Paintings of Terror

Ke Xun stood up, turned on his phone, and called up the camera function.

The camera defaults to the Selfie mode, and his own face appears first on the screen, perhaps because of the dim light, the entire face is bluish-gray, and the black eyeballs appear particularly large, almost covering all the whites of the eyes. It made the two eyes look extraordinarily hollow and dark, and the lips were bloodless, like a dehydrated patient who had dried up for a long time, with gray and white dry and wrinkled color lines.

Ke Xun clicked on the camera switch, the front camera switched to the rear, and then "Fuck", the phone flew out with a shake of his hand, and Mu Yiran, who was a few steps away, had quick eyes and quick hands, raised his hand to catch it, and took advantage of the situation. Holding it in his hand, he raised it into a shooting pose and glanced at the picture.

"What's wrong?" Wei Dong asked Ke Xun anxiously.

"...It's okay." Ke Xun wiped the cold sweat from his hands on his pants, "I'm so handsome by myself."

When Wei Dong heard this, he didn't dare to ask again.

Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen next to them silently turned on the camera function of their mobile phones. Despite the lessons learned by Zhang Hanrui and Ke Xun, they still shook their hands uncontrollably after seeing the picture in the camera, and then silently Throwing the phone back into his pocket.

But the newcomers obviously didn't have the concentration, Xu Zhen also took out the phone, and after looking at it, she screamed uncontrollably and dropped the phone to the ground.

"What's that?! What's that?!" No matter how calm the OL was, after seeing such a scene with her own eyes, it was difficult to remain calm and composed. She turned around and grabbed the arm of Mu Yiran who was closest to her, her fingers frightened cold.

"As you can see." Mu Yiran avoided her scratching expressionlessly, walked over a few steps, and handed back the mobile phone in his hand to Ke Xun.

The camera function of the mobile phone has not been turned off, and the dark picture is displayed in front of my eyes.

It’s still the corridor in front of you, the rooms with the doors facing each other, or the messy corner of the stairs. It should be empty, but at this moment, the camera is full of emaciated, gray-skinned, expressionless people. .

These people were wearing empty and fat gray clothes, standing in every corner, looking at the direction of the crowd expressionlessly, their faces were gray and thin, like dry and withered bark, their lips were blue and gray, covered with wrinkles The dead skin, the black hole-like eyes looked at this place indifferently, like a forest of human-shaped tombstones.

However, if you look away from the phone screen and look straight ahead, there is nothing in front of you. You can only see these gray and dead people through the camera.

Ke Xun looked away from the phone screen and gave Wei Dong a hand.

Because there is a person standing in front of him in the picture, his black eyes are staring at his eyes.

The newcomers were frightened, Qi Qiang also looked away from the screen of his mobile phone with difficulty, and looked at the old members: "What the hell... what should I do?"

At this moment, Qi Qiang was finally willing to believe Qin Ci's words, and the muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably.

"Continue to open the door." Mu Yiran's calm and still voice made Qi Qiang regain his composure, and put it on the iron door again to try the password.

Before Ke Xun canceled the camera function, he saw seven or eight gray and white figures standing in front of the iron gate in the screen, as if they were watching Qi Qiang.

Qin Ci walked up to Mu Yiran, lowered his voice and said, "Tell me, what do these 'people' do? Why do they appear in this place?"

Mu Yiran raised his eyes to look at the void, as if he was looking at those "people" who only exist in the dark: "Maybe they are employees of the research institute, and they are wearing the same clothes."

"No, it's not exactly the same." It was Ke Xun who answered the conversation. Mu Yiran looked over and saw him pointing to the position on his left chest, "There is a set of numbers on the part of their shirts, each person's number It's all different."

Mu Yiran's eyes moved slightly: "Are you sure?"

"Believe me, I have very good eyesight," Ke Xun said.

Qin Ci wanted to say that if he was not sure, he could turn on the camera function of the phone to take a look, but Mu Yiran seemed to trust Ke Xun's eyesight so easily, and had no intention of taking out his phone to verify.

"What do these numbers represent, job number?" Zhu Haowen looked at Ke Xun.

"Maybe," Ke Xun said, "these numbers start with a letter, a combination of a horizontal bar and a number, such as A-013. I glanced at it just now, and the initial letters include A, B, C, and D. There may be more, but I haven't looked closely."

"Could these numbers be clues?" Xu Zhen tried her best to calm down her shock, her voice was still a little trembling.

Qin Ci nodded: "Presumably yes, but the specific direction of this clue needs further verification."

While speaking, Qi Qiang heard a low growl: "Open!"

There was a "click" sound from the lock of the iron door, as if a huge finger was bent hard and then popped out heavily, and the fingernail hit the hearts of everyone.

Qi Qiang didn't open the door right away, but stood up and looked at the old members with a grim expression: "What's next, can you get in?"

"Come in." Mu Yiran said lightly without any hesitation.

Just as he was about to step over, Ke Xun grabbed his arm and said, "Wait a minute, let's take a look first." As he spoke, he raised his phone and brought up the camera function again.

