Paintings of Terror

"Alas..." The old man sighed, "There is a severe drought this year, the water in the well has bottomed out, and the fields of the villagers are so dry that they are about to smoke. I am afraid that there will be no harvest this year... the government Not only did the tax not decrease, but it also increased the tax, it’s difficult... How can I live this day... Sigh!"

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

Mu Yiran asked in a low voice, "Which official governs the area?"

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

The county magistrate seems to have no name. No matter how you ask, the old man's answer is only the word "county magistrate".

Ke Xunmu Yiran and Huang Pi wandered around the village again, but failed to get any more seemingly useful clues, so they inquired where the county government office was, and rushed there as soon as possible .

The county government is naturally in the county, and the buildings and scenery here are the same as the village just now, everywhere is gloomy and yellow.

Ke Xun inquired about the specific location of the county government all the way, and the three of them quickly shuttled between the houses until they came to a house in the direction indicated by the last passer-by. Someone said in the open window next to him: "My lord, take a look."

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 literati-looking man with a mustache 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. Even though the world was dark, one could still tell that the official uniform on his body was glowing bright red.

Officer?

Could this guy be the county magistrate whose name he couldn't tell?

Ke Xun looked in from the window.

The literati held up the painting in his hand and said to the county magistrate, "My lord, you are as evergreen and immortal as this pine tree!"

The county magistrate twirled his beard in satisfaction, and laughed: "How dare, how dare."

Ke Xun turned to look at Mu Yiran: "What the hell is this? The window of the county magistrate's room is open to the street, and anyone passing by can look in. Do you think this is a bug in the painting or a clue left for us on purpose? "

Before Mu Yiran could answer, the people in the room heard the movement outside the window, and the literati-looking man pointed to Ke Xun: "Who are you?"

Ke Xun cautiously took half a step back, and cupped his hands: "I'm just passing by, and by the way, I'll pay my respects to the voice and smile of the county magistrate."

The literati walked to the window, looked out at Ke Xun, stretched out a finger and stroked the two beards on his lips, and said to Ke Xun with a sneer: "Honestly let me go!" Go cow!"

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and closed the window sash with a "snap", and then he and the county magistrate laughed.

Ke Xun turned around and looked at Mu Yiran with a confused face: "Do I look like a cowherd boy?"

Mu Yiran glanced at the two fluffy cat ears moving around on his head, pursed his lips, looked away, carefully looked at the surrounding environment, and said after a while: "Let you go to herd the cows." This sentence, I think it should be a fixed line of NPC, of ​​course, it may be a clue, we can find a cow to try."

The two did what they said, and strode away from the weird county office window, but they didn't notice Huang Pi who was behind, and looked at the closed window expressionlessly.

However, cattle are not easy to find. Back to the village just now, the three of them wandered around for a while, but they didn’t see any farmers using cattle to plow the land, most of them plowed the fields manually. But having said that, cattle were very important labor in ancient times Tools, its value is even more expensive than slaves, ordinary poor people cannot afford cattle.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the three of them decided to return to the room where they came from first, and ran along the markings all the way. On the way, they suddenly heard a half-old child crying: "My sheep, my sheep, my sheep!" Sheep, my sheep..."

Xunsheng looked over and saw a man with the appearance of a yamen grabbing a lamb from the arms of a commoner child. That child was no match for a strong yamen, and was quickly kicked on the ground and hugged. His sheep ran away.

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

The three of them didn't stop because of this. It was getting dark, and life-saving was the most important thing.

Following the marks and returning to the adobe house they came back from, and pushed the closed door, the door could still be opened. Ke Xun thought that according to the general routine, "painting" would not allow them to return to the same place when they came back. The room - so, after tomorrow morning, the three of them can still choose to go to another world to find clues?

Pushing open the door and entering the room, seeing that Qin Ci Luo Wei and Li Yaqing had returned, and the others were still missing, Ke Xun couldn't help being a little worried about Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen, so he asked Qin Ci: "Brother Qin, do you know that Dong Zi and the others choose 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, Haowen is a decent person, I think they should be on their way back."

