Paintings of Terror

"Yiran said that the word'light' is powerful." As soon as Ke Xun finished the first sentence, Mu Yiran understood his thoughts and fell into deep thought. Ke Xun glanced at him and put his voice up. A little lower, "In other words, every word, according to how much people bet on it, has a greater or lesser power of thought.

"Comrades, you haven't forgotten it-whether it is the "Mountain and Sea Map" on the Jiuding or the "Mountain and Sea Map" on the Ghost Altar, they are all composed of ghost texts!

"The text used to perform witch prayers is of course more powerful in thought. That's why the ancestor said,'seeking the nine tripods to obtain the power of the witchcraft.' The power of this witchcraft is ghost text. The power of mind attached to the above is the power of human mind!"

"Yes! That's right, that's it!" Several people agreed in unison.

Ke Xun waved his hand, indicating that he hadn't finished speaking: "Yi Ran once said that the power of mind is a very powerful force, and that powerful mind power can even fight against gods and demons. An example is the painting I used in "Faith". The situation encountered in here is like this...

"So, I think the power of mind may play a very important role in solving problems for us. Didn't the ancestors in the postal note also mention that the words'being out of reach, only reachable by the mind' may mean people's minds- -Isn’t the mind just the power of the mind? The ancestors also said that the power of the mind should not be underestimated, and they eventually planned to'break the realm with the mind,' and they should have realized the role of the mind."

"I think your statement is too idealistic," said Li Xiaochun, a pragmaticist. "I yearn for myself to get rich every day. I feel that my mental power is already very strong, but I never got rich. Now he is still a wandering worker."

Ke Xun: "..."

"Moreover, ever since I encountered this mess of painting, I desperately yearn for me to survive and get rid of this thing, which is stronger than the idea of ​​getting rich," Li Xiaochun continued, "but what do you think of it now? , Isn't it still forced to be here, there is always the possibility of death, so there is a fart for mental power or something."

"If it's useless, how should the witchcraft power of "Mountain and Sea Map" be explained?" Zhu Haowen looked at him, "How should the'light' strike be explained? How should the idol curse technique be explained?"

"And if you think that mentality is too metaphysical," Mu Yiran said, "then we can also give it a more scientific explanation, that is, ghost text is an energy field.

"The essence of matter is energy. Microscopic particles vibrate when they move, and vibration generates energy. And these ghost texts may be composed in the same way that Jiuding resonates powerful infrasound waves. Different compositions or writing methods , Shape, can produce vibrations of different frequencies, and vibrations of different frequencies can correspondingly affect different substances.

"Therefore, to say that "Mountains and Seas" has the power of witchcraft and mind is actually a powerful energy field. When this energy field is cast on Jiuding, it can resonate with suitable infrasound frequencies and spread them. Drive.

"And after the image of this energy field is implanted into the bone phase, it is combined with the human energy field. Although it does not have the powerful strength and striking effect of Jiuding, it can also be used to seal the altar and affect the energy produced by the altar. At the scene, temporarily suspend the demon’s use of the altar to cast the idol curse technique to attack the ground."

Li Xiaochun was speechless, rubbing his forehead and said: "Well, I admit that mind power is useful, but that is something that a great witch can use freely. I think ordinary people like us are choking."

"The power of mind is very useful," Zhu Haowen stopped looking at him and turned to look at everyone. "The ancestor of Qin Shi mentioned,'With a wisp of spiritual consciousness, the demon and ghost will not enter the sun for a hundred years.' Consciousness', I think it also refers to mental power.

"Of course, he is a metaphysician. He has the ability to seal demons with his own power of mind for a hundred years. Maybe we can too. We have bones, which are the inheritance of mind. Although we are just ordinary people, we have been blessed. This powerful thought power can also be used to seal the demon for another hundred years.

"But this premise is most likely... we need to die."

"But we don't want to die..." Wei Dong said, "Everyone is dead, so what kind of mentality..."

"Why can't you do it?" Ke Xun and Zhu Haowen said in unison.

"Huh?" Wei Dong looked at them blankly with a few people.

"Remember the painting "Schrödinger's Cat"?" Ke Xun's eyes flashed at several old members who had experienced the painting together. "The human body and consciousness are two substances. The body is dead and the consciousness is gone. Gotta die!"

"Ah!" Several people in Weidong realized suddenly.

"So this is the truth about how several generations of forerunners decided to sacrifice?" Fang Fei's eyes also swayed. "They knew that only consciousness can seal the demon, so they decided to abandon the flesh without hesitation. The bones attached to the flesh are not for control The flesh, but the consciousness waiting to escape from the flesh."

"Yes...Yes," Shao Ling murmured, thinking, "We ordinary people may not be able to control our consciousness after death, but the ancestor master can, and the thought power of the skeleton "Mountain and Sea Map" can be. So They require us to sacrifice our consciousness, or to use our souls to sacrifice. After that, the consciousness that we have emerged from the body combined with the thought power of the bones can become a seal, blocking the energy field of the ghost altar, and continuing to seal the ghosts. It’s been underground for a hundred years."

