Paintings of Terror

This is an ancient city in the morning light. It seems ordinary, but there is something unusual in the ordinary.

Maybe it's the air, the smoke in the morning has a fishy smell that I've never smelled before.

Maybe it's the sound, although the morning market on the streets and alleys is lively, not a single human voice can be heard.

There is a very big old willow tree in the city, and two people are walking under the willow tree. The clothes on their bodies are obviously in the Tang Dynasty style, but the faces of these two people are—they each have a huge goose head.

Therefore, it is difficult to say whether these are two people with goose heads, or two big white geese with human bodies.

In other words, these two were not humans or geese at all, but demons.

It's a goose demon.

One of the goose demons stood far away from the other goose demon, and his expression was not very good-although it was difficult to distinguish likes and dislikes from the facial features of the goose.

Another goose demon was holding the old willow tree to vomit, and almost spit out the bile.

"Did you vomit your baby?" the goose demon impatiently said to the vomiting goose demon, probably in goose language, which translates to: Have you finished vomiting?

The vomiting goose demon took a rest, and held his forehead with his hand, to be precise, it was the big goose bag on the top of his head: "Gah, you guys are in hell! Gah..."

"..." The other goose demon remained silent, looking calmly at other "people" in human clothes with various animal heads on the street.

"Fat, miscellaneous..." The goose demon wiped his mouth and came over after vomiting.

"Bia is called Wa!" The goose demon was a little annoyed.

"Fafa." The goose demon felt that he had articulated his words as clearly as possible, and it was clearly called 'Fang Fei', and it was like this when it came out of the goose's mouth.

"Bia is called Wa!" The goose demon named Fang Fei corrected the opponent again, because she really couldn't bear the tone of her name pronounced in goose language.

The dialogue between the two goose demons sounds really strenuous, but fortunately they can hear each other clearly. In order to tell the story clearly, let’s ignore their goose words, as long as they speak standard human Mandarin.

That's right, these two people with goose heads are Fang Fei and Wei Dong.

"Di—" a voice sounded.

"Fang Fei, do you think the two of us can hear the sound of the timekeeping? Look at the cats, dogs, and cows on the street, they seem to have no response to this sound at all." Wei Dong didn't need to pull out his phone to know that the world is now closed. Three hours have passed.

"Maybe, only our ears can hear." Although Fang Fei had a weird and absurd goose head, her expression was still cool.

Wei Dong suddenly chuckled twice: "Ear, do you know where your ears are?"

Fang Fei glared at Wei Dong, but she really didn't know where the goose's ears grew.

"Mom, I want to eat burnt ears!" A four or five-year-old child on the side of the street suddenly shouted. This child has a pig's head.

The "mother pig" beside him said: "Little glutton, if you see people eating ears, you want to eat them too!"

I saw a stall selling cooked food on the street. Steaming heart, liver, stomach and lungs were cooking in a pot, and there were a lot of delicious ears that were so soft that they lifted up.

These ears are small, and they are often sold in bunches of five or six, which are very popular.

When Weidong saw those ears, he couldn't control himself and almost vomited.

Fang Fei dragged Weidong away from the cooked food stand with a blank expression, and she felt uncomfortable looking at the various human organs cooked in that cauldron.

"Although I haven't experienced it personally, I have also heard you talk about the painting "Animal World." Fang Fei looked at Weidong's goose face that was blank after vomiting, "Are you overreacting?"

Wei Dong wiped the corners of his big goose mouth: "It seems that you haven't read "Journey to the West", have you?"

"Of course I've seen it." Fang Fei felt that there was no need to ask this question. Is there any Chinese kid who hasn't watched the classic summer drama "Journey to the West".

"I'm talking about the book Journey to the West," Wei Dong said.

Fang Fei rarely reads novels, and has watched the TV series "Journey to the West" many times, but never thought of reading this book.

Fang Fei: "Isn't the country we came to be the lion camel country? There is also a lion camel mountain outside the lion camel country. These places are the territory of those three monsters." Fang Fei lowered her voice and continued, "It is Three brothers, Lion, White Elephant and Roc."

Fang Fei still remembers the image of the blue-faced lion king in the TV series. Although it is not good-looking, it is not too scary to watch.

Wei Dong didn't explain any more, he just said: "I probably don't have the courage of Ke Er and Boss Mu, so I'll give up."

Wei Dong didn't want to say more about things that had nothing to do with clues, so as not to create unnecessary psychological burden on Fang Fei.

Weidong is very familiar with the lion and camel country described in "Journey to the West".

Because this is the scariest country in the entire "Journey to the West", and it is also the most unforgettable story for readers.

Wei Dong admits that those creepy and even physically and mentally terrifying stories can easily make people want to relive them over and over again.That’s how I am, occasionally pick up Journey to the West, and once I turn to the part about “Lion and Camel Kingdom”, I can always read it with “relish”...

Therefore, when the two of them first came to this world, even though it was late at night, the overwhelming fishy smell made every hair on their backs. When watching the vague scenes in the movie, I knew that I and Fang Fei had come to a veritable hell.

