Paintings of Terror

"Our S city is a well-integrated city, and it is very tolerant." Ke Xun, as a guide, led everyone off the high-speed rail, and passed by a sesame seed stall, where they bought a square sesame seed cake, "Gum furnace sesame seed cake, s One of the characteristics of the city."

Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen also saw each other, and each took a bite of the biscuits in their hands, expressing their chewiness.

Weidong tasted the taste of his hometown, and felt a sense of being reborn again: "I just thought, when I get rich, I will make a movie "Seed Cakes on the Tip of the Tongue", and shoot all the sesame cakes from all over the country. What kind of crab shell yellow Ah, what kind of baked pancakes, what kind of chess pieces, and the only one in S city, the crock oven square biscuits!"

"Young man, you have lofty ambitions!" An old man who was sitting next to a sesame seed cake eating sesame seed cakes praised him.

"Master, you have good teeth, you are blessed!" Wei Dong also replied, and said to everyone, "This is the way of communication in our city S. In the eyes of the old people, we are all promising young people~"

Qin Ci answered the phone and explained to everyone: "The organizer of the medical exchange meeting has already arranged a hotel. If Haowen'er is inconvenient, you can stay in the hotel with me."

Zhu Haowen chewed hard on the biscuits, feeling his cheeks loosen: "I'll be staying at my aunt's house, and my cousin's wedding arrangements also need manpower, so I have to go there early to help."

Ke Xun looked at his phone, and it was past 17:[-]: "It's still early, let's find a restaurant to rest for a while, and then go back to our respective houses after dinner."

Everyone nodded, and Qin Ci also said: "Let's have something simple tonight, and we can get together after Xiaomu comes in a few days."

So Ke Xun took everyone to a restaurant with a clean storefront. The fit and well-built restaurant owner looked at the four juicy men in front of him—the fruit pattern on the chest of the T-shirt made everyone fresh and juicy...

The owner of the restaurant opened his mouth with an accent from the east of City S: "Ke Shen~ You always talk about it, you keep teasing me, today I have to treat you hard!"

Wei Dong whispered to his two partners, "Ke Er is the reincarnation of Boss Li..."

Boss Li spoke directly, with a loud voice: "I'm afraid the two new friends don't know that three years ago, people still called me Fatty Li! My body weighs more than 230 catties, don't you believe me? If it weren't for Ke Shen, I would probably be a fat man now." Too fat to walk!"

While Boss Li was talking, he showed everyone the muscle lines on his arms. Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen gave Ke Xun, a gold medal body sculpting expert, a thumbs up. Speaking of which, this is the first time that they get along with their partners off-screen. , Talking and laughing happily, but I don't feel a little bit of life and death.

Over there, Ke Xun and Boss Li muttered at the door of the private box: "Only four people, all of us, don't be so stupid, whole sheep feast? Get it, take a break! Come four bowls of authentic noodles, then With a few side dishes, it becomes…”

Boss Li said "the store is small and the food is simple", and at the same time, he arranged for the waiters to put out "sixteen steamed bowls". The sixteen steamed bowls, including the black porcelain bowls on top, are 32 bowls.

"Old Li is open and bright, I'll give him 32 likes~" Wei Dong was impolite, and stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a couscous, put it in Qin Ci's bowl, and put another piece of fried tofu full of soup, and put it in Zhu Haowen's bowl , We have experienced such a few paintings together, and we have almost figured out our appetite for each other.

"Since I had the experience of entering..., this is the first time to taste delicious food calmly." Zhu Haowen dipped fried tofu full of fried chili oil, and put the spicy crispy crisps into his mouth, breathing out the heat while enjoying the taste Chewing eagerly: "It's good to eat one more time, and you will be more greedy for this world..."

In the past, everyone might feel depressed because of this emotion, but at this moment, no one thought about it. Everyone laughed and raised their glasses of wine: "People who are greedy for the world are the most worthy of drinking~"

Ke Xun placed his mobile phone in the middle of the table, and it was Mu Yiran on the screen, frowning slightly, staring at the slightly shaking camera in front of him, finally understood, put the coffee cup in his hand in front of the camera, and had sex with everyone a cup.

"Kelp and crispy pork~your favorite~" Ke Xun pushed two steaming bowls towards the camera.

Mu Yiran was impressed by Ke Xun's taste, put down the coffee in his hand, stroked his chin and looked at everyone, and there were delicacies that could be seen but not eaten at this table.

"Boss Mu, when are you coming over~ Let's go to Ke'er's to make dumplings~" Wei Dong's drinking capacity is not good enough, and he feels a little dizzy after drinking three or five glasses of white wine.

Mu Yiran smiled lightly and remained silent, but Ke Xun understood from his smile that this person probably didn't have time to come and accompany everyone—the next time we meet, I'm afraid we will have to wait until the next painting.

Hua, this weird existence, should I hate it or be grateful for it?Ke Xun and Mu Yiran "clinked glasses" and drank it down in one gulp.

"Calculate, how many levels have we passed in total?" After observing, Zhu Haowen felt that this box was very safe, so he talked about this sensitive topic, but he still avoided using the word "painting".

