Paintings of Terror

Everyone was stunned for a moment, Wei Dong looked at Mu Yiran hesitantly: "The unknown means..."

"It means that the original work has no seal or name." Mu Yiran said.

Everyone was stunned again.

"There is no seal or name, so what are we looking for when we enter the painting?" Wei Dong was a little flustered, looking at Mu Yiran, then at Ke Xun, and finally at Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen.

"So, has the difficulty level of 'painting' increased?" Zhu Haowen remained calm.

"The improvement is a bit large," Qin Ci smiled helplessly, "It directly gave us a dead end. If we want to produce a painting, we can only find a seal, but this painting does not have a seal."

"I don't think this is a dead end, but the increase in difficulty is certain," Zhu Haowen said, "Even if there is no seal, it may be like "Humanity" and "Shadow", where the characters in the painting Come and give us a seal."

"Hao Wen'er is right," Ke Xun patted Zhu Haowen's shoulder, "Don't be discouraged at any time. I think it's still a long time before the dark, let's hurry up and get this Search up and down the ship, inside and out. Yiran and I searched the second floor, and the three of you searched the first floor and the deck, all right?"

"No problem, hurry up!" Wei Dong clenched his fists.

Zhu Haowen looked at Ke Xun's hand withdrawn from his shoulder, and said in a low voice: "You...be careful."

"Don't worry." Ke Xun looked at him a few times, "Don't tell me, you look handsome in Hanfu."

After entering the painting, all the clothes on everyone's bodies have become ancient-style costumes, and they are all white robes with wide breasts and narrow sleeves.

Zhu Haowen also looked at him, this man wore a coarse white robe with an uninhibited mountain vibe.

"Let's go." Mu Yiran said calmly not far behind.

He is also dressed in a coarse white robe, but he is as refined as a gentleman when he wears it.

Ke Xun turned his head and strode towards Mu Yiran, Zhu Haowen averted his eyes from the slightly curled hair on the back of his head, turned his head and walked away.

Going up the wooden stairs to the second floor of the cabin, Ke Xun and Mu Yiran pushed open the door to check.

The room in the cabin is very small, and there is only a simple wooden bed in it. The bed is very low, and there are a few toiletries beside it.

There is nothing else, and this is true of all the rooms on the entire second floor.

The two quickly came down from the second floor, seeing that Zhu Haowen and the others had also finished checking the first floor, and they were walking around on the deck at the moment.

"How, did you find anything?" Ke Xun asked.

"There is a kitchen over there." Weidong pointed to a door at the end of the first floor. "The big room in the middle is a living room. The other rooms only have beds. I didn't see anyone else, and there was nothing suspicious."

In fact, there was nothing suspicious on the deck, it was flat.

"There should be a substructure under the deck, let's look for the entrance." Mu Yiran said.

"Over here!" Qin Ci waved at the stern, pointing to a large piece of cover on the deck that was lifted, revealing a staircase leading to the bottom under the cover.

Everyone walked down the stairs, and the cabin below was dark. Everyone took out their mobile phones from their pockets to light up, but they saw that there was also a room below the deck, which was piled with food, clothes, medicines, farming tools and some daily necessities. Commonly used items, but no one else.

"There are a lot of things here, and it may take a few days to find them one by one," Qin Ci looked at everyone, "Shall we start now?"

"Let's start, hurry up and take all the time," Ke Xun looked around, "First look for something like lamp oil, light it up, and save the battery power of the mobile phone."

He was about to rummage in the room full of daily necessities, but Mu Yiran held him back: "Let's divide the work. Ke Xun, you and Wei Dong are looking for lighting. Doctor Qin and Haowen, start by stacking books and volumes. I started looking for clues in the room of the book. I went to the upper deck to monitor the movement of the ship, and brought the person who entered the painting here by the way.”

When everyone heard the words, there was no longer any delay, and they immediately split up and acted.

Ke Xun and Weidong rummaged through the room full of daily necessities for a long time, and finally found seven or eight bronze lampstands. However, they searched all the boxes and corners, but could not find candles or lamp oil. I had no choice but to take the lampstand and go to the room where Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen were.

There are more than a dozen boxes piled up in this room, and the boxes are full of bamboo slips, wood chips and silk, and all of them are written in Xiaozhuan script.

"I don't understand." Qin Ci shook his head and put down a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, "These boxes are full of these things, but there are no paper books. I suspect that the era of this ship is at least before the Han Dynasty."

"It's Qin Dai." Mu Yiran's voice sounded at the door, and he saw four or five people following him, judging from the bewildered expressions on their faces, they were all newcomers to the painting.

"On the big flag hanging on the mast, the word 'Qin' written in small seal script." Mu Yiran walked into the room, picked up a roll of bamboo slips and glanced at them, "The characters at that time were mostly recorded on bamboo slips and wood chips On silk, even this painting "The Picture of Burning Rhinoceros at Sea" is also painted on silk."

"That is to say, this "Sea Burning Rhinoceros Picture" was probably painted in the Qin Dynasty?" Zhu Haowen said.

