Escape From the Library

Chapter 202 The Phantom in the Painting 05

【Phantom in the painting-05】

The laughter from the woman in the painting was extremely ear-piercing, Liu Zhaoqing was not afraid of ghosts and gods, but this strange laughter drilled into his brain like an electric drill, making him almost unable to think.

Xu Yishen covered his ears, frowned and said, "What's the situation? What about Xingwen and the others?"

Qin Miao said: "This painting is not right. You see, the woman in the painting is not the same as the Mona Lisa we saw at the beginning. Since this course is called "Phantom in the Painting", can it be, let's come Arrived in a hallucinatory space?"

The course titles and variations in the paintings are easily reminiscent of hallucinations.After all, in real-world paintings, it is impossible for the characters inside to smile or even make weird laughter.

Qin Lu said: "Sister, what do you mean, we were pulled into the hallucination space, so we lost contact with Xingwen's group? Then how do we find them?"

Zhuo Feng thought about it carefully, and said: "Either we leave here and go back to the original castle to find Xingwen; or, Xingwen and the others also come to this space. Otherwise, the two groups of students will be separated by space until the exam There is no way to contact after the end, so the clues we found and the clues they found cannot be summarized, and there will be errors in the results of the reasoning."

Lin Manluo nodded and said, "Perhaps this is the biggest difficulty of the course? Because of the illusion in the painting, the clues will be scattered in different illusions and need to be collected separately?"

The six people looked at each other, Qin Lu rubbed his forehead, and said, "But Xu Feixue is not in our group, what if there are strange abstract paintings that we can't understand?"

Liu Zhaoqing said: "Let's take a step and take a look. Let me see what is going on with this painting first."

There were still weird laughter around, but Liu Zhaoqing was not afraid at all. He leaned in front of the painting "Mona Lisa" and stared sharply at the woman in the painting. It rose all the way to the corner of her eyes, and then, the lower half of her face suddenly turned into a bloody mouth, like a monster that eats people!

Xu Yi was so startled that he took a step back, Liu Zhaoqing cursed in a low voice, fuck it, and quickly backed away.

But the woman in the painting did not come out of the painting.

Everyone was on full alert, Liu Zhaoqing raised his right hand and conjured up a sharp scalpel, ready to shoot at any time.However, the woman in the painting doesn't attack them, she just smiles at them.

The spine-chilling laughter continued to ring out in the dark castle, as if entering the scene of a ghost film.

After a while, Qin Lu calmly said, "She's not going to attack us to scare people."

Qin Lu hesitated for a moment, and said, "What should we do next? Continue to search for clues, or should we find Xingwen first?"

Zhuo Feng quickly made a decision: "Let's look for clues. I have a hunch that the clues we encountered may not be the same as Xingwen and the others. Now that we have come to this illusion, we must first study clearly the meaning of the existence of this illusion. what exactly is it."

Zhuo Feng hated procrastination when encountering things. The current situation was full of weirdness. If they searched for Yue Xingwen in a panic, they might miss some key information.

Liu Zhaoqing nodded in agreement: "Okay, continue to search other rooms." He looked back at Xu Yishen, and said, "Yishen, you just entered that room with mitosis, did you see anything?"

Xu Yishen said: "There seems to be a painting on the wall, but I didn't see it clearly. When I found out that Xingwen and the others were not in the room, I was worried that something was wrong, so I immediately retreated."

"Painting?" Zhuo Feng paused, and said, "Go and see."

Six people entered the room and found that it was a studio.

In the middle of the studio is a large white canvas, with colorful paint trays and a paintbrush next to it. There are three paintings hanging on the wall, all of which are oil paintings.

In the first painting, there is a woman in a veil, her hair is tied into a bun at the back of her head, she wears a silver barrette on top of her hair, a beige veil on her head, and a A string of gemstone necklaces, and the beige dress she wore was very delicate. At first glance, she looked like a rich family daughter, elegant and beautiful.

The second painting has a completely different style from the first one. If the first one is a realistic portrait, the second one pays more attention to the expression of artistic conception. A pair of mother and child are playing on the grass, blue sky, white clouds, green grass, flowers , The fresh and bright scenery is refreshing.The woman is holding a parasol, and beside her is a little boy. The whole picture looks lively, and both mother and child are surrounded by warm sunshine.

The woman in the third painting has a completely different style from the previous two. She has three-dimensional facial features, her hair is tightly attached to her head, she is wearing colorful clothes, a long black necklace around her neck, and she is holding a hug in her arms. a small animal.

Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin and walked to the painting, asking, "What kind of animal is this?"

Xu Yishen took a closer look and said, "It should be an ermine, which is different from the small white mice used in experiments in the laboratory of our Academy of Biological Sciences. It can be kept as a pet mouse. This painting is exaggerated. Ermines aren't that big."

Liu Zhaoqing was puzzled: "What do these three paintings represent?"

