(Foreword)

You think you've found the answer, but it's a glimpse of the void.

(Text)

September 17, 2021 at 18:51 p.m.

We've been walking non-stop for almost two hours now. What is certain is that we are out of the rainforest, but we still haven't found the slightest hint of a rest area.

"You say there won't be any other rest areas? We walked for so long that we didn't see a shadow of any building. Cui Li drooped his head, looking very tired.

In fact, he is not the only one, each of us is almost tired to the point of not being able to do it.

"Yes, Zhou Feng won't lie." Li Ruina still firmly believes in Zhou Feng, and her pace seems to have accelerated a lot.

"We just believe in your company so much that we are here at this point. I said that I shouldn't come to any scientific research group, and that I was just looking for trouble. Zhang Han muttered quietly.

Li Ruina obviously heard Zhang Han's words, but she didn't know what to say.

"It's already dark, and even though we've left the rainforest, I don't have much food or water, and I can't find a rest area, so we're in trouble." Xia Cheng said, speeding up his pace.

The stars in the sky guide us on our way. We look for the spark of hope in the night.

September 17, 2021 at 19:30 p.m.

"I'm not leaving, I really can't walk." Zhang Han sat on a tree stump.

"We can't stop, get up!" Xia Cheng's tone was stern.

"I don't care, any of you can leave if you want, I won't go." Zhang Han looked at Xia Cheng with disdain.

"What's that? Look! Zhao Yuyu pointed to some light in the distance.

"Maybe it's some kind of insect light?" Cui Li tried to look into the distance.

"Maybe it's the rest area? Anyway, let's go check it out first, shall we? "I proposed.

Hearing the three words in the rest area, Zhang Han immediately stood up. And so I walked again towards the flame of hope.

September 17, 2021 at 20:25 p.m.

"Lounge area!! It's a rest area!! Everyone shouted.

We ran desperately to get into the hut. The cottage has two floors, with two vacant bedrooms on the upper floor. On the lower level is a spacious hall. The interior of the house is decorated in a different style from the previous one, with some European design style, and a beautiful pastoral oil painting hanging on the wall. In terms of living facilities, they are all complete.

"Dinner! Dinner! Cui Li took out a lot of food from the refrigerator.

Seeing the various ingredients on the table, we started to have a headache again, who will cook rice?

"I can help with the dishes." Cui Li is always the first to throw a problem to others.

I saw Li Ruina picking the ingredients on the table and bringing them to the cooking table. "When I was studying abroad before, I cooked by myself, but the taste was average, and everyone had to make do with it."

Half an hour later, the ingredients on the table just now instantly turned into fragrant dishes. These dishes are delicious to look at. Except for Zhang Han, everyone sat down at the table.

"Why don't you come and eat?" Zhao Yuyu watched Zhang Han sit alone on the sofa and eat bread.

"I'm not hungry, you eat." After Zhang Han finished speaking, he turned his head and continued to eat bread.

"You just leave him alone, you'll only blame this and that along the way. We eat. Cui Li couldn't wait to start eating. Although the others didn't speak, they basically agreed with Cui Li's words and ate by themselves.

I walked in front of Zhang Han with the tableware: "The food belongs to everyone, including you, and we still have a long way to go." Are you going to rely on your bread alone? ”

"Come on, the food is going to be cold." Li Ruina urged.

"Okay, when I said the wrong thing earlier, you have a share of this food, come here." Cui Li realized that his previous words might have gone too far.

"Zhang Han, I may have been in a heavy tone when I was on the road." Xia Cheng placed an empty chair next to him.

Zhang Han took the tableware in my hand and sat down on the seat prepared by Xia Cheng.

"This dish is really delicious!"

"Cui Li, you eat less!"

"Lin Yun, that's my cheese!"

………

Who would have imagined that we were still full of quarrels and blame before. Now it seems that all this is gone in this moment, there is only the noise at the dinner table, as if returning to the school cafeteria.

September 17, 2021 at 21:15 p.m.

"By the way, do you remember the panic button that Zhou Feng said?" Zhao Yuyu's sentence made me see greater hope. That means we can get out of here.

"That's right, if anyone wants to give up halfway, they just press the button and AEF staff will take us out of here." Lin Yun added it very completely.

We were looking for the location of the panic button in the lobby on the first floor. I looked for more than ten minutes, where is there any.

"Will it be on the second floor?" Cui Li looked at the ceiling.

"No, Li Ruina and I have already gone up to look for it." Zhao Yuyu's words extinguished the last hope.

I looked around and there was nothing special about it. Finally my eyes fell on the oil painting on the wall. I got a little closer, and the layout of the oil painting was complex and orderly, showing the pastoral scenery on the canvas, the sun on the right side of the canvas was dazzling and bright, and the colors were well controlled. The whole wheat field is bright on the left and dark on the right, and the layers are clear. The stepped layout is from far to near. It can be seen that the skill of this painter is by no means ordinary!

But suddenly I felt a pain in my head. What's going on? Isn't it only a headache when you watch a chess game? I looked closely at the paintings on the wall again, and suddenly I noticed something very special.

"Come and see an oil painting!" I called the people around me.

"We don't have time to appreciate any paintings." Cui Li continued to search the hall for the button.

"What's the problem? I don't see anything special, do you? Zhao Yuyu stared at the oil painting in front of him and didn't find any problems at all.

"Come closer, take a closer look." I said.

"Wait! Could it be—" Xia Cheng seemed to have discovered the problem.

"That's right, normally, the overall layout should be consistent with the distribution of light. The sun in the upper right corner controls the overall brightness of the canvas. It is also impossible to be bright on the left and dim on the right, and it is impossible to look at the light of reality. My voice became deep and powerful.

"So you mean the panic button is right behind this painting?" Cui Li didn't wait for me to answer, he stood on top of the chair and went to get the oil painting.

But I always feel that there are still some problems that I haven't figured out, and just when I was still thinking about it, the oil painting has been taken down by Cui Li.

Seeing the wall behind the oil painting, the expressions of everyone present suddenly became solemn.