Chapter 1950

In an instant, Zhang Tie's action suddenly frightened the two Creator Fifth Stage.

But the two had just wanted to attack, then in the next second, as if they had thought of something, they restrained themselves.

This bear's strength is extraordinarily great; after they lost their strength, the physically strong Zhang Tie instead became the strongest among them!

Xiong Hanzi → Xiong Hanzi

"Hah, what's so great about strength? If we were outside, I could crush you with one hand! Are we wrong!? This distribution may be random, but it's obviously divided by level! Your so-called Captain can at most be with a War Star! Meanwhile, Lord Qing Kai will definitely be acting with a group of Star Destroyers! Brains! Here you need to rely on brains to survive!"

The two Creator War Stars, after saying that, gave a cold laugh, clearly intending to draw a line between themselves and Zhang Tie and them.

A bear with only strength, an ordinary monkey, plus two useless trolls. Such a combination here will basically die extremely fast!

Captain

"No matter who we go to meet up with, it will probably be the same path. Moreover, don't you want to find more clues? As our starting point, I think there will probably be first-round information here."

War Star Level

The troll carried on Zhang Tie's shoulder gave a wry smile, and could only act as a mediator, trying to persuade both sides.

Although, by status, creators of the same War Star Level would be better teammates, and they also wanted to meet up with their own Star Destroyers, given the current situation, they must rely on Zhang Tie and the two; these creators basically regard them as burdens.

War Star

"Back when Captain Lin Dui was at Second Level, he led us in massacring during such missions; look, who is the smartest now!"

Forcing himself to say that Lin An has Chong Qi Neng Li, to scare this bunch of idiots, Zhang Tie let out a cold snort, shouldered the troll and turned his body to continue looking at the painting on the wall.

To be honest, if Gao Tian hadn't told him that this mission might very well require piecing together clues, giving him another idea and another hope, given his personality, he would definitely have killed these guys first.

"What the heck is this painting... just a bunch of black dots, like paint splattered randomly..."

Putting down the troll on his shoulder, Zhang Tie furrowed his brows, gathering before the large-framed oil paintings to try to examine them closely.

The entire art gallery is divided into upper and lower floors, almost all of which are these large wooden-framed paintings.

There is no content; it's just large blocks of color pieced together, more or less covered with dots.

Seeing that Zhang Tie wasn't pondering the painting's meaning like a War Star Individual, but merely tapping it incessantly with his fingers, Gao Tian let out a quiet sigh, thought it over, and hesitantly opened his mouth:

"Brother Zhang, ruining this painting by tapping it won't help... it's not like something is hidden behind it."

"Based on our previous analysis, we need to rely on our own cognitions to find clues and piece together the secret here. You must first understand these paintings..."

Gao Tian gave a bitter smile and tried hard to recall.

"If placed on Earth, the style of these paintings would likely be Cubist or Abstract Expressionist. Look at these color blocks and dots combined—don't they create a unique visual effect, like a relief?"

"This is a typical artistic expression, a technique the painter uses to seek contrast. Compared to the color blocks themselves, adding some raised points on the blocks actually makes people feel the emotion conveyed by the blocks more strongly. It draws focus, makes one sense the whole, whereas..."

"What?"

"I think it looks like a bump."

"Like the bumps on a toad."

Tap tap tap, seeing that Zhang Tie couldn't tap off the dots, he directly started tapping the edge of the frame, as if trying to take the whole painting out.

Before Gao Tian could instinctively try to stop it, with a rip, the upper half of the painting was torn apart by Xiong Hanzi, revealing the wooden board behind the paper.

"Brother Zhang?! You..!?"

"Huh!?"

"That's...!?"

"Characters! There's writing on the back of the painting!"

"The information is actually hidden here!?"

"What does this line of text mean? Is it a clue?"

They were stunned.

Almost at the moment Gao Tian exclaimed in surprise, the troll and the Creator, who had each been trying hard to understand the painting's meaning, all gathered around, staring intently at the small line of text on the board.

"Is the value of art to complete truth?"

The text is somewhat blurry, moreover reflected on the back of the painting paper. Although the sentence sounds a bit odd, after exchanging glances, the few of them instantly confirmed that this should be the clue at the starting point.

"Ha! I knew Laozi was the smartest! Lin Dui keeps praising my brains! What's there to look at—all these paintings are the same, doesn't that mean the stuff in the paintings is worthless?"

Grinning widely, Zhang Tie's eyebrows danced with excitement, feeling his intellect crushed everyone present.

He had long found these paintings unpleasant, and sure enough, after tearing them open he discovered the secret.

Hearing Zhang Tie boast proudly to himself, Gao Tian for a moment didn't know what to say.

"Brother Zhang... you can't say that. Look, this line of text is actually visible through the painting paper; if we keep examining closely, we'll also find another line."

"Still, you're impressive! We'll have to go through them one by one, which will probably take a long time."

Not wanting to dampen Zhang Tie's enthusiasm, Gao Tian gave a wry smile and turned to earnestly ponder the meaning of this sentence.

Compared to finding this information, understanding it correctly is what's crucial. After all, the system clearly stated that to leave alive, they must have at least a minimal understanding of the skull ghost.

Likewise, the others also fell into solemn contemplation.

A long yet brief painful thought.

After about ten or so seconds, a Creator War Star Individual in a red robe suddenly had his eyes widen, as if he had thought of something.

"Truth...?"

"I think, I think I've figured out what this sentence means!"

Seeing everyone look at him, the red-robed figure gave a light chuckle, suddenly feeling a sense of civilizational and status superiority:

"Alright, it's normal that you can't understand this sentence. After all, it involves art and civilizational level; you primitives would hardly grasp it."

Ignoring Zhang Tie's angry glare, the red-robed figure stepped back and, as if bestowing alms, spoke in a deep voice:

"Let's first analyze why this sentence appeared."

"The person who wrote this sentence must be related to the skull ghost, and the appearance of 'truth' and the word 'complete' resembles some special tasks our civilization once underwent. For instance, there are always some self-destructive civilizations that like to pursue the so-called world truth, probing the essence of the apocalypse."

"They always think that if they figure these things out, they can end the apocalypse!"

In this situation, they love to play at sacrifice, explore civilization ruins, and even actively seek out system loopholes!

If nothing unexpected happens, the scene we are in is a civilization ruin that played itself to death! And the existence of the one who left this sentence is even more using artistic means as a breakthrough to complete the truth!

Based on...

Chicken fish what!? Even a dog knows this stuff, what are you repeating here for!?