"So," Mu Yiran said, looking at Ke Xun's face, his eyes were the sadness that only appeared in the painting "Adverse Journey", "so the "Adverse Journey" picture hinted at us, It’s'all of us come together to take this step. Although this step may be a step backwards, this step backwards is to move forward in the longer term. Although this step backwards may be an abyss, the result is eternity. The light'."

Ko Xun looked at him, and he remembered what Ko Xun had said on another timeline better than anyone else.

"So in fact, as early as the time of "Adverse Journey", the power behind the painting had already told us," Zhu Haowen stared motionlessly at the cold ground under his feet, "We can only sacrifice ourselves, and only death can we exchange for this world. Only a peaceful peace can preserve the eternal light for the human species.

"But the world doesn't need us to save, we just need our lives to seal this small altar.

"We are actually equivalent to a remote control — no, we don’t even count as a remote control. At best, we are the batteries for the remote control. The skeleton "Mountain and Sea Map" is the remote control. Put these batteries on the remote control. One press on it can prevent nuclear weapons from destroying the earth, and we are just a tool. What really saves the earth is the hand that puts us on and presses on the remote control."

Luo Ling's eyes reddened beside him, and his tears fell on the ground beneath his feet.

"In fact, we guessed right," Qin Ci sighed softly. "There are indeed two forces behind the scenes of the entire painting incident. One is from the underground and the other is from the ground. The power of witchcraft, the power of prayer of the great witch, and the power of thought of the masters of metaphysics, has the power of inheritance.

"But we have guessed one thing completely wrong, that is, what has always wanted us to die in the painting is not the power of demons, but the power of thought that belongs to the human side.

"The ghosts and ghosts want all of us to survive, and the power of human inheritance wants all of us to die, because only when all of us die can the thirteen bones of Jiuding and Diwei can be combined with the consciousness that we have escaped. Two for one, seal the monsters, and start another century of suppression.

"It’s only now that I suddenly realized that the first painting "Free Heart Evidence" that Xiao Mu and I entered, the clues implied by it are not that we need to carefully judge good and evil, but that when we enter the first From the time of the painting, it has already told us that the righteous party that we acted for actually wanted to kill us; the evil party that we acted for, actually wanted us to live.

"But for these two forces, who is good, who is evil, who is right, who is wrong, for us painters, it is probably the most entangled and most difficult to define...this is probably The true meaning of free proof lies."

"Then I really don't understand," Wu You said with red eyes, "Since the righteous party wants us to die, why not give us a peaceful way to die, why do such terrible things in the painting to kill us? I still think of He Tang's death, and I feel cold and unbearable."

"The form of entering painting should be born out of idol curse." Mu Yiran said, "Painting is also a kind of'idol'. In ancient times, painting was the most important way of recording and dissemination. As we said before, The character'light', which is originally a pictographic character, is a pictorial symbol, so it is all right to regard it as a painting.

"The illusion in the painting appears where the yin and yang are weak. It is not because of the two forces of demons and human beings who use idol curses to compete with each other.

"And the word ‘curse’ of the curse technique has a fierce meaning of harm. I think the nature of this technique itself is not determined by the power of both parties.

"In the painting, the forces of the two sides are evenly matched, and no one can suppress the other side. The two sides have been in a state of mutual restraint, mutual influence, and entanglement in every way. In this state of being unable to dominate, the illusion in the painting is I am afraid that neither of these forces can determine what it is."

"Then we...then what shall we do?" Li Xiaochun asked helplessly, "I really have to sacrifice myself and hand over my soul? There really is no way to survive?"

Everyone is silent.

Even though all the ins and outs were sorted out, and even though he understood the principles of dealing with demons, there was still no way, no way not to sacrifice his life.

The power of mind may be useful, and the power of mind may be strong enough to fight against gods and demons, but everyone knows that physical death is true death for humans. Consciousness may still be alive, but living consciousness is invisible and can only be so. Floating and can't do anything, what's the point of such a "living"?

The twilight fell silently around the painters like death.

"...There's really no way..." Wei Dong shrank in the cold whirlwind that was gradually rolling, and said desperately.

"...There is no way." Shao Ling's eyes melted into the gloomy twilight, floating in the desolation like mountains.

"I...I don't want to die..." Luo Ling choked, his body faltering.

Ke Xun lifted the eyelids that had been drooping and looked at everyone: "Time is running out. Let's bury these notes from the ancestors. Let's bury them back to their original places. Add the clues we have compiled and take all of our Infer to make up."

The crowd turned the tent silently, refilled the clues, and returned to the rock where the notes were buried before the sky was completely dark.

Put the notes of the ancestors back in the same way, and put everyone's things on the top.

Just when Gu Qingqing was about to put in the clues written in paper, he was suddenly stopped by Ke Xun's hand.

She raised her eyes to look at Ke Xun, and saw some unknown light reflected in his dark pupils, and said to her: "Qingqing, you can add a few more words at the end of the paper."

"Okay, what do you want to write?" Gu Qingqing took out a pen and turned to the last page of the paper.

"Just write," Ke Xun's gaze was deeper than the night, "the heavens are bright, evil does not suppress the righteousness, but for the common people, how lucky I am!"