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Elliott's roaring voice finally reached Xia Ren's ears, startling him.

Xia Ren turned around and found that Elliott had run to her side at some point, looking at her eyes full of fear.

"What's wrong?" He was a little confused about the situation, as if he was suddenly woken up while taking a nap, and he was a little slow to react to everything around him.

Elliott's voice was a little trembling, and he said, "You just walked this way suddenly, no matter how I called you, you didn't respond, as if you were bewitched by the devil."

With an almost pleading tone, he grabbed Xia Ren's arm and said, "Let's go. From the moment I entered the basement, I felt that everything was wrong here. I didn't feel this way at all when I came here with Pickman. Now I I even suspect that the rumors outside are true, there are really evil spirits wandering around here."

Looking at his terrified expression and the trembling hands holding his arms, Xia Ren felt a little confused for a moment.

The instinct of the body told him that he should follow Elliott's suggestion and leave here immediately, because the appearance of the two of them at this time was a sign of pollution, and he could no longer think calmly at this moment. Everyone will die behind this door.

But the reality does not allow him to back down here.

He still remembered that he was in an ancient dream, and everything in front of him was not the real reality. He clearly knew that his purpose was to put himself in the most dangerous situation, and try to find and understand those great things with a human body. to the unimaginable.

To put it more extreme, he entered the ancient dream to seek death.

After simply sorting out the complicated thoughts in his mind, the madness in Xia Ren's eyes was gradually replaced by firmness.

He took Elliott's hand, took it away from his arm, then pushed open the door in front of him, walked in without saying a word.

The dark passage quickly engulfed his back, Elliott stood still and gritted his teeth.

There was no light around, Xia Ren groped for the wall, and soon felt that he had come to another room.

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps behind him, and a cluster of swaying flames.

Xia Ren turned around and found that Elliott was chasing after him with an oil lamp.

Seeing his somewhat surprised expression, Elliot forced an ugly smile on his face, and said, "I can't leave you here alone. If something happens to you, I won't have the face to appear in Pickman again in the future." in front of you."

This sentence seems to be an explanation, and it seems that he is convincing himself,

In fact, Elliott had been scolding himself for being stupid all the way to relieve the pressure in his heart, but seeing Xia Ren in front of him, the complaints in his heart disappeared immediately, and he felt that everything was worth it.

"You can go."

Xia Ren said.

He is telling the truth, he can take risks, but there is no need to bring others with him. Although he knows that this is a dream, the scenes and people in the ancient dream are too real, just like the real world, he can't help but care the lives of others.

Unexpectedly, Elliott heard this, looked into his eyes, and asked suddenly: "Are you worried about me?"

"..." Xia Ren.

He really didn't understand what this guy was thinking.

Could it be that he came here because he had a good impression of him?But it couldn't be explained at all. In the other basement just now, the look of fear on his face was definitely not a disguise. It would be too far-fetched to say that the great fear could be overcome simply because of a little affection between the opposite sex.

So it was really like what he said, in order to be able to make a deal with Pickman?

Unable to figure it out, Xia Ren simply stopped thinking about it.

With the help of an oil lamp, the two explored the new basement.

Compared with the one just now, this place is obviously much more spacious. As expected, Pickman's real studio is hidden deeper. There are sofas and other furniture in this room, as well as tools for painting. In addition, Elliott even found A diesel generator was connected to the wires that stretched across the room, and when the generator was activated, the light bulbs in the ceiling lit up.

The two finally didn't have to endure the little light from the oil lamp, and after leaving the dark environment, their moods were no longer so depressed.

With the lights, they finally saw the whole picture of the basement clearly. This is a room with an area of ​​about [-] to [-] square meters, and there are several doors on the four walls of the room, most of which are locked. , don't know where to go.

In the corner of the room, Xia Ren saw a well.

It was a wellhead built of stones. Due to the moisture around the wellhead, the stones were covered with a thick layer of moss, making its overall appearance dark green.

This well is exactly the same as the scene in the painting seen in Pickman's house.

As he approached the mouth of the well, his skin gradually felt a cold wind blowing from the front.

Standing at the basement stairs not long ago, he felt the wind blowing up from below, which meant that the basement was not a completely sealed environment, and there must be other passages leading to the outside world.

Now it seems that the well in front of him may be connected to somewhere outside.

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Chapter 537 Ancient Dream: The Monster in the Dark [4000 words]

Xia Ren picked up a piece of gravel on the ground nearby and threw it in. After a long time, there was no echo.

The wellhead was extremely dark, and there was a bone-chilling chill, and it was bottomless, like an abyss connected to another world.

Xia Ren leaned over the mouth of the well and took a look, and found that he had a terrible idea of ​​entering the well, so he quickly retreated.

"Pickman will leave a picture of the mouth of the well at home, which may have some deep meaning, but the depth of the well is still unknown. If you go down rashly, you may fall to your death, especially now that you don't know if there are other dangers hidden in it."

The reason why people are afraid of the dark is because they don't know what secrets are hidden in the dark. The greatest fear often comes from the unknown.

Xia Ren decided not to take this risk for the time being.

He turned his attention to other places in the house, and found that there was another painting covered by a cloth on the other side.

He walked over, lifted the canvas, and found that it was a painting that hadn't been fully completed.

Even so, the painting is horrifying enough to be maddening.

The creature is extremely huge. Compared with the surrounding scenery, it is at least five meters high. The existing language of human beings is enough to describe its accurate appearance. Any words that want to be applied to it will appear extremely scarce. Looking at it The moment he saw it, Xia Ren's mind went blank.

It is far more terrifying than any demon imagined by humans. Its red eyes are filled with boundless malice. It crouches in a cemetery. Its body is huge and thin, as if only a layer of dry and rough skin remains, but Swollen, like a dead body soaked in water.

The monster is holding a person between its bony claws. It is opening its bloody mouth, using its yellowed sharp teeth, to eat the food in its hand...or, in other words, to eat the human corpse.

What really makes Xia Ren tremble is not entirely the content that the painting intends to express, but the painting itself.

Pickman has rendered the crouching monster with uncanny verisimilitude, with a technique so vicious that no one can comprehend it.

The monster with a canine face and a rotten and swollen body seemed to be right in front of her. Xia Ren could even feel its bloody and cruel eating desire mixed with the mold and rotting flesh emanating from it. The monstrous stench formed.

Even if Pickman didn't paint all of it, there is no doubt that this is the real ghoul, and just an unfinished portrait can make people feel desperate and frightened.

At this moment, Xia Ren suddenly heard a strange sound. He woke up from the terrible hallucination, looked aside, and found that the sound came from behind those locked doors.

Elliott was very nervous, and the relaxed atmosphere just now disappeared instantly.

He once again persuaded Xia Ren to leave here quickly, God knows what kind of horror lurks in those rooms that have never been explored.

But this time, Xia Ren chose to follow Elliott's advice.