"Don't scare me!" Wei Dong Luo Xun and Wu You attacked Ke Xun in unison.
"I mean, let everyone decide whether to stay in the house at night or outside the house." Ke Xun pointed out the window, "It will be dark soon."
Tension suddenly came to everyone's mind, this question really made people tangled, after thinking for a while, Shao Ling said: "Since it is customary to stay outside than staying in the house, it is more dangerous, then I think we should stay In the house."
Wei Dong also nodded: "Although staying in the house may not be able to escape the attack of the behind-the-scenes forces, but thinking about the paintings of "Bai Shi" and "Faith", you may not be able to live in the house. Come down, but if you stay outside, you will die, so even if the house is not safe, we have no choice, don't we?"
There was no objection, and they unanimously decided to stay in the house at night.
Wei Dong and Luo Meng were still worried that there would be zombies appearing at night, so Zhang Luo reinforced all the doors and windows of the house. At this time, Qin Ci came out of the living room, sweating all over his clothes. Soggy.
When everyone asked about Xiao Kai's situation, Qin Ci shook his head: "If we can't leave this painting as soon as possible, his situation is quite dangerous."
"Take a break and drink some water," Ke Xun handed him a glass of plant juice, told him the clues everyone had just summarized, and then asked him, "Have you found anything else here?"
Qin Ci took a few sips of water and moistened his throat before saying, "As for the cause of Xiao Kai's disease, I don't think it's caused by infrasound waves.
"When I wiped his body with alcohol just now, I found that he was bitten by a mosquito on the back of his neck. I have seen many cases of viral infection caused by mosquito bites, usually showing symptoms of malaria, and Xiao Kai The symptoms are similar to those of malaria.
"However, it can only be said to be similar, because the body sensation of malaria patients is chills all over the body, a sharp increase in body temperature, severe headache, and intractable vomiting. I asked Xiao Kai, and the latter three are all in line, but he did not I felt chills all over, which puzzled me.
"The problem now is that without the corresponding medical equipment, it is impossible to check the internal condition of his body. Only from the perspective of the surface state, he is now continuing to have a high fever, which is likely to cause some complications. However, I think he can basically be ruled out. This speculation that the symptoms are caused by infrasound waves."
"If that's the case, then we need to be careful," Ke Xun said. "Mosquitoes are hard to guard against. It's best for everyone to cover the exposed skin with clothes."
"It's not too hot to die. We don't have much water to drink now," Wei Dong said. "I think it's better to find out if there are mosquito coils or the like in the house."
"Okay, before it's completely dark, I'll go to the house next door to find it, just in case it's not here." Ke Xun said, opened the door and ran out.
Gu Qingqing stared at his back, murmured: "He's so daring..." One person dared to go to the blood-stained terrifying and dark house to rummage for things.
Finally, before it got completely dark, everyone found some things that can remove mosquitoes, such as mosquito coils and toilet water. Although I don't know how long it has expired, something is better than nothing.
The smell of toilet water is already very weak, everyone still wiped some on their bare skin, and then lit mosquito coils in every corner of the room. Several girls even collected some relatively thin sheets and quilts. It is used to wrap around the body, at least thinner than the winter clothes you wear.
Every night in the painting is extraordinarily difficult, not only waiting for the arrival of unknown and unpredictable horrors, but also facing the death of himself or his companions.
"Do you need to move Xiao Kai from the living room to the atrium?" Shao Ling asked Qin Ci.
After all, when everyone gets together, they feel psychologically safer than being alone.
Qin Ci thought for a while and said, "If Xiao Kai is suffering from malaria, then we don't have to worry about direct infection. We can move him out, but it's better to keep some distance from us for safety."
So he moved the sofa in the atrium to a corner of the atrium, and let Xiao Kai lie on it, keeping a certain distance from where everyone was sitting.
Xiao Kai's face was ugly, pale and weak, sometimes in a coma and sometimes awake.
Tian Yang kept beside him, his brows furrowed and his face solemn, until he heard Xiao Kai's painful and weak moan again, he couldn't help standing up, came over and called Ke Xun.
Ke Xun followed him to another corner, stood still and looked at him: "What?"
"Can... ask them to help find a way?" Tian Yang seemed to be a little difficult when he said these words.
"You can also see the current environment," Ke Xun said, "If there was a way, it would have been used long ago. The only thing everyone can do now is to try to use their brains to find clues. The sooner he can leave, the more his life can be saved."
"How to find clues?" Tian Yang asked, "Now that night falls, everyone can only wait to die."
"Yes, you can only wait to die." Ke Xun looked at him blankly, "When you are waiting to die, all you can do is to face it calmly, but this does not guarantee that you will survive."
Tian Yang looked at him and was silent for a long time. Seeing that Ke Xun was ready to turn and leave, he whispered, "Ke'er, you have changed a lot."
