Paintings of Terror

Chapter 146: Ke Xun: #@&%￥….

Ke Xun crouched down and wrote the word “ox” on the ground with his fingers. Fortunately, there weren’t a lot of strokes in this character; anything else would have been more difficult for him. However, due to his body changes, the character he’d written into the dirt was crooked and didn’t look like it ought to.

Fortunately, Wei Dong understood, and hurriedly rushed to Ma Liang’s residence to lead the ox out. He smacked the ox’s behind with the whip, wanting it to run so he could follow it to the hidden world.

However, the ox completely ignored Wei Dong and lowered its head in search of grass.

Wei Dong was in a hurry. He whipped and kicked the ox again, but instead of moving, the ox knocked him to the ground instead.

“It’s not working!” Wei Dong looked at Ke Xun in panic. “Don’t fucking stay in this world anymore; go back to the initial room!”

Ke Xun ignored him and frowned. Wei Dong watched as several cat whiskers popped out from the corners of Ke Xun’s mouth. He became so anxious that he was on the brink of tears. He hurriedly thought of Mu Yiran’s tricks and stepped forward to pinch the back of Ke Xun’s neck.

But Ke Xun jumped to the side, avoiding him. Staring at him, he said, “Do you think meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow?”

Although a series of meows only came out from Ke Xun’s mouth, Wei Dong understood him enough to guess what he was saying. Anyway, he was blasting him for trying to handle him like his boyfriend’s.

Wei Dong frantically pulled at his hair. “Leave quickly. I’m begging you. I’ll help you find the hidden world Hailibu!”

Even if Ke Xun didn’t say it, Wei Dong knew for whom and why he came to this world.

Ke Xun shook his cat face slightly, his expression firm. Then, he ran toward the county magistrate’s seat again.

Wei Dong followed desperately behind him. As they ran toward the entrance of the village, they heard the cry of a child, “My sheep, my sheep, my sheep, my sheep–”

This was the story of the government officer robbing a kid’s sheep. Later, Ma Liang painted a sheep for the child, and the child was happy once more.

Ke Xun skidded to a halt when he heard this cry. His cat ears stood straight up as he suddenly thought of something. He pointed to the direction of the cry and called for Wei Dong.

Wei Dong didn’t even have to think about his requests. He immediately rushed over with his paintbrush. The officer had just snatched the kid’s sheep, but Wei Dong ignored him. With his brush, he directly drew a sheep on the wall.

The sheep bounced off the wall, and the child hugged it happily.

Wei Dong turned his head to look at Ke Xun in confusion. “It didn’t trigger anything?”

Ke Xun’s cat ears stood up again, his round eyes fixed on the child and the sheep in front of him. He suddenly turned and rushed toward the officer that had stolen the previous sheep. Wei Dong watched as he leaped into the air like a cat, paws outstretched. With a swipe, he directly scratched the officer bloody.

The officer screamed in pain and unconsciously released the sheep he was holding. The sheep jumped to the ground, spread all four hooves, and ran forward. Ke Xun chased after it and saw when the sheep turned into a streak of light. A round door suddenly appeared in front of them.

“Meow, meow, meow!” Ke Xun said. When he’d watched this cartoon as a child, he’d hated the officer to death. Moreover, the NPC in this painting had also reminded them in a very obvious way–“My sheep, my sheep, my sheep,” indicating this as an NPC mission. So naturally, this was an important sheep.

When he ran through the round door, what appeared in front of him was a grassland scattered with white sheep. A group of men dressed like Mongolians were dancing and singing in the distance.

“Meow meow tell! Meow meow meow ha! Meow found!” Ke Xun’s pair of cat eyes were bent into crescents.

When Wei Dong dragged him back to the initial room, Mu Yiran was also there. Ke Xun rushed over to squeeze his arms and legs and discovered that he was stiffer than yesterday. Letting out a meow of distress, he directly carried him on his back and ran into Ma Liang’s world.

