Doomsday Wonderland

She looked at herself in the portrait, and was taken aback for a moment.

Under her thick black eyelashes, there was always a soft, hopeful smile in her eyes; she spent a lot of time in the apocalyptic world to keep her white and neat teeth, which made her smile. Especially amiable. The oil painting is not only realistic, but also captures her "god" very well.

When her eyes lingered on the slender and clean neck of the portrait, Scott's voice rang again from the other side of the cave, calling out, "Pan Cui? Pan Cui, are you listening to me?"

Pan Cui turned around and hurried a few steps towards Scott's portrait. She covered her neck with one hand, fearing that it would affect the wound, and replied in a hoarse voice to the oil painting hanging on the mountain wall: "I'm listening... I have a cold, it's hard to speak out loud, you say, I listen."

Based on the reactions of Scott, and a few other portraits she has occasionally heard, Pancui believes that the moment when this "game" really begins should be when Peter taps the glass and asks the newcomer to introduce himself—at Before that, the oil paintings did not seem to hear what the few evolutionaries said, nor did they respond.

If I guessed correctly, it should be after the newcomer introduced himself, every word the evolutionary said was heard by the oil paintings... Pan Cui thought of this, turned the book to the back, and said "speculation" Under the heading, write down your thoughts.

Fortunately, they can also communicate with pen and paper, otherwise they would be worried.

Not far from Scott, Lin Sanjiu, who was chatting with Kate, suddenly turned his head and gestured to Pan Cui, as if to ask for a book—it was just such a simple action, but by Lin Sanjiu When done, it seems especially neat and smooth.

When she lowered her head to write, Pan Cui couldn't help but glance at her several times.

Kate's voice continued to drift out from the portrait, but the content was not much gold, just some gossip; Lin Sanjiu responded to her with a few hums while writing—she was standing in a cave in the mountainside, The shoulders are covered with light, and the feet are in the shadows, as if it were a strange painting in itself.

When the book was handed over again, Pan Cui found that she had written two new clues: First, Kate said that she was spilled by a servant, and stains appeared in her portrait; In the conversation, Raven raised the question of "why we didn't put anti-monitoring measures".

Wait a minute, that is to say, do we usually use anti-monitoring measures at gatherings...

Pan Cui didn't forget to smile at Lin Sanjiu first, and silently expressed her gratitude to her, and then lowered her head to think about new clues for a while.

It's a pity that there are still too few clues, one from the east to the other, and it is still difficult for her to string a logical line between the clues.

It's not enough for her to collect clues by herself. Lin Sanjiu has good judgment and a very cooperative spirit. With her here, they should be able to leave here together, right? Pina is also reliable, as for Jiajiatian...

At this moment, the portrait of Scott paused, and from the background sound, it seemed that he was thirsty and took a sip.

"Scott," Pan Cui seized the opportunity, pressed the wound on her neck, and interjected as calmly as possible: "You are well-informed and experienced, can you tell me, when Peter mentioned the latest theory, he mentioned I said something that happened before... I'm new here and I don't know the situation, can I ask what happened before?"

She dared not ask what the "latest theory" was because she feared it was something a newcomer should already know.

Although I don't understand why, this six-person party seems to want to recruit new people, and is full of vigilance against them. Under the circumstances that they are not very sure, Pan Cui has not forgotten that Peter seems to have some plans. It could give Scott a certain ability.

"Although Peter doesn't like to mention it, I don't think there is anything to avoid about those things. After all, we want to ensure that the same thing will not happen again in the future, so everyone has to know about it and learn from it." She wanted to hide her intentions, but Pan Cui was surprised by her frankness. "To be honest, you are not the first batch of new recruits to be recruited. At first, only Peter and Minna noticed the truth. We all joined later."

Pan Cui hurriedly said "um" and motioned for him to go down.

"Before you, about half a year ago, we tried to recruit new people a few times... But it's strange that they never came after they came to the party and heard us explain the situation."

At this moment, Pina also seemed to get a new clue from Nika, and ran over at a small pace, looking for Pan Cui to take away the pen and paper, and hurriedly lowered her head to write.

"Why?" Pan Cui asked towards the portrait.

The man's slender face in the portrait was staring straight ahead, not even a single stroke of oil changed its position. But when Pan Cui stood by the portrait and asked questions, she always felt that Scott's eyes on the portrait seemed to turn to her side.

