Approaching the painting, Lu Xiaojie imdiately reached out her hand to touch it. Her arm stopped at the surface and couldn’t move forward an inch. Tang Ye, beside her, observed that the content of the painting was vastly different from yesterday’s, and for a mont, he couldn’t understand it.
Of course, the content was quite simple. It was the entrance of a household, with a mighty eagle perched on the roof. The door was open, and a boy carrying many things stood at the doorway. He pointed excitedly at the eagle on the house top and looked sowhere else with excitent. In the direction the boy was looking, there was a man with his hand on the car door. It seed that this man was the boy’s father, smiling at the eagle.
On the second floor of the house, a woman dressed in bright colors leaned out of the window, looking at the man by the car door, her mouth opened as if she was calling out to him.
The entire painting had a very warm tone, giving the viewer a feeling of ho at first glance, as if the artist was explicitly telling the viewers that this family was preparing to go on a trip, making it hard for people to have negative associations.
Tang Ye was also too lazy to guess the specific content behind the painting. His gaze lingered on the front door for a while before turning to look at Lu Xiaojie.
"What happens if I don’t wake up?"
To Tang Ye’s question, Lu Xiaojie didn’t hide anything and quickly replied, "Don’t tell you didn’t see those zombie-like humanoids. If you don’t wake up, you’ll be like them. Maybe not as bad, but not much better. In short, if you don’t wake up, you’ll lose a lot of things, and you won’t understand what you’ve lost. Without experience, you can’t comprehend it. The feeling of not waking up is like you never thought you lost anything, or... gained sothing!"
"It’s like... it’s like an item you cherished long ago that you suddenly didn’t like one day, so you left it sowhere. A thief ca and stole it, but in the future, you can never rember that you once owned it!"
"I’m saying this in hopes you’ll understand one day. In short, if you can’t wake up, to Dairya, you’d be a feast that can’t be finished in hundreds of als! She’ll gradually take away what’s supposed to be yours but that you ’forgotten’, until you beco one of the many souls here, unable to rember who you were! Only then will Dairya stop her thieving ways."
"I see..." Tang Ye pondered for a mont but quickly asked, "What would that feel like?"
"I don’t know, if soday you really can’t wake up, I hope you can retain your consciousness and tell about it."
"In that case, I’d rather not."
"Alright then, let’s go, just like yesterday." Lu Xiaojie pointed at the painting in front of her, and Tang Ye stopped his questioning, turning his attention to the huge painting occupying the vast wall. Slowly, he reached out his hand. At the mont his fingertip touched the painting’s surface, he felt a slight resistance, making it feel like touching jelly. Gently pressing inward, Tang Ye’s hand sank into the painting.
At this mont, the painting underwent an indescribable miraculous transformation as everything depicted started to co to life. The front door gradually changed from a two-dinsional form to a three-dinsional one!
"Truly astonishing." Even though he had seen it before, Tang Ye was again amazed by the effect of such visual transformation.
"You get used to it after seeing it a lot, let’s go."
Lu Xiaojie waved, having seen such scenes countless tis without feeling surprised or intrigued. She stepped forward, and ahead, the wall had disappeared, turning into a space. With her step, she easily walked into it.
At the end of their gaze was a half-open door. Following her, Tang Ye stepped inside, entering a street full of holes and potholes. The air slled of pungent smoke, causing Lu Xiaojie to frown slightly.
Woo~
The surroundings were noisy. Tang Ye looked up to the sky, narrowing his eyes at the things flying overhead. In the sky, countless bombers circled, dropping countless bombs, creating explosions one after another in the distance. Initially, Tang Ye couldn’t make sense of it, but with focused attention, he realized those warplanes weren’t regular warplanes but planes made by human hands!
Apart from these finger-made bombers, there floated nurous human shadows in the air, swaying uncertainly with the wind, swinging back and forth. Set against the crimson sky, it was enough to make one’s heart tremble!
Tang Ye’s pupils shrank as he saw those shadows clearly. Their bodies were hollow, with only skin swaying up and down. They had no hands or feet but only an expressionless head, floating like jellyfish in the sea, going with the tides, without a destination.
"Are these... Human Coats?"
The swaying shadows in the sky were a type of zombie in the real world, having hollow bodies with only heads, their whole body without flesh, covered in human skin, swaying in the breeze like clothes hung on a line, hence called "Human Coats"!
This zombie’s evolution path was extre. Their mobility was entirely determined by their brains, so Human Coats simply discarded their bodies and focused on the ntal aspect, having stronger control over other types!
Moreover, these zombies surpassed others in intelligence, learning to use humans to approach humans, making them hard to trap. The scariest part was when Human Coats ford a corpse tide, it was the most troubleso scenario for survivor bases.
Human Coats seed unrelated to the finger-made bombers, with the latter flying around the sky, dropping bombs one after another, fire rising incessantly without aning, while the forr floated aimlessly.
"Look at the ground," Lu Xiaojie’s voice rang out. Tang Ye looked down, seeing shadow graffiti appearing on the ground, as if understanding sothing. He looked at her and asked, "This ans..."
"Places like this are forbidden territory for that Dairya. Once we arrive here, she will imdiately notice us."
"I see. Is the target the old eagle in the painting this ti?"
"Hmm?"
"Where is it?"
Lu Xiaojie looked around and shook her head: "You have to find it yourself, I have to keep Dairya distracted. If she focuses all her attention on you, then I..."
Lu Xiaojie paused, and Tang Ye quickly asked:
"What will happen?"
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