Paintings of Terror

When the light of dawn lighted up slightly and the thick fog thinned, Wei Dong sharply noticed two figures appearing at the original position of the rock platform—"Ke Er! Boss!"

"Brother! Sister! - not - brother-in-law!" Luo Kuo shouted excitedly, and a group of people rushed towards that side.

"How are you?"

"Are you all right?"

"What happened?!"

"You scared us to death!"

"My God! Thank you! You're all right! That's great!"

Everyone chattered and talked, but Ke Xun and Mu Yiran looked solemn and hesitant, looking at them very cautiously.

"What's the matter?" Yue Cen, who rushed over a step later because he was in a wheelchair, sensitively noticed something was wrong between the two of them.

"Don't doubt, we are all real, not illusions." Wei Dong hastily tapped his chest.

"Did something happen on the rock platform?" Qin Ci asked carefully.

Everyone was a little nervous and looked at the two without making a sound.

"...nothing happened," Ke Xun still looked a little hesitant, glanced at Mu Yiran, then at the crowd, and finally licked his dry lips, "How should I put it...we just climbed Go to the rock platform, and you will rush over."

"Huh?" Several people asked in bewilderment.

"We just climbed to the rock platform and were about to take a closer look at the surrounding environment when we found ourselves on a flat ground again, and then you rushed over from there..." Ke Xun looked around in disbelief I looked at it, "—this is——it's dawn?!"

"That's right... it's going to be light soon, and the night is over." Two or three people nodded blankly.

"—Fuck!" Ke Xun hurriedly looked at Mu Yiran.

"...Damn it." Everyone also looked at each other in surprise.

"So, the one night that has passed in our eyes is only a moment in your life?" Zhu Haowen said calmly.

"There are two possibilities," Mu Yiran said more calmly than him, "The first possibility is that the space on the top of the rock platform is a distorted space. After we went up, we directly traveled through time, from last night to the present.

"The second possibility is that we didn't travel through time, but—the memory of last night was intercepted by some force, leaving no trace."

These words made everyone tremble with excitement.

"This rocky platform is really weird," Zhu Haowen said thoughtfully, "you can't take any images on it with a camera, and you have also traveled through time on it, or your memory has been erased-so it seems that maybe the camera It's not that nothing was captured, it's likely that the images it captured were also 'traversed', or erased by some force."

"Isn't the ultimate goal of Huatui not to let us climb that rocky platform?" Wu You wondered, "Otherwise, why would we do this? If it's the former possibility, wouldn't we return to the original place in an instant after we climbed up?" ? If it is the latter possibility, then we have forgotten a piece of memory, and how can it promote things?"

"Perhaps, the rock platform needs thirteen of us to climb up together to show its true face." Yue Cen said, "The situation that Xiao Mu and Xiao Ke encountered may be a kind of secret mechanism of the rock platform. , it does not allow the above situation to be disclosed in advance, but requires that thirteen of us must face it together at the same time."

"I agree with Sister Cen." Ke Xun nodded, "It seems that the ultimate goal of the behind-the-scenes forces is to let us climb the rock platform together."

Everyone was silent for a while, only Luo Kuo asked in a low voice: "Does that mean that when we climb up together, it will be our death day?"

No one answered him, and after a moment of silence, Wei Dong pretended to be relaxed to break the silence: "This painting is too outrageous. The platform is so high. Is it possible that we all learn to climb rocks first?"

"It's true, if you can't learn it, then you can't go to school?" Li Xiaochun didn't know whether to be lucky or embarrassed.

"We can think about this issue later," Shao Ling said, "Let's sort out the icons that were photographed last night first."

Everyone returned to the tent and continued to divide their work.

Mu Yiran, Wei Dong, Shao Ling, Hua Jiqiu, and Yue Cen sorted out the icons, Ke Xun, Zhu Haowen, Qin Ci, and Luo Yan checked the pictures captured by the cameras set up around the rock platform last night, and Li Xiaochun Make breakfast with the girls.

All the cameras failed to capture how the rock platform appeared and disappeared last night. During the two periods of time when the rock platform appeared and disappeared, the cameras captured either flying sand and rocks or a dense fog.

It took a long time to sort out the icons. Last night, everyone cleared out a large area of ​​rock walls, but still not all of them. The higher positions were not cleared because they were out of reach.

Later, all the people joined in the work of arranging the icons, and Weidong even gave a few people who are proficient in using computers a simple training in image processing.

During lunch, everyone temporarily put down the work at hand and rested while eating.

"How do we clear out the symbols on the higher part of the rock wall?" Gu Qingqing asked.

"I have a way," Ke Xun said, "Yi Ran and I will still climb up the rock tonight, but instead of turning up the stone platform, when we reach the edge of the stone platform, we will drop a heavy object on the end of the rope in our hands, Throw it to the other side of the stone platform, so that the rope can be put on the stone platform, and the two ends hang down. We tie one end of the rope around the waist, and someone is responsible for pulling on the other side, pulling people to a high place, so that they can be cleaned. It's a stone wall."

"This operation is very difficult and requires someone with good physical strength," Mu Yiran said, "Who is willing to try it?"

"Let me try it." Li Xiaochun said, "I have strength, especially my hand strength, that is... can the rope hold me? Don't turn around and suddenly break halfway..."

"It's a special rope for climbing." Mu Yi reassured him.

"Let me try it too." Luo Kuo volunteered, "I'm light in weight, and I've also done indoor rock climbing, although I haven't managed to climb to the top once..."

