Paintings of Terror

"Di-"

The sound was not loud, but it reached the ears very clearly.

How should I put it, it's as if there is something like an electronic timer in your body, no matter where you go, even if you cover your ears tightly, you can still hear this "beep--", this sound is like coming from your own heart Or from the brain, it cannot be avoided.

Wu You was awakened by this voice.

She raised her head from the quicksand, her hair was covered with sand, and she looked at Gu Qingqing who was lying not far away.

Gu Qingqing also woke up, she was not as energetic as Wu You, and she didn't want to move at this moment.

Wu You sat up, first took out his mobile phone with difficulty and looked at it, it showed the time - 1:11:29.

"Qingqing, get up, it's been an hour!" Wu You stood up, walked forward in the sand with some difficulty, and slowly approached his friend, "We have come out! The sand is slowly changing few!"

Gu Qingqing struggled to sit up from the sand, only to realize that the quicksand that almost completely buried her has become much less at this moment.

Gu Qingqing wiped off the sand sticking to her face, and felt grateful for the life she had recovered. At this time, her eyes fell on the big leather pocket between the two of them: "Is that thing still in it?"

Wu You had already picked up the cowhide pocket, and cautiously put her hand in. She took out a golden hourglass filled with gold sand: "Yes, it's still there."

Gu Qingqing also leaned forward and looked at the hourglass in the shape of a triangle. The one full of gold sand looks like an Egyptian pyramid.

Wu You's eyes turned from bright to dark: "What's the use of this thing for us, it's not a piece of woodblock..."

"This is at least what a cowhide pocket needs." Gu Qingqing put the golden hourglass back into the cowhide pocket, "When we came to this world, we had this cowhide pocket by our side, and we couldn't put anything in it. There is this hourglass, so this thing must be useful to us. Maybe, maybe it can be used as a key or something."

A gust of wind blew up, flying sand and rocks in an instant, and the wind became stronger and stronger. The two girls hugged each other tightly to resist the strong wind, and the cowhide bag was tightly hidden in their arms.

After about a few minutes, the wind gradually faded away.

With the wind gone, there is sand.

The wind carried away the last grain of sand.

There is solid ground under their feet, and the surrounding area is boundless.

Wu You slung the cowhide bag over his shoulder firmly, and Gu Qingqing stared blankly at the vast sky and earth like the universe.

If it is said that a small space will bring people a sense of cramped fear, then today's too vast world makes people feel helpless like facing the vast ocean.

Now I don’t know if it’s sunset or sunrise, but there’s a touch of red in the sky, that red is not the red of sunlight, but the red of blood, like someone slaughtered a dragon in the sky, the blood spattered half of the sky red.

The other half of the sky is also different in color, half of which is gray and the other half is silvery white.

Gu Qingqing held Wu You's hand, not knowing what to do next.

The two of them didn't know how the other groups were divided, but it was obvious that their own group should be the weaker group in the whole.

In this regard, Wu You also encouraged Gu Qingqing to say: "You are in charge of the mental work, and I am in charge of the physical work. The two of us are simply peerless twins who are invincible!"

The two are now at a loss.

Wu You frowned, stared at the gray sky for a while, and then took a few steps forward, as if something was attracting her there.

Gu Qingqing immediately grabbed Wu You, a little afraid of her companion's abnormal behavior: "Wu You, what did you see?"

Wu You stood still, staring at the gray sky: "Like a mirage, I saw and saw some ancient people working! They were sweating profusely!"

Gu Qingqing hastily wiped her glasses with her sleeves, put them back on and looked in that direction, but it was still gray and she couldn't see anything: "Maybe my eyesight is not good, maybe you are smarter than me, I I can’t see anything! Tell me carefully, what kind of ancient people were they, and what were they doing?”

"I can't tell. I only know the Qing Dynasty and other dynasties..." Wu You was a little ashamed when he said this, and all he can do now is try his best to describe what he saw: "Anyway, these People are not from the Qing Dynasty, with a bun on their head, bare arms, cloth towels around their waists, and fat cloth pants... Even if they are dressed to do rough work, I can't see what kind of work they are doing. ..."

In Wu You's eyes, these scenes are like watching a movie with light gray tulle as a curtain, and the movie is a certain ancient documentary.

"Is there a sound?" Gu Qingqing asked.

"what?"

"These people and scenes you saw, are there any voices?"

Wu You listened attentively, and there was actually a sound, and it was a piercing donkey bray.

Wu You quickly found the barking donkey in the scene. The donkey was looking around with dumpling-like eyes, and barked again when it felt bored.

"These people are unloading things from the donkey cart," Wu You continued his narration, "Those things are gray, rectangular, big and big, and how big are they? It's as big as a primary school double desk. Well, it's as thick as... an oven."

