Paintings of Terror

After being tortured for a whole night, none of the painters who were physically and mentally exhausted had the heart to eat breakfast to fill their stomachs.

Because everyone was exchanging each other's most disgusting things all morning.

For example, the gnat with countless legs, the fat and juicy soft-bodied multi-legged meat worm, the nightmare toad of the intensive phobia, and so on.

Later, everyone decided not to talk about the details, but only roughly talked about the process, and the process was basically after being attacked by the most disgusting thing in the dark, and heard everyone's screams and footsteps rushing out of the room.

"Then I want to ask." Shao Ling looked at the crowd, "Who yelled last night?"

Wei Dong and Luo Yu slowly raised their hands with frustration on their faces.

Shao Ling looked at the three girls in a little surprise. Chen Xinai had been in a daze and hadn't heard Shao Ling's question just now. Fang Fei said, "Don't be surprised. We practice diving all the year round and are used to encountering No matter how panicked you are, you can’t open your mouth, otherwise you will choke on water.”

Yu Long nodded beside him.

Xuege, whose hallucination is a pot-bellied moth, said: "The reason why I hate moths is because I watched a disaster horror movie when I was a child, in which moths flew into human mouths to cocoon and lay eggs, which caused an indelible impression on me." Psychological shadow, so once I meet a moth in reality, my first reaction is to shut my mouth tightly."

"Then, what did you two shout about?" Shao Ling's eyes fell on Wei Dong and Luo Yu again.

Wei Dong hesitated and thought for a while: "Just...'ah, ah, shit, ah, ah, ah, ah', that's it."

Everyone: "..."

Luo Kuo also thought about it: "I can't remember, I was scared to pee at the time, but usually I like to shout 'No, don't, ah, ah, I'm going to die, I'm going to die, ah' these things."

Everyone: "..."

Wei Dong: "Seek the film sources and seeds."

"But in the illusion last night, what I heard was almost everyone's shouts, and I believe you are the same," Shao Ling said, "So, has anyone really tried to run out of the room?"

Everyone looked at each other, and Luo Kuo said, "I was so scared that my legs went limp, and I was paralyzed on the floor all the time."

Wei Dong: "Although I wanted to run after hearing the sound of everyone running out, but I thought again, even if Ke Er and the others really ran away, they would never leave me behind, and Ke Er would definitely call The last call told me to run, but I didn't hear him call me, so I felt that no matter whether others ran or not, Ke Er must have not run, so I just held on and didn't run."

Zhu Haowen: "I didn't run away."

Qin Ci: "I didn't run away."

Xuege: "Compared to the moth falling on me, I am more afraid of the touch of stepping on the big belly of the moth, so I dare not run, and I have been frozen in place without moving."

Yu Long: "I heard that toads can only see moving things, so I didn't dare to move for fear that it would stick to my feet..."

Fang Fei: "I was also afraid of the feeling of stepping on a big meat worm, so I didn't dare to run."

Chen Xinai continued to lose her mind and ignored everyone.

Ke Xun: "No matter how disgusting it is, it's just an illusion, so I definitely won't run away."

Mu Yiran: "So we can be sure that whether it is the yelling of each other that we hear in our ears, or the sound of everyone running desperately out of the room, they are all illusions, and they are used to mislead us to make wrong choices. After the darkness fell into the room, we should have been isolated by the illusion just like the night before, and entered some kind of parallel space respectively."

Shao Ling wrote on the bamboo slips: "Fourth, phantoms can simulate touch and realistic human voices and scenes, and use psychological hints and spiritual effects to tempt people to fall into the sea."

The first three are:

[-]. Being isolated and entering a parallel space.

Second, hallucinations, are their acquaintances.

[-]. Deceiving with acquaintances, tempting people to fall into the sea, and having the ability to read memories.

After finishing writing and putting down his pen, Shao Ling pondered for a while before looking at the bamboo slips, and then raised his eyes to look at the crowd: "Based on the experience of these two nights, I have a guess.

