Paintings of Terror

"Hey..." the old man sighed, "This year there is a severe drought, the water in the well has reached the bottom, and the fields of the villagers are about to dry and smoke, I am afraid that there will be no grains this year... Not only did the taxation not be reduced, but the taxation was added. It's difficult... how can we live this day... Alas!"

Listening to this, it is simply a typical ancient folk tale.

Mu Yiran asked quietly, "Which official is in charge of the local area?"

The old man lowered his voice and replied: "County magistrate."

The county magistrate is like no name. No matter how you ask, the old man’s answer is only "county magistrate".

Ke Xun Mu Yiran and Huang Pi went around in this village again, but couldn't get any more seemingly useful clues, so they inquired where the county government was, and rushed to the place. .

The county office is naturally in the county, and the buildings and scenery here are the same as the village just now, everywhere in the dark.

Ke Xun inquired about the specific location of the county office. The three of them hurriedly shuttled between the houses until they came to a house in the direction indicated by the last passerby and were about to walk towards the door. I heard someone speaking in the open window next to him: "My lord, look over."

Ke Xun was passing by the window, and when he heard the sound, he turned his head and looked into the window, only to see a man with the appearance of a literati with a double-handed moustache on his lips, holding a piece of drawing paper for another person to see.

The other person was wearing an official uniform and a black gauze cap on his head. Although the color of the world was dim, he could still recognize the red color of his official uniform.

Guaner?

Could this be the magistrate who couldn't tell the name?

Ke Xun looked in from the window.

The literati raised the painting in his hand and said to the county magistrate: "My lord, you are just like this pine tree that is as evergreen and immortal!"

The county magistrate twisted his beard with satisfaction, and laughed: "How dare, how dare."

Ke Xun turned his head and looked at Mu Yiran: "What the **** is this? The window of the county magistrate's room opens towards the street. Anyone who passes by can look inside. Do you think this is a drawing bug or is it a clue to us? "

Before Mu Yiran could answer, the people in the room had already heard the movement outside the window, and the literati-like people reached out to Ke Xun, "Who are you?"

Ko Xun cautiously stepped back half a step and arched his hands: "I'm just passing by. By the way, look at the voice and smile of the magistrate."

The literati walked to the window and looked out at Ke Xun. He stretched out a finger and stroked the two beards on his lips. He sneered at Ke Xun and said, "Honestly let you go. Go cow!"

After he said, he stretched out his hand and closed the window sash with a "pop", and then he and the magistrate laughed from inside.

Ke Xun turned around with a blank expression to look at Mu Yiran: "Am I looking like a cowherd baby?"

Mu Yiran glanced at the two fluffy cat ears on his head, pursed his lips, looked away, and looked at the surrounding environment carefully, before speaking, "Let you go herding the cows." I think this sentence should be a fixed line of the NPC. Of course, it may also be a clue. We can go find a cow and try it."

The two of them said it was done, and strode away from this weird county office window, but didn't notice the yellow skin lying behind, and glanced at the closed window blankly.

However, cattle are not easy to find. After returning to the village just now, the three of them went around for a while. They didn’t see any farmer who used cattle to plow the land. Most of them were plowing the fields manually. But then again, cattle were very important labor in ancient times. Tools, their value is even more expensive than slaves, and ordinary poor people cannot afford cattle.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker, the three of them decided to return to the house where they came from, and ran along the signs they had made. On the way, they heard the cry of a half-old child: "My sheep, my sheep, my sheep. Sheep, my sheep..."

I followed the sound and saw that a man with the appearance of a gangster was snatching a little lamb in the arms of a commoner child. The child was kicked to the ground and hugged no matter where he was a strong opponent. His sheep flew away.

Ke Xun: "...There are so many NPC scenes in this painting. Whether we can see it or not, we will act there ourselves."

The three of them didn't stop because of it, it was getting dark, and it was important to save their lives.

Follow the signs to return to the adobe house where they came from, push the closed door, and the door can still be opened. Ke Xun thought that according to the usual routine, "painting" would not allow them to return to the place they came. The room went-so that after dawn tomorrow, the three of them can still choose to go to another world to find clues?

Pushing the door into the house, seeing that Qin Ci Luowei and Li Yaqing had returned, and the others were still missing, Ke Xun couldn't help but worry about Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen, so he asked Xiang Qin Ci: "Brother Qin, you know Dongzi and they chose Which door is it?"

Qin Ci shook his head: "We are the second group to go out. Xiaowei and the others should be behind us, but you don't have to worry, Hao Wen is a proper person, I think they should be on their way back."

Ke Xun took out his cell phone and looked at the time, and saw that it was past seven o'clock in the evening, thinking that if the two of them had not returned by eight o'clock, he would go to the world they chose to find someone.

"Have you found any clues in that world?" Qin Ci asked Mu Yiran.

"Not for the time being." Mu Yiran briefly narrated the world they went to, and then asked Qin Ci how many people had discovered.

