Paintings of Terror

"...I really can't remember. Anyway, I saw it in Xincheng. I was born here and I have never left..." The nurse felt the look of everyone's expectations and was very sorry for not being able to help everyone.

Ke Xun looked at the disappointed people, and could only clap his hands to cheer everyone up: "Actually, this is also a clue. At least we know that the three characters Yubeiguo appear as artistic signatures! Although I think these three The words should not appear on the paintings. The people we asked, such as drivers, passers-by, and nurses, are not people in the art world, and it is impossible to pay attention to art works, even if they are well-known famous paintings. People pay special attention to signatures."

This is indeed the case. There were many famous paintings in the previous world, both ancient and modern, both at home and abroad, but the general public would only pay attention to the pictures, not the signatures or seals.

"If it's not in painting, it's the familiar places in this city, such as the iconic buildings in the center of the city, or the famous square..." Mu Yiran speculated.

Ke Xun took out the map from the inner pocket of his clothes at the right time: "This thing doesn't seem to be bought in vain, maybe it can help us."

Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun, feeling that the other party was like a timely rain, and when he needed it the most, he turned out a map of the heart city area like magic.

Qin Ci felt that there were too many branches in this painting, and his brain was very exhausted, but at this moment he had to fight his spirit and said: "Well, let's assign today's task arrangement: some people go to the city's landmark buildings. Looking for signatures, another group of people went to the hospital gate and waited for the expert. If we can really "free beasts" as the old lady said, maybe we can get 13 kilograms of beasts earlier. In that case, it might be more helpful. Yu sees the next situation clearly."

"Can I ask how heavy the beasts of the Xiao Qinxian sisters are? Don't tell me that it is two kilograms." Wei Dong was speaking.

Qin Ci nodded helplessly: "You guessed it right."

Wei Dong scratched his head: "Xiao Qinxian's sister doesn't count the people in us. In this way, we are equal to one kilogram of beasts?"

Zhu Haowen: "If you do that, if all the beasts come from our body, then we will have only one survivor left in the end."

"Bah, bah, hurry, bah, it's unlucky!" Wei Dong grabbed Zhu Haowen's hand and asked him to touch the wooden door, "hurry up and touch the wood, hurry up and bah!"

Zhu Haowen was expressionless: "Bah, bah."

Su Benxin didn’t know what he was thinking, and suddenly said: “I think we have to have someone staying. There is real-time monitoring in the hospital’s wards. The scene of Xiao Qinxian’s accident last night should have been monitored and filmed. Maybe it can be monitored. In the video, I saw some clues.-Besides, there was a phone in that ward. Didn't you ever suspect that Xiao Qinxian might have answered the phone?"

Qin Ci thinks it makes sense: "Then..."

Su Benxin: "Let me stay. After all, Xiao Qinxian is a lady. It might be more appropriate for me to watch her video."

"Well, I hope the most thrilling scene doesn't leave you a psychological shadow."

"At this time, I don't care about shadows or shadows. Besides, I use fast forward to see it, and it won't delay my afternoon trip with Rowe." Su Ben thought.

Therefore, the itinerary was decided like this: Su Benxin stayed in the hospital to watch Xiao Qinxian's video; Zhu Haowen, Qin Ci, Weidong, and Zhao Yanbao went to find signatures near several landmark buildings in the city; Luo Wei, Ke Xun and Mu ran away. Visit the legendary expert at the entrance of the hospital.

...

The scene of the back door of the hospital is completely different from that of the front door. The back door is small and faces a small street. It doesn't feel like a big hospital at all.

Ke Xun's eyes swept over the sparse pedestrians, and almost no one stopped here, and even the imaginary expert with strange bones could not see it.

Luo Wei's face looked thinner and paler, but this did not prevent him from looking for someone sharply: "The old lady said that the expert would be at the back door of the hospital every weekend and would stay all day. I think , It shouldn't be a pedestrian."

If it is not a pedestrian, it can only be a person who has stayed here for a long time.

Currently, there is only a fruit stand at the door, a maternity and baby store opposite, and two restaurants.

Ke Xun first looked at the owner of the fruit stand, a young man who looked like a nutria, with a savvy look: "My fruit is much cheaper than the front door! Now, look at these strawberries, they are very sweet! Count you six! Count you ten yuan and two catties and make friends!"

Ke Xun was thinking whether to inquire about it by buying fruits, but Mu Yiran pulled his sleeves: "It's her."

It was an old lady scavenger in ragged clothes, guarding a lot of tatters, sitting at the root of the wall on the street.

When the three of Ke Xun walked over, the old lady was enthusiastic about matching the bottle caps to the beverage bottles she picked up, and ‘assembled’ a complete bottle. She shook her ears to listen to the sound. what.

