Kicked out of Rhodes Island, a small quilt was covered in the hole of the Longmen Bridge

Xi jumped down from the rock lightly, looking at the gray wolf in front of her with pale red eyes.

"During this process, you never asked me to disperse you from the scroll, but instead wandered around with Li, looking for so-called flaws...Why are you so active?"

Xi asked the confusion he had been having all this time, why this gray wolf was able to play around with Li and himself so leisurely after knowing that everything was a world in a painting and everything was a meaningless fake?

"Well, I can't get out after all, and Miss Xi, you bother me so much, even if you beg for mercy, you will probably only be laughed at..."

Bai Hua rubbed her ears in embarrassment.

"You idiot gray wolf... well, forget it, that's all?"

Hearing Bai Hua's response, Ximoto wanted to refute something, but in the end he shook his head and didn't say anything.

"This is just one aspect of it, and the other reason is - I like this place very much, and with Ms. Li's travels, I now feel more and more that this place is not a fake picture scroll world, there must be some 'real' existence here."

"Really, is it..."

"Actually, to put it bluntly, I like Poshan Town more and more. It's not bad to be a person in the painting here all the time—it's a pity that everyone always has to move forward, even Miss Xi."

Bai Hua returned the topic to the painter in front of him.

"...It sounds so good, but you are still a confused person after all. Otherwise, you would have left here with your own epiphany."

Xi snorted softly and retorted Bai Hua.

"Oh, that's right. Sometimes I don't know what kind of existence I am. If you look at it this way, I may be no different from the so-called people in the painting."

Bai Hua shrugged her shoulders in response.

Although through the conversation with the doctor and the documents left by the doctor, Bai Hua knew that she was a hybrid chimera with a giant beast and the "rebellious king", but whether it was the power of the giant beast or the "rebel king" ', Bai Hua doesn't even know why it resides in his body.

My own mission, Her Highness Teresia's goal, what exactly are these?Bai Hua has not been able to get an answer until now.

"——It seems that you are different from Saga. You are not really carefree and happy with the situation. But maybe it is also the case, which made Nian choose you."

Looking at Bai Hua who rarely showed a confused expression in front of her, Xi did not laugh this time, but responded in a calm tone.

"But, as I said before, I won't leave here with you."

After a moment of silence, Xi looked at Bai Hua, her voice was solemn and confused.

"Li... She is not what Bai Hua you think. She is not the so-called 'person outside the painting', she is also a [person in the painting] like everyone else in Poshan Town. It's just that I have been watching She, in this way, continues her existence as a person in the painting."

"If I leave with you, this scroll will lose its last observer. And she will...return to lines and ink."

Xi said softly.In the fixed dusk not far away, the clouds are still floating and flowing step by step.

274. People in the Picture, People Outside the Picture, Pure Passers-by (8K)

There used to be such a small town, which was located in the mountains and built around a stream.Although it is not completely independent from the world, it is true that there are very few connections with the outside world.

The name of the town is 'Bashan'. Even though the residents living in the town cannot enjoy all the conveniences in other big towns due to its geographical location, it is still self-sufficient with mountains and rivers, birds singing and flowers fragrant.

Residents in Poshan Town observe the sunrise and work day and night, because everyone bows their heads and does not see them, so there are no disputes in this town, although there are occasional differences between neighbors due to various things Be careful of quarrels, but in the end they all laugh it off. At most, let the loser go to the tavern and buy a glass of soju to calm the matter.

It is in such an extremely quiet town like a paradise, there is a girl named 'Li'.

Unlike most children of the same age, Li has been thinking of leaving this village since as long as he can remember.

In her own words, "I'm tired of seeing the river in front of me and the mountains over there. It would be great if I could dig out of this ravine to see something more interesting." '

However, the terrain around Poshan Town is steep, and even the messengers and merchants only come once every two weeks, so the family naturally won't let the young Li leave the town.

