The terrain here is unstable and danger could occur at any moment, so it would be best to leave this place as soon as possible.
Cheng's mother took out the vehicle's talisman from her pocket and released the RV from a relatively stable corner.
She shouted to everyone, urging them to get on the bus quickly so they could discuss what to do next.
Immediately afterwards, Cheng's mother and Chu Zhiqin worked together tacitly to fold and put away the highly elastic fabric that had just been used as a fire rescue air cushion.
This piece of cloth is a very important material. At that time, Liu Yunyan quickly and accurately analyzed the current situation by relying on Xi Xi's series of coded messages.
After some discussion, the people who stayed at home to keep watch suddenly remembered the piece of fabric that Xi's mother and Cheng's mother had been busy working on recently.
It turns out that this fabric has excellent elasticity, and it was a "new project" they started after finishing the remaining winter clothing. Unexpectedly, it came in very handy at this crucial moment!
"We owe it all to Little White Duck this time!" Chu Zhiqin patted her chest with relief. "This guy has no thoughts and can't stand the slightest influence from the passenger ship, so I sent it to fly around the ship and that's how we found your exact location!"
Otherwise, with a passenger ship that big, even if they had life-saving fabric, they wouldn't be able to determine the exact location of the rescue.
The little white duck chirped twice and then disappeared into Xi Ma's sleeve. Meanwhile, Aura, who was in the other sleeve, was unusually silent, seemingly for the first time showing acceptance of the little white duck.
Upon entering Cheng Xu's RV, the interior was warm and cozy, making everyone feel exceptionally comfortable. Cheng's mother brewed a cup of hot tea for everyone, and as the warm tea slid down their throats, they gradually recovered and regained some energy.
As soon as Xi Xi opened the light screen, her private message bar was flooded with messages, just like a phone that had just been recharged.
It seems the barrier has really disappeared... She looked around thoughtfully, then began browsing through her private messages one by one.
After a short rest, everyone's eyes fell on the package that Xi Zhongcang had brought.
Xi Xi carefully took the package. She noticed that the strip of cloth covering the package was actually a curtain, which looked like something her father had taken from the tea room on the passenger ship. Although it was rather simple, the three paintings inside were intact.
“This is…” Everyone’s eyes fell on the painting.
The baby mermaid, sucking on her fingers, leaped down from Liu Enxi's arms. Her chubby little hand traced around one of the photo frames before finally landing on the lettering "GH".
Suddenly the painting began to glow faintly, and the next second the baby mermaid was sucked into the painting!
Everyone gasped in surprise, unable to understand the reason. Liu Enxi and Liu Yunyan frantically grabbed the mermaid baby's tail, but they were no match for the painting and were sucked into it along with the painting.
"Xiao Yan, Xiao Xi—!" Chu Zhiqin's scream echoed in the air.
However, before she could finish speaking, the painting's light suddenly went out, and the entire painting vanished without a trace, leaving a group of people looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Holy crap!! What's going on?!" Cheng Xu almost spat out his teacup, staring dumbfounded at the remaining two paintings in front of him.
Xi Xi quickly opened the light screen, and Liu Yunyan indeed called to connect. The moment the connection was established, a whistling wind followed, accompanied by a hissing sound.
"Where are you now?" Xi Xi asked, frowning.
But Liu Yunyan on the other end was surprisingly calm: "I don't know, but we're out! We're on the cross-sea bridge now!"
She looked around and continued, "It's not snowing here, it's a sunny day! It's just that the wind and waves are a bit big...! I just put the RV out, we're getting back in now, and everything's fine for now!"
"Wait a minute, there are snow-capped mountains behind us, but the weather directly in front of us is clear with no rain or snow... Does that mean we're rapidly moving eastward?"
Everyone was shocked; this painting was actually a fast passage! Entering the painting meant directly traversing the icy plains?!
"Then what's the story behind this painting? It has Guihua's name engraved on it." Xi Xi then asked, following the connection on the light screen, before looking at her mother beside her.
The two had a relatively good understanding of the white-haired NPC, and through the mermaid baby's fragmented words, they gradually understood the reason.
According to the mermaid baby, these paintings were created when she was playing hide-and-seek with the NPC Guihua, but they were accidentally lost hundreds of years ago. She only remembered that they were stolen, but she didn't know the specifics.
These three paintings are like black hole teleportation; once activated, they can instantly transport the viewer to the location depicted on the canvas. They are among Guihua's most prized works.
Xi Xi examined the three paintings thoughtfully, feeling somewhat puzzled.
The passenger ship changes the flow of time in a positive direction, while the transmission of the painting across space is equivalent to changing the flow of time in a negative direction. The two have contradictory purposes, so why do they exist in the same place?
The passenger ship is neither a copy nor a unique copy; it seems that only these three paintings are the core. What does this mean?
"Have you seen that ship before?" Xi Xi asked after thinking for a while.
"Hmm... I don't think so." The baby mermaid answered in a childish voice, but with a hint of composure. "I've never been on such a big ship before. There used to be many ships like this, but I haven't seen one in a long time."
What does this mean? Xi Xi's heart suddenly skipped a beat: "How old are you exactly?" Isn't this little mermaid very young?
"I think I was 10 years old," the baby mermaid, who looked like a kindergarten child, replied. "I can't remember exactly."
"How can you have memories from hundreds of years ago when you're only 10 years old?" Cheng Xu, who was standing to the side, was also a little confused. It is said that children's words are too whimsical and should not be taken too seriously, but this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
The design of this survival game is far too careless; various pieces of information don't match up, and they're completely nonsensical.
Xi Xi was also somewhat speechless, but when she thought about how there were quite a few bugs in the game, she managed to explain the problem away herself.
"Xi Xi! That's not the point!" Liu Yunyan exclaimed from the other end of the screen. "The problem is, this painting is in my hands now! And the painting seems... to have changed?!"
The next second, Liu Enxi sent a screenshot of the light screen to the team's group chat.
The oil painting that originally depicted a shimmering sea was now completely unrecognizable, showing instead the interior of Cheng Xu's RV.
The tables and chairs were a bit messy, with teacups placed one by one on the table, steam still rising from their rims.
Everything looked so familiar, except that there wasn't a single person in sight.
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