At this time, the two of them hadn't grown dull goose heads yet, and they were still Fang Fei and Wei Dong through and through.

Fang Fei didn't have so many worries. Seeing the scene in the dark, she just said: "The ground is a little soft."

He also said: "There is a mountain over there, which is made of skeletons."

Wei Dong didn't speak, but resisted the desire to vomit, and Fang Fei and Fang Fei hid like thieves all the way under the cover of "trees, mountains and rocks".

Regarding the world of "Lion Camel Ridge", Weidong remembers that there is a special song in "Journey to the West" to describe it:

Skull Ruoling,

The bones are like a forest.

Human hair made into felt sheets,

Human flesh and blood rotted into dust.

A man's tendons are entangled in a tree,

The dry focus is as bright as silver.

It's really a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood,

It really stinks.

It is precisely because of this understanding that Weidong knows every scene here like the palm of his hand, what is under his feet, what is hanging on the tree, what is piled on the mountain-but at this moment, he and Fang Fei are those The monster's natural prey.

In this way, the two of them walked for a part of the night in secret. When it was daylight, they saw a white-haired old woman sitting under a tree and crying.

This old woman may be a human being, or she may be a man-eating monster.

But when you meet the first NPC in the painting, why not come forward and talk to him?

So the two went up to talk to the old woman, and the answer they got was that everyone in the old woman's village had been eaten up by the monsters on the mountain.

Seeing that the old woman was too weak and weak, Wei Dong took dry food from his backpack and shared it with her.

The old lady thanked the two of them and said, "Since you have come to this place, you have no chance to go out."

"Then how can I get out?"—Of course Wei Dong knows that if he finds the "fragment", he can get out safely, but how can he find the "fragment" in the world before him?Find it from the human leather blanket under your feet?Find it from the entwined tendons on the tree?Or look for it from the skulls piled up on the mountain?

"The roads to the east and west mountains are all blocked by those man-eating monsters," the old woman pointed to the mountain road in Xiaoseli, "the only way to go is the lion and camel country in the middle."

"Lion camel country?" Fang Fei finally understood where the two of them had gone.

But in Weidong's perception, Lion Camel Country is more terrifying than Lion Camel Ridge.

All the people in this country were devoured by monsters, so the monsters put on human clothes, swaggered into this country and became the subjects here.

Just as Wei Dong thought of this, the old lady started singing:

There are clusters of monsters and monsters, all four are wolf elves.

The colorful tiger is the governor, and the white-faced hero is the commander-in-chief.

The deer with the horns of the fork passes on the quotations, and the clever fox is in charge.

A thousand-foot python besieged the city, and a ten thousand-foot long snake occupied the distance.

Downstairs the wolf called for orders, and the leopard in front of the stage made the human voice.

There are monsters waving the flag and beating the drums, and all the mountain spirits are on the patrol.

The cunning rabbit opens the door to do business, and the wild boar takes the burden to make a living.

The first year was originally the Kingdom of Heaven, but now it is the City of Tiger and Wolf.

Fang Fei was stunned: "Is there no one here?"

The old woman sighed and shook her head: "If you want to go out from here, you have to get the king of this country to stamp you with a golden seal, so that you can walk out of the lion and camel country."

This is simply an impossible task. The scene in the Lion Camel Kingdom scared Monkey King a lot at that time. Because he couldn’t fight the monsters in the Lion Camel Kingdom, Monkey King had no choice but to ask Tathagata, and the four masters and apprentices were able to get through this. close.

Let Wei Dong and Fang Fei do things that Monkey King can't do?

After eating the dry food, the old woman regained some strength and said, "I touched the gods because of my good deeds, and the gods taught me how to hide my eyes, so I have saved my life. I also collected some magic tools for practice along the way. If you believe me, pick out two items from my pocket, disguise and sneak into the city to make plans."

There was no other way for the two of them, if they walked into the city in human form like this, they would have already been eaten by monsters before reaching the gate of the city.

So the old woman opened her pocket and let two people choose.

……

"Why do you think we just picked two goose feathers at that time?" Wei Dong couldn't help but feel depressed. He only felt that other animals seemed to be stronger than geese in fighting power. Not even teeth.

Fang Fei also felt a little regretful: "At that time, only these two goose feathers were clean, and the others were dirty and smelly."

"Okay, gah."

"However, the monsters in this place don't kill each other." Fang Fei found this strange.

"Look, isn't it the same in Journey to the West? Monsters never eat monsters, they all eat people." Wei Dong hugged his shoulders and walked forward with the goose's head held high, "It's the same in "Animal World". No matter what the animal, their food and pets are all people."

Fang Fei looked at the clothes of herself and Weidong: "It seems that we are two ordinary people in this country, and we have no chance to sneak into the court, and it is impossible to meet the king of this country."

"It's the monster." Wei Dong comforted Fang Fei, but his eyes were sizing up the crowd on the street, thinking about how to get to know one or two "respectable" monsters. If he could make friends with the upper class, maybe he would Chance to meet the king.

Perhaps it was due to an animal instinct. In the warm spring season, the two of them shivered at the same time, feeling a gloomy light coming from not far away.