Li, who couldn't get out of the house and was bored, couldn't think of a solution for a while, so she simply copied everything she saw in front of her as a pastime. She first started to draw the beasts at home, little by little the birds on the eaves of her house, and the The dewdrops in the fields copied the river in the middle of the road and the mountains in the distance.

Unknowingly, Li has become a well-known "master painter" in the village and town. People are amazed at this little girl's ability to outline the world on paper, and many people would rather take out the bacon and shochu at home to let Li Paint yourself a majestic portrait so that one day you can leave town to brag about.

Although Li's painting ability has been recognized by many people, Li himself has always seemed depressed.She has had enough of imitating the unchanging scenery in front of her, and the business trip every half a month has become Li's life-saving straw. Whenever the businessman arrives in the village, Li will always be the first to rush forward, just to be with her. The boss chatted about what novel things he encountered on his business trip recently, and what amazing treasures he got.

But after all, Hongshang's products are just a few necessities for urban life. In less than two months, Li became bored again.

Finally, late one night, Li made up his mind.She brought her own paintbrush and white paper, and simply packed her bags, planning to go a little outside the village while her family was asleep, at least to climb over the nearest mountain.

When the full moon was high, Li started his own adventure.She sneaked out of her room, leaned against the shadow of the big tree beside the road, and walked towards the entrance of the village excitedly and nervously.

The process of 'escaping' was simpler than imagined. Li didn't even see a resident who was sleepwalking after drinking too much, so he came to the small hill that he saw every day.

The excitement of the scenery before the harvest made Li very excited, and even the pace of browsing the hillside became much faster.

Finally, Li arrived at the top of the mountain that could only be seen through the high platform of the village and town. This mountain blocked him like a barrier, but at this moment it was under his feet.

Li looked into the distance excitedly. Standing on the top of a small hill, she saw with great excitement—the sky that was torn apart in the distance.

The pitch-black sky seemed to have been forcibly torn open, and the blood-red lines slowly spread on the far side, and they kept approaching the direction of the village.

——Natural disasters, everyone has heard of this term, but many people may never hear this word appearing around them once in their entire lives. After all, the frequency of natural disasters is not high, and in the wilderness and desert forest Accurately finding the living environment of people is already a fantasy in itself.

But Li soon realized that he was not one of the lucky and ordinary people in terms of probability.

She threw the drawing board in her hand aside, turned around and ran towards the village with all her strength.

As a result, Li's desperate efforts to provide natural disasters did not bring much relief to the people. The residents of Poshan Town, who were unable to move, could only watch helplessly as the realization of nightmares and death approached step by step.

The natural disaster that hit Bashan Town finally stopped in the mountains at the entrance of the town, but no one would be happy about it, because in a sense, the natural disaster did not leave, it just spread in a different way open.

Fragments of Origin Stone crystallized and fell near the snow-capped mountains around Poshan Town, and because of this, the rivers flowing in the villages and towns that people rely on for survival were also infected with Origin Stone dust.

At the beginning, people just boiled carefully with the remaining water source, they believed that when the messenger arrived, everything would be resolved.

However, three weeks have passed, and no one has come to this village. The merchants and messengers—these people seem to have evaporated and never appeared again.

Some young and middle-aged men who couldn't help themselves volunteered, and they decided to leave the town to find rescuers.But after those people received valuable equipment and resources, none of them returned with reinforcements.

In the end, the villagers who had no more energy left could only choose to leave their homes.The former Poshan Town has become a dead city due to water pollution, and the surrounding trees have withered unnaturally.

Li finally achieved his goal and was able to leave Poshan Town, but everything was far from what he imagined.

The fleeing villagers were harmonious and orderly at first, and everyone encouraged each other to try to survive the journey in this way.

However, this harmony did not last long, and the ingredients stocked before departure bottomed out.The residents were caught in a food crisis, and hunger became the norm that Leo could feel.

No one pays attention to the painting skills that I used to be able to exchange for shochu and food. Everyone is haggard, trying their best to get some food to fill their stomachs.

