Ke Xun squatted beside the dead pheasant. Opposite him were Zhu Haowen, Shao Ling, and Qin Ci. The three of them also squatted here and carefully observed the pheasant.
Ke Xun pushed the pheasant's body with his hand. Zhu Haowen, Shao Ling and Qin Ci, who were "over there", saw that the body suddenly shook, Qi Qi jumped up in shock, and took a few steps back cautiously to stare at it.
-efficient!
Seeing the hope, Ke Xun immediately became full of energy. He picked up the pheasant's body, broke the pheasant's legs with both hands, and placed it on the deck in a split-split posture.
Mu Yiran: "..."
Zhu Haowen: "..."
Qin Ci: "..."
Shao Ling: "..."
Luo Yu said from a distance: "..."
"...It seems that there is an invisible force playing with it." Shao Ling said hesitantly.
"... Could it be the invisible things in the sea?" Qin Ci guessed uncertainly.
"Are there so two of those things?" Zhu Haowen pointed at the dead pheasant's standard one-word horse with his chin.
Qin Ci and him looked at each other and saw the light of disbelief and hope in each other's eyes.
The three of them stared at the dead pheasant, not knowing what to do for a moment.
Ke Xun didn't want to waste time, so he dipped his fingers in the blood from the pheasant's head and wrote on the deck.
However, the color of the deck was darker. He wrote a few words and found that the three people did not notice it. He had to stop and think about it. He pulled out the long tail feathers of the pheasant and put them behind his ears. got one.
Zhu Haowen looked at the height of the two feathers and the distance between them, and suddenly said, "Ke Xun, is that you?"
Ke Xun nodded quickly, two feathers swaying back and forth with his head.
"It's really you, Xiao Ke?!" Qin Ci, who has always been calm, was also rarely happy, "Where's Xiao Mu?"
Ke Xun plucked a feather from behind his ear and pointed the pointed feather root to where Mu Yiran was standing.
"What happened?" Shao Ling asked, "Can you talk?"
Ke Xun shook his head.
"So, what about writing? I'll go get the bamboo slips and ink?" Shao Ling said.
Ke Xun shook his head, pointed at the dead pheasant on the ground with his feather, then pinched the feather, dipped in the pheasant's blood, and scratched a few times on the deck.
Zhu Haowen pointed the light of the mobile phone at the deck, and when he saw that there seemed to be some blood marks on it, he said, "I can't see clearly, just wait a minute."
Saying that, he tore off the hem of the white robe he was wearing and spread it on the deck: "Write it here."
Ke Xun dipped his feathers in blood, and when the tip of the bloody feather fell on the white robe, the white robe no longer turned into water waves, so he wrote: "Burning rhinoceros."
"Is it for us to light the rhino horns?" Zhu Haowen asked.
Ke Xun drew a "√" on the cloth.
Shao Ling immediately turned around and went to the central hall to get the rhinoceros horn, while Qin Ci went to wake up Wei Dong, who had fainted, and Luo Meng rubbed over step by step, stared at the void and asked, "Brother, are you invisible?"
"..." Ke Xun wrote on the cloth: (-_-).
Zhu Haowen: "..."
Luo Yan: "When did you still play with emojis? My brother cried to death. What happened to you and my brother-in-law? Why can't I see you? Are you all right? Have you found the seal? Will you be invisible in the future?"
"This guy is talking too much." Ke Xun was depressed and wrote on the cloth: shat up!
Luo Yao: "Brother, you spelled 'shut' wrong."
Ke Xun: "..."
Zhu Haowen: "..."
Shao Ling took all the rhino horns to the deck. Wei Dong followed Qin Ci back with swollen eyes. Shao Ling asked Ke Xun, "Do you want to light it with a mobile phone or do we order it yourself?"
"Mobile phone." Ke Xun wrote, "Order one first and test it."
Everyone understood what he meant. It was necessary to order one for a test first. As for what to try, it is still unclear.
