Paintings of Terror

With the disappearance of Du Lingyu, the blizzard outside became more raging, as if it could bury this tiny light brigade at any time.

"Wow, woof, woof—" Xinchun's voice came from outside the window, seeming to urge everyone to get on the road.

"Let's go, hurry up." Zhu Haowen said.

Fang Fei climbed onto the windowsill again: "Follow me, jump down!"

Fang Fei's figure quickly disappeared from the window, and her voice came from outside: "Come down!"

Everyone stopped wasting time and jumped from the window one after another until they landed firmly on Xinchun's back, and the hanging heart finally fell to the ground.

Luo Kuo lay on Xinchun's furry back, feeling the familiar temperature: "Xinchun, gather your strength for a while, don't get tired!"

"Woo, woof..." Xinchun responded to his master, the hot air from his mouth was particularly obvious in the snowy night, like the steam from a locomotive.

"Why is there one less person?!" Ke Xun counted the number of people, "There should be ten people, why are there only nine?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and they all opened their mouths to express their presence, and soon found that Mai Peng was missing.

"What's the matter? Where's Mai Peng?" Ke Xun's eyes wandered among the members, some couldn't believe that such a big living person just disappeared, "I was the last one to jump off just now, and I saw Mai Peng Peng jumped down too, he was right behind Qin Ci and in front of Cao Youning."

Cao Youning was completely stunned. Just now because of the departure of his companion Du Lingyu, he shed a lot of tears. Now that the cold wind blows, the tears are completely frozen, and his whole expression is stiff: "Mai Peng? Mai Peng He obviously jumped off, he jumped off right in front of me! I saw him jump with my own eyes!"

Cao Youning's voice split sharply.

Fang Fei's snow-white mask was particularly eye-catching in the night. She looked back at the window: "We have completely entered the tunnel, and the door of the tunnel has been closed, and it will not be opened again until the next day."

"But, Mai Peng, where did he go?!" Cao Youning was anxious and helpless. He crawled awkwardly to the edge, trying to find clues from below, but the bottom was an abyss. There was so much snow that we couldn't see anything at all.

Mu Yiran's hair was also disheveled by the wind: "It seems that the meeting point of Mai Peng's death is this time, and it cannot be avoided."

Cao Youning turned around, his voice trembling because of extreme sadness: "I don't understand, everyone is fine after jumping down, why is it only Mai Peng...you mean, Mai Peng died at this time?!"

Mu Yiran's voice was low and deep: "It should be the third night of our timeline, and it seems that Mai Peng in another timeline died at the end of the fourth day—this world seems to be in chaos, In fact, it follows an extremely strict time limit, and there is no more second of hesitation in the face of the established death."

Cao Youning's voice was faint and weak in the cold wind: "That is to say, Mai Peng just... fell down just now? Where is his body? Where is he now?"

No one has answered this question, nor can anyone answer it.

……

Mai Peng felt that he was sinking gradually. When he jumped off the window just now, he couldn't step on the ground, so he kept falling, and he didn't even have time to call for help.

The speed of the fall didn't seem so fast, at least Mai Peng saw the coffins hanging under the window, the first coffin contained Xi Shengnan, and the second coffin contained Lu Heng.

Think about the night before Lu Heng left, he once said to himself repeatedly: "Mai Peng, you promise me that if something happens to me here, you will help me to carry the coffin. You promise me."

I also promised him: "Okay, I promise you, if something happens to me, you will hold the coffin for me."

"Okay, it's a deal."

One word is for sure.

Mai Peng felt that he had been sinking for a long time, but there was still no end.

Until a person on the opposite side also came towards him in the opposite direction, yes, a person on the other side was also sinking, but the direction was completely opposite to himself.

Mai Peng was surprised that he didn't feel scared, he opened his eyes wide and tried hard to see the person opposite him clearly.

In fact, before he saw it clearly, he had already predicted that that person was himself.

That is Mai Peng on the dotted line. He once chose to end his life by jumping out of a window.

The two Mai Pengs looked at each other, and they both stopped in mid-air at the same time. The other Mai Peng said, "I didn't expect to meet here, did you help Lu Heng's coffin?"

Mai Peng heard his own voice in the cold air: "Yes, I helped his coffin."

Mai Peng on the opposite side smiled: "Then we don't owe each other. After my accident, it was Lu Heng who helped me in the coffin."

Mai Peng felt a pain in his heart: "Sorry, I didn't hurry up, if I could find the signature one day earlier..."

"There's nothing to be sorry about, whoever we are with." Mai Peng, who was opposite, smiled.

After a person dies, he meets another self.

Mai Peng believed this.

……

In another world, where Mai Peng cannot see, Xinchun is galloping towards a place full of hope.

Everyone tried to maintain a safe posture, and grabbed the hair on Xinchun's back to prevent being thrown out in the fast-moving wind.

Only Cao Youning was trembling all the time, Ke Xun crawled to his side and patted his shoulder, but it didn't calm him down.

