Paintings of Terror

After dinner, it was already dark.

Chengshan's documents have not been checked, but everyone has given up checking.The battery of the mobile phone needs to be conserved, so I can only wait until the daytime tomorrow to continue.

However, Ke Xun and Weidong still went to the warehouse to dig out a few old-fashioned flashlights and distributed them to everyone. Maybe because the batteries have been stored for too long, the light of the flashlights is as dim as the light of mobile phones.

Everyone entered the underground experiment area, and while it was still some time before eleven o'clock in the evening, they searched every corner of the basement again with a flashlight.

"Perhaps there might be a brick in this basement that is movable, such as connected to a mechanism or something." Li Yaqing looked at the wall that had peeled off the wall, revealing the bricks inside.

"Yes, maybe there is such a possibility. Isn't it often set like this in novels and on TV?" Zhang Hanrui nodded quickly, and looked at Ke Xun eagerly with Li Yaqing, trying to get his approval.

"Then let's check every brick next to each other." Ke Xun nodded his head expectantly, and led the two to start checking from the very edge of the wall.

"What about the high bricks?" Zhang Hanrui raised his head and pointed above his head.

Ke Xun squatted by the wall and patted himself on the shoulder with his backhand: "Come on, step on it, hold on to the wall, I will stand up slowly, you can reach up and check."

"Can it work?" Zhang Hanrui looked at him hesitantly.

"...Sister, can you speak?" Ke Xun said indifferently, "Never question a man's 'okay', you know, hurry up."

"Oh." Zhang Hanrui hurriedly and carefully stepped on Ke Xun's shoulders, not daring to say that she regarded him as a small subject.

It didn't take much effort for Ke Xun to lift a slender Zhang Hanrui, and the three of them just checked each brick bit by bit.

Mu Yiran continued to check the documents in the laboratory of Area D with a flashlight on.

Qin Ci looked at the documents in his hand, which seemed to be a stack of character files, and couldn't help asking him: "Do you have any ideas now?"

Mu Yi didn't raise his head, and said while checking: "Since the experimental area of ​​this research institute is located underground, it means that the experiments here are not authorized by the official department, or it may be under the guise of legal research. Doing these illegal experiments against human nature behind the scenes. Since this is the case, these experiments must require confidentiality, not every person belonging to the research institute can be involved in core secrets, which leads to a problem, "

He raised his eyes and looked at Qin Ci, "How did the author of this painting know that this research institute is researching these projects?"

Qin Ci's eyes flashed: "That's right! Unless someone leaks the secret and announces what happened here."

"The issues involved in this research are both important and sensitive," said Mu Yiran. "In the background of the times at that time, even if it was leaked, it would be blocked by the relevant departments to prevent the situation from spreading and causing public opinion shock. So even if If there is a leak, the public will not know too much detail, but judging from the content of this painting, the author of the painting knows the details of the experiment very well, which shows that the author of the painting is probably an insider of the research institute .”

"That's right—and it should still be a core member," Qin Ci nodded. "He knows the details of the four experimental projects, so he is not only a core member, but may also be a leader at a certain level."

"Before I entered the painting, I remembered that the artist's name was Kang Lai." Zhu Haowen suddenly asked, "Is he famous in the art world?"

Mu Yiran flipped through the character files in his hand: "The Square Box Art Museum has only been established for two years, and the art works in the town hall are only one or two paintings by famous artists, and the rest of the paintings are from novice painters or unknown painters. I bought it at a low price, so this Kanglai is not well-known in the industry, at least I have never heard of it. If he was really an insider of this institute, it is said that he is an amateur art lover possible."

"Then he is very contradictory," Zhu Haowen said, "while participating in research or management research as a core member, he also draws out these inside stories for criticism."

Qin Ci thought about it: "This kind of behavior seems a bit split, could it be that he has a dual personality?"

"It's also possible that I didn't feel guilty about the things I did before in my later years," Zhu Haowen said indifferently, "So I confess everything I have participated in as a confession."

"It's very possible," Qin Ci came over, and looked through the files with Mu Yiran, "Anyway, let's find this person's work information first, maybe we can get a clue."

This time, it was more than ten o'clock at night.

"Let's go here first today," Qin Ci said slowly, looking at Mu Yiran, "Xiao Mu, do you have any suggestions about the D laboratory?"

Mu Yiran lowered his eyes and thought for a moment: "Cai Xiaoyan passed out last night. I don't know if it was because of this reason that she escaped by chance. If you are willing to try this method, I can help you faint."

Not everyone dares to be dazed in this situation, because it means that there is no defense and self-protection measures, and the most vulnerable and helpless self is completely exposed to danger.

Qin Ci hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded with some difficulty: "It's a disaster that can't be avoided. If you are dizzy, you should find it on my head, or you will find it on my head. Why don't you just try."

