It's a strange feeling, I lit the lotus lantern, but the people in the painting are accusing each other, saying that the other person lit the lamp.

I told Wang Yue, and she stood in front of the painting, focusing on her eyes without blinking. She nodded slightly: "Your idea is not fanciful, there is only one possibility, what happened in the painting is real, and you lit the lamp and triggered the timeline in the painting." ”

It dawned on me, "You mean, the timeline is stopped before the lampstand is lit." The moment I lit it, the whole painting began to move. ”

"The matter of lighting the lampstand," Wang Yue said softly, "the world in the painting has indeed happened." ”

We stopped talking and looked at the picture together, and the people were gathered together, as if in a heated discussion. At this time, one of them turned on some kind of light source device, and the brightness suddenly increased, and the entire temple was illuminated. The moment the light came on, I finally saw the faces of those people clearly, and I was extremely shocked for a moment, I was really stupid on the spot.

The man who lit the lampstand just now turned out to be my father! Among the few people who came in at the back, there were two women, and one of them was indeed my mother!

"This is my dad and my mom." I yelled.

"Huh?" Wang Yue exclaimed and covered her mouth with her hand: "It's your parents?" Your parents are part of the geological exploration team, is this their exploration mission? ”

I didn't speak, staring at the picture, every cell in my body boiling.

I also recognized a person who was my dad's colleague and a good friend, and I used to see him come to my house to drink with my dad, and I called him Uncle Chen. Uncle Chen is also in the painting, arguing fiercely with my father, and their conflict does not seem to be whether they light the lampstand or not, but must have accumulated for a long time.

Mom reconciled in the middle, persuading Uncle Chen and Dad, and the others didn't intervene and watched quietly from the side.

Because there was no sound, I couldn't hear why they were arguing.

At this moment, someone suddenly pointed to the lotus lampstand on the incense table, and all the people in the painting looked over. Wang Yue and I also looked over and didn't know what was going on.

I saw that the lotus lampstand began to rotate by itself, starting from the bottom layer, the lotus decoration actually bloomed, first at the bottom, and then bloomed layer by layer, the visual effect is really dazzling.

The lotus flowers on the four sides of the lampstand change color, and four colors appear: black, red, green, and yellow.

The four colors of lotus petals are spinning rapidly. At this time, these people in the painting seem to be standing unsteadily, and they all look at their feet, as if there has been an earthquake in the temple.

Wang Yue and I both saw a lot of dust falling on the beams of the temple, the roof of the temple in a strange form was shaking violently, and all the people in the painting fell to the ground, their first reaction was to run out, but the temple gate was closed tightly at some point, and they couldn't push it open.

Uncle Chen suddenly pointed to the lotus lampstand on the incense table, and seemed to say something loudly, and I could see the shape of his mouth. He was saying that the temple tremors were all caused by the lampstands.

Dad and Uncle Chen barely stood up, and they stumbled to the incense case, a little helpless in front of the lotus lampstand. Dad stretched out his hand and kept twisting the lampstand, but the lotus petals on it seemed to be made of metal, extremely sharp, and when I turned like this, my father's right hand was suddenly scratched, blood leaked out, and the canvas that could be seen in that small area turned red.

The earthquake became more and more severe, and there were a lot of spider silk-like textures on the ground of the temple, which quickly became larger, and someone's flashlight did not hold it steady, and fell down the gap, and below the ground was the abyss of Hesse, and I don't know where it leads.

I was so shocked that my heart was in my throat, and I was looking at it intently, when Wang Yue suddenly pushed me: "Lin Cong, the four colors of the lampstand are the same as the colors of the handles of the chest of drawers inside." ”

It occurred to me that I was right. But even if it's the same, what's wrong, I still don't have a clue.

"The two are related." Wang Yue said hurriedly: "I understand, it must be to align the color and put it where it should be." ”

"But how do you align it?" I asked.

There are currently four colors, black, red, green and yellow, and who knows which color is in what position.

Wang Yue stared closely at the lotus lampstand on the screen, thinking hard, as if she had found a pattern. And I had no idea, my heart was tightly clenched, hoping that she could quickly figure out the pattern.

The scene on the screen is becoming more and more dangerous, and the ground is full of large cracks, as if it has been hit by an earthquake. One of the expedition members didn't hold it for a while, and actually fell in. Mom clung to the pillar, an abyss had appeared under her feet, she was shouting something, Uncle Chen and Dad were studying the lampstand.

