Chapter 8 Chapter 7 is in the picture

When Batu said this, he was obviously joking, but the old fox remained silent for a while, so anxious that Batu urged him again and again, and he said: "Come here, look, the two boxes are very big, but different, huh?" Batu said: "Among them, this one looks much more refined. There should be paintings on it. It has been peeled off for a long time." Following Batu's voice, there was a "duk-duk" sound, and it was naturally Batu tapping the box with his fingers. The old fox said: "This box is an antique, extremely valuable. It must have belonged to the prince a long time ago. The shepherd got it and transported it back to Moscow."

Batu laughed and scolded: "It's been decades, and you still can't get rid of your sneaky behavior." The old fox said again: "This kind of box has a characteristic, not only on the outside of the box, there are very exquisite paintings, but also on the inside of the box, there are exquisite paintings on each side. The paintings are made of a wide range of materials, and some are even very exquisite. erotic palace." Batu laughed again and said, "The paintings on the outside of this box have long been corroded due to age. Are the paintings inside still in good condition?"

The old fox's voice sounded extremely strange, even a little trembling: "You can see for yourself." The sound of Batu opening the box lid and the low sigh were clearly heard, so it was naturally that he opened the box lid as he said, and was amazed when he saw the painting inside the box.Then, there was a short period of silence, and the strange voice of the old fox: "What trick do you see?" Batu's voice was a little hesitant: "The painting is so well maintained, and the colors are extremely vivid. Look at those people, the masterpieces of unknown artists."

As Batu spoke, he praised again and again. It can be seen that the painting in the box——the picture of grazing, is really beautifully drawn. (Bai Su and I heard it a bit strange. Batu and the old fox were suddenly interested in an antique box with paintings. Under the circumstances at that time, it was very unreasonable, because they had many mysterious mysteries to solve.) (Sure enough, Batu immediately had the same idea as us.) Batu said, "What's the purpose of asking me to look at these paintings?" The old fox "whoosh" took a breath: "Look carefully, I will give you a flashlight, you look carefully, every person in the painting is about ten centimeters in size, you look over one by one."

Batu obviously didn't know what the old fox was up to, so he reluctantly agreed.At this time, you can imagine him holding a flashlight, shining inside the box, looking at each person, and exclaiming from time to time: "The painting is so realistic, and the expression is extremely vivid. Look at the old woman, how well the wrinkles on her forehead are formed." Strange pattern." He kept muttering something irrelevant and related to the paintings in the box, and then, suddenly, he paused, making one feel that he must have seen something strange and inexplicable all of a sudden scenario.

(I clenched my hands into fists, feeling anxious in my heart, wanting to know what Batu saw.) (Bai Su gently puts her hand on the back of mine.) (I gulped and stared at the tape recorder—it didn't work, of course, you couldn't see anything.) Batu's sudden pause lasted no more than three seconds, and then he said in a horrified voice: "Old fox, you...have already seen it? How...how is this possible? What...is...magic?" Batu was still screaming: "God, it's him, it's him! Anyone can recognize him at a glance. His box is still there. He... has been standing still? Or is he moving?"

The old fox sighed: "Stationary, right? But, I'm still waiting, waiting for him to come out." In this conversation, the tone of Batu and the old fox is extremely fast, and the words are inexplicable, so we have listened to them many times before we can understand what they said, and put it into words, remember down. However, Bai Su and I couldn't understand what that conversation meant. Bai Su first said: "The scene Batu saw was related to 'magic'. As soon as he proposed it, the old fox agreed." I smiled wryly: "What does that mean? Magic can cause any phenomenon. What did he see? He was using a flashlight to illuminate the painting on the inner wall of the box. Why did he suddenly think of magic?"

Bai Su took a slow breath: "He was just on the painting, and he saw a scene that he should never see──" I yelled: "What he saw was him, he said: This is obviously him, everyone can recognize it at a glance—" Bai Su immediately continued, "Yes, this man has a box beside him." At this point, both of us stopped suddenly and looked at each other, feeling chills in our hearts. We all thought of what kind of magical phenomenon Batu saw, but we also didn't want to admit it, because it was too weird. At that time, I waved my hands aimlessly for a while, then suddenly picked up the phone receiver, Bai Su looked at me, and I said: "Call Yuan Zhenxia, ​​this weird doctor is very good at witchcraft, a super witch even believes that He's the only man in his life...he might be able to offer some advice."

