Paintings of Terror

Wei Dong choked up sobbing, hugged tightly into a ball, and screamed hoarsely towards the door of "Tiger Learning": "Ke Er—Ke Er—come back quickly! Come back to me! Ke— oh -"

A big cat slammed into the door hard, and Wei Dong fell into a push. Wei Dong was slapped on the back of the head. into Mu Yiran's embrace.

"Ke Er——" Wei Dong stood up in horror, "He has completely turned into a cat?! What to do! What to do! Can he still leave the painting?! Boss! Boss! What to do?!"

"It doesn't matter," Mu Yiran hugged the big cat in his arms, and said in a calm voice, "He hasn't completely mutated yet, and his pupils are still human. There's still time—"

It's exactly eleven o'clock.

The lid of the box in the middle of the room snapped open.

Right at the bottom of the box was a stack of brightly colored cards. The posters of these thirteen cartoons were printed on the cards, but the titles of the cartoons were missing on the posters. There was a pen beside it.

There is no paper with requirements, only cards and pens.

"Is this asking us to write the corresponding film titles on the card?" Wei Dong wondered, "It seems too simple?"

"It's not easy," Qin Ci pointed to one of the cards, "We don't know which cartoon the world Zhao Haicui died in."

Wei Dong was stunned on the spot, and it took him a long time to murmur: "So...we will die in this game..."

"Does Xiao Ke not know about this movie?" Qin Ci was also a little anxious.

Ke Xun just licked his bloody paw with his tongue, as if he didn't understand what Qin Ci was saying.

"I think there are few old cartoons that I haven't seen, but I've never heard of this one," Qin Ci frowned, thinking hard.

"The last question is this, which is a little unexpected." Luo Wei, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said without a wave.

"No, this is a logical question," Mu Yiran said, "If every door to the hidden world is compared to the starting point and end point of each stroke of the character '米' signed by Mirren, then every cartoon The title of the film may be the strokes between the starting point and the ending point, and now we have 'written' the character '米', but there is still a stroke, only the starting point and the ending point, only the stroke in the middle."

"What should we do? None of us have watched this cartoon!" Wei Dong looked at Mu Yiran's iron body tickling his chin with his hind legs, feeling sad.

"Anyway, let's write down the other titles first." Qin Ci said.

Time always passed very fast at the moment of life and death, and everyone was staring at the last card helplessly.

If it's twelve o'clock sharp and you still can't come up with the name of the cartoon, will everyone die here together?

"How is it possible to guess the title of the film..." Wei Dong murmured, "This is different from guessing right or wrong, pros and cons, or even guessing the numbers from one to nine. There are so many Chinese characters, how do we get this movie right? name? Does anyone know how many characters there are in this film title..."

"It's no different from finding a needle in a haystack..." Qin Ci murmured.

"Perhaps we can still use classification, exclusion, this method, that method to narrow the range of guesses." Luo Wei's voice was cold, and his eyes fell on the corpses of Li Yaqing scattered around the room.

Everyone knew that Luo Wei fell into hatred and grief again, because even as a top student, he couldn't think of a more useful and scientific way at this moment.

"Meow~~~" Ke Xun drew a long tone in Mu Yiran's arms, then raised his head, looking at Mu Yiran with a cute expression.

His meow was meaningless, it was just happiness and intimacy. He was about to completely and completely alienate into a cat, and he had already forgotten his emotions and thoughts as a human.

Mu Yiran looked down at him, such a Ke Xun with clear eyes like an animal made his heart tighten for no reason.

When he completely becomes a cat, he will forget all the emotions he had when he was a human, even those memories of joy, anger, sorrow and joy, and even forget all the things he saw in his carefree childhood. cartoon.

can not do this.

You can't let him lose it all.

Mu Yiran raised his eyes and looked at the card in front of him quietly: "All cartoons have a story blueprint, some from fairy tales, some from myths and legends, and some from historical miscellaneous notes.

"The story of the rabbit throwing fire has a bizarre setting, a strange plot, obscure metaphors, cruel style, and a mythical ending. I don't think its blueprint depends on fairy tales.

"If it comes from myths and legends or historical miscellaneous notes, then there should be traces to follow.

"The old man in the story is dressed in rags and has a dull expression on his face. What would he look like if we were us in this icy and snowy cave in the barren mountains?"

"Maybe I will be cold and hungry until I die." Qin Ci replied.

