Paintings of Terror

In front of the sea of ​​fire, to jump or not to jump?

"The current situation is," Qin Ci's voice seemed a little hoarse under the high temperature, "the fire can be seen in all directions, and the safe zone that can accommodate us is slowly shrinking."

Zhu Haowen looked around, there was nothing to bring, only the music box seemed to have untapped value: "Shall we take this away?"

Qin Ci listened to Zhu Haowen's understatement, but knew in his heart that this was a decision of life and death.

"Let's go." Qin Ci also took the remaining dried shellfish and so on with him, maybe these things can also play a role.

The two men slowly walked towards the end of the cliff, and the heat wave below rose higher and higher, sticking out their greedy tongues of fire, trying to lick and swallow them.

"Let's open this box first." Zhu Haowen said, because he wasn't sure if he still had the strength and consciousness to open it after jumping down.

With the opening of the box, the whole world made a sound of turbulent waves. Combined with the scene in front of you, it will give people a very contradictory illusion, as if the sound of the huge waves came from the boundless sea of ​​​​fire.

Across the sea of ​​fire, the figure of the fire monkey was still flashing.

The fire monkey also seemed to see the intention of the two of them, so he opened his arms and jumped into the flames first, as if to set an example for the two of them.

Zhu Haowen and Qin Ci looked at each other, and both of them knew in their hearts that the reason for making this decision was not out of trust in Fire Monkey—it was because there was really no way out.

Accompanied by the sound of huge waves, the burning sensation on the skin is like a knife cutting, real and cruel.

"Hiss..."

The scariest sound in life is probably the sound of my own skin being scorched.

Probably the scariest smell in life is to smell the fleshy aroma from one's own body.

Zhu Haowen was in excruciating pain, and even thought of several coined words inappropriately: pouring fire, destroying the sky, barbecue for self-entertainment...

But soon these unrealistic ideas disappeared, because the person was basically dead.

I don't know how many lives and kalpas have passed.

Consciousness gradually returned, like an earthworm on a day of waking up, the body recovers from stiffness, and gradually emerges from the soil.

Zhu Haowen struggled to open one eye, and what he saw was still the sky-high flames. He tried to open the other eye, but it seemed to be covered by something, unable to see the world clearly.

The burning sensation on his body disappeared, leaving only exhaustion.

"Hao Wen'er, are you awake?" Qin Ci's voice came over, making people feel at ease all of a sudden.

Zhu Haowen didn't want Qin Ci to help him, he gritted his teeth and opened his eyes, and pushed away the thing blocking his right eye, which seemed to be a huge piece of cloth.

The sound of the waves came and went, Zhu Haowen took a deep breath to make sure that he was not in the sea at the moment, he reached out and touched it, and found that the box was still there, and at this moment he opened the box and lay beside his hand, making a crazy and mischievous tsunami sound, like a tsunami. wayward companion.

Zhu Haowen sat up, and found that Qin Ci and himself seemed to be sitting on a "boat", with a lot of cloth spread on the boat.

Zhu Haowen looked around, and when he saw it clearly, even with his usual expressionless face, he couldn't help being surprised.

The place where the two are located can be said to be the interlayer between water and fire. The sky above is still a sea of ​​fire, but there is a long distance between them. The scenery like burning clouds.

The two of them are now in a piece of water, the waves are like the sea, but the water area is narrow, more like an inexplicably turbulent lake, but also like a rushing river.

The fire from "heaven" is reflected in the water, making the entire water surface and waves glow with orange, red or golden luster, which is the real treacherous waves.

Zhu Haowen remained silent for a long time, cleared his hoarse throat, but asked the most unimportant question right now: "Why are there so many cloths on board?"

"This is Monk Hai's monk's robe." Qin Ci said.

Zhu Haowen was a little surprised, and looked at the boat again, and saw a monk's bald head at the bow. The bald head slowly turned his head, revealing a monkey face, and grinned at the two of them.

I can't imagine that the monkey's body floating on the water looks like a big turtle.

Zhu Haowen nodded to him as thanks.

It turned out that the two of them had been sitting on the back of the sea monk.

"Where are we going?" Zhu Haowen asked.

"I don't know, Monk Hai doesn't speak human language." Qin Ci had tried many times, but Monk Hai didn't respond, and he didn't seem to understand what Qin Ci asked.

Monk Hai's task seems to be to lead the two into the world under the sea of ​​fire.

At this moment, Zhu Haowen suddenly thought of the most critical question: "What time is it?"

"It's past three o'clock." Qin Ci replied, "I was woken up just now by the chime."

Zhu Haowen has already pulled out his phone, and the screen shows: 3:21:00.

He woke up 20 minutes later than Qin Ci. Zhu Haowen looked at the strange fish that occasionally jumped out of the sea, and asked, "What happened just now? Have we been on the water all this time?"

"I woke up here, and the journey was relatively peaceful, but a group of small creatures in the sea wanted to share this boat with us, but there were too many of them," Qin Ci said with an unnatural expression, "By the sea The monks ate them all."

"..."

Zhu Haowen looked down to the "side of the boat", and saw that the water was sometimes clear and sometimes dark, and occasionally a school of fish would fly by, with big purple lightning flowers blooming on their backs; occasionally, a big fish would leap out of the water, The fins on the back are like amber sugar paintings, and the shape of a fish is carved out crystal clear, as if the fins are its totem.

