Ke Xun had already circled in front of the wheelchair, squatted down and looked at Yue Cen, and saw the other party's hand clenched tightly, showing a panic that was very inconsistent with his personality.
Ke Xun pulled Yue Cen's hand directly, opened his fingers, and saw a cluster of dark green things in his palm: "This, what is this?!"
"...It looks like moss." Yue Cen also had a look of disbelief on his face, and slowly pulled up the trousers of his left leg.
After seeing Yue Cen's exposed calf, the two of them couldn't help but exclaimed. They saw that Yue Cen's calf was completely bloodless, the skin was stiff, and it felt like a stone. What was even more strange was that there was a mottled layer on the leg surface. moss.
Yue Cen felt goosebumps all over her body, her legs became terrifying like rocks, and the damp, fluffy moss was disgusting, she quickly put down her pant legs, and lowered her head as if Is trying to stabilize the mood.
Ke Xun put his hands on her knees to test it out, and found that there was still a certain degree of softness and warmth: "It's not too late, we have to find the fragments immediately! The world says it gave us 13 hours, but here Danger can happen anytime, anywhere.”
13 hours, but an unreal maximum time figure.
Ke Xun was a little anxious. He didn't know what the speed of this "petrification and moss transformation" would be, and he didn't know what kind of "inhuman transformation" he would undergo in a while: "So, Sister Cen, if your legs and feet are inconvenient, you can Waiting for me here at the granary, I ran around to find my way."
However, Yue Cen returned to his calm, although his face was still pale, but his tone had stabilized: "Ke Xun, please recall carefully, have there been similar situations in previous paintings, and how did you solve them at the time? ?"
After summarizing the previous dozen paintings a while ago, Ke Xun still remembers each painting freshly: "In the painting "Pure Land", Yi Ran was once close to the animation of 'Hailibu'. When my son turns into a stone man, the painting can choose the props, basically each person's props determine the fate of the person in the painting, and even determine the method of death. As for the solution, we answered the question correctly at that time. Just saved my life."
"It's a pity that no one has given us a question now, even if there is a question, it is hidden." Yue Cen looked at the situation around him, and his attention finally returned to himself, "Ke Xun, do you think this change of mine? Very... illogical? Especially these moss, it is obviously winter here, and the activities of mice marrying daughters often occur in the first month. The surrounding environment is dry and cold, where did the moist things like moss come from?"
Yue Cen carefully looked at the little bit of moss he just took off his leg: "These moss are very thick, like they grew from the soil of a shady yard or a ditch and well."
Ke Xun looked at Yue Cen and couldn't believe how calm the woman in front of him was. He quickly adjusted his mood and took a closer look at the moss: "Sister Cen, tell me, are these changes in your paintings? A hint to us?"
"Prompt?" Yue Cen's eyes lit up slightly.
"Yes, because it lacks logic, we might as well use it as a reminder." Ke Xun said this, stood up, and looked into the distance with his excellent eyesight, "Actually, the greenery in the distance The fields in the front are not just embellishments of this painting, as we were getting closer to the granary just now, I think the fields in front seem to be getting closer."
"Those green fields don't belong to the scenery in the first month. I think the moss should come from there." Yue Cen said, looking at Ke Xun: "Xiao Ke, it's really inconvenient for you to push me, just press your button. As I just said, I'll be here waiting for you, you go to the surrounding area to see what's going on."
"Okay, that's the only way. Now that the sun has come out, there shouldn't be any danger. You should wait for me near the granary." Ke Xun said, tying the sackcloth around his waist a little tighter, then pulled his legs to the side. Run away.
Yue Cen looked at Ke Xun's vigorous and agile figure with a hint of envy in his eyes, but he soon returned to reality. Although he couldn't walk far, he could still rock the wheelchair to observe nearby.
Ke Xun ran for a while, only to feel that the ground under his feet became softer, and there were still some sprouting grass showing a little bit of vitality. I don't know if it was because I was running hot or the weather was getting warmer, but Ke Xun felt a little hot. He looked up at the sun in the sky, so bright that people couldn't look directly.
When Ke Xun looked back at the road, he saw a cold lead-grey tone, as if the dead winter was still there, full of dead silence and ruin, like someone left a pile of gray cotton pads on the road.
The low granaries of several earthen buildings were silent in the distance, and Yue Cen, who was in a wheelchair, had become a black spot far away.
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Ke Xun looked at the other direction where the grass and trees were getting deeper, and the intuitive answer should be there.
Yue Cen, who stayed in the "winter", wrapped his sackcloth and jacket tightly, looked at the lonely white sun without warmth in the sky, and thought about the things he had experienced "last night", according to what Ke Xun and the others said before. Those paintings, this "Hehe" obviously broke the previous "rules", although the maximum time in the painting is still "seven days" (a seven-story tower probably represents seven days), but the limit of day and night for each day It's not clear, every small world has its own cycle, which makes it impossible to find the rules at all.
