[Science Fiction] Escape from Paint City

Meihua Ridge is not far from Xingfu Trail, only 5 minutes away.It is early autumn now, and the strong wind has already blown off the leaves. The trees on the mountain have only bare branches, and the darkness is connected with the night.

On the slope behind Meihua Ridge, there are many small high-rise villas lined up side by side with dark brown pink paint. Shuichen's studio is on the top floor of the villa closest to the gate.

The entire villa was silent, and no lights were on.

Only the sound of Shuichen's pattering footsteps could be heard in the corridor, breaking the emptiness.

In my memory, I haven't been to this studio for three years. When I walked to the door, Shuichen touched the door with her fingers. Because of the regular cleaning of the Science and Affairs Office, there was no dust on the door.

Shui Chen thought to himself, since the memory of replacing Tan Xing for the past three years is fabricated, he must still insist on painting, and it is impossible for this studio to be abandoned for three years.He also only hoped that the Science Affairs Office could leave some clues during the cleaning process.

Only by finding the truth of Qicheng and restoring the original complete memory can we successfully escape from here.This is what Sha Qianxing told Shui Chen before.

Sha Qianxing can only tell Shuichen which ones are fake, but cannot tell him which ones are true.

Therefore, even though Shuichen already knew about Qicheng's anomalies, he didn't dare to step into the mist rashly.

The door opened, and there were three rooms and two halls on the first floor, both of which were studios.There is only one bedroom on the second floor, and then there is an entire open-air garden.

Shuichen walked around the first floor, and there were many landscape sketches of Qicheng in the studio, all dated three years ago, but the Science Affairs Office did a good job of this.

The room on the second floor is minimally furnished, except for a bed and two large wardrobes, there is nothing.The bed was covered with pure white sheets, the wardrobe was also ivory white, and the whole room had a cold atmosphere.

After searching in the room to no avail, Shuichen walked to the open-air garden.

Turning on the light on the corridor, he saw a whole field of baby's breath planted in the flowerbed, pink and white, really beautiful.There are black iron tables and chairs in the garden, and there is nothing on the table.

One side of the garden is against the wall, but there is no protection on the other three sides. There are five or six steps outside where the window sill should be. There are only glass steps for one person to walk on. Hanging in the air, there is nothing in the front, rear, left, right, up, down, as if a gust of wind would blow people down, and ordinary people would not dare to go up at all.

The steps were specially customized by Shuichen. At this time, he stepped up to the window sill with a big stride, and then walked up the glass steps step by step.

The shadow fell in front of him, making people unable to see the steps clearly. Shuichen took the last step, and then gently stretched out his right foot. When he felt that there was nothing under his feet, he retracted his foot and stood up.

He closed his eyes, spread out his hands, raised his head and took a deep breath, and suddenly the world rotated and everything revived.

Suddenly, Shuichen felt dizzy and palpitated, and almost fell, he quickly stabilized his body, opened his eyes, and caught a glimpse of a figure in the plum blossom forest downstairs, which looked like a woman.

Shui Chen looked over, that person seemed to have noticed his sight, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The feeling of heart palpitations still remained, so he didn't stay any longer, and hurried down the steps.

When jumping off the window sill, it slipped, Shui Chen's hand propped up in the flowerbed, and touched a hard object in the soil.

Hard objects are buried in the soil and cannot be detected at first glance.Shuichen paved the soil with his hands, dug out the hard object, and found that it was a small white lighthouse model, the shape was exactly the one he remembered before.

There was still more than half an hour before the agreed time, but Shuichen was a little flustered, holding the model in his hand, and hurriedly walked towards the [-] ring road.

When passing by the plum blossom forest, Shui Chen took a few more glances, but didn't see anyone.

--split line--

When we arrived at the 10 Ring Road, there were still [-] minutes left, Sha Qianxing hadn't arrived yet, and there was still no one around.

Shuichen leaned against the trunk of the pear tree, his heartbeat slowed down due to his rapid walking, but the feeling of palpitations still did not disappear.

Holding the white lighthouse against his heart, he wanted to find Sha Qianxing, but he was also worried that this would make his previous preparations in vain, and he was even more afraid that Sha Qianxing would not find anyone when he left.

Waiting hesitantly, Shui Chen looked around.

At the end of the [-]nd ring road are five forked paths, and the path goes down, and there are more forks. The whole area is like a maze.

Dense clouds covered the moon in layers, and there was a sound of hurried footsteps. Shui Chen took a closer look and saw that it was Sha Qianxing.

His clothes were muddy and torn at the sleeves and trouser legs.

Shui Chen hurriedly went forward to check, and found no wounds on his body, so he was relieved.

"After a while, those people will come after them."

Sha Qianxing's breath was fairly stable, and he was in good condition.

"Okay, you rest behind me."

Shuichen stretched out his hand and wiped away a streak of black mud on Sha Qianxing's face with his thumb.

Sha Qianxing nodded in agreement, but he was still standing beside Shuichen, staring around vigilantly.

Soon, a group of people dressed in different clothes and holding various weapons appeared.There are old people and children among them, all staring at this side with expressionless faces, their faces drooping, their eyes widened and motionless, and the pupils of their pupils are so dilated that they almost fill their entire eyes.

