This feeling is very strange. I clearly lit the lotus lantern, but the people in the painting are blaming each other and saying that the other party has lit the light.

I told Wang Yue that she stood in front of the painting, staring attentively without blinking. She nodded gently, "Your thoughts are not wild, there is only one possibility. What happened in the painting has actually existed. While you lit the lamp, it triggered the timeline in the painting to move forward."

I suddenly understood "What you mean is that before lighting the lampstand, the timeline on the drawing stopped. The moment I lit it, the whole painting began to move."

"The incident of lighting the lampstand," Wang Yue said softly, "It has indeed happened in the world in the painting."

We stopped talking and looked at the picture together. The people gathered together, as if they were discussing fiercely. At this time, someone turned on some light source equipment, and the brightness suddenly increased, and the entire temple was illuminated. At the moment when the light lit up, I finally saw the faces of those people clearly, and I was extremely shocked in an instant. I was really stupid on the spot.

The person who lit the lampstand just now turned out to be my father! Among the few people who came in behind, there were two women, one of them was indeed my mother!

"This is my dad and my mom." I screamed.

"Ah?" Wang Yue screamed and covered her mouth with her hands. "It's your parents? Your parents are from the geological exploration team. Is this their exploration mission?"

I didn't say anything, stared at the picture, and every cell in my body was boiling.

I also recognized someone, who was my father's colleague and good friend. I used to see him come to my house to drink with my father, so I called him Uncle Chen. Uncle Chen was also in the painting and was arguing fiercely with my father. Their conflict seemed to be not to light the lampstand, it should have been accumulating for a long time.

The mother reconciled in the middle and persuaded Uncle Chen and Dad. The others did not interrupt and watched quietly from the side.

Because there is no sound, I can't hear why they quarrel.

At this moment, someone suddenly pointed at the lotus lantern on the incense table, and everyone in the painting looked over. Wang Yue and I also looked over, not knowing what happened.

The lotus lanterns began to rotate by themselves. From the bottom, the lotus decoration actually bloomed, first at the bottom, and then layer by layer. The visual effect was really dazzling.

The lotus flowers on all sides of the lampstand changed in color, and four colors appeared: black, red, green and yellow.

The lotus petals of these four colors are rotating rapidly. At this time, the people in the painting seem to be standing unsteadily and look at their feet, as if an earthquake occurred in the temple.

Wang Yue and I saw a lot of dust falling from the beams of the temple. The ancient temple roof was shaking violently. Everyone in the painting fell to the ground. Their first reaction was to run out, but the temple gate was closed tightly at some point and could not be pushed open.

Uncle Chen suddenly pointed to the lotus lantern on the incense table and seemed to say a loud voice. I could see his mouth shape. He was saying that the temple vibration was all caused by the lampstand.

Dad and Uncle Chen barely stood up. They stumbled to the incense table and were at a loss at the lotus lampstand. Dad stretched out his hand and kept twisting the lampstand, but the lotus petals on it seemed to be made of metal, extremely sharp. After this turn, my dad's right hand was scratched and blood was leaking out. You could see that the canvas in that small area turned red.

The earthquake became more and more severe. Many spider silk-like textures appeared on the ground of the temple, which quickly became larger. Someone's flashlight did not hold it firmly and fell down the gap. Under the ground was a dark abyss, and I don't know where it leads.

I was thrilling to see, my heart was in my throat. I was watching attentively, and Wang Yue suddenly pushed me, "Lin Cong, the four colors of the lampstand are the same as the colors of the handles inside the chest of drawers."

I suddenly thought about it, right. But even if it is the same, so what? I still have no idea.

"These two are related." Wang Yue said hurriedly, "I understand that you must align the colors and place them where they should."

"How to align it?" I asked.

Currently there are four colors, black, red, green and yellow. Who knows which color is in which position?

Wang Yue stared at the lotus lantern on the picture, thinking hard, as if she had discovered the rules. But I had no idea, and my heart was tightly clung to each other, hoping that she could quickly think of the rules.

The scene on the picture is becoming more and more dangerous, with big cracks on the ground, as if it was an earthquake. An expedition member couldn't hold on for a while and actually fell in. Mom hugged the pillar tightly, and an abyss appeared under her feet. She was shouting something, Uncle Chen and dad were studying the lampstand.

At this time, a huge texture quickly spread to the incense table. I almost screamed when I saw it. My father and Uncle Chen reacted quickly. They quickly climbed up the incense table. At this time, all the plots under the incense table fell, and a deep black hole appeared.

