Paintings of Terror

"We did discuss whether we need to take the initiative to ignite the rhino horn," Shao Ling answered Ke Xun's question, "but out of caution, we finally decided that unless we realized that we had to ignite the rhino horn, we would just wait and see what happened.

"It's just that we have made arrangements in advance who will light the rhino horn. The candidate is determined by lottery. Li Yi won the lottery and is the first-ranked rhino burner. If something happens to him, there are The person in the second order took over, and the second was Yu Long.

"I think the reason why Li Yi lit the rhino horn last night was probably because the endless darkness made him fearful, or, because it was too dark to see things, he thought that lighting the rhino horn could solve this problem.

"As for where the ignited rhinoceros horn is, Mr. Mu and I have searched nearby. Not only did we not find the wreckage, but there is no burnt ashes. It is speculated that the rhinoceros horn fell into the sea with Li Yi. .”

"So this burning rhinoceros is useless at all, isn't it?" Yu Long said loudly suddenly, "You will still die after lighting it up, and it's a monster! It's just for attracting monsters, whoever lights it up will attract monsters, Whoever provokes the blame will die!"

"If whoever ignites the rhino horns will die, then there is no need to create illusions for each of us and lure us into the sea." Zhu Haowen said expressionlessly.

"Then what is the purpose of this rhino horn?" Liu Yanlei asked while staring at him.

"Maybe it's for illuminating monsters," Ke Xun squinted at him with half-lidded eyes, "Maybe only Li Yi who ignited the rhino horn can see the real body of the 'monster' that created an illusion for us."

"So whoever ignites the rhino horn will die, right?!" Yu Long snapped.

Ke Xun raised his eyebrows: "Then why can't whoever ignites the rhino horn can use the opportunity of seeing the monster's body to kill the monster instead?"

Yu Long choked for a moment, and wanted to open his mouth to refute, but was stopped by his girlfriend Fang Fei who put her hand on her shoulder.

"Brother, you are mighty and domineering." Luo Wei gave Ke Xunbi a thumbs up tremblingly.

"I think what Mr. Ke said has some truth." Shao Ling was always sensible, "The person who ignites the rhino horn is likely to be able to see the monster's body, and Wen Qiao in Niuzhu's burning rhinoceros can also see what others can't see through burning the rhinoceros." The monsters in the water.

"But it doesn't mean that whoever burns the rhinoceros will die. Maybe Li Yi can see the monster's body, but he is still bewitched by the illusion and loses his life.

"The issue of the burning rhinoceros, we will talk about it later. Now please tell me about your experiences last night, maybe we can summarize more characteristics and clues of the phantom."

The faces of the newcomers who followed Shao Ling last night were all different, each of them lowered their eyelids and said nothing, but Luo Kuo, who was sitting next to Ke Xun, raised his trembling hand: "Then I said... the illusion last night The voice pretending to be my female ticket lied to me, 'she' said that she was hit by a car when she was crossing the road, and she came here to find me out of her body for some reason.

"I didn't believe it at the beginning. I said this is in the painting, how could you come in? How do you know I'm here? She said she didn't want to part with me, maybe because this obsession is too deep, so the soul came here by itself.

"I firmly believed that it must be those ghosts trying to lie to me, but I couldn't stand 'she' speaking too realistically, she was so tongue-in-cheek, so I slowly hesitated to say it. .

"But I'm not stupid, am I? I asked a lot of things that only the two of us knew, but I didn't expect her to get all the answers right. I... I really wrote the letter.

"She was crying while talking, saying that she was reluctant to part with me, that she didn't want to die, that she loved me very much, but she couldn't help it, she felt that she was going to disappear soon, and she wanted to kiss me again before she left.

"She said she knew I was timid, she didn't dare to come over, and said that if I was not afraid of her, I would go over and kiss her by myself, and she would try to wait for me to take the initiative to go over.

"I, I'm really timid, but I thought this is my girlfriend. I've never seen her before. She was running around and I even passed papers to her in the bathroom. She, she Why did he die... I was in a daze at the time, and all the images flashed in my mind were when we were together.

"As a result, the problem came—

"You know, she and I both love raising small animals. The house we live together has birds, fish, tortoises, hamsters, four or five cats, and seven or eight dogs. She likes to stay at home and take care of them. They, and I often go out for more than ten days or even two or three months because I have something to do. During this period, these animals we raise often die due to injuries, accidents or old age, and every time I call back When I chatted with her and asked how the animals were doing, she never told me that they died.

