[Bottle Evil] Snowy Illusion

When all the noises were far away from the cave, and the unicorn wall did not come down to the ground, the fat man heaved a sigh of relief and asked, "After working for a long time, are these things raised by your family? Or are they automatic doors?"

Zhang Qiling said, "I'll go out and have a look." Then he went straight to the outside of the cave, and the fat man followed.

At this moment, Wu Xie only thought that the snake could climb out of the cage to see what happened, but after waiting for a long time, the two of them did not come back.

Then there was a long period of darkness, and it was completely dark outside, and only the sound of bats flying by in groups could be vaguely heard.

He didn't know if the two of them would come back, and they probably encountered some danger outside, so they left.The illusion of pheromones is not coherent, and Wu Xie can't help but control the start and end. He can only wait, and can't do anything else.

It was dark, it was chaos.

Wu Xie sighed in his heart. The time he spent with the two of them just now was only about two hours, and the only information he got was that the two of them had visited the ancient building again, and nothing else was obtained.He didn't know how long it would take him to wake up, and he didn't know if the two of them would appear again.

The excitement in his heart that he hadn't felt for a long time subsided instantly, and he realized that it was really too long since he walked with these two people, and it was too long since he heard these two voices together.

Silence returned to his ears, and Wu Xie waited for the end or extension of the long darkness.

After a long time, there was finally a little light, and a voice sounded.

"This damn is throwing oneself into a trap!" cried the fat man.

Wu Xie couldn't help being overjoyed, it seemed that this illusion lasted longer than expected.

In front of me is a basically circular cave. At the bottom of the cave is a pool of water that is almost ankle deep. It is a very familiar scene.

Then Wu Xie felt the nerves all over his body tremble. This place is more than familiar, it can be said to be impressive and indelible, because he saw those things very quickly.

From the top of the water to the top of the cave, there are all criss-crossing things in the form of silk threads, and each thread is covered with a familiar object-bronze hexagonal copper bell.

It is very familiar, this is the place where three people escaped from death.

Wu Xie calmed down, and it was certain that the pheromones had been interrupted. During the duration of the previous darkness, the two must have gone somewhere else, done something, and finally came to this hexagonal copper bell formation.

Wu Xie couldn't tell whether Zhang Qiling didn't bring the snake on purpose, or if the illusion just happened to be interrupted.But what caught his attention next was a blurry figure on the wall of the cave within the range of the fat man's flashlight.

Wu Xie suddenly felt an emotion aroused in his chest, burning, and it was about to break through him.Zhang Qiling and Fatty also fell silent at the same time, and even lowered their arms, silently looking at the figure.

The three of them are very clear about what it is, not the monster that was hiding in it before.

The momentary silence seemed to stretch the time infinitely.

Until the last day of life, we never know whether it is a tragedy or a comedy.Some people may be willing to endure a lifetime of tragedy for the final comedy, while others prefer to live in a false comedy all their lives, even if God announces a tragic ending to him at the last moment.But in fact, at the last moment, it doesn't matter anymore. Since this life is over, there is no need to regret it.

What's more, life will not be simply divided into tragedy and comedy.People should not comment on the ending of others, whether it is good or bad, whether it is tragedy or comedy, whether it is worthwhile or not.

"Da Pan, I don't know if your soul is still wandering around. It's not easy to find. If you are here, please bless us and follow me and brother. We will definitely be able to get out." The fat man muttered , "Reincarnation is reincarnation, don't worry about Xiao Wu, that kid is fine now. If you go down to accept the organizational test, don't worry, your third master is also waiting for you to do a fucking great career."

After the fat man finished talking, Wu Xie smiled in his heart: It's good.

There is not a lot of time to remember, and they are not allowed to use a lot.

The hexagonal copper bell array in front of him has a more shocking meaning besides a trap and a tomb.

That was a secret that Zhang Haike revealed to Wu Xie in Tibet a few years ago.

In the Zhang family's old house, there was a room that only the patriarch could enter, and the old patriarch's body was carried out from that room by the new patriarch himself.

And in this room, there are hidden secrets brought out by the Zhang family for so many years that cannot be discovered by the world, including the biggest secret called "ultimate".These secrets are guarded by the corridor leading to this room and the countless hexagonal copper bells hanging in the room. There are no dead ends. Anyone who breaks into it by force, without exception, will be destroyed by the power of the copper bells.

This room was later moved to the bottom of the Zhang family's ancient building, together with the corridor full of hexagonal copper bells, it was right in front of Wu Xie's eyes.

Wu Xie never expected that this illusion could possibly solve the biggest secret, which can almost be said to be the biggest surprise, because that secret is the core of everyone and all plans.

