Climbing on the rock platform is a life-threatening gamble. Either all members die or survive, but everyone knows in their hearts that the probability of death is much greater than the probability of survival. After all, everyone has experienced Every painting is looking for a ray of life in the nine dead.
Life was related, and no one responded to Shao Ling's words immediately, but fell into silence and confusion.
"Come here first tonight," Qin Ci broke the depressing atmosphere. "Everyone might as well go back to their tents and think about what to do."
Silent night and sleepless night.
At dawn the next day, despite being in a heavy heart, Li Xiaochun and the girls did their best to help everyone make breakfast. Everyone ate more or less, but what was the taste of what was in their mouths, probably already. No one could taste it.
"Let's make a decision," Shao Ling apparently stayed up all night, his face was haggard like never before, "The pattern on our face and body is more obvious than yesterday, did you find it?"
Everyone looked at each other a few times, and sure enough, yesterday was just a faint texture of the bones. Today, there are clear gray lines on the skin, and as time goes by, the color will definitely deepen until it becomes completely black.
"There is no time." Shao Ling said.
"Decision, decide what?" Luo Yan asked, unwilling to face the reality.
"Would you like to go up to the rock platform?" Shao Ling did not leave him any extravagant hopes.
Luo Yu hugged his head and buried his face on his knees. After a long time, he whimpered and said, "I don't want to die..."
"If you don't climb the rock platform, you will most likely die." Shao Ling reminded him, "If you climb the rock platform, you might be able to survive."
"I don't know, I don't know..." Luo Meng cried.
"Don't force him..." Qin Ci sighed and said, "Maybe we should try our best to think of other ways."
"I don't think there is any other way." Shao Ling had already lost his usual self-confidence and spoke straight, and could no longer take into account the mood of the crowd. "Either sit and wait for death, or climb the rock platform and seek a way to survive."
"But we can't be sure that if we stay below, we will die, and we can't be sure that we can really find a way to survive if we climb the rock platform, right?" Wu You also said with red eyes.
"Stop deceiving yourself," Shao Ling looked at her blankly, "you will surely die if you stay below. The proof is that every night the tornado columns are getting stronger and stronger, and the more and more obvious on us. Bones, don't you think that after the bones are fully revealed, we can continue to live in this state of being neither human nor ghost, right? What's the point?"
Wu You was speechless, biting his lip and weeping.
"Then what do you mean, you want to go to the rock platform?" Li Xiaochun looked at Shao Ling.
Shao Ling rubbed his face, took a breath, and said: "Yes, this is my choice, I don't want to sit still, I think there must be a way to solve the incident on the rock platform, just like every painting we have entered, which one? Wasn't there a time when we were about to have nowhere to go, and found life in a desperate situation? I believe this time will be the same, and I believe we will be able to successfully crack it, just like every time before."
Li Xiaochun looked at him, his eyes floating, as if he was in a fierce self-struggle and evaluation in his heart. After a long time, he finally said: "I have only entered one painting, and I don't have the experiences and mental journeys of you old members. To be honest, in fact, I still feel that the whole thing is very unreal to this day... just think I am stupid and bold, and I also choose to climb the rock platform."
"What about you?" Shao Ling looked at the other people who didn't make a statement.
Ke Xun glanced at Mu Yiran, saw that he nodded slightly, and said, "Me and Yiran also chose to board."
"Count me in." Fang Fei said.
Wei Dong's eyes were a little dazed: "Really... is there no other way?"
Everyone looked at him, but no one spoke.
Wei Dong closed his eyes, his lips trembling, and said, "Okay... I will also... "
It was imperative to climb the rock platform, and before lunch, the thirteen members finally reached an agreement.
"We tied one end of the climbing rope to the car, threw the other end over the top of the rock platform, and then we pulled the rope from the other end to climb up." Ke Xun planned the stage for everyone tonight, "Everyone needs to use the The ropes should cooperate with each other, and drag the weaker person and Sister Cen together with their wheelchairs. In addition, we also need to bring equipment, guns, shovels, spare ropes, what else do you need to add? ?"
"I want to bring my meat-picking knife, just in case," Li Xiaochun said, "I'm more proficient with that thing than a gun."
"Me too..." Wei Dong took out a utility knife from his pocket, "I'll bring this."
