Paintings of Terror

"Maybe it's because of the wind or the echo?" Wu You deliberately guessed in a less scary direction.

"No matter what it is, everyone should be alert at night." Ke Xun didn't even guess, and waved his hand, "Eat first, and then we can do it when we have strength."

Everyone ate some yak meat and dry food in their respective cars. It was only after seven o'clock in the evening, but the sky outside was already as dark as late at night. Snow waves, sometimes tornado-like swept countless huge pillars, sharp howls roared from all directions, and the entire valley seemed to be filled with a hundred thousand ghosts, raging wildly in front of everyone's eyes.

Hua Jiqiu suffered from severe headaches due to altitude sickness, and fell asleep on the seat wrapped in a thick blanket after taking the medicine given by Qin.After driving the car for a long time, Shao Ling was also a little tired. He fell asleep breathing evenly after leaning on the back of the chair.

Luo Yu couldn't fall asleep, and leaned over the steering wheel to watch his phone. Although the phone had no signal, it didn't prevent him from watching the videos stored on the machine. Zhu Haowen glanced over and found that he was watching the daily life at home taken by him and his girlfriend.

In the picture, the beautiful and lovely girl and the sunny and handsome boy are hugging their beloved pet cats and dogs in their arms, talking and laughing together. The background is a room full of life. Looking out through the bright windows of the room, it is A small well-tended garden with lush flowers and trees.

The thin golden sunshine warmly sprinkled in the room, sprinkled on the soft bodies of cats and dogs, and sprinkled in the carefree eyes of the young lovers.

Zhu Haowen had no way of guessing how Luo Kuo bid his final farewell to his girlfriend. Maybe he laughed and cried, maybe he cried and laughed, maybe he just waved his hand and said goodbye, telling the other party that he wanted to eat a bowl of hers when he came back again Made egg fried rice.

And among these companions around me, which one is not like this?

"Luobo, get some rest early." Zhu Haowen looked away, not looking at his red nose, "You drive all day to refresh yourself. I'm on the first night shift."

Luo Kui rubbed his eyes in response, and was about to wrap himself in a blanket to rest, when he suddenly pointed at the place where the wind and snow rolled in front of the car window, his voice was so frightened that he distorted: "Brother Wen'er—that—who is that— "

Zhu Haowen also saw it—in the turbulent wind and snow in front of the car, there were a dozen black shadows moving rapidly towards the depths of the canyon!

In such a heavy snowstorm, it is difficult for normal people to move even an inch, but those black shadows seem to be unhindered, their upper bodies are stiff like ghosts, there is no communication with each other, they don't look around, and there are no unnecessary movements, they just move forward silently , quickly disappeared in the chaotic sand and snow storm.

"This - what is this -" Luo Yu opened his eyes wide and looked at Zhu Haowen in horror, "Is it my hallucination? It is my hallucination!"

"It's not a hallucination." Zhu Haowen picked up the gun and reached out to open the door. "You stay in the car and lock the door. I'll go to Ke Xun's car to discuss it."

Hua Jiqiu and Shao Ling who were in the back row were sleeping deeply and were motionless at the moment.

"Brother Wen'er—I'm afraid—" Luo Kuo grabbed his sleeve.

Zhu Haowen casually handed him the Ipad that came with him in the car: "Let's watch a short movie, it's from Ke Xun." He opened the door and went out.

Luo Wei: "..." No, even if I'm scared to death, I don't want to watch calcium tablets...

Zhu Haowen braved the wind and snow and walked to Mu Yiran's car. Before he could reach out to knock on the window, the door opened from the inside, and he stretched out a hand, quickly dragging him into the car.

"You also saw it?" Zhu Haowen wiped the sand and snow from his face, and looked at the few people in the car who were still awake.

"Damn it, it's a ghost!" Wei Dong tightly wrapped himself in the blanket while still in shock.

Li Xiaochun stared at Zhu Haowen with wide eyes: "Haowen, you are so bold, you dare to get out of the car like this!"

"What do you think?" Zhu Haowen asked Ke Xun and Mu Yiran.

"We want to follow up and have a look." Ke Xun said.

"What if it's a trap to lure us into it?" Zhu Haowen said.

