Snake Tale

That face flashed in the dark night, and there was no trace of it.

Shen Yuzhu felt a slight chill down his back, turned his head, just in time to see Luo Yi looking at him strangely.

"Did you see it?" he asked in a low voice.

Shen Yuzhu nodded, trying his best to calm down the sudden chills all over his body, carefully recalling the human face he glanced at in his heart.

That never belongs to the stranger.

Luo Yi walked forward without saying a word, stretched out his palm and slowly brushed the damp and dark stone wall covered with vines.After a pause, he stretched out his hand and tore off a bunch of hanging vines.

There was a rustle of "crash, la la", and a human face with a complete mouth and nose suddenly appeared on the huge stone wall.

Shen Yuzhu held his breath and walked forward involuntarily.He stared at the stone wall for a long time, and finally stretched out his hand, and together with Luo Yi, he peeled off the sticky moss, vines, sludge and mold, revealing the true face of the stone wall bit by bit.

A huge relief image is engraved on the stone wall.One on the left and one on the right are two men and women with faces facing each other.They both turned slightly sideways, hugged each other's waist with one hand, and raised the other hand, the male hand was holding the rules, and the female hand was holding the rules.The two wore their clothes, which were obviously the clothes of the previous dynasty, but two thick and long snake tails, which almost merged into one, protruded from the hem of the clothes.On the top of the heads of men and women, there is a sun shape, with a three-legged crow in the middle of the day; under the tail of a snake, a moon shape is painted, with an osmanthus toad in the middle of the moon.There are round fluorites of different sizes inlaid around the images of men and women, the sun and the moon. There are 74 of them in total, 49 of which are glowing with a cold blue light, and [-] are shining with a dark red color, like the four seasons of the spring and autumn. It's like a rare chess game, which makes people feel dazzled when they see it, and it's hard to turn their eyes away.

Shen Yuzhu stared blankly at the image, vaguely feeling that the 74 fluorite formations were exquisitely arranged like a battlefield formation, with hidden secrets and great intentions.Mingming was forced to die, but suddenly survived; Mingming was fighting against each other, but suddenly joined hands to make peace.While concentrating on careful calculations and searching for a way out, suddenly the light and shadow flickered, the past was overturned, and another change took place.For a moment, I feel that the willows are dark and the flowers are bright, and the truth is revealed;

Looking up, the man and woman on the stone statue both had meaningful smiles on their lips, and they both bowed their faces towards him.A rough male voice asked: "I don't know anything, why step into this difficult situation?" A thin female voice sneered: "If you have no heart and no lungs, what way can you find?" The room is really empty.I couldn't help but feel very sad and confused, I don't know what is the difference between such a numb body and that walking corpse, dead wood?

Shen Yuzhu was upset and didn't want to think about it.After a lot of effort, he turned his face away, but saw Luo Yi sweating from the corner of his forehead and the tip of his nose, his face was full of viciousness, and he was staring at the relief for a moment.His ivory-like pale face was very cold and strange, and that expression... was exactly the same as that of the strange man who fled before.

Shen Yuzhu felt that the person in front of him had become extremely strange, his lips and tongue were sour, and it took him a long time to make a sound: "You—"

Before he could speak, he heard hurried footsteps behind him, and Ping Feiyu ran over panting with something in his arms:

"Master," he stretched out the object wrapped in his coat with great difficulty, "your crossbow shot this..."

Under the dim light, half of the wet cyan snake tail lay impressively on the clothes.

"This...what the hell is it?" The young man gasped and asked in a low voice.

When Shen Yuzhu saw the blood-stained snake tail, he felt even more depressed, and knocked the thing to the ground with a "snap" with his hand.Ping Feiyu was taken aback, raised his head, and saw Shen Yuzhu's disgusted and annoyed expression on his face.This abnormal state is far more frightening than the current weird and weird situation: "Master, you..."

His chest was extremely tight, and his mind was even more congested.Shen Yuzhu turned to Luo Yi, and said coldly: "What is this, you should ask him!" He took two steps closer and grabbed Luo Yi's lapel.The usual gentle breeze turned into fury at some point: "Luo Yi, that..." He took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice, "Who the hell are you? ——or rather, you What the hell is it?" in

Luo Yi slowly turned his face, his green eyes were shining with cold light, and he said word by word: "What do you think?" He pointed at the relief, and sneered darkly: "Why, do you think I am... Is it?"

Shen Yuzhu raised his hand and threw Luo Yi heavily in front of the stone wall.The uneven rock hit the back of his head and shoulders, and Luo Yi was in pain as if his muscles were torn apart, but he gritted his teeth and stood up with the same loathing and annoyance in his eyes, facing each other aggressively:

"You ask me what it is?" He narrowed his eyes, grabbed Shen Yuzhu's lapel with his backhand, and said with a sneer, "Shen Yuzhu, I might as well tell you, what you are is what I am!"

"You——" Shen Yuzhu was extremely annoyed, and the crossbow arrow in his hand pressed against his throat, and the sharp point of the arrow pierced his skin unconsciously.A rich and sweet fragrance wafted from the tip of his nose, Shen Yuzhu lowered his eyes, watching the thin line of blood slipping through his Adam's apple, winding on his snow-white skin, and sinking into his half-opened skirt...

