Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

"The saying 'You can't lie on a willow when you are alive, and you can't sleep on a poplar when you are dead' means that... the ancients believed that willow trees usually grow by the wet riverside, don't require much sunlight, are cold in nature, and have heavy moisture. If you use them to make furniture, it will easily allow cold and damp air to enter the body, affecting health. In addition, the wood of willow is compact and hard, and it is not easy to dry thoroughly, so it is easy to deform and deteriorate."

"Poplars are the exact opposite. They grow very fast and are not very hard, so they are prone to insects. After being cut down, they are also prone to rotting in a humid environment. After a person dies, the most important thing is to honor the deceased and bury him in peace. To make a coffin, you definitely need hard wood that is not prone to rotting or deterioration."

"If you choose poplar wood to make a coffin, it will easily get damp and rot, and it will also attract pests, affecting the deceased's burial. In other words, if someone dies and someone else uses poplar wood to make a coffin for him, there must be some grudge between the two people during their lifetime. After all, the person who made the coffin didn't have any good intentions, and he made the deceased unable to rest in peace even after death."

Qin Shang muttered to himself in his heart, and then the most common types of coffins appeared in his mind again.

I vaguely remember reading a tomb-robbing novel before, which mentioned it from the perspective of Feng Shui.

Sophora japonica wood is cool in nature and belongs to the yin category, making it most suitable for preserving corpses.

If the old man who was taken away just now was not talking nonsense, if the temple part of the painting was actually a coffin in the shape of a Buddhist temple...

Countless chaotic thoughts flashed through his mind, and he raised his chin with a thoughtful look on his face.

At present, whether it is the place where the enlightened monk passed away, the long-necked monster that appeared in the corridor described by Fang Changpei, or the monster in the folk ghost story that eats the tongue of a child who keeps chewing his tongue and doesn't like to sleep in the middle of the night, they are not clearly reflected in this painting.

The only thing that can be linked to the painting is what the old man just said, that behind the nun, the protagonist in the painting, is a coffin shaped like a Buddhist temple.

"If it's true as the old man said, using a temple-shaped coffin to suppress evil spirits, then this nun in the painting is not the protagonist of the story, right?"

Otherwise, who are the vengeful spirits that the old man is talking about suppressing?

In the whole story, it seems that only two people died?

One was a woman who hanged herself in the monastery, and the other was the abbot who did not have time to escape during the fire.

And shouldn’t the one who suppressed the evil spirits be the great monk who passed away here?

Could it be that the painter had ulterior motives and changed the monk who was sitting in meditation and entering the vengeful spirit into a nun?

Then why does this nun have to button her monastic robes the same way as a cassock?

There are too many elements and they are too complicated. This painting does have a weird feeling of a hodgepodge. Moreover, why is there a background in the shape of a Buddhist temple but no background of a monastery? What kind of story does this "Nun Picture" want to convey? Thinking of this, Qin Shang rubbed his temples with a headache. Now it is basically certain that this painting is the place where the shadow of the pollution source is projected, but he has not figured out how to enter it. The pollution source must require a specific way to open it!

Wait!

When he raised his hand halfway, his body suddenly shook and a look of shock gradually began to spread in his eyes.

If the locust tree coffin really existed thirty years ago, and the little ghost baby expressed his desire for the "Picture of the Nun", it means that the drawing board or materials of "Picture of the Nun" were most likely made of locust tree.

Could it be that the material of this painting is actually the coffin in which the woman who caused the supernatural story and committed suicide in the monastery was buried?

...if it is true!

If thirty years ago, the lady had been hanged in the convent and buried.

As a result, other people in the monastery were afraid that certain things would be exposed or wanted to suppress some secrets, so they buried her immediately.

Maybe we really need to ask a master to suppress the vengeful spirit.

If that woman died in vain, she must have been filled with resentment. Using other poplar and willow trees to make her coffin, wouldn't that be a clear sign of wanting to die and an act of provocation?

