"I took a look today, and the soil on the lawn is still soft," Mu Yiran said. "We tried to dig a trench on the edge of the fence and escape from the trench to the outside."
This proposal made everyone suddenly excited, and hope flashed in their eyes.
Mu Yiran looked back at Ke Xun, and saw that he was still in the same posture, with his eyelids down, motionless.
The giant cow began to distribute lunch, and all the nuts were given up by the insider - because the leader wanted it, no one dared to grab it.
In order to have the strength to dig soil in the afternoon, everyone ate more nuts, and they drank the water sprayed from the pipe when the giant bull washed the compartment. Yesterday, everyone used an empty beverage bottle to save it.
Ke Xun did not eat, but just sat, with one leg bent, his arm on his knee, and half of his face buried in his arm.
Wei Dong, who was next to him, only noticed his strangeness after eating for a while. He was about to ask, but when Mu Yiran came over, he made way for him.
Mu Yiran sat next to Ke Xun and said calmly, "Ke Xun, look at me."
Ke Xun tilted his head, resting his head on his arm, his jet-black eyes staring at his face.
Mu Yiran felt that at this moment, he was like a baby who was just able to open his eyes to see the world. His black and white eyes were full of confusion and confusion about this huge world.
Facing such a face and such a pair of eyes, Mu Yiran didn't notice that the lines of his face were softening inadvertently, he just met the eyes and whispered to him: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have let him go. You go."
"It's alright," Ke Xun said. The voice came from the arms, like a young and fragile child.
Mu Yiran pursed his lips, and his voice became even more light: "Forget those, Ke Xun. Treat this as a painting, treat it as a terrifying and bloody R-rated movie, you must know... People who die in paintings are not in the real world. Die the same way.
"After returning to the real world from the first painting, I went to those who died in the painting. Although they were no longer alive at that time, their relatives and friends still remember them, and it was confirmed that they were there. There is no terrible death process in reality.
"You can think of the way of death in this painting as an exaggerated image. It's just rendered bloody and terrifying. There's no need to substitute it into reality, and there's no need to be influenced by it. Do you understand, Ke Xun?"
"Understood." Ke Xun said.
Mu Yi looked at him.
He just understood it verbally. His dark, blank eyes and his unwavering face still clearly showed that he was still deeply immersed in the purgatory on earth just now.
Mu Yiran finally sighed softly, raised his hand and landed on the back of Ke Xun's neck, "Rest for a while." The hand rested on the natural V-shaped tip at the end of his hair. The slender fingers on the aorta in front of the neck exerted a little force, but within two seconds, Ke Xun tilted his body and fell on top of him.
When Ke Xun woke up, he heard Bi Jing's screams in the distance. He got up and rushed to the fence gate to look out, and saw a giant cow in a skirt holding him high in the air.
"What's the matter?" Ke Xun asked Wei Dong, who was beside him with a frightened face.
"I don't know," Wei Dong shook his head, "that female cow... The cow was brought in by the administrator, as if she was picking people. After a while, Bi Jing was picked. I don't know what to do. This is still the case. In the daytime, shouldn't it be eaten again..."
Ke Xun was silent, took two glances and left the gate.
When he turned around, he saw Mu Yiran was looking at him, he paused and smiled: "I'm fine. Thank you."
Mu Yiran didn't speak, but it didn't mean that he didn't see the slight trembling in his hands when he heard Wei Dong say "eat" just now.
Bi Jing was taken away by the cow, and the screams only caused a brief disturbance in the human race, which soon subsided, and continued to eat, drink, and play numbly.
The caretaker, who had sent the cow away, returned and released all the humans from the farmhouse.
The people outside the picture quietly moved to the far side of the fence, and one person took turns to let the wind out while the others dig trenches.
The lawn here is really soft. Five people started at the same time, and the speed was not slow. In half the afternoon, a shallow ditch was dug enough for one person to lean over and climb out.
But this is not the perfect time to escape. It will soon be dinner time, and every time the caretaker drives the humans back to the farmhouse, they will count the number. Catch up now.
Only after nightfall, when the caretaker had cleaned the farmhouse and left, had enough time to escape and run as far as possible.
"What if someone will be picked from us tonight?" Dong Dong asked worriedly.
"Isn't Bi Jing taken away? Maybe tonight is him..." Wei Dong felt that what he said was not benevolent enough. Although the truth was obvious, he still kept his mouth shut.
"Even if it is chosen from among us," Zhu Haowen obviously has no psychological burden in terms of "benevolence" and "morality", and bluntly said, "It is worth sacrificing one to protect the others."
Everyone fell silent.
Although no one wanted to be the one who was sacrificed, they had to admit that this was justified.
After dinner, the people outside the painting entered a state of emotional tension. If you want to pick someone, it will be within an hour or two after that.