The closer they got, the slower their speed became. There were quite a few people with broken limbs and bleeding bodies, but they all dragged their bodies and continued to move forward as if they didn't care.

Three meters away from Shuichen, the crowd stopped and slowly tilted their heads to the left, as if confirming something.

After a few seconds, everyone ignored Shui Chen and the invisible Sha Qianxing, turned their heads away, and walked around, getting farther and farther away.

Shuichen couldn't help but went forward and grabbed the person closest to him, and after a closer look, it turned out to be an old man he had seen on the road during the day.

The old man was unkempt and unresponsive even after being pulled, his feet were walking in place, and the kitchen knife in his right hand was shining with silver light.

Sha Qianxing followed closely behind Shuichen, and was careful not to touch the other person's body.

"They are like this, without consciousness, and they don't know when they die?"

Shuichen looked at the puppet old man in front of him, and remembered the cold-faced man he saw during the day, the behavior patterns of the two were so similar.

"If you don't die, you can be repaired."

Therefore, apart from killing the other party, Sha Qianxing was never lenient in his strikes.

"If you die, it will become like it was in the morning."

After understanding Sha Qianxing's subtext, Shuichen frowned fiercely, his anger rose, and he hated the behavior of the Science Affairs Office.

"Do they know this themselves?"

"I know, but everyone is used to obeying the instructions of the Science Affairs Office."

"Even if I might die?"

Shui Chen's voice suddenly rose, his right fist was clenched tightly, and the palm was marked with red marks by the lighthouse model.

"They're used to it."

Sha Qianxing repeated this sentence.

The node behind the old man's ears flashed red light from time to time, Shui Chen caught a glimpse, and suddenly asked: "What if we take out the chip?"

Shuichen thought to himself, the Science Affairs Office can use the chip to control the body's reaction, if the chip can be taken out, will it be possible to let him out of control?

He continued: "As long as the chip is not in the brain, we can take it out."

In fact, the chip of the Science Affairs Office may be implanted anywhere on the body. Everyone's chip node is unified behind the ear, but the implantation site of the chip is a secret and varies from person to person.

"Do you have a way to detect where the chip is implanted?"

Sha Qianxing nodded in affirmation.

"Okay, let's take this man back to the pawnshop pond now, there is a medical box over there."

As Shui Chen said, he was about to pull away the old puppet in front of him.

drop--

Suddenly, a piercing warning sound pierced the night, the body of the puppet old man paused for a second, and the pupils of his eyes were blood red from the center.

The old man turned around, grabbed Shuichen's arm with his backhand, and slashed at him with a kitchen knife.

Shuichen wanted to back up, but his arm seemed to be clamped by iron clamps, unable to pull it.

Sha Qianxing strode in front of Shuichen, and quickly pressed the chip implantation site on the old man's side waist with his left hand.

The kitchen knife was slashed from Sha Qianxing's right shoulder to his left waist. In an instant, there was a strong smell of blood in the air, and the blood smeared and spread on the white shirt.

Sha Qianxing's hand was still pressing, and a few seconds later, the kitchen knife fell to the ground with a bang, and the old man also fainted on the ground and stopped moving.

At this moment, Sha Qianxing's body also went limp, and he broke out in cold sweat, Shui Chen hurriedly supported him, but he didn't dare to touch his wound.

"Thousand lines, thousand lines!"

With Shuichen's touch, Sha Qianxing instantly appeared, his consciousness was a little chaotic, after being awakened by Shuichen, he pulled himself together and leaned against Shuichen to stand upright.

"The situation has changed. If you carry the old man on your shoulders, let's leave quickly."

The tendency of the puppet to stay away stopped after the warning sounded, and turned around and ran towards the two of them again.

Shuichen didn't say any more, put the fainted old man on his left shoulder, passed his right hand from Sha Qianxing's back through his armpit, and ran towards the end of the [-] ring road, encircling him.

The previous puppets had all appeared on the [-]nd ring road. Fortunately, the two of them were near the end, and there were no puppets blocking the way.

After the puppets saw Sha Qianxing, Shui Chen's breath cover completely lost its effect, they no longer turned a blind eye, and rushed towards Sha Qianxing frantically,

The two got into the path, and Shuichen chose the path to the pawnshop pond from memory.The puppets followed behind them. Although they were separated by a certain distance, the sound of chasing footsteps did not decrease because of the constant choice of fork roads.

The strenuous running caused Shuichen's right ankle to swell even higher, and every step he ran was excruciatingly painful.Sha Qianxing's situation was even worse. His consciousness was almost unconscious, but he was running instinctively. The blood had already soaked the front of his shirt, dripping down the corners of his clothes to the ground.

Shui Chen had no choice but to keep calling him.

"Qianxing, wake up, don't sleep!"

Sha Qianxing tried his best to open his eyes. If he was only injured, it wouldn't make him so weak.

The puppets saw Sha Qianxing who had been touched and appeared, and Shuichen couldn't let him go now, so he could only take him and ran to the pawnshop pond, hoping that there was enough to protect them.

The moonlight sprinkled on the earth again, illuminating the bloodstains along the way.

The author has something to say: Glass steps are the quirk of Shuichen’s daily painter haha~

Qian Xingxing saved brother Chen and was injured, brother Chen was so nervous

There is really a road called [-]nd Ring Road, it’s amazing~