Paintings of Terror

"What will happen if you don't get the number card?" Xu Zhen asked calmly.

"The number card is used to group us, and the experience gained from the previous paintings," Qin Ci said, "People who violate the setting of the 'painting' have only one ending."

The newcomers were silent for a while, and the situation they were facing now made them in a dilemma.

To draw a number card means to go down to that terrifying underground place. That kind of closed place without the sun will make people feel oppressed and uncomfortable, full of eerie atmosphere, let alone in this weird painting. In the world, no one dares to think about what terrible things or "things" are waiting for them in those underground experimental areas.

But if they don't draw a number card, what awaits them is the punishment from "Hua" for violating the rules.

Wei Dong broke through the siege of the girls, squeezed forward, and pressed the button on the number-taking machine, seeing that the number was A-185.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Wei Dong looked at Qin Ci. Among the old members, he was the only one who hadn't taken the number yet. Qin Ci raised his hand and was about to press it, but Xu Zhen, who suddenly pounced on him, took him ahead of him. The yardage is B-186.

Xu Zhen was taken aback, and turned to look at the old member with a complicated expression: "The letter has changed...Only four people are allowed to enter an experimental area?"

"The last person to get the card will most likely have his own experimental area." Ke Xun reminded the rest.

The newcomers were startled, ignoring what terrible things or things were waiting for them in the basement, and rushed up to press the number machine. Qin Ci was the closest, and took a number card first, and it turned out to be B It starts with the first letter, next to Xu Zhen's number, which is B-187.

The newcomers swarmed over, stretching out their hands and scrambling to press them down, but suddenly they fell backwards screaming in pain, and saw that the yellow-skinned man who had always been gloomy was pulling the hair on the backs of several newcomers one by one, viciously He threw it on the ground, strode forward, and took out the card number B-188.

The next person to get the card was Qi Qiang, who also started with the letter B, followed by Deng Guang. From him, the number card changed to the letter C, and then the three girlfriends. The helpless Cai Xiaoyan squeezed into the last one.

Looking at the only number card starting with the letter D in her hand, Cai Xiaoyan burst into tears.

Everyone looked at her silently, helpless.

"Can I change the card?" Xu Zhen suddenly asked the old members.

Qin Ci hesitated for a moment: "There have been similar grouping rules before, but the exchange of grouping signs is not allowed, and it will be treated as a violation of the rules. The rules of each painting are different according to the content and meaning of the painting, so we can't be sure. Whether it can be changed, but it’s better not to try to challenge on the first night, after all, we still don’t understand the meaning of this painting at all.”

"Then what should we do next? Can we just sit and wait for something bad to happen on the first night?" Xu Zhen's expression turned ugly.

"Because it's not time to stop walking, let's go down and open the other three experimental areas, and hurry up to find clues." Mu Yiran said indifferently.

Now that things have happened, everyone has been driven to the shelves, and they can't do anything if they don't go down.

So Ke Xun was still leading the way with his mobile phone, and the rest of the people followed behind. Huang Pi and Qi Qiang walked at the end. They had just gone down two steps when they heard a "bang" behind them, and immediately turned their heads to look. Seeing that the iron gate has been tightly closed behind him.

Qi Qiang rushed up and shook the door vigorously, but there was no movement. He inserted the number card in his hand into the punch card machine, but there was no movement, so he turned around with a gloomy expression, and continued to follow the crowd down.

Qin Ci, holding a B card, opened the door of the experimental area of ​​Project B, and several old members followed.

The experimental area of ​​Project B was divided into four small compartments. The strange thing was that the room was empty and contained nothing.

Everyone swiped on their phones and checked the walls, roofs and floors, only to find that the walls, roofs and floors of these four rooms are not made of masonry, but a soft material, and people step on them without the slightest sound, even if they are ruthless. Pounding the wall hard, there is no sound, not even the friction between the fist and the wall surface.

Deng Guang, holding a C card, opened the door of the experimental area of ​​the C project.

There are two identical machines and four chairs inside the door. The chairs are placed on both sides of the machine. There is also a desk and several office chairs. Behind the door is a hanger for hanging clothes, and a mop, broom, dustpan, etc. sundries.

These two machines are like electronic equipment, with a wire protruding from each side. What they are used for, no one can figure out for a while.

Cai Xiaoyan, who was crying so hard that she couldn't make a sound, opened the experimental area of ​​Project D with the help of Qin Ci.

A special chair is placed in the experimental area of ​​Project D. Next to the chair is a scientific instrument, which is full of wires, and the other end of the wire is connected to some strange things.

Next to the wall is a medical bed. There are various medical equipment beside the bed. On the other side of the wall, there is a desk with a small projector on it. office supplies and various documents.

Among the four experimental areas, only the experimental area of ​​Project D has the most complex facilities, which made Cai Xiaoyan even more panicked, squatting on the ground trembling and whimpering.

The old members ignored her for the time being, and seized the time to search for all useful clues in this room. Qin Ci went to study medical equipment, Mu Yiran checked the instruments next to the chair, Ke Xun and Zhu Haowen rummaged through the drawers of the desk, Wei Dong tried to find a power strip to connect to the projector.