Of course, there are prerequisites for obtaining this secret.

The Zhang family's research on the hexagonal copper bell has a very long history, and it may even be the ancestors of the Zhang family who invented it.Among these bronze bells, there is one that is different from the others, and it is also a keepsake of the patriarchs of all ages.

This copper bell is not only a symbol of the patriarch's status, but also can offset the role of other bronze bells.The new patriarch of the past must rely on it to enter that room, succeed the old patriarch, obtain the "ultimate" secret, and continue the meaning of the Zhang family's existence.

Regarding this special female bell, Wu Xie also heard another story from Zhang Haike, which happened when Zhang Qiling was 13 years old.Wu Xie has researched and believed that, maybe apart from telling himself a little more awesomely, the story Zhang Haike told is still credible.

Wu Xie promised Zhang Haike to go to the hinterland of the snow-capped mountains to retrieve the copper bell that Zhang Qiling left inside the bronze gate of Motuo. Only a copper bell.

Someone took the mother bell before them.

The whereabouts of the mother bell has once again become a mystery.

When his thoughts came back, Wu Xie knew that at this time, he could only follow the two of them to watch quietly.

Zhang Qiling and Fatty walked towards the array of hexagonal copper bells. There were so many bells in the entire space that it was almost dazzling.Touch one of them casually, and there will be terrible consequences that make people hallucinate.

The current situation is already obvious, Zhang Qiling wants to pass through the hexagonal copper bell array to go to that room, and learn the secret again.

In any case, we can only hope that the two can pass smoothly.

However, what Wu Xie didn't expect was that the two of them walked in directly, and the fat man even knocked on one of the hexagonal copper bells with his fingers on purpose, and the copper bell made an inaudible but crisp sound.

Zhang Qiling didn't change his face, and stretched out his long fingers to push away the silk thread and bells in front of him, completely ignoring the ringing of those bells one after another.

Wu Xie was very shocked, but Zhang Qiling's eyes were very clear, not at all like being distracted by hallucinations, but seemed to be stained with a special look.

It was this discovery that made Wu Xie put away his doubts and worries in an instant, but fell into more intense emotions instead.

Wu Xie suddenly understood what happened when the pheromone was interrupted.

It can be inferred that when the two walked out of the bat cave, they must have discovered the secret of the cave and the mechanism of the unicorn wall.

Wu Xie once read a similar setting in some ancient books: the ancients learned to use the laws of nature to transform organs.Flowing water, wind of a certain strength, moving light...in order to achieve the control of the mechanism without human manipulation.

What they encountered this time was the use of changes in light.

On the unicorn wall, it can be inferred that such a device may also be connected outside the cave: according to the movement of the light, a node that senses the light will change in different forms, thereby pulling the entire mechanism to change, causing the wall to open. combine.The intuitive effect is that the walls are closed during the day with sufficient light, but open and close at dusk when the light is weak.

It seems that this is simply a mechanism tailor-made for those bats.

In fact, this kind of possibility also exists, but what is more likely is that there was another kind of existence in the cave at the beginning, which also came out at night and guarded the passage in the ancient building.Over time, that presence may have died out, or even been replaced by this colony of bats.

In the cave, there are clues that surfaced after the wall submerged into the ground, and through this, the passage mechanism can be opened again, so as to enter the passage, and finally come to the hexagonal copper bell array.

In fact, what happened at this time is no longer important. The important thing is that the two must have had a long conversation that can be described as very difficult after that and before they came to this copper bell formation.

Some fragments were linked together in his mind, and Wu Xie suddenly realized that it was Zhang Qiling himself who took the female bell from the snow mountain.Wu Xie almost immediately affirmed that the reason why the two of them were not afraid of the hexagonal copper bell array in front of them must be because Zhang Qiling used the female bell on his body to offset the illusion of the array.

Thinking about the fat man's sentence just now, "This is going to throw yourself into a trap", there is indeed no fear in his tone, but a kind of excitement that is eager to try.

More importantly, Zhang Qiling said that after passing through the copper bell formation, he will enter the most secret room and obtain that secret so that he can guard it again in a new reincarnation.

The core of Fatty's conversation with Zhang Qiling was Zhang Qiling's mission and destiny as the head of the Zhang family.

"Zhang Qiling" is not simply a name, but a symbol. The person who is given this name will become the patriarch of the entire family. At the same time, he will lose his original name, and even his past and future.