"We were afraid of the news at first, so after we couldn't get in touch with the new couples, we started to look for them. You may not know, but everyone who can be brought to the summit mansion to the party will be introduced by an introducer. I have carefully reviewed the background and confirmed that there is no problem..."

"Hey, so I've been censored too?" Pan Cui took a risk and asked.

"Yes, of course I won't tell you during the background check. If you want to introduce new people to join the club in the future, you must also perform this duty... I said off topic. All in all, when we went to find someone, we found that the The few newcomers who have attended the party have never existed."

Pan Cui hurriedly repeated this sentence in her mind in order to remember it better. "It didn't exist? What do you mean?"

"Those newcomers were obviously known or heard of before. They were all people with parents, families, and jobs, but when we found that we couldn't get in touch to find someone, we realized that, No one in the world except us remembers who they are. There is no trace of their existence in the world."

Pan Cui didn't know how to digest the news for a while, and she paused before asking, "That's why Peter was so careful this time...?"

"Yes, Peter believes that those newcomers are likely to be created 'characters' to approach us... In this way, 'them' can keep track of our situation at any time."

Could it be that the previous "newcomers" were also evolutionaries? It also seemed natural that they disappeared from the world of the plot after finishing the plot.

However, even though she knew that the evolutionary people would participate in the party in the form of "newcomers", Pan Cui still didn't know what goals they should achieve in order to successfully complete this road - this part of the plot is really confusing.

"It's not easy to handle," Pan Cui tried to laugh as casually as possible, and accidentally shook the wound a little, feeling the blood soaked into the bandage. "I don't know what else to do except let time prove that I am a real person."

Scott laughed too, as if there was something only he knew, but he didn't plan to tell Pan Cui.

Seeing that the conversation with him had almost come to an end, Pan Cui responded with a few words and walked towards Pina.

Unexpectedly, Pina actually inquired a lot of valuable information from Nika's mouth, and a large paragraph of writing was added to the book - "Judging from the style of speech, Nika seems to have a little bit of ambiguity with 'I', and he is right about 'I'. ' I know very well, so Nika told me a lot. He said that the reason why tonight's party is so special is that the new people who joined and disappeared before were taken away by 'them', and Peter plans to use it today. Some special means to protect our newcomers from being captured."

got caught? Pan Cui frowned.

Scott clearly told her that Peter thought the newcomer who suddenly disappeared in the past was a created "character"; but Nika said that the newcomer was "taken away"... It was Peter who told them a different version, Is someone still lying?

"When I asked him what special means, Nika didn't elaborate. He just told me, try to relax and be yourself, I won't be hurt because Peter has arranged everything in secret."

When Pan Cui finished reading, Jia Jiatian just came over.

The eyes of the two met, and Pan Cui smiled at him and handed him the book. She didn't know how her acting skills were, but she hoped that what she showed on her face was the look she had naturally revealed when she faced Lin Sanjiu just now.

When Jia Jiatian lowered his head and read the clue, Pan Cui could feel that the smile on her face quickly cooled down.

Jia Jiatian did do her a favor, but she didn't remember that she asked him for help herself.

No, that's not "helping".

That's a hint, it's Liwei... But now, Pan Cui has to show a very grateful expression. After Jia Jiatian returned the book, she has to find another page and write: "You will help me again. once?"

Kakada shrugged his shoulders, not even intending to reach for the pen and paper.

Pan Cui didn't really expect him to help either, and sneered mockingly in her heart. Just as she was about to quietly tore the piece of paper, she heard a sharp sound of Lin Sanjiu gasping for air in the cave not far behind.

Pan Cui felt anxious and turned around quickly. Lin Sanjiu was still standing in front of Kate's oil painting, and all she was left with was her back.

On the oil painting, Kate, whose face was motionless, was laughing loudly: "Hey, I'm so sorry, I spilled water on you with a shake of my hand! I was spilled by wine, and you were spilled by water, we are really difficult sister. Difficult girl..."

She was splashed with water?

Pan Cui remembered the clue that Lin Sanjiu had written just now, and immediately glanced at the portrait in the distance. Sure enough, one of Lin Sanjiu's arms was wet on the oil painting, and a deep water stain appeared on his vest.

However, it wasn't until Lin Sanjiu turned to the group that Pan Cui finally understood why she gasped.

Lin Sanjiu's body was also wet with water.