Escape From the Library

【Phantom in the painting-12】

The confirmation of the identity of the deceased surprised Yue Xingwen, who was accused of being the murderer.

Leah's parents died in a car accident. After she was adopted by the Rolands, she hung a belly accumulator around the cat's neck and monitored the family's movements all the time.If she knew that the death of her parents was related to the Rolands, she would certainly have the motive to kill the Rolands to avenge her parents, then kill Daisy, and take her place as the hostess of the family.

Now, the deceased buried in the garden turned out to be Leah, which showed that their previous reasoning was all wrong.

Yue Xingwen looked back at his teammates and said, "The one who died was Leia, who would be the murderer? Daisy, Rhodes, Alice, and Jack should be among these four."

Ke Shaobin speculated: "Could it be that Leah was silenced because she knew too much? After all, she has been hugging the cat and monitoring the movements of these people. She must know many secrets about the two families."

Liu Zhaoqing stroked his chin and said solemnly: "We found three corpses. Among them, Roland and his wife are both over 60 years old. Why did the murderer kill the old couple? It can't be for the sake of silence."

Ke Shaobin scratched his head: "That's right, there were three people who died, and they all died of mechanical asphyxiation caused by strangling their necks. The murderer must have killed people in a planned way. It seems unreasonable to say that they just wanted to silence their mouths."

"Let's sort it out from scratch!" Ben Pince took out the map he drew and said, "This castle is a maze composed of many paintings, and the corresponding characters behind each painting can often be found in the illusion." Saw some episodes. "

He spread out the map in front of everyone, pointing to the beginning: "We are currently in world A, which is the murder scene where the body was found. There are four abstract paintings hanging in the living room, namely "Blackboard", "Exchange" and "Dreamland". And "Anna's Light", because the content of the abstract painting is wild and unconstrained, we can't understand what the artist wants to express, so we extracted the key words from the name of the painting, and speculated that this murder was related to "exchange."

Yue Xingwen said: "There may be illusions behind these four paintings, and we haven't had time to open them yet?"

Jiang Pingce nodded, and continued to point to the world behind: "In World B on the second floor, I found the painting "Mona Lisa" hanging at the entrance. laughter, or the woman in the painting turns into a second face and shed blood and tears. Every time the woman changes, it means that we have entered a different world.”

Liu Zhaoqing said: "I think the painting "Mona Lisa" at the porch is the key, maybe there is also a mechanism in it? It's just that this painting is too scary, we haven't had time to analyze it."

Xu Feixue followed this topic and said: "The famous painting "Starry Night" by Van Gogh in world C, "The Last Supper" in world D, and the three portraits of women found in the studio in world E, we have unlocked the illusion; the oil painting "Sunflower" found in world F "I didn't even have time to open the organ."

With Jiang Pingce's map, everyone's thinking became much clearer.

Ke Shaobin took a picture of the map and uploaded it to his laptop, and drew a route: "Let's start from the bottom, I think the clues of the illusion in the current painting are a bit messy, if we start from the first floor, maybe we can sort out the whole story. "

Yue Xingwen agreed: "Okay, let's find out where a certain olive organ is."

Everyone returned to the castle and came to the four abstract paintings again.

Yue Xingwen looked up at the first "Blackboard". Seven rows of mosquito-repellent incense were framed with circles of doodles, just like kindergarten children scribbled with chalk. How to unlock this picture?

Everyone stood in front of the painting and searched carefully, but did not see any mechanism like buttons.

Ke Shaobin boldly guessed: "Could it be an erasing mechanism? The blackboard is so messy, my first reaction is to wipe it clean."

Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, "This is a world famous painting, it's okay if you erase it."

"Let me give it a try. The eraser skill of the art department can temporarily erase the designated area. I just pointed at it in the past. It will have no effect on the painting itself." Xu Feixue raised his right hand after speaking. The dirt-like eraser, she manipulated the eraser to gently slide over the area drawn in "Blackboard", erasing the traces on it.

Surprisingly, when the blackboard was wiped clean, the originally messy canvas turned into a "television" framed screen, and began to show them a picture——

In the elementary school classroom, the little girl stood alone behind, drawing on the blackboard, it should be a blackboard newspaper.

A few classmates around were fighting, a boy passed by her, accidentally knocked over the chalk box in her hand, spilled colored chalk all over the floor, the boy did not apologize, but turned behind her with a smile , casually picked up the chalk, and scribbled on the blackboard, saying: "Lia, do I draw well?"

Leah ignored him, bent down calmly, picked up the chalks on the ground one by one, used the blackboard eraser to erase the ghost marks drawn by the boy as a prank, and continued to draw seriously.

The picture on the blackboard is constantly enlarged, and the final picture is clearly presented in front of my eyes.

—is a bunch of sunflowers in full bloom.

