Paintings of Terror

Wei Dong and Dong Dong's expressions changed at the same time, Wei Dong muttered: "I don't really want to go to that kind of place..."

"I'll go." Ke Xun said, "I'll think of a way first, then you go to the administrator's room, and I'll go to the slaughter room and food processing room."

Mu Yiran finally took a look at him, and said in a low voice: "We can only go during the daytime when the wind is blowing. At that time, there are no cows on the lawn, and no cows will notice what we are doing outside. But the important issue is that the cows It is likely to be in the administrator's room, and we need to take a lot of risks to get in."

"So what do you mean?" Qin Ci asked.

"Lead the cattle out of the administrator's room." Mu Yiran said, "I will do this."

In view of the urgency of time, Mu Yiran still carried out a division of labor for tomorrow's action.

Qin Ci and Dong Dong were responsible for searching the administrator's room, Ke Xun and Weidong were in charge of the slaughter room, and Mu Yiran and Zhu Haowen were in charge of the food processing room.

After discussing the plan for tomorrow, everyone lived in a corner and stopped talking.

Before tomorrow comes, we have to go through tonight's death selection first. Maybe after tonight, tomorrow's three groups of people will lose one or even a few companions in Mali, and the plan will never keep up with the changes.

The people inside the painting had finished eating and drinking, and stayed in the corner of the cubicle obediently. No one dared to come forward to find fault with the people outside the painting like those stunned youths yesterday. Only Mo Kui used it from time to time Yin Wu sized up Mu Yiran, as if he was always seeking to counter usurp the throne.

Mu Yiran didn't look at him at all, just closed his eyes and rested his mind, but Ke Xun stood in the corner and looked up.

To put it bluntly, these compartments are like pig pens in a pig farm, with pigs locked in grids one by one, surrounded on all sides, with the top exposed, for the pigs to feed food from above.

This "circle of people" is also surrounded on all sides, with brick walls on two sides and the back wall of the entire farmhouse on one side, reaching as high as the roof, with windows embedded in the walls and iron bars embedded in the windows.The other side is the iron fence door, the upper part of the door is also a brick wall, which is flush with the brick walls on both sides. On the lower part of the iron fence, there is a door wide for one person that can be opened and closed for people to enter and exit.

Ke Xun observed around, walked up to Mu Yiran, and lowered his voice: "I think this painting is different from the previous ones. The previous ones are about gods, ghosts and ghosts. ’ or inhuman power, so we can’t move around at night, and there are always various situations that restrict our actions, such as suffocating people if we go out of the prescribed range. But this painting, I feel different."

Mu Yiran lowered his eyes, thinking while listening to him.

"In this painting, the animals are the absolute masters. In other words, it is the 'humans' in this world. Since they are 'humans', they will choose us for death. Does that mean that , they are already the kind of absolute power that has the right to choose in this painting? Above them, will there be no higher power to dominate our destiny?"

When Ke Xun finished speaking, Mu Yiran raised his eyes, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"If they are 'human' in this world, it means that they only have 'human' power and no divine power. Just like us in the real world, the advantages for animals only lie in size, strength, height difference and intelligence," Ke said. Xun continued, "But after all, this is a painting created by human beings, and it cannot be absolutely replaced, so we still have human wisdom here, and we can still walk upright and free our hands. Here, the difference between us and them is only in size. Height and strength, if there are no indescribable strengths, can it prove that..."

Speaking of this, Ke Xun leaned into Mu Yiran's ear and said softly: "In this painting, as long as there is no restriction on personal freedom, we can walk around at night?"

Mu Yiran's long and slightly curled eyelashes fluttered under Ke Xun's eyes. Ke Xun sat up straight and moved a few inches to the side.

Mu Yiran didn't pay attention to his small movements, but just moved his eyes to scan the cubicle, and finally landed on the corner between the two walls.

"You can try it." He responded.

Ke Xun smiled, scratched his nose with his fingertips, and added a few more words in a low voice: "Actually, I think the places mentioned just now that you can't go, but you might actually be able to go" except the administrator's room, Butchery and food processing room, and one more."

Mu Yiran finally shifted his gaze to his face.

The distance between the two was still a little close, so that suddenly they looked at each other like this, and everything on each other's faces was clearly presented in each other's eyes.

The eyes met a little suddenly, Mu Yiran seemed to lose his guard, and turned his head away quickly.

Ke Xun also turned his head, took a deep breath silently, and then said: "Outside the farm. Maybe outside the farm, we can also go, as long as we find a way to get out."

"You're right." Mu Yiran said calmly.

Then the two stopped talking and sat side by side in silence.

Oddly and fortunately, none of the cattle came to pick who to kill until the giant cattle came to wash down the stalls and pack up and leave the farmhouse.

"What's the situation? Is there really going to be a vote tomorrow?" Wei Dong leaned over in surprise and asked in a low voice.

