The ghosts wandering after death, the dead bodies, the dying fish, the vigorous cats, the newly born caterpillars, and the self that is about to be born - at the moment of flying into the sky, Zhang Ke suddenly understood that the area at the door
What do these six words on the square stone mean?
Those are the six stages that must be experienced in the reincarnation between life and death, and in this room, they are symbolized by six different states of living beings - the soul of oneself from the initial death, through continuous sacrifices
Sacrifice reincarnated again and again, and finally followed the path between life and death, returning from death to rebirth step by step, and finally got a new chance to be born.
I thought it was just a cruel blood sacrifice that simply sacrificed the lives of living beings, but I didn't expect that it contained such a degree of Zen. While flying in the air, Zhang Ke thought about the so-called Qingtian Sect. Is it really just an ancient folk cult?
?
Of course, the top priority now is to save Ye Suling—Zhang Kefei cut a knife next to her hands, inserted the coral key into it, and then gently twisted it to open it.
Ye Suling's body suddenly fell down, but it didn't matter. Zhang Ke had already seen clearly the structure of the iron rope. After Ye Suling fell for a while, the chain wrapped around her hand was enough to temporarily hang her in the air. Zhang Ke was ready to wait for her transformation.
After taking the human form, come over and slowly untie it.
He flew towards the center of the magic circle, knowing that there was only one last step left before the final success——
"Well done. It only took half an hour to complete the priestly ritual of the cycle of life and death."
A voice that was not unfamiliar, but made people feel very angry when hearing it, sounded in his ears, and Zhang Ke's consciousness suddenly came to his senses.
He suddenly found himself sitting on the ground, holding the unconscious Ye Suling in his arms, and his body had already transformed back into human form.
As if he had thought of something, Zhang Ke quickly raised his hand. This time he saw no purple-red corpse spots, but normal red and white skin color, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"You have escaped from that room and are now a normal human Zhang Ke. Stop being suspicious."
The voice sounded again. Zhang Ke raised his head and saw that the person who came had a handsome mixed-race face, looking at him with interest and a smile that made people get goosebumps.
"Troy? Why are you here?" Because the arrival was so sudden, Zhang Ke couldn't react. He rubbed his eyes to make sure he saw it correctly, and then looked around.
This should still be the room behind the original stone door. There are huge colorful ink stains hanging everywhere, and a bright European-style electric lamp hanging above the head.
But what is different from before is that the room now seems to be filled with all kinds of things, including the bookcase, the pool, and even the lazy cat that I just saw. Only the magic circle and the corresponding six ever-burning lamps.
Didn't appear before my eyes.
There are also some things that have never been seen in the ruins and should never belong here, such as laptops, desks and even an instrument that looks like a VR experience machine.
"I said we would meet again, isn't it fate?" Troy smiled.
"Where is this place? Is it still under the Chunshen ruins? What did you do to me and Ye Suling? Why doesn't she wake up?" Zhang Ke asked.
"Don't worry, Ye Suling is fine. She just suffered a mental shock and fainted for a while. Just let her rest." Troy said:
"I know you have a lot of questions, and I can answer you briefly - first of all, this is indeed the Chunshen ruins, between the sacrifices of the Qingtian Sect's main altar, and it is also the place where you rely on square stones to open it. In addition, this is also my laboratory
.”
"Laboratory—?" Zhang Ke asked in disbelief, "Underground in the ruins?"
But he found that the furnishings in the room did look like a laboratory, but it was too weird to place a place for scientific research in such a place.
"That's right, but usually if an uninvited guest breaks in, he will only see an empty room, because other things are hidden by me using the mechanism on the wall, and only colorful ink stains can be seen all over the wall - and this
An enlarged version of the Rorschach inkblot can instantly hypnotize the intruder." Troy explained:
"As for the thrilling ritual from death to life that you just performed, it was also part of the hypnotic content."
"...I see, it would make sense if it was an illusion. I would like to ask how in the real world, how could one transform oneself into various animals through any rituals." After hearing this reasonable explanation, Zhang Ke actually felt
A big stone fell in my heart, and I said with some luck:
"Although the experience just now is extremely real and you are completely unaware that these are false illusions, hypnosis is your specialty."
"No, it has nothing to do with me." Troy put on an innocent expression and said, "These colored ink stains were originally there. They are the only things left by the Qingtian Sect in the sacrificial room. The rest are in the room.
The items I saw were the ones I brought in later, and I also deliberately made some imitations that were similar to those in the fantasy, such as the Qibao Jade Tree and the cat."
"You said these spots that resemble Rorschach ink marks were left by the Qingtian Sect? How is this possible? How could people of that era have such strong hypnosis skills and coloring skills?" Zhang Ke asked in disbelief.
"Only God knows about this problem. I was also tricked when I first came in. I played a fantasy live-action escape room like you. After that, these ink marks had no effect on me." Troy smiled.
said:
"However, I was inspired by these colorful ink blots and subdivided them into various miniature patterns. As long as they are arranged in specific combinations, people can be hypnotized to a certain extent the moment they see them."
"Wait a minute, you really made the Rorschach Ruler that made the time-traversers kill each other?" Zhang Ke asked.
"No, no, that is the result of my research results being stolen and misused."
"That's not right - why did you come under the Chunshen ruins? You are obviously a researcher majoring in brain science, so you have nothing to do with archeology!" Zhang Ke asked.
"Oh, that's because you don't know my other identity." Troy smiled handsomely, "I also have a name that you may have heard of - Nangong Xihe."
"Nangong Xihe? You??? impossible!" Zhang Ke's first reaction was this.
"Why is it impossible? Is it because a foreigner cannot have a Chinese name?" Troy smiled:
"It was precisely because I was a member of Professor Yuan's archaeological team that I excavated the Chunshen ruins, found this room, and got inspiration from the magical hypnotic ink marks left by the ancients. Of course, I discovered more about it later.
The secret of this ruins is that I don’t even think it was entirely built by ancient people.”
"Even what you just experienced, the illusion of constantly transforming into other animals, also contains strong hints - hints about the current situation of all of us." Troy said in a mysterious tone, "You don't have to be so to me.
There is hostility, after all, you and I have experienced similar pain."
"What exactly is going on? Please tell me clearly, especially about Nangong Xihe -" Zhang Ke asked.