Soon after, the conflict broke out again, but this time the result was not that the quarreling parties laughed at each other and went to the tavern to have a good meal. The waiter of the teahouse stoned the boss to death with his own hands, just for the dry food hidden in his arms.

Taking this as a signal, the emergency switch was pressed, and the residents began to kill each other, while Li and her parents followed a small group of people into other roads in the chaos, although they avoided being killed by their own people. Fate, but also deviated from the main road leading to other villages and towns.

As the situation became more and more difficult, Li also tried to help everyone share the pressure of finding food. She tried to find berries, collect dew, and find bugs from the shadow of tree roots.

On the way to look for berries, Li saw a novel thing on the edge of the cliff. Li was sure that he had never copied that thing, but she had heard the name of this thing. It was an extremely dangerous thing, good at A ferocious beast that catches its prey.

The moment Li met the fierce beast's eyes, Li felt his heart stopped beating.She forced her body, which had already exhausted its energy, to run, just to keep the distance from the monster as far as possible.

During the escape, Li accidentally fell into a ravine, but because of a blessing in disguise, the monster lost its trace.

When Li limped and gritted his teeth reluctantly and returned to the temporary camp, Li only saw fragments of clothes scattered on the ground, pieces of blood and flesh splashed, and the bones that had been bitten off and thrown on the ground.

"Father...mother...? Everyone, everyone...what's wrong?"

In the end, the faith that supported Li was shattered, and the girl collapsed directly on the cold and bloody stone, looking at the sky and quietly waiting for her own death.

But just before dawn was about to be completely swallowed by darkness, she saw a 'figure' in her sight.

Long black hair, turquoise horns, wearing a white coat and a black jacket, decorated like emeralds... It was also a strange existence that Li had never seen before, but this time the difference was that the figure gave Li's feeling is a sense of independence and beauty.

"Although I heard that there was a natural disaster in the vicinity, and I came to see it when I encountered a beast, but it seems that it is already a step too late——"

The figure said something, and then looked at Li who was lying on the ground and gradually lost consciousness.

"Or, is this also a kind of fate?"

"..."

Li did not respond, and she eventually lost consciousness.

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After Li was rescued by a mysterious person, he experienced several age changes in the blink of an eye.

The mysterious person called himself 'Xi' and said she was a painter, but Li seldom saw her brushing and brushing, and more often she just wandered aimlessly.

But Li didn't doubt Xi's identity as a "painter", and thought that Xi must be a world-renowned painter, because Xi guessed what Li once insisted on with just a few words, and even gave Li's painting skills a compliment. Not a small compliment, but also pointed out a thing or two about Li's painting.

In the camp before, almost everything was torn to shreds and destroyed by the murderer, but only Li's picture scroll was not bitten and shredded, and it was because of this that Li was able to recall his decayed and desolate hometown.

During the years of traveling around Yan Kingdom with Xi, Li finally realized her wish. She followed this maverick painter to witness countless magnificent scenery of Dayan. With one stroke, more and more detailed paintings are drawn, which are more and more admirable to Xi.

But no matter how much Li's painting skills improved, she would not abandon that scroll.Xi once asked Li why he kept it, and Li's answer was always the same:

"Although I have traveled to so many mountains, rivers and lakes with Sister Xi, the more I see, the more I forget. I am afraid that one day I will even blur my memory of my hometown, so I will regularly look through this picture scroll."

"Is it necessary to be so serious about things that have disappeared?"

"It hasn't disappeared, Sister Xi. Poshan Town, my parents, the residents who used to live with me—these are still here with me, and they haven't disappeared."

Li pointed to his little head, and Xi didn't continue the topic, but just snorted slightly, not sure if he was affirming or laughing at Li's behavior.

The travel distance of the two is getting longer and longer, and Li describes more and more beautiful scenery, and Xi has now adapted to such a leisurely and not boring travel rhythm.

Until one day, Li fell ill in bed.

