Paintings of Terror

Mu Yiran put his hand on Ke Xun’s ankle and shook it for a while, and said, “Let’s consider one of these first. If the first painting Qin Ci and I entered is the last one entered by the previous group, Then maybe there is a way to check."

"What way?" Ke Xun asked hurriedly.

"May need Haowen's help." Mu Yiran said, putting down the tea cup in his hand, and dialed Zhu Haowen's phone with his mobile phone.

"Can you hack into the art gallery's monitoring system?" Mu Yiran asked straightforwardly.

Ke Xun sat up hurriedly and put his ear over.

"Yes," Zhu Haowen said in a flat voice, as if answering a simple question "Can you climb to the third floor in one go?"

"Time Art Museum, the date is before March 13 this year, it can be pushed forward for about three months," Mu Yiran said, "I need all the surveillance videos in the art gallery during this period of time."

"The premise is that the art gallery still retains the surveillance video for that time period. If there is still, I will give it to you tomorrow morning at the latest." Zhu Haowen replied simply.

After hanging up the phone, Mu Yiran said to Ke Xun: "Perhaps we can find some suspicious people in the surveillance video."

"It's still your brain turning fast." Ke Xun praised him.

"The result may not be too optimistic," Mu Yiran is very rigorous. "We can't determine to what extent the behind-the-scenes power of the painting can be achieved. If it can be erased or changed even the surveillance video, then we want to have something Breaking through is even more difficult."

"Go one step at a time, check one step at a time. This way is not working, but you can go another way." Ke Xun was particularly optimistic. "From the sixth point you just summarized, the power behind the painting wants to kill us, but also To keep us a ray of life, what is its purpose? It is purely to test our ability to pass customs? Does it have any meaning? I think the power behind the painting can harden places that shouldn’t be built as art museums. Changing it into a museum means that it is a kind of power with the ability to think. Therefore, it sets up this kind of incident of painting, which is definitely not purposeless just to test us. This kind of thing wants us to die, but also wants us to live. The setting must have a certain meaning and purpose."

Mu Yiran looked down and thought: "You are right, then we have to analyze the meaning and purpose of this setting. In fact, the painting "Schrodinger's Cat" gave me some inspiration.

"Roughly speaking, this painting shows the program's critical views on the current education system in a satirical manner.

"For example, these exam-like customs clearance procedures are the same as the screening of students through exams in schools. Students who study well can stay in the excellent class, and students who fail the exam will be eliminated into the ordinary class or It is a poor class.

"If I hadn't passed through this painting, I might not have realized that perhaps the force behind the scenes is constantly absorbing newcomers and allowing the painters to continue to enter the painting to withstand the test. This is also a sort of screening?

"So, among the old members left now, not to mention you and me, such as meticulous as Qin Ci, rational as Hao Wen, profound as Shao Ling, fearless as Fang Fei, and the completeness that Weidong and Luo Er paid to their companions Trust, the characteristics of these people in the painting, is an extremely rare advantage compared to all those who have entered the painting.

"The newly joined Wu You and He Tang, as the two have only experienced one painting, there may be a lot of luck in it, so it is difficult to define it for the time being, but if you have to say it, the personalities of the two are opposite. Stronger than girls of the same age.

"In the world in the painting, strong people may not live to the end, but weak people must die more easily than strong people.

"From this point of view, it is not impossible to say that painting is screening stronger and more suitable people, so it seems to always try to find people with relevant professional qualities.

"And if its purpose is to gather 13 strong people, then two more questions arise. First, when recruiting newcomers, why not everyone has the corresponding professional qualities?

"Secondly, what is the purpose of gathering these thirteen powerhouses? In order to break the game faster? Then why set up these paintings for us, so that we continue to risk death?

"For the first question, I have a conjecture. I think that the power behind the painting may not be as ubiquitous and powerful as we imagined. It also has power beyond its reach, so it can only'try its best' to find suitable Can’t find suitable candidates for “all”.

"So the conclusion of the first question is: the power behind painting is also limited.

"And the second question may be the ultimate question we want to know: what is the power behind the scenes for us to enter the painting?

"In fact, we can't get any benefit from entering the painting, or we have to be more literary. What we may get is more courage and courage. Is this the true purpose of painting? I don't think so. It is meaningless to exercise the courage of some people through **** and cruel killings. It must have a purpose.

"Then we can actually speculate based on our usual cognition. We first regard the behind-the-scenes power of the painting as a richly substantial figure, and then this character uses a screening mechanism to select several people in physical condition. People who are more outstanding and outstanding in terms of, psychological quality, knowledge and brains, what can these people be used for?"