They were waiting silently and nervously at the corner of the wall when they suddenly felt a bright white light coming in from the window. When they turned their heads and looked, they saw that the big lights above the lawn outside were lit, and the lights illuminated the large open space in front of the farmhouse. It was as bright as day, and several giant cows were walking towards this side with several giant cows that had never shown their faces. The giant cows who had never shown their faces were carrying a cage on their hooves, and each cage was closed. with a human.
"What is this for?" Wei Dong asked in confusion.
No one could answer him, everyone just stared outside silently and vigilantly.
The door of the farmhouse was slammed open, and two caretaker cows walked in, heading straight for the stall where the outsider was.
"No..." Wei Dong's eyes showed great fear and despair, "I'm going to choose someone..."
The huge disparity in body size, height, and strength made people so sad that they couldn't even think of running away. Everyone could only stand there in despair and helplessness, waiting for death to come.
The giant cows walked to the door, looked down at the crowd, stretched out one hoof, picked up the people in the cubicle one by one, and looked at them one by one, and the two cows exchanged whispers from time to time.
In the end, they chose a total of four people.
Dong Dong, Mo Sun, Ke Xun, He, Mu Yiran.
"Ke'er—" Wei Dong was shocked and heartbroken, "Why—why are there three people—"
The screaming stopped abruptly here.
Why can't it be three people? "Painting" never stipulated that three people would not die at the same time in one night.
"Doctor Qin, stun him!" Ke Xun shouted at Qin Ci.
However, until Ke Xun and the others were taken out of the gate of the farmhouse, Qin Ci was unable to do so.
The four were carried to the open space outside the farmhouse. There were no tables, chairs, hot pots, or wooden buckets with sharp knives. There was only the empty ground, a dozen giant cows, and the caged people on their hooves.
The cows were communicating, and some cows brought something like a lottery tube, and each cow drew a lottery from it.
After showing the sign, two of them stood up, and the rest of the cows stepped back and formed a circle, leaving the middle of the field.
The two cows put down the cages in their hands respectively, released the people in the cages, then walked away with the cages, and also stood outside the field.
The people in the two cages are all extremely strong and tall men, with ferocious appearance and bloody anger.
The two of them glared at each other, bared their teeth viciously, walked around in circles facing each other, and then suddenly their bodies suddenly burst out at the same time. .
"Grass your mother... Is this a cockfight?!" Dong Dong finally understood.
He has seen cockfighting videos on the Internet, and it is by no means as fun and entertaining as people imagine.
It was an unusually cruel, bloody, deeply uncomfortable, perverted act.
In the video from a few years ago, he still remembers the tragic death of the defeated rooster with bloodstains and limbs.
He didn't understand who came up with this type of entertainment, where their psychological pleasure came from.
Of course, this thought just flashed in his mind. For that video, all he left was the word "Fuck", and the most comments for that video were just "Chicken pecking at each other" jokes.
He doesn't have so many sentimental feelings to sympathize with a chicken, to think about their thoughts and emotions, they are just chickens, birds, and lower animals.
Nor would they know that a rooster who died in a proud and dignified battle was just a "chicken" in the eyes of humans.
The two humans fighting in the circle had obvious strengths. One of them had been beaten with blood all over his face and lost three or four of his teeth.
However, he is still struggling to support and fight hard, as if fighting is the only thing in life. Fighting is either dead or alive.
So, he died, and was beaten to death by a stronger person, one punch at a time.
The giant bulls clapped and whistled, and there was a commotion.
The dead were carried down and thrown into the slaughterhouse, and the surviving ones were put back into the cages, and his master "people" fed him food from the cracks of the cages as a reward.
Some of the giant bulls took out what seemed to be money and goods, and handed them over to the winning human owner, ending a round of cockfighting gambling.
The second round started soon, and a man stronger than the previous human was put into the field, and Mo Sun from Niujia Farm.
Mo Sun seemed accustomed to such occasions, and rushed towards his opponent excitedly and without hesitation: "Man, the consequences of angering me are very serious, you can't bear it, I will let you have a good taste of my people. Boy, you will cry and beg me!"
Mo Sun, he was the leader of the previous Niu family farm human, even though he was defeated by Mu Yiran, his strength was strong enough. He is tall, strong, handsome, full of fighting spirit and ambition, intimidation and pride, even Ke Xun dare not despise him.
However, the strong Mo Sun was knocked out by the opponent's heavy punch.
The opponent only punched, and the heavy blow hit him in the head, and then he flew backwards, twitched only a few times after falling to the ground, and then stopped moving.
The giant cows onlookers burst into laughter, and the managers of Niujia Farm seemed a little embarrassed. They weighed the remaining three people in their hands, and seemed to be picking the one that was enough to fight their opponents, and then their eyes fell on them. The new leader of the raised human beings, Mu Yiran.