"On the first night, the illusion produced the voices of people we were familiar with, and although the illusion tried to lure us into the sea, no matter how we refused to be fooled, it did not force us by touch.

"On the second night, the phantom also tricked us into falling into the sea by ourselves, and also produced a sound as an auxiliary means. However, on the basis of the sound, the phantom also created a sense of touch, becoming the first Two auxiliary means.

"So, my guess is that illusions are created based on people's five senses, and they are superimposed every night.

"The first night was a single auditory hallucination, and the second night was a superposition of auditory hallucinations and tactile hallucinations.

"If there is no problem with my speculation, then in the next few nights, there will likely continue to be illusions superimposed by the senses of smell, vision, and taste, and we can also prepare in advance to deal with possible illusion scams. I don't know if you have any additions or different opinions?"

His eyes fell on Mu Yiran, but he was just hanging his eyes in thought, and was about to wait for him to speak, when he heard Yu Long say: "No, you are right, that's what happened. Now that we have seen through the tricks of the illusion, let's Just think of ways to deal with it quickly, earplugs, life jackets and tying yourself up with rope, none of these methods work."

After everyone came up from the lower deck, they had already searched on the sea surface, but they did not find Liu Yanlei's body, nor did the lower deck.

Looking at the drowsy people who hadn't closed their eyes for almost two days and two nights, Shao Ling said: "Let's rest for a few hours first. A bad spirit will lead to an unstable mental state, and it is easier to be controlled by illusions."

Everyone had no objection, and dragged their tired and tired bodies to find a room to rest.

Ke Xun closed the door, hugged Mu Yiran and fell on the mat, rubbed his furry head in his arms, and yawned: "Spiritual and psychological attacks are more difficult to deal with than physical and intuitive attacks. "Pure Land" Li didn't sleep much after staying up for several days, and this painting couldn't last two nights."

Mu Yiran put his hand over the back of his head and rubbed it: "Go to sleep, I don't think there is any need to search this ship anymore. There is nothing to do during the day, and the key to breaking the situation can only be at night."

Ke Xun put his arms around his waist, put one leg on his lap, and patted him gently with his hand: "You sleep too, of course, let go of all the problems first, recover your energy before talking about other things, otherwise I will feel bad ,Ok?"

"Okay." Mu Yiran slightly hooked the corners of his lips, stretched out his arms and held his dog's dog's head in his arms, and stroked it for a while until he heard the dog's breathing gradually stabilized. He stopped, looked at his face for a while with downcast eyes, and then closed his eyes.

The warm and soft touch on his lips made Mu Yiran wake up from his light sleep, but he didn't open his eyes right away, and stretched out his hand to cover the back of his head, which was close to me, and pressed the person towards him, deepened a kiss, and then separated .

"I've made lunch, get up and eat something." Ke Xun still had a glass of water in his hand, and handed it to him.

Mu Yiran took it and drank a few sips, then went out with Ke Xun with the cup.

The others also looked like they had just woken up. They regained their energy after lunch, and sat around in the middle hall to discuss the plan for tonight.

"First of all, I don't think we need to hide under the deck anymore. Last night's experience proved that no matter where we are, illusions will affect us the same." Shao Ling continued to act as the "host" of the entire team role," followed by the issue of burning rhinoceros.

"Because the rhino horn was ignited by mobile phone last night, it is temporarily impossible to prove whether whoever ignites the rhino horn will die, but what is certain is that there is no difference in the choice of death, so we need to find a way tonight tonight. Rhinoceros, seeing the so-called behind-the-scenes power-it is very likely that only the person who ignites the horn can see it.

"So this time we no longer use the method of burning the rhinoceros with a mobile phone, but someone must personally ignite the rhinoceros horn. This is an unavoidable problem. We must decide who will burn the rhinoceros. This is probably the result of finding the seal and leaving the painting. The only way is to decide now."

