Paintings of Terror

Mu Yiran put his hand on Ke Xun's ankle and shook it for a while, and said: "Let's consider one point first, if the first painting that Qin Ci and I entered was the last painting that the previous group of people entered, Then maybe there's a way to look it up."

"What way?" Ke Xun asked hurriedly.

"Maybe we need Haowen's help." Mu Yiran put down the teacup in his hand and dialed Zhu Haowen's number with his mobile phone.

"Can you hack into the monitoring system of the museum?" Mu Yiran asked straight to the point.

Ke Xun hurriedly sat up and brought his ears closer.

"Yes," Zhu Haowen said in a flat voice, as if answering the simple question "Can you climb to the third floor in one go?"

"Time Museum, the date is before NO.13 in March this year, which can be pushed forward by about three months," Mu Yiran said, "I need all the surveillance videos in the museum during this period."

"The premise is that the art museum still keeps the surveillance video of that time period. If there is any, I will give it to you tomorrow morning at the latest." Zhu Haowen replied very simply.

After hanging up the phone, Mu Yiran said to Ke Xun, "Maybe we can find some suspicious people from the surveillance video."

"You still have a quick brain." Ke Xun praised him.

"The result may not be too optimistic." Mu Yiran is very rigorous, "We are not sure how far the behind-the-scenes power of the painting can go. If it can even erase or change the surveillance video, then we want to make some progress. Breaking through is even more difficult."

"Take one step at a time and check one step at a time. If this road doesn't work, we can take another road." Ke Xun was extraordinarily optimistic, "From the sixth point you just summed up, the forces behind the painting want to kill us, but they also want to kill us." To keep us alive, what is the purpose of doing this? Is it simply to test our ability to clear the level? Changing it to an art museum shows that it is a power with thinking ability, so it sets up this kind of event in the painting, it is definitely not just for no purpose just to test us, it wants us to die, but also wants us to live must have some meaning and purpose."

Mu Yiran lowered his eyes and pondered: "You are right, then we have to analyze the meaning and purpose of this setting. Actually, the painting "Schrödinger's Cat" gave me some inspiration.

"Generally speaking, this painting shows some critical views of the current education system in a satirical manner.

"For example, the customs clearance links like exams in it are the same as the screening of students' pros and cons through exams in schools. Students who study well can stay in the excellent class, and students who fail the exam will be eliminated. Ordinary class or It's a bad class.

"If I hadn't gone through this painting, I might not have realized that maybe the force behind the scenes is constantly absorbing newcomers, and it is also a kind of screening for those who enter the painting to stand the test?

"So, among the remaining old members, not to mention you and me, for example, they are as meticulous as Qin Ci, as sensible as Haowen, as profound as Shao Ling, as fearless as Fang Fei, and Wei Dong and Luo Kuo have given their companions the complete dedication. Trust, the characteristics shown by these people in the painting, are extremely rare advantages compared with all the people in the painting before and after.

"The newly joined Wu You and He Tang, since they have only experienced one painting, there may be a lot of luck in it, and it is difficult to define it for the time being, but if I have to say, their personalities are opposite. Stronger than girls of the same age.

"And in the world in the painting, strong people may not necessarily survive to the end, but weak people are definitely more likely to die than strong people.

"From this point of view, it is not impossible to say that Huahua is selecting stronger and more suitable people, so it seems that it is always looking for people with relevant professional qualities as much as possible.

"And if its purpose is to gather thirteen strong men, then two more problems arise. First, when recruiting newcomers, why doesn't everyone recruited have the corresponding professional qualities?

"Secondly, what is the purpose of gathering these thirteen strong men? In order to break the game and pass the level faster? Then why do we need to set up these paintings for us, so that we continue to risk death?

"As for the first question, I have a speculation. I think the power behind the painting may be far less omnipresent and powerful than we imagined. It also has something beyond its power, so it can only 'try' to find suitable Candidates for the painting, but cannot 'all' find suitable candidates for the painting.

"So the conclusion of the first question is: the behind-the-scenes power of painting is also limited.

"And the second question may be the ultimate question we want to know: what is the reason behind the power to let us into the painting?

"In fact, we don't get any benefit from being in the painting, or if we have to put it more artistically, what we get may be more courage and courage. Is this the real purpose of painting? I don't think so, It is meaningless to exercise the courage of some people through bloody and cruel killings. It must have a purpose.

"Then we can actually speculate according to our usual cognition. We first regard the power behind the painting as a rich and solid character. Then, through a screening mechanism, several people with physical conditions are selected. People who are outstanding and outstanding in terms of psychological quality, knowledge and mind, what can these people be used by him?"

