Paintings of Terror

Dead fish floated on the black water, four snow-white dead fish.

The whole negative exudes a sense of ignorant horror.

"Where are the other negatives? Take them out and have a look." Mu Yiran has already taken the tweezers from Mai Peng's hands, and there is this negative of dead fish in the tweezers.

Under the faint red light, Mai Peng opened the envelope, poured out a few small negatives from inside, and carefully pinched the toothed edges of the negatives with his hands to avoid sticking fingerprints on them.

All the negatives are similar, all of which are black dots of different sizes distributed on top of a white background.

Qin Ci stared at one of the negatives: "The shape of these fish is different from the previous ones, a bit like willow leaves."

"There are those kind of fish that look like willow leaves." Du Lingyu said, frowning and looking at the film, only felt that these fish were very stiff, standing there in a daze. People feel numb.

Qin Ci squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time: "It looks like a fish, but it doesn't look like it. It's too small to see clearly. You have to zoom in."

"Are all the negatives here?" Mu Yiran asked.

Mai Peng held the empty envelope: "Yes, it's all here."

"Then turn on the light again to see more clearly." Mu Yiran said.

All the gauze lamps in the room were lit up, and the crimson eerie atmosphere just now was suddenly replaced by warmth. Luo Yan's tense heart relaxed a little at this moment, and he leaned over to look at the negatives.

"Brother, what do you see?" Luo Wei stretched his neck to look at the negative in Ke Xun's hand.

Ke Xun strictly followed Mai Peng's requirements, and used his index finger and thumb to gently press the zigzag pattern on the top and bottom of the negative, so as to keep the picture as clean as possible: "Look at the carrot, there is only one fish in this photo."

This is also a white negative, on which a large diamond-shaped black fish occupies almost the entire frame, because the image is large, and even the fish's eyes can be clearly seen as a gray dot.

"This fish is not completely floating on the water. It has gray water ripples on its body. I always feel that it is alive." Luo Xie couldn't imagine how this photo was taken. Swimming on the surface of the water, and swimming sideways upwards, it’s strange, doesn’t the fish use gills to breathe? Isn’t its gills exposed on the water? My God, have I also learned to analyze and use biological Knowledge, brother, please praise me."

"It doesn't seem to conform to the principle of fish swimming." Ke Xun also felt that this picture reflected some problems, "I also think there is something mysterious about these fish, but unfortunately these negatives are too small and the colors are reversed. If it can be enlarged alright."

Luo Kuo also looked at Mai Peng next to him: "You can use one can to develop film, can you use another can to develop photos?"

Cao Youning spoke first: "It's not that simple to develop photos. First, you need an enlarger. That's a machine, and it can't be done by hand! Even if we have Maishen, it won't work."

It turned out that Mai Peng had the title of a god among these photographers. At this time, he fell into a state of hard thinking. After a long time, he said: "This world seems to have no electricity. If you want to make an enlarger by hand, you need at least a power amplifier. The light chamber composed of electric lamps also needs a photographic magnifying lens produced by a professional manufacturer. With these two things, I can find a way to assemble the others - using two convex lenses on the front and back, a simple lens group can be formed. As for the bell cavity And the film holder should be fine."

Luo He listened dumbfounded, convinced that he had really met a great master this time, but it is hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and just using electricity can make people stumped: "Our mobile phones have electricity, and your cameras have power. Is there a battery too?"

Mai Peng smiled wryly and shook his head, and sucked his unventilated nose: "It's not as simple as you think, what I need is a real light bulb, even if it's not a special light bulb for milky white amplification, just an ordinary LED light is fine—" In this light brigade, if they have electric lights, why bother to light so many lanterns."

"Those things like imaging are too complicated. Now we just want to enlarge the negative, even if it is in the reverse color state." Zhu Haowen said suddenly, "Can I use a magnifying glass?"

"Do you have a magnifying glass?" Mai Peng asked hastily.

Zhu Haowen: "No."

Mai Peng: "Oh... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I'm sorry."

Zhu Haowen: "..."

Ke Xun said: "The magnifying glass is not a very high-tech thing, maybe you can buy it in the store here. We saw the market downstairs just now, and we can go there to try our luck."

"It just so happens that I also need a magnifying glass here." It was Qin Ci who spoke, "There is a medical book in my package. The words on it are very small, and the light here is relatively dim, so it is very difficult to read."

The word "medical book" seems to bring some hope to everyone - in case one gets sick here, at least there are ready-made doctors around who can treat themselves according to the medical book.

Lu Heng said: "I don't know if the medical skills in this world are the same as outside. My grandfather opened a Chinese medicine clinic. I also learned some simple Chinese medicine knowledge when I was young."

"No wonder your signature is included in this medical book." Qin Ci said.

"Borrowing books and signing?" Lu Heng was a little sensitive when he heard the word "signature" at first - isn't everyone looking for a signature if they want to produce a painting?

Speaking of this, Qin Ci is also a little unbelievable: "This is my habit of using books. My books often have a big bookmark on the title page. I will ask everyone who borrows this book to sign the bookmark. This can be regarded as a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder. ——I didn’t expect this to be captured by the painting.”

