Paintings of Terror

It was a bit sultry in the cafe. Ke Xun rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, revealing his strong forearm. There were some bruises on it. It was too late for Ke Xun to cover it again, so he had to explain: After spending the rest of my life in this city, I gave myself a hard pinch."

Weidong looked at the scar on Ke Xun’s forearm, and couldn’t help cursing: “This city is a trap, a trap that wants to trick us all into! Ke Er, you still know to remind yourself that I didn’t have this consciousness at all before I revealed the secret. , I was thinking of looking for a beast. Even now, I have to force myself to make the words'signature' in my head light up like a light bulb!"

Ke Xun lowered the sleeve of his left arm, and did not want everyone to pay attention to himself: "In fact, the most uncomfortable person is Luo Wei. He is the only sober person, but there is suffering. Just now we talked about Su Benxin, I Now I’m a little worried about Rowe’s getting along with her. — I always feel that Lion’s death is not easy. He and Su Benxin talked for a long time when he came out of the restaurant last night."

Although Su Benxin also explained this later-I was too scared when night fell, and wanted to chat with old friends. We were a kind of comfort at the time. Although neither of them had any animal records, they were afraid.

"I was also a little worried about Rowe before, but the communication between people outside the city and people in the city will be blocked for some sensitive content, which may be a protection for Rowe. Moreover, Luo Wei and I had a look when we were grouping. He is a very smart person, and he will take precautions against Su Ben's heart." Mu Yiran put his right hand on Ke Xun's left arm, as if gently stroking the scars.

Qin Ci has finished drinking the coffee in his cup: "Let's talk about Xiao Qinxian again. I was surprised by the results of her examination."

Wei Dong choked with a sip of water in his mouth. He didn't expect Qin Ci to hold back such a suffocating cannon before letting it go: "Puff--cough cough, what happened to Xiao Qinxian?"

"Xiao Qinxian was sent to the examination room at four o'clock in the morning. She panicked at first, and then she was extremely uncooperative, and even called mania. The medical staff had to give her a tranquilizer. She was in a state that could be considered mental. Split." Qin Ci said.

Wei Dong's face was serious: "I believe that, that woman looks abnormal during the day."

Mu Yiran jotted down some things in his notebook, and then asked: "Are there any further checks?"

"The subsequent examination is also surprising. Xiao Qinxian has a history of smoking for ten years, and he also has a history of drug use." Qin Ci said, "There are also many injuries similar to those left over from the body."

Wei Dong's eyes widened. Although Xiao Qinxian was quite unwelcome, she really didn't see that she was actually a marginal woman, with a history of drug abuse? ——"Isn't she a wedding dress designer? I remember that she still works in a famous wedding dress shop in S City. She said it during lunch yesterday and said that this time she was going back to her hometown to visit relatives... It was also a bad news. of."

Qin Ci shook his head, "But there can be no mistakes in medical examinations, and there can be no mistakes in the injuries of the body.-It is not self-harm, or long-term abuse."

Ke Xun filled everyone with a cold kettle, and took a sip to refresh himself: "It's really messy. It feels like the whole thing is like eating a multi-layered snack. There are cakes, biscuits, and a lot of power. It’s a mess of cream."

Wei Dong: "I'm holding back a foreigner, it's called'Napoleon'..." After all, Weidong didn't continue his ridiculous decompression, because when it comes to'foreigners', it reminds me of Lion, the foreign photographer with a bright smile. Every time I pay special attention to saying "Oh, nimen" loudly, and talk a lot about my adventure photography experience...

Mu Yiran took a sip of ice water. After these two nights, there was already a layer of bluish stubble on his face, but it did not show a trace of stubble. On the contrary, it added some informal and expensive: "Different routes have the same goal. Although the situation of Su Benxin and Xiao Qinxian may seem tricky, they will eventually form a main line."

Wei Dong nodded. Since remembering the "signature", he has always kept the central idea and prepared for the painting: "Finding an autograph on the street is like finding a needle in a haystack. The only hint this painting gives us now is 'Beast', I think the signature must have something to do with the beast!"

Everyone agrees with this point. Qin Ci said: "Just now, Xiao Mu mentioned Su Benxin's reciting of the title page of "The Scarlet Beast". I remember what "Revelation" was mentioned in there. The woman riding the beast in it, on his forehead There are words. I was thinking, would the words on that woman's forehead have anything to do with the signature words?"

This analysis of Qin Ci made Ke Xun and Wei Dong both raise their eyebrows and thumbs up, and then everyone waited for Mu Yiran to analyze.

Mu Yiran: "I have made this assumption in my heart, and even imagined who this woman will be... But, after all, the woman in "Revelation" is the incarnation of a cult, and the words on her forehead are also very evil, if If these words can be equated with the author's name..."

