Paintings of Terror

As far as the eye can see, there are corpses everywhere.

The crowd couldn't tell how much they could see in front of their eyes, and they just lay their corpses quietly on the desolate, cold gravel and dry grass, decayed corpses, broken limbs, silent bones, and fur fluttering in the wind. .

Corpses are scattered all over the field, and there is dead silence everywhere. This place is like a cemetery for living beings.

The few people didn't speak for a long time. The desolate and vast ancient mountains were as silent as the earth. Under the dark and heavy night sky, this cemetery was quieter than people, mountains, and the earth. Several people looked at each other silently, as if they were talking about the fear they had experienced before death that made their souls restless.

"This..." Ke Xun finally spoke out first, his voice was slightly hoarse, and he had to clear his throat, "Is this the gate of hell?"

"Then where is the door?" Zhu Haowen moved away the flashlight that was shining on the ground, and turned it to the mountains in the distance.

Because of the corpse of a fox that had been decomposing for a long time in the photo just now, he suspected that its eyeballs moved.

Several people looked around for a while, but they couldn't find the so-called "Gate of Hell". All they could see in front of them were corpses all over the place, and the huge jagged boulder not far away.

"Are we going to stay here tonight?" Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran.

"We can't go back the same way," Zhu Haowen said, "This place should be where Huatui directed us to."

Mu Yiran nodded slightly: "Yes, this should be the destination of our trip, so we will stay here tonight."

Shao Ling glanced around and pursed his lips.

It's really not a good feeling to guard these hundreds of corpses overnight.

As if understanding what Shao Ling was thinking, Mu Yi suddenly added: "We drove the car near that rock, and there seemed to be fewer dead bodies there."

The three cars carefully avoided the corpses on the ground, and slowly drove to the huge rock. This rock was several stories high and had an area roughly equivalent to four basketball courts. The rock walls were jagged and mottled, but the whole was straight up and down From a distance, it looks like a square platform standing abruptly on the plain.

"Sky Burial Platform?" Ke Xun stood at the foot of the rock and looked up.

"You...don't scare me..." Wu You clutched his chest.

Everyone got out of the car at this moment, and explored around the rock platform.

"If it's a celestial burial platform, there's nothing to be surprised about," Wei Dong said, "It can only mean that this is another hint given to us by the painting "Faith", and I hope that we won't die like that painting Just as bad as here."

Ke Xun was about to speak, but he saw Luo Kuo approaching: "Brother...you accompany me to pee...I dare not go by myself."

Ke Xun: "..."

After saying hello to everyone, the two of them walked a distance, until they could barely see the people beside the rock, then stopped, turned their backs, and so on.

Luo Yan took a deep breath: "I'm about to suffocate to death. I've been suffocating for at least two hours, and I almost didn't suffer from it. Brother, do you think this will affect some of my abilities?"

Ke Xun: "...how the hell are you still worried about this right now?"

Luo Kuo: "Aren't I just having fun out of fear?"

Ke Xun: "As far as your heart is concerned, I only accept you. Have you finished urinating? Leave after urinating."

The two packed up and walked back. Ke Xun used his flashlight to sweep around the corpses near and far.

Luo Wei: "...Brother, I think you have a bigger heart than me. What's so good about these corpses? You even used stage lights to light them up. Is this because you want them to 'die and get paralyzed'?"

Ke Xun: "..."

"You can shut up now," Ke Xun pointed to the rock in front, "Go back first, I'll take a look around here."

"Brother!" Luo Yu looked at him in shock, "You are too brave! You yourself?! Look among these corpses?!"

"Stop talking nonsense, or you can stay with me, or go back first, and I'll walk around." Ke Xun waved his hand impatiently.

"What if there is danger?!" Luo Kuo was worried.

"Didn't you see that your brother-in-law has been watching this side from afar?" Ke Xun pointed his chin at Mu Yiran, who was standing far away by the rock and looking this way. "If there is any danger here, your brother-in-law will come first." If you find one, go back quickly."

Luo Kuo had no choice but to trot all the way back to the rock.

Ke Xun didn't wander around, but just turned on the flashlight, took this distance as the radius, and took the rock as the dot, made a big circle around the rock, and then returned to his companions.

"What did you find?" Mu Yiran put his hand on his leg, and gently put the safety on the pistol again.

Ke Xun came over to hold his hand, rubbed it lightly, as if to make him relax, and answered his words: "There is indeed a very surprising discovery - have you seen, all these corpses, they The direction of the head of the head is pointing to this rocky platform."

These words really surprised everyone, and everyone used their flashlights to shine on the corpses all over the field again, confirming that Ke Xun’s discovery was indeed true—all these corpses scattered here and there, no matter whether they were beasts or birds, no matter what Whether they are big or small, whether they are carrion or dead bones, their heads are like magnetic needles attracted by a magnet, pointing to the high rocky platform beside everyone.

And those corpses that haven't been completely decomposed, their wide eyes are also staring at the same direction and the same target.

Silent mountains, desolate wilderness, dead night.Hundreds of thousands of corpses of different shapes are all facing this abruptly rising square rock platform, and a strange and tense atmosphere suddenly pervades, overwhelming the thirteen painters and everything in front of them. shrouded in it.

"The Rock Terrace is weird." Qin Ci said in a low voice.

"Will it be above or below?" Zhu Haowen asked.

No one knows the answer for now.

"Then, what shall we do now?" Li Xiaochun asked nervously in a weak voice.

"I suggest not to act rashly," Shao Ling said cautiously, "It will be dawn in a few hours, we'd better explore the top and bottom of this rock carefully during the day."

Everyone agreed with Shao Ling's proposal, so they still returned to their cars, and each car guaranteed that one person would be awake at all times and be responsible for the night watch.