Mu Yiran’s didn’t refuse Ke Xun this time. He quietly leaned on his back and spoke to him softly, “Ge Lei was so scared that he went crazy. I knocked him out by the door of Black Cat Sheriff and will bring him inside the room before 11.”

“Meow,” Ke Xun said.

“After putting me in Hailibu’s world, you have to go back to the initial room,” Mu Yiran said in a deep voice, looking at his sideburns that were turning into cat hair.

“Meow-meow.”

“Don’t worry, I will pay attention to safety.”

“Meow wu, wuwu, meow?”

“Yes, I want to try to trigger a hidden world. Maybe once all the hidden worlds are triggered will the artist’s signature appear. So this is something that must be done. I’ll come back before 11. Even if, for whatever reason, I can’t rush back in time, don’t come to find me, do you understand?”

“Ao.”

“Don’t be stubborn.”

“Wuuu…”

“Be obedient.”

“Mi woo.”

When Ke Xun finally returned to the initial room, Qin Ci and the others had also returned. Upon seeing Ke Xun’s half-human, half-cat appearance, they were all shocked.

“This fucker was running around!” Wei Dong complained to everyone with red eyes.

“Xiao Ke, you can’t continue going to other worlds,” Qin Ci admonished, frowning. “If there’s something that needs to be done, I can do it. My body hasn’t undergone any changes. Even if I go to other worlds from time to time, my transformation will take longer than yours.”

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“Meow.” Ke Xun’s ears drooped.

“Let’s hurry up.” Zhu Haowen looked away from his furry cat ears and said in a deep voice, “Let me talk about my discovery first. I tracked one of the mice in Good Kitty, which triggered a hidden world. This One Ear mouse was really the same mouse as the one in Black Cat Sheriff.”

“Meow?” Ke Xun looked at him in surprise.

Zhu Haowen looked at him. “So I didn’t discover a new hidden world. What was triggered was an existing world, Good Kitty.”

Qin Ci added, “I thought about all the important plots and things in the story of the fish boy, and finally discovered that one of the main characters in this story, a white-haired old man, actually took out a good boat to catch more fish. I followed him and triggered a hidden world. Unfortunately, what was triggered was another existing world, the one where Zhao Haicui had died.”

At that point, Luo Wei and Li Yaqing had returned from the world of Nezha with Wei Miao.

Luo Wei’s Fire Boy and Li Yaqing’s Legends of the Book of Heaven were both hidden worlds. Luo Wei believed that Legends of the Book of Heaven was similar to Nezha Roils the Sea and so he decided to help his girlfriend find her hidden world first. In addition to this, Wei Miao didn’t dare to go to her world alone, and so the three of three of them entered Nezha Roils the Sea together.

“The story of Nezha Roils the Sea is very long,” Luo Wei frowned slightly. “We managed to advance the story for a short period of time. But, in the story, Nezha pulled out the dragon crown prince’s tendons, and Wei Miao’s prop is a dragon horn headband. We were worried that his role is that of the Dragon Prince so we didn’t care to continue pushing the plot. We had to come back temporarily. As a result, we weren’t able to trigger a hidden world.”

“This is indeed a problem…” Qin Ci pondered. “We can’t advance the plot on the premise of sacrificing one of our lives. Are there anything else we haven’t thought of yet?”

“Ao wuwuwu meow meow can also do it meow!” Ke Xun said quickly.

Everyone looked at him with a slightly stiff expression.

Ke Xun was stunned. “Meow, wuwuwu, don’t understand ao ao meow?”

“We don’t understand…” Everyone shook their heads together.

“Meow fuck!” Ke Xun became aggravated.

“…I understand that,” Wei Dong said, and then looked at him anxiously, “What should we do?! How about you try to write it down?”

Ke Xun took the pen and paper that Luo Wei had handed over and drew on the paper with great effort. Zhu Haowen took it and saw that it was all messy squiggles.