Bai Su shook her head slowly, I could tell that she didn't disapprove of my calling, but it was a natural reaction that things were so weird that her mind was at a loss and she didn't know what to do.In fact, I didn't really want to find Yuan Zhenxia, ​​but because I was at a loss, I just found something to do, so I put down the phone without dialing the number; swallowing a mouthful of saliva, I said: "They saw... who they were looking for, in the picture." I mustered up the courage to say this sentence—it really took courage: The person they were looking for, the once-great marshal, suddenly disappeared on the grassland, and he couldn't find it no matter how hard he tried, but he appeared in Among the paintings inside the box.

People, entered the painting. Batu described this situation very aptly: magic. I don't know what kind of magic has taken him into the painting, making him the person in the painting.The old fox discovered this first, so of course he dared not tell anyone, because if he did, he would be regarded as crazy. But he refused to give up, so he waited in the camp, hoping that the people who were captured in the painting would come out of the painting when the magic was lifted. Bai Su took a deep breath: "It must be like that... this... this..." She didn't know what to say. Batu suddenly yelled: "Old fox, you are playing tricks, the man is already in your hands, but you made up such a story and drew a person like him here to deceive me with this kind of nonsense. Don't look for him again. It's your trick."

The old fox's voice was a little sad: "Can I draw? Look, how good this man is." (Batu's sudden accusation can bring our thoughts back to reality from the illusory to the utterly elusive. Batu's accusation is naturally very possible. I couldn't help shouting: You can't draw yourself, You can find someone else to draw.) Batu immediately said: "There are people who can draw." The old fox sighed again: "Old friend, this is really difficult to accept. People are in the painting, but your accusation is by no means true." Batu was talking loudly, and there was a "bang bang" sound coming out all the time. It was obvious that while he was talking, he was constantly beating the box. "I wouldn't believe it anyway." The old fox said in a calm voice, "Do you want to listen to my explanation?" Batu said in a rough voice, "You can't have any explanation." The old fox said: "Okay, it's just a hypothesis - I assume that when he opened the box, for some reason, he might have got into the box, or wanted to hide, or was right next to the box, an unknown force, took him into the picture." Batu sternly said: "There is no more nonsense than this nonsense." The voice of the old fox showed that he sincerely wanted to explain the problem clearly: "I have been here for many days. Sometimes, when the people are quiet at midnight, I get close to the box—put my ears on the box, and I can even faintly hear the grassland grazing. All the sounds that should be there, wind blowing, horse neighing, human voices, singing, and—” Batu interjected: "And the farting sound of you old fox." The old fox sighed again - I don't know why he sighed frequently: "I know, this kind of power will take him into the picture, and it may bring me into it too. A good person, being drawn into the picture , Thinking about it, it’s not very pleasant at all, so I dare not hide in this box.” Batu's voice was cold: "You want to say that if you hide in this box, people will also enter the picture." The old fox didn't answer right away, but Batu scolded: "Why do you keep blinking? What bad idea are you trying to come up with?" It can be seen that the old fox is blinking constantly - Batu is familiar with the old fox, so he knows that his constant blinking is using his brain badly. The old fox said: "Your task is to find him, and you don't believe my hypothesis. If you have the guts, you can hide in the box and see if there is a chance to get into the picture." Batu laughed "haha": "What purpose do you have, just say it, why use such a clumsy method to trick me in." The old fox sighed again: "You don't want to think about where you are now, and who am I? As long as I give an order, no matter how powerful you are, you can't escape." Batu stayed for a while, and the old fox said that he didn't need to rely on any tricks to deal with Batu. This was very true, and Batu had no reason not to believe it. , of course it was Batu who was patting the box and meditating. Then, Batu said with a smile: "In order to complete the task, entering the picture is an unprecedented experience. If I really go in, I wonder if I can see you?" The old fox said: "I don't know, but I can definitely see you, just like we can see him." Batu muttered something again (couldn't hear it clearly), and then said: "Okay, I'll try, first give me some wine──" There was