Gu Qingqing ignored Wu You's inappropriate metaphor, and directly converted the thickness of the oven into three books of Ci Hai in her heart...

"Is their job unloading? Is there anything else?" Gu Qingqing felt like a blind person now, and Wu You was her eyes.

"They unloaded these large rectangular gray pieces from the donkey cart, and then moved them to a large shelf, under which a pot was sitting to light a fire. I don't know what it is for." Wu You rubbed his eyes and stared carefully at them. the people in the scene.

"Don't worry, keep observing." Although Gu Qingqing couldn't see it, she was still staring at the gray sky, as if she could see it according to Wu You's description. Once people fell into reverie, they would go deep into it, "You Can you see the expressions of these people? What can you read from their faces? Is it the joy of labor, or the anger of being exploited, or something else?"

After hearing this, Wu You stared at the person facing him, and the person next to him who was facing him sideways: "It's really hard to say, they seem to be very happy, but this happiness seems to be a kind of happiness. They were secretly delighted... and they were a little panicked, looking left and right, as if they were doing something shameful... A big man was still yelling at the braying donkey, as if he was afraid that the donkey's braying would cause trouble. other people's attention."

This is what Gu Qingqing didn't expect: "You continue to observe, pay attention to the movements of their hands, and see what they are doing."

After about ten minutes, Wu You was surprised to find that a big man stabbed a stick-like thing into the gray rectangle, and the two of them worked together to pull out the stick. Where the rectangle was pierced, there was It was like turning on a faucet, with gray water slowly flowing out of it.

Several people hurriedly took containers to pick up the gray water, as if these were what they needed.

This is the whole labor process.

After listening to Wu You's description, Gu Qingqing was silent for a while: "I don't understand this field at all. If Brother Mu or Mr. Shao are here, maybe we can solve the puzzle."

Wu You rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then took a few steps forward: "No, I can't see it anymore, the scene has disappeared."

"Has it all disappeared? What do you see now?" Gu Qingqing asked a little unwillingly, "Is it the same as what I saw? It's something like gray flowing clouds."

"No, it's like an old photo. You can vaguely see those big gray squares, neatly stacked there, and I don't know what they are for." Wu You turned around and looked at Gu Qingqing. , "How about I try to look in other directions?"

Gu Qingqing: "You mean, there may be similar scenes in the other two skies?"

"Try it." Wu You turned his body in another direction, this time facing the silver-white sky, "That direction is really bright, it's a bit dazzling."

Gu Qingqing couldn't see anything dazzling at all, she just felt a faintly bright cloud floating there.

"Qingqing, I seem to understand why I can see. This may not have much to do with eyesight." Wu You squinted and continued to stare at the silvery white piece, "According to what we say, I was a little psychic when I was young. , my great-grandmother said, my eyes are very clean, and I can see a lot of things that other people can't see, and because of that, I always got sick when I was a child, and every time I have to go to my great-grandmother to 'crack out' and 'exorcise' the disease to get better.

"Later, my great-grandmother said to find a way to cover my eyes, so that if I couldn't see, I wouldn't be harassed by those things..."

"Then why now..." Gu Qingqing asked.

"Since our bones were seen last time, I always feel that the thing that my great-grandmother blindfolded me seems to have disappeared... I seem to be able to see those things when I was a child again, but I am more courageous after entering the painting Now, I am not easily scared like before. I thought it was my illusion before, but today these scenes are very clear, and I can see them again." There was no sadness or joy in Wu You's expression.

Gu Qingqing stepped forward and took her hand without saying a word.

Wu You rubbed his eyes again: "No, that direction is too bright, I can't see anything clearly now, I can only vaguely see something like a tree..."

Gu Qingqing was a little distracted, looking at Wu You's bright eyes: "I understand now that there is a reason for everyone selected by the painting."

Wu You nodded, thinking of this himself, and now he turned his eyes to the blood-red sky.

Maybe he couldn't see it clearly at first glance, but when Wu You took a second serious look, he covered his eyes and let out a sharp scream.

Gu Qingqing hurriedly blocked Wu You's sight with her body, and patted her on the back trying to comfort her: "What's wrong? Did you see something scary?"

After a while, Wu You nodded, but subconsciously turned his face away, avoiding the blood-red sky with fear.

Gu Qingqing was not in a hurry to ask, but just patted Wu You on the back, and then heard the other party say: "It's all ghosts."

"ghost?"

"Yes, that blood-red sky is full of ghosts, and all of them were killed."

"Ghost? Killed?" Gu Qingqing was a little scared, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that the logic was different.

"Those ghosts were disembowelled, or their limbs were severed and their heads were beheaded... That red color was stained with the blood of ghosts!" Wu You felt his hair stand on end, and kept turning his face to avoid the blood-red sky.

What Wu You said, Gu Qingqing couldn't see anything, only the unnaturally red sky.