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

"Although it is said that the artist only paints to satisfy his own creative desires, but...but to be appreciated by everyone, and even thanked by the 'person in the painting', I am really happy..."

Xi, who was hiding behind Bai Hua, whispered in a voice that only she and Gray Wolf could hear.

"Remember to exercise more when you get back, Xiao Xi. Don't run out of breath after running for a few steps." Li pretended to be holding a big sword and said.

"It's about time for you to find a boyfriend." Xi leaned out from behind Bai Hua to retort.

Li and Xi 'taunted' each other like this, while the villagers and Bai Hua watched the scene.

"Gah~"

Ah Bite, who was held in Bai Hua's arms, also let out a cry of joy, announcing that all the sufferings were finally over.

The world of the picture scroll originated from the two 'girls', and finally ended up in the 'battle' between the two. This is a fact that even Bai Hua, a mechanical descendant, cannot interfere with.

"So can I have pizza?"

When everyone saw off the two 'saviors' and left, Ah Ran asked a question curiously.The unobtrusive girl's voice made everyone pause, and then let out a more cheerful laugh.

"Well, it depends on what the outside world looks like, but in fact, Aran, you can also try to do it yourself, wait for the rice fields to be golden again, wait for the tomatoes in the fields to be ripe, wait for the pineapples on the ground— — No, it seems that you can’t put pineapples in it? Anyway, try it yourself, Aran.”

Bai Hua walked up to the little girl and knelt down, stretched out her tail to fulfill her last contract - after everything was over, let the other party lick her tail as much as she wanted.

"Well, then I will learn from Brother Bai Hua and try many, many interesting flavors!"

"of course!"

Aran nodded excitedly, Bai Hua gave a thumbs up in satisfaction, and the surrounding villagers showed panic expressions.

This period of moderate disturbance was just a small episode, and today's Poshan Town no longer has the sun and moon fixed in the air that will not pass away, so everything is slowly moving towards the awakening of the dream.

Everyone waved to Bai Hua and Xi, and Bai Hua finally got up, and followed Xi to the exit of the village where the sun rises in the east.

"Sister Li?"

Aran, who was leaning against Li, noticed that the little pawnshop shopkeeper next to him seemed to wipe the corner of his eyes.

"It would be great if I could draw a picture when I have time..."

Li whispered, but she knew very well that she had nothing to ask for.

In the end, Xi found someone who could walk with her, and she also got the future that the former "Li" could not get.

Not far away, the figures of Bai Hua and Xi are gradually moving away. When they cross the stone threshold and the sun shines on the village, the dream will come to an end.

However, Xi stopped, and then she turned around and ran towards Li.

"Li—"

"Hey, what's the matter, Xiao Xi?"

Li was stunned for a moment, she was already ready to leave, but she didn't know why Xi suddenly turned back and ran with all her strength panting.

"I... my previous life was only painting. No matter what kind of scenery I traveled, what kind of mountains and rivers I witnessed, for me, all I have is the ability to 'paint' from the very beginning. This is all I have .”

Xi Tie was in front of Li, holding each other with both hands, and her four eyes met each other.

"I always said that I drew this picture scroll to keep the memories of Li and her living in Poshan Town—but it's not like this, I just don't want to disappear without warning, and I don't want to wake up in a dream Afterwards, it turned out that everything was just an illusion. So I never fell asleep, so I was painting all the time."

"Drawing a rare work that can amaze everyone, but the self-satisfaction that no one cares about disappears—that kind of thing is not good for me at all! So... In any case, don't forget me."

Xi looked at her best friend in front of her, her own creation, her own inheritance, and at the moment before waking up from the dream, she finally spoke out the words backlogged in her heart.

I don't paint for anyone, but because I only know how to paint.

Not because you want to remember someone, but because you want to be remembered by the world.

"...Think like an idiot, Xiao Xi."

Looking at his companion in front of him, Li smiled.

"I will draw a family portrait where everyone is there! Put Xiao Xi and Bai Hua in the middle, and then print dozens, hundreds of copies, and hang them on all the walls! That way no one will forget It's Xiaoxi, right~"

"You're the one acting like an idiot...then I'll leave it to you, Li."