I don't know how many people really fell asleep that night. When the sky was getting brighter, Ke Xun's voice was the first to explode in the car: "Fuck! Where are the rocks?!"

Everyone hurriedly looked out of the car window when they heard the sound, only to see that the rock platform that stood not far from the car last night just disappeared out of thin air!Where it once stood is now a gravel field.

Ke Xun jumped out of the car, looked up, and was even more surprised: "Wow—where are those animal corpses?!"

The eyes are full of desolate sand, gravel and dry grass, but there is no sight of corpses lying on the ground last night.

"Could it be that what I saw last night was all an illusion?" Wei Dong walked to the side in amazement and looked around.

"Then when did this phantom disappear?" Ke Xun turned to look at his companions who jumped out of the car one after another, "Who was on the last shift last night? Didn't you find that the rock disappeared?"

"There was fog in the valley before dawn," Shao Ling said. "I was on the last shift. The fog was very thick at the time, and the visibility was only about two or three meters. For safety reasons, I didn't get out of the car to check, and I didn't think about the rocks. It will disappear, and I think the rock and the body probably disappeared in the fog, that is, before dawn, and the vision probably only appears at night."

"I don't think that's an illusion," Mu Yiran said, "or to be more precise, it's not an illusion. Because I touched the rock surface with my own hands last night, it doesn't look like a trick or a fake. It's solid and textured exactly like real rock."

"Yi Ran is right," Qin Ci continued, "Last night I also observed the corpse of a wild yak at close range. In terms of tissues, bones, epidermis, pupils and other details, it is a real 'living body' and a substance that exists."

"Then, why do they all disappear out of thin air?" Li Xiaochun scratched his head.

"I have a guess," Mu Yiran met the eyes of everyone looking at him, "I think, maybe what appeared in this canyon last night was a situation from another world."

This guess made everyone on the spot startled.

"From a metaphysical point of view," Mu Yiran continued without giving everyone time to buffer their emotions, "this place belongs to the ancient Kunlun range in "Shan Hai Jing". The location is still the valley of death and the gate of hell in the modern population. Whether it is aura or yin energy, they all reached their peak last night in this place, which is very likely to trigger or reveal a corner of another world.

"And if it is explained from a scientific point of view, the super-abnormal magnetic field possessed by the rocks in the valley and the intense and extreme stormy weather last night are also very likely to cause spatial distortion, interlacing, superposition, and even replacement. If we compare the world we live in with other One world is understood as the coexistence of multiple universes, so this kind of short-lived 'traversal' phenomenon is not impossible.

"Using the clues and hints given by "Schrödinger's Cat" to analyze, our world is likely to be in a superposition state with another world, so when we 'observe' it, it collapses into another world.

"I have a preliminary guess now. Maybe the next action we are going to take is a kind of 'observation' behavior, so as to open the entrance to another world."

"...That makes sense." It took a while for everyone to finally come to their senses. The experience of 'accidentally' being in another world last night made everyone feel a little terrified.

"Brother Qin, Xiaochun, Sister Cen, Qingqing, the four of you stay here," Ke Xun immediately made arrangements, "Qingqing helps Xiaochun make breakfast together, and Sister Cen grabs the gun and observes the movement around, Brother Qin, go Stand on the roof of the car and pay attention to other people at the same time. The other people are divided into groups and look farther away in four directions. They all carry their bags and guns. Seeing our car, if Brother Qin finds that something is wrong, he will immediately notify everyone with a flare gun."

As he spoke, he went to the trunk and handed over the flare gun and binoculars brought by Mu Yiran to Qin Ci.

The members who have been born and died together many times already have a good understanding. While Ke Xun was arranging, everyone had already started to prepare. After quickly dividing into groups, they each chose a direction and walked cautiously towards the distance.

Half an hour later, several groups of people came back one after another, but found nothing.

"There is nothing but gravel and dead grass and a few dead animals," Shao Ling said. "Not all of these dead animals are facing the direction of the rocky platform last night. They seem to be very 'normal' deaths." state."

The same is true for other group probes.

"I think we probably won't gain anything during the day," Zhu Haowen said. "Only at night will the 'superimposed world' appear. All our actions can only be carried out at night."

Everyone also agreed that this was the case, so the daytime activities were suspended. Everyone briefly ate the breakfast prepared by Li Xiaochun, and then began to unload the camping supplies from the car. The men set up four medium-sized tents and one large-sized tent. Tents are used to rest separately, and big tents are used to gather together for meetings.

The ladies were responsible for laying blankets for each tent and distributing sleeping bags and other things. Finally, everyone piled up the hay they collected and lit a small fire to boil water for drinking.

"It seems that we can only wait until night." Wei Dong turned his head to look in the direction of the rising sun, the dazzling white light was like a sharp knife, cutting through the cold morning air, making people feel like they are being tortured by thousands of people. The painful illusion that the body is being cut by the ice pick.

"After drinking the hot water, we all go to sleep in the tent," Ke Xun said. "I must have not slept well last night. If you recover your energy during the day, you will have the energy to cope with it at night. Let's arrange shifts, with two people in each shift. Every three hours, Dongzi and I are in the first class, Yiran and Luobo are in the second class, Mr. Shao Xiaochun is in the third class after lunch, Hao Wener is in the fourth class, and Director Hua and the ladies are not on duty. Take a beauty sleep."

Director Hua: "..."

"Let's help with the cooking," Wu You said, "Although we don't dare to take a gun, it's okay to take a kitchen knife. We guarantee that everyone will have enough meat to eat!"

"Okay, food and clothing is the second most important thing after life and death, so I'll leave it to you." Ke Xun smiled.

Wu You looked at the boxes containing ingredients on the ground, and sighed inwardly.

Who knows how many meals you can survive.