In the Zhang family, which has been passed down for a long time and has a stable internal structure, the patriarch is the core of the entire family, because only the patriarch holds the biggest secret of the Zhang family, and knows the strength and purpose of the Zhang family's maintenance.That's why from the moment the head of the Zhang family died in Sizhou City, the Zhang family lost its reason for existence, and the crisis began to emerge.

"What is left to you is rotten, and they will take all that can be taken."

An old voice rang in my ears.

So the Zhang Qiling who met Wu Xie became the last Zhang Qiling of the Zhang family.

Everything he did for the rest of his life was for the one mission that existed in his own mind and in his life.

A person can have a purpose that must be achieved in life, but once he lives for this purpose, his life loses all the purest things.

And all the good things in life.

At the moment when he was conscious, those had no meaning to him, he had only one responsibility that he had to shoulder, he had no right to see the scenery along the way, he couldn’t enjoy friends and lovers...

Once he enters that room again, he becomes the real Zhang Qiling again, and the endless cycle of fate will be opened again, a heavy but unavoidable fate.

Just like Zhang Qiling's eyes at this time, Wu Xie is no stranger. Many years ago, when they came to the snow mountain for the second time, Zhang Qiling looked at the continuous and soft snow mountain in the afterglow of the setting sun, and this was the look in his eyes.

Extremely desolate.

The footsteps of Zhang Qiling and Fatty were still ringing without the slightest pause.The two didn't pay any attention to all the copper bells in front of them. Facts proved that after the copper bells rang, the two of them were indeed not in danger.

Ahead is a deeper passage, also covered with bronze bells, leading to an unknown darkness.

And Zhang Qiling is about to step into that darkness, when he comes out again, fate will be the beginning of another reincarnation for him.He will be caught in the reciprocating cycle that exists in him again in the unknown years and months to come.

The two of them didn't say anything, and Wu Xie began to wonder if there was a hint of persuasion in the conversation between Fatty and Zhang Qiling.But the ending is already clear, if Fatty successfully prevents Zhang Qiling from entering, he will not go to Hangzhou to bid farewell to him, and he will not have that kind of determination on Changbai Mountain.

"The next thing can only be done by me, you don't have to follow me anymore."

And sure enough, there was no room for tone.

The fat man waved a brass bell and said, "Brother, I don't like hearing your words. What you told me and Tian Zhen is obviously related to both of you. The three of us have been together for so long , but if you insist on putting me aside as a messenger, you are too underestimating."

Zhang Qiling said: "I'm not absolutely sure, if I fail, I may ask you for help again, but this time I can only go by myself."

Wu Xie could almost predict what would happen next.Combining the information he had before, it can be deduced that Zhang Qiling is not only going to enter that room, but will also complete a certain ritual - a ritual that can ensure that the bronze bell array will continue to function within a certain period of time.

The Zhang family placed this secret in the deepest part of the ancient building, and used such a complex and cruel copper bell array, just to protect this secret from being discovered, but any mechanism that is so ingenious will eventually have weaknesses.The method of cracking the bronze bell is not only the mother bell, although the mother bell is not easy to be effective.

The key point is that these hexagonal copper bells will also fail, and they are related to a certain period.During this period, the patriarch himself must carry the mother bell to the ancient building to complete a ceremony first, and then there is another stop, which is the bronze gate behind Changbai Mountain.If these two things are not completed within this cycle, the copper bell will fail, and the secret may be known to the enemy, and the Zhang family will lose its meaning of existence.

And this is not the most frightening thing, the frightening thing is that once this secret is exploited, it will have unimaginable consequences.Even the head of the Zhang family who knew the secret in the past did not use this secret, but only guarded it.

When Zhang Qiling lost his memory before, he kept repeating "There is no time." It probably means that this cycle is coming, he must go to the ancient building, and he must go to the Bronze Gate.

And this cycle is ten years.

Time seemed to be frozen nine years ago, on Changbai Mountain in Feixue, Zhang Qiling handed him the ghost jade seal in his hand, saying that if he still remembered him ten years later, he could bring the ghost jade seal to replace him.Hopelessness, helplessness, and powerlessness surged like a tidal wave, washing him away to exhaustion.

For the first time, Wu Xie felt dazed and turbulent in the illusion, and that instability seemed to come from the fluctuation of his inner emotions.

Wu Xie worked hard to stay calm, and soon the ten-year deadline was up, not only him who wanted to act, but also the enemies hiding in the dark.He had to convince himself that all his plans were based on the fact that Zhang Qiling could appear before his eyes again.

Then he heard the fat man ask: "Brother, have you told Xiao Wu all this? Or are you going to use the neck of a pheasant to transmit information like you said?"

There is a tentative tone in the tone.

