Paintings of Terror

The thick darkness is like thick smoke drawn by a range hood, rolling away in clusters.

When the twilight of dawn fell into the central hall, the people who survived the long and terrifying darkness looked at each other silently.

"Yu Long..." Fang Fei looked at the empty place beside her, and after a moment of stunned tears rolled down her eyes.

"Xuege is gone." Ke Xun went out, picked up the bamboo slip that Xuege left on the deck, and showed it to everyone.

For a while, everyone couldn't care less about celebrating their own survival and lamenting the dead, and all gathered together to look at the bamboo slips.

There was only one character written on the bamboo slips, the handwriting was very scribbled, and it seemed that the writing was still a few strokes away. It took everyone a long time to recognize it before they recognized that it was a "chicken" character.

"...What do you mean?" Wei Dong looked at Mu Yiran and Shao Ling in confusion.

The two think tanks didn't understand for a while, and each fell into deep thought.

"It was agreed in advance that she leave the most important reminder," Zhu Haowen said, "then this 'chicken' must be the most important."

"So, after lighting the rhino horn last night, what Xuege saw was a chicken?" Wei Dong looked absurd, "This is too out of place, will a chicken appear in the vast sea? Where did the chicken come from?" Come? From the sea?"

"Or, something that starts with the character chicken," Qin Ci pondered, "she didn't even have time to complete the character chicken, maybe the real thing is a phrase, let me use an analogy, for example, cockscomb flower, Or a feather duster, which is a completely different thing from a chicken."

"No, if that's the case, I'll just write 'flower' or 'Shan'," Zhu Haowen said while scratching the words on his leg with his finger, "this way we can write the key points in the limited time."

"It also depends on the situation," Qin Ci said, "In a tense or critical situation, people's first reaction is to follow the usual habits, and there is no time to analyze how to write in order to get to the point in the shortest time. .”

Zhu Haowen pondered for a while, then nodded: "You are right, so it seems that what Xuege saw last night, most likely, is something that starts with the word 'chicken'."

"So is there a chicken in the sea? Cockscombs and feather dusters are also impossible," Weidong said, "or is it a fish that starts with the word chicken? I don't understand this at all. Who of you knows about fish?" ?”

While talking, Fang Fei, who had been dazed by the side, stood up and was about to go out.

Ke Xun stood up and stopped her. He felt that the girl's expression was not right: "Where are you going?"

"Go to the sea," Fang Fei's face was still tear-stained, but her expression had calmed down, and there was a sense of determination in the strange calm, "Go find Yu Long's body."

Ke Xun didn't stop him any more, and only ordered: "Tie a rope around your waist."

Although she knows she will get nothing in the end, it's good to let her vent a bit.

"What was your phantom last night?" Wei Dong looked at Fang Fei's back, a little bit embarrassed.

"I don't want to mention it." Ke Xun said, with a little anger in his eyes.

Wei Dong knew him better than anyone else, thinking that the phantom appointment last night made him very upset.

He lowered his voice and said in a very low voice: "Thanks to the method of warning objects proposed by Mr. Mu, otherwise I would have been really tricked last night - there were a lot of illusions that bewitched me to leave the place at the beginning, and I survived , Later, I felt that time passed for a long time, the illusion gradually disappeared, and after a while, I heard Ke Er say, "It's almost dawn, it's all right", and there were footsteps moving in the darkness, Hao Wener also said He said 'I'm going to the toilet'.

"Actually, I was also holding back my urine. At first I wanted to go out to solve the problem, but I thought it was not completely dawn, so I had to wait. Then I heard everyone talking, but Yu Long and Fang Fei didn't say a word. There was a quarrel when he said to deal with it. Yu Long might have become angry and beat his girlfriend...

"The young couple kept quarreling, I didn't doubt it, and everything was so realistic, Fang Fei was beaten and fell directly to my feet, I subconsciously helped her, and then 'Ke Er' got angry , I know that what Ke Er despises the most is the person who hits a woman, and then 'he' started fighting with Yu Long.

"Yu Long was beating and scolding, the scolding was too harsh, I really couldn't bear the anger - the whole process was too realistic, it could trigger my anger points and reverse scales too much, I couldn't hold it back and wanted to stand up get started.

"Fortunately, I have a pen in my hand - if I really want to shoot, I have to throw the pen down first, right? I was about to throw it when I was in a fever, and suddenly I remembered something that happened when I was in school.

"That's a gang of hooligans near the school. They came to our school to make trouble. The target was a mutual friend of Ke Er and me. Ke Er was about to run to help, and I was about to follow, but was suppressed by Ke Er. When I got off, Ke Er said to me at the time: The other party is a gangster in the society, and the hands are not light or heavy, just hard, don't do it, your hand is for holding the paintbrush, and you will use it in the future Earn money to support your family.

"Thinking of this, I couldn't let go of this pen. Holding the pen, I gradually calmed down, and then I realized that these are probably illusions—it's not yet dawn, even if it's not an illusion, even if it's not an illusion. It's reality, and I also decided to wait until I saw the sky before relaxing.