Most likely, they used the locust tree in the hope that she could rest in peace and her debts would be wiped out...

"The shadow projection must be related to some elements in the instance. If there is such a coffin in the instance, could it be that the Bad Leader found the coffin where the shadow was projected, and then had someone use some of the materials from the coffin to paint this "Nun Picture" and [seal] the contaminated instance in this painting?"

Qin Shang swallowed his saliva and wondered if this action was a bit too rude.

Lift the lid of someone's coffin, use part of the coffin to paint, and then seal the contaminated copy in the painting.

Well... you can do it this way, but I always feel that it is too damaging and the son you give birth to will have no anus.

Qin Shang couldn't figure out the reason and sighed helplessly.

The best way now is to wait. First, wait until night when it is quiet, and sneak to the Jiangcheng Xiang'an District Art Museum, and try to get a close look at this "Nun Picture". If not, take it out from behind the glass cover and have a look. You will know whether it is a locust tree when you touch it.

Anyway, with the 'Cursed Red Dress' [Void] skill, Qin Shang can completely ignore physical barriers.

As soon as he thought of this, he grabbed the restless little baby in his arms and hit him hard on the butt twice.

However, this action was a bit violent. Other passers-by noticed this scene and glanced at him with confusion.

"Mom, what is that uncle doing? Why is he hitting his own little cone?"

"Don't look at it, that's a pervert!"

The younger mother of a mother and child passing by immediately covered her child's eyes and glared at Qin Shang fiercely.

It seemed like an outcry against his behavior of taking photos of his genitals and performing indecent movements in public.

Qin Shang;???

Damn it!

I was fucking beating the child. If you don't want your eyes, you can donate them to people in need. Which eye of yours saw me behaving like a hooligan in public?

He rolled his eyes and didn't bother to explain.

Of course, she moved her hands even faster to wrap her clothes tightly, for fear that the mini ghost baby in her arms would be seen by others.

Anyway, it’s not the first or second time that he’s been treated as a pervert. Even if someone calls the police, what they’ll find is Yin Shisan’s identity information.

The pervert you are talking about is Yin Shisan. What does it have to do with me, Qin Shang?

It doesn't matter if it's none of your business.

Thinking of this, he pressed his hat and turned to walk out of Hall 3. He took out his mobile phone and searched the name Dong Zhen.

There is quite a lot of information on the Internet. After casually browsing through the relevant information, Qin Shang couldn't help but click his tongue.

Dong Zhen seems to be a rat crossing the street who is hated by everyone in the Jiangcheng art circle. The reason may be more or less related to the painting "The Nun". After all, there are many aloof people in the artist circle. Seeing this colleague who is blatantly trying to ride on the popularity, and it is unclear how high his own artistic attainments are, but he is very good at playing with public opinion and topics, many of his proud artist colleagues are disdainful of him.

One comment came from the chairman of the Jiangcheng Artists Association. Although he did not name anyone, he implied that "some people are willing to sacrifice their reputation to become famous, and they believe everything they hear. They deliberately use feudal superstition as inspiration for their creations and do not respect historical facts. This kind of unfounded behavior is absolutely unacceptable. Otherwise, does the marketing account say that there may be three speculations about a ghost story behind "Mona Lisa"? As an artistic creator, should we also follow suit and paint a blackened "Mona Lisa"? "

Full of irony.

It is probably criticizing painters for not studying the deep historical or social conditions of a certain period and reflecting them through a painting, but instead choosing to pick on people's curiosity and finding a well-known ghost story as the basis for their creation, which is an opportunistic behavior.

Although it cannot be ruled out that it was indeed a case of taking shortcuts, when Qin Shang observed the painting, he felt that the level was not as bad as people said on the Internet. Even if the content was not "The Nun", it should be a good work.

"But isn't this Dong Zhen a little too old?"

According to public information on the Internet, Dong Zhen was born in 1967.

