Chapter 902 Bloody Sacrifice (Second Update)
Earthquakes, floods, and a huge total solar eclipse hung in the blood-red sky.
An evil stone altar engraved with ancient symbols. A brown-haired woman wearing a mask of feathers, gems and a golden snake lay naked on the rough altar. The noisy shouts and the light of the torch could not illuminate the darkness of the stone steps under the altar. Red leaves fell like a rainstorm. The giant emerald snake with wings and a crown wrapped around the woman's body like a vine, with fangs and a big mouth, and hissed menacingly towards the surroundings. There is a circle of golden light around the edge of those dark snake eyes, just like the total solar eclipse at this moment. The giant snake did not stop the obsidian dagger decorated with gold and emerald from piercing the skin and muscles, and the blood flowed to the stone platform without any hindrance. The giant snake looked at him with sad eyes, then raised its head and roared in pain that could only be heard in the sea of souls.
Wanda Maximoff quickly held Salomon's arm and tried her best to prevent him from falling. She felt that beneath the thin clothes, Salomon's blood vessels and muscles were making a dull explosion under the influence of adrenaline. She didn't know what Salomon saw that caused such a big change in his mood. "I didn't see such a thing." He looked a little pale and patted Wanda on the shoulder, indicating that she could stand by herself. "If my plan works out, this shouldn't happen!"
Ms. Calamity removed her fingers, wiped the sweat from Salomon's forehead, then put it in her mouth to taste.
"You are healthy, you don't need to worry about this kind of thing." No one knew where her topic went, and she seemed to be back to her crazy state again. Ms. Calamity shouted loudly as she walked to her room, "No one can see everything! I want to watch "Antiques Roadshow". There will be no more antiques in the future. Will they be crushed by bullets and tracks! By the Golden Tyrant Burn! Warriors with dirty power flowing in their blood will set foot on every land! Cannons replace plows, and guns and swords replace sickles! Cherish the present, friends, there will be only war in the future!"
She wore a mask of blindness, but she maneuvered around the incense burners and decorations on the road as deftly as if she could still see. It's just that everyone in the temple is not concerned about the state of the crazy woman, but Salomon - something has been wrong with him since Lady Calamity put her finger on his forehead. The mystics in the temple all have good knowledge of secret arts, but under normal circumstances they cannot read Salomon's emotions and thoughts through the changes in aura around him, because he has extremely powerful protection measures for his brain. However, this time, Master Daniel saw a change in his aura, from blue to red, accompanied by lightning. Although it was only a moment, it could prove that what Salomon saw was so shocking that he was so angry and frightened that he could not protect his brain.
However, Salomon has always been one of the best mystics of Karma Taj. He adjusted his emotions so quickly that other mystics can no longer read his thoughts. Wanda's basic education was provided by Salomon. She also learned the second vision of the mystics, and she also saw Salomon's emotional changes.
Salomon frowned, carefully recalling the sights that Ms. Calamity showed him.
"What did you see?" Wanda asked worriedly, "Is it scary?"
"I can't say, dear. Quetzalcoatl is the thread entangled with Lara Croft's fate, and everything related to her needs to be carefully considered." Salomon shook his head, "But you have to know that prophecy is just a kind of It's a possibility that can be used as a reference rather than a fact that will definitely happen. Don't worry, I'll be fine. Now that Ms. Calamity has given me a hint, I have to find a way to deal with it." He patted Master Daniel on the shoulder, Looking at the other mystics in the temple, "I'm fine, I'm fine. Let's continue working."
Salomon walked quickly towards the fixed portal of the temple, and Wanda quickly followed.
"What are you going to do?" she asked. "Are you going to find Lara Croft?"
"No, Wanda, you still need to learn more prophecy stories." Salomon rubbed his eyes, "Sometimes our actions are the motivation for the prophecy. Calm down, this kind of thing is very common."
"What the hell!" Salomon cursed in a low voice while flipping through the books.
The legend of Quetzalcoatl is complicated and has many versions, including the Mayan phantom snake Kukulcan, the Aztec Quetzalcoatl, and if you go back further, there is Olme The Quetzalcoatl of the Quetzalcoatl civilization, as well as the Waksaklahun Uba Ken believed in by a large number of other ancient civilizations in Central America, whose powers range from the wind god to the sun god, etc., from the Yucatan Peninsula With the ancient city of Chichen Itza as the center, it spread to Guatemala, Uxmal, Mayapan and other places.
According to legend, the Aztec gods would create the next world after the destruction of the old world. The current world is the fifth world that was born after this process. As the center of the world, it is the sun that represents the world itself and protects the prosperity of life. Quetzalcoatl is regarded as the sun of the second world guiding the sun of the fifth world. The five suns now carved on the Stone of the Sun in Mexico City represent the five worlds, including all the worlds from the past to the present, and express the world view of Mesoamerican beliefs-that is, destruction and creation, death and birth, the world is in The process of destruction and creation is repeated continuously. However, Quetzalcoatl in any faith will involve blood sacrifices. It was not until the emergence of the ruler Topilqin, the demigod incarnation of Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology, that the bloody priests of Quetzalcoatl were It slowly ceases, replacing the blood and heart with flowers and butterflies.
But Salomon would not believe that this kind of thing really had anything to do with Quetzalcoatl. Blood sacrifice is the most effective and direct way to provide power to the gods. No extradimensional being will give up this way of gaining faith. Quetzalcoatl’s old enemy, who has been trying to restore blood sacrifice, Quetzalcoatl’s brother disputes and darkness The god Tezcatlipoca may actually be a real extradimensional creature.
This is malicious speculation, and Salomon doesn't mind using the worst ideas to speculate on all extradimensional creatures.
Salomon was looking for information about Quetzalcoatl's sacrifice to himself. However, after searching over and over again, he only found that Topil's willpower collapsed after taking tequila, and he had a relationship with his sister, and then the golden age ended and the bloody sacrifice returned. The beautiful city of Tula was burned. In some mythological stories, Topilchen sacrificed himself and his heart turned into a morning star and rose into the sky. Others said that he traveled to the mythical country of Traparan. But either way, Topilchen predicted that one day he would return to destroy his enemies and rebuild a pious country.
That day was the "Day of the Reed" when Quetzalcoatl promised to return.
If Salomon's guess is correct, Laura lying on the stone bed should be performing a ceremony on behalf of the human god (who has an honorable status, not a bad human sacrifice, which is Salomon's only comfort now). The sun is called "Iparni Mowani" which means "the thing on which people live". In the past, people believed that the sun was the source of all energy in the world, because it gave life to the world and in return received life from the world. Since the foundation and symbol of life is the heart, the hearts of humans and animals were sacrificed to the sun to keep it alive in its movement across the sky.
Salomon was not surprised at all that there were twists and turns in this matter. He just felt that he had not done enough.
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