"I also brought a scalpel." Qin Ci smiled slightly self-deprecatingly.
"Let's bring a barrel of gasoline up," Mu Yiran said, "Maybe it will be useful."
"The rest of the oxygen tanks can also be brought," Zhu Haowen said. "It can be used as an explosive, although it will not be very powerful."
The crowd added a few more things in a hurry to prepare the things they would use for the evening.
"What do you do next... just stay and wait to die?" Wu You asked in despair.
No one answered for a while, and each stared at the ground in front of him in a trance.
After a long time, I heard Zhu Haowen speak: "We came out this time, didn't we come with the heart to die, who didn't arrange their funeral before going out? It's no use regretting and shrinking now, This is the same as painting. No matter how much you regret or fear, you are already in the painting. If you don’t understand the final truth, you will never be able to make the painting. So now, the only thing we can do is to bite the bullet and continue, Fear and procrastination are of no use."
"Hao Wen'er is right," Qin Ci said calmly, "what we should do now is to calm ourselves down as soon as possible. The more calm we are, the better our chances are. I brought some preoperative sedatives, if anyone needs it, I can give you a shot before going to the rock platform."
Luo Meng raised his hand and said with a thick nasal voice: "Brother Qin, prepare one for me, otherwise I may not be able to hold it..."
Qin Ci nodded, reached out and patted his shoulder.
For the rest of the time, everyone just sat in the big tent, spending what might be the last afternoon of their lives with all kinds of thoughts and tastes.
"I really regret it," Wu You lay on his knees, with a choked sob in his voice, "I regret not being more filial to my parents before."
"I'm also... a little regretful," Gu Qingqing felt a little disappointed, "I'm a nerd, I've missed a lot of scenery outside of books."
"The night before I went out, I wrote a suicide note of more than ten pages," Wei Dong smiled sullenly, "I thought I had finished writing everything I wanted to say, but now, I think I still have a lot of things to say. , I... I really want to give me another chance to add these words to the back, I write too little, not enough... "
"It's still too late to write," Yue Cen said warmly, "I think you can put it in the car, and someone will find it."
"Oh, good." Wei Dong coughed to cover up his nasal voice and got up to get a pen and paper.
"In my opinion, we might as well record the cause and effect of the entire painting incident, as well as all our speculations," Ke Xun said, "If we unfortunately die, these records may be reserved for a certain batch of paintings a few years later. Those who, like us, have advanced to the last step of the event and have also come to this place, and these records may help them take a few detours."
"Yes, as long as the information about the incident is leaked into the painting, wouldn't it be blocked by the painting push? And we will also be attacked." Luo Yan said.
"It will be blocked and attacked because the entrants want to leak the information to outsiders," Ke Xun calmly analyzed, "but what we want to pass on to the next batch of entrants, the same entrants, the information will not be leaked. shield.
"This valley of death has always been inaccessible, so let's hide the information a little bit more, and hide it in a place where only those who enter the painting will rummage, so that we don't have to worry about being seen by outsiders and blocking the original content.
"As for backlash, if we die, those who do not backlash are useless. If we can live, then it proves that we have successfully prevented the behind-the-scenes forces of the painting, and naturally we will not be backlashed."
"Xiao Ke is right," Hua Jiqiu said, "I also agree to record the whole incident and leave it to posterity."
Everyone had no objection, so Shao Ling took the pen and paper, and was about to start writing when he heard Ke Xun say again: "I think we should use several different methods to record, after all, the next batch of people is likely to be a hundred years later. I don’t know if it can be saved on paper, we should use a few more methods, and we should have more layers of protection.”
"I carry a USB flash drive, so I can save an electronic version and put it in the USB flash drive." Zhu Haowen said.
"You can also burn a CD," Mu Yiran said, "I have a CD that can be repeatedly erased and burned in my car, and this notebook is equipped with a burner."
"You still carry this kind of thing?" Ke Xun was surprised.
"There is a DVD player in the car. This CD is originally a music CD." Mu Yiran explained, "And as long as the CD is not exposed to extreme weather and environment, the storage life can be as long as 200 or even 300 years."
"That's great," Ke Xun said. "Then I'll record another copy in my mobile phone, and leave the charger and mobile phone to future generations, lest this kind of mobile phone become an antique in a hundred years."