Listening to her friend's unreliable guarantee, Xi also smiled. She let go of Li's hands and looked at Poshan Town and the villagers in Poshan Town behind her.

"Thank you for being my 'picture'."

Xi smiled and bowed slightly to everyone, then turned around and walked without hesitation.

"What a fun time, Birch."

"Yeah, I won't forget, whether it's Poshan Town, Li, this story, or—you."

Bai Hua pinched Xi's horns, and the two walked together towards the road to waking up from the dream.

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"..."

"Sponsor Baihua! Oh, you've woken up! It's just that I'm a little curious. Did you leave contentedly after completing the unfinished business? Or did you come out of the dream after the effect of the 'Dali Temple Hypnotism' of the Jingzhe benefactor ended? awake?"

As soon as he opened his eyes and didn't even have time to look around, Saga's energetic and concerned voice came from Shirakaba's ears.

"Baihua! Are you alright—look into my eyes, do you feel uncomfortable? Do you know who I am, and do you remember what I'm doing and where I am!"

Unlike Saga, the other voice seemed more anxious, and even started directly.

Jing Zhe held Bai Hua's shoulders with both hands and swayed back and forth, her golden eyes also fixedly stared at the gray wolf who was still a little confused in front of her.

"Wow, sister Jingzhe, stop shaking... I know I'm in the 'studio'."

"Huh... that's great, if you, Bai Hua, become obsessed and unable to extricate yourself, I will have to use the taboo technique of Lei Fa's revival to forcefully restore your spirit."

Seeing that the gray wolf boy in front of him still knew him and could tell where he was at the moment, Jing Zhe finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then I really saved my life..."

Just after waking up from the dream, she could experience the excitement of the rest of her life, which made Bai Hua immediately return her consciousness to reality.

"So, you suddenly returned to the dream world in a panic. What happened? The scroll was taken away by Mo Ling halfway, and it disappeared long ago when you recovered. We have no way to observe the specific situation."

"...It's all right, it's over."

Jing Zhe's question stunned Bai Hua for a moment, but he soon smiled, and then responded softly with a relieved voice.

Everything is over, whether it is Wuling Taoyuan, the sky in the pot, Nanke Yimeng, Zhuangzhou Mengdie—the former "Poshan Town", the scroll has been completely closed.

"Although the little monk can't figure out the situation, but looking at the peace of mind of the Baihua benefactor, it seems that he has handled it perfectly."

Saga blinked and said.

"Who knows if it's perfect... For me, this ending is a bit regrettable, but it's really not sad—hey."

Bai Hua got up from the ground, while moving her stiff body, she looked at a cabinet in the corner of the studio.

"Anyway, you should be able to come out now, Miss Xi?"

Bai Hua spoke to the originally empty corner, and a moment later, a black-haired girl in a black robe and white dress slowly walked out of the originally empty shadow with dark circles under her eyes.

"Wow! Yes, it's the benefactor in the dream!"

After seeing Xi's real body, Saga's eyes widened in surprise.

"You are the fragment of the age... Where did you hide it before?"

Jing Zhe frowned, it was obvious that the existence in front of him was also one of the ages that Dayan Zhongsi Suitai was investigating, but he hadn't sensed the other party's aura at all before.

"I am a painter, and this space is my studio. Since it is a place of hypocrisy, there is naturally a way to hide my figure."

Xi sighed and said in a cold and mysterious voice.

——Wow, I haven't seen Xi's mode in a long time.

Bai Hua's expression on the side was very subtle, as if she wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.

After all, majestic and mysterious, aloof and secretive appearance - it can be said that you can hardly find it in Poshan Town even with a lantern.

"So that's it, you really put us in that village."

After confirming the opponent's identity, Jing Zhe raised the magic staff in his hand and prepared to fight.

Still, Sui Xiang in front of him didn't get angry or run away from the fight, just frowned slightly.

"I won't fight with you, Supervisor of Dali Temple. I know what your original goal is, and I also know that you are... tsk, the girlfriend of that gray wolf. Anyway, I will leave here, don't worry .”

Xi was a little upset while talking, but she still shook her head and continued, at the same time she stretched out her right hand and waved it lightly.

