Paintings of Terror

What will happen, no one can predict, but it is better to have a way than to wait for death.

The timer on the wall began to count down to one minute to eleven o'clock, and the four people in the C laboratory sat down against the wall, waiting for the midnight that determines life and death.

Ke Xun and Mu Yiran were sitting farther away from Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan. In the dark, Ke Xun put his mouth next to Mu Yiran's ear and spoke in a very low voice: "...Actually, I don't know how to do this at all. Reliable."

"En." Mu Yiran felt the hot air blowing on the pinna, and remained motionless.

"A brother in my university dormitory was electrocuted," Ke Xun said, trying to use a volume that Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan could not hear clearly, "He said that the whole person's consciousness has been blurred during the electric shock process, and it is impossible to think, let alone Say stare at your watch for five seconds..."

This unreliable method is just to comfort the two girls.

"I know." Mu Yiran finally spoke, his cold voice was lowered, and there was a kind of ascetic sex appeal, "But if this experiment is to test human nature or human will, then I think that the electric current that this machine can produce The intensity will be controlled to a level that can keep people awake, it will not only make people suffer extreme pain, but also keep people awake enough to think about trade-offs, this is a very cold and cruel setting."

"So, my method may really work." Ke Xun said, and suddenly tilted his head and sneezed.

"Cold?" Mu Yiran asked.

"No." Ke Xun rubbed his nose and turned around, not saying that his hair actually got into his nostrils - if he said that, I'm afraid this guy wouldn't let him get so close again.

"Although you can try your method, the possibility of success may not be great." Mu Yiran didn't notice it at all, but continued to say in a low voice, "Let's not talk about whether everyone's reaction speed is fast or slow, even if the first few days It was a fluke, and I don't think those 'researchers' will allow this experiment to go wrong repeatedly, they will eliminate the problems in time so that the experiment can go on smoothly."

"So it's very likely that they will kill the phone?" Ke Xun was thoughtful, "Then let's just count to five with our mouths, or we don't need to count at all. If one person shouts to let go, the others will let go together."

"It's still the same sentence, people's reaction speed can be fast or slow, and whether they can succeed depends entirely on luck." Mu Yiran said.

Ke Xun didn't say anything more, and the two fell into a long silence.

After a long time, Ke Xun spoke again, but he told Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan the remedy plan of using his mouth to let go, and finally added: "If unfortunately even the mouth is blocked, there will always be something in the throat." If you can hum, but you can’t make a sound, just count to five in your heart, although it is very likely that you will not succeed, but at least we have tried our best to live, and we will not be punished if we die quickly.”

Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan whimpered in the darkness.

Ke Xun's voice came with a little smile: "Student Li, you can think this way, maybe you will really wear it this time, and you will be a beautiful and beautiful lady from a big family. When you grow up, there will be a domineering prince who loves you to death, and all kinds of beautiful boys pester you every day, and you will not marry unless you are Qing, and your life has reached the peak since then, so hi, isn't it?"

Li Yaqing snorted twice, and said something vaguely: "I don't want to time travel... Let's be reborn..."

Ke Xun smiled, raised his head against the wall behind him, tilted his face, and asked Mu Yiran who was so close but couldn't see his face: "Do you have any last words to tell?"

Mu Yiran didn't speak, and Ke Xun didn't ask again, and the laboratory fell into the terrible silence before death again.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and death approached step by step.

Finally, the sound of footsteps came from the corridor, walking unhurriedly towards the door of the laboratory.

Ke Xun stretched out his hand, found Mu Yiran's hand in the dark, held him tightly, leaned his head close to his ear, and whispered: "Of course, I don't regret it at all. into the painting."

How can I meet you if I am not in the painting.

Is this... his last words?Mu Yiran's hands tightened, not knowing whether he was exerting force or Ke Xun was exerting force.

The moment before the door of the laboratory was opened, Ke Xun had already turned on the phone screen and placed it in front of the two machines.

The faint light was shrouded in darkness, barely able to illuminate half a meter away, and it was impossible to see anything coming in from outside the door. The sound of footsteps was clattering, accompanied by indistinct conversations that seemed distant and near, Walking around the room sounds like a lot of work.

Ke Xun stared at the direction where the sound came from, but couldn't see anything.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I wanted to take out my mobile phone to turn on the camera, but remembered that my mobile phone had already turned on the screen and was placed in front of the machine.

Just as he was about to signal Mu Yiran to turn on the phone, he heard one of those vague voices suddenly increase in pitch a few decibels, and the sound of footsteps came rushing towards the direction of the four of them.

As soon as Ke Xun turned around, he suddenly opened his arms and hugged Mu Yiran tightly.

Mu Yi paused, and frowned slightly - Ke Xun, even if he was usually out of tune, he would not do such weird things at such a time, he must have a purpose for doing this - what did he think of?Could it be——

It was no longer allowed for Mu Yiran to think about it, but he felt an irresistible force pull him and Ke Xun up from the ground, and pushed him towards the direction where the two machines were.

