Paintings of Terror

No one can predict what will happen, but there is a way better than waiting to die.

The timer on the wall began to count down one minute to eleven. The four people in the C test room sat down against the wall, waiting for the midnight to decide whether to live or die.

Ke Xun and Mu Yiran sat farther away from Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan. In the darkness, Ke Xun put his mouth close to Mu Yiran's ear and spoke in a very low voice: "...Actually, my method is not at all. Reliable."

"Yeah." Mu Yiran felt the heat on the auricle without moving.

"A brother in my university dormitory was electrocuted," Ke Xun said, trying his best to use a volume that Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan couldn't hear. "He said that the whole person's consciousness has been blurred during the electrocution process, and it is impossible to think, let alone Say staring at the watch and wait five seconds..."

This unreliable method is just to comfort the two girls.

"I know." Mu Yiran finally spoke. After the cold voice was lowered, she felt a kind of abstinence. "But if this experiment is to test human nature or human will, then I think the current that this machine can produce The intensity will be controlled to a level that allows people to stay awake. It will not only make people suffer extreme pain, but also keep people awake enough to think about trade-offs. This is a very cruel setting."

"That said, maybe I can really try it." Ke Xun said, suddenly tilted his head and sneezed.

"Cold?" Mu Yiran asked.

"No." Ke Xun rubbed his nose and turned his head back, without saying that it was actually his hair that got into his nostrils-if he said it, this one would probably refuse to let him get so close.

"Although you can try your method, the possibility of success is unlikely." Mu Yiran didn't notice it at all, but continued to say in a low voice, "Let's not say that everyone's reaction speed is fast or slow, even the first few. It was a fluke success. I don’t think those “researchers” will allow this experiment to have problems repeatedly. They will eliminate the problems in time so that the experiment can proceed smoothly."

"So it's likely that they will destroy the phone?" Ke Xun thoughtfully, "then we just count five with our mouths, or we don't need to count at all. One person calls to let go, and the others let go together."

"It's still the same sentence, people's reaction speed is fast or slow, whether they can succeed or not depends on luck." Mu Yiran said.

Ke Xun said no more, and the two fell into a long silence.

After a long period of time, Ke Xun spoke again, but he told Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan of the remedial plan to shout to let go. Finally, he added: "If unfortunately even the mouth is blocked, the voice will always be blocked. If you can hum, but can't speak out, just count five in your heart. Although it may not be successful, we have finally tried our best to survive, and we will not die in one second."

Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan whimpered in the darkness.

Ke Xun’s voice made a little smile: "Student Xiao Li, you can think about it this way, maybe you will really wear it this time, dressed as a beautiful and beautiful lady. When you grow up, there is a domineering prince who loves you to death, and various types of beautiful boys haunt you every day if you do not marry you. Since then, your life has reached the peak, so hey, right?"

Li Yaqing grunted twice in her nose, and said vaguely: "I don't want to cross... or rebirth..."

Ke Xun smiled, raised his head against the wall behind him, tilted his face, and asked Mu Yiran, who was close at hand but could not see his face: "Do you have any last words to confess?"

Mu Yiran did not speak, and Ke Xun did not ask any more, and the laboratory fell into the terrible silence before death.

Time passed by, and death approached step by step.

Finally, there was a torrent of footsteps in the corridor, unhurriedly, walking towards the door of the laboratory.

Ke Xun stretched out his hand, accurately found Mu Yiran's hand in the darkness, and held him tightly, tilted his head close to his ear, and whispered: "Yanran, I don't regret it at all. Enter the painting."

How could I meet you if I didn't enter the painting.

This is... his last words? Mu Yiran's hands tightened, not knowing whether he was trying hard or Ke Xun was trying hard.

Immediately before the door of the laboratory was opened, Ke Xun had already illuminated the phone screen and placed it in front of the two machines.

The faint light was engulfed in the darkness, barely shining half a meter away, and it was impossible to see anything coming in from outside the door, the sound of footsteps clattering, accompanied by vague and vague dialogues that seemed far and near. Walking around indoors sounds very busy.

Ke Xun stared at the direction of the sound, but couldn't see anything.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light in my mind. I wanted to take out my phone to turn on the camera, but remembered that my phone had been highlighted and the screen was placed in front of the machine.

Just as he was about to signal Mu Yiran to turn on the phone, he heard a tone in those faint voices suddenly raised a few decibels, and the sound of footsteps clattered towards the direction of the four.

Ke Xun turned around, and suddenly stretched his arms around Mu Yiran tightly.

Mu stunned, his brows frowned slightly--even if this kid Ke Xun didn't care about it, he wouldn't do such strange things at such times. He must have a purpose in doing this--what did he think of? Could it be--

Mu was no longer allowed to think again, only to feel that an irresistible force pulled him and Ke Xun from the ground, and pushed them toward the direction of the two machines.

