Paintings of Terror

"The photo is back?" Mu Yiran took the phone that Ke Xun handed back, and pulled out the photo album.

"Did you take the half-inch photo in the toilet?" Zhu Haowen looked at Ke Xun.

"I don't know if you have ever played a room escape game." Ke Xun patted Zhu Haowen's shoulder, suddenly seemed to remember something, paused his hand, and then put it down very naturally, "One of the most important games in this type of game." The rule is that all seemingly useless or insignificant things may be the key to clearing the level, so I think it is best not to put half a picture thrown in the toilet pit. Pass."

Zhu Haowen looked down at his hands, then turned his gaze to Mu Yiran's phone screen.

What is displayed on the screen is the photo taken by Ke Xun, and the dirty place next to the half of the photo has been processed with mosaic very thoughtfully.

The photo shows half an ordinary-looking man. Because it has been too long and it was photocopied, his age cannot be seen, but he will not be very old, because his hair is thick and fluffy, his eyebrows are correct, and half of his lips still have a slight twitch. smile.

"Hao Wen'er, mobile phone." Ke Xun said.

Zhu Haowen immediately understood his intention, took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera, and then the three of them compared the two mobile phones to find a face similar to this half of the photo among the gray and white figures.

Every face has been looked at carefully - this is really an uncomfortable process. The faces of these gray and white figures are more terrifying after a long time, because when you look at them, they are also looking at you. Just look at you with those dead, dull eyes that have lost all human emotion and vividness.

"These people are probably experimental subjects who have undergone prefrontal lobotomy and failed." Zhu Haowen said coldly.

"But remember, one of the experimental products was successful and entered the second phase of the trial." Ke Xun looked at Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran nodded: "Experiment No. 282."

Ke Xun: "He is not in these figures, and the numbers on their clothes are not 282."

Zhu Haowen: "Will it be outside, such as other laboratories, or in the corridor, or even, will it be on the top?"

Ke Xun: "Don't let it go if there is even a chance, let others help you find it together."

Ke Xun asked everyone to retake the half of the photo with their mobile phones, and then searched the entire research institute.

Time waited for no one, and the sky darkened bit by bit.

Everyone didn't bother to eat dinner, and they still couldn't find all the gray and white figures before eleven o'clock in the evening.

Mu Yiran and Ke Xun went to laboratory B, and returned to laboratory D after fainting Weidong.

The three of them sat side by side in the corner, like every night in the picture, waiting for death to come.

"This is probably the most uncertain time we have ever been?" Ke Xun broke the unbearable silence, trying to make his tone sound calm and even relaxed, "It seems that there is no way to avoid it?"

Mu Yiran didn't speak, only felt the heat from the person beside him in the dark.

This man contrived a way of avoiding death for all his friends except himself.

"Do you think that Huang Pi and Qi Qiang are a little strange?" Zhu Haowen said suddenly.

"Although Qi Qiang is fierce, he's a bastard at best," Ke Xun said. "The real trouble is that Huang Pi. He's a real ruthless guy."

"Why do these two people go to a place like an art gallery?" Zhu Haowen questioned.

"I speculate that Qi Qiang went in to steal something," Ke Xun said, "but it definitely wasn't stealing paintings or something, probably aiming at the mobile phones or bags of the spectators. But why the yellow skin is there, I don't know. .”

Zhu Haowen didn't ask again, but continued what he said just now: "I think the two of them are strange. First, Huang Pi suddenly offered to draw lots today to get a number. Secondly, the two of them got the number of C laboratory. There is no dissatisfaction after the card, which is not in line with the style of these two people, I thought they would at least forcefully switch to the previous order to get the number, after all, laboratory B is currently the safest."

"If you say so, these two people are indeed a bit weird," Ke Xun said, "When Qi Qiang got the number C card, I remember being furious, throwing the number card on the ground and stepping on it, and then I don't know why. I stopped talking, and just now I went to the C laboratory honestly, could it be that I was bewitched by something like the previous painting?"

"No." It was Mu Yiran who answered, with a cold voice, "I think Huang Pi's preferred number card is not Lab B in the first place. A person like him is very vigilant and defensive. It was impossible to trust anyone to knock himself out, so Lab B was never where he wanted to be.

"The C laboratory is his ultimate goal, especially when he sees that Zhang Hanrui, who has become a vegetative state, has also been assigned the C card, which is even more in his favor."

Ke Xun frowned: "You mean, during the experiment in Lab C, Huang Pi wanted to be with Zhang Hanrui, and Zhang Hanrui can't move anymore. If the power is turned on, Huang Pi must be the first to let go. There's a [-] percent chance of survival."

"Obviously this is his purpose." Mu Yiran said coldly, "The order of drawing lots this time should be in line with his original intention, so he didn't take the initiative to say anything after that. For the last pick, I think he will probably show his strong face and force him to switch the order with others."

Ke Xun cursed in a low voice.

"As for Qi Qiang," Mu Yiran continued, "As a person who is similar to Huang Pi, he guessed Huang Pi's intentions one step earlier than us, and after seeing Xu Zhen who was also drawn to the C laboratory, He also has confidence.

"For one thing, women's physiological reactions are inherently slower than men's—of course, the group of Zhang Hanrui and Deng Guang is an exception;

"Secondly, Qi Qiang makes a living by stealing, and the pickpocket's hand speed is what they rely on to gain a foothold. Even if Xu Zhen's physical function is at its peak, it may not be as fast as Qi Qiang's hand speed.

