At this moment, Xiao Kai suddenly twitched, and his back fell forward as if his back was suddenly broken. He slammed his head into Tian Yang's chest, and then vomited a huge amount of black blood from his mouth. It was as thick as asphalt, and it was continuously sprayed from his mouth and nose.
"—Xiao Kai!" Tian Yang shouted hoarsely, trying to help Xiao Kai up, but before he took his arm, he was horrified to find that the black single jacket Xiao Kai was wearing outside had been soaked with blood. He glanced down subconsciously, and saw Xiao Kai's ankle-baring trousers dripping with blood dripping down.
"—What's wrong with him?—What's wrong with him?" Tian Yang hugged Xiao Kai, who was still twitching violently, with blood on his hands, turned his head, collapsed, grief, and helplessly asked Qin Ci.
However, Qin Ci was still staring at Xiao Kai's blue-black face with a frown. The situation of this face was too strange. Its subcutaneous connective tissue seemed to have lost its adhesiveness and connection, causing this face to look like a It was hung on the skull, and between the face and the skull, was filled with liquefied substances—specifically, blood, and dissolved subcutaneous tissue.
At this time, Xiao Kai's eyes, nose, ears and mouth, as well as the pores all over his body, began to bleed outward. He twitched and fell on the sofa, and his whole body had become a bloody man.
Tian Yang wanted to help him up, but Xiao Kai's whole body seemed to melt and rot into mud. Tian Yang lost his balance and sat on the sofa all of a sudden.
Without Tian Yang standing in front of Xiao Kai, everyone standing on the coffee table also saw Xiao Kai's tragic situation at the moment. He Tang, Wu You, Gu Qingqing and Luo Meng were shocked by this situation and shouted a few times. Yi Ran suddenly shouted: "Be careful, don't be sprayed with blood on your bare skin!"
Everyone came back to their senses and hurriedly tried their best to protect their exposed skin, but Tian Yang had already lost his mind, with blood all over his body, like a soulless body, sitting next to Xiao Kai staring blankly at him. .
Xiao Kai, who was lying down on the sofa, suddenly twitched violently, his limbs involuntarily slapped vigorously, and a large stream of thick blood spurted out from his anus, splashing on the back of the sofa behind him, Tian Yang's body, and even more. On high doors, walls and roofs.
The blood was even mixed with scattered internal organs.
Several girls and Luo Meng were so frightened that their screams changed their voices, and He Tang even fainted on Shao Ling's back.
Even if the other men did not scream, they were shocked by the scene in front of them and lost their voices for a while.
Xiao Kai's blood sprayed for a long time, and the entire sofa was soaked in blood. When he finally stopped, the whole person was spread on the sofa like a pool of melted blood.
The dirty blood pouring in from the gaps under the door and the windows is still slowly accumulating, and it seems to stop pouring in until the sky is slightly bright. The blood pool is only one or two centimeters away from the coffee table. Everyone was already soaked with sweat, which was the result of shock, heat, and collapse.
In fact, everyone was numb all night because their nerves were too tense, and they could hardly even recall how they got here that night, and even their bodily functions seemed to have stopped.
"Let's..." Ke Xun finally made the first voice, his voice was hoarse, "How did you leave here?"
Although the blood stopped gathering, it did not disappear. It was filled between the coffee table and the sofa, the door, and the window. If everyone wanted to leave the room, they had to touch the thick black blood.
"Or... Wait and see, will it flow out of the crack of the door again?" Wei Dong said in a hoarse voice.
"That would be a waste of time," Shao Ling's sweat-soaked hair hung down on his forehead, dripping with sweat, "We must seize all the time to find clues to the painting during the day, every minute Can't afford to delay."
Xiao Kai's death was too tragic, and no one wanted to be his turn next.
"Then, what should I do..." Wei Dong's legs shook violently, "I can't stand anymore..."
He carried Fang Fei on his back all night, and even his physical strength was as good as Ke Xun, and he was already very tired.
"Put me down," Fang Fei said, "I will carry you."
"... Brother Fei, I know you are very strong," Wei Dong said weakly, "but I have to save face, little brother..."
"Why don't I wrap my legs in clothes and open the door with blood flowing through?" Ke Xun said, "Gentlemen, take off your clothes and lend me a hand, I'll go faster, and the clothes shouldn't be soaked in blood."
"Impossible." Mu Yi said, "Everyone has only a single coat left, and no matter how you wrap it, it will soak through. Besides, you not only have to go there, but also push the sofa and open the door."
"So, we really have to wait for the blood to slowly flow out before we can move?" Luo Meng also said weakly.
"I suspect that when the blood is dry, it may be dark again." Zhu Haowen said.
Everyone was still discussing ways, but suddenly there was movement on the sofa.
Tian Yang kept sitting on the sofa, and didn't move all night until he stood up slowly and stepped off the sofa.
"Don't go down!" Ke Xun shouted.
Tian Yang turned his head to look at him stiffly, his face was covered with terrifying black blood, and his voice was hoarse and vain: "It's useless... Ke'er, it's useless..."
As he spoke, he stepped into the knee-deep blood pool under the sofa.
"—Hey! Don't get down—" Several voices shouted eagerly, one after another, but they were powerless to stop them.
Tian Yang was drenched in blood, pushed the sofa away, and opened the door.
The human skins and unidentified objects that I saw last night were gone outside the door. The blood in the house poured out like a gate, and it didn't take long to see the bottom.
Tian Yang went outside, picked up a few chairs from the dining room, placed them in sequence from the coffee table to the door, and pushed the sofa in the central hall over to connect it, so that everyone on the coffee table could step on it and avoid contact. to the blood on the floor, to the far side of the house.
