Paintings of Terror

Check from west to east.

Pushing open the door of the first room, another cloud of dust came rushing in. Fortunately, Ke Xun and Mu Yiran were prepared, covered their mouths and noses first, waved away the dust in front of them with their hands, and focused their eyes on the room. voila.

This is an old-fashioned room. The upper part of the wall is painted with white powder, and the lower part is painted with green paint. The wall skin has peeled off due to the age, exposing the bricks and cement inside.

Inside the room are dilapidated wooden tables and chairs, crumbling here and there, covered with thick cobwebs, and the window sashes are also old-fashioned open windows with wooden frames, and the glass is dusty, making it difficult to see the outside scene clearly through it.

Seeing this, the three girls refused to enter the house, and just stood at the door. Ke Xun and Mu Yi stepped in and searched the house carefully.

Opening the drawer of the wooden table, there were scattered office supplies inside. Ke Xun rummaged through it for a while, but found nothing useful.

Just search from room to room, there are [-] rooms on each floor, the facilities inside are basically the same, it looks like they are all offices, at the end of the corridor, facing the stairs are two toilets, the male toilet is on the east side, and the female toilet is in the west side.

There were no clues of note in the toilet either.

Back at the foyer on the first floor, the first two groups had also returned one after another, so Xu Zhen asked everyone what they had gained.

"There are meeting rooms, warehouses, libraries, archives, offices and a small canteen on the first floor," Qin Ci said. I haven't found it in time, and I need help."

Xu Zhen said: "The second floor seems to be a staff dormitory. All the rooms have single beds and washstands. No suspicious items or signatures were found. What about the third floor?"

"The entire third floor is the office area, and there are no useful discoveries." Ke Xun said.

"Then let's go to the warehouse, library and archives on the first floor to look for them together," Xu Zhen said.

The warehouse is not too big, and there are various things in it, including spare office supplies, various instruments, daily necessities, and even food.

"By the way—what are we going to eat here?" Zhang Hanrui suddenly asked, "The food in these freezers is too old, so it must not be eaten."

"Yeah, we're going to stay here for seven days. This is an abandoned building. Where do we go to get food?" The two girlfriends also hurriedly asked.

Everyone seemed to realize this problem only now, and they couldn't help but look at each other.

"The freezer is not powered off," Mu Yiran's voice sounded calmly, "The food inside is edible."

"But this is obviously a facility that was built many years ago," Xu Zhen disagreed. "Even if the freezer has never been powered off, the food inside has already expired."

Mu Yiran glanced at her lightly: "I saw it just now, and there are vacuum-packed and sealed white rice and beans inside. Below 4.4 degrees Celsius, the shelf life of white rice can reach 30 years, and the same goes for miscellaneous beans. In addition, there are also edible ones. There are those jars of natural pure honey on the shelf, pure anhydrous honey is the only food that lasts forever as long as it is sealed properly."

Xu Zhen had nothing to say.

"Little brother is amazing, he knows so much!" The three girls praised repeatedly.

"Stop talking nonsense, look for it quickly!" Xu Zhen looked worried.

The things in the warehouse were miscellaneous and messy. After everyone searched through them, it was already dark outside.

Cai Xiaoyan went to pull the light cord hanging by the door, but the light could not be turned on. It seemed that except for the few refrigerators, all electrical equipment had failed.

"Obviously, the reason why the freezer can be used is to provide us with food. This is a deliberate setting of the 'painting'." Zhu Haowen said expressionlessly, "The other things can't be used, of course, to satisfy the needs of people at night. The setting for what's going to happen."

"What will happen at night?" the girls asked with some apprehension.

Zhu Haowen's face was still expressionless with no sympathy: "There will be a death event that fits the setting and background of the research institute."

The girls hugged each other in fright.

The street man Qi Qiang couldn't bear it anymore and threw a thermos bottle on the ground, smashing the pieces into pieces, and said angrily: "I don't care! I want to get out of this damn place! Fuck you!"

As he said that, he rushed out of the warehouse with strides, and ran towards the gate of the research institute directly opposite the entrance hall hearing the sound of footsteps.

Then soon there was a loud bang bang on the door, and after a long time, I saw him rushing back angrily, with a hint of surprise on his face: "What's going on?! Why did the door open?" Can't open?!"

"This is the setting of the painting," Qin Ci told him calmly, "We can only stay in the research institute until we find the signature."

"What fucking shit setting!" Qi Qiang was so angry that he picked up several washbasins and threw them at other things on the warehouse shelves.

Several girls screamed and huddled together in fright. The screams made Qi Qiang even more irritable. He dragged Cai Xiaoyan who was closest to him, and raised his hand to slap her face hard.

This slap hadn't even had time to fall, but someone grabbed his wrist and stopped it forcibly. Qi Qiang'e stared and turned his head to look. Seeing that it was the tall boy with a dick-looking face, he couldn't help but turn evil. Embarrassed, he pushed away Cai Xiaoyan, whose face was pale with fright, and punched Ke Xun's face while shouting, "You fucking want to die!"

As soon as the punch came in front of him, Ke Xun blocked it with his palm. He raised his knee and hit Qi Qiang's stomach hard. Qi Qiang bent down with a cry of pain, and retched with his mouth open.

Ke Xun let go of his two hands and patted his shoulder, but his face was cold: "Calm down, you scared the girl."

Qi Qiang was speechless for a while, and just crouched on the ground clutching his stomach.