cunning in the old fox's laughter: "You'd better take a big barrel of wine, there doesn't seem to be any wine in the picture." Then, sure enough, there was the sound of moving heavy objects, and the sound of Batu drinking with the old fox, and then fell silent. Before it fell silent, there was a "slap" sound, as if the lid of the box was closed. The tape ends here again. Bai Su and I stayed for a while, and I said: "I think Batu's accusation is correct, it's all caused by the old fox." Bai Su didn't give a definite answer. I tentatively asked again: "If Batu is really in the picture, has he been in the picture for ten years?" Bai Su is still noncommittal. Before he has a definite idea, Bai Su generally seldom speculates casually.In this case, I think there is something to be said for Wen Bao's nonsense. After a while, Bai Su gestured to me to continue listening to the tape. I thought about it, and wanted to find Hu Hua and Wen Baoyu, but Bai Su's wink stopped me, and I understood what she meant: the thing was so weird that even we felt chills all over our bodies, before there was no clue at all. , it is best not to let the children know. Continue to listen, the first paragraph of Batu's words startled us, we don't know what he meant by saying that. The passage of Batu's words was obviously his soliloquy. He wanted to explain some situations, and he thought it was very important, so he recorded it. His tone was very relaxed: "I knew he was an old fox, but I still fell for him. The nonsense he made up was so childish that I would be fooled too. It really capsized in the gutter. "The old fox tricked me into the box and drank so much wine with me beforehand. There may be narcotics in the wine, otherwise, I won't be moved by him. I don't know. How long have I been in a coma? It seems to have passed the night , How far have I been moved? I have no way of knowing. On the grassland, everywhere is the same. There are shepherds, horses, and tents everywhere. Naturally, the old fox does not want me to complete the task, so he tricks me. From this, we can see that the target we are looking for , most likely in their hands, it should start from the old fox. "Of course, no matter how big the grassland is, I will have a chance to meet the old fox again, and we will settle accounts at that time." (The passage of Batu's words sounds like it was specially told to his organization. In the words, it clearly expresses his situation: he is still on the grassland, but after a night, he was moved again .) (Originally, we waited nervously, thinking that he would "enter the picture", but it turned out to be like that, quite anticlimactic, and we looked at each other dumbly.) Next, there was a sound of horseshoes, and Batu called in Khalkha Mongolian: "Please stop, please stop." The sound of horseshoes stopped very close, and Batu asked, "Excuse me, where am I?" The answer was a young voice, but in Dagan Mongolian: "Where are you from?" Batu obviously didn't expect that he would meet the Daganer tribe.There are many large and small tribes in Mongolia, and their languages ​​are very different. Generally speaking, although there is no boundary between tribes, there is always a distance of several hundred kilometers from one tribe’s grazing place to another tribe. It never occurred to me that I was moved so far away. Where did Batu come from? He couldn't answer this question. There are only big place names on the grassland, and there are very few small place names. If it comes from the grassland, it would be meaningless. So, he laughed: "I don't know where I come from." He also spoke Daqian. Another old voice said: "That's good, we don't know how we got here, you happen to be just like us." Batu was slightly taken aback: "I just don't know where I came from, not how I came here." The old voice asked, "What's the difference?" Batu was stunned for a moment, obviously unable to think of any difference, so he couldn't answer. At this moment, there was another sound of horseshoes, and the young voice said, "Grandma, why are you out again?" An old woman who sounded very old said: "Loosen your muscles and bones, and sit still all the time, you really think of yourself as an old man." The old woman was talking with the young man, and Batu might be right in front of her. The scene can be imagined: Batu stopped the two riders, an old man and a young man, who were coming to ask for directions, and the old woman also galloped closer. . On the grassland, such a situation should not be common.But suddenly, Batu uttered a horrified cry: "You—" The voice was extremely shrill and terrifying, if he hadn't been really terrified, as a human being, he would definitely have made such a fuss. Not only was he screaming, but he might also have some very weird movements, because the two people, one old and one young, suddenly shouted: "What are