After saying this, Yu Long frowned and said, "How do we decide? Draw lots or vote? Why? Why should my life and death be decided by others? I don't want to go to the burning rhinoceros. Absolute autonomy, I don't accept any coercion and moral kidnapping, Fang Fei and I have already checked the bottom of the boat, before going into the sea, no one knows whether we will die in the sea, under this premise, we are equivalent to risking our lives , we have done our best, and now I will tell you clearly, neither Fang Fei nor I will set the rhino horns on fire!"

"Yes." Shao Ling agreed with him very happily, and looked at the others, "I just said, first, the death selection rules in the painting are not based on the act of lighting rhino horns, so No point of rhino horn, there is a possibility of death;

"Second, according to several old members, the time limit given to us in the painting is only seven days, even if some of us are lucky enough to survive the first six days, we will die if we can't find the seal;

"Third, if you don't touch the rhino horn, you will definitely not have clues, and you will definitely die; if you touch the rhino horn, you will definitely have clues, and half of them will die.

"So, let's vote with a show of hands whether we should find someone to light the rhino horn. Do you have any objections?"

"No objection, I agree to light the rhino horn." Ke Xun was the first to express his opinion.

Afterwards, everyone followed suit, and except for Yu Long and Chen Xinai who did not speak, everyone unanimously agreed to ignite the rhino horns.

"Since everyone agrees to light the rhino horns, I suggest drawing lots to select the person in charge of lighting the rhino horns. You shouldn't object, right?" Shao Ling looked at the crowd.

"The two of us will not participate." Yu Long reiterated.

"Don't worry about it," Xuege said suddenly, with a slight smile on his face, "I volunteered to order rhino horns."

"I'll go get some," Ke Xun said, "There's no reason for a girl to take such a risk."

Xuege smiled: "Can you look down on women as a homosexual? Before life and death, everyone is equal."

Ke Xun: "The hat you pressed over is too big. Since you said that everyone is equal, let's draw lots and let no one give in, okay?"

Xuege thought for a while: "Okay, let's smoke, but I have a request, let me smoke first."

Everyone nodded in agreement, and Xuege personally found a roll of blank bamboo slips and took out nine pieces of bamboo inside, and asked Yu Long, who was not involved in the lottery, to mark one of them, and then put the marked end on the bamboo slips. Put it into the cup and let everyone smoke in turn.

Xuege was the first to draw, carefully looked at the protruding end of the stick for a while, and then chose one of them.

Ke Xun took the second draw, and carefully looked at the remaining sticks for a long time. He seemed to be hesitant, and finally had to draw one at random.

The rest of the people also drew in turn, and everyone showed their lots together.

But it was Xuege who won the lottery.

Ke Xun scratched his head: "My intuition seems to be a little out of order today."

Xuege smiled: "Comparing intuition with the ability of real swords and guns, of course not. The reason why I can pick the lottery is that in your eyes, the few bamboo slices that may be so similar in color are indistinguishable in my eyes. The color difference--I remember the color of the marked stick. Don't forget I'm a painter, and a pretty good one at that."

"...Okay, great painter, then you order." Ke Xun knew that he couldn't persuade a person who had made up his mind to die, so he didn't pretend to be with her anymore, "Anyway, people will be found by illusions wherever they are, so you click Rhino horn, we will help you out by the side."

"No need," Xuege smiled, "If the person caught by the rhino horn's light will die, you will be implicated if you get too close to me. You should stay in the atrium and I will go to the deck."

"Just in case—please forgive me for being rude," Shao Ling said to Xuege, "You'd better have a bamboo slip and a pen in your hand. If you see something, I hope you can record it as much as possible, even if it is very brief, even if There are only a few key words, and then... please don’t put the bamboo slips on your body.”

The meaning of saying this is to prevent Xuege from becoming the one chosen by death, and taking the bamboo slips with him when he falls into the sea, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted.

Although the words are a bit ruthless, they are also the most sensible and useful arrangements.

Xuege agreed, looked at the people who looked at her with different expressions, and raised the corners of her lips slightly: "My life is not long, if I can save a few lives before I die, I will be considered a worthy death .Actually, there’s nothing wrong with movies about personal heroism. Isn’t it cool to be your own hero in your own world?”