Chapter 38: The Vortex

I felt that the entire Wuying Hall was twitching, and the palatial palace was crumbling like a falling block. Every beam, every column trembled.

Everything that can be touched by the eye is "curled up" under the suffocating momentum of "Qingming Riverside Picture", which feels indescribable but can clearly feel its edge.

The imposing roof of the mountain seemed to dissolve into the darkness in an instant, and when I looked up, I could see a cloud of starlight slowly falling from the sky, as if I was in the nadiest wilderness.

"Dao Chief! What's going on? "I shouted like I was sitting on pins and needles." Can you feel it? ”

"Willow Springs! Hurry up and run outside the main hall, something is not right. Captain Zuo shouted as he took my hand and ran towards the gate.

As soon as I ran to the door, I remembered that Su'er was still sleeping peacefully in the corner, so I called out to her anxiously. "Su'er! Wake up. ”

Su'er slept soundly, and was awakened by my sudden scream, but she didn't have time to wake up before she was frightened by the momentum of the landslide. "Big ...... Big brother! What's going on? ”

I didn't have time to explain to Su'er, it was too late, so I could only run to her side desperately, ready to carry her out of Wuying Hall directly.

But at this moment, a huge whirlpool suddenly appeared on the Qingming Shanghe diagram, and the entire picture was diluted, leaving only a huge black hole on the white paper, with immeasurable attraction, dragging all of us back.

"Definitely!" Zuo Dao took out the ancient book in his backpack at a gallop, and then poked his fingers quickly on the writing, and his mouth kept repeating the inexplicable and wonderful incantation.

With the requiem-like recitations and the golden inscriptions bursting out of the pages, another great force held us tightly and fought the most sharply against the attraction of the black hole. But being pulled by these two terrifying waves at the same time, how much mortal can bear, in just a few seconds, I felt that the muscles in my body had been torn apart, and the intense pain made me almost faint.

"Ahh I screamed, and my nosebleed came out.

"Big brother!"

Daoist Zuo has always been calm and decisive, and he knows that if this stalemate continues, the only outcome is that my life cannot be saved. As a last resort, he could only put away the ancient book and stop casting spells.

It's like a tug-of-war, where both ends have power, so both ends can remain still, and one suddenly loses power, and the defeat will go down for a thousand miles.

"Big brother! I'm so scared. ”

I couldn't help but hug her and hold her tightly in my arms. "Don't be afraid...... Suer......"

But before I could finish comforting us, the force pulled the three of us into it, and I could even hear the sound of the scroll tearing, and the flying confetti hitting my body like random arrows.

It was pitch black, no stars, no lights, nothing, and we were plunged into a post-apocalyptic silence in which the world seemed to have robbed it of all sounds.

Except for the sound of the three of us breathing more and more rapidly, and the echo from the heart.

……

"Look, three more people are coming, three weirdos!"

"What are you talking nonsense, you see that little doll is dressed normally, but those two men are dressed strangely......"

"Haha...... Look at how the man lies on the ground. ”

Before he could fully awaken his senses, he heard the whispers of passers-by in their ears.

I opened my eyes slowly, and suddenly the sunlight was particularly dazzling, and the green leaves were piled up in every inch of the eye.

Then I saw Su'er lying on top of me, and she was rubbing her head while looking at me at a loss. "Big brother, what's going on with us?"

I stood up, shook the dust off my body, and then looked around until I found Zuo Daochang under an ancient green tree not far away, who was meditating with his eyes closed.

"Boss Liu, you're awake." Zuo Dao Chang didn't open his eyes to feel my movements. His deep voice was very clear at the moment.

"Dao Chief!" I rubbed my aching waist lightly and walked slowly towards him. "Daoist Zuo, what a hell! Could it be that this is the realm in the painting of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival"? ”

Zuo Daochang nodded, and then suddenly coughed dryly twice, looking extremely tired. "Yes, that's the realm of the painting."

"You...... Dao Chief, what's wrong with you, why is your complexion so bad? As I slowly approached, I gradually realized that Zuo Daochang's face was not as good as before, and he was a little pale under the warm sun.

"I just confronted the power of that person in the realm of the painting, and it consumed a lot of my energy, so this person is really not to be underestimated......" Zuo Daochang sat motionless. In the end, that historical figure would have such a high Taoism? If we don't have that strength in the middle of the painting, now that we are in the painting, how can we fight back? ”

I've never seen Zuo Dao Chang make a move, just now that ancient book inscription should be Zuo Dao Chang's first spell in front of me, its momentum is so vigorous, it is really rare in my life, I still feel the aftermath ripples, I think I have seen those powerful demons and monsters I probably don't dare to talk to Zuo Dao Look. The person in the painting has the same strength as the left chief, and it is terrifying to think about it.

