Paintings of Terror

"Rhino-elephant? Could it be related to the Rhino-Elephant Art Museum?" Sha Liu felt a little unbelievable.

Many people have also thought of this, and the fact that this kind of painting coincides with reality makes people feel even more astonishing.

The old man Li Taiyong still has a normal look: "The Rhinoceros Art Museum originally occupied this space. A few years ago, the street in front of the art museum was still Chunsun Street. After the street was remodeled and the underground subway was built, Chunsun Street disappeared completely. gone."

"Could it be that the Rhino Elephant Art Museum and that famous Internet celebrity restaurant are both..." Xin Miao felt that talking about things outside in this world was like talking about dreams.

"Yes, it's all run by the Hong Kong developer." The old man Li Taiyong expressed his affirmation.

This information is obviously very important to Chunsun Apartment, but everyone really can't connect this information to the seal. After all, the world in the painting has been demarcated in the tube building, and it is impossible to go out and find it from the stone rhinoceros and elephant.

Besides, the gate is closed tightly, and it is impossible to freely enter and exit.

Feeling depressed, coupled with the hot weather, everyone ate very little for lunch, and were a little sleepy after the meal, after all, they didn't sleep well last night.

So, each went back to the room for a short lunch break.

Ke Xun returned to his 411, entered the bedroom and looked down at the red slippers under the bed, but did not see any change in position: "Did there be any movement in our room last night?"

Mu Yiran: "I didn't hear that."

That's right, under the loud noise outside the window last night, all movements were insignificant.

There is electricity in the room during the day, and you can turn on the electric fan, which is still a very enjoyable thing in this harsh environment.

Ke Xun soon fell asleep, and had a very bright dream. In the dream, he became a child, scratching the wall with a small utility knife, and the carvings were all clumsy bamboo shoot patterns. .

As time passed, the sky began to slowly turn black, and Ke Xun woke up as soon as he felt nervous.

Taking a nap in the hot weather is not a comfortable thing. Ke Xun was sweating all over. When he woke up, he found that one leg was still on Mu Yiran's leg. He pulled away subconsciously, but suddenly found that the other party was actually awake.

"I'm sorry, I fell asleep and pressed you." Ke Xun touched the mat mark on his face and woke up completely.

I don't know how long Mu Yiran was awake, and how long he suppressed him.

Mu Yiran was still lying flat: "I just don't want to wake up your dream."

"Huh?" Since when did the boss care about his dreams?

"You're talking in your sleep."

"This...is a very rare phenomenon, and I usually don't have this problem." Ke Xun quickly clarified.

"You said: The bamboo shoots will be painted soon, and they will break through the ground soon."

"I said?!"

"Yes, you said it."

Ke Xun carefully recalled his dream just now: "I just dreamed that I was a child..." When he said this, he suddenly reacted, "Yes, child! Have you noticed that the position of those depicting bamboo shoots is not very high, Every time I have to lean down to see it!"

Mu Yiran was thoughtful, got up unconsciously, and sat cross-legged on the bed: "The painter Luo Bin was very young, born in 1985, if the world in the painting is now in 96, then Luo Bin was only 11 years old at the time, not as tall as grow up."

"You mean, the child who painted these bamboo shoots is most likely the artist himself?" Ke Xun felt that this idea was bold, but it was not aimless.

If this is the case, where can we find clues for seals?Could it be that the seal was carved somewhere with a utility knife?

Mu Yiran said: "The situation in 616 is different from our rooms. Before 616, it should be an empty room. The bedding, tables and chairs inside were put in later. More like a hotel."

"You mean, the former residents of 616 moved all their things away?" Ke Xun hadn't finished speaking when he heard a knock on the door.

Although it was broad daylight, the knock on the door was still very abrupt.

Wei Dong's voice came from outside the door: "Ke Er, open the door!"

Just as Ke Xun opened the door, he found that Sha Liu from the next door had also come to the door at some point, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Wei Dong simply said at the door: "Hao Wen'er found out, outside our window, outside... the terrain has become higher."

"What does it mean that the terrain has become higher?" Sha Liu asked anxiously.

"Isn't there a concrete wall built outside? It has been repaired up to your fourth floor. Now we look out the window and find that the road outside is level with the fifth floor!" Wei Dong didn't know how to express it better.

"Go up and have a look." Mu Yiran had already left the door, and Sha Liu followed closely behind. Ke Xun, regardless of the dizziness and nausea before, bit the bullet and followed.

As soon as he reached the fifth floor, Ke Xun felt the suffocation of the top: "Why do I feel that the stairs here are also deformed?"

Ke Xun gave himself a few more Danshen dripping pills, suppressed his heart that was about to explode, gritted his teeth and went up to the sixth floor.

As Mu Yiran said, 616 is indeed like what Mu Yiran said, the decoration is a bit like an old hotel, with old-fashioned embossed wallpaper, doors, windows and heating are all wrapped with wooden edges, even the bed is a standard hotel single bed, and there is a TV cabinet. color TV.

Zhu Haowen was sitting by the bed playing games, seeing everyone coming, he took the initiative to get out of the window.

