48 Hours a Day

The Nuuk Art Museum is brightly lit, but the strange thing is that there is no one in the exhibition hall.

Until there was a rush of footsteps at the gate, a figure stumbled and ran in from the outside. He went straight through the empty exhibition hall, turning a blind eye to the priceless oil paintings on the wall, and did not touch the gold objects and ornaments in the counter. , Just ran all the way to the wall with Inuit handicrafts hanging on the west side of the exhibition hall.

Reached out and grabbed the top wooden sculpture. The wooden sculpture was a mask with exquisite workmanship and looked quite mysterious. However, the visitor had no intention of cherishing it, so he roughly stuffed it into his handbag. He turned his head and ran outside.

But just as he turned around, a voice suddenly came from not far away, "It's rare to come back. Are you leaving in such a hurry?"

Hearing this, the visitor stiffened, but he didn't stop under his feet. He still ran towards the gate. His car was parked in the parking lot of the museum, and he just had to go through the gate and run 20 meters out.

However, the next moment there was a gunshot in his ear, and then there was a sharp pain in his leg. The person fell to the ground, and the handbag with the wooden sculpture also fell to the ground.

"Tsk tusk tusk, it's all old friends and I don't want to do this, but you just want to leave without saying a word when you take my things. It's a bit impolite." The voice continued.

The man who fell on the ground did not speak, but struggling to crawl to his handbag again, took out the wooden mask from the inside, then put his finger into the mask’s mouth and pressed it down, and the wooden forehead opened immediately. An oval-shaped pebble rolled out of it.

A five-pointed star is engraved on it, and in the center of the five-pointed star is an eye. The visitor lifted the stone and spoke to the person on the second floor.

"Oh, old seal, really? You actually hid the old seal in my museum. I have to say that this trick is really powerful. I sent someone to search your clinic and school office more than once before. , But I couldn't find it. I didn't expect this thing to be under my nose." The speaker walked down the stairs step by step with a cane.

There was a look of despair in the intruder's eyes. He just held the stone called the old seal in his hand, like his life-saving straw.

But then he listened to the crutches jokingly, “Don’t be silly, doctor, this thing may be useful to deal with those deep divers and Kunyang, and it can also protect you from a good night’s dream, but I’m just like you. Ordinary people, this thing has no effect at all to me."

It was no one else who broke into the art museum. It was Dr. Baker who Zhang Heng and Songjia had visited. He dropped his hand frustrated when he heard that, but he still held the old seal and finally spoke.

"We’ve known each other for more than 20 years. Not counting that Chinese couple. You are the bravest and determined person I have ever seen before. I still can’t believe that you will choose that monster. Surrender."

"Why, are you planning to rely on your talkative mouth to influence me?" the man on crutches asked, "Don't think of me as a silly mad believer. My head is very clear. A person who understands the overall situation, this is the agreement between me and that great being."

"Agreement, or your own delusion? That monster is not like a type of agreement with people, and you know your own situation. If your spirit is really fine, why did you come back from that scientific investigation? He started to come to my clinic frequently for psychological counseling.” The doctor panted, and the sharp pain in his leg made his forehead sweat.

The person on crutches fell into silence when he heard the words, and reopened after a while, "Anyway, we will all fall into eternal joy in the end. It's just a matter of day and night, and there is not much difference. I am also just recently. I want to understand this matter. Over the years, in order to avoid letting myself fall into greater madness, I have been out of Jianju according to your instructions, cut off the Internet, did not read newspapers, and did not interact with anyone outside, but we How long can it last? I heard that its name is almost becoming a household name outside, that is, you and I can only survive in this isolated place like Greenland."

The person on crutches paused, and then said, "I regret participating in that scientific research all the time. I think your condition is not very good. Although you closed the clinic, you are still working part-time in the school. There are even foreign students in the school. You must have had a hard time."

"Fortunately, I will put a cotton ball in my ears when it doesn't work, and I don't use the Internet anymore." Dr. Baker said, "In fact, we should all feel fortunate. We hadn't read it before we encountered it. Related books, and have never heard of its name, otherwise we would have gone mad at the first sight of it, and would completely become lunatic believers."

"The more you know, the closer you are to madness. The person who came up with this setting is really a genius," the man on crutches murmured, "This way a sober person will never know the truth."

Probably because of pity for the same disease, the two people in the hall fell silent again after saying this.

But soon, the man on crutches spoke again, "Doctor, ask yourself, I have taken care of you enough for these years. Those fanatics want to absorb you, but I stopped them. You refuse to hand over the old seal. , I'm going with you, even recently you and our enemy the Shaman of the Inuit tribe are walking very close, I keep one eye closed, so why do you have to try again and again My bottom line?

"Yes, I can restrain those fanatics to a certain extent, but if they know that you have taken the old seal from me, both of us will not be able to eat it. I have seen those people go crazy. I don't want to be like that, so I can only sorry you." The man on crutches raised the shotgun in his hand as he said.

"Wait," the doctor raised an arm in front of his face, "I didn't mean to steal old seals while those fanatics were not here. Although I admit that I do have this consideration, we have experienced it once before. Such things, earthquakes, red aurora, and these abnormal meteorological disasters, its activities will become more frequent. Our state may not be able to survive, and this time is different from the last time. I did it three days ago. I had a very terrible dream, dreaming that it ran out of the palace below, and the whole world would be destroyed by that time. We need to do something before it becomes too late."