Folk Card Maker: Starting from Painted Skin.

Chapter 293 Painting
Standing next to Zhang Jingtian at this moment was the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox.

Yes, the nine-tailed celestial fox can also transform into human form.

She now resembles a stunningly beautiful woman; her mere presence beside Zhou Shaoge instantly slows down one's breathing.

With such a beautiful woman by his side, Zhang Jingtian felt his mood had improved considerably.

The nine-tailed celestial fox glanced at the ancient and sinister-looking building in front of her and couldn't help but ask:
"Master, have you ever been to a mental hospital before?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jingtian immediately shook his head: "No, do I look like the kind of person who isn't mentally healthy?"

The nine-tailed celestial fox immediately laughed, then winked playfully: "I never said that. But I thought you, Master, were very knowledgeable and had been to all sorts of places."

Zhang Jingtian shook his head: "No, I don't go to just any place. But this mental hospital is definitely not the kind I've been to before."

Based on Zhang Jingtian's understanding of the colored cards he had come into contact with, he strongly suspected that they all liked to build their own domains within their own territories.

As for what this place was originally used for, that has absolutely no bearing on it.

Zhang Jingtian just wanted to know what form his opponent would take in this battle.

Anyway, Zhang Jingtian realized that these colored cards weren't the type that stayed in one place, waiting for you to take the bait.

They often use all sorts of methods to deceive you.

Zhang Jingtian suspected that this was a shared perverse sense of humor among them.

At that moment, Zhang Jingtian glanced at the nine-tailed celestial fox beside him and said, "If I suddenly go crazy later, remember to wake me up."

Although Zhang Jingtian didn't know what the colored card looked like, he was in a mental hospital after all, so it wasn't impossible for something to happen that would cause him mental confusion.

The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox laughed immediately after opening the box:
“Master, you are seriously underestimating yourself. Your mental strength is so powerful that it is impossible for an ordinary person to control you. On the contrary, the possibility of us being controlled is much higher.”

Then Zhang Jingtian and the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox entered the long-abandoned mental hospital.

This mental hospital is very famous throughout Shanghai.

Its predecessor was a church, so it has retained the original architectural style. The whole thing looks like the kind of haunted villa that you would see in a European or American horror movie.

However, Zhang Jingtian was not afraid. He just felt that the Scourge Legion residing here was probably the same type of monsters from abroad.

For example, vampires, or werewolves.

In all this time, Zhang Jingtian hadn't actually encountered this type of monster much.

However, as other countries in the world have gradually fallen, it has become much more common for exotic natural disaster legions to appear in their Dragon Kingdom.

Zhang Jingtian took a deep breath and looked around at the walls, which were covered with oil paintings in a very personal style.

Just as Zhang Jingtian had predicted, he couldn't find a single person there.

This is really unsettling. Could it be that, like the previous color cards, Zhang Jingtian will have to work hard to decipher them to find the location and true appearance of the color card?

"Why don't you speak?"

After taking a few steps, Zhang Jingtian suddenly felt that it was too quiet.

It was only then that I realized that the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox hadn't spoken for a long time.

This naturally made Zhang Jingtian feel uneasy, wondering if the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox's words had truly come true, and if he had been controlled and rendered speechless. However, Zhang Jingtian quickly realized that he had guessed wrong.

The nine-tailed celestial fox wasn't being controlled; rather, she was staring at the murals on the wall, completely lost in thought.

It wasn't until Zhang Jingtian reminded him that the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox finally came to his senses and glanced at Zhang Jingtian standing beside him.

"I... what just happened to me?" The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox looked at Zhang Jingtian, her tone somewhat uneasy.

Zhang Jingtian said calmly, "You seemed to have lost consciousness just now. I saw you staring at the words on the wall without saying a word, as if your mind had been controlled."

"Oh, I just thought the paintings on the wall were really beautiful and incredibly realistic. They looked so real that I couldn't help but look at them a few more times, and that's how it is."

After hearing this, Zhang Jingtian couldn't help but touch his nose before speaking:

"Hmm? Does it look good?"

He had been paying attention to his surroundings the whole time, and hadn't really noticed the paintings on the wall.

However, after hearing what the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox said, Zhang Jingtian finally realized that these murals in the mental hospital might be the key.

"You ride it while I watch!"

After saying that, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox transformed into a giant fox and crawled under Zhang Jingtian.

Zhang Jingtian didn't stand on ceremony. The murals were positioned too high, making it difficult for him to clearly see their contents.

But now, Zhang Jingtian can ride the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, jump into the air, and then see the murals on the wall clearly.

If he had to put it into words, Zhang Jingtian felt that the mural now looked like it was drawn by a child.

Because neither the painting technique nor the content of the mural itself seems to be something an adult could have painted.

Zhang Jingtian couldn't help but suspect that the mural must have been painted by the patients in this mental hospital.

He raised an eyebrow, looked at the mural above, and began to study it intently.

Zhang Jingtian discovered that after looking at the mural for a long time, he did indeed have a strange feeling.

It was as if a force within the mural was drawing him in.

However, Zhang Jingtian did not reject this force, because he knew that based on his previous experience, if he wanted to find the key, he would definitely have to enter the mural, and there would definitely be something he wanted inside.

So Zhang Jingtian followed the call of this power and entered the mural himself.

Then, Zhang Jingtian found himself in a messy room.

After a moment's thought, he realized that this was the place depicted in the mural he had just crawled into.

Besides him, there was another person in the room.

It was a long-haired woman kneeling on the bed, muttering to herself.

Only after Zhang Jingtian approached did the woman turn around in a panic and look at him. "Who are you?"

(End of this chapter)