"If this story is not a fairy tale, then why are there monkeys, foxes, otters, and rabbits in this cave besides humans? Did they come to keep warm because they saw a fire in the cave?" Mu Yiran was calm and calm He continued, "There can be many animals that come to keep warm, or other animals. Why these four animals? The sense of setting here is too strong. I can only think that its purpose has nothing to do with heating.

"The monkey, the fox, and the otter all hold something in their hands, the monkey holds fruit, the otter holds a fish, and the fox holds a lizard.

"We all know that monkeys eat mostly fruits, and it is reasonable for otters to eat fish. If we don't care whether foxes eat lizards or not, then on the surface, what these three animals are holding in their hands is all what they eat on a daily basis.

"They came to this cave, holding their own food in their hands, but they didn't eat it themselves. What is their purpose?

"The rabbits are obviously the same as them, and they came to this cave for a certain purpose, but the other three animals brought their own food, why didn't the rabbits hold it?

"If the rabbit also brings its own food, what will it hold? It can only be grass. As for the saying that the little white rabbit eats radishes, it is all a fairy tale. Of course rabbits fed by humans can eat radishes, while wild Rabbits that grow in the wild seem to be more convenient to eat grass all over the mountains, but it is not realistic to pull radishes from the fields.

"Then let's look at the nature of the food that the three animals hold in their hands - fruit, fish, lizards, when it comes to the rabbit, it can only hold green grass, but why doesn't it hold it?

"Combined with the old man who was dressed in rags and was probably dying of cold and starvation, can it be speculated that the food held by the monkeys, otters and foxes was for this old man?"

Qin Ci, Wei Dong, Zhu Haowen, and even Luo Wei all stared at his face when they heard this, as if they were enlightened.

"Although lizards are not in the common recipes, they are also a kind of edible meat," Mu Yiran continued calmly, "Fruit, fish, and meat can all be used as food for the elderly, but grass cannot, so the rabbit's hands Nothing on it.

"Just because of this, is the rabbit going to commit suicide by throwing himself on fire? This rabbit's self-esteem is too strong.

"Then why do these animals give this old man their food?

"Combined with the following plot, the old man lifted the rabbit, took it to the sky, and put it in the moon, which shows that this old man is not an ordinary person, but a god.

"Do the gods need animal food? Will the gods be hungry and hide in caves?

"Obviously, this is a routine commonly used in some myths and legends. Immortals transform into mortals to test the hearts of mortals, but in this story there are no mortals, only animals.

"According to the usual routine, most of the people who can pass the temptation and test of the gods, and finally ascend, become immortals, or achieve a happy ending are personally guided by the gods.

"So in this story, it is this rabbit who is led by the god himself, the rabbit with empty hands and holding nothing. On the contrary, the other three animals that held food for the gods did not get ascension.

"The root cause of this result, I think, can only be related to the behavior of the rabbit that threw the fire afterwards. And if the rabbit threw the fire because it felt ashamed that it didn't bring food, then the reason why it was led by the gods to ascend is It's too inexplicable, so I think there is only one reason, which is the reason why it passed the trial of the gods and got the ascension.

"The rabbit throws itself into the fire not because of shame, but because it has no food for the old man, so it treats itself as food and throws itself into the fire for the old man to eat."

"Damn—" Wei Dong was shocked, "This story is—— there is—I don't know how to say—"

"Cruel kindness, tragic humbleness." Mu Yiran said.

"Yes!" Wei Dong frowned and nodded, "I don't like this story."

"The routine of this story can be traced in many specific stories," Mu Yiran said, "The story has a strong sense of enlightenment, enlightenment, and sacrifice, so I think that the blueprint of this story is both Not fairy tales, not folklore, but doctrinal allusions.

"Although I haven't watched cartoons, I vaguely remember watching a science popularization program on TV when I was a child. I don't know what kind of theme it was, and a story about a religious allusion was mentioned in it.

"I have completely forgotten what the story is about. I only remember the name of the allusion quoted in the story in the narration. At that time, I thought the name was strange and interesting, so I was more impressed.

"The name of that allusion is called "Shi Bunsheng · Rabbit Bunsheng", and it specifically mentioned that doctrinal allusion, which has been adapted into a story handed down from generation to generation, and the name of the story is called:"

Mu Yiran picked up the pen and wrote its name on the card:

"Rabbit in the Moon".

Just before the time of the mobile phone entered zero, thousands of bright lights radiated from the box in the center of the room. , wrote two words full of fairy tale style, just like the two most unsatisfactory and reluctant words that are shown to children at the end of every old cartoon:

Goodbye.