The machine was powered on, and the red, yellow and green indicator lights glowed in the dark. With the help of this faint light, Mu Yiran saw Ke Xun being pushed to sit on the chair on the other side of the same machine as himself. A few belt-like things were wrapped around and buckled up, firmly fixing their bodies and limbs.

Some "persons" pressed their heads, keeping their eyes on a row of illuminated long electronic screens on the machine, and a line of instructions for use was displayed on the screen.

If one party lets go first, the other party dies.

When he finally fixed his head, Mu Yiran saw Ke Xun trying to turn his face to this side, raised a smile at him, blinked his crooked eyes, and mouthed two words to him. One word: Goodbye.

Mu Yiran was struck by a shock for no reason.

——Ke Xun did it on purpose!Intentionally embracing him "under the eyes" of these "researchers", Ke Xun must have guessed that the four people who were assigned to the C laboratory will be assigned to the same group two by two on what basis - the closer the relationship, the better. The higher the value of testing humanity and willpower, Li Yaqing was assigned to the same group as her best friend Zhao Youyi last night, so if these "researchers" think that they are lovers, the possibility of being assigned to the same group will increase. higher.

Why did Ke Xun want to be in a group with himself and accept this experiment that can only survive by killing each other?

Mu Yiran didn't need to guess carefully at all, he knew Ke Xun—he didn't even know when he had known him like that—Ke Xun didn't want him to die, if he was divided into the other two Any of the same group, the one who died must be Mu Yiran.

So Ke Xun wanted to team up with him, he wanted to protect him, and he wanted to force him to live with his own hands.

Even if he dies, he will die in his hands.

The fool.Mu Yiran stared coldly at the screen of the mobile phone not far in front of him. The stopwatch had already started timing. He and Ke Xun had to see the time clearly the moment the power was turned on, and let go at the same time after waiting for five seconds—what a fool method, only this idiot can come up with such a stupid idea.

All the ideas were so stupid that he wished he could beat him up and cry.

Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan still couldn't resist the fear in their hearts, and wept loudly in fright, but this didn't cover up the notification tone that sounded when the power was turned on.

Di-

An invisible fluid, like electricity but not electricity, rushed out from the wire head held in the palm of the hand in an instant, and penetrated the whole body.

As Mu Yiran expected, this electric current is not enough to make people insane, and the pain it causes to the human body happens to be stuck between "unbearable" and "painful to death".

It won't kill you, but you won't be able to live with it either.

This is a kind of pain that makes the whole body feel like being hammered, burned, needled and ants gnawed.

The screams of Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan resounded, and Mu Yiran heard Ke Xun roar: "I want to let go and let go! One! Two! Let go!"

Mu Yiran knew that Ke Xun had to yell, whether Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan could see the phone screen clearly after crying, but listening to the screams of these two people, if no one guided them, they would immediately let go without hesitation.

Mu Yiran let go of Ke Xun's hand after Ke Xun's voice. He actually hesitated for a moment. He was afraid that Ke Xun would not let go, and he was afraid that this guy would be stupid again.

But after a second thought, he felt that, rather than dying by his own hands, what this silly guy hopes most is to work hard to live with him.

Facts have proved that he was right. Although Ke Xun is impulsive occasionally, he is never reckless. He is actually a person with a lot of ideas.

The crying of Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan was still going on, it was an excellent phenomenon at this moment, they let go at the same moment, luckily survived this time.

But the next time it came back, the irresistible force pushed the end of the wire into the hands of the four people again, and the electric current passed through the bodies of the two people on both sides of the machine again, and the screams of Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan also rang out again.

"I want to let go!" Ke Xun shouted again, "One! Two! Let go!"

Once again, the four survived by a narrow margin.

Although the stupid guy's idea is stupid, it really works.

Mu Yiran is not optimistic about this, this method most likely won't last for one night.

However, it turned out that this method only supported four people for less than 10 minutes. The "researchers" seemed to have discovered the problem, and they sealed the four people's mouths.

Not only could he not speak, he could not even make a sound from his throat.

The direction where Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan were located became extremely quiet, and they couldn't even make a sound of sobbing.

The moment the current passed through again, Mu Yi stared at the time of the stopwatch on the phone screen.

This method is actually very risky. If the two of them are one second slower when looking at the watch, they may die instantly because of the second slower when they let go.

But now Mu Yiran has no time to think about whether Ke Xun is slow or fast for a second, he can only choose to believe him, can only face him head-on and kill him, or be killed by him.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

5 seconds.

let go!

He couldn't hear the voice next to him, so he didn't know whether Ke Xun was dead or alive.

After a short pause, the current was turned on again - he was still alive, so the experiment continued!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 5 seconds, let go.

After a brief pause, the current is switched on.

Countdown.let go.pause.power ups.

Time and time again, in the room without any sound, the cold and cruel process was repeated and continued.

Mu Yiran couldn't hear or see Ke Xun in the darkness, let alone imagine his appearance at the moment.

But he knows that he has been working hard, trying hard to live with him.