you doing? Are you crazy? Get out of here." At that time, Batu was probably approaching them, that's why he received such a shout. Then, there was the neighing of the horse and the sound of hooves. It was obvious that the rider had already galloped away. The only thing left was Batu's Panting, breathing in a rough voice, it sounds very rapid, it can be seen that he is still terrified. After a long while, he was talking to himself. His voice was still full of panic: "Where am I? God, what did I... see just now? That old woman, I know her, I must know her, the wrinkles on her face, I am so familiar, where have I seen her? Where have I seen her?" The voice he asked himself became more and more shrill. (Bai Su and I shook hands, our hands were sweating coldly. Just now when we laughed dumbfounded, our mood was already quite relaxed, but at this moment, it was like a bowstring that has collapsed.) (We all listened to what happened in that section of the tape: Batu saw the old woman, although he kept asking himself "where did he see her", but he didn't understand it in his heart. , he had seen her in the painting on the inside of the box.) (When he looked at the paintings in the box with the old fox, he once sighed because of the lifelike characters in the paintings. He also mentioned an old woman whose wrinkles were drawn clearly and clearly.) (I hurriedly found that recording again, and Batu said at the time: "Look at this old woman, what a strange pattern the wrinkles on her forehead form." That must have left a deep impression on him, so he took a look You can recognize it. An old woman who has only seen it in the painting suddenly appears alive in front of you, who can ride a horse and talk. How is this not surprising? What is even more surprising is that of course It’s the next association——the person in the painting is alive in front of him, what does that mean? Doesn’t it also mean that he has entered the painting?) (This is what is really scary, so Batu dare not admit that he has seen this old woman somewhere.) His rapid panting lasted for a long time before he gradually returned to normal. His tone was rapid: "I see, I saw the person in the painting, I... arrived in the painting? Is it the same as... the person I was looking for? But , why I don’t feel any strange at all, blue sky, white clouds, green grass—” What followed was a series of unknown sounds, guessing that he was experimenting with various methods to see the environment he was in. He kept saying: "The grass is real, the dirt is real, the horses are real, the people are real, everything is real, I won't be in the painting, the people in the painting are all still , I've seen it, I'm not in the painting." In the second half of those few sentences, he might be running forward rapidly, the voice was very chaotic, and it lasted for a long time. Batu suddenly mourned that he had entered the painting, and suddenly denied that he was in the painting, and his thoughts Extremely disordered, what he said was incoherent and contradictory. At least five or six minutes later, he was heard asking someone again: "What is this place?" The voice of a middle-aged man answered him, and the answer was very irrelevant: "Everyone always likes to ask where this place is at the beginning, but after a long time, they will not ask again. What is different? The grassland is the grassland. Life is life, what is there to study?" Batu's voice was raised extremely high: "Answer me truthfully, don't play tricks on me." The middle-aged man sneered: "I just don't know, I've told you enough." Batu's voice sounded like weeping: "Are we... in a painting? The painting... is painted inside a box." The middle-aged man's words were full of anger: "I don't understand what you said, what you said is pretending to be a ghost." At this time, a few more people were heard approaching, and there was a moment of low murmur, and Batu's voice was even more crying: "Have you never thought about who you are and where you are?" Several people laughed at the same time: "What's the use of thinking about it? Anyway, we have been born and died in the grassland, so what if we think about it?" Batu took a long breath. (I can know what Batu was thinking at this time. He was in such a strange situation, so he naturally wanted to figure out where he came from, where he was, and what identity he was. But for people who have been in this situation for a long time, These questions make no sense at all.) (If Batu hadn't come to this situation suddenly, and he was still the head of his "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau", he would not have asked himself those questions, because it was useless to ask.) It can even be extended to a larger point of view. People have been born on the earth and died on the earth. Life is in a hurry. What is the point of asking these questions?