Paintings of Terror

"The "Book of Rites" says: Pheasants enter the water as a mirage, and "Sou Shen Ji" also mentioned: The thousand-year-old pheasant enters the sea as a mirage." Mu Yiran picked up the long feather, "The pheasant lived for a thousand years. , You can enter the sea and turn into a mirage. We have all heard of the term mirage. The ancients had different interpretations of the term mirage.

"The mirage is interpreted as a clam in the "Shanhai Jing Zhu", and the mirage is interpreted as a scorpion in the "Materia Medica". It is said to be like a snake and large, with horns like a dragon, a red hyena, and the scales below the waist are inverted, eating swallow . Can breathe into the shape of a tower and city, see the rain, the name is a mirage, and it is also called the sea.

"The ancients believed that the mirage was the result of a mirage, and the illusion that appeared in the misty clouds was considered to be the place where the gods lived, so it led to the historical event that Emperor Qin Shihuang sent people to the sea to find the magic medicine of the fairy mountain.

"So from this point of view, everything we have experienced is traceable. The ship we are on is a ship sent by the Emperor Qin to seek immortality overseas. While sailing on the sea, we encountered the optical phenomenon of a mirage. However, in the ancients ——Or in the painter’s cognition, the mirage is a mirage, and the world in the painting is created according to the painter’s will and cognition, so what we encounter will not be ordinary optics Phenomenon, but illusion transformed by mirage.

"The illusion we experience every night should be the so-called mirage. The thousand-year-old pheasant enters the sea as a mirage. In the sea it is a mirage, so on land or on deck, the image it presents is the pheasant.

"In the story of Niu Zhu burning the rhinoceros, the gods and monsters in the sea are invisible to the naked eye. Although they can be seen after burning the rhinoceros, they will also cause the gods and monsters to be thrown out of the sea in an attempt to destroy the rhino.

"Burning a rhinoceros is an act of sabotaging the'yin and yang difference', which must be punished by gods and monsters, just like Wen Qiao in the story, so every night when we burn a rhino, at least one person will die.

"If the rhinoceros is not burnt, maybe someone will die from the illusion created by the mirage, and maybe it won't cause someone to die that night, but we can't escape the voter the next day, and we may not be able to find the signature.

"So, for the moment, we still need to light the rhino horns to find signatures tonight, but I think this may not be a mortal situation. Judging from Fang Fei's ability to shoot a pheasant's tail feathers, I guess, Pheasants can be killed..."

"I'm going to burn the rhinoceros tonight." Ke Xun suddenly said, staring at Mu Yiran calmly, "I'll kill."

"Don't be impulsive!" Wei Dong next to him was anxious. "Regardless of whether the pheasant could be killed or not, none of the people who lit the rhino horns survived! Who can guarantee that if you kill the pheasant, you will not die? As long as you light the rhino horns, you will die?——Big brother, please persuade him!"

Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun, raised his hand and stroked his head, and said, "I will be with you tonight."

Wei Dong: "...Is love blinding people?!"

"For the sake of insurance, we can still use mobile phones to ignite rhino horns," Mu Yiran said. "You should also be mentally prepared in advance, because we are not sure what the consequences will be after shooting the pheasants. My suggestion It’s best for everyone to stay together and move to the deck. Illusions can obliterate the space and distance. There is actually no difference between staying in the house and staying on the deck. It does not make us safer, but Ke Xun and I will try to Shoot and kill the pheasants on the deck. If you can find the signature at that time and everyone stays on the deck, you can leave the painting in time."

After hearing this, everyone nodded.

"Is it really useful to shoot to death?" Luo Ling looked at the boundless sea, "What if it becomes a big clam and can't be shot with an arrow?"

"Regarding the question of what the mirage's body is," Mu Yiran said, "I am more inclined to say that it is a Jiao. Even the "Journey to the West" that we are familiar with has such a paragraph. Monkey King once said to Tang Seng, There are many monsters and demons on the western roads, kindness can enlighten the village house. No matter the towers, houses, pavilions and pavilions, they can all refer to and coax people.'Nine kinds of dragons', there is a kind of famous mirage. The mirage shines, Just like the pavilion shallow pond-here also think that the mirage is a genus.

"We have said before that Emperor Qin once shot giant sharks, thus starting Xu Fu’s second journey to the east. Shao Ling also mentioned the Qin Emperor’s Dream and the Sea God as recorded in "Historical Records: The First Emperor of Qin". Fighting, the interpretation of the dream is: kill the evil **** like the dragon, you can see the true god.

"Therefore, the mirage in this painting is almost in the form of a flood, and it is imperative to shoot it to find a breakthrough."

After these words, everyone had no objections, and they had nothing to do for a while, so they all found a place to rest and sleep.

Mu Yiran went to the kitchen to boil some hot water and gave Ke Xun a drink. Then he found a separate room and asked him to lie down on the couch. He sat next to him and patted his back until he looked at him sinkingly. Go to sleep.

Ke Xun fell asleep until mid-afternoon when he opened his eyes. When he opened his eyes, Mu Yiran was not in the house. He opened the door and went to the middle hall. Seeing everyone gathered there, Wei Dong said to him first: "The kitchen keeps you food. Well, eat first before coming here, anyway, we don’t have much important things to do here..."

"Who made the meal?" Ke Xun asked, his voice still hoarse.

