Paintings of Terror

"What happens if I don't get my number card?" Xu Zhen asked calmly.

"The number card is used to group us, and through the experience gained from the previous paintings," Qin Ci said, "there is only one person who violates the setting of the'painting'."

The newcomers were silent for a while, and they were in a dilemma due to the current situation.

To draw the number card means that you have to go down to that terrible place. The closed place without seeing the sun would have made people feel depressed and uncomfortable, full of eerie atmosphere, let alone now in this weird painting. In the world, no one dares to think about what terrible things or "things" are waiting for them in those underground experimental areas.

But if they don't draw the number card, what awaits them is the punishment for breaking the rules from the "painting".

Weidong broke through the encirclement of the girls, squeezed forward, and pressed the button on the number picking machine with his hand. The number was A-185.

After a sigh of relief, Wei Dong looked at Qin Ci. Among the old members, he had not yet taken a number. Qin Ci raised his hand and was about to press, but was rushed to the front by Xu Zhen who suddenly fell on him. The number card popped out with the print on it. The number of yards is B-186.

Xu Zhen was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at the old members with a complicated expression: "The letters have changed... Only four people are allowed in an experimental area?"

"The last person to take the card is likely to be an experimental area by himself." Ke Xun reminded the rest.

The newcomers were shocked and ignored what terrible things or things were waiting for them in the basement. They rushed up to press the number machine. Qin Ci was the closest, so he took a number card first, and it turned into B. At the beginning, next to Xu Zhen's number, it was B-187.

The newcomers rushed to the crowd, stretched out their hands to press, but suddenly fell backward with a painful cry, seeing the yellow skin that had always been gloomy, pulling the hair on the back of several newcomers' heads one by one. Throwing it on the ground, he strode forward and took the B-188 card.

The next one to take the card is Qi Qiang, which is also the card with the letter B, followed by Deng Guang. From him, the number card becomes the card with the letter C, and then the three girlfriends groups. Because of the large number of people, they just make them lonely. The helpless Cai Xiaoyan squeezed to the last one.

Looking at the only number card with a letter D in her hand, Cai Xiaoyan burst into tears.

Everyone looked at her in silence, helpless.

"Can I change the card?" Xu Zhen suddenly asked the old members.

Qin Ci hesitated for a moment: "There have been similar grouping rules before, but the exchange of grouping signs is not allowed, and it will be treated as a violation of the rules. The rules of each painting are different according to the content and meaning of the painting, so we cannot be sure. Whether it can be changed, but it’s better not to try to challenge it on the first night, after all, we still don’t understand the meaning of this painting at all."

"Then what to do next, can we just wait for bad things to happen the first night?" Xu Zhen's face was ugly.

"While it's not time for the forbidden step, let's go down and open the other three experimental areas, and hurry up to find clues." Mu Yiran said lightly.

By now, everyone has been driven into the shelves by ducks, and they can't go down.

So Ke Xun still held his mobile phone in front to lead the way, and the other men filed behind. Huang Pi and Qi Qiang walked at the end. Just after walking down two steps, he heard a "clang" behind him, and immediately turned his head to look. Seeing that the iron gate had been closed tightly behind him.

Qi Qiang rushed up, shook the door vigorously, but saw no sign of movement, inserted the number card in his hand into the punching machine, and did not see any movement, so he turned back gloomily and continued to walk down with everyone.

Qin Ci, holding the B card, opened the door of the B project experimental area, and several old members followed in.

The experimental area of ​​Project B was divided into four small compartments. The strange thing was that the room was empty and there was nothing.

Everyone flashed their phones and checked the walls, roofs and floors. They saw that the walls, roofs, and floors of the four rooms were not made of masonry, but made of a soft material. People stepped on them without making a sound, even if they were cruel. He beats the wall hard, and there is no sound, even if there is no friction between the fist and the wall surface.

Deng Guang holding the C card opened the door of the C project experimental area.

There are two identical machines and four chairs inside the door. The chairs are placed on both sides of the machine. There is also a desk, several office chairs. Behind the door is a hanger for hanging clothes, and a mop, broom, dustpan, etc. Debris.

The two machines are like electronic devices, with a wire end on each side extending out, and everyone can't figure it out for a while.

Cai Xiaoyan, who was crying so hard to make a sound, opened the D project experimental area with the help of Qin Ci.

A special chair is placed in the experimental area of ​​Project D. Next to the chair is a scientific instrument, which is full of wires, and some strange things are connected to the other end of the wire.

Against the wall, there is a medical bed. Beside the bed, there are various medical equipment. On the other side against the wall, there is a desk with a small projector. There are also a lot of people. Office supplies and various documents.

Of all the four experimental areas, only the D project experimental area has the most complicated facilities, which makes Cai Xiaoyan even more panic, squatting on the ground and shivering.

The old members didn’t care about her for the time being. They seized the time to search for all useful clues in this room. Qin Ci went to research medical equipment, Mu Yiran checked the instrument next to the chair, Ke Xun and Zhu Haowen searched the desk drawer, Wei Dong tried to find the power strip to connect to the projector.

