Chapter 191 Mural
These murals come from relics of different human civilizations from all over the world, and are reproduced in this "temple" in the form of rubbings.
Vibrations came from the top of the dome, and dust fell rustlingly along with the gravel. However, Sun Hang completely ignored the danger that the place might collapse at any time, and raised his head to admire the murals selflessly.
He discovered that the ancient myths of Xiazhou and the myths of ancient civilizations far away in other corners of the world seemed to have a lot in common.
For example, in Xiazhou mythology, a giant named Pangu split the chaos. After Pangu died, different parts of his body turned into the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, gold, stone, grass and trees...
In Norse mythology, there is also a giant named Ymir. His blood turned into the ocean; his flesh turned into the land; his bones turned into mountains; his hair turned into trees... Even his The brain has turned into clouds floating in the sky.
In the eyes of the ancestors of Xiazhou and Nordic Loba, the world seemed to be made of the corpse of a giant, and everything in the world was a part of the giant's body.
Time continues to push back, and when human civilization began to flourish on this land, both Eastern and Western civilizations recorded an unprecedented flood - Noah's Ark and the Flood mentioned in ancient Greek mythology. There is a clear record of "Dayu's flood control" in Xiazhou history, which most likely happened during the same period.
Not only that, even the allusion of "stealing fire" has unexpected "coincidences" in Eastern and Western mythology.
In ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from heaven and gave it to humans in order to help humans learn to use fire. Therefore, he was hung on a cliff and allowed to be eaten by eagles.
In Xiazhou mythology, there is also a story about the fire god Yan Bo who threw fire into the world and was demoted to a mortal by the Emperor of Heaven.
If these stories only appeared alone, they might not attract people's attention. However, when major events with similar or even almost identical contents occur in the East and the West, one cannot help but wonder that these things may not all be fictions created by our ancestors. story.
Especially in prehistoric times, the living environment of human society was very harsh. The only means of transportation were two legs. There were very few cultural exchanges between different civilizations, and information was relatively limited... But in this case, these Civilizations with completely different races, birthplaces, climates, and cultural customs have given birth to mythical stories with similar content. This may mean...
"Those things called gods, they once really existed, and they had an immeasurable impact on human civilization..." Sun Hang murmured to himself, "When the power of a certain strange thing is strong enough, It is so powerful that it is difficult to understand based on human cognition, so there is no problem in calling it a god.”
God and trickery are both things beyond human cognition... In the biblical records, some of God's angels are huge eyeballs with six pairs of wings, and some are wheels full of eyes... If If an angel comes to the world in such an image, then modern human civilization will undoubtedly define it as a new type of strange creature.
Not all gods are good to people. There are many "evil gods" in both Eastern and Western mythologies. They are either extremely murderous, in love with blood and destruction, or they have severe paranoia or mania. , there are even many "emotionless" beings - -They will not care about the survival of human beings, let alone change their rules of action because of human beings' prayers or curses. They are like the sun and the moon, rising in the east and setting in the west every day... they will not set more due to severe drought. A drop of rain will not cause any extra heat due to the severe cold.
"Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs."
Lao Tzu said this in the Tao Te Ching.
Truly powerful monsters, such as those primitive monsters, their existence is no different from gods to humans - but they have never appeared when monsters invaded human territory on a large scale. Otherwise, human civilization would It was completely extinct more than two hundred years ago, and it is impossible for this kind of fire to be left on the Xiazhou Continent.
Their attitude towards human beings is neither friendly nor hateful, but indifferent - they do not care about the life and death of human beings, just like the flood does not care about the people swept away by it, but the sunshine that shines on the earth Nor does it care about crops that absorb energy and thrive.
Sun Hang walked along the "bowl of the bowl" and looked at the murals. He began to question the reasons for the appearance of the strange things... Is their real purpose really to completely destroy human civilization?
Another word suddenly popped up in Sun Hang's head.
"Assimilation."
The memes of strange creatures can infect humans... Human beings who can withstand the backlash of memes and successfully become their containers will become infected with various special abilities, and those losers in the "survival of the fittest" will either die or Turn into treacherous corpses, or become food for treacherous things...
This is not a natural law.
But Sun Hang always felt that something was wrong...
He couldn't tell what was wrong, but his intuition told him that this idea was wrong.
This is the idea held by the group of "evolutionists" who are considered "cults" by the federal government - they believe that if humans want to survive, they must live in harmony with monsters, as long as everyone can become infected...or more To put it more radically, as long as humans themselves become monsters, monsters will no longer be a threat to humans.
And those who cannot bear the backlash of memes are "defective products" destined to be eliminated by this world.
They worship strength, worship monsters, worship power, and promote the theory of the jungle and the strong on the Internet...
However, when some of their opinion leaders were arrested and deported to occupied areas, these people's faces not only did not show the joy that they were about to achieve their long-cherished wish, but instead showed extreme fear and despair... It seemed that they had completely forgotten their "harmony" The theory that weird things coexist in harmony.
For these people, Sun Hang's evaluation was only four words.
"The clown."
Sun Hang stopped in front of a mural.
Compared with those ancient murals with abstract lines, the painting technique of this mural is closer to modern oil paintings - the painting depicts a thick fog that makes people unable to see their fingers, with people running around in the fog, and hundreds of people above the ground. At a height of three meters, you can vaguely see a strange giant thing, moving slowly in the thick fog.
