Paintings of Terror

Gu Qingqing watched from below, and saw Ke Xun sticking out several thick and long branches from the tree and throwing them down.

Ke Xun jumped down from the tree, broke off the miscellaneous branches on these branches, and then tied them one by one with torn clothes to form branches tens of meters long. Finally, he tied his mobile phone to the the top end.

"I climbed as high as I could, and then you handed me the branch." Ke Xun said and climbed up the tree again.

Gu Qingqing understood his intentions, and quickly asked: "Can the mobile phone take a clear picture? There are greens everywhere here, so it's hard to tell them apart?"

"My mobile phone is 4000 million pixels, which is equivalent to five times zoom, and the resolution should be fine." Ke Xun said, and climbed to the highest place possible. Gu Qingqing handed him the long branch, Ke Xun turned on the camera mode, held up the branch, let the end with the mobile phone protrude out of the entire canopy as high as possible, and then slowly and steadily turned 360 degrees.

Withdrawing his hand, Ke Xun sent the end tied with the mobile phone under the tree, and asked Gu Qingqing to untie it: "Click on the one just taken to see if you can see the kapok tree."

Gu Qingqing opened it according to the words, paused to check it carefully, then shook her head: "No."

Ke Xun got down from the tree and pointed to the direction the two of them were going: "Then we don't have to look carefully at this section of the road, just go directly to the farthest place on the screen, and then take another photo there, which is more economical." time."

Gu Qingqing looked at him in surprise, and felt that his idea was really flexible and very good.

The two of them just ran and stopped, quickly climbed the tree to shoot, and went down to check, which really saved a lot of time.

However, time waits for no one.

The sky was getting darker and gloom hung over the head. The silent trees in front of them gradually turned into black silhouettes in the dim light. There was no wind, and the branches and leaves were motionless, only in the depths of the dark dense forest. Occasionally came the melancholy calls of birds and beasts.

"It's the appointed time..." Gu Qingqing reminded Ke Xun in a low voice that everyone agreed to return to the place where Qin Ci and Wu You were before it completely darkened, and then go back to the residential area together.

The sweat on Ke Xun's face was like water that had opened the gate, and it kept falling down.

Gu Qingqing can't count how many trees he has climbed. He has already reached the limit of his physical strength, but he is still searching desperately.

Gu Qingqing was a little scared, afraid that he would not go back, afraid of the unwavering attachment in his eyes from beginning to end.

Ke Xun wiped his face. The method of using a mobile phone to take pictures in the distance is no longer available. The sky is dark, and it is difficult to distinguish the shape of the leaves on the screen. He also saw the worry in Gu Qingqing's eyes, not only worried about herself , worried about Qin Ci, and also worried about him.

Ke Xun closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

If facing the death of his companion is also a kind of courage, he must muster this courage now....

"Go, let's go back." Ke Xun's voice had an imperceptible nasal tone.

Gu Qingqing was about to turn back to the way she came, but was pulled by Ke Xun: "Let's not go back the same way, let's walk a long way to the side, the farthest left side we saw on the phone just now is Go back from there."

In this way, when going back, one more area can be searched.

"Can you still hold on? We may have to run when we go back." Ke Xun asked Gu Qingqing.

Gu Qingqing moved her calf, which was already cramped twice, and gritted her teeth: "Yes."

"Okay, follow me and be careful where you step." Ke Xun started running to the left, and Gu Qingqing gritted his teeth and followed.

The two ran and looked around in the increasingly dark forest. Gu Qingqing wanted to cry, because the sweat that kept slipping down had blurred her glasses and eyes, and she kept wiping it to no avail. It was soaked, and the lenses wiped with it were full of water stains.

She is very short-sighted. After taking off her glasses, she can't even see Ke Xun clearly, let alone tell which one is the kapok tree.

Gu Qingqing choked up while running, hating herself for being short-sighted and useless at critical moments.

Just as she was choking so hard that she couldn't restrain herself, she suddenly felt a hand reach out and grab her. This hand was as sweaty as hers, but it was broad and powerful, holding her tightly and leading her to continue running.

"Don't cry," Ke Xun's voice came from her teary eyes, "We have done our best."

Gu Qingqing let out a sobbing "Yeah", and tried to speed up her pace, but physical strength can't last forever if she just wants to work hard. She stumbled as she ran, her legs became weaker and weaker, and she finally lost control. When crossing a small slope with high terrain, his legs softened and he fell to his knees on the ground.

Ke Xun turned around and came to help her, but her legs were shaking so much that she couldn't stand up. Ke Xun turned around to carry her on his back, but she knew that his physical strength had already been exhausted. trembling.

"Leave me alone..." Gu Qingqing picked up the dropped glasses tremblingly, and put them back on the bridge of the nose, "Leave me alone...you go back, I don't want to drag you down, I'll just do it...I tried my best , there is nothing to die..."

"Hush—" Ke Xun suddenly pointed not far away, "Look at those trees, are they kapok?"

Gu Qingqing looked in the direction he pointed, and in the dimness, there was a very thick and tall tree standing in the sky, and in the four directions not far from it, there was a tree of the same height in each direction, forming a A trapezium surrounds it.

"I—I can't see clearly—" Gu Qingqing wiped her glasses desperately, but the lenses became more and more stained.

"Don't worry." Ke Xun patted her on the shoulder, took a picture of the five trees with his mobile phone, and held it in front of her.