Shao Ling was about to take out his mobile phone, but Zhu Haowen took a step forward, almost impatiently igniting the rhino horn with his own mobile phone.
The bright light illuminated a small area around the body, and the people standing cautiously outside the light all looked at the position where the two feathers were floating, and saw the intersection of light and shadow, and slowly revealed two slender and straight lines. The figure is exactly Ke Xun and Mu Yiran.
"Ke'er!" Wei Dong roared, jumping up and hugging his lost brother.
Ke Xun hugged him tightly, then pushed him away: "You snot all rubbed against my face! Hurry up and get down to business first—wait." After speaking, he strode over and touched Shao Linghuai with his hand first. The rhinoceros horn that was not ignited, found that he could finally touch people and objects. In order to confirm it again, he went to get the bamboo slips thrown on the ground, "Okay, I'm back!"
"What's going on, is it related to killing the pheasant?" Shao Ling asked Xiang Mu Yiran.
Mu Yiran quickly and briefly explained the whole story to several people, and then said: "Hurry up and try to find the seal before dawn."
Everyone knows the meaning of the words - no one died tonight, and if you can't find the seal before dawn, you will have to vote.
Shao Ling asked Xiang Mu Yiran and Ke Xun, "So, you two didn't see an illusion just now?"
Mu Yi said: "I speculate that only those who are illuminated by the light of the rhino horn are not affected by the illusion and can see the pheasant."
Shao Lingdao: "Then Li Yi who died on the first night, Xue Ge who died on the third night, and Fang Fei who died on the fourth night, didn't actually see any visions, so why did they die?"
"Could it be that the pheasants attacked them?" Qin Ci guessed.
"I don't think this ghost can kill a person with one blow," Ke Xun glanced at the pheasant's body on the deck. "If it can kill a person by attacking, why use an illusion? Even an illusion, it can also We can only be lured into the sea by temptation, and we cannot take the initiative to rely on entities to forcefully change our behavioral trajectory.”
Mu Yiran continued his words: "Li Yi, Xue Ge and Fang Fei, when they lit the rhinoceros horns, they should be like me and Ke Xun. They didn't see the illusion, but when they saw the pheasant, Fang Fei was able to shoot the pheasant. The tail feathers are an example.
"Since we presume that pheasants can't attack people with physical objects, then I think there are two possible reasons for the death of these three people. The first is that these three people are isolated in another space like me and Ke Xun. , unable to return to the world we are in now, and somehow lost his life when it was about to dawn.
"The second one is still to refer to the story of Niu Zhu burning the rhinoceros. In the story, Wen Qiao ignited the rhinoceros horn, causing the sea monsters to jump out of the sea and put out the rhinoceros horn fire. The mirage came from the sea and fell on the boat and turned into a pheasant. Are we It can be speculated that although the three people were not affected by the illusion when they ignited the rhino horn at the beginning, they were extinguished by the pheasant. Although the pheasant could not attack us, the story of Niuzhu burning the rhino was used as a reference, which proved that it could extinguish the rhino flame- Then after it puts out the rhino fire, the three people can be re-imagined, so it is very likely that these three people still died of the illusion."
After listening to Mu Yiran's analysis, everyone nodded in unison.
"So, what do you think caused you and Mr. Ke to be isolated in another dimension?" Shao Ling asked, "After the pheasant was killed by you, you are still in another dimension, so this shouldn't be done by the pheasant. Yes, then who, or what did it do?"
"—Is there any other ghosts in the sea besides pheasants?" Wei Dong shivered, and Luo Meng next to him shivered.
"Before killing the pheasant, I did hear many other strange sounds in the sea." Ke Xun said.
"This means... We have to kill everything in the sea before we can find clues?" Wei Dong and Luo Yu looked desperate.
Mu Yiran lowered his eyes and pondered, then raised his eyes to look at everyone after a while: "In fact, after the darkness of every night, all of us are actually in another dimension, isn't it?"
