Paintings of Terror

Chapter 56: Breaking Ground 13 ┃ about magical realism

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"Rhino and Elephant? Could it be related to the Rhino Elephant Art Museum?" Shaliu felt a little weird.

Many people have also thought of this. This kind of painting coincides with reality, which is even more shocking.

The old man Li Taiyong still had a normal look: "The Xixiang Art Museum originally occupied this place. In the past few years, the street in front of the art museum was still Chunsun Street. Later, the street was renovated and the subway was built underground, and Chunsun Street completely disappeared. already."

"Could it be that both the Xixiang Art Museum and the famous Internet celebrity restaurant..." Xin Miao felt that talking about external things in this world was like talking about a dream.

"Yes, it's all done by the Hong Kong developer." Li Taiyong expressed his affirmation.

This information is obviously very important for Chunsun Apartment, but everyone really can't link this information to the seal. After all, the world in the painting has been demarcated in the tube building, and it is impossible to go out and look for the rhinoceros and elephants in the stone.

Besides, the door is closed, and it is impossible to come and go freely.

Depressed mood, coupled with the hot weather, everyone ate very little for lunch, and they were a little sleepy after eating. After all, they didn't sleep well last night.

So, they went back to their rooms for a short lunch break.

Ke Xun returned to his 411, entered the bedroom and looked down at the red slippers under the bed, but did not see any change in position: "Did there be any movement in our room last night?"

Mu Yiran: "I didn't hear it."

Also, under the loud noise outside the window last night, all movement was minimal.

There is electricity in the room during the day, and the fan can be turned on, which is a very enjoyable thing in this harsh environment.

Ke Xun soon fell asleep, and had a very bright dream. In the dream, he became a child. He took a small utility knife and carved on the wall. .

As he carved, the sky began to slowly turn black, and Ke Xun woke up when he was nervous.

In the hot weather, taking a nap is not a comfortable thing. Ke Xun was sweating, and when he woke up, he found that one leg was still on Mu Yiran's leg. He subconsciously pulled away, but suddenly found that the other party was awake.

"I'm sorry, I was drowsy and pressed you." Ke Xun touched the mat Yin'er on his face and woke up completely.

I don't know how long Mu Yiran was awake, and how long he suppressed the other party.

Mu Yiran was still lying flat: "I just don't want to wake up your dream."

"Huh?" When did the boss care about his dreams

"You're talking in your sleep."

"This... is a rare phenomenon, I usually don't have this problem." Ke Xun quickly clarified.

"You said: Bamboo shoots will be painted soon, and they will break the ground soon."

"I said?!"

"Yes, you said it."

Ke Xun carefully recalled his dream just now: "I just dreamed that I was a child..." He suddenly reacted, "Yes, child! Have you noticed that the bamboo shoots are not very high, and the bamboo shoots are not very high. You have to bend down to see it!"

Mu Yiran was thoughtful, got up without realizing it, and sat cross-legged on the bed: "The painter Luo Bin was very young, born in 1985, if the world in the current painting is 96 years, then Luo Bin was only 11 years old at the time, not yet tall. grow up."

"You mean, the children who painted these bamboo shoots are most likely the painter himself?" Ke Xun felt that this idea was bold, but it was not aimless.

If so, where to look for clues to the seal? Could it be that the seal was also carved somewhere with a utility knife

Mu Yiran said: "The situation of 616 is not very different from our rooms. Before 616, it should have been an empty room, and the bedding, tables and chairs in it were all put in later. It seems that the apartment was uniformly purchased for the convenience of renting. It looks like More like a hotel."

"You mean, the residents before 616 moved everything?" Before Ke Xun could finish his words, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

Although it was broad daylight, the knock on the door was still abrupt.

Wei Dong's voice came from outside the door: "Ke'er, open the door!"

Just as Ke Xun opened the door, he found that Sha Liu, who was next door, came to the door at some point, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Wei Dong simply said at the door: "Hao Wen'er discovered it. Outside our window, outside... the terrain has become higher."

"What do you mean the terrain has become higher?" Shaliu asked anxiously.

"Isn't a cement wall built outside? It's been repaired until your fourth floor. Now we look out the window and find that the road outside is flush with the fifth floor!" Wei Dong didn't know how to express it better.

"Go up and have a look." Mu Yiran had already left the door, and Sha Liu followed closely. Ke Xun ignored the previous dizziness and nausea and followed suit.

As soon as he got to the fifth floor, Ke Xun felt the suffocating feeling of the top: "Why do I think the stairs here are also deformed."

Ke Xun gave himself a few more Danshen dripping pills, pressed his heart that was about to explode, gritted his teeth and went up to the sixth floor.

616 is as Mu Yiran said, the decoration is a bit like an old hotel, with old-fashioned embossed wallpaper, doors, windows and heating are wrapped with wooden edges, even the bed is a standard hotel single bed, and there is a TV cabinet. Color TV.

