Chapter 216 Stone Painting
“You don’t have to think about me,” the fat man waved his hands quickly, “My heart is bigger than you think.”
“That’s right.” Chenran squinted his eyes. Looking at the fat man, the latter directly looked away. The pressure brought by Chen Ran's eyes was no less than that of Jiang Cheng.
As for the reason why Jiang Cheng did this, Fatty probably knew it in his heart.
He was worried that Chenran would suddenly attack him from behind when he was observing the clues, so he simply pulled Chenran to watch together.
Su Xiaoxiao was a bit inaccurate.
There was not just one painting on the stone pillar, but many, depicting different scenes, but they were all related to each other. The fat man was fascinated as he looked at them.
The artist's brushstrokes are relatively rough, but it can still be seen that he has certain skills. The composition of each painting is very clear, making it clear at a glance.
Generally speaking, the impression given to Fatty is that the people depicted were a series of paintings completed under conditions of extreme fear or urgency.
There are nine paintings in total, arranged in a grid. The first eight paintings can all be seen clearly. Only the ninth painting, where the fat man blinked, seems to be only half of the painting.
It's a broken picture.
What was missing was about two-thirds of the upper left side of the painting, and in the lower right corner, the fat man swallowed his saliva, walked around the dusty place, and took a closer look. There was a person on it.
A strangely dressed man.
Huddled up and hid in a very small corner.
And it should be a woman.
The moment this impression first appeared, the fat man shivered involuntarily. He immediately thought of the crazy old woman hiding in the lighthouse.
But when he concentrated and looked at the last painting again, the strange feeling of familiarity disappeared again.
The painting that represents a person only has a few strokes. It is not even as good as the simple drawing of a kindergarten child. Not to mention the clothes, even the movements of men and women cannot be seen.
But at that moment, he was sure that the person in the painting was the old woman.
How is that possible? !
The fat man panted violently, and his body that looked very big began to tremble. He subconsciously controlled himself not to swallow, but he couldn't do it at all.
He didn't know when this painting was left, but judging from the degree of wind erosion, it must have taken at least hundreds of years. That old woman..., how could she?
Could it have been at that time? , has she already appeared?
Then is she still a human?
The fat man who had just come back to his senses wanted to remind Jiang Cheng about the old woman, but because Chenran was around, he couldn't say it clearly. Now Jiang Cheng and Chenran were sitting shoulder to shoulder, like conjoined twins.
"What has Brother Hao discovered now?" Chenran asked, squinting his eyes.
Jiang Cheng stood up, thought for a while, and said, "It's not clear yet, I think we should go upstairs and have a look first."
Hearing that Jiang Cheng was going to go upstairs, the cold hair behind the fat man They all stood up. He could almost predict that Su Xiaoxiao had failed in entrusting her to the orphan, and Su An was probably cold.
Ah no, like Motorcycle Girl and Diplodocus, they both disappeared mysteriously.
These are all related to old women.
Once you open your mind, you will have a clear understanding. Things that you couldn't figure out before now seem to have reasonable explanations.
At the beginning, he was still discussing with Jiang Cheng why he also suffered a shipwreck and only the old woman survived. And according to the doctor’s understanding of nightmares, when everyone was selected for the nightmare mission, at the beginning The chances of survival should be close.
How could a second-level player appear?
This is inconsistent with the inferred nightmare mechanism.
Now we have the answers.
The old woman is not a player at all. To be precise, she should be a very special NPC, so special that she can attack all players indiscriminately.
When he thought of the old woman staring at him the night before, and the scarlet tongue across her lips, the fat man couldn't help but tremble, and his two ham-like legs were about to fail. .
“Ouch!”
The next second, the frightened fat man jumped half a meter high.
When he came to his senses and turned around to look over, Jiang Cheng's left hand was placed around Chenran's neck, and his right hand was straightened, still maintaining the same action as when he poked the fat man.
"You"
"Let's go," Jiang Cheng said to the fat man carelessly: "Let's go up and take a look, you. Just follow us."
"Okay."
He followed Jiang Cheng and Chenran obediently. Now, Fatty understood the struggle between the two more clearly. The streamlined muscles on Jiang Cheng’s arm around Chenran’s neck swelled, as if he would be able to do it in the next second. Break the latter's neck.
Chen Ran was about the same, holding a seemingly intimate hand around Jiang Cheng's waist.
But judging from the veins that appeared on the back of the hand, it was obvious that there was hidden strength. The sudden force would probably not be much worse than the palm that hit Su Xiaoxiao.
Taking a deep breath, he also cheered up secretly. I am afraid that it will only be a matter of time before the two sides break up, and the victory or defeat will be in an instant.
After all, once Jiang Cheng loses, it will be difficult for him to be his opponent as long as Chen Ran still breathes.
The stairs were relatively dark, and he didn’t know where the previous torch had been thrown. He followed the two of them cautiously. The stairs were in a spiral shape, with a dark abyss in the middle. Everyone tried to get as close as possible. location on one side of the wall.
The fat man was also seriously considering the possibility of joining forces with Jiangcheng to drop Chenran, a time bomb.
The hypocritical politeness came to an end, and Jiang Cheng and Chenran walked forward together slowly and steadily, neither of them making a sound.
The atmosphere was a little solemn for a while.
As he got closer and closer to the lighthouse, the hazy illusion about the truth that Fatty once had in his heart also became less intense.
On the way back from Blackstone Town the night before, Jiang Cheng told him some of the problems he had discovered.
But Fatty didn’t have any ideas at that time, so he just listened to it as a surprise. It was only now that Fatty realized how terrifying Jiang Cheng was.
Among the questions raised by Jiang Cheng, there were a few points that impressed him the most.
According to Jiang Cheng, when they were invited to sit down in Blackstone Town, apart from the blond man who was the mayor, there were still four vacant seats.
In other words, the "people" in Blackstone Town have 7 "guests" by default.
How did you get the number 7?
Is it just a coincidence?
After all, the old woman and the motorcycle girl stayed in the lighthouse at that time, and there were only six people at most who had ever appeared in the sight of the townspeople.
The second time, there were only Jiang Cheng, himself, Chen Ran, and Diang Long.
Only the three of them came to the appointment in the end.
But what if the people in Blackstone Town learned their entire number through some kind of record or some unknown way?
Going further, the townspeople not only knew their total number of people, but also knew that one of them was not human, so there was no mention of preparing food for her.
Thinking of the old woman staring at him greedily, the fat man's pupils shrank, and a guess slowly emerged in his mind.
Very scary. (End of this chapter)