But what is certain is that in this world about "rat marrying a woman", the night did not bring death, and the time here does not seem to pass as fast as imagined, from entering the world to the first time I saw it just now Time, just 40 minutes passed.
Yue Cen took out his mobile phone, and was about to check the time again, when suddenly an incomparably clear and loud "beep" sounded, startling people.
This "di-" sound did not come from the mobile phone or anything around it. The sound seemed to come from the outside world, as if in a game, the characters in the game had inadvertently heard the alarm sound of the player outside the screen.
Yue Cen turned on the screen of his mobile phone, and the time number displayed on it was -01:00:09.
If there is no misjudgment, the "di-" sound just now came from 9 seconds ago, which seems to remind myself that an hour has passed.
Just when Yue Cen was making this suspicion, Ke Xun had already run back, looking relatively relaxed, his face was not blushing or panting: "Sister Cen, did you hear that sound just now? It was the hourly time signal. Pull your nose?!"
Pulling his nose, Yue Cen couldn't help being amused by Ke Xun's words: "Yes, that should remind us that an hour has passed."
"That means, friends in other groups should also be able to hear this voice."
"I think it should be."
Yi Ran should have heard it too.
I don't know what he's going through right now.
Ke Xun's thoughts were quickly pulled back by Yue Cen: "Xiao Ke, did you have any new discoveries just now?"
Ke Xun regained his senses, walked to the back of Yue Cen's wheelchair, pushed up the wheelchair and walked south, which was the direction he had just come from: "There is another season, I have entered the spring, and then I will go forward. , I think it should be midsummer."
"It seems that these moss should come from there," Yue Cen looked at the green distance, "If the moss is really a reminder, then we should be right to go there."
The two of them looked behind them at the same time, that is, the north side of the world. There seemed to be an absolute edge, and there was a misty white fog in the distance.
"You can push me to walk faster, I'll be fine." Yue Cen reminded Ke Xun, "Besides, there is one important thing I want to say. Regarding my legs, they are already in the rehabilitation stage. You can walk for more than half an hour with the equipment, but the doctor recommends not to walk for too long, let alone run."
Ke Xun was a little surprised when he heard this. He thought that Yue Cen's leg was an incurable disability: "Sister Cen, is your leg caused by an injury?"
"Yes, about half a year ago, I had an accident. Thanks to the timely rescue, I was able to save my life. The rest of the body has gradually recovered, but the leg was the most injured, so I have been raising it until now. The doctor said that even if it finally recovers, there will be sequelae."
Ke Xun can imagine the kind of "sequelae", it should be long and short legs or something like: "It's not easy to save your life. The accident half a year ago, are you talking about the early summer of this year?"
"To be exact, it was the early summer of last year, and today is the first day of the new year." Yue Cen corrected.
Ke Xun didn't care about this, and continued to ask, "Where did it happen?"
"In City Z, I was about to drive to visit an art museum when it rained heavily on the way. My car passed a fork in the road and was hit by a truck..." Yue Cen mentioned the art museum and suddenly felt this piece of art. Things don't seem so simple.
Ke Xun's voice behind him was a little excited: "The name of that art museum, isn't it..."
"Starry Sky Art Museum." The two of them almost said in unison.
Ke Xun felt that his palms were sweating while holding the armrest of the wheelchair: "Sister Cen, you were the one who was selected for the painting."
What Yue Cen left to Ke Xun was the back of the head whose hair had been ruffled by the wind. She wrapped her hair with a coarse cloth to resist the cold wind, as if she was silently resisting a force that was trying to destroy herself: "If it is true In this way, the painting chooses me to be included in the painting, and another force in order to prevent the painting from pushing, does not hesitate to take the life of the person who entered the painting outside the painting.”
It seems that another force can even work off-screen, and so directly.
This is unique among all the cognitions Ke Xun has had since he entered the painting.
Painting push, and another force, who is justice
The painting push attracts everyone into the painting, and does not hesitate to enter the painting in which the painters died tragically in various ways.
Another force prevents people from entering the painting, but does not hesitate to block the fresh life directly outside the painting.
In order to achieve their own goals, the two forces never take human life seriously.
But as an ant that is being played by two forces, what strength can it have to resist? The only thing he can do now is to try his best to survive.
Thinking about it made me shudder, but Ke Xun and Yue Cen felt the warmth of the spring breeze at this moment.
"Sister Cen, we are entering spring." Ke Xun looked at the green grass and the trees.
The birds murmured in the woods, as if whispering secrets about the seasons.
A building ahead caught their attention.
"It's strange, you can't see this house from a distance." Ke Xun looked at the tall temple-like building with some doubts.
"Perhaps, this place doesn't want to be easily found." Yue Cen said.