Paintings of Terror

Everyone was stunned for a while, Wei Dong looked at Mu Yiran hesitantly: "Unknown means..."

"Meaning, the original work has no seal and no name." Mu Yiran said.

Everyone was stunned again.

"No seal, no name, then what do we look for when we enter the painting?" Wei Dong was a little panicked, and looked at Mu Yiran, Ke Xun, and finally Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen.

"So, has the difficulty level of'painting' increased?" Zhu Haowen remained calm.

"The rate of improvement is a bit big," Qin Ci smiled helplessly, "It directly gave us a dead end. We can only find the seal if we want to paint, but this painting does not have the seal."

"I don't think this is a dead end, but the increase in difficulty is certain," Zhu Haowen said. "Even if there is no seal, it might be like "Human Studies" and "Shadow" by the characters in the painting. Come and provide us with a seal."

"Hao Wen'er is right," Ke Xun patted Zhu Haowen on the shoulder. "Don't be discouraged at any time. I think we still have a long time before dark, let’s hurry up and take this one first. Search the boat up and down, both inside and out. Yiran and I searched the second floor, and the three of you searched the first floor and deck, are you okay?"

"No problem, hurry up!" Wei Dong shook his fist.

Zhu Haowen looked at Ke Xun's hand retracted from his shoulder, and said in a low voice: "You... be careful."

"Don't worry." Ke Xun looked at him a few times. "Don't say, you look handsome in Hanfu."

After entering the painting, all the clothes on the people turned into ancient costumes, all of them white robes with **** and narrow sleeves.

Zhu Haowen also looked at him, and the man put on a rough white robe and showed an unruly wind.

"Let's go." Mu Yiran said indifferently not far behind him.

The same is a white robe of coarse cloth, but when worn on his body, it is pure and refined, and a gentleman is like jade.

Ke Xun turned his head and strode towards Mu Yiran, Zhu Haowen withdrew his gaze from the messy hair behind his head, and turned his head and walked away.

Going up the wooden stairs to the second floor of the cabin, Ke Xun and Mu Yi pushed open the doors one by one to check.

The cabin of the cabin is very small, with only a simple wooden bed inside. The bed is very short, and there are a few toiletries next to it.

There is nothing else, this is true of all the rooms on the second floor.

The two quickly came down from the second floor. Seeing Zhu Haowen, they had also checked the first floor and were now turning around on the deck.

"How is it, did you find it?" Ke Xun asked.

"There is a kitchen over there," Wei Dong pointed to a door at the end of the first floor. "The big room in the middle is a hall. The other rooms are only beds. No one else is seen, and there is nothing suspicious."

In fact, there was nothing suspicious on the deck, it was flat.

"There should be a lower building under the deck. Let's find the entrance." Mu Yiran said.

"Here!" Qin Ci beckoned at the stern, pointing to a large open lid on the deck, under which a staircase leading to the bottom was exposed.

Everyone walked down the stairs, and the cabin underneath was dark. Everyone took out their mobile phones to illuminate them, but they saw that there was also a room under the deck, which contained food, clothing, medicine, farming tools and some sun. Common things, but no one else.

"There are a lot of things underneath. It may take a few days to find them one by one," Qin Ci looked at everyone, "Shall we start now?"

"Start chanting, hurry up all the time," Ke Xun looked around. "Look for things like lamp oil first, and turn on the lights. The phone will save energy."

I was going to search in the room full of daily necessities, but Mu Yiran was stunned: "Let's divide the work. Ke Xun, you and Weidong go to find the lighting objects. Doctor Qin and Haowen, start by stacking books and scrolls. I began to look for clues in the room of the book. I went to the upper deck to monitor the movement of the ship, and by the way, bring people who entered the painting back here."

Everyone heard the words and no longer delayed, and immediately split up.

Ke Xun and Weidong searched for a long time in the room with daily necessities, and finally found seven or eight bronze lampstands. However, they searched all the boxes and corners, but they could not find candles or lamp oil. I had to take the lampstand and went to the room where Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen were.

There are more than a dozen boxes stacked in this room. The boxes are filled with some bamboo slips, wood chips and silk, all written in small seal script.

"I don't understand." Qin Ci shook his head and put down a scroll of bamboo slips in his hand. "These boxes are all these things, but there are no paper books. I suspect that the age of this ship is at least before the Han Dynasty."

"It's the Qin Dynasty." Mu Yiran's voice rang at the door, and seeing four or five people behind him, judging from the bewilderment and confusion on his face, they were all new people.

"On the big flag hung on the mast, the character'Qin' in small seal style is written." Mu Yiran stepped into the room, picked up a roll of bamboo slips and glanced at it, "At that time, most of the text was recorded on bamboo slips and wood chips. On the silk and silk, even this "A Picture of a Rhinoceros on the Sea" was painted on the silk."

"In other words, this "A Picture of Rhinoceros on the Sea" was probably painted in the Qin Dynasty?" Zhu Haowen said.

