Doomsday Wonderland

Minna's sharp scream ripped open the air in the cave like Kakada's face.

In the screams echoing from the mountain wall, Lin Sanjiu was the first to charge towards Jia Jiatian on the ground; when she crouched down and carefully lifted his shoulders, Pina and Pan Cui also arrived one after another.

No one understood what happened just now, and neither of them dared to make a sound; the rapid breathing in their ears, when Lin Sanjiu slowly turned over Jia Jiatian's body, seemed to be suddenly interrupted by silence, and suddenly stopped. Living.

Ming Na's screams stopped, and the reverberation still reverberated inside and outside the portrait. She seemed to have rushed to her nephew in the "Portrait World" and shouted angrily, "Raven! What did you do!"

The "Jiajiatian" she saw in the world of portraits was probably different from that in the cave - because after seeing Jiajiatian's face, for several seconds, Lin Sanjiu wanted to move a limb, but not a single muscle was obedient, let alone angry. .

She couldn't understand what she was seeing.

Pina covered her mouth with her hands, her fingertips and cheeks were all white, and her whole body trembled slightly. Pan Cui stretched out a hand as if she wanted to touch Jia Jiatian's face.

No blood, no exposed muscle tissue, no subcutaneous fat... In a way, Kakada's face shouldn't be scary. There is only a long crack, starting from his forehead, and slashing the whole face all the way, making his face open like an oil painting canvas - under the canvas crack, there are no bones, no nerves, just a piece of oil painting Background style, empty pitch black.

Lin Sanjiu reacted and hurriedly pressed Jia Jiatian's body. His body is the same as a normal person, with a warm body temperature, elastic skin, and a musculoskeletal shape when pressed. He was indeed a man, or was, was a man.

But what happened to his face? Why is this happening?

"Minna, stop calling,"

An impatient rebuke came from Peter's portrait, and then he raised his voice to the others: "Everyone, be quiet, don't panic!"

Lin Sanjiu raised his head involuntarily.

Lei Wen has left Jia Jiatian's portrait and returned to his own oil painting portrait again - so, if Lei Wen did something in his own oil painting last time, could it be that she would also become like Jia Jia Tian?

Pan Cui seemed to have thought of the same thing, and looked at her with a pale and frightened face.

"We all know what's going on," Peter's deep voice, if you listen carefully, you can hear a little smugness. "Why are you panicking? I reminded everyone long ago that they might use a person's image to approach us... I just didn't expect that the first person to be exposed was Jia Jiatian."

The three evolutionaries were all stuck in place, guarding Kajia Tian, ​​whose face was cut like a canvas, and did not dare to move.

The reason why they didn't dare to move was because they didn't want to make a sound and attract attention; the majority was because several of them could hear it - Peter's voice came from two places at the same time.

One source of the sound was Peter's oil painting; the other was the dark darkness after Kagartian's face was torn open.

"I have discussed with Raven for a long time. Once someone unexplainably reveals his essence, we will immediately deal with him and not give that person any chance to escape." Peter seemed to be enjoying everything he said. He said slowly, "Ming Na, don't cry anymore, your nephew is not a person on earth at all... They created a human appearance to approach us and want to completely cut off the spread of the truth."

This is the essence of a portrait copy... Lin Sanjiu only felt a buzzing sound in his head.

Sure enough, as she had guessed, there was no plot at all - what they had to do was not to make the portrait suspicious, pretending that they were also a person in the portrait world, and escape from the portrait cave after the party.

If you can't do it, you will be attacked by the portrait, and you will become like Kagata in front of you.

However, where exactly is Kajiatian exposed? Lin Sanjiu really couldn't think of anything.

"Wait, wait a minute," Kate asked tremblingly, "Peter, you said just now that the first person to be exposed was Jia Jiatian... How many are there?"

This sentence caught the attention of the three evolutionaries.

Raven's sentence, "It's possible that all four of them are," jumped into Lin Sanjiu's mind.

From under Kagartian's broken face, from the bottomless darkness, a small part of Peter's voice drifted out: "Well, I think Kagartian may be the first, or the only one. The truth is, we can't tell if a person is a real person or a character 'they' put into our world until we see the evidence."

What "evidence" did Jia Jiatian give him?

Peter added: "According to our research over the years, 'them' has an inseparable relationship with the characters created by 'them'... By cutting off the characters, it will also severely damage the 'them' in another dimension world."

"If there are more characters, then we shouldn't be talking about it now," Nika interrupted him a little nervously, hesitantly said, "You know—"

Peter gave a low laugh. "Yes, I know, 'they' have the ability to hear us."

and many more. Considering Raiwen's previous sentence "Why didn't we use anti-monitoring facilities?" Could it be that the portrait knew that when they spoke, they would be overheard by their group, but still—

That being said, everything is on purpose... no wonder, no wonder Kate keeps holding back from going to the toilet!

