Paintings of Terror

13 kg.

13000 grams.

No one knows what kind of weight, what kind of volume, or even what kind of form the so-called scarlet beast exists.

Chu Zhiyong didn't want to say anything more about this, changed into casual clothes and left the unit.

"Let's go back to each unit to see the working environment and residence first, and then gather for dinner?" Qin Ci's suggestion was agreed by everyone, and then unanimously set the "dinner" location at a cafeteria next to the police station.

So, Qin Ci took his newly recruited "apprentices" Zhichun, Su Benxin and Yu Ji to the central hospital.

Zhao Yanbao took Chi Lei and Zhu Haowen to report to the Cocoon Detective Agency.

The remaining police officers: Ke Xun and Mu Yiran from the Criminal Investigation Division, Lion and Xiao Qinxian from the Forensic Medicine Division, and Wei Dong from the Household Registration Division.

At this moment, the five people looked at the "homeless" Luo Wei in a daze.

"You were left behind? Why didn't you say anything just now?" Wei Dong even thought about using his position in the household registration department to find a temporary job for his partner.

Luo Wei took out his certificate, and saw a few words written in the work column: freelancer.

Different from the round red stamp of everyone's 'Core Police Station in the Central District of Xincheng', Luo Wei's work card has a striking long square stamp on it, and the red letter on it reads: outside the Xincheng area.

"What does this mean? Why didn't you ask just now?" Wei Dong was a little anxious.

Luo Wei still maintained his usual calm: "I asked, but no one seemed to hear it at the time."

Ke Xun also found it strange that when the old policeman assigned work just now, he counted the number of people with his fingers. He clearly counted thirteen, but he still left Luo Wei behind.

Mu Yiran pondered: "It seems that in this game, Luo Wei is a special character."

What is so special, no one can speculate at the moment, and Luo Wei himself can't say well, but what he said later made everyone feel a little heavy: "Chu Zhiyong didn't tell us whether the so-called scarlet beast is inside or outside the city."

"Since our work is all arranged in the city, the scarlet beast is naturally within our scope of work." Ke Xun looked at his companion, "Even if the beast ran outside the city, wouldn't there be you outside the city?" Is it a freelancer?"

Xiao Qinxian stood aside with her slender arms in her arms: "If this is really an infinite stream game, then the prey is likely to be hidden among us, and has hidden characteristics different from everyone else."

This seems to imply something.

"Suspicion is a big taboo in teamwork." Mu Yiran didn't look at Xiao Qinxian, but his serious tone made the other party silent, "Everyone go to the dormitory first."

There are three rooms in the dormitory, which are divided according to departments, and each room has two single beds.

"Brother, you don't mind three sharing a room, right?" Wei Dong asked Lion, planning to move a bed to make a three-person room.

Lion said with a slight crooked accent: "Duke, oh, I once slept on the ice field with a group of snow-horned deer. In comparison, the environment in the shelter is simply heaven."

Xiao Qinxian secretly twitched the corners of her mouth, just now she was still complaining that these rooms were too simple and smelled of smoke.

Therefore, Mu Yiran and Ke Xun, the two members of the criminal investigation department, lived in one room, Xiao Qinxian lived in one room by himself, and the other three men lived in one room.

Ke Xun looked at the police uniform hanging on the wall of the dormitory. At some point, a work bronze medal had been pinned on it, with his name and a series of codes written on it. Ke Xun put on the uniform and tried it on, and the size was just right.

It's a pity that there is no full-length mirror in the room. Ke Xun buttoned up the button and looked at himself: "This is the first time I wear a police uniform, and it can be regarded as fulfilling a dream I had when I was a child..."

Seeing that Mu Yiran didn't make a sound, Ke Xun turned around and saw that Mu Yiran was looking at him for a moment.

"Put it on and show me." Ke Xun couldn't help but put another uniform on the wall on Mu Yiran's body. Even though he wasn't fully dressed, he immediately added a rare heroic spirit, which made people's hearts jump .

Mu Yiran's hand forcefully stopped Ke Xun from continuing to put on his clothes, and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "We'll have business in a while."

"Self-restraint" has always been one of the qualities that Mu Yiran attracts Ke Xun. Now that the other party is wearing a police uniform, and his eyes clearly have desire, but he speaks the forbidden words in an unquestionable tone, his charm value is almost bursting out of the universe.

Ke Xun touched his waist, wanting to pull out a gun to further "intimidate" the other party, but unexpectedly he actually took out a pistol. The cold and hard touch made people wake up for a moment.

Mu Yiran also took out his own gun and looked carefully: "The gun is fully loaded."

"Are you more excited with a gun?" Ke Xun touched the gun, softening the slightly tense atmosphere.

There was a knock on the door, and then Wei Dong pushed the door open and walked in, covering his eyes while going in: "What are the two bad policemen doing, I didn't see anything."

Ke Xun stood up: "We have guns, raise your hands."

Wei Dong looked through Kuan's fingers: "I'm so unfair, why do you have guns and I only have a ballpoint pen! The oil is almost used up."