Having said that, Mu Yiran looked down at Ke Xun, who was resting on his lap, staring up at the tip of his nose for a moment, and said: "If we follow the routines in novels or movies, I feel that we people It's like a mercenary selected by a rich and powerful boss, and then he will hire us to complete a dangerous and difficult task for him, such as stealing a treasure, killing someone, in short, it is something related to this For matters closely related to the interests of people, when we successfully complete the task, we may get a commission, but it is also possible that this person will all be killed."

"This idea of ​​yours is not impossible. In fact, I also have this doubt." Mu Yiran nodded slightly. "I suspect that after we finally gather 13 people, the whole situation of entering the painting will change for it and move towards a new one. The situation develops, but it is impossible to speculate now what kind of situation it will be.

Ke Xun felt a little frightened, and stretched out his hand to hold Mu Yiran's hand: "In this way, I feel that there will be more unpredictable things waiting for us in the future. The fate of these people will not be known at that time. However, when it comes to gathering 13 people, does it mean that there is a picture that we will break the game without any damage?"

"I think it should be." Mu Yiran nodded.

"Ha..." Ke Xun sighed, grabbing Mu Yiran's hand and putting it on his forehead, "This makes me wonder whether I should look forward to that day, or hope that it will never come. "

"Early is better," Mu Yiran said, "come early and end early. Whether the ending is life or death, it is much better than struggling endlessly on the line of life and death."

"That's right." Ke Xun felt that this was a bit sad, jumped up and stretched, and smiled, "I'll go to the supermarket to buy meat, let's cook the pot at night, and bring Dongzi over to join in the fun, how about?"

"Okay." Mu dazed his head, "I sent the speculation just now to the group."

In the morning of the next day, Zhu Haowen got a three-month-long surveillance video at the Time Art Museum. The members of the group who entered the painting theory acted collectively. Each was responsible for the video during one of the time periods. They watched and checked carefully from beginning to end. Are there any suspicious persons in the video?

This is also a huge project that takes time. Wu You even resigned and stayed at home directly, checking the video on the computer every day.

It's just that time doesn't wait for anyone, the time for painting will come soon.

After the last painting was drawn, Shao Ling, which is closer to the city of L, stopped by this Three-line Poetry Art Museum and stepped on it, and then discovered that he was treated maliciously by painting pushes again—the big sign at the door said : The museum is renovated and temporarily closed.

As for when it will open to the outside world, there is no sign on the sign, but the members of the "Into Painting Theory" are very clear that the day they enter painting is the time when the gallery reopens.

The Triline Art Museum is located in the local central park. Although the weather is cold, people who have been on annual holidays are still willing to go to the park without problems. Among them, most of them are young people. As soon as they enter the park gate, they look around the park. There are mostly young couples scattered around.

Luo Yi looked at these people for a while, took out the phone from his pocket, walked to the side to call his girlfriend: "Beauty, what about it?...Is it, what color number?...Oh, OK. , I will match your little cherry mouth.... I, maybe I will come back in a few days, you will play by yourself first... I bought you a bag, if you like it, if you don’t like it, I will screw it off and give it to you Do it now.... OK, cover the quilt at night and don’t show your feet.... Knead a bean bag, peas, peas’ head, cat’s head, and rat’s head for me,...ah, okay, hang up the phone A group photo of you guys was posted on my phone,... OK, nothing else, mua!... Then what, Yinyin, take care of yourself.... Well, goodbye, mua."

The crowd just pretended not to see his red eyes and nose, and walked straight to the cold building in the distance.

The Three-line Poetry Art Museum has a simple shape. The exterior wall is painted with the color and texture of rice paper. Above the front entrance, there is a beautiful line written with a three-line poem, from the author Han Shanshi's "Cloud":

Wandering

bird

Where is homing

After the refurbishment of the museum, it is said that all the paintings exhibited in it have been replaced with new ones. Nevertheless, the entrants had a thorough understanding of the previous exhibition materials in the museum and made sufficient preparations.

Compared with Luo Ling who is already getting used to the painting, Wu You and He Tang who entered the painting for the second time are obviously still in the stage of being quite repulsive and fearful newcomers. As soon as Wu You entered the door, he ran to the toilet twice with a pale face. He Tang almost let Fang Fei enter the door.

"I'm so scared..." He Tang tremblingly said while wiping the tears that kept flowing with a tissue.

"Extending your head is a knife, and shrinking your head is a knife," Wei Dong took out a pack of gum from his pocket and handed it to her, "Chew a piece of it, it can ease tension. Fang Fei, too?"

Fang Fei took the gum, smoked a slice for herself and He Tang, and then returned it to Weidong.

"We're ready to go in." Ke Xun's voice came from the door of the target exhibition hall.

"Let's go." He Tang chewed the sweet candy with mint in his mouth twice, gritted his teeth and made up his mind.