Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 2085 The Trap of the Portraits
Minna's sharp scream tore the air in the cave like Kakata's face.

Amidst the screams echoing from the mountain wall, Lin Sanjiu was the first to rush towards Jia Jiatian who was on the ground; when she knelt down and carefully lifted his shoulders, Pina and Pan Cui also arrived one after another.

No one understood what happened just now, and they didn't dare to make a sound; the rapid breathing sound in their ears, when Lin Sanjiu slowly rolled over Jia Jiatian's body, seemed to be suddenly cut off by the silence. Living.

Minna's screaming stopped, and the lingering sound was still echoing inside and outside the portrait. She seemed to rush to her nephew in the "Portrait World", and shouted angrily, "Raven! What have you done!"

The "Jia Jiatian" she saw in the portrait world is probably different from that in the cave - because after seeing Jia Jiatian's face, for a few seconds, Lin Sanjiu wanted to move her body, but she didn't have a muscle to obey, let alone anger up.

She couldn't understand what she was seeing.

Pina covered her mouth with both hands, her fingertips and cheeks were white, her whole body was trembling slightly.Pan Cui stretched out a hand, as if she wanted to touch Jia Jiatian's face, but she drew it back immediately before getting close.

No blood, no exposed muscle tissue, no subcutaneous fat... From a certain point of view, Jia Jiatian's face should not be scary.There was only a long slit, starting from his forehead, and slashed across the entire face obliquely, causing his face to be opened like an oil painting canvas—under the slit, there were no bones, no nerves, just a piece of The empty blackness of the oil painting background.

Lin Sanjiu reacted, and hastily pressed Jia Jiatian's body.His body is the same as that of a normal person, with warm body temperature and elastic skin, and the shape of musculoskeletal muscles can be felt under pressure.He is indeed a person, or was, was a person.

But what about his face?why?

"Mina, stop barking,"

An impatient reprimand came from Peter's portrait, and then he raised his voice to the rest of the people: "Everyone be quiet, don't panic!"

Lin Sanjiu raised his head involuntarily.

Lei Wen had already left Jia Jiatian's portrait, and returned to his own oil painting portrait - so, if Lei Wen had done something in his own oil painting last time, wouldn't she have become like Jia Jiatian as well?
Pan Cui seemed to have thought of the same place, and looked at her with a pale face and fear.

"We all know what's going on," Peter's deep voice, if you listen carefully, you can hear a bit of satisfaction. "What are you panicking about? I have already warned everyone that they might use someone's image to approach us... But I didn't expect that Jia Jiatian would be the first to be exposed."

The three evolutionaries seemed to be frozen in place, guarding Jia Jiatian whose face was cut open like a canvas, and did not dare to move.

A small part of the reason why they didn't dare to move was that they didn't want to make a sound and attract attention; a large part was because they could all hear Peter's voice coming from two places at the same time.

One source of the sound is Peter's oil portrait; the other is the faint darkness behind Jia Jiatian's cut open face.

"Raven and I have already discussed it. Once someone reveals his true nature irrefutably, we will immediately get rid of him and don't give that person any chance to escape." Peter seemed to be enjoying every word he said. He said slowly: "Ming Na, don't cry, your nephew is not a person on earth at all... They created a human appearance to approach us and want to completely cut off the spread of the truth."

This is the essence of portrait duplication...Lin Sanjiu could only feel the buzzing in his head.

Sure enough, as she guessed, there was no plot at all—what they had to do was not to make the portrait suspicious, pretending that they were also a person in the portrait world, and escaped from the portrait cave after the party was over.

If you can't do it, you will be attacked by the portrait, and you will become like Kakatian in front of you.

However, where exactly was Jia Jiatian exposed?Lin Sanjiu really couldn't think of it.

"Wait, wait a minute," Kate asked tremblingly, "Peter, you just said that the first one to be exposed is Jia Jiatian... how many are there?"

This sentence caught the attention of the three evolutionists.

Lei Wen's sentence "It is possible that all four of them are" jumped into Lin Sanjiu's mind.

From under Jia Jiatian's broken face, from the bottomless darkness, a small part of Peter's voice drifted out: "Well, I think Jia Jiatian may be the first one, or it may be the only one. The truth is, we can't tell if a person is a real person or a character that 'they' have put into our world until we see the evidence."

What "evidence" did Jia Jiatian give him?
Peter also said: "According to our research over the years, 'they' and the characters created by 'they' are inseparable... Cutting off the characters will also severely damage the 'they' in another dimensional world."

"If there are more characters, then we shouldn't be talking about it now," Nika interrupted him a little nervously, and said hesitantly, "You know—"

Peter gave a low laugh. "Yes, I know, 'they' are capable of hearing us."

wait.Considering Lei Wen's previous sentence "Why didn't you use anti-monitoring facilities", could it be that the portrait knew that when they spoke, they would be heard by their group, but still——

So everything has a purpose... No wonder, no wonder Kate keeps holding back from going to the bathroom!

Lin Sanjiu felt a flash of lightning flash through her mind, and subconsciously opened her mouth; just when she was about to speak out, Pan Cui held her arm and shook her head at her.