"After so many years, people will change." Ke Xunyu said calmly.
"He... is he good to you?" Tian Yang tilted his head slightly, his eyes fell on Mu Yiran who was sitting there.
He didn't pay attention to this side, but just sat there quietly, with his eyes lowered, as if he was concentrating on thinking without distractions. He seldom said anything about Ke Xun's actions, and Ke Xun didn't seem to worry about whether it would make him misunderstood. .
The relationship between the two of them... is not that close yet, or is it...
"In what capacity are you asking me this question?" Ke Xun raised his eyebrows, "Old classmate or ex-boyfriend?"
Tian Yang was silent for a while.
"You know," Ke Xun pointed to Xiao Kai lying over there, "if both of you can make a painting alive this time, you'd better make it clear with him—I heard that you got married shortly after graduating from college. , a buddy of mine and your daughter-in-law are classmates. A few months ago, I heard that your daughter-in-law also posted a pregnancy test stick in the circle of friends. Is she pregnant? So you are lonely again, and you have a man , to satisfy your suppressed and desperately hidden true sexual orientation? Tian Yang, you have done this kind of thing once or twice, how long do you want to be a scumbag?"
"I'm not the same as you," Tian Yang looked into Ke Xun's eyes with tangled and pained eyes, "I'm not like you... I have a family and a circle of relatives, I'm not as tolerant as you are, so I don't have to think about it. Parents' tolerance and acceptance, I... I have to be responsible for my parents, I can't let them down and suffer..."
"What kind of 'ghost' are you to say such a thing?" Ke Xun smiled without a smile in his eyes, "If you want to be responsible, don't hurt others, here you are married to a woman, and there you are married to a man. You know, it's because there are gays like you who cheat on marriage, and the same-sex group has been criticized more. It's already very difficult for people like us to gain a foothold in society, and you are at our feet again. On the brazier. Tian Yang, don't act like how affectionate you are for Xiao Kai, is it disgusting?"
Tian Yang lowered his eyelids and said nothing. He groped for a while with one hand, took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, and was about to order one when he heard Ke Xun say, "If you want to smoke, get out and smoke."
Tian Yang paused, lowered his hand, looked up at him, and smiled a little wistfully: "You're still the same as before, you don't like the smell of smoke."
"I don't like the smell of scum more than the smell of cigarettes." Ke Xun waved his hand in front of his nose, then turned and walked away.
Tian Yang stood there for a while until he heard Xiao Kai retching on the sofa, he quickly walked over to help him up and patted his back lightly.
Qin Ci also went to see him and fed him a cup of water boiled with willow skin.
Xiao Kai retched for a long time before he finally stopped, and was helped by Tian Yang to lie back on the sofa again, falling into a state of fainting and waking again, Tian Yang frowned, staring at Xiao Kai's ugly face in a daze.
Without medical equipment and drugs, Qin Ci had no choice but to bring the alcohol and continue to physically cool Xiao Kai.
The rest of the people sat further away and continued to hurry up and ponder clues.
"If Xiao Kai's symptoms were caused by mosquito bites, would this be the real rule of death?" Shao Ling said.
"So, there are a lot of flies in those blood-stained rooms, and maybe there are mosquitoes that carry germs." Zhu Haowen said, "I think we need to prepare a few more bedspreads, quilts and other things, in case we arrive. At the most sensitive time of night, a large number of flies and mosquitoes attack us, and we may not be able to defend ourselves."
Everyone agreed with this statement, and hurriedly scoured all the clothes or fabrics that could resist mosquitoes from the closet, and divided several pieces for each person.
Then came the most difficult period of "waiting before death". All clues belonged to speculation without a head and no tail. Only death can give them a prefix or a follow-up.
This is the cruelest part of painting, but those who enter the painting can only be at the mercy of them.
Using a pot to burn a fire from dead branches, this large and small hall is lit up and down, but the world outside the window has no light at all, as if it was covered by a very thick and very dark cloth, even almost even. Air can't get in.
Ke Xun tried his best to look out of the window, but all he saw was a disturbing darkness, not even a trace of the neighbor's house that was close at hand.
The time on the phone finally entered 23:00 amidst everyone's helplessness and reluctance.
The fire in the pot was still burning, making a rattling sound. Everyone held their breaths, quietly listening and feeling the movement around them. Everyone's nerves were tense to the extreme. In the suffocated dilapidated and gray house, a distorted muffled sound suddenly sounded, and everyone's eyes were swept in the direction of the source of the sound, but they saw Xiao Kai sitting up from the sofa suddenly, struggling to go to the ground.
Tian Yang, who was sitting beside him, quickly supported him and asked anxiously, "Xiao Kai, what's the matter? What's wrong?"
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