Mu Yiran opened the window and found that the ground outside was built on the fifth floor. From the perspective of outsiders, it might be a second-story building.

Ke Xun and Sha Liu looked at the busy traffic outside the window, and felt that the mundane world outside seemed unreal.

"Then where are the residents below our fourth floor?" Sha Liu seemed to have thought of something, and she trembled unknowingly.

"Under the ground." Mu Yiran said.

Ke Xun still didn't understand: "What was outside your window before?" Then he looked at Mu Yiran, "When you came here to check this morning, what was it like outside the window?"

"It's a cloud of white mist." Mu Yiran said.

Wei Dong followed suit and nodded: "Yes, although our windows are bright, we just can't see the outside clearly. It's like there's a lot of fog outside, and only the sunlight is faintly filtering through."

"I can see it suddenly now?" Ke Xun felt that this matter was very strange, even a little nonsensical.

"It wasn't all of a sudden," Zhu Haowen said suddenly, "I could vaguely see something this morning."

Looking at the world outside, Sha Liu suddenly had a desire to rush out, Zhu Haowen stopped her in time: "I can't get out, this window can't be opened at all."

Mu Yiran seemed to have thought of something: "Let's go to the fifth floor to have a look."

Zhu Haowen looked up at Mu Yiran, and followed everyone to the fifth floor.

Because there was no companion on the fifth floor, everyone had no choice but to go to the window of the public toilet, and found that it was still hazy and foggy outside, but they could vaguely see the outline of the city scene.

"It's so weird, what can these phenomena explain?" Sha Liu didn't mind that she was in the men's room at this time.

"This must have something to do with the deformation of the room." After Ke Xun came to the fifth floor, he felt better than before.

"Why is the room deformed? Where are we?!" Sha Liu was a little depressed and out of control, "According to what we saw on the sixth floor just now, this tube building is clearly buried in the soil! We have been in the soil all the time!!"

"So, the name of this work is "Broken Earth"." Mu Yiran was facing out of the window, unable to see his expression clearly.

Ke Xun only felt goosebumps all over his body as if electrified, not because of fear, but because of an inexplicable comprehension: "So this is a work of magical realism."

Wei Dong was very frightened by Ke Xun: "Ke'er, can we talk it out if we have something to say?"——Why did you suddenly turn on a professional moth?

Ke Xun looked serious at this time: "It is our tube building that is going to break the ground, it is the entire Chunsun apartment, and those bamboo shoots symbolize our building. We are now buried in the soil, and now we are slowly breaking out of the ground. .”

Mu Yiran couldn't help turning around: "Continue talking."

Because of the emptiness of the men's room, Ke Xun's voice echoed here, like a meaningful speech——

"The reason why the room is deformed is because the top of the tube building has to gather inward. Why should it gather inward? It's because the whole building wants to turn itself into a bamboo shoot with a pointed head, and then wait for the opportunity to break out of the ground!"

Ke Xun's words are full of imagination and unreality, but they fit perfectly with the world in the painting, forming a true story with rich pictures and text.

Sha Liu's voice was full of tremors: "If the ground is really broken, what will happen to us?"

No one has answered this question, no one can answer it.

In the end, Mu Yiran said: "Before breaking the ground, the tops of the floors will be completely gathered together, and those of us inside will be completely trapped and completely isolated from the outside air-the breaking ground is not set up for us, we are just funeral objects in it .”

"No, no," Sha Liu took two steps back, "What about now, what should we do now? It will be night soon, and the ghost of 307 is about to come out!"

Mu Yiran looked at the watch on his wrist: "Four o'clock, we still have time, try our best to collect graffiti works in the building, no matter what kind of carrier the paintings are on, we must find a way to collect them! Maybe the seal It's in it."

"Okay!" Sha Liu was the first to leave, and the search before the night became a life-saving straw.

Everyone also dispersed separately, some went directly to find graffiti works, some communicated with other members, and then searched together.

When dinner was served after 6 o'clock in the evening, everyone still got nothing.

The concierge suddenly appeared in the restaurant and gave everyone a new instruction: "Stay well in your room tonight, don't go out."

The NPC suddenly changed the hard rules, or suddenly narrowed the scope of everyone's activities - they were not allowed to go out, which meant that they were not allowed to visit doors or stairs.

Xin Miao was the first to raise doubts: "Then what should I do when I go to the bathroom at night?"

"A bucket has been placed at the door of each of your houses. After eating, you can take them back to your house. You can settle them in the bucket at night." The porter said blankly.

Because the night fell again, many people were a little bit confused.

Because of the death of two companions, Qiu Lu was even more frightened: "If we don't let us go out, we won't even have a chance to escape! Once some monster breaks through the door, we will definitely die!"

But Sha Liu said: "It's really not possible, we can still jump out of the window."

Ke Xun frowned: "The result would be worse."

Sha Liu stared with red eyes: "It's better than being messed up!"

This sentence reminds everyone that the hunchbacked man in 307 is holding a porcelain basin in his hand, constantly stirring the stuffing inside.