Others were also at a loss.

Zhuo Feng speculated: "The second picture, the mother and child under the sun, is it the hostess and her son? The first picture is a girl in a scarf, she looks very young, a bit like a wedding photo; Three... I don't understand."

Qin Lu said: "I think these three paintings should be the works of three painters, with very different styles. The first one is realistic and looks like a portrait sketch; the second one is bright, a bit like anime; the third one is darker in tone. It's yellowish. By the way, this third painting is somewhat similar to the "Mona Lisa" hanging in the entrance?"

Qin Miao said calmly: "Perhaps, this painting is also Da Vinci's work, and the style is indeed similar."

Qin Lu said: "What is the connection between the paintings we found in the study next door and these paintings?"

Xu Yishen rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "I know the painting in the next room, it is Van Gogh's classic "Sunflower", maybe we can connect it with the black rose in the garden. What is the flower language of the black rose? coming?"

He turned his head to look at Qin Miao who reported the meaning of the flower language at that time, and the latter said calmly: "The black rose symbolizes paranoid love. You are a devil and belong to me."

Xu Yishen nodded: "Qin Miao has a lot of research on flowers, do you know what sunflowers represent?"

Qin Miao said: "Sunflowers can also be given to people who have a crush, representing 'you are my heart', or 'my eyes have been following you', this kind of admiration emotion."

Qin Lu said: "Sister, both sunflowers and black roses can represent admiration, but the former's love is more sunny and upright, while the latter's love sounds a bit twisted and paranoid?"

Qin Miao nodded: "If these two kinds of flowers are connected with the bloody case, it can be said so. Moreover, the garden outside may not be full of black roses from the beginning. I think the garden at the door of a normal person's house is very There are very few black roses."

Xu Yishen said: "So, it is possible that the garden was planted with sunflowers at first, and then the murderer killed someone and buried the body in the garden before planting black roses?"

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other.

Zhuo Feng frowned and said: "There is another problem. At that time, there was no team on the first floor, and the abstract paintings everyone saw were the same. After the team on the second floor, we lost contact. What we saw in the two rooms Is the painting the same as what Xingwen and the others saw? If not, do you have to combine all the clues to reason?"

Lin Manluo nodded: "Yes. Since we can't find Xingwen in this space, what we see may not be the same as what Xingwen saw. We have to find a way to join them as soon as possible."

When the few people were discussing, the weird laughter in the castle kept ringing.

Zhuo Feng frowned and said: "It's a pity that our team doesn't have Ke Shaobin, so we can't take pictures of these paintings in small pictures. How can we tell Xingwen the contents of the paintings? I'm afraid we laymen will overlook some details."

Qin Miao said suddenly, "Make a copy of all the paintings we see and take them away."

Qin Lu's eyes lit up, and she said, "That's right, isn't there blank paper and brushes in the studio? Although we can't match the fake with the real one, it's still possible to draw a picture!"

Xu Yishen immediately started working. He picked up a piece of paper and a paintbrush, covered the paintings on the wall, and said, "Hurry up, everyone, each copy one, the outline is almost clear, and the colors...we can't even adjust them." color, let’s draw an outline.”

For example, the color of the skin and clothes of the people in the painting, they have never studied art, so it is difficult to keep it consistent with the original painting, but it is still possible to paint a look, show it to Xu Feixue, maybe she can see more clue.

Xu Yishen, Liu Zhaoqing and Lin Manluo began to quickly copy the pictures.

Qin Lu was helping with the tools, she turned her head to look out the window, and then her eyes widened in surprise.Qin Miao had a good understanding with her, and immediately asked, "What's the matter, Xiaolu?"

Qin Lu pointed to the downstairs and said, "Sister, look outside!"

Everyone followed her gaze, Zhuo Feng's expression changed slightly: "Is it Sunflower?"

Under the cold moonlight, in the garden outside the castle, there are not black roses, but a large sunflower.

Qin Miao said: "Our guess may be right. The garden outside the villa was originally full of sunflowers, but unfortunately it was replaced by black roses. Since both flowers are related to 'love', the murderer's motive for committing the crime is very It could be love to hate, killing a loved one, or, killing a rival in love and taking his place."

At the same time, Yue Xingwen Liu and his party of seven came out of the study and returned to the entrance.

In the "Mona Lisa" hanging at the entrance, the woman in the painting watched them quietly without any change.As for the research group channel, Liu Zhaoqing's group still didn't reply.

Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce and said, "Senior Brother Liu, they haven't come out yet?"

Jiang Pingce said, "It's possible that they won't be able to get out."

Yue Xingwen frowned: "You mean, after entering the illusion in the painting, unless you use the escape skill 'Golden Cicada Escape Shell', otherwise, you will be trapped there forever?"

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, and said: "This is just my speculation, and it may not be certain. Let's wait and see here."

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