Paintings of Terror

"But that old man looks like he wants to eat people—literally, eat people!" Wei Dong looked apprehensive, "I think you may not be able to ask anything, and you may even become his lunch—— By the way, I think our lunch might be ruined too, the old man has already mutated, I think he might have forgotten how to cook human food..."

Mu Yiran ignored his nagging behind him: "Even if he has mutated and can no longer answer questions, we still need to enter his back room to find clues."

Wei Dong shuddered: "You are simply pulling your teeth out of a tiger's mouth, it's too dangerous, Ke Er, please persuade me."

Ke Xun looked at Mu Yiran: "Are you really going?"

Mu Yiran didn't answer, just looked at him expressionlessly.

Ke Xun: "I'll accompany you."

Wei Dong: "..."

Ma Zhenhua said tremblingly: "I, can I not follow? I can continue to look for seals elsewhere..."

Zhang Maolin also hurriedly followed: "I'll look for the seal first, so we won't delay."

Before the rest of the people expressed their opinions, Mu Yiran said calmly: "If you are not afraid, you can go to the mourning hall of Li's house and search carefully. We have already searched for other places in the village, and the only thing left is the mourning hall. Most likely with the old man's house. We'll be here an hour later."

Ke Xun also pulled Weidong over, and whispered to him: "Be careful yourself, if you haven't seen me at night, I guess I'm heroic, you have the key to my house, if you can leave this painting, go to my house Once there, my real estate certificate, all the documents and materials for opening a gym, my ID card and my bank card are all placed in a flower pot with a fake cactus planted on the balcony. Everything that requires a password is behind my ID card. Six, you donated my savings for me, rented out the house, and used the rent to add new equipment to the gym. The income from the gym was shared with my buddies who worked in partnership. I have 1 T of small movies on my computer. It's yours."

"Get out! The fucking T you saved is all calcium tablets, I don't need it!" Wei Dong cursed, and he grabbed Ke Xun's arm worriedly after the scolding, "Are you really going? Just for him? No way, there are no fragrant grasses anywhere in the world, do you have to pay for this one? You have only known him for a few days, and how can someone be as crooked as you? For a straight man , are you not bad?"

"What are you thinking about? It's for him and for ourselves. The teaching motto of our physical education department is: you will get rewards if you pay. You can't always let others pay. Let's wait for the results." Ke Xun said, "Besides, you forgot, I His intuition has always been accurate."

"So?" Wei Dong didn't know why.

Ke Xun smiled, turned and walked towards Mu Yiran.

The two groups split up.

Mu Yiran and Ke Xun came outside the old man's courtyard, Mu Yiran stopped and looked at Ke Xun: "Do you really want to go in with me?"

"Not only do I want to go in with you, but I also want to come out with you," Ke Xun said.

"I'm afraid not." Mu Yiran said, "If you don't plan to change your mind, then let me make arrangements."

Ke Xun: "Okay, tell me."

Mu Yiran looked at him carefully: "Wait, you enter the courtyard door and walk carefully towards the door of the house. If the old man chases him out, try to lure him away, and I will take the opportunity to enter the house and search his back room. During this period, I hope you can hold him back, the longer the better. Can you do it?"

"I have a question," Ke Xun said, "This old man can't be judged by ordinary people's standards. What if he jumps faster than me, what should I do?"

"Since you and Weidong escaped from his house just now, you will be able to escape this time." Mu Yiran said, "Even if you escaped too fast just now and got out of his control, you were able to completely escape him." Get rid of it, so this time you have a good sense of proportion, neither let him catch up, nor throw him too far away, always keep a safe chasing distance, take him out of this yard, and drag him outside for as long as possible, If I can finish things ahead of time, I will go to you and get rid of him then. How about it, is there any question? "

"Yes," Ke Xun said, "what's your phone number?"

Mu Yiran said with a cold face, "Go in if there is no problem."

Ke Xun moved his legs and feet, stretched his muscles and bones, and signaled to Mu Yiran: "You hide at the door, and I will lure the old man out to run this way."

Mu Yiran stood on the other side of the door as he said, and saw Ke Xun stepping into the courtyard door with one long leg.

Mu Yiran looked at his back, walked towards the door without hesitation, his usual loose and lazy posture disappeared without a trace, his straight back and gait full of elasticity and strength made him It really looks like... a sharp character from the sports department.

The sharp man Ke Xun came to the door.

The door of the house is closed, and the situation inside the house cannot be seen.

Ke Xun didn't want to give himself time to figure out the situation, so he stretched out his hand and opened the door.

With a "squeak", the gray light flooded into the dim main room in response to the sound.The old head stood in the middle of the room like a walking dead, sluggishly and motionless.