Everyone's eyes were all together, as if they had grasped the key point, but they couldn't figure it out for a while.
Fortunately, they have Mu Yiran.
"More precisely, each of us is in a different space," Mu Yiran continued in a slow and clear voice, "It's not just one different space, but there are several different spaces. Pheasant uses These different dimensions isolate us separately, and then cooperate with the illusions it creates to trap and kill us. Then the question comes, if the different dimensions are created by pheasants, why is the different dimension that isolates me and Ke Xun still after killing it. Existence? If the alien space is not made by the pheasant, why can it use the alien space at will to isolate us?"
"Is there any other ghost in the sea that cooperates with it at any time?" Wei Dong guessed.
"Or, the space it created does not disappear due to its death, and can still exist?" Zhu Haowen said.
Mu Yiran looked at him: "We have presumed that the illusions we experience every night are transformed by mirages. Since the mirages are condensed by the spirits of thousands of years, it is not so easy to say that they are scattered, so we can continue. For a while, I think that's right."
"So what do you mean, whether it's the space we were isolated when we experienced the illusion, or the space that you and Ke Xun were isolated after killing the pheasant, it was all created by the pheasant?" Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran, "But One thing I need to remind Mr. Mu, we cannot see, hear and feel each other in the isolated space when we experience the hallucinations, but according to the situation you just described with Mr. Ke, you can see and hear How can this be explained in the space we are in?"
Mu Yiran was about to speak when he heard Ke Xun say, "Shao Ling, are you doubting me and Yiran?"
After hearing the words, everyone became silent, and all looked at Shao Ling and Ke Xun.
Shao Ling's expression did not change, and he looked at Ke Xun calmly: "Yes, I'm really sorry to say that, but given the nature of the death rule in this painting, it's hard for me not to suspect that the two of you are the embodiment of the upgraded illusion. , After all, the sky is not yet bright, and the night is not over yet. Isn't it?"
Ke Xun was speechless and laughed: "You know, you are clever but you are mistaken by wisdom."
Shao Ling was unmoved, still calm and indifferent: "I'm not smarter than others, I'm just more cautious."
"It's interesting," Ke Xun looked into his eyes with a half-smile, "It's hard for you to give absolute trust to such a cautious person, so I'm curious how you can have a completely trustworthy person who can put It is a friend who is in the hands of the other party. Mr. Shao, pardon me for a random guess: After the first night, the illusion you described to us was probably made up by you? In fact, you don't have such a friend at all. , the reason why you made up such a person is just to make yourself very loyal, so as to gain the trust of those of us - especially those new people who have just entered the painting and have no backbone. I guess again - In fact, you are a very controlling person, right? You don't like being controlled by others, and obviously we old members can't obey you, so you need to control the new people and let them do what you say. Of course, you can't just say that you are He is a bad person, and there are many people in life who have a strong desire to control, but I advise you, it is right to be cautious, but if you are too cautious, you will become suspicious, not only will you have no friends, but it is easy to make mistakes, really."
Shao Ling didn't speak again this time, his tight mouth showed that his mood at the moment was not as calm as the expression on his face showed.
Wei Dong asked Ke Xun quietly, "How do you know that his first night's experience was made up?"
Ke Xun snorted lightly: "You forgot, every night's illusions are based on the seven emotions of people, and the theme of the first night is 'love' in the seven emotions, but we didn't guess this at the time, so He made up a story with his friends, and after a few nights, he speculated that the hallucination was about the Seven Emotions. At that time, he had no way to change his mind. Fortunately, no one paid any attention to this matter anymore—who Is his 'love' with his own friends? He's not gay!"
Wei Dong looked at him: "You have been with the boss for a long time, and your combat effectiveness in terms of IQ has also increased rapidly, you are awesome!"
Ke Xun glanced at Shao Ling: "Doubt me, yes. Suspect my boss who worked so hard to help everyone find a way - no."