Lin Sanjiu reacted, quickly shut his mouth again, put Jia Jiatian back on the ground, and took out a pen and pad.

"Peter," Scott's voice sounded like a ghost from the end of the cave: "You promised me that the characters sent by 'they' are of high value, and once you catch one, you will..."

"Of course," Peter said solemnly, "I promised you, I will naturally remember. Now let me take a look, what kind of abilities are installed on this character..."

Pan Cui, who was beside her, froze almost imperceptibly.

Just the tense muscles and subtle changes in expression, so slight that it was almost like an intangible breath, were enough to make Lin Sanjiu raise his head from the pad and glance at Pan Cui at that moment.

"I'm so envious," said an unmistakable inner monologue from Kate's portrait in the cave. "When will it be my turn to obtain the ability drawn from the character?"

Even the portrait of Nika couldn't help but snorted sourly in his heart as if envious. "Originally based on seniority, it's my turn to get the ability of this role. If it weren't for Scott's possible election as a local councilor, why would Peter favor him? Why don't I run for the next round... ..."

Pina's lips opened and closed a few times silently.Although everyone was silent, Lin Sanjiu could still imagine what she wanted to say—it turned out that they and their group were just prey in the trap of the portrait.

Since entering the cave, the portraits have been staring at them, trying to find clues from them that they are not portraits...

She didn't want to raise her eyes to look at Jia Jiatian's body, resisted the turbulent emotions in her heart, lowered her head, and continued to write on the pad.

"I know what's going on, although I don't know the whole picture yet," she wrote. "The most important thing is that the gathering of portraits tonight is a test for us. Jia Jiatian didn't know why he was exposed. , It's already irreparable... But at least, I know how to keep the three of us. Pan Cui, please give me your book with clues."

When Pan Cui finished reading this passage, she raised her head suddenly, and there was a slight sound in her neck bone.

She didn't say anything, just lowered her head to get the notebook; Pina went first and hurriedly wrote on the pad: "How to protect?"

This has to be explained from the beginning... When Lin Sanjiu was sorting out his thoughts, he heard a surprised and suspicious question from Peter's portrait: "What's going on?"

Several people turned their heads at the same time.

They exchanged glances with each other. Under Lin Sanjiu's gesture, Pina nodded and asked in a low voice to Peter's portrait: "What, what's wrong? I'm new, I don't understand..."

The three of them had to participate in the conversation from time to time, otherwise the three of them would sit quietly next to this accident and make no noise, which would definitely arouse the suspicion of the portrait.

"Why not?" Peter's anger seemed to be directed at Jia Jiatian, "His corpse looks like this, which shows that he is just a character, there is no doubt about it. But why can't I extract the ability from him ?”

Scott became uneasy, and said, "Try again, it's impossible that it's my turn, and you won't be able to do it."

Although I don't understand how they tried it, and I don't understand why they couldn't extract the ability from Jia Jiatian; but while the conversation between the portraits is getting louder and louder, it is a way for the three to communicate with each other. good opportunity.Lin Sanjiu took Pan Cui's notebook and carefully read every clue and conjecture, and even read what Pan Cui wrote to Jia Jiatian - when she closed the notebook, she felt more confident.

"Since the start of this dungeon, I don't know how many evolutionists have walked into this cave again and again, dealt with the portraits, completed various conditions, and completely disappeared from the world of portraits—that is, evolution The survivors either died or left from here."

Lin Sanjiu had to write quite a few words, and she had to hurry up, so the characters and strokes were all written very briefly, and the strokes would skip from time to time.

"After so many confrontations with the evolutionaries, I think the portraits already have a deep understanding of us. Although they may not be able to truly understand our existence and concepts such as copies, there is one thing that they are undoubtedly very clear about. .”

Pina tilted her head slightly, looking at the sentence in the notebook, doubts were written all over her face.

"They know that we can only hear them but not see them.

"We can't see them, and we can't see where they are—and that's the trap of tonight's gathering."

Pina and Pan Cui raised their eyes, both dazed and shocked.

"So, when we prove that we can see the surrounding environment clearly, it also proves that we are also a member of the portrait world... If I guessed correctly, as long as the trial is cleared, once the party is over , we should be able to get out of here."

Pina grabbed another pen and hurriedly wrote on another pad: "Prove that we can see the environment? Why prove this? I don't understand."

Lin Sanjiu exhaled.

The following part is mainly her speculation based on the clues given by each portrait, if it is wrong...

She shook her head, shaking off the fear.

"Don't forget," she wrote in her notebook, "Peter set up the experiment to screen out the evolutionaries. The location of the 'Hilltop Mansion' was also what he told us through his inner monologue at the beginning-in his heart The monologue may also be heard by the evolutionary. In fact, neither the portraits nor us are in the mansion on the top of the hill at this time."

　In the past two days, I have tracked my mother's daily life trajectory every day, did she take medicine, did she eat, did she drink water, what time did she go to bed, how was her health, and whether there was any problem... She was also very stubborn. I have to video call for half an hour for the medicine, and I have to scare her to get her to take the medicine even if she is persuaded and coaxed.

　
(End of this chapter)