Paintings of Terror

"What is it?" Ke Xun asked.

"I can't tell—" Wu You even squatted down, propped his hands on the ground of the altar soaked in blood, and looked down vigorously, "Only the place covered by the ghost text can be seen, so the display is not complete, you can only see Part of it is... very confusing, I, I can't really tell what it is—"

Wu You burst into tears in anxiety, but Ke Xun remained calm, and said in a deep voice, "Don't worry, tell me first, is it alive or not?"

Wu You shook his head: "I don't know...it's been moving, I can't see its whole picture, I don't know if it has a head or a tail, I really don't know if it's a living thing..."

"Then what color is it?" Ke Xun asked.

"It...it has no color, but I don't know why I can see it, but I can be sure that it has no color, or, it may also be invisible or transparent itself-I don't know if it is correct to say that , that’s it, it was originally embedded in the rock, but when it moved, the rock where it was located seemed to be erased or hollowed out, and what you saw was the rock around the disappeared part of the rock—this It's so weird that something as hard as a rock is hollowed out by it - but when it moves away, the part of the rock that disappeared appeared in its place again... I don't know if I made it clear by saying that... ..." Wu You eagerly and somewhat incoherently described what he saw.

"I can probably understand it," said Ke Xun, "then can you see what shape it is?"

Wu You stared down hard for a while, frowned and shook his head: "I can't see it, it's very irregular, ever-changing..."

Ke Xun didn't ask any more, but looked at the others: "Perhaps only after our blood has spread all over the altar can we see this thing completely. I can't be sure if this thing is a ghost, since we say that a ghost is an ancient high-level Creatures, it is not ruled out that such advanced creatures have the characteristics of being invisible or invisible to human eyes. And these visible or faintly visible monsters in the tornado column are either the reflections of underground ghosts, or different species of ghosts."

As Ke Xun spoke, everyone looked up to the top of their heads, only to see that the monster in the wind body began to impact the wind membrane again after this period of time passed.

"Even if we stain the altar with our own blood, what's the use?" Shao Ling gritted his teeth and said, "At that time we are all dead, who else can see what is under the altar? See clearly so what?"

Ke Xun didn't answer. He bent down and stretched out his hand. He hesitated for a while before touching the blood of his companions on the ground, and finally pressed his hand down. Then, with his hands full of blood stains, he turned around and walked to a nearby area that was not yet blood-stained. He reached the blank space and pressed his palm on it.

Take the hand away, a bloody palm print remained in place, but it was quickly submerged by the blood overflowing from the side, and like other places that had been soaked in blood, it quickly became a part of the ghost text, and the ghost text between the strokes At the gaps, it becomes blank again.

Ke Xun pressed his blood-soaked palm on the ghost writing again, and after taking it away, the ghost writing did not get confused at all. He tried to swipe his fingers on the ghost writing again, but the blood-red ghost writing seemed to be The original color of the rock is the same, and it cannot be scratched at all.

Wu You, who had been watching his movements, suddenly yelled, "Strange—the invisible thing inside the altar—seems to be following Ke Er!"

Everyone was shocked and suspicious when they heard the words, Qiqi looked at Ke Xun, but Ke Xun didn't show any emotion, just turned his head to look at her: "Are you sure?"

"Stand up and take a few steps," Wu You pointed not far away, "Go over there, don't go to places that are not covered by ghost text."

Ke Xun stood up, walked far away according to the words, then circled around, returned to the original place, looked at the shocked Wu You, and the answer was written in her red and swollen eyes: "Are you really following me? "

"Yes, but, but it's not that close." Wu You pulled his hair with both hands and forced himself to organize his words calmly and clearly. The direction you're walking, I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence or something—maybe—maybe it senses you?"

"Stand still," Ke Xun said, "Haowen'er Shao Zongqingqing, the four of us are going in different directions now, Wu You, watch."

The four people walked in four different directions, circled several complicated circles, and returned to the original place again.

Wu You answered affirmatively this time: "It's following Ke Er! Although it still seems to follow, but it obviously doesn't have feelings for the other three of you. It tends to follow Ke Er's direction!"

