Monster Apartment

Gu Bai watched Si Yiming walk in, thought for a while, then stepped in, and then closed the door with his backhand.

Unexpectedly, after entering this closed passage, I didn't feel any discomfort, nor did I feel the dullness that there is no air circulation all year round.

Gu Bai leaned on the handrail and walked forward behind Si Yiming.

The stairs spiraled downward, and the descending steps were gentle and not steep, but after walking for about 2 minutes, Gu Bai inevitably felt a little dizzy.

Si Yiming felt that Gu Bai's footsteps had slowed down, turned his head to look at Gu Bai who was shaking his head while holding on to the handrail, thought for a while, and stretched out his hand to him.

Gu Bai was taken aback, then tilted his head slightly: "What's the matter, Mr. Si?"

Si Yiming explained: "I'll take you with me."

Gu Bai looked at the armrest he was holding on to, and then at Si Yiming's outstretched hand. After thinking about it, he still didn't lose Si Yiming's face, and put his hand on Si Yiming's outstretched hand.

Si Yiming's palm was large, warm and powerful, with calluses on the palm, which looked rough.

It was the first time for Gu Bai to carefully feel the details in Si Yiming's palm. He was pulled by Si Yiming, and his hand was held tightly.

He looked down at the hand being held, feeling the friction between the two hands as he moved.

Gu Bai has drawn a lot of hands, he knows exactly where the calluses should be and what caused them.

He looked down at the clasped hands, moved unconsciously occasionally, and touched the callus in Si Yiming's palm.

It seems that Mr. Si is not a pampered person. The thick callus on the palm is formed by hard work.

Qian Dushang did not have Mr. Si's experience before betting on stones to make a fortune, probably his situation was not good before that.

Gu Bai was thinking while touching, and after leaving his attention from the steps on the bottom of his feet, he didn't even feel dizzy.

Si Yiming felt as if there was a light feather in his palm, scratching it every now and then.

He glanced back at Gu Bai, and found that he was looking at his hands intently, he simply stopped in his tracks, let go of his tightly clenched hands, and opened his palms to show him.

Gu Bai also stopped, looking up at Si Yiming with blank question marks on his expression.

He stared blankly at Si Yiming, and asked the same question as before: "What's the matter, Mr. Si?"

Gu Bai's voice is always low when he speaks, and his tone is soft and non-aggressive. He himself is not considered tall. He is now two steps taller than Si Yiming, so he is barely on eye level with Si Yiming. .

He looked at Si Yiming blankly, and the bright light above his head fell into his eyes, like starlight falling into the sparkling water, gently shaking with the ripples.

Si Yiming saw many good-looking monsters, but he rarely saw such pure eyes.

He paused, lowered his voice a little, and said, "See, you really want to study my hands."

Gu Bai looked down at the hand in front of him with the palm up, and realized that Si Yiming was referring to his previous unconscious behavior, his face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"I'm sorry, I'm not... I just want to..." Gu Bai stuttered and wanted to explain, but he couldn't find a reason, and finally lowered his eyebrows and eyes cowardly, and fell silent.

"It's okay." Si Yiming took Gu Bai's hand again, led him to continue walking down, and took the initiative to step down the steps for the little boy who wanted to get into the cracks in the ground, "It's an occupational disease."

Gu Bai nodded indiscriminately: "Yes! Occupational diseases!"

Si Yiming didn't answer the call.

Gu Bai heaved a sigh of relief, he didn't dare to touch and poke him even after being held by him, and followed Si Yiming to the end obediently.

The exit of the stairs is an arch, and behind the arch is a dark hall—or so it can be called a hall.

Gu Bai raised his head, and saw a tiny flickering star on the dome in the darkness, exuding a very faint light, competing to show off his own faint light in the pitch black.

Gu Bai looked at the dome, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became. It wasn't until he found the slightly brighter Big Dipper that Gu Bai suddenly realized that it was a shrinking Milky Way.

Under the faint light of this Milky Way dome, Gu Bai saw the murals on the surrounding walls again.

Obviously, it is a narrative mural.

The theme is the change of generations in the battle of Jin and Ge, sometimes mixed with some content that looks like offering sacrifices to heaven, and the costumes on the murals seem to be recorded from the pre-Qin period.

These paintings are all over the entire hall, and the change of dynasties can be clearly seen.

Si Yiming let go of Gu Bai's hand, walked to the side and slapped the wall.

The whole hall instantly became brighter.

Gu Bai narrowed his eyes slightly, and after getting used to the bright light, he saw the stone slab on the main seat of the main hall, about one person high, at a glance.

"There." Si Yiming pointed to the stone slab, "You want to draw."

Gu Bai took another look at these murals that he had never seen in the documents, then looked back at Si Yiming, and asked cautiously: "Mr. Si, isn't this a historic site...?"

"Yes." Si Yiming nodded, "But there must be someone to protect it. There are more people on the top, and not just anyone can interfere on the bottom."

Gu Bai was startled, and immediately understood what he knew and stopped asking any more questions.

This must be some incredible secret mission!

Thinking about it, Gu Bai quickly dismissed his curiosity, but couldn't help feeling excited and excited.

Seems like a step into Dad's world!

Gu Bai thought a little happily, then walked towards the stone slab.

Si Yiming also followed.

It is impossible for ordinary humans to draw a mythical beast that can hold the entire west.

Even Gu Bai is enough, but it doesn't matter, when the time comes, call Bai Hu who doesn't know where to go to work overtime and ask him to charge the slate.

Compared with the central region, the west is still relatively stable, but Baihu recently sent a letter asking for help, saying that those strange beasts came out one after another, and he was also responsible for suppressing those evil spirits.

It just so happened that Si Yiming discovered such a big treasure like Gu Bai, and immediately brought him here to help a group of old friends.

Evil spirits and demons are born in the human heart, and wherever there are people, they will exist.

Under the shroud of such aura all the year round, ordinary humans will feel exhausted and depressed, and those with weaker bodies may directly fall ill.

But this is not the reason for the beasts to work overtime to help suppress.

The reason why they have been helping to suppress the evil spirit is because the influence of this thing on monsters and beasts is much greater than that on humans!

The severe drought several decades ago was caused by the inattentive Zhuniao who was in charge of the south, and the two drought hawks were influenced by evil spirits to try to report to the office, so they sneaked out of their nests, resulting in a shocking catastrophe.

Of course, the life and death of humans has little effect on the beasts. After all, this race is lucky. Under normal circumstances, they will not kill themselves no matter what they do for at least ten thousand years.

But for the gods and beasts, if those things that would easily lead to severe droughts and floods in wars, if they bounced all over the map, Mother Earth might not be able to support so many strange beasts.

The alien beasts of their country of China were stamped by the International Union of Unnatural Creatures, and they repeatedly asked to pay attention to guarding them.

Especially those evil spirits that will draw the strange beasts out of their nests must be well suppressed.

These evil spirits were often seen in previous years, but they officially began to erupt in a blowout form about 300 years ago.

What is the specific reason, the beasts think it is probably because of the population explosion in the past few hundred years.

And Gu Bai's paintings can temporarily suppress the evil spirits in an area for the beasts, which means that they can free up more hands to catch those restless beasts.

After Si Yiming discovered Gu Bai's ability, of course he led people into battle without hesitation.

This is about the safety of Mother Earth.

In other words, they are doing this to save the world!

Gu Bai, who had no idea that he was actually saving the world, was currently researching the material of this stone slab.

Indoor murals do not need to pay too much attention to lighting effects, after all, you can directly support a light stand to adjust the light angle.

On the way he came, he already had a draft in mind, so it's okay to think about the material and start working directly.

The only problem now is that the slate is not level.

If it is uneven, either use visual error to adjust it, or make up for it.

Gu Bai felt that he might have to look for a store that sold acrylic materials and grass-roots treatment materials.

The box of materials he brought probably wasn't enough.

Si Yiming watched Gu Bai walk around the stone slab twice and then ran back, looking at him silently.

"Mr. Si, we have to buy materials." Gu Bai said, and then counted a lot of things to buy.

Si Yiming has no objection, problems that can be solved with money are not problems.

But thinking of money, Si Yiming realized another problem. He turned his head to look at Gu Bai, and asked him: "You haven't mentioned what reward you want, this time."

Gu Bai was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately fell into distress.

Gu Bai grew up poor, saw little, and his vision was not high. He knew nothing about finance except for stocks and funds.

Coupled with the fact that Si Yiming paid him all the travel expenses when he came to Province X this time, Gu Bai was very embarrassed to ask for any more big rewards.

He even felt that people like Mr. Si who spend tens of millions of people every minute to spend a month with him to collect scenery and pay all the bills are completely more than the value of a mural.

Gu Bai saw such beautiful scenery along the way, and experienced many things that he had never seen before.

He pitched a tent, slept in a sleeping bag, set up a stove in the wild, picked wild vegetables, soaked in open-air wild hot springs, saw the bluest sky and vast meadows, and even touched yaks and wild donkeys.

He has been very happy for half a month, and sometimes he feels like he is dreaming.

Mr. Si's company and help are very important to be able to experience these things smoothly and happily without having a bad stomach due to a cold or being trampled by yaks and wild donkeys.

These experiences and the laughter of these days are enough as a reward.

Asking for more money, Gu Bai felt that it was a little too much.

Gu Bai thought so, and said so.

He lowered his head in embarrassment, said to thank Si Yiming, and then concluded in a low voice: "So, so the reward is unnecessary. It is enough for Mr. Si to play with me."

Si Yiming couldn't understand this brat who repeatedly rejected Pixiu's money.

But this did not prevent him from feeling Gu Bai's sincerity and joy.

Gu Bai's thanks came from the heart, and his happiness was almost written on his face. He clearly felt from the bottom of his heart that his company would be enough to offset the value of a mural of divine beasts.

It's so good.

Why are you not greedy at all!

Thinking about it, Si Yiming couldn't hold back and stretched out his hand to rub Gu Bai's head. The force was a bit heavy, and Gu Bai dangled back and forth.

"Don't regret it if you don't get paid," he said.

Gu Bai's head swayed back and forth along Si Yiming's, and when he heard what he said, he nodded with a smile.

The two walked towards the stairs they had come from.

Gu Bai looked at the winding stairs, paused, and then tugged at the corner of Si Yiming's clothes.

"Mr. Si, is there no elevator here?"

Si Yiming was taken aback by this question, but still replied: "No."

"..." Gu Bai was silent for two seconds, and decided to respect his setting as a delicate art student.

Bring a tent sleeping bag and self-heating rations when you come back to paint!

He doesn't go out until the painting is finished!

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