Mu Yiran didn't say much. Seeing that Ke Xun was bringing in Zhang Hanrui who was crying with fright as the night approached, he also asked Zhang Hanrui if he would also pass out manually. Zhang Hanrui sobbed bitterly and said: "I don't know... Maybe it doesn't work for me... I have a special constitution, the kind that makes it difficult to lose consciousness after an anesthesia injection. Even last night... I couldn't faint, I don't know... woo woo woo ...Why do you want me to have this kind of physique, I would rather faint and die unconsciously than tortured to death..."

The old members tacitly kept silent and did not point out that even if she could faint, she might be woken up and then tortured to death.

No matter what, Zhang Hanrui finally decided to give it a try, what if he was lucky?

When Ke Xun was about to leave the D laboratory, Zhang Hanrui couldn't help but chased him and grabbed him: "Brother Xiao Ke... If I die, you... you took my mobile phone back to my parents. I wrote something on it, show it to them, it's my... last words, the password to unlock the screen is XXXXXX, please."

"Well, don't worry, I've made a note of it." Ke Xun patted her on the shoulder, turned and walked out, turned back at the door, and said to her, "Han Rui, don't be afraid."

Zhang Hanrui burst into tears, choked up and nodded.

After pinching Qin Ci and Zhang Hanrui unconscious, and putting them in the corner of the laboratory, Mu Yi ran out with the door behind him, and went to Laboratory B with Ke Xun.

Neither Weidong nor Zhu Haowen hesitated about the artificial stun, so Mu Yiran followed suit.

In the end, the two went to Laboratory A again, and asked Xu Zhen, Qiqiang and Huang Pi if they wanted to try this method as well.

Huang Pi didn't speak. This person spoke very little. He had hardly said a few words since he entered the painting. Qi Qiang also refused very defensively. Only Xu Zhen asked hesitantly: "Even if I fainted, what will happen?" Won't you also be woken up by that harsh noise you're talking about?"

"To be honest," Ke Xun said, "I think it's very possible, but if you faint, you won't be in greater danger than the noise. At least nothing moved us last night, just the noise attack."

Xu Zhen thought for a while: "Well, I have prepared some things to plug my ears. After I plug them up first, and then you faint me, please put me in a corner and cover my head. The futon on the crib."

Ke Xun looked at her speechlessly: "Are you sure you want to use the things in the crib?"

"I've already used it." Xu Zhen said coldly, showing Ke Xun the cotton wool she was holding in her hand, "These were taken out of the quilt."

Talking about the sticky rice that was fished out of the porridge, I kneaded the cotton wool into a ball, stuffed it into my ears, covered the outside with a layer of mud, and tightly wrapped my ears with a wide cloth strip that was folded several times. After wrapping it up, and finally wrapping a small quilt around his head, he gestured an OK sign to Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran knocked her out, put her in the corner of the laboratory, and was about to wrap her in the quilt on the crib as promised, but Qi Qiang grabbed it and covered her head.

Mu Yiran and Ke Xun didn't say anything, and turned to leave A laboratory.

Even if they are forcibly snatched from Qi Qiang's hands and wrapped up by Xu Zhen, Qi Qiang will still be able to snatch them back after the two of them leave. What's more, Qi Qiang may anger Xu Zhen and hurt her while she faints. .

Back in the laboratory of Area C, Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan were hugging each other with tears in their eyes and trembling. Seeing them enter the door, Li Yaqing cried hoarsely and asked Ke Xun: "Brother Ke, what should we do? I don't want to die! I don't want to die! Woooooo..."

Ke Xun shined the light on the ground with the flashlight, and saw that the bodies of Deng Guang and Zhao Youyi, who died in this room last night, were still placed in the corner of the room. They were removed by everyone this morning, and their faces were covered with their own clothes. , there was no face to be seen, only a stiff and cold corpse.

Ke Xun asked Li Yaqing: "After you felt the electric current pass through your palm last night, how long did you hold it for before letting go?"

Li Yaqing burst into tears when she heard the words: "I don't know...I don't know...It hurts so much, really, it hurts so much, I feel like I'm going to die, I can't hold onto that wire...I really tried my best, I tried my best to bear it...but I really couldn't help it, I let go only when I couldn't hold it...I'm not...I really don't want Youyi to die..."

"Don't cry, don't cry, it's not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself," Ke Xun hurriedly comforted, "I think it would be the same if it were someone else, the pain caused by 'painting' is not something that can be tolerated under normal circumstances , this is not your fault, this is the malice of the 'painting'."

Li Yaqing cried and looked at the three of them, choked up and said, "Then what should I do tonight... I'm afraid I'll hurt you again... and I don't want to die..."

Ke Xun had nothing to do about it.

The experimental nature of the C laboratory is destined to allow two people to kill each other indirectly. Human nature and willpower will be subjected to the cruelest test here. Even he himself does not know whether he can survive this round.

After thinking about it, he suddenly smiled and said, "Why don't we put all our eggs in one basket?"

Seeing that the three people were all looking at him, Ke Xun turned on the phone, called up the stopwatch function, and put it in front of the three people: "I put the phone in constant light mode and put it in front of the machine. When we are connected to the current, everyone Staring at the stopwatch together, every five seconds, everyone let go together - what do you think will happen then?"