Then everyone divided the work and sorted out the entire event and all the clues, and recorded it on paper, U disk, CD and mobile phone respectively.
The next step is to find a place to hide these things in a place that will not be easily discovered by outsiders, but can also be easily found by the next batch of entrants.
"It's better to put it under the rock over there," Mu Yiran pointed to a low rock not far away, "After we were led here by the phantom of the human figure, we also checked the nearby site during the day. The schist, I think, a certain group of painters who come here a few years later will look around like us."
That piece of low rock is a normal rock. It is scattered on the cold and hard ground. Ordinary stones, outsiders will not deliberately rummage.
Everyone walked over and picked a relatively large and conspicuous stone. Ke Xun and Li Xiaochun pressed the root of the stone with a shovel, trying to pry it up, then dug a hole underneath, put the things in, and then Stone covers it.
The two pried vigorously for a while, and finally loosened the stone. Wei Dong and Luo Meng hurried up to help, and the four of them lifted the stone aside together.
Ke Xun picked up the shovel again to dig the soil. After digging for seven or eight shovels, he suddenly heard a "clang", and the head of the shovel seemed to have hit something hard.
Ke Xun and everyone looked at each other, everyone held their breaths for a while and stopped making a sound. Ke Xun carefully pushed away the soil that was shoveled, and a stone box the size of a brick was slowly exposed under the soil.
Everyone was not surprised. Ke Xun bent down and picked up the box. The box was unlocked. The gap between the lid and the box was sealed with something like wax. , was stopped by Hua Jiqiu, took the box from his hand, "I'll come, be careful that you can't open the lid properly and hurt the contents inside." Then he turned to Weidong, "Xiaowei, lend me your utility knife. a bit."
Hua Jiqiu took the box to the side to deal with it, everyone followed to watch, and Ke Xun was about to follow, but found that there seemed to be something in the dirt hole dug just now. He pushed aside the floating soil and took out a bottle made of some metal.
Digging further down, there are still porcelain vases, pots, wooden boxes, and even bamboo slips.
"What's the situation?" Ke Xun looked at Mu Yiran in confusion while holding these things, "Did we accidentally steal a tomb?"
"No," Shao Ling took the porcelain vase and the wooden box and looked at it, "The texture patterns on these two things are obviously not from the same era, and the porcelain vase is of rough workmanship and is a cheap product, but the wooden box is made of black rosewood. Yes, black rosewood is a very precious wood with excellent corrosion resistance, so you can see that it is still basically intact, and even the patterns carved on it are almost not damaged. If this is a tomb buried, these two It's weird to put things in the same place, like a street stall and a luxury item in the same jewelry box."
"Then why are all these strange things in the same pit?" Ke Xun wondered.
"I have a guess." Mu Yiran said.
The author has something to say:
Babes, these recent chapters, and possibly more chapters to come, contain relatively much analysis and reasoning. Some fairies may feel bald when they see it, but Baoyue pondered the final truth of the incident. If those who entered the painting reasoned too lightly and easily, then the foreshadowing of the previous thirteen paintings would be raised high and put down gently, appearing to be top-heavy, and there would be suspicion of anticlimactic.
You can also see that our article is actually focused on reasoning and deciphering. Almost every story is in the process of thinking of the people who have turned back and forth to see the truth. The decryption process is not as difficult and heavy as a certain painting, so it can't support this big frame constructed with thirteen paintings.
Therefore, in the final decryption process, the entrants will go through repeated proofs, proofs and dialectics, and gradually approach the truth. Therefore, reasoning and dialectics, as well as a myriad of threads and repeated deliberation, will occupy an important part. Bao Yue felt that if this mainline puzzle that runs through the whole text, if the entrants were able to guess the truth right after a single stroke, it would not be very real, and it would also appear to be too hasty and not be responsible for the whole text to the end. .
Therefore, Bao Yue Gulu came up to give everyone a warning, and there will be a few chapters of analysis and reasoning content. I will be bald at once (hey!)~
However, if Baoyue's manuscript is written fast enough, the last few chapters of the main text are likely to be sent out on the same day, and the fairies who want to accumulate articles should not leave for too long~
I wish you all a happy weekend, alright~