Both of them were shocked by the strange scene in front of them. There is not only a large scene between fire and water, but also a small scene of countless strange creatures.

"I can't believe that there is actually a world of water in the fire." Qin Ci looked at the light and shadow of "Fire Burning Cloud" reflected on the water, "I really don't know who is holding whom between them."

Zhu Haowen has also thought about this question, but obviously the proposition is too big, and he has no strength to complete it: "Old Qin, where do you think the fragment will be hidden?"

Qin Ci looked at the vast world of water and fire, and sighed softly: "This world is too big, and we can't exchange news with other teammates, so we can't know what the rules are in other branch worlds. Is it like the paintings we entered before? I I find even these small branching worlds harder to analyze."

Qin Ci is right. In the past, what everyone entered was just a painting, which condensed the soul power of the painter. In many cases, as long as you experience the spiritual world of the painter, you can solve some problems.

But the current painting is composed of 28 fragments of wood boards, not to mention what kind of New Year painting board each fragment of wood board comes from, and which fragment of the painting each group member even owns. I don't even know, how can I look for it?

"I think the biggest feature of this "Hehe" is that it has many branches. The painting itself is composed of 28 fragments of wooden boards, and the painting itself was completed by two authors," Zhu Haowen began to try to summarize the rules. Come to find clues, "Also, the pyramid that NPC drew for us is divided into 7 layers and arranged in a very regular way, which itself is also a kind of branch composition."

Qin Ci thought carefully about Zhu Haowen's words: "You mean, these branches are the characteristics of this world? Not only the big world has branches, but our small world also has branches? Just like the "Pure Land" I experienced before? "

"I just feel that, through the various phenomena after we came to this world, this really doesn't look like a series of puzzles that are sequential and in-depth." Zhu Haowen suddenly felt that the "ship" was trembling, and he hurriedly stabilized I don't know what kind of problem Monk Hai encountered in the water.

"Hao Wen'er, did you hear any sound?" Qin Ci listened attentively.

Zhu Haowen first closed the open wooden box, and the very real sound of rough seas stopped instantly, but the water surface was actually very calm at this time.

An extremely distant roar came over, because the sound was too small and too far away, it seemed a little distorted.

"I can't distinguish the situation of the sound." Qin Ci frowned and listened for a long time. "It seems to be very far away from us, but also seems to be very close to us, as close as a mosquito near the ear."

"This is clearly the sound of a lion roaring and a tiger roaring." Zhu Haowen corrected.

Qin Ci also felt that his metaphor about words just now was inappropriate: "Anyway, the sound is a bit strange... You said just now that lions roar and tigers howl, and there is sea water everywhere, so how could there be ferocious beasts on land?"

But Zhu Haowen pointed to Monk Hai and said, "There can be monkeys here, why can't there be lions and tigers?"

At this time, the sea monk began to swim forward at a faster speed, but the entire water surface formed a whirlpool, making it impossible for the sea monk to move forward.

From the trembling of the entire "hull", the two of them could feel the panic of Monk Hai.

Qin Ci patted Monk Hai on the back, hoping to calm him down.

Monk Hai suddenly turned his head, his bare head turned 180 degrees to the back, his black eyes were looking at Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen.

The two didn't know what Monk Hai was going to do for a while, and now they could only slowly approach their partners to form a united front.

"The potential cow was startled." Monk Hai suddenly opened his mouth to speak.

What it said naturally surprised the two of them, but at the moment, they couldn't care less about being surprised. Zhu Haowen asked, "Where is the potential cow? In the water? Why is it surprised?"

In Zhu Haowen's understanding, the "diving cow" is probably similar to the cattle and horses on land, and it will be "shocked" when it encounters something scary.

Monk Hai looked very panicked, his monkey face wrinkled into a ball: "It's the herd of potential cows that got scared! I have to run for my life!"

Both of them understood that the "escape" mentioned by Monk Hai must not include the two people on its back.

"You are young, you can hide." Monk Hai said.

"Where are we hiding?" Zhu Haowen asked anxiously.

"You dive into the water, you can hide in the crevices of those rocks and coral branches."

"We are not creatures in the sea, so we can't dive for too long!" Qin Ci was also anxious.

The sea monk seemed to be thinking about it, and suddenly stretched out a "hand", which was transformed from an ugly "turtle foot", and there was a strange fish in his hand, which seemed to be fished out of the water just now of.

Before Qin Ci realized what was going on, he felt that he had been slapped by Monk Hai's giant palm.

Obviously, Zhu Haowen was also hit, and his face was completely clouded at this moment.

"Now it's down, you can dive." Hai Monk said.

Qin Ci only felt that his cheeks were a little different, and when he touched them with his hands, he discovered that there were strange fish gills that opened and closed.

Zhu Haowen resisted being "rude" by Monk Hai just now, and asked, "After we escaped the herd of cattle, where will we meet? Where will we go next? What is your purpose for bringing us here?"

"I don't know," Monk Hai waved his "hands" back and forth innocently, "I don't know if I will escape. If you can escape, go find Dragon Girl."

"Who is the dragon girl? Where can I find her?"

"I don't know. Anyway, she has been mending clothes. If you find a woman who mends clothes, she is Dragon Girl." Monk Hai seemed a little nervous when he said this.

Only a burst of overwhelming sound came from a distance.

"It's too late, I'm leaving!" Hai Monk's huge body swayed wildly, shaking the two of them into the water.