Paintings of Terror

"Ke Xun," Mu Yi suddenly stood up, sat next to Ke Xun, stretched out his arms to embrace him, and put one hand on his head, "I know what you are worried about. I am worried that this world is controlled by some kind of force. Controlled by his own will, and this power happens to be the mastermind behind the entire incident of entering the painting, then all our resistance, all our struggles, will probably be useless, and in the end, all of us will inevitably die.”

At this point, Mu Yiran gently rubbed Ke Xun's messy hair, and said in a soft and gentle voice, "After you fell asleep last night, I also collected some information, and there is a discovery that may comfort you.

"The so-called quantum is a basic entity whose physical quantity is divided into inseparable parts. It is the smallest unit that can express the characteristics of a certain substance or physical quantity. Then why can it be divided? Because its energy is not continuous.

"After research, it is found that human consciousness, like matter, is not continuous. It has a small disconnection every 0.042 seconds. In this way, our consciousness can be regarded as a quantized consciousness with 0.042 seconds as a part. .

"So, Ke Xun, maybe the facts are really as you imagined, consciousness is also a kind of matter, and it is also a quantum phenomenon. 'Consciousness' is completely different from particles such as photons, electrons, gravitons, etc., but it does not mean that So it is not a different kind of particle or a different kind of matter.

"Maybe we can't explain why consciousness can have subjective initiative but matter does not, but, Ke Xun, don't forget that as long as we are alive, our consciousness will not leave us. If the power behind the scenes is also a kind of consciousness, then in If we compete on the level of consciousness, we may not be weaker than it.

"There is one thing that you may have forgotten, but I still remember it clearly. It was the third night after entering the painting "Faith". You were alone in a tent and did not meet the conditions to avoid death. Logically, you It should be chosen by the black corpse to die, but it has been watching your tent for a long time, and finally failed to pick you.

"In hindsight, we thought it was because you had the correct sacrifice Mirabilis on you back then, but now that you think about it, why did Heishitian stay on top of your tent for so long?"

At this point, Ke Xun turned his face and blinked at him: "That's right, since I have the right sacrifice, why didn't it turn around and find the other two unqualified people?"

"It may make people feel ridiculous," Mu Yiran bent the corners of his lips, "The purple jasmine is a sacrifice dedicated to the good-looking god, and its function at that time was to drive away the evil-looking god, so the evil-looking god could not kill it. You, but at the same time, your spiritual power has sent a message—you don’t believe in God, and you would rather die than believe in it.

"But in this 'god', in addition to the god of evil, there is also the god of goodness. So this powerful willpower resisted the god of goodness and the god of evil at the same time. Even though the balance is evenly matched, it is also equivalent to restraining the power of the good god.

"The good-looking god was restrained by you, and the power of the evil-looking god increased accordingly, so a bug suddenly appeared on the top of your tent—this god of good and evil is caught by this delicate 'balance of will' No, no staying, no going, I stayed outside your tent for a while.

"Speaking of this matter now is just to let you understand, Ke Xun, with strong willpower, can contend against gods and demons. As long as our own willpower is strong, we may not be the opponent of the force behind the scenes. What kind of person is truly strong? What about the one? Infinite strength, steel and iron, invincible in the world? No, not really.

"Spiritual will represents the heart. A strong heart is truly strong."

"Yiran——" Ke Xun turned around, hugged the person next to him, buried his head between his shoulders and neck, took a deep breath of the light soap scent with cedar flavor, "Yiran, with you here, I am not afraid of anything. I will become as strong as you want me to be. Of course, I don’t want to be so passive anymore. Next, let’s join hands and hide the one who only dares to hide The wretched thing behind the scenes did it!"

Mu Yiran slightly bent the corners of his lips, held the back of Ke Xun's neck, made him turn his face away, and then buried his head in the kiss.

……

When Ke Xun was woken up by the notification sound of the V letter, all the muscles in his body were still in a state of stiffness and soreness, and it was difficult for him to even turn over on the bed.

He opened his eyes and glanced at his side, and there were already people going to sleep, and there were a few slight noises from the kitchen.

Turn on the phone screen, call up the "Jinhualun" group chat, and see the news whizzing up.

Today's first news came from "Ximen Wuyou".

Ximen Wuyou: Brothers!Don't sleep!Wake me up!Think of a way!

Little Carrot Pulling White Rabbit: ... Sister, it's only four o'clock! It's only four o'clock!

Ximen Wuyou: Carrot, why are you so big-hearted? !Your life is almost gone, are you still in the mood to sleep? !

Little Carrot Pulling White Rabbit: ... Sister, I can't stay awake for more than ten days, and stay up until the next painting is finished...

Ximen Wuyou: Think of a way!

Little Carrot Pulling White Rabbit: What can I come up with, my solution is to hug my thighs and walk all the way down, or you hug me together?I will give you half of my leg, I will hold the thigh and you will hold the calf.

Ximen Wuyou: ... Radish, where's your dignity? !Tell me who has thicker legs.

Little Carrot Pulling White Rabbit: ...

Little Carrot Pulling White Rabbit: My brother-in-law, my elder brother.

Ximen Wuyou: ...Who?

Little radish and white rabbit: @Mooney, @启吉

Ximen Wuyou: It turns out that Mr. Mu is your brother-in-law, so did you tell your sister about it?

Little Carrot Pulling White Rabbit: I don't have a sister, my brother-in-law is my brother's husband.

Ximen Wuyou: ...? ? ? …I may have learned the wrong set of kinship trees?