"After figuring this out, Qi Qiang happily accepted the number C card."

Ke Xun was silent for a moment before speaking: "So, Huang Pi and Qi Qiang will survive in Lab C tomorrow."

"If there are no accidents, it should be like this." Mu Yiran said.

Ke Xun didn't speak, and he didn't know what to think in the dark. After a while, he suddenly turned on the flashlight and shone on the wall on the right: "I saw a sentence written in blood on that wall. Guess what it is? ?”

Mu Yiran was sitting on his right hand side. Hearing this, he turned his head to look over, but Ke Xun suddenly raised his hand, and quickly slammed on the back of Mu Yiran's neck. In time, Xun stretched out his arms to catch them in his arms.

Gently rubbed the place on the back of Mu Yiran's neck where he was chopped, and let him lean against the wall.

"Why are you doing this?" Zhu Haowen's voice came from behind.

Ke Xun turned to look at him: "Remember, Dr. Qin said that when the frontal lobotomy is performed, the patient will be kept awake, because the doctor will inform the patient of the next operation steps."

"So you knocked out Mu Yiran, so that when those 'things' are experimenting later, he won't be the first choice for the experiment." Zhu Haowen looked at Ke Xun with complicated eyes.

"Bingo. Would you like to come too?" Ke Xun gave him a harmless smile, "You're welcome, just call me Red Scarf."

"But Dr. Qin also said that if the patient doesn't respond, the doctor will use electric shocks to wake him up." Zhu Haowen said.

"The premise is that they use a conscious patient for the operation, and the electric shock will be used only after the patient is unconscious during the operation, instead of choosing a comatose patient for the operation from the beginning. Zhang Hanrui is an exception, she woke up halfway by herself. "Ke Xun said, "Look at those who use animals to do experiments, don't they all choose animals that are alive and kicking, at least they can move? When have you seen animals that are so dizzy that they seem to be dead?"

"But if all three of us faint," Zhu Haowen said, "what if they always choose one person to do the experiment."

"Haowen'er, you and Dongzi both passed out when we were in laboratory B, and I didn't see those 'researchers' wake up to do the experiment again," Ke Xun's eyes seemed to be two under the faint light of the flashlight. A star on a summer night, "I'd rather take a gamble, maybe this D laboratory has the same rules, do you believe me or not?"

Zhu Haowen looked into his eyes, and after a while, he said in a low voice, "I believe you. But what should you do, you can't knock yourself out."

"Of course I can't," Ke Xun winked at him, "I'm only telling you one person, Mr. Mu's method of choking the neck to make people faint. I have already asked Doctor Qin the principle in private, and I have learned it."

As he spoke, he pressed his hand somewhere on his neck: "As long as you press here, you will pass out in a short while. I'll find something to hold against myself, and it will be fine if I press myself unconscious."

"Find the right things first." Zhu Haowen looked at him expressionlessly.

Ke Xun got up, moved a chair over, went to get the mop behind the door, stepped on the mop head, only picked up the handle, inserted the handle into the gap in the back of the chair for support and fixation, and finally took off the T-shirt to wrap Pushing the head of the stick handle against his own neck, he felt it, and made an OK gesture to Zhu Haowen.

Zhu Haowen was a little speechless: "Are you sure this stick won't kill you directly?"

Ke Xun laughed: "It's my job to do tricks, don't worry, I can control the angle of my body and the strength of the force. Once I lose consciousness, my body will definitely fall to the side and won't hurt you." neck."

Zhu Haowen looked at his smile and fell silent again, and after a long time, he calmly said, "Don't chop the back of my neck, just pinch it."

Ke Xun rubbed his thumbs: "It's just for you to experience my new technique. Just to be on the safe side, let's make a last word first. It's best to attach a certain treasure's payment password or something."

Zhu Haowen: "..."

"Come on, sleep until dawn." Ke Xun put his fingers on his neck, "Good night."

In this calm and warm greeting, Zhu Haowen fell into the darkness of unconsciousness.

Ke Xun placed him next to Mu Yiran, and let him lean against the wall, then stood up by himself, and turned around the room.

He is not sure whether the syncope Dafa can successfully escape the death selection in the D laboratory. If not, no matter how many of the three of them can survive tomorrow, or none of them, he doesn't want to let himself die in vain.

Regarding death, he has grown from being terrified when he first started painting to being calm now. From the beginning, he could only completely rely on Mu Yiran, and now he can fight hand in hand with him, or even stand on his own.

He has long been fearless of life and death, but he also does not want to obey fate.

Even if he dies tonight, he can't do it empty-handed.Maybe Mu Yiran and Zhu Haowen can survive, even if they can't, there is still Weidong.Therefore, he cannot die in vain.

Ke Xun stood in the middle of the room, looking down in thought.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I hurried to the desk, took out a large roll of scotch tape from the drawer, found a ruler pen and a plastic folder, cut it with scissors, and wrapped it with tape Department, made a simple and rough mobile phone holder.

Finally, Mu Yiran and Zhu Haowen took out their mobile phones from their pockets. Ke Xun had already asked for their screen unlock passwords beforehand. First, he turned on Zhu Haowen's screen, called up the camera, and turned on the lighting function. , try to look around.

The lighting was too dim, and he could only see a range of one or two meters in front of him. Ke Xun turned on all the flashlights and shone on the desk and experimental equipment.

Looking at it this way, the light is barely suitable, and the visible range is slightly larger.Ke Xun fixed the mobile phone holder in a place where the desk and experimental equipment could be photographed.