Paintings of Terror

The world where it is located is vast and empty, and it seems that there are only these three directions to go to.

Grey, silver and blood red, like three multiple choice questions about color.

In the gray world are a group of men who make a secret living; the silver world is very dazzling, but only a tree can be vaguely seen;

The two girls took the lead in giving up the blood red option in their hearts.

"These three directions may not necessarily be a multiple-choice question." Gu Qingqing said.

"Can we still enter two worlds at once?" Wu You didn't understand.

"Maybe the option we eliminated this time will appear next time." Gu Qingqing said her analysis.

And next time?

Wu You put away his stunned expression, and looked at the phone silently: "It's been an hour and a half, we have to hurry up."

"Well, let's make a rough analysis." Gu Qingqing stared at the gray and silver sky, "According to your description just now, people in the gray world are doing things that they don't want to be discovered by others. It is not acceptable to them; and in the silver world, only a tree can be vaguely seen, at least no other dangers can be seen."

"I'm also more focused on this world." Wu You looked there, the silver world was still dazzling, and the huge tree shadows were a bit gorgeous.

The two of them couldn't analyze any more clues, so they walked towards the silver direction.

The cowhide pocket on Wu You's body is so big that the hourglass filled with golden sand can't show anything at all.

"This cowhide pocket obviously can hold more than an hourglass." Gu Qingqing said, "If the quicksand world we experienced just now is the first world, then we have successfully obtained something from this world, which is the golden hourglass; the second The world is faced with a question of choosing 3 from 1, and we probably need to get something from the second world to put in a cowhide pocket in order to be considered a success. I think that each world cannot be established independently, and there should be a relationship between them. Got in touch."

"You mean that the second thing might have something to do with the golden hourglass?"

Gu Qingqing nodded: "It should be related, but the golden hourglass has many characteristics, it is difficult to judge which point of the second thing is related to the golden hourglass, whether it is sand, gold, or the time represented by the hourglass, or the special characteristics of the hourglass. shape.

"What is even more confusing is that we have not grasped the characteristics of these three worlds that can be peeked at. At present, we only know that the last rectangular block in the gray world is very important, but we don't know what those are; The tree in the silver world is just a huge shadow; as for the blood red world..."

When Gu Qingqing said this, she found that Wu You, who was traveling with her, stopped, and turned around in a slightly stiff posture to look in the direction of blood red.

Gu Qingqing wanted to go over and hold the other party's hand, but she was afraid of scaring her suddenly, so she just stopped and waited silently.

Wu You looked at it for a while before turning his eyes back: "This world has also frozen, and it has become some red stone mountains. That is the distant view. If you look carefully, the red on the mountain is all the blood of those ghosts just now."

Still sounds scary.

Gu Qingqing couldn't figure it out for a while, the two girls stood shoulder to shoulder and continued to move towards the silver world.

After walking for a while, Gu Qingqing also felt the silver light, which was white and bright, but not dazzling. It can even be said that the light makes people feel inexplicable joy.

"It's so strange, I couldn't see that tree when I was walking. I just saw a big tree shadow in the distance just now." Wu You turned around in a circle, and the two of them had already been covered by the glittering and translucent silver. Spots surrounded.

"Did you hear any sound? Ding ding dong dong." Gu Qingqing asked.

"I heard it, it's like a wind chime," Wu You felt that the ding-dong sound came from above, and there seemed to be some strange running water sounds around him, "There seems to be a small fountain nearby."

"I think it's more like the sound of a pot pouring water or wine into a cup." Having said that, Gu Qingqing stood still and held Wu You cautiously, "We should have fully entered this world. It’s just that I can’t see the surrounding scenery yet.”

After hearing this, Wu You also stood there not daring to act rashly, and subconsciously protected the cowhide pocket on his chest.

If you look carefully, there are translucent silver spots around the two of them, and these spots change from big to small, gradually receding.

The nearby scenery gradually became clearer, and the two finally saw clearly that there really was a "fountain" here - the sudden appearance of the fountain shape shocked both of them.

This is a lion with the same size as the real body. The whole body of the lion is brilliant silver. From its big silver mouth, a snow-white milk-like liquid flows out, pouring into the silver pool below.

This is a lifelike lion carved out of silver.

After confirming that the lion was indeed a sculpture, Wu You had the courage to approach, and even took a closer look at the milk in the lion's mouth with probing eyes: "What are these white things? It smells very like Mongolia. the kind of kumiss."

Gu Qingqing stood intently, not knowing what to think.

"Why is kumiss coming out of the lion's mouth? Where is this place?" Although Wu You couldn't figure it out, subconsciously felt that this silver lion was just a speck of dust in this luxurious world.

Gu Qingqing stroked her hair, untied a headband used to tie her hair, squatted down, and tied it on the left front foot of the silver lion.

"Qingqing, what are you doing?"

"I seem to have seen records about this silver lion. In order to test my judgment, we can continue to move forward. If my guess is correct, there should be other silver lions here." Gu Qingqing said.

"Go forward, here is silver light everywhere, how can it be regarded as forward?"

"Walk in a circle, let's walk in a big circle." Gu Qingqing walked forward in the direction the lion's head was pointing at.

Sure enough, after the two walked dozens of steps, they saw the same silver lion again. There was no hairband wrapped around the lion's feet.

Snow-white milk still flowed out of the lion's mouth, and the drink that Wu You called "kumiss" gave off an attractive fragrance at this time.

The two continued to move forward, and then met the third and fourth silver lions. When they met the fifth silver lion, they found that the lion's left forefoot was wrapped with a bean paste-colored hair band—— ——The hairband that Gu Qingqing wore here before.

This silver lion was exactly the one they saw when they first came to this world.

The two circled in a circle and returned to the original point.

