Paintings of Terror

"We don't have much time, we need to take a sufficient amount of blood from 'that me' in the shortest possible time, so I need someone to help me put it back together, and in the race against time, Ke Xun and my speed of action It's faster, so it's more appropriate for the two of us to go back." Mu Yiran said.

"So why do you want to take your own blood?" Zhu Haowen stared at him and asked, "And why did you ask Lao Qin to check their bleeding volume just now?"

"Now we have come to the crux of all problems, and the ultimate truth we have been seeking," Mu Yiran's expression was indescribably strange. He pointed to the altar under everyone's feet, and the surface of the altar was covered with the blood of his companions. "The large expanse of blood we see in front of our eyes should be caused by the power of the ghost text. It needs the 'sacrifice' of blood. Although what it really wants is our consciousness body, I think the reason why the bone phase can be passed down from generation to generation Passed down from the ground, perhaps through the medium of blood.

"Blood carries genetic genes, just like what we often say about bloodline inheritance - it has the power of inheritance. I think bone phase takes advantage of this characteristic and is passed down from generation to generation through the inheritance of blood.

"And as for why as long as you enter the painting, you will have the bones of your body, and after a person dies in the painting, the bones will be transferred to the next person who entered the painting. I think that if there are enough conditions to check the bloodlines of all the persons who entered the painting in our generation, it can be traced back to In Qin Shi, it is very likely that he has the genes of that expert and his twelve disciples.

"So, what we have learned about the sacrifices made by the virtuous man and his twelve disciples is far more than what is seen in the posthumous note. These thirteen righteous men, they even bet for it His own blood for thousands of generations.

"Therefore, the ghost text needs the consciousness body as well as the blood. It combines with the consciousness body to stimulate the energy field, and combines with the blood to mark and delineate the enchantment. This enchantment can be understood as a seal, a soul seal, or a seal. It is understood as a channel and a medium.

"Ghost text does not need the same amount of blood to mark and delineate the altar, but it needs enough blood to cause death. While delineating the barrier, it can obtain our consciousness and stimulate the energy field.

"Therefore, the blood loss of the five of them was only between 30% and 50% which is enough to kill, and the 30% to 50% blood combined with the ghost text was used to delineate the blood on the top of the altar. of this enchantment.

"The function of this enchantment is of course to seal the demons and ghosts, but it also has a function that even the ancient witches and demons don't know about, or, even if the great witches and high-level people with the power of observation are aware of this function, they will be affected by it. Due to the limitations of the times, it is also difficult to clarify the reasons.

"But we...we are different. In our era, we already have a theoretical basis to get a glimpse of the 'secret', and in fact, we have already come into contact with the truth behind this enchantment before that, but we I couldn't believe it and didn't want to believe it was true, and in the subsequent reasoning and analysis, I denied its authenticity.

"But now, when 'Bug' has confirmed the inference that the conscious body can exist independently and can go to a higher dimension, when the blood of the victim spreads over the altar in ghostly patterns, when Xiaochun's blood becomes the sacrifice Behind a strip of fringe on the edge of the table, the speculation that we once couldn't believe or didn't want to believe seems to be gradually becoming a fact.

"If as expected, after all of you with the bones of the nine tripods are sacrificed, the bloody ghost text will just cover the entire top of the altar, and the three of us with the bones of the earth will be like Xiaochun's after death. Like the blood, it becomes the four blood sides on the top of the altar.

"So, imagine now, what did the top of the altar look like at that time?"

With an indescribable look in Ke Xun's eyes, he opened his mouth several times before finally uttering two words slowly in a weird voice that couldn't control his accent:

"Seal."

"You mean..." Shao Ling felt it was difficult to breathe, "our...our...this real world is really—really just—a painting?"

"In our cognition, paintings are two-dimensional things that reflect the two-dimensional world, and we who create two-dimensional paintings are three-dimensional creatures," Mu Yiran looked up at Feng Tili, who was about to come out again. The monster sped up his speech again, "Since the 'bug' has confirmed the existence of high-dimensional space, why isn't the world we three-dimensional creatures live in created by four-dimensional, five-dimensional, or even higher-dimensional creatures? , What about the world defined as a 'painting' in their dimension?"