"Get out of the way!" Suddenly a roar interrupted my musings, and I looked back to see Su'er standing in the middle of the road, and not far away a loose white horse was rushing towards her menacingly, neighing incessantly.

"Big brother!"

"Get out of the way, you pariahs." This voice came from a man dressed as a servant not far away, he should be the servant of a certain high-ranking official, his arrogance was extremely arrogant, and I could feel his indifference and disdain from a distance of dozens of meters. Thinking about it, this Bianjing City is equivalent to today's capital, and even a servant is arrogant in this place high in the mountains.

I was quick to see and pick up Su'er at once, and the white horse actually passed by us, bringing a biting cool breeze.

In fact, it was only after me that I realized that Su'er was not afraid of this, but I had just recklessly risked my life and almost got injured.

"You're optimistic about your horse! Can you afford to break the child? I yelled at the man not far away.

But the man didn't seem to hear me, or he pretended not to hear. He turned away disdainfully and directed the other horses as they walked slowly.

"Don't bother with him, he's just a 'puppet' without thoughts, just acting according to a set procedure." Daoist Zuo slowly stood up, it seemed that the meditation just now had really worked, and his complexion was much better in the blink of an eye.

"Dao Chief, I've also seen a lot of people who don't have thoughts in paintings, but it's really the first time I've seen someone like him who is so high-flying." I grumbled. "Could it be that Zhang Zeduan, the painter of this painting, was set up like this from the beginning?"

"That's right." Zuo Dao Chang said without thinking. "This is the true face of the Northern Song Dynasty, you know that this "Qingming Riverside Picture" was originally a realistic work, which profoundly exposed many unsatisfactory social ills of the Northern Song Dynasty."

"This! If this continues, Chen Fuming can't find it, and it is estimated that I will be killed by these 'puppets'......"

I was discussing the mystery of the realm in this painting, and we didn't realize that a strangely dressed person had been standing behind an ancient tree behind us for a long time, and he was slowly walking towards us.

"Hey!" The man let out a forceless cry.

Daoist Zuo and I turned around and began to look at him, as I said, he was really dressed strangely, but this strangeness was only for the other people in the painting, because he had a shiny big back, a neat tunic, and a pair of shiny black leather shoes under his feet.

"You! Are you also from outside? ”

"Shh Seeing that I responded excitedly to him, the man was a little panicked, and he hurriedly walked to my side. "Sir, be quiet."

Why is he so cautious? This used to be the world in the painting, and most of the pedestrians in it were 'puppets', was he still afraid of being heard by these puppets?

"Sir, you're right, I don't belong here." The man looked around, then pointed to me deeper into the woods. "Let's go where no one is around."

Although I don't know what this person is having, I really want to hear what kind of wonderful remarks this person will say at this moment, so I pulled Su Er and Zuo Daochang to follow.

He walked to a place where there was no one around, and he refused to stop.

"I'm here to protect myself, but also to protect the two, you must be cautious, it will be miserable if you are caught by the officers and soldiers." The man was sure that he was absolutely safe, and finally began to speak normally. "It's been a long, long time since anyone new has come in here, how did you get in? What era is out there? ”

This person doesn't say anything, but when he says it, he talks endlessly.

"It's 2015 out there."

"In 2015? Haha, time flies so fast. The man looked up at the sun and laughed heartily. Which party won? Is China still being bullied? ”

The question this man asked was ridiculous. "China is now about to dominate the world, how can anyone bully it? And big brother, what are you talking about? ”

"It's the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and I'll tell you the truth, in the era I lived in, there was only one party in China, the Kuomintang. I was originally a high-ranking general of the Kuomintang, and I joined the China League when it was founded. Later, he was swept into this place by accident, and he has been isolated from the outside world. Later, a few more people came in, and they told me that Japan had attacked China, that Japan had taken control of the Qing government, and that there had been a war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and that I didn't know anything about the rest of the world, because no one had been involved anymore. “

It turns out that this person is a Kuomintang general a hundred years ago, no wonder his question is so strange.

"Big brother, I'm really sorry, your party lost ......"

"Oh, that's right. It's a pity, it's a The man clapped his hands violently, looking unwilling. But if you lose, you lose, it has nothing to do with me, I will be satisfied if China is powerful. ”

He looked at the sky indifferently, as if smiling.

"But I must tell you something that has something to do with you and me."

As he said that, he stretched out his arms and rolled up his sleeves, and I noticed a cross-shaped tattoo on his hand. Zuo Daochang and I looked at each other, completely unable to understand the meaning.

"What is this?"

"This is a sign, a sign of the living, and all those who come from the outside must have a sign like this, and only when everyone is united can they live."