Zhu Haowen was sitting beside the bed playing games. Seeing everyone came, he took the initiative to move away from the window.

Mu Yiran opened the window and found that the ground outside was built on the fifth floor. From the outside, it might be a second-story building.

Ke Xun and Sha Liu looked at the busy traffic outside the window, and felt that the mundane world outside seemed unreal.

"Then where are these residents below the fourth floor?" Shaliu seemed to have thought of something, and he was shocked.

"Below the ground." Mu Yiran said.

Ke Xun still didn't understand: "What was outside your window before?" Then he looked at Mu Yiran again, "When you came here in the morning to check, what was it like outside the window?"

"It's a cloud of white fog." Mu Yiran said.

Wei Dong also nodded: "Yes, although our window is bright, we can't see the outside clearly. It's like there is a lot of fog outside, and only the sun is faintly shining through."

"Can you see now suddenly?" Ke Xun thought this was very strange, even a little nonsense.

"It's not suddenly," Zhu Haowen said suddenly, "I can vaguely see some sights this morning."

Sha Liu looked at the world outside, and suddenly had a desire to rush out. Zhu Haowen stopped her in time: "If you can't get out, this window can't be opened at all."

Mu Yiran seemed to think of something: "Let's go to the fifth floor to see."

Zhu Haowen looked up at Mu Yiran, and followed everyone to the fifth floor.

Because there were no companions on the fifth floor, everyone had to go to the window of the public toilet and found that it was still hazy fog outside, but there was a faint outline of the city scene.

"It's so weird, what do these phenomena show?" Sha Liu didn't mind that he was in the men's bathroom at this time.

"This must have something to do with the deformation of the room." After Ke Xun came to the fifth floor, he felt better than before.

"Why is the room deformed? Where are we?!" Sha Liu was a little out of control. "According to what we saw on the sixth floor, this bungalow is clearly buried in the soil! We have always been in the soil!!"

"So, the name of this work is "Breaking Earth"." Mu Yiran faced out the window, unable to see his expression clearly.

Ke Xun only felt a layer of goose bumps all over his body, not because of fear, but because of an inexplicable understanding: "So this is a work of magic realism."

Wei Dong was very frightened by Ke Xun: "Ke'er, can we talk about it if we have something to say?" - Why did you suddenly open up a professional nonsense

At this time, Ke Xun had a serious face: "It is our tube building that is going to break the ground, it is the whole spring bamboo shoot apartment, and the bamboo shoots symbolize our building, we are now buried in the ground, and now we are slowly breaking out of the ground. ."

Mu Yiran couldn't help but turn around and said, "Continue talking."

Because of the emptiness of the men's toilet, Ke Xun's voice echoed here, like a meaningful speech—

"The reason why the room is deformed is because the top of the packaged building has to gather inward, why do it gather inward? It is because the whole building has to turn itself into a top-notch bamboo shoot, and then wait for an opportunity to break through the ground!"

Ke Xun's remarks are full of imagination and unreality, but they fit closely with the world in the painting, forming a true story with pictures and texts.

Sha Liu's voice was full of trembling: "If the ground is really broken, what will happen to us?"

No one has answered the question, no one can answer it.

In the end, Mu Yiran said: "Before breaking the ground, the top of the floor will be completely gathered, and those of us inside will be completely trapped and completely cut off from the outside air - breaking the ground is not set up for us, we are just the funeral objects in it. "

"No, no," Shaliu took two steps back. "Now, what should I do now? It will be night soon, and the ghost of 307 will come out!"

Mu Yiran looked at the watch on his wrist: "At four o'clock, we still have time, we will try our best to collect graffiti works in the building, no matter what kind of carrier they are painted on, we must find a way to collect them! It's in it."

"Okay!" Sha Liu was the first to leave, and the search before night became a life-saving straw.

Everyone also dispersed, some went directly to find graffiti works, some went to communicate with other members, and then searched together.

By 6:00 p.m. dinner, everyone still had nothing.

The uncle of the concierge suddenly appeared in the restaurant and gave everyone a new instruction: "Tonight, stay in your own room and don't go out."

NPC suddenly changed the rigid rules, or suddenly narrowed the scope of everyone's activities - not allowing them to go out, which means that they can't visit doors and stairs.

Xin Miao was the first to raise doubts: "What should I do when I go to the toilet at night?"

"I have put a bucket at the door of each house for you. After eating, you will take it back to the house. You can solve it in the bucket first at night." The concierge said with a blank expression.

Because the night fell again, many people were a little confused.

Qiu Lu was even more afraid because of the death of two companions: "If we don't let us go out, we won't even have a chance to escape! Once the door is broken by some monster, we will die!"

Shaliu said, "It's really not possible, we can still jump out of the window."

Ke Xun frowned, "I'm afraid the result will be worse."

Shaliu stared at her red eyes: "It's better than being mixed up!"

This sentence reminds everyone that the rickety person about 307 holds a porcelain pot in his hand and keeps stirring the stuffing inside.