Ke Xun took out his phone to check the time, saw that it was past seven o'clock in the evening, thinking that if the two hadn't come back by eight o'clock, he would go to the world they chose to find someone.

"Did you find any clues in that world?" Qin Ci asked Mu Yiran.

"Not yet." Mu Yiran briefly described the world they went to, and then asked Qin Ci and the others if they had discovered anything.

Qin Ci's face became strange, and he pondered for a moment before slowly opening his mouth: "The world we are going to...is so bizarre, it kind of subverts any previous painting, there...everything in it, whether it's buildings or trees, flowers and plants , even people, are all... in a flat state.”

The cat ears on Ke Xun's head stood up sharply: "Plane? Describe it specifically."

"Two-dimensional." Luo Wei calmly interfaced next to him, "We seem to have entered a two-dimensional world, but this world is not really two-dimensional. The real two-dimensional has no thickness. The scenery and people still have a certain thickness, about...as thick as a sheet of paper."

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

Ke Xun was dumbfounded when he heard that, and the tips of the cat's ears trembled: "It's really quite bizarre, even weirder than the world we went to... Do those scenery and people have color?"

"Yes, not only that, but the colors are very bright." Qin Ci said, "The people inside are wearing old-fashioned clothes, a bit like the clothes in the late Qing Dynasty."

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

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

Just as he was talking, he saw Weidong Zhu Haowen bringing the hair-haired girl Zhao Haicui and Zhang Lifeng who had chosen two longan core props and entered the room.

"How is it?" Ke Xun asked.

Zhu Haowen and Wei Dong stared at him together.

"...Why?" Ke Xun didn't know why, "Look at me, I have the word 'handsome' growing on my face?"

Zhu Haowen: "..."

Wei Dong: "...I swear I just heard you 'meow'!"

Ke Xun had a black question mark on his face: "...Are you crazy, I only said three words, how, what, like, these three words."

"Boss," Wei Dong turned to look at Mu Yiran, "Let me be fair, didn't Ke Er meow before asking 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?He didn't feel that he had made a "meow", what the hell were these.

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

Everyone: "..."

Seeing Ke Xun's expressionless face, and everyone didn't continue the topic, Zhu Haowen replied: "The world we entered is very weird, and all the animals are anthropomorphic."

Ke Xun was surprised: "Shouldn't you go back to the painting "Animal World" again?!"

Zhu Haowen said: "Probably not, all the animals are of normal size, there is no animal as big as the giant bull in that painting, and...all the animals can speak human language, and they wear the same clothes as humans, so I Said that all animals are anthropomorphic."

"This is really bizarre... Meow." Ke Xun said.

Everyone: "..." You are the most bizarre.

"We searched this world for a while, and found that it seems to be a world without human beings and with a normal social order," Zhu Haowen continued, "but we still haven't found any relevant clues..."

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

"What's the matter, meow?" Ke Xun asked hurriedly.

Wei Dong glanced at Zhao Haicui, who was standing next to him with an ugly face, and snorted, "Isn't it because this sister yelled at the talking animals and seriously disturbed the public order? The cat in the suit rushed out from the side and wanted to catch us, so I dragged her to pretend to be a country bumpkin who had just entered the city for a long time, so she let us go."

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

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

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, they only focused on Luo Wei before entering the painting, and failed to pay attention for a moment.

Only Mu Yiran said: "The title of the work is "Pure Land", and the artist Mi Lun painted it."

"Pure Land? Is this painting related to religion?" Wei Dong trembled, the psychological shadow left by the painting "Faith" has not dissipated yet.

"But the painting styles of the three worlds are too different, and there is no sense of religion at all." Qin Ci said.

"Of course, do you understand Mirren?" Ke Xun asked.

Weidong: "...Are you sure you didn't call people meows on purpose?"

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

"It's over..." Wei Dong whispered to Zhu Haowen while Ke Xun and Mu Yiran were talking, "Ke Er is confused, it must have been fixed by the weird world they entered, what should I do? I don’t feel it! You think he can only talk like a cat in the end?! It’s so scary!”

"Think of a way." Zhu Haowen looked cold and serious, ignored Wei Dong, lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought.