Paintings of Terror

Ke Xun squatted next to the dead pheasant. Opposite him were Zhu Haowen, Shao Ling and Qin Ci. The three of them also squatted here to observe the pheasant carefully.

Ke Xun pushed the pheasant's body with his hands, and Zhu Haowen, Shao Ling and Qin Ci on the "over there" saw the sudden shaking of the body at first glance, Qiqi jumped up in shock, and stepped back to stare at it warily.

--efficient!

Seeing the hope, Ke Xun was full of energy immediately. He picked up the pheasant's body, broke the pheasant's legs with both hands, and put it on the deck in a big split position.

Mu Yiran: "..."

Zhu Haowen: "..."

Qin Ci: "..."

Shao Ling: "..."

Luo Kuo looked away: "..."

"...It seems that an invisible force is playing with it." Shao Ling hesitated.

"...Could it be those invisible things in the sea?" Qin Ci guessed uncertainly.

"Is there such a thing as those things?" Zhu Haowen pointed his chin at the split-legged horse with a standard dead pheasant posture.

Qin Ci and him looked at each other, and saw the light of disbelief and hope in each other's eyes.

The three of them stared at the dead pheasant, not knowing how to react for a moment.

Ke Xun didn't want to waste time, dipped his fingers in the blood from the pheasant's head, and wrote on the deck.

However, the color of the deck was darker. He wrote a few words and found that the three of them hadn't noticed, so he stopped, thought for a while, and pulled out the long tail feathers of the pheasant, placing them behind his ears. took one.

Zhu Haowen looked at the height of the two feathers and the distance between them, and suddenly asked, "Ke Xun, is that you?"

Ke Xun nodded quickly, and the two feathers swayed back and forth with his head.

"It's really you, Xiao Ke?!" Qin Ci, who has always been calm, was also very happy, "Where's Xiao Mu?"

Ke Xun plucked a feather from behind his ear, and pointed the pointed feather root to where Mu Yiran was standing.

"What happened?" Shao Ling asked, "Can you talk?"

Ke Xun shook his head.

"So, what about writing? Shall I get bamboo slips and brushes?" Shao Ling said.

Ke Xun shook his head, pointed at the dead pheasant on the ground with a feather, then pinched the feather, dipped it in the pheasant's blood, and scratched it on the deck a few times.

Zhu Haowen aimed the phone's light at the deck, saw that there seemed to be some blood marks on it, and said, "I can't see clearly, just wait a moment."

As he spoke, he tore off most of the hem of the white robe he was wearing and spread it on the deck: "Write here."

Ke Xun dipped his feathers in blood, and when the bloody feather tip fell on the white robe, the white robe no longer turned into water waves, so he wrote: "Burning Rhinoceros."

"Do you want us to light the rhino horns?" Zhu Haowen asked.

Ke Xun drew a "√" on the cloth.

Shao Ling immediately turned around and went to the central hall to get the rhino horns, while Qin Ci went to wake up the fainted Wei Dong. Luo Kuo came over step by step, stared at the void and asked, "Brother, are you invisible?"

"..." Ke Xun wrote on the cloth: (-_-).

Zhu Haowen: "..."

Luo Wei: "When are you still playing with emoticons? Brother Dong is crying to death. What's wrong with you and my brother-in-law? Why can't I see you? Are you all right? Have you found the seal? You, you won't be here from now on. Will he become an invisible person in the future?"

"This guy talks a lot." Ke Xun was depressed, and wrote on the cloth: shatup!

Luo Xie: "Brother, you spelled 'shut' wrong."

Ke Xun: "..."

Zhu Haowen: "..."

Shao Ling brought all the rhino horns to the deck, and Wei Dong also followed Qin Ci back with swollen eyes. Shao Ling asked Ke Xun, "Use the mobile phone to light it, or should we light it ourselves?"

"Mobile phone." Ke Xun wrote, "First order one and test it."

Everyone understands what he means, that is to order one to do a test first. As for what to try, it is still unclear.

Shao Ling was about to take out his mobile phone, but Zhu Haowen took a step forward, almost impatiently using his own mobile phone to ignite the rhino horn.

The bright light illuminated a small area around them, and everyone who stood cautiously outside the light looked at the position where the two feathers were floating, and saw two slender and tall feathers slowly appearing at the intersection of light and shadow. The figure is exactly Ke Xun and Mu Yiran.

"Ke'er!" Wei Dong roared, rushing to embrace his lost brother.

Ke Xun hugged him tightly, and then pushed him away: "Your snot is rubbing my face! Hurry up and talk about the business first—wait." Then he strode over and touched Shao Ling with his hand first. There was no rhinoceros horn in my arms, and I found that I could finally touch people and objects. To confirm it again, I went to get the bamboo slips thrown on the ground, "Okay, I'm back!"

"What's going on, is it related to killing the pheasant?" Shao Ling asked Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran quickly and briefly explained the whole story to several people, and then said: "Hurry up, try to find the seal before dawn."

Everyone is well aware of the meaning of this remark-no one will die tonight, and if the seal is not found before dawn, there will be a vote.

Shao Ling asked Mu Yiran and Ke Xun: "So, you two didn't see the illusion just now?"

Mu Yiran said: "I speculate that only those who are illuminated by the rhino horn are not affected by the illusion and can see the pheasant."

Shao Ling said: "Then Li Yi who died on the first night, Xue Ge who died on the third night, and Fang Fei who died on the fourth night, actually didn't see the illusion, so why did they die?"

"Could it be that the pheasant attacked them?" Qin Ci guessed.

"I don't think this ghost thing can kill people with one blow." Ke Xun glanced at the corpse of the pheasant on the deck. "If it can kill people by attacking, why use illusions? Even if it is an illusion, it can kill people." We can only lure us into the sea by temptation, but we cannot take the initiative to rely on entities to forcibly change our behavior trajectory."

Mu Yiran continued his words: "Li Yi, Xuege and Fang Fei, when they lit the rhino horn, should be the same as me and Ke Xun. They didn't see the illusion, but they saw the pheasant, and Fang Fei could shoot the pheasant. An example of this is the tail feathers.

"Since we presume that pheasants cannot physically attack people, then I think there are probably two reasons for the deaths of these three people. The first one is that these three people, like me and Ke Xun, were isolated in another space , unable to return to the world we now live in, and somehow lost his life at dawn.

"The second one still has to refer to the story of Niuzhu burning the rhinoceros. In the story, Wen Qiao ignited the rhinoceros horn, which caused the monsters in the sea to jump out of the sea and extinguish the fire of the rhinoceros horn. The mirage came from the sea, landed on the boat and turned into a pheasant. Should we It can be speculated that although the three people were not affected by the phantom when they first lit the rhino horns, they were extinguished by the pheasant. Although the pheasant cannot attack us, there is a story about burning the rhinoceros as a reference, which proves that it can extinguish the rhino fire ——Then after it puts out the rhinoceros, it can re-impose illusions on these three people, so it is very likely that these three people still died of illusions."

After hearing Mu Yiran's analysis, everyone nodded in unison.

"So, what do you think caused you and Mr. Ke to be isolated in another dimension?" Shao Ling asked, "After the pheasant was killed by you, you are still in another dimension, so this matter should not be done by the pheasant." Yes, then who, or what, made it?"

"—Could it be that there are other ghosts in the sea besides pheasants?" Wei Dong trembled, and Luo Kuo trembled next to him.

"Before I killed the pheasant, I did hear many other strange noises in the sea," Ke Xun said.

"That means... we have to kill everything in the sea to find any clues?" Wei Dong and Luo Wei looked desperate.

Mu Yiran lowered his eyes in thought, and looked up at everyone after a while: "Actually, after the darkness of each night falls, all of us are actually in another dimension, aren't we?"

Everyone's eyes paused together, as if they had grasped some key point, but they couldn't figure it out for a moment.

Fortunately, they have Mu Yiran.

"To be more precise, each of us is in a different space," Mu Yiran continued in a deep and clear voice, "There is not only one different space, but several different different spaces. These different spaces isolate us separately, and then cooperate with the illusions it creates to trap and kill us. Then the question comes, if the different spaces are created by pheasants, why does the different space that separates me and Ke Xun still remain after killing it? Existence? If the different space was not created by the pheasant, why can it use the different space to isolate us at will?"

"Is there any other ghost thing in the sea to cooperate with it at any time?" Wei Dong guessed.

"Or, the space it created will not disappear due to its death, but can still exist?" Zhu Haowen said.

Mu Yiran just looked at him: "We have deduced before that the phantom we experience every night is transformed by mirage. Since mirage is the gas condensed by thousand-year-old spirits, it is not so easy to disperse, so we can continue to disperse." For a while, I think that's the right thing to do."

"So you mean, whether it is the space that we were isolated when we experienced the illusion, or the space that was isolated after you and Ke Xun killed the pheasant, they were all created by the pheasant?" Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran, "But There is one thing that needs to be reminded Mr. Mu that when we experience hallucinations, we cannot see, hear and feel each other in the isolated space, but according to the situation you and Mr. Ke just described, you can see and hear How do we explain the space we are in?"

Mu Yiran was about to speak when he suddenly heard Ke Xun say: "Shao Ling, are you doubting me and Yiran?"

Everyone fell silent when they heard the words, and they all looked at Shao Ling and Ke Xun.

Shao Ling's expression remained unchanged, and he looked at Ke Xun calmly: "Yes, I'm really sorry to say that, but given the nature of the death rules in this painting, it's hard for me not to suspect that you two are the embodiment of the upgraded illusion. , after all, it’s not yet dawn, and the night is not over yet, isn’t it?”

Ke Xun was speechless and laughed: "You know, you are clever but you were mistaken by your cleverness."

Shao Ling was unmoved, still calm and indifferent: "I am not smarter than others, I am just more cautious."

"It's very interesting." Ke Xun looked into his eyes with a half-smile, "It may be difficult for you to give you such a cautious person, so I'm curious how you can have a completely trustworthy person who can put you in the right place." Mr. Shao, forgive me for guessing: After the first night, the vision you described to us was probably fabricated by you, right? In fact, you don’t have such a friend at all. , the reason why you make up such a person is just to make yourself very loyal, so as to gain the trust of us people—especially those new people who have just entered the painting and have no backbone. Let me make another guess ——Actually, you are a person with a strong desire to control, right? You don’t like being controlled by others, and obviously we old members can’t obey you, so you need to control new people and let them obey your orders. Of course, you can’t just because of this It is said that you are a bad person, and people with a strong desire to control are everywhere in life, but I advise you, it is right to be cautious, but if you are too cautious, you will become suspicious. Not only do you have no friends, but you can easily make mistakes, really .”

Shao Ling didn't speak again this time, his tightly pursed mouth showed that his mood at the moment was not as calm as the expression on his face showed.

Wei Dong quietly asked Ke Xun: "How do you know that his experience on the first night was made up?"

Ke Xun snorted lightly: "You forgot, the phantom every night is based on the theme of human's seven emotions, and the theme of the first night is 'love' in the seven emotions, but we didn't guess this at the time, so He made up a story with a friend, and after a few nights, he suddenly guessed that the illusion was about the Seven Emotions. At that time, he couldn't change his words. Fortunately, no one paid any attention to it—— Whose 'love' would be with my friend? He's not gay!"

Wei Dong looked at him: "After hanging out with the boss for a long time, your combat effectiveness in terms of IQ has also improved rapidly, awesome!"

Ke Xun glanced at Shao Ling: "Doubt me, that's fine. Doubt my boss who worked so hard to help everyone find a way out——no."