"That is to say, there are four silver lions in this place." Wu You looked at the gradually clear world around him, and found that these four silver lions were like guardians, guarding the treasure in the center.

The silver color of the whole world seems to be emitted by this treasure. Although Wu You still can't see its panorama, the more this blind man feels the elephant, the easier it is to surprise and admire.

"What exactly are these four silver lions spitting out?" Wu You asked again.

Gu Qingqing stood next to the treasure, trying to look up, but her eyesight was limited by the silver light, and she still couldn't see the whole picture.

Gu Qingqing said: "You're right, what these silver lions spit out should be mare's milk."

"Why does a lion spit out mare's milk? It's so weird."

"It's not just mare's milk. If we go to the center, we should see four golden snakes. Four different drinks will flow out of their mouths. There is mare's milk, rice wine, and honey..."

Wu You: "...Is this inviting us here for a drink..."

Gu Qingqing: "Do you still remember the tree shadow you saw from the silver sky just now?"

"Yeah, but the tree disappeared as I walked."

"We're under that tree now."

Hearing this, Wu You was taken aback, braved up and walked towards the center, and stretched out his hand to the bright silver area in the center: "Oh my god, really, I touched the bark, it's so real and textured! But it's not the same as a real tree."

"Because it is a giant tree made of pure silver."

Wu You looked down, and there was a big silver basin not far from him, with a thin trickle flowing from it, just pouring into the silver basin.

Wu You heard it: "Qingqing, you are right, this is honey!"

I don't know if it's because the two recognized the silver tree, or because the surrounding silver mist will dissipate after a certain period of time. Now the world is gradually becoming clearer.

This silver tree can also show its full appearance. The trunk needs to be surrounded by more than a dozen people, with a shiny and thick trunk and shiny branches, especially those leaves and fruits carved with silver. It feels like a dream.

"Did you hear the music?" Gu Qingqing said.

"Yes, it's the sound of ding ding dong dong just now. Now the sound is getting closer and closer. It's a bit like the music in an ancient music box."

"Did you hear the trumpet sound inside?"

"What's the sound of the trumpet..." Wu You said as he raised his head and looked up vigorously. With this look, he could clearly see something on the tree, and couldn't help but let out a scream.

"What's wrong?" Gu Qingqing's eyesight is not as good as Wu You's, and she can't see clearly at this moment.

Wu You took a few steps back, her voice trembling: "There is a man in the tree! A silver man! I don't know if it's alive or dead..."

Gu Qingqing was stunned when he heard the words, and after thinking carefully, he said, "See if that person has grown wings?"

Wu You squinted his eyes and looked again: "Yes...it has wings, and it seems to be holding something in his hand..."

Gu Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't be afraid, that's the silver angel playing the trumpet! It's also a decoration on this silver tree."

Only then did Wu You let go of his courage and look up unscrupulously: "So it's true, he is a bare-bottomed kid with wings and blowing the trumpet."

Gu Qingqing: That's not a horn, it's a trumpet.

"This silver tree is too luxurious! Who built this? Where is this place? What kind of book records it?" Wu You was completely curious about this luxurious scene that he had never seen before. Xin, "Although I don't know much about history, such a luxurious tree should be famous in history!"

Whenever Gu Qingqing spreads knowledge to his friends, his attitude is very pious and serious: "This is Mongolia, to be precise, the court of the Great Khan of Mongolia. The person who built this tree was a goldsmith from Paris. About these things I saw the record of this from a book called "Journey to the East".

"This book was written by a missionary named Rubrook. In 1253, Rubrook was sent to Mongolia by the order of Pope Innocent IV and King Louis IX of France. The reception of Mengge Khan. Rubrook wrote a book about his trip to Mongolia based on what he saw and heard in Mongolia, and this silver tree was mentioned by Rubrook in the book."

Wu You listened carefully to every word of Gu Qingqing. Although the historical knowledge was very unfamiliar to him, the situation at this time could not allow anyone to be distracted. Wu You quickly digested the content and asked: "Then, has Rubrook's missionary success been successful?"

Based on today's situation, obviously not.

"Mengge Dahan's polite and sharp response to Rubrook really made me see an ancient oriental wisdom." Gu Qingqing carefully recalled the passage of text that was highlighted by herself——

"Mongo Khan said: Since God made our ten fingers stick out with different lengths, it must also allow us to have different ways of doing things. God gave you the "Bible", do you read in the "Bible" Should a Christian ever point out the mistakes of others?"

Wu You was a little stunned.

"I don't remember that clearly, anyway, it was probably such a response. It was because of reading "A Journey to the East" that I became very interested in that period of history, and then I went to read "History of Chinese Christians" and " Discoverer" and many works of Mr. Li Jingze of our country.

"Actually, long before Rubruck, an envoy of the Pope had come to the Mongolian court. The envoy was facing the Great Khan Guiyu, and the Great Khan directly returned a letter to Pope Innocent IV. A letter, that letter has this text - you Western nations, you think you are the only Christians. You look down on other nations, how can you know whom God should show mercy to."

Wu You was completely stunned when he heard that, and he said after a long while: "This Mongolian Khan said such things in his letter, but then that missionary, Lubrook, went to the Mongolian court again after many years?"

"Yes, this kind of persistence is very admirable, so it was also treated with courtesy by the Mongolian court. I remember that Mr. Li Jingze once called him 'exuding amazing paranoia and amazing courage'." Gu Qingqing said.

"I suddenly remembered a painting that Ke Xun and the others talked about before, called "Faith". Could our world also have something to do with faith?"

The author has something to say:

When I don't have a computer, I occasionally use my phone for voice input.

Therefore, Ke Xun is often heard as "science", Yue Cen was heard as "Yuecheng" two days ago, and today's Gu Qingqing was actually heard as "Goodevening."...