, and I didn't let you do anything else."
However, after the second layer of the stone box was opened, nothing happened.
The four people were all fine, and nothing happened.
The thing about evil spirits killing people.
Based on my experience, I can surmise that our vision was indeed controlled by corpse-scented konjac just now.
The power of this magic flower far exceeds our estimation.
It is not only able to create illusions on the stone beams of the ghost cave.
At that time, I wanted to rush across the stone beam to rescue Sa Di Peng, but fell into its hallucination trap.
Then Fatty and Shiry Yang rescued me.
At that time, I looked back and saw that the petals of the corpse-scented konjac, which were originally closed together, were all opened, facing us.
From that time on, the scope of the hallucination of corpse-scented konjac expanded.
After our searchlights were extinguished, many black snakes appeared.
Judging from the situation at that time, two of the five of us could not move.
Under the siege of the snakes, we actually It was a miracle that no one was bitten by the snakes.
Now it seems that those snakes were all false illusions.
The corpse-scented konjac created the illusion of being attacked by so many black snakes in order to force us into the cracks in the mountain and bury ourselves alive inside.
Unexpectedly, we escaped further and further into the cracks and accidentally escaped into the tomb of the prophet.
Although this Stone Demon Flower is powerful, the scope of its control is limited after all.
It is too far away from us to create too powerful illusions, so it changed the simplest structure of the stone painting to tempt us to kill each other.
Moreover, the scary thing about corpse-scented konjac is that it does not create illusions through people’s five senses.
As long as you take a look at it and remember its alluring color, you will be confused by it within a certain distance, but the distance The farther away you go, the less powerful the illusion becomes.
Even if one or two people survive in the end, they will have a mental breakdown because they killed their companions with their own hands.
Then no one will ever know the secret of Queen Jingjue.
So damn vicious At this time, the fat man had already taken out the contents of the second stone box.
It was an ancient book made of sheepskin.
I estimate that the prophet's revelations and the secrets of the lost ancient kingdom of Jingjue and the ghost cave are all in this book. .
I was about to take a look at what was in the parchment book, but then I remembered that Shirey Yang was still tied up and lying on the ground, so I put the parchment book down first and prepared to untie her.
Although it was strange that she repeatedly dreamed of ghost caves in her dreams, she was probably not possessed by an evil spirit or the reincarnation of the Monster Queen.
Treating her like this was a bit too much.
Shiry Yang was tied to the ground, with a lot of dust on her face.
Adding to her tears, she looked like a Peking Opera singer with a painted face.
When she saw me approaching, she said angrily: "Old Hu, please untie me quickly."
I told her what happened, gritted my teeth, slapped Shirey Yang, and then untied the belt that bound her hands.
I said, "I had no choice, that's why I came up with this strategy.
Just hit me back, as many times as you like."
After saying that, I turned my head and waited for Shirey Yang to slap me.
I'm already prepared, I guess she won't give up until I knock out my two front teeth.
Unexpectedly, Shiry Yang wiped the dust on his face, but did not hit me.
He only said: "I don't want to argue with you now.
I will settle this debt later.
It is important to find a way to get out first."
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Shiry Yang took out a small box from his portable bag, which contained a small pill.
After opening it, he inhaled it in front of his nose, then handed me two pills and asked Fatty and I to smell them respectively.
Shiry Yang said: "This is a high-concentration refined alcohol smell with a strong smell that can stimulate the frontal lobe of the brain through the nasal mucosa and keep people awake.
It can be used to assist in detoxification and offset drug addiction.
Foreign explorers go I always bring a few pills with me in the wild, just in case.
When I am at the extreme of hunger and fatigue, it can stimulate the brain nerves and prevent me from falling into coma.
However, it is not advisable to use them more than once in a short period of time, otherwise it will have strong side effects.
As for whether it will work against the hallucinations of the magic flower. , it’s unknown.”
I think corpse-scented konjac causes hallucinations through the five senses, and these hallucinations come from the brain center.
Shiry Yang's stimulating drug should be able to restrain hallucinations to some extent.
I gave Fatty a pill, opened it myself, and immediately inhaled through my nostrils.
A smelly and unpleasant breath rushed into my nasal cavity, making me cough repeatedly, but then I felt that my originally heavy mind was much more relaxed.
Comfortable.
I said: "If you have such a good thing, why didn't you use it earlier?
Give us a few grains on the stone beam.
We could have uprooted the demon flower long ago, and it wouldn't be buried here now, in a dilemma."
Shiryy Yang said: "At that time, you ran back from the stone beam and told us the reason.
Only then did we know that the corpse-scented konjac would cause hallucinations for those who climbed the stone beam.
Then they were attacked by countless black snakes.
It was just a short time."
For a few minutes, I didn't even know that those snakes were also illusions created by the magic flower.
In addition, I didn't think the corpse-scented konjac was that simple.
It had a magical power that directly pointed to the human heart.
If it was too close, I thought this medicine would also be used.
It won’t make much difference.”
Of the five people who entered the tomb of the ancestors, only Chen and Ye were unconscious.
One was stimulated and the other was unconscious.
Now Ye Yixin is dead and Professor Chen is crazy.
He will not be confused by the corpse-scented konjac. .
His appearance reminded us of the British expedition that had previously entered the ruins of the ancient city of Jingjue.
The only survivor of that expedition was a madman.
He must have witnessed the tragic scenes of his companions killing each other, and was over-stimulated. .
Professor Chen, on the other hand, was in a state of ups and downs in one day.
First he was saddened by the death of his assistant Hao Aiguo, then he found one surprising discovery after another in the Jingjue ruins, and suddenly he saw two of his own students die tragically.
It was so...