After the video in the painting was played, Yue Xingwen looked at his teammates: "Leah has been very talented in painting since she was a child. The paintings in this castle may be left behind by her. The "Mona Lisa" on the second floor In the painting, the woman who shed blood and tears should also be her? After she died, her thoughts formed the illusion in these paintings?"

Jiang Pingce said: "It can be understood that Leah is the protagonist of the story."

Ke Shaobin asked: "Does that boy who is messing around and scribbling on the blackboard with chalk like her?"

Xin Yan frowned: "Like it? Isn't this kind of behavior asking for punishment?"

Ke Shaobin smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "You don't understand that. Children are immature, and they will have childish behaviors of 'bullying you only if they like you'. Especially some little boys, they will do everything they can to attract people they like. People’s attention, including putting chewing gum on the other’s stool, unraveling the other’s ponytail, putting bugs in the other’s pencil case, etc.”

Xin Yan looked at him speechlessly: "Did you do this when you were young?"

Ke Shaobin coughed lightly: "No, no, I've seen others do this before!"

Jiang Pingce said indifferently: "Ke Shaobin's statement is correct. The troublesome boy in the picture just now probably likes Leah and wants to attract her attention. Combined with the follow-up plot, this boy should be the hero of Rhodes and Jack brothers!

Liu Zhaoqing stroked his chin thoughtfully: "Appearing in the same class means that they are in the same class. At present, we don't know the ages of these young people. Is Leah in the same class as brother Rhodes or brother Jack? classmate?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Continue to look at the next painting."

The first "Blackboard" gave everyone a great inspiration. Unexpectedly, after the original messy patterns in the abstract painting were erased, there would be a dynamic play in this painting.

The second piece "Exchange" is also a representative of abstract painting, where blocks of different colors are spliced ​​together in a disorderly manner.

When everyone was confused, Yue Xingwen suddenly said: "Xu Feixue, I remember that there are three skills in the art department, which are brushes, erasers and palettes, right?"

Xu Feixue nodded: "Yes."

Yue Xingwen curled his mouth: "I understand. These four abstract paintings need to be unlocked with the ability of the art department. The first "Blackboard" has messy chalk patterns on it. After erasing the patterns with an eraser just now, There is a phantom in the painting. The second "Exchange" is made up of color blocks of different colors, and your palette skills should be used."

Xu Feixue's eyes lit up: "That makes sense! The course exam requires that there must be team members from the art department. It is likely that the purpose is to let the students of the art department unlock the mechanism in the painting."

Lin Manluo said excitedly: "Great, Feixue, do you know how to use the palette for this painting?"

Xu Feixue looked at the painting and thought about it carefully, and said: "The overall tone of this painting is warmer, and sunflowers appear many times in this story, and there are large areas of yellow and orange tones in this painting. I adjusted it to Try a color close to a sunflower."

In the plot of the first "Blackboard" painting, the final frame is a bunch of sunflowers in full bloom.This pair of "Exchange", the overall tone is close to the color of sunflowers, everyone agrees with Xu Feixue's judgment.

She spread her right hand, took out the palette of the art department, took the color in the lower left corner of the picture in front of her, and then used the skill "swatch rendering" to temporarily turn the whole picture into yellow-orange.

Sure enough, the painting Xia Xingta also turned into a screen similar to a TV, and a plot began to play.

When the story came to high school, Leah had grown into a slim girl. She was wearing a school uniform and sitting quietly in the classroom. There was a boy lying in the corner of the classroom, but Leah's eyes were always cast on the textbooks.

A moment later, the bell rang for the end of get out of class, and two girls with long blond hair appeared at the door of the classroom. One of them smiled and called, "Leah, come out, I have something to tell you."

Leah walked out of the classroom and asked lightly, "What's the matter?"

The girl said softly, "I'm in group A this summer camp, are you in group B? Can we switch?"

Leah wondered: "Why change?"

The girl blushed slightly, and said in a soft voice: "I have a boy I like in group B, let's change it, I want to have sex with him, anyway, it doesn't matter which group you are in, right?"

Leah was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Okay."

The girl took out a blue card from her pocket and handed it to Leah: "This is the pass card for Group A."

Leah took the card, took out an orange card and handed it to the other party, and the two parties quickly exchanged cards.

The girl's eyes lit up, and she said excitedly, "That's great, thank you, I'll bring you a gift when I come back!"

Seeing her bouncing around and turning away, another blond girl said helplessly: "My sister has such a temper, I really don't know what she likes about her. Changing groups in private is against the school's rules, so please don't tell it. "

Leah nodded: "Don't worry, I won't say anything."

The girl turned and left, Leah held the blue card in her hand and returned to the classroom as if nothing had happened.

Play ends. What is shown in the painting "Exchange" is the story of Alice exchanging summer camp groups with Leah for the boy she had a crush on in high school. What does this have to do with Leah's death?

Yue Xingwen was silent for a few seconds, and said, "Continue with the next painting, the clues are about to be connected."