"Everyone." Wei Dong's expression was hard to say. A group of big masters who don't know how to cook got together. You add a handful of firewood and I threw a vegetable. Anyway, it was messy to make a meal. , But it smells a bit...

Ke Xun went to the kitchen, and saw that there was still half-warm porridge left in the cooking pot, which was rotten into a lump of meat and vegetables, which was very appetizing.

But Ke Xun didn't pick it up, Sheng came out and filled his stomach, and then returned to the central hall.

There was really nothing to do for everyone. Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen were looking at the bamboo slips found from the captain's room, Weidong and Luo Ge sat in a daze, Mu Yiran and Shao Ling were discussing other possibilities where the signatures were.

Ke Xun took the bow and arrow and returned to the deck, ready to practice more. Mu Yiran also took the bow and arrow and followed to the deck.

The two of them stopped when it was getting dark and arranged the mechanism to light the rhino horns with their mobile phones. They all came to the deck together to prevent accidentally injuring their teammates by throwing arrows in the dark. Mu Yiran and Ke Xun stood by the ship. At the head position, the others stayed behind the boat.

The next time, there is only waiting.

As night fell, the fog on the sea became thicker and thicker. With the last glimmer of light, Mu Yiran turned his head to look at Ke Xun.

Ke Xun's expression was extremely calm. From his face, he could not see any emotional fluctuations, whether it was happiness, anger, sadness, or nervousness.

"Ke Xun," Mu Yiran whispered to him, "I hope you still remember, we are going to paint together."

Ke Xun turned his face, the last faint light of the sky disappeared in each other's eyes. In the darkness, Mu Yiran heard Ke Xun's voice with a slight smile: "Of course I remember, Yiran. I will never again Make my favorite person alone and sad."

The two did not shook each other's hands, but turned back to back, and tightened their bows and arrows.

Since we are going to paint together, we must try our best together, tonight, to get through the door.

I don't know how long it has passed in the darkness, the preset mechanism was activated, the mobile phone battery was detonated, and the fire light ignited the rhino horn.

Ke Xun calmly raised the bow and arrow in his hand.

Although the light of the rhino horn is bright, the range it can reach is limited. Ke Xun stood beside the rhino horn, looking around vigilantly, waiting for the appearance of the pheasant.

The waves rushed in the darkness, and the sound seemed dull and stagnant under the cover of dense fog. However, if you listen carefully, under the dull and thick sound of the waves, it seems that there are many small and weird sounds noisy.

These sounds are densely packed, crowded, squeaky and noisy. They sound like they are scraping bones with a dull file, and they make people’s scalp explode.

This large group of unbearably unpleasant sounds seemed to accumulate in the depths of the sea, but it seemed to be slowly surging from the depths and floating towards the sea.

This group of sound is getting closer and closer to the sea, noisy and finer, until it suddenly seems to have broken through the barrier of the sea, the entire volume burst out instantly, exploded on the sea, and the harsh sound penetrated The eardrums pierce directly into the brain, almost severing people's nerves.

Ke Xun gritted his teeth, did not cover his ears to block the nerve-wrenching sound, but steadily held the bow in his hand, motionless in place.

This group of sharp and creepy sounds almost resounded across the vast ocean surface, and seemed to be refracted by the water waves, making the volume more infinitely amplified.

This unbearable sound seems to have no end and no end, continuously stimulating ear drums and brain nerves. I don't know how much time has passed. If you change someone else, you may have collapsed long ago, but Ke Xun still clenched the bow and arrow in his hand, motionless.

Suddenly, the sound came to an abrupt end, and an empty silence was entered between the sky and the sea. After a long period of noise stimulation, this silence appeared unusually abrupt and made the chest feel stuffy.

The sound of the thick sea waves squirmed slowly, making the suffocation more like a pile of boulders pressing on the chest, making it hard to breathe every time.

This painful and difficult feeling went through a long period of time. Just when the breastbone seemed to be crushed by the dullness, the end of the deck suddenly heard the familiar "crunch" sound.

Ke Xun stared at the direction where the sound came from, there was a darkness deeper than the night.

Crunch, crunch, crunch.

The sound was not hurried, with a sense of superiority as the top power of the chain of life and death, and a sneer at the top of the chain of life and death, as well as the scornful ridicule that can manipulate life at will, and walked casually towards the burning side of the rhino horn.

Crunchy, little by little, getting closer and closer.

At the edge of the range illuminated by the burning light of rhino horns, a sharp bird's claw silently protruded from the darkness and fell into the ambiguity of light and shadow.

Ke Xun held his breath and stared at it without blinking.

This claw fell on the intersection of darkness and light, and it didn't move for a long time. It seemed to be waiting for the nerves of the person who feared it to break first, and it seemed to be waiting for people to relax after a long period of high tension.

Finally, it seemed to think that the time had come, and slowly, poked its head out of the dense and dead darkness.

The colorful bird head ghosts generally appear in the flickering light of the burning rhino horns, tilting their heads slightly, revealing a long narrow eye with a weird smile.

Are you laughing at fragile humans, or are you proud of your own masterpiece?

In the light of the rhino horn, a sneer really sounded, and a sharp arrow flew out of the light with this sneer, which instantly penetrated the bird's head, both ruthless and accurate.

The bitter screams exploded in the interlacing of light and darkness, fog and shadow, Ke Xun walked out of the light and shadow with a bow, the corners of his lips sneered before it faded, and his eyes fell coldly in the direction where the bird fell, word by word Verbally: "I said, I will kill you."