"What is this? A snake?"
Looking at the green-scaled snake in the painting with a shocked expression, Zhao Mu, who had lived in a village since childhood and had never seen such a realistic portrait, was stunned.
That lifelike snake simply refreshed Zhao Mu's understanding of "painting" and made him have no doubt that the other party would jump out of the painting in the next second.
Besides, he didn't know if it was Zhao Mu's illusion, but he always felt that this portrait had some kind of strange attraction to him.
It's as if I shouldn't exist here, but live in this painting. This painting is my home and my final destination.
"Well……"
Looking at Zhao Mu, who seemed to have forgotten to be wary of his "enemy", Pei Wende was stunned for a moment, and then realized what he had overlooked.
In Zhou Sheng's memory, Pei Wende saw not only the past events of his life, but also the entire truth about this mist and the people in the village.
Or to be more precise, through Zhou Sheng's past memories, Pei Wende saw the part of the truth that the village elder deliberately concealed.
In the narrative of the village elder, the villagers in the mist seem to have been living in the village from the beginning.
Until the arrival of Zhou Sheng, the "outsider", finally broke the calmness of the fog and triggered a battle between the invisible things and the skeleton giants.
The birth of the Skeleton Giant can be seen as Zhou Sheng's masterpiece and a manifestation of his psychic skills.
But what about intangible things?
In what form did they originally exist?
Why do the villagers forbid their children from entering the fog, and even make up the lie that there are monsters in the fog and a world of monsters outside the fog?
In Zhou Sheng's memory, Pei Wende found the answers to these questions.
Regarding the first half of the story about the Mist Village and the Invisible Object, the old man did not deceive Pei Wende.
After the villagers in the Mist Village leave the fog, they will return to the fog because of the constraints of the fog.
Then, these villagers will completely turn into invisible and formless fog monsters, and begin to attack the villagers living in the fog.
Although this frequency is not high, it will cause huge casualties to the villagers every time.
Until Zhou Sheng arrived and created a "tomb-suppressing beast" that could resist and suppress invisible objects-the Skeleton Giant.
But the old man only said this, but he did not tell Pei Wende the whole truth, but concealed the most critical part.
That's why the invisible thing attacks the Mist Village?
The invisible thing in the fog is the self-defense instinct of this fog, just like the human body's immune system, which theoretically will not attack the cells in the body.
But the villagers in the Mist Village are different. They are not normal "cells".
In fact, the scrolls that Pei Wende has seen are the essence of the villagers and the real collection of "mirages".
Anyone who is obsessed with "mirage" and collects paintings will always live in their own scroll, and live an eternal life in the scroll day after day.
However, although the "mirage" possesses incredible magical powers, it is not an eternal god.
"Mirage's" abilities have limits, and as a living creature, there are moments when his abilities decline.
At this time, those obsessions that have always lived in the scroll will "awaken", and some lucky people will break free from the shackles of the scroll and realize their identity.
It's just that those lucky ones who broke free from the shackles of the scroll were surprised to find that although they left the eternal scroll day after day, they could not leave this fog.
As time passed, those who learned to break free began to live in this fog, and gradually formed the prototype of today's foggy village.
Immediately afterwards, these "people in the painting" who gradually gained a foothold in the fog encountered a very difficult problem.
That is, the child born from the union of the "people in the painting" cannot be born smoothly at all.
Once those children who should never have been born come into contact with the mist, they will soon turn into nothingness and become invisible things wandering in the mist.
So in order to save their children, the villagers tried their best to drive away the fog, and finally formed a small area without fog in this huge fog.
At the same time, in order to prevent their children from accidentally coming into contact with the fog, the villagers made up the lie that there were monsters in the fog and a world of monsters outside the objects.
Unfortunately, this approach can only delay the time for the children to turn into invisible objects.
When every child is about to become an adult, even if they are not exposed to the fog, they will disappear very suddenly one day.
Afterwards, even if Zhou Sheng helped the villagers solve the fate of "death upon adulthood" for the children, these children would still be swallowed up by the fog one day. It was just a matter of time.
In a sense, Zhu Nu finally insisted on letting Zhao Mu leave this fog, just to let her child escape this unchangeable fate.
"Her name is Xiaoqing, and she is the person I am looking for this time."
After a brief hesitation, Pei Wende did not tell the cruel truth.
In order for Zhao Mu to successfully survive to adulthood, Ada used his own life to make a deal with Zhou Sheng, and turned into a skeleton giant to guard the fog for more than ten years, until he was finally swallowed up by the fog.
In order for Zhao Mu to leave the fog smoothly and give him the desire and belief to live, Zhu Nu didn't even let him know about her transformation into a skeleton giant.
Pei Wende did not feel that he was qualified to make decisions for them, because the parents had spent everything they had to keep their children alive.
"Do you know why I want to stop your 'psychic ritual'?"
He didn't seem to see Pei Wende's intention to change the topic. When Zhao Mu heard the other party's question, he showed a confused expression in a cooperative manner.
"Why?"
Zhao Mu's doubts were not false, because he really didn't know why this "outsider" stopped him from leaving the fog.
At this moment, Zhao Mu suddenly remembered what Pei Wende said when he just broke into the backyard - if your mother was still awake, she definitely wouldn't want things to develop into this situation.
Also, when he was in the psychic circle, Zhou Sheng's wife once told him that his mother had already paid the price for his trip to the outside world in advance.
Thinking of this, Zhao Mu felt an ominous feeling in his heart.
This ominous premonition made him feel even more frightened, and he even began to regret why he had listened to Zhu Nu and came to look for Zhou Sheng alone.
"Is there something going on with my mother?"
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