"...Of course...Of course..." Shao Ling didn't know what else he could say at the moment, as if when his world view collapsed, his entire thinking system also collapsed, and all his emotions were chaotically intertwined , and the result of interweaving is pale and dazed.

The paintings of three-dimensional creatures are two-dimensional, and the paintings of high-dimensional creatures are three-dimensional. What is impossible...

"But why do high-dimensional creatures leave the seals on the paintings in the same form as our three-dimensional creatures?" Zhu Haowen was still very cautious.

"You got the order wrong," Mu Yiran said, "It is the high-dimensional creatures who created us. It is not us who have the form of the seal first, but the high-dimensional creatures. Our seal form is the same as theirs. Just like in the works of other worlds created by us, no matter how subversive its worldview is, it will also have the cultural imprint of our world. And this also explains why ghost writing has such incredible power, because they come from In the high-dimensional world, the big wizard of our world can see and use a corner of its power, and just the power of this corner is enough to turn our world upside down."

"If this is the case...then we...then why are we still struggling like this?" Wu You stared at the altar under the circle of the mobile phone, trembling all over, tears falling down.

"Even if we are just a symbol in the painting of high-dimensional creatures," Ke Xun's voice came over calmly, "but for us, this painting is our real world, the world where we live, grow old, get sick and die. no difference.

"The reason why we are sad and desperate is because we cannot accept that there are higher-level creatures in the universe, and we even exist like ants in this biological chain.

"But so what, no human being has the leisure time to observe the life of all ants, and the vast majority of ants will still live normally in their own world and die without knowing anything.

"There is nothing unacceptable. Whether there are higher-level creatures, we still have to find a way to survive. Even if we can't live now, we must find a way to end this matter. The difference is just knowing and not knowing. "

"Then..." Zhu Haowen swallowed hard, "You want to go back to "Hehe" to get your own blood, is it related to this seal?"

"Yes," Mu Yiran looked up at the surviving companions, with subtle pity in his eyes, "I have thought about why the other me and Ke Xun went to "Hehe" Go get my blood, after seeing this altar with blood as a seal, and after asking Lao Qin about the amount of blood that everyone has bled, I understand what that 'me' thinks.

"In every painting we entered before, after we found the seal, we needed to touch it to open the passage from the painting to the real world.

"But this time, the seal of the altar requires the blood of 13 of us to complete, and the amount of blood required is exactly equivalent to the amount of blood loss that is fatal. In this way, if all thirteen of us die, it is indeed possible Complete this seal, but there is no living person left to trigger it by touching it.

"So if you want to trigger it, you must leave a living person, and if you want to leave a living person, you must satisfy the person's blood loss, but not enough to die.

"Since the seal needs the blood of only thirteen of us, it cannot be replaced by other people's blood. The only way to keep immortal and meet the blood volume is to use the blood of two people. Gather enough blood, each share half of the blood, and it is not enough to be fatal.

"The reason why I was chosen is that I happened to lose a lot of blood due to the tooth poison of the Nian Beast in the painting "Hehe". Enough blood, Nian Beast's tooth venom seems to contain anticoagulant ingredients, it is relatively more convenient to take the blood of 'me' at that time.

"And everyone's physique is different. My physique is relatively better. A large amount of blood loss will not be life-threatening. But you, I am not sure how much blood loss I can bear, so taking my blood can take as much blood as possible." Some, so as not to go back and forth in vain, if the blood volume is not enough at that time, then all previous efforts will be wasted.

"Take half of the blood of the 'me' at that time and half of the current me to complete this seal, and then I will trigger it."

Although Mu Yiran didn't explain it in his words, everyone knew what he had to say.

The need to complete this seal means that everyone must die and can only die. This is destined and the only ending.

