Tomb Raider: I, at the beginning, took Fatty Lao Hu as my younger brother

The more you watch, the more shocking it becomes!

Although those ancient carvings were simple in composition, the psychological impact they brought to people was no less than seeing with one’s own eyes a living person being skinned alive in front of one’s eyes!

Every stroke in the mural looks like blood-colored glass!

Even Zhou Xun couldn't help but frown when he saw it.

In the mural, those who were tortured seemed not to be human beings, but just animals!

Extremely cruel!

The simple and unadorned lines of the human figures in the murals clearly distinguish the offerings from the priests.

The entire ancient city's snake bone sacrifice was completed by two priests. They wore strange clothes and masks and first fixed a slave to the wall.

Use a sharp weapon to peel off the slave's skin from the top of the head, and before the slave is completely dead, place him in the stone trough on the ground and kill him.

Then a priest carried the dead sacrifice into the place where there were two pools on the altar, which was the main place for sacrificing snake bones.

No matter what kind of ceremony is performed, the deceased and the phoenix gall must be sunk into two corresponding pools at the same time!

This seems to be to maintain some kind of balance of power!

The scene of the killing ritual was too cruel. After watching both sides in a row, everyone started to feel unwell, even Zhou Xun felt the same!

Although Zhou Xun is very powerful, he has never experienced such a cruel and bloody scene.

When it comes to facing this kind of scene, Lao Hu has seen more broken limbs and arms on the battlefield, but he can't accept it!

Old Hu suppressed his nausea and fear and asked Shirley Yang, "Is there no other way?"

Lao Hu couldn't accept it. In his opinion, if accomplices killed each other in order to survive, it was unacceptable either from a moral or conscience perspective.

To put it bluntly, accomplices are brothers who eat together and eat from the same pot. No one can harm anyone and point the gun at his own comrade.

Even if you survive by chance, you will fall into an irretrievable situation. You can escape the curse of the ghost cave, but you can never escape the curse of your conscience!

Shirley Yang also felt a great sense of relief at this moment.

Zhou Xun comforted the two of them, "Don't worry, this is not a dead end yet, there must be other ways!"

The stone troughs and walls where the skinning and killing rituals were held are so unbearable to look at.

The three of them returned to the hall with two pools, only to see Ah Xiang and Han Shu Na sitting next to Uncle Ming (daci) sobbing softly.

Uncle Ming had dull eyes and sat against the wall with his head down. Chuyi and Yingchen took the opportunity to sit down and rest, while the fat man squatted on the ground, looking at a strange crystal bowl.

When the fat man saw the three men coming back, he quickly waved to Zhou Xun and the other two, motioning them to come over.

The three of them walked over.

The body of the crystal bowl is like a small water tank, connected to the body of Jade Mountain from above, but it is a seamless whole with no apparent connection.

Since when, a thin strand of dark green crystal sand began to leak from above.

The bowl is already filled with a layer of debris.

The three of them looked upwards along the place where the crystal sand flowed out, and at the interface with the mountain, there was a black mural of a demon, whose face was blurred and unrecognizable.

But Zhou Xun knew that it was Mahakala striking Thunder Mountain!

This crystal bowl, into which quicksand is constantly being poured, seems like an ancient timepiece.

The fat man said to the three people seriously: "As soon as I came in, I found that this thing began to flow into the crystal sand. Judging from my appreciation of antiques and aesthetic taste."

"This thing has some strange and erotic skills, and it can be sold at a good price in Panjiayuan. Why don't we take it back and collect it as a souvenir? It's just right that Master Zhou's museum can also add an object!"

Old Hu was absent-minded at this time. He shook his head at the fat man, then nodded!

Zhou Xun didn't expect that the fat man cared so much about him, and he patted the fat man with satisfaction.

Good boy, you have made progress!

Shirley Yang said, "Maybe after we entered the altar, we accidentally triggered some mechanism, and the crystal bowl started counting down."