The front is getting brighter and brighter, and the snow is as bright as moonlight.

Xinchun finally stopped on a large protruding ice rock, Fang Fei observed the location: "Han Yelv has arrived."

Everyone got down from Xinchun's back one after another. Before seeing the whole picture of the giant dog Xinchun, it had returned to its original compact state.

Qin Ci looked at the phone: "The time function has disappeared again."

Shao Ling: "We can judge from the function of the mobile phone whether it is still within the Fourth Brigade. After all, the exit where the signature is located is outside the Fourth Brigade."

Wei Dong also thought it made sense: "That is to say, once our mobile phone recovers the time function again, does that mean we have found the exit?"

Shao Ling: "That's the reason. Xinchun's speed was very fast just now. I checked my watch when I arrived at the destination. It took less than an hour on the road."

At this time, everyone is on a platform covered by ice, and there seems to be a large glacier in front of it, and there are ice caves on the glacier.

As soon as everyone spoke, white breaths would come out. Ke Xun looked around: "Those pictures of white fish were taken in a very dark place, and the fish was in the water. I think we can enter this place." Take a look in the ice cave."

Everyone agreed, so they walked into the nearest ice cave.

Cao Youning couldn't restrain his trembling: "Is death really unpredictable and unpreventable? Once you reach your own time, will you die no matter how safe you are?"

Zhu Haowen: "Unless you are outside the painting."

Cao Youning's expression was extremely painful. There were five of them when they came, but now he is the only one left.

Wei Dong was on the sidelines trying to cheer him up: "We must hurry up, once we find the signature, we won't be manipulated by the timeline anymore! Let's go, find it quickly, don't waste a second!"

Cao Youning's eyes were empty, and his voice trembled: "I seem to have seen it, I saw that knife..."

"What knife?" Wei Dong was puzzled.

"I saw the knife used to cut my wrists, I used that knife to cut my wrists..." Cao Youning was like a mentally disturbed person, his wandering soul had gone, leaving only walking corpses.

"Don't scare me, are you freezing and hallucinating?" Wei Dong patted him on the shoulder, then looked at Fang Fei: "Master Wu, can you pat him?"

Fang Fei walked over, looked at Cao Youning with the white mask for a while, then shook her head without speaking.

"Keep going, there is no delay." Shao Ling had a premonition of something, but he didn't say it out loud. At this time, he could only tell everyone to speed up as much as possible.

As we went deeper into the cave, the light became darker and the air gradually warmed up. There was not even any snow or ice in the depths of the cave.

Some of the upside-down ice cones above the hole began to fall one by one as they melted.

Wei Dong was hit on the head by an ice pick, and felt a little pain: "Everyone pay attention, wear your hats, this thing hurts too much..."

Before Wei Dong finished speaking, Cao Youning's scream suddenly came from beside him: "Ah—no—"

Everyone rushed over, only to see Cao Youning clutching his left wrist, where blood was continuously splattering, and an ice pick broken into several knots was on the ground.

"Is it an ice pick?" Shao Ling couldn't believe it.

"The ice hammer is like a knife... cut off my artery..." Cao Youning couldn't believe it himself, "Help me, I don't want to die."

"First aid! Hurry up and bandage!" Qin Ci unloaded the medicine box behind his back and began to quickly prepare tools.

But the blood on Cao Youning's wrist began to spurt out like a fountain, and even bandaging it didn't help.

"No! No!" Cao Youning's voice gradually weakened. When Qin Ci thought that he had finally controlled the blood flow from the wound, a bloody opening suddenly opened near the wound, and the blood gushed out again... Can't be stopped.

"It's fate, it's death caused by the intersection of timelines." Fang Fei's voice was helpless.

Ke Xun began to perform CPR first aid on Cao Youning. As long as his teammates still had a chance of life, they couldn't let him die like this.

Cao Youning's eyes are gradually losing light: "I seem to have seen another me... You shouldn't hesitate, you should make a decision early, as long as it is a day earlier, even a few hours earlier, maybe we will go out..."

"I don't believe that you died instantly in another timeline, cut your wrists, there is always a slow process," Ke Xun tried to wake him up, "You won't die so quickly, cheer up!"

"I'm running out of time, hurry up and find an autograph," Zhu Haowen turned his face away, trying to make his voice ruthless, "There is water ahead, the white fish must be in the water."

Ke Xun simply carried Cao Youning on his back: "Go, let's go!"

Go, can only go forward, race against time to find the signature.

Ahead lay a sheet of water, which appeared to be black in the light of the cave.

There were fish swimming in the water, exactly the kind of white fish in the photo.

"These fish are alive, without the stiffness in the photos." Zhu Haowen observed the fish in the water.

"Continue walking along the water's edge, pay attention to every corner around you." Mu Yiran said to everyone, looking around, "Pay attention to your phone, once the time display appears, stop immediately."

The author has something to say:

Death is the cruelest place in Infinity Stream.Xingyue is very reluctant to part with Maishen.Alas, there are other arrangements for the next painting, so I can only choose.