Great joy and great sorrow can have a huge impact on a person's nerves, not to mention that he was already old and finally suffered a mental breakdown and went completely crazy.
Thinking of this, I nodded with a heavy expression and said to Shiry Yang: "The Dead Man Flower is really awesome.
Fortunately, we are close and united so that we will not fall into its trap of alienation.
There is no tragedy of cannibalism.
Now Thinking about it, I’m really scared, but with the blessing of the Holy Spirit, it didn’t lead to a big mistake.”
Shiryyang Yang's face suddenly sank and said: "Hu Bayi, you are too cunning and blame yourself entirely.
You know how much I trust you.
You not only lied to me and refused to tell the truth to me, but also You suspect that I am some kind of monster, have you ever thought about how I feel?
Do you know what it feels like to be tied up like an animal by you two bad guys, waiting for you to interrogate and slaughter me?"
I covered my head and said: "Oh, no, my head hurts again.
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I have to sit down and rest for a while.
Fatty, please take the parchment booklet of the sages and show it to Miss Yang to see if there is any way out."
Good idea."
After saying that, he took the opportunity to sneak next to Professor Chen, not daring to talk to Shiry Yang again.
Fortunately, Shirey Yang was not the kind of unreasonable woman after all.
When she saw me slipping away, she stopped pursuing it and picked up the ancient sheepskin album of the late saint and looked at it page by page.
I secretly complained that with her personality, she would not be able to spare me in the future.
Today's work has been accomplished, so many people have died, and the hard-earned money of Fatty and I has been wasted again.
It's his grandma's, why is my life so miserable, my teeth are blocked even when I drink cold water.
I was also curious about what was in that ancient book.
I saw Shiry Yang's expression was solemn, and I couldn't tell whether he was happy or worried.
Since the sage could foresee that we would come to his tomb and open the stone box, then he must have He left something for us, what is it?
I couldn't hold it in any longer, and asked: "What is the content of the book of the sage, the child?"
Shiry Yang held the ancient sheepskin book in his hand and said while reading: "They are all pictures painted by the ancestors.
They seem to have a lot of content about ghost caves."
I don't want to go back to any ghost cave in my life.
The most important thing is whether there is a way out, but it's hard to rush Shiry Yang, so I can only listen to her while suppressing my temper.
Shiry Yang said: "You can only understand the whole story by looking at it from the beginning, otherwise the final picture may not be able to be interpreted.
The beginning of this part is about a sacred mountain in the ancient Western Regions, which is the Zagrama Mountain we are now in.
This mountain is surrounded by dense rivers. , rich in flora and fauna, and four tribes living here.”
The fat man and I looked at each other, thinking that this American girl had to start from the beginning.
It was really impatient.
We were both anxious and wanted to know how to leave this small and depressing tomb, but neither of us dared to speak.
Look at me, I look at you, I'm so anxious that I can't sit still.
Just listen to Shiry Yang continue: "The good times don't last forever.
People discovered a bottomless cave in the Zagrama Mountains.
No one can go down to the bottom of the cave.
Everyone wants to figure out what kind of world is in the cave.
Four There was a high priest in this tribe, He ordered a jade eyeball to be made, hoping to use the power of the true god to see whether the bottomless pit was auspicious or evil.
Following a large-scale festival, instead of seeing clearly what was under the bottomless pit, disaster began.
Coming.
First, the high priest was blinded and died; then, a strange snake appeared nearby that threatened the safety of humans and animals.
There were many of these snakes, and they all had a strange eye on their heads.
They were extremely poisonous and killed countless humans and animals.
A tribe elected two true gods The favored saint, together with the warriors of the tribe, killed the female snake.
This was a monster with a human head and a snake body and four limbs.
It would hatch eggs that were like eyeballs, and each egg could produce several eggs.
If hundreds of strange snakes are allowed to multiply, the consequences will be disastrous."
The fat man and I were both surprised when we heard this: "Hey, dear, there really was such a strange snake with a human head in ancient times.
Fortunately, we didn't encounter it, otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with."
Shiry Yang said: "It must be true that the first sages eliminated snakes, but snake beasts with human heads and snake bodies may not really exist.
Ancient people usually over-deified important events, just like China's Yandi Huangdi and Chi You.
The war between the two tribes may have been just a battle between hundreds of tribes, but in ancient records, it was described as a grand war in which even gods and beasts participated. " I gave a thumbs up and said, "That's really good advice.
I wonder if we can break it down as soon as possible."
Shiry Yang rolled his eyes at me and then said: "The snake beasts were swept away, and the sages threw the corpses of the snakes into the bottomless pit at the foot of Zagrama Mountain.
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The sage learned through divine metaphors that this cave was a cave of disaster, and The jade eyeball has opened the door to disaster.
After that, a prophet was born in one of the tribes, this child with the ability to predict.
Next is the prophet's prediction about the future of Zagrama Mountain.
After the death of the sages of the tribe, they were buried in Zagrama Mountain.
Through rituals, the prophet can predict major events thousands of years later, but its scope is limited to Near Zagrama Mountain, this may be because the sages who are regarded as gods in the tribe are buried here, and the abilities of the prophets are given by the two sages and the true God.”
Finally, we got to the point.
I listened carefully to Shiry Yang's words.
Whether I can get out of this hellish place depends on what the prophet predicted.
The answer to survival and death is about to be revealed, and my heart beats a little faster.
Shiry Yang said: "Don't be so nervous.
I just read it again.
There seems to be a revelation in the back that can help us leave Zagrama, but we need to combine it with the previous content.
Don't worry, let's do it step by step."
Just when he was concentrating on it, he suddenly saw Professor Chen staring at the ancient sheepskin book in Shirey Yang's hand and saying: "Don't read the content behind it":