Weidong: Brother Qin, your childhood nickname must have been something like librarian, right?Sorry, it's crooked.

Lu Heng continued to ask Qin Ci: "You mean, the bookmark of your medical book has my borrowing record on it?"

"Yes, I have your borrowing signature, but it's a pity that there is no date." Qin Ci is also a little regretful about this. If there is a date, he can understand the age of this world.

Mu Yiran heard the conversation between the two, and seemed to think of something, with a slightly heavy expression.

Ke Xun and Luo He had already reached the door at this time: "Let's find a way to find a magnifying glass, we can't all just wait here."

Soon several members joined the team looking for the magnifying glass, the door of the room opened and closed, and the room became quiet again.

Mu Yiran put the negatives back into the envelope with his own hands, and then put the envelope back into the black developing tank. At the same time, he looked at the developer powder and other things in the developing tank, and finally his eyes stayed on the inside of these things. The owner - Xi Shengnan's body.

"I don't mean to offend, after all, everyone's package will have some personal marks on it," Mu Yiran looked at Xi Shengnan and said, "Did you take similar photos in your previous life? Or Ever see these things in the photo?"

Xi Shengnan was taking care of a wooden jewelry box at this time, and there seemed to be some things like hairpins and bracelets in it. She closed the box without looking carefully: "I have never seen such a strange fish, and I have never photographed it before. Similar photos, those things, like this jewelry box, were foreign to me."

Mu Yiran lowered his eyes, and when he opened them again, a dim candlelight flickered in his eyes: "At present, we haven't found a clear clue, but the problems have come one after another, we might as well brainstorm now, and everyone put their ideas together. It doesn’t matter if you say it out loud, even if it’s outrageous.”

Mai Peng rubbed his completely blocked nose, the severe cold caused him some pain: "My biggest question right now is - obviously everyone was healthy and healthy before entering the painting, why did I suddenly catch a severe cold, this is not in line with common sense .”

Mu Yiran heard the words, nodded, and wrote it down in a notebook: "This is really not in line with common sense."

"I also have a question," Du Lingyu raised his hand, "This is actually a small matter, but I find it very strange why the smell of perfume on my body has completely disappeared. The 'Thief Rose' The flavor is very persistent and impossible to disappear without a trace."

"Okay, let's continue talking." Mu Yiran took a pen and wrote it down again.

"My question is," Zhu Haowen was still standing next to a gauze lantern, and he also spoke at this time, "why does this painting know so much about each of us? The memories and habits of the world have arranged props for us, even if this painting takes the route of role-playing, it is impossible to find out the preferences of each player."

player?Shao Ling unconsciously looked at Zhu Haowen, and suddenly understood why this person was able to survive the nine paintings all the way. This person seemed to regard all the painting worlds as simple game clearance.

Shao Ling said: "This is also the biggest puzzle in my heart. Because I can't grasp the center of the world, I feel very confused, but this painting 'knows' each of us so much, which makes people feel scary."

Mu Yiran never changed his face, lowered his head and recorded everything with a pen.

Xi Shengnan has already packed his package, and now the developer tank has been confiscated and placed in the public cabinet.

Xi Shengnan seemed to have lost the spirit before, and said in a low voice at this time: "This painting is indeed terrifying. It not only captures our hearts, but also restores the characters in my works to this world, but This world itself is completely different from the world of my novels, I am very confused and pessimistic, always feel that I will be the most unlucky one.”

Du Lingyu said comfortingly: "Sister Xi, don't think about it, maybe it's just a matter of time. Xiayu may be the first character we discovered in the work, and maybe we will find other things later."

Xi Shengnan smiled wryly, and felt that Lu Heng beside him patted his shoulder, as if trying to give him strength.

When it was Qin Ci's turn to speak, he just shook his head: "I'm already in a mess, this world is beyond my imagination. I think the scariest thing is that we will continue to play the role of the caravan, and many things cannot be explained , and didn’t dare to ask NPC too much, so we could only guess with our fists. For example, we can’t take out these weird fish on the film and ask others. The more important clues, the less we dare to ask, for fear of being caught After seeing through our identity as outsiders, we were backlashed."

After listening to Qin Ci's words, several newcomers found it more and more difficult.

"Xiao Mu, what did you think of?" Qin Ci asked.

After finishing recording, Mu Yiran stopped writing: "The thing that bothers me the most is the time record. There is no borrowing date in your borrowing list, and the business travel records I have in my hand do not have a clear date. The team came to the fluorite brigade. I can only roughly calculate from the seasonality of the goods exchanged. We probably delayed in the fluorite brigade for half a year; It represents seven days, or it may represent something other than time."

Qin Ci frowned: "It's written on my library list: Lu Heng borrowed books from the Lantern Brigade, and Lu Heng returned the books to the Lantern Brigade. There is no description of the date at all."

Mai Peng seemed to remember something, and sniffed at his nose, which was red from a cold: "When we first came here, I touched some carved vertical lines on the wall of the corridor, and they happened to be seven."