In the picture, several gray and white figures are still surrounded by the door, motionless.

Ke Xun suddenly felt that the people all over the corridor might not be looking at them, the off-screen people who broke into it, but what they were staring at motionlessly, was actually this door.

Mu Yiran walked over and grabbed the handle of the door. Several girls screamed for shelter in fright. Because Ke Xun was holding his mobile phone, Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen stood by the door, one on the left and one on the right. The girls So they swarmed and hugged Wei Dong, the only old member who had nothing to do.

Weidong: ...The peach blossoms come too fast like a tornado, but I am not moved and dare not move at the moment.

With a little force on his hand, Mu Yiran pulled open the heavy and cold iron door.

The screen of Ke Xun's mobile phone was immediately filled with dense gray and emaciated faces, and the small door was full of people.

In other words, it is full of such faces.

From the door beam to the threshold, every gap is squeezed by faces, and their bodies are almost invisible. They seem to be scrambling to fall and crawl over, trying to escape from the door, scraping along the door frame. His skinny and gray fingers were exposed, and the bones were clearly protruding due to the excessive force, almost breaking the skin.

Ke Xun's scalp tingled.

It's not just because of the faces crowded in the door frame, but because the mouths on these faces are desperately opened, like bottomless black holes, which are opened to the extreme that ordinary people can't do, and they can't be seen in the black holes. Teeth and tongue, only endless blackness, and screams and cries if there is any substance.

Ke Xun moved the phone away, took a deep breath, and suddenly moved in his heart, turning the phone to the corridor behind him.

In the picture, those gray-white figures who stood indifferently in every corner and looked towards this side just now, like the people inside the door, opened their black mouths desperately, such mouths were embedded in their gray-white expressionless eyes. His face, embedded in the dusty corridor, appeared more vivid, dark, and terrifying.

Ke Xun was a little terrified by the huge mouth of the black hole, rubbing the goosebumps that suddenly appeared on his arms, and followed Mu Yiran into the iron gate.

As far as the naked eye can see, there is no one in the door. The door is a counter similar to the front desk. Next to the counter is a narrow staircase leading to the underground. The entrance of the stairs is blocked by an iron fence door, and the steps inside the door gradually descend. It also gradually sank into the deep darkness, making it impossible to see what was at the end of the stairs.

Mu Yiran turned on the light on his mobile phone, and searched on the iron fence door, but found no manual lock or combination lock, even if he tried to push and pull it, he couldn't open it at all.

"The door is controlled by a mechanism or electronically." Mu Yi suddenly turned his head and rummaged through the counter at the front desk. Qin Ci, Zhu Haowen and Ke Xun stepped forward to help. Among the few newcomers, only Qi Qiang and Xu Zhen stepped into the door. Pi stood outside the door, staring at the people inside the door with a gloomy expression.

Wei Dong was stumbled by the girls and huddled outside the door to embolden himself. Deng Guang shrank even more, almost burying himself in the pile of rubbish next to him.

It didn't take much time for the people inside the door to find a machine covered with dust and cobwebs in a corner of the counter. On the rhombus-shaped metal plate on it was written the words "Number Picking Machine".

"Number." Ke Xun looked at several people, and everyone exchanged glances.

"Don't be in a hurry to pick it up, we need to make some arrangements." Qin Ci said, looking up at Mu Yiran, "What does Xiao Mu think about this number machine?"

"We can't be sure what method and regularity it will assign numbers to us," Mu Yi said with deep eyes, "We can only take out four people to try first, and see the arrangement of the first four numbers."

"Then which four will come first?" Qin Ci asked.

"I don't recommend that all the old members come." Xu Zhen, who had been listening in, couldn't help answering, "It's best to have both old and new members, as well as men and women, so that we can try out more patterns."

"I agree." Qin Ci said, "Then, who is the old member?"

"I'll do it." Ke Xun came over, and before everyone could react, he stretched out his hand and pressed the button on the number-taking machine. Hearing a "click", a business card popped out from the card-type outlet on the top of the machine. Ke Xun held a large cardboard card in his hand, and glanced at it with the light of his mobile phone. It read: A-182.

Seeing the other people looking at him silently, Ke Xun raised his eyebrows: "What?"

Zhu Haowen looked at him, and said in a calm voice: "When you are uncertain about the risk, you are always ahead."

"...So," Ke Xun put his hand on his shoulder, "Are you praising me for being brave?"

Zhu Haowen lowered his eyelids and did not answer.

Qin Ci suddenly smiled at the side: "You make us cautious and hesitant, you seem timid and selfish."

"No, I don't have such a high awareness." Ke Xun fiddled with the card in his hand between two fingers, "I'm just used to it. When participating in competitions before, the first person to appear was the most stressed and responsible. As the captain, I have always been placed in this position."

Mu Yiran suddenly said: "Hurry up."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, Ke Xun couldn't stop him, and watched the slender finger press the button of the number machine.

A-183, Mu Yiran's card number is connected with Ke Xun.