Ke Xun’s eyes lit up, and others seemed to have thought of something—"The author actually did the opposite. He did not paint this picture to condemn the scarlet beast, but to praise it! So here In Heart City, the beasts in people's bodies will be offered to the altar!"

Mu Yiran nodded: "However, Zhao Yanbao has brought back different voices from the university town this morning, and this kind of voice has formed a certain scale in this city. ——The original intention of the painter is getting harder and harder to guess."

The beast returns to its body and its soul is complete.

At this time, these eight characters were printed on the wall of the cafe in an avant-garde slogan style.

...

At lunch, everyone returned to the hospital and gathered in the cafeteria to eat like yesterday.

It was the same single room as yesterday, but there were three fewer in number, which made people have to be depressed.

"By the way, how is Xiao Qinxian? How do you solve her lunch?" Zhao Yanbao asked.

"She was eating a nutritious meal, and her mood is still unstable. Let's go see her after lunch," Qin Ci said.

Zhao Yanbao looked at the food on the table but had no appetite. He only drank some orange juice: "People in the university town are opposed to beast stripping operations, and they are also opposed to beast exchanges. From them, I learned that some people in society now Buy some mentally ill patients at a high price, and then raise them, and even feed them some drugs that aggravate their condition. It is said that such people have a higher chance of having animals in their bodies, and proper feeding will make animals rare."

Zhao Yanbao looked at the glass full of bright orange juice: "It's really cruel."

Everyone also slowly felt the decay of this city within the appearance of the golden jade. The more they saw this, the more they wanted to escape.

"We seem to be able to see this painting more and more clearly, and the painter itself is probably full of contradictions." Zhu Haowen said.

Regarding the analysis of Yubei Kingdom, everyone has not had time to talk to Zhu Haowen Luowei, so it is not convenient to say anything at this time.

Weidong was half full and raised his head: "We don't have any valuable clues here. I only know that surgeons in this city are very respected. Today, I was in a cafe because of Dr. Qin's work card. No orders."

Su Benxin looked at his "colleague" Qin Ci and smiled: "It seems that Doctor Qin is really suitable for this place. Many colleagues in the hospital praised Dr. Qin."

Qin Ci smiled faintly, without speaking.

"Today's sweet and sour tenderloin is not ready, it's sweet," Ke Xun changed the subject naturally, and looked at Rowe. "I haven't heard you talking today. How about it? Did you gain something from the trip just now?"

Luo Wei's expression was calm and not as painful as yesterday. He took a sip of the soup before saying: "We are heading north today, and there is the train station over there, so there are all kinds of people."

"Railway station?" In Ke Xun's impression, trains are often a means of transport connecting cities. If there is a train in Xincheng, it should be outside of Xincheng.

"Yes, the train goes outside the city." Rowe said, "The train tickets that people take also need to have a special stamp. Some people plan to leave the city forever, and some people are specializing in business trips or running. In business, these people can’t leave the city borders, they can only talk to people and make deals on the borders."

As Su Benxin, who is walking with Luo Wei this time, also added at this time: "Yes, those who leave Xincheng will never come back. Other foreigners who want to settle in this city need to do some special treatment. , I feel like it is to erase memory or something."

Luo Wei smiled bitterly: "So, I've been trying to figure out what it means for the painter to be an outsider in the city."

The whole heart city is full of contradictions—contradictions between inside and outside the city, contradictions about the opposing views of the beast.

Rowe continued: "However, we met a master at the train station today."

"Superior?"

"Yes, it's an old lady who set up a stall at the train station. It's a Gua stall." Luo Wei said of this person, with a rare look in his eyes. "This old lady saw at a glance, we two One is an outsider."

"You two?" Wei Dong looked at Su Benxin who was sitting there, "What does this outsider say?"

Luo Wei: "I also found it strange. When she saw me for the first time, she said in a strange dialect: How did a foreigner come here. I thought at the time that she saw that I was People outside the Xincheng area didn't know that after she saw Su Benxin, they said: The foreigner also brought a foreign woman."

Everyone felt strange after hearing this. Su Benxin said, "That old lady is very mysterious, she looks strange, and even a little weird. Her eyes are different in color. However, she is really quite different. She can actually see me and Luo Wei is from outside the painting."

"Did she mention painting?" Mu Yiran asked suddenly.

"No, but she said that we are both outsiders. Isn't it weird. According to the initial division, it is clear that Luo Wei is the only outsider among us." Su Benxin said.

Luo Wei went on to say: "So she is an expert, she seems to be able to see things we can't see, including this painting, and maybe even an autograph."