Ke Xun also couldn't understand that voting required all the surviving outsiders to vote together, but the male and female farmhouses were separated, so would there be a special section to lock everyone together before voting?

Mu Yiran thought for a while, and asked Ke Xun: "Among the five off-screen women, are there any older ones?"

Ke Xun scratched his head: "I didn't look carefully, I turned my back to them the whole time, let me think about it."

Mu Yiran stopped talking, and waited silently until Ke Xun spoke again: "Yes, I recalled their voices, and one of them sounds like he must be around 50 or [-] years old."

Mu Yi paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "Then maybe it's not that the bulls didn't choose to die tonight, but it's just that they didn't choose in the men's house."

"You mean...they chose a woman?" Wei Dong was a little scared and embarrassed.

"And it's probably the 50-50-year-old eldest sister." Ke Xun understood Mu Yiran's meaning, "Young women are kept to breed and breed, and older women are no longer worth raising. They can't wait until they are too old to chew their flesh, so at the age of four or fifty...killing is already the limit they can wait."

The crowd fell silent for a while.

After the silence, I have to say that I felt more relaxed, at least I knew that my life was saved tonight.

In the middle of the night, the whole farmhouse was completely quiet, except for the repeated snoring, no one could hear anyone talking, and several people in the same house had already fallen asleep, even Weidong Zhu Haowen had already fallen asleep. He started to close his eyes and doze off, but Mu Yiran stood up quietly at this moment.

Ke Xun, who was always watching him, also stood up and asked him in a low voice, "What are you going to do?"

Mu Yiran also lowered his voice, and pointed to the angle between the two walls: "I have practiced rock climbing, and I want to try to climb up from here, and turn outside to have a look."

"I'm with you." Ke Xun said without hesitation.

Mu Yiran glanced at him: "Don't be arrogant, this wall is too high. If you haven't practiced it specially, you are afraid of missing, and you are afraid of losing your strength later on. Falling down is not a joke."

Ke Xun smiled: "Don't underestimate me. When I was in school, my physical strength dared to be the second in the whole department. No one dared to be the first. After graduation, I haven't stopped exercising until now. You don't have to worry about my physical strength. As for whether I will miss it , that depends on you, you are in the front, I am in the back, I will pick wherever you pick, as long as you don’t miss, I won’t miss.”

Mu Yiran didn't say any more, he knew that Ke Xun would not compromise on this kind of matter, and he would not rest assured that he would take the risk alone.

He took him to the corner, gave him a quick introduction to rock climbing skills in a low voice, and then realized that Ke Xun is indeed a student of the Department of Physical Education, and he really has an extraordinary talent for sports. After a little talk, he can immediately comprehend and even draw inferences from one instance.

After the explanation, Mu Yiran woke up Qin Ci, who was in a daze, and told him his plan in a low voice, and asked Qin Ci to help keep an eye on them—mainly on the people in the painting , if someone wakes up and finds that he and Ke Xun are not in the cubicle, if the shouting starts to attract the giant bull, the matter will be serious.

Mu Yiran asked Qin Ci to act according to circumstances, but he couldn't do it, so he knocked him unconscious with a knife.

Qin Ci was speechless for a moment.

Even if he was a doctor, he wouldn't dare to chop a knife into the back of someone's neck. He was not as bold as Ke Xun, and if he didn't do it well, he could kill someone. He is a doctor, and he saves people, not kills them. He also understood the importance of this matter, if he didn't do it, they, the outsiders, would die, so he agreed.

When Mu Yiran was about to start rock climbing, Ke Xun regretted it.

He had to look up and watch him climb to know where his hand and foothold were.

But when he raised his head, the scene he saw made his whole body flustered all of a sudden. This is so... it's just... ah...

At this time, Ke Xun sincerely admires Mu Yiran.

This person really can be upright, open and poised in any situation and in any situation. He doesn't do unnecessary things, has no extra thoughts, can respond to changes at any time, and is as firm as iron.

Ke Xun silently sang the national anthem several times in his heart, and then climbed up with a solemn face.

Mu Yiran didn't climb fast. In order to take care of Ke Xun's speed, he stopped and looked down from time to time to judge whether he still had the ability to keep up.

Apparently Ke Xun was extremely reassuring in this regard. When he climbed halfway to the height, Mu Yiran saw that his fingers between the cracks of the bricks were still as stable as before, so he couldn't help but feel relieved and continued to climb up.

It took the two of them more than 20 minutes to finally climb to the top of the high wall. Standing on the top of the wall and looking around, the whole farmhouse has appeared in front of their eyes. The tall and spacious houses are neatly partitioned in two rows. There are huge brooms, tables and chairs placed in the corner of the room, and there is a strange feeling of coming to the giant country.

The two looked carefully at the moonlight outside the window. Ke Xun found the way out first, and pointed to the wall close to the roof—there was a vent there, which was big enough for a human figure to get out!