"Tian Yang, there will be a way, you wait here, we will look for the autograph right now, hold on!" Ke Xun looked at Tian Yang, who was slumped on the ground with half his body covered in blood, with mixed feelings for a while.
Tian Yang stared at his black blood-stained feet in despair, as if he didn't hear anything.
"What should I do now?" Wu You looked at a few people who could make up their minds.
"He Tang's face is very bad." Qin Ci probed the temperature of her forehead, and He Tang stared at him with wide eyes in horror, for fear that he would hear something more terrible than declaring terminally ill.
"It may be due to lack of water and lack of sleep," Qin Ci said with an unchanging expression, "finding water and food is still one of the main tasks today, I think we have to take the lead. Given the situation last night, I think if we If you still can't find the signature today, you must prepare in advance, find another house, make one of the rooms a seamless secret room, or a mechanism that can block the inflow of those blood. During the day, those things There shouldn't be any action, so the residential area is relatively safe. I think it's better for the four girls to stay. Fang Fei, you come and take them, find a suitable house and room, do some cleaning first, and then make up for it as soon as possible. Take a nap, okay?"
"No problem." Fang Fei responded, called Wu You, He Tang, and Gu Qingqing, and walked towards the next house.
After the four girls walked away, Qin Cicai turned around and said to everyone in a low voice, "He Tang's situation is not good, she has started to have a low fever."
Everyone was shocked, and Luo Yao's eyes were red: "What should I do... Where is the signature, I have no clue until now, all the clues are scattered, where are we going to find it?"
"Brother Qin, take the radish and Dongzi to find water," Ke Xun grabbed Luo Xun's shoulder, turned to Qin Ci and said, "The four of us are looking for autographs, and we will come back here to meet at noon."
"Okay." Qin Ci did not delay, and took Luo Meng and Wei Dong to the direction of the forest.
"Let's discuss the clues first, and I'll go back when I go." Ke Xun said to the remaining three, then turned and ran to a nearby house. After a while, he ran out with a few clothes and a few towels in his hands.
"Wipe off the blood on your body and change into clean clothes," Ke Xun put the things next to Tian Yang, "Tian Yang, there is still time, you can't give up until the last moment, think about your wife and children at home."
Tian Yang, who was absent-minded, didn't come back to his senses until he heard the last four words, raised his eyes to look at Ke Xun, and slowly reached out and took the towel and wiped it on his face.
Ke Xun walked back to Mu Yiran and the others and looked at them: "How is it, do you have any ideas?"
"Not at all." Zhu Haowen maintained his usual calmness, "Climate, blood disasters, blurred years, disordered vegetation, infrasound waves, what exactly do these have to do with the theme of 'reboot', you have to figure this out Only then can we possibly find a way to find an autograph."
"Although there are many clues now, this is the end of it. It's stagnant and unable to break through the bottleneck." After Shao Ling finished speaking, he looked at Mu Yiran.
This person is a little younger than his age, but he is knowledgeable, logical, thoughtful, calm and rational, but he is much stronger than anyone here, even himself who has always been somewhat arrogant and confident , had to develop admiration for him, and even... a little bit of dependence.
It's really heaven and earth, and there are people outside people. Shao Ling sighed in his heart.
"We seem to have a lot of clues at the moment, but it seems that the most important links are missing," Mu Yiran remained calm, "It's like we have a few pvc pipes, but there is no way to connect them together. Like pipe joints, it is impossible to form a complete interconnecting line and pipe group.
"The bottleneck mentioned by Shao Ling does exist now. We have already thought of everything we can think of. If we still can't find the 'pipe joint', then there may only be one reason - the 'pipe joint' is by our side, it's just , was ignored by us.
"Then let's think about it now, what have we missed. We've checked every house here, we've been to the forest, but the forest is vast, the places we can go are limited, and there are large areas that don't. The places we have been to have not been checked. Even if we want to thoroughly search the entire forest, seven days is not enough. If the signature is in the forest, it is obviously meaningless to go too far, and we have already passed the places that are too close. And nothing was found.
"So I think, even if the signature is in the forest, since we haven't found the crucial 'pipe joint' and haven't deciphered the core meaning of the painting, the signature may appear in front of us, and we won't be able to see it or recognize it. No, maybe even if you touch it, it won't have any effect at this time.
"And if the signature is in this residential area, it will also cause us to pass the signature for the above reasons without knowing it.
"Forest and residential area, two areas that seem to be completely independent and non-interfering with each other, since they both belong to the subject of this painting, they must have an internal connection, which may be complementary or mutually causal.
"Thinking about the content of this painting, the subject is a human hand, let alone whether it is just a symbolic expression, since the artist uses human hands to express the idea of this painting, then the nature of 'human' is very important.
"Think about the danger of death we experienced last night. Since the power behind the painting has processed human skin and human blood into the conditions of death that will cause us to die, it is not like the previous paintings, with gods, ghosts, and witches. There are spirits, this time the executor of death is 'people', which once again shows the importance of 'people' in this painting.
"Then I think that the two juxtaposed subjects of the forest and the residential area, the residential area full of 'people' elements, may be the key to solving the puzzle, whether the signature is in the forest or in the residential area, the key The clue must be in the residential area.
"All the houses in the residential area, we checked the inside, outside, open space, food, some items that may seem to be hiding clues, but found nothing, which means that we must have left something unchecked or checked. Nothing that matters.
"So I guess what we're going to do next is to double-check every single room here, focusing on the things that seem unimportant and easily overlooked."