Paintings of Terror

The eggs of the earth are accumulated in the soil, and there is also light and light in them. In the beginning, the light of the sky gave birth to water, and white fish were born in the water.

——This is the opening chapter of the "Witchcraft", and the following is about some specific methods of practicing witchcraft. Fang Fei is currently reading it attentively, hoping to understand it as soon as possible.

Before the film in the developing tank was developed, Mu Yiran and the others took stock of the contents of the package and saw Shao Ling's Xun: "What's the difference between this Xun and the one you used before?"

Shao Ling has also seen this xun many times: "I haven't played the xun for many years. When I was young, I used a pottery xun, which was a nine-hole xun. This xun is a stone xun, an ancient xun, and there is no sound hole, and only one blow hole."

Wei Dong couldn't understand: "Fortunately, you understand. If I want to change it, I wouldn't even know it's a musical instrument. I thought it was a small jar with a strange shape. How can this xun play so loudly without holes?"

Shao Ling picked up the Xun and looked at the blow hole: "I'm afraid this kind of Xun can't blow the rhythm. The ancients first used it to imitate the singing of birds or animals to catch prey. Both Hemudu and Yangshao cultural sites This kind of ancient xun with only one blow hole has been unearthed, which should be the most primitive form of xun, at least six to seven thousand years ago."

"Six 7000 years, I haven't had time to read "Up and Down 5000 Years." Luo Xie sighed beside him, but Xinchun seemed to be very interested in this stone xun, and kept jumping up and down to reach it.

"I think this xun is shaped like an egg. I don't know whether this thing has information value or practical value." Zhu Haowen said.

Qin Ci quickly understood Zhu Haowen's meaning: "It's just that we still don't understand what the 'earth egg' mentioned in that book is. Could this xun be a hint to the earth egg?"

This sentence caught Shao Ling's attention, and he carefully studied the stone xun in his hand: "Actually, the standard shape of a xun is an oval with a flat bottom. This one's flat bottom is not too protruding, so it is closer to the shape of an egg. If it is really a hint, there are indeed traces to follow. For example, there are many Tang Dynasty-style buildings and food in our world, but this xun must not be Tang style, because the xun has developed to five holes since the Shang Dynasty. It became a formal musical instrument, and it developed into five or six holes in the Tang Dynasty, and it will never be what it is now."

Wei Dong also used his brains: "Why is this so laborious? If you really want to remind us of 'Earth Egg', then just use an egg or an egg-shaped stone to represent it. Why do you make a Xun out?" ?”

Shao Ling: "There is a possibility that the shape of the ground egg itself is like this xun, with a hole at the top."

Zhu Haowen: "There is another possibility, leaving an egg directly may be blocked by the painting."

"Shielding?" Wei Dong asked.

Zhu Haowen: "Yes, although the things in our packages are not brought into the painting with us, they have a strong connection with ourselves, such as this xun, which appeared in the package of Shao Ling who can blow the xun. And it didn't appear elsewhere. If this is something left by another timeline, I think that a large part of the items that give us hints have been blocked, and only the 'correct items' are left, that is Something connected with the owner himself."

"If this is the case, these things are likely to be information reminders sent by another 'us' to us today?" Qin Ci speculated that although he was still at a loss, he felt that he was getting closer to the truth.

"If you want to say this, then there are some things in my painting collection," Wei Dong picked up his "Wei's Painting Collection", "Look at this page, it's a bunch of Easter eggs, right? Do you Don't you think this one is particularly strange?"

The picture on this page is indeed like a pile of easter eggs, each egg is painted with various beautiful patterns, only one in the corner is bigger than the other eggs, but there is no pattern, only a thick The waistline surrounds the middle of the egg.

Luo Kuo looked at it for a long time: "I don't think so, this line is the pattern of this egg."

"No, I understand my drawing habits." Weidong shook his head resolutely, "It is impossible for me to draw such an egg in a pile of colored eggs, and the line in the middle of the egg is drawn very heavily by me. Mo, I think this is a hint."

Weidong said and flipped through other pages: "Also, I found that there are many blank pages in the pages I have drawn. This is really not my habit, and it is definitely not caused by carelessness. If I If you guessed right, there were originally pictures on these blank pages, but due to the problem of information leakage, the pictures were naturally blocked!"

Natural shielding, everyone has regarded the painting's ulterior motives as a natural phenomenon.

Everyone flipped through the picture book and gradually agreed with Wei Dong's statement. Qin Ci said: "So, the shape of this egg is the key point to solve the problem. There is a hole on Shao Ling's xun, and there is a waistline on the egg drawn by Dong Zi. It is very likely that these are two characteristics that the 'Earth Egg' possesses at the same time."

Everyone had no objection to Qin Ci's conclusion, and at this moment they all turned their attention to Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran has already opened the developing tank and took out the two sections of film: "Let's read these negatives before analyzing."

Wei Dong and Luo Yan quickly entered the state of "projector projectionist", first processed a piece of film and put it into the projector: "Is this... the film in Mai Peng's camera?"

"Yes, I think the first photo we took when we came to this world is the key." Mu Yiran said, "The photos of other places and other time periods taken last night, because no people were photographed, so there is no What's the point?"

As the lights in the room were turned off one by one, the light curtain on the wall gradually became clearer. At this time, it showed a landscape map of the wild. The contrast between black and white colors is strong, and the whole picture is very layered. If the photos are printed, Should be a great photoshoot.

"It's no wonder that Mai Peng is called the God of Mai." Wei Dong looked at the frames of negatives flashing on the light curtain, "These photographic pictures are really magical."

As these landscape paintings and street figure paintings slowly flashed, the final picture was frozen in the world that everyone is familiar with—a very wide angle of view, not only taking pictures of the stairs, but also the whole corridor.

