Escape From the Library

【Phantom in the painting-04】

The woman who appeared in the painting was nothing like the Mona Lisa I saw just now.

The woman's face was as pale as a ghost, but her lips were as red as blood.Her facial features are very clear. Rather than saying that this is an oil painting, it is more like an old and yellowed photo.

The woman was dressed in black, with long black hair, and blood and tears were still streaming from the corners of her eyes.

Suddenly, Yue Xingwen felt that the roof seemed to be leaking, and the cold liquid kept dripping on his face. Yue Xingwen reached out to touch it, and found that his hand was actually full of bright red!

Ke Shaobin glanced at Yue Xingwen's face, and tremblingly said: "Xingwen, you, your face is covered with blood!"

Yue Xingwen turned his head to look at Jiang Pingce. The latter also had blood on his face. The dense blood dripped all over his face, which looked particularly terrifying.

Everyone looked at each other and found that everyone was like this.

Ke Shaobin hurriedly wiped it with his sleeve, Jiang Pingce said in a low voice: "Don't wipe it, the more you wipe it, the more you wipe it."

The blood dripped down from the roof, and soon gathered into a ball, flowing towards the surroundings as if consciously.In a blink of an eye, the original white wall was covered with viscous blood, as if a large puddle of red paint had been knocked over.The blood continued to spread along the floor, and it reached everyone's feet in a blink of an eye——

The entire space they were in was filled with blood, like a sea of ​​blood!

This weird scene made everyone extremely horrified, Yue Xingwen said vigilantly: "Everyone be careful!"

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the ghostly pale woman in the painting hanging in the porch suddenly poked her head out of the painting.

Her long hair flew out like lightning, wrapping around Yue Xingwen's neck in an instant!

Yue Xingwen only felt that the woman's hair seemed to be taken out of the freezer, and the biting coolness rushed to the top of his head along the tailbone, his neck was about to be strangled by the hair, and the strong suffocation made his chest seem to burst.The lack of oxygen caused his brain to be in chaos. He couldn't even speak a word, and his body was suspended in the air by his hair.

The students around were all stunned by this scene.

Jiang Pingce's face changed, and he raised his right hand suddenly, and countless feathery triangular rulers shot out from his palm, and the sharp ruler cut off the black hair in an instant!

Yue Xingwen's neck loosened, and his suspended body fell quickly.

Jiang Pingce stepped forward to catch Xingwen firmly, and said sharply, "Go!"

He took Yue Xingwen's hand and ran downstairs quickly. Ke Shaobin also came back to his senses and shouted loudly: "Something is wrong, this painting is perfect, everyone run!"

Another woman floated out of the painting.

Ke Shaobin ran away without hesitation, and the others hurriedly followed.

Yue Xingwen ran down the steps, and his mind regained his composure at this time.

The woman in the painting just now attacked him suddenly, and he was caught off guard and strangled his neck. Thinking of the broken necks of the corpses found in the garden, the way the woman attacked seemed to remind them of the tragic death of the three of them.

He died of suffocation. Brother Liu's analysis of the body was obviously correct.

Jiang Pingce held Yue Xingwen's hand tightly, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged.Yue Xingwen noticed his worry, immediately held him back, and said in a low voice: "I'm fine, the painting mutated too suddenly, I didn't react for a while."

Jiang Pingce didn't say anything, and quickly ran to the first floor with Yue Xingwen.

Other students also followed, and Lan Yarong looked at Yue Xingwen worriedly: "Xingwen, how are you?"

Yue Xingwen said: "It's okay."

When he looked back, the glaring blood actually flowed down the stairs, following them, chasing after them!In a blink of an eye, the entire staircase was painted bloody.

Yue Xingwen said in a deep voice: "This class is called "Phantom in Painting". What we saw just now may be a phantom."

Ke Shaobin said: "In other words, Brother Liu and the others may still be in another room in the castle, and we have entered the phantom world, so we can't get in touch?" After he finished speaking, he shouted loudly: "Senior Brother Liu, can you hear Arriving?!"

Liu Zhaoqing was also on the second floor just now, and Ke Shaobin must have been able to hear him speaking so loudly.However, the students in the other group did not respond, so there was only one explanation—they were in different spaces and could not communicate directly.

Yue Xingwen said: "The research group didn't show any reminder that any students were eliminated, which means that nothing happened to them. Don't worry, everyone, let's get out of this illusion first."

Ke Shaobin frowned and asked, "How do we get out of this illusion?"

Yue Xingwen didn't have a clue at the moment. Before he had time to think carefully, those people in the painting on the second floor chased him down!

One by one, pale women floated out of the painting, as if mass-produced.In an instant, those people in the painting surrounded them, and their long black hair fell from the sky like dense black giant nets!

The bloodstains on the ground were scurrying wildly like a group of snakes, and they came to their feet in a blink of an eye. The bloodstains were like flames, standing upright from the ground, as if to swallow them completely!

Yue Xingwen's expression changed, he immediately opened the dictionary, and quickly read a sentence: "The golden cicada escapes its shell!"

The team escape technique, which can release the control and teleport up to 500 meters.

The scene in front of the students' eyes changed, and they thought they could escape from this weird castle and go to the rose flower bed outside, but to Yue Xingwen's surprise, he couldn't leave the castle even if he used the golden cicada shelling skill——

They just teleported from the first floor to the second floor.