Wang Yue frowned, looked at the lampstand on the screen, and shouted, "I understand, it's the Five Elements!"

"What does it mean?" I asked quickly.

Wang Yue said, "Black belongs to water, is Xuanwu, and refers to the north. Yellow becomes gold, is white tiger, and belongs to the west. Red, bright becomes fire, belongs to Vermillion Bird, and is south. Then there is no need to say green."

"Switch quickly." I screamed.

Wang Yue stretched out his hand and touched the picture. At this moment, it could not affect the picture or touch the lampstand inside. At this time, my father's feet were unstable, lost his center of gravity, and fell from the incense table. I was almost suffocated and screamed. Uncle Chen on the painting reacted very quickly and reached out to grab it. My father's fingertips and his hand slightly touched it, but they didn't touch it. The two looked at each other. At this moment, my father's eyes were full of grief. The next second he fell into the abyss and never saw him again.

At this moment, my eyes turned dark and I almost passed away. My whole body fell back. Wang Yue held me and said, "Lin Cong, you have to be stronger. The cracking of this mechanism is not on the painting, but on the chest of drawers inside! Let's go quickly."

I barely stabilized my body and spirit, she pulled me into the bedroom inside, and we stood in front of the chest of drawers, Wang Yue encouraged me with her eyes, "Lin Cong, only you can start the mechanism, you can do it."

I gritted my teeth, pressed the ring and started to turn, turning the black to the top, the red to the bottom, the yellow to the left, and the green to the right. As soon as I turned, I heard a crisp sound of "Gada" and the door of the chest of drawers opened!

Wang Yue and I looked at each other, and I mustered up the courage to open the cabinet door. The door opened and the things inside were exposed.

At the moment of opening, my heart almost stopped, and there was really a person in the chest of drawers!

There was a puppet wearing red clothes hanging in the cabinet, carved from wood, and the eyebrows, eyes and facial features were outlined with cinnabar, making them vivid, looking like a paper man used for funerals in rural areas.

A rope was tied to the puppet's neck, and hung the puppet on the clothes hook above the chest of drawers. The dummy was swinging back and forth gently, which was very scary.

As soon as I saw this puppet, I remembered the red-clothed aunt in my childhood and quickly closed the cabinet door, feeling very noisy.

Wang Yue looked at me with great sympathy and held my hand.

"By the way, go out to see the painting first." I was thinking about my parents' situation. When I came to the room outside, Wang Yue raised it to look at the wall with a desk lamp. This time I looked at it again, the picture seemed to have changed tremendously.

Everything on the drawing stopped. The timeline stopped again.

I saw that the members of the exploration team were almost wiped out on the scene. Only my mother was holding the pillar and was in a thrilling state. Uncle Chen was lying on the incense table from afar, and only the two of them survived.

Between them, there was an unfathomable black abyss, and the huge cave seemed to lead to an unknown world underground.

The picture is still at this moment and is still moving.

I roughly judged that I had twisted the handle ring of the chest of drawers just now and cracked the mechanism. Then the timeline on the screen stopped.

The situation here is very strange to think about. If the scene in this painting has actually happened, it is probably the last geological adventure of my mother and father two years ago, which happened in Phoenix Mountain. Then their experience two years ago is consistent with my behavior in the bardo two years later!

I can't understand the logic and cause and effect relationship in it at all, and my mind is in a mess.

If I can go out, I must confirm whether the picture has actually happened, not a illusion in front of me. To do this, I must first save my mother. In addition to my mother, there is another crucial figure, which is Uncle Chen.

I remember very clearly that when my parents were bad news, I asked the leader who was alive at that time. The leader hesitated for a long time before he leaked two information slightly. One was that this happened in Phoenix Mountain, and the other was that there were two survivors at that time. In addition to my mother, the other was Uncle Chen.

Later I looked for Uncle Chen, but his whereabouts were unknown. I asked many leaders of the Geological Research Institute, and they all said that the matter was kept confidential and the archives had been sealed. I gave up.

After seeing this today, he was also a witness to the accident.

Wang Yue gently held my hand and said, "Lin Cong, we are going back to check the chest of drawers. There must be a next prompt and mechanism there. Can you go back with me?"

At this time, I was almost collapsed. This bardo realm is indeed not fun, and every mechanism is heart-wrenching.
Chapter completed!