Ke Xun smiled: "Wen'erzai, have you forgotten what we are here for? Now we know that there are tigers in the mountain, so we have to go to the tiger mountain. If we want to protect ourselves, then why are we here? We came here originally. They know that there is a trap and have to jump in. If those black shadows just now are bait, then at most they want to lure us into the painting again, or find the final answer. If it is to kill us halfway, then that is too much. It doesn't make sense, we bought so many paintings, and finally died in this wilderness? What's the point?"

Zhu Haowen had nothing to say for a moment.

He found that Ke Xun is becoming more and more unbearable.

A long time ago, I was still a foolish and sweet person. After just a few months, my words are well-founded, my actions are measured, my thinking is orderly, my understanding and my brain are flying together, and my arrogance and coquettishness are the same... Kuaisheng I can't leave him alone.

"But those shadows have disappeared just now, isn't it too late for us to catch up now?" Li Xiaochun said.

"If it's the bait, there should be another follower," Mu Yiran said, "If it's just this one time, then there's no need for us to follow up."

Zhu Haowen nodded, and was not in a hurry to go back, so he sat in the back seat and stared out of the car window quietly with the four of them.

Gust after gust continued to blow from all directions, several people had to keep wiping off the moisture on the side window, the window was black and gray and white, wind, snow, sand and grass mixed together, disturbing the entire canyon almost twisted.

The mountains in the distance are looming in this distorted wind screen and snow curtain. Sometimes they look far away, and sometimes they seem to squeeze in front of us suddenly. The continuous mountain peaks are like the fangs of a fierce ghost for a while, and this twisted and twisted canyon is like a cold and sticky ghost tongue, which wraps everyone on the back of the tongue. A small and fragile human being was devoured.

The gust of wind outside the car window made a "whining" sound, sometimes like a hundred beasts howling together, sometimes like a thousand ghosts crying together, when it was sharp, it seemed to be about to pierce the thick car skin, and when it was sobbing, it made people glow from the cracks in the bones Layers of chill.

I don't know how long it took to torture everyone's body and mind like this. Zhu Haowen was a little worried about Luo Yu, so he greeted a few people, and was about to go back to the car, when he heard Ke Xun suddenly pointing out the car window and whispering: Said: "Come!"

Several people screamed in unison, and hurriedly looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a group of black shadows walking quickly and silently towards the deeper part of the canyon in the place where the wind and snow were blowing.

"Sure enough!" Ke Xun narrowed his eyes, "If we didn't keep up, these things might appear again and again."

"It seems that we must follow." Wei Dong said, holding the gun tightly in his hand.

"Did you find it?" Mu Yiran said suddenly, with a slight strangeness in his voice, "these two black shadows that appeared are thirteen."

Several people couldn't help being startled when they heard the words, and after a while, Zhu Haowen also said with a strange tone: "You mean, these shadows are very likely...the former painters?"

Wei Dong and Li Xiaochun had another ice cream together after hearing the words.

"He, they are still alive?" Li Xiaochun was always bold, but at this moment he also felt a little out of reach.

"I'm not sure," Mu Yiran pondered, "Even if the last batch of painters survived, they are all at least 20 or [-] years old now. It is impossible to walk in such a violent snowstorm at such an age. What we saw just now is as smooth, even light, I am more inclined, those shadows are a kind of reflection, perhaps the reflection of a certain group of people who were painted before, or maybe..."

He looked up at the few people who were staring at him eagerly, and vaguely heard someone swallowing saliva because of nervousness, so he spit out the remaining half of the sentence: "...It is our own reflection."

Li Xiaochun gasped heavily, Wei Dong shook his body in a daze, Zhu Haowen didn't speak for a long time.

"No matter what it is," Ke Xun's calm and steady voice sounded, "Let's follow. Haowen'er, you go back to your car, wake up Mr. Shao, let him go to the girls' car, and group them according to the daytime Everyone, when the next black shadow appears, follow Yiran's car, and I will use the tow rope to connect the three cars now."

"I'll go with you." Wei Dong rubbed his face hard to cheer himself up.

"I'll go too." Li Xiaochun also regained his courage.

A few people jumped out of the car, woke up everyone who was sleeping, and then connected and changed cars, making nervous preparations.

