Chapter 288: Posthumous Work (7)
The situation was not looking good.
Five minutes earlier, Everly had watched with her own eyes as the large and small monsters were blown to pieces. Their scattered flesh was ignited by the gasoline, charring into black ash. Even the ruins surrounding the two monsters were caught in the blast, triggering a second collapse.
Yet five minutes later, as the smoke gradually cleared, the bricks, shattered stones, chunks of flesh, and black ash on the ground suddenly began moving on their own, as though they had grown legs.
The broken bricks reassembled themselves. Displaced stones slid back to their original positions. The scattered pieces of flesh crawled toward one another and fused together. The burnt black ash gathered into heaps, transforming back into fresh, living flesh…
The entire process was silent and astonishingly swift. Every blink brought a dramatic change to the scene before her eyes. In less than half a minute, the ruins that had collapsed a second time reverted to the state of the first collapse, while the large and small monsters that had been blown apart pieced themselves back together like jigsaw puzzles. Flesh wriggled in from every direction, reconstructing them into the human figures from Scars.
What was even more bizarre was that this restoration occurred only within the area enclosed by the painting’s frame—that is, the portion of the painting visible to people in the real world.
Outside that boundary, everything remained exactly as it had been. The black scorch marks left by Everly’s explosion, as well as the shards of broken glass scattered across the ground, stayed untouched. It was as though the mysterious force that restored everything simply ignored anything that people outside the painting couldn’t see.
Everly couldn’t explain the mechanism behind it. The only thing she was certain of was this:
The “door” had not appeared.