Escape From the Library

【Phantom in the painting-14】

The "Mona Lisa" oil painting at the porch on the second floor does have several changes. The first one is the copying work that everyone saw at first with a 100% similarity to the original painting; It rises slightly; followed by a second face in the painting, and the eerie laugh of the woman in the painting.

If Xu Feixue's guess is correct, at least four layers of this painting can be peeled off, but I don't know what the bottommost first edition will be.At this time, the woman in the painting is raising the corners of her mouth, staring at them with a half-smile.

Yue Xingwen suppressed the discomfort in his heart, and said, "Try it, see if you can peel off this layer."

Xu Feixue stepped forward to observe carefully for a while, and sure enough, she found the place where the canvas was superimposed from the edge of the oil painting, and rubbed it lightly, there was a crack there, and the edge of the canvas was lifted, revealing the blurred inner layer.

Xu Feixue's eyes brightened, she carefully grasped the edge of the canvas, and slowly tore it upwards. With her movements, the whole painting was peeled off like a girl removing a mask on her face!

The image hidden behind this painting is exactly the appearance of the woman in the painting with her bloody mouth open and a strange laugh.

The eerie laughter kept ringing in my ears, but there were no phantoms or clues in the painting.

Jiang Pingce frowned and said, "Continue peeling."

Xu Feixue plucked up her courage, opened her eyes wide and continued to search for the superposition of the canvas.This time, she found the place where multiple layers of canvas were glued in the upper right corner, and after gently peeling off, there was a new layer of canvas inside.A second woman's face appeared on the canvas, with blood and tears streaming down her face, her hair disheveled like a ghost.

Ke Shaobin jumped in fright, subconsciously shouted: "Be careful!"

At the beginning, when this layer of picture appeared, the woman in the picture flew out suddenly and almost strangled Yue Xingwen with her hair.Yue Xingwen was still terrified when he thought of that scene, he immediately took a step back, summoned the dictionary in his hand, and was always on guard.

Sure enough, the woman crawled out of the painting again.Xu Feixue, who was closest to the painting, was so frightened that his heart suffocated, and hurriedly dodged in embarrassment, but was quickly wrapped around the waist by the woman's hair!

Jiang Pingce's eyes darkened. He raised his right hand slightly, and shot out the sharp triangular ruler quickly, cutting off the woman's long hair in an instant!

But it didn't help, the women in the painting came out one by one like a beehive!

In the dark villa, only Xin Yan's alcohol lamp can illuminate the scene. The scene of those women crawling out of the painting continuously made the faces of Liu Zhaoqing, Zhuo Feng and others who experienced this scene for the first time change suddenly. Zhuo Feng couldn't help it Cursing: "Damn, is this the ghost thing you met at the time?"

Xu Yishen quickly mitotically evaded, and jokingly said: "Although Sadako in the ghost movie also crawled out suddenly, there are not so many! This is like stabbing the lair of female ghosts!"

When Yue Xingwen heard this, he suddenly realized something was wrong——

If the mechanism of the painting "Mona Lisa" needs to be opened by peeling off the canvas, then every time they peel off the layer of blood and tears of women, they will be attacked by women, and they will never be able to see this —What is under the layer.

How can we tear off this layer of canvas when the "female ghost" attacks them?

Yue Xingwen—while thinking quickly,—while quickly avoiding the attack of the female ghost's hair!

Assume that these portraits are a protective film with images on the screen of the mobile phone. There are four layers in total. Every time a layer is peeled off, a new image will appear. The third layer is the one where the woman shed blood and tears and attacked everyone. See what the bottom layer of the phone screen looks like, and avoid the dangerous third layer, why not peel off four layers at once?

As long as this bloody and tearful woman is not allowed to fully appear in the painting, she will not attack everyone!

Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen immediately said: "Everyone retreat first!"

After he finished speaking, he quickly turned around and retreated downstairs. Jiang Pingce immediately followed him. Although the other students didn't know the reason, they also followed the team without hesitation.After a while, they withdrew back to the original A world, and those female ghosts that continued to flow disappeared before their eyes.

Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and said, "Confirmation—is the painting on the second floor restored to its original state?"

Xu Feixue walked up the stairs to the entrance, and saw that the "Mona Lisa" in the painting had indeed returned to its original state. She was stunned: "This painting—has been changing dynamically, seems to have the ability to recover?"

Yue Xingwen discovered this a long time ago.At that time, he was attacked by the woman in the painting. In order to save him, Jiang Pingce shot a lot of triangular rulers, some of which were sharp and pierced the oil painting. But later, when they returned to the second floor, the picture was intact, proving that The painting has the ability to "self-heal".

Yue Xingwen walked up to Xu Feixue, and said, "This time, don't peel off layer by layer. You can find the place where the layers overlap in the four corners of this painting, and when you find it, roll up a corner, and wait until you find the four layers. , and then peel off all four layers in one breath."

Ke Shaobin said excitedly: "In this case, the woman with blood and tears on the third floor will have no chance to show her face!"

Liu Zhaoqing smiled and gave a thumbs up: "Xingwen has a solution, I don't want to see her crawl out of the painting again."

Xu Feixue understood the meaning of Xingwen, and immediately based on his memory, he quickly found out where the layers were superimposed. There was one place in each of the four corners, just like the sticking place of a roll of transparent glue, which can be lifted up by gently tearing it off.

She grabbed the raised part of the fourth layer and carefully peeled off the picture inch by inch.

Then, everyone was surprised to see the bottom layer of the picture——

The corners of the woman's mouth are raised and dimples are exposed on her face, but her eyes are extremely cold. She has long black hair and holds a snow-white cat in her arms. She is the grown-up Leah .

With the appearance of the protagonist Leah, a plot begins to play in the painting.