Gu Qingqing held the glasses in one hand and the mobile phone in the other, her face was almost pasted on the screen of the mobile phone, Ke Xun zoomed in on the photo for her to see, Gu Qingqing tried to distinguish it for a few seconds, and raised her eyes excitedly: "Yes! It's a kapok tree!"

Ke Xun wiped his face, shook off the sweat from his hands, and turned to look at the five trees.

The five trees were unknown to be hundreds of years old, their canopies covered the sky, towering high towards the already blackened sky.

They are indeed inconspicuous, and there are many tall and strong trees surrounding them to hide them.

But they are indeed very conspicuous, because from the direction Ke Xun is standing in, regardless of perspective and depth of field, these five trees are like a big hand that breaks through the ground and stretches desperately to the sky. The bent branches of Yechang, which have been chiseled by wind and rain for thousands of years, are just like five twisted and twisted fingers, struggling, desperate, unwilling, and praying to the sky, to be able to survive in this already riddled land. Kong but still loves the earth to continue to live.

This is the hand, the hand in the picture that yearns for survival.

Ke Xun asked Gu Qingqing to touch the tree in the middle, and Gu Qingqing turned to look at him while walking there in doubt.

"You leave the painting first, I have to go back and bring everyone here."

Ke Xun said that he was about to leave, but he heard Gu Qingqing panicked: "I touched the tree trunk, but it can't... How do I leave the painting? What should be the normal reaction?"

Ke Xun frowned: "Is there no Abel's name on the tree trunk?"

"No." Gu Qingqing shook her head anxiously.

"Where are the other four trees?" Ke Xun didn't dare to touch them, fearing that he would accidentally leave the painting.

Gu Qingqing quickly circled around the four trees, shaking her head again with a bad expression.

This discovery without any discovery was like a blow to the head.

If these five trees are not... then all the hopes of today will be wiped out.

Ke Xun tightly pursed his lips and desperately thought about any possibility, while Gu Qingqing continued to inspect the trunks of these trees without stopping.

What form will Abel's signature take?Ke Xun stared at these trees, at the top of the tree?on the leaves?Engraved on tree bark?Buried at the root of a tree?

--No. Abel is an environmentalist, it is impossible to engrave his signature on the bark of the tree or bury it under the root of the tree, he will not do anything that harms the tree—"Pull the fallen leaves under the tree and have a look!" Ke Xun said to him Qingqing Road.

——If Abel is a foreigner, I don’t know if he has heard of the Chinese poem “Turn into spring mud and protect flowers”, or have the same idea as this poem.

He is an environmentalist, and he wants to protect the last guardians of the earth, so his signature is likely to be——

"Found it!" Gu Qingqing shouted in a trembling voice.

Under those thick fallen leaves, the name Abel appeared in the form of slightly raised mud ridges surrounded by the five trees of life. The tombs of soldiers from the source.

"Put your hand on the signature!" Ke Xun told Gu Qingqing.

Gu Qingqing put her hand up as she said, a white light lit up, and her figure disappeared in place in an instant.

Ke Xun turned his head and sprinted towards the spot agreed with his companions.

It was already dark, night birds no longer crowed, forest beasts no longer whistled, and in the forest without a breath of wind, there were countless rustling and dense sounds from far and near.

Something scraped the ground, passed through the dense forest, and rushed towards this side.

"Yiran——Yiran—" Ke Xun roared wildly, "Come here—to the east—I found the signature—follow my voice—"

He roared while running wildly, his exhausted body seemed to no longer belong to him, all his movements had become subconscious mechanized actions, sweat fell from his forehead like a waterfall, his vision was blurred to the point where He couldn't see the trees close by, so he turned on the light on his mobile phone and turned the music inside to the loudest. He hoped that his companions could hear it as soon as possible, and rushed over before those things arrived.

Ke Xun staggered, his legs went limp and he tripped, his body that was about to fall apart wished he could just collapse on the spot and never get up again.He gritted his teeth and exerted all his strength to barely stand up, swaying and continuing to move forward.

too tired.He had never been so tired in his life.Even the devil training under the devil coach before has never been so tiring.

He couldn't hold on any longer, he staggered forward several times in big strides, and fell forward.

If you plant it, you may never be able to stand up again.Ke Xun's mind was blank, and he couldn't even turn the word "sorry" to Mu Yiran in his mind.

He fell forward, but failed to plant in the muddy ground full of insects and ants and rotting leaves in his mind.

He fell into a familiar embrace with a familiar smell and familiar power.He was hugged and helped up, and then went on his back with a strong back.

"Go east and follow." He heard him telling his companions calmly and calmly as always.

Then he ran quickly with his back on his back, followed by a series of footsteps, and the overwhelming sound of crawling that was getting closer.

Everyone was very tired, and everyone had no strength to speak anymore. All Ke Xun could hear was heavy breathing and heavy footsteps.

Everyone is fighting with all their might where their lives are hanging by a thread, everyone's thoughts are full of desire for life, everyone is like the hand struggling to break through the ground, desperately reaching out to the last hope .

Until he heard Shao Ling's hoarse voice suddenly resounding: "Old Qin - he started to vomit blood -"

The author has something to say:

Shao Ling: Old Qin—he started to vomit blood——

Reader: Hahaha, it’s useless to spit out the intestines. Who are you scaring?

Shao Ling: ... Someone spoiled it? !

Xing Yue: I have nothing to do with it.

Qin Ci: ...Looking at you with blood on his face.