Indeed, as Mai Peng said when taking the photo, there was a person walking up the stairs. This person was wearing a loose robe, and his entire face was snow-white.

"My god, why is this person so terrifying?" Luo Kuo's hands trembled in fright.

"It seems to be Mr. Wu." Wei Dong looked at the face of the person on the light curtain. The snow-white mask was very similar to Fang Fei's mask. "According to the effect of reverse color, this Mr. Wu is wearing a pure black mask."

Fang Fei also stood aside and stared at the light curtain on the wall: "If my judgment is correct, this should be the witch from the Cold Night Brigade."

This is the first time a camera has captured a witch, making the photo eerie.

"Look at the corridor, there is another person." Zhu Haowen pointed to the other side of the photo, "This person is squatting there, and he is relatively small, so he is easily overlooked."

Soon everyone found the person squatting by the wall of the corridor. This person was squatting facing the wall with his right hand raised, as if he was drawing something on the wall.

"This should be a woman," Fang Fei said. "She looks a bit like...but the pattern of the clothes is wrong. None of our members wear this kind of robes with large color patches."

Even if Fang Fei didn't say anything, other people felt the same way. The woman squatting there looked a bit like Du Lingyu in terms of hairstyle and figure.

"Don't you think that the pattern on this man's robe is somewhat similar to that of Xiayu's?" Wei Dong raised this point.

It is indeed like, and very much like.

If this person is really Du Lingyu, why is her body covered in blood?What was she squatting by the wall and writing?

"If the judgment is correct, she should have drawn lines on the wall, and all or part of the seven lines on the wall were made by her hand." Shao Ling said.

"But, how did you capture so many things? How did Maishen do it?" Luo He couldn't help asking. In his opinion, if a person stood at the shooting position and looked in that direction, it would be impossible to take pictures all at once. So much to see down the stairs and down the hallways.

"I probably used a wide-angle lens, which can make the picture wider and the viewing angle is wider." Shao Ling replied, "My new mobile phone includes a wide-angle lens. It must be incomparable with the lens of a professional camera, but I still go online. I checked some information about wide-angle lenses—the wide-angle lens may produce negative space, which is similar to the blank space in the composition of the picture. Obviously, the wide-angle degree of this photo also produces negative space, but these spaces are not all blank, as if And something else."

Everyone was staring at the picture on the wall. Perhaps the proportion of the picture was a little unreal due to the use of a wide-angle lens, but they still managed to capture Mr. Wu who was going upstairs and Du Ling who was far away from the corridor. Rain, in addition to these contents, there are indeed some "blank" things on the edge of this photo. These things do not belong to the light brigade, nor are they simply stretched in space, but some strange scenes like starry sky .

"There are some stretches around the buildings and people. According to the principle of reverse color, the photographs are actually some white spots on the black background." Wei Dong frowned and studied, "What are these things?"

Mu Yiran also stared intently for a long time: "This photo contains a lot of information, let's analyze it step by step: According to Mai Peng, the speed of this photo is 1/60 second, and the shooting time is when we just entered this world. That is to say, the photo captured the scene one hour before we entered the painting.

"Through various comparisons, it is almost certain that the girl drawing the line on the wall is Du Lingyu, that is to say, another Du Lingyu was in this corridor an hour before we entered the painting.

"We hadn't lit the lights when we entered the painting. According to the previous time analysis, this time point is one hour before zero o'clock, which is 23:[-] on the day before entering the painting. This should be the time when another timeline runs, so the camera lens Another 'member' will be photographed.

"But here comes the problem. It is obvious that the photo is also at night, because there are no lights in the corridor. Why did Du Lingyu come to the corridor alone at night? From the analysis of the blood on her body, there should be some emergency, but she My reaction was not to look around for help, but to draw lines on the wall. It can be seen that drawing lines is a very important thing.

"Whether the blood on Du Lingyu's body is her own or someone else's, we don't know; we don't know whether the wizard who is going upstairs has anything to do with this incident; Du Lingyu once said, When she first came to this world, she felt pain in the head like being hit hard. Was it the wizard who attacked her, another Du Lingyu, or someone else..."

Fang Fei suddenly interrupted Mu Yiran's words: "When we first came to this world, if another Du Lingyu was at the same place, it would create a situation of twins. Once two people meet, it seems that something terrible will happen. things."

"But Du Lingyu is relatively safe so far, and we haven't seen anything terrible happen to her," Qin Ci said.

"So let's presume boldly," Mu Yiran continued, "that Lord Wu stopped the bad consequences of the twins in time. Fang Fei once said that someone specially asked Lord Wu to solve the situation of the twins. Hit feel is likely to be the art of cracking."

Fang Fei nodded excitedly: "I happened to see that page of the book. The way to crack the twins is to draw the two together, and then 'snap' on the Tianling Gai!"

Weidong was also a little excited when he heard it, and couldn't believe that everyone could reason to such a degree based on just one photo: "That makes sense! But why did another Du Lingyu meet us? It stands to reason that everyone kept walking Isn’t it a timeline?”

Mu Yiran: "It seems that the time point when we first entered the painting is an important node, and it is also a node that causes the two timelines to overlap. At this node, it is very likely that people on the two timelines will meet."

"I still can't figure it out, why is Du Lingyu the only one? Why is she the only one at night? Where are the other 'us'?!" Weidong still couldn't figure it out.

Mu Yiran's face became a little ugly, and there was even a pity in his eyes that didn't match his personality: "Perhaps, she was the only survivor at that time."

"What, what?" Everyone turned their gazes to Mu Yiran's face, "You mean, at that time, in another timeline, everyone else was already dead?"