"But what really caught our attention was the mysterious disappearance of an entire block overnight... We finally found the missing block on the painting."
"irregular?"
Bai Zhi frowned slightly.
"No, in fact, the missing block is five or six streets away from where the painting was placed."
Shaking his head, Zhuge Yun's tone became unusually cautious at this time.
"Can you imagine that situation? The original blocks were completely divided, as if a piece was missing on the map, but the missing piece was forcibly and strangely bridged together by some force... Part of our world was swallowed up by that painting."
"So so far, three blocks have been swallowed up by that painting? Is that how those missing people came here?"
Bai Zhi's eyes bypassed the other party and looked at the steel valve not far away.
"... Completely random and unreasonable devouring?"
"That's right, otherwise we wouldn't have specially transported that painting here."
Zhuge Yun nodded.
"But the good news is that as the players enter, the devouring has been suspended. So far, the fourth street that has not been devoured has appeared."
"Is that so...that all this information has been controlled by you?"
After a moment of pondering, Bai Zhi looked at Zhuge Yun.
"Otherwise, if this kind of information is leaked, it will cause panic on a large scale."
Spreading his hands in front of him, Zhuge Yun looked a little helpless.
"There is an information cocoon inside that painting, so I don't know what the situation is inside, and I basically can't leave here, so I can only ask you."
"Then you're not going to pay me to work for free?"
Bai Zhi glanced at the guy in front of him.
"Why don't you give money to others? Besides, we are a family after all, so talking about money would be too emotionally damaging."
With his head held high and his chest held high, Zhuge Yun looked upright and solemn.
"family?"
"Yes, the deceased Ling is my eldest sister, and the brother-in-law is the husband of the deceased Ling. Aren't we a family?"
With a shy face, Zhuge Yun smiled at him a few times.
"Brother-in-law, do you think what I said is right?"
Bai Zhi: "..."
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To be honest, Bai Zhi was not too concerned about this kind of thing.
The document he got from Meng Qixia earlier was not the summons order mentioned by Meng Qixia. It was just a routine notice and related introduction to the mysterious painting that swallowed the world. , and players are not required to participate.
In fact, whether players go or not is entirely voluntary.
As for what the other party said about letting him work for free...
Free things are often the most expensive. The most difficult thing in the world to repay is the so-called debt of gratitude.
If the other party really wanted to pay them anything, they would be really looking down on these players who took the initiative to come here, and it could even be said to be deliberately insulting them.
To put it another way, you spontaneously came to help out of the sense of mission in your heart, but as soon as we met, the other person proactively said that I would give you any amount of reward after you came to help... This would make no one happy.
And besides, these players have helped the relevant departments, so the relevant departments can’t turn a blind eye, right? The human relationship between them is very deep.
And in a sense, Bai Zhi can be regarded as a semi-official person...
After the steel gate opened, what came into view was an unusually empty hall, and in the center of the hall, a painting covered with black cloth was placed.
In the hall, the lights are brightly lit.
"What, is it okay for you to follow me?"
Bai Zhi glanced at Zhuge Yun who followed him in.
According to the other party's description, as long as part of the body touches the person with the mysterious painting, it will be spontaneously pulled into the painting, so in theory, the danger of this painting is not great.
In fact, if this painting didn't have the ability to swallow the world, it would just be an ordinary ghost story.
"It's okay. I'm just a clone. You don't really think I have that much free time, do you? If you hadn't come, I wouldn't have bothered to come over to entertain you. This is called following the right of urgency."
With a slight shrug, Zhuge Yun stepped forward and stretched out his hand to pull off the black cloth on the painting, then turned his head and looked at him.
"The maximum safety time limit is twelve hours. If no one of you can come out after twelve hours, then we will consider using extraordinary measures."
"12 hours..."
Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly and focused on the painting.
—Unexpectedly, this painting is quite ordinary.
The entire painting is about one meter long and half a meter wide. The content of the painting is also a very ordinary landscape scene, but there are several rather incongruous things vaguely existing between those landscapes.
These things are crooked and twisted, like a few twisted earthworms on the picture. If you look carefully, you can vaguely see the style of those modern buildings.
Theoretically speaking, there are currently about 300 people trapped in this painting. Logically speaking, we should be able to find some clues in the painting, but in this painting, we can’t see any human figures. .
"Three streets, or should I say three blocks, are basically all inside now. We specially asked people to identify them."
Xu pointed at the extra things on the screen, and Zhuge Yun started to introduce them.
"We have also checked the original artist of this landscape painting, but the artist is said to have passed away a year ago, so there are no clues... The details are up to you."
"...When did the first player enter?"
After staring at the painting in front of him for a while, Bai Zhi asked.
"Three days ago, the first person to enter was an investigator with the ID [Ye Yan's Breath]."
After thinking for a moment, Zhuge Yun answered.
"On the third hour after the other party disappeared, the first street was swallowed up by this painting. In order to find out the situation, we sent a five-person investigation team inside, but to no avail. The next day, the second street was swallowed up. Devoured, and then five hours after the second street was devoured, the third street also suffered bad luck and was affected. Until the president of the guild [Zheng Yu Gong Shang] and the president of the guild [Guose Tianxiang] Only after the presidents jointly entered, this situation has not happened again... Oh, by the way, we also include the president of [Big Bird Roaming Bar] who entered this morning."
