Amidst a burst of rapid shouting, I regained consciousness.
"Andrew?" I felt like my head was still a little confused and I didn't know what kind of situation I was in.
Andrew's facial expression was a little strange and he said to me: "Zhou Cang, why did you run into the sedan just now? Aren't you afraid?"
"I ran into the sedan. It's not like I have a brain problem." A gust of wind came from nowhere and flowed into the cabin, right into my mouth. I was choked and coughed several times. "It was just because of
The wind and waves on the lake were too strong, and the ship's hull was undulating too much, making her feet unstable, so she fell into the sedan."
I shook my head to wake myself up.
The fish-faced man, the altar, and the blood drops on the white thatch grass seemed to be still before my eyes, and I could vaguely hear the shocking sound of thousands of musical instruments playing simultaneously in my ears. However, Andrew said that he had always been in the boat,
Could it be that everything that just happened was just a dream of mine? A slightly long dream. Or maybe it was my hallucination.
However, all of this is so real.
"Zhou, what is that thing you are holding in your hand? Did you pick it up in the sedan?" Andrew said, reaching out to take the dark red stone piece out of my hand.
I subconsciously retracted my hand, and then said coldly: "I brought this from home, not picked it up."
"Zhou, you stayed in the sedan for less than ten seconds. You ran out as if you were crazy. Then you took something like this in your hand. I thought you picked it up in the sedan. There was nothing else."
Meaning." Andrew explained.
"Andrew, I have been in the sedan for less than ten seconds, are you sure?" I was originally putting the dark red stone pieces back into the waterproof bag. When I heard Andrew say this, my hand stayed in mid-air.
I couldn't help but ask.
"Well, I should be sure. It may not be accurate to say ten seconds. Anyway, the time is very short. After you ran in, I stood up and wanted to follow you to see what happened, but before I reached the sedan, you ran away.
Come out. Also, when you came out, your face looked very strange." Andrew stopped, as if thinking about what word to use to describe the situation at that time.
"What's wrong with my face?" I suddenly thought of snake skin and couldn't help but touch it with my hand.
"Zhou, what I said may not be accurate, but that's what I really think. I feel that at that moment, your face looked like a woman, but in a flash, you became Zhou Cang again." Andrew looked at her seriously.
He said to me.
Woman, in the sedan chair, have I really turned into the woman in the gold wedding dress in the corridor of the ancient temple?
I vaguely felt that there seemed to be something that didn't make sense. I couldn't help but frown, and carefully recalled what happened after entering the black sedan from beginning to end.
Suddenly, I understood what made me feel unsmooth. Because after the whole process was completed, I didn't feel any sense of getting married. Instead, I felt like I was holding a sacrifice.
Could it be that that outfit is not for wedding, but a special costume for sacrifice.
Moreover, the white thatch grass and the bowls of red liquid that was not known to be blood were basically the same as the sacrificial rituals in the ancient ancestral temple. However, in the reliefs on the gate of the ancient ancestral temple, only theirs were sitting on the altar.
There is only one clan leader, but just now it was me and the fish-faced man sitting on the altar at the same time, both holding the astrolabe in both hands.
Astrolabes, light beams, mirages, cubes, etc., I suddenly thought, might the sacrifice be a ceremony to activate the function of the astrolabe, and the function of the astrolabe is to make the cube appear.
The cube must be able to bring something, and it must be inextricably linked to the group of patterns written by the fish-faced man with white thatch and the "Earth Mother Sutra".
Although I am currently unable to determine the function of that huge white marble cube, I can already confirm that the moment I entered the black sedan chair, I participated in a complete sacrificial ceremony.
However, I had been in a state of confusion just now, so I didn't grasp many details of the sacrifice at all, resulting in missing a lot of information, such as: what is the situation in the mirage in the light beams emitted by the two astrolabees?
What is the connection between the group of patterns written by the fish-faced man and the "Earth Mother Sutra"? What is that cube? The ancient temple people's worship of totems with human heads and snake bodies originated from the cube
The relief on top?
No, I want to enter the black sedan again and figure out all these problems.
Thinking of this, I didn't hesitate. This time, I really walked in by myself.
"Zhou Cang, you..."
Before Andrew finished speaking, I had already opened the black curtain and entered the sedan.
However, nothing happened. The sedan would no longer cause me any hallucinations. Inside, I felt dizzy as the ship's hull swayed, as if I was seasick.
"Zhou Cang, what are you doing? We are in the same boat now. You do this without telling me why. I don't understand it?" Andrew seemed a little angry.
I didn't want to pay attention to Andrew, and planned to take out the dark red stone flakes from the waterproof bag to see if it would work. However, before I took out the stone flakes, suddenly, a loud noise came from outside, and then,
There was a sound of "Ouch", and then the deck above us seemed to have been hit hard by something, and the ship's deck beneath our feet trembled tremendously.
"Come out quickly Zhou Cang, our ship was hit by lightning." Andrew's tone was very anxious.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but give up looking for the way to the altar in the black sedan, and got out at once.
"Andrew, what's going on?"
Our boat seemed to have suddenly lost traction and was shaking violently. The two of us were rocked to and fro by the inertia of the hull.
"The mast should have been struck by lightning and then broken." Andrew turned his eyes gloomily and looked at the entire cabin, as if he was looking for something.
"What, this is a wooden sailboat. Without the force of the canvas, we would capsize soon."
"This is just a problem. I suspect that there is already a fire above. Look at the top."
After hearing what Andrew said, I looked up and saw black smoke coming from the deck above my head.
It feels like there's still a lot of wind and rain outside. Why is there a fire on the deck?
"It's strange. I searched the whole boat and there wasn't even a lifebuoy. This is not consistent with common sense at all. Zhou, we have to get back to the deck quickly. If it doesn't work, we may have to jump into the lake. Otherwise, we will not survive.
He was burned to death in this cabin." Under this situation, Andrew became unusually calm. He walked and talked. Before he finished speaking, he had already climbed onto the bridge connecting the deck and the cabin.
stairs.
When I saw this, I hurriedly followed him.
When we climbed onto the deck again, Andrew and I were stunned by the scene in front of us.
The wind was biting, and the season suddenly seemed to have flipped. The violent wind and rain were like a hungry wolf wandering in the wilderness, tearing at my flesh and blood. There were thunder and lightning, and the sun was no longer visible. The lake seemed to be boiled.
It seemed like it was all foam, and a huge wave rolled in from a distance with a special speed. The fire on the deck was not afraid of the cold rain at all, burning unscrupulously, and it seemed that it would reach our feet in the next second.
"Jump quickly," Andrew shouted, and I felt a push on my back, and I sank into the rolling waves.
At the same time, the mast on the deck, along with the worn canvas and the wooden boat riddled with holes, were swept away by the huge waves.