"Not necessarily." The person who spoke was actually one of the newcomers following behind Mu Yiran. He was not short, almost on the same level as Mu Yiran, with black hair combed back meticulously, cold eyebrows, and complexion. He was pale, with an unexpectedly calm expression on his face.

"Paintings on silk with color and color existed in almost all dynasties after the Qin Dynasty," the person continued indifferently. "In fact, the paintings of the Qin Dynasty are even rarer in the world. The contents of the paintings are those of the Qin Dynasty. However, it is not necessarily true that the era in which the author of the painting lived was the Qin Dynasty.

"Before I entered the painting, I took a brief look at the painting. Although it was a fake, it tried to restore the original quality and even the damaged details as faithfully as possible.

"According to the degree of damage and the clarity of the picture quality, the painting should have been produced between the Qin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty."

After saying this, seeing that everyone in the room was looking at him, the man nodded slightly and said calmly: "My name is Shao, Shao Ling."

"From the Qin Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, the scope is a little wider." Wei Dong scratched his head.

"Moreover, if this painting is about Qin Shi, all the text carriers on the ship can only reflect Qin Shi's events. If the artist of the painting is not from the Qin Dynasty, we may not be able to find information about his name from these words. clues." Qin Ci said.

"If it's not troublesome," Shao Ling looked at the old members calmly, "Can you tell me in detail about your experiences in the previous paintings?"

"Brother Qin, I will leave this task to you." Ke Xun said.

Among them, only Qin Ci had such patience.

Qin Ci simply changed tasks with Mu Yiran, took a few newcomers to the deck, and told the experience and rules in the painting while waiting for the remaining few newcomers.

Mu Yiran stayed in the room below. Seeing that Ke Xun and Wei Dong were still using their mobile phones to light up, he asked Ke Xun, "Didn't you find the light?"

"The lamp was found, but no candle or lamp oil." Ke Xun handed the lamp stand to Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, and said: "Yanzu lamp, a lamp popular in the Qin and Han Dynasties, is usually used by the court, and is an ornament to decorate the palace hall. The three candlesticks in the lamp panel are used to insert candles. , but the candles in the pre-Qin period are different from the candles we use now. They use a kind of flammable reed grass or twigs such as pine and bamboo with high oil content, bundled into small torches, wrapped with cloth strips outside, and then Made by pouring animal fat."

"Then I'll look for it again." Ke Xun said and walked out, and Mu Yiran went out with him.

However, Ke Xun still failed to find the so-called "candle" even with the big boss Mu sweeping around.

"Isn't this too strange?" Ke Xun turned off the light of his phone to save power, and stood in front of Mu Yiran in the dark, "There are clothes, medicine, food, and books on this boat. They are sailing at sea, but they don’t have anything for lighting, so we can’t just live like a blind man groping for an elephant at night, right?”

Mu Yi in the darkness didn't make a sound. Ke Xun knew that he was deep in thought, so he didn't bother him. He just stood quietly in front of him. a reminder."

"Oh? What did it remind you of?" Ke Xun asked.

"The name of this painting is "The Burning Rhinoceros at Sea"," Mu Yiran's clear voice was more textured in the darkness, "There is no 'candle' that can be used to light the burning in this painting, but the name of the painting is It is called 'Burning Rhinoceros', I think, 'painting' is to remind us that the focus of this painting is 'Burning Rhinoceros'."

"That's right, if we take out the things that can burn in the painting, of course we will doubt why this painting is called 'Burning Rhinoceros' when there are no burning things." Ke Xun easily found Mu Yiran's painting in the dark Hand, held it and shook it, as if praising her boyfriend.

The boyfriend's slender fingers moved slightly, and they clasped with him, but the words in his mouth were still calm and steady: "The burning rhinoceros can be used for lighting, but there is also a weird allusion about this word."

"Tell me." Ke Xun couldn't help but put his arms around his waist and put his chin on his shoulder.

Falling in love doesn't affect doing business.

Mu Yiran's voice rang softly beside his ears: "It is said that there was a man named Wen Qiao who traveled to a place called Niuzhuji and heard the sound of music coming from underwater. He lowered his head to observe, but See the unfathomable depths of the water.

"He once heard rumors that there were many ghosts in the water, so he lit a rhinoceros horn for lighting and looked under the water.

"Not long after, I saw many grotesque ghosts flocking to them, and there were even people in red clothes riding in a carriage, trying to extinguish the flame ignited by the rhinoceros horn.

"That night, Wen Qiao dreamed that a person scolded him very angrily and viciously, saying that Yin and Yang are different, and they don't interfere with each other in the first place, so why should they use rhinoceros to illuminate each other.

"The next day, Wen Qiao had a stroke due to toothache and tooth extraction, and died less than ten days later."

"...Damn it," Ke Xun tightened his arms, "So is this the case with 'Sea Flaming Rhinoceros'..."

Mu Yiran raised his hand and patted him on the back: "It is said that if you light a rhinoceros horn, you can illuminate another world. Some people use this method to communicate with 'humans' or 'spirits' in the world on the other side, while others use it to This method avoids disasters, or even achieves different purposes. And what is the purpose of burning the rhinoceros in this "Sea Burning Rhinoceros Picture", maybe it is the key for us to find the seal and leave the painting."