In an instant, the originally dark and even musty-smelling studio disappeared instantly, and everyone finally returned to the abandoned house next to Huiqi Mountain.

"You have returned to reality. This is no longer Poshan Town, but 'Huiqi Mountain'. If you are not at ease, you can verify it yourself. You can catch fish in the stream behind this dilapidated hut and use it to roast Eat it. Although the picture scroll can maintain the nutritional function of the body, the real body also needs to eat."

"Grilled fish! This little monk is not polite!"

As soon as he heard that there was something to eat, Saga immediately left the dilapidated hut happily while saying "give me something".

“Grilled fish!”

Bai Hua also immediately became interested and wanted to fish with the dog, but he stopped before leaving the dilapidated house.

"What's the matter, Birch?"

Jing Zhe asked Gray Wolf curiously, logically speaking, this kind of cooking behavior, Bai Hua would either fight for the first or the championship, and she would definitely not stop like this now.

"It's nothing, it's just... it stayed in the dream for too long. In addition, this thing seems to be flashing all the time."

Bai Hua shook her head, and then took out a delicate small object from her pocket, which was exactly the decoration that she gave to herself years ago.

Bai Hua didn't think too much, and handed it to Jing Zhe casually.

Not long after, the wandering monk Shiba Inu happily returned to the side of the hut with a basket of fish in his hands, skillfully set up a bonfire and started grilling the fish.

"Oh, my monk's comprehension is still a bit dull. I didn't realize one, two, three of the philosophy of drawing people in the painting, but no matter what, it's really great to be able to eat!"

Saga cheerfully took off a skewer of grilled fish and put it in his mouth.

"Speaking of which, where's the birch benefactor?"

Saga looked around, and found that the gray wolf who could grab the black sesame paste with him was not here, which made Saga a little curious.

"Bai Hua said that there are still some things that need to be dealt with... Haha."

Jingzhe sighed after taking the grilled fish from Saga.

After returning from the dream, although Bai Hua said that his will was very firm and he did not appear in the situation of forgetting his own existence and meaning, but he also seemed to have other things to deal with.

——Afterwards, Bai Hua must explain the ins and outs clearly.The other age... I always feel a little strange, is it my illusion?

Jing Zhe was a little suspicious of 'Xi' who had just met and disappeared temporarily, but she couldn't explain what was wrong.

Of course, when Jing Zhe finally realized that it was not her side as the 'Supervisor' who sounded the alarm, but the side of 'Baihua's Girlfriend', that would be another story.

In short, in the dilapidated house deep in the Huiqi Mountain jungle, the Supervision Department and the Wandering Monk enjoyed a long-lost, but not so long, grilled fish meal.

And on the other side-

"You are here."

On the top of one of the countless peaks in Huiqi Mountain, Bai Hua found Xi standing on the edge of the cliff.

"...you were able to find me."

Xi looked at Gray Wolf behind him, her tone was not that surprised.

"After all, no matter in reality or in the picture scroll world, the aura on your body is the same, Xi."

"It's more like a dog than a wolf"

Xi sighed and complained softly, and at the same time moved sideways to make room for Bai Hua.

Bai Hua stood beside Xi, at the other end of the mountain, a slightly abrupt ruin could barely be seen in the valley.

The growing vines and bushes have already covered the original stone brick walls, and the former farmland is also covered by weeds and forests. Only the river running through the east and west is left, but the river is scattered and disrupted in the middle of the flow.

"This is the real Poshan Town. There are plagues, origin stones, natural disasters, beasts, and death—the passage of time."

"..."

Looking at the ruins swallowed by the years in front of him, Bai Hua didn't say anything.

After a brief silence, Xi took out a scroll from her bosom, but after opening it, it was completely blank, even the so-called 'canvas' could not be seen.

"Just like the painter in that story, the greatest masterpiece that does not exist in the world is completed, but after completion, everything returns to nothingness, no one can observe, no one has ever known, there used to be a brand new world."

Xi looked at the empty scroll in her hand and said softly.

"We know it, and Li knows it—this is a hard-won miracle that has been watched for a hundred years."