"Alas..." the old man sighed, "This year, the sky has been severely drought, the water in the well has bottomed out, and the villagers' fields are so dry that they are about to smoke, I am afraid that this year will be no harvest... The government has not only not yet The tax was reduced, but the tax was added. It's hard... How are you going to live this day... Alas!"
Listening to this, it is simply a typical ancient folk tale.
Mu Yiran asked in a low voice, "Which official is under the jurisdiction of the local area?"
The old man lowered his voice and replied, "The county magistrate."
The county magistrate is like no name, no matter how you ask, the old man's answer is only the word "county magistrate".
Ke Xunmu Yiran and Huang Pi wandered around the village again, but couldn't get more clues that seemed to be useful, so they inquired where the county government was, and rushed to that place as soon as possible. .
The county government is naturally in the county, and the buildings and scenery here are the same as the village just now, everywhere is dark and yellow.
Ke Xun inquired about the specific location of the county government all the way, and the three of them quickly shuttled between the houses until they followed the direction indicated by the last passerby and came to a house. I heard someone speak from the open window next to me: "Look at it, my lord."
Ke Xun was passing by the window, and when he heard the sound, he turned his head and looked into the window, only to see a man with the appearance of a literati with a moustache on his lips, holding a piece of drawing paper in his hand for another person to see.
The other person was wearing an official uniform and a black gauze hat on his head. Although the world was dark, he could still make out the red color of his official uniform.
Officer
Could this be the county magistrate whose name cannot be found
Ke Xunpa looked in at the window.
The literati held the painting in his hand and said to the county magistrate: "Sir, you are as evergreen as this pine tree, and you live forever!"
The county magistrate twisted his beard in satisfaction and laughed, "How dare you, how dare you."
Ke Xun turned his head to look at Mu Yiran: "What the hell is this, the window of the magistrate's room is open to the street, anyone passing by can take a look inside, do you think this is a bug in the painting or is it a clue left for us on purpose? "
Before Mu Yiran could answer, the people in the room had already heard the movement outside the window. The literati-like person pointed his finger at Ke Xun: "Who are you?"
Ke Xun cautiously took a half step back and cupped his hands: "I'm just passing by, by the way, let's take a look at the voice and smile of the county magistrate."
The literati walked to the window, looked out at Ke Xun, stretched out a finger and stroked the moustache on his lips, and said to Ke Xun with a sneering tone, "Honestly let go of yours. Go cow!"
After speaking, he stretched out his hand and closed the window sash with a "pop", and then he and the county magistrate's laughter came from inside.
Ke Xun turned around and looked at Mu Yiran with a puzzled face: "Do I look like a cow herder?"
Mu Yiran glanced at the two fluffy cat ears on his head, pursed his lips, looked away, and carefully looked at the surrounding environment, before opening his mouth after a while: "Let you go to herd the cows. This sentence, I think it should be a fixed line of NPC, of course, it may also be a clue, we can go to a cow to try."
The two did what they said, and strode away from the strange county office window, but did not notice the yellow skin behind, and glanced at the closed window with a blank expression.
However, cows are not easy to find. When they returned to the village just now, the three of them walked around for a while, but they did not see any farmer using cows to plow the land. Most of them were manpower. But then again, cows were very important labor in ancient times. Tools are even more expensive than slaves, and ordinary poor people cannot afford cattle.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the three decided to return to the house where they came from, and ran along the markings all the way. On the way, they suddenly heard a half-old child crying: "My sheep, my sheep, my sheep. Sheep my sheep..."
Looking at the sound, I saw a man who looked like a yachai was forcibly grabbing the lamb in the arms of a civilian child. How could that child be the opponent of the strong yachai? He was kicked to the ground and hugged. His sheep flew away.
Ke Xun: "...There are so many NPC scenes in this painting. Whether we can see it or not, we will act there ourselves."
The three did not stop because of this. It was getting dark, and it was important to save their lives.
Following the sign, he returned to the adobe house and pushed the tightly closed door. The door could still be opened. Ke Xun thought that according to the general routine, "Painting" would not allow them to return to the one when they came back. The room went - so, after dawn tomorrow, the three of them can choose to go to another world to find clues
Pushing the door and entering the room, seeing that Qin Ci Luo Wei and Li Yaqing had returned, and the others were still missing, Ke Xun couldn't help worrying about Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen, so he asked Xiang Qin Ci: "Brother Qin, you know that Dong Zi and the others chose Which door is it?"
Qin Ci shook his head: "We are the second group to go out, Xiaowei and the others should be behind us, but you don't have to worry, Haowen is a proper person, I think they should be on their way back."
Ke Xun took out his phone and checked the time, seeing that it was past seven o'clock in the evening, thinking that if the two of them hadn't come back by eight o'clock, he would go to the world they chose to find someone.
"Have you found any clues in that world?" Qin Ci asked Mu Yiran.
"Not yet." Mu Yiran briefly described the world they went to, and then asked Qin Ci if they had found anything.