"If we fail to complete the ritual before the quicksand is filled, then..."

Shirley Yang said as she turned her gaze towards the dark shadow-like mural of the devil!

Old Hu suddenly realized: "Yes, this underground altar is the core of the holy land of the Eluohai people. Naturally, we cannot enter and exit casually. If the ceremony is not held at a certain time..."

Zhou Xun said: "If the time is up and the ceremony has not been held, then the Mahakala Thunder Mountain in the tunnel will be placed on the altar by the white tunnel!"

Old Hu nodded and said, "That's right. We still don't know what that black shadow-like thing is. It seems to be some kind of evil substance existing in the crystal stone!"

"It's the watcher of the altar, so how much time do we have left?"

Chapter 332: Sudden Enlightenment

Shirley Yang said: "Judging from the speed of the quicksand injection and the size of the crystal bowl, we have no more than two and a half to three hours left!"

"The cruel skinning and killing ritual must be completed within this time!"

Faced with the countdown of time that kept passing, Lao Hu started to panic again. He looked at the crystal bowl, as if what was left was not crystal sand, but the soul that was constantly pouring out of the body!

Shirley Yang said: "There is still plenty of time now, but staying in the altar in Yushan and staring at the quicksand will only suddenly increase the pressure in my heart."

"Let's retreat to the stone path outside and discuss how to deal with this matter!"

Zhou Xun, Lao Hu and Fatty had no objections.

So, a few people took Ah Xiang, Han Shuona, Uncle Ming "Six Five Seven" and Zhang Yingchen, and temporarily left the evil altar cave on the first day of the new year.

Sitting under the stone statue near the sky beam, they were all thinking about their own things and fell silent.

Zhou Xun thought to himself: What’s going on? Isn’t the way to break the curse the Zhuchen Pearl and the Ghost Eye?

Eye?

Thinking of this, Zhou Xun slapped his forehead. Damn it. He didn't expect that he would be scared by the mural and actually forgot such an important sacrificial plot.

"Snapped!"

In the already quiet atmosphere, Zhou Xun's action scared everyone.

Shirley Yang asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Xun said: "I think we were all fooled by the mural of people being skinned at first. That's not skinning at all, it's eyelid cutting!"

Eyelid surgery?

The fat man asked in confusion, "Why do they have to cut their eyelids? Do the people of the Demon Country like to eat their eyelids cold when drinking? Or does the snake god like that?"

Zhou Xun said: "No, cutting open the eyelids is just to take out the eyes, putting the person in the stone trough is also to take out the eyes, and the one sacrificed with the Zhuchen Pearl is also the eyes!"

Zhou Xun's words immediately made everyone, especially Shirley Yang and Lao Hu, think about it.

Lao Hu asked, "Could it be that we really have misunderstood?"

Shirley Yang thought for a moment and said, "It's very likely. After all, in the Demon Kingdom, eyes are the source of power!"

Zhou Xun said: "The first mural shows skinning. The priest holds down the head of the sacrifice and cuts it with a sharp weapon from the forehead. I have heard that skinning is done from the head with a sharp knife before, so we all have a preconceived idea and didn't think about it in other ways!"

"Plus, the execution pit was so bloody, and we were all suppressing our discomfort at the time, so we all thought they were peeling people's skins!"

The fat man glanced at Uncle Ming and said, "What should we do? To lift the curse, we need eyes. Where can we get eyes? If it doesn't work, then..."

The fat man didn’t say anything else.

But the meaning is already obvious.

If all else fails, find someone to dig out your eyes.

Zhou Xun, Lao Hu, Fatty, Shirley Yang, and Zhang Yingchen will definitely not sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

After all, this group of people, who are young, strong, and equipped with hot weapons, are undoubtedly the strongest side.

The first grade of junior high school is not easy and the strength is not bad.

So the options available are Uncle Ming's family of three, including the old, the young, the women and the children.

Uncle Ming has also woken up now. He just heard what the fat man said and is now shaking with fear.