“Probably only Mu Yiran can understand what you’re saying.”? Zhu Haowen looked at him blankly. “I’ll bring him back.”

Ke Xun scratched his sleeve and shook his head. “Meow!”

“Are you saying that it’s too dangerous?” Qin Ci guessed from the cat’s words. “Indeed, it isn’t Haowen’s own world, and so his body changes will accelerate. Let me go. I’m probably the most normal of the people here, the one closest to a pure human, which will allow me to go to other worlds at will.”

After speaking, he didn’t delay and immediately stepped into the world of Ma Liang’s Divine Brush.

Seeing that Ke Xun was so upset that he was biting his cat tail, Wei Dong quickly found another topic to distract him. “Don’t you guys find it surprising that we haven’t eaten in nearly two days but we aren’t the least bit hungry?”

“Probably because this is the world of cartoons,” Zhu Haowen said. “Many cartoons deliberately obscured the plot of eating because it involves the animal food chain. For example, in Tiger Learns a Skill, the tiger learns how to climb from the cat. The tiger also gathers with a group of monkeys and squirrels to talk. This being the case, if eating is involved, that world will become very contradictory and chaotic.”

“…Yes, does the tiger eat small animals or is it a vegetarian? It’s unclear.” Wei Dong nodded. “So this problem is blocked out in the cartoon, which means that our need for sustenance will also be blocked.”

Moreover, Wei Dong thought to himself, when facing the corpses in this room, no one would have the appetite to eat anything.

Thinking this in his heart, he involuntarily glanced in the direction of Qi Qiang’s separated corpse. When his gaze met Qi Qiang’s severed head, a full-body shudder went through him, followed by a wave of nausea that poured up from his stomach, scaring him. He closed his eyes and took deep breaths, but Qi Qiang’s face, which no longer looked human, was etched into his retina.

…Ahh?

Wei Dong felt as if something seemed a little strange. He wanted to open his eyes and look again, but he felt that it was too disgusting. After thinking about it, he opened his eyes and looked at Ke Xun. “Ke’er, can you still understand human words?”

“…” Ke Xun spit the tail from his mouth. “Meow.”

“Then look at Qi Qiang’s face. Was it like that before his death?” Wei Dong didn’t hesitate to throw his best buddy into the pit.

Ke Xun glanced at Qi Qiang and was so disgusted that the hair all over his body stood on end. He looked back at Wei Dong in irritation, “Ao ao meow meow fuck ao! Meow meow don’t understand meow meow nonsense?”

Wei Dong could guess what this guy was saying, something like. “Fuck, so disgusting. Why did you want me to look at it? Even if I look at it, you won’t even understand what I’m saying. But you still want me to look at it, what nonsense.”

He pointed a finger at his own face and told him, “I’ll talk. Just nod your head. Did you see that Qi Qiang’s eyebrows are particularly weird? I remember that his two eyebrows were very close together, which made him look really malicious, but I just glanced at him earlier and his eyebrows seemed to have moved further apart.”

Hearing this, Ke Xun looked at Qi Qiang’s face again. Then he nodded and marked the distance with both hands. “Meow meow far apart.”

“Right,” Wei Dong said. “I noticed that his eyebrows were different on the first night. Now that he is dead, it’s even more obvious. His eyebrows are too wide. Even in cartoons, isn’t this kind of face too exaggerated?”

“Meow?!” Ke Xun suddenly seemed to have thought of something. His eyes widened and he thought hard for a while. Then he yelled at everyone, “Meow know! Ao meow, meow!”

Everyone: “…”

“…Uh, what are you talking about?” Wei Dong finally said.

Ke Xun shouted, “Meow meow meow!”

Wei Dong:…The title of the cartoon can’t save you now…

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Xida: Don’t forget that Mu Yiran swallowed the fruit from the Hailibu cartoon, which allowed him to understand animals. So that’s why he could understand Ke Xun. By the way, all your meows in the comments are just too amusing.