Paintings of Terror

Around eleven o'clock in the morning, all the 13 participants were gathered.

Those who are willing to come to the art museum on a weekend of continuous autumn rains, apart from true art lovers, are probably only men and women who are in love seeking romance and style.

Among the eight newcomers, there are two pairs of lovers, a middle-aged person who came in to shelter from the rain, a rich second generation with nothing to do, a young female painter, and the person named Shao Ling.

At this moment, all eight newcomers have learned from Qin Ci about the ins and outs of the horrible world in the painting. What surprised the old members is that this time the newcomers’ acceptance of this strange incident is unexpectedly high. No one gobbled up and made noise, and no one angered others. They were silent and self-sustaining, carefully looking at several old members and the surrounding environment.

"Introduce yourself." Qin Ci gave the names of several old members.

The middle-aged man was carrying a baggage in his hand-it was his briefcase before the painting, and he pushed the thick glasses on the bridge of his nose: "My name is Li Yi. The electric car broke down on the way to work, so I went to the art gallery to avoid the rain. Avoid this kind of thing... please take care of some of you."

"My name is Yu Long, and this is my girlfriend, Fang Fei." The young man in his early twenties was dyed with a dull green linen-textured perm, and pointed to the girl with the same hair color standing next to him with long permed hair. , The girl was silent, looking at everyone in front of her without a word.

Another couple also reported their names. They were both in their thirties. The man was shrewd and thoughtful. He was called Liu Yanlei. His girlfriend had a bob head and looked very scheming. He was called Chen Xinai.

The young female painter was thin and pale, her complexion appeared unhealthy and pale. She didn't know if it was because of her art. Her expression was a little cold and alienated, and her eyes sometimes appeared blurred and empty, and she gave her name indifferently: " Snow grid."

Presumably a pseudonym or stage name.

The last one who spoke was the rich second-generation dyed with platinum blonde hair. The reason why he could see that this was a rich second-generation was really because he was too young, and the big carat of the same Beckham in his ear Diamond stud earrings are too eye-catching.

This man rolled up his sleeves and showed some old members a suspected bronze bracelet on his wrist, and then asked: "A few elder brothers, let me ask you. After I got out of the painting, the watch on my hand was still Can you change it back?"

Everyone: "..." It turns out that this bracelet is a manifestation of the deterioration of the watch...

Wei Dong looked at him speechlessly: "My buddy, shouldn't you care if you can get out of the painting?"

"Fuck, my watch belongs to Patek Philippe, it's more valuable than my life!" said Fu Erdai.

Weidong: "...Beta?"

Rich second generation: "Patek Philippe!"

Weidong: "How much money?"

Rich second generation: "More than 2.9 million."

Weidong: "...............Beta?"

Rich second generation: "This watch is going to be broken, and Uncle Zhang will be unemployed."

Weidong: "What does Uncle Zhang do?"

Rich second generation: "A servant who specializes in maintaining watches for me."

Wei Dong: "...Poverty limits my imagination..."

The rich second generation: "By the way, my name is Luo Yi (bù), and you can call me radish or Rob."

Wei Dong: "What do you mean by 勏?"

Rich second generation: "It just means'strength'."

Wei Dong: "...this name...how a little wretched..."

The rich second generation: "Probably when my dad named me, he hoped that I would not have trouble with development in the future."

Wei Dong: "..." You are already very waved now.

Ke Xun was too lazy to listen to these two teasers and continue to talk, and told everyone about the cause and effect of "Burning Rhinoceros" that Mu Yiran just mentioned.

"Since it is related to the'burning rhinoceros,'" Qin Ci said, "then let's search for rhino horns on this ship."

Everyone had no objections. They were collectively transferred from the deck to the lower cabin, and no one made arrangements. The thirteen people were naturally divided into two groups. The newcomers formed one group by themselves, and Luo Yi was mixed among the old members.

Two groups searched the cabin separately, one group searched from beginning to end, and the other group searched from end to beginning.

"Let me ask," Luo Ling held his mobile phone to illuminate everyone, "the first few pictures you entered, there were only 13 people in total? There is no one else in the painting? I mean, the person in the painting."

"Yes." Wei Dong replied, "Depending on the content of the paintings, some paintings have only 13 of us outsiders, and some paintings have many insiders."

"Then why is there no insider in this painting?" Luo Wei said, "Is this a big ship? Isn't it on the vast ocean? Without an insider, how did this ship sail here?"

"This is reasonable..." Wei Dong looked at his companions, "What about the captain? What about the crew? Is it possible that among us, some of us are the captain? Will anyone sail?"

"Even paintings should be logical and reasonable," Qin Ci nodded, "unless it is a weird kind of painting with exaggerated cartoons as the theme like "Pure Land". Judging by the scale of this ship If you want it to sail long-distance, you must use wind power and manpower, and manpower should not be too small, otherwise you cannot control such a large-scale ship."

"I have observed the rooms of the superstructure on the deck," Mu Yiran said, "Many of the beds and toiletries in the rooms have been used by people. This shows that there should be a lot of people on the ship before this, and we Entering the time point in the painting is when the event expressed in the painting has reached a certain stage, so we may think that there used to be a captain and many crew members on this ship, but due to the development of the event, only 13 people were left in the end. "Crew", and the role we play is these thirteen people."

"In this way, the disappearance of the captain and other crew members may have a direct relationship with the'burning rhinoceros.'" Zhu Haowen said.