Zhang Yingchen reminded: "We have a time limit, so we need to make a decision early!"

Shirley Yang really couldn't bear to kill each other.

Old Hu couldn't help but turn his eyes to Uncle Ming.

As for Ah Xiang and Han Shu Na, Lao Hu would not harm women. As for Uncle Ming, he is mentally ill anyway, so there is not much difference between having eyes and not having eyes.

Han Shu Na and A Xiang were huddled close to Uncle Ming at this time, terrified. They were afraid that Zhou Xun and his men would attack them, and they would have no power to resist.

Chuyi also became worried. He didn't think he could be a match for Zhou Xun and the others. What's more, his shotgun was out of bullets.

In addition, he had witnessed with his own eyes the scene where Zhou Xun killed the fire lizard with one move, and he knew in his heart that he was definitely no match for Zhou Xun.

Old Hu looked at Uncle Ming with a more determined look. If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth... 0

No matter how kind he is, he will not spend the rest of his and his brothers' lives being kind.

Thinking of this, Lao Hu said angrily: "If it really doesn't work, I think Uncle Ming is also mentally ill..."

Lao Hu hasn’t finished speaking yet!

Uncle Ming was so frightened that he screamed and stopped pretending.

He cried and begged, "Brother Hu, Brother Hu, I am fine now, really fine. Don't forget, I am still your father-in-law. When I get out, I will marry Ah Xiang to you. You can't do that to me!"

When Old Hu saw that Uncle Ming was actually better, he was immediately disappointed.

"Okay, you guys wait here, I'll go find the eyes!"

After Zhou Xun finished speaking, he walked directly towards an underground cave with a crystal vein in his memory.

If nothing unexpected happens, there will be an underground water cave there, and the old fish with white beard will be there, and the ghost mother's eyeballs will be in the belly of the old fish with white beard.

Everyone looked at Zhou Xun who suddenly left to look for his eyes and became confused.

What eyes can be found here?

But for Chuyi, Uncle Ming, Axiang and Han Shuona, it would be fine if they didn't have to gouge out their glasses.

At this moment, several people were too scared to speak when explaining, for fear that Fatty Lao Hu and the others would set their sights on them.

Zhou Xun searched for a while but still couldn't find the location of the underground water cave.

　2.8 Just when Zhou Xun was getting extremely anxious, he suddenly heard the sound of water hitting the stone wall.

Zhou Xun immediately ran towards the sound of flowing water as if he had found a source of water in the desert.

Sure enough, Zhou Xun found an underground water cave in a crystal vein.

The water hole below is quite large, and the water inside has been dyed red with blood.

The old fish with white beard that I had seen in the wind-eroded lake was stranded by the water, dying.

Although still alive, death is inevitable.

Its whole body was covered with wounds caused by bites and collisions, and its mouth opened and closed, spitting out blood bubbles continuously.

But no matter how he vomited, he couldn't spit out the ghost mother's eyeballs.

Chapter 333: The Ghost Mother's Eyes

Helpless, Zhou Xun could only wait quietly by the side.

After half an hour.

Just when Zhou Xun lost his patience and was about to draw out the Minghong Sword to gut the white-bearded old fish.

The old fish with white beard spat out a mouthful of blood and spat out two bead-like things from his mouth.

It dropped to the ground.

Seeing this, Zhou Xun was worried about an accident and immediately stepped forward to pick up the two beads.

Looking at the two beads in his hand, Zhou Xun knew that these were the eyes of the ghost mother.

Looking at the ghost mother's eyes in his hand, Zhou Xun smiled with satisfaction. With the ghost mother's eyes, the purpose of their trip was achieved.

With the addition of the Zhuchen Pearl, the curse will definitely be lifted.

Just as Zhou Xun was about to leave, he suddenly felt something important.

Zhou Xun immediately started counting on his fingers.

After figuring it out, Zhou Xun was extremely excited. He had never expected that there would be a way to survive in this underground water cave.