Zhu Haowen continued: "I started from Tongzilou, and I was with everyone, and I have passed three levels in total."

Wei Dong pushed the egg roll meat in front of Zhu Haowen: "Ke Er and I are crazy about you."

After Qin Ci finished drinking, his face turned pale instead of red: "Xiao Mu and I have experienced it together twice, and the third time I met Xiao Ke and Dong Zi."

Tasting the delicious egg roll meat, Zhu Haowen calculated in his mind: "That is to say, from the total point of view, this game has gone through seven levels. Brother Qin, are you sure you entered the first level? "

Qin Ci brought his thoughts back to the day he didn't want to recall: "The 13 people at that time all said that it was their first time. It was in L City in the northwest. I worked there for half a year because of medical exchanges, and I went to art in my spare time on weekends. Now I still remember the name of the museum—Time Art Museum.”

Qin Ci's mood at this time can only be understood by those who have been in painting.

Mu Yiran was silent at the other end of the screen.

"I think it's best for us to write down every experience we have. We don't need to record in detail. We just need to record some key words and numbers in a vague way. Maybe we can find some patterns from it." Judging from Zhu Haowen's expression , this person should have recorded all three paintings he experienced.

Wei Dong was already blushing from drinking, and pulled his hair vigorously: "When do you say this matter will be settled? Are we going to keep... breaking through barriers for the rest of our lives?"

It is probably the most desperate thing to keep painting for a lifetime.

"If it can be confirmed that Brother Qin and the others went through the first level, that means that this incident has a beginning." Zhu Haowen hesitated for a while, then fell down and patted the person next to him. Wei Dong, "Everything will have a beginning and an end, and it is impossible to repeat infinitely."

"There can only be two conclusions about the beginning of this matter," Mu Yiran said on the screen, "Maybe the time in L City was the beginning of this matter; A new beginning after the collapse."

"In any case, that was the beginning," Ke Xun took over, "At present, every level we have experienced has its own rules, as long as there are rules and rules, it means that there is a definite number, so we can't go through the levels endlessly , these checkpoints must have a total number."

There must be a total number of these paintings somewhere.

People come in and out of the painting all the way, which painting is the end point?

"Since the number of people is 13, maybe the total number has something to do with 13." Wei Dong said what many people thought, and then scratched his head, "It's really not an auspicious number."

"Under this assumption," Zhu Haowen dipped his hand into the water, and wrote down the number 13 on the table, "From the first level in L City, we have already passed the 7th level, and the 13th level has passed halfway." Turning, but judging from the three levels I have experienced, it seems that the level of difficulty is equal, and there is no rule from easy to difficult.”

"Because the genres and styles of these works are different, the world they show is different," Mu Yiran said this time, "The performances of NPCs are also different, some are very mechanical, some have blurred faces, and some But they can observe us secretly, and even implement bewitchment."

Mu Yiran was referring to the "Shadow" that everyone just came out of: "By the way, those Morris patterns are indeed related to the painter's experience: this person once did Morris for a huge mansion for his academic career. The pattern painting, those patterns are mainly orange, continuous, all over the whole mansion, the artist has been painting for a full year, and then he has undergone nearly half a year of psychological treatment. This incident probably caused a great deal of trouble to him. Stimulate."

This explains why a Morris window appears in a Fauvist painting, and Yong Rang's figure in that painting appears in orange—these are all representations of the painter's inner world.

Mu Yiran seemed to have something going on over there, nodded at everyone, and terminated the video chat.

Ke Xun looked at the video he pressed, and Mu Yiran gave himself the last look.

"According to what Xiao Mu said just now, could it be that the NPCs in these levels are gradually becoming stronger? Even gradually becoming more thoughtful?" Qin Ci speculated.

Regarding the summary of the laws of all paintings, everyone is eager to get a glimpse or two. Once they grasp the clues, it may be a magic weapon to save their lives.

But the current analysis is just guesswork.

The door of the box was opened, and it was the owner of the restaurant who came in. On the tray were four steaming bowls of beef noodles, with green coriander sprinkled on top, which looked very delicious.

"I personally pressed the glutinous glutinous rice, the taste is absolutely extraordinary!" The boss enthusiastically placed the glutinous glutinous rice noodles on the table one by one, and also placed a plate of sliced ​​beef, and a few small plates of seasonings, "I just walked in the door I listened to it a few times, and I couldn’t understand what you young people said. It was similar to my kid who stayed at home and played games all day. He chatted with his classmates all day long, so I told him: the real danger What’s more important is not the game world in the computer, but the reality! You’ll know when you step into the society, you can resurrect if you lose your life in the game, but sometimes it’s hard to get back up if you fall in the real world.”

After hearing this, everyone thought it was the truth, so they raised their glasses to drink with the boss.

"I'm sorry, I quit drinking since I started working out." The boss poured himself a cup of tea and drank it with everyone. The rivers and lakes are dangerous and ups and downs. I think that some seemingly difficult things are not necessarily bad things. People have to have some experience. Once they have experienced it, they will not be so timid."