Little Carrot Pulling White Rabbit: Let’s not talk, I’ll sleep a little longer, last night I brushed the dungeon with Brother Dong, and I slept a little late.

Ximen Wuyou: ...You guys!Who are you all? !Do you know that you are going to die? !Still in the mood to play games!

Lotus Pond Serenade: Wu You, you woke up so early?

Ximen Wuyou: I didn't sleep all night...

Lotus Pond Serenade: Well, I am similar, sleeping and waking up for a while, and I still have nightmares, and I dare not cry loudly if I want to cry, for fear that my parents will hear it in the room.

Ximen Wuyou: It's useless to cry, I want to cry too, but who can I cry for?

Lotus Pond Serenade: You are stronger than me, my throat is swollen now, I am going to get up early and run out, so as not to be seen by my parents.

Ximen Wuyou: Where are you going on such a cold day?It snowed again last night, and I think it hasn't stopped yet.

Lotus Pond Serenade: I don't know either... My mind is in a mess right now, I don't know where I'm going, and I don't know what to do. I was still thinking last night, rather than dying so badly in the painting, it's better to die in reality Just swallow a bottle of sleeping pills, at least you won't suffer.But when I see my parents, I don't want to commit suicide anymore, I can't bear them...

Ximen Wuyou: Who is not? Everyone has a whole body of worries. How could it be possible to just let it go... But I am more or less thinking about it now. Since I may die at any time, I might as well do whatever I want before I die, so that I can enjoy myself. Prepare to go shopping at dawn, max out your credit card, buy clothes, cosmetics, bags that you usually don’t want to buy, eat things that you usually dare not eat in order to lose weight, and then go to my idol’s concert!

Lotus Pond Serenade: ...you say that...then I too...

Ximen Wuyou: Right, right, do you want to go together?

Lotus Pond Serenade: Well, in fact, I have always wanted to buy Dior's gorgeous blue gold lipstick, but I have never been willing...

Ximen Wuyou: satin classic red?

Lotus Pond Serenade: Yes, yes, yes

Ximen Wuyou: I also think that the three shades are all right, let's go together. @深海林鱼, Brother Fei, would you like to take a tube and bring it to you?

Deep Sea Philippine Fish: I just used my little clarinet twice.

Ximen Wuyou: How can a woman only have one lipstick.

Deep-sea Philippine fish: Bring me one, and I will forward the letter to you.

Ximen Wuyou: OJ8K.

……

Ke Xun: "..."

Women are stronger than men sometimes.

Self-healing is really powerful.

Ke Xun moved his waist, feeling sore.

...I really envy people with strong self-healing power.

The bedroom door was gently pushed open, and Mu Yiran stood at the door: "Get up and eat."

"I can't get up." Ke Xun lay on the pillow like a dead dog, "You can only come back to life if you kiss me."

Mu Yiran walked to the side of the bed, looked down at him condescendingly: "Are you sure?"

Ke Xun, a lazy donkey, turned over to pick up the carp and jumped up from the bed: "No, no, let's eat and eat! Hiss..."

"Does it hurt you?" Mu Yiran supported him who staggered a bit, "Does it matter?"

"Let me tell you," Ke Xun stretched out three fingers, "there will be no more than this number in one night, unless you let me..."

"Don't think too much." Boss Mu ruthlessly suppressed Gouzi's rebellious heart, "Wash and eat."

"Wow." Ke Gouzi drooped his tail and went to the bathroom.

Although Mu Yiran has lived here, he still knows how to do the work at hand, but compared to before, he has tried his best to reduce the number of business trips, and let the assistant do everything he can do. This is the case, every day There will still be six or seven hours of occupying the study and computer, turning a blind eye to the behavior of the corgi dog circling around with his tail on his back and forth.

Ke Xun’s daily routine is basically to play with his mobile phone in the morning, check the information of the next art museum to enter, go to the gym in the afternoon, and then go to the supermarket to buy vegetables. Occasionally, Mu Yiran will go to the gym and supermarket with him when he is not very busy. In the evening, both of them will discuss the information of the painting with the partners in the painting theory group.

The next art museum to go to is located in L City and is called "Sanxingshi Art Museum".

When Ke Xun marked its coordinates on the map and added them to the coordinate maps of all previous art museums, Ke Xun couldn't help being stunned by the image that appeared in front of him.

All the thirteen paintings that have been entered before, if their coordinates are connected by a connecting line, the two letters "TN" are displayed. This has been concluded before entering the Winter Art Museum, and everyone It is believed that the coordinates of art museums that appear later will also continue to be displayed after "TN".

But this time, the coordinates of Sanxingshi Art Museum ran to the top of "T".

In other words, the letter "T" that everyone thought before will no longer be T.

"Is it a '+' or a 'cross'?" Ke Xun scratched his head.

"Before we thought that 'TN' was an initial signature, but now it seems that this guess has been overturned." Mu Yiran zoomed in on the map, staring at the picture and thinking, "Maybe we are a little too rigid about English letters. In fact, these If the coordinates are connected by lines, there are many possibilities.”

"I removed all the lines, restored them to coordinate points, and then asked everyone to connect them with lines," Ke Xun said, "Everyone's brain circuits are different, let them play freely, one more idea is more A possibility, maybe it can provide more inspiration."

"Okay." Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun who was solemnly arranging tasks for everyone in the group, as if he saw the little captain who was seriously managing his team members in his youth.

Really, really cute.