"Facts have proved that the illusion is really fucking cunning. Fortunately, I took this money, otherwise I would have confessed to it last night, and it made me suffocate and piss!"

After speaking, Wei Dong stood up and looked at Ke Xun: "I should be fine if I go to the toilet right now?"

"Bring me one, Brother Dong!" Luo Kuo's voice came muffled from the corner.

Weidong went over to help him untie the rope.

Shao Ling raised his eyes and looked at Mu Yiran: "Illusions are becoming more and more deceitful. Let us use an illusion to confuse us first, making us preconceived that this is the main event. Then, a more deceptive illusion was presented."

"Did you be awakened from a faint by an illusion?" Mu Yiran asked him calmly.

Shao Ling lowered his eyes and said "En".

Apparently his choice of syncope didn't work.

"I don't think the phantoms every night are created and superimposed by the five senses." Mu Yiran threw out another faint sentence.

Shao Ling raised his eyes and stared at him, this man once again denied his previous inference.

"Last night's phantom did not create a plot specifically for the senses of smell and taste, let alone vision," Mu Yiran didn't mind Shao Ling staring at him full of scrutiny, "but what's worth noting is that after the night before After all of us have experienced visions that disgust us, last night it seemed that what we all experienced was a vision that made us emotionally out of control, or more precisely, a vision that angered us. Of course, this needs to be asked. It can only be determined after everyone has passed."

"Mine is like this," said Ke Xun, who sat next to him, "The illusion fabricated a plot that made me most unable to control my anger."

"It's the same with mine." Zhu Haowen continued.

"Me too." Qin Ci nodded.

"So, what's your inference?" Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran, "The first night was trust, the second night was disgust, and the third night was anger?"

"No," Mu Yiran said clearly, slowly and calmly, "The third night is anger, the second night is evil, and the first night is love."

Shao Ling was startled, and was about to argue, but Mu Yiran didn't give him a chance, and continued: "Love, evil, anger, if you look at it this way, the power behind the scenes is not creating illusions based on our five senses, but It is based on people's emotions - people have seven emotions and six desires, the so-called seven emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, desire. If the expectations are correct, in the next four nights, there will be joy, sorrow, and fear. , Desire these four emotions to create illusions.

"People are sentient animals. As long as they are normal and healthy human beings, they will have emotions. As long as they have emotions, they will have mental weaknesses. As long as they have mental weaknesses, they may be affected by illusions, and their thoughts and behaviors will be influenced by emotions.

"Phantom uses the seven emotions that human beings have in order to find the most vulnerable point in our spirit. People who are still alive do not mean they are spiritually strong. It may just be because they have not been touched. point.

"Perhaps we should carefully examine ourselves, what are our spiritual weaknesses, and what things make us 'happy' uncontrollably and 'sorrowful'... Only by admitting and facing our own weaknesses can we be able to resist It attacks."

After the voice fell behind, everyone fell silent, and lowered their eyes to explore the weakest place in their hearts.

But Mu Yiran's eyes fell on the bamboo slip with the word "chicken" written on it, and he fell into deep thought again.

"Then do you think that anyone who ignites the rhino horn is doomed?" Shao Ling asked him.

"I'm not sure," Mu Yiran looked at the place where Xuege was last night, "To put it bluntly, for a person like Xuege who has a short lifespan, any emotion may disturb her to a certain extent, but it can make her She couldn't bear it and lost control, I'm afraid it's unlikely, of course, nothing is absolute, maybe her...'disappearance' was caused by emotional interference, maybe she encountered some force majeure, or maybe it was because she had given up completely Without the belief in survival, I settled myself here smoothly.”

"So what about tonight," Shao Ling looked at him, and at the other people around him, "Who will light the rhino horn?"

"I come."

The voice that answered was so calm that it didn't seem like he was facing life and death. It came from Fang Fei who came in from the door.

"Girl, the deceased is gone, there is no need to underestimate your own life because of this." Qin gave the doctor a parental heart, and looked at the red-eyed young girl with pity, but never showed any fragility.

"Don't get me wrong," Fang Fei looked calm, "I'm not because of Yu Long, I just can't bear to wait for death like this, it's not my character, I'm not afraid of death, otherwise I wouldn't choose the high-risk diver I just can't bear the feeling of being played with, death is a part of nature, and my lifelong desire is to challenge death and nature."

This brave and unyielding girl made the men present respectful, and Luo He couldn't help but suggest: "Isn't there a knife in the kitchen, why don't you bring one tonight, Miss Sister, and give it a knife when you see that chicken try?"

"If this is the case, Fang Fei might not be able to be in the same room as us," Shao Ling said, but he remained rational and calm. "Otherwise, I'm afraid we will be stabbed under the influence of the illusion, and maybe even if we are not here In the same room, because the illusion can allow us to break through the limitation of space, the person at the bow can accidentally injure the person at the stern.”