Probably sensing the approach of the three men, the old lady waved her hand: "Block me."

Ke Xun leaned his body to the side: "Grandma, I'll ask you something."

"Can't tell me," the old lady has an old voice, but her words are clear. She did not stop her work at this time, "I'll be here on Saturday."

Ke Xun's heart moved, maybe he found the right person.

I stopped asking for a while, Ke Xun simply squatted down and helped the old man put the plastic water bottles tied in a big bundle into the woven bag on the side. The old man didn't say thank you, so he bundled it up by one person, and packed it by one person.

When the work was done, the old man looked up at Ke Xun, because the old gray eyes looked lighter in the sunlight, like some kind of glass ball.

"You guys, are you looking for a beast?" the old man asked directly.

Unexpectedly, he would be seen through all of a sudden, Ke Xun told the truth: "We also listened to others, and here is a gift from an expert."

When the old man heard the word ‘superior’, he laughed with teasing: "What do you want the beast for?"

Ke Xun looked at each other with his companions, and then told the truth: "We want to leave here, but we have to gather 13 kilograms of beasts."

The old man looked directly at the sun, as if it were a kind of enjoyment, before asking Ke Xun for a long while, "How far are you guys?"

"There are currently 6 kilograms." Ke Xun replied.

The old man looked at the three people with gray eyes and slowly said: "Once you go out, you will never come back. Don't you regret it?"

After asking this question, there was a long silence.

Ke Xun didn't know what he was hesitating, he knew this was not where he should stay, and the world was not cute, but he always found it hard to give up. Unlike the previous paintings, people couldn't stay for a second.

What will happen if we make up enough 13 kilograms of beasts? What will happen if death is eliminated in the night of this world?

"No regrets," Mu Yiran's voice pulled Ke Xun back, "We want to go back to our hometown."

Ke Xun shook his head. It seemed like a shallow dream just now, and he woke up in a blink of an eye.

Rowe's voice also rang: "We are going back."

The old lady didn't ask any more, she fumbled for a while from a rag pocket next to her, took out three large beverage bottles, and looked at the logo on it: "This bottle is two liters, which is one liter short."

The drink bottle contains a red liquid, which looks like tomato juice.

"There are still two 500ml vials, enough, a total of seven catties." The old lady pushed the pile of large vials to Ke Xun.

"These... these bottles are all beasts?" Ke Xun knew for the first time that there were still beasts in liquid.

"It's incomparable with those treasures, but the weight is enough," the old lady sighed softly, with a sense of compassion, "The hospital is the place with the most beasts... Don't worry, these are all over, and the souls are also resting. Yes, just use it."

None of the three of them expected that the old man would give away Qijin beast so happily, and to outsiders who didn't know the details.

Mu Yiran couldn't help saying: "Old man, you pick up waste near the hospital, but you pick up all the common plastic water bottles. Generally speaking, people picking up waste in the hospital tend to focus more on the medical waste here. These collections may not be legal, but the profits are huge."

"You look very carefully," the old lady looked up at Mu Yiran.

This is indeed the case. If only ordinary household garbage is collected, there is no need to go to the hospital door, and it is still puzzling to come every Saturday at a fixed point.

"I'm here to collect the beasts." The old lady said slowly, "As I said earlier, the hospital is the place with the most beasts. Do you know where the building closest to the back door is?"

Ke Xun looked at the building and vaguely remembered that the sign at the door seemed to be maternal and child health care.

"That's the place to give birth," the old lady said to herself, "it's also the place to kill children. There is a floor dedicated to abortion and induction of labor."

The three people said nothing, vaguely understood the source of these liquid beasts.

"If you live, you will kill." The old lady looked up at the three young men, "How old are you, I don't think you are thirty years old, but you are almost twenty-five. When I was young, I loved reading books. , There is such a sentence in the book: When you live at twenty, you know the benefits of life; at twenty-five you know that where there is light, there must be darkness; as for today at thirty, you know that there are many places where there is light and there are many dark places, and people who are happy are sad. heavier."

The three people heard this sentence for the first time, even Mu Ran, who had read many books. Some words are not seen but encountered, which will be remembered for a lifetime.

The old lady shook the empty bottle in her hand and listened to her ears. She did not know what she had heard. She continued to say her own words: "Not everyone has beasts in their bodies, but these fetuses whose lives have been interrupted must be The beast is the beast in every mother’s womb, the beast in their heart, and the beast that can’t get rid of for a lifetime. These beasts can be big or small, depending on the size of the mother’s inner pain and hatred. I have seen a four The moon-formed fetus has a heavy soul, and was dragged by the beast to be unable to move forward. I couldn't carry the beast out of it.