"Then why do they want to burn rhinoceros when they are idle?" Luo Wei asked.

"In order to photograph the ghosts?" Ke Xun thought, "Then, just like Wen Qiao in the story of Niuzhu Burning Rhinoceros, he died in less than ten days?"

Luo Wei turned the light of the phone to him: "Then why do we still look for rhino horns? Find out and continue to take pictures of ghosts and then die?"

Ke Xun squinted: "Your light will blind my cousin and classmates. Looking for rhino horn may not necessarily mean burning it. This thing is obviously an important prop in this painting. Maybe it is related to the seal, so you must find it. ."

"Cousin" student Luo Ge said "Oh", removed the light of the mobile phone, and illuminated Mu Yiran again: "This brother, I seem to have seen you somewhere."

"Talk less, be awkward, keep looking, okay?" Ke Xun glanced at him.

"Yes, you are handsome, you have the final say." Luo Yu didn't have the arrogance of a rich second-generation at all. As soon as he removed the light of his mobile phone, he suddenly remembered something like "fuck" , Pointed to Mu Yiran, "I remember! You are my dad idol! He still has your picture in the drawer of his desk!"

Mu Yiran: "..."

Ke Xun: "..."

Everyone: "..."

Ke Xun akimbo: "What's the situation?"

Luo Yi looked **** Mu Yiran's face: "My dad envied you at a young age and earned the wealth he earned after half a lifetime of fighting. Isn't there a saying in the circle like this-poor car, rich Watching, real local tyrants playing art museums. Local tyrants, my little brother is polite!"

He said, clasping his fists and arched his hands towards Mu Yiran.

"..." Wei Dong whispered to Ke Xun: "This kid is two more than you."

"Do you remember that he was like this when we first entered the painting?" Ke Xun did not ignore that since just now, Luo Ling had been shaking his hand holding the phone, so he didn't mean to laugh at Luo Ling. There are many questions and many problems. When I see a calm and reliable person like Yi Ran, I want to go up with it, like a drowning person saw the last driftwood. It's just my personality, I pretended not to care much at first, but in fact Only we ourselves know what kind of mood and state of mind we were at that time."

Wei Dong sighed: "Yeah, all the slanderous appearances you try to show are actually just to force yourself not to collapse completely, just like pretending not to care, you can really not care, pretending to laugh and curse. Will not be afraid of the same."

"Newcomers like us are using self-deception to protect and support themselves," Ke Xun glanced at Luo Ge, who was still spinning around Mu Yi, "Let him go, let's hurry up."

Two groups of people searched the lower deck room twice, but still did not find rhino horn.

"Could it be that the rhino horns on the ship have been burned by the disappeared captain and crew?" Wei Dong was suspicious after the two groups got together again.

"It's really a prodigal, rhino horn has been a very expensive thing from ancient times to the present?" Luo Ling said.

"Yes." I don't know if it's because I saw a trace of Ke Xun's original shadow from Luo Ge. Mu Yiran, who has always been cold, can be regarded as quite kind to him, "Rhino horn is an expensive thing. , Maybe not in the storage room, go to the captain's room to find it."

Everyone got on the deck and easily found the captain’s room, because this room is probably the most well-equipped room among all the rooms. The wooden low bed is made more finely, and the texture of the bedding is also very high-end, except In addition to the bed, there are several storage boxes. The boxes are filled with clothes and daily necessities.

Qin Ci and the others had searched this room before, and they had not found anything suspicious.

This time everyone carried out a more detailed search. Ke Xun even squatted down and knocked on the wooden floor block by block.

Facts proved that Ke Xun's brain hole was not wrong. At the head of the bed, there was a hollow under a wooden floor.

Ke Xun uncovered the wooden floor. Inside was a half-person deep hole. There were two or three wooden boxes in the hole, and the lid was locked.

"Then the question is, where to find the key?" Luo Wei said.

You have searched every corner of the room just now, and you haven't seen any keys.

"Why are you looking for the key?" Ke Xun said, reaching out his hand to hold the lock on the lid, pulling it hard, and with a snap, the lock was broken by him.

"Brother awesome!" Luo Ge was surprised, "You are Astro Boy with an iron arm, right?"

Ke Xun: "...I'm your head. Don't be nonsense, come over and lift the box up."

Ke Xun pulled the locks of all the boxes, and then lifted the boxes to the ground together with Luo Wei. When everyone opened the boxes, they saw that some of them contained bamboo slips, some of them contained precious jewelry, and some of them contained rhino horns.

"The things recorded on the bamboo slips in the box may be some very important information," Shao Ling said, looking around everyone, "Everyone, do you know seal script?"

Everyone shook their heads, and seeing the eyes of the old members subconsciously looking at Mu Yiran, Shao Ling raised his brows slightly and looked at Mu Yiran with a slight scrutiny.

"The characters in the small seal script that I can recognize are very limited," Mu Yiran glanced across the scroll of bamboo slips that had been opened. "Forgive me for not being able to recognize the content on it."

"Now that we have found the rhino horns, what are we going to do next?" Liu Yanlei, with astute eyebrows, couldn't help shaking his eyes at this moment, as if thinking deeply about something.

"Two choices, burning or not burning." Shao Ling looked at everyone.

Burning, an irresistible force or creature that is likely to lead to killing.

If it does not burn, it may not be able to promote the progress of the plot in the painting, and thus no clues to leave the painting.

Thirteen people who entered the painting were caught in a dilemma.