Snake, yes, this snake is the message Zhang Qiling brought him.Wu Xie suddenly thought, no wonder Zhang Qiling didn't tell him everything on Changbai Mountain, it was because it was not the right time, and he had to admit that at that time, even the Nine Gates were not strong enough.

The sense of powerlessness aroused in my heart just now suddenly subsided.He began to believe that maybe Zhang Qiling had thought of a way to solve the mystery of the copper bell array, and found a way to extend this cycle infinitely, or a way to get rid of the cycle of fate.So this time he will go to Changbai Mountain, not only to maintain the effectiveness of the copper bell array, but also to use some method to permanently isolate that secret from the world.Zhang Qiling will definitely not try to use that secret like the Wang family did, what he will do must be more decisive and thorough.

Wu Xie thought maybe Zhang Qiling already had a plan, but this plan took time. He chose to carry this plan for ten years in exchange for the growth of his strength on the same side as him.

The fluctuations in the illusion became more obvious, and Wu Xie was a little excited.

For several years, he has been telling himself not to stop, but he can't see hope. After waking up from so many illusions, his body is filled with more and more despair and loss.But this time, the conversation between Zhang Qiling and Fatty, although equally depressing, revealed a turning point and hope for the first time.

Zhang Qiling was silent for a long time.

However, when he spoke again, Zhang Qiling said flatly: "I will say goodbye to him when I leave here, but this snake is for myself."

With this sentence, Wu Xie completely collapsed.

is a crash.He could no longer control his mood and emotions, and everything seemed to be collapsing in a violent turmoil.

The snake was left to Zhang Qiling who might lose his memory again, not to Wu Xie.

Then came a sudden silence, not even the sound of footsteps.

Wu Xie felt that all the sounds suddenly disappeared, and the two walked to the other side of the copper bell array. There was a dark passage in front of them, but the darkness gradually spread up, and then even the vision became invalid.

……

This is a very strange experience. Wu Xie felt that in the illusion of pheromones, first of all, there was a sense of separation from the scene in the illusion, and then more of a strong sense of substitution.But this sense of substitution is different from the real experience, as if standing in the perspective of God.As a result, the heart is hardened, able to observe calmly, analyze rationally, without fear, without shrinking, without choices, and without panic choices.

However, every time he wakes up and truly regains control of his will, he finds that the influences that he thought he could shield have already been engraved into his heart.There is no escape from hatred, confusion, pent-up pain, and hopelessness.

It's like fate.

Confrontation or obedience, it took him two years to make a decision.

He didn't know how long it took Zhang Qiling. A person who was given a mission from birth, from the moment he was selected as Zhang Qiling, fell into the abyss where the moment and the eternity coexisted. He was not even sure. Did he ever think that there was a choice? .

And this moment is certain, Zhang Qiling has indeed made a choice - to end everything, alone.

Wu Xie woke up struggling and in pain, with a lot of blood choking in his nasal cavity and trachea.

For the first time in the illusion, he was suspended from the illusion because of a strong psychological fluctuation.

This feeling is by no means unfamiliar, but this time due to the strong emotional fluctuations, Wu Xie curled up into a ball.

He was in the dark, waiting for the lingering pain to slowly subside.

……

Time flashes back.

The train began to make regular noises without stopping, and with a distant whistle, Li Cuo woke up.

It seemed that it stopped at a certain station just now, and now the train started again.

He glanced at his watch, and the pale green fluorescent dial showed that it was 2015:7 am on a certain day in July 03.

Li Cu wanted to urinate, but he was also a little tangled, because he was sleeping on the upper bunk and had to climb down.He was not afraid of waking up Su Wan who was sleeping on the lower bunk, but because he was sleepy and lazy.

He really didn't understand why Wu Xie chose to take the train from Golmud to Jilin.Thinking of it, he opened his eyes and glanced at Wu Xie who was also sleeping on the upper bunk.

Wu Xie was unexpectedly not sleeping, in fact, it should be said that he was very energetic.

He just had a bad dream, dreaming about some past events, and because the scene in the dream was too real, it actually happened in reality, so he also woke up.

Wu Xie sat up, supported the railing on the bunk with one hand, put it up with the other hand, then poked her head out to look at the bunk below.Li Cuo also followed Wu Xie's gaze.

Zhang Qiling slept there.

There are still lights on the platform, and the train passes by, and the dim light flashes in through the gaps in the curtains.

Wu Xie was still poking his head out, while Zhang Qiling opened his eyes.

They stared at each other in a momentary silence of light.

Until the train drove into complete darkness.

Su Wan muttered something in his sleep in his deep sleep, Li Cu choked on his saliva and coughed several times.