Having said that, Mu Yiran looked down at Ke Xun, who rested on his lap, looked up and stared at the tip of his nose for a while, and said: "If we follow the routines in novels or movies, I feel that we people It's like a mercenary selected by a rich and powerful boss, and then he will hire us to complete a dangerous and difficult task for him, such as winning treasures, killing people, in short, it is something similar to this When we successfully complete the task, we may get a commission, but it is also possible that we will be killed by this person.”

"Your idea is not impossible. In fact, I also have doubts about it." Mu Yiran nodded slightly, "I suspect that after we finally gather thirteen people, the whole situation of entering the painting will change, towards a new one. The development of the situation, but now it is impossible to speculate what kind of situation it will be."

Ke Xun felt a little startled, and stretched out his hand to hold Mu Yiran's hand: "In this way, I feel that there will be more unpredictable things waiting for us in the future, and we don't know what the fate of these people will be at that time. However, when it comes to gathering thirteen people, does it mean that there is a painting where we can break the game without any damage?"

"I think it should be." Mu Yi nodded.

"Haha..." Ke Xun sighed, grabbed Mu Yiran's hand and placed it on his forehead, "It makes me wonder whether I should look forward to that day coming sooner or never. "

"Earlier is better," Mu Yiran said, "come sooner, end sooner, regardless of whether the ending is life or death, it is much better than endlessly struggling on the line of life and death."

"That's right." Ke Xun felt that the words were a bit sad, jumped up and stretched, and said with a smile, "I'm going to the supermarket to buy meat, and we'll cook the pot at night, and bring Dongzi over to join in the fun, how about it?"

"Okay." Mu Yi nodded abruptly, "I'll post the speculation I just made to the group."

In the morning of the next day, Zhu Haowen did get the three-month-long surveillance video of the Time Art Museum. The group members who entered the painting theory acted together, and each person was responsible for one of the videos in a time period, watching carefully from beginning to end, and checking Are there any suspicious persons in the video.

This is also a huge project that takes time. Wu You even quit his job and just stayed at home, checking the video on the computer every day.

It's just that time waits for no one, and the time to enter the painting will come soon.

After the last painting came out, Shao Ling, who is closer to L City, stopped by this Sanxingshi Art Museum on the way, and then found that he was treated maliciously by the painting pusher again—the big sign at the door reads : The museum is under renovation and temporarily closed.

As for when it will be open to the outside world, it is not stated on the sign, but the members of "Advancing Painting Theory" know very well that the day they enter the painting is the time when the gallery reopens.

The Sanxingshi Art Museum is located in the local central park. Despite the cold weather, people who have their annual vacations are still willing to go to the park without anything to do, especially young people. Once entering the park gate, looking around the park Most of the people scattered here and there are young couples.

Luo Kuo looked at these people in a daze for a while, took out the mobile phone from his pocket, walked to the side and called his girlfriend: "Beauty, what's going on?... Is that right, what color is it?... Oh, okay , the cliff matches your cherry mouth...I, maybe I will come back in a few days, you play by yourself first...I bought you a bag, make sure you like it, if you don't like it, I will unscrew it for you As a handicraft....Okay, cover the quilt at night, and keep your feet away....Rub a handful of bean buns, bean curds, bean heads, cat heads, and mouse heads for me...Ah, okay, hang up the phone and put it on Send a group photo of you guys to my mobile phone,...Okay, nothing else, mua!...Well, Yinyin, take care of yourself....Well, bye, mua."

Everyone pretended not to see his red eye circles and nose, and walked straight towards the cold building in the distance.

The Sanxingshi Art Museum has a simple and simple shape, and the outer wall is painted with the color and texture of rice paper. Above the front entrance, there is a beautiful three-line poem written in beautiful lines, which comes from the writer Han Shanshi's "Cloud":

Wandering

bird

where is homing

After the renovation of the art gallery, it is said that all the paintings on display inside have been replaced with new ones. Even so, the entrants still have an in-depth understanding of the previous exhibition materials in the museum and have made sufficient preparations.

Compared with Luo Yu, who was gradually getting used to painting, Wu You and He Tang, who entered painting for the second time, were obviously still at the stage of being quite repelled and fearful newcomers. As soon as Wu You entered the door, he ran to the toilet twice with a pale face. He Tang almost asked Fang Fei to help him in.

"I'm terribly scared..." He Tang said in a trembling voice while wiping away the tears that kept pouring out with a facial tissue.

"Extending the head is a knife, and retracting the head is also a knife." Wei Dong took out a pack of chewing gum from his pocket and handed it to her, "Chewing a piece can relieve tension. Fang Fei, too?"

Fang Fei took the chewing gum, smoked a piece each for herself and He Tang, and returned it to Weidong.

"Let's go in when we're ready." Ke Xun's voice came from the door of the target exhibition hall.

"Let's go." He Tang chewed hard on the mint-sweet candy twice, gritted his teeth and made up his mind.