When he said this, Zhuge Yun glanced at Bai Zhi with a slightly strange expression.
—Including the other party, it can be said that there are four presidents of player guilds gathered in this painting.
"[Zhengyu Palace Merchant] and [National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance]..."
Bai Zhi reached out and touched his chin, with a thoughtful look on his face.
Compared to their more playful [Big Bird Bar] and [what], [Zhengyu Palace Merchant] and [Guose Tianxiang] are quite formal player guilds.
During previous large-scale battle missions, Xia Wen and the school beauty had received solicitations from these two player guilds, so Bai Zhi still had some impressions of these two player guild workers.
Among them, [国色天香] is even more famous for recruiting only female players.
But the investigator [Ye Yan's Breath]... Why does it sound a little familiar
"How's it going? Do you have any questions?"
While Bai Zhi was thinking deeply, Zhuge Yun took the initiative and asked.
"If it's okay, I'll send it first."
"send?"
"Come on, multi-threading takes a lot of energy."
With a sigh in his mouth, Zhuge Yun pointed at his cheek that was beginning to crack.
"This body is made of clay, and it's almost dry now because there's no water. Isn't this just a post?"
Bai Zhi: "..."
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The moment his hand touched the canvas, Bai Zhi felt as if a layer of water mist had penetrated his body.
In the blink of an eye, his figure appeared in an unusually gloomy forest. Before he could look around, a smell of decay and decay came to him.
The sky is dim and yellow, and the ground is black with some red soil. The surrounding trees have strange shapes, and they can look like any shape. They are as twisted as decayed human figures. Some trees have fallen branches and leaves, and some have fallen. The trees are strangely filled with pale green lanterns one after another.
On the tree closest to Bai Zhi, a crow with a half-rotten head was standing there, tilting its head and looking at him. When Bai Zhi focused his gaze on it, the crow made a squawking sound in its mouth, then raised its wings and flew away. Entering the forest, he disappeared in an instant.
—Compared with the fresh and green landscape painting outside, the scene inside the painting is completely different.
"Sure enough, the pictures are for reference only... a buyer's show and a seller's show?"
Raising his head and glancing at the dim sky above his head, Bai Zhi couldn't help but complain.
"...Cunningly painting landscapes?"
To be honest, Bai Zhi couldn't be flattered by the current environment.
The lingering smell of decay and decay in the air was still barely bearable. The surrounding forest scene that seemed like a dark fairy tale was actually nothing, but the disgusting feeling coming from under his feet made him feel a little bit... Unbearable.
The soil on the ground is black, but it is not pure black. There is a hint of red in the black. In some places, it is covered with a thick layer of dead branches and leaves. Often when you step on it, the black and red stick will appear. The thick black water covered the instep.
At the same time, stepping on this kind of ground gives people an inexplicable greasy feeling, which makes people feel quite disgusting, as if they are walking on greasy meat.
"…I hate this kind of place."
Bai Zhi couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he looked at the dozens of centipedes as thick as fingers that suddenly jumped out from under the fallen leaves not far away.
Every time at this time, he would always fondly remember his former [Ling Yun Boots]...
"Forget it, let's get to those blocks as soon as possible."
Stopping, Bai Zhi sighed slightly in his mouth.
Although so far, the scene here just looks a bit scary and there is no real danger, but no one can be sure about things like this.
Rather than aimlessly exploring alone, he prefers to find other players who have entered here before him, which can save him a lot of time and energy.
There are more than 300 ordinary people here, and it would be a difficult task to rescue them all, and besides, who knows what it will be like on the other side of the block.
According to Zhuge Yun, the longest person trapped in this painting was about three days...
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Volume 2 The Miracle of Micro-Probability: Chapter 1289 Chapter 372 Growth-type Strange Tales (4k)
The scenery in this strange landscape painting is quite like the underworld.
The environment is not only the underworld, but also quite large.
Bai Zhi thought that his movement speed was already very fast. If he fully used the Ghost Domain, he could even reach a speed of one thousand meters per second.
But even at this speed, it took him almost half an hour to get out of the corrupt forest.
"Is there still no movement..."
After raising his perspective to look at the surrounding environment, Bai Zhi couldn't help but ponder for a while.
There are three blocks swallowed into this painting, two of which are in the southeast corner of where he is now, and the other one is in the northwest.
The position he is in now is between the two.
Looking all the way, you can see the dilapidated and decaying forests or the bare black land.
After all, not counting those ordinary people, there were almost 20 players in this painting, but when he looked around, he didn't find any movement.
The whole world was lifeless and eerily quiet, as if he was the only one there.
… Where are all the players who came in before me
After a moment of thinking, Bai Zhi first summoned the shadow puppet, then assigned the ragdoll cat to each other, and then the two of them ran towards their respective destinations, one on the left and the other on the right.
Bai Zhi had a ghost domain to rush around, so he didn't need a ragdoll cat, but if the shadow puppet didn't have a ragdoll cat, it probably wouldn't be able to reach the other side of the block in a few hours based on its own speed.
An hour later, Bai Zhi was the first to arrive at the southeast corner of the block.
Two modern blocks were abandoned here like two intertwined earthworms.
But everywhere he looked, it was deserted. The shops on both sides of the street were open or closed, and there were even a few cars parked on the road. White paper like snowflakes were scattered on the ground. Half-rotten crows swarmed.