There are many items in the drawer of the desk, mostly documents. Ke Xun glanced at the phone, mostly medical terms and research journals. When he was about to read the journal carefully, he heard Zhu Haowen "pop" next to him. With a sound, a drawer that had just been opened was pushed back into the table.

"What's the matter?" Ke Xun tilted his head to look at him.

Zhu Haowen paused, and said blankly, "Nothing, something out of date."

"Such a thing should be suspicious." Ke Xun glanced at him wonderingly, and stretched out his hand to pull the drawer closed by him.

Zhu Haowen didn't stop him, just looked at the back of his head with a few furs, turned his head to check the things on the table.

"...I'll go." He heard Ke Xun blurt out in a low voice.

"What?" Mu Yiran was walking over, looking at Ke Xun and asked.

Ke Xun stuffed his handle back into the drawer, and then closed the drawer with a "slap": "Nothing, something out of date."

Zhu Haowen: "..."

Mu Yiran glanced at him carefully, "You should know that such things are more suspicious."

Zhu Haowen: "..."

"That's right," Ke Xun opened the drawer again and held the contents in his hands. "I'll check it again. Go ahead."

Mu Yiran stared at him with a look of "what kind of monster are you doing again", and walked over and stretched out his hand: "Let me see."

"What about trust?" Ke Xun had no choice but to hand him the things. "Say okay first. If you are angry, you can't anger me. It's none of my business."

Mu Yiran ignored it, just glanced at the contents in his hand with the phone, and then his body stiffened with naked eyes.

"Ah, do you still look at it?" Ke Xun carefully looked at Mu Yiran's expressionless face, "Why don't you put it back, I think if the signature is on this, this painting is too nonsense."

Mu Yiran still ignored him, froze for a moment, resumed his movements, and continued to look at him blankly.

"What is that?" Wei Dong quietly bumped Ke Xun with his elbow, and his chin picked at the thing in Mu Yiran's hand.

"A stack of photos," Ke Xun said.

"Whose picture?" Wei Dong was surprised.

"Uh, everyone has it," Ke Xun said.

"Why are there pictures in the laboratory?" Wei Dong asked strangely.

"... Maybe it's a personal hobby?" Ke Xun said ambiguously.

Wei Dong glanced at him even more strangely, but did not ask any more, and continued to check the mess on the table.

Everyone was busy, and suddenly they heard a low-pitched cue from an electronic device. They looked around, and finally saw a flat square electronic timer on the wall.

Fluorescent red numbers are displayed on the timer, starting from 60, beating for countdown.

Ke Xun thought of something first, and quickly glanced at the time on his phone. There was only less than a minute left before the usual no-step time in the painting-11 o'clock in the evening.

"I'm going to ban, go back to the experimental area I belong to!" Ke Xun reacted and shouted at the newcomers, pulling Mu Yiran up and walking out, "Dong Zi Hao Wen Er follow."

"No--don't--please--" Seeing everyone rushing out of the door, Cai Xiaoyan burst into tears, grabbed Deng Guang, knelt on the ground and pleaded, "Please don't drop me One, please, Deng Guang, save me, save me—"

Deng Guang was anxious. After earning for a long time, he couldn't get away from Cai Xiaoyan's hand. He kicked Cai Xiaoyan's chest with anger, kicked her to the ground, cursed "Fuck you," and hurried out D test room.

Regarding Cai Xiaoyan's situation, the old members have nothing to do. After all, the power in the painting is not human, and it is not something that can be solved by helping others.

Everyone entered their own laboratory and closed the door.

Although there were a few baby cots in the test room of Project A, no one wanted to sit, so they found a fairly clean corner and sat down on the floor.

The room was completely dark, only the red timer on the wall was still counting down the time until the number jumped to 0, and after a beeping beep, it was completely plunged into the darkness of invisible.

Ke Xun, Mu Yiran, Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen sat side by side against the wall, silent for a while. Only slight breaths could be heard in the darkness. The light and strong one was for Ke Xun, and the long and relaxing one was Mu Yi. Of course, Wei Dong's shortness and urgency, Zhu Haowen's shallowness and deepness.

After staying quietly for a while, Wei Dong's voice rang in a low voice: "You said, what kind of research institute is this? These four laboratories are different from each other, especially the B laboratory, there is nothing in it. , Research what?"

"Since it is a sub-project, I must study different things." Zhu Haowen said, "I can be sure that this laboratory A is studying babies."

"How do you know?" Wei Dong asked hurriedly, "Is the baby being studied because of the crib? There is also a small cage here. Usually, don't you usually use small mice as test objects for experiments? It's the mouse that is uncertain to study."

"In fact, there is a way to know what each laboratory is researching." Zhu Haowen said.

"What method?" Wei Dong asked.

"Turn on the phone camera." Zhu Haowen said lightly.

Wei Dong shivered: "Forget it..."

"This method," Mu Yi suddenly said, "I tried it when I entered the other three laboratories just now."

"What did you see?" Ke Xun asked.