"I don't understand..." Gu Qingqing murmured, "I don't understand why we trigger this seal, is it to leave the world of this dimension? Go to a higher dimension?"

"Low-dimensional creatures cannot survive in the high-dimensional world, and not every space-time tunnel can allow people to come out alive." It was Zhu Haowen who answered her, and at the same time reminded Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran is responsible for triggering the seal. If the seal can really open the passage from the three-dimensional to the high-dimensional world, he will be sucked into the high-dimensional world, and as a three-dimensional creature, the moment he enters the high-dimensional world, he will Ashes to ashes.

Mu Yiran had already thought about this clearly.

"I will trigger it after the ghost has completely rushed out of the ground," Mu Yiran smiled calmly, "The passage of light is also the passage for the ghost to break out of the ground, and its entrance is under the altar, and the altar Above is the seal. When the seal opened the passage leading to the high-dimensional world, the ghost also just rushed out from the passage below..."

"Ghosts are also creatures that live in the three-dimensional world," Ke Xun continued. "They will rush directly into the high-dimensional passage seamlessly, and then disappear in ashes the moment they enter the high-dimensional world."

The rest of the people looked at Mu Yiran in shock and comprehension.

He succeeded.

He found a way to end this once and for all, and he did.

"But, how long can the high-dimensional channel be opened?" Shao Ling asked, "If it only takes a moment like our painting, the ghosts may not all be wiped out."

"I think the rushing out of the ghost may only happen in an instant," Mu Yiran said, "Although we call the channel under the light character a pipe, the place at the mouth of the pipe is called the 'Kunlun' pivot'.

"What is a pivot? It has already been explained in the posthumous notes of the ancestors. The pivot means a turning axis and an overturning. How fast is the overturning? It's just a flip of the palm of the hand and the back of the hand.

"So I think that when a ghost is born, it is a time of overturning. It's just that this overturning is different from the way our palms and backs are turned over. The overturning of a superimposed space may be as simple as observing the process of the collapse of an electron.

"Therefore, when this altar, which is both a seal and a seal, has not been covered by the ghost text after we have dragged it past the final critical value, it will only be an instant thing when the ghost world collapses and turns up as a whole. This moment is enough."

"Every one of us will have a small critical value in the process of offering sacrifices. During this period of time, we can temporarily prevent ghosts from turning up, but the entire process of completing the seal has a final large critical value. Before this critical value arrives, if Before all 13 people have been sacrificed, the world of demons and ghosts will be turned upside down in an instant." Zhu Haowen nodded gently, and then looked at him, "And you will die at the end of all of us, at the forefront of all demons and ghosts , died at the moment... rushing to the high-dimensional world, and disappeared in ashes."

"If I'm lucky," Mu Yiran smiled again, "Maybe I can still have a consciousness. After all, consciousness can cross dimensions."

"So..." Shao Ling said in a hoarse voice, "So, after all, we will end all this with death, right?"

"No, not necessarily," Mu Yiran said unexpectedly, "After all, each of our paintings is a near-death situation, and maybe we will still have a chance."

"You tell me, it's already reached this point, how can there be a chance of life," Shao Ling smiled wryly, "We must die to trigger the seal, and you must die, because you will be sucked into the high-dimensional space. They are all things that must be done, you told me that this is already the case, where else can I find a chance of life?"

Mu Yiran's eyes moved slightly: "Maybe it's a one-in-a-billion possibility. Do you know... the space of God?"

Zhu Haowen's pupils trembled: "You mean—"

Only halfway through the conversation, I heard Wu You yelling: "——overlapped! The two passages overlapped!"

"—Everyone try to delay until the last moment! Ke Xun, let's go!" Mu Yiran walked towards the center of the mobile phone circle, where there seemed to be an invisible entrance, which instantly swallowed Mu Yiran's figure, making him disappear out of thin air In front of everyone.

"Guys," before Ke Xun stepped into the space-time tunnel, he turned his head and raised a bright smile at everyone, "See you in another dimension."