It was only then that Ke Xun discovered that Wei Dong was also wearing a police uniform: "You have the temperament of Xiao Zhang."

"Which Xiao Zhang?" Wei Dong was thinking about whether it was Zhang Dongjian or Zhang Yixing, when he heard the other party say: "That's the one just now, the policewoman from the household registration department, her surname is Zhang."

Well, I managed to put on a police uniform and actually wore the temperament of a female policewoman from the Household Registration Division. This is no one else.

Lion also stood at the door and interjected, "Oh, we have an extra white coat and an extra pair of domestic latex powder-free gloves than the girls."

Wei Dong nodded: "You guys earned it."

After some preparations, everyone changed back to their previous casual clothes, and a group of six came to the cafeteria opposite the police station.

"After careful analysis, many things here are not standardized," Luo Wei expressed his thoughts, "For example, in this police station, the institutional settings inside are very chaotic. It is hard to tell whether it is a police station or a criminal police team. The emblem is not quite right either."

"This is the Heart City, which cannot be measured by normal standards." Ke Xun said.

This is in the painting, and all the unreasonable things are explained.

Luo Wei recalled the wild and unconstrained cartoon setting in the previous painting, but at this moment, the real sense of the city makes people lose their way.

"Oh, I thought I was still in China," Lion looked at the Chinese-style decoration of the restaurant, "Oh, I want to eat snail noodles with soy milk."

"You're quite talkative." Wei Dong patted his international friend on the shoulder.

A few minutes later, the other two groups arrived, and Qin Ci looked at the cash register: "We have no cash, and each of us has only one card in our pocket."

Everyone is the same, so they each take their cards for consumption.

The waiter took Qin Ci's card and swiped it: "Your card has a limit of 40 consumptions, and now there are 39 consumptions left."

39 times, counting from tomorrow morning, if you eat three meals a day, you can eat for a total of 13 days.

"Did you find out? There is no price tag here at all, and it is completely consumed by card." Mori Chi Lei said in a low voice, "That is to say, after 13 days, our consumption quota will be used up, and we will be unable to move a single step."

Mu Yiran waited for a while at the cash register, and then walked towards the dining table when he heard that Luo Wei's spending amount was the same as everyone else's.

It was already past the meal time, and there were very few people eating. Everyone sat down at the largest round table and talked while eating.

Although the current situation is a bit bizarre, these newcomers have not experienced real danger after all, so everyone still has some appetite after being tired.

When Xiao Qinxian heard that the hospital's dormitory is a high-end apartment, and the detective's dormitory is located on the second floor of a garden villa, he felt a little bit sad: "Our place is small and dark, and it has a bad smell."

"We'd better find some clues before dark, even if it's a clue." Qin Ci brought the conversation to the point.

Although it is often the rookies who die on the first night, the old members do not want to speculate on the rules through death cases.

"At present, our professional scope is very concentrated: police stations, hospitals, and detective offices," Luo Wei spoke this time. "Obviously there will be cases here, and they are criminal cases involving criminal investigation and forensic medicine."

Everyone thought it made some sense, only Xiao Qinxian smiled lightly: "These are just speculations, the task we want to accomplish has already been clear, that is to find the scarlet beast," said and turned his gaze to Luo Wei unceremoniously , "I didn't understand why the old policemen were secretive when they spoke to us, until I realized that someone is not a local. With this person present, some things can't be said clearly."

This sentence stunned several people outside the police station. Only Zhao Yanbao said: "I went back and checked the summary. There are only twelve people who have been assigned jobs. What about the other person?"

Xiao Qinxian sneered for a while: "I don't understand why these people have to hide it for him. His certificate shows that he is a foreigner. I really don't know which organization he belongs to. What if there is an outsider present in our conversation today?" Something happened."

Luo Wei was not annoyed, but generously put his ID on the table for others to see.

Zhao Yanbao observed carefully: "Outside the Xincheng area? Freelancers? Does this mean that once the beasts leave the Xincheng, we can also go outside to hunt them down? Luo Wei is exactly this person with a special status."

Xiao Qinxian interrupted Zhao Yanbao: "Do you really think the Scarlet Beast is a physical beast like a tiger or a leopard? I think this is a game similar to Xman, and we need to find out the different species."

Ke Xun and Wei Dong felt uncomfortable after hearing this, and they were about to turn each other back, but Zhu Haowen said slowly: "What is certain at the moment is that the Scarlet Beast weighs 13 kilograms, that is, 26 kilograms, such as this According to the lady, if this beast is really among us, it will not be too heavy, it should be the lightest one."

Xiao Qinxian looked down at her thin body, and was stunned with anger.

Everyone had different expressions for a while, they didn't speak, and concentrated on eating separately.

Mu Yiran, who finally broke the silence, turned his gaze to Su Benxin who was sitting across from him: "Does Boss Su know about the painter Yu Beiguo? The painting "The Scarlet Beast" is not for sale in the art gallery. There should be a reason for that." Yes."

Su Benxin didn't answer right away, his eyes darkened slightly: "This artist has passed away, and "The Scarlet Beast" is his last work."

"Death?"

"Yes, Yu Beiguo committed suicide two months ago."