"Why?" Zhu Haowen stared at Ke Xun, "Is there something on you that we don't have?"

Ke Xun threw his backpack on the ground and walked around again.

"It didn't follow!" Wu You shouted, "—is it Ke Er's backpack?!"

Ke Xun strode back, unbuttoned his backpack and took things out.

Ropes, flashlights, combination knives, magazines, lighters, photo albums, chocolate boxes...

Ke Xun distributed these to everyone to take a few, and he put his backpack on his back again: "Spread out and walk again, Wu You keep an eye on it."

This time Wu You still pointed at him: "Ke Er, it's you!"

"What's left in your backpack?" Shao Ling asked tightly.

Ke Xun tore open the mouth of the backpack and held it open for everyone to see: "Mobile phone."

Most of the backpack is full of mobile phones.

It has long been Ke Xun's habit to put a few more mobile phones into the painting. Even when he finally arrived at the Kunlun Shu in the real world and climbed on this altar, he did not leave it behind.

"Why is it a mobile phone?" Everyone hesitated.

"When we were in the painting, they couldn't recognize the mobile phone. At best, they could only block some of the functions according to the content settings of the painting," Zhu Haowen frowned and thought, "But they are not in the painting now, and even if they are in the painting , because the mobile phone is not recognized, it can be regarded as an existence that is not taken seriously, why do things inside the altar focus on the mobile phone?"

Ke Xun was thinking about another question.

An unknown object in a closed, solid rock.

Moving, colorless, shapeless, invisible.

But it definitely has a volume, because wherever it goes, the rock will be hollowed out, and the hollowed out space is where its shape is.

It will hollow out the hard rock, and after it leaves, that part of the rock will reappear, indicating that that part of the rock has not been swallowed or removed at all, the rock is always there, just because it is blocked, It was as if it had disappeared out of thin air.

The unseen...can appear in solid rock...disappear...reappear...

Ke Xun raised his eyes suddenly.

"Curator Hua...has gone." Qin Ci's voice suddenly came over in a low voice.

Everyone woke up and followed the sound, only to see that Hua Jiqiu was already in Qin Ci's arms and quietly closed his eyes.

The blood gurgling from the wound in his abdomen was spreading towards the blank space of the altar, and in the wind body in the vault above his head, the ugly, disgusting and terrifying monster let out a vicious howling sound, and was forcibly pressed back by an invisible force with.

When everyone was eager and focused on finding out the real body of the unknown object inside the altar, the ghost in the wind body once again launched an offensive to break through to the human world, and Hua Jiqiu, like the previous sacrifices, Like his companions, he quietly and quietly gave his life at this moment, winning a short buffer for the companions who are still struggling to find the answer.

It's a pity that he couldn't leave a single word for the rest of the people, everyone's physique is different, he only looked at Mu Yiran at the last moment, just like Li Xiaochun.

Mu Yiran is everyone's last hope. Maybe even if he can't save these companions, maybe, maybe at least he can find a way to completely end this matter. Even if he can't help the present, he can help the future, that's fine.

Mu Yiran lowered his eyes, his eyes fell on the bloody ghost text on the ground of the altar, he did not move, he was still trying his best to mobilize all his logical thinking and knowledge reserves, in his vast and turbulent sea of ​​consciousness, he struggled to Looking for a ray of inspiration like a needle.

And at this moment, Ke Xun's voice suddenly sounded like a deep-sea whale's cry, empty and far away, and clear and long passed into the ear holes: "I think, I know what that thing in the altar that Wu You saw is. "

It is invisible and colorless, and can appear in unimaginable places such as inside solid rocks. It can make matter disappear and reappear out of thin air. It has volume and is powerful enough to swallow any matter.

what is it then?

"It's 'time and space'." Ke Xun said.

"The invisible thing is time and space, or it is a space-time tunnel, a time-space crack. But the only thing I don't understand is why it chases the mobile phone like a living consciousness." Ke Xun's eyes looked from everyone's shocked faces. Moving away, it fell to Mu Yiran who was suddenly looking up at him.

