218. The World in the Painting
"Yes." When the manservant saw him leave, his originally frightened face suddenly became very nervous, and he hurriedly closed the door, came to the bedside, took out a snuffbox from his arms, and stuffed it into Jiang Tong's nostrils.
Jiang Tong coughed twice, "woke up" from the coma, and the manservant was overjoyed: "Ms. Jiang, great, you're fine, I thought I was late." β
His voice changed, becoming another person, Jiang Tong was a little surprised: "Arthur? β
"It's me, I used the transfiguration." Arthur said, "I'm sorry, Ms. Jiang, I have no choice but to do it, they kidnapped my mother, and if I don't agree, they will kill her." As he spoke, he looked around nervously, "Ms. Jiang, come quickly, come with me." β
"I'm afraid you can't take her." A hand suddenly reached out and pressed it on his shoulder, and his face turned pale, and suddenly he felt a powerful force pressing on his body, forcing him to kneel and unable to move.
Jiang Tong sighed and stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder: "Arthur, people's trust is a very precious thing, once it is lost, no matter what you do, you can't make up for it. β
Arthur seemed to have thought of something, looked at Jiang Tong in disbelief, then turned his head sideways at Wen Junzhi, and smiled bitterly: "Maybe I shouldn't come." β
"You really shouldn't have come." Wen Junzhi said, "Even if you are a famous thief, Death Jack's things are not so easy to steal, whether it is a person or a painting." β
Arthur asked curiously, "What painting?" β
"Don't play dumb." Wen Junzhi sneered, "Didn't you pretend to come to save her, just to distract the attention of Jack's security forces, and give your accomplices a chance to steal ancient paintings and create zΓ o?" β
Arthur was shocked and anxious: "Obviously, it was my friend who went to steal something to trigger the alarm, attract the security forces, and create an opportunity for me to save Ms. Jiang." What paintings? I don't know what to draw at all. β
Seeing that he didn't seem to be faking, the two looked at each other, and it was obvious that this kid was cheated by his accomplices.
"Uhh We said we would only trigger the alarm when we received my signal! β
At the moment when the alarm was triggered, the two of them felt a powerful energy fluctuation at the same time, and shouted in their hearts: "Not good! Qi Qi jumped out the window.
But it was too late, and by the time the two of them jumped out of the window and landed, the surrounding scenery had changed and turned into ruins, as if they had just suffered a terrible nuclear war, scorched black everywhere, and a lot of white fly ash floating in the air.
The two immediately realized that they had arrived in the world of "Mountains and Rivers Society Map".
"The Mountains and Rivers Society Map has been urged." Wen Junzhi frowned, "How is this possible, the power required to urge the "Mountains and Rivers Society Map" is very large, and it is not something that ordinary people can urge at all. β
He turned his head and saw Arthur standing a few steps away with a blank face, rushed over and dragged him over and threw him on the ground: "Say, who is that accomplice of yours?" β
Arthur fell all over his body in pain, struggled for a moment, and said, "Victor is just an ordinary thief, we have been doing this together for many years......"
Jiang Tong thought for a while and said, "Is there anything on him?" Anything with quirkiness will do. β
Arthur suddenly realized: "He has a pendant of the cross, which is said to be an heirloom of their family, and it will bless him with safety." We've been together for so many years, and I've been in the gendarmerie several times, but he's never been caught. β
Jiang Tong and Wen Junzhi glanced at each other, it must be a magic weapon, and it was a very powerful magic weapon. When Victor stole out the "Mountains and Rivers Society Diagram", the community diagram absorbed the power of the magic weapon and was opened, and I am afraid that the people in the entire mansion were sucked into this community diagram.
Jiang Tong raised his head and looked around, it looked like the ruins of a city, and it was a modern city, all the burned under his feet were steel, and the stones showed signs of crystallization, this was a city destroyed by nuclear weapons!
At the beginning of the interstellar age, nuclear weapons existed for a while, but with the invention of energy weapons, nuclear weapons officially withdrew from the stage of history. The current Galactic Federation will definitely not have such a scene, but such a scene appears in the "Mountains and Rivers Society Map", which is even more shocking.
It is recorded in the history books that the "Mountains and Rivers Society Map" is a beautiful scenery like a peach blossom source, full of birds and flowers, and I have never heard of the scenery of the end times.
"This is the age of the Holocaust." Wen Junzhi suddenly exclaimed, "There is a chip in my great-grandfather's collection room, and the chip is recorded in the scene of the apocalypse. β
Jiang Tong remembered some of the history books he had read, which said that in the early 21st century, disasters were frequent, crop yields were reduced, resources were depleted, the earth's climate became very harsh, and tens of thousands of people died every day. The remnants fought for what little resources they had left, and there was a great war, with the massive use of nuclear weapons, and countless cities on Earth were reduced to ruins. Under the influence of nuclear radiation, many mutated creatures appeared on the earth, some of which looked like prehistoric trolls, and some humans gradually appeared with some supernatural beings.