"Hey, I thought Xie could do everything easily, but I never thought there would be things that would make you helpless..."

"Stop making such silly jokes, I'll take you to a nearby town to find a doctor."

Faced with Li's jokes, Xi didn't have the energy to respond now, so she took Li to the nearest city-state without any explanation.

At first everything went smoothly, Xi found the doctor, although the other party told Xi to find someone to line up at first, but when Xi took out a handful of broken red gold and slapped it on the other's table, the doctor started to see Li Hao's pulse without saying a word .

After confirming the lesion and prescribing several medicines for Li, the matter became complicated after that.

Xi and Li spent a day recuperating in the town, and Li's health improved a lot the next day, and because Li said that he wanted to relax on the street, Xi didn't raise any objections, but followed Li on the street a little bored. stroll.

But when the two were strolling around, a group of people dressed in imperial costumes and holding sharp staffs suddenly rushed out and surrounded Xi.

It turned out that the doctor immediately went to the restaurant to show off after getting the gold, and the unknown money immediately attracted the attention of the headhunters. After some interrogation, the doctor also confessed Xi's appearance.

After learning about the appearance of the 'Sui Beast', Si Suitai immediately dispatched a team of people to arrest and suppress Xi Xi.

"You must have made a mistake, Xi is not a bad person!"

Li tried to explain to the people around that this great painter was not a monster that nearly destroyed the Yan Kingdom, but the sight of the people around him did not change at all.

Xi didn't think there was anything strange about this battle. After all, it had only been so long since the Sui Beast was destroyed. It was not unreasonable for these people to be frightened. In fact, even Xi herself was worried about whether she would become a part of the Sui Beast one day. strength.

But when Dang Xi saw those people from Si Sui Tai trying to arrest her and accidentally injured Li, the girl who claimed to be a painter finally waved her paintbrush.

Xi drew a gigantic beast in the air, and without a word, led Li out of the right and wrong place.

Li, who was riding on the beast, smiled happily. While praising Xi's paintings, he said that Xi is indeed a very good painter.

And when Xi controlled the beast to come to a gazebo in the mountains, Xi stopped, then turned around and looked at the girl who had been following her all along, who was quite talented in painting.

"From here, it's time to part ways."

Xi just said these words quietly, completely ignoring Li Na's confused and unbelievable expression.

"What are you talking about Xi, didn't I tell you before that I will always follow you."

"This time we found the doctor, and this time I took you away from those annoying Si Suitai, but what will we do next time? You can't walk with me forever, Li. It's like your painting skills will never go away." I can't touch my fur. As a matter of whim, it should be over by now."

"..."

Xi's words made the smile on Li's face disappear. The girl seemed to want to say something more, but Xi didn't give her this chance, but turned around and disappeared from the gazebo, just like the paint on a scroll being washed away by water. Melting generally disappears.

I am a fragment of a giant beast, and that girl...she deserves to become a famous painter in the world, instead of wandering around with her life threatened at all times.

After the one-sided parting with Li, Xi once again wandered around the territory of Yan Kingdom as before.

It's just that I don't know whether it's because I've seen enough scenery, or because I'm tired of wandering and want to rest. Xi didn't linger for too long this time. ' corners to hide away.

The reason for choosing this place is also very simple, because Xi accidentally heard rumors that there used to be a small town deep in Huiqi Mountain, but it was completely barren and destroyed due to natural disasters.

Time passed as usual, and Xi lived in seclusion until she received the latest news about Li. After a moment of contemplation, Xi chose to go to Li's residence to avoid people's eyes.

When the two met again, Xi's appearance remained the same, but Li had already grown old.Time has carved the same trace, but it has not carved the same thickness for the two.

"You're back...Xi."

"You still remember me, Li."

"Haha, how could I forget? You saved my life, you showed me all the mountains and rivers in this world, you... let me know the peak that I can never touch."

Lying on the bed, Li smiled, just like the countless years he spent with Xi many years ago.

At the dying hour, Xi listened to her last prayer: