We have obviously walked out of the painting, and even the scroll has been sealed and rolled up. How can we still be in the painting?
But the flames that have burned the land in front of me remind me all the time that we are indeed still in the painting.
I remembered what Wu Tinghan told us about her encounter with Chen Siqing on the highway, so I hurriedly looked for a water source, planning to use water to wet us and then rush out together.
But when I saw that most of the yard had been burned down and there was no water source at all, I panicked. But what makes me even more panicked is that the flame is not ordinary yellow, but green!
In other words, even if we find a water source and get wet all over, we will still be burned to the point of being burned to ashes!
Not only that, in my panic, I also saw that after the ground in the courtyard was burned, the exposed part was completely dark. It didn't look like the ground in the real world at all. Instead, there was only boundless darkness, more like purgatory on earth.
If my guess is correct, this painting was probably hung on the cliff, so I saw this scene. What’s even more despairing is that even if we find a way out now, we’ll probably be shattered to pieces.
While I was still thinking about what to do, Wu Tinghan jumped out of the door first, stretched out his hand to remove the door panel, stood it sideways in front of the steps, and then quickly poked a fist-sized hole in front of the door panel with a judge pen.
While she was doing this, she was yelling at me to take out a bamboo tube filled with water from her backpack.
I didn't know what she wanted to do, but I did it right away.
When I was looking for the bamboo tube, I saw Wang Minghua run to the back wall of the house, pull out the ax in his hand, split the wall with three strokes, five divided by two, and send Zhang Hazi out first, and then returned to the house. inside, carrying the huge scroll, and then told us to run over there quickly.
At this time, I just handed the bamboo tube to Wu Tinghan. After she opened it, she fell into the hole in front of the door panel, then threw the bamboo tube into the green flames, then turned and ran into the house.
I put on my backpack, and she and I got out of the holes in the wall one after another, and then we discovered that behind the house was an endless reed swamp!
Damn it, it’s really raining all night when the house is leaking, the fire is coming fiercely, and there is such a large reed swamp that is so desperate, doesn’t this push people to a dead end?
There is no other way. The front of the house has been occupied by green flames. If you rush over now, you will only be a moth to the flame. And even after rushing over, there is still a cliff waiting, and the word death is always there.
The area in front of us, let alone the reed swamp, is an oil field. We can only rush in now.
Wang Minghua held an ax in his hand to clear the way in front. Wu Tinghan and I ran on either side of Zhang Hazi. The four of us were like awls, thrusting into the reed swamp.
But not long after we ran, Wu Tinghan asked us to stop, and then asked me to work with her to cut an isolation belt around us.
I don't quite understand, this green flame can burn everything in the painting. Even if I cut out the isolation strip, it won't help and it will waste time. Why do I do this?
But since Wu Tinghan gave the order, I didn’t ask any questions, so I followed her request, picked up the bamboo knife and started swinging it left and right. When Wang Minghua saw this, he also put down the scroll and pulled out his ax to help.
After finishing it, the small area we were standing in was only black land for the time being.
Wu Tinghan put away the judge's pen, then stood there, facing the room, folding his hands on his chest, looking intently, motionless.
Wang Minghua then asked, "Senior Wu, are we...?"
He didn't finish his words, but everyone knew that he was asking Wu Tinghan why he stopped.
Wu Tinghan still kept his arms crossed, but raised his chin slightly, pointed in the direction of the room, and then said three words lightly: "Watch the fun."
I saw Wang Minghua's face twitching and his expression full of embarrassment. It's not just him, I'm also a little confused. Now that I'm talking about it, why do I still want to watch the fun?
Let me tell you, eldest sister, it’s important for us to escape for our lives now. When we run out, can I burn down the paper shop for you to watch?
As soon as I finished speaking, I received a solid kick on my butt, and then I heard Zhang Hazi yelling, "I will burn down your house, I will burn down my paper shop, why don't you let me?" I will drink the northwest wind from now on?
Let me tell you, what time has it been? It’s still unclear whether you can get out alive. How can you still dream about the future?
Zhang Hazi said, you know what, you don't want to be burned to death, so just watch the fun like her.
Let me tell you, wouldn’t you die faster if you stayed here?
Zhang Hazi said angrily that her move was like watching the fire from the other side, which could temporarily stop the will-o'-the-wisp.
Will-o'-the-wisp, no one calls it that in the circle, it is Zhang Hazi and I's nickname for the green flame.
Can it really be stopped?
Wu Tinghan said that it could temporarily prevent the fire from spreading towards us, but it could only delay it for a while and treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.
I kept my eyes on the fire and found that it had not reached the house yet. I couldn't help but feel happy, and then asked her, can this also isolate the fire?
She said, what is the afterthought of watching the fire from the other side?
I say, watch the fire from the other side - watch the excitement. Well, no wonder you asked me to watch the excitement. It turned out that you were planning to 'watch the fire from the other side'.
She asked, why can we watch the excitement from across the bank? It is because ordinary fires cannot burn to the other side, so everyone can watch the fire from the other side leisurely. When we watch the excitement here, it is equivalent to turning the thing I just arranged into a bank, and the fire will naturally be unable to burn it for a while.
Well, I learned another trick.
Let me tell you, what should we do now?
Zhang Hazi said, "Ha-de-de, take a look, is there all thatch (which means reed) around here?"
I stood on tiptoe and looked around, and found that everywhere I looked, there were mighty reeds. It seems that the other party expected that we would run to the back of the house, so they drew a large reed field here. In this way, we can say that there is no escape.
After hearing what I said, Zhang Hazi did not rush to express his position. Instead, he took a bamboo stick in his hand and knocked it on the ground. Then he hit me with the stick and asked me if it hurt.
Without saying anything, I picked up the bamboo knife and was about to chop it up. Damn it, I'll chop you. Do you think it hurts?
Zhang Hazi dodged and hid behind Wu Tinghan, then grinned and said, it's okay if it hurts, I'm afraid you don't know the pain.
I say, if you can, don’t hide behind a woman and challenge her one on one!
Zhang Hazi suddenly looked stern and said, "You are old now, Hazi has the heart to play and play here, so run away!"
After finishing speaking, he turned around, spread his legs and got into the reed marsh. The speed he ran did not look like that of a blind man, but more like that of a duck who was forced to die! His legs clacked and he ran away without a trace.
Wu Tinghan and I were stunned. After looking at each other, we followed him in the direction of his escape.
But as soon as Wu Tinghan and I took a step forward, we heard a whooshing sound, and Wang Minghua disappeared.
I was stunned by the scene in front of me, and I couldn't help but ask Wu Tinghan, what was that thing just now, that swish?
Wu Tinghan said with a straight face, "Shameless thing!"
Wu Tinghan and I chased each other for a long time, and then we saw the two of them. One was holding a bamboo stick, and the other was holding a long scroll. They were standing there, looking towards us in a gentle breeze. Overlook.
In fact, Wu Tinghan could run very fast, but after running for a while, she had to look back at the direction of the house to "watch the excitement".
When the two of us ran up to them, Zhang Hazi looked at me with contempt and said, "Don't you believe me when I usually tell you to masturbate less? You see, now I am so vain that even I, Hazi, and him are so vain." Lao Ba Shi (elderly people) can't outrun Lao, can they?
I really don't have the energy to make trouble with this guy now, otherwise I will definitely give him a severe beating with a bamboo strips knife.
At this time, Wu Tinghan said, running away like this is not an option. What should we do next?
Zhang Hazi said, if you don't run away, since the other party has made a big patch of grass, it will definitely be grass no matter which way you run. They think they can burn us to death like this. Humph, I'll show them today. I've been mistaken for being clever!
After finishing speaking, Zhang Hazi looked at me and said, "Haha, frustrated, frustrated." After a while, he listened to my instructions and acted accordingly.
I asked, what can I do?
He said without hesitation, "Set a will-o'-the-wisp!"
I thought I heard it wrong, so I asked again, "Will-o'-the-wisp?"
Zhang Hazi nodded, with an unmistakable look on his face.
I reached out and touched Zhang Hazi's forehead and asked him, are you confused by the fever? There is a will-o'-the-wisp burning in front of you, and now you are setting one off, do you think you didn't die quickly enough?