Qin Ci's expression became strange, and he pondered for a while before slowly opening his mouth: "The world we went to... is too bizarre, and it subverts any previous painting. There... everything in it, whether it is buildings, trees, flowers, or even It's human, it's all... flat."
The cat ears on Ke Xun's head stood up sharply: "In a flat state? Describe it in detail."
"Two-dimensional." Luo Wei said calmly beside him, "We are like entering a two-dimensional world, but this world is not two-dimensional in the true sense, the real two-dimensional has no thickness, the world's The scenery and people still have a certain thickness, about... as thick as a sheet of paper."
"For example," Qin Ci continued, "it's a bit like paper-cutting. All the people are like paper-cutters. Houses, scenery, and even water are all cut out of paper."
Ke Xun was dumbfounded, and the tip of the cat's ears trembled: "It's really quite bizarre, even weirder than the world we went to... Are those scenery and people colored?"
"Yes, not only there, but also very bright colors." Qin Ci said, "The people inside are wearing old clothes, a bit like the dress of the late Qing Dynasty."
Ke Xun scratched his head and looked at Mu Yiran: "This painting seems to be a bit messy, the two worlds that the two groups of us entered are not only different in style, but also in different historical periods. The one we entered should be The background before the Qing Dynasty.”
Mu Yi nodded and listened to Qin Ci continue to say: "After we entered, we were in a fishing village, surrounded by fishermen, we circled the whole village twice, but found no clues, so we had to search from house to house. , time is tight, only seven or eight have been checked, and a large part has not been found, we plan to continue to check tomorrow."
As he was talking, he saw Weidong Zhu Haowen bring Zhao Haicui, a girl with a haircut, and Zhang Lifeng, who had chosen two longan nuclear props, pushed the door into the house.
"How's it going?" Ke Xun asked.
Zhu Haowen and Wei Dong stared at him together.
"...Why?" Ke Xun didn't know why, "Look at me, I have the word 'handsome' growing on my face?"
Zhu Haowen: "..."
Wei Dong: "...I swear I heard you 'meow' just now!"
Ke Xun had a black question mark on his face: "...Are you crazy? I only said three words, what, what, like, these three words."
"Boss," Wei Dong turned his head to look at Mu Yiran, "To be fair, did Ke'er meow first before asking questions?"
Mu Yiran frowned slightly, confirming that what Wei Dong said was true, and Ke Xun was even more confused. Don't he know what he said out of his mouth? He didn't think he had a "meow", what kind of ghosts are these.
Scratching his head, Ke Xun put the weird question aside and asked Xiang Weidong and Zhu Haowen, "Don't talk about anything else, tell me if you have found any clues, meow?"
Everyone: "… "
Seeing Ke Xun's ignorant look on his face, and everyone stopped talking about it, Zhu Haowen replied, "The world we entered is very weird, and all the animals are anthropomorphic."
Ke Xun was startled: "Shouldn't we go back to the painting of "Animal World" again?!"
Zhu Haowen said: "It shouldn't be, all the animals are of normal size, there is no animal as big as the giant bull in that painting, and... all animals can speak human language, and they wear the same clothes as humans, that's why I say All animals are anthropomorphic."
"This is really bizarre... Meow." Ke Xun said.
Everyone: "..." Are you the most bizarre
"We searched in this world for a while and found that it seems to be a world without humans and with normal social order," Zhu Haowen continued, "but we have never found any relevant clues..."
Before he could finish speaking, Wei Dong took him over and said, "I was almost caught by a group of cats and walked into the detention center."
"What's the matter, meow?" Ke Xun asked hurriedly.
Wei Dong glanced at Zhao Haicui, who was standing beside her with an ugly face, and snorted, "It's not because of this elder sister, she saw a talking animal yelling, which seriously disturbed the public order. The cat in the service rushed out from the side and was about to grab us, so I dragged her and pretended to be a hillbilly who just entered the city for a long time, and then I let us go."
Qin Ci frowned: "Three doors, three completely different worlds, what exactly does the theme of this painting want to express? Is the world inside the remaining three doors completely different from these three worlds? "
"What's the name of this painting?" Wei Dong asked.
Everyone looked at each other in dismay. Before entering the painting, they only looked at Luo Wei, but they didn't pay attention for a while.
Only Mu Yiran said, "The name of the work is "Pure Land", and the artist is Mirren."
"Pure Land? Is this painting related to religion again?" Wei Dong shuddered, the psychological shadow left by the painting "Faith" has not dissipated until now.
"But the painting styles of the three worlds are too different, and there is no sense of religion at all." Qin Ci said.
"Yan Ran, do you understand this meow Mirren?" Ke Xun asked.
Wei Dong: "...Are you sure you didn't mean to call people a meow?"
Ke Xunbai glanced at him: "I mean 'people'."
"It's over..." Wei Dong whispered to Zhu Haowen while Ke Xun and Mu Yiran were talking, "Ke'er is confused, it must be the weird world they entered, what should I do? Feeling! Do you think he can only talk about cats in the end?! It's too scary!"
"Think of a way." Zhu Haowen looked solemn, ignored Wei Dong, and lowered his eyes into thought.