97. Painting and coughing
Mirrors outside the world.
At this moment, the whole town has undergone drastic changes.
The road leading to the outside of the town has disappeared, and walking down the street is like walking in an abstract painting.
The surrounding buildings are full of stream-of-consciousness colors, and even the houses on the east side appear spliced together with the shops on the west side.
It's like building blocks, but it's really abstract and haphazardly spliced with building blocks.
The signs at the corners of the streets have completely lost their usefulness.
Because he may not have taken two steps, when he looks back, the scene behind him has been turned upside down.
There is a certain spatial rule here, which is like a ghost hitting a wall, and people can never get out.
However, the surroundings were much quieter, not like before, full of townspeople who had turned into mad monsters and hunted outsiders.
Because the vast majority of the townspeople have been attracted by Nie Yuan, they have gathered in front of the window leading to the mirror world, or have been projected into the mirror, and continue to stop their actions.
The few townsfolk who weren't attracted to the past also gathered around the ragged and miserable Dennis and Quentin.
They haven't been able to get out of the trap yet, or even if they escape from the hunt of the townspeople, they will soon be caught up again in the town of Pass, which has been completely alienated.
If we don't solve the origin of the force field, this situation will continue.
So on the other hand, Buck and Qiaoqi, who have never intervened in the townspeople's riots, are much easier.
Although from time to time, there are still a few townspeople who come to the door, but they can easily solve it.
There seemed to be a circle of invisible power around their bodies, and the aura of this power was similar to those derivatives in Paz Town.
It is precisely because of this circle of power that they will be able to walk in the alienated town of Pass, without triggering those treacherous tokens, and easily without triggering the townsfolk to chase them down.
This is the power that Buck extracted from some derivatives, making it temporarily form a protective force field that does not cover a large area, but can barely surround his body.
At this moment, there was a shadow on the ground in front of them, swimming forward at a constant speed, never exceeding the distance of five meters from Buck.
It's like there is an invisible rope that ties the shadow so that it can't exceed the length of the rope, and leads the way for the two of them with peace of mind.
"Nie Yuan, they won't have any problems, right?" Qiao Qi couldn't help but ask.
"No, they haven't fully released their power yet, and there are still spell marks, if something happens to them, we can rush over quickly." Buck replied.
Qiao Qi turned his head and looked in the direction of the world in the mirror from a distance, and said:
"They attract a large part of the town's hostility, and that's why we can walk so easily, but if we're trapped inside, it's dangerous, can we go faster."
Barker's gaze was always on the shadow in front of him, and he didn't blink his eyes, as if his gaze was the rope holding the shadow.
He spoke: "It's already the fastest, the environment here changes, if you are not careful, this thing will disappear, and you will have to start all over again, but...... It seemed to be around here, and its movements began to slow down, and when Nie Yuan's shadow was released, the situation should be able to improve slightly. ”
Through the exchange of scrolls before, they also knew about the situation on Nie Yuan's side.
The shadow is gone.
It is possible that it will be manipulated by the town of Paz.
Just then, Buck followed some kind of clue and came to the street lamp that grabbed the shadow.
He first used the derivative of the street lamp as a "gas station", adding a little energy to the protective force field around himself and Qiao Qi.
Then he threw a frog in, let the street lamp deprive it of its shadow, and followed the shadow all the way to relieve the town of Path from the shadow and control the outsiders.
First help Nie Yuan erase the potential danger factors, and then liberate a few more church members by the way.
Let them continue to attract firepower for Buck's Bookstore as well.
Because those who were manipulated were already mixed in with the townspeople, if they woke up, the townspeople who had a clear goal would naturally riot because of this.
The pros outweigh the cons.
As he spoke, the shadow in front of him was already still, at least from the outside world.
And Buck, who was in the middle of it, knew that it was his gaze as a leash that stopped the shadow's next move and prevented him from moving.
Because this shadow is not moving forward, but has an upward trend, as if it is about to run out of the ground and pour into the real world.
"Is this it?"
Seeing Buck's footsteps stop, Qiao Qi asked again.
"It should be."
Buck replied and looked up.
I saw that above a painting gallery in front of me, several huge handmade paintings were hanging.
It may be that the shopkeeper deliberately got it in order to advertise, so that passers-by can see their craftsmanship.
These paintings are all semi-realistic, with landscape paintings, figure paintings, and fantasy paintings.
Barker's gaze ignored the other paintings, and landed on the one on the left, which depicted a distant view of the town of Pass.
It can be seen that this painting is a semi-realistic copy of the work created by its author on a small hill outside the town, looking down on the town of Paz.
But with the eyes of Buck and Georgie, they didn't look at the painting for a while, and they found the clue.
That is, in this long-range painting of the town of Pass, there are some small black dots swimming.
If you are an ordinary person, you will never notice anything abnormal when you pass by here, because the black dot is too small.
If you notice something, it's just a little bug flying.
But when Buck and Georgie's eyes were focused, it was like a magnifying glass.
Not only did they see the black dots, which were completely present in the painting, but they were also able to see that the small black dots had a semi-realistic humanoid silhouette.
Shout!
Buck's afterglow was completely away from the shadow on the ground, and then he saw a black shadow that flashed before his eyes.
It came out of the ground and swept into the air at a rapid speed.
Vaguely able to capture, a vague frog shape, just like that, fell straight into the painting.
Then, like acting in a movie, it is clearly a two-dimensional painting, but it deduces the complete picture of a semi-realistic frog falling rapidly from the air towards the distant view of the town of Pass.
Eventually, the frog became one of the small black dots, much smaller than the other humanoid black dots.
Perfectly matches the size ratio of humans and frogs.
"That's how you manipulate outsiders?"
……
The world in the mirror.
After hearing Nie Yuan's reminder, the Aztecs, who had not found anything, and Nancy, who was admiring the hostess's long skirt, all turned their heads to look at him.
Aztec said, "Did you find anything?" ”
Nie Yuan replied: "Not long ago, someone came here, but I don't know if it was other townspeople, as well as Edri himself, in short, there are traces of someone touching the desk." ”
"But when we came up, we didn't notice it at all."
Aztec pondered, "If it were the other townspeople, they shouldn't have been able to hide like this, and they should have forgotten that Edri once existed, so...... Mo is not Edri himself? ”
Nie Yuan shook his head, indicating that he had no ideas, and said, "I'll try the handwriting of truth, I've come here, it should be able to give some clues." ”
Nie Yuan hadn't tried it before, and directly asked questions like Truth Handwriting, the origin of Path Town, or where Edri was.
But the nature of the handwriting of truth is not enough to give a direct answer, so there is no reaction at all.
However, he and the others have found the true location of Edri's old mansion, and now they should be able to ask some questions and give some clues.
As he spoke, Nie Yuan took out the yellow paper.
But before he could speak, the three of them were alarmed at the same time, and they all turned their heads to look in the direction outside the bedroom.
"Ahem, ahem."
Just smell.
There were a few coughs outside, which seemed to be coming from downstairs.
However, when they went upstairs just now, it was clear that there was no one below.