Qin Ci couldn't take care of the chaos in this room, and was discussing with Mu Yiran: "So far, we have obtained too few clues. According to the past rules, there should be group settings at night, but we still haven't received any similar clues. I think we may have overlooked something."

According to the rule that people must die every night, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for everyone to be in the same closed space.

Mu Yiran pondered deeply: "Since the background of the painting is set in the research institute, the focus may be related to the research project here. Through our search on the third floor just now, we can find that there is a Pretty obvious BUG."

"What bug?" Wei Dong asked.

"Since this is a research institute," Mu Yiran looked up at the crowd, "Then where is the research room?"

Everyone was surprised. Indeed, there are offices, dormitories, meeting rooms, warehouses and even a cafeteria in these three floors, but there is no research room!Isn't this strange?

"Did we miss something?" Xu Zhen frowned and recalled, "No, this building is obviously a slab building, and there is no way to have a corner."

"Will there be some kind of dark room?" Wei Dong said.

Mu Yiran shook his head: "No. Ke Xun and I have paid special attention to the distance between the walls and the thickness of the walls of each room. When connected, the length of the corridor outside is equal to that of the corridor outside. There is no interlayer between secret rooms."

"Where's the basement?" Ke Xun pointed to his feet.

Everyone looked at each other, turned their heads and walked out.

When I came to the stairs at the end of the corridor, I saw cartons, tables, chairs and other sundries piled up between the stairs and the wall. "We haven't had time to search here yet," Qin Ci said.

The old members didn't say much, and acted immediately in a tacit understanding, moving the piles of sundries aside, and at the corner of the dark stairs, a small dark red iron door slowly appeared.

"Meow, it's a combination lock." Ke Xun glanced at the thing next to the doorknob, which looked like a turntable lock on a safe, and tried to pull the door, but it couldn't be opened.

"Is there a password written next to it?" Zhu Haowen asked.

Ke Xun put his face up to look at it, and made a cobwebbed face: "I can't see clearly, it's too dark."

As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and turned on the lighting function.

However, the light from the mobile phone, which was supposed to be white, turned out to be a dim yellow, a bit like the light from an old-fashioned old flashlight, hitting the door darkly.

Seeing this, Zhu Haowen took out his mobile phone and turned it on. Seeing that the beam of light was also dim and unclear, he concentrated it with Ke Xun's mobile phone light and took a photo, so that he could barely see things.

Several people searched carefully with their mobile phones, but unfortunately they found nothing, and the pointer of the combination lock stayed at 0.

"Go and look in the desk drawer in the office," Xu Zhen said, "Usually the password will be recorded in some notebooks or pressed under the glass plate of the desktop, or even on the desk calendar."

Qin Ci turned his head to look at the sky outside, then looked at the few newcomers in front of him who could hardly help, and said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid it's too late."

"Go away!" Qi Qiang, who was clutching his stomach, walked to the stairs at some point, fiercely pushed Deng Guang who was blocking him, pushed Wei Dong who was standing by the door, and pushed him to the door. Suddenly he squatted down, put his ear on the door, and turned the dial of the combination lock with one hand.

"Howling, it's on the right track." Wei Dong whispered to Ke Xun.

"I can see it." Ke Xun was not surprised at all, "This man always looks at others furtively, and he habitually likes to look into other people's pockets. He is a habitual thief."

Wei Dong subconsciously took out his trouser pocket, was relieved when he saw that the phone was still there, took it out and turned it on, and looked at the time, it was already [-]:[-] in the evening.

Seeing that Weidong took out his phone, Zhang Hanrui who was next to him also quickly took out his own phone. Seeing that there was still no signal, he couldn't help but sighed. While casually clicking on the apps on the phone, he whispered to his girlfriends: " Is this place even unable to receive the signal of the cell phone communication base station? I can’t make calls, I can’t access V mail, and all other functions are disabled except for the time and lighting... Well, it’s okay, the selfie can still be turned on --what--"

The sudden scream startled everyone present. Qi Qiang, who was turning the combination lock, trembled, jumped up and kicked Zhang Hanrui: "What's the name of the ghost!"

The others stood a little further away, but before they could stop it, Zhang Hanrui was kicked on the waist by this foot, and fell out on the spot, and fell heavily to the ground.

However, this kick seemed to be not as serious as the reason that caused Zhang Hanrui to scream. She sat on the ground and threw out her mobile phone, covering her head and continuing to scream desperately, her voice filled with endless panic and horror.

Her two girlfriends, Li Yaqing and Zhao Youyi, were frightened by her screams, and they hugged each other and dared not approach her.

Ke Xun walked to the place where Zhang Hanrui's cell phone fell, bent down to pick it up, and turned on the screen, but saw that a gesture password was needed, so he went to Zhang Hanrui and squatted down, patted her on the shoulder: "Sister, stop first, if you do this again Call it down, I'm afraid it will attract something strange."

Zhang Hanrui stopped talking all of a sudden, and plunged into Ke Xun's arms frantically, trembling uncontrollably.

Ke Xun held her shoulders, and asked her in a gentle voice as much as possible: "Sister, tell me, what did you see on the phone just now?"

Zhang Hanrui shrank, her long hair blocked half of her face, which made her eyes look extraordinarily dark, her lips trembling gray in the dim light, tremblingly pointed to the phone in Ke Xun's hand: "You... ...you turn on the camera function...and take a look."