The moment he saw Ke Xun, his face, which was ashen and dead like a dead body, suddenly split open. The dark gums and mouth were like a bottomless black hole, which opened wider and wider until it exceeded the capacity of a human mouth. Zhang reached the limit, and immediately rushed towards Ke Xun with his mouth wide open.

Ke Xun turned and ran, listening to the wind behind him and the old man's footsteps to judge the distance between the two.

This is Ke Xun's specialty. When he was in school, he participated in large and small competitions, listening to the sound and identifying the opponent's movement position, which has a crucial impact on the adjustment of the game tactics.

Ke Xun controlled the distance between the old man and himself, kept it at about five steps, and ran out of the courtyard gate one after the other.

Mu Yiran did not quickly enter the courtyard gate until Ke Xun took the old man out of sight, and went straight to the inner room where the old man lived.

Ke Xun didn't dare to go in the direction of the locust tree, fearing that he would meet some other people, so he took the old man back and forth between the villages.

After thinking about it, he is the only one who can do this job. If it were someone else, he would not have his speed and stamina.

His current speed has not reached his own fastest level, but judging by ordinary people's standards, it is already quite fast. If Weidong hadn't been dragged by him at that time, he would have been caught by the old man long ago, and even more so. Not to mention the need to keep running at this speed all the time, and in order to give Mu Yiran sufficient time, it is likely to continue running for a few 10 minutes.

There is one thing Ke Xun doesn't really understand. If this old man is not a real person, but that kind of "thing", its "competitive level" should not be inferior to that of a human being.

Mu Yiran said that if you do not follow the rules in the painting, you will suffer irresistible backlash, and what happened in the past two nights also proves that those "things" that have appeared in the past, although there are ways to avoid encountering The harm, in fact, is all due to coincidence or luck to avoid it. If they really encountered each other head-on, they would have no hope of surviving.

In other words, the power in this painting, no matter how regular it is, cannot be resisted head-on.

But this old man is not.

The old man couldn't outrun him.

Isn't it weird?

Thinking of this, Ke Xun couldn't help turning his head to take a look.

Seeing this, he didn't stumble in fright.

He no longer knew what it was that was chasing him, a black hole-like mouth covered his entire head, two skinny hands were stretched forward, fingers were slender, combined with skinny arms, like It is the three twisted pagoda trees.

The fatal thing is the old man's belly.

Because he was running so fast, the clothes on his body were blown backwards tightly to his body, and the protruding thing on his abdomen was clearly outlined.

That's a face.

The facial features are complete and the expressions are vivid.

This face is crying.

It opened its mouth wide, piercing its lungs, in unbearable pain, and kept swinging and struggling as the old man ran.

Ke Xun felt itchy all over, and couldn't help scratching his stomach.

Suddenly a thought flashed in my mind: itching... itching all over... the experience of last night...

When he ran for an unknown amount of time and finally saw Mu Yiran's figure appearing in front of him, Ke Xun raised his voice and yelled: "Boss, this guy——is a deformity!"

Mu Yiran made a gesture and disappeared around the corner.Ke Xun speeded up and got rid of the old man after a few minutes.

Mu Yiran was waiting on the only way to the locust tree, and saw Ke Xun striding over, running at such a fast speed for such a long time, the man was only slightly panting, and his head looked as if he had just It's like exercising your muscles.

This kind of physical strength, even Mu Yiran is somewhat self-deprecating.

"This old man is also deformed," Ke Xun stepped forward, "he has an extra face on his stomach, I suspect he has an extra brain in his stomach, even if he can't think, he can control the face on his stomach look. Is there any clue in his house?"

Mu Yiran: "Yes. Cypress wood."

"He made Li Guaiguai's coffin?" Ke Xun was surprised, "They are both deformed, so why bother with each other?"

"His name is Li Mazi," Mu Yiran glanced at him, "he is Li Guaiguai's father, and also his... elder brother."

Ke Xun was stunned: "I seem to know something important."

Mu Yiran was expressionless: "Because this village is closed and backward, there are many ignorant and unethical customs. Because many people are married by close relatives, the medical level is low, and the survival rate of offspring is not high. In addition, there are more men than women. For the sake of reproduction, under the consensus of the villagers, a system of sharing wives gradually came into being.”

"...It's terrible to be closed and backward." Ke Xun didn't know what to say.

"In fact, the probability of birth defects in close relatives is only 4%," Mu Yiran continued. "Many of these deformed children died prematurely before reaching adulthood, and some died in infancy. Like Li Mazi People who grew up like Li Guaiguai are probably considered a minority in this village."

"I don't know if this is luck or misfortune," Ke Xun said.

"Of course not lucky." Mu Yiran looked at him, "Can you imagine what kind of life he has lived in the village since childhood?"