"Not necessarily." It was one of the newcomers who followed Mu Yiran. He was not low, almost on the same level as Mu Yiran. His black hair was brushed meticulously behind his head, with cold brows and cold eyes. He was pale, his face was unexpectedly calm.

"Ink and color silk paintings almost existed in every dynasty after the Qin Dynasty," the person continued coldly, "In fact, paintings of the Qin Dynasty have been handed down to the world even more rarely. The content of the paintings is of Qin Shi It's not necessarily Qin Shi's era when the painter lived.

"Before I entered the painting, I took a glance at this painting. Although it is an imitation, I tried to truly restore the original quality and even the damaged details.

"According to the extent of the damage and the clarity of the picture quality, the generation of this painting should be between the Qin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty."

After finishing these words, seeing everyone in the room looking at him, the man nodded slightly and calmly said: "My name is Shao, Shao Ling."

"From the Qin Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, this range is a bit larger." Wei Dong scratched his head.

"Moreover, if this painting is about Qin Shi, all the characters on the ship can only reflect Qin Shi. If the painter is not from Qin Dynasty, we are afraid that we will not be able to find out his name from these words. Clues." Qin Ci said.

"If it's not troublesome," Shao Ling looked at the veteran members calmly, "Can you tell me more about your experience in the first few paintings?"

"Brother Qin, this task is left to you." Ke Xun said.

Among them, only Qin Ci had such patience.

Qin Ci and Mu Yichang simply changed tasks, and took a few newcomers to the deck, while telling the experience and rules in the painting, while waiting for the remaining newcomers.

Mu Yiran stayed in the room below. Seeing that Ke Xun and Weidong were still using mobile phones to illuminate, he asked Ke Xun, "Did you not find the light?"

"The lamp was found, but no candles or lamp oil were found." Ke Xun handed the lampstand in his hand to Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran took it in his hand and glanced at it for a few times, and said: "The goose foot lamp, a popular lamp in the Qin and Han Dynasties, is usually used by the court and is used to decorate the palace hall. The three candles in the lamp plate are used for candles. , But the candles in the pre-Qin period are not the same as the candles we use now. They are made of flammable reed grass or twigs of pine and bamboo with high oil content, bunched into small torches, and wrapped with cloth strips. It is made of animal fat."

"Then I will look for it again." Ke Xun said as he walked out, and Mu Yiran went out with him.

However, even if the chief shepherd swept around, Ke Xun still failed to find the so-called "candle".

"Isn't it too weird," Ke Xun extinguished the light of the mobile phone to save power, and stood in front of Mu Yiran in the dark. "There are clothes, medicine, food, and books on this ship. Obviously he intends to stay in Those who sail at sea, but there are only things that don’t have lighting. You can’t live a life like a blind person at night, right?”

The Mu in the dark did not make a sound. Ke Xun knew that he was meditating and did not disturb him, but stood silently in front of him for a long time, listening to him quietly speaking: "Perhaps, this is what this painting gives us. A hint of it."

"Oh? What did you suggest?" Ke Xun asked.

"The name of this painting is "The Rhinoceros on the Sea"," Mu Yiran's clear magnetic voice became more textured in the dark. "There is no'candle' that can be used to illuminate and burn in this painting, but the name of the painting is It's called "Burning Rhinoceros", I think, "Painting" is to remind us of this situation that the focus of this painting is "Burning Rhinoceros"."

"Yes, take out what can be burned in the painting. Of course, we will doubt why this painting is still called the "burning rhinoceros" picture." Ke Xun easily found Mu Yiran in the dark. He held it and shook it, as if to praise his boyfriend.

The boyfriend's slender fingers moved lightly and shook his ten fingers, but the words in his mouth were still calm and steady: "The burning rhino can be used for illumination, but there is a strange allusion about this word."

"Talk about it." Ke Xun couldn't help but stretch his arms around his waist and put his chin on his shoulders.

Falling in love does not affect business affairs.

Mu Yiran's voice rang shallowly in her ears: "It is said that a person named Wen Qiao walked to a place called Niuzhuji. He heard the sound of music coming from underwater, and he looked down, but See the unfathomable water depth.

"He had heard rumors that there were many ghosts in the water, so he lit rhino horns for illumination and looked underwater.

"Not long afterwards, I saw many strange ghosts pouring in, and there were even those wearing red clothes in carriages, trying to put out the flames of the rhino horns.

"That night, Wen Qiao dreamed that someone was very angry and fiercely blaming him, saying that the two worlds of Yin and Yang are different, and they don't interfere with each other. Why do you want to shine with each other?

"The next day, Wen Qiao suffered a stroke due to toothache pulling his teeth, and died less than ten days later."

"...I rely on," Ke Xun tensed his arms, "so is this the same situation with "Burning Rhinoceros on the Sea"..."

Mu Yiran raised his hand and patted his back lightly: "According to legend, lighting the rhino horn can be used to shine on another world. Some people use this method to communicate with the'people' or'spirits' of the other world, while others use This method avoids evil and disasters, or even achieves different goals. And the purpose of burning rhinoceros in the "Sea Burning Rhinoceros" may be the key to finding the seal and leaving the painting."