When the row of thirteen black shadows reappeared in the snowstorm, the three cars started their engines tacitly at the same time, with Mu Yiran in the front, Luo Yu in the middle, and Shaoling behind, following the team one by one. The black shadow drove towards the depths of the canyon.

The speed of the black shadows is neither fast nor slow, but that is definitely not a speed that humans can walk out of. They always stay in front of the vehicle, but even with a telescope, they cannot see their bodies clearly.

They moved forward silently, neither the wind nor the snow swayed them. They were obviously in an indomitable posture, but they were filled with a deep silence and frustration.

Ke Xun put down the binoculars he had been holding up all the time, and pulled his hair vigorously.

"What?" Although Mu Yiran was concentrating on driving the car, he still didn't ignore him sitting beside him.

"You can't keep staring at them like this." Ke Xun's voice was a little hoarse. "If you stare at them for a long time, you will be filled with a particularly suppressed sense of despair, which is... very uncomfortable. There is an unspeakable pain and sorrow……"

Mu Yiran stretched out his arm, put his hand on the back of his neck, squeezed it lightly, and said, "Take a deep breath, don't look at them anymore, you won't lose track of them."

"En." Ke Xunyi took a few deep breaths, and Yue Cen handed over a thermos cup from the back row: "Ginseng oolong tea, nourishing qi and calming the nerves, a few sips will make you feel better."

"Thank you, Sister Cen." Ke Xun took it and took two sips, staring down at his knees without looking up again.

After driving like this for an unknown amount of time, Ke Xun suddenly felt that the wind outside the car seemed to be much quieter, so he looked out of the car again, and saw that the strong wind had weakened into a strong wind, the blizzard had reduced to fine snow, and the sand and stones gradually changed from high to low. Airborne dropped to the ground, but the black shadows were still looming and indistinct.

As they continued to move forward, the wind and snow became smaller and quieter, until it returned to normal, and the group of black shadows completely disappeared into the canyon of the night like a fading special effect.

Mu Yiran stopped the car and looked at the mechanical watch on his wrist. It was specially worn for this operation. All the electronic instruments on the car have failed, and even the time and kilometers can no longer be displayed, " We have probably reached the center of the canyon." He calculated the speed and time in his mind, and got a rough distance traveled.

"Is this the destination they want us to find?" Wu You, who had been too scared to say anything, finally spoke a complete sentence while clenching his upper and lower teeth.

"It should be." Mu Yiran unbuckled his seat belt, took the flashlight, "I'll go down and have a look."

Ke Xun also opened the car door, turned around and told the two ladies: "Sister Cen, hold your gun and watch out."

"Okay." Yue Cen held a gun in his hand.

Zhu Haowen, Shao Ling, and Qin Ci also got out of the car, and the others stayed in the car to watch. All three of them held guns and flashlights and joined Mu Yiran and Ke Xun.

"Strange, it's been snowing for a long time, but what about the snow on the ground?" Qin Ci looked at the grass and dry rocks under his feet in surprise. There should never be only such a little trace on the body.

"Maybe it was blown away by the wind." Zhu Haowen didn't care about the snow, "Or it's all an illusion."

"Look." Ke Xun suddenly raised his chin at them, pointing to the desolate and cold ground not far away.

Where the white light of the flashlight shines, a stretch of jagged rocks stands up and down, and under the effect of light and shadow, it presents a hideous appearance.

And around this strange rock, and even further inside and outside, there are corpses and skeletons that seem to be animals. Some of these corpses seem to have died not long ago, and some of them have different degrees of decay. , some have already become a pair of incomplete bones, and some even have only tattered fur left.

A few people held up their flashlights and radiated them in all directions, turning the brightness of the light to the highest level. What they saw was shocking, and a chill instantly rose from the soles of their feet and crawled all over their bodies.

The author has something to say:

Luo Yu: Brother Wen'er, I'm scared!

Haowen: Let's watch a short movie, it's from Ke Xun.

Luo Wei (click to open the movie): "Midnight Ring", "The Grudge"

Luo Yu: ——(0Д0)! ! !

Luo Kuo, pawn.

Cause of death: Island country movie.