At this time, a huge texture quickly spread in front of the incense case, I almost screamed when I saw it, my father and Uncle Chen reacted quickly, they quickly climbed up the incense case, and at this time, all the plots under the incense case fell, and a deep black hole appeared.

Wang Yue frowned, looked at the lampstand of the picture, and shouted: "I know, it's the five elements!" ”

"What do you mean?" I hurriedly asked.

Wang Yue said: "Black belongs to water, it is Xuanwu, which refers to the north. Yellow is made of gold, it is a white tiger, and it belongs to the West. Red, bright in fire, belongs to the Suzaku and is the south. Needless to say, the green color is gone. “

"Hurry up and switch." I yelled.

Wang Yue stretched out her hand and touched the picture, but at the moment, it couldn't affect the picture, and she couldn't touch the lampstand inside. At this time, my dad was unsteady on his feet, lost his center of gravity, and fell off the incense case, and I almost suffocated when I saw it, and screamed. Uncle Chen on the painting reacted very quickly, reached out to grab it, my father's fingertips and his hand touched lightly, did not touch, the two of them looked at each other, at this moment, my father's eyes were full of mourning. The next second he fell into the abyss and was never seen again.

At this moment, my eyes were dark, and I almost lost my breath, and the whole person fell backwards. Wang Yue hugged me and said, "Lin Cong, you have to be stronger, the crack of this mechanism is not in the painting, but in the chest of drawers inside!" Let's hurry up. ”

I barely stabilized my body, she pulled me into the inner bedroom, we stood in front of the chest of drawers, Wang Yue encouraged me with her eyes: "Lin Cong, only you can activate the mechanism, you can do it." ”

I gritted my teeth and held down the ring and started turning, turning black to the top, red to the bottom, yellow to the left, and green to the right. As soon as I turned around, I heard a crisp sound of "Gada", and the door of the chest of drawers opened!

Wang Yue and I looked at each other, and I mustered up the courage to open the door of the cupboard. The "crunch" door opened, revealing the contents of the house.

The moment I opened it, my heart almost stopped, there was really a person in the chest of drawers!

In the cupboard hangs a puppet dressed in red, carved from wood, and the eyebrows and facial features are outlined with cinnabar, which is vivid, looking like a paper figure used in rural funerals.

A rope is tied around the puppet's neck, and the puppet is hung in its entirety on a clothing hook above the chest of drawers. This dummy is gently swinging back and forth, which is very scary.

As soon as I saw this puppet, I remembered my childhood aunt in red clothes, and quickly closed the cabinet door, and my heart was very troublesome.

Wang Yue looked at me sympathetically and took my hand.

"By the way, let's go out and see the painting first." I was thinking about my parents. Coming to the outside room, Wang Yue held up the lamp and looked at the wall. Looking at it again this time, the picture seems to have changed dramatically.

Everything on the painting stopped. The timeline stopped again.

I saw that the members of the exploration team on the screen were almost all wiped out, only my mother was holding the pillar in shock, and Uncle Chen was lying on the incense table in the distance, and only the two of them survived.

Between the two of them, there is an unfathomable black abyss, a huge hole that seems to lead to an unknown world underground.

The picture is still at this moment, not moving.

I can roughly tell that I just twisted the handle ring of the chest of drawers and cracked the mechanism, and then the timeline on the screen stopped.

The situation here is very strange when you think about it. If the scene on this painting is real, it is likely that my mom and dad's last geological expedition took place in Phoenix Mountain two years ago, then their experience two years ago actually matches my behavior in the bardo realm two years later!

I don't understand the logic and causality at all, and my brain is a mess.

If I can get out, I must confirm that the picture has really happened, and that it is not a fantasy in front of me. To do this, first of all, I have to save my mother, in addition to my mother, there is also a crucial person, that is, Uncle Chen.

I remember very well that when the bad news of my parents came, I asked the leader who was still alive at that time. The leader hesitated for a long time before revealing two pieces of information, one was that this incident happened in Phoenix Mountain, and the other was that there were two survivors at that time, in addition to my mother, and the other was Uncle Chen.

Later, I looked for Uncle Chen, his whereabouts are unknown, and I asked many leaders of the Institute of Geology, and they all said that the matter was confidential and that the files had been sealed. I'll just give up.

Looking at it today, he is also a witness to this accident.

Wang Yue gently took my hand and said, "Lin Cong, we have to go back and check the chest of drawers, there must be hints and mechanisms for the next step." Come back with me, okay? ”

At this time, I was close to collapse, and this bardo realm was really not fun, and every mechanism was poking at the heart.