"A mural based on mythology?" The Cthulhu Mythos is not one of those ancient classical myths, but was written by a writer from the United States who lived more than a hundred years ago.
At that time, the war between humans and monsters had reached a fever pitch. This writer's works were not popular at first. Many people thought that they were just literary re-creations of what was happening in the real world. , but as his readers gradually increased, people soon realized that the things described by this author were far more creepy than the weird things in the real world.
In his works, those "gods" cannot be observed, understood, or recognized. They are not personal gods like Zeus, the Emperor of Heaven, and Jehovah, but more like a part of this world. They are the controllers of the rules of the universe, or in other words, they are the rules themselves.
These gods will not take the initiative to attack humans, but for humans, just knowing the relevant knowledge is enough to cause fatal disasters.
Some people sneered at it and thought it was just a ploy by the author to make things mysterious, but others became loyal fans of the writer, and many literary works based on the Cthulhu mythology appeared.
In the works of this writer, there is a fictional character named "Abdullah Alhassad" who wrote a classic called "The Necronomicon" in 3427 AD. The book is called a "mythological classic that records the truth of the world" by fans of the Cthulhu Mythos. It records a large number of gods and monsters, and provides detailed and detailed descriptions of these existences...
In the beginning, even those fans of the Cthulhu Mythology knew that these things were just fabricated by writers... Fans studied these things just to pass the boring time, or for the purpose of literary creation...
The gods mentioned in those mythological stories passed down thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago may really exist, but in several novels written more than a hundred years ago, the gods and monsters in them are 100% fictionalized by the authors. ... No matter how bad it is, it is still a fictional image created after the second creation based on the weird things in reality.
But no one thought that after the death of the writer, the monsters mentioned in the "Necronomicon" really appeared.
Except for the "Book of the Dead", these monsters have never been recorded in history. Even in the myths and historical books of various countries, there are no clues... The only clue is the time of their birth. There are only "Cthulhu Mythos Novels" for more than ten years.
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These "literary works" soon attracted the attention of various countries, and they established a luxurious team of experts to study these works...
Experts soon discovered a mind-numbing fact - the monsters mentioned in the "Necronomicon" completely coincided with the images in some of the sighting reports of newly discovered monsters, not only in appearance, but also in... The habits and abilities are exactly the same... If the plots of those novels are removed and only the descriptions of monsters are retained, then these literary works are almost an accurate file of monsters!
This discovery soon shocked the world.
Fans of the Cthulhu Mythos fell into madness. They began to call the "Necronomicon" the "Book of Prophecies" and the writer a "prophet"... A group of people who originally gathered just out of interest The literary lovers who came together gradually formed organizations full of religious colors...
Ironically, in the author's novels, there are also many religious orders or mysterious organizations that believe in the old gods... From a certain perspective, he not only predicted the emergence of strange creatures, but also predicted human society. changes that have occurred.
Although this change is nothing compared to those strange things.
Scholars who study weird objects believe that the Arab scholar named "Abdullah Alhassad" in the novel is not a fictional character, but a real person in history... He collected those related to weird objects information, and compiled it into the "Necronomicon" - this "Necronomicon" may also exist, and the author of the United States may have learned about this rare book through some special channels. The contents of the well-known "occult writings."
And now, those ancient strange things that were once recorded in the "Book of the Dead" have once again appeared in the field of vision of human civilization.
It's a pity that the writer died of cancer in the 4634th year of the lunar calendar... Regarding the truth about the "Necronomicon", no one in the world can give an accurate answer.
Under the foggy mural, two lines of text were written in Latin. Sun Hang didn't understand Latin, but after seeing these two lines of text, he subconsciously read them in Chinese. .
"It is not the dead who sleep eternally. In the mysterious eternity, even death itself will disappear."
He has never read any Cthulhu novels, but he clearly remembers that this sentence comes from the "Necronomicon" which is regarded as the "Bible" by lovers of the Cthulhu mythology.
It is said that the Necronomicon was originally written in a minority language in Arabia, and was later translated into Greek and Latin. There are many different versions of the translation, but the whereabouts of the original manuscript are unknown— -Some people say that when the original manuscript of the "Necronomicon" appears, the world will be completely destroyed.
But I don't know why... Sun Hang always felt that people seemed to have the order reversed.
Why must the strange thing recorded in the "Necronomicon" reappear in the world? Why can't the monsters decide to appear in front of the world in the form of monsters in the book after reading the Necronomicon?
Maybe the writer who was depressed during his lifetime turned into a spirit after his death, or maybe he merged with a powerful monster and created the monsters that appeared in his novels like a novel?
At that time, more than two-thirds of the United States had been occupied, and "Rhode Island" where his grave is located was located in the occupied area...
If a powerful existence absorbs his consciousness, it is not impossible to do so...
Sun Hang continued to walk forward, and the scene depicted in the next mural did not look like the content of a fairy tale.
It was a group of people in white coats, dancing strange dances around an operating bed, and on this operating bed, a thin girl was tightly tied with restraints and could not move.
[P.S. This chapter is 4,000 words long. Two chapters have been combined into one. 】
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