Lin Sanjiu only felt an electric light hit her mind, and opened her mouth subconsciously; just when she was about to speak, Pan Cui next to her grabbed her arm and shook her head at her.

Lin Sanjiu reacted, quickly closed his mouth again, put Jiajiatian back on the ground, and took out a pen and a notepad.

"Peter," Scott's voice sounded like a ghost from one end of the cave: "You promised me that the characters 'they' sent were of high value, and once you caught one, you will..."

"Of course," Peter said in a deep voice, "I promised you something, and I remember it. Now let me see what kind of abilities this character is loaded with..."

Pan Cui, who was beside her, froze almost imperceptibly.

It was just the tightening of the muscles and the slight change in his demeanor, so slight that it was almost like an intangible breath, but at that moment, it was enough for Lin Sanjiu to raise his head from the note pad and glance at Pan Cui.

"I'm so envious," an unmistakable inner monologue sounded on Kate's portrait in the cave. "When will it be my turn to get the ability to draw from the character?"

Even the portrait of Nika couldn't help but snorted sourly in her heart, as if she couldn't help but feel envious. "Originally ranked according to seniority, the ability of this role should be my turn to take. If it weren't for Scott being elected to the local councillor, why would Peter have a crush on him? Why don't I run for the next round... "

Pina's lips opened and closed silently. Although no one made a sound, Lin Sanjiu could also imagine what she wanted to say—it turned out that they were all just prey in the portrait trap.

Since entering the cave, the portraits have been staring at them, trying to find out from them that they are not portraits...

She didn't want to look up at Jia Jiatian's body, so she held back the stirring emotions in her heart, lowered her head, and continued to write on the notepad.

"I know what's going on, although I don't know the full picture yet," she wrote. "The most important thing is that the portrait's party tonight is a test for us. Kagata doesn't know why it was exposed. , there is no way to save it... But at least, I know how to save the three of us. Pan Cui, please give me the book with the clues written on it. "

When Pan Cui read this sentence, she raised her head abruptly, and there was a slight sound from her neck bones.

She didn't say anything, just lowered her head to get the notebook; Pina first hurriedly wrote on the notebook: "How to protect?"

This has to be explained from the beginning... While Lin Sanjiu was sorting out his thoughts, he heard a surprised and suspicious question from Peter's portrait: "What's going on?"

Several people turned their heads in unison.

They exchanged glances with each other. Under Lin Sanjiu's signal, Pina nodded and asked Peter's portrait in a low voice, "What, what's wrong? I'm a newcomer, I don't understand..."

The three of them must participate in the conversation from time to time, otherwise the three of them will sit quietly beside this accident without making a sound, which will definitely arouse suspicion in the portrait.

"Why not?" Peter's anger seemed to be directed at Kagartian. "His corpse looks like this, which shows that he is just a character, there is no doubt. But why can't I extract the ability from him. ?"

Scott became uneasy and said, "You try again, it can't be my turn, so I don't have the ability."

Although I don't understand how they tried it, I don't understand why they couldn't extract the ability from Kagata; but while the conversation between you and me in the portraits became louder and louder, it was a way for the three to communicate with each other. good opportunity. Lin Sanjiu took Pan Cui's notebook, carefully read every clue and speculation, and even read Pan Cui's words to Jia Jiatian. When she closed the notebook, she became more and more confident.

"Since the beginning of this copy, I don't know how many evolutionaries have walked into this cave again and again, dealt with the portraits, completed various conditions, and completely disappeared from the world of portraits - that is to say, the evolutionaries We either die or get out of here."

Lin Sanjiu had to write a lot of words, and she had to hurry up, so the characters and strokes were written very briefly, and the strokes were skipped from time to time.

"After so many encounters with the evolutionary people, I think that the portraits have a deep understanding of us. Although they may not really understand our existence, and concepts such as copies, but one thing, they are undoubtedly very clear. ."

Pina tilted her head slightly, looking at this sentence in the notebook, her face full of doubts.

"They know that we can only hear them, but not see them.

"We can't see them, and naturally we can't see where they are - and that's the trap of tonight's party."

Pina and Pan Cui raised their eyes, both dazed and shocked.

"So, when we prove that we can see our surroundings clearly, it also proves that we are also a member of the world of portraits... If I guessed correctly, as long as the test is cleared and the party is over, We should be able to get out of here."

Pina grabbed another pen and hurriedly wrote on another pad: "Prove we can see the environment? Why prove this? I don't understand."

Lin Sanjiu exhaled.

The next part is mainly her speculation based on the clues given by each portrait, if it is wrong...

She shook her head, shaking off that fear.

"Don't forget," she wrote in her notebook, "that the experiment was set up by Peter to screen out the evolutionaries, and the location of 'The Hilltop' was also what he told us through his inner monologue at the very beginning - when he knew that the inner monologue It may also be heard by the evolutionary. In fact, the portraits and we are not in the hilltop mansion at this time."