"There is a rope to pull you, you don't need to climb rocks, you just have the guts." Ke Xun said.

"Add me." Wei Dong raised his hand.

"I don't need you," Ke Xun said, "Your task tonight is to continue sorting out the symbols, and you don't even need to put out the tent. We can get closer to the answer if we sort it out early."

"I'll do it." Fang Fei said.

"Great, Feige is better than Dongzi." Ke Xun gave a thumbs up.

Wei Dong: "...do you use the two of us as thugs?"

Ke Xun: "Brothers are like 'hands' and feet, brother Fei is a hand, and you are a little jiojio."

Wei Dong: "I'll slap you in the face with a jio girl."

Ke Xun: "Who else signed up?"

Zhu Haowen: "Me."

Ke Xun: "Is it really possible?"

Zhu Haowen: "Are you sure you are asking me?"

Ke Xun: "I was wrong. So who, Mr. Shao, don't hide by the side and think you're not there without making a sound. Do you want to try working at heights?"

Shao Ling: "..." Even at this time, you still can't stop your desire to bully me.

Wu You: "Stop bullying him, Mr. Shao's face turned pale without seeing him."

Shao Ling: "..." My face is already pale!

Ke Xun: "Okay, Mr. Shao and Lao Qin are responsible for pulling the rope below, Father Hua, Dongzi, and Sister Cen continue to organize the symbols, and Qingqing Wu You helps to keep an eye on the people above us. It is inconvenient for everyone to communicate on the top. Help me spread the word or something."

Everyone responded one after another, rested for a few hours after eating, got up and continued to work.

Turn into night.

Ke Xun's method really worked. Several ropes were thrown from the left side of the stone platform to the right. Everyone first pulled the rope together to drag one person up, then tied the end of the rope firmly to the car, and then dragged the others one by one.

Thanks to Mu Yiran, I tied a mountain-climbing special knot for everyone, passing it between the legs, and wrapping it around the waist. Except for the men who feel a little bit tight, the overall feeling is quite comfortable, and it looks very comfortable. very safe.

Everyone has cleared the experience in cleaning the stone walls, and the speed is much faster than the previous two nights. Even so, it still took another two nights to finally clear all the symbols on the four walls.

Everyone stood under the rock platform and looked up, shocked by the situation in front of them, unable to speak for a long time.

This piece of stone platform that rises from the ground stands like a huge square pillar, and its four walls are engraved with symbols of primitive style and strange shape.And around it, with it as the center point, spreading to the end of the sky in a circular radial state, are countless corpses with their heads all facing it.

It was as if the undead were worshiping their gods.

After dawn, everyone didn't care about rest, and immediately imported the pictures they had taken into their laptops for processing. Several "intern art artists" and Wei Dong who were forced to enter the industry worked in shifts, and went to eat and sleep instead.

After practice makes perfect, the speed is getting faster and faster. All the pictures have been processed in one day, and only the stitching is left.

Everyone stopped work and went to have dinner first, so we didn't read the content carefully for the time being.

"I didn't expect to come here and still have to do my job..." Wei Dong rubbed his tired eyes and fell on his back on the thick carpet in the tent.

"This shows that you are the chosen artist." Ke Xun handed him a cup of hot goat's milk.

"Fuck, what a vicious curse you are, who wants to choose an art worker that day." Wei Dong sat up and drank milk, "If it's not for making a living, I don't want to be an art worker."

"Then what do you want to be?" Ke Xun asked casually.

"Being... a diver?" Wei Dong happened to see Fang Fei coming in from outside the tent.

"It's not too late to change careers now," Fang Fei said.

"How about the salary of your divers? Can I support my parents, my mother, my daughter-in-law and myself?" Wei Dong asked.

"When do you still think about this?" Fang Fei said.

"You have to think about home anytime." Wei Dong sighed.

Fang Fei was slightly startled, and stared at him for a while.

Ke Xun blinked and watched the two talking, then leaned over and whispered something in Mu Yiran's ear, and the two turned their heads to look at Wei Dong and Fang Fei together.

"My intuition has always been accurate, even more accurate than the client." Ke Xun added one last sentence, then smiled and moved his buttocks to sit in front of the computer.

After seeing those weird icons on the screen, the momentary relaxed mood immediately disappeared without a trace.

Ke Xun stared at the screen for a while, then asked Weidong, "Are these icons arranged in order now?"

"Yes, the names of the pictures start with ABCD, which represent the four sides of the rock wall, and the numbers after the letters are the order of the pictures." Wei Dong said.

"You can drink later." Ke Xun took the cup that Weidong had brought to his mouth, "Come here first and put all the pictures on the rock wall of side A into a whole picture, just like the ones on the rock wall .”

"Damn, you can't let me finish the drink first." Weidong wiped his mouth, sat down in front of the computer and started to do the puzzle. He simply put all the pictures into one picture in order, and it didn't take much time, "Computer The screen is a bit small, and there are too many pictures, if you put them all in one picture, if you want to display the whole picture on the screen, you will not be able to see the specific content of each small picture clearly.”

"It's okay, I'll just take a rough look." Ke Xun stuffed the cup back into his hand, turned the screen in front of him, stared at it carefully, sometimes zoomed in on the picture, sometimes zoomed out, and sometimes simply lifted the computer from the screen. Observe from all angles.

After watching for a long time, he suddenly turned his head to Mu Yiran and said, "I have made a discovery."