There are many items in the drawer of the desk, most of which are documents. Ke Xun glanced at them with the light of his mobile phone. Most of them were written in medical terms and research logs. He was about to read the logs carefully when he heard Zhu Haowen next to him "snap" With a bang, he pushed a drawer that had just been opened back into the table.

"What's wrong?" Ke Xun turned his head to look at him.

Zhu Haowen paused, and said blankly: "It's nothing, something inappropriate."

"Such things should be very suspicious." Ke Xun gave him a puzzled look, and reached out to pull the closed drawer.

Zhu Haowen didn't stop him, but just looked at the back of his head with a few hairs raised, and turned to check the things on the table.

"...I'll go." He heard Ke Xun blurt out in a low voice.

"What?" Mu Yiran was walking over, looked at Ke Xun and asked.

Ke Xun stuffed the things in his hand back into the drawer, and then closed the drawer with a "snap": "It's nothing, some inappropriate things."

Zhu Haowen: "..."

Mu Yiran gave him a scrutinizing look: "You should know, things like this are even more suspicious."

Zhu Haowen: "..."

"That's right," Ke Xun opened the drawer again, holding the contents in his hand, "I'll check it again, you go to work."

Mu Yiran stared at him with the eyes of "what are you doing?", walked over and stretched out his hand: "Show me."

"What about trust?" Ke Xun had no choice but to pass the things to him, "Let's say it first, if you get angry, don't blame me, it's none of my business."

Mu Yiran ignored it, just glanced at the things in his hands with his mobile phone, and then his body froze visibly to the naked eye.

"Hey, do you still want to see it?" Ke Xun carefully looked at Mu Yiran's expressionless face, "Why don't you put it back, I think if the signature is on it, this painting will be too nonsensical."

Mu Yiran still ignored him, froze for a moment, resumed his movements, and continued to look through the pages expressionlessly.

"What's that?" Wei Dong quietly nudged Ke Xun with his elbow, and pointed his chin towards the thing in Mu Yiran's hand.

"A stack of photos." Ke Xun said.

"Whose photo?" Wei Dong was surprised.

"Uh, everyone has it." Ke Xun said.

"Why are there photos in the laboratory?" Weidong asked strangely.

"...Maybe it's a personal hobby?" Ke Xun said ambiguously.

Wei Dong looked at him even more strangely, but he didn't ask any more questions, and continued to search the messy things on the desktop.

Everyone was busy with their work when they suddenly heard a low-pitched beep from an electronic device. They looked around and finally saw a flat electronic timer on the wall.

Fluorescent red numbers are displayed on the timer, counting down from 60.

Ke Xun was the first to think of something, and quickly checked the time on his phone. It was less than a minute before the usual time of no-walking in the painting—1:[-] p.m.

"You're going to be banned, go back to the experimental area you belong to!" Ke Xun came to his senses, shouted at the newcomers, pulled Mu Yiran up and walked out, "Dongzi Haowen'er followed."

"No—don't—please—" Seeing the crowd rushing out of the door, Cai Xiaoyan burst into tears, grabbed Deng Guang, knelt on the ground and begged, "Please don't abandon me One, please, Deng Guang, please save me, save me—"

Deng Guang was so anxious that he couldn't break away from Cai Xiaoyan's hand after struggling for a long time, so he kicked Cai Xiaoyan's chest in anger, kicked her to the ground, cursed "Get out of here", and ran out of the room in a hurry. D laboratory.

Regarding Cai Xiaoyan's situation, the old members have nothing to do. After all, the power in the painting cannot be violated by manpower, nor can it be solved by helping others.

Everyone entered the laboratory to which they belonged and closed the door.

Although there were a few cribs in the laboratory of project A, no one wanted to sit on them, so they just found a clean corner and sat on the floor.

The room was pitch black, only the glowing red timer on the wall was still counting down the time, until the number jumped to 0, and after a beep, it was completely plunged into darkness.

Ke Xun, Mu Yiran, Wei Dong, and Zhu Haowen sat side by side against the wall, silent for a while, and could only hear each other's slight breathing in the darkness, the light and powerful one was from Ke Xun, and the long and soothing one was from Mu Yi Of course, Wei Dong's shortness and haste, Zhu Haowen's subtlety and deepness.

After staying quietly for a while, Wei Dong's voice sounded low: "You guys, what kind of research institute is this? Each of the four laboratories is different from the other, especially the B laboratory. There is nothing in it. , What are you studying?"

"Since it is a sub-project, it must be researching different things." It was Zhu Haowen who answered, "I can be sure that this laboratory A is researching babies."

"How do you know?" Wei Dong hurriedly asked, "Just because there is a crib, are babies being studied? There is also a small cage here. Usually, don't you use small mice or something as test subjects in experiments? Maybe it's mice."

"Actually, there is a way to know what each laboratory is researching." Zhu Haowen said.

"What method?" Wei Dong asked.

"Turn on the phone camera." Zhu Haowen said lightly.

Wei Dong shivered for a moment: "Forget it..."

"This method," Mu Yiran said suddenly, "I have already tried it when I entered the other three laboratories."

"What did you see?" Ke Xun asked.