Paintings of Terror

Luo Kuo said as he moved his buttocks and rubbed against Ke Xun: "Brother, you can tie me up tonight, the kind that makes me unable to untie the rope and jump into the sea, then I will be considered awake. Bewitched by the illusion, you can't move, how about it?"

"Hey, I think it's a good idea," Wei Dong heard and came over, "Why don't you tie me up too?"

Ke Xun looked at the two of them: "Think about it, we can't be sure if the illusion will destroy your rope, after all, it can destroy the cabin and leave us in a void. In the parallel space of , is it not trivial to lose the rope?"

"Based on the experience of the previous two nights, only our personal will and behavior can't be controlled by the illusion," Mu Yiran continued next to him, "so there's really no guarantee that the rope will work."

Luo Kuo and Wei Dong looked at each other, and Luo Kuo had an idea: "Hey, why don't I use the rope as a warning object? If I wake up from a faint and see the rope on my body, it will be fine." How about reminding yourself that everything is an illusion, if there is no rope, it will prove that I am in an illusion?"

"I think it's okay," Wei Dong said, "you just add an idea to yourself, and focus all your attention on the rope. If there is a rope, you only think about the rope. If there is no rope, you keep telling yourself these things." They are all illusions, so it is easy to concentrate and not be affected by illusions."

"Okay, let's do this, I'll go find the rope!" Luo Kuo hurriedly got up and ran away.

"What about you? Rope too?" Ke Xun looked at Weidong.

Wei Dong hesitated for a moment: "I don't really like the feeling of being tied up, the illusion is enough to torture people, and if I tie myself up again, wouldn't it make the pain even higher?"

"It's best to find something that has the most sense of presence and familiarity for you." Mu Yiran said beside him.

Wei Dong was lost in thought.

"Mobile phone?" Ke Xun prompted.

Weidong thought for a while: "I don't like the mobile phone I'm using now at all, so I don't have any feelings for it. I feel that even if it is lost by the illusion, I won't miss it. Let's change it."

Ke Xun: "..."

Wei Dong looked around, and his eyes fell on the brush that Shao Ling used to write just now: "——That's it! I am most familiar with brushes. I have been painting since I was a child. Although I have been drawing on a computer now, I have nothing to do when I have nothing to do. Sometimes I also draw illustrations with a brush! Just a pen!"

"Then I'll just use my phone." Ke Xun took out his phone, and showed Mu Yiran the case, "The embossed pattern carved by the laser can be felt with your fingers, so I'll use it as a Be a warning."

Mu Yiran looked at the pattern on the phone case, and there were two cursive English words: Corgi and Mooney.

Could not help but smile.

Ke Xun blinked, leaned closer and asked him, "What about you, what do you use as a warning?"

"Maybe I need to borrow something from you." Mu Yiran looked down at him.

"Huh?" Ke Xun continued to blink, "After thinking about it, I think the only thing I can produce for you from myself is..."

"Ahh! I'm deaf and I can't hear anything!" Weidong crawled out of the room covering his eyes.

"..." Mu Yiran withdrew his gaze, raised his hand to caress Ke Xun's shoulder, "Hair has grown."

When he withdrew his hand, there was an extra piece of Ke Xun's hair between his fingers.

"At that time, I will tie it on my finger and make a restrictive ring." After Mu Yiran finished speaking, Ke Xun's lips were greeted.

The only Shao Ling who was still stuck in the room thinking: "..." Maybe this is also an illusion...

Before dinner, everyone had already determined their warning objects, and Xuege also chose a brush, after all, she was a more professional painter than Weidong.

Yu Long and Fang Fei are couple rings on their respective hands. Although the platinum and diamond rings have degenerated into copper and gemstone rings, at least their appearance has not changed much.

Qin Ci, Zhu Haowen and Shao Ling all chose their mobile phones.

Chen Xinai is still in a dissociative state. Although she is able to start thinking, she doesn't seem to have figured out what to use as her own warning object. Everyone also expressed that there is nothing they can do about it. After all, she is the only one who can help her because of her psychological problems. Own.

When night fell, everyone gathered in the atrium on the first floor, sitting on the ground in a circle, silently waiting for the imminent death sentence.

The taste of waiting for death in the dark, who knows who suffers.

It may be that this time is too difficult, Yu Long's voice sounded in the darkness: "What will happen if we don't light the rhino horns at twelve o'clock?"

Shao Ling's voice sounded: "I think there should still be illusions, but we can't see the clues with the light of the rhinoceros horn."

"Then what if we ignite all the rhino horns in one go?" Luo Xie asked.

"Then we may only have this chance to see clues tonight," Shao Ling said.

Everyone fell into silence again until the time approached midnight.

"Please." Shao Ling's voice turned towards Mu Yi.

Shao Ling, Yu Long, Fang Fei, and Luo Yu chose the method of manually fainting and adding warning objects to fight against the phantom. Chen Xinai didn't have any requirements, so naturally she couldn't forcefully stun her. The old members and Xuege who was in charge of lighting the rhino horn, Choose or just stay sober.

The darkness couldn't affect the accuracy of Mu Yiran's shots. He pinched several people unconscious one by one, and Ke Xun and Weidong were responsible for tying Luo Xun up with a rope.

"Guys," Ke Xun said in the dark to several of his old partners who had suffered through life and death, "Hold on."