The machine was already powered on, and the red, yellow and green indicator lights glowed in the dark. With the help of the faint light, Mu Yi saw Ke Xun being pushed to sit on the chair on the other side of the same machine. On the upper side, a few belt-like things were buckled up to firmly fix the bodies and limbs of the two of them.

Some "people" pressed their heads and kept their eyes on the long electronic screen that was lit on the machine. A line of instructions for use was displayed on the screen.

If one party lets go, the other party will die.

When he finally fixed his head, Mu Yiran saw Ke Xun turned his face hard to this side, smiled at him, blinked his crooked eyes, and spoke to him twice. One word: Goodbye.

Mu Yiran was shocked by an unprovoked heart.

-Ke Xun was intentional! If you want to hug him "under the nose" of these "researchers", Ke Xun must have guessed that on what basis the four people assigned to the C laboratory will be assigned to the same group in pairs-the closer the relationship is, the The higher the value of testing human nature and willpower, Li Yaqing was assigned to the same group as her best friend Zhao Youyi last night, so if these "researchers" consider it as a lover relationship, the possibility of being assigned to the same group will be higher.

Why does Ke Xun want to be in a group with himself and accept this experiment that can only survive by killing each other?

Mu Yiran didn’t need to guess carefully. He knew Ke Xun—he didn’t even know when he started, so he knew this person—Ke Xun didn’t want him to die, if he was divided among the other two. Anyone in the same group, Mu Yiran must die.

So Ke Xun wants to be with him, he wants to protect him, he wants to personally force him to live.

Even if he died, he would die in his hands.

This fool. Mu Yiran stared coldly at the mobile phone screen not far in front of him. The stopwatch had already started timing. He and Ke Xun had to see the time at the moment the power was turned on, and let go at the same time after waiting for five seconds-what a fool. Method, only this fool could think of such a foolish idea.

All the ideas were so stupid that he wanted to beat him up.

Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan still couldn't resist the fear in their hearts, and they were so frightened that they cried, but they could not cover up the beep that sounded when the power was turned on.

Beep--

An invisible fluid that resembled electricity but not electricity instantly rushed out from the end of the wire held in the palm of the hand and penetrated the whole body.

As Mu Yi had expected, this electric current was not enough to cause confusion, and the pain it caused to the human body happened to be stuck between "unbearable" and "pain to death."

It won't let you die, but you can't stand it either.

This is a kind of pain that makes the whole body like being hammered, burned, acupuncture and ant bite, swelling, stinging, ants eating meat, and hammering bones.

The screams of Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan sounded sorrowfully, and Mu Yiran heard Ke Xun roar: "If I call to let go, we will let go! One! Two! Loose!"

Mu Yiran knew that Ke Xun had to yell. Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan were so crying that they could see the screen of the phone and let them go. Hearing the screams of these two people, if no one was to guide them, they would immediately let go without hesitation.

Mu Yiran let go of his hand after Ke Xun had spoken. He actually hesitated for a moment. He was afraid that Ke Xun would not let go, for fear that this guy would be stupid again.

But after another thought, he felt that instead of dying in his own hands, what this stupid guy hopes most is to live with him.

It turns out that he was right. Although Ke Xun was occasionally impulsive, he was never reckless. He was actually a very thoughtful person.

The cries of Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan continued, and it was an excellent phenomenon at this time. They let go of their hands at the same moment, and luckily survived this time.

But the next time it made a comeback, that force majestic once again squeezed the wire heads into the hands of the four people, and the current once again passed through the bodies of the two people on both sides of the machine, and the screams of Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan also screamed again.

"I call to let go!" Ke Xun shouted again, "One! Two! Loose!"

Once again, four people survived by chance.

The stupid idea is silly, but it really worked.

Mu Yiran was not optimistic about this, and this method might not last overnight.

It turns out that this method only supported four people for less than ten minutes. The "researchers" seemed to have discovered the problem, and they sealed the mouths of the four people.

Not only could he not speak, but he could not even make a sound in his throat.

The direction where Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan were in became extremely quiet, and they couldn't even make the sound of sobbing again.

The moment the current ran through again, Mu Yiran stared at the time on the stopwatch on the phone screen.

This method is actually very risky. If two people look at the watch one second slowly, when they let go, they may die instantly because of this slow second.

But now Mu Yiran has no time to think about whether Ke Xun is slow or fast for a second. He can only choose to believe in him, and can only meet and kill him head-on, or be killed by him.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

5 seconds.

let go!

I couldn't hear the sound next to me, and I wonder if Ke Xun is dead or alive.

After a short pause, the current was switched on again-he was still alive, so the experiment continued!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.5 seconds, let go.

After a short pause, the current is turned on.

Countdown. let go. pause. power ups.

Time and time again, in a room without any sound, the cold and cruel process was repeated and continued.

Mu Yiran could not hear or see Ke Xun in the darkness, let alone imagine what he looked like at the moment.

But he knew that he had been working hard, trying hard to live with him.