A chaotic and rapid heat flow gradually surged in the dantian, and he suddenly felt his heart beating like a drum, his mouth parched, as if countless hot snake scales were rapidly scratching his joints, the endless, endless heat that penetrated into the bone marrow The itching stopped, as if there were many voices screaming in his ears, tempting him to gently tear open the snow-white neck with his hands like peeling a snow lotus root, and let the gushing blood flow through his fingers. Then cover the lips and teeth... Drink the endless, sweet and fiery juice...

"Master!" The young man Qingyue's exclamation brought him back to reality, Shen Yuzhu looked down, and Ping Feiyu grabbed his sleeve with all his strength.

The young man's face turned blue with shock, and the root of his tongue was trembling: "Master, you—you've become so strange! Are you really going to kill him here?"

Shen Yuzhu woke up like a dream, and when he took a closer look, he was holding Luo Yi tightly in front of the stone wall, like a hungry anaconda trying to hang its prey, the joints of each other were crackling.The crossbow arrow in his hand was about to pierce Luo Yi's neck veins by a hair, he turned pale with fright, waved his hands and retreated, seeing Luo Yi slumped, he hurriedly stepped forward and took his arm: "You... ..."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he knew that there was no need to ask again.

Luo Yi was trembling.

They confronted each other for three years, and Shen Yuzhu thought he had seen all his faces, cunning and suspicious like a wild fox, fierce and fierce like a tiger wolf, mean and ruthless like a poisonous snake, but even at the moment when he was defeated and captured, he never saw him show his face. Out of such pure helplessness and timidity.

He hugged his shoulders, only to feel that he was curled up and trembling, and his hands were as cold as ice.Shen Yuzhu's heart was in a mess, and he comforted him incoherently: "... Don't worry, I... How could I really kill you?" lingering on the tip of his nose.He suddenly remembered that he had clearly been unable to distinguish the smell for a long time, so where did the sweet smell come from?

Luo Yi struggled slightly in his arms.Shen Yuzhu let go of his arms and watched him stand up extremely weakly, walk to the edge of the stone wall far away, and sit down slumped against the wall.

He was sweating profusely, as if recovering from a serious illness.Covering the throat wound with one hand, he pointed to the stone wall behind him with the other.

"This totem has a ghost."

he said hoarsely.

Shen Yuzhu's heart shuddered, and when he looked up, 74 fluorites were disappearing silently.The blue eyes, like 74 ghosts, reflected the deep and treacherous smiles of Fuxi and Nuwa.

His chaotic Lingtai Chad had a glimmer of clarity, thinking: "That's right... the arrangement of the fluorites is very delicate, like a star map, but also like a chess game, people can't help but be attracted by the arrangement of trends and the order of on and off, and indulge in it, I wanted to delve into the way to break it, but instead fell into the maze, and my mind was destroyed."

However, at the moment of being bewitched, the ease that flooded the whole body like a tide was so vivid, and the five senses of shape, sound, smell, taste, and touch became extremely sharp.Ever since he got the strange disease that gradually weakened his senses, although he realized intellectually that it was no different from being disabled, and it should be a big problem, but because it was painless and his temperament was at ease with the situation, he didn't think it was a big problem. make him miserable.However, the vivid hallucination just now was mixed with incomparable pleasure in the thrilling danger. Although it was a short moment like lightning, it aroused his self-born... unprecedented joy and greed.

He shook his head vigorously, unwilling to think about it.Feiyu Fangzheng, who was beside him, raised his head and faced the huge relief stone wall, struggling to get his tongue out: "Master, what is this painting?"

Shen Yuzhu pressed his eyes hard, tried his best to calm down the remaining turmoil, and said, "This is Fuxi Nuwa's... copulation picture."

Ping Feiyu was stunned and said: "Fuxi? Nuwa? Intercourse, intercourse... intercourse?" He rubbed his own face, rubbing down the incredible face: "Aren't they - brothers and sisters?"

Shen Yuzhu shook his head, then nodded again: "They... are brothers and sisters, but also husband and wife. The blood-syndicated patriarchal system in ancient times cannot be compared with today's morals and ethics." He recalled the records in ancient books about these two creators , slowly said: "Fuxi and Nuwa are both the righteous gods of blessing the country. Since the Xia Dynasty, they have been regarded as the gods who created the world. But Fuxi and Nuwa on this stone wall..." He looked up , keep silent.I don't know if it's because of the mottled moss and the corrosion of stains, the faces of the two gods always show a strange charm, which is really different from the gods with sacred virtues in the legend.

"So, this statue hides something evil, and it can bewitch people's hearts and change people's temperament?" Ping Feiyu was amazed, exhaled, and asked suspiciously: "But... why don't I feel anything at all? It's just that those fluorites The flickering flickering really makes people's eyes sore."

Shen Yuzhu pondered: "Fuxi and Nuwa merged into one, implying sexual reproduction, maybe only adult men and women will be affected. And Feiyu, you are still a child, so..."

Ping Feiyu seemed to understand, he puffed out his chest and said unconvinced: "Master, I am no longer a child! At my age, Gan Luo had already lobbied the enemy country and worshiped his superiors; Li Ji was already hanging by the waist. A sharp sword, killing snakes and eliminating harm—"

Luo Yi interrupted coldly: "Are you out?"

"Wh-uh..." Ping Feiyu suddenly realized, his face was flushed, and he shrank back in embarrassment.

Luo Yi finally calmed down, stood up, looked back and forth around the relief, and said, "This wall is not just a simple image that confuses people's minds."

"Yes," Shen Yuzhu walked closer and identified a vague gap in the relief, "The green-faced thing can't disappear out of thin air, here is... a door."