The strength of the newly emerged supernatural beings is still very weak, and what has saved all mankind is physical arts. The Chinese martial arts, which had been in decline, suddenly flourished, and people discovered the mystery of internal force and began to use "qi" to strengthen the body and improve their strength. During this period, a large number of masters emerged, among which the top ten gods of war were the most famous.
No one knows how Chinese martial arts suddenly flourished, but most of these martial arts that have been passed down to the world are flawed.
Later, the ten gods of war gathered and held a meeting with a wide influence, abandoning the concept of martial arts, all of them switched to physical arts, and divided the levels of physical arts and the names of each level in detail.
It can be said that it was that meeting that laid the foundation of today's physical arts system.
Jiang Tong looked at the thick dark clouds in the sky in silence, the dust covered the sky, and the whole world was gray and gloomy. These dusts with radiation are harmful to the human body, but fortunately, the people of the interstellar era are the descendants of the survivors of the year, and the survivors were originally evolved under the influence of radiation, so the body has been immune to radiation, and this gene has been continued, and for people above level 5 in physical arts, these dusts have little impact on the body.
"If I'm not mistaken, the world in "Mountains and Rivers Society Map" is not static." "Every time it is opened, it will record the outside world, and the next time it is opened, the world in the picture will become the world recorded last time." The last time the "Mountains and Rivers Society Map" was opened, it was estimated that it was in the midst of the catastrophe. β
Arthur listened a little dumbfounded, but finally understood that he was in the painting at this time, and he asked anxiously, "Then how do we get out?" β
Wen Junzhi said with a calm face: "Only the person who activates the social map can manipulate the social map, and no one can get out now." β
Arthur was stunned for a moment and said, "Then let's go find Victor." β
"It was the magic weapon that activated the social diagram, not Victor, and the one who could manipulate the social diagram was the person who made the artifact." Wen Junzhi continued.
This is equivalent to not saying it, and the person who made the zuΓ² magic weapon has long been dead for a long time.
"Roar-" A low roar came from behind him, Arthur was startled and shouted, "Ms. Jiang, be careful!" β
Jiang Tong turned around suddenly, and a ball of flame flew out like a bullet, hitting the oncoming mutant dog, and the mutant dog's bloody body burned to the ground with a roar, and it rolled on the ground a few times with a roar, and it was burned to charcoal.
Arthur was dumbfounded: "Jiang, Ms. Jiang, you ...... No, you're a fire-type adept? β
Jiang Tong ignored him and said to Wen Jun: "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's leave quickly." Anyway, find Victor first, get the magic weapon, maybe there is some way. β
Before the words fell, there was a sound of crackling footsteps all around, Jiang Tong swept it with his divine sense, all of them were mutant dogs, each one was the size of a large Labrador, the teeth were as sharp as wild boars, the body was bloody, there were still a few traces of minced meat on the teeth, and the eyes were fierce and cold, eager to tear them to pieces immediately.
Wen Jun took a step forward, and an electric light flashed in his palm, and the mutant dogs were not afraid of death, arched their bodies, jumped forward, and pounced on the three of them. Almost at the same time, the lightning in his hand struck out, and then split into countless tiny bolts of lightning, like a net, towards the mutant dogs.
There was a crackling sound, accompanied by the painful roar of the mutant dog, and a strange smell of burnt food silently filled the air, and Arthur's stomach twitched twice, almost throwing up all the overnight meal.
Wen Junzhi put away the thunder and lightning, and there were only a dozen charred corpses left on the ground, and he said in a deep voice: "Let's go." β
When the three of them walked away, suddenly an inconspicuous iron plate was lifted up in the ruins, and several thin people crawled out, and when they saw the corpses of those mutant dogs, their eyes showed greedy light, and they rushed over, and one of them grabbed a dog corpse, put it on their thin body without a trace of muscles, and walked towards the hole with difficulty.
Arthur followed closely behind Jiang Tong and Wen Junzhi, in his eyes, these two people were extremely powerful, one was a fire-type ability, the other was a thunder and lightning ability, and they must be above the fourth order. Only by following them and hugging your thighs can you have a chance to live.
Through a complete ruin, a small town appeared in front of me, judging from the structure of the town's houses, it should be the south of China, on the lintel of the roadside shop pΓΉ, there are still some dirty and mottled signboards hanging, the words on the signboard are a little blurred, and it can be vaguely seen that the name of the town is Tianjiang.
This town has also been abandoned for many years, and the food in supermarkets and snack shops has long been swept away, while the luxury goods that used to be very sought-after have been discarded on the ground like garbage, which is embarrassing. RS