Qin Ci's expression turned weird, and he groaned for a while before he slowly said, "The world we are going to... is too bizarre. It subverts any of the previous paintings. In it... everything, whether it's buildings or trees, flowers and plants. , Even people, are all in a...flat state."

The cat's ears on Ke Xun's head stood up sharply: "In a flat state? Describe it specifically."

"Two-dimensional." Luo Wei said calmly next to him, "We are like entering a two-dimensional world, but this world is not two-dimensional in the true sense. The true two-dimensionality has no thickness. The scenery and people still have a certain thickness, about...the thickness of a piece of paper."

"For an analogy," Qin Ci continued, "it's a bit like paper-cutting. All people are like paper-cutting people. Houses, scenery, and even water are all cut out of paper."

Ke Xun was dumbfounded, and the tip of the cat's ears trembled: "It is indeed quite bizarre, even stranger than the world we went to... Do those scenery and people have colors?"

"Yes, not only there, but the colors are also very bright." Qin Ci said, "The people inside are dressed in old clothes, a bit like the dress of the late Qing Dynasty."

Ke Xun scratched his head and looked at Mu Yiran: "This painting seems a bit messy. The two worlds that our two groups entered are not only different in style, but also in different historical periods. The one we entered should be The background before the Qing Dynasty."

Mu suddenly nodded and heard Qin Ci continue to say: "After we entered, we were in a fishing village surrounded by fishermen. We went around the whole village twice and found no clues, so we had to search house to house. , Time is running out, only seven or eight companies have been checked, and a large part of them have not been found. We plan to continue to check tomorrow."

As he was talking, I saw Weidong Zhu Haowen bringing Zhao Haicui, a female with curly hair, and Zhang Lifeng, who had chosen two longan kernels, to push the door into the house.

"How is it?" Ke Xun asked at first.

Zhu Haowen and Wei Dong stared at him together.

"...What are you doing?" Ke Xun didn't know why, "Look at what I am doing, the word'handsome' grows on my face?"

Zhu Haowen: "..."

Wei Dong: "...I swear I heard you ‘meow’ just now!"

Ke Xun looked at a black question mark: "...Are you crazy? I only said three words, what, what, what, these three words."

"Big brother," Wei Dong turned his head to look at Mu Yiran, "You are fair, did Ke Er just meow first and then ask questions?"

Mu Yiran frowned slightly, confirming that Wei Dong's words were true, Ke Xun was even more confused, didn't he know what he said out of his mouth? He didn't think he "meow", what the **** are these.

Scratching his head, Ke Xun put this weird question aside and asked Xiang Weidong and Zhu Haowen: "Don't talk about anything else, tell me if you have found any clues?"

Everyone: "..."

Seeing Ke Xun's look of nothing, everyone did not continue this topic, Zhu Haowen replied: "The world we entered is very weird. All animals are personified."

Ke Xun was taken aback: "Will you go back to the painting "Animal World" again?!"

Zhu Haowen said: "It should not be. All animals are of normal size. There is no animal as big as the giant cow in that painting. And... all animals speak human words. They wear the same clothes as humans. Say that all animals are personified."

"This is really weird...meow," Ke Xun said.

Everyone: "..." Are you the most bizarre?

"We searched for a while in this world, and found that this is a world without human beings and with a normal social order," Zhu Haowen continued, "but we never found relevant clues..."

Before he finished speaking, Weidong took it over and said: "I was almost caught by a group of cats and walked into the detention center."

"What's the situation, Meow?" Ke Xun asked hurriedly.

Weidong glanced at Zhao Haicui, the ugly-faced woman with curly hair standing next to him, and snorted: "It's not because of this sister who saw the talking animals yelling and severely disrupted public order. Several wearing police officers The cat in the suit rushed out from the side and wanted to catch us, causing me to drag her to pretend to be a hillbilly who had just entered the city for a long time, and then let us go."

Qin Ci frowned: "Three doors, three completely different worlds, what does the theme of this painting want to express? Are the worlds in the remaining three doors completely different from these three worlds? "

"What is the name of this painting?" Wei Dong asked.

Everyone looked at each other, and just watched Rowe before entering the painting, but failed to pay attention for a while.

Only Mu Yiran said: "The work is called "Pure Land", and the painter is Mirren."

"Pure Land? Is this painting related to religion?" Wei Dong shuddered. The psychological shadow left by the "Faith" painting has not dissipated until now.

"The painting styles of these three worlds are also very different, and there is no sense of religion at all." Qin Ci said.

"Yiran, do you understand Mirren?" Ke Xun asked.

Wei Dong: "...Are you sure you didn't deliberately describe people as meows?"

Ke Xun gave him a glance: "I'm talking about'people'."

"It's over..." Taking advantage of the time when Ke Xun and Mu Yiran were talking, Wei Dong whispered to Zhu Haowen, "Ke'er is confused. It must be the weird world they entered. What should he do? No feeling! You said he could only talk cat words in the end, right?! Nima is terrible!"

"Think of a way." Zhu Haowen looked coldly, no longer caring about Wei Dong, and fell into thinking.