Trickster Hunter

Chapter 191 Murals

These murals are relics from different human civilizations all over the world, and they are reproduced in this "temple" in the form of rubbings.

Vibrations came from above the dome, and dust and gravel fell down, but Sun Hang completely ignored the danger of collapse at any time, and looked up to admire the murals in ecstasy.

He found that the ancient myths of Xiazhou and the myths of ancient civilizations in other corners of the world seemed to have a lot in common.

For example, in the Xiazhou mythology, a giant named Pangu split the chaos, and 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, whose blood turned into the ocean; flesh and blood turned into land; bones turned into mountains; hair turned into trees...even his brain turned into clouds floating in the sky.

In the eyes of the ancestors of Xiazhou and Northern Europe, the world seemed to be made of the corpse of a giant, and everything in the world was part of the giant's body.

As time went on, when human civilization began to flourish on this land, both Eastern and Western civilizations recorded an unprecedented flood - the Noah's Ark mentioned in ancient Greek mythology and the "Dayu's flood control" clearly recorded in Xiazhou history were likely to have occurred in the same period.

Not only that, even the allusion of "stealing fire" has unexpected "coincidences" in Eastern and Western mythology.

In ancient Greek mythology, in order to let humans learn to use fire, Prometheus stole fire from heaven and gave it to humans, so he was cruelly punished by being hung on a cliff and let an eagle peck at his internal organs.

In Xiazhou mythology, there is also a story about the fire god Yanbo throwing fire into the human world, and thus being demoted to a mortal by the Emperor of Heaven.

If these stories only appeared individually, they might not attract people's attention. However, when major events with similar or even almost identical contents appeared in the East and the West, people could not help but suspect that these things might not be all fictional stories made up by our ancestors.

Especially in prehistoric times, the living environment of human society was very bad. The only means of transportation was their own two legs. There was very little cultural exchange between different civilizations, and information was relatively closed... But in this case, these civilizations with completely different races, origins, climates, and cultural customs gave birth to myths with similar contents, which might mean...

"Those things called gods once really existed and had an immeasurable impact on human civilization..." Sun Hang muttered to himself, "When the power of a certain weird thing is strong enough, so strong that it is difficult to understand with human cognition, then it is completely fine to call it a god."

God and weird are also things beyond human cognition... In the Bible, some of God's angels have a huge eyeball with six pairs of wings, and some have a wheel full of eyes... If an angel comes to the world in such an image, then modern human civilization will undoubtedly define it as a new type of weird thing.

Gods are not all kind to humans. There are many "evil gods" in both Eastern and Western mythology. They are either extremely bloodthirsty, fond of blood and destruction, or severely paranoid or manic. Perhaps there are even many "emotionless" beings - they will not care about the survival of mankind, and will not change their own principles of action because of human 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 drop an extra drop of rain because of drought, nor will they cast an extra point of heat because of severe cold.

"Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as straw dogs."

Lao Tzu said this in the Tao Te Ching.

The truly powerful weird things, such as those primary weird things, their existence is no different from gods to humans - but they have never appeared when the weird things invaded human territory on a large scale. Otherwise, human civilization would have been completely destroyed more than two hundred years ago, and it would be impossible for this fire to remain on the Xiazhou continent.

Their attitude towards humans is neither friendly nor hateful, but rather indifferent - they do not care about the survival of humans, just as a flood does not care about the people swept away by it, and the sun shining on the earth does not care about the crops that absorb energy and thrive.

Sun Hang walked along the "bowl mouth" and looked at the murals. He began to question the reason for the appearance of the weird things... Is their real purpose really to completely destroy human civilization?

Another word suddenly popped up in Sun Hang's mind.

"Assimilation."

The memes of the weird things can infect humans... Humans who can withstand the backlash of the 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, turn into weird skeletons, or become the nutrients of the weird things...

Isn't this a natural law?

But Sun Hang always felt that something was wrong...

He couldn't say what was wrong, but his intuition told him that this idea was wrong.

The group of "evolutionaries" who were considered a "cult" by the federal government held exactly this idea - they believed that if humans wanted to survive, they had to live in harmony with monsters. As long as everyone could become infected... or to put it more radically, as long as humans themselves became monsters, then monsters would 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 power, worship monsters, worship strength, 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 is 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 can't be seen, 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 long-established classical myths, but came from the pen of a United States writer 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 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 mythology. 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 that have been 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 expected that after the death of the writer, the monsters mentioned in the "Necronomicon" would actually appear.

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.

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 Mythology fell into madness. They began to call the "Necronomicon" the "Book of Prophecy" 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.

Unfortunately, the writer died of cancer in 4634 AD... No one in the world can give an accurate answer to the truth of the Book of the Dead.

Under the foggy mural, there are two lines of text written in cursive Latin - Sun Hang does not understand Latin, but after seeing these two lines of text, he subconsciously reads them out in Chinese.

"It is not the dead who sleep forever, in the mysterious eternity, even death itself will disappear."

He has never read any Cthulhu novel, but he clearly remembers that this sentence comes from the Book of the Dead, which is regarded as the "Bible" by Cthulhu mythology fans.

It is said that the Book of the Dead was originally written in a minority language in the Arabic region, and was later translated into Greek and Latin. There are many different versions of its translation, but the original manuscript is missing - some people also say that when the original manuscript of the Book of the Dead appears, it will be the time when the world is completely destroyed.

But for some reason... Sun Hang always felt that people seemed to have got the order wrong.

Why must it be the monsters recorded in the Book of the Dead that reappeared in the world? Why can't the monsters decide to appear in front of the world in the image of monsters in the book after reading the Book of the Dead?

Maybe the writer who was frustrated during his lifetime turned into a spirit after his death, or merged with a powerful monster, and created the monsters that appeared in his writings like writing novels?

At that time, more than two-thirds of the United States had fallen, and the "State of Rhode Island" where his grave was located was located in the fallen area...

If a powerful existence absorbed his consciousness, it would not be impossible to do so...

Sun Hang continued to move forward, and the next mural depicted a scene that did not look like the content of a myth.

It was a group of people in white coats, dancing strangely around an operating table, and on this operating table, a thin girl was tied tightly with restraints and could not move.

[P.S. This chapter has 4,000 words, so two chapters have been merged into one. ]