"Okay." Several deep and shallow voices came together in one place.

When a darkness thicker than night silently invaded the room, Ke Xun only had time to shout to Xuege standing outside the door: "Don't be afraid."

Shige is not afraid.

For a person who is doomed to not have many days to live, life and death are already a matter of life.

She made up her mind and let herself show a calm smile in the darkness.

Picking up the rhino horn and flint in his hand, Xuege lit it without much hesitation. A ball of yellowish light illuminated the rhino horn almost transparently, and through the transparent horn, Xuege saw what was hidden in the darkness, that thing.

……

"Hey, wake up, don't sleep."

In a daze, Yu Long heard a voice beside him, which seemed to be from the kid named Ke Xun.

Yu Long rubbed his face and sat up, surrounded by darkness, he couldn't help asking: "What time is it?"

"Before dawn, it will be dawn soon." Fang Fei answered the words calmly beside her.

"...Are you okay?" Yu Long calmed down, his consciousness cleared up a bit, and there was a hint of joy in his tone, "Are you okay?" He asked Fang Fei hurriedly.

"Isn't this still alive and talking to you?" Fang Fei was still indifferent.

Yu Long didn't bother with her, stretched out his arms and hugged her tightly, and kissed her hair: "Okay, why are you still angry? It's already this time."

"Because it's this time," Fang Fei's voice became even colder, "I don't know where I am in your heart until this time, Yu Long, if we all die here this time, I won't say anything Now, if we can go out, we will definitely break up."

"Stop arguing, you two," Wei Dong couldn't help persuading, "It's hard to live another day, cherish the people in front of you."

"It has nothing to do with you, please shut up." Fang Fei said coldly.

There was silence in the room, the voices that were talking in twos and threes just now stopped all of a sudden, it seemed that everyone was listening to this side.

Yu Long frowned, feeling a bit offended, this situation was really embarrassing, Fang Fei couldn't help but be angry, regardless of the occasion, "Are you finished?" Yu Long's tone began to be bad, "Bite a bite Let’s not let this matter go, right?! Yes, the person in my phantom on the first night was indeed not you, so what does that prove? If there is a ghost in my heart, I’m really sorry for you. Why should I tell you the truth? If you ask me, I will tell you the truth. Don’t I know that lying to you can save me a lot of trouble? I tell you the truth to prove that I have a clear conscience. What’s the matter? You have to lie to you to be happy Bar?"

"Yu Long!" Fang Fei's voice seemed to be trembling with anger, "Don't take shamelessness as a clear conscience! When I went to other provinces to participate in amateur diving competitions last month, you told me who you were with!"

"...I'm fucking staying in the team for training! Why are you so crazy!" Yu Long roared.

"It's reasonable to speak loudly, Yu Long, I don't understand you? Your behavior now proves that you have a guilty conscience," Fang Fei sneered, "Don't think that women are fools, Yu Long, if I don't say it, it doesn't mean that I'm treated like a monkey by you Huh, you were with Liu Lili every day in those few days, you know what you did!"

"What the hell are you talking about! If it wasn't because Liu Lili is your best friend, I wouldn't be able to talk to her at all. I don't care who she is! Can you stop talking nonsense based on your fucking imagination?!" Yu Long became angry, ignoring Rebuke other people's impolite spectating behavior.

"Based on imagination? Yu Long, you men probably think that women have negative IQs when they are in a relationship," Fang Fei's voice calmed down, with sarcasm in the cold, "I don't know that your arrogance has completely betrayed your self-righteous IQ.

"Liu Lili posts photos in her Moments every day. She always likes to take photos of her meals, so an ironic thing happened. In the photos she posted of meals in the past few days, she put a glass vase on the table as a decoration. There is a reflection, and I saw your ears in the reflection.

"I don't think there will be another person with the same scar on the earlobe as you? That glass vase was a birthday present from me, and it has been placed on the table in her restaurant, so neither you nor she Maybe it was a casual meal somewhere after a chance encounter elsewhere.

"Yu Long, I haven't mentioned this matter to you. First, because Liu Lili's grandma just passed away. I wouldn't be immoral to break up with her at this time. Second, I think I should give you a chance to explain. , if you really have a clear conscience, with your temperament, you will definitely take the initiative to tell me about the meal you and Liu Lili had together.

"But you didn't. Yu Long, I've been waiting for you for so many days, but you didn't mention anything.

"After entering the painting, I thought that we might die here. It's meaningless to worry about the past. It's better to keep each other in mind. So after the first night, I asked you who was in the illusion, as long as You say it's me, no matter it's true or not, I'm willing to believe it.

"What's funny is that your arrogance makes you take 'tell the truth' as ​​a clear conscience—since the person you love and trust the most is not me, why should I still think about something to give each other good thoughts before they die!

"To tell you the truth, I printed out that photo of Liu Lili, and I also specially enlarged a close-up of your ear in the reflection of the vase, and attached an enlarged version of your own headshot and a statement condemning you for stepping on two boats." The big-character posters have been posted in the most conspicuous places in your community, and I believe that a person with such a good face as your father will be proud of having such a charming son as you after seeing these things."

"You—Fang! Fei! You're crazy! My dad has a bad heart—you're trying to kill my dad—" Yu Long went mad, jumped up, and rushed towards Fang Fei in the dark.