He is almost sixty years old now, so he may have witnessed the rise and fall of the monastery with his own eyes thirty years ago!

This "Picture of Nun" is a work by Dong Zhen in 2014. In the past fifty years, Dong Zhen occasionally created some art, but many of his works were tepid. It was not until 2014 that he became famous on the Internet because of this painting "Picture of Nun" and donated it to the Xiang'an District Art Museum.

Qin Shang walked out of the museum, looking confused as he checked the information.

Considering the old man's age, there was a ghost story about the monastery thirty years ago. If he had just painted such a picture at that time, wouldn't it have become famous in minutes? Why did he have to wait until 14 to start creating art?

But if he remembered correctly, according to Fang Changpei, similar supernatural events seemed to have occurred one after another since more than ten years ago?

"The public beta of the second area of ​​Shenlu was around 08. It is very likely that the Jiangcheng Top Ten Weird Stories was already a copy in 08. There might have been a lot of weird things in those two years, which is consistent with Chang Pei's statement... Tsk, then the guy who signed the painting is a bit strange. Why did Dong Zhen have to donate this painting in 14? Is it because this painting was indeed created in 14, or was it that this painting was painted a long time ago, but he only thought of donating it in 14?"

If this painting was drawn a long time ago, it could have been taken out earlier!

Moreover, there is something special about the time of 14 years!

What happened that year?

Could it be that Dong Zhen is also a Shenlu player who happened to have entered this dungeon, and for some reason did not complete the dungeon, but survived the dungeon by chance, so he wanted to stitch together several elements in the painting to create a work of art?

Qin Shang frowned and searched the forum for posts dated 14.

This kind of public information couldn't find anything related to the beta testers. Of course, he didn't plan to search for information related to the 'Thunder King' and 'Mother Guarding the Center Line'. He didn't think that this copy could be linked to the 'Thunder King' in the "first round".

That guy went back from his "first week" world to the "Taoyuan" timeline around 05. His purpose was not to save the people and eliminate pollution sources to learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds!

If the Divine Road matching mechanism did not select him for that dungeon, based on Qin Shang's understanding of the cold personality of the Thunder King.

This guy probably knows there is such a copy but doesn't bother to care.

After all, in [Points Monopoly], when he saw Zhang Xiaofen being dragged into the wine cellar by Chen Boxu, the Thunder King pretended to turn a blind eye. Even though he ended up causing his father Qin Qiuhe to become an element in the copy, he did not feel the slightest bit of guilt. Qin Shang didn't believe that this guy was unaware of the butterfly effect caused by Zhang Xiaofen's accident, but he still ignored it.

The Thunder King is a pure and completely selfish person who is so cold and indifferent to others...

"And Qiqi's Prophecy Pen didn't say anything this time, which means that the Lightning King has probably never been to the dungeon [No. 1 Cultivator's Grudge]!"

Soon, he found out the reason why it was 2014 through the "Shenlu Player Official Forum"...

Because in 2014, Buliang Shuai entered the dungeon [No. 1 Xiudaoyuan] and failed to pass the dungeon.

[No. 1 Xiudao Yuan] This copy is notorious among the players of Shenlu. The fundamental reason for its fame is that it is a copy that even the Bad Leader failed to clear.

That message was posted by the official account of the Bad People Organization on the "Shenlu Players Official Forum" in 2014...

Seeing this news, a deep look flashed across Qin Shang's eyes;

"So which came first, the painting or the shadow-casting ground?"

"What was the earliest shadow projection location of [No. 1 Cultivator's Grudge]? Was it a coffin or a painting? Was there such a coffin? What does Dong Zhen do? How involved is he in this matter? Did the Bad Leader [seal] the contaminated copy into this "Nun's Picture", or was "Nun's Picture" originally the shadow projection location of [No. 1 Cultivator's Grudge]? Or... was "Nun's Picture" born before the appearance of the Divine Path? Was it because the Divine Path selected that copy and awakened the story behind "Nun's Picture"?"