"Because she knew I couldn't stand it, and I never liked to hear about death, whether it was human or animal, even the sparrow that used to land on the windowsill of my house.

"I may be good-for-nothing, unlikable, and unreliable, but I will be depressed for a long time because of the death of a familiar person or animal.

"My girlfriend knows this, so she never tells me on the phone if a small animal dies in the house, although I will know when I get home.

"She wanted me to feel less sad every day, and she didn't want her voice announcing death to be the only thing that popped into my head whenever I recalled people or animals that were no longer alive.

"—So at that time, I felt a little...a bit against the law. I thought that if she really had a soul, and her soul could really find me with a single obsession, she would only be in the dark at best. Give me one last look, she's not going to pop up and tell me she's dead, she'd rather let me know it later.

"I suddenly remembered that we had talked about those tragic romantic dramas in which the heroine got a terminal illness. My girlfriend said that if she had a terminal illness, she would never tell me, and she would not be like some People pretend like they don't love me anymore or cheat on me and break up with me, so that I won't be so sad.

"She said that she would seize the last time of her life and try her best to be good to me. When she was about to die, she would go to another place to die quietly. Even if I would eventually know that she was dead, although I would still be depressed Sad, but at least when I think back to the last time with her, what remains in my memory is happiness...

"Hey, I won't say these nasty words, I mean, I don't think she will come to inform me of her death, let alone cry so sadly like this, and make me suffer with her, leaving me alone Worried last memory.

"So I hesitated, I didn't dare to go, and then she kept crying, kept saying how much she loved me, and kept wanting me to go over, I knew 'she' must be fake, the more I listened to her voice The more weird I felt, I was so frightened that I lost my soul, and peed on the spot..."

"If you urinate, just pinch it, don't talk about it, isn't it glorious?" Ke Xun looked at him speechlessly, but in his heart he felt that this kid was actually not so... Sand sculpture, when he saw him paralyzed on the ground this morning , Seeing tears on his face, he thought he was crying from fright. Now that he thinks about it, Ke Xun thinks that his tears may be for his girlfriend.

"From this point of view, the illusions have roughly the same way of bewitching us," Shao Ling said, "It seems that they are all using people close to us to deceive our trust and lead us into a death trap. , have you found any important clues, or other characteristics about the phantom?"

Everyone thought about their memories, and after a long while, Mu Yiran said: "The behind-the-scenes power that manipulates illusions can read our memories, and use them to simulate and shape the personalities and behaviors of those we are close to.

"For example, under what circumstances, what tone and method the subject will speak, and the judgment and handling of the problem are also very in line with the human design.

"But the image it simulates is only based on the 'past' memory in our minds, that is to say, it can grasp our past, but it cannot control our 'present continuous'.

"Once we raise a new problem, it can only rely on the 'past' experience to solve and deal with, but people's thoughts are always refreshed and changed with time, which is why we are proposing new After the question is asked, it often reveals its flaws, because the answer in our mind is produced through judgment and analysis after it has answered the question.

"Therefore, we may get a way to deal with this illusion, which is..."

"Ask it the latest question, and find flaws in its answer!" Yu Long's quick answer interrupted Mu Yi's subsequent words.

"I think this method is useless," Liu Yanlei said, "Is that behind-the-scenes force so stupid? This trick was used last night, and if it is used again tonight, everyone will know it is fake , is an illusion, who would believe it!"

As he spoke, he glanced at Mu Yiran contemptuously.

"Then you probably don't know," Ke Xun looked at Liu Yanlei, "in the illusion I experienced last night, it was his voice that was used to confuse me. How can you be sure that the illusion tonight will not use the voice around you?" People come to deceive you? Like your girlfriend, if she calls out to you to save her in the dark, do you believe it or not? Save her or not?”

"The illusion separates us, if Xinai's voice sounds in the darkness, it must be fake!" Liu Yanlei retorted.

"Brother Qin told you about the experience of all the paintings we entered." Ke Xun looked directly into Liu Yanlei's eyes, "Don't you know that the death conditions in the paintings are not necessarily static? The death conditions in some paintings are It will continue to escalate, can you guarantee that you will be quarantined alone tonight?"

Liu Yanlei was repeatedly refuted by Ke Xun, and his imposing manner involuntarily shrunk a little. After realizing it, he became a little annoyed and sneered, "As far as I know, all drowned people can swim, and experience is not a panacea. Those who are defeated by the scheming are those who have done bad things and have a bad conduct, I don't think the experience you, a perverted homosexual, can help us!"

After saying this, the room suddenly fell into an awkward silence.