Not long after she got together with Jack, she discovered that Jack was actually Rhode's younger brother.

One rainy night, she saw a cute stray cat hiding under the eaves, so she went over to save it. Unexpectedly, Jack and a few friends happened to pass by and said in a casual tone: "I like her? Don't be kidding , I just wanted to see what kind of woman my brother had a crush on, but I didn't expect that Leia, who seemed indifferent and proud, was so easy to get."

The boy next to him curiously asked him for details, and Jack actually shared his private experience with Leah, and said that Leah couldn't let go of her on the bed, like a piece of wood...

The obscene laughter of the boys when they talked was mixed with the sound of crackling rain, which was extremely ear-piercing.Leah stood in the shadows, holding the cat in her arms, expressionless.

The scene in the picture changed, Leah deleted Jack's contact information, and began to devote all her energy to painting. She relied on her own efforts to be admitted to a well-known art academy.

Her days gradually became peaceful.

Until one day, the Rolands suddenly found her. The old couple and Leah were having dinner in a coffee shop. Leah remained expressionless, but the Rolands seemed very excited, and the video was muted. No one could hear what the three of them were doing. say what.

After such a "silent movie" played for a while, the Rolands left the coffee shop, Leah held the cat in her arms and thought about it, and then she returned home.

There was still no sound in the picture, she took out her mobile phone and sent a message to her parents, the content was: "Mom and Dad, my younger brother graduated from middle school this summer, he - has always wanted to travel, should our - family - go on a trip together?"

Mom quickly replied: "Didn't you go to sketch in the wild during your vacation?"

Leah said: "I can also sketch while traveling."

Mom said: "Your dad is very busy at work and may not be free. Let's talk about it then."

When Liya saw the news, a self-deprecating smile rose from the corner of her mouth. She turned on the computer and searched for her mother's booking records, and found that her parents had already booked a trip on July 7 and bought a ticket for her younger brother. But not her.

——Every family trip "coincidentally" does not take her with her, she is used to it.

Leah turned off the computer, took out her mobile phone, and sent a message to the number marked "Mrs. Roland": "On July 7th, they will indeed go on a road trip."

After she put down the phone, a smile suddenly appeared at the corner of her mouth.

The clues in the painting ended here. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and the latter said in a low voice: "The death of her parents is probably related to her. Brother Xu was right before, she has a relationship with her parents. Very bad, once her parents and younger brother die unexpectedly, she will become the only heir to all the property in the family."

Yue Xingwen rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "It seems that she and the Roland couple met in private, and they should have reached some kind of consensus. The Roland couple may have encountered some business problems and wanted to get rid of her. Parents, she just happens to hate her parents and younger brother to the extreme, and the two hit it off and created this man-made car accident?"

Ke Shaobin followed this analysis and said: "After the car accident, Leia's parents and younger brother died. She legally inherited all the inheritance, and agreed to be adopted by the Roland couple and stay in the Roland family?"

Xin Yan frowned and said, "I have a question. If she conspired with the Rolands to kill her parents, wouldn't it be more suspicious if she recognized the Rolands as foster fathers and adoptive mothers after her parents died? ?"

Liu Zhaoqing frowned and thought about it carefully, and said: "There is still one painting left, and the illusion of the sunflower has not been unlocked."

Yue Xingwen said: "Let's go, go to the studio on the second floor."

Everyone came to the room on the second floor where Van Gogh's "Sunflower" was hung. The location of this painting was obvious. It was on a petal of the sunflower. There was a color difference between that petal and its surroundings. Xu Feixue looked carefully and found that there was actually a sticker on it. It's a real sunflower petal, dried.

She took the petal away, and phantom clues appeared in the painting.

There are three family portraits, played in a loop.

The first one is a group photo of Leah with her parents and younger brother; the second one is a group photo of Roland and her two daughters, Daisy and Alice; the third one is a group photo of Rhodes, Jack brothers and their parents.

The students looked at the three family portraits and looked at each other in blank dismay.

Yue Xingwen—while observing,—analyzed: "It's all a group photo of a family of four. Among them, the Rolands, sisters Daisy and Alice have the most harmonious relationship, and the hands of the two sisters are intimately placed on the shoulders of their parents. In the picture, the smile is bright; Jack and Rhodes are obviously plastic brothers, standing on both sides of their parents, smiling; Leah has the worst relationship with her younger brother, even in the photo, Leah doesn't smile."

Jiang Pingce frowned and said, "What does this mean?"

Liu Zhaoqing looked at the photo carefully, and after a long time, he suddenly said: "Do you feel that Leah looks nothing like her parents?"

Ke Shaobin was stunned for a moment, walked over to take a closer look, and nodded in agreement: "Indeed, Leah has pretty features, a sharp chin, and her parents have round faces. Also, she has double eyelids, and her parents... seem to have both eyes. Is it a single eyelid?"

Xu Yishen suddenly patted his forehead: "I know!"

He looked back at his teammates and said seriously: "Single eyelid is an autosomal recessive genetic inheritance, that is to say, parents with single eyelid will definitely give birth to a child with single eyelid." To facilitate everyone's understanding, he drew a picture and said : "The genotypes of aa and aa will show single eyelids. Both parents are aa, and the genotype of the child born is also aa. Leah's younger brother and parents are both single eyelids, but she is the only one with double eyelids, which can only mean...she It's not your own!"

Yue Xingwen's eyes brightened: "That's why her parents treat her differently. They dote on her younger brother, but they never give her a little care. They don't even give her a birthday, because she is not his own?"

He looked at the second picture in the family portrait, and said, "Leah's biological parents are..."

Jiang Pingce also looked at the second picture, and said in unison: "Roland and his wife."

It's called adoption, but in fact, Leah is the real daughter of the Rolands?