At the entrance on the second floor, the "Mona Lisa" is still hanging.

The painting has returned to its original form? !

The woman in the painting looks kind and gentle, with a smile that is not a smile.Her face was normal, and she didn't shed blood or tears.

A group of 7 people stood at the stairs, looking at the painting in the entrance, collectively confused.

Xu Feixue scratched his head and said, "The painting has returned to its original state. Could it be that we have returned to the original space?"

Xin Yan quickly summoned a large number of alcohol lamps to illuminate the entire castle.

The walls are white, the floor is covered with clean marble tiles, and there is no trace of blood on the stairs. Yue Xingwen touched his face, and all the sticky blood on his face disappeared, as if everything just now was just a nightmare.

Recalling Yue Xingwen's face covered in blood just now, Ke Shaobin couldn't help rubbing the goosebumps on his arms, and said: "It was really an illusion just now! This painting seems to be a switch between reality and illusion? The appearance of Mona Li When we saw the appearance of Shaben, we were in the normal castle; when the screen rotated and another face appeared, we entered the illusion?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "It should be like this."

Ke Shaobin called to another door at the end of the corridor: "Senior Brother Liu, can you hear me?"

Just now they divided into two teams, Yue Xingwen led the team into the left room, and Liu Zhaoqing led the team into the right room.Now that they have returned to the original world, they should be able to meet another group of classmates, right?

Everyone was looking forward to Liu Zhaoqing's familiar voice, but after waiting for a few seconds, there was still no response.

That door was like a beast with its mouth wide open, eating up Liu Zhaoqing and his party.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other: "Go and have a look?"

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Well, there should be clues in their room."

Everyone followed Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce to the room on the right.

This is a study room. One wall is a bookshelf filled with various books, and the other wall is hung with a huge oil painting. Even people who don’t study art can recognize this painting.

——This is Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper".

Yue Xingwen walked to the painting and said: "The Last Supper tells the story of Jesus and his twelve apostles in the Bible. Jesus and the apostles had the last supper together. He said, some of you would betray me."

Xu Feixue said: "That's right, the picture drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci is the different performances of the twelve apostles after Jesus said 'someone will betray me'. Judas, who finally betrayed him, was sitting next to him on the right. in the position..." Xu Feixue pointed to Judas in the painting, "Judas has money in his hand, implying that he betrayed his master for money."

Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses: "The Last Supper? Can this painting be connected with the ones I saw before?"

Yue Xingwen pondered the logic carefully, and said, "If these paintings represent the bloody story that happened in the castle, then the last supper may refer to the family's betrayal?"

Xu Feixue agreed: "It makes sense. During the Last Supper, Jesus was betrayed by Judas. The reason why this family was wiped out was because there was also a betrayer who joined forces with the murderer?"

Jiang Pingce suddenly asked, "Is it the nanny?"

Yue Xingwen looked back at him, and Jiang Pingce said: "The relationship between Jesus and Judas is like a master and a servant. In the end, Judas betrayed his master; there is a separate nanny room on the first floor of the ancient castle. Obviously, this family may hire them for a long time. Servants come to do housework. Servants know many secrets of their masters, and are most likely to betray their masters out of interests."

Ke Shaobin's eyes lit up: "So, the theme of this painting is 'betrayal'?"

Yue Xingwen thought for a moment, and said: "Combined with the previous theme, the abstract painting "Exchange" on the first floor and the porch painting "Mona Lisa" on the second floor are covered with human faces, the madness of Van Gogh's "Starry Night", plus " The betrayal suggested by "The Last Supper", the logical clues connected in series are - the nanny betrayed the master, joined forces with the murderer, and wiped out the family, and the murderer replaced the identity and status of the family and embezzled their property?"

Jiang Pingce agreed, "I think so too."

Lan Yarong nodded and said, "Betrayal, replacement, exchange. Your explanation really makes sense!"

Yue Xingwen said: "The key now is, where did Senior Brother Liu go?"

***

At this time, Liu Zhaoqing and the six were standing at the entrance on the second floor.

The Mona Lisa in the painting suddenly raised the corners of her mouth, showing a weird smile on her face. Liu Zhaoqing pointed at her with wide eyes and said, "Look quickly, the woman in this painting seems to be smiling?"

Xu Yishen looked back, and when he saw the smile of the person in the painting, his hair stood on end: "Could it be that what Xingwen saw at the beginning was not an illusion? Can the person in the painting really move?"

Liu Zhaoqing cursed in a low voice: "This fucking smile is a bit scary!" He shouted towards the door on the other side: "Xing Wen, we are here in the entrance, come and see this painting!"

The door on the left was open, but there was no response from inside the house.

Liu Zhaoqing was puzzled: "Xing Wen?"

Xu Yishen quickly mitotically entered the room to check, returned to his original position three seconds later, shook his head and said, "No one."

Liu Zhaoqing frowned: "What's going on?"

The next moment, the smiling woman in the painting blinked suddenly, followed by a strange "giggle" laughter in the castle. In the silent night, the laughter pierced my ears like a magic sound.

The six people heard the woman's laughter, and the goosebumps on their backs fell all over the ground!