"Why...time and space?" Wu You asked eagerly, blankly.

"Yi Ran and I disappeared all night after we boarded the altar for the first time and then reappeared, which is very similar to the rock you saw inside the altar disappearing and reappearing," Ke Xun said, "and didn't we also say that Yes, the time and space here are chaotic."

"But the rock reappeared soon after it disappeared..." Wu You said.

"Are you sure that the rock you see is the current rock?" Ke Xun asked calmly, "Maybe the rock that appeared was a rock at a certain time in the past, or a rock at a certain time in the future, but at this moment rock, perhaps in another time and space."

Wu You suddenly opened his red and swollen eyes.

"Ke Xun makes sense—" Zhu Haowen still couldn't hide the surprise on his face, "It is indeed very likely that the space-time tunnel is invisible but exists objectively, but its opening time and location are not fixed , just like what Yiran said before we boarded the altar, the chaotic time and space flashbacks in the valley, but this time and space tunnel inside the rock platform is relatively stable, although according to what Wu You said, it is constantly moving— —I think there must be some reason for it!"

"The time and space in Death Valley are chaotic, but the time and space tunnel inside this altar is more vivid and stable. Could this be because of its greater energy?" Shao Ling tried to adjust his emotions and said as calmly as possible, "Because there are two kinds of ghosts, Yin and Yang. Wendu works here, and the altar is surrounded by tornado pillars. Perhaps, the altar is also the place where the underground magnetic field is the strongest, and several kinds of material fields are concentrated at one point—the altar, so a large amount of energy is generated. Big space-time tunnel?"

"I think this space-time tunnel can not only exist inside the altar." Mu Yiran, who was speaking with an unprecedented certainty, walked towards this side, and the remaining few participants immediately looked at He, with endless trust and expectations.

"It will poke its head out from inside the altar at a certain moment. This moment may be disordered, random, or even if there is a pattern, we have no way of knowing it. The last time it poked its head out, it happened to be I was overtaken by Ke Xun, so it turned from night to early morning in an instant." Mu Yiran said.

"So?" Zhu Haowen looked at him and saw the glint in his eyes.

"So, as you have imagined before - we need to find a way to catch it again or make it poke its head out," Mu Yiran said clearly, "then, let's go back to the past."

Everyone was startled when they heard this.

"Let's not talk about how to capture or make it probe," Zhu Haowen looked at him incredulously, "Even if we can enter the space-time tunnel and go back in time, how can we seal the town against ghosts? Our goal is not to save our lives , in order to seal the town of ghosts, and if possible, to put an end to this matter completely. Let’s go back to the past. Did Weidong and the others die here in vain? And don’t forget the time paradox, going back to the past can’t change the present result.”

"Before answering this question, I need Lao Qin to confirm one thing," Mu Yiran looked at Qin Ci, "Let's see how much blood loss Wei Dong and the others have now."

Qin Ci didn't question or say much. From the moment Weidong died, he was silent, watched quietly, or kept dragging his companions back from the brink of death, and then watched them go.

He went to check the corpses of the sacrificed companions, and then replied to Mu Yiran: "30% to 50%."

Before Mu Yiran could speak, Ke Xun raised his brows first: "But the blood of the five of them has covered almost half of the surface of the altar."

Ke Xun's words made the other people react suddenly - they were all anxiously thinking of ways and mourning the deaths of their companions before, and they didn't notice the abnormality of the blood for a while.

The blood loss of five people, each of them lost about 30% to 50% of blood, how could it be possible to cover half of such a large altar? !

"To be exact, the blood of the four people covered nearly half of the area," Mu Yiran pointed to Li Xiaochun, "Xiaochun's blood was all concentrated on the edge of the altar, did you see that his blood was in the shape of a Jomon pattern?" shape